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Smart clothing, also frequently described as advanced clothing, smart garments, smart wear, electronic fabrics, smart textiles, e-textiles, display clothes, or clever textiles, are clothing products that have actually been enhanced with innovation to add performance past that of the standard use.
Some smart clothing make use of advanced fabrics with interwoven wiring, while others execute sensors and also additional hardware to give it its smart performance. Many smart clothes can link to an app or program on a secondary device making use of Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Nonetheless, this cordless connectivity isn’t essential to categorize a garment as a kind of clever clothing.
Any kind of clothes can be wise garments like pyjamas (Πυζαμες Minerva) or underware (Εσωρουχα sloggi).
What Are Some Instances of Smart Clothes?
A selection of small and also significant firms have begun incorporating technology right into their clothing, which has actually resulted in clever clothes turning up in almost every style category. Examples of the many different kinds of advanced apparel consist of:
Smart socks: The Sensoria Smart Socks can find which part of your feet are obtaining the most pressure throughout your run and can send this data to a smart device app.
Smart shoes: Pizza Hut has actually experimented with limited-edition smart footwear that can get pizza.
Smart work garments: Samsung has actually made a wise service fit that can exchange digital calling card, unlock phones, and also interact with other devices.
Smart sleepwear: Under Armour’s Professional athlete Recuperation Sleepwear absorbs warmth from the wearer’s body while releasing infrared light to enhance rest top quality and also improve muscle recuperation.
Smart activewear: Ralph Lauren’s PoloTech t-shirts attach to a smart device app to tape-record health and fitness activity as well as suggest brand-new workouts to the user.
Smart sportswear: Tommy Hilfiger embedded tech into some clothing to track product use and benefit consumers for time spent using them.
Which Firms Make Smart Clothing Technology?
A growing variety of technology companies and also fashion brands have dipped their toes into the wise garments market, with even more anticipated to join them if the clever clothes concept verifies prominent.
Under Armour Professional Athlete Recuperation Running Suit
Among some of the a lot more popular brands experimenting with wise clothes are Under Armour, Levi’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung, Ralph Lauren, and Google. Smaller companies making a dent in the particular niche market consist of Sensora, Loomia, Komodo Technologies, and also Hexoskin.
While Samsung as well as Google are quickly the greatest tech firms buying clever clothes, smaller companies like OmSignal, BioMan, as well as Awear Solutions are also making their mark either by launching their garments lines or teaming up with larger style labels.
Are Smart Clothes Expensive?
As a result of the included cost of the technology made use of in smart clothes, they’re typically costlier than traditional apparel For instance, a normal coat might retail for around $100, yet a smart jacket could establish you back anywhere in between $200 as well as $500, depending on the brand name.
Levi’s Commuter x Jacquard by Google clever clothes.
Levi’s and also Google
Just like a lot of technology items and also fashion things, older clever clothes designs will certainly lower in rate as more recent ones appear. Less expensive replicas of popular products will likewise begin popping up increasingly more on on-line marketplaces like Wish Application and also AliExpress.
Where Can I Get Smart Clothes?
The majority of smart garments are available for purchase from a brand name’s website, though some physical retail stores as well as third-party on the internet stores like Amazon.com have actually likewise been understood to equip them. Some significant sporting products shops sell Under Armour’s smart garments, for example, while main Levi’s store fronts will certainly sell their brand of clever garments items.
The 7 Finest Smart Clothes of 2022
Are Wearables a Type of Smart Apparel?
” Wearables” typically refers to health and fitness trackers such as the Fitbit Ace 3 or Apple Watch, but it’s also typically made use of interchangeably with smart clothes by customers and companies alike.
This usage isn’t always inaccurate, as the term does indicate modern technology you can use. Generally, however, the name must be used when talking about high tech accessories such as a smartwatch, while clever clothing need to describe innovative garments like a swimsuit, shorts, tees, or hats (like Bluetooth beanies).
Are washing machines as well as clothes dryers for wise clothes a point?
No. Smart garments are typically cleaned and dried like conventional garments but often need additional care like hand-washing, tumble-drying, cold water, and so on– the same type of safety measures taken with other apparel.
What are one of the most preferred wise garments?
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I started Vet-Stem in order to help horses with career ending injuries to their tendons and ligaments but so many more animals have been saved from a life of pain or even from euthanasia. I feel privileged and excited to be a part of this therapy....
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The leading Regenerative Veterinary Medicine Company, Vet-Stem, Inc., is proud to announce that its regenerative stem cell therapy has been used to treat 10,000 animals in the last 10 years of offering tissue processing services to veterinarians. Vet-Stem was founded in 2002, seeking to discover a successful treatment for horses with potentially fatal injuries to tendons and ligaments.
Dr. Robert Harman, CEO and Founder of Vet-Stem has spoken at many human and veterinary conferences sharing the results of real treatments. He has also authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on stem cells as well as written book chapters on stem cells.
In 2003 Vet-Stem signed a worldwide exclusive license for adipose-derived (fat derived) stem cell technology for veterinary application, and the first horse was treated. Shortly after, the first dogs were treated with Vet-Stem Regenerative Cell Therapy. Vet-Stem started providing stem cell banking to their clients from the beginning so that cells could be stored for future use. By August of 2005 500 horses had been treated. Vet-Stem had effectively introduced a new, natural, injectable treatment to the equine and small animal veterinary industry that could serve as an alternative to euthanasia for some conditions.
By April 2006, 1000 animals had been treated using Vet-Stem cell therapy, including the first cat. Another milestone was the first ever randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled multi-centered study that was published reporting that using Vet-Stem processing, intra-articular injection of adipose-derived stem cells into the hip joint of a dog decreases patient discomfort and increases patient functional ability in relation to arthritis.
Only nine months after formally launching a Small Animal application, over 1,000 dogs had been treated for orthopedic conditions. At the same time Veterinary Therapeutics published a peer-reviewed study on the use of stem cells for treatment of chronic osteoarthritis in the elbow of dogs. The clinical trial reported significant improvement in lameness, range of motion, and functional ability in dogs treated with Vet-Stem Regenerative Cell Therapy.
Although the large majority of animals treated have been horses, dogs and cats, Vet-Stem has provided services for exotic species as well. The U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Research, awarded Vet-Stem a contract to engage in a collaborative study of stem cell biology in marine mammals in 2009. From this, the first peer-reviewed article was published showing successful isolation of stem cells from dolphin fat. Several media outlets featured a story on a panther from the Tallahassee Museum who received stem cell therapy by Vet-Stem for arthritis of the elbow in 2011. After the therapy he was able to stand up and scratch on his favorite tree with both front paws.
“I started Vet-Stem in order to help horses with career ending injuries to their tendons and ligaments but so many more animals have been saved from a life of pain or even from euthanasia. I feel privileged and excited to be a part of this therapy that has changed how veterinary medicine is practiced as well as contributing to changes in human medicine,” – Robert Harman, DVM, CEO and Founder of Vet-Stem, Inc.
About Vet-Stem, Inc.
Vet-Stem, Inc. was formed in 2002 to bring regenerative medicine to the veterinary profession. The privately held company is working to develop therapies in veterinary medicine that apply regenerative technologies while utilizing the natural healing properties inherent in all animals. As the first company in the United States to provide an adipose-derived stem cell service to veterinarians for their patients, Vet-Stem, Inc. pioneered the use of regenerative stem cells in veterinary medicine. The company holds exclusive licenses to over 50 patents including world-wide veterinary rights for use of adipose derived stem cells. In the last decade over 10,000 animals have been treated using Vet-Stem, Inc.’s services, and Vet-Stem is actively investigating stem cell therapy for immune-mediated and inflammatory disease, as well as organ disease and failure. For more on Vet-Stem, Inc. and Veterinary Regenerative Medicine visit http://www.vet-stem.com or call 858-748-2004. | <urn:uuid:c2be32e1-efa4-4cb0-9097-f5a3ab190de9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/10yrs/10000animals/prweb11500162.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00441-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954969 | 951 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Electric motor testing solution saves power plant €2.5 million
A North American coal-fired power plant knew that one of three submerged circulating water pumps was operating out of its normal performance curve. If it failed catastrophically, it would cost millions in lost generation revenue.
But the pump was critical to daily operations, so the plant was reluctant to investigate it further – removal costs alone would be $60,000. Looking for a way to maintain plant availability and reliability at the lowest lifecycle cost, the plant looked to SKF.
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Using advanced SKF electrical analysis tools, the customer verified that the pump motor was requesting less input power and operating at a higher speed. More important, an instantaneous torque signature comparison of the three motors revealed that the questionable pump was operating at a torque value 25% below the two other pumps, and at wide operating torque band that varied dramatically from the other pumps.
Tests provided conclusive evidence to justify the pump’s removal. After a diver examined the pump, the plant learned that its end bell had fallen off into the water pit, reducing the pump’s productivity and causing random cavitations. The end bell was reattached, and the pump was returned to service in short order. | <urn:uuid:ac1284bf-66a4-4e15-96c3-00594547aaf6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.skf.com/uk/industry-solutions/power-generation/reference-cases/electric-motor-analysis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957297 | 259 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Doctors in China have removed a large hair ball from a 10-year-old's stomach.
Niuniu, from east China's Jiangsu Province, had been eating her own hair since she was three. She had eaten so much that it knotted itself into a massive hair ball as hard as a stone in her tummy.
Niuniu's parents were aware she was pulling her hair out, but didn't realise she had been eating it.
Doctors say the hair ball, which was yellow, was around four to five cms in diameter.
She is expected to make a full recovery.
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As promised …
Round 2 on “How To Lose Weight Without Getting Out Of Bed”.
Now, if you missed part 1 on why sleep is so integral to our health, no sweat, click here to read.
Today, in part 2, I’m going to share 14 ways how you can improve your sleep and so prime your body for weight loss.
Some are pretty obvious, but I always feel it’s important to remind ourselves on core principals. I think all of us are guilty, myself included, of knowing something but not applying it.
Let’s get started.
Computers, TV, mobiles, iPads, and games all off at least an hour before you hit the sack.
Try and do something that unwinds and relaxes you such as read a book. You want to get yourself into that sleepy mode where you produce the bedtime hormone melatonin which induces and regulates sleep and wake cycles.
Try having tryptophan rich foods before bedtime. This will encourage your body to convert the amino acid tryptophan to serotonin and then ultimately to melatonin.
Foods rich in tryptophan include seeds & nuts, eggs, and lean proteins such as chicken and turkey.
Cherries apparently contain natural melatonin so you could give that a try too.
If you struggle with sleep, you may want to consider a supplement.
One of my favourites is Nutricalm. It contains vitamin B complex and vitamin C. Both these nutrients become very depleted when the body is under stress and there’s a lack of sleep. Nutricalm also contains chamomile which is known for it’s soothing and calm properties.
Try and keep your bedroom as dark as possible. If this is difficult, try an eye mask. Darkness also helps the production of melatonin. An hour before you get into bed have all the house lights dimmed.
I’m also a candle fanatic so I highly recommend them to create that zen like ambience.
I’m so guilty of not doing this!
Sleep has a direct correlation on your metabolism and, therefore, your ability to lose and keep off the pounds. Let me explain why this is …
If you get to bed earlier, you will have more rapid eye movement (REM). Without going into mega detail, REM is a stage of the sleep cycle where your brain is highly active and so burns more calories. The more REM you have, the more calories you burn and the more alive/energised you will feel the next day.
Also, sleep deprivation wreaks havoc with your hunger hormones leptin and ghrelin and guess what? You’re more likely to over eat. Pretty annoying huh?! Cortisol levels also increase, which means increased stress and possible weight gain.
So I’m going to re-repeat do NOT overlook the importance of sleep not just for weight loss but for your general health too. I’m not saying to go to bed hours earlier. That’s not practical, but even 30 mins earlier each day will help. It all adds up.
Meditation is well proven to help calm the mind, and it also helps the production of melatonin. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need to do 30 mins or an hour a day. 10 mins of solid meditation will work wonders. Remember, it’s about progression not perfection my friend.
There are some great meditation apps and soothing music on iTunes so get downloading. A few people I’d recommend you look at are Abraham Hicks, Eckhart Tolle and Gabby Bernstein.
I think all of us know we should limit caffeine especially pre-bedtime. The stimulant effect of caffeine makes it hard to fall asleep and so limits the amount of restful sleep you have. If you need a warm drink don’t forget chamomile tea is very calming.
Like caffeine, all of us know deep down this isn’t good before bed. One of the things that’s confusing about booze is it’s very relaxing at the time, but here’s the clincher … when alcohol is broken down, acetaldehyde is produced. It acts as a stimulant and wakes us up. So I’m afraid it’s a no no. Meh 🙁
Now because I love and care about you peeps, you are not going to hear me utter the words reduce or limit because I really want you to cut this out completely. It’s a cocktail of chemicals. Also, nicotine is similar to alcohol/caffeine in that it’s a stimulant and not good for our sleep. It also decreases our slow wave sleep, which means less restorative sleep.
Invest in a good quality mattress. Believe me, it’s worth the spend and your back and sleep will thank you for it. I also like extra soft fluffy sheets like flannelettes from John Lewis.
The general guideline is not too hot or too cold.
I love my pre-bedtime baths. Complete bliss. Run yourself a nice hot tub with some of your favourite smelly oils 20 mins before bed.
The most well known relaxing aromatherapy oil is lavender but don’t forget to try Ylang Ylang, Bergamot, Chamomile, Sandalwood, Marjoram and Cedarwood. See what resonates for you the most.
You can pour a few drops in your bath, spray a little on your pillow, add a few drops to a tissue and hold close, or apply a scented lotion.
I’ve used these techniques many a time when feeling low, a little stressed and agitated. Trust me, it works.
You know I’m a huge advocator of exercise but not right before bedtime especially if it’s an intense session. The sort of exercise that’s ok late on is restorative yoga but that’s about it.
Now I’d like to hear from you.
Which one of these sleep hygiene strategies are you going to give a go? Have you any tips for improving sleep you’d like to share? How do you prompt your body to know it’s time to wind down?
Please do let me know.
Love Gaynor x
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A United Nations watchdog committee has condemned Sudan for widespread and systematic human rights violations and urged the government to prosecute war crimes. The U.N. Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, has wrapped up a three-week session in which it examined the records of three countries including Sudan. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.
The 18-member expert body expresses concern about a wide-range of human rights abuses in Sudan, especially in the conflict-ridden province of Darfur.
It says violations, including murder, rape, forced displacement, the recruitment of child soldiers and attacks against the civil population, have been and continue to be committed with total impunity. The group says the abuses occur throughout Sudan and particularly in Darfur.
The U.N. Human Rights Committee urges the Sudanese government to follow up on the allegations arising out of the situation in Darfur. Vice-Chairman of the Committee, Ivan Shearer, says Khartoum must prosecute these crimes without amnesty and must distance itself from militias.
"Ensure that no financial support or material is channeled to militias that engage in ethnic cleansing or the deliberate targeting of civilians," he noted. "This has been a major problem in Sudan, that more or less covert assistance has been given to certain elements that have been pursuing gross violations of human rights and so on and gross violations of international humanitarian law."
The United Nations estimates 200,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million have been displaced during the conflict in Darfur.
This is the first time in a decade that Sudan's human rights record has come under review by the U.N. Committee. Vice-Chairman, Ahmed Tawfik Khalil, says the 18 independent experts and Sudanese officials who presented the report had a frank and fruitful discussion.
He says the government gave the impression that it was trying to improve the human rights situation, although it agreed that a lot remained to be done.
"And, they have given us assurances that they will do their best as the representative of the Sudan to continue along this path. But, I think, having said that, no one could really turn a blind eye of what is happening there," he added.
The U.N. Human Rights Committee is also urging the government of Sudan to cooperate with the International Criminal Court, to make sure that all human rights violations are investigated, and that those responsible for such violations are prosecuted at national or international level.
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Fruitfulness Explained: Abiding Sanctified
Conclusion continued from September 27th
JESUS USES A SOBERING IMAGE: The wood of the grape vine has the distinct characteristic that it is good for nothing. It is too soft for any purpose. At certain times of the year, it was laid down by the law that the people must bring offerings of wood to the
One of the sobering principles of the New Testament is that uselessness invites disaster. The fruitless branch is on the way to destruction.
A second truth: contact is the key to all of our spiritual life. Jesus lived connected to God. The secret of the life of Jesus was his contact with God; again and again he withdrew into a solitary place to meet Him. We must keep contact with Jesus. Connection takes planning. We must take deliberate steps to stay connected.
A final truth: any amount is sufficient. “To take but one example—to pray in the morning, if it be for only a few moments, is to have an antiseptic for the whole day; for we cannot come out of the presence of Christ to touch the evil things. For some few of us, abiding in Christ will be a mystical experience which is beyond words to express. For most of us, it will mean a constant contact with him. It will mean arranging life, arranging prayer, and arranging silence in such a way that there is never a day when we give ourselves a chance to forget him”. Don’t wait for a better time – seek Him now. Don’t put off for later and miss the blessing of this moment you can have with Him.
v. 5b “I AM the Vine and you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
When Jesus stopped to describe our daily relationship to Him in John 15, it was of utmost importance. The timing is unbelievable, just hours before the darkest night on earth. The cross and the grave were looming yet Jesus joyously looked ahead for the joy of being united with His disciples and us!
Think about something – when Jesus sums up the Christian life it is with this picture. We are a branch and everything in our life is connected to HIM! All we are and all we will ever be flows through Jesus. That is an awesome thought.
We live our lives from salvation onward attached to Jesus. Everything we say we say with Him, everything we see we see with Him, everything we do we do with Him. We are like Siamese twins, we are connected, attached, linked, and sharing His life.
Now look further, and what is amazing if you step back and look at John 15.1-8 is that no sin is in the picture. Jesus is describing us as we are, wearing His righteousness, and thus He sees us as without sin. The result is that Jesus is asking the Father to remove anything that hinders His life from being ours. Life is reduced to being either good or good for nothingness.
To be good branches for Jesus we need some constant help. This is the job of the Gardener, and God the Father assumes the role of the Gardener. He is always at work in our lives trimming, pruning, lifting, and promoting Christ-likeness. The explanation of John 14.21 is seen in John 15.1-7.
Jesus used this vine/branch metaphor for their understanding. But the importance of vineyards in the ancient world is difficult for modern readers to appreciate. Winemaking dates back to the earliest days of human history. Genesis records Noah as the first vineyard cultivator and winemaker, with unfortunate results (Gen 9:20 ff.). The production and consumption of wine was an economic mainstay for the farmers of
WE, LIKE BRANCHES, ARE UNFOCUSED BY NATURE: If left untrimmed, a grapevine will use its available energy to grow long woody branches and extend its territory, while producing a few meager bunches of grapes. Winemakers learned early on that grapevines could be tamed by vigilant pruning of branches so that comparatively few buds would be allowed to grow. What are you doing that God the Father is watching for just the right time to trim away from your life? It may be good in the sense of not being sin – but good for nothing in the light of eternity!
WE, LIKE BRANCHES, ARE FOCUSED BY THE GARDENER: When the trimming of the gardener is finished, the vine is forced to direct its life-giving sap into the production of grapes rather than territorial expansion. Under good conditions of both sufficient rain and plenty of sunshine, this resulted in heavy grape clusters and abundant grape juice for wine production. We go through seasons of being focused, by the Lord, back on why we are here.
These seasons usually follow retreats, they follow car accidents, they follow good messages we hear or read, they follow trips to the hospital, they follow times of Bible study and prayer, they follow the loss of a job, or they follow the death of loved ones or the diagnosis of a serious or even terminal illness. Are you focused yet?
WE, LIKE BRANCHES, ARE PRUNED FOR FRUITFULNESS: Major pruning was done in midwinter, when the vine would lose the least amount of its precious sap. This process of cleaning/ pruning the vineyard left a bare field with small stumps at the beginning of the spring growing season. In our lives it is the fall and early winter that often sees the most pruning. These are our later years when we have pain, sickness, limitations, and the most opportunity for growth in godliness. Are you enjoying God the Fathers work on your life?
BRANCHES ARE BURNED WHEN THERE IS UNNECESSARY WOOD: Farmers not only snipped off these old branches, but also hauled them away and burned them so the vines could grow unhindered from the mature stump each year. Effective vine dressing required that the farmer continue to prune through the growing season to keep the vine’s energy focused on a limited number of grape clusters.
Even today the best grapes are produced by developed vines, 12–40 years old, with deep, healthy root systems. God has much to burn in our lives. We busy ourselves often with everything but Him! Let your life get lean and focused and fruitful for Him.
