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After thorough discussions, the Council of the EBRS decided to create the Johannes Ariens Kappers Medal as the highest prize of our Society to be awarded to a scientist who has made outstanding scientific achievements and who has been instrumental in the development of our research discipline. The medal that was awarded to Johannes Ariens Kappers, the first President of the EPSG and the former director of the Netherlands Brain Institute, during the second colloquium of the EPSG in Giessen in 1981 was used as a model. The medal shows the profile of Professor Ariens Kappers on one side and his famous diagram of the sympathetic innervation of the mammalian pineal organ on the other side.
- Paul Pévet, Strasbourg 2009
- Charlotte Helfrich-Forster, Oxford 2011
- Josephine Arendt, Munich 2013
- Helena Illnerová, Manchester 2015
- Horst-Werner Korf, Amsterdam 2017
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Do you know what EasyCalendar is?
If you wish to customize your busy schedule with a help of Internet-based application, make sure not to use a program called EasyCalendar. Avoid this program even though you might come across claims stating that this tool provides numerous ways to customize your online calendar in various easy ways. While these statements might appear tempting, you should know that malware experts at Spyware-Techie.com have classified this application as a potentially unwanted program because it exhibits numerous suspicious traits. In fact, we believe that there are virtually no valuable features to make you keep this program active on your PC. Read the rest of this report and find out how exactly this potentially unwanted program functions and how you can delete EasyCalendar in just a few easy steps.
Firstly, it is important to highlight the fact that at the moment EasyCalendar is compatible only with the Google Chrome web browser. It is crucial to know that developers of this controversial program might adapt this calendar application to other well-known web browsers. Once this application is up and fully running, it might seem like an excellent tool, as it provides you with an ability to schedule various task and possibly get notifications about that. Obviously the functionality of this questionable calendar application is not that great since there are numerous analogous programs that are reliable and safe to use. What is alarming about this potentially unwanted program is the fact that at times it could trigger random downloads without any authorization. The dubious calendar program could download browser hijackers and adware application without your knowledge. Even though this is not an often instance, it remains a possibility that could have devastating consequences to say the least. We firmly believe that running EasyCalendar is a risk too huge for any user to take; thus, its removal is naturally recommended.EasyCalendar screenshot
Scroll down for full removal instructions
There are a few preventative steps that you should take to reduce the risk of infecting your operating system with any dubious application. First and foremost, you should install a professional antimalware tool if you do not have one already. Such a tool will drastically improve your virtual security because it can detect suspicious behavior on your PC as well as it can notify about any questionable downloads or websites in advanced. In addition to such a tool we highly advise you to practice safe browsing habits. By downloading your software from authorized vendors’ websites, you will be able to avoid bundled installers, which are infamously known to be the primary source of questionable and even malicious applications. By taking these preventative steps, you will make your operating system virtually unbreakable.
Make sure to conduct the removal of EasyCalendar carefully because even a single mistake during this procedure could result in a non-complete termination of this potentially unwanted program. This is an instance that you do not want to find yourself in because at times EasyCalendar could silently restore itself by using just some traces of it. Make sure to run an in-depth analysis of your PC for potential leftovers of this dubious colander application to be sure that you got rid of it in its entirety.
How to remove EasyCalendar from your web browser
- Launch the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+F.
- Select Tools and then click Extensions.
- Click the recycle bin icon placed next to the undesirable add-on and select Remove.
In non-techie terms:
We are aware of the fact that not all users feel comfortable removing EasyCalendar manually. If you are one of those users do not worry. Our research team has crafted a removal guide that will help you delete this potentially unwanted program in an automatic way.
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Last night Tropical Storm Harvey hit Barbados with heavy rain, 40 mph gusts of wind and a brief period without electricity or internet! We prepared for what could be a challenging night. After the storm passed I reflected on 4 lessons we can apply when leading in challenging times.
1. Recognise leadership is not a solo sport
We are still unpacking boxes as we recently returned to Barbados so we don’t have a radio. As a result we were completely unaware of the storm warning. My friend called me to tell me, she is often a project manager on my projects and knows me well. Had she not called we would not have known a thing. Especially as I’m more strategic than operational and so don’t do detail, if I can help it.
Leaders need to build a strong teams who know both your strengths and your weaknesses. My friend has been so critical in filling my gaps on our projects. Without this we would not succeed.
The other key lesson is once you have a strong team, listen to them! I wrote a blog entitled Great leaders should know it all. Leaders don’t know it all and having the humility to listen to others is critical. The tendency in challenging times is to drive activities without speaking to others as there’s a heightened sense of urgency. That’s exactly the time to remember leadership is not a solo sport..
2. Make it personal
As we prepared for the storm we had to take account of our pets. We have 3 little ‘Potcakes’ as they call them in Turks and Caicos Islands (mixed breeds).
The kennels were well secured and sheltered from the elements. However, thunder and lightning followed the rain. The dogs were not wet but we brought them inside. Benji, the beige dog, and Lola, our girl with the red collar, were irritated. They were happily sleeping, safe and warm in their beds. Jasper, our other black dog, is a nervous dog, and was terrified of the thunder. Our dogs are not people but paying attention to their well-being is paramount as an owner.
Similarly, caring for people is an area leaders must pay attention to, especially in difficult times. As I said last week, God redeems people not structures. The decisions we make should not simply focus on the ‘facts’. We must treat people as individuals being concerned for their well-being. This is at the heart of Servant leadership. There is much evidence that ‘engaged’ people perform better. The way to engagement is to develop relationships of trust. Knowing your team’s unique capabilities and concerns and where possible, taking these into account is a great start.
I have not always appreciated, or applied this lesson, of the unique or personal concerns of my individual team members. I have seen the negative effects of that in challenging times of organisational change.
3. Communicate don’t assume
Andrew, my husband, and I prepared for the storm. We closed shutters, secured kennels and looked for things that could become flying missiles. Each did various tasks without communicating who would do what. We made assumptions. We both assumed that the other had secured and closed the office windows. Neither of us had. This led to a mad panic in the middle of the night to close the windows and stop the heavy rain coming in and ruining our computer and other equipment.
Had we taken time to communicate this would not have happened. We would have identified what needed to be done and confirmed who was doing what. That would have avoided the loss of sleep!
Leaders must communicate and not assume. In challenging times we get busy ‘doing’ and often communicate less. That’s the time we need to communicate more. Team’s need to understand your plan, and, what is needed of them. Providing opportunities for your team to give feedback and advice is also necessary: “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” (Prov 15:22, NIV)
4. Be accountable
The morning following the storm Andrew and I were talking over morning coffee. It was later than usual because of our lack of sleep! Andrew said, I’m sorry about the windows. I’m in charge of securing the house and should have made sure all the windows were closed. Next time I’ll do a check of all of them.
I can’t tell you how re-assuring that was to hear him hold himself accountable.
Leaders takes responsibility. Teams that see their leader hold themselves accountable will not only be re-assured during the challenging times, but trust. Great leaders recognise that the ‘buck stops with them’, no matter what. Leaders who makes excuses, or worse blames others, signal that they cannot be trusted.
Our storm has passed. There was some damage reported, houses lost roofs, but no fatalities. We are thankful.
Have a safe and relaxing weekend!
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One hundred years ago, in 1911, the great Ballets Russes impresario Sergei Diaghilev labored -- without e-mail -- to book his troupe in suitable theaters, meet his payroll, negotiate with presenters, hang on to his dancers, engage artistic collaborators, remedy company squabbles, woo the press and soothe an orchestra leader who was loathe to conduct The Rite of Spring.
A full century later, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's artistic director Tom Mossbrucker, and the troupe's executive director, Jean-Phillipe Malaty, pass their days in much the same fashion.
One big difference: the expression "business model" wasn't even invented in Diaghilev's lifetime, whereas it falls trippingly from the tongues of Mossbrucker and Malaty.
Whether by prescient planning, instinct or just luck, Mossbrucker and Malaty built a flexible and affordable dance structure and, in the process, forged a viable alternative to ballet's big-city behemoth. They created a choreography incubator for the likes of choreographer Jorma Elo, one of the dance world's top freelance guns-for-hire. And their company, a tight band of gypsies with pointe shoes permanently packed, Malaty proudly describes as "lean and mean."
Elo's third commission for the Santa Feans, "Overglow," commissioned by the Wolf Trap Foundation, in the slide show below:
For a chamber-scaled company like Aspen Santa Fe, the similarities in the dance world since the Ballets Russes era outnumber the differences. It's still a boatload of struggle to run a successful ballet company, a humongous labor of love. But Mossbrucker and Malaty, handpicked from the Joffrey Ballet organization in 1996 by founder Bebe Schweppe to run her company, have managed to find a structure that works.
Officially headquartered in Aspen, Colo. (population 6,000), ASFB shares naming rights with a city larger by ten-fold, Santa Fe, N.M. (population 65,000), a 300-mile, six-hour drive away. ASFB provides a year-round permanent presence for ballet in these two thin-air capitals, the first a Rocky Mountain ski resort, the second a mystical Native American mecca.
Aspen Santa Fe's two-city setup lends diversification to its revenue base, and this flexibility has pulled Mossbrucker and Malaty's endeavor back from the precipice on which Diaghilev spent much of his professional life.
Like the Ballets Russes, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is an incubator for inventive, cutting-edge choreography. Nearly 40 dance makers are represented in the company's repertory, over a third of them by multiple pieces.
The constant stream of new dances from creators largely unknown to mainstream American audiences includes those of the Finnish-born Elo, Itzik Galili, Septime Webre, Nicolo Fonte, Thierry Malandain and Cayetano Soto. Traditional modern-dance names live there, too: Paul Taylor, David Parsons, Lar Lubovitch and Twyla Tharp. Big names anchor the repertory: Balanchine, Tudor, Kylián and Forsythe.
Watching videos of the lithe Aspen Santa Feans performing their ultra-modern ballets, I fantasized, just for the fun of it, that a clutch of Ballets Russes dancers watched by my side. The gang: Nijinsky, Karsavina, Pavlova, Massine. All of them, clustering 'round my computer to gawk at Aspen Santa Fe's bevy of bending human pretzels bedecked in body-hugging leotards. These lovely creatures spew the nonstop, physically daunting contortions of contemporary ballet -- a beautiful torture.
Watching this, I believe, the Russians would sweat bullets. Their hearts would pound; their eyes narrow in disbelief. Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted.
The Ballets Russes brigade, experimenters that they were in the early 20th century, would find the Santa Feans' hammering pace and its fresh and jagged shapes to be thrilling. As do I.
As to how his company survived to celebrate its 15th anniversary, Malaty explains, "When the recession hit, we had no fat to trim. We already had a four-person office. We already had no ballet master -- Tom and I do the company teaching. And we already had no corporate funding -- there's no Boeing or American Express in our cities. So when that money went away [in the dance field], we were not affected."
When the worst of the recession hit, in the 2008-09 season, "We were smaller, cheaper and ready. We took all those bookings. We danced in 45 cities that season -- and we almost died." says Malaty, with a rueful laugh.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet photos by Rosalie O'Connor. Serge Diaghilev portrait (1916) by Jan de Sterlecki.
Debra Levine blogs about dance, film, music and urban culture on arts•meme.
This essay originally appeared in slightly different form as a PillowNote for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and is reprinted with permission.
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Jonesport residents reject aquaculture moratorium
Jonesport residents rejected a proposed moratorium on large aquaculture projects Wednesday night, potentially clearing the way for a Dutch company to set up a land-based yellowtail fish farm there.
The vote was 201- 91 against a moratorium that would have blocked Kingfish Maine from building a 15-to-20 acre aquaculture facility in Jonesport.
Several other Downeast communities, including Addison, Machiasport and Winter Harbor, have passed aquaculture moratoriums.
"We are grateful for the overwhelming local support at the town vote," said Ohad Maiman, CEO of the Kingfish Company, which owns Kingfish Maine. "When we chose the Jonesport site, we spent significant time getting to know the community and making certain we were welcome. This vote confirms that that we have made the right choice."
Billy Milliken, the chairman of the Jonesport Board of Selectmen, said the topic generated heated debate among town residents and some opposition groups, but now the issue is settled.
"Not all of the town of Jonesport was convinced, but a huge majority, a super majority of the people in the town of Jonesport support this," he said. "They feel good with the science. They feel good that this business is consistent with who we are, with what made us."
Kingfish Maine said it has received all the necessary permits from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and that it only needs approval from the Jonesport planning board before it can break ground on its recirculating aquaculture system. The facility is expected to produce anywhere from six to eight-thousand metric tons of yellowtail a year once its complete, the company said.
The Jonesport planning board will meet next month to consider the Kingfish application. Milliken said he expects the board will give the application a fair review within the next 30 days or so.
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- Category: Steinbach and Area Garden Club
- Published: Friday, 27 March 2015 10:49
- Written by Karen Loewen
It's interesting. Ask anyone, gardener or not, to describe a lilac flower and they will tell you 'it's purple and smells nice'. Most people recognize the scent of lilacs, and it's perfume can awaken fond memories of springtimes past.
The common mauve lilac shrub or hedge is familiar to most of us, however there are many other types of lilacs available and suitable for every area of your garden. Depending on the varieties planted, you could have continuous lilac blooms for up to two months. Looking to help our pollinators? Bees and butterflies love lilacs!
'Lilacs & Forsythias 'was the subject of the evening when Erna Wiebe, of Oakridge Garden Centre in Steinbach, gave a comprehensive talk to the garden club, describing the attributes of the types of lilacs, their growing requirements, and recommended varieties. Lilacs are such easy shrubs to grow and no doubt most of us will now be inspired to find room for another lilac or two in our gardens.
How to Grow - Lilacs appreciate being situated in good soil and full sun. Our Manitoba clay soil suits them very well, but remember to plant them in a well drained area as lilacs do not like wet feet.
Fertilizer is generally not necessary, in fact too much nitrogen from an overspray of lawn fertilizer could well cause an overabundance of new green growth at the expense of flowers.
Lilacs are mostly untroubled by insects, however, if powdery mildew shows up on lower leaves in late summer, copper spray will take care of the problem. Mildew is usually the result of cool, wet weather. Take care when watering at the base of these shrubs as mildew spores in the soil could be splashed onto the leaves.
Your lilac didn't bloom for you? Lilacs are spring blooming shrubs, and begin setting next year's flower buds very soon after blooming. It's important to remember that any pruning should be done as soon as the flowers fade to avoid pruning out next year's blooms. These are attractive shrubs in or out of bloom, but they will occasionally need a tidying and shaping. Older lilacs can be rejuvenated by removing some of the oldest stems at the base of the plant.
Types of lilacs and recommended varieties – Flower colour, bloom time, leaf shape and other characteristics differentiate the types of lilacs. Shrub lilacs range in height from 3 – 15 feet, and tree lilacs grow to 20 feet tall.
Preston lilacs – bloom in June and July, a little later than the common lilac, have more elongated leaves, upright stems and are non suckering. They are often used as hedges and make a lovely, dense privacy screen. Generally around 8 feet tall, their scent is spicy. 'Charisma' is more compact at 4 feet.
French lilacs – A variety of perfumes can be found within this group, and the leaves are rounder, dark green and smooth. 'Prairie Petite' and 'Wonderblue' are smaller flowered dwarfs at 4 feet.
Outstanding varieties are 'Beauty of Moscow' (double flowers delicate pink, turning to white), 'President Grevy' (blue double flowers), 'Charles Joly' (dark purple to magenta, double) and 'Sensation' (purple edged white bi color) is an outstanding lilac, although perhaps not as vigorous. All are 8 – 10 feet tall.
American lilacs – It is significant that these varieties were bred in Manitoba by the late Frank Skinner, who gained fame as a lilac hybridizer. They are hardy, perfumed, bloom 2 weeks earlier and even show fall colour! Examples of his cultivars which are still popular today are 'Mount Baker' (white), 'Pocahontas' (deep violet) and 'Maiden's Blush' (mid pink).
Others – There are also several varieties which, because of their dwarfed size, beautifully fit into smaller, urban gardens. Displaying smaller leaves and scented, lavender flowers, they are compact and dense.
'Miss Kim' has burgundy fall leaves, unusual for lilacs, 'Bloomerang' reblooms all summer on old and new wood, and 'Dwarf Korean' lilac is often found as a small, topgrafted tree.
Now, about those tree lilacs. Proving to be a very popular urban tree, Japanese Tree Lilacs attract attention in June or early July due to their huge, creamy flower panicles. They are virtually pest and disease free and their gorgeous cherry brown bark provides winter interest.
'Ivory Silk' and 'Ivory Pillar' have glossy, green foliage while 'Golden Eclipse' displays variagated gold edged green leaves.
What about the Forsythias mentioned earlier? Well, like lilacs, forsythias are also spring blooming shrubs. In early spring, before their leaves appear, spectacular bright golden- yellow flowers cover the branches – or one hopes they will. These shrubs are essentially hardy in our climate, however the flower buds do not always survive our winters. Still, when they do, they are a treat for spring colour-starved gardeners! Plant these otherwise unassuming shrubs in the rear of the border, allowing others to shine after they bloom.
At 2 ½ feet, 'Sugar Baby' is a shorter variety, so a nice blanket of snow may protect the buds. A new variety, 'Fiesta', also shorter, and with interesting variegated leaves and red stems is on my shopping list.
There you are – a lilac for every corner of your garden – and, oh yes. They smell nice!
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October 7, 2008
Brookhaven Scientists Tale Part In Southeastern Pacific Climate Study
Measurements taken by air, land, and sea will improve climate modeling
During October and November 2008, some 150 scientists from 40 institutions in eight nations "” including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory "” will take part in an international field experiment designed to make observations of critical components of the climate system of the southeastern Pacific. Because elements of this system are poorly understood and poorly represented in global climate models, collecting real-time, complementary data from a variety of areas will go a long way toward improving scientists' ability to use these models for making accurate predictions about Earth's climate.A total of five aircraft "” including DOE's G-1 Gulfstream research aircraft, operated by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with instruments developed at both PNNL and Brookhaven "” and two research ships will sample the lower atmosphere and upper ocean during the experiment. Two sampling sites operated by research groups from Chile, Sweden, and the United States with conduct complementary sampling studies in the coastal region of Chile south of Santiago.
"We are motivated to participate in this study because the vast area of clouds in this region will provide an ideal laboratory for testing theories that have been developed at Brookhaven Lab regarding how precipitation forms in clouds and how aerosols affect cloud optical and microphysical properties," said Brookhaven chemist Peter Daum, chief DOE scientist for the study.
The southeastern Pacific region is dominated by strong coastal upwelling, bringing cold, dense seawater from the deep ocean closer to the surface and resulting in extensive cold sea surface temperatures. It is also home to the largest subtropical deck of low-lying stratocumulus clouds on Earth.
"These and other chemical and physical factors shape the regional climate and affect the global weather in ways that are poorly understood," said C. Roberto Mechoso, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chairs the research program. "Our research should produce a better understanding of the Southeast Pacific Ocean system, and improve our global computer climate models "”which would lead to more confidence in climate forecasts, including predictions about global warming."
Mechoso heads the scientific modeling arm of the research program, while Robert Wood, assistant professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, will lead the experimental field component.
Specifically, the scientists will focus on gaining a better understanding of:
- the processes that control the properties of stratocumulus clouds "“ including the influence of tiny aerosol particles emitted from smelters and volcanoes located on the South American continent
- the processes that control the transport of cold freshwater in the ocean
- the chemical and physical interactions between the lower atmosphere and upper ocean
The study is known as the Variability of the American Monsoon Systems' (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-Rex). It is a component of a larger international climate study program, VOCALS. The major goal of the VOCALS program is develop and promote scientific activities leading to improved understanding, model simulation, and predictions of the southeastern Pacific ocean-atmosphere-land climate system on day-to-day and year-to-year timescales. The other major components of VOCALS are a modeling program ranging from local to global scales and a suite of extended observations from regular research cruises, instrumented moorings, and satellites.
The combination of intensive field measurements, long-term observations, and modeling will provide important insights that could directly benefit climate modeling, the researchers say.
Brookhaven Lab's role in this research was funded by DOE's Office of Science. VOCALS-REx receives additional support and participation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Science Foundation, and the World Climate Research Program.
Image Caption: Schematic of the Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCAL-REx). The figure also shows the locations of extended observational buoys: the Improved Meterology (IMET) buoy and the Servicio Hidrografico y Oceanografico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA) buoy. ITCZ is the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
On the Net:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- VOCALS Web Site
- UCLA - New research may lead to better climate models for global warming, El Niño
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Refueling an aircraft while it is flying can be a tricky-enough proposition but refueling an unmanned jet from another unmanned jet sounds like a scene for a James Bond movie.
But such a tricky procedure is apparently within reach as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, this week said it successfully tested the technology needed to fly two drones close enough together in mid-air, at speed that one, acting as a tanker aircraft, could successfully refuel the other.
From DARPA: " During its final test flight, two modified Global Hawk aircraft flew in close formation, 100 feet or less between refueling probe and receiver drogue, for the majority of a 2.5-hour engagement at 44,800 feet. This demonstrated for the first time that High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) class aircraft can safely and autonomously operate under in-flight refueling conditions. The flight was the ninth test and the first time the aircraft flew close enough to measure the full aerodynamic and control interactions. Flight data was analyzed over the past few months and fed back into simulations to verify system safety and performance through contact and fuel transfer-including the effects of turns and gusts up to 20 knots."
DARPA said that because HALE aircraft are designed for endurance rather than control authority, it expected only one of six attempts would actually achieve positive contact (17%). However, "the final analysis indicated that 60% of the attempts would achieve contact. Multiple autonomous breakaway contingencies were successfully triggered well in advance of potentially hazardous conditions."
The demonstration could open a world of longer duration drone flights as today's UAVs aren't designed to be refueled in flight. In 2007, DARPA teamed up with NASA to show that high-performance aircraft can easily perform automated refueling from conventional tankers, yet many unmanned aircraft can't match the speed, altitude and performance of the current tanker fleet. The 2007 demonstration also required a pilot on board to set conditions and monitor safety during autonomous refueling operations.
BACKGROUND: What the drone invasion looks like
Under a $33 million deal in 2010 with DARPA, Northrop agreed to demonstrate refueling with a pair of Global Hawks. Although air-to-air refueling was not originally part of the design for drones like the Global Hawk, Northrop then stated such technology offers a number of benefits.
A Global Hawk with a particularly heavy payload, for example, would be able to take off with less fuel, and be subsequently refueled in the air. In addition, a Global Hawk with a unique sensor package would be able to stay on station longer if equipped to receive fuel from another platform.
Check out these other hot stories:
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De Quervain tendinitisTendinopathy - De Quervain tendinitis; de Quervain tenosynovitis
A tendon is thick, bendable tissue that connects muscle to bone. Two tendons run from the back of your thumb down the side of your wrist. De Quervain tendinitis is caused when these tendons are swollen and irritated.
More About Your Injury
De Quervain tendinitis can be caused by playing sports such as tennis, golf, or rowing. Constantly lifting babies and toddlers can also strain the tendons in the wrist and lead to this condition.
If you have De Quervain tendinitis, you may notice:
- Pain on the back of your thumb when you make a fist, grab something, or turn your wrist
- Numbness in the thumb and index finger
- Swelling of the wrist
- Stiffness when moving your thumb or wrist
- Popping of the wrist tendons
- Difficulty pinching things with your thumb
What to Expect
De Quervain tendinitis is usually treated with rest, splints, medicine, changes in activity, and exercise. Your doctor may also give you a shot of cortisone to help decrease pain and swelling.
If your tendinitis is chronic, you may need surgery to give the tendon more room to slide without rubbing on the tunnel wall.
Ice your wrist for 20 minutes of every hour while awake. Wrap the ice in cloth. Do not put ice directly on the skin because this can result in frostbite.
For pain, you can use ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), or acetaminophen (Tylenol). You can buy these pain medicines at the store.
- Talk with your health care provider before using these drugs if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, or have had stomach ulcers or internal bleeding in the past.
- Do not take more than the amount recommended on the bottle or by your provider.
Rest your wrist. Keep your wrist from moving for at least 1 week. You can do this with a wrist splint.
Wear a wrist splint during any sports or activities that could put stress on your wrist.
Once you can move your wrist without pain, you can start light stretching to increase strength and movement.
Your provider may recommend physical therapy so that you can return to normal activity as soon as possible.
To increase strength and flexibility, do light stretching exercises. One exercise is squeezing a tennis ball.
- Lightly grasp a tennis ball.
- Gently squeeze the ball and add more pressure if there is no pain or discomfort.
- Hold for 5 seconds, then release your grip.
- Repeat 5 to 10 times.
- Do this a few times a day.
Before and after any activity:
- Use a heating pad on your wrist to warm the area.
- Massage the area around your wrist and thumb to loosen the muscles.
- Ice your wrist and take pain medicine after activity if there is discomfort.
The best way for the tendons to heal is to stick to a care plan. The more you rest and do the exercises, the quicker your wrist will heal.
When to Call the Doctor
Follow up with your provider if:
- The pain is not improving or becomes worse
- Your wrist becomes more stiff
- You have increasing numbness or tingling in the wrist and fingers, or if they turn white or blue
Donahoe KW, Fishman FG, Swigart CR. Hand and wrist pain. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Gabriel SE, Koretzky GA, McInnes IB, O'Dell JR, eds. Kelly and Firestein's Textbook of Rheumatology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2021:chap 53.
O'Neill CJ. de Quervain tenosynovitis. In: Frontera, WR, Silver JK, Rizzo TD Jr, eds. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2019:chap 28.
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Ysgol Pen-y-Bryn Special School
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The Humane Society says this image was taken at the Seaboard Foods' pig farm in Goodwell, Okla., in late 2011. The pigs are in stalls that measure two by seven feet, a practice that had been routine until other major pork producers announced plans to do away with them.
Aiming to pressure two of the largest U.S. producers of pork, one of them a Walmart supplier, into changing how they treat pigs, the Humane Society of the United States on Tuesday said it had staged undercover operations that revealed atrocious conditions.
Alleged abuses against the animals include the use of extremely confined crates as well as the cutting off of tails and testicles with no painkillers.
"Lame pigs, pigs with gross abscesses, torn ears and noses, and ripped genitals and piglets sickened by 'greasy pig' disease were not seen by veterinarians," the group said in a statement released along with what it said was undercover video.
The allegations focus on two pig farms in Goodwell, Okla., one owned by Seaboard Foods and the other by Prestage Farms.
The Humane Society also filed federal complaints against Seaboard alleging that it made false and misleading statements about treating its animals humanely.
Seaboard has a public "Commitment to Animal Care" that states: "We are committed to proper animal care and have a moral and ethical obligation to the humane treatment of animals. We believe food animals can and should be raised, transported and processed using procedures that are safe and free from cruelty and neglect."
On Tuesday, Seaboard posted a statement on its website saying it strongly disputed "any allegations of abuse."
Ron Prestage, who owns Prestage Farms with his parents and siblings, told Reuters the video did not appear to show any neglect or abuse at their farm. He added that the company has initiated an internal investigation to ensure company policies are followed.
"There is nothing for me to defend in the video. We have both systems (gestation crates and group pens) and have for years," Prestage said.
The video shows pigs penned in cages that the Humane Society described as "so small the animals can't even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for their entire lives."
The group said its undercover operatives also "found workers cutting piglets testicles and tails off with no painkiller, injured piglets with their legs duct taped to their bodies, gestation crates overflowing with feces and urine and employees hitting pigs’ genitals to force them to move from one crate to another."
Gestation crates are stalls where female pigs are placed during pregnancy.
Both companies are "lagging behind" competitors like Cargill and Smithfield Foods, the Humane Society said, noting that those had recently pledged improvements such as ending the use of gestation crates by 2017.
In its statement Tuesday, Seaboard said that its "integrated system uses both stalls and group pens to house gestating sows. Animal welfare experts and professional groups have found no one method for housing gestating sows that is clearly better than the other when managed properly."
Prestage said that "there are times when each system has its advantages. If you have an animal that's gotten injured, it's much easier to treat them if they are in an individual crate. If they happen to be on the bottom of the pecking order, the other ones are just going to beat them up.
"On the other hand, if there is no fighting, you might decide they are happier in a group pen," he added.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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The conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran appears to be escalating, but oil markets continue to shrug off the news.
Less than a week after the Saudi embassy was torched in Tehran and diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed, Saudi Arabia might have taken the conflict to a new level. On January 7, Iran accused Saudi Arabia of damaging its embassy in Yemen from an air strike.
Iranian state media said that Saudi-led coalition planes deliberately struck the Iranian embassy in Yemen, although the accuracy of the claims are yet to be verified. Other sources say airstrikes only struck near the embassy and that there was no actual damage to the embassy itself. Witnesses say the airstrike hit a home across the street from the Iranian embassy in Sana, and that some shrapnel may have injured embassy guards.