Adaptations and quotations from Barclay, William, Daily Study Bible Series: The Gospel of John - Volume 2 Chapters 8-21 (Revised Edition), (
Drawn from Bryant, Beauford H.; Krause, Mark S., The College Press NIV Commentary: John, (
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Sarah McCloskey and Tamara Hervey, Sheffield Law School
After a series of cataclysmic political events, most people can empathise with the stress and anxiety born out of the subsequent uncertainty. At this time, the people who are enduring the greatest burden are those who have enjoyed a right to free movement exercised in good faith without concern that it might be taken away. Such is Brexit: the source of frustration, a nuisance of the daily news to many, but for EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals living in other Member States, it holds the potential to fundamentally change their very way of life. Without for a moment disregarding the (moral and economic) significance of the former group, we focus here on the latter.
What do the UK government’s proposals mean for UK nationals in the EU-27? What does it mean for their “right to remain, healthcare arrangements under the EU social security agreements, and pension entitlements and payments”? As Strumia highlights, the UK’s offer focuses on EU citizens in the UK. But in a negotiation, the offers made on one side have implications for those on the other. We seek to deduce from the UK’s negotiating position what it might mean for UK nationals in the EU-27.
UK’s Negotiating Position
Despite the hopes for "a magnanimous gesture on the part of the Prime Minister,” the UK government has maintained its stance that a unilateral offer to EU-27 nationals resident in the UK on ‘Brexit Day’ would compromise its negotiating position. Thus, its proposal is founded on the condition of reciprocity. Of course, we remain uncertain as to the outcome of the negotiations. Nevertheless, we can consider the extent to which the UK’s position is a “fair and serious” offer (as the UK government has portrayed) by comparison with the EU’s prior counterpart proposal.
According to the UK negotiating position, upon the UK's exit from the EU, EU citizens in the UK will be required to apply for a new residence status within a grace period of two years. Despite promises of a “streamlined” procedure with incurred fees set at a “reasonable level”, the proposal has faced criticism for subjecting even those who have already obtained a certificate of permanent residence to this new application process. Reciprocity on these terms would dictate that UK nationals in the EU-27 must therefore expect analogous treatment under their post-Brexit status of “third country nationals” (TCNs). They would need to apply for a new residence status under the immigration law of the EU Member State in which they reside. And again, if reciprocity applies, while those who arrive before the yet-to-be-specified date will be granted a temporary status that allows them the opportunity to accrue the vital 5 years of residence, those who arrive at any time thereafter will have no such protection or special treatment. Instead, they would be subject to ordinary immigration law.
Further, any disputes would have to be settled through national courts in the EU-27 country, without any recourse to a supranational authority (such as the CJEU) for a definitive settlement. It would be significantly more difficult to enforce residence and other rights than it is at present.
Under the UK negotiating position, those EU nationals who are successful will be granted what is referred to as "settled status" in UK law pursuant to the Immigration Act 1971. This is subject to certain criteria, including that the applicant must have been resident in the UK before an (as yet un-) specified date (that will fall between 29 March 2017, when the Article 50 letter was sent, and Brexit Day) and have completed a period of 5 years’ continuous residence. It is worth noting here that the UK government has not outlined its definition of “continuous residence” and, given the Prime Minister’s hostility towards the CJEU, it cannot be presumed that it mirrors that accepted in EU law.
Again, if applied reciprocally, UK nationals currently resident in the EU-27 (as EU-27 nationals currently resident in the UK) would be potentially precluded from relying on the benefits of free movement to visit family or for work-related events, for example, in case such visits interrupt their period of continuous residence for longer than permitted under the relevant law. Further, as Strumia notes, this means that the UK’s present protection of free movement is meaningless for EU citizens living in the UK, as any such exercise could be to the detriment of their post-Brexit application. Like so many other issues, the devil is in the detail and thus, it remains to be seen just how “smooth and simple” acquiring these new rights will be.
Turning to the more specific issues of pensions, child benefits, education, and healthcare, the UK’s negotiating position offers a little more information. On pensions, the UK’s position is explicit that ‘the UK will continue to export and uprate the UK State Pension within the EU’. Given that 21% of UK nationals in EU-27 countries are over the age of 65, this is a significant commitment. Likewise, the current position on child benefit continues: individuals resident before Brexit Day will be able to export any child benefit to which they are entitled in their country of residence, which is of great importance for divorced and separated families. On education, the right of UK students to remain in the respective EU-27 country applies up until course completion (and not beyond) and those with residence rights have the same access to tuition fees and any maintenance grants as nationals of the host country.
Healthcare, however, poses more complexities. The UK government has proposed a new arrangement ‘akin to the EHIC scheme’ (i.e. the European Health Insurance Card, which currently entitles those covered by their home health care system like the NHS to medical treatment in another EU country). There are non-EU states incorporated within the EHIC scheme, so in theory the UK could join post-Brexit. But in practice, free movement rights will have to be included. Otherwise, the technical and administrative logistics, outside of the current arrangements for coordination of social security, may prove insuperable. The EU coordination of social security is a rules-based system: it is not a matter of politically negotiated bespoke arrangements. A reciprocal deal (to be part of the rules-based system) may be feasible. Access to health care outside such a system (without free movement, without the possibility of CJEU oversight) is unlikely to be so. If that is so, in principle a reciprocal deal would leave UK nationals resident in the EU to fall back on national law to determine their health care entitlements.
The UK’s negotiating position does not explicitly address a host of other practicalities for UK nationals resident in the EU-27 (and vice versa): equal access to housing; equal tax benefits; entitlement to move to and reside in other EU Member States; and equal entitlements to union membership. This is far from offering the claimed reassurance in the face of uncertainty.
In the absence of such details, the only guiding light is: "After we leave the EU, the UK will no longer be subject to EU law. Free movement rights will come to an end and therefore cannot be carried forward, as an EU legal right, into the post-exit UK legal regime.”
If this is the default, and reciprocity is the basis for future entitlements, the effects for UK nationals in the EU-27 would be to face the same prospect of rights reduction as their EU citizen counterparts in the UK.
Applicable EU law
However, this analysis on the basis of reciprocity ignores the fact that the EU itself already has rules concerning the treatment of non-EU TCNs resident in its Member States. The UK’s rejection of an ‘acquired rights’ approach or, indeed, a bespoke proposal of any kind marks an intention to simply align the status of EU nationals with UK immigration law, with all the procedural and substantive implications that entails. But that approach is not available to the EU-25 (Ireland and Denmark have opted out of this law), who are bound by EU law on non-EU migrants, in particular by the EU’s Long-Term Residence (LTR) Directive. The LTR Directive brings the position of UK nationals resident in the EU-25 within EU law as it provides legal protection to some TCNs. This is a Directive that can be - and has been - enforced before national courts, and is subject to the jurisdiction of the CJEU. (There is also some EU legislation on the position of non-EU citizens who don’t yet qualify for LTR status).
Articles 7 and 8 of the LTR Directive govern the scheme by which long-term resident status is acquired and the residence permit granted. The LTR Directive holds the process to a certain standard, imposes common criteria, requires the grant of LTR status where conditions are satisfied (Article 7 (3), Iida para 39), and guarantees certain rights where applications are successful. Article 7(2), for example, requires applications to be processed within 6 months, and Article 10 states that reasons must be given for decisions.
Subject to certain conditions (outlined below), the Directive confers equal treatment of TCNs to nationals in the host country in numerous areas. These include: access to employment; self-employment; recognition of qualifications; tax benefits; and pensions. The UK’s negotiating position, inasmuch as it fails to offer these matters on a reciprocal basis, appears to assume that this aspect of EU law does not exist.
The entitlements under the LTR Directive (and possibly parallel national laws on long-term residence) are extensive. Assuming that it would be the applicable law if the UK’s proposals were to succeed, or indeed if the UK were to leave the EU without successfully negotiating a withdrawal agreement, this raises a question. The position of UK nationals in the EU-27 would obviously be better if the EU proposal prevailed (particularly for those who do not have long-term residence yet). But how much worse off would UK nationals in the EU-25 be under the UK proposals as compared to the EU’s offer? (The position of UK nationals in Ireland will presumably be a special case because of the common travel area; UK nationals in Denmark would have to rely on Danish law.)
Comparison of EU Proposal and EU Law Position: Long-Term Residence Directive
The EU proposal seeks to maintain the current status of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU-27, but without the framework of EU citizenship which is conditional on membership of the EU. By comparison, the LTR Directive has been described as creating a “subsidiary form of EU citizenship”.
The LTR Directive offers TCNs a wide range of rights equal to that of nationals in their host country. It removes Member States’ direct control by outlining that where conditions are met and where there is no Article 6 exception (for public policy or public security), long-term resident status must be granted (Article 7(3)). Ordinary immigration law is not subject to those kinds of external oversights or constraints. However, LTR status remains far from parity with EU citizenship status and, in turn, the EU’s proposal. The material rights are less, the scope is more restrictive, and the acquisition process more arduous.
Equal treatment in respect of social assistance and social protection can be confined to core benefits (Article 11(4)), as defined in the ECJ ruling in Kamberaj. Retention of restrictions to access to employment or self-employed activities where these activities are lawfully reserved to nationals, EU or EEA citizens is also permitted (Article 11(3)(a)). Further, acquiring LTR status does not confer the free movement rights within the EU that its citizens are accustomed to; Article 14 outlines the conditions which must be met to acquire the right to reside in a second Member State for a period exceeding three months. The right to family reunification represents another stark contrast: for TCNs, the highly restrictive Directive 2003/86/EC applies, while the EU proposal guarantees that the Withdrawal Agreement would apply to family members, ‘regardless of their nationality, as covered by Directive 2004/38’. This covers both current and future family members.
Turning to scope, the EU proposal is unequivocal: it captures all 'UK nationals who reside or have resided in EU27 at the date of entry into force of the Withdrawal Agreement', UK nationals who work or have done so in EU27 at that date whilst residing in the UK or another EU27, UK nationals covered by Regulation 883/2004, and (in all cases) their family members. Conversely, Article 3(2) of the LTR Directive outlines numerous exclusions, including TCNs resident due to pursuit of studies or vocational training, seasonal workers, and cross-border service providers.
Further, in exchange for this more limited status, there are a greater number of conditions to satisfy. Beyond its mutual basis with the EU proposal’s requisite 5 years continuous legal residence, the LTR Directive also sets out that TCNs need to: provide evidence that they possess sufficient stable and regular resource to maintain themselves and their family members without recourse to the host Member State's social assistance system; have adequate sickness insurance; and, in some cases, demonstrate compliance with integration conditions imposed by national law. Necessarily, implementation of the UK proposal would therefore subject UK nationals in the EU-27 to a much more demanding application process with likely lower success rates than the more black-and-white EU proposal.
Undoubtedly then, the EU proposal is far more favourable to that offered by the UK. This is not unexpected; while the EU recognises the valuable contribution made by TCNs to the Member States in which they reside, inevitably a proposition vested in the interests of the 3.15 million EU citizens in the UK will comprise a better deal than the residual LTR Directive position. And, for negotiating purposes, offering identical conditions for UK nationals in the EU-27 was necessary.
Nonetheless, were the UK proposal to prevail, its nationals are still afforded better protection than their EU citizen counterparts in the UK. The LTR Directive and Article 7(3) in particular represent a safety net to which the EU-25 are held to account. There is no such equivalent for EU citizens in the UK who, post-Brexit, would be entirely at the mercy of ordinary immigration law were the UK’s position adopted.
There is an undeniable gap between the EU negotiating position and the LTR Directive. However, it is to some extent quantifiable. In contrast, the extent of the chasm between the current position of EU nationals in the UK and the UK’s proposal for their post-Brexit future is not yet known. Moreover, the UK’s silence on numerous existing rights does not bode well. While the comparable certainty of the LTR Directive is enough to be relatively reassuring to UK nationals, those who do not yet qualify for the status will be subject only to national immigration law and thus face the same level of uncertainty as EU citizens in the UK.
It might seem surprising that the UK’s response to the EU proposal is so weak. But perhaps this is somewhat accounted for by the difference in numbers: in comparison to the 3.15 million EU citizens in the UK, there are an estimated 900,000 UK nationals in the EU-27. Most of them do not vote in UK general elections. Perhaps they are the ‘sacrificial lambs’ of these negotiations. But this fails to account for the 60% of UK nationals who want to keep their EU citizenship. (Notably, this number increases by 20% for the up and coming political force that are the 18-24 year olds.) If these polls are to be believed, the UK government has a greater investment in a good deal than their proposals implied they thought to be the case. Lest it further alienate the electorate, the UK government should reconsider the EU’s position, taking into account applicable EU law, and provide an injection of reality into its negotiating stance.
Barnard & Peers: chapter 27
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If you are an owner of a company or you are the accountant of the same it is important you must have a proper balance sheet of your organisation. It is evident that without balance sheet organisations will not be able to fulfil certain obligations required to run a business. In present business context, the importance of balance sheet has increased in a significant way and it is also true that the same is helping the companies for the smooth running of their businesses.
Since balance sheets are very important so it is also crucial that balance sheet format should be proper and perfect. You might lack perfection in framing the proper balance sheet format or a standard balance sheet. But you need not worry as there are numbers of professional websites available online which are offering free balance sheet template. All you need to do is to avail these templates and serve your purpose.
The simple definition of balance sheet states that it is the statement which involves the financial affairs of a company that too in a given period of time. It is also known as statement of financial position and it can be for an organisation or also for an individual. Usually there are four crucial financial statements available and used in the context of business, but balance sheet is the only one which applies to a specific point of time for a business in a calendar year. Balance sheets are mainly calculated at the interval of every quarter, every six months or at the interval of a fiscal year, as per the organisation’s demands.
So one has to be very professional and maintain proper balance sheet format to make the best out of it. But it might be difficult for the corporate account managers or for the accountants to get the proper structure of the same. In this context professional templates can be really very helpful as they have the proper format and are even editable. So it is better not to waste time in making them by yourself, instead try the balance sheet template to serve your purpose in a better way.
The basic purpose of a balance sheet is to offer a detailed idea regarding the financial strength of the company or its position. It is mainly done by demarcating the total assets owned by the given company and any given amounts that it indebted to banks or to the corporate lenders. (For an instance it may be the amount of the equity also)
It is important to note that balance sheet does not show the exact results, and even if the balance of accounts from different time frames is shown, a final conclusion cannot be drawn.
This is the most important aspect which is very crucial to understand in order to form the balance sheet. Usually these documents have two sides and they must be equal or balanced to each other, then only it will be a perfect balance sheet document. Evidently the logic behind this is even simpler than it actually seems and it is: an organisation must pay for its assets through borrowing capital from different investors, financial institutions or from lenders.
Let’s consider an example:
Suppose an organisation named ABC takes out a loan of £5,000 from any given financial institution, so the assets of this organisation will increase by £5,000, but at the same time the liabilities will also increase by £5,000. In this way it effectively balances the accounts of the given organisation.
Formula behind framing the balance sheet is-
Assets= Equity + Liabilities
It is already explained that balance sheet précises assets of an individual or an organisation along with the liabilities and assets of the same at a given point of time. Mainly there are two types of balance sheet available and they are account form and report form. It is true and relevant also that large businesses seek for complex balance sheets whereas small companies or individuals usually have simple balance sheets.
This type of balance sheet mainly includes current assets like saving and checking accounts, current liabilities like mortgage debt, loan debt or due, long-term assets like real estate and common stock, etc. It is important to note that personal net worth is actually the difference between an individual’s total liabilities and assets.
This type of balance sheet mainly contains assets such as accounts receivable, cash, inventory, intangible assets like patents, fixed assets like buildings, equipment, land, liabilities like accrued expenses, long-term debt and accounts payable. Equity of small businesses is actually the change between total assets and liabilities.
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In accounting language assets can be explained as anything which is tangible or intangible and which has the ability to be owned to generate value and also which can be held to attain positive financial value. In case of balance sheet assets are a clear indication of an organisation’s holding and it also contributes to its overall value. There are certain things which are very important for assets and they are:
These are actually the amount of capital which is mainly owned by the companies. Usually liabilities include money borrowed to strengthen business activities. In addition to that it also lists general debt and accounts payable. Liabilities also contain certain things which are of great importance and they are:
Equity refers to the money which can be considered as the net assets. It can also be explained as owner’s claim on the assets of a business and it also depicts assets which remain after deducting liabilities. Examples of equities can be:
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The most important uses of a balance sheet is to provide financial information about any given organisation or business. These documents help the owner of small business to quickly get a hold over their financial strength and capabilities. It also helps to identify and analyse different trends, specifically in the area of payables and receivables.
Along with the income statements, the balance sheets are considered as the most basic elements in offering financial reporting to potential lenders like vendors, investors and banks who consider that how much credit to offer to the applicant firm.
Balance sheet example or proper balance sheet format also answers to some important questions such as:
Is the company in a position to expand?
Is it important for the company to initiate quick steps to bolster cash reserves?
Is there are some debt left uncollectable?
Can the receivables be collected aggressively?
Is it possible for the business to handle flows of revenues and expenses and normal financial ebbs easily?
Balance sheet is a polaroid of a financial health of a business on a given day. It explains in detail that what the business owes, what it owns and to whom the money belongs to. There are certain steps to read a balance sheet and they are:
Step 1: First step suggest calculation of assets
You should know that the assets are everything which is possessed by the corporation
Then you should compute the worth of your inventor money and equipment
It is important to mention or include money that are allocated as account receivable
Then you have to note the total amount of capital held in investments
You can also contemplate pre-paid expenditures as assets
One of the most important things to note in this step is that intangibles which cannot be sold such as patents, trademarks and brands, they are not assets.
The reader must recognize that even fractional possession of anything makes it an asset
The final one in this step is to list all the assets on one side of balance sheet template to add them collectively
Step 2: Calculation of total liability
One should comprehend that liability signifies the debts of the company
It is crucial to from columns on balance sheet for short-term and long-term liability
Then you are required to do the calculation of accounts payable or the debts which the company owes to different companies.
Also calculate any mortgages, interest due or loans
Finally list all your liabilities just nest to assets
Step 3: Make sense of balance sheet
In order to get ownership equity subtract liability from assets and you should keep in mind that assets always equal liability and equity
The you have to calculate current ratio in order to evaluate the how much capital a company can spare for its growth and development
Also, compute quick ration in order to analyse the finances of the company if it has stopped making sales
So, these were the effective that will help you to learn that how to read a balance sheet. But all these steps can be skipped; all you need to do is to try professional ready-made balance sheet template and get benefitted. Common you can give a try once!
In simple words balance sheet analysis states that it is an analysis of liabilities, assets and equity of a business. The analysis of balance sheet takes place at a regular interval of time; it might be annually or quarterly. This analysis is mainly used for stemming exact figures regarding assets, revenue, and liabilities of the firm. Balance sheet analysis is also very helpful for the shareholders, investors, financial institutions, investment bankers, etc., as it helps them to validate profitability of investment for a given organisation.
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Once upon a time I was a pioneer transsexual activist. That was long ago before the word transgender was used.
I was a hippie when being a hippie meant being an outlaw.
I was a second wave feminist and a lesbian feminist. Among my Facebook friends are founding members of the Black Panther Party and SDS. I was a member of SDS.
I was so young and crazy brave and absolutely certain.
It was so long ago and now I am an inconvenient relic who gives lie to revisionist history of that era.
I have no place in the modern SJW movement of fame seeking social justice activists who live to score points based on lynching others for the thought crimes of non-conformity to the rigid ideologies of their movements.
Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave New World along with Vonnegut’s books were the literature of my time. I am clueless as to what drives the thinking of today.
So I dropped out.
Now I am part of a movement that lives frugally.
A friend recently said to me, “You’ve always been an outlaw.”
I refused to be part of this new movement.
I’d rather return to my outlaw hippie roots.
As for Social Justice… I support the concept. But I oppose the methods used by the SJW crowd which seem little more than the activities of lynch mobs both virtual and real as they seem to share too many common traits associated with those who brought us both fascism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
From Medium via Loree Cook-Daniels on Facebook: https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3
Apr 8, 2014
Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as society has had inequity and inequality and there were individuals enlightened enough to question this. When we study history, we see, as the American Transcendentalist Theodore Parker famously wrote, “the arc [of the moral universe]…bends towards justice.” And this seems relatively evident when one looks at history as a single plot line. Things improve. And, if history is read as a book, the supporters of social justice are typically deemed the heroes, the opponents of it the villains.
And perhaps it’s my liberal heart speaking, the fact that I grew up in a liberal town, learned US history from a capital-S Socialist, and/or went to one of the most liberal universities in the country, but I view this is a good thing. The idea that societal ills should be remedied such that one group is not given an unfair advantage over another is not, to me, a radical idea.
But millennials are grown up now — and they’re angry. As children, they were told that they could be anything, do anything, and that they were special. As adults, they have formed a unique brand of Identity Politics wherein the groups with which one identifies is paramount. With such a strong narrative that focuses on which group one belongs to, there has been an increasing balkanization of identities. In an attempt to be open-minded toward other groups and to address social justice issues through a lens of intersectionality, clear and distinct lines have been drawn between people. One’s words and actions are inextricable from one’s identities. For example: this is not an article, but an article written by a straight, white, middle-class (etc.) male (and for this reason will be discounted by many on account of how my privilege blinds me — more on this later).
And while that’s well and good (that is — pride in oneself and in one’s identity), the resulting sociopolitical culture among millennials and their slightly older political forerunners is corrosive and destructive to progress in social justice. And herein lies the problem — in attempting to solve pressing and important social issues, millennial social justice advocates are violently sabotaging genuine opportunities for progress by infecting a liberal political narrative with, ironically, hate.
Many will understand this term I used — millennial social justice advocates — as a synonym to the pejorative “social justice warriors.” It’s a term driven to weakness through overuse, but it illustrates a key issue here: that, sword drawn and bloodthirsty, millennial social justice advocates have taken to verbal, emotional — and sometimes physical — violence.
In a dazzlingly archetypical display of horseshoe theory, this particular brand of millennial social justice advocates have warped an admirable cause for social, economic, and political equality into a socially authoritarian movement that has divided and dehumanized individuals on the basis of an insular ideology guised as academic theory. The modern social justice movement launched on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Jezebel, Slate, Huffington Post, et al. is far more reminiscent of a Red Scare (pick one) than the Civil Rights Movement.
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Associate Professor Louise Bowman
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- ASCEND: A Study of Cardiovascular Events iN Diabetes Research Group
- HPS3 / TIMI 55 - REVEAL : Randomised EValuation of the Effects of Anacetrapib through Lipid-modification Research Group
- SEARCH: Study of the Effectiveness of Additional Reductions in Cholesterol and Homocysteine Research Group
- Trials Methodology Research Group
- Research Regulation Research Group
BA, MBBS, MRCP, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology & Honorary Consultant Physician (Lipidology)
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Dr. Louise Bowman is an Associate Professor at the Clinical Trial Service Unit of the University of Oxford. Her specialist clinical background is in Diabetes and Endocrinology. She has particular research interests in cardiovascular disease in diabetes, and maintains her clinical practice with regular specialist lipid clinics.
She is Joint Principal Investigator for the REVEAL study, an international clinical trial that aims to reliably assess the efficacy and safety of the new lipid-modifying agent, anacetrapib, in 30,000 high-risk individuals.
She is also Co-principal Investigator for the ASCEND trial which is studying the effects of aspirin and of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in 15,000 people with diabetes. She was on the clinical team that coordinated the landmark MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study and the more recent SEARCH (Study of the Effectiveness of Additional Reductions in Cholesterol and Homocysteine) trial which evaluated an intensive cholesterol-lowering regimen compared with a standard regimen, and a folic-acid based homocysteine-lowering regimen with placebo in 12,000 heart attack survivors.
In addition to her work on clinical trials, she is also involved in a number of collaborative meta-analyses of trials and is a member of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration, the Antiplatelet Trialists’ Collaboration and the B-Vitamin Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration.
Cost-effective recruitment methods for a large randomised trial in people with diabetes: A Study of Cardiovascular Events iN Diabetes (ASCEND).
Aung T. et al, (2016), Trials, 17
Effects on 11-year mortality and morbidity of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin for about 5 years in 20,536 high-risk individuals: a randomised controlled trial.
Heart Protection Study Collaborative Group None. et al, (2011), Lancet, 378, 2013 - 2020
Clinical trials of lipid-modifying agents: Design considerations
Bowman L. et al, (2011), Clinical Lipidology, 6, 109 - 116
Intensive lowering of LDL cholesterol with 80 mg versus 20 mg simvastatin daily in 12,064 survivors of myocardial infarction: a double-blind randomised trial.
Study of the Effectiveness of Additional Reductions in Cholesterol and Homocysteine (SEARCH) Collaborative Group None. et al, (2010), Lancet, 376, 1658 - 1669
Effects of homocysteine-lowering with folic acid plus vitamin B12 vs placebo on mortality and major morbidity in myocardial infarction survivors: a randomized trial.
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All departmental LANs are connected to the campus Gigabit Ethernet backbone as subnets of CTNET and as a result have access to all the facilities in the central host computer systems. LANs can be defined as the interconnection of computers and peripherals within a restricted geographical region, and they can be distinguished, primarily based on their topology and the communication media employed to interconnect the equipment. There are so several distinct forms of personal computer networks in existence, it can be tough to comprehend the variations involving them, especially the ones with very equivalent-sounding names. The connection of two or a lot more LANs more than any distance is referred to as a wide area network (WAN).
1 of the benefits of networks like PAN and LAN is that they can be kept entirely private by restricting some communications to the connections inside the network. This localized manage gives greater flexibility in LANs than other forms of networks. Please note that this site is privately owned and is in no way connected to any Federal agency or ERIC unit. In a wireless neighborhood region network , customers might move unrestricted in the coverage location.
Note: The interconnection of numerous building LANs is generally achieved by Wide Location Networking (WAN) by way of radio transmission or by way of leased information lines from a phone enterprise. When this kind of network is specifically made for a college campus, it is in some cases referred to as a campus location network, or CAN. Wireless Local Area Networks (Wireless LANs or WLANs): Local area networks that connect devices with no wires, using radio frequencies or light. I also contemplate most Net access technologies to be a kind of wide region networking, although some may not agree with that.
Based on the configuration, this sort of network can cover an area from numerous miles to tens of miles. Networks can cover anything from a handful of devices within a single space to millions of devices spread across the complete globe. Other types of LAN gear with processing ability incorporate gateways, which allow LANs operating dissimilar protocols to pass data by translating it into a simpler code, such as ASCII.
LANs created simultaneously to connect freestanding computers in offices that, until LANs came, exchanged data by passing diskettes around, and in operations utilizing dumb terminals, such terminals initial getting replaced by PCs and, later, the connection to mainframes severed with the PCs now connected either to each other or to a server applying servers became by far the most widespread LAN configuration. | <urn:uuid:ee438ada-164d-48aa-ac68-dc64238572e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smtsa.net/regional-area-network-rabdomancy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.95411 | 503 | 2.953125 | 3 |
February 20, 2014
Use of Acid Attacks for Punishment Persists in Pakistan
by Sharon Behn
WARNING: Video contains images of disfigured faces that some might find disturbing.
Muhammad Hassan Mangi, Director General of the Pakistan Ministry of Human Rights, said there are laws in place against acid throwing. He admits, however, that more needs to be done.
“You need to have such methods and things in practice that you can express your, even, anger in a decent manner. That has to be understood by society,” he said.
Muhammad Farooq refused to marry the woman his family had chosen for him. His punishment was having corrosive acid thrown in his face.
“It felt like water, but I was wrong. The acid burned my face and body, my skin sounded like dried leaves cracking,” said Farooq.
Forty percent of the acid attack victims in Pakistan are men or boys.
Farooq endured horrific physical pain. And deep depression. “At first, I was devastated. There was nothing left in my life. No past, no future, no present,” he said.
There were 143 acid attacks registered with the Acid Survivors Foundation in 2013. Most were against women and girls.
Nusrat Bibi’s brother refused to marry into her husband’s family. She paid the price. She’s had 17 surgeries to rebuild her face and body.
“Anyone who saw me got scared. They showed my pictures to my children to scare them, telling them their mother was frightening and had become a ghost,” said Bibi.
“It’s about rebuilding your mind, your self-esteem, and it’s about reclaiming your space in the community and in the public space as a man, a woman, who deserves — and will obtain — respect and dignity again,” she said.
Farooq no longer hides his face. He is trying his hand at photography. He’s living his life.
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Students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will have unprecedented access to world-class animation and modeling software thanks to a gift, valued at $21.7 million, from Autodesk, a leading global developer of 3D design, engineering and entertainment software.
This is the first time Autodesk has provided full access to its top products through a grant of software to a college or university. The gift – the largest ever at Penn State Behrend – will give students access to three key software suites:
• Education Master Suite, which includes advanced 3D CAD and engineering analysis tools
• Simulation Moldflow, a fast, accurate and flexible design tool for plastic injection molding
• Entertainment Creation Suite, which was used to animate the last 17 films that won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Faculty members in the college’s School of Engineering and professors in chemistry, psychology, game design and management information systems already are using the software. Every student and faculty member at Penn State Behrend has access to it.
Students also can become certified in Autodesk Simulation Moldflow by taking an exam that will be administered annually on campus.
“Graduates of Penn State Behrend and its School of Engineering have enjoyed a rich employment track record, and with access to this software, they will be even better positioned for success,” said Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering. “This gift will also support the future growth of Penn State Behrend as we develop new interdisciplinary programs that fuse the humanities, the arts and advanced digital technologies.”
The Autodesk products will jump-start the college’s digital arts, media and technology initiative, which blends film and video game development with other advanced simulation work. Penn State Behrend’s K-12 STEM outreach efforts, including the Math Options, Upward Bound and Women in Engineering programs, also will use the software.
“Partnering with Penn State Behrend allows us to put sophisticated simulation software into the hands of future engineers, scientists and artists,” said Tom Cameron, vice president of manufacturing sales at Autodesk. “This significant partnership reinforces our commitment to providing students and educators with the resources they need to inspire the next generation of professionals.”
The Autodesk gift also advances the University’s current fundraising campaign, For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students. That initiative is the most ambitious in Penn State’s history, with a goal of securing $2 billion by June 2014. | <urn:uuid:fa87a448-0c5e-4e27-b280-4388e9745515> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://psbehrend.psu.edu/news-events/news/21.7-million-gift-provides-penn-state-behrend-students-with-full-access-to-autodesk-software | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938036 | 521 | 1.8125 | 2 |
I have often wondered what beauty looks like to a person who is blind. When a blind person says something or someone is beautiful, what exactly do they mean? Can they have the same point of reference as a seeing person has?
If I were to ask a hundred people what beauty is to them, I’d venture to say that most (not all) of them would describe some physical attribute that they find attractive. Not many describe inner beauty as something they find attractive. In fact, like the above picture implies, only fat (or ugly) people talk about inner beauty.
I guess Sophia Loren must have been pretty darn ugly since she believed that beauty generated from the inside and reflected to the outside. I wonder how a blind person would have seen Sophia Loren since he could neither experience her physical beauty or the beauty that shone through her eyes.
Almost all of us, except for the blind I suppose, are visual beings. Generally, sight is the first sense we use when we take in something or someone. For me, what makes someone attractive or unattractive is what I see after I take my first look. I have seen some physically beautiful people become more and more unattractive to me once they showed who they were inside. The same can be said about the unattractive person who became more and more beautiful the more I learned about them.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind looking at man and growling at their exquisite form but truthfully the staying power is what is between their ears and in their heart. I don’t find too much attractive in anyone trying to conform to what I want them to do or be. I like when a person is his own man or woman. To me, being comfortable in your own skin is pure beauty.
Recently I had the opportunity to people watch at a few different agendas. While each agenda had its own different theme, all of them had one thing in common: people trying to attract other people by being beautiful. I saw women (young girls) walking in stilettos on uneven black top surfaces making their poor ankles bend and wobble while trying to keep them upright. I saw shirts that were tighter than any corsette. I saw shorts that were so short that a camel toe would have been a welcome sight. So many views of people trying to be beautiful and the saddest thing to see is the shows being presented was mostly by women trying to attract men. In the animal kingdom, it is the male who flashes the female with all his beauty, in the homosapien world, it is the female that is made to paint her face and dance.
Maybe my views have changed because I’m older. Perhaps my views have been tainted by working so many years in an Emergency Department where I have witnessed the self-destructive actions of young women because they did not seem to fit into the beauty ideal of society. Sex sells, and having indiscriminate sex sells the soul.
I like this warning. I wish that all people could see the truth in it. Allowing others to tell us what beauty is and is not is detrimental to our well-being and our self-esteem. It is allowing others to define us. I don’t want someone who doesn’t know me have a say in who I am.
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The Burning bush Pendant . 1.6" X 0.85". Shema Yisrael (Shma Israel, Sh'ma Yisroel, Shema Israel, Shma Yisrael or just Shema), "Hear, O Israel", are the first two words of a section of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, is a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one," is found in Deuteronomy 6:4. Observant Jews consider the Shema to be the most important part of the prayer service in Judaism. It is twice-daily recitation as a religious commandment. It is traditional for Jews to say the Shema as their last words. The words are "shema yisrael adoni elohanu adoni achad shema yisreal adoni elohanu adoni achad (silently) baruch shem kvod malchoto leolam vaed. The burning bush is an object described by the Book of Exodus as being located on Mount Horeb; according to the narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. In the narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan. | <urn:uuid:9cabc159-f24d-4770-85aa-c5c77801cb52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.biblelandshop.net/the-burning-bush-pendant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963156 | 286 | 2.53125 | 3 |
RMBAK file extension - Registry Mechanic backup file
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SENATE BILL NO. 235
AS AMENDED BY
SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2
HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNIFORM HEALTH DATA REPORTING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE :
WHEREAS, the State of Delaware traditionally has one of the highest rates of cancer incidence and mortality in the United States;
WHEREAS, identification of clusters of certain types of cancers in specific locations can help public health agencies develop intervention strategies leading to early detection when cancer is more easily cured;
WHEREAS, providing such data to medical researchers outside state government may assist in the process of both identifying cancer clusters and developing intervention strategies;
WHEREAS, the public good is served by allowing citizens to know of potential hazards in their communities so they can take actions to preserve their health;
WHEREAS, it is equally important to preserve the privacy and dignity of people afflicted with cancer, and
WHEREAS, the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health has opted to err on the side of cancer patient privacy by withholding even generic data on cancer clusters from other researchers and the public;
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend Chapter 20, Title 16 of the Delaware Code by renumbering §2005 through 2008 as §2006 through 2009, respectively.
Section 2. Amend Chapter 20, Title 16 of the Delaware Code by inserting a new §2005 to read as follows:
Ҥ2005(a). Cancer incidence data.
Notwithstanding any provisions in this Title to the contrary, the agency shall make available as public records cancer incidence by census tract and by type of cancer. Such released data shall be assigned consensus tract geography from the most recent decennial census. If release of such information by census tract will explicitly or implicitly identify any individual, the agency may combine data among contiguous census tracts, but only insofar as is necessary to protect patient confidentiality.
(b) The agency shall create a detailed map of each county in Delaware that graphically illustrates the overall incidence of cancer in each census track. The census tracks will be identified on the maps and shall be color-coded to designate the degree of cancer incidence in each track. These maps shall be created within 90 days of the agency receiving the cancer incidence data.
(c) The agency shall post the maps created under the subsection above on their website in a format that can be easily accessed and read by the public.”
Section 3. Amend §1232(d) Title 16 of the Delaware Code by deleting the word “or” at the end of paragraph (6) and by inserting the word “or” at the end of paragraph 7 and by adding a new paragraph “(8)” to read as follows:
“(8) Pursuant to Title 16 §2005.”
Section 4. Amend Subchapter III of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code by inserting a new section §1233 to read as follows:
The Department of Health and Social Services shall enforce this subchapter and shall from time to time promulgate any additional forms and regulations that are necessary for this purpose.”
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Apple Watch's launch reveals how it takes the world to build a watch
The Apple Watch survived multiple production failures because Apple knows that building a worldwide product requires a worldwide network of suppliers.
It wasn’t long after pre-orders for Apple’s much-anticipated Watch began that trouble emerged. Reportedly within hours of going on sale on April 10, the wait times jumped by weeks and then months. Some models eventually were listed simply as unavailable.
A hint at one of the problems came in late April, when the Wall Street Journal reported that the Watch’s taptic engine – a key component designed by Apple that reproduces the sensation of being tapped on the wrist – was defective in models produced by AAC Technologies in China. That severely limited the Watch’s availability.
Later it was reported that a shortage of wristbands also contributed to delays, but the reason Apple was able to launch its product on time – albeit with a slow rollout – was that it didn’t rely solely on AAC for its supply of taptic engines. Nidec Corp of Japan was also supplying the key part without problems.
Now, you might think that Apple was lucky to have a second supplier, but the company didn’t become the global supply chain leader by luck. Having several suppliers for the same component is one of the strategies that companies with world-class supply chains adopt to mitigate the risk of disruptions – which can have cascading effects that not only slow a product’s release but hit the bottom line.
Ericsson learned that lesson in 2000, when a lightning bolt hit a power line in Albuquerque, New Mexico, causing a fire at a microchip plant that damaged millions of silicon wafers. Ericsson’s single-sourcing policy meant it had no other way to get the chips. Production was disrupted for months, resulting in US$400 million in lost sales.
These two incidents highlight the importance of developing reliable and resilient supply chains, in which hundreds or thousands of parts manufactured in many different countries must be ordered in the right quantities to anticipate demand and then shipped to a central point where they’re assembled to create the finished product. Just a small hiccup in this delicate dance can cause severe disruptions.
So what about a big hiccup, such as one caused by a natural disaster? Unlike Apple’s example above, which demonstrates a company-specific risk, system-wide risks can significantly disrupt supply chains across an entire industry and a wider geographic area.
Over-reliance on a single supplier
In the case of the auto industry, the 2011 Japanese tsunami revealed many major automakers' collective reliance on one plant in Japan for a type of shiny pigment used in car paints – and the costs of doing so.
The German-owned plant was located in Onahama, a coastal town that was damaged by the tsunami and was exposed to radiation from the Fukashima nuclear reactor. Car makers – including Ford, BMW and General Motors – that used the plant’s Xirallic pigment in some of their paints suffered heavily and scrambled to find new suppliers. Production in the factory was delayed for three months before normal operations resumed.
Japan’s tragic events also had a significant impact on the supply chains of many other companies, including those in the steel, electronics and chemical industries. As a result, many companies have been alarmed by the risk of supply chain disruption and how to manage it.
That disaster “made companies realize the fragility of supply chains” that had been “perfected for years to make them more efficient in order to lower costs,” according to a 2012 report by the Geneva Association, an insurance industry think tank. The report noted that despite this heightened awareness about their vulnerability, companies typically don’t do much to make their supply chains more robust because even small increases in inventory to avoid shortages can cost millions of dollars.
‘Immature’ risk management
That’s the trouble: when all is going well, companies don’t pay a lot of attention to their supply chains, despite understanding their importance. Although more than 90% of companies believe supply chain disruptions have a dramatic impact on their business and financial performance, only 60% pay even marginal attention to reducing risks in this area, according to a 2013 survey.
The report, by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, categorizes these companies as having “immature” risk processes because they mitigate risk by either increasing capacity or adding safety inventory – intended primarily to maximize profits and reduce costs.
But it’s the other 40%, deemed “mature” because they invest in developing advanced risk reduction capabilities, that tend to perform better both operationally and financially – “something for CEOs and CFOs to note,” according to the report.
Risks and resilience
There are many risks in every supply chain. Understanding those risks, their possible impact and their probability could help companies to mitigate them in an efficient manner.
Supply chain risks can be divided into many categories based on their impact. On one end, there are low-impact day-to-day risks such as supplier failures and volatility in demand and price. At the other extreme, there are high-impact risks such as pandemics, tsunamis and terrorism, to which companies are becoming increasingly vulnerable.
To increase their resilience, some companies conduct exercises in which a specific disruption such as cyber attack is simulated, and employee reactions are monitored and used in training. Other ways to reduce risk include increasing safety stock or capacity. These risk-mitigating processes require significant investments, which are costly and cause supply chain inefficiencies that bear fruit only if a major disruption occurs.
Flexibility is key
So what’s a company to do? Focus on flexibility, according to MIT’s Yossi Sheffi and James B Rice Jr. “The most important step companies can take to increase their resilience fundamentally and efficiently is to increase their flexibility,“ they wrote in a 2005 article on the topic.
Flexibility not only increases resilience in case of a major disruption, but it also ensures supply chain efficiency in normal times. For example, companies can use a low-cost offshore supplier alongside a high-cost local supplier that can respond quickly to market changes. The local supplier can be used either when the offshore supplier is disrupted or during volatile periods such as when demand is underestimated.