“This deliberate attempt by the Saudi government is in violation of all the conventions and regulation of international law on the protection and the security of diplomatic premises in all situations, and the responsibility for the action, as well as compensation for damage done to the building and injuries to the embassy staff, lies with the government of Saudi Arabia,” a spokesman for the Iranian foreign minister said in a statement. Related: Saudi Arabia Throws Down The Gauntlet, But To Whom?
The war that Saudi Arabia is waging in Yemen has long been viewed as a proxy fight with Iran. Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of backing Houthi rebels while also alleging that Iranian commanders are actually fighting in Yemen. Iran denies this. However, the diplomatic spat between Iran and Saudi Arabia over last weekend’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric could yet escalate into a much worse situation. Direct military confrontation remains a remote possibility, but the accusation of Saudi airstrikes illustrates the fragility of the situation.
Oil traders ignore unrest
The confrontation is having almost no discernable effect on oil markets, despite the fact that the two countries are massively important to world oil supplies. WTI and Brent continue to lose value at an impressive rate, with Brent dipping below $34 per barrel during intraday trading on January 7. Despite the traditional market jitters that take place when violence erupts in the Middle East, the world remains woefully oversupplied.
In fact, 2016 started off with a rash of bearish news for the oil markets. Global financial turmoil is easily eclipsing the Saudi-Iran conflict in terms of importance for crude prices. China’s stock market was shut after 30 minutes of trading on January 7 after the markets fell by 7 percent. That was the second time in four days of trading so far in 2016 that the markets were shuttered after the “circuit-breaker” was triggered, a backstop measure intended to prevent panic selling. The beginnings of another stock market meltdown is reverberating around the world. On January 7, the FTSE 100 was off 2.6 percent during midday trading; Germany’s Dax was down by more than 3 percent; and the Dow Jones opened by moving down another 1.5 percent. Related: Why The U.S. Can’t Be Called A ‘Swing Producer’
Oversupply, slowing demand, and financial turmoil are adding up to another round of price declines for crude oil. Brent was down below $34 per barrel on Thursday, but other benchmarks are actually selling much lower than that. OPEC’s basket price dropped below $30 per barrel on January 6, breaking through a key psychological threshold. The daily basket price sold for $29.71 per barrel on Wednesday.
Western Canadian Select, which tracks heavy crude in Canada, fell to $19.81 per barrel on January 6. Some high-cost Canadian producers including Baytex Energy Corp. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., have already shut in more than 35,000 barrels per day because prices too low. “We’re below shut-in levels” Tim Pickering, founder of Calgary-based Auspice Capital Advisors Ltd., told Bloomberg News. “We’re the last barrel produced and we’re the first barrel shut in.” Related: 10 Key Energy Trends To Watch For In 2016
The EIA also poured some cold water on oil markets on Wednesday. The agency believes that U.S. oil production stood at 9.22 million barrels per day for the week ending on January 1, the third consecutive week of small production increases. Most energy analysts have been predicting that the U.S. would be experiencing sizable production losses at this point. Also, even though overall crude inventories fell by 5.1 million barrels, storage levels at Cushing actually grew to an all-time high for the week ending on January 1, according to Genscape.
In 2015, Goldman Sachs said that it was possible that oil would fall into the $20s per barrel before all was said and done, an estimate that some thought was ridiculous at the time. A few crude benchmarks are already trading at those levels, and WTI and Brent might not be too far behind.
By James Stafford of Oilprice.com
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The most annoying and irritating problem the users of PC face is when they are installing Windows updates and it shows as if it is stuck. Usually, Windows’ built-in feature known as Windows Update checks for and installs the updates regularly to keep your system faster and error-free.
What’s the Main Problem?
Some users of Windows 7 (as the problem generally occurs in Windows 7) complain that whenever they start Windows Update feature, it starts normally and then for hours it does not show any proceeding and even they cannot see new updates. It indicates that the program is still running, but there is no progress, and no update is installed further. When it happens time and again, the overall performance of your PC is also affected. If you face this problem and open Task Manager, you will see the “svchost.exe” occupies a large part of memory and CPU resources. Usually, the error occurs when you have installed Windows 7.
Reason Behind This Problem
The actual reason behind it may be a bit trivial for the users of Windows 7 that a few updates by Microsoft upgrade “Windows Update” feature for its better and smooth performance. Now it seems that the old way of downloading and installing updates is quite changed and thus, the users of Windows 7 face this problem because they are not using the latest Windows Update client.
How to Fix this Problem
Here are a few tips to fix this issue. Exactly, I don’t know which one will work for you the best, but I am pretty sure that if you apply all these one followed by the other, you will get rid of the problem.
Ctrl+Alt+Del (Reboot The System)
This combination of the keys can be very useful if you realize that your Windows Update service client is really stuck. Follow the instructions below to use the combination of these keys.
- If the tool is stuck, just press “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to restart the system.
- If it does not restart automatically even by using this combination, you need to press “Power” button for a shutdown and then after a few seconds, press the “Power” button again to boot the system.
- Now you will see the system will start installing updates first and later you will see the desktop window.
You can use troubleshooter for this purpose. It is a built-in feature of Windows 7 that can help you fix this issue. It is a quick way to get rid of the problem.
Follow the steps below to run Troubleshooter.
- Go to the “Start” button and type “Troubleshooter” in the search bar. You will see it in the Search list. Just click to open it.
- In the Control Panel, you will see the section “System and Security” where you need to select the option “Fix problems with Windows Update.”
- It will take you to the Windows Update window where you need to click “Advanced” option as shown in the figure below.
- As soon as the Advanced option expands, you will see an option “Apply repairs automatically” with a check box. Make sure it is enabled. Above this option there lies “Run as Administrator” feature that needs to be selected.
Now the troubleshooter will start working, and it will work in three ways to fix this issue.
- It will close the Windows Update tool.
- It modifies the name of the tree \Windows\SoftwareDistribution into \Windows\SoftwareDistribution.old and clears the downloading cache of Windows Update. So, you would be able to start it again.
- Once you use it, Windows Update tool will restart to fetch updates.
That’s all. Now use Windows Update again, and it will start installing updates without being stuck.
If the issue persists, you need to move to the techniques given below.
Clear Cache Memory Manually
Another way to get rid of this problem is to delete the cache memory of Windows Update.
- You need to restart your system into Safe Mode first.
- Now open “Command Prompt” by using the “Windows Key + X” combination to access Command Prompt (Admin). Or you can go to “Start” and type “Command Prompt” in the search bar. Once you get it, just right-click and select “Run as Administrator” option from the context menu.
- As soon as the “Command Prompt Admin” window appears, you need to type “net stop wuauserv” command and press Enter. It will show you that Windows Update service has stopped working.
- Now click on the “File Explorer” that lies next to the Start button. It will show you Local Disk (C:) in the left pane. Click to view its menu.
- Now click “Windows” folder that lies at the bottom of the folders list.
- It will navigate you towards the content of Windows folder. The list of sub-folders goes alphabetically. So just scroll down to look for “SoftwareDistribution” folder. Once you get it, just click to proceed.
- Now you will see some folders in it. You need to select all of them. None of them is necessary. Now right-click to view the option “Delete” and select it to remove cache.
- Now come to the Command Prompt Admin once again. Type here “net start wuauserv” command and press “Enter” key. Windows Update will start working again.
- Now restart the system (normal boot) and you see! Windows Update service is working efficiently this time.
Install the Required Software
You need to install the required software in your Windows so that it may boost up the system for searching and installing the desired updates. If you are using Windows 7 (32-bit), you need to download THIS SOFTWARE BY MICROSOFT.
If you are using Windows 7 (64-bit), you need to download THIS SOFTWARE BY MICROSOFT.
Once you have done with it, just reboot the system and then restart Windows Update service. This time, it will work promptly.
Install Security Update
One of my fast friends has tried this method, and he found it quite useful that’s why I am discussing here. It can also be handy for you. You need to download the security update that is known as “win32k.sys.” and you can install it to avoid the problem. You need to install KB3161664.
Just install and then restart the system. Now your Windows Update feature will be working without any issue.
If none of the above-discussed methods is working, you need to use WSUSOffline.
Once you use it, you would be able to install all of the updates.
For the Users of Windows 8
Run the Scan
When you are using Windows Update Service, and you see it is stuck, you need to give it another chance. Reboot the system and run it again. It will be effective.
Refresh Your System
If you use this feature in Windows 8, the recent features will be restored to the original version of the Windows. It is quite handy if you need to re-install the necessary updates that are not recently added to your system. Moreover, when you use this option all of the apps or programs you have installed from online sites or disc, will be deleted automatically. You need to follow the instructions below to refresh the system.
- Turn off the system by using the “Power” button.
- Wait for a while and press the “Power” button to start the system.
- You will see the “Power” icon at the bottom on right side of the screen when the Logon screen appears.
- Click this option. Now press the “Shift” key and select “Restart” option.
- It will show you a page “Choose an Option” where you need to look for “Troubleshoot.”
- From here, you need to select “Advanced Options” to move ahead.
- You will see the tool “Refresh your PC” that needs to be selected. Once you select it, you will see “Next.” Just click on it and follow the directions appear before you.
That’s it. Now it will work finely.
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Abortion Support Network founder Mara Clarke: people requested information on abortion clinics, reputable online providers of medical abortion pills as well as funding to travel abroad
12 February 2021
by Laura Calleja
Over 200 people have contacted the Abortion Support Network (ASN) since the NGO
expanded its services to Malta, ASN founder Mara Clarke revealed.
Since expanding its services to Malta back in February 2019, people had
contacted the NGO for information about abortion clinics, reputable online
providers of medical abortion pills, funding to help with the costs of abortion
and travel, and logistical support.
A helping hand, a listening ear: abortion
helpline in India, where 10 women a day die from unsafe terminations, offers
counselling and access to a safe clinic
6 Aug, 2020
Yet another consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been to restrict the
access of millions of women in lockdown to their choice of birth control. India
is seeing millions of unintended pregnancies – and risky abortions.
Zainab Mandlawala will never forget her own experience on a March afternoon in
2018. After waiting for hours, a gynaecologist finally led her into the
operating room and numbed her cervix with a local anaesthetic. She then
performed a “D&C” – dilation and curettage – abortion.
Pro-choice activists launch abortion initiative in Poland
Abortion Without Borders to offer women advice and funds to seek treatment abroad
Shaun Walker, Central and eastern Europe correspondent
Tue 10 Dec 2019
An international group of pro-choice campaigners will launch an initiative in Poland this week to provide advice and funding for women to travel abroad to have abortions.
Poland has some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, and proposals backed by the rightwing government to introduce a total ban on abortions in 2016 were scrapped only after large-scale protests.
GPs must warn women of medical abortion failure rate, say new guidelines
December 20 2018
GPs have been told to inform every woman who is about to have a medical abortion that it has a failure rate and that unrestricted termination cannot be provided beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The advice is outlined in a set of interim guidelines issued to GPs by the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) in advance of the wider availability of abortion, due to come into effect on January 1.
GPs given clinical guidelines for abortion services
Wednesday, 19 Dec 2018
By Fergal Bowers, Health Correspondent
The Irish College of General Practitioners has issued family doctors with interim clinical guidelines, for doctors who wish to provide termination of pregnancy services once it is legalised.
It said that GPs must have access to an ultrasound facility, if a query about the gestation period, or complications arise.
Quarter of abortion-services GPs yet to agree helpline sign-up
HSE hoping more GPs who have agreed to provide services will sign up to helpline
Dec 17, 2018
About a quarter of general practitioners who signed up to provide abortion services have not yet agreed to have their name made available for a new helpline. However, the majority – 75 per cent – of GPs who have signed up have said they are satisfied to do so.
The helpline will provide information to women when they call looking for guidance on where to access abortion care.
At least 2,500 women may seek an abortion next year
December 15 2018
More than 2,500 women may seek a medical abortion from a GP or maternity hospital next year.
The figure is based on the number of early terminations recorded by UK clinics last year among women who travelled from the Republic of Ireland.
This Self-Managed Abortion Helpline Will Answer All Your Legal Questions About The Procedure
By Madhuri Sathish
Oct 30, 2018
As abortion access in the U.S. has become increasingly restricted, more Americans have turned to self-managed abortions, such as those induced by abortion pills. In order to help people concerned about navigating the legality of terminating their pregnancies themselves, a team of lawyers launched an abortion helpline on Tuesday that aims to serve as a free and confidential resource.
The SIA Legal Team, which works to give people increased self-determination in their reproductive lives, is behind the helpline (844-868-2812) and website. Jill Adams, the group's founder and strategy director, tells Bustle the helpline is designed for "anyone who has ended their own pregnancy and been questioned by the authorities or fears they might be questioned by the authorities in relation to their abortion."
04/09/2016, Huffington Post UK
Ann Furedi, Chief executive of British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
Our bodies are our own. And yet when a woman wishes to end a pregnancy, this basic law of civilized society that we teach to infants, is suspended. Her body becomes subject to someone else’s control.
As soon as she misses a period, she loses the right to make decisions about that body. If she is in England, Wales or Scotland - she must ask a doctor to make that decision for her - and they in turn must find another doctor who agrees to provide the treatment to end her pregnancy. However early in pregnancy it is, however straightforward that treatment, it can only lawfully be performed in a specialist clinic or hospital.
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Source: Huffington Post UK
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Lionel Shriver, the international bestselling author, told an audience at Hay: "we all have eating disorders now", as modern men worry about their weight just as much as women.
Shriver, author of We Need to Talk about Kevin, said people are "obsessed" with their weight. She described such characters in her new book Big Brother as "nutritional Nazis".
"We are grotesquely judgmental not only of other people but of ourselves over diet and weight. It has become wildly neurotic on an individual and social level."
Shriver said people are often worried about just a few pounds. "The truth is people are constantly concerned with losing five lbs not for health issues but aesthetics. They are not concerned about inviting diabetes they want to look better."
Shriver added that people are so worried about weight they have stopped enjoying food. "People who worry about eating a little bit too much ruin their experience of eating everything."
She also said society is judging others on how much they weigh: "We have become so judgmental. We believe what we weigh and what we eat is a measure of our value as human beings and that is warped."
She said the Government could not solve Britain's problem but individuals - although that is complex and tough. "I do not think there is anything for it but individual resolve and yes we can support each other if somebody does decide they want to lose weight."
Shriver said people overeat for a number of reasons including anger and boredom. "One of the explanations of why people over-eat is they are not paying attention the first time. If you focus and get the pleasure available in that food you do not have to keep eating more and more."
Shriver told the audience at the Telegraph Hay Festival that she was inspired to write her new novel by her own experience of her brother's death of obesity-related complications in 2009. The novel looks at a fictional family struggling with obesity.
She said her personal experience helped her to judge. "It happened in my own family. It did give me the sense it is my material and I knew something about it. I am not some skinny bitch standing on my high horse being mean to the fatties!"
"My brother's situation broke my heart. This book tried to do something good with something bad that happened in my life. That is what fiction writers do."
Keep up to date with the Telegraph's coverage of the Hay Festival 2013.
You can download a free digital version of The Hayly Telegraph, the daily paper of the Hay Festival, each day of the festival from the iBookstore. Visit iTunes.com/HayFestival or search 'Hayly Telegraph' on the iBookstore.
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Patricia C. DaSilva, Ph.D.
As far back as the year 2004, Pat initiated and facilitated data-driven decision-making, which actively involved teams of teachers, aimed at promoting instructional improvement, best teaching practices and, most of all, realistically high levels of achievement for all students. Working collaboratively with and through teachers long before this, she was also responsible for the development of a portfolio system for assessing the development of students’ writing skills K – 5. Additionally, Pat was at the heart of the development of a very unique project, working in collaboration with the Hartford Stage Company and supported by grants from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and The Glastonbury Parent Teacher Student Organization. Driven by state standards in literacy and the arts, this project promoted authentic learning and integrated the use of performance-based assessment.
These and other experiences reflect some of Pat’s professional interests and led her to her position as assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Sacred Heart, where she continues to promote the use of multiple means of assessing student performance, the promotion of high expectations for all, and the development of collective responsibility for the well-being and learning of all children. In promoting the leadership skills and dispositions of her students, Pat shares her passion for providing educational leadership that reflects a children-first philosophy and the demonstration of ethical leadership, two hallmarks of her career in public school education.
Degrees and Certifications
- Ph.D., Educational Administration, 1984, University of Connecticut
- Sixth-Year Degree, Educational Administration, 1984, University of CT
- Master of Science Degree, Special Education, 1985, Southern CT State University
- Bachelor of Science Degree, 1973, University of CT
- EDL 626, Assessment and Evaluation
- EDL 654, Leadership: Contemporary Educational Problems
- EDL 698, Administrative Practicum
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Hiccup is a sudden, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm, which occurs at the same time as a contraction of the voice box (larynx). When this happens, it blocks air intake.
Dr Eunice Nandudu, a general practitioner at Rojos Health Centre in Seeta, Mukono District, says there is no known cause of hiccups, although research shows it is often triggered by a minor stomach upset.
“People who eat spicy foods, or large meals and drink a lot of alcohol have a higher risk of developing hiccups,” says Dr Nandudu.
In children, she says hiccup happens as the esophagus enlarges. “The component of the throat need to enlarge as a child grows, and they do this through hiccups. And as children are fed on different foods, this tends to expand their throat,” she explains.
In adults, it can be triggered if a person eats quickly, develops sudden body temperature or smokes cigarettes frequently
Dr Nandudu says, in majority of the cases, hiccups disappear suddenly without treatment.
However, she says when a person has prolonged hiccup attacks, it can result into a serious medical condition, requiring urgent treatment.
When attacks last longer than a month, the hiccups are termed intractable. These prolonged hiccups affect men more than women.
•Drink plenty of water to reduce the irritation that hiccups cause to the throat.
•Pull your tongue out using considerable force and then hold your breath for as long as you feel comfortable.
• Pant as deep as you can.
•Chew and then swallow a piece of dry bread.
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The British anti-war movement will turn into a political force to take on Tony Blair’s New Labour in the European elections in June 2004.
The historic announcement was made on Wednesday night in central London where the MP was addressing a rally of the now famous Stop The War movement which has more than two million supporters.
If national backing for the new political version of the movement continues, it will be larger than any political party in the UK with more than two million supporters.
Galloway, a lifelong member of Labour swore British Prime Minister Tony Blair would live to regret his decision in having the Scots-born MP expelled from the party last week.
Now it appears he has kept his word.
He made his dramatic announcement at the Friends Meeting House in central London minutes after criticising New Labour, saying the party which had expelled him had “lost its bearings”.
Galloway given Palestinian guard
of honour during a recent visit
“In short, we are in danger of losing our freedoms and rights to help foreign elites join an increasingly exclusive international club. This is not good enough.
"The national politicisation of the anti-war movement is now a necessary next stage in our own bloodless war of national liberation. The reality of the movement means that what we create must operate at two levels.
"The first level requires steps towards a mass unifying movement of grassroots radicals to hobble the state, bring it under popular control and complete an unfinished radical democratic revolution.
“This level will unite Muslims, Christians and Jews, socialists, liberal and conservatives, men, women and the disadvantaged of all types in one movement of democratic liberation.”
Amid cheers, he added: “This is the movement launched in the Quaker’s Friends House in London’s Euston Road on 29 October 2003 and which will fight New Labour in the European elections and the elections of the Greater London Assembly next June.
“The second tier is where the battle for ideas and souls will take place in a People's Britain. In that battle, I will remain what I have always been - a radical democratic socialist in the Labour tradition - but until power is decentralised and returned to the people.
“I will work with anyone who shares those first-tier values because we need nothing less than a revolution in our national political life.”
* See related links for full copy of the Galloway speech
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Generally, children detected by Autism, ADHD, and ADD often experience problems in all aspects of the developmental process, so that they need media in learning social skills. However, the existence of learning media for children with developmental barriers is still limited. Moreover, parents and teachers have limited knowledge and sources. This study aims to describe the analysis of Maritirukan film to develop children’s social skills that can be used as a learning media. This study was qualitative research. The data were collected using interviews, focus group discussions involving parents, teachers, and experts, and questionnaires involving parents and teachers. The result showed that Maritirukan film in line with the needs of parents and teachers. This film is suitable for teaching social skills, consider the characteristics of children, and can be used independently both in home and schools. In the aspect of film materials, the quality of the film is categorized in good quality. In the legibility aspect, the message of the film, entertaining aspect, quality of resolution, and the setting of film are well provided. In conclusion, this film can be an alternative for parents and teachers to develop the social skills of children with developmental barriers.
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Bernie Sanders has one son named is Levi, and he has three adopted grandchildren from China. When Bernie Sanders married his second wife, Jane, she already had three children of their own — and those children now have four children of their own.
But Bernie Sanders considers all seven as his own grandchildren (as anyone would), even though he’s not related to them by blood. Bernie always refers to them as his "extraordinary grandchildren."
Hillary Clinton has one daughter named Chelsea, who has a baby daughter named Charlotte. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe (embedded below), while Clinton was outlining her policies, she said:
"And I guess at the end of the day, for me, you know, people talk about their extraordinary grandchildren — but I actually have one — and we're going to do everything we can to give her opportunities."
And one way she does this is by giving speeches for $225,000 a pop to banks, corporations and lobbyists who have actively sought to sway government — by lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal policy, and in some cases, contacting State Department officials (or Clinton herself) during her tenure as Secretary of State — and she did this over the course of 2 years when she knew she would be running for President.
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Japan's Space Mission Takes Flight
TOKYO - The Japanese are used to having their astronauts piggy back on other nation's missions into outer space. Several Japanese have flown on American space shuttle missions. Most recently, for example, Naoko Yamazaki flew aboard the Discovery space shuttle.
Their exploits above the Earth are usually good for a day or so of newspaper stories and perhaps a goodwill visit to some school children, but for the most part the Japanese have paid little attention to their country's space exploration programs or even realized that they had one.
That all came to a flaming end earlier this month when the space probe Hayabusa streaked across the sky in Western Australia, safely jettisoning its payload for scientists to examine, after a seven-year space voyage to the asteroid Itokawa, 300 million kilometers from earth - and back.
Japan, not to mention the rest of the world, suddenly woke up to the fact that their country had become just the second in world history, and the first since the Apollo missions to the Moon in the 1970s, to send a space vehicle to another world and then return it to Earth. Japan is suddenly on the cutting edge of space exploration.
If that were not enough, only a few days earlier the Japanese space agency, known as the Japan Aeronautical Exploration Agency (JAXA), launched the Akatsuki on a voyage to Venus, where it is expected to go into orbit around the planet and obtain information on climate patterns. It carries an array of cameras and other instruments to capture the movement of the atmosphere.
Japan is by no means the first country to send an exploratory probe to Venus, but it is the first one to focus primarily on climate. It will complement a soon-to-launch European probe meant to orbit both poles to study the chemical composition of Venus's atmosphere.
The same rocket carried aloft yet another space vehicle, the IKAROS, which is billed as the world's first space "yacht." By that the agency means it will deploy a "sail" made up of an extraordinarily thin polymer membrane designed to catch the solar wind and propel the probe onward.
The asteroid Itokawa, which is only about 500 meters long and 200 wide, or about the size of Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo, was only discovered in 1998, or about five years before the space probe was launched in May 2003. It was named, at Tokyo's request, after Hideo Itokawa, generally considered the father of Japanese rocket development.
The mission can be considered a success in that the probe landed on Itokawa and returned to earth with its payload, but it is as yet uncertain whether the probe brought back any "asteroid rocks" to examine. (The device that was to shoot metal balls into the asteroid surface to kick up debris to be collected malfunctioned.)
The space agency hopes that just settling on the surface of the planetoid may have stirred up enough collectable dust to learn something. The capsule was recovered in Australia and shipped directly to the JAXA's laboratory in Kanagawa prefecture.
As of this writing, the technicians have not yet tried to open the capsule and examine what is inside. Preliminary X-rays of the insides did not seem to indicate that it had collected enough asteroid material for serious analysis, but that remains to be seen.
Scientists were hoping to learn from the dust something about the formation of the solar system; estimated to be 4.6 billion years ago. Unlike other planets and the Earth, the asteroid Itokawa is believed to have been unchanged since the beginning of the solar system.
Whether that part of the mission is a success is in many ways irrelevant. The mission has already profoundly changed the way Japanese, and the Japanese government, look at space exploration. Even Renho, the new cabinet minister charged with identifying wasteful government spending, and a bloodhound on science projects, was impressed.
"It is a feat that all Japanese should be proud of," she said. "This is a major message to the world." Editorials in leading Japanese newspapers piled on the praise: "We believe Hayabusa has clearly shown us what Japan can - and should - aim for," said the Asahi Shimbun. One could speculate that the space agency budget, only about a 10th of the U.S. budget for space exploration, is pretty safe.
Among other things the Hayabusa mission demonstrated conclusively is that Japan has the technology for long-distant missions (At 2,592 days it was the longest space voyage on record, eclipsing the 2,542 days of the American "Stardust" mission of 1999-2006), which collected cosmic dust but did not land on another world.
Additionally, the long voyage was accomplished, despite overcoming numerous glitches along the way, using a small-sized high performance ion engine, developed by the NEC Corp., which creates thrust by expelling xenon ions. Although the thrust is weak, the probe gradually gathers speed over time.
JAXA technicians had to overcome numerous setbacks during the seven-year voyage. Three of the four ion thrusters stopped working during the flight, a fuel leak rendered the chemical engine inoperable, two of the three altitude control antennas broke down and communication was lost for 50 days after the second landing on the minor planet.
Many of Japan's industrial giants contributed parts to the flight. They included, besides NEC, such companies as Fujitsu, which provided systems for orbit control; IHI, which helped design the payload capsule; Mitsubishi Electrics for the ground antennas used to control the flight and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the chemical engines.
The companies could hardly ask for better advertisement for their cutting edge technologies, demonstrating that they propelled the Hayabusa for seven years of space travel and brought it back to earth safely.
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Written By: Starlink
Probing the fact that Face Recognition can play a master card in the field of Biometric Attendance, Access Control Security, and Surveillance.
In the world of Identification & Authentication through Fingerprint, Card Access, and Palm Reading. Moreover, in other geometries, the Facial Recognition System has remained an area of interest and research because of its unparalleled nature and uncommon properties.
The reason, why it is becoming one of the foremost choices in the field of Security & access control is that it requires Limited Human Effort as compared to other Biometric techniques.
The application area can be vast for this technique but majorly it is used in spheres like the Time Attendance machines, Employee Management, Visitor Management systems, Access Control systems, etc. An obvious reason which enhances the usage of face recognition is a difficult and lengthy task to maintain book records for entry and exits.
Maintaining and verifying large books of attendance and access control can be a nightmare for departments and situations can go tricky with multi-locations and various other modifications.
So let us study why and how to Face Recognition can be the next favorite in the field of Security and Access Control.
Face recognition works on a completely different aspect or it will be better to mention that face reader is the future of attendance management and access control systems. We opt for a divergent physiological identifier which is to recognize & map the facial symmetry of a human face and identify thru it.
Furthermore, a face reader monitors the dimensions of a face, maps the facial features which include the distance between eyes, nose & mouth from each other and saves an analytical picture of our face into it.
Moreover, facial recognition is an advanced technology that requires high-quality digital cameras for algorithms to operate accurately. A face recognition system and a biometric attendance system capture a set of 3 different face postures in the photo or screen-shot from a video, then the relative size of that face image will be compared with the size.
So, the photo’s quality can affect the whole face recognition process. Everyone has different face symmetries which makes this technique zero percent prone to theft, trespassing, or any other sort of illegal activities.
Face recognition uses the most distinctive features of image scanning, recognition, and authentication. It is said that cybercrime can be executed by capturing blueprints of biometric data but getting someone’s face symmetry data is impossible.
And one cannot break the algorithm by showing an image in front of the machine which is considered to be a breakthrough in its security.
Till the time a person’s face is not brought in front of a face reader, no image or any other kind of facial statistics or dimensions can help to enter the secured area.
Another feature affirming security with face reader equipment is the unique ID enrollment process. Under this, a face reader registers only one face with an employee ID.
Let’s clear it with an example, an employee with their unique employee ID gets registered on face reader equipment for attendance or access control. A corrupt way to breach a face reader’s security fencing can be; enrolling an employee’s face on any other employee ID.
Moreover, with this attendance or access can be marked on a different person’s ID and access would be permitted to a different person.
Unique ID enrollment makes sure that a single face gets registered with the associated employee ID. A Face reader with this feature will never accept a single face with 2 Ids.
Two profiles are provided in a face reader namely; Admin & User. With this dual profile management feature, only the admin is authorized to amend changes like,
Dual profile management makes sure that all the data and features are in safe hands and there are zero percent chances of any sort of security breach.
The face reader is equipped with a high-resolution infrared camera and IR LEDs to analyze, identify and authenticate a person’s face symmetry in a place that receives low or NO light.
The IR LEDs installed in the machine reflect the light and helps the face reader to read the face symmetry. This authentication process has achieved decent accuracy and has broken the myth that face readers won’t be able to perform under low lighting conditions.
To provide a cut above security, face readers can also be installed with Tripods, Turnstiles, Exit Buttons & Door locks. Areas that demand the highest level of security and inspection checks also install the above-mentioned barriers.
Face readers synchronized with barriers gives incomparable preservation to any department as to trespass these barriers are nearly impossible and physical damage to them can invite serious problems for the bad elements.
All the above-mentioned points have proved the fact that face reader or face recognition is a name of complete security and is amongst the top recognition technologies.
Nonetheless, with every step, the biometric industry is taking for making workplaces and offices more secure. Face recognition with regular Modifications and advancements is proving to be the ace of the biometric industry.
Related Post: Bio Face Reader: The New Era of Security & Control
Related Post: What Are The Advantages Of Bio Face Reader Devices?
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Leaders from the BRICS nations pose for photos after concluding their talks Thursday in Sanya, Hainan Province. Photo: Xinhua
The heads of five fast-growing emerging economies made a joint pledge Thursday to reform the world’s financial institutions so as to better reflect their rising clout, a consensus that may shun skepticism over the group’s cohesion.
After a summit meeting in Sanya, Hainan Province, the BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, formed a united front to seek a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis in Libya, a move indicative of the group’s ambition to expand their agenda.
The meeting was chaired by Chinese President Hu Jintao and attended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma.
The previous two summits had slightly less broad platforms, revolving around economic development models and cooperation among emerging economies.
A Goldman Sachs banker, Jim O’Neill, first coined the term “BRIC” in 2001. Thursday’s annual meeting saw South Africa formally join their ranks for the first time.
The combined territories of the BRICS countries account for nearly 30 percent of the world’s total land area and they are home to 42 percent of the world’s total residents.
In 2010, the group contributed 18 percent of the world’s GDP and 15 percent of global trade.
BRICS nations stated the financial crisis had exposed the inadequacies of the current monetary order, with the dollar as its linchpin.
In a joint communiqué named the Sanya Declaration, they called for the implementation of “a broad-based international reserve currency system providing stability and certainty.”
The management structure of international financial institutions should accurately reflect changes in the world economy and increase the voice and representation of emerging economies as well as developing nations, the document said.
Hu said “The era demands that the BRICS countries strengthen dialogue and cooperation.”
The declaration also stressed more areas of cooperation on international trade, price controls, renewal of energy resources, sustainable development, poverty reduction and climate change.
With all of them being UN Security Council members, the five nations stated that in Libya, “all the parties should resolve their differences through peaceful means and dialogue in which the UN and regional organizations should as appropriate play their role.”
“We also express support for the African Union High-Level Panel Initiative on Libya,” the document read.
Zuma was in Tripoli on Sunday as part of an African Union delegation seeking to mediate between Muammar Gaddafi and the rebels.
Lin Yueqin, a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the co-author of the Annual Report on BRICS” Social-Economic Development (2011), said that Thursday’s statement on Libya indicated the BRICS” desire to extend their influence beyond the realms of economy and finance.
According to Lin, the summit and forum offer an opportunity for the BRICS to stand together and voice their concerns and appeals, breaking the dominance of the developed world in global policy-making.
“China is now over-dependent on trade with developed countries. Yet, there is great potential for it to develop its economic exchanges with other BRICS nations. The current Chinese trade volume with other BRICS countries stands at $200 billion annually. That is less than its trade volume with South Korea alone,” Lin said.
Lin also noted that compared with the G-7, the BRICS nations are in a fledgling state and had a long way to go to resolve disputes over territorial disputes and political divergences.
BRICS nations have a lot of interests in common, but they also have significant divergences, Patrick Chovanec, an associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, told the Global Times Thursday.
“Roughly they are at similar stages of development, but there are also conflicts to be settled. This doesn’t necessarily lead to a consistent agenda being set up within the group,” he said, noting that BRICS is more a discussion forum than an alliances.
Chovanec said the conflicts may be extended to the political arena in the global arena as Brazil and India are vying to become permanent members of the UN Security Council, which could dilute the influence of their BRICS counterparts.
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When your teenager is experiencing mental health issues, finding help can be challenging. This can be especially hard when you and your child are having your own issues with communication. Sometimes, it can seem like s/he will only confide in their friends or their phones. When your teen needs help, you want them to talk to someone they trust and whose feedback they will be receptive to. Learn more about finding the right NJ teen therapist below.
What should I look for in a teen therapist?
Parents or adolescents may seek a teen therapist for a number of reasons. These may include mental health disorders like anxiety or depression or behavioral issues such as defiance. Teens may be experiencing problems communicating, or be struggling with trauma or grief. It may be helpful to look for a therapist who specializes in one of these areas.
You may also want to find a therapist who specializes in a specific type of therapy. For teens who may not be able to control their emotions, traditional talk therapy isn’t always the best solution. In these cases, finding a therapist who works with therapies such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) or DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) can be more productive.
In other cases, your teen may be more receptive to hands-on or creative therapies, such as art, music, or yoga. Teens may be more likely to engage when participating in such activities.
When teens are experiencing problems with their family members, improving communication is a huge part of treatment. You may want to find a therapist who specializes in working with families.
Figure out what kind of role you want to play in your teen’s treatment. Do you want to be present at some sessions? Do you want to come in for your own sessions? Ask a therapist about their approach to parent or family involvement to see if it’s compatible with you and your child’s needs.
Blueprint Mental Health NJ Teen Therapist
Blueprint Mental Health offers outpatient therapy for teens to those experiencing anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. We specialize in the use of DBT in helping teens and young adults regulate their emotions and develop healthier relationships with themselves and their families. At Blueprint, we take a skills-based approach to treatment and promote skills education for all members of an individual’s support system.
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Have you been without power for a worryingly long time now? Are you wondering how long your refrigerator will stay cold without power before all your perishables, you know, start perishing?
Well, most refrigerators, last for about 4 to 6 hours without power before returning to room temperature.
However, this range depends on a number of different factors.
You need to consider these factors to know how long your refrigerator will stay without power.
In this article, we will highlight these factors. We will also give you some tips to help you maximize a power loss to your advantage.
Let’s dive in!
Does Your Refrigerator Have Good Insulation?
Is your refrigerator one of the new models that are being produced, or is it an older model? Older refrigerator models don’t have as much insulation when compared to the refrigerators that are currently being produced.
This is definitely one thing you need to consider to know how long your foods will last in the refrigerator without power.
The amount of insulation that a refrigerator has is very crucial because of heat losses or gains. A refrigerator with better insulating properties tends to retain low temperatures. This, in turn, reduces drastic heat transfer to the surroundings.
A refrigerator with not-too-good insulation tends to gain heat rapidly. This basically increases the internal temperature of the refrigerator faster, such that the fridge won’t be able to stay cool for a while.
So, what kind of insulation do you have? Is it thick enough to reduce heat transfer?
How Many Hours Did Your Refrigerator Run For Before the Power Outage?
You may be thinking this question is a tad bit unnecessary, but you may be wrong. Estimating the number of hours that your refrigerator ran for before the outage can determine so many things.
On the bright side, it helps you to know whether your perishables are already going bad. It also helps to have a rough idea of what the temperature should be. If it’s working optimally, the lowest temperature a refrigerator should operate is about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, if you don’t have one already, consider getting a thermometer for your fridge to be sure that you have an accurate knowledge of the temperature in it.
So, if a refrigerator is left to run for a few hours at a stretch, the lowest temperature can be achieved. This, however, depends on the performance of the refrigerator. But if it wasn’t running for so long, the lowest temperature may have not been achieved. And this means that the refrigerator may lose its coolness faster.
Makes sense, right?
In addition to the factors mentioned earlier, you may also want to consider this next question.
How Filled Up Is Your Refrigerator?
Is your refrigerator filled to the brim with foodstuffs and other perishables, or is it just about half full?
It has been noticed that when a refrigerator is filled up, there’s a greater chance of it staying cold for a longer time.
On the other hand, if a refrigerator is half-filled, it may not be able to stay cool for a very long time.
So, this is another factor to take note of to know how long a refrigerator will stay cold without power.
How Often Do You Open The Refrigerator?
Assuming that your refrigerator attained the lowest temperature possible before the power outage. It should probably be at about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius. This is a good range for food and other perishables to remain fresh.
However, opening the door of the refrigerator frequently lets warm air in from the atmosphere. The warm air which comes into the refrigerator will replace the cool air and warm up the fridge after a while.
So, basically, if you open your refrigerator too many times during a power outage, then your foods may be at risk. This is because the chances of it staying cold for a long period of time gets slimmer.
This is why it is advisable to keep the refrigerator shut when it loses power so that it can retain its coldness for a while.
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How Long Will A Refrigerator Stay Cold Without Power — Bottom Line
We’ve established the fact that a refrigerator can stay cold for about 4 to 6 hours even after a power outage. This, however, depends greatly on a number of factors.
- Proper insulation: A refrigerator with proper insulation helps to retain the coolness for a longer period of time. This is unlike a refrigerator without proper insulation.
- If your refrigerator was left to run for a long time, it most likely would have achieved the lowest temperature. And this would help the refrigerator stay cool even during a power outage.
- A filled-up refrigerator has a higher chance of staying cool for a long time as opposed to a refrigerator which is just about half full.
- Opening a refrigerator too many times may cause your refrigerator not to retain its coolness for a long period of time. This is because the warm air that goes into the refrigerator when you open the fridge will replace the cool air in it and warm up the refrigerator.
In the video below, wellness chef Geremy Capone offers tips on food safety measures to take when your refrigerator loses power. Check it out.
Related FAQs — How Long Will A Refrigerator Stay Cold Without Power?
Can I unplug my refrigerator during a power outage?
Unplugging a refrigerator during a power outage will help to prevent power surges when the power is restored. Refrigerators can be very vulnerable to power outages.
Another way to help prevent power surge is through the use of surge protectors. Refrigerator surge protectors protect the refrigerator from power surges, even when you can’t unplug the refrigerator.
Ensure that the food in the refrigerator stays as cold as possible. Always keep the refrigerator doors closed and place block ice inside as well to aid in keeping the refrigerator cold.
How can I keep my refrigerator cold without power?
To keep a refrigerator cold without power, take note of the following:
- Make sure the refrigerator and freezer doors are closed all the time to maintain a cold temperature.
- Get block ice to keep the refrigerator as cold as possible if the power is going to be out for a while. 50 pounds of block ice can keep an 18 cubic feet fully stocked freezer cold for 2 days.
- If you intend to eat refrigerated meat, fish or eggs while they are still at the proper temperatures, ensure that they thoroughly cooked to a safe minimum internal temperature to destroy any food-borne bacteria.
Please, check out these other articles…
- How to Defrost Hitachi Refrigerator [Quick Guide]
- How to Defrost Frigidaire Refrigerator [Detailed Guide]
- How to Defrost Electrolux Refrigerator [Detailed Guide]
What do you throw out after a power outage?
Throw out perishable foods like meat, seafood, milk, eggs, and leftovers if there was no power for about 4 hours, or a cold source like block ice.
Do not taste anything to find out whether it is safe to eat. Trash foods with unusual smells, color, or texture.
Check the temperature of food in the refrigerator and throw out any food that is above 400F. If you have foods that are below 400F, you can then refreeze or cook. However, note that perishable foods that are not properly refrigerated can cause illness if eaten, even after they’ve been thoroughly cooked.
What do I do once power is restored?
- Check the temperature of the refrigerator thermometer. If the thermometer reads 400F or below, the food in your refrigerator is safe and can be refrozen.
- Check each packaged content in the refrigerator if a refrigerator thermostat hasn’t been kept in the refrigerator. It is not safe to rely on looks or odor. Also, if the food is 400F or below, you can refreeze.
- If the power was out for about 4 hours, then the refrigerated food should be safe as long as the refrigerator doors were kept closed. When the power comes back on, check the temperature of the food or in the refrigerator.
How long will it take for a refrigerator to get cold?
On average, it takes a refrigerator 24 hours to get to a safe temperature.
It has to remove the heat from the metal, plastic, and insulation inside. The freezer usually gets cold first because all the cooing is made there, followed by the fresh food section.
However, if the refrigerator/freezer is less than three-quarters full, and if the refrigerator doors are opened frequently, it might take more than 24 hours for the refrigerator to reach a safe temperature. Therefore, fill the refrigerator three-quarters with food or other things that can take up space to ensure that the refrigerator gets to a safe temperature in 24 hours.
How can I tell if my refrigerator is cold enough?
To test the temperature of a refrigerator, use the liquid that has been in the compartment for about 24 hours.
Put a glass of water in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Then, stick a thermometer into the glass of water to get a reading. If you use an instant-read thermometer, you’ll get your reading immediately after. For other types of thermometer, close the refrigerator doors and check again after a few hours because the internal temperature of the temperature would have stabilized, giving the thermometer a chance to get a reliable reading.
If you adjust the temperature of the refrigerator, leave it for 24 hours to stabilize, then take another reading. Continue the process until you get a safe temperature.
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“Dooring” events – crashes or other collisions triggered by a motorist opening their door into a cyclist or the cyclist’s path — are one of the more common collision events for cyclists in urban areas. Often with devastating results. As a bicycle accident lawyer, I’ve seen folks who have suffered catastrophic head injuries, shoulder injuries, neck injuries, etc., as a direct result of these incidents. Unfortunately, the cyclist is often without any means of preventing or avoiding these crash events. Why? Visibility and notice are the key problems.
Contrary to what many motorists (and jurors) may think, the cyclist usually has no warning that a “dooring” event is about to occur. A cyclist’s ability to see into the passenger compartment of a parked vehicle is usually very limited, most commonly due to window tinting (present on most mini-vans and SUVs) or sun glare reflecting off of the vehicles’ windows. Now, factor in the reality that cyclists are legally obligated to ride as far to the right side of the road/lane as possible in order to avoid obstructing the flow of traffic, and the recipe for disaster should be clear. The easiest means to avoid these accidents is to place an obligation on motorists to look before they open their doors! Why? Simple. Unlike the approaching cyclist, a motorist has direct knowledge of their plan to open the door, has no impediments to their ability to see through their windows, and has the added benefit of being able to view the approach of the cyclist in their mirrors.The vast majority of States in the US have traffic statutes which address Dooring by imposing a duty on all drivers to verify they can safely open their car doors before they do so. Unfortunately, New Jersey has no such statute.
As an avid cyclist and bicycle injury attorney in New Jersey, I think it is time for that to change. I urge you to do your part by writing to your state legislators and seeking change. Not sure who they are? You can look them up here. For more information of “dooring” and a summary of the way this hazard is addressed across the United States, visit League of American Cyclists website.
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Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer.
Ash Wednesday takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday, and is chiefly observed by Catholics, although many other Christians observe it too.
Ash Wednesday comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance and fasting. The practice includes the wearing of ashes on the head. The ashes symbolize the dust from which God made us. As the priest applies the ashes to a person’s forehead, he speaks the words: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Alternatively, the priest may speak the words, “Repent and believe in the Gospel.”
Ashes also symbolize grief, in this case, grief that we have sinned and caused division from God.
Writings from the Second-century Church refer to the wearing of ashes as a sign of penance.
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Cæsar portrayed his invasion of Gaul as being a defensive pre-emptive action. Most historians agree that the wars were fought primarily to boost Cæsar's political career and to pay off his massive debts. Even so, Gaul was extremely important to Rome, as they had been attacked many times by the Gauls. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine. Cæsar painstakingly describes his military campaign, and this is still the most important historical source on the Gaul campaign. It is also a masterwork of political propaganda, as Cæsar was keenly interested in manipulating his readers in Rome as he published this book just as the Roman Civil war began. W. A. Macdevitt's definitive translation, complete with nearly 300 linked footnotes, brings this landmark historic book al
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After a powerful storm, some homeowners look for signs of a leak to determine if they have sustained any roof damage. However, while a leak is one sign of damage, it is not the only way to spot an issue. In fact, in the early stages of roof damage, the damage will be more visible on the outside of your home than it will be on the inside. Learn about some of the signs you should look for on your roof.
If you have an asphalt roof installed on your home, you should know that there are tiny granules that cover the top of each shingle. The granules look like tiny black pieces of gravel and are intended to protect the shingles, particularly from the sun. So, when high winds and hail cause these granules to fall off, it can leave your roof unprotected.
Generally, you cannot visibly see the missing granules from the ground, but if you look around your gutter drains after rain and see the tiny pieces, you know you have a problem that requires repair.
If you recently experienced heavy hail in your area, it is a good idea to look for round cracks on your roof shingles. Hail often forms in a circular shape. As such, when it makes an impact with your roof, it can cause cracking along the shingles in a round-like shape.
The most important thing to remember about this impact is that it causes a crack in the shingles; a crack that will allow moisture to penetrate. Unfortunately, once a shingle has a crack there is not anything that can be done to repair it, which means it must be replaced.
With a storm that involves high winds, you should also look for any loose shingles. Loose shingles are somewhat easy to spot in that they will easily flap when the wind blows even slightly, or the shingles may appear raised compared to the rest of the shingles.
A loose shingle is a very important issue to address, as it means that the underlay of the roof is exposed to the elements. Even worse, as moisture settles under the loose shingle, it can cause the other nearby shingles to also loosen, which will make the problem worse.
If you notice any of this damage around the exterior of your home, make sure you speak with a roof repair professional to have the storm damage repaired as soon as possible. To learn more, contact a company that offers residential storm damage roof repair.
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This weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Rating is based on 1,523 online and telephone interviews conducted Australia-wide with men and women aged 14 during the week of January 31 – February 6, 2022.
ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence decreased 1.9pts to 99.9 during the first week of February. Consumer Confidence is still a significant 11.5pts below the same week a year ago, February 6/7, 2021 (111.4) and now just below the 2022 weekly average of 101.1.
Western Australia’s border closure to the rest of Australia, and the world, was planned to be reopened on February 5th but was delayed indefinitely. This same week Consumer Confidence has decreased 9pts in WA and 14pts in Perth indicating dissatisfaction with the continuing border closure.
Driving the small decrease were changes in sentiment regarding the performance of the Australians’ personal finances compared to a year ago and over the next year.
Current financial conditions
Future financial conditions
- Looking forward a decreasing plurality of Australians, 35% (down 2 ppts), expect their family to be ‘better off’ financially this time next year, compared to 21% (up 3ppts) that expect to be ‘worse off’ financially.
Current economic conditions
- However, just 14% (down 1 ppt), of Australians expect ‘good times’ for the Australian economy over the next twelve months compared to 26% (down 1ppt), that expect ‘bad times’.
Future economic conditions
- In the longer term, just under a fifth of Australians, 19% (unchanged), are expecting ‘good times’ for the economy over the next five years compared to 16% (down 2 ppts) expecting ‘bad times’.
Time to buy a major household item
- Sentiment towards buying intentions has remains largely the same, with 36% (unchanged) of Australians, saying now is a ‘good time to buy’ major household items while 33% (down 1ppt) say now is a ‘bad time to buy’.
ANZ Head of Australian Economics, David Plank, commented:
Consumer confidence decreased 1.9% last week, falling back below neutral. This coincided with much publicised commentary from the RBA Governor that there was now a “plausible scenario” in which the cash rate went up in 2022. That is a big shift from Lowe’s previous statements that interest rates may not go up until 2024. Ratings of both ‘current’ and ‘financial’ conditions dropped to levels last seen in late 2020. Among the states, WA suffered the biggest loss, with sentiment 8.1% lower, which could be influenced by COVID numbers and bushfires close to the towns of Bridgetown and Denmark. Confidence also dropped in NSW (-1.7%), Queensland (-3.4%) and SA (-1.9%), while it rose in Victoria (+1.5%).
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Diabetes is a big problem in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. About 1 in 3 people will get diabetes. Watch the short video below to learn about the benefits of the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS).
Diabetes medicine won’t fix or cure your diabetes. Help it work better by eating healthy, being active and being a healthy weight to keep your sugar (glucose) levels normal and your body strong.
Take charge of your diabetes and find out more from your Aboriginal Health Worker, Health Clinic/Community Centre, Aboriginal Medical Service or doctor.
The following information is from the ‘Keep Culture Life & Family Strong; Know Early About Diabetes’ flipcharts for Indigenous Australians. It is of a general nature only and should not be substituted for medical advice or used to alter medical therapy. It does not replace consultations with qualified healthcare professionals to meet your individual medical needs.
The ‘Keep Culture Life & Family Strong; Know Early About Diabetes’ resource was originally developed by Healthy Living NT with funding provided by the Department of Health and Ageing through Diabetes Australia. The reprinting and distribution of the most recent addition has been made possible with funding by the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) – an initiative of the Australian Government administered by Diabetes Australia.
How do you feel? (Symptoms)
If you have any of the following symptoms you should talk to your doctor, health worker or nurse.
- Feeling tired or weak
- Go to the toilet a lot
- Feeling thirsty
- Leg cramps
- Feeling itchy
- Sores and boils that won’t heal
- Blurry vision
- Pins and needles
- Feeling grumpy or angry.
Through a simple test, a doctor can find out if they’re the result of diabetes.
What is it? (About diabetes)
Sugar (glucose) gives your body energy. The sugar (glucose) moves from your blood into your muscles with something called insulin. With diabetes your insulin isn’t working properly, so the sugar (glucose) doesn’t get into your muscles and body easily and there is too much sugar (glucose) in your blood.
Everyone has a little bit of sugar (glucose) in their blood. The optimum sugar (glucose) level is between 4 to 6 mmol/L (after fasting).
Sugar (glucose) is fuel that comes from some of the food you eat and drink. It gives your body energy to do all sorts of things:
- Play sports
To help the sugar (glucose) move into your muscles and body cells your body needs something called insulin. Insulin is made in the pancreas - a body part which is near your stomach.
Insulin helps keep your sugar (glucose) levels normal.
With diabetes, the insulin isn’t helping the sugar (glucose) move from your body into your muscles and body cells. So it stays and builds in your body, making your blood sugar (glucose) level high.
Type 2 Diabetes
There are different types of diabetes. A lot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have type 2 diabetes. Type 2 is when your body stops the insulin working properly.
Fat bellies, not being active enough, eating a big mob of fatty food can stop the insulin working properly in your body.
Being active, eating healthy and being a healthy weight can help your insulin work better to keep your sugar (glucose) normal. Sometimes people might need to take tablets and insulin everyday to keep their sugar (glucose) levels normal.
Another type of diabetes is gestational diabetes. This happens when you are pregnant, but not all women get it. It goes away after pregnancy but you and your baby can get type 2 diabetes later in life.
There is also Pre Diabetes or Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT). This happens when your sugar (glucose) level is high, but not high enough to be called diabetes. It doesn’t mean you have diabetes now, but it does mean you might get it later. Being active and eating healthy you can slow down the start of type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes
Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have type 1 diabetes. This usually happens in kids and teenagers. Type 1 diabetes is when your body kills the insulin making part in the pancreas and no insulin is made in your body. To give the body the insulin it needs, insulin injections are needed every day for the rest of their life.
What do I do? (Management of diabetes)
When there is too much sugar (glucose) in your blood it damages your heart, kidneys, feet, eyes and nerves.
You can keep your sugar (glucose) levels normal by:
- Have plenty of bush tucker and have shop foods and home cooked meals that are low in fat, sugar and salt.
- Have something from each of the core food groups every day. They give you energy, fight sickness and help care for your body to keep it strong.
- Drink plenty of water.
Avoiding and eat less fat, sugar and salt
- Eat less fat as it makes you put on weight and gives you problems with your heart.
- Pick meat with no fat or only small bits of fat on it. Cut the fat off the meat and take the skin off chicken.
- Drain the juices (fat) after cooking meat and scoop out the fat from the top of stews.
- Avoid cooking with or having fats like butter, oil, margarine or dripping.
- It is better to boil, steam, stew, grill, microwave or stir-fry food.
Being a healthy weight (not too fat and not too skinny)
- Do this by eating less, eating healthy and being more active.
- It helps you lose weight and keep it off and it keeps you healthy.
- It helps your insulin to work properly.
- Walk, job, play sport, hunt, garden, work around the place.
- Be active for 30 minutes or more every day OR do 10 minutes 3 times a day.
Taking your medicine
- Take your medicine at the times the doctor tells you.
- Take them with or after eating in the morning, afternoon and supper time every day.
- Refill your medicine box in the morning (get some more medicine before it gets low and so you don’t run out).
- Take your medicine with you when you go to see family, walkabout or away from home.
- Put your medicines somewhere cool, dry and safe so they won’t go bad.
- Keep your medicines out of reach of kids.
- Have your check-ups with your doctor, health worker or nurse. Have regular check-ups for your eyes, feet, kidneys, blood pressure, skin and teeth. If you notice anything different about your body talk to your doctor, health worker or nurse.
- Check your sugar (glucose) levels at the times your doctor, health worker or nurse tells you.
- See your doctor, health worker or nurse straight away if you feel sick.
- Check your feet and skin for sores and/or cracks every day.
Why take medicine for? (Medications for diabetes)
Diabetes medicine helps to keep your body strong and well and it helps to keep your sugar (glucose) levels normal.
When eating healthy, being active and being a healthy weight isn’t working at keeping your sugar (glucose) levels normal, you might need to take tablets and/or insulin.
The doctor might put you on tablets called Metformin to help your insulin work better and to lower the amount of sugar (glucose) in your blood.
After a while the pancreas gets tired from working too hard and can’t make enough insulin, so your doctor might put you on tablets called Sulphonylurea. This medicine helps your body make more insulin.
Or, after awhile, the doctor might need to add another lot of tablets called Glitazone or Acarbose.
Remember to have your medicine with or after eating, in the morning, afternoon or supper time. Take them at the time the doctor tells you to.
All tablets work differently and some can have side effects.
If the following problems don’t go away or if you are still worried about them, then talk to your doctor.
- Feel sick like you want to vomit (nausea)
- A sore belly
- Sugar (glucose) levels going too low
- Have fluid build-up (retention)
When your sugar (glucose) levels get too high and stays high the doctor might put you on tablets and give you insulin.
- Having insulin doesn’t mean you have type 1 diabetes.
- Insulin isn’t like tablets so it shouldn’t be swallowed.
- You inject the insulin under your skin in different places on your belly.
Talk to your doctor, health worker or nurse about insulin and what is right for you.
Having too much insulin or taking too many Sulphonylurea tablets can make your sugar (glucose) levels go too low (under 3) and make you hypo (hypoglycaemia).
You can also go hypo (hypoglycaemia) if you are:
- Not eating, not eating enough or eating too late
- Being extra active
- Drinking grog (alcohol).
You might not feel anything when you have a hypo (hypoglycaemia), but sometimes you might feel:
- Get headaches
- Talk like you’re drunk when you’re not
When you have these feelings or think you are having a hypo (hypoglycaemia), get your sugar (glucose) level up fast by drinking or eating something sweet.
Keep your sugar (glucose) level normal and stop having another hypo (hypoglycaemia) by eating a sandwich or meal after you have something sweet.
Remember, after taking your tablets or insulin:
- Keep them somewhere cool, dry and safe (maybe in the fridge at home or at the clinic) so that they won’t go bad
- Keep them out of reach of children
- Get rid of your syringes/needles and finger pricking needles by putting them in a “sharps container” or “hard plastic” empty container with a lid (see if the clinic has one).
Remember when you go see family, walkabout or are away for home take your tablets and/or insulin with you.
Why me? (Risk factors)
Nobody knows how or why some people get diabetes but there are some things we know that can add to your chances of getting it. You have more chance of getting it when you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, but not all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islande people have diabetes.
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people live different to how they used to live. Changes that add to your chances of getting diabetes are:
- Not as active
- More overweight
- Eating fatty salty, sugary foods.
People living the old way were:
- Leaner and fit
- Eating healthy food (bush tucker).
Other chances of getting diabetes include:
- It is in your family tree or when someone in your family has diabetes
- You had diabetes when pregnant
- You get older
- You eat too much and you eat too many fatty and sugary foods
- You are overweight
- You are not active enough
- You have pancreatitis (a sickness of the pancreas).
There are things you can’t change or stop you from getting diabetes:
- It’s in your family
- You are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- You are pregnant with diabetes
- You are getting older.
The things you can do to slow down the start of diabetes:
- Eat healthy and be a healthy weight
- Be active
- Don’t drink too much grog.
Nobody knows why or how people get diabetes. After a while it can damage your heart, kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves making you really sick.
Talk to your doctor, clinic, nurse or health worker about having a test to find out if you have diabetes. You can’t always feel it or see it happening, so you might not know you have it.
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Whenever Filip Wiszniewski goes out to play in the gated communal garden at the back of his west London home, there are certain rules he must obey. Despite being an eight-year-old boy, he cannot play with balls, or climb trees, according to the regulations. As there is so much traffic on the other side of the fence, he must never venture out. Every half an hour, he must also check in with an adult at home to say he’s OK.
Of course, it’s a long way from the free-range childhood his mother Izabela, 44, enjoyed when she was allowed to play out of her parents’ sight and cross roads to get to her local playground. But as a modern mother, bringing up children in a world that feels more crowded and uncertain, her instincts tell her she has little choice but to be more vigilant.