Although it remains unclear how much flexibility is needed to mitigate supply chain risks, management professors Christopher S Tang and Tomlin Brian suggest even a risk reduction program with a relatively low level of flexibility can provide a company with significant strategic value.
In summary, resilient companies with increased flexibility such as Apple can recover from supply chain disruptions more quickly than their competitors and therefore have a competitive advantage, which could potentially increase their market share. So for resilient companies, supply chain disruption could be considered more an opportunity than a threat.
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anticodon A triplet sequence of nucleotides in transfer-RNA that during protein synthesis (see RIBOSOME) binds by base pairing to a complementary sequence, the so-called codon, in messenger-RNA attached to a ribosome. There are at least 20 different types of anticodon, each encoding for a specific amino acid carried by the transfer-RNA.
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Nuts are one of the Foods of the Month (FoM) for April. To eat more nuts, sprinkle crushed walnuts or almonds on top of a salad instead of croutons for a healthy boost! Or serve cut up apples with all natural peanut butter for a quick and filling afterschool treat. Curious about the health benefits of nuts? Continue reading our list below:
Almonds – Eat a handful of almonds for a healthy serving of essential vitamins and minerals. One quarter cup of almonds has about as much calcium as a quarter cup of milk. This serving size amount is also high in magnesium, potassium, and vitamin E.
Cashews – These heart healthy nuts are lower in fat as compared to other nuts and are also high in essential vitamins and minerals.
Pecans – Pecans, like all nuts, are naturally sodium (salt) free, making them a great choice for people who are watching their salt intake. They are also an excellent source of vitamins and minerals.
Brazil nuts – These nuts contain antioxidants (such as selenium) to keep our bodies free of sickness and disease!
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|The New York Times, 17OCT1871, pg4|
"Several Villages Utterly Destroyed - Appalling Loss of Life - Four Hundred Dead Bodies Already Recovered.
From the Green Bay (Wis.) State Gazette, Extra, Oct. 10
On Sunday night, about 9 o'clock, fire broke out in the southern part of the Belgian settlement at Brussels, in Door County, and rage with terrific violence, destroying about 180 houses, and leaving nothing of a large and flourishing settlement but five houses. Nine persons are missing - supposed to have perished in the flames. The names are as follow: Mrs. JOHN B. WENDRICKS, and three children; three children of JOS. DANDOY; one child of JOS. MONFILS, and a young man by the name of MAURICE DELVEAUX. The remains of some of the clothing of the latter person were found, by which he was identified.
On Monday morning, 200 people breakfasted on four loaves of bread. Houseless and homeless, the camp out on their land, and seem struck dumb with their great losses. Their houses, barns, implements of farming, house furniture and cattle were burned and destroyed. The roads are filled with carcasses of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, suffocated by the smoke and heat. At Sturgeon Bay WILLIAMSON'S mill is reported burned, and fifty persons are said to have lost their lives. our informant reports the most pitiable state of things all through the district devastated by the fire, and hunger and starvation staring the wretched inhabitants in the face.
The [sic] inhabitants during the conflagration only saved their lives by throwing [sic] themselves on the ground and covering their heads. They had no warning of the approach of the fire, except the ringing of the church bell for a few minutes in advance. Then suddenly a great fire came down on them from the woods, roaring like a cataract, and they had no time to save anything. The heavens were all ablaze, and the earth also seemed on fire.
PESHTIGO, MENOMINEE, AND MENEKAUNEE.
The George L. Dunlap has just arrived from Escanaba, having been delayed thirty hours by heavy winds and dense smoke. Her passengers bring terrible accounts of the devastation by fire. At Menominee they received accounts of the burning, last night, of nearly the entire village of Menekaunee. At the mouth of the Menominee river, on the Wisconsin side, 150 buildings were burned, including three extensive saw-mills, owned by McCartney & Hamilton, Spofford & Gilmore and Spaulding & Porter, the latter being the largest, with one exception, on the bay shore.
The villages of Menominee and Marinette were in great danger, and many of the people fled to the bay shore for safety, remaining in the water all night. The steamer Union, lying in the river, took about 300 women and children to a place of safety in the harbor. The women and children of Menominee went on board the steamers Favorite and Dunbar and vessels lying at anchor in the roadstead. The male portion of the population of three villages lying within three miles of each other spent the whole night in fighting the fire. No lives are known to be lost, with the exception of one man, who died from fright after he had been rescued from the water, and another, who was sick in a house, which was burned before he could be rescued. At a small settlement of five or six houses, called Birch Creek, on the State-road, none miles west of Menominee, every house was burned, and ten or twelve lives lost, only three persons escaping.
At Peshtigo Harbor they were met by a number of people from the village of Peshtigo, seven miles west, who gave a heart-rending account of the total destruction of their town. During Sunday evening a hurricane of wind from the west sprang up, which fanned the smouldering fires int he timber into a blaze and drove the flames into the village. It came rushing into the village between 9 and 10 o'clock. So great was the violence of the wind that in less than one minute after the first house took fire the whole village was in flames. There was no prospect of checking the flames, for the smouldering forest presented one mass of fire. The people could only flee to the river for safety. Those living in close proximity to the water reached it and waded in to their necks. Here they remained from two to four hours, and by constant wetting of their heads were enabled to escape with their lives, although many were terribly burned. Those who lived only one or two streets from the river were struck down by the fiery fiend and burned to death. Whole families were thus destroyed. This morning the streets were strewn with burned bodies. In one case eight or nine bodies were found together. One family, consisting of father, mother and three children, were found dead together within twenty feet of the stream. It is impossible as yet to form any correct estimate of the loss of life at Peshtigo. Fully seventy-five are known to have perished by fire and water. Reports are constantly coming in of new cases of destruction of property and life. In Peshtigo not a single house remains standing. The immense wooden-ware factory and the large saw-mill of the Peshtigo Company, at the village, are burned. Stores, dwelling-houses, &c., are totally destroyed, not a vestige of property remaining. The people who were saved escaped in a destitute condition, being without clothing or provision. The names of but few of the lost could be learned. Among those known to have perished are JOSEPH S. BEEBE, book-keeper to the Company, wife and two children, and Mr. THOMPSON, express agent.
It is supposed that the inmates of the Company's boarding-house, 100 in number, nearly all perished in the flames. A special messenger was dispatched to this city last evening for supplies for the people of Peshtigo, and the steamer George L. Dunlap left this morning with everything necessary for their sustenance and comfort.
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It offers 'sage' advice to expectant mums, such as: "You will probably undergo lots of tests at this point. Don't worry though, you won't need to revise."
But a legal battle has blown up over the wise words – for they are a parody of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton.
The tongue-in-cheek book, written by Mat Morrisroe and Suzanne Azzopardi, started life as Twitter account @Pippatips, which mocked the 29-year-old author for her predictable party tips in her real book, Celebrate.
Tweets include: "Headache tablets can be great in helping deal with a headache"; "Dressing up in nice clothes is a stylish way to look great at a party"; and "Form friendships by being nice to people you like".
After attracting nearly 50,000 Twitter followers, the pair decided to turn their project into the book 'When One is Expecting: A Posh Person's Guide to Pregnancy and Parenting'.
Although the book was published in June, Pippa's lawyers Harbottle & Lewis have written to the book's publishers, Icon Books, to demand the @Pippatips Twitter account be deleted.
Icon Books declined to comment. Harbottle & Lewis said it did not comment on client matters.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except as well-preserved museum specimens bearing bits of DNA. An ambitious new effort aims to use the latest techniques of genetic manipulation to bring the passenger pigeon back, as North Dakotan Ben Novak, a would-be de-extinction scientist working on the Revive & Restore project at the Long Now Foundation, told the crowd at the TEDxDeExtinction event here on March 15.
"This [pigeon flock] was a biological storm that was rejuvenating resources and allowing other animals to thrive," Novak said of the storms of Ectopistes migratorius feces that used to fall like rain on the landscape of eastern North America. Plus, with the regrowth of forest on the east coast "there is more passenger pigeon habitat every year."
But if a bird looks like an extinct passenger pigeon, has some of the genetic code of the passenger pigeon, but does not act like a passenger pigeon because it is raised by other breeds and few in number: is it a true passenger pigeon? That is just one of the questions posed by the idea of de-extinction—deliberately resurrecting species killed off by human activity or inactivity. And that question may just challenge one of the fundamental concepts of biology: what determines a distinct species.
Welcome to the new era of the hybrid. Species have always been promiscuous and enjoyed porous boundaries, but synthetic biologists and other scientists seem set to blur those boundaries out of existence.
The bison now repopulating the U.S. West’s plains bear the genetic traces of their cattle forebears, residue of an effort that began in the 19th century to breed an animal that could survive the brutal Great Plains winters and drink less water than European cows. Wolves racing through the western landscape with black coats instead of the traditional gray can thank ancestors that got frisky with dogs. And does a Florida panther that carries genes from the Texas cougar count as less of a panther, even if the effort is all that stands between the species and extinction?
"Purity is not found in species," argued Kent Redford, a conservation biologist and former chief scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the DeExtinction event. "We ourselves are not pure," bearing traces of genetic intermixing with Neandertals, Denisovans and perhaps other extinct hominids.
So what counts as a species then? Per the dictionary, a species is "a class of individuals having common attributes or designated by a common name." But biologists more precisely count species as a group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. So the horse and donkey are species, although those aren't their species names, and the mule is—well, it's been a little unclear since Carl Linnaeus came up with the species designation in 1753. As a (usually) sterile hybrid, the mule doesn't count.
But mules certainly do live and cases of mule fertility have been reported from antiquity down to the present day. Mules have even been cloned—and now, with the development of techniques to cut and splice DNA almost at will, scientists might be able to remake the mule into a fertile hybrid. But first they would rather apply the technique to endangered or extinct animals, like the Pyrenean ibex known as the bucardo or the Asian wild cattle called the banteng.
Rise of the hybrid
When a new animal is born it bears a mixture of both parents’ genetics. So what then is an animal that has parents from two different species? The term hybrid was first used to describe the offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar. Or, as Redford put it, "something humans wanted." But now hybrids often bear a linguistic taint, neither fish nor fowl—almost as bad as a genetically modified organism, which, of course, all commercial species now are to one extent or another.
But purity still exists in the wild. Or does it? Traffic fatalities have caused swallow wings to shorten to enable quicker takeoffs just as fishing pressure has caused many wild-caught fish species to shrink in size. Bacteria rapidly evolve resistance to our best antibiotics. Humanity directs evolution unconsciously—except when we do it consciously, introducing useful suites of genetic information like the ability to produce a toxin poisonous to insects inserted into crop plants that was originally made by a bacterium.
With crude technologies such as cloning, where an entire cell nucleus is swapped from one species to another, this has already been done to revive an endangered species. An ordinary cow gave birth to a banteng—Bos javanicus, a species of wild cattle from Asia—in 2003. Although the scientists involved were worried that the hybrid might look more like an ordinary cow, out popped a banteng that lived at the San Diego Zoo for seven years—a diminished life span but a life nonetheless. "It was surreal to see this exotic animal from the jungles of Southeast Asia born in an Iowa field that reeked of cow manure," recalled Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, the company that helped achieve the feat.
Now new technologies such as an enzyme that can precisely cut DNA, known as Cas9 (for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated system 9) and also derived from a bacterium, may enable scientists to stitch strands of DNA in and out of the genetic code. Find the genes that make a mammoth different from an elephant—say, sebaceous glands, hair growth, extra hemoglobin in the blood to withstand cold temperatures, among other traits—insert those into a strand of elephant DNA, and begin to make mammoth sperm and eggs. Then impregnate the mammoth's closest living relative, the Asiatic elephant, and wait for a baby mammoth to be born.
Only it won't be a true mammoth, because its mother will have something to say about how those genes are expressed, from epigenetics to the micro biome. "A gene doesn't tell you how to read it and make an organism," noted biologist David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers University at the DeExtinction event. "The genetic code is more like a database than an instruction manual." In other words, even the best genetic transcript—something still out of reach for many extinct animals and plants—will not provide the detailed source code needed to build version 2.0 of the extinct organism. He added: "All the words of Hamlet are in the dictionary, but if I scan the dictionary, Hamlet does not fall out of it. A strand of DNA can be read in hundreds or even thousands of ways."
And then there's the danger of the favoritism of humans that could lead some artifact "species" to predominate. "Who would have dreamed that genetic engineering in agriculture would diminish the biodiversity of agriculture? We lost tens of thousands of genome diversity from plants," Ehrenfeld added. As he noted, it's hard to predict the ultimate impact of a given technology.
Different species, different ecology
When he was just 13, Long Now’s Novak was already putting together an award-winning science fair project detailing the prospects for cloning the dodo and bringing it back to life. Although that prospect has proved elusive, his passion for bringing back extinct birds remains undiminished. He now hopes to spend his professional life to bringing back some version of E. migratorius, a bird once so numerous in the U.S. that no one bothered to count them until the population had collapsed by the end of the 19th century.
The obstacles are many. "We can't clone birds," said developmental biologist Michael McGrew of the University of Edinburgh at the event. The problem is that a bird's egg yolk constitutes one enormous cell. Swapping nucleus at that scale has proved impossible, to date, according to McGrew.
But there is nonetheless reason for Novak to hope. In order to help with the biosecurity of the chicken eggs humanity relies on to manufacture vaccines (as well as eat), the stem cells of chickens have been put into a duck embryo that was bred as an adult with a chicken. The resulting eggs produced live chicks, proof of principle that although birds cannot be cloned, they can be made to carry the genes of other birds, potentially including extinct ones. With enough back breeding, in which bird after bird is bred together to derive a more complete version of the desired genetic code, the passenger pigeon's close relative, the band-tailed pigeon (Columba fasciata) might be made to lay eggs that result in passenger pigeon offspring, a generation of replacements.
"Breeding [the passenger pigeon] is the greatest technical challenge," Novak said. But it "pales in comparison to making this a natural passenger pigeon." After all, who will teach this novel baby bird to fly—or all the other roles parents of a given species play?
Novak's solution for that challenge starts with painting domestic homing pigeons—luring yet another pigeon species into boxes and airbrushing them to look like passenger pigeons—as well as building aviaries in the woods of eastern North America to protect the few, rare, newly non-extinct fledglings from predators like falcons. The painted homing pigeons would lead the newly created passenger pigeon replacement young from spot to spot as trained by human handlers, theoretically re-creating the flitting behavior of the extinct flocks. "Eventually, we would witness the passenger pigeon rediscovering itself in the forests of New England and the Great Lakes," Novak enthused.
But will those birds be the same as their ancestors? "The banded pigeons fly differently, mate differently, have different goals," Ehrenfeld said of the new passenger pigeon's putative parents, adding that key traits will be forever lost to this new hybrid creature. Not least of which will be the fact that even a few thousand artifact pigeons would still not match the sheer numbers of their genetic ancestors or even hope to fulfill the role they once played in the bygone forest ecosystems of an earlier North America.
Even sheer numbers still failed to protect the abundant bird from going extinct under hunting pressure, the loss of its habitat as farmers cleared eastern lands of trees, and the terminal decline once its population fell below a certain threshold. The eastern forest is also not the same one the passenger pigeon knew before going extinct. Whereas forest cover has rebounded since the 1920s, the American chestnut is largely gone—a victim of a fungal blight that nearly eliminated the once copious tree. "If you're going to bring back species like the passenger pigeon, what are you bringing them back to?" asked forestry scientist William Powell of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the DeExtinction talks. "You might want to bring back the chestnut before anything else."
Powell is working on genetically engineering a version of the American chestnut to be resistant to the fungus—but even that new version will be some kind of hybrid, bearing new genetic information either bred into it from its relative the Chinese chestnut or inserted whole by scientists like Powell.
Then there are the risks, such as the restored flocks of hybrid passenger pigeons turning into a new way to spread bird flu. "The passenger pigeon could be the vector for some terrible disease," said Hank Greely, a bioethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School at the event. "No one wants to be responsible for an avian version of kudzu or, sticking to birds, starlings."
If people do not like squawking, flocking starlings that chew up the landscape, what will they think when a rain of pigeon droppings starts falling on them?
Releasing any replacement hybrid species back into the wild to replace an extinct species or augment the numbers of a threatened species would be another kind of experiment that calls for the invention of an entirely new branch of science, dubbed "resurrection ecology" by Stanley Temple, an ecology professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. "We need to think carefully before the saber-tooth cat is out of the bag," he noted.
So, for example, the pressures that lead to the extinction of the original species in the first place would need to be gone, whether hunting, in the case of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), or habitat loss, in the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Candidate species for hybrid replacements will also have to be weighed by specific criteria that might include (for birds like the passenger pigeon, for example) relatively recent extinction, minimal parental care, small egg size and nonmigratory habits. "If you only have one or two and they fly away, you're going to cry," noted ornithologist Susan Haig of the U.S. Geological Survey.
More fundamentally, scientists remain unsure why changing conditions can cause one species to disappear whereas another similarly adapted species flourishes or changes with the times. For example, when the ice age ended, "why do some species like the cave lion go extinct while caribou thrive today?" asked Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
There's also the question of whether such an expensive effort to re-create and reintroduce a once extinct species could divert funds from ongoing conservation efforts to save species still extant but dwindling fast. And the relative expense of this project means it might find its first use creating glorified pets, like the rare animals in zoos. "If it had not been illegal to keep thylacines as pets, then would it be extinct now?" asked paleontologist Michael Archer of the University of New South Wales, who is attempting to resurrect the marsupial tiger. "I'm positive it wouldn't."
"By the end of this century we will have much more control over life than we ever dreamed," Greely said at the event—and that seems set to be true, one way or another.
But control is almost as tricky a concept when it comes to science as species. The newly extant hybrid species will need to be further genetically armored against the causes of their extinction, such as American chestnuts or resurrected gastric brooding frogs tweaked to resist fungal threats. Scientists will be making a long-lived commitment to certain species, like the booster shots against West Nile virus that veterinarians still dispense to all captive and pseudo-wild California condors extant. "It’s a rather momentous undertaking we have to do," said bird curator Michael Mace of the San Diego Zoo. A similar effort might be needed to bring back a new version of the Hawaii ‘O‘o bird, whose habitat still exists but is now plagued with avian malaria that even a new hybrid bird might not survive.
More philosophically: Is de-extinction a project in search of some artificial stasis, more commonly dubbed a "balance of nature," that has never existed? Will we turn nature into a well-curated museum of artifact creatures while we let other, less glamorous species dwindle and disappear? Or will this new technology be used to preserve those species that perform some critical function, such as the wild bees that pollinate many different species of plant?
And how have we changed? The Carolina parakeet died out in 1918 because it interfered with crops and had the unfortunate behavior of flocking to fallen comrades, enabling hunters to decimate the population. "What we have left is remorse and remains," noted nature artist Isabella Kirkland. That remorse might drive us to use the remains to resurrect lost plants and animals, albeit in a new hybrid form.
Novak, for one, hopes that with enough money and determination a living hybrid passenger pigeon could be created within a decade, a kind of second coming of E. migratorius. "We don't have extinct species brought back to life yet," said environmentalist Stewart Brand, an instigator of Revive & Restore who hopes to bring back the passenger pigeon, "but it will be soon." We just don't know what species they will be. | <urn:uuid:fd942716-3a59-4d31-af7b-4ac90974d35b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.yahoo.com/news/efforts-resuscitate-extinct-species-may-spawn-era-hybrid-160100379.html?ref=gs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954936 | 3,339 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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Camels are the poster animals for the desert, but researchers now have evidence that these shaggy beasts once lived in the Canadian High Arctic.
The fossil remains of a 3.5-million-year-old camel were found on Ellesmere Island in Canada's northernmost territory, Nunavut. The camel was about 30 percent bigger than modern camels and was identified using a technique called collagen fingerprinting. The finding, detailed today (March 5) in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that modern camels stemmed from giant relatives that lived in a forested Arctic that was somewhat warmer than today.
"It's the first evidence that camels were ever there," lead study author and paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa told LiveScience."It is surprising because usually we associate camels with arid and semi-arid habitats."
Camels, which belong to the Camelus genus, originated in North America during the Eocene period about 45 million years ago, and later crossed to Eurasia over the Bering Isthmus, a landbridge between Alaska and Russia. Their closest relatives are llamas, alpacas, vicunas and guanacos.[See Images of the Arctic Camel and Fossils]
The researchers found about 30 pieces of bone that were part of a camel's tibia, or shinbone. The fossil's location moves the known range of North American camels northward by about 745 miles (1,200 kilometers).
The camel's identity and age were determined via collagen fingerprinting, a technique that measures the amount of a bone protein called Type I collagen. Different mammals have characteristic amounts of this protein, which survives longer than many other biological molecules in the body.
The team dated the fossil to roughly 3.5 million years ago, a period known as the mid-Pliocene warm period. The global temperature was about 3.5 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 3 degrees Celsius) warmer than today, Rybczynski said, and about 33 degrees F (18 degrees C) warmer where the camel was found, with temperatures averaging around 30 degrees F (minus 1.4 degree C). The Canadian High Arctic was forested then.
The fossil specimen closely resembles modern dromedary camels, based on the fingerprinting, but was about a third larger in size. It also bears similarity to the giant Yukon camels that lived about 1,240 miles (2,000 km) away from the site where the ancient camel bones were discovered.
The researchers plan to continue searching for camel remains in the High Arctic. "We hope to find more," Rybczynski said.
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Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence ” on October 17-18, 2011.
Topic One: The Science
Interdependence Between the Environment and Our Health: Risk and Opportunities
SPEAKER: Jonathan Patz
These global disruptions raise several ethical issues that will become themes of subsequent sessions, among them: damage from global warming is caused by the wealthiest nations, but most negatively impacts the well-being of the poorest; the question of generational responsibility, where our human descendants are being harmed by our present activities; and the issue of the threat that human activity poses to other species on the planet. The health problems created areas of poverty by consumption by the world’s wealthiest offers a case in point.
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Researchers in the early 1980s first conceived the idea of universal blood. It revolves around using enzymes to create blood that would be compatible with all other known blood types.
Universal blood context
Universal blood is blood that can be transfused into any person irrespective of a person's blood type. There are four primary human blood types: A, B, AB, and O. The differences between these blood types are found in where antigens and antibodies are located within their respective biological structures. Blood type A has A antigens on its red blood cells with anti-B antigens in the plasma, and so forth.
In blood transfusions, persons with blood type AB cannot receive A or B-type blood. Type A cannot receive from B or AB, and type B cannot receive from A or AB. Any attempt to transfer incompatible blood between these blood types may trigger life-threatening immune responses. Type O can be transferred to any blood type without any risk of immune responses because it has no antigens but does include anti-A and B antibodies in its plasma. However, type O blood is in short supply worldwide and is in high demand due to its universal properties. The concept of universal blood seeks to address the short supply of type O blood and meet its increasing demand.
According to research in the 1980s, it was discovered that an enzyme from green coffee beans could be used to create type O red blood cells. These cells would be created using sugar enzymes to remove the moieties with the galactose or terminal N-acetylgalactosamine residues, leaving the core sugar structure on the red blood cells to mimic type O blood. However, blood research experts at the University of British Columbia in Canada say that impractically vast amounts of this enzyme would be needed to create usable amounts of type O blood. Moreover, the enzyme must have type B red blood cells as a necessary starting material. As of January 2022, research was being carried out to develop an improved enzyme to create universal blood.
Generally, only about seven percent of the world's population has type B blood. Type B negative blood is rare as it only comprises two percent of human blood. With it being impossible to transfer blood between non-compatible blood types, universal blood is likely critical to treating whole population groups if it can be developed in sufficient quantities. For example, a patient in the operating room needing a blood transfusion may not have to wait until type O negative blood is found before that person can receive a life-saving transfusion. Universal blood can solve this problem without fear of severe health consequences.
Universal blood can be stored in facilities similar to blood banks, which are used to store blood donated by the public and are the primary source of blood used in healthcare facilities and hospitals worldwide. Instead of asking for donations, universal blood can be produced in a lab, eliminating the challenge of eliciting donations from members of the public. However, once universal blood is developed on a large scale, the cost of blood transfusions or the sale of blood may differ significantly between public and private healthcare systems. As of 2022, two research streams were investigating how to produce sufficient amounts of universal blood and ensuring it can be safely used in real-life environments.
Implications of universal blood
The implications of eventual availability of universal blood may include:
- Eliminating blood shortages in national healthcare systems.
- Eliminating the dependence of blood centers and healthcare systems on blood donations.
- Allowing more lives to be saved in public and private healthcare systems as blood will be readily available to administer transfusions if needed, irrespective of patients' blood type.
- Reducing healthcare costs associated with the blood supply network, especially within developing nations.
- Nations being more resilient against natural disasters and pandemics that may require sudden spikes of blood transfusions to save lives.
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The Dingonek is said to be a walrus-like creature found in the parts of Africa; Kenya in particular. John Alfred Jordan, an explorer, claimed to have shot at this unidentified creature in the River Maggori in Kenya in 1907 (some reports say 1909). Jordan claimed this scale-covered creature was 18 feet (6 metres) long and had reptilian claws, a spotted back, a long tail, and a big head out of which grew large, curved, walrus-like tusks. Locals of the area also describe it as having a scorpion-like tail and that it would kill any hippos, crocodiles, or fishermen that happened to wander into its territory.
There is what is said to be a first hand account from Edgar Beecher Bronson in his 1910 book. :
'Nights about the camp fires with Jordan were never dull. Some incident of the day or turn of the talk always served to start him on some stirring tale of weird bush happenings. That night he was particularly interesting, notwithstanding a heavy electrical storm was on and we were tightly shut in my tent, with no light but the dull flicker of our pipes. "Wonder how long it will be before the last of all the strange animal and reptilian types native to Africa have been taken and classified?" he mused. "What do you mean?" I asked. "Are there many types left which have been seen but remain untaken?" "God only knows how many," he replied. "Why, it is only four years ago I killed my bongo and got the first perfect bongo skin ever taken. Before that Deputy Commissioner Isaac had gotten a piece of a bongo hide from the Wanderobo and had sent it to the British Museum, but mine was the first whole skin ever seen by a white man, and not so very many have been shot since."My word, but they are beauties!—bright red as an impala, white of jaw, with nine white stripes over sides, back, and quarters, short of leg but heavier of body than a roan, with horns curved and shaped like a bush buck's but tipped white as ivory. Mine was a corker, nine feet, six inches from nose to tail tip, with twenty-nine and onehalf-inch horns. And it's hard to get, the beggars are; never see them outside the heaviest forest or afoot except at nights or at dawn or in the dusk. Indeed, I only got mine after putting out a lot of Wanderobo for days and days to beat up the forest."What did I do with him? Nothing, just nothing. Helpful Government did it all for me. A new species unincluded in the game license, when I got to the Eldama, Ravine Boma, Collector Foaker seized skin and head, under instructions from Provincial Commissioner Hobley, and they were sold at public auction at Mombasa for £50, a little later reselling at £250."Odd ones! Why, there's the Okapi, sort of a cross between a giraffe and a—I don't know what—perhaps a 'what is i"Then there's that infernal horror of a reptilian 'bounder' that comes up the Maggori River out of the lake the Lumbwa have christened Dingonek. And it's real prize money that beauty would fetch, five or ten thousand quid at least, and you bet I've got my Wanderobo and Lumbwa always on the lookout for one when the Maggori is in flood. "Ever see one? Did I? Rather! Mataia, the boy there, and Mosoni were with me. It was only about a year ago. Mataia vows he has seen two since; can't tell whether he really saw them or dreamed he did—like as not the latter, for I know Dingonek were trying to crawl into my blankets for weeks after we saw that 'bounder.'"How was it? Well, we were on the march approaching the Maggori, and I had stayed back with the porters and sheep and had sent the Lumbwa ahead to look for a drift we could cross—river was up and booming and chances poor. Presently I heard the bush smashing and up raced my Lumbwa, wide-eyed and gray as their black skins could get, with the yarn that they had seen a frightful strange beast on the river bank, which at sight of them had plunged into the water—as they described it, some sort of cross between a sea serpent, a leopard, and a whale. Thinking they had gone crazy or were pulling my leg, I told them I'd believe them if they could show me, but not before.
'After a long shauri [palaver] among themselves, back they finally ventured, returning in half an hour to say that IT lay full length exposed on the water in midstream. "Down to the Maggori I hurried, and there their 'bounder' lay, right-oh! "Holy saints, but he was a sight—fourteen or fifteen feet long, head big as that of a lioness but shaped and marked like a leopard, two long white fangs sticking down straight out of his upper jaw, back broad as a hippo, scaled like an armadillo, but colored and marked like a leopard, and a broad fin tail, with slow, lazy swishes of which he was easily holding himself level in the swift current, headed up stream.t.' Hyde Baker killed two in the Congo country less than three years ago, and one or two Germans have taken them; that 's all. Gad! but he was a hideous old haunter of a nightmare, was that beast-fish, that made you want an aeroplane to feel safe of him; for while he lay up stream of me, I had been brought down to the river bank precisely where he had taken water, and there all about me in the soft mud and loam were the imprints of feet wide of diameter as a hippo's but clawed like a reptile's, feet you knew could carry him ashore and claws you could be bally well sure no man could ever get loose from once they had nipped him.
'"Blast that blighter's fangs, but they looked long enough to go clean through a man. "He had not seen or heard me, and how long I stood and watched him I don't know. Anyway, when I began to fear he would shift or turn and see me, I gave him a .303 hard-nose behind his leopard ear—and then hell split for fair! "Straight up out of the water he sprang, straight as if standing on his blooming tail—must have jumped off it, I fancy. "Me? Well, I never quit sprinting until I was atop of the bank and deep in the bush—fancier burst of speed than any wounded bull elephant ever got out of me, my word for that!
'"That was one time when my presence of mind didn't succeed in getting away with me from the starting post, and when, finally, it overtook me, and I bunched nerve enough to stop and listen, the bush ahead of me was still smashing with flying Lumbwa, but all was silent astern. "His legs? What were they like? Blest if I know! The same second that he stood up on his tail, I got too busy with my own legs to study his. "Gory wonder, was that fellow; a .303, where placed, should have killed anything, for he was less than ten yards from me when I shot, but though we watched waters and shores over a range of several miles for two days, no sight did we get of him or his tracks. "Ask Mataia, Mosoni, or the lad there what they saw."
'I did so, through my own interpreter, Salem, and got from each a voluble description of beast and incident differing in no essential details from Jordan's description. Moreover, were it necessary, which I do not myself regard it, the strongest corroboration is obtainable of the existence in Victoria Nyanza of a reptile or serpent of huge size, untaken and unclassed. While in Uganda with ex-Collector James Martin in November last, he told me it was a well-known fact that at intervals in the past, usually long intervals, a great water serpent or reptile was seen on or near the north shore of the lake, which was worshipped by the natives, who believed its coming a harbinger of heavy crops and large increase of their flocks and herds. Again, in December, while dining with the Senior Deputy Commissioner, C. W. Hobley, C. M. G., at his residence in Nairobi, the very night before starting on this safari, in speaking of the origin of the sleeping sickness Mr. Hobley told me that the Baganda, Wasoga, and Kavirondo of the north shore of the lake had from time immemorial sacrificed burnt offerings of cattle and sheep to a lake reptile of great size and terrible appearance they called Luquata, which occasionally appeared along or near the shore; that since the last coming of Luquata was just shortly before the first outbreak of the sleeping sickness, the natives firmly believe that the muzungu have killed Luquata with the purpose and as the means of making them victims of the dread plague. Of the existence in the lake of such an unclassed reptile, Mr. Hobley considered there was no question”'
Edgar Beecher Bronson did exist and did go to Africa (see link to obituary below) but how much of the book is tall tales I cannot comment. It was well known that often books were written to titillate the readership with tales of daring do. However, (I cannot confirm this) at the Brackfontein Ridge in South Africa is said to be a cave painting of an unknown creature that fits the description of the dingonek, including walrus-like tusks.
So a story borne of myth, a misidentification of a known creature or an unknown creature of terrifying aspect? We may never know. Locals in Africa sometimes call mokele-mbembe by the name dingonek, so it may just be a name for any unknown creature. If anyone has any thought please post a coment.
ADVENTURE PACKED THE LIFE OF EDGAR BEECHER BRONSON; Daredevil Hunter and Writer Who Died Last Week Had Thrilling Experiences in Many Lands. February 11, 1917, Sunday:
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Cybertecture Egg is a new office design set to be built in India. The smart architectural egg is a design based on interactive building designs of the future, a term being referred to as Cybertecture, dubbed by company, Cybertecture International.
When it is complete, The Cybertecture Egg in Mumbai, India will be one of the world's most high tech office buildings. The structure, which appears to be resting on an angle, does not have a rounded tip, but instead the top of the 13th floor on the 32,000 sq m building is flat. In it rests a sky garden that will perform thermolysis.
"PV panels will be installed on top of the building and a wind turbine on the sky gardens will generate electricity," World Architecture News says. "A water filtration system will also be incorporated into the building to recycle grey water for flushing and irrigation purpose."
The building is packed with elements intended to give those working in the building the top in terms of office luxury, including health monitors in bathrooms that are capable of performing on-site testing like weigh-ins and blood pressure checks.
They've estimated the project will be complete by the end of 2010.
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Car air conditioning systems using HFC-134a have a global warming potential (GWP) 22-92% greater than those based on hydrocarbons, according to a life-cycle study commissioned by Calor Gas.1 The study will support Calor's attempt to enter a rapidly growing market in Europe, challenging HFC-134a producers such as ICI.
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In my time as an investor on the BBC television show Dragons’ Den, I’ve heard hundreds of business pitches over the years — and given plenty myself in my own experience as an entrepreneur. I’ve learned that being able to sell your business offerings under acceptable conditions is vital for any business, especially when it’s in the embryonic phase.
Often the way you present yourself and your business will greatly affect who will invest in your venture. As an investor — and not just on television — I’ve found that I’m more likely to invest in an entrepreneur who’s professional, well prepared, and knows his numbers in great detail.
Certain business presentations have all the elements of a good pitch, which can be condensed down to the following components:
Prepare, prepare, prepare. Before you present, obtain as much background knowledge as possible on prospective investors. Use Google and especially social media as a resource — LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter are packed with information on your investor, and (as with any other presentation) if you know your audience you can engage with them on a personal level. Above all, remain observant and always look for opportunities to break the ice when meeting new investors. On one occasion in my business career, I noticed a stack of golfing photos in the investor’s office and proposed discussing the pitch during a round of golf. We ended up closing the deal on the course. At the end of the day, people want to enjoy business relations, and that personal touch can make all the difference.
Create a journey for the investment. Ideally, this journey will demonstrate a persisting problem that will be amended by the new business proposition. Demonstrate why and how you came to develop the idea to solve the problem. As an investor, if I can relate to the problem — and find it compelling enough — I’m more likely to invest.
Convey your enthusiasm. If a person has the drive to make a business work, then their proposal is going to be more appealing. You need to succinctly explain why you are a qualified individual to invest in, and importantly how you plan to execute the idea. I remember a particular entrepreneur on Dragons’ Den who pitched me an idea which — honestly — did not seem particularly innovative. However, his heartfelt account of his life story, passion to succeed, and personal motivations inspired me as an investor. I ended up agreeing on an investment and he went on to develop a seriously successful business.
Back up your pitch with hard data. When it comes to business feasibility, investors are only interested in facts, therefore make sure your numbers make sense. You have to be prepared for in-depth questions on turnover, sales figures, break-even points, gross and net margins (profit), and so on. Investors are very fond of hard facts, so don’t rely on hiding behind technical terms and growth projections.
Leverage your image. Be creative with projecting an established image of yourself and your business. I remember when I started my recruitment company, I could only afford a miniscule office (it was actually a broom cupboard) at a grand office building in London. As a consequence, I would meet my clients in the impressive entrance hall and suggest we nip out for coffee at the Ritz, explaining that the office was far too busy to talk privately. With this gesture, I would maintain the image of an established business, even though the reality was that I was too embarrassed to bring anyone to my “office.”
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Over the weekend, a Cleveland Clinic doctor’s anti-vaccine blog post sparked a social media furor, prompting the prestigious medical center to issue a statement reaffirming its trust in vaccines.
In an op-ed on Cleveland.com, entitled “Make 2017 the year to avoid toxins (good luck) and master your domain,” Dr. Daniel Neides, the medical director and chief operating officer of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, questioned whether vaccines have contributed to a rise in neurological diseases like autism and ADHD and argued that ingredients in them are harmful to newborns.
“Does the vaccine burden — as has been debated for years — cause autism?” he wrote. “I don’t know and will not debate that here. What I will stand up and scream is that newborns without intact immune systems and detoxification systems are being over-burdened with preservative and adjuvants in the vaccines.”
He also wrote:Â "Some of the vaccines have helped reduce the incidence of childhood communicable diseases, like meningitis and pneumonia. That is great news. But not at the expense of neurologic diseases like autism and ADHD increasing at alarming rates.“
The response on social media from doctors and others in the scientific community to Neides’s shockingly unfounded claims was swift and forceful.
Vaccines have long been a trusted source for good health among the population, however, a recent blog post by a Cleveland clinic doctor revealed the truth about vaccines and their effects on overall health and wellness. Questioning whether vaccines have contributed to an increase in neurological diseases, Dr. Daniel Neides thoroughly described the reasons for his reasoning. For more information, please feel free to ask Dr. Jimenez or contact us at (915) 850-0900.
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Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved 'The Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020'. The ordinance brings several APMC (Agricultural Produce and Marketing Committee) reforms paving way for One India, One Agriculture Market or in easy terms ‘One Nation-One Market’. Before this, there were restrictions for farmers selling agri-produce outside the notified APMC market yards or their districts. The ordinance comes as only a dozen states were on board for reform.
Agricultural economist and Niti Aayog member Dr Ramesh Chand in an interview with Outlook’s Jyotika Sood talks about the reform which the government claims will lay the foundation for ensuring golden harvest for farmers and contribute to doubling their income. Edited excerpts:
How important is the idea of 'One Nation-One Market'? How will it help farmers?
With the increase in commercialisation of agriculture, the share of farm produce that is sold within the state shrinks and the share sold outside increases. Moreover, consumption patterns in the country are getting diversified largely due to an increase in per capita income. People want to consume a range of products often grown outside the state and even outside the country. This necessitates seamless flow of farm produce across the country without regulatory restrictions and barriers and excessive intermediation. This requires supply chains and value chains that move products from one state to another state quickly and efficiently and integrate consumer with producer at distant geographies. Such development is accelerated if we have uniform rules of game across the country with freedom to farmers and traders to sell, buy and move produce without unnecessary checks and barriers. Such 'one nation one market' is vital to raise price realisation by farmers, supply food to the consumer at competitive prices and to compete with import and push export.
By when can we expect 'One Nation - One Market' to be implemented?
The central government has shown the required urgency by bringing new law for agricultural trading through ordinance route as there has already been considerable delay in achieving goals of market integration and competitiveness. The ordinances will be notified very soon. I hope farmers, as well as traders, will take cognizance of the new trading opportunities created by law for them and will start preparing to do business as per the new liberalised trading environment when Kharif crops are harvested, from next September onward.
Will farmers make more money with the reforms?
Surely, they will. In fact, the main focus and goal of the three policy reforms cleared by the Union Cabinet in its meeting held on June 3 are to help farmers get higher remunerative prices by creating new sale avenues and higher competition. Reduction in marketing cost and market margin due to large intermediaries often gets distributed over producers and consumers.
Will small farmers with less produce have power to bargain?
Higher competitiveness in the sale of commodities always benefits sellers. Therefore, higher efficiency in the new marketing and trade environment will benefit all categories of farmers having marketable surplus. In order to get further benefit from the liberalised environment, small farmers need to connect directly with consumers and end-users and also participate more in sales platforms. This will require some minimum scale which small farmers can create by joining hands with one another forming producers’ group or FPO kind of organisation.
Do you think forming Farmer Producer Company (FPCs) is the best way to approach in this new scenario?
FPO is considered a beneficial institution for empowerment and protection of all type of farmers and more important for small landholders. This has been amply experienced in case of dairy cooperatives in the country.
How has been the states’ response to this idea?
All states want their farmers to get remunerative prices and earn better income from agriculture. States are for creating better marketing avenues for their farmers. Discussion with States to adopt Model APMC Act and Model Contract Farming Act has been quite supportive of reforms in agriculture marketing and trade. Many of the ideas contained in the ordinances have come from states. The provisions in new trading laws have not touched the sphere of State APMCs in their market yards. Even deemed to be markets declared under APMC will continue to operate as per the APMC regulations.
Will it be easy to change farmers’ mindset? What all efforts would be required to make ‘One Nation-One Market’ popular?