Izabela, who runs the Blue Almonds children’s boutique in Chelsea, says: “Once, when Filip was two, he disappeared from the spot where he was playing. I saw his teddy bear abandoned by the fence and thought he’d been snatched through the bars. Every scenario went through my head.”
After 10 minutes of panic, she found her son hiding in some bushes. But those memories came flooding back last year when some local mothers circulated an email warning that there had been an attempted abduction of a child in a nearby playground.
“I am very focused on my 18-month-old daughter, Matylda, because anything can happen in a few seconds,” she says. “With Filip, I try to strike a balance between letting him explore and preparing him. But I think parents are in denial if they think it could never happen to them.”
Most parents today will recognise Izabela’s dilemma – caught between the desire to want children to have carefree childhoods and concerns about how to keep them safe.
A recent poll of 3,000 parents by online parenting guide familiesonline.co.uk found that parents don’t let children play outside on their own until they are, on average, 10½ – three years older than when they themselves were allowed to do the same. “Stranger danger” was the biggest fear, with half saying this worried them most, while four in 10 said traffic was their top concern.
Yet is it fair to conclude that modern parents are more paranoid than ever? Every year 130 children die and more than 4,500 are seriously injured while walking or cycling on UK roads, double the number who die in car crashes. Furthermore, analysis by Action Against Abduction found that there are around 200 attempted abductions of children by strangers recorded by police. In roughly 50 cases the stranger succeeds in taking a child, yet most are soon recovered. And while that means the odds of your child being snatched by a predator are still very long, that’s little consolation if it ends up being your son or daughter, says mother-of-two Judy Vickers.
Judy, 46, who lives in Linlithgow, Scotland, with her partner Nick Drainey, is constantly trying to find the right balance for their children, Anna, nine, and Eric, six. Nick, 45, who writes about the outdoors in his blog, The View from the Hill, says: “During the school holidays when I was a child my mother used to send me out on the country lanes near our house for the day on my bike. Admittedly I grew up in an old farmhouse, whereas we now live in a semi in a small town.
“But my daughter is nine – an age when I was roaming fields and exploring woods. We’re afraid even to let her go as far as the local leisure centre because it means crossing a road that is supposed to be 30mph but which cars scream down at twice that speed.”
Whether today’s parents are right to be cautious, their anxiety is likely to be more damaging to youngsters than any risks they might meet in the outside world, according to some experts (see panel). Part of the problem is that many of today’s young parents, born after the introduction of 24-hour media coverage of attacks and abductions, never knew an untethered childhood themselves, according to Prof Richard House, a campaigner for child wellbeing. He argues that educational apps and toys aimed at children give nothing like the sense of independence youngsters develop when left to their own devices outdoors. “Einstein got it right,” Prof House says. “Imagination is more important than knowledge; play is the highest form of research.”
For Mel Knibb, one of her favourite family photos shows her five-year-old daughter, Amélie, smiling from the branches of a birch tree, six feet up. Mel, 36, a mother of four from Hertfordshire who writes the blog Le Coin de Mel, believes our anxieties are standing in the way of healthy childhoods.
“I let Amélie climb trees and I allow my two older children, age six and eight, to cycle around the block if they don’t cross the road.
“How will children ever work out what they are capable of – or how to keep themselves safe – unless they have been given a chance to try these things for themselves?”
This article was originally published in April 2017.
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An Israeli linguist seems to think she has turned the linguistic world upside down with her new meaning for the word "most." A UPN article states
Professor Mira Ariel of Tel Aviv University says her research "is quite shocking for the linguistics world" and proves some of her fellow linguists are wrong in their definition of the word "most."She claims that we linguists believe that
"most" generally means 51 percent to 99 percent of a group of people or objects.but that in a survey she and her colleagues did, a number of persons
understood "most" to mean about 80 percent to 95 percent of a group and not the much larger range of 51 percent to 99 percent.One very serious problem with her claims is that no self-respecting linguist would ever say that "most" means 51 percent to 99 percent of a group or means '80 percent to 95 percent of a group.' This is just now how we use the word "mean."
Professor Ariel seems not to understand the distinction between "meaning" and "use". It very well may be that people use "most" in a proposition like "Most Ps are Q" in circumstances in which 80-95% of the relevant Ps have the property Q. But that is not what it means. That is how we use it. I am not sure how to characterize what it means but I am sure that that is not what it means.
If I say, that most Ps are Q and it turns out that 97% of the Ps are Q is what I said false? Surely not. And if it turns out that 75% of the Ps are Q, is what I said false"? Again, surely not. This may not be how people generally use "most" but the meaning of "most," whatever it is, is consistent with these two claims being true and so long as that is true, then we can be sure that Professor Ariel is wrong about what "most" means.
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Existing information about the prevalence of pernicious anemia is largely based on older surveys that favored florid manifestations, tended to be retrospective analyses of previously diagnosed disease, and
usually studied homogeneous European populations. The
lack of current data in the United States has, among other
things, hampered discussions of the proposal to increase folate intake by the general population.
To estimate the prevalence of undiagnosed
and untreated pernicious anemia among the elderly.
A prospective survey of cobalamin levels and
anti—intrinsic factor antibody was done in the elderly. Blood
testing was done in 729 people aged 60 years or older and
follow-up assessment with the Schilling test and other tests
was offered when results were abnormal.
Seventeen subjects were found to have pernicious
anemia, usually with only minimal clinical manifestations
of cobalamin deficiency. Although cobalamin deficiency had
been suspected by the physicians of three subjects, they had
been treated inadequately and still had evidence of deficiency.
Excluding these three partially treated subjects from the
analysis, 1.9% of the survey population had unrecognized
and untreated pernicious anemia. The prevalence was 2.7%
in women and 1.4% in men; 4.3% of the black women and
4.0% of the white women had pernicious anemia.
Undiagnosed pernicious anemia is a common finding in the elderly, especially among black and
white women. If these findings can be extrapolated,
almost 800000 elderly people in the United States have
undiagnosed and untreated pernicious anemia, and, thus,
would be at possible risk for masked cobalamin deficiency if exposed to large amounts of folate. This
number does not include those elderly with cobalamin
deficiency caused by other disorders or the still
unknown number of younger people with unrecognized pernicious anemia and other causes of deficiency.(Arch Intern Med. 1996;156:1097-1100)
Carmel R. Prevalence of Undiagnosed Pernicious Anemia in the Elderly. Arch Intern Med. 1996;156(10):1097–1100. doi:10.1001/archinte.1996.00040041097008
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Flying Tigers Museum in Kunming
Chinese Name: 飞虎队纪念馆
Chinese Pinyin: Fei Hu Ji Nian Guan
English Name: Flying Tigers Museum
Type: Museum, Historical & Cultural Landmarks
Admission Fee: Free
Reccommended Visiting Time: Half an hour
Location: Located at No. 71, Tuodong Road of Kunming
A small but important part of that complex story has found a modest home in Kunming. The Flying Tigers Museum (昆明飞虎队纪念馆) is housed in a wing of the Kunming Museum on Tuodong Lu.
The Name of “Flying Tigers”
In 1941, the 1st American Volunteer Group, better known by their nickname the ‘Flying Tigers’, began military action against the Japanese in the skies above China and Burma. Although supported by the US Government, the group was technically a mercenary ensemble and was sent to China, some historian’s claim, before the US had officially declared war on Japan. Led by retired US Army Air Corps Officer Claire Lee Chennault, the Flying Tigers originally consisted of 100 rather basic Tomahawk fighter planes, each packaged and sent to Burma from a factory in the US. After being reconstructed and tested at the training base in Toungoo, each plane was painted with what was to become the group’s insignia – a shark’s head with bared teeth.
Supporting the Chinese military, whose airforce had been almost entirely decimated by the Japanese, the Flying Tigers achieved a number of important tactical victories throughout 1941 and 1942. One such victory included the discontinuation of Japanese bombing over Kunming, a city integral to the defence of Burma Road. In 1942 the American Volunteer Group was disbanded and replaced by the US Army’s 23rd Fighter Group. The name the Flying Tigers was maintained along with the group’s shark head logo. According to some sources the Flying Tigers destroyed 2,600 Japanese planes (300 alone in the first year), 44 warships and killed almost 67,000 Japanese soldiers throughout their four year campaign (1941-1945).
To recognize the role the Flying Tigers played in protecting the local Chinese population during World War II, a small museum was planned to open in a house owned by the Kunming Museum. However, the house was deemed unsafe to display a collection and instead in 2012, a wing of the Kunming Museum was converted into the a Flying Tigers Museum.
Exhibitions in Flying Tigers Museum
1. Through a nondescript entrance lies a large entry hall leading to a wide staircase. From the base of the stairs a model of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk can be seen hanging from the ceiling, backed by giant black and white photos of the Flying Tigers in action.
2. “Tigers in the Sky”: The exhibit’s English title is “Tigers in the Sky” and the history of the squadron’s origins begins immediately inside the door. Photos of key political and military figures line the walls, accompanied by placards in both Chinese and English that thoroughly explain the story of the Flying Tigers — officially named the First American Volunteer Group (AVG). Although the English descriptions are not grammatically perfect, they are some of the best we have seen in Yunnan.
3. Much is made of the iconography of the Flying Tigers and logos are displayed everywhere in the museum. Upon first seeing the insignia for the Flying Tigers, some people may think it a bit cartoonish. That may have been intentional — the logo was designed, in a wonderfully ironic twist of fate, by vehement anti-communist Walt Disney.
4. The emblems emblazon many of the leather bomber jackets on display and individual fabric patches also sit behind glass. Interestingly, many of the fatigue jackets in the museum are marked with camels on their backs. Each camel represents one Japanese plane shot down.
5. The final section of the museum displays a short black and white documentary about the involvement of the local Chinese men and women who assisted the Flying Tigers whilst they fought the Japanese. With the history of the Flying Tigers gaining momentum among historians, further exhibitions and memorials are planned for the future.
Claire Lee Chennault
Chennault was called out of retirement and put in charge of the Flying Tigers in 1941. He was chosen largely because of his preference for air combat over high-altitude bombing campaigns. Under his supervision, the Flying Tigers would shoot down or otherwise officially destroy 297 Japanese planes.
Chen Xiangmei (陈香梅)
In addition to spelling out his military exploits, the museum display focuses heavily on Chennault’s marriage to Chen Xiangmei (陈香梅), a reporter covering the Burma Campaign for the Chinese press.
How to Get there?
The Flying Tigers Museum is located at No. 71, Tuodong Road and is part of the under-renovation Kunming Museum. Walk through the main gate and past a plaza that is currently used as a parking lot. The entrance is marked by a plaque.
By Bus: You can take bus No.1, 62, 109, 117 145, 213 and A1 and all stop near the entrance at the City Museum bus stop (市博物馆) on Tuodong Lu.
By Taxi: It takes tourists about 8 minutes to The Flying Tigers Museum from downtown of Kunming by taxi.
1. Tourists should protect public facilities, or they must pay the full price for anything damaged.
2. No smoking and No spitting.
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Traveling Luck for Likića Potok, Serbia (general), Serbia
Where is Likica Potok?What's around Likica Potok?
Wikipedia near Likica Potok
Where to stay near Likića Potok
The timezone in Likica Potok is Europe/Belgrade
Sunrise at 07:11 and Sunset at 16:28. It's light
Latitude. 43.9956°, Longitude. 19.9364°
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Geographic features & Photographs around Likića Potok, in Serbia (general), Serbia
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Divčevići (0.9km)
- Filipovići (0.9km)
- Pijuci (1.4km)
- Vrane (1.7km)
- Jevtovići (2.1km)
- Ðokići (2.2km)
- Kosjerić (2.8km)
- Ðokovići (2.8km)
- Subjel (2.8km)
- Popovići (3.2km)
- Milići (3.7km)
- Radovići (3.7km)
- Gradina (3.7km)
- Ševrljuge (4.1km)
- Vitosi (4.2km)
- Lečići (4.3km)
- Božovići (4.3km)
- Vukosavljevići (4.5km)
- Todorovići (4.7km)
- Brajkovići (4.8km)
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- a rounded elevation of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.
Accommodation around Likića Potok
- second-order administrative division;
- a subdivision of a first-order administrative division.
- Opštinać Kosjerić (3.9km)
Airports close to Likića Potok
Beograd(BEG), Beograd, Yugoslavia (112.4km)
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Pristina(PRN), Pristina, Yugoslavia (214km)
Osijek(OSI), Osijek, Croatia (216.7km)
Mostar(OMO), Mostar, Bosnia-hercegovina (219.1km)
Airfields or small airports close to Likića Potok
Vrsac, Vrsac, Yugoslavia (196.3km)
Cepin, Cepin, Croatia (233.6km)
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Twenty years ago, 30 April 1993, Tim Berners-Lee went live with the first web site at CERN. At the same time, he released the code that defined the Web, the first version of HTML, free for the world to use to create a new communications medium.
Two decades on, the world is a different place because of his foresight and generosity. Now, without the Web, huge multi-national companies simply wouldn’t exist. When Web access is lost, through error or malfeasance, companies that have transitioned most or all of their activities to the Web stand to lose millions of dollars during the interruption.
See the original web site and consider how far the Web has come. While simple and plain, it points out the underlying truth that the Web is about information, not glitz.
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Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a historic demographic information collection effort to measure equity outcomes for small businesses supported by the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) program. The information collected by Treasury will support the program's commitment to expanding access to capital for businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (SEDI businesses). The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 included $10 billion for SSBCI to provide to states, the District of Columbia, territories, and Tribal governments for programs that help small businesses access capital, including $2.5 billion in allocations to support SEDI businesses. SSBCI will provide recipient jurisdictions funding for a range of programs that will increase access to credit for small businesses, including through lending and equity capital investments, to help businesses grow in the years ahead. Treasury's implementation of the SSBCI program is designed to expand access to capital, promote economic resiliency, and create new jobs and economic opportunity.
Savannah's Carver State Bank celebrated a huge milestone this weekend - its 95th anniversary! To mark the special occasion, they showed a documentary called Financial Freedom for All: Robert James and Carver State Bank. The film honors and recognizes the bank's President and CEO, Robert James, who began his career at the bank in 1971. 50 years later, he is the longest tenured Black bank president in the country. "We are proud of the fact that we have survived through all of the difficulties that financial institutions have had over the years. All the changes and the technologies and markets but Carver has managed to survive. And I think that we survived because we've had consistency of leadership and consistency of purpose," James said.
OneUnited Bank, the largest Black owned bank, announces the opening of its new state of the art branch in Compton, California on February 28, 2022. The Bank is excited to honor its roots and renew its long-term commitment to the City of Compton. OneUnited Bank was forced to close its Compton branch in March 2020 after its landlord refused to renew its long-term lease to open a national chain sneaker store. Like many Black owned businesses that are displaced due to gentrification, the Bank was forced to either permanently close or relocate. Although the Bank considered permanently closing as more customers move to digital banking, its commitment to its Compton customers and the Compton community resulted in the decision to relocate. The new branch, located at 1495 N. Wilmington Avenue, Compton CA 90022, is less than 2 miles from the previous branch location.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (hereafter, the agencies) are issuing an interagency statement to remind creditors of the ability under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B to establish special purpose credit programs to meet the credit needs of specified classes of persons. Many financial institutions have publicly committed billions of dollars to better meet the needs of underserved communities, and the statement calls attention to the special purpose credit options under ECOA and Regulation B. CDBA submitted a comment letter on this topic in December of 2020.
It took more than a decade for Southern Bancorp Bank to double its tally of total assets from $1 billion to $2 billion. The top executive of the bank's parent company expects the journey to $4 billion will be much shorter. "With the amount of capital we're going to receive, we will double in size during the next three to five years," said Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp Inc. A big catalyst for that future growth is a $237.5 million injection courtesy of the U.S. Treasury's Emergency Capital Investment Program. The money isn't in the bank but is expected to arrive in the second or third quarter. "That will give us the capital bandwidth to work for quite awhile," Williams said. The money will double Southern Bancorp's capital base and position the Arkadelphia bank to accelerate expansion of its $1.2 billion loan portfolio. Under the ECIP, a maximum investment of $250 million was possible, but Williams isn't complaining.
What does a zero carbon, climate-focused community bank look like? FinTech Futures spoke to Climate First Bank's founder, Ken LaRoe, and CTO, Marcio deOliveira, about the US entrant's ethos, technology, and plans, including its mixed views on fintechs. The climate crisis is only too apparent in Climate First Bank’s home state of Florida, with the threat of ever increasing storms and super-charged hurricanes, sea level rises, and record-breaking heat days, among other climate impacts. The bank claims to have been carbon neutral since day one, commits to never investing in extractive industries, and makes every decision through the lens of achieving Drawdown.
LOCUS is seeking a Senior Analyst to join its growing Investment Advisory team. LOCUS is a national organization with staff in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. This position is remote/home-office-based with limited travel related to team gatherings and/or client visits. LOCUS' Investment Advisory team provides services that enable its clients to make effective and efficient impact investments, including fund design & development, investment sourcing & evaluation, and portfolio management & servicing. This Senior Analyst will primarily support the Fund Management business line, which helps LOCUS clients create, deploy, and manage impact investing vehicles. Additionally, this Senior Analyst will support the Transaction Services business line, which provides structuring, due diligence, and underwriting services for specific impact investments. This position, and these business lines, are critical to the success of LOCUS. Click "read more" for a full description of the post and application instructions.
Unions are rare in financial services, but there are exceptions, including Amalgamated Bank in New York, which was founded by a labor union in 1923. The $870 million-asset Bank of Labor in Kansas City, Kansas, was founded by a labor union in 1924 and has been affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America since August 2011. A more recent example is Beneficial State Bank in Oakland, California, where employees voted to form a union in March 2020 after CWA representatives approached the $1.5 billion-asset bank’s executives about the possibility of forming a labor organization for staff. The bank agreed upon a finalized contract last September. “I think the biggest thing was that people [were] not being listened to and our experiences not taken into account on how to be treated,” said Michelle Hunt, a relationship banker at Beneficial. After signing, the bank instituted changes in its minimum wage, training, retirement programs and more. It also created a labor-management committee to give union members a forum for voicing concerns and suggesting changes.
Why minority professionals are often directed to community development jobs, rather than the more lucrative commercial real estate and private-equity fields. Community development has provided good-paying jobs to minority professionals at banks and nonprofits, such as CDFIs. But can it build broader breakout generational wealth, which is mostly possible at the developer level? And are there even enough people of color in those developer ranks to carry out the work? With access to capital such an impediment, large numbers of minority developers and entrepreneurs aren't lining up to rebuild the neighborhoods, experts say.
Banks that operate more like fintechs outcompete their more traditional competitors on certain financial products, researchers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. found. The study used a new measure of technology adoption at banks to look at Paycheck Protection Program loan volumes in the second quarter of 2020. Banks in the top 15% for tech adoption made more loans than similarly sized competitors by 9 percentage points — and they gained customers outside their usual markets more often, the data showed. The findings prove the importance for community banks of adopting technologies fintechs use, such as cloud computing and online loan applications. In responding to the findings, analysts say banks that have not integrated those technologies should devise a strategy for doing so.
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Three students, in collaboration with the city of Reykjavík, recently
launched a website whose purpose is collecting and charting personal
memories of different locations within the capital.
The site, Urb.is, has both Icelandic and English versions. As their mission statement explains, “Our objective with this web site is to bring out the soul of the city and make it accessible for the public, also to create a place for positive, uplifting and creative discussion about the city. On this web page you can share your experiences from Reykjavík with others and find out what they think about the city.”
The method itself is simple. Simply go to the Do Tell page. Think of any good experiences you have had in Reykjavík, and where they happened. Click on the location on the map where one such good experience occurred, then write a short blurb about what it was. You can also upload photos and embed video to boot.
Once this information has been processed by the webmasters, it will be added to The Map, where the experiences of others are already charted, and can be read and enjoyed by others.
Eventually, the city hopes that the map will be filled with the varied and personal memories of experiences that others have had in Reykjavík and, as the site is quite nearly fully translated into English, natives and visitors and new arrivals alike are all welcome to share their stories.
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Early Mexican Houses: A Book of Photographs and Measured Drawings
ISBN/ASIN: 9781589796829,9781589796829 | 2012 | English | epub | 192/0 pages | 53.0 Mb
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing | Author: G. Richard Garrison, George W. Rustay, David Gebhard
From 1925 to 1929, two young architectural draftsmen set out to record a select number of examples of the “minor domestic architecture” of Mexico due to a lack of measured drawings of rural ranch houses and Monterey-inspired dwellings. The result is a wonderful collection of houses from the days of Mexicos viceroys, elaborately presented in this handsomely illustrated book. Every aficionado of architecture or home design will find the patios, window designs, and floor plans a delight to look at. Over two-hundred illustrations, including forty-two pages of measured drawings and floor plans, make this a comprehensive reference guide as well as an elegant coffee table book.
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What does Batsheva mean?
Associated with: oath.
(male) Middle name pairings:
Batsheva Hazel (B.H.), ..
How popular is Batsheva?
Batsheva is an uncommonly occurring given name for females. Batsheva is an equivalently unusual surname too for all people. (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Batsheva entered the list in 2012 and reached its highest position of #1238 in the U.S. then, but is not found in the list currently. (Top Baby Names, 2015)
Similar NamesSuggested similar names are Bahira, Barbera, Bartha, Baseele (see Basilia), Baseelia (see Basilia), Baseema, Basha, Basia, Basilia, Basima, Basja, Basma, Bastia, Batel, Bathild, Bathilda, Bathshira, Batilda, Batista, Battina, Battista, Batya, Betha, Bethea, Bethel, Bethell, Betheny, Bethesda, Bethia, Bethuna, Betsey, Betsie, Bithia, Brisha, Dashea, Janeva, Mathea, Matthea, Rasheda, Sheva, Zachava and Zahava. These names tend to be more commonly used than Batsheva.See names in meaning and etymology.
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San Onofre: Edison admits need for license amendment, but wants to circumvent safety questions
Posted Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes
Friends of the Earth: Full public participation essential
Washington, D.C. -- After more than a year of denial, Southern California Edison is ready to concede that a license amendment is needed before restarting one of the crippled reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. But Friends of the Earth said the utility’s request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would actually be an attempt to get around a rigorous license amendment proceeding with full examination of critical safety issues and public participation.
Edison’s announcement was made this morning at the opening of oral arguments before the Atomic Safety Licensing Board in a case brought by Friends of the Earth, which argues that Edison’s restart plan requires significant changes to their operating license. Edison said it may request a license amendment early next month, but with a catch: a “No Significant Hazards Consideration” analysis claiming that restart would not involve any significant safety risks. If the NRC grants the request under those conditions, the public would yet again be denied their lawful right to full and meaningful participation in the process.
“Edison has finally admitted they are wrong. They claimed for months that they did not need an amended license for their experimental restart plan. Now these claims have been shown to be as unreliable as their reactors,” said Kendra Ulrich, nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth.
“But the devil is in the details,” Ulrich continued. “The key issue will be whether they’re willing to address the multiple unresolved safety issues with San Onofre’s steam generators. In the past, Edison has requested minor amendments as a PR ploy to claim they’re complying with the process. It looks like they’re trying the same trick again.”
Edison's planned request comes despite major ongoing safety reviews of San Onofre. The NRC has yet to conclude an extensive investigation into the crisis at the plant, including detailed technical assessments as to whether it’s safe to operate the reactor for five months at reduced power.
“It is inconceivable that the NRC would grant a finding of no significant hazard in this case,” said Damon Moglen, climate and energy director for Friends of the Earth. “It is obvious to everyone that Edison could not get a new license to run these damaged steam generators and that the damage caused has already lead to the release of radiation in the past. Once again, it appears that Edison is more focused on making profits than it is in assuring the safety of millions of Southern Californians living near these reactors.”
Kendra Ulrich, 216-571-7340
Climate and Energy,
San Onofre News
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From Andy Revkin
.@TR_Foundation finds #RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) boosting ethanol CO2 through nutty US-Brazil biofuel back-and-forthing...Fastest Cooling Decade On Record | Real Science
RSS global satellite temperatures show that the current decade (2011-2013) has cooled 0.086 degrees since the previous decade (2001-2010) This makes the current decade the fastest cooling decade in the satellite record.Arrogant Obama Insults Skeptics: “We Don’t Have Time For A Meeting Of The Flat-Earth Society” | The SPPI Blog
You’re in estimable and well-educated company if you don’t believe in the myth of global warming. However, according to Obama, those who doubt the climate change propaganda are members of the “Flat Earth Society” – basically, superstitious fools.More on Stephen Emmott, Author of ‘Ten Billion’ | NoFrakkingConsensus
Ironically, Obama is the one using junk science and emotion in order to further an agenda, because man-made climate change is a myth that has been disproved.
A new book appears to be a rehash of 40-year-old environmental scaremongering endorsed by that era’s men of science.
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What types of analytical procedures are used by internal auditors?
Specific analytical procedures include ratio, trend, and regression analysis; reasonableness tests; period-to-period comparisons; comparisons with budgets; forecasts; and external economic information. Analytical procedures assist internal auditors in identifying conditions that may require additional audit procedures.
In which situations in the audit are analytical procedures used?
Analytical procedures are also commonly used in non-audit and assurance engagements, such as reviews of prospective financial information, and non-audit reviews of historical financial information.
What are substantive analytical procedures?
Likewise, substantive analytical procedures are the audit procedures that auditors perform to obtain evidence about the reasonableness of amounts shown in the financial statements by using such plausible relationships among data.
What is the difference between analytical procedures and substantive procedures?
Substantive tests, aka tests of balances, are more statistical driven and really dig into the details of the balances themselves. Analytical Procedures ARE $ubstantive Procedures. Notice the S in substantive. There are two main types of activities auditors perform–tests of internal controls and $ubstantive testing.
What is the purpose of analytical procedures in an audit?
The purpose of applying analytical procedures in planning the audit is to assist in planning the nature, timing, and extent of auditing procedures that will be used to obtain evidential matter for specific account balances or classes of transactions.
What is the difference between substantive procedures and analytical procedures?
What are analytical review procedures?
The accounting profession defines analytical review procedures as, ”evaluations of financial information through analysis of plausible relationships among both financial and non-financial data.
How do auditors use analytical procedures?
Experienced auditors use analytical procedures in all stages of the audit. For example, analytical procedures may help the auditor during the planning stage to determine the nature, timing and extent of auditing procedures that will be used to obtain audit evidence for specific account balances or classes of transactions.
What are examples of analytical procedures?
Examples of analytical procedures are as follows: Compare the days sales outstanding metric to the amount for prior years. This relationship between receivables and sales should remain about the same over time, unless there have been changes in the customer base, the credit policy of the organization, or its collection practices.
What are substantive procedures in auditing with examples?
Substantive Audit Testing: Definition, Explanation, and Example Overview: Substantive testing or substantive procedure is the technique used by the auditor to obtain the audit evidence in order to support auditor opinion. Financial Assertions: Verified completeness. Explanation: As mention above, the substantive audit procedures are performing at the execution stag after auditors prepared audit planning.
Substantive analytical procedures are used to obtain evidential matter about particular assertions related to account balances or classes of transactions. Final analytical procedures are used as an overall review of the financial information in the final review stage of the audit.
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Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors approved at its recent meeting re-naming the College of Natural Resources as the College of Natural Resources and Environment.
"The new name will more accurately reflect our broad-based programs and increasing focus on sustainability initiatives to effectively prepare our graduates for today's challenges in managing the environment," Paul Winistorfer, dean of the college, explained. The college’s programs are ranked among the top three in North America by its peer institutions.
"The college has a long and rich history of exceptional contributions to our campus and noted national leadership in the arena of natural resources," said Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger. “The new name will give Virginia Tech a stronger position in natural resources and the environment and will bring awareness to the many faculty, departments, and colleges at Virginia Tech working on environmental issues. Renaming the college will help create synergies for the campus among our existing programs and will magnify the contributions of the entire campus, our faculty, and students to the commonwealth, the nation, and the world."
The name change, which went through the university's governance system, takes effect immediately.
"The new name signifies the depth of our interdisciplinary research, which is a model for today’s complex problems. Many of our faculty work extensively on large-scale ecological systems, both aquatic and terrestrial, and bring critical thinking to today's multi-faceted environmental problems," Winistorfer said.
"Our new name also sets the stage for additional collaboration with campus colleagues on these issues. The college already partners with faculty in many other departments and colleges on campus, as well as with major initiatives such as Virginia Tech's Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. We hope that our name change will help propel Virginia Tech forward as a leading institution addressing the challenging problems facing our natural environment and the sustainable use of resources."
Winistorfer is working on several sustainability initiatives with his faculty. The college plans to offer a new degree program in sustainable natural resources and environments beginning in fall 2011. Earlier this month the college announced the start of an Executive Master of Natural Resources program in the National Capital Region, which focuses on leadership for sustainability. An undergraduate Leadership Institute, also centered on sustainability, commences this fall with a cohort of the college's students.