The problem in agriculture is not of farmers’ mindset but the restrictive regulatory environment and missing opportunities. Better logistics, farm-friendly infrastructure, easy access to modern capital, assurance about prices, sharing of market risk and incentive for diversification towards more paying quality produce and high-value produce will motivate farmers to think about transformation in the ways they do agriculture and the way they do business in agriculture. We need to create enabling environment with favourable terms for the farmers to achieve the real goal of “One Nation One Market” and for the success of “Atamnirbhar Bharat”. | <urn:uuid:826717bf-fdcb-4377-a887-9a1836a476d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-interview-one-nation-one-market-is-vital-niti-aayogs-dr-ramesh-chand-on-reforms-in-agricultural-trading/354200 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.949927 | 1,017 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Visitors to Macau are frequently surprised by the orderly way that traffic moves in this small city. On average some 130,000 vehicles each day take to the narrow and winding roads in an area of under 30 square kilometers, so a well ordered traffic plan has proved vital. Some 80% of the roads are one-way and this ensures that outside the morning and evening peak periods there is little congestion. A plentiful supply of taxis at the airport and ferry terminals together with an excellent public bus service helps with the movement of people at all times. An important feature of which the visitor should be aware is that the traffic in Macau moves on the left hand side of the road!
TRANSMAC and TCM are the two bus companies operating all public and mini buses in the city.
Bus lines cover almost all the attractions and hotels on the Peninsular and the main scenic spots on the outlying islands of Taipa and Coloane. The routes operate on a one-way circuit around the city. This means you would not necessarily have the same stops on a return trip. Ask the drivers for details. Most public buses are air-conditioned middle-sized vehicles capable of carrying more than 20 people. There are no conductors so it is necessary for you to have the appropriate change in coins before getting aboard. For the ride within the Peninsular, the fare is 2.5 MOP$. Several bus lines going further to the islands of Taipa and Coloane charge three to five Macanese dollars. The ride to Macau International Airport on the island of Taipa from the Peninsular is six MOP$. The operating hours of most buses are from 6:00 to 24:00.
Bus Nos. 21, 21A, 25, 26 and 26A run between the Peninsular and islands of Taipa and Coloane
Bus Nos. 11, 22, 28A, 33 and 34 run between the Macau Peninsular and island of Taipa.
API is a special line plying between the airport on the island of Taipa and the Peninsular
Tip: We suggest visitors try to avoid the peak morning and evening traffic periods when people crowd onto buses to go to work or return home. All bus stop signs have route descriptions in both Chinese and Portuguese. English versions of the local map can be obtained from the counters of local Tourist Bureau on Senado Square in the downtown area of the city.
Light Rail Transit
Nowadays, only Macau light rail Taipa Line Phase One is under construction. This subway line will link the Border Gate and Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal and contain 21 stations via Macao International Airport (MFM). It will open in 2019 or 2020. In the future, the Light Rail Transit (LRT) will totally operate five subway lines.
Macau Light Rail Planning Map
There are around 1,100 taxis in the city which provide convenient service for local citizens and visitors along with city buses and free shuttle buses of casinos and hotels. Sometimes, it may be a little hard to hail a taxi, especially at the airport or Border Gate. Taxis here are mainly in white and yellow: the former can hold 4, 5 or 6 passengers, and the latter can accommodate at most 4 passengers.
Local maps with information in Chinese, Portuguese and English are supplied to taxi drivers by the local Tourism Administration Bureau so that they can communicate with tourists about the places and routes in the city. This can be a good way for tourists to generally know the city from the special “tour guide”.
Taxi Reservation Hotline: 853 28519519 & 853 28939939
|First 1,600m (1.750yd)||17MOP$|
|Every Extra 260m (285yd)||2MOP$|
|Luggage Left at Compartment||3MOP$/piece|
|Taipa – Coloane Island||2MOP$|
|Macao Peninsular – Coloane Island||5MOP$|
|Boarding at Macao International Airport||5MOP$|
|Bicycle Ride Around the city|
This is a small city that enables visitors to enjoy their visit by means of special tourist vehicles that include pedicabs and a replica of an old-style 1920s English bus.
Although the transportation on the outlying islands of Taipa and Coloane is not as extensive as that on the Peninsular, public buses of TCM and TRANSMAC ply between the Peninsular, Taipa and Coloane at three to five MOP$ and cover the main sightseeing spots on the islands. The operating time is from 7:00 to 24:00.
Taxis inside the island areas charge the same as those on the Macau Peninsular. No extra fee is charged for the transit from the islands to the Peninsular.
Hotels on the island of Taipa have special buses leaving for the Macau Ferry Terminal.
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In analyzing the sex-difference claims of authors Susan Pinker and Louann Brizendine, let's start with language. Who hasn't heard that women are naturally more verbal than men—better at expressing themselves, better at reading and writing, chattier? These clichés crop up in various forms. In her book, for instance, Pinker emphasizes that girls speak earlier, outperform boys on various measures of verbal skill when they're young, and are less likely to be dyslexic. She notes that women have an advantage in verbal fluency. And in an interview, she told me that "huge differences in literacy" exist between college-age men and women. Meanwhile, Brizendine casts women as virtual talkaholics. The hardcover edition of her book asserts that "girls speak faster on average—250 words per minute versus 125 for typical males." It also claims that females use an average of 20,000 words per day compared to males' 7,000.
What is the scientific basis for these claims? Well-established literature suggests that girls tend to acquire language earlier than boys and are less likely to develop dyslexia (though the sex difference in dyslexia is less striking than some older research would suggest). But while adolescent girls may perform better on some tests of verbal ability, the gender gap is not large, according to meta-analyses assessed here. In the past couple of years, scores on the critical reading section of the SAT essentially show a dead heat for boys and girls: In 2007, they averaged 504 and 502, respectively. The new writing test on the SAT shows an advantage for girls, but it's small: In 2007, those male and female averages were 489 and 500. Sex differences on reading comprehension and vocabulary tests also appear to be small or close to zero, when all ages are taken into account. To some degree, differences in verbal ability in children or adolescents may reflect different paces of development that even out later on.
Some differences—for instance, on tests of verbal fluency—do appear in adults. (A typical verbal fluency test might ask people to list as many words as possible beginning, say, with the letter B.) But the differences between average men and women are small compared with the variation within each gender. For instance, if we take an average measure of verbal fluency for men, about 50 percent of men will score higher that that mark, and about 60 percent of women will. Which means that you'd do pretty badly if you tried to predict a person's gender from his or her verbal fluency score. What's more, these tests may have little to do with real-life communication. "When does any conversation call upon you to produce as many words as you can think of starting with B?" asks Deborah Cameron, a professor of language and communication at Oxford and author of The Myth of Mars and Venus. People may assume that "verbal fluency" means that women are more articulate or can find the words to express themselves better, she says, but that leap has not been substantiated.
Meanwhile, Brizendine's claim that women talk faster than men is unfounded, as linguist Mark Liberman has pointed out. Brizendine told me she omitted the two-to-one speed ratio from her paperback edition because she discovered that no primary sources verified it. Similarly, her assertion that women utter more words a day than men is bunk. Thanks in part to Liberman's provocation, last year University of Arizona psychologist Matthias Mehl conducted a new analysis of daily word budgets. He and his colleagues sampled speech from male and female college students, who wore recording devices that turned on every 12½ minutes throughout the day. The findings, published in Science, show that on average women use about 16,000 words per day. And so do men. (Brizendine says that this study convinced her to drop the 20,000-to-7,000-words-per-day claim. But her paperback still says that "on average girls speak two to three times more words per day than boys"—an assertion that is just as flimsy. Here's her explanation, and a critical response from the scientist she relies on.)
What makes the claims of a stark male-female split sexy, of course, is the appeal to neuroscience. Pinker, for instance, highlights a study of brain cell density, which suggests that female brains are more densely packed with neurons in an area called the posterior temporal cortex, which is associated with language. This "might explain the general female advantage in language fluency and spelling," among other things, she writes. Brizendine cites the same paper, asserting that in the "brain centers for language and hearing … women have eleven percent more neurons than men." But this paper looked at four men and five women—hardly a sample size to inspire grand claims. Neither Brizendine nor Pinker mentions this crucial caveat.And even if a difference in neuron density for that area were to be established, it's not at all clear what that would mean, if anything, given the complex circuitry that language involves.
These writers also home in on the structure that connects the brain's left and right hemispheres. Some research suggests that part of this structure, which is called the corpus callosum, is thicker in women than in men. This could mean that women have a "faster superhighway for neural messages" (Pinker) and therefore an advantage when it comes to language (as well as emotional processing). But that claim is tricky to make, and the significance of any purported size difference is deeply unclear.
Finally, Pinker argues that men "are simply less versatile when it comes to language." At first she seems to mean that they are more vulnerable to language-related problems like dyslexia, but in the paragraphs that follow, she slips from dyslexia to general measures like language fluency (and then back to dyslexia). So "less versatile" becomes a broader comment on ability, too. She suggests that men may rely more heavily on one brain hemisphere—the left—while women are more likely to use both. In particular, Pinker cites a 1995 study that asked men and women to answer questions about words and nonsense words, like whether they belonged to the same category or rhymed. Using fMRI images of the subjects' brains, the researchers found that men and women both relied on areas of the left hemisphere when answering questions. But women also used areas of the right hemisphere while men tended not to. According to Pinker, this means that if a problem occurred in the left hemisphere, "women would simply access the right hemisphere instead. Under normal circumstances sex differences would be subtle, but when things went wrong, sex differences would be extreme."
But since 1995 and the study that Pinker cites, a more complex picture has emerged, with some researchers finding that women are more likely to draw on both sides of the brain for certain language tasks, and others finding no sex difference. Maybe that's because of the types of tasks involved, but Pinker doesn't really discuss the controversy. Also, even if, on average, men and women used different neural strategies for playing certain word games, that doesn't necessarily mean one sex will perform better overall. This study, for instance, which asked subjects to put real and nonsense verbs in the past tense, found that women did tend to rely more on both brain hemispheres while men tended to rely more asymmetrically on the left hemisphere. But it made no difference in how quickly or accurately they performed.
Subtle differences could turn out to matter for men and women with specific clinical conditions. Pinker likes to say that the extremes tell us something about the rest of us. But the relevance is hard to see. (And, as it turns out, the connection between these gender-related brain findings and dyslexia is not well-established, either, however logical the connection seems.) All told, what's striking about the evidence on language is not so much a profound gap between the sexes, but the large gaps in our understanding of the brain. | <urn:uuid:f8c6afd4-623a-4bff-9c64-fc551b91d913> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/features/2008/the_sex_difference_evangelists/pick_a_little_talk_a_little.single.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964706 | 1,661 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Despite his role as the key player in the late, unlamented fool's errand known as the Iraq War, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has remained the most elusive of subjects. A big part of this has to do with him not meeting our expectations, or in any event my own: He remains unapologetic, unrepentant and unconscionably obtuse when it comes to discussing the war, notably the chief rationale for starting it -- that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- which of course was discredited almost from the start.
Errol Morris has now penetrated Rumsfeld's armor (which he compares to a turtle's carapace) in a four-part New York Times op-ed series based on his interviews for The Unknown Known, a 2013 documentary in which Rumsfeld discusses his career from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
I happen to think the Times series is way too long, and spare me the copious footnotes, okay? But I slogged through the entire series with the (it turns out) prescient feeling it all had an Alice in Wonderland quality about it, and was rewarded with these closing observations by Morris in the fourth part:
"The history of the Iraq war is replete with false assumptions, misinterpreted evidence, errors in judgment. Mistakes can be made. We all make them. But Rumsfeld created a climate where mistakes could be made with little or no way to correct them. Basic questions about evidence for W.M.D. were replaced with equivocations and obfuscations. A hall of mirrors. An infinite regress to nowhere. What do I know I know? What do I know I know I know? What do I know I don’t know I don’t know? Ad infinitum. Absence of evidence could be evidence of absence or evidence of presence. Take your pick. An obscurantist’s dream.
"There’s a quotation I have never liked. It comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up. 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.' Not really. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and know they are opposed.
"People embrace contradictory positions, often without being aware of it. Sometimes not caring. Sometimes proud of it. Rumsfeld seems (with pleasure) to say 'p' and 'not-p.' What he would call the two sides of the coin. One side: 'If you wish for peace, prepare for war.' The other side, 'Belief in the inevitability of conflict can become one of its main causes.' Not exactly a contradiction. But where does he stand? His follow-up: 'All generalizations are false, including this one' — doesn’t clarify much of anything.
"When asked how Colin Powell could have presented such shoddy evidence for W.M.D. in Iraq to the United Nations, Rumsfeld told me, ' . . . because he believed it.' Fine, as far as it goes. My guess is Rumsfeld is right. When Powell appeared before the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, he believed what he was saying. . . .
"Rumsfeld, too, may believe what he is saying. But believing something does not make it true. The question is why he believed what he believed. On the basis of what evidence? Mere belief is not enough.
"In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice, perplexed by her encounter with the Cheshire Cat, says, 'I have seen a cat without a grin, but I have never seen a grin without a cat.' I had a similar experience with Donald Rumsfeld — his grin and my puzzlement about what it might mean. I was left with the frightening suspicion that the grin might not be hiding anything. It was a grin of supreme self-satisfaction and behind the grin might be nothing at all."
History already has judged Rumsfeld's stewardship harshly, and he certainly was the worst defense secretary since Robert McNamara, who served under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. McNamara, in turn, was the worst since Jefferson Davis, who as secretary of war under Franklin Pierce worked tirelessly for Southern interests and was instrumental in helping push the U.S. toward civil war.
In fact, Rumsfeld was the worst hands down.
Like Rumsfeld, McNamara was a control freak who thought he had all the answers, lacked the crucial element of common sense and surrounded himself with sycophantic acolytes. Like Rumsfeld, he presided over an unpopular war built on a foundation of false assumptions and outright lies. Like Rumseld, there was an amorality to his actions. And like Rumsfeld, he squandered the respect of his generals and admirals.
But without McNamara, there still would have been a Vietnam War, while there would not have been an Iraq war without Rumsfeld. | <urn:uuid:9b4a6249-01d7-4925-8177-f10393870e37> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-vacuous-evil-of-donald-rumself.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973599 | 1,080 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Updated models with AMD graphics options expected in early 2017.
Apple's 'Wobbling' Home Screen Icons in iPhone 1.1.3
Hrmpf compiled an animated gif demonstrating this wobbling effect, which looks identical to the 1.1.3 demo video. While it's certainly possible the images/video could simply be based on this patent application, it was not widely publicized at the time, and the description of wobbling icons is only obvious in retrospect.
One interesting description of the original patent application is that Apple suggested that icon movement could be elastic, allowing users to "throw" icons into the indended location.
Upon breaking contact with the touch-sensitive display, the respective icon may resume varying its position. In some embodiments, the respective icon can be thrown, so that the final position of the respective icon is different from the point at which the icon is released. In this embodiment, the final position can depend on a variety of factors, such as the speed of the throw, the parameters used in a simulated equation of motion for the throw (e.g., coefficient of friction), and/or the presence of a lay out grid with simulated attractive forces.
The leaked version of the firmware does not have this capability according to GearLive. The iPhone is currently at firmware version 1.1.2, and there's been no indication when 1.1.3 might be released. | <urn:uuid:108b5bca-fd73-40fe-8680-8ba2c9e07b4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/02/apples-wobbling-home-screen-icons-in-1-1-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00176-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940488 | 288 | 1.5 | 2 |
If you are going to have a new pet at home, then it is obvious that you are preparing your home with all the necessary items. For your pet to have a good night’s sleep, you should buy the pet beds. Many of us have questions about why beds are important. There are many advantages of using pet surfaces, which can be seen in this post.
We all love our pets, and it is important to have them a separate place like beds. This will help them to get good sleep, and they will not behave cranky the next morning. Further, like us, pets also need a good amount of sleep for their normal routine.
Whether you own a cat or dog, you should buy the cushion. All animals need comfort and a better environment to live in and build a beautiful relationship with the owners. This is one such element that is useful for the pet and allows them to rest when necessary.
Why Are Beds Important? Reasons To Know
Watching your cute companion sleep is a feel-good thing, and if they have a cushion or bed on their own. You can provide a high-quality bed available for these pets to get them a comfortable sleep. In addition, sleeping plays a vital role in the health of your dog.
Pet Beds – Why Beds Are Important?
The foremost important thing to provide your pets is comfort. These are basic items needed for your pet, and therefore you should offer a comfortable bed. But there are some cats and dogs which like to sleep on the floor. However, you can practice them by sleeping on the bed for better functioning of their body.
They Feel Safe
Providing a comfortable surface for your pets can make them feel safe. Most pets grow individually foray from their parents, and when you offer comfortable bedding, they feel safe like nearer to their mom. In addition, your pet can adapt to the routine of sleeping in bed and change their behavior.
Once they get good and comfortable sleep, they can be happy. We grow pets as a company, and it affects us when they do not feel well. Therefore, the beds for pets help them to stay happy and healthy, which in turn has psychological effects on us.
Great For New Pets
If you get a newborn pet, then you can practice them every day to sleep in beds. Though you provide them a comfy shelter, without proper bedding, they cannot sleep well. Therefore, your pet will be well-mannered to stay inside their shelters and sleep in their beds.
Clean And Hygiene
You do not have to worry about the pets excreting on the bed. Most of these come with a removable sheet that can be cleaned and used again. You can click on the following link to buy the durable basket bed, which is portable. | <urn:uuid:72eec4c8-f880-4e73-9fd8-a8e00a6389bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://animalsfact.net/why-are-beds-important-5-reasons-to-buy-pet-beds-for-their-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.962305 | 579 | 2.0625 | 2 |
About the artist:
David Roth studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design and was twice the recipient at the Maholy-Nagy Scholarship in visual design. It was Roth's initial work as a designer at fine art for commercial use that brought him interesting positions as art director for such firms as Lanvin, Charles at the Ritz, and Germain Monteil. Establishing his color programs on graph paper, Roth uses the programs as a guide in translating that configuration into string dyed in liquitex. The strings are tied in bunches and closely hung tram a wooden bar. The size and shape of the string is similar to that at a canvas painting. Each bundle is represented by a vertical row at squares on the graph and the groupings at string are lined up along the wall according to the horizontal rows at the program. The six primary and secondary colors are used in their full intensity along with black, grey, and white. As a painter Roth works to formulate with color. Some painters regard color as a concomitant of form, hence a subordinate, but Roth's color is the chief medium of his pictorial language. A programmed juxtaposition at primary color allows Roth and the viewer to play upon various combinations. The graphs Roth executes are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula - the pictures are Composed according to horizontal and vertical divisions on the graph paper. The optical quality of color, deliberately sought, has its roots in the Bauhaus investigations of illusion, and thus has a direct relationship to the Op art produced in postwar Europe. Roth has arranged his hues so as to persuade the planes to separate from the ground on which they are planted, and float free in space. It is almost as if Roth is giving us a "readout" on his creative process. Although the graphs appear to vary in their use of color the same colors are used throughout, also the same amount of color. Roth's work illustrates the sophistication of the human eye-brain relationship that has developed and invites the viewer to participate in the evolution at visionary ideas.
David Roth studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design and was twice the recipient at the Maholy-Nagy Scholarship in visual design. It was Roth's initial work as a designer at fine art for commercial use that brought him | <urn:uuid:cc7116be-37e1-4741-87f9-ea714dcc46f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rogallery.com/artists/david-roth/?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.971511 | 485 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Television may itself be regarded as an art-form and in a very real sense everything produced for television may be described as belonging to the Arts. Certainly a wide range of specialised artistic and technical skills enter into every programme of whatever kind. Television is a creative activity, and effective television calls for a high degree of artistic judgment.
In terms of the volume of production, television’s main contribution to the Arts in a narrower sense is the whole range of drama. A single good drama production on television is seen by an audience large enough to fill a theatre for a decade. Independent Television’s contributions in this field are considered in a separate chapter.
Opera and Ballet
In dealing with many fields of human activity, television can add a new dimension or a new understanding. The attractions of certain of the performing arts, however, depend upon elements which television cannot always capture. Conventional opera and ballet often do not readily lend themselves to presentation on television. It is difficult for the camera to provide the necessary balance of detail and spectacle, and colour is often an important part of the whole. However, full-scale operas and ballets have been successfully presented from time to time on Independent Television, for example in Granada’s television presentation of the Sadler’s Wells production of Orpheus in the Underworld and The Four Brothers, a modern mime and ballet production by the Brussels Twentieth Century Ballet.