Additionally, the college is driving a major sustainability initiative in the New River Valley that could serve as a model for land use, rural economic sustainability, and conservation of natural resources. Other initiatives, such as a meteorology degree program, an outreach center focused on sustainable natural resources, and a forest carbon center, are in the planning stages and will be announced once they are finalized. The college seeks to endow a chair of excellence in sustainable natural resources and the environment.
The forestry department was re-named the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation last year to reflect the breadth of faculty expertise, degree options, and the role of forest ecosystems in the global environment. A new degree option in that department titled environmental resource management was approved this year. Other departments in the college include fisheries and wildlife sciences, geography, and wood science and forest products. The college is also home to the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and the Conservation Management Institute.
"Our college vision," Winistorfer elaborated, "is to change with these dynamic times and stay abreast of the shifting paradigm, so our students leave with the knowledge base and skills to lead the way on issues pertaining to natural resources and the environment. Our goal is to graduate students who can and will change the world. They will be able to write the next chapter. As Virginia Tech's branding statement says, they will 'Invent the Future.'"
The college's first programs in forestry and wildlife started in the 1930s. The Virginia Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit began in 1935, and the Department of Forestry and Wildlife was made a unit of the College of Agriculture in 1959. In 1974 the Department of Forestry and Forest Products and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences were formed. By 1975, a School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources was established, which became the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources in 1992, changing to the College of Natural Resources in 2000.
"We have deep roots in forestry, fisheries, wildlife, geography, wood science, and water," noted Winistorfer, "and it is our leading national position that gives us security to change for the future and be of greatest value to society. It is legitimate for us to aspire to a greater outcome. The world is changing and so is the College of Natural Resources and Environment."
Read related Virginia Tech News stories:
- University offers leadership for sustainability in Washington, D.C. area
- College of Natural Resources' department renamed Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
- Paul Winistorfer selected as new dean for College of Natural Resources
- College of Natural Resources to showcase its offerings with Chuck Leavell
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- By Dennis Douda
Mayo Clinic Discovery Leads to FDA Approval for Stem Cell Trial for Heart Failure Patients
U.S. FDA Approves Phase III Cardiopoietic Stem Cell Trial for Heart Failure Patients Based on a Mayo Discovery
Cardio3 BioSciences, an international Mayo Clinic collaborator, has received FDA approval for a phase III pivotal clinical trial of its stem cell therapy. The trial will test the Mayo Clinic discovery of cardiopoietic (cardiogenically-instructed) stem cells designed to improve heart health in people suffering from heart failure. The multisite U.S. trial, called CHART-2, will aim to recruit 240 patients with chronic advanced symptomatic heart failure. Cardio3 BioSciences is a bioscience company in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.
"Regenerative medicine is poised to transform the way we treat patients," says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine. Watch the video below to see how stem cells are being used to treat people with heart failure.
Journalists: Video b-roll of today's news conference, plus sound bites with Dr. Terzic and Christian Homsy, M.D., CEO of Cardio3 BioSciences, are available in the downloads. The video pkg. is also available in the downloads in MOV format.
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Mirhossein Mousavi ran in the 2009 Iranian presidential election. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner, Mousavi led massive street protests that contested the election's results, claiming that they had been rigged. The protests were crushed
by security forces.
Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavardstood have lived under house arrest in their home in Tehran since February 2011, after the opposition leader called his supporters to rally in solidarity with the movements in the Arab world.
The couple’s daughters released a statement on Kalame, a website supporting Mousavi, claiming that they have been denied contact with their parents for two months. In their statement, they criticized the house arrest as illegal and demanded
the unconditional and immediate release of their parents. The concerned daughters also mentioned
that, during their last meeting with their parents, the two were not in a good physical condition. In August 2012, Mousavi, who had served as Iran's prime minister in the 1980s, received treatment for a heart problem.
At the same time as Mousavi and his wife, another key opposition figure, Mehdi Karoubi, who had also been a candidate in the 2009 presidential elections, was detained and held in a location separate from his home. In November 2012, he was rushed
to the hospital, after feeling dizzy and losing weight.
The Islamic Republic will hold a new presidential vote in June 2013 and hardline clerical figures have accused opposition forces of plotting
protests similar to the ones held in 2009. According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the upcoming
presidential election in cannot have any legitimacy as long as the two former presidential candidates are not freed.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an opinion, in which it requested the Iranian government to release Mousavi and his wife as well as Karoubi. The WGAD called their detention arbitrary
and argued that the Iranian authorities had breached both international human rights law and Iranian laws by holding these individuals without charges or a trial.
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The doubting beleever
The doubting beleever: or, A treatise containing 1. The nature 2. The kinds 3. The springs 4. The remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Bachelor in Divinity, and Minister of Coggeshall in Essex.
City of Publication
printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Thomas Nicols, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Alley at the sing of the Bible, 1641.
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Interacting Actors in Polycentric Climate Governance
Supported by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment
The goal of this project is to understand how transnational forums established in recent years to address climate change affect the discussion, selection, and convergence of climate change policies. To achieve this, the project will examine the policy preferences and perceptions of different groups of actors (bureaucrats, civil society actors, and business actors) in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, determine the impact of cross-level learning on policy convergence, and examine the representation of included and excluded actors.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann (HCIAS), Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun (Institute of Political Science), Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler (Institute of Geography), Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda (HCIAS)
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THE HUMILITY OF DEVARAjAMUNI
A few days later, four intelligent, devoted young men approached Ramanuja and begged for initiation from him. When he had heard their request, Yatiraja considered the matter for a little while and then told them, "Go to Devarajamuni and become his disciples. He is not only a great pandita, but also a most advanced devotee of Lord Narayana." Accepting this order with great respect, the four young men duly became disciples of Devarajamuni. That previously arrogant scholar, however, was not t all pleased to find himself in a position where he iad to accept worship and veneration from disci¬ples. "What a disturbance this is to me," he thought, "I have been endeavoring with all my strength to rid myself of vanity, but now I am forced to become a guru and listen to my praises being sung."In bewilderment he approached Ramanuja and humbly submitted, "O master, I am your surrendered servant. Why do you behave so cruelly towards me? By your grace I have endeavored to shake off the demon of false pride, so why do you hurl me once more into the arms of vanity by order¬ing me to become a guru? I am not detached enough to accept such a position, so please allow me to remain here as your menial servant. For me, to be in such a position would be the supreme perfection."Highly pleased by his disciple's words, Yatiraja embraced evarajamuni and said warmly, "I did all this simply to test whether you had truly over¬come your pride. Now that you have passed the test, you should remain here with me and Lord Devaraja." Devarajamuni was very satisfied to receive this order from his guru. He passed the remaining years of his life absorbed in rendering service to the lotus feet of his spiritual master and Lord Devaraja.
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In addition, the Y-chromosome and mtDNA may both have been affected by natural selection, [46, 47] which can further complicate the interpretation of population history. Coalescence dates based on these systems must also be viewed with appropriate caution, in part because of their large confidence intervals. More importantly, a coalescence date is not necessarily a reliable indicator of the founding date of a population because these dates are affected by the size of the founder population and by subsequent gene flow patterns.BMC Genetics doi:10.1186/1471-2156-9-86
Genetic variation in South Indian castes: evidence from Y-chromosome, mitochondrial, and autosomal polymorphisms
W. S. Watkins et al.
Major population movements, social structure, and caste endogamy have influenced the genetic structure of Indian populations. An understanding of these influences is increasingly important as gene mapping and case-control studies are initiated in South Indian populations.
We report new data on 155 individuals from four Tamil caste populations of South India and perform comparative analyses with caste populations from the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. Genetic differentiation among Tamil castes is low (RST = 0.96% for 45 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) markers), reflecting a largely common origin. Nonetheless, caste- and continent-specific patterns are evident. For 32 lineage-defining Y-chromosome SNPs, Tamil castes show higher affinity to Europeans than to eastern Asians, and genetic distance estimates to the Europeans are ordered by caste rank. For 32 lineage-defining mitochondrial SNPs and hypervariable sequence (HVS) 1, Tamil castes have higher affinity to eastern Asians than to Europeans. For 45 autosomal STRs, upper and middle rank castes show higher affinity to Europeans than do lower rank castes from either Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh. Local between-caste variation (Tamil Nadu RST = 0.96%, Andhra Pradesh RST = 0.77%) exceeds the estimate of variation between these geographically separated groups (RST = 0.12%). Low, but statistically significant, correlations between caste rank distance and genetic distance are demonstrated for Tamil castes using Y-chromosome, mtDNA, and autosomal data.
Genetic data from Y-chromosome, mtDNA, and autosomal STRs are in accord with historical accounts of northwest to southeast population movements in India. The influence of ancient and historical population movements and caste social structure can be detected and replicated in South Indian caste populations from two different geographic regions.
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Following a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Virginia yesterday, tremors were felt across the entire East Coast from Rhode Island down to Georgia. The shakes left no major damage or injury but left East Coast residents shook up. Not to mention, it also let residents realize the reality that earthquakes can actually happen here on Long Island.
Earthquakes on the East Coast are rare but do occur– as we all witnessed yesterday– and in fact, California and Alaska aren’t the only ones with potential significant seismic activity, almost 40 states are in moderate to high risk for seismic activity.
Of course, what the East Coast has experienced as far as quakes are concerned is nothing compared to Japan’s earthquake that struck earlier this year. In March, a 9.0 magnitude quake lead to a subsequent tsunami and left Japan a the death toll upwards of 20,000. According to the USGS, throughout history of humanity, earthquakes as strong as Japan’s have been known to rock certain regions. Here are the top 5 earthquakes since 1900.
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For a growing number of Harford's middle-class families, the economic recession has meant more than paring spending on movies, designer jeans or other luxuries -- it's meant swallowing their pride and asking for help.
"They're the you and me of society," said Larry Berardelli, director of the county Department of Social Services, explaining that his agency is doing more than just helping the working poor.
"With the economy out of whack, we're getting a lot of people we don't usually see. Our caseload has increased tremendously."
For example, the department's six caseworkers, who in 1989 handled an average of 300 clients each, now handle about 400 each, he said.
In August 1989, the county agency paid out $184,615 in food stamps to 1,586 households. This month, the department has paid out $344,328 in food stamps to 2,211 households.
The effect of the new flood: there are so many applicants for aid at the county DSS offices, that there is now a three-week wait before the department can even tell applicants if they qualify for help, except in the most dire of emergencies.
Sally Biser, assistant director of the social services division which determines eligibility, said many such applicants don't qualify for help because unemployment compensation is more than $120 a week.
Even when applicants qualify for help, it could be as long as 60 days before they receive benefits because of the processing time, she said.
"Over 50 percent of the people we see are people who never thought they'd be walking through this door," said Linda Bingham, a county social services employee who determines whether a family can get public and medical assistance or food stamps.
"They come in and say'I need everything, anything.' "
Because of client confidentiality, the department could not provide names of clients to be interviewed or give examples of specific cases.
However, Berardelli described the new typical applicant for public assistance this way:
"You have somebody sitting there who has a big mortgage payment, maybe $1,000 or $2,000 a month, boats, a car payment, and if the husband or wife loses a job, that has destroyed the household.
"They're humiliated just finding themselves in this position."
Bingham sets aside two days a week for client appointments. In addition to the five appointments she scheduled, she also may interview as many as seven drop-in clients facing emergencies.
The flood of cases, coupled with thestate's hiring freeze, has left Harford caseworkers overwhelmed.
Social services is turning people away more frequently, said Berardelli, because the agency is strapped for cash by state budget cuts, understaffed, ill-equipped, hampered by an archaic record-keeping system, and overwhelmed by the number of requests for help.
For example,the county department's budget for workers' salaries was cut about $131,000 -- from $4.7 million last year to about $4.6 million this year, said Bruce Conway, assistant director for administration at the county agency.
Of 155 jobs, 6.5 positions have been frozen since last summer, he said.
That may not sound like a high number, said Conway, but the loss of a worker in a key position can have a domino effect on the agency.
For example, instead of 10 workers available tointerview new clients, the hiring freeze has left that work to seven.
The budget cutbacks also have meant equipment needs have gone unmet. For instance, Bingham didn't get the computer she expected that would have speeded up paperwork and let the agency provide help more quickly.
"If they apply for food stamps, they think they'll walk out of here with them the same day. It's not conceivable that I can put something through the system in 24 hours," said Bingham.
The system requires she fill out a hand-written form, which is passed to a clerk who enters the information into a computer, said Berardelli. "Huge caseloads push workers to make hasty decisions and increase their mistakes. These errors result in overpayments and underpayments, all of which require later action and thus more work," said Berardelli.
"Huge caseloads push workers to make hasty decisions and increase their mistakes. These errors result in overpayments and underpayments,all of which require later action and thus more work," said Berardelli.
What it comes down to is "not having the flexibility to deal with asituation based on an individual's needs," said Biser. "Instead we're basing it on meeting the regulations. We only have 30 days to handle the case after their application for aid, and if we can't see them for three weeks, we're almost out of time."
The strain on the county agency is being felt by area churches, said the Rev. Peggy Groseclose, of Bel Air United Methodist Church, which runs a soup kitchen that feeds about 75 people each Wednesday.
When social services says no, people "come church shopping," said Groseclose.
"It's very difficult for some people who have prided themselves on being able to take care of their families to have to go to social services," said Groseclose. "It's hard enough for them to apply for social servicesor unemployment, but then to have to make the rounds of the churchesto supplement that help. It's demeaning to those who are really hurting."
Groseclose said Bel Air United Methodist receives an averageof five or six requests daily from people who need help with everything from paying their rent or gas and electric bills to getting food.
The church has no budget for providing such emergency assistance,relying on donations, she said. "We can't possibly help all those people. It's very frustrating," said Groseclose. "Whether it's federal money or other ways we've got to help people support themselves. We've got to empower people so they can handle their lives."
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Making All Voices Count’s #Tech4Resilience pitching competition took place in the Philippines last week amid a typhoon that rattled the 2015 ‘Map the Philippines Unconference’ as well as the windows in the conference centre.
In June, we launched an online call for ideas that worked on either strengthening community resiliency or improving planning and budgeting for disaster resiliency and response.
Submissions were assessed by the Making All Voices Count team, and the 12 finalists with the best ideas were invited to pitch in front of the jury at the event in Manila. In the end, three winners were selected by a jury including representatives from Mozilla, the reAMB Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center, the WWF and the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability. The winners will all work with our South to South Lab to connect with mentors and experts who can help make their ideas into effective projects.
- Open Garden’s ‘Firechat and Greenstone’ project helps to answer some of the most challenging questions about network availability and communication in disaster response, ensuring that interlinked and portable Bluetooth devices can relay key information in emergencies.
- Code-NGO’s winning idea adapts free, existing tools to make sure that local funds for disaster management are being used properly, working with citizen monitors and CSO networks to strengthen the Philippines disaster response and resilience planning and organisation.
- Finally, the Government of the Philippines’ Isaac Linatoc, who works in theDepartment of Health also won with an app that captures information on drug availability and expiry for up to date and effective tracking during disasters and emergencies.
#Tech4Resilience is one of a series of pitching competitions that Making All Voices Count is holding, using competitive approaches to finding the best technology and innovation-based ideas to fight corruption, improve transparency and empower marginalised communities.
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Many people understand that chiropractic care is ideal for helping with spine and neck treatment. However, some could be surprised that chiropractic therapy can help with pain relief for migraine headaches. This short article will discuss a system of cause of migraines, how chiropractic care provides relief of migraine headache discomfort and an incident study detailing what sort of patient suffering from migraines could be helped by chiropractic treatment.
Let’s begin with a short discussion of head aches of the migrainous kind. A textbook exemplory case of this type of headaches is normally one in which a person experiences pain using one side of the top or the other. Is normally not entirely on both sides of the top. A person experiencing a headache of migraine class typically has what is known as a prodrome.
A prodrome can be an unusual sensory feeling such as lack of peripheral vision, squiggly outlines in the visual field, tinnitus or perhaps a tingling feeling of the facial skin and upper area of the entire body. The prodrome generally precedes the specific pain of the headaches by minutes to hours.
Somebody who gets repeated or regular migraine headaches usually knows when it’s coming due to the prodrome. Once the actual headache pain pieces inside it is usually extremely excruciating. The sufferer is normally sensitive to light and really wants to maintain a dark room. In addition they may suffer nausea and therefore feel like they would like to take a nap. For most is nearly impossible to carry on making use of their everyday activities of function, family period and recreation.
Migrainous headache scientists have found that there appears to be abnormalities with regular blood flow of the top. Arteries bring blood through the entire individual skull. These arteries are encircled by small muscles which agreement and relax and therefore control blood pressure. Research implies that for reasons uknown, arterial muscles agreement and dilate improperly that they attribute to migraine headaches pain.
Chiropractors experienced success helping give reduction of migraine headache discomfort for most decades. Spinal nerves which are found in top of the neck, to create the cervical backbone, have an impact controlling normal arterial muscle activity. When there is nerve irritation from the misalignment or improper movement top of the cervical backbone chiropractors are trained specialists who might be able to help.
This can help restore regular nerve integrity and will help bring migraine headache comfort. In my own 35 years of chiropractic exercise I’ve had the opportunity to greatly help many people gain rest from their migraines. One was a woman who had had to endure couple or several headaches weekly from enough time she was a kid. She had seen numerous experts had every diagnostic test accessible including MRIs, CT human brain scans, vascular research, allergy sensitivity tests among others. The only assist she got was by firmly taking medication.
Nevertheless, she was only permitted to take a limited quantity of the medication because of the side effects. All of those other time she was susceptible to the headaches. After a couple of weeks she noticed less and less intense headaches. Carrying out a couple several weeks of chiropractic therapy she suffered without any more migraines. She has explained how this has made an excellent impact improvement upon her lifetime and contains been rewarding to have had the opportunity to be of assist.
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Learning from case audits
The MASA is the main commissioner of multi-agency audits, particularly for audits of Child Protection, Child in Need and Early Intervention cases. Activities like auditing should not be seen as one off events but as part of the continuous cycle of planning and learning.
In March 2014 the Chair wrote to all stakeholders setting out the lessons learned from audit in a letter with an attached powerpoint presentation for use with teams.
The purpose of our auditing process is to provide a stringent and consistent approach to assessing work undertaken on a multi-agency or single agency basis with a child/young person and their family through an audit of case records, particularly in relation to the safeguarding role of both specialist and non specialist practitioners.
Following the audit process we will aim to;
- Enable identification of learning points from areas that are working well and those which need improvement.
- Enable Central Bedfordshire to prepare for Ofsted’s full inspection of safeguarding and looked after children with its particular focus on outcomes for children.
- Enable outcomes from a set of individual audits to be drawn together into an overview report which will;
- Enable the CBSCB to carry out its function of monitoring the effectiveness of what is done to protect children and promote their welfare.
- Promote service improvement through identification of key practice issues so that recommendations can be drawn together and action plans implemented.
- Feed into policy and practice protocols and learning and development activity.
It is also important to note that learning from good practice identified through audit and how this can be consistently achieved in order to make a difference for children is at least as important as learning from shortcomings.
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In an effort to change the lives of orphaned children, a new program called The Orphan Project was started. This program aims to provide education to such children and get them into school so they can have a chance at being successful. In this article, there are ways you can help these children thrive in life.
Ways To Support Orphan Child Education
Supporting orphan child education can have a huge impact on their lives. There are many ways that you can support orphan child education, and the benefits are far-reaching. If you want to get more info. about children education charity, then you can browse the web.
Here are five ways that you can support orphan child education:
1. Donate Money: One of the most important ways that you can support orphan child education is by donating money. This money can go a long way in helping to improve the quality of life for these children.
2. Volunteer For Orphan Child Education: Another way that you can help orphan child education is by volunteering. This allows you to give your time and energy to a good cause, and it also gives you the opportunity to meet new people.
3. Sponsor A Child: Sponsoring a child can also be a great way to help them get ahead in life. This can provide them with access to education, health care, and other essential resources.
4. Educate Yourself About Orphan Child Education: Finally, it is important that you educate yourself about orphan child education. You can learn more about the issues facing these children by reading articles or watching videos.
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The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance for the month of November 2012. This month is one technology appraisal and two public health guidelines that impact upon primary care.
The Chronic heart failure - ivabradine technology appraisal recommends ivabradine as a possible treatment for people with chronic heart failure provided the following conditions are met.
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II to IV stable chronic heart failure with systolic dysfunction and
- who are in sinus rhythm with a heart rate of 75 beats per minute or more and
- who are given ivabradine in combination with standard therapy including beta-blocker therapy, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and aldosterone antagonists, or when beta-blocker therapy is contraindicated or not tolerated and
- with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 35% or less
It is also recommended that ivabradine is initiated by a specialist after a 4 week period of stabilisation on a combination of ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers and aldosterone antagonists.
The Walking and cycling public health guideline aims to encourage people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes. It is hoped this would help meet public health goals as well as impacting on other areas such as traffic congestion, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Obesity - working with local communities public health guideline aims to support effective, sustainable and community-wide action to prevent obesity. The recommendations cover 14 areas from strategic leadership and integrated commissioning to planning and implementing monitoring and evaluation.
Action: Clinicians should be aware of this month's new guidance and implement any necessary changes to practice.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published Drug Safety Update for November 2012 (PDF).
This update contains hot topic information advising clinicians that when reporting suspected adverse drug reactions to biological medicines, such as biosimilar products or vaccines, it is important to include the brand name and if possible the batch number. Products in this category may not be identical and reporting may also help to identify concerns related to specific batches.
This section also contains the findings of a safety review of the HPV vaccine Cervarix® which confirmed that the "balance of its risks and benefits remains clearly positive".
Finally, this issue contains a link to a new learning module for antipsychotics. This module is accredited for up to 3.5 CPD credits.
Action: Clinicians will find this publication to be a useful review of current issues in drug safety.
The British Medical Journal has published the results of a study that aimed to assess any association between varenicline use and cardiovascular events.
Post marketing surveillance has raised concerns that there may be cardiovascular risks associated with the use of varenicline in stopping smoking. A retrospective cohort analysis of a Danish medical database was use to compare the rates of cardiovascular events in individuals prescribed varenicline as compared to those prescribed buproprion.
The study accessed data for 4,781,228 individuals and identified 92,540 people who had been prescribed either varenicline or bupropion. A total of 35,852 patients were reviewed after being matched in a 1:1 ratio for each drug. The primary outcomes were acute coronary syndrome, ischaemic stroke and cardiovascular death analysed individually and as a composite of any major cardiovascular event.
There were 57 major cardiovascular events in those prescribed varenicline (6.9 cases per 1,000 person years) compared to 60 events in those prescribed buproprion (7.1 cases per 1,000 person years). The hazard ratio was 0.96 (95% confidence interval 0.67 to 1.39). There were no differences in rates of the individual component outcomes.
An accompanying editorial notes that the use of an active comparator limits the usefulness of this study. The only conclusion that can be drawn is the varenicline poses the same level of cardiovascular risk as buproprion. The editorial states, "This may not help us determine whether varenicline should be prescribed to patients at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, or to determine whether myocardial infarction in a patient who has taken varenicline is causally related to the drug".
Action: Clinicians should be aware of this study. Although, at first glance, this study is reassuring perhaps more research is necessary and continued post marketing surveillance is vital.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has issued its monthly advice on newly licensed medicines.
Aclidinium (Eklira®) has been accepted for use as a maintenance bronchodilator treatment to relieve symptoms in adult patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Adalimumab (Humira®) has been rejected for use in the treatment of moderately active Crohn's disease, in adult patients who have not responded despite a full and adequate course of therapy with a corticosteroid and/or an immunosuppressant; or who are intolerant to or have medical contraindications for such therapies. The manufacturer failed to make a submission.
Nepafenac (Nevanac®) has been accepted for use to reduce the risk of postoperative macular oedema associated with cataract surgery in diabetic patients.
Ranolazine (Ranexa®) has been rejected for use as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of patients with stable angina pectoris who are inadequately controlled or intolerant to first-line antianginal therapies. The manufacturer failed to make a sufficiently robust clinical and economic case.
Action: Clinicians should be aware of the recommendations of the SMC. Routine use of rejected and restricted medicines should be avoided.
The Department of Health has announced that rotavirus vaccine will be added to the childhood vaccination programme with effect from September 2013.
Rotavirus is reported as causing approximately 140,000 cases of diarrhoea per year in the children under 5 years old. Of these some 14,000 cases result in a hospital admission. It is expected that the introduction of this vaccine will reduce hospital admissions by up to 70%. The vaccine is a live oral vaccine and two doses are recommended.
The JCVI statement recommending the vaccine provides further analysis and detail.
Action: Clinicians involved in the delivery of the child immunisations should be aware of this change. More information about this vaccine should be expected before September 2013.
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A Norwegian man bought $27 worth of Bitcoins back in 2009 and promptly forgot all about them. As the cryptocurrency became more popular, he was reminded of his minuscule electronic nest egg. After inspecting the contents of his Bitcoin wallet, Kristoffer Koch realized his initial $27 investment was now worth an incredible $886,000.
How is this possible? When Koch bought those Bitcoins in 2009 he was able to get 5,000 coins for $26.60 — they were only worth a fraction of a dollar each at the time. Then interest in Bitcoin exploded and the value shot up to as high as $266, eventually settling down to between $150 and $200 per Bitcoin. Despite all the recent uncertainty around Tor and the takedown of the Silk Road (which dealt in Bitcoin), the currency is still flying high.
That’s a lot of wealth, and Mr. Koch almost lost it for good in the digital abyss. He bought the original Bitcoins on a lark while researching his thesis on encryption. His Bitcoin wallet file then sat untouched for four years and he simply forgot the password. Without that, the coins tied up inside would be inaccessible. After some trial and error, he managed to figure out his old password and realize just how lucky he was.
Koch has exchanged one fifth of his 5,000 Bitcoin fortune for cash so he can buy an apartment in a nice area of Toyen, Norway. Apparently no one is willing to take bitcoins as direct payment for real estate. Maybe someday — you can already buy a game of pool.
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Teeth Replacements Comparable to Natural Teeth
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We have extensive training in placing dental implants and are experienced in their restoration with custom dental crowns. Through our personalized treatment planning, all steps of your dental implants are completed in our office.
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are designed to function like natural teeth. A titanium post acts like a tooth root and is surgically placed into the jaw bone where it helps keep it healthy and strong. The custom dental crown is made from high-quality materials that can withstand normal chewing force and look like natural teeth. From root to crown, dental implants mimic the function and aesthetics of teeth and provide nearly the same benefits.
Improving Accuracy of Dental Implant Placement
Dr. Kenneth Nash and his son Dr. Jonathon Nash uses advanced dental technology for most all of our procedures, including placing dental implants. Such technology like our advanced digital imaging machine and guided implant placement virtually removes all room for error by providing precise 3D images and clear direction based on your unique situation. Dental implants, when placed by our experienced team, can be maintained for many years with the proper levels of at home care and routine dental appointments.
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gtk.Bin — an abstract base class defining a container with just one child.
is an abstract base class defining a widget that is a container with just
one child. It is useful for deriving subclasses, since it provides the
common code needed for handling a single child widget. Many PyGTK widgets
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National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco
This extraordinary Stick-Eastlake, single-family residence is named for Sarah Mish who managed a dressmaking and millinery business.
It was probably built on Divisadero Street in 1885 and moved to its current location in 1898 when Divisadero Street was being transformed into a commercial corridor. A vintage photograph shows the house with a mansard roof and grand entry stairs which were removed at some point, maybe during the relocation.
As of this writing, the Sarah Mish House is the administrative office for a community-based mental health agency and is not open to the public.
The Sarah Mish House is also San Francisco Landmark 62.
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Staphylococcus aureus is a facultative anaerobic Gram-positive coccus, which is non-motile, and catalase and coagulase positive. Some S. aureus strains are able to produce staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) and are the causative agents of staphylococcal food poisoning. Staphylococci exist in air, dust, sewage, water, milk, and food, as well as on food equipment, environmental surfaces, humans, and animals. Of these, humans and animals are the primary reservoirs. Staphylococci are present in nasal passages as well as throats and on the hair and skin of 50 percent or more of healthy individuals.
Staphylococcus aureus is able to grow in a wide range of temperatures (7–48.5°C, with an optimum of 30–37°C), pH (4.2 to 9.3, with an optimum of 7–7.5) and sodium chloride concentrations (up to 15% NaCl). These characteristics enable S. aureus to grow in a wide variety of foods.
Foods that are frequently incriminated in staphylococcal food poisoning include meat and meat products, poultry and egg products, salads (e.g. egg, tuna, chicken, potato, and macaroni), bakery products (e.g. cream-filled pastries, cream pies, and chocolate éclairs), sandwich fillings, and milk and dairy products. Foods that require considerable handling during preparation and are kept at slightly elevated temperatures after preparation are frequently involved in staphylococcal food poisoning.
The cause of the illness is preformed toxins, and it is therefore characterized by a very short incubation time – typically from 0.5–6 hours, depending on the general health of the victim, susceptibility to the toxin, the concentration of toxin, and the amount of food ingested. The infective dose may be less than 1.0 microgram, which is equivalent to 100000 cfu/g.