Excerpts from ballet and opera by small groups of performers are presented quite frequently as items in general programme series, and a few programmes or series have dealt specifically with opera or ballet. It is by no means unusual for artistes of the calibre of Nureyev and Nadia Nerina to appear in light entertainment programmes seen by up to twenty million viewers. A regular series of programmes dealing with the history and performance of ballet was presented by Anton Dolin for Tyne Tees Television.
Television producers have devoted much attention to the development of techniques for presenting orchestral concerts. This is a difficult task: visual interest soon wavers if the whole orchestra is shown on the screen; on the other hand, the constant movement of cameras from section to section of the orchestra or about the concert hall is found distracting by many music-lovers. The major advantage which television has over sound broadcasting is the visual interest to be gained from close-ups of the hands of a pianist, conductor, or string-player. For this reason the more successful presentations of classical music on television tend to be in concertos, recitals or programmes of musical instruction.
Despite the disadvantage of being confined to monochrome, a number of successful art programmes have been presented on television. Sir Kenneth Clark has continued his lectures, the most recent series dealing with the works of Rembrandt (ATV). John Betjeman has taken part in a number of programmes, including a series on Victorian
design entitled Steam and Stained Glass (ATV). Outlines is the title of a series on design presented by Associated-Rediffusion. A novel approach to the problem of presenting art on television was taken by John Berger, who in each of a series Drawn from Life (Granada) discussed with a layman his reactions to selected paintings. Programmes such as Collectors’ Piece are included with miscellaneous documentary programmes.
The weekly literary review, The Bookman (ABC), discusses recently-published books, literary trends and presents interviews with authors. A number of general local magazine series include book reviews and discussions with local authors.
The regular weekly programme Tempo (ABC) is entirely devoted to the arts. Its range is wide. In a typical programme, Lord Harewood interviewed Sir Laurence Olivier about the Chichester Festival Theatre; in another Vicky spoke about the history of political cartoons; a group of actors and writers discussed the artist’s place in politics; the cast of “Beyond the Fringe” presented their own version of a Tempo-type programme; and a series of special features considered, among other subjects, the contribution of Ireland to the arts, contemporary British architecture, and The Arts and War. The series Canvas (Westward) dealt with various aspects of the arts in the South-West of England.
Festival of London
Substantial coverage was given to the City of London Festival (Associated-Rediffusion). Nine events were shown, including five concerts, an exhibition of cartoons, an “entertainment”, and a special performance of Handel’s “Water Music” from the Thames.
The Bath Festival
Each year a series of programmes covers the Bath Festival (TWW). There are also a number of programmes from the National Eisteddfod.
|Series||Description||Company||Mins.||Time & day||Distribution|
|Tempo||Review of the arts||ABC||25||5.40 Sunday||Part Network|
|Drawn from Life||Discussion of paintings||Granada||30||10.30 Friday January 1962||Part Network|
|Plectrum||Guitar instruction||Scottish||10||1.30 Wednesday Jan.-Feb. 1962||Local|
|Outlines||Talks on design||A-R||7||6.08 Monday Jan.-Mar. 1962||Local|
|Canvas||The arts in the South-West||Westward||30||6.15 Monday Monthly Jan.-Mar. 1962||Local|
|Breakthrough||Musical appreciation||Scottish||10||1.30 Wednesday Feb.-July 1962||Local|
|Steam and Stained Glass||Victorian design||ATV||30||10.35 Monday April 1962||Part Network|
|Rembrandt||Sir Kenneth Clark lectures||ATV||30||10.40 Monday May-June 1962||Part Network|
|Highland Air||Gaelic ceilidh||Scottish||10||1.40 Wednesday May-August 1962||Local|
|Up and Coming||Young musicians||Border||30||10.45 Tues. Oct.-Nov. 1962||Part Network|
|The Bookman||Literary review||ABC||25||2.35 Sunday July-Sept. 1962||Part Network|
|Keyboard||Piano recitals||Granada||15||11.35 Thursday Jan.-April 1962||Local|
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Who is Alfred de Rothschild?
Alfred de Rothschild: Alfred Charles Freiherr de Rothschild CVO was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Baroness Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Rothschild family.
- born on (173 years ago) in London, child of Charlotte von Rothschild and Lionel de Rothschild
- nationality: England
- profession: Banker
- parent of Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon
- died on (97 years ago)
- buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery
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Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers (1994)
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Gardener to Alfred de Rothschild at Halton House, Herts. House and Garden Sept. 1974, 124 portr. M. Hadfield et al.
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Corporate Earnings and the Equity Premium
NBER Working Paper No. 10054
Corporate cash flows are highly volatile and strongly procyclical. We examine the asset-pricing implications of the sensitivity of corporate cash flows to economic shocks within a continuous-time model in which dividends are a stochastic fraction of aggregate consumption. We provide closed-form solutions for stock values and show that the equity premium can be represented as the sum of three components which we call the consumption-risk, event-risk, and corporate-risk premia. Calibrating to historical data, we show that the model implies a total equity premium many times larger than in the standard model. The model also generates levels of equity volatility consistent with those experienced in the stock market.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w10054
Published: Longstaff, Francis A. and Monika Piazzesi. "Corporate Earnings And The Equity Premium," Journal of Financial Economics, 2004, v74(3,Dec), 401-421. citation courtesy of
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Those of us living through the Covid-19 pandemic are witnessing the most profound global changes since the Second World War. In a matter of weeks, we have been ushered in a new way of working and relating both on an individual, organizational and societal level.
One of the most pressing questions that needs to be answered in this time of unprecedented upheaval and change is ‘’what is the task of leadership?’’ We are all bearing witness to graphic examples of leaders who are doing it well, and those that are floundering as this crisis calls forward essential new leadership qualities. So, what are these qualities and how can we as leaders adjust our approach to step into the leadership vacuum that exists over many teams, organisations and communities in this time of crisis?
It’s tempting to believe that during times of crisis a bewildered populace or workforce need heroic leadership – the kind that assures us that everything is in hand and that our leaders are somehow ahead of the ‘’game’’ and in a position to assure a good tomorrow. But big promises ring very thin when results are not forthcoming and there is the absence of authentic relational connection. Others might suggest that visionary leadership is needed to focus our imagination and motivate us work for a better future. But vision too is short lived. It may promise a future, but when we are near the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid and contending for safety and security, our commitment to visions is easily diverted.
Neither of the above two leadership styles is needed during a crisis.
What is needed is something far less spectacular and far less visible. We need leaders who are authentic, personal and relatable. Gianpiero Petriglieri in his excellent HBR article: The Psychology Behind Effective Crisis Leadership, describes this leadership quality as “holding”. He defines it as: “the way another person, often an authority figure, contains and interprets what’s happening in times of uncertainty.”
On a practical level what this means is that leaders have to think clearly, offer reassurance, orient people and help them harness their resources and relationships. Perhaps the easiest way to understand the impact of “holding” is to notice what happens when it is absent. When leaders fail to “hold” their people bewilderment, anxiety, anger, and fragmentation ensue.
The concept of “holding” is a well-known one in the world of coaching. In fact, the term was coined by psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) who used it to refer to the supportive environment that a therapist creates for a client. He compared holding by a therapist to the nurturing and caring behavior a mother engages in with her child that results in a sense of trust and safety. Seen in this way, “holding” is highly linked to empathy and reflects a more nurturing and feminine approach to leadership than the masculine idea of ‘leading from strength’.
In coaching the term “holding’’ is most often coupled with the idea of creating a safe and respectful space for another to explore their own thinking, shift their awareness and come up with some new and empowering choices for moving forward. Creating a positive impact in this way is highly dependent on the quality of relationship that exists between client and coach and the same is true in a leadership context.
So how can leaders “hold’’ their people well in this time of crisis?
Holding requires a range of leadership skills including the ability to show care and empathy without being derailed by the suffering of others or being drawn into their subjective interpretation of events such that they become entrenched.
Borrowing from approaches in coaching, there are a number of mindsets that leaders can adopt to enable them to “hold’’ others well:
Mindset #1 – People have innate potential
How a person behaves during a crisis, is not reflective of their potential or capability. Astute leaders can zoom out of the current picture to see the potential of the individual and to help them connect with their own resourcefulness, rather than feeling the need to swoop in and rescue them!
Mindset #2 – You can show respect without agreeing
People usually make the best choices they can with the information they have available to according to their map of reality. Leaders need to respect their people’s map of reality even if they don’t agree with it. Through empathetic listening and insightful questions, leaders can invite their people to open up their lens on reality and identify new choices for moving forward. Resist the temptation to try to ‘’persuade’’ people out of their current view of reality. Remember – People don’t care what you know, until they know how much you care!
Mindset #3 – People already have their answers
Many leaders avoid ‘’holding’’ because they fear being put in a position where they can’t meet the expectations of others. This anxiety is based on the assumption that the role of leadership is to provide answers. But there is a ‘’dark’’ side to this. Whilst providing answers can be helpful, it can also make others feel ‘helpless’ and can potentially reinforce self-doubt, limiting beliefs or a level of dependency. Leaders that ‘’hold’’ assume that others have the ability to solve their own problems and know how to strike the balance between providing necessary information and allowing others to come up with their own solutions. Remember, your answer is not necessarily the best solution to ‘’their’’ problem.
Mindset #4 – Sometimes words get in the way
There are times when people need to be ‘’held’’ without words. Situations of grief and loss often defy words and all that is required is empathy a comforting presence. Leaders that ‘’hold’’ others well shake off the pressure to offer platitudes to those experiencing existential pain and are able to simply be ‘’with’’ those them in a supportive and congruent way.
For many leaders who have focused primarily on building functional expertise, the prospect of “holding’’ may seem very daunting, but it is nothing more or less than an opportunity to bring more humanity into leadership and to connect with the shared vulnerability of a workforce in crisis.
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“Here today, gone tomorrow…”
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SOURCE: Think Progress
DATE: March 19, 2019
SNIP: Like Trump, Bolsonaro has shown disdain for international climate diplomacy. He has openly considered pulling out of the Paris climate agreement and walked back Brazil’s promise to host this year’s U.N. climate change conference. And while Trump’s white nationalism has certainly manifested in policies carried out by the EPA and the Department of Interior, Bolsonaro’s favors to businesses interested in rolling back environmental protections directly reflects his own racist rhetoric against Brazil’s 900,000 indigenous people, who hold about 13 percent of Brazil’s lands, mostly in the Amazon.
Bolsonaro’s priorities were on full display during the first week of his administration. In one of his first acts in office, Bolsonaro transferred responsibilities for creating and regulating indigenous land reserves from Brazil’s indigenous affairs agency to the Agriculture Ministry. Bolsonaro’s choice for agricultural minister was part of the agribusiness caucus in the lower house and has slammed critiques of the industry, while the secretary overseeing land reform is an “extreme, hardline, right-wing, violent rancher.”
Brazil’s indigenous people refer to the agribusiness industry as their “historic enemy,” Poirier said. As industries like mining and large-scale farming and ranching seek to expand further into the Amazon, they have partnered with a conservative political bloc, known as the ruralistas, to strip indigenous land protections.
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Siemens Healthineers has inked what it describes as a “master collaboration agreement” with Novartis to help provide diagnostic tests linked to therapies across the drugmaker’s pipeline.
To start, the companies will design and develop a biomarker test aimed at neuroscience programs, and multiple sclerosis specifically—a treatment area that they expect to expand into a $23.5 billion global market by 2025.
The initial immunoassay will measure neurofilament light chain protein levels, found in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid, which are linked to nerve cell injury and a variety of neurological conditions including MS.
Levels of neurofilament light chain in the blood have also been associated with various clinical measures of MS activity and MRI scans showing nerve damage. As a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, MS sees destruction of neurons’ protective myelin sheath across the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord.
In August, the FDA approved Novartis’ MS treatment Kesimpta for both the relapsing-remitting and secondary progressive forms of the disease. The drug, already approved in leukemia as Arzerra, targets particular immune system B cells expressing CD20.
Earlier this year, Novartis presented data for Mayzent, an S1P receptor modulator for secondary progressive MS, showing that early treatment could slow the course of the disease. However, in many cases, patients and doctors may not be aware that the disease has moved into the secondary progressive stage, and it is often diagnosed late as symptoms become more apparent.
“We are looking forward to our collaboration with Novartis as it promises to yield innovative diagnostic solutions to address critical unmet clinical needs,” said Deepak Nath, president of laboratory diagnostics for Siemens Healthineers.
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Here are some tips for intermediate skiers who would like to bring their skiing to the next level. Ski school will bring you so far, but perhaps you’d like to try something before heading for some après ski. These tips are for people that can comfortably make it down all sorts of red slopes and can tackle some black slopes (slowly). Just a few minutes a day can really make a difference to your skiing technique and ultimately your fun on the slopes.
Trying longer skis
Generally the longer the pair skis the faster you’ll go. While longer skis are more difficult to ski on, especially when turning they will allow you to pick up speed. The longer the skis the less likely your skis will rumble or chatter through turns. These skis are suited to having a longer turing radius.
If you don’t want to out and buy a whole new set of skis you could rent a set for a day to see what the difference is like. By going 10-15cm longer you will see that turns take a little longer to complete, as you have to wait wait until the skis come through the turn after you. Perhaps our next tip will help you with the turns.
Holding turns better
Tightening you ab muscles as you move into the turn is one trick advanced and professional skiers use to maintain stability. You should turn to clench the muscle on the side you are turn into. It may feel a
little strange at first, but once you pick up speed this trick will ensure that your skis stay parallel in the turns. The effect of hitting bumps in turns is reduced, as your body will be more ridged and will be able to cut through the roughness. Now that you are going faster, the effect of chatter is increased, and the extra stability from this trick will help you stay stable on the piste. Of course this isn’t the only thing that will help you with your turns, check the next tip that many intermediate skiers fail to do properly.
Using your polls properly
Ski polls, sticks or stocks, are not only supposed to be used when picking yourself off the snow, or to help you click out of your ski bindings. They can be useful to propel yourself at the start of a run, or on a flat slope. As I’m sure you are aware, they also have an important purpose when you are turning. The technique is called poll planting, when you put the inside poll into the snow on the turn. Poll planting becomes an important aid when you are in more advanced snow conditions. For example, in powder conditions it can help you find a secure hold, or on shorter turns on steeper slopes you can plant your poll to add stability quickly. When on a mogul field, those slopes with all the bumps, using your polls will help you too. You can use the polls and your arms to adjust to the different relative heights of the slope.
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People have been using all sorts of devices and mechanisms in order to clean their clothes – hundreds of years ago, they used wooden washing machines and river rocks, while now we rely on electric washing machines that make our lives easier. However, a new and revolutionary type of washing machine has emerged on the market lately – the pedal-powered washer that costs absolutely nothing to operate!
This man-powered washing machine does not use any electricity whatsoever and it comes with a rather affordable price tag, too – the $40 you pay for this washer may turn out to be the best investment you have ever made. Efficient, reliable and very easy to use, the washer will not just help you clean your clothes in a natural and eco-friendly manner, but it will also help you stay in shape, therefore this can be a win-win.
The washer is certainly a better alternative to washing the clothes by hand, and the best thing about it is that there is also a spin dryer embedded in it!
People have started to pay more attention to sustainable living lately, given the fact that the human activity has a devastating impact on the surrounding environment, and if you are an environmentally-conscious person then this pedal-powered washer will certainly help you reduce your carbon footprint and live a greener life!
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Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us into the secret worlds of woodland animals in this, his second, fascinating book. Long’s stories of the secret lives of woodland animals come from time he spent in the woods, observing the behaviors and characteristics of the wilderness inhabitants directly. His method? Sit quietly, wait (sometimes for hours), and the animals will come. This book, unlike his first, Ways of Wood Folk, seems to be directed at his critics who accused him of assigning human emotions and intentions to the animals he profiles in his writings; Wilderness Ways very deliberately tells the unvarnished truth about animal behaviors, both tender caring and vicious murder are illustrated herein. Wilderness Ways opens up the hidden world of its woodland subjects with beautiful imagery and descriptive prose which is accessible enough for a child to read while at the same time engaging for readers of all ages. Be transported into Long’s hidden wilderness world.
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Digital Exclusion report
Our December 2021 Digital Exclusion project helps us understand how digitally excluded residents access health and social care services.
We spoke to 45 participants, with a specific focus on:
- people over the age of 55,
- disabled people,
- people who speak English as their second language.
Thank you to everyone who helped us promote this survey and recruit residents in Lewisham.
Read our full report to find out about our key findings and recommendations to reduce digital barriers to health and social care services in Lewisham.
GP Access survey
We have finalised our engagement for the GP Access survey exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's access to their GP surgeries and their care, including:
- online bookings,
- video and phone consultations,
- attending appointments.
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A lot of discussion has been happening around npm and it’s vulnerabilities since one module being unpublished about a week ago caused problems for lots of developers and their teams. Sindre Sorhus, a prominent developer and publisher on npm, wrote about why he thinks we need small reusable modules, like the one that was unpublished last week. You can read his thoughts on this here. You should read the whole post, but here is a snippet that sums it up.
People get way too easily caught up in the LOC (Lines Of Code). LOC is pretty much irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if the module is one line or hundreds. It’s all about containing complexity. Think of node modules as lego blocks. You don’t necessarily care about the details of how it’s made. All you need to know is how to use the lego blocks to build your lego castle. By making small focused modules you can easily build large complex systems without having to know every single detail of how everything works. Our short term memory is finite. In addition, by having these modules as modules other people can reuse them and when a module is improved or a bug is fixed, every consumer benefits. | <urn:uuid:ad317199-a920-422b-8341-ab03beb2bfcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jonkemp.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961063 | 248 | 2.125 | 2 |
Many years ago people used to collect cards from cigarette packets….Now I wonder if people collect Cigarette Packets to get the set of health-related gruesome pictures.
Likewise I wonder if arms manufacturers shouldl adopt this policy when they sell their guns in the US, as I suspect they could be more dangerous than smoking..
Anyway, if you have not been living under a rock for the past few decades, I am sure you will be aware of the issues around smoking and health. You all know what the paper below says and that is….if you smoke, it may be detrimental to your health.
Yes I know there is overlap and some never-smokers do worse than smokers, meaning some smokers do OK.
The study below says that on the whole you lose more brain if you smoke when you have MS and this subtle difference may have some clinical consequences. Smoking is something in your control and you chose whether to smoke or not. So maybe you could consider stopping if you smoke and the best way to deal with it, is to never start in the first place.
As an Ex-addict, I know it is hard and that being told what to do is one of the best ways to ensure that people don’t do it, if you are of that mind set. Likewise, you are not daft and you are aware of risk, but you don’t bin you car because you may have a fatal car crash sometime in the future and you certainly don’t bin it because of brain damage due to poluted air from car exhausts. Are the risks of smoking worse than car driving:-)
You have to want to do it for it to be successful and for me I planned to stop. I gradually went from the “cowboy ciggie” to the “puffing on air” ciggie such that there was more nicotine a patch than the “cancer stick”, when I decide to quit. I found another vice to distract myself….Not telling you what they were:-)
No it wasn’t the pies but Size Lard came
The UK government has demonised smoking, but there are aids to help you quit. However, they are certainly taxing it out of existence…however, making you go on holiday to buy cheap ciggies abroad was a pleasure and not a disincentive. A cost of a flight could be less than a pack…..If only I could have persuaded ProfG to get me “duty-free” from the airport every time he went to a meeting I could have had hundreds of ciggies a week:-). I wouldn’t have had to go on Squeezy jet weekend holidays so much:-).
Now we seem to be in a time when smokers are a dying breed and we are in the process of de-alcoholling oursleves…..whilst we are being turned into a nation of online gamblers (Yep madness)……yep we dont have to go to the reservation of Altantic City, it’s on the tele and our phones and online. Papers of alcohol consumption and MS have surfaced
You know anything to excess can be bad for your and other people health and don’t get me started on religion, but that wouldn’t be P.C. would it.
I wonder if the Scandies will search their registries to determine whether religions influence your MS?
Is the Chruch of Scotland associated with the higher frequency of MS than the Church of England? :}
Maybe this would be more interesting that targeting smoking. If your risk of death from smoking doubles should you worry is the risk of dying went from 1 in 20,000,000 to 2 in 20,000,000. What about ice cream consumption? Is it worse than smoking? We don’t do these comparisons but maybe we should as it may be easier to stop eating ice cream
I suspect that if you have read this far… You don’t need the message “Just Quit”….it’s the people who only read the title and say I’m not interested…..The problem is it’s in our nature to ignore risk.
We are now all out and about and don’t seem to give a flying fig about COVID-19, which is on the rise, but yesterday according to Doctor Goolge there were 117 COVID-related deaths in the UK, which is nearly 6 times more than this time last year when we were lock-up at home.