The most common symptoms of Staphylococcus infection are nausea, vomiting, retching, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea. Recovery typically takes 1–3 days, but in severe cases complete recovery may take longer. The illness is not transmissible and does not normally require treatment beyond rest and plenty of fluids.
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Art collectors and museum trustees Joann and Gifford Phillips, discuss museums and collecting art. Joann is the Chairman of the Contemporary Art Council at LACMA and Gifford (1918 - 2013) is a Trustee of MoMA and the Pasadena Art Museum.
This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email: americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.
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Q: I've opened a firewall exception in an Azure IaaS virtual machine but I can't connect to it. What else do I need to do?
A: Opening the firewall ports on the virtual machine (VM) in Windows Azure IaaS is half of the configuration required to allow communications. However, it's also necessary to create an endpoint in the Azure configuration for the VM, which maps the public port (i.e., the externally facing port) and the private port (i.e., the port the VM is listening on).
- Log on to the Windows Azure portal with your Azure credentials.
- Select the Virtual Machines workspace.
- Select the VM.
- Select the Endpoints menu option.
- Click the Add Endpoint action at the bottom of the screen.
- Leave the default Add Endpoint option selected, and click the Next arrow.
- Give the endpoint a name, select the protocol, and specify the public and private port (remember the private port must map to that being listened on from within the VM and the public port is what external entities will connect to).
- Click box to complete endpoint creation.
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Many real estate investors or properties don't qualify for a traditional loan through a bank for a variety of reasons. This is where a hard money loan comes in. It can accomplish the same job of helping investors secure funding for their next investment property.
Related: Your Home Loan Journey
You're probably wondering how these loans work, and, more importantly, how much they actually cost the borrower. First, let's clearly define what a hard money loan is.
What Is a Hard Money Loan?
I hear this question all the time. A hard money loan is a loan based on "hard" assets, like real estate. The loans offered by hard money lenders are designed to be short-term loans, usually extending for around 6-12 months. (Depending on the lender, some borrowers might be able to extend for longer terms.)
The actual loan amount offered by a hard money lender is secured by real property. The state of the borrower's credit is still important, but since the loan amount is secured against property, credit is less critical than with a traditional loan.
Most hard money lenders calculate the amount you can borrow based on either the "as is value" of your property or the "After Repair Value" (ARV). You could borrow up to 80 percent of the ARV in at least one case. A loan based on the ARV can include the repair costs along with the purchase price. This is ideal for "fix and flip" or "fix and hold" deals.
There are many property types lenders are able to finance: single- and multi-family residential homes; commercial property; vacant land; or industrial property. However, the majority of hard money lenders don't lend on owner-occupied residential homes.
How a Hard Money Loan Differs From Traditional Loans
Hard money loans can come in many different shapes and sizes, so the differences between hard money loans and traditional loans can be significant. For one, the repayment structure is different than conventional mortgages.
With a traditional loan, the repayments are calculated using amortization. Each repayment contains a portion that covers the interest due and a portion which pays down the loan principal a little more each time. Payments on hard money loans are interest-only payments. Then, at the end of the loan term, the borrower pays the principal owed in a lump sum.
With traditional home loans, the money is issued by banks, financial institutions or lenders. In comparison, hard money loans are usually issued by hard money lenders or private investors.
Mortgage originators and banks must adhere to strict regulations. These can inhibit lending for real estate investment deals (even great ones). Hard money lenders, on the other hand, aren't constrained by those same regulations, and can make decisions based on good business sense.
The approval process for hard money loans is generally faster—significantly faster—than the conventional loan process. This makes sense for investors who need to act quickly in a short period of time. In most situations, a hard money loan can be funded in as little as 7-10 days, sometimes less.
With hard money loans, less-than-perfect credit might be offset by other factors such as the property's location, total value and available cash assets. Additional real estate could also be pledged as collateral, and the borrower's contribution to the transaction is also an important element. These factors should all be taken into consideration.
Actual Cost Associated With Hard Money Loans
Now we're getting down to the juicy facts! Avoid the most common mistakes calculating the actual cost associated with hard money loans. This requires some expertise. Many people focus solely on the interest rate charged on the loan. It's important to consider other costs into your calculations before agreeing on a lender.
Here are some of the costs that may be associated with your loan:
Interest Rate: Interest rates on hard money are higher than traditional loans, but the loan term is much shorter. It's wise to consider the actual dollars that will be paid during the term of the loan, rather than the APR.
While there are hard money loans available for less, the average APR tends run between 10-15 percent, depending on three things: the lender, the property and the borrower's qualifications.
Points: Points are calculated as a percentage of the loan amount. This is the charge for originating the loan.
With most lenders, points can vary between 2-4 percent of the total loan amount. The actual points charged on your loan may depend heavily on the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of your deal, the interest rate charged and the risk associated with the loan.
Processing and Underwriting Fees: Lenders typically charge a fee to process the loan application and documentation in order to underwrite the loan.
Appraisal Fee: Typically the borrower pays a fee for an appraisal by a licensed appraiser.
Referral Fees: If you were referred to your hard money lender by a REALTOR® or broker, a referral fee might be added to the cost of your loan.
Pre-Payment Penalties: Check the fine print for fees charged for paying off loans early. Some, but not all, hard money lenders charge a pre-payment penalty.
Why Use Hard Money Loans?
There are many situations where hard money loans can be ideal for investors, including:
- Securing financing very quickly
- Conservation of capital/no big down payments
- Properties that need renovation and don't qualify for traditional loans as is
- Land loans or construction loans
Real estate investors normally take out hard money loans when purchasing property that requires a lot of work. The total amount of the loan given is for how much the property will be worth once renovations are complete. Again, this is known as the "After Repair Value." No matter what your reasons are for using a hard money loan, the lender you choose will also want to know your exit strategy (in other words, your plan for how you'll repay the money you borrow).
Since this type of loan would be short-term, the buyer has plenty of options following repairs. Your plan might be to quickly rehab and sell the property to repay the loan—this is typically the favorite strategy among "flippers." Otherwise, your plan to repay your hard money loan may be to transition into a traditional loan after the renovations are complete. This second strategy is a favorite among landlords.
Conclusion for Property Investors Searching for a Hard Money Lender
There are plenty of different hard money lenders available, so be sure you find a reputable company. Most mortgage brokers and REALTORS® and even traditional banks have connections with experienced hard money lenders and can usually recommend one. Alternatively, it's easy to search online for reviews and recommendations from other investors who have successfully completed deals using hard money loans.
Above all, don't get overwhelmed by the details of how this all works. Great lenders will steer you right, helping to pinpoint the perfect loan that suits your property investing goals. You will then be provided with substantial expertise, whether making a quick flip or owning rental property.
Steven Kaufman, CPA, MsEDE, is a finance enthusiast and the founder and chief acceleration officer of ZeusLending.com, an online provider of real estate investor loan products, including hard money loans. Kaufman is frequently interviewed on current financial markets by local and national news organizations such as FOX, ABC, CBS, CNN and Bloomberg.
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President Donald Trump awarded car owner Roger Penske the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, Thursday in a ceremony at the White House.
“A legend in so many ways,” President Trump said of Penske.
The Medal of Freedom was established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and is awarded to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
“Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom is really something special,” Penske said during the White House ceremony, “and to me it means more than any business success or motorsports trophy.”
Others who have been awarded the Medal of Freedom since 2018 by President Trump include Tiger Woods, Elvis Presley, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former NFL great Roger Staubach and former NBA greats Bob Cousy and Jerry West.
Team Penske has recorded 545 major race wins, 621 pole positions and 36 championships. His teams have won the Indianapolis 500 a record 18 times. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in January. His IndyCar team won the championship this year with Josef Newgarden. Team Penske has two drivers, reigning series champion Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney, in the Round of 8 in the NASCAR Cup playoffs.
Penske is the founder and chairman of Penske Corp., which manages businesses with consolidated revenues of more than $32 billion and employs more than 64,000 people worldwide.
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Just wanted to say thank you for such a good job with the engagement ring by ordering something else. You guys are awesome. My fiancé has had so many compliments on her ring. Thanks again.
James Corey II
Rhodium is a platinum group metal of high value, typically twice the price of platinum and 3 to 4 times the price of gold. It is a hard, white, highly reflective metal and is predominantly used to enhance the whiteness and reflectivity of white gold jewelry.
Rhodium plating is a technique often used to plate white gold settings, giving them high reflectivity and so enhancing the "brilliant" appearance of diamond. Rhodium is also chemically inert and will withstand corrosive attack. For this reason, it is often used on 14kt white gold diamond engagement rings to give extra protection during everyday use.
First, we have to look at the definition of "white gold." Many manufacturers use white gold alloys that contain only small additions of either nickel or palladium as a bleacher, which results in a color that is actually best described as pale yellow. Because the whitening additions are present, the gold alloy is described as "white" when perhaps "straw" would be a better description.
To make the setting look more desirable, it is rhodium plated and so has a beautiful white reflective surface. The problem with rhodium plating occurs when the plated diamond engagement rings have been worn over a period of time and undergo wear. Rhodium is usually only plated to a thickness of a micron or so (one micron = 1/1000th of a millimeter). This will be removed over time, exposing the straw color of the original "white" gold alloy underneath. The contrast between the remaining rhodium plate and the original white gold is very noticeable and makes the jewelry look worn and poor. This results in you having to make frequent trips to your jeweler to have your rings re-plated.
At Danforth Diamond, we rhodium plate our settings to give you the optimum color and reflective surface to enhance the diamond in your setting, but here's where we're different and stand out from the crowd. We use a true white alloy to start with and plate this. Because of the minimal contrast between our white gold alloy and the rhodium plating, when wear occurs in highlighted areas and rhodium is removed, it is far less noticeable than with most other white gold jewelry. The base alloy is not as reflective but is a good white color, making wear and tear less noticeable. This greatly increases the time between re-rhodium plating and keeps your diamond engagement ring looking great.
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With the rising housing market, renting, or buying a house has been increasingly unaffordable or precarious for many Australians.
Content Warning: homelessness in no explicit detail.
For this edition on Policy Comparisons for the 2022 Australian Federal Election, we are looking at Housing and Homelessness. With the rising housing market, renting or buying a house has been increasingly unaffordable or precarious for many Australians. Meanwhile (for a variety of factors), homelessness has persisted with over 100,000 Australians without a safe and secure on any given night.
What do the parties and candidates say about these issues?
Liberal/ National Coalition
Key People: Michael Sukkar MP (Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing).
There are various Government initiatives to support new home buyers including HomeBuilder (grants toward renovations or home construction), First Home Super Saver Scheme (saving for homes using superannuation), and the Home Guarantee Scheme (the Government being the guarantor for certain home loans).
The Government has promised to increase the First Home Guarantee to 35,000 places a year (up from 10,000) along with a new 10,000 places for the Regional Home Guarantee. These Guarantee Schemes are meant to support people to buy a home sooner, with a lower required deposit. Given they are on the demand side (helping to give more money to people to buy homes), there is some criticism that they are also contributing to the problem (high competition and rising house prices).
More Liberal policies include:
- Enabling older Australians to put proceeds of selling their home into superannuation.
Key People: Jason Clare MP (Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness).
Labor’s housing policies have been revised since the 2019 Election (with a notable withdrawal of their plan to abolish negative gearing).
Their new plan includes increasing the amount of public housing with the creation of a $10 billion "Housing Australia Future Fund”. This would create 20,000 properties (over 5 years) and an additional 10,000 homes for frontline workers.
They have also proposed a home equity scheme Help to Buy. This would support lower income earners to buy a house, with the government contributing some 30-40% of the house value. While there are similar schemes at a state level, the Coalition has described the plan as “Antony Albanese at the dinner table”.
More Labor policies include:
- More accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic violence.
- The creation of a National Housing Supply and Affordability Council to oversee housing supply and housing affordability.
Key People: Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Spokesperson for Housing).
The Greens main housing policy is “1 million homes”. These would be publicly owned, affordable homes constructed over 20 years (including shared equity, universal access rental homes and public or community housing). They propose for the plan to be funded by greater taxes on billionaires and removing concessions for property developers.
The Greens propose to meet homelessness through the greater provision of affordable housing and universal access to public housing. They also want more action on early intervention and addressing the root causes of homelessness.
More Greens policies include:
- Rights for tenants against eviction.
- Increasing Commonwealth Rent Assistance.
- Self-determination for First Nations people on housing and homelessness services.
Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie has called for more public and crisis accommodation, increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance, and capping the use of AirBnbs.
The housing policy of the Australian Democrats includes the construction of 100,000 affordable homes and 100,000 social housing units, along with greater rights for tenants and changes to negative gearing.
Reason Australia has called for greater investment in public and social housing, along with a more humane / less enforcement approach to homelessness.
The United Australia Party (UAP) wants to “save Australian home ownership” by capping home interest rates at 3%. The details are unclear given interest rates are currently determined by the independent Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
Victorian Socialists have a “Housing for All” policy. This includes using inclusionary zoning to compel developers to have a proportion of affordable housing and increasing Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 30%.
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Tumblr, WordPress, Squarespace — there are countless ways to make a personal website.
The key is finding the right one for you. In the digital age, having a personal website is the final step in establishing a solid web presence, but there are dozens of sites begging users to pick them.
With so many options, it can get complicated to pick the right site for your life and career. Are you the artsy type? If so, head to Tumblr. Are you a stiff-straight office professional? You might want to look into WordPress.
We weighed the benefits of five platforms to help give you a fuller idea of what you should pick.
WordPress is something of a heavyweight. The blogging platform has been around since 2003 and has become a go-to for site-building. As the design site Creative Bloq points out, there are dozens of ways to use it, along with dozens of different clients, from small businesses to web agencies.
A basic website that comes with all the essential WordPress trimmings — unique themes, multiple pages, clean imagery — is free.
You can create a clean, polished look, which is great for people with serious careers.
If you don't want that pesky "name.wordpress.com" tagged onto your domain name, you can register a new domain for $18 per year.
The site has a a lot to offer. You can optimize SEO, monetize the site, explore plugins, keep an eye on analytics and more.
The learning curve is kind of stiff if you're not tech-savvy. On WordPress's template, you have to spend time to really get what you want and get familiar with the site's nooks and crannies.
You'll have to learn a bit of HTML. While that will help you in the long run, it's frustrating to try building an effective personal site and get into coding 101.
If your CV is a little slim, all of the site's juiced up options might be overwhelming. You might be better off going with something simpler, like...
Tumblr is a huge creative force, used for blogging and personal sites alike. It's perhaps the trendiest of the big three, probably because the word "Tumblr" itself has become an adjective or a verb — a catch-all term for all things dreamy or unbearably hipster.
However, Tumblr is super easy to set up. It makes building a website fun, and incredibly personal.
It's perfect for people with creative jobs. Graphic design, illustration, film — this site caters to your kookiest desires with its wide realm of themes. The template is perfect for showcasing artistic careers.
It's free to set up, but you can also get a custom domain name. That will cost you somewhere around $10-$40 a year.
It's also a social site. You can follow and reblog other Tumblr accounts, and easily create your own blog posts. That kind of networking could be great for getting extra eyeballs on your site.
No plugins. "Plugins are pretty much snippets of code (i.e., small programs) that you can attach to your blog in order to do pretty much anything," writes The Social U. "There are plugins for just about anything, from blocking spam to optimizing SEO." If you're the customizing type who's nuts for that kind of stuff, you might want to look elsewhere.
It seems like the newest option of the trio, but Squarespace was actually launched in 2004 (that beats Tumblr, founded in 2007). If you listen to podcasts, you've probably heard a million advertisements for the crisp website-builder.
From the jump, Squarespace sets itself apart as the website builder. When you create an account, it asks whether you're building site for "Personal," "Business," "Non-profit" or "E-commerce" purposes. It also automatically makes you select an available site theme.
There's no way to make it ugly. Squarespace has a certain aesthetic, and no matter which template you choose, it's going to look crisp and clean.
It performs well on mobile. Its templates are responsive, meaning you can "resize your browser and the content," according to a five-star review on blog Website Builder Expert. A strong mobile performance is priceless in the digital age of phablets and beyond.
No freebies here. If you want Squarespace, you'll have to pay either $8, $16 or $24 per month to keep your site up and running. That makes it far and away the most expensive site builder on this list, which could automatically rule it out for people who just wanted a quick and easy website.
There are so many other sites one could use, we'd be remiss not to mention these two popular options.
Weebly: This gorgeous site starts off free, but you can subscribe from $4 to $25 per month. The site has a variety of striking themes, and easily walks you through its setup, from creating pages to adding text.
Wix: This is a cloud-based platform that has about 55 million users. If you want a fun, graphic look, Wix has it — something of a cross between a professional Tumblr and Squarespace. Like Weebly, there are free templates, but you can upgrade to a premium plan. The subscriptions range from the most basic $4.08 per month to $24.90 per month.
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Simple pencil sailboat drawing by one of the world’s most beloved artists and illustrators Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927). Two sails are up and the sailboat appears to be gliding along.
I opted to leave this image in it’s original scanned form. The pencil lines are quite light. For an interesting effect, simply convert the picture to its negative.
This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.
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Exploring the Fleurieu Peninsula – Hayborough, South Australia
First, the Basics:
Hayborough, South Australia is one of the many outstanding holiday destinations spread across the Fleurieu Peninsula. This suburb of slightly larger Victor Harbor boasts a year round population of just fewer than 2000 souls and is ready to receive visitors in every season.
The area was settled in 1854, when the railway lines connecting Victor Harbor to the port at Goolwa were laid. Initially, the local population of Southern Right Whales was exploited as the main industry for Victor Harbor, but in the mid-1860’s, it became apparent that freight hauling on the Murray River was both easier and more profitable. As ships became larger, the older river port at Goolwa became less capable, and so Victor Harbor and its environs, including Hayborough, grew up. Nowadays, Victor Harbor’s main industry is tourism. Commercial fishing is still an active industry here, and the maritime history that permeates the region can be seen everywhere.
While You’re Here:
Hayborough is first and foremost a beach resort. Restaurants, pubs, and plentiful rental accommodation are available near the beach, leaving you close to all of the venues for your activities of choice. There’s excellent swimming at Horseshoe Bay nearby, sheltered from the larger waves of the main beach. Surfers can catch decent breaks just offshore, while fishermen can enjoy surf, rock, or boat fishing. If sun, sand, and sea are the main points for your holiday, be sure to book your rental home or villa early to ensure getting the best choice of location.
After spending the morning on the beach, take a ride on the Steam Ranger Heritage Railway’s Cockle Train. The trains run on the oldest steel-rail railway in Australia, and go from Victor Harbor to Goolwa. In the early days, residents of Victor Harbor and Hayborough would take a horse-drawn train on this same route to collect cockles at Goolwa, hence the name. In modern times, this is an excellent way to see the scenic coastlines and consider days gone by.
If you still haven’t had enough fun, take the team to Dunes Mini Golf. 18 holes of marine-themed enjoyment await your pleasure. For the average golfer, 30 to 45 minutes is enough to complete the course, but don’t rush. Enjoy your game!
At some point during your holiday, it would be nice to indulge in some actual relaxation. Let the helpful staff of The Joyful Buddhas Health & Wellbeing Studio assist in working out all the knots and feeling refreshed. The spa offers yoga, massage, reflexology therapy, Pilates training, and much more. Spend some “you” time and come away feeling refreshed and renewed.
Don’t leave town without stopping by the Old El Shaneo microbrewery. Sample as many of their locally crafted masterpieces as you can. Up to 19 different varieties are on offer at any time, and you’ll have found a favorite by the time you head back to your Hayborough holiday accommodation.
While Hayborough and Victor Harbor are not really large cities, it still pays to do your homework regarding the location of your holiday rental. Finding a centralized location means less time in transit, and more time in your swimsuit!
What Should You Wear?
As Hayborough is just over an hour south of Adelaide, the climate is much the same. Expect higher temperatures from December to February, with warm days of 26 to 28 degrees Celsius and gentle nights of 14 to 16 degrees. If you visit from June to August, you’ll find the coolest temperatures of the year. Daytime highs will average 16 degrees, with nights cooling to about 7 degrees. Rainfall is moderate all year and temperatures are never too extreme, so Hayborough is a safe bet all year for an enjoyable holiday.
Making the Trip
Before you plan your flights, plan your lodgings. It is very important to book holiday rental homes early to avoid any disappointment in missing your preferred locations. Once that’s done, actually planning the trip is quite easy. Whether you’re flying out of London City Airport, Stansted, Gatwick, or Heathrow, all the major carriers have scheduled multiple daily departures to Adelaide. On arrival in Adelaide, there is frequent and regular coach service to Victor Harbor, but the best bet is to hire a car at the airport. You can reach Hayborough in about one hour fifteen minutes, due south from the airport.
Enjoy your stay!
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Do you feel like you’re wearing a mask under your mask?
Have you ever gotten the advice to “just be yourself”?
What does that even mean?
Is it even safe to be yourself around everyone you meet?
We all have different sides to us: work self, social self, family self, date self, the list is endless. These healthy false selves protect us from screwing up, it keeps us safe from exposing our true self to unsafe people and situations. Many of us don’t feel as though we know ourselves. When we are unable to be our true self, we can feel dead inside, unable to trust our intuition, lost. The unhealthy false self is created early on in life as a protective measure against being cast out from our families.
Early on children take in their environment, they are aware of what’s going on not cognitively but instinctually. They have to be in order to survive, in order to be loved and accepted. This is where the unhealthy self develops, and our true self hides away.
When a child grows up with a primary caregiver who is unresponsive, neglectful, cold, and/or quick-tempered a child begins to “need” the caregiver less. They adapt to the needs of the caregiver and not their own. This is troublesome as babies need the space to explore their emotions and physicality in a warm and loving environment. They need the space to explore their range of emotions as this is the first time, they are experiencing absolutely everything.
Just imagine what it would be like to spend 9 months inside a dark warm space where all your needs are met to all of a sudden bombarded with our world of colors, sounds, smells, and so forth. Sounds anxiety provoking to me.
Babies act instinctively when they are upset or happy. Having a caregiver that can “survive” the “attacks” (emotions) helps children learn to regulate their emotions, which includes accepting and understanding themselves. When a child does not grow up in a “safe” space they learn to hide their needs and wants in order to appease the primary caregiver. From the very beginning children need their parents to survive and not just for sustenance and shelter but for human touch, our kind words, encouragement, and love. They learn they can survive their emotions as well; they know that they are accepted for who they are. When they are denied this, they hide their true self, it becomes small and hidden in order to be loved.
This is where the unhealthy false self takes over. In order to feel loved children must acclimate to their caregivers needs and affects. If they don’t they are met with the psyche pain of the lost love object (the parent). This is when the child feels hatred towards their caregiver but consciously cannot process the anger because they need and love their caregiver to survive. This hatred the child feels gets turned inward, it’s not safe to hate your parents but it is safe to hate yourself, resulting in a myriad of mental health problems, particularly depression. If the child cannot be loved and accepted for who they are they must renounce their needs, themselves, in order to feel a semblance of love and safety.
This occurs when the primary caregiver is suffering from their own internal struggles – denied their own needs as children, these acts are often unconscious. Many people intend to care and love for their children as best they know how but if their needs were denied as children, without the help of a reparative relationship, it can be hard for them to take care of someone else’s needs, they may even resent having to. The prominent psychoanalyst Winnicott has a theory about the “good enough mother”, though it is no longer only mother’s work to be the primary caregiver, the concept is still valid. We don’t need to be the perfect parent or caregiver; perfectionism is a killer of life. It has no purpose other than to make us feel less than.
How do we overcome this?
How do we allow our true self to safely come out of hiding?
In psychotherapy, we can explore what it means to be human, to be ourselves. Therapists hold that safe space we were not given in our younger years. This allows their client’s room to move through their emotions, to discover their hidden desires. In a sense therapists allow their clients to “play”; they’re allowed to be angry, resentful, wilful, childish, selfish, excited, playful, creative, all the things they had to deny themselves in order to be safe. The therapist will be able to weather the storm and stay whole and present for the client. Showing the client, they are able to be themselves without repercussions, without destroying their loved ones.
With the help of a therapist, we can overcome our traumas and rediscover our true self and create a healthy false self. The healthy false self is what keeps us from blowing an interview or telling the wrong person about our struggles. We need a healthy false sense to keep us safe till a person or place is deemed safe to be ourselves.
Although many people can seemingly live successful lives with an unhealthy false self it does not mean they are not hurting on the inside. There’s great pain within people who do not feel safe and accepted, they don’t even know how to accept themselves. Psychotherapy is here to help you find your true self, your meaning, your peace. Learn to live your life without the burden of your past to create a better future for the next generation.
If any of these topics interest you and would like to discuss it further reach out to set up a consultation:
Natalie Czaplicki, M.S.Ed. & M.Phil.Ed
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If crossing midline was a product or company, I would be their brand ambassador. I mean, I really, really have this nerdy obsession with crossing midline. I love talking about it, educating about its importance, and seeing how many times in a day I can set up environments to encourage it!
Crossing Midline 101
- Midline is an imaginary line that runs from your head to your toes, separating your right side from your left side.
- The brain’s 2 hemispheres specializes in different skills. In addition, the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body’s motor movements, and vice versa.
- Every time you move the right side of your body across to your left side (or vice versa), you are “crossing midline” and the neurons between left and right hemispheres of your brain are firing and communicating.
- Many children who avoid crossing midline experience learning challenges as well as motor challenges due to the lack of integration between both sides of the brain.
What It Looks Like
The most common way to cross midline involves using your upper extremities in a functional task. Involving upper trunk rotation (when your upper body/torso rotates across your body while your lower body remains stationary) is key in crossing midline. Here are some everyday activities that you might cross midline in, without even noticing.
- Washing a window or erasing a chalkboard: as your feet remain stationary and you reach across your body in horizontal sweeping motions, you are crossing midline!
- Removing/putting on a seat belt: as you’re sitting, your lower body remains stationary and you are reaching across your body to buckle/unbuckle the belt.
- Sitting at the dinner table reaching for a glass/utensil on the opposite side of your dominant hand.
- Washing dishes and putting them away on the opposite side of the body.
Tips To Encourage Midline Crossing
Opportunities for crossing midline come up everywhere, but it’s so interesting to note how many children avoid it. For example, you might notice a child reaches for a Lego piece on their right side of their body, then transfers it to their left hand instead of crossing over. You can read more about how to recognize avoiding midline crossing here. For these kids, you might have to get more creative at setting up their environment to cross midline.
- Keep their lower body stationary by straddling a yoga ball or sitting in a chair while engaging in an activity
- Try placing an object in their non-dominant hand or give an activity that requires their non-dominant hand to hold it steady, so their dominant hand has to do all the work and cannot transfer items into their non-dominant hand
- Place target items (puzzle board, magnet board, basket) on their non dominant side so they have to place pieces (puzzles, magnets, balls) into the target item with their dominant hand.
Providing opportunities for your kids/clients to cross midline through everyday activities will enhance their motor skills as well as higher level academic skills.
If you find fun ways to encourage crossing midline, share them with me! Tag me on instagram @TheOTButterfly
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Laura is a pediatric OT who works with children with sensory processing disorder and other developmental disabilities. Laura has a passion for educating teachers and parents about the impact of sensory processing on children’s success and learning abilities. Through social media, her blog and her teachers pay teachers store, Laura shares her unique resources and creative ideas for supporting children in their visual motor, sensory and emotional regulation development.
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The Wadi Howar was once filled with water. There are many dried river beds in the Sahara. The Sahara, according to the latest research, had a Savannah like climate for about 500 years. Hope that helps.
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17 Mar Bridging the gap
While the UK may still be a powerhouse in engineering, a shortage of skilled workers is posing a significant threat to growth and innovation and the long term health of the sector. Considering the turnover of UK engineering enterprises is over £1 trillion – a quarter of the total turnover of all UK enterprises –, the need to bridge the skills gap is critical to prevent a decline in the sector.
In 2015, according to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) annual survey, the skills gap worsened for the ninth year in a row. Lobbying group EngineeringUK estimated that the shortfall of people that possess the skills required is close to 55,000, which is more than twice the total number of engineering graduates produced by UK universities annually.
There have been a wide range of so called solutions suggested from different parts of the engineering sector and government, but having spent over 70 years in the sector, we have our own opinion based on our own experiences: inspire, educate and train the next generations.
Many leading and experienced engineering companies identify and promote the need for this approach too. Options such as relaxing immigration laws to allow skilled engineers to enter the UK from foreign countries may go some way in resolving the problem in the short term, but it is through education and training that we can ensure the sector’s health in the long term.
A key part of our own business practice is training apprentices. This allows us to pass on the skills we’ve developed over many years to the next generation of dedicated young engineers. Our paid training programme follows a carefully planned schedule and gives apprentices essential, first-hand experience in a busy and challenging engineering environment.
Training programmes such as these, which provide young engineers with the tools they need to build a successful career, have a key role to play in innovation and protecting the future health of the engineering sector.
We are currently on the look out for apprentices, university placement students and graduate interns to join the Dawson Shanahan team. Interested? Learn more about the roles by checking out our recruitment webpage.
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Author Howard Rheingold demonstrates his Social Media Classroom project on Friday. Photo: Kathryn Murphy/Medill
Whether it’s mapping an ancient Roman burial route over time, constructing a homemade flashlight or learning how to make art from recycled materials, HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation are helping fund the digital media experiments that could provide innovative learning opportunities for youngsters.
In an effort to bring education up to speed with the digital era, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation along with HASTAC, a consortium of humanities, arts and science professionals, awarded $2 million dollars in grants in the second annual Digital Media and Learning Competition on Thursday.
Howard Rheingold, futurist and author of the book “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution“ was a winner in last year’s competition, and served as a judge for this year’s applicants. “The educational model that is 1,000 years old, that is based on handwritten books that are chained down to lecterns that some old guy stands up and reads to you, is severely challenged when all the students in the room are online and you’re competing with the rest of the internet,” Rheingold said.
“Young people are changing as a result of digital media,” said Julia Stasch, the vice president of human and community development at the MacArthur Foundation, “This has huge implications for teaching and learning.”
To celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year’s grants, HASTAC brought together 17 of last year’s winners to demonstrate what kinds of projects the grant money helped produce, develop and expand. The event kicked off with a reception and performance by PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra at the Newberry Library and concluded with an expo Friday afternoon at the Palmer House.
“[PLOrk] was one of the winners last year,” said Cathy Davidson, professor of interdisciplinary studies at John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and co-founder of HASTAC. “And they’re not only a performing orchestra. When they teach students, they’re teaching students everything from computer music to atonal music to signal processing.”
Both creativity and user-involvement are key factors in determining winners for the competition. The winners of this year’s grants will display the results of their projects at next year’s reception.
“We were looking for things that were not one-off’s, that can replicate and influence,” Rheingold said. “We’re looking at projects that have some degree of ingenuity regarding the technology and particularly projects that are centered on participatory learning.”
Some of this year’s grant recipients included: DigitalOcean, which will connect 200 classrooms worldwide to help observe and monitor declining fish populations; PlayPower, which will use an inexpensive ($12) TV-computer for interactive design of learning games; and Global Challenge, an online competition using media and social networking tools to develop and propose solutions to problems such as global warming and the future of energy.
The emphasis on interactive learning was evident in last year’s winning projects on display at Friday’s expo.
LEDs, resistors, and origami illustrated Ohmwork’s winning entry in last year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition. Photo: Ian Monroe/Medill
Hypercities, scheduled to publicly launch this summer, allows users to take real maps of cities and overlay both geographical and time-based information. A HyperCity can include everything from its architectural history to the stories of residents past and present.
This has uses in both general education and for high-end research, according to Diane Favro, director of the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center.
“You can go through time and see the different maps and add your own content,” she said. “So you could add somebody’s trip through the city, or where riots had occurred in a particular historical time, or other events, and link that with music or pictures or, as we did with the Rome one, with 3-d models, so it just depends on what your goal is. It’s going to be open for everyone to use, and serve as a platform where everything gets geo-temporally tagged.”
Some of the projects, like Ohmwork, brought students in to help develop the projects. Ohmwork is a social networking site centered on do-it-yourself science and technology projects.
“About 70 kids helped develop the prototype, start and run the project,” said Corbett Beder, director of high school programs at Vision Education and Media. “We let them run wild with it.”
The site, directed primarily towards middle-school-aged kids, offers podcasts about experiments kids can try on their own, as well as the ability to comment on and contribute to the experiments of others.
The grants awarded in last year’s competition were also used to expand projects already in place. The Global Fund for Children created a hub for information and story exchange between grassroots organizations and vulnerable children.
“The grant allowed us to buy flip cameras to send to our partners,” said Monica Grover, a digital media projects manager for the fund. “It helped build this hub and post training in digital storytelling, so these people can share their stories, get their voices heard and help empower them.”
These stories can inspire additional learning, Grover said. People in India can learn from people in Honduras about how to cope in a food crisis, for example.
The MacArthur Foundation’s Stasch was confident the digital media competition would continue to produce innovative opportunities for learning.
“We’re looking around the corner at the best ideas of tomorrow,” she said.
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An audio slideshow illustrating the concert by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) on Thursday. The performance was to celebrate the winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition. PLOrk was a winner in last year’s contest.
Note: Kathryn Murphy and I co-wrote this piece. It was first published on the Medill News Service website on 4/21/2009, and is republished here for my own archives.
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A crash course in economics will teach you that once a product is in high demand, the cost of the product generally drops. In today's economy, this is not always the case. Here is a look at five products that should be getting cheaper, but for various reasons are not.
If you are one of the consumers that is waiting for Apple to reduce its prices don't hold your breath. While Apple products are overwhelmingly high in demand, their competition doesn't hold a candle to the popularity of Apple. Apple is able to price its products as it wishes without major backlash or repercussions due to the company's tremendous popularity in the market. Even though Apple products are expensive, they are very reliable and usually last for a long time. They also have fairly high resale values, so if you upgrade you may be able to get a decent price for your old MacBook or iPhone.
Professional Grade Computers
You'll be hard-pressed to find someone that does not own a computer. Whether it is a laptop or desktop, professional grade computers are still relatively costly. While professional grade computers are high in demand, the technology keeps evolving which is the reason why these computers are not getting any cheaper.
Another product that seems to be getting more and more expensive, rather than cheaper, is video games. Games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3) both have a price that averages around $60 each. Nintendo Wii games are slightly cheaper and on average are priced between $40 and $50. Additionally, in an interview with Eurogamer, THQ said, video games may cost around $100 each on the next gaming system. The next generation consoles are expected to increase graphic performance and over all power, which means developers will need more resources to product these video games. The increased need for resources will in turn increase the cost of video games in general. Next generation consoles are also rumored to have restrictions which will prevent used games from being used on the systems. This may make gaming on the next generation Microsoft and Sony machines even more expensive. The reason for the hike is because of the advancing technology. Video games have come a long way since the days of the original Nintendo, and the price certainly reflects this.
Walk down a busy street on any given day, and you're bound to see an overwhelming array of cell phones. Some are standard cellular phones that can be used for talk and text, while others are essentially mini computers that you can talk, text, surf the Internet and compute on. The reason many cell phones are not dropping in price is due to the evolving technology. Many cell phone carriers allow you to trade in your phone for a new one every two years. What is the point in reducing prices if you can make a larger profit by keeping sales the same or higher? As long as cell phone technology keeps evolving, expect the prices to stay high.
When Blu-Ray players first came out on the market, many consumers believed that this technology would replace the DVD. As of 2012, this vision has not come to fruition. Although the Blu-Ray technology is popular, it did not catch on as well as expected. If popularity increases, expect the price of Blu-Ray players to drop, but until then, prices will likely remain the same. However, there have been price decreases in some blu-ray players. In general they are still more expensive than DVD players and have not made DVD players obsolete as of yet. Because of the PS3's ability to play blu-rays, some people are using the game console as a blu-ray player with the added benefit of being able to play video games for $100 more than the price of a cheaper blu-ray player.
The Bottom Line
Due to technology constantly evolving and demand increasing, many products on the market are maintaining their prices rather than dropping. Although high demand usually causes prices to drop, the evolving technology component is what keeps the prices steady.
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six Essential concepts for Kiln Maintenance
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typically take the form of top land roll-over, tooth profile distress, pinion shaft breakage and/or gear rim breakage. A gear rim or pinion shaft failure could mean an extended
downtime if no spares exist.
All gearing requires clearance between the teeth to mesh properly. This clearance is typically measured
as backlash or tip-to-root distance (Figure 3). These two items are physically related so if the backlash is
increased, root clearance also has to increase. Extra clearance is always part of the installation procedure
for a girth gear set on a kiln to ensure interference does not occur. Backlash is used for new gearing only. Once
the gearing is worn, set-up is based on tip-to-root clearances, contact and pitch line separation.
Root clearance is a nominal value since tooth root diameters are not a specifically controlled
manufacturing dimension. Different gear manufacturing processes yield different root diameters for the same
tooth size. Manufacturing variances also impact the actual final root diameter of gearing.
It is recommended that root clearance measurements are taken at four locations at least once a year. A current
and correct root clearance value will provide information to assure that any kiln movements made during an
alignment position the kiln for maximum gear life. An easy way to monitor root clearances is by
inspecting the pitch lines on the side of the gear and pinion.
Kiln thrust alignment
Kiln thrust alignment is based on the principle that each roller must be very close to parallel with the kiln
centreline. In this position, each roller has an equal reaction to kiln thrust.
It is important to note that kiln thrust can change during normal kiln operation. Some reasons for this
• Coating or rings can form increasing load, and then fall out decreasing load.
• Shells bow or “dog-leg” due to hot spots caused by refractory failure or uneven internal coatings.
• Tyre position changes on uneven roll face.
• Dust or loads can change tyre-to-roller contact face
• Roller base slope changes.
• Kiln centreline alignment changes.
• Process variables change.
In most cases, process variables and the weather are beyond the operator’s control. In order to maintain
correct kiln thrust, one has to ensure that the surfaces the tyres ride on are very consistent. That means the
base has to be on a slope, the roller face has to be flat and the roller axis has to be parallel to the kiln centreline.
Maintaining correct thrust is made significantly easier if one is careful to maintain these variables. It
is important to remember that kiln thrust is not about the position of the kiln, but is all about each roller’s
relationship to the kiln. Some kilns do not have uphill thrust rollers. On those, it is critical to maintain downhill
Kiln centreline alignment
Kiln centreline alignment can be viewed from many perspectives. The most common view is that of a perfectly
straight tube that would minimise the shell stresses and the horsepower required. However, a perfect alignment
such as this would do nothing to compensate for the unbalanced and ever changing load from pier to pier.
A maximum misalignment parameter has to be established for each kiln so that “intelligent misalignment”
can be utilised to accommodate operational and design load issues. This can only be accomplished by combining
the information gathered through shell alignment measurements, shell ovality measurements, a visual
inspection of the kiln mechanical components and an understanding of the kiln maintenance history. When
approached from the proper perspective, a kiln alignment programme will become an effective tool in minimising kiln
Decades of kiln service have led to the development of the six essential concepts of kiln maintenance. These six
items are things that can be maintained and controlled without affecting operation or extending shutdown time .
They are critical to successful long term kiln operation. In summary they are:
• Check and correct carrying roll base
• Maintain flat carrying roll faces.
• Optimise tyre clearance.
• Check gear root clearance.
• Adjust kiln thrust alignment.
• Adjust kiln centreline alignment.
A maintenance programme that incorporates these six essential concepts will experience far lower operating costs and less unplanned shutdowns
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Reviewed by: Jim O'Neill
|Featuring:||Jamie Campbell Bower … Young Oxford
Rhys Ifans … Edward de Vere
David Thewlis … William Cecil
Joely Richardson … Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Vanessa Redgrave … Queen Elizabeth I
Derek Jacobi … Prologue
Xavier Samuel … Henry Wriothesley
Rafe Spall … William Shakespeare
|Director:||Roland Emmerich—“The Day After Tomorrow,” “Independence Day”|
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures
“Was Shakespeare a fraud?”
If the new film “Anonymous”, set in an insufferably cloudy, rainy, and stormy Elizabethan England, was not such a muddy mess, I might say that it has something, if not important, at least illuminating to say about history and about our own age. Most of the time, I tried unsuccessfully to figure out what was going on, but the mud never cleared. Internal court intrigues, external battles with the French and the Spanish armies, bouts between this Lord and that Earl, and wonders about who begot whom and who deserved a crown intersected in ways that might make an otherwise dreary history book come to life, but made this film slip and fall into one big murky puddle.
The art direction, especially the mostly computer-generated sets (courtesy of VFX-CG technology), the costumes and the makeup are a marvel, so why did I long for the old fake sets of MGM, Paramount and Warner Brothers that, although laughable by today’s standards, made a time period, however modified to suit public taste, teem with life? I am thinking of those great movies about Tudor England such as “The Private Lives of Henry VIII”, “Fire Over England”, and “The Prince and the Pauper”(the 1937 version with Errol Flynn). Those old movies did not need elaborate backgrounds; the stars and the story were scenery enough. “Anonymous” has one great performance and many good ones, but the story is as damp and dank as the old London streets in which the tale takes place.
The thesis of “Anonymous”, directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, is that William Shakespeare was not the true author of the 37 plays that have been attributed to him and that have been the crowning works of English literature. Such a theory has been in the air for many years; books have been written about it; seminars have been put on ad nauseam to debate it; and even actors have expounded on the belief that Shakespeare’s plays had to written by someone other than Shakespeare. Well then, it must be true.
The movie opens with a hammy intro by actor Derek Jacobi, who in modern dress that is just-right shabby, complete with trimmed beard and fashion scarf, gives us a “forget everything you’ve heard before” speech to tell us that we’re about to be let in on a secret, one that’s been kept for centuries. I thought I might be in for a kind of Michael Moore or Oliver Stone history docudrama. In a sense, I was. Just as Moore and Stone do, Emmerich and Orloff lather up lots of drama but go foamy on the real stuff.
“Anonymous” takes the view that the Shakespearean plays were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Edward is a nobleman by birth and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, in her bedroom as well as in her council room. Because a 16th Century Earl would never stoop to as crass a career as playwriting (I did wonder why no one asked the Earl why his fingers were always stained with ink; perhaps the stains came from all the love-letter writing to Queen Bess), and the plays often poked fun at figures in high positions at a time when the country’s Queen had a penchant for sending anyone who dissed her to the executioner’s block, playing a ghost writer seemed to be the safest bet.
William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) is portrayed as a drunken, thieving, cavorting, opportunistic dolt, a third rate actor incapable of putting pen to paper. He could read scripts, but could not form letters with a pen. He could barely speak. When told that “his” plays will be published, he responds, “you mean, like, in a book?”. He’s a fraud, and a pompous one at that; he’s the Milli Vanilli of Elizabethan England.
Granted, we do not know a lot about Shakespeare’s life, and it is certainly a mystery how a man, a common man, an itinerant actor and son of a shoemaker, could write the way he wrote, how he came to create some of the supreme masterworks of Western Civilization. The fact that there is an apparent divide between the urbanity of the man and the glory of his work leads some to wonder at the enigma of genius and others to speculate that something else must be afoot.
Great writers sometimes come from the upper classes, but many times they do not. What did a tax collector named Matthew or a fisherman named John know about literature? What royal families were they raised in? What creative writing classes did they take? Where had they been previously published? Granted, another force was at work in the gospels which is God’s writing transcribed by man. However, each gift, be it literature, music or performing talent is a gift that comes from above, and it is not up to us to determine how it gets doled out, and why. Shakespeare’s gift was not just a blessing for him; it has been a blessing for all of us.
One thing the movie gets right is the immediacy and the power of the bard’s words. Watching the faces of the spectators in the Globe theater listen to the “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy from “Hamlet” or the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” reminds us of what great words can do. Elizabethan audiences, mostly commoners, were hearing those words for the first time, crowded into seatless spaces as rain poured down on them through an open roof. They were moved in ways that we still are today, and that is the magic of Shakespeare’s genius. We may have seen “Hamlet” or “Macbeth” or “As You Like It” twenty or so times, yet the words in those plays always move something in us as though we were hearing them for the first time.
It was also a joy to watch theater as it existed in a time when it was a living and breathing art form in which audiences participated directly with the actors, egging them on, hissing at villains, shouting out stage directions, and even throwing things onto the stage. Oh, to have such an option today, to be able to throw a vegetable or two onto the stage of a Broadway play where I am told to shut off my cell phone, to refrain from opening a candy wrapper and to show respect for the performers whom I am paying $100 to watch!
Genius is not a function of how and where we were born, or what we come to know or achieve in life. It can only be described as a gift from God. Shakespeare’s heart, and his pen, were touched by something that most of us do not understand. I don’t know how genius is imparted. The gift of genius for me is best depicted in the painting by Caravaggio, “Saint Matthew and the Angel”. In the picture, Matthew seems unable to put pen to paper; he can’t even sit comfortably at his desk; instead, he clumsily straddles a small stool. An angel comes from above. She has brought something invisible in one hand that she has received from above, and she is transferring that something to her other hand which she will then give to Matthew. That is genius being born.
Royalty and nobility do not exist in the U.S., nor even in England, for that matter, where they have sadly become museum pieces that are kept behind glass. We have replaced kings and queens with Hollywood figures, and our royal personages are now the stars of film and reality television. There is certainly a hierarchy of talent in the arts and with it too often comes a sense of birthright. It is no surprise that Shakespeare’s life, unfestooned and by all appearances unpolitical, would have its merit and its meaning questioned. Jacobi’s winded intro could easily be summed up as: “This is a man who was not one of us. Let us find someone who is.”
A subplot that becomes less sub and more main attraction confuses more than it enlightens. Edward has been brought up in the house of William Cecil and his son, Robert who happens to be a hunchback, just like a certain king in a certain play. The Cecil house is a miserable place to live but it’s not all bad, because material lurks everywhere for a would be writer. Why young Edward even has servants spying on him from behind curtains, and he kills one of them by sticking a sword through a curtain! Sound familiar? To avoid retribution for killing the servant, Edward is forced by Cecil Senior to marry Cecil’s daughter. He does so, but the marriage is an unhappy one.
His affections then turn to the not so “Virgin Queen”. The two have a child together, who is brought up without the Queen’s knowing the boy’s whereabouts, although Edward keeps track of his son who becomes Henry, the 3rd Earl of Southampton. Henry supports a rebellion led by Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex and another illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth by another man (her out of wedlock male children keep increasing in number throughout the story), to seize the crown and ultimately prevent James I, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, from being brought to throne after Elizabeth dies. Dizzy yet? I know I am, almost as much as I was when I was watching the film, and I am not even revealing the final twist which convolutes everything even more, and further sullies the reputations of all the real life characters involved, especially the Queen. When the movie implies it has secrets to tell, they weren’t kidding. How true those purported secrets are is another matter.
Commoners fare little better than the nobles. Ben Johnson (Sebastian Armesto) is portrayed as complicit in the fraud to have someone else be a frontman for Edward de Vere. Christopher Marlowe is mysteriously murdered, and Johnson accuses Shakespeare of the deed. So I suppose we can add “murderer” to William Shakespeare’s list of character defects. Will was able to swindle a good deal of hush money from the ever more short on cash de Vere which he used not only to carouse but also to fund the construction of the Globe Theater. It seems surprising that as stupid a figure as Shakespeare is portrayed to be, he had the stuff to build, promote and maintain one of history’s great theaters.
Edward is played by three different actors at three different stages of life. That got confusing, too. The adult Edward is well served by the long faced, keen eyed Rhys Ifans, even when the script has him saying stupid things: “all art is political… otherwise it is just decoration”. No actor could make that line sound right. If art doesn’t rise above politics, what good is it? David Thewliss and Edward Hogg are deliciously banal and treacherous as the father-son team of privy chamber counselors, William and Robert Cecil. Next to them, Richard III would seem cuddly. However, the prime acting honors go to the mother-daughter team who play the Queen. Joely Richardson plays her stunningly as a young woman who comes to the throne with confidence and passion, perhaps a bit too much passion.
But it is Richardson’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave, who steals the show as the aging and dying Queen Elizabeth. As both ruler and woman. she is not afraid to show how human suffering affects everyone, even a queen, and how that suffering has a face. She shies away from nothing, even senescence. There is a great scene in which she drops not onto the seat of her throne, but onto its foot, as her countenance reveals how heavy the crown is that sits upon a ruler’s head.
“Anonymous” is a heavy load, as well. And it would take a lot more than this grim and grating tale to convince me that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays that I believe will continue to be attributed to him. And rightfully so. What makes a genius is indeed elusive. Just as elusive as what makes a movie magic.
Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Moderate / Sex/Nudity: Moderate
“…Dubious history aside, ‘Anonymous’ is a well-acted yarn… ‘Anonymous’ aims to be epic but is closer to stately soap opera. …”
—Claudia Puig, USA Today
“…richly evokes the London of its time… a splendid experience: the dialogue, the acting, the depiction of London, the lust, jealousy and intrigue. But I must tiresomely insist that Edward de Vere did not write Shakespeare’s plays. … [3½/4]”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“…The moviemaking is proficient, if unremarkable. I like the idea of an Elizabethan action movie apparently more than I enjoy watching one. … ‘Anonymous’ is trash that reminds us its disaster-obsessed maker is what Jonson might have called a poetaster. Emmerich is a camp artist, someone who doesn’t know his work is ridiculous…”
—Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe
“…‘Anonymous’ is ridiculous, and like Oliver Stone's ‘JFK’ it sells its political conspiracy theories by weight and by volume. But dull, it’s not. … For all the digital evocations of the era, some of which are quite nice… the movie looks best in its heavily candle-lit studio interiors. …”
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“…even setting aside the questions of historical accuracy, the movie itself is just not very good. It's confusing and seems to overstretch its given runtime (130 minutes) by about four hours. And the sex, incest and apparent anti-faith themes do little more than seal its fate: Let loose the rotten veggies!…”
—Paul Asay, Plugged In
“…‘Anonymous’ isn’t terrible. Any film with Vanessa Redgrave as a slightly batty Queen Elizabeth I and Redgrave’s daughter Joely Richardson as Elizabeth’s younger self cannot be a waste of time. It’s just a terribly misguided film in which the men are strutting peacocks, wearing more eyeliner than the women, and the problem is, as usual, the Puritans. …”
—James Verniere, The Boston Herald
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Room for Artifacts - The Architecture of WOJR
WOJR: Organization for Architecture is an innovative group of designers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who are committed to the idea of architecture as a form of cultural production, engaging the intersections of art, architecture, and urbanism. With this idea at its foundation, Room for Artifacts contains a collection of sixteen architectural artifacts designed by WOJR—a mask, a church, a labyrinth, a dwelling, a bust, and a series of totems, among others. The artifacts are presented three times throughout the book—in conceptual drawings, architectural drawings, and images. Certain characteristics recur, such as symmetry, frontality, figurality, proportionality, and play between flatness and depth, underscoring WOJR’s preoccupation with the fundamental aspects of architectural form that are rich in historical precedent. Room for Artifacts offers a new way to explore the role of architectural representation in a contemporary context, looking at how architects can invoke aspects of ideologies from architects of the past while establishing a progressive agenda for a forward-looking body of work.
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If you are interested in creating something “different” or you need a spark in your creativity, consider macro. Here are a few tips to get you started.
a. Fill The Frame – Really
There’s no need for negative space in a traditional macro shot. Fill the frame. Part of the beauty of macro photography is the ability to shoot abstracts and the more of the frame you fill with the image, the more abstract it can become.
b. Use The Longest Macro Lens You Can Afford
If you use a telephoto macro, i.e. 180mm v. something like a 60mm macro, you can get full magnification without having to get uncomfortably close. Insects, animals, etc., may not appreciate you trying to get within one inch of them for a photo. If you have a longer focal length, you can get the same effect from further out.
c. Get Close – Then Get Closer.
No matter how close you are, if you can still focus, get closer still. There are a myriad of stories in there. Get close – look for them. Find the hidden treasure deep into the shot.
e. Get Eye Level
If you’re shooting animals, insects, etc., shoot at their eye level. Working face-to-face gives an intimate perspective that’s nicely amplified in close up work.
f. Consider Flash
Many manufacturers make ring flash adapters or special flash heads for use in macro photography. Using additional light can help you get the depth – of -field you need if you want to get front to back sharpness in a close up picture.
These aren’t the only suggestions for getting good macro shots, but they should get you on your way.
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Charles Erwin Wilson
Charles Erwin Wilson (18 July 1890 – 26 September 1961) was an American engineer, businessman and politician. After working as the CEO of General Motors, he became the Secretary of Defense under President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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- Nor do I understand how anyone can feel that industrial progress has been made at the expense of social progress nor why any American should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or statism, which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions, can produce a happier and more prosperous society.
- Charles E. Wilson in, The Commonwealth: A Forum for Creation of Public Opinion, p. 1946
- The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.
- Charles E. Wilson in, Michigan Business Review, (1949), Vol. 1-2, p. 3
- Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labor, and the prices of many raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labor cost of producing them.
- Charles E. Wilson cited in: Ernest Dale (1950), Sources of economic information for collective bargaining. p. 36
- For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the nation is considerable.
- Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.
- No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
- Charles E. Wilson, quoted in: Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz (1987), Management, p. 100
Quotes about Charles Erwin Wilson
- For nearly five years, the positive leadership, sound judgment, and unceasing efforts of Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson, have been major factors in strengthening the security of the United States and its allies against aggression.
Under his guidance, the effectiveness of the armed forces of the United States has been greatly increased. Their strategic deployment to endangered parts of the world has been a major factor in the preservation of peace. Military assistance programs, including the provision of modern weapons, carried out under his supervision, have bolstered the will and determination of our allies to resist aggression. The common defense of free nations has been greatly furthered by his frequent discussions with foreign leaders both abroad and at home.
- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the citation accompanying his Medal of Freedom (9 October 1957).
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London’s restaurants are considered among the best in Europe if not the world, but they are also among the noisiest. Only San Francisco’s are louder. More than half of the capital’s restaurants and bars are too noisy to let diners actually talk to each other. Decibel levels can be so high that you might as well be eating your dinner next to a bin lorry.
Sound data was collected at random in 1,350 popular London eateries for a survey. In more than half the cases decibel levels were above 76 dBA, defined as safe for hearing but difficult for conversation. Anything above 80 dBA is considered dangerous for the human ear. Among the worst-offending restaurants were Shak-Fuyu in and Duck and rice in Soho, Lobos Meat and Tapas in London Bridge, Rosa’s Thai Café in Spitalfields and Morito in Hackney. All had decibel levels of 90dBA or above, enough to wreck your hearing as well your evening. During peak times, 50 per cent of London restaurants exceeded the dangerous noise level of 80 dBA, and 80 per cent hit the point at which talking becomes a struggle.
The figures were released by SoundPrint, a global app that lets users look for restaurants, cafés and bars by sound levels on a database generated from recordings and sound measurements submitted by other users. The app was invented by Gregory Scott, a young New Yorker who has hearing loss. As a single man in New York, he often found it impossible to hear what the women he was dating were actually saying. He began recording the noise levels in places so that he could adjust his hearing aid and then began sharing his list of Quiet Corners with people who were suffering similarly. This led to the idea of a crowd-sourced database. ‘Forty or fifty years ago restaurants were a place for conversation, they had soft furnishing, carpets and curtains which meant that even in a packed dining room you could talk with ease over a meal,’ said Scott. ‘But things have changed in the last 30 years. Some restaurants are now like a nightclub or bar.’ Many factors have contributed to rising noise levels, from the fashion for stripped back hard surfaces and open-plan kitchens, to rising rents meaning that many restaurants pack tables into tight spaces. Others are in former industrial buildings with poor acoustics.’
Scott said: ‘Simple things like having an espresso machine on the bar or music playing can raise the sound levels significantly.’ Music does not have to be particularly loud to generate overall unsafe sound levels, he added. Because of the Lombard effect, where noise breeds noise, even limited background music can lead to shouting as guests raise their voice over one another to be heard. Teri Devine at the hearing charity the RNID (formerly Action on Hearing Loss), said: ‘Loud background music and environmental noise are the key factors making it impossible for people with hearing loss to have a conversation. Restaurants can consider using softer materials to absorb sound, such as carpet, tablecloths and curtains, inserting partitions into open plan spaces, and creating quiet areas. For many people, a combination of excessive noise, challenging acoustic environments, dim lighting, and lack of deaf awareness among staff ruins what should be a relaxing and enjoyable experience.’
The app categorises sound levels as quiet, moderate, loud and very loud. It classifies 70 dBA as safe for hearing and great for conversation, 71 to 75 dBA as safe for hearing and conducive to conversation, 76 to 80 dBA as probably safe for hearing but difficult for conversation and 81 dBA as not safe for hearing. The Health and Safety Executive states that employers must provide hearing protection to staff regularly exposed to noise of 85 dBA and higher. Very few of them do.
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“The entire manuscript was written with the E-type bar of the typewriter tied down; thus making it impossible for that letter to be printed. This was done so that none of that vowel might slip in, accidentally; and many did try to do so!” Abe Books tells the tale of Gadsby, a self-published 50,000-word novel written without using the letter “e.” Its author, Ernest Vincent Wright, won some notoriety when he accomplished the feat – called a lipogram – in 1939, although it’s unlikely Wright could have foreseen that individual copies of his book would eventually fetch prices upward of $1,200. And if it’s literary hijinks you’re after, definitely read our own Anne Yoder on the work of Georges Perec, who wrote a lipogram of his own in 1969.
New this week is David Bezmozgis’s The Free World, the new Geoff Dyer collection of criticism Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (reviewed here today), “Professor X’s” higher ed expose In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, Funeral for a Dog, a German novel in translation by young author Thomas Pletzinger, which John Wray has blurbed as “ballsy,” and Chinaberry, a posthumously published novel by the Appalachian author James Still.
“Better to close your eyes and carry on with your own work, pretending the master carpenter doesn’t exist.” Karl Ove Knausgaard reads Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission – one of the most anticipated books of 2015. Pair with this Millions essay on Knausgaard’s My Struggle.
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What is Sports medicine
Sports Medicine is a branch of Medicine that deals with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise.
What do Sports medicine
Sports Medicine Doctors are broad-certified in a specialty such as family medicine, orthopedics and pediatrics. They are trained in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of injuries associated with physical activity from osteoarthritis to tendinitis, sports injuries like strained hamstrings and shin splints.
Sports Medicine Healthcare providers have special training to restore function to injured patients so they can get moving again as soon as possible. They are experts in preventing illness and injury in active people. They work with professional athletes, children and teens involved in sports and adults who exercise for personal fitness. They also treat people who have physically demanding jobs like construction workers. They provide a wide range of medical healthcare services as being Physical Therapists, Nutritionists and Certified Athletic Trainers.
Listings of the Best Sports medicine
Sehalife brings here listings of top-rated Sports Medicine Specialists in UAE. This will help you find their names, clinic addresses, contact numbers and client reviews.
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HD189733b made headlines in 2005 when astronomers first detected its "transit" (or eclipse) of its it star, some 63 light years away (one light year is 5.9 trillion miles). The gas giant planet roasts in close orbit around its star, likely broiling at more than 1,880 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society led by D. K. Sing of the United Kingdom's University of Exeter.
"Transiting planets now allow the possibility of detecting and studying extrasolar planets, from their formation and statistical properties, to the bulk composition of the planets themselves as well as their atmospheres. Atmospheric information on exoplanets can be gathered in several different ways. During a transit, an exoplanet passes in front of its host star, with some of the stellar light filtered through the planet's atmosphere, making it possible to perform transmission spectroscopy. Optical and infrared measurements during secondary eclipse can be used to obtain an exoplanet's dayside emission spectra, where such properties including the temperature, thermal structure and composition can be measured. Finally, orbital phase curves can probe the global temperature distribution and study atmospheric circulation," says the study.
In 2008, a Spitzer space telescope team reported signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the planet, which is steadily evaporating away in its close cooking by its star. The latest study looked for signs of clouds in chemistry discernible from its light signature.
As usual, the results suggest that exoplanets are even weirder than we might have first supposed, and come in all flavors:
"The list of key differences between the two well studied hot Jupiters is growing, with HD 209458b likely featuring a low albedo, stratospheric temperature inversion, inflated planetary radius and large (sodium) alkali line wings, while HD 189733b has a high albedo, no stratospheric temperature inversion, a non-inflated planetary radius and a global haze covering significant alkali line wing absorption. Such differences point toward a large diversity between the broader class of hot-Jupiter atmospheres, as HD 209458b and HD 189733b only differ by a few hundred degrees," concludes the study.
Visit Science Fair for your daily dose of scientific news, from dinosaurs to distant galaxies. Science Fair is written by science reporters Dan Vergano and Elizabeth Weise and weather reporter Doyle Rice. Their subjects are often controversial -- and always fascinating -- be they stem-cell research, slime mold, or underground slush on Mars. More about the team
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With so many different ways to offer customer service, whether it be via email, social media, phone, or self-service, it might seem like there’s an overwhelming amount of types of customer service your business can offer. Each channel could be considered a different type of customer service, but in reality, there are only two types of customer service your business can offer: proactive and reactive. This article will cover various types of customer service, from different support channels to offering proactive and reactive support.
5 types of customer service
Traditional, brick-and-mortar support
Bricks and mortar stores will never go away—people love to shop, and they like to touch and feel the things they’re buying. But as the world changes, brands need to set themselves up to be nimble and change with the world to stay alive. Customers are more online than ever—65 percent of customers want to buy from companies that offer quick and easy online transactions and 49 percent gave Amazon the highest marks for service for that reason, according to our 2021 Customer Experience Trends Report.
Good customer service connects the dots between a customer’s online, mobile, and in-store visits. “Click and Collect” and “Click and Reserve” services are one way retailers attempt to bridge this gap. Taylor can purchase boots online, and have them shipped to the store to pick up in between Zoom calls. She can receive an SMS notification on her mobile when her order is ready.
Email is the classic, common, and widespread way customers communicate with companies. With the right email management software, email can be one of the easiest ways to organize, prioritize, and delegate customer support interactions in one place. What’s so great about email? It’s hard to find someone without an email account, and customers can reach out anytime to log an inquiry. Email is also usually the first form of support a business will offer.
Email is also a common type of internal support. Human Resources, Payroll, and IT teams can use email to handle issues or answer questions for employees.
Messaging and chat support
Customers increasingly want to communicate with brands over the same channels they use with friends and family, such as Facebook Messenger, SMS, and WhatsApp. Nearly a third of customers messaged a company for the first time in 2020, and 74 percent say they will continue to do so.
And companies are listening. Of the 40 percent of businesses that added a new channel in 2020, 53 percent turned to messaging. And those companies that are messaging with their customers boast the fastest resolution times and highest satisfaction scores. Businesses love messaging for the same reasons as customers: it’s fast, convenient, personal, and secure. Unlike live chat, messaing is asynchronous, which makes it more flexible. In other words, customers can have conversations in real-time or they can troubleshoot while doing other things, like walking the dog.
As messaging rates have risen, so too has the use of AI and automated chatbots. Interactions with automated bots jumped 81 percent in 2020, second only to WhatsApp. With faster responses a top reason businesses use messaging, bots have quickly become a key component of any messaging strategy. Bots make round-the-clock support possible and can take simple, repetitive requests off agents’ plates, making them a key partner to a support team.
A phone conversation remains a powerful way to solve problems—even in the age of Twitter DMS. When customers get help over the phone, agents can resolve complex issues faster and deliver detailed, personalized support.
Phone support can be expensive when it comes to service rep—however, software with integrated insights can help you better understand how to staff, how many calls support agents take, and how ticket volume from your phone channel compares to other channels. With the right software, you can also have the benefit of full customer history, automatic ticket creation, call recording and other time-saving tools.
To offer the best phone support, you’ll need to consider the hours your agents are available to answer calls, greetings and hold music, and routing rules. You can conquer any fears you might have about phone support here.
Support teams know a lot about customer issues—and the best way to solve them. But agents also spend a lot of time looking for information. A collective knowledge base can help tap into that institutional knowledge and aid your customer service team with the information they need to better serve customers. It can also help your business to understand and fill the knowledge gaps your company might have.
Besides, customers prefer self-service because it offers the least amount of interaction friction. By letting customers help themselves through a help center, online community, or customer service portal, you can reduce customer friction while also improving efficiency and delivering faster resolutions. Offering self-service is a baseline for excellent customer service and a great self-service experience can boost customer satisfaction, reduce support costs, and increase agent engagement.
Different customer service types, the same conversation
As seen above, there are various types of customer service your business can offer. And these days it doesn’t cut it to just offer one channel: 64 percent of customers used a new support channel in 2020 and 73 percent plan to keep using it. The key is to meet customers where they are: Customers shouldn’t have to climb a ladder to reach your customer support team. Not sure where your customers are? Looking at customer feedback and other types of customer data is a good place to start.
But great customer service isn’t only about offering support over your customers’ preferred channels on the front-end. It’s also about finding the right customer service software that connects channels and context on the back-end.
Our Trends Report shows that companies who perform better across key CX metrics, including faster response times and higher customer satisfaction rates, are more likely to have adopted omnichannel support, which integrates all of a company’s available channels into one streamlined workspace. When channels are connected and conversations are seamless, agents are more productive, and information can be shared across your company—and customers have the option to reach out on the channel they prefer most.
That means Sally can reach out over WhatsApp to return a bike and the customer service representative helping her can reference her past support conversations to see if she reached out about issues with the bike before, even if it was over a different channel. A single workspace also puts Sally’s billing details and contact information at the agent’s fingertips, so he can process her refund and send her an email receipt, without asking Sally to repeat any information.
The most important types of customer service
The right channels are key to meeting customers’ needs, but the mindset your business has around customer service is more important. Do you wait for customers to come to you with problems, or do you get in front of those issues and proactively solve them?
Reactive support has been the standard: you wait for a customer to contact your business with an inquiry or issue. Proactive engagement, however, is becoming a crucial type of customer service—it means anticipating your customers’ issues and addressing them before your customers do. This can be done through FAQs and self-service pages to emailing your customer about a delay in their shipment. The results? Your customer satisfaction doesn’t dip because your customers stay in the know. See a customer hesitating with items in their cart? Offer help via live chat on your checkout page. Proactive customer support is about identifying and resolving customer issues before your customers have to reach out and before their satisfaction dips.
The best kind of customer service is more than the channels you offer
The best kind of customer service is more than just the types of communication channels on which customers can contact your company. The type of customer service a business can offer has grown to mean how seamlessly connected your agents and channels are and if you’re offering support before your customers know they need it. In reality, the future of customer experience and the type of customer service you offer is a support team that’s empowered to deliver proactive service on any channel.
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The Pacific Northwest tall shrub Acer circinatum (vine maple) can host diverse and abundant epiphyte communities. A chronosequence approach revealed that these communities gradually shift in composition as the shrub progresses through its life cycle. Different epiphytic life forms occupy different spatial and temporal niches on shrub stems. These life forms generally shift upwards along the shrub stem as the stem ages and develops, in accordance with the similar gradient hypothesis. We postulate the following sequence of events. An initial wave of colonization occurs as new substrate is laid down. Over time, superior competitors gradually engulf and overgrow competitively inferior primary colonizers. Concurrently, shrub stem microclimate changes as shrub stems grow, age, and layer, causing the processes of competition and colonization to shift in favor of different epiphytic life forms during different life stages of the shrub stem. We define four separate shrub stem life stages: life classes 1a??4 describe, respectively, young upright a??whipsa??; vigorous, upright, mature stems; declining stems beginning to bend towards the forest floor; and horizontal, decadent stems. As space on the shrub stem is filled through growth and colonization, interspecific competition intensifies. Successful competitors persist and spread, while poor competitors are increasingly restricted to the stem tips, where interspecific competition is less intense. In these forests, Usnea, green-algal foliose lichens, and moss tufts excel as the primary colonizers and become common on the outer portions of shrub stems over time, as long as the overstory is not too dense. Moss mats are also good primary colonizers, but excel as secondary colonizers, often coming to dominate decadent shrub stems. Although all life forms can be primary colonizers, the remaining forms (cyanolichens, liverworts, and Antitrichia curtipendula) are effective secondary colonizers. Liverworts are also effective competitors, but less so than the moss mats on the most decadent stems. Cyanolichens appear to benefit from the aging and decline of shrub stems. The ability of vine maple to continually generate new young stems through basal sprouting and layering make it a varied and dynamic substrate for epiphytes. Such shrubs may act as epiphyte dispersal agents, with the potential to affect epiphyte continuity within forest stands that have experienced large disturbances.
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Changes in epiphyte communities as the shrub, Acer circinatum, develops and ages
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Monte Carlo sampling of uncertainties from different sources is a simple way to propagate uncertainties through the entire processing chain. On this page we show how you can use this approach to estimate the 3d uncertainties arising from uncertainties in the DEM and in the ground control points. The method is however, much more generally applicable and it is relatively simple to expand on this to get the uncertainties in 3d velocities given uncertainties in DEM, GCPs, camera-location, subpixel feature tracking uncertainties, etc.
Uncertainties in e.g. the DEM or the GCPs will propagate through the processing chain to the final estimate of the 3D position associated with a given pixel. On this page we outline how you can use a relatively simple Monte Carlo sampling of the input uncertainties to estimate the uncertainty in the final outcome. We start from the data and code in the Schneefernerkopf example.
Lets say we have run the Schneefernerkopf example and now we want to know what is the position of a target pixel.
First we run demoschneeferner which fits a model camera to the GCPs. To obtain the world coordinates of the target pixel then we would make an inverse projection (raytracing) of the pixel onto the DEM.
demoschneeferner pixel=[875 1394]; world=camA.invproject(pixel,X,Y,dem)
The question is how uncertain is the resulting world coordinate because of uncertainties in the DEM and the GCPs. Lets say that the vertical standard uncertainty is 2m in the DEM, and that the pixel uncertainties of the GCPs have a standard uncertainty of 2 pixels. In the Monte Carlo we repeat the calculation but perturb the inputs in accordance with these uncertainties and see what impact it has on the output.
sigmaDEM = 2; %estimated uncertainty in DEM. (m) sigmaGCP = 2; %GCP pixel uncertainty. mcworld=nan(1000,3); %this is where we store the monte carlo sample of 3d coordinates %As we will perturb the dem in the monte carlo we might end up in a situation %where the camera appears to be below the DEM. For that reason we hide the %foreground from view by making a hole in the DEM around the camera. camdist=sqrt((X-camxyz(1)).^2+(Y-camxyz(2)).^2); dem(camdist<100)=nan; for ii=1:size(mcworld,1) mcgcpAuv=gcpA(:,4:5)+randn(size(gcpA,1),2)*sigmaGCP/sqrt(2); mccam=camA.optimizecam(gcpA(:,1:3),mcgcpAuv,'00000111110011000000'); mcdemerror=randn*sigmaDEM; mcworld(ii,:)=mccam.invproject(pixel,X,Y,dem+mcdemerror,world(1:2)); timedwaitbar(ii/length(mcworld)) end close all pcolor(X/1000,Y/1000,dem) shading interp colormap gray hold on h=plot(world(1)/1000,world(2)/1000,'rx',mcworld(:,1)/1000,mcworld(:,2)/1000,'b.',camxyz(1)/1000,camxyz(2)/1000,'cs') xlabel('Easting (km)') ylabel('Northing (km)') axis equal ylim([5252.5 5253.5]) legend('DEM','estimated pos',sprintf('MC pos \\sigma=[%.0fm %.0fm %.0fm]',nanstd(mcworld)), ... 'camera','location','south')
We find uncertainties of 4,6, and 1m on the x,y, and z coordinates. We can also see that the x and y uncertainties covary and the uncertainty is predominantly in the distance to the camera.
You can use a similar MC approach to estimate the propagated uncertainties associated with:
This illustrates one of the benefits of ImGRAFT being a scriptable tool: It enables these sorts of approaches.
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While it might seem a bit counterintuitive, the General Services Administration’s Public Building Service (PBS) is trying to use less office space.
Chief Information Officer Diane Herdt says it’s all part of an effort to get greener. GSA Administrator Martha Johnson “has given us the goal to reduce our carbon footprint and to reduce the amount of space that we currently have. So has Bob Peck, the commissioner of PBS. So we’re looking at tools and technology that will allow us to…telework outside of the office, as well as hotelling when we’re here in the office.”
While PBS isn’t quite ready to turn off all the lights and send everyone home to work, Herdt says GSA is ready to loosen up the leash a bit.
I think we’re going to be more lenient with the number of days that we allow people to telework. I think we’re also going to reduce the amount of space. In other words, if you telework at home or somewhere else two to three days a week then you need to give up your desk here so that when you come into the office you only have a hotellng suite as opposed to a desk and the cubicle associated with it.
The PBS is getting a good grip on the technology needed, said the CIO. “Pretty much every one of our employees has a laptop which is set up with the GSA standard configuration, which includes the security necessary, as well as a BlackBerry.” Teleworkers are also required to use instant messaging so they’re always accessible during work hours. Major upgrades to Office 2007, VOIP, and remote access are underway as well.
And oh, yeah, by the way… You know the pushback you hear about from managers about “out of sight, out of mind” when it comes to teleworkers?
“We’re sending our managers to training,” says Herdt, “to learn how to properly manage virtual employees.”
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BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art
presents the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse. On view October 25, 2009 January 3, 2010, "Matisse as Printmaker" unites the BMAs extraordinary collection of Matisse prints with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. The BMAs exhibition features approximately 170 works of art spanning 50 years of Matisses career. More than 150 prints, as well as a selection of related paintings, sculpture, drawings, and books are included, providing compelling evidence of the important role printmaking played in the evolution of Matisses visual ideas.
"Matisse as Printmaker" loosely follows the chronology of Matisses career, from the artists earliest print in 1900 to the last in 1951. Examples of every printmaking technique used by Matisseetchings, monotypes, lithographs, linocuts, aquatints, drypoints, woodcuts, and color printsare included. Almost all of the prints involve serial imagery with the artist showing the development of a reclining or seated pose, the integration of models within interiors, the study of facial expressions, and the transformation of a subject from a straight representation to something more abstract or developed. Illustrated books such as Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (c. 1932), Pasiphaë (1944), and Jazz (1947) demonstrate Matisses brilliant innovations in the presentation of serial imagery. The artists brief experimentation with color printmaking is represented with three impressions of the color aquatint "Marie-Jose en robe jaune" (1950) and a print titled "La Dance" (1935), which captures the composition of his first version of the mural intended for Albert Barnes. Though most of the exhibitions and research to date have focused on Matisses painting and sculpture, the rich variety of media and subject matter in "Matisse as Printmaker" significantly advance the scholarship and public awareness of this understudied aspect of Matisses oeuvre.
The exhibition comprises 63 prints from the collection of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, with artworks bequeathed by Henri Matisse to his younger son Pierre (19001989), an eminent dealer of modern art. These prints are complemented with a selection of works from the BMAs world-renowned Cone Collection formed by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone. Additionally, many of the later prints in the exhibition are from a recent gift to the BMA from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and are being shown for the first time. These works are a major addition to the BMAs collection as they bring the Museums representation of Matisses prints to more than 400 images, plus all but one of his illustrated books, making it the most important collection of the artists prints in North America. These works are rarely on view to the public due to their sensitivity to light.
The exhibition is curated by Jay Fisher, BMA Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs.
Following its presentation in Baltimore, the combined AFA and BMA exhibition travels to the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida (February 4 through April 18, 2010). The AFA exhibition travels to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (May 23 through August 1, 2010) and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton in Canada (October 29, 2010 through February 13, 2011).
Matisse and Printmaking
Recognized foremost as a painter and sculptor, Henri Matisse (18691954) was also deeply engaged throughout his career in exploring other mediums and the unique possibilities they offered for creative expression. Matisse saw printmaking as an extension of drawing, which was integral to his art. As Jay Fisher writes in the exhibitions catalogue, ―Printmaking was Matisses primary means of demonstrating to his audience his working process, the character of his vision, and the way his drawing transformed what he observed.‖ Matisses involvement with printmaking was both intense and innovative as he moved from one technique to the next, adopting new approaches to reflect the evolution of his artistic ideas. For Matisse, printmaking captured the steps in a process of seeing that was unique to his artistic visiona process that could result in a refined image of his subject.
Printmaking was also a practical means of disseminating Matisses art among the many avid collectors of his work. Despite their relatively wide distribution, Matisse prints are remarkable for the aura of intimacy and immediacy they communicate. The ease with which the prints could be produced enabled Matisse to work freely and spontaneously, often creating casual portraits of family members and friends in his studio, where he had installed his own printing press. Apart from his book illustrations, Matisse was mostly faithful to the tradition of black-and-white prints, but in his last years he made two prints in color, both of which are included in the exhibition. During the course of his career, he produced more than 800 images often in editions of 25 or 50. This great profusion of prints expanded the reach of his art and has helped cement his position as one of the preeminent artists of the 20th century.
The Cone Collection
In the early 20th century, Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone visited Matisses Paris studios of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and began forming one of the worlds greatest art collections. Over the course of nearly 50 years they assembled an exceptional collection of approximately 3,000 objects, which were displayed in their Baltimore apartments. The highlight is a group of 500 works by Matisse, considered the largest and most significant in the world. Etta Cone met Matisse in 1906, and her initial purchase of several drawings marked the beginning of a lifelong passion for his art that continued throughout his career. With masterworks such as Matisses "Blue Nude" (1907) and "Large Reclining Nude" (1935), competition among museums for The Cone Collection began as early as 1940, but Claribel insisted that it go to The Baltimore Museum of Art if ―the spirit of appreciation for modern art in Baltimore became improved.‖ Thus achieved, the collection came to the BMA upon Etta Cones death in 1949, and has been on view since 1957. The collection has been the subject of exhibitions at prestigious museums around the world and celebrated in Baltimore with redesigned and expanded galleries that include a dynamic touch-screen virtual tour of the apartments where the Cone Sisters lived with their remarkable collection. Today the BMAs collection includes more than 700 works by Matisse, with more than 400 prints, 42 oil paintings, 22 sculptures, 42 drawings, 19 books, two textiles, one ceramic vessel, and 220 drawings, prints, and copper plates from the artists first illustrated book, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé.
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Fostering values of creativity and sustainability in fashion design education: Iceland Academy of the Arts collaborates with the Clothes Donation Center of the Icelandic Red Cross.
It has become clear that the current ways and systems will destroy us and that change in consumption and recycling will be a bigger part of our lives. This does not mean limiting creativity by any means. On the contrary. We have more use for creativity and knowledge now, than perhaps ever before. Morph is conceived in reaction to our findings after looking into the predominant pattern of consumption of textile and clothing in western societies.
The throw-away culture of the fashion and textile industry is extremely wasteful and is damaging to our environment.
An alternative way to providing novelty and innovation in fashion is to work with existing fabrics in an inventive way and up-cycle clothes that have for some reason fallen out of favour.
This process awakes questions of value and quality of materials and details, nurturing a new way of seeing the world and taking action which is essential for sustainability. The project Morph, at the Fashion Design Course at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, has been developed to address these issues. The project is designed in collaboration with the Clothes Donation Center of the Icelandic Red Cross.
In Morph we draw attention to how we are buying clothing, what has intrinsic value, what quickly becomes worthless and last but not least what can be up-cycled through creativity and knowledge. Nothing was bought new, the students worked only with castaways and leftovers to create something new and interesting.
Morph is presented in two volumes, Vol. 1 in form of a fashion show where each student shows three outfits and Vol. 2 an exhibition showcasing research and design and production process.
Humans will continue to crave new things and to express themselves through clothing but its time to look at how we can do that in a more sensible and meaningful way. And this is one of many ways to do so.
Project website: cargocollective.com/morphingcastaways
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Protective Actions: Evacuation/Shelter In Place DVD
Protective Actions: Evacuation/Shelter in Place DVD-based video training program is for emergency response personnel: incident commanders, police officers, emergency management personnel, National Guard troops, hazmat teams, firefighters, security personnel, dispatchers, emergency operations center personnel and others who might be involved in ordering or carrying out protective actions.
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Nobody knows what talent can be hidden in someone! Similarly, no one can predict what may unveil the talent rooted deep in the soul. Sabarna Roy, a very talented author, had once given up his writing to pursue a corporate career. Little did he know that he is made for writing. His story exemplifies how talent will never leave the hand of the artist, rather guide the artist through every up and down.
Prologue of Life
Born on 15th December 1967 to the Roy family of Calcutta (now Kolkata), Sabarna had a very happy childhood. His father was a marketing professional, and his mother was a homemaker. He has some nostalgic memories with his younger sister to cherish. Always guided by his mother in studies, he enrolled for his B.E. in Civil Engineering branch of Jadavpur University.
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
During university days, the inner talent of writing flourished in Sabarna. Along with studies, he was busy writing poems in English and Bengali languages. The art of writing prospered in his heart and which moved him to a path of inscribing his first slim book of English poems, Pain, which was published in 1986. Being the voice of youth, this book proved to be a great sensation among the student community of Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Later, in 1988, he completed his engineering and immediately started his career as an Engineering Professional in the Corporate Sector. But sadly, this drove him away from writing for very long.
Revival of Writer
Time was passing silently, and the responsibilities never let the inner writer of Sabarna wake up. But, nothing can suppress the real talent for very long. It was July 2007, when he realized how much he was missing writing, and now he couldn’t live anymore without fulfilling his passion. And this feeling made him took his talent sincerely.
“All of us are talented in our unique way. We just need to recognize our capacity and develop our talents to their full potential.”
Like his role model, Mr Sunil Gavaskar, Sabarna also decided to play a great inning and keep on writing books one after the other.
Zeal Met The Glory
Blessed with the love and appreciation of both, his readers and critics, Sabarna always wrote to express his thoughts and never to impress reviewers. The real reward of his hard work was attained in 2019, when his fifth book, Random Subterranean Mosaic: 2012 – 2018, was adjudged the Best Book of the Year. This win gave him recognition in National and International media including Forbes India, Passion Vista and The New York Guardian.
“Embrace your talent and pursue it. You won’t believe what you can accomplish.”
And once again, the success kissed the forehead of dedication when Sabarna was conferred with the Literoma Laureate Award in 2019 and the Literoma Star Achiever Award in 2020.
The Engineered Writer
This talented writer always considers his engineering degree as his professional training in writing, with this proving that an Engineer has many shades!
Being a passionate techie and vigorous writer, Sabarna is named as Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by some of his readers. This engineer has a depth in his writing style, which, interestingly, impresses more female readers of all generations than males.
Situations arising out of the pandemic made him focused more on human stories which in turn led him to write his seventh book that is likely to be published in 2021.
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”- Erica Jong
In today’s world, when people are running a rat race and fighting to be normal or copying what everyone else is doing or trying to prove themselves like others rather than being unique, it takes a courageous soul to nurture his innate talent. And, Sabarna Roy proves that there cannot be any hurdle big enough which can stop someone from doing so. When he decided to move again to his long-lost love for writing, he defied all the barriers of age, time and responsibilities. With his celebrated journey, this articulated author is urging the youth to not their talent go! Rather bring the courage to prosper it.
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An independent journalist, Aaron Gunn has established himself as one of Canada’s most recognizable and trusted voices.
His videos have amassed millions of views and have been shared hundreds of thousands of times.
But unlike the CBC and other mainstream media, Aaron receives no government funding and relies on the voluntary support of Canadians across the country to bring his work to life.
In 2020, Aaron took his brand in a new, exciting direction with the launch of his original online series, Politics Explained.
The 6-episode first season was a huge success and was viewed by Canadians over one million times. While the second season, released six months later, was seen by even more.
From pipeline protesters to cancel culture to the legacy of Canada's first Prime Minister, Canadians finally have a home for in-depth, documentary filmmaking that tells the stories legacy media won’t.
You can view the trailer for Season 2 here:
And now, Aaron is ready to go again - excited to tackle six more thought-provoking topics in Politics Explained: Season 3.
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Within the Canadian public there currently exists a large deficit of understanding and perspective on many political and economic issues facing our country - deficits that are often exacerbated by activist groups and a media eager to push their own narratives and beliefs.
The consequence is an uninformed public and poor government decision making.
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5 presidential bets vow to prioritize agri production
MANILA, Philippines — Five presidential candidates vowed on Sunday to prioritize the production of agricultural products so that the country can achieve food security.
Sen, Manny Pacquiao, cardiologist and lawyer Jose Montemayor Jr., and businessman Faisal Mangondato talked about their platforms to address food shortage during the group discussion segment of the second presidential debate hosted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Meanwhile, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and labor leader Leody de Guzman shared their proposed solutions during the portion for rebuttal and comments.
For Pacquiao, the government should focus on production, distribution, and consumption — what he calls “PDC” — to prevent a food shortage.
He lamented that the government would not focus on local production and would want to import products from other countries. He pointed out that the livelihood of farmers and fisherfolk were suffering due to excessive importation.
“It is embarrassing if we just keep importing. That’s part of what I was explaining — the four elements of GDP. The fourth element is the net export,” he said, speaking in Filipino.
“When we say net export, we export more products than what we import. We just import because we have agreements with other countries, but we don’t really need the products we import,” he added.
Montemayor, meanwhile, also pointed out the need to strengthen the local agriculture sector.
He said that under his administration, “we will go back to our core competence before” in industry.
Montemayor also lamented that previous administrations neglected the agriculture sector and vowed that he would “aggressively” prevent a food shortage if he should become president.
“Let’s remember that we cannot forever rely on other countries. For example, on rice, we should remove rice tariffication that places a burden on our farmers. We will be self-sufficient,” he said.
He vowed to address the impact of climate change on food security, noting that droughts, typhoons, and other natural disasters are affecting crop production.
Mangondato, for his part, likewise criticized the government for focusing on importation and not prioritizing agriculture in the national budget.
He questioned why the Philippines focuses on importation when the country is rich with water bodies and land areas.
“Agriculture should be made a priority in allocating the budget because we are an agricultural country. So our economy will become strong if our agricultural industry is strong,” he said.
During the portion for rebuttal and comments, De Guzman reiterated that the government should freeze its agreements with the World Trade Organization. He said that paved the way for the importation of onion and garlic and other products that have damaged the livelihood of Filipino farmers.
“Second, we should have a national land use [policy] so that 30 percent of the agricultural land given to miners that are now being dug up will become land for planting our food,” the labor leader said.
He agreed that the government should increase its budget to support farmers.
Moreno, meanwhile, proposed fertilizer subsidies and tax cuts on oil and energy.
“We have to subsidize the fertilizers of farmers,” he said. “Third, there should be a three-year moratorium on land conversion. Fourth and most of all, we should eliminate smuggling and limit importation.”
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