Lie IA, Wesnes K, Kvistad SS, Brouwer I, Wergeland S, Holmøy T, Midgard R, Bru A, Edland A, Eikeland R, Gosal S, Harbo HF, Kleveland G, Sørenes YS, Øksendal N, Barkhof F, Vrenken H, Myhr KM, Bø L, Torkildsen Ø. The Effect of Smoking on Long-term Gray Matter Atrophy and Clinical Disability in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2022 Jun 23;9(5):e200008.
Background and objectives: The relationship between smoking, long-term brain atrophy, and clinical disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is unclear. Here, we assessed long-term effects of smoking by evaluating MRI and clinical outcome measures after 10 years in smoking and nonsmoking patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS).
Methods: We included 85 treatment-naive patients with RRMS with recent inflammatory disease activity who participated in a 10-year follow-up visit after a multicenter clinical trial of 24 months. Smoking status was decided for each patient by 2 separate definitions: by serum cotinine levels measured regularly for the first 2 years of the follow-up (during the clinical trial) and by retrospective patient self-reporting. At the 10-year follow-up visit, clinical tests were repeated, and brain atrophy measures were obtained from MRI using FreeSurfer. Differences in clinical and MRI measurements at the 10-year follow-up between smokers and nonsmokers were investigated by 2-sample t tests or Mann-Whitney tests and linear mixed-effect regression models. All analyses were conducted separately for each definition of smoking status.
Results: After 10 years, smoking (defined by serum cotinine levels) was associated with lower total white matter volume (p = 0.039) and higher logT2 lesion volume (p = 0.011). When defining smoking status by patient self-reporting, the repeated analyses found an additional association with lower deep gray matter volume (p = 0.049), and smoking was also associated with a higher score (higher walking impairment) on the log timed 25-foot walk test (p = 0.039) after 10 years and a larger decrease in paced auditory serial addition test (attention) scores (β = 0.029).
Discussion: Smoking was associated with brain atrophy and disability progression 10 years later in patients with RRMS. The findings imply that patients should be advised and offered aid in smoking cessation shortly after diagnosis, to prevent long-term disability progression.
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The financial industry has changed a lot over the years, particularly after the invention of the internet. Because of this, it is now possible to shop online, send money to the other side of the world, manage your funds via the web, without the need to go to the bank or some other financial institution, and even invest and trade.
However, despite all of these benefits, the financial industry is still not as good as it could be. The cost of using all of these services is massive, particularly due to the fact that there are plenty of intermediaries involved between the consumer and their goal, and they all charge hefty fees for their services.
The end result is slow payments since there is no trust between these intermediaries, who need to thoroughly check all transactions, plus expensive payments because they all also charge their services.
Since the DeFi sector of the crypto industry emerged, however, a new option became possible, which is to simply bypass all of these intermediaries and start making direct transactions. This is something that the regulated financial service industry and its consumers can greatly benefit from, and it is what Verso Finance aims to offer.
What is Verso Finance?
In its essence, Verso is a decentralized marketplace for financial products. It is a project that aims to solve an industry-wide distribution challenge that is preventing innovative microfinance and DeFi products from reaching retail customers and offering them its potential.
The platform was created primarily for the regulated financial service industry, as it is fully decentralized, meaning that it is governed by its own community. The community also comprises financial service providers and regulated institutions, but it uses smart contracts to facilitate the product-specific money flow and distribution between different financial institutions, service providers, and their users.
Services that govern the network act as validators, which is this project’s equivalent of stakers, miners, and alike. As such, Verso can bridge the gap between traditional finance and decentralized finance, by standardizing how financial products are distributed and connected to users.
It uses bank accounts and e-wallets alike to achieve this goal, and it allows any type of financial institution — including lenders, insurance providers, and others — to distribute their microfinance products, while it also provides DeFi products an on-ramp into the retail space.
While DeFi has the potential to reach everyone in the world and offer them access to the global economy for the first time — especially when it comes to unbanked and underbanked regions and their people — this connection to the centralized finance industry further expands the possibilities they will now have access to.
Verso Token and Its Uses
As a DeFi project, Verso also has its own token, called simply the Verso Token (VSO). The token is primarily used for allowing access to the platform, but also for things like marketing, placement, conversion of products, and more. Tokens are also used for bringing in new validators to the network. Basically, to become the project validator, certain conditions need to be met. For example, the validator needs to provide collateral, which is quite high — 1 million VSO tokens. But, since the collateral is calculated by the initial public sale price, which was $0.05 per token, that means that anyone who wishes to become a validator must provide $50,000 in VSO tokens.
On top of that, the would-be validators will also have to perform a certain amount of work. In return, they will have voting rights, and permission to participate in the validator pool. Each validator that gets accepted has an equal vote to that of other validators, which evens out the voting power for validation. This differs from the governance staking model, where more tokens in your possession grants your vote greater weight.
Verso is built on Avalanche — a new, revolutionary blockchain that actually consists of multiple chains, all of which work together to create the Avalanche network. The network is extremely fast, capable of hitting 4,500 transactions per second, which makes it more than capable of handling the job that Verso is set out to do.
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One of our most popular Coffee and a Concept feature cars was the Chrysler Turbine, which continues to be one of our most-visited articles almost two years after it was written. The car, which is rarely seen in public, and for which only four working models are known, will be a feature of the Chrysler booth at the 2015 Canadian International AutoShow starting today. The Turbine will be shown as part of a larger collection of eighteen classics called the Art and the Automobile exhibit at the Canadian show.
“The Chrysler Turbine program began in 1954 – in the supersonic jet airplane age -and lasted until 1981,” said Brandt Rosenbusch, Manager of Historical Vehicles – FCA US. “Like today, the company was exploring alternative propulsion solutions and to prove the engine’s flexibility, even ran them on perfume and alcohol – aside from the ‘standard’ JP-4 Jet Fuel. We have not shipped the car to Canada in the 25 years I have been here.”
CIAS General Manager, Jason Campbell said: “The exhibit traces the artistic progression of vehicle design through the decades and the Chrysler Turbine Car is a great example of the transition period from the chrome-plated, aircraft- and rocket-influenced designs of the ’50s to the more pure forms of the ’60s, as it includes elements of both. Besides which, it is a very pretty and historically important car.”
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The Swedish Academy's pick for the 2019 prize, announced in October, triggered outrage in the Balkans and beyond because of Handke's support for late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
The 77-year-old Austrian author is to receive his Nobel Prize from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony with this year's other laureates, followed by a gala banquet attended by more than 1,200 special guests.
The Academy honoured Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”.
It called him “one of the most influential writers in Europe after the Second World War”.
The choice of Handke came as the Academy struggles to recover from a rape scandal that resulted in the 2018 prize being postponed and awarded this year to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.
But its pick of Handke has done little to improve its predicament: one Nobel committee member resigned over the choice, one Academy member and ambassadors from Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Albania and Turkey have said they will boycott Tuesday's ceremony, and at least two demonstrations are due to unfold as he receives his prize.
Handke has also not been invited to a traditional event for literature laureates with high school students in a Stockholm suburb, where many students are of foreign background. Tokarczuk will however attend.
In 1997 Handke was accused of minimizing Serb war crimes in his book A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia.
He also drew criticism for speaking at the 2006 funeral of Milosevic, who died while on trial for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Hundreds of people are expected to attend an anti-Handke protest at the Norrmalmstorg square in central Stockholm, while a second demonstration is planned outside the Stockholm Concert Hall where the prize ceremony will take place.
“He's allowed to write what he wants. The problem is that he is being honoured for his writings,” the organizer of one of the protests, Teufika Sabanovic, told AFP.
“He defends war criminals, he qualifies genocide, he qualifies genocide deniers. Where is the limit for what is acceptable,” she said.
Born in Srebrenica in 1990, she lost her father and 70 percent of her relatives in the hamlet when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized as genocide.
In Stockholm on Friday at a press conference, Handke doged questions on the Balkan wars, telling reporters: “I like literature, not opinions.”
But in an interview with Germany weekly Die Zeit in late November, Handke defended his writings.
“Not one word I have written about Yugoslavia can be denounced, not a single one. It's literature,” he said.
Back then, “reporting about Serbia was monotone and one-sided”, Handke told Die Zeit.
He said he “of course” had to be at Milosevic's 2006 funeral.
“He voted against dissolving Yugoslavia in one of the last ballots. His funeral was Yugoslavia's funeral too,” Handke said. “Have people forgotten that this state was founded in opposition to Hitler's Reich?”
At the same time, Handke said he “not once bowed down before him – not internally, not externally”.
The head of the Swedish Academy's Nobel committee, Anders Olsson, has insisted Handke is “not a political writer”.
Olsson responded to a letter from survivors of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: “It is obvious that we understand Peter Handke's literary work in very different ways.”
But another committee member, Peter Englund, disagreed.
Englund headed the Swedish Academy between 2009 and 2015 and reported on the 1990s conflicts in the Balkans for Swedish newspapers.
“I will not participate in Nobel Week this year… Celebrating Peter Handke's Nobel Prize would be pure hypocrisy on my part,” Englund told the daily Dagens Nyheter.
Ironically, in 2014 Handke called for the Nobel Literature Prize to be abolished, saying it conferred a “false canonization” on the laureate.
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The glare of overhead lights. The smell of a forgotten half-sandwich in the trash can in the corner. The breeze from a window.
For most people, this sensory information fades into the background, ignored in favor of more relevant information such as a friend talking, a program on television, or work on a computer screen.
However, for many people with autism, these background sensations are just as powerful as the intended focus, if not more so. The sensations can become so overwhelming that the person tries to withdraw from the world simply to control the incoming onslaught.
So holds the Intense World Theory of autism, proposed by Kamila and Henry Markram in 2007. It contends that people with autism don’t have an underdeveloped brain but rather an overdeveloped one.
New research released today in Frontiers in Neuroscience lends considerable weight to this theory. It also concludes that predictability can significantly help those with autism explore their intense world.
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To simulate autism in rats, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) exposed developing male rat fetuses to valproate. This is an anti-epileptic and mood stabilizing drug that is known to cause birth abnormalities in humans, including a 9 to 60 percent increase in autistic symptoms.
Among the grown rats, the symptoms were similar. The valproate-exposed rats spent less time playing and socializing with other rats, they showed more repetitive behaviors and anxiety, and they formed fear memories more easily.
However, no two rats were identical. Each had its own array of specific autism-like symptoms, which is consistent with the knowledge that autism symptoms can vary greatly in humans. Each rat likely had a different genetic profile, with a different level of vulnerability to valproate.
Previous research had tested whether an enriched, stimulating environment would help such rats develop properly, as compared to the barren and lonely cages that typically house lab rats. However, while combing through the research, the scientists noticed these studies hadn’t controlled for whether the environmental enrichment was predictable.
To test the effects of environmental predictability, the researchers set up three test groups.
Non-enriched rats lived three to a cage, with only a single cardboard tube as a hiding spot and basic rat chow for food.
Enriched rats received larger cages with five other cagemates to socialize with, as well as a running wheel, ramps to climb on, multiple tubes to hide in, toys to play with, tissue paper with interesting odors to smell, and dried fruit or cereal to eat in addition to their chow.
However, for half the rats in the enriched condition, the environment changed every few days with new toys, different odors, and climbing platforms in new places.
For rats that had not been exposed to valproate, this unpredictability was no problem. The enriched environment still gave them plenty to do.
But the autistic rats noticed the difference. For them, the unpredictable enriched environment was just as bad as the non-enriched environment. They showed the same antisocial and repetitive behaviors and the same fears and anxieties.
The autistic rats in the predictable and enriched environment, however, fared far better. Although they still showed repetitive behaviors, they were more sociable, and they didn’t show the same anxiety or fear learning. By knowing what to expect, they were able to learn to trust the world around them. Of the valproate-treated rats in the predictable and enriched environment, more than half didn’t show major symptoms of autism at all.
“Just by introducing predictability and a lot of structure, and eliminating any type of surprise in this type of enriched environment, you can eliminate some of the crucial autistic symptoms, such as increased anxiety and fear memory formation,” said Kamila Markram, Ph.D., director of autism research at the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuits at EPFL and supervisor of the study, in an interview with Healthline.
The Hyper-Functional Brain
Previous theories of autism had held that the autistic brain was undeveloped and underperforming, confirmed by functional MRI studies that found weaker connections between different brain regions. However, delving into the rats’ brains on a much smaller level, the scientists made a surprising discovery.
The individual cells in the autistic rats’ brains were actually hyperactive, firing signals more frequently and at lower thresholds of stimulation. They were also connected far more closely with their neighboring cells than in non-autistic brains. When given chances to learn, new connections formed far more quickly and more strongly. On a micro level, the autistic brain was actually hyperfunctional.
“The brain is supercharged because the elementary functional units of the brain are supercharged,” explained Markram. “These units are called neural microcircuits. These microcircuits react and process information much stronger, [and] they can learn much more and remember longer. The Intense World Theory proposes that having such powerful units makes orchestration difficult — like trying to play a piano with a million run-a-way keys.”
This mean that while it’s harder for people with autism to grasp the “big picture,” individual sensations or behaviors can become greatly amplified depending on which microcircuits have been activated.
“Each autistic child will therefore be unique because different microcircuits dominate the pattern that emerges,” Markram said.
The hyperfunctionality was particularly pronounced in the rats’ amygdala, the region of the brain that governs anxiety and fear learning. Not only is the autistic world too intense, it’s also scary — fear associations form at a much lower threshold, creating avoidant and aversive behaviors.
For example, an autistic person might avoid eye contact not because their brain is unable to process the face, but because looking directly at the eyes conveys an overwhelming flood of information and activates the amygdala’s anxieties. Looking away helps control the barrage.
In turn, this avoidance lowers the number of opportunities that each autistic person has to learn valuable life skills.
“The world is not just intense, it actually turns aversive as well, and the consequence of that is that the individual will then retract,” said Markram. “They will react less, they will interact less with other people, and as a consequence they will have less occasion and opportunities to make certain learning experiences with the world and acquire certain knowledge — for example, communication.”
The findings also explain why repetitive behaviors are so common among people with autism. When a microcircuit becomes prominent, reactivating it over and over offers a sense of comfort and familiarity.
“We think that the repetitive behaviors are self-medication attempts where the autistic person uses a certain activity as a release,” Markram said. “It’s a way to shutdown the rest of the world. It’s a mechanism of withdrawal and focusing on a soothing activity that calms them down. The autistic child is retreating into a controllable and predictable bubble to protect themselves from the intensity and pain.”
No More Surprises
For anyone, some degree of predictability is a good thing, as is some degree of novelty. Too much predictability results in boredom and too much novelty makes the world chaotic.
“In animals and in humans, we know that a little bit of change in the environment and novelty are rewarding and they stimulate well-being and cognitive functions,” explained Markram. “However, a highly unpredictable environment is also detrimental. When one cannot predict danger and every event or person is seen as threatening, then a maladaptive stress response is in place, and psychopathology is much more likely to develop.”
For people with autism, it appears from the study, the tolerance to novelty is much lower and the need for predictability much higher.
But with the predictability, at least in rats, comes great results.
“The striking result was that just this one manipulation of predictability completely prevented autistic-like behaviors in animals exposed to an autism risk factor,” Markram said.
The individual variation between rats in the study mirrored what we see in humans. It took a combination of vulnerable genetics, exposure to a toxin (valproate), and then unpredictable or unenriched environments to activate autism in the rats.
“Certain individuals are more sensitive to predictability in the environment than others,” explained Monica Favre, first author of the study, to Healthline.
Helping Autistic Children Early On
While parents can’t control their child’s genetics and often have limited control over what chemicals they’re exposed to in daily life, there’s still a great deal they can do to help their children.
“While it will be difficult to reverse and correct these developmental changes completely, the theory points to many exciting new possibilities for diagnosing, treating, and helping autistic children benefit from their unique brain,” said Markram. “For example, if the environment can be carefully controlled after birth, then the autistic child could potentially keep the supercharged microcircuits as well as their ability to orchestrate these microcircuits to fully express their genius without the suffering that can come with a supercharged brain.”
She added, “The curious thing is that any therapist or family member, or affected person, will confirm the importance of an organized schedule and a structured environment, with specific places and times for things and events, speaking to the need of the autistic person for sameness. Intriguingly, this is not at the core of how we approach an autistic child.”
Because of the great variance in autistic symptoms, different children will respond to different therapies, with intensive behavioral therapies usually being the most effective.
“However, each therapy is not successful in all children, and each patient and family goes through an exhausting list of attempts until they identify specific treatment features and approaches that are most useful for their child,” said Markram. “This causes a heavy financial and psychological burden on autistic people and caretakers and a loss of that time window early in development when therapy could be most effective.”
Since there is currently no foolproof way to diagnose autism at birth, and early development appears to be the most crucial window for intervention, Markram recommends some measure of predictability and structure for all young children.
“It seems reasonable that exposing any child to an enriched, yet also highly predictable environment, ideally from early on, would in the worst case cause no harm, and in the most sensitive cases, foster exceptional outcomes,” she said. “If autistic children are indeed more neurobiologically sensitive, such tamed and tailored early environmental stimulation could foster a dramatically improved quality of life.” | <urn:uuid:0fda9335-3890-4c48-be3a-efc2b4064c99> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthline.com/health-news/autism-best-treated-in-a-stable-and-predictable-environment-study-says-060215 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00295-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958807 | 2,246 | 3.296875 | 3 |
On the heels of the famous 1925 L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, American fashion was still firmly adhering to the French aesthetic. American jewelers did not participate in the exposition but they attended in droves to see for themselves the new modern look, absorbing design ideas so they could create their own version of "French" jewelry at home. A small subset of the French exhibit appeared on American soil at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and traveled to other major cities giving the hometown crowds their first look at Art Deco.
American designers and manufacturers began to interpret the look for modern Americans but it took some time and good old American marketing ingenuity to gain a foothold for the look in the U.S.
Randolph J. Trabert and William Howard Hoeffer, having both learned the jewelry and gem businesses with established jewelry firms, joined together to form Trabert & Hoeffer, Inc. in 1926. In the beginning, they imported designs from France (as did most major American jewelry houses) and they also copied French styling. Working to establish themselves with the old guard in Paris and the already successful jewelry houses in the United States, Trabert & Hoeffer took their cues from the likes of Tiffany, Mauboussin, Cartier and others. One of the more fortuitous ploys used to develop their name and reputation was the purchase of historic jewels of royal provenance. A successful marketing campaign that served them well included the display of these jewels in their stores and at various exhibitions where they were positioned to attract positive attention for the budding firm. Their rise was meteoric until the infamous stock market crash in 1929, followed closely by the death of Randolph Trabert in 1930.
Nothing fueled the redesigning of America in a more "modern" image than the Great Depression. While the government was employing thousands of individuals to bring to life the vision of the "New Deal" private manufacturers were working to create products that were stylish, functional and locally produced in a cost effective manner. Modern and moderately priced products flooded the stores in an attempt to lure those consumers with discretionary income back to the marketplace. Jewelers were no exception, innovative materials such as Bakelite were used by fashion jewelry designers to bring both whimsy and economy to the costume jewelry market. Marketing was another key to reinvigorating American consumers and Hoeffer saw an opportunity to gain wide exposure for his jewelry designs by lending them for use in the Hollywood productions so important to lifting the spirits of the nation. Modern design was already an established component in films and what better place to feature the latest in contemporary jewelry than on the silver screen. Other marketing strategies for Trabert & Hoeffer included creating an ultra sleek Park Avenue headquarters and expanding operations to the locations where potential clients of means went to relax. Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Atlantic City were the first branches opened followed by Miami Beach, Chicago and Beverly Hills.
The Parisian jewelry House, Mauboussin (established in 1827,) made some unlucky initial forays into the American market, opening on Park Avenue c.1924. Mauboussin expanded, adding a Palm Beach location along with ultra-modern headquarters on East 15st Street in New York, all timed perfectly to coincide with the 1929 stock market crash. Having imported vast quantities of jewelry and gems from France hoping to capture the American market for French jewelry, by 1935 serious financial trouble made it necessary for them to sell off their stock. Struggling to correct massive financial woes, Mauboussin entered into a collaboration with Trabert & Hoeffer, keeping the Mauboussin name alive and adding a dash of panache to the reputation of Trabert & Hoeffer.
In 1938, with what in hindsight looks like an amazing stroke of foresight, Hoeffer developed a more affordable (but still at the forefront of high style) line of jewelry called Reflection. Designed by Gustave Toth, Reflection jewels were artfully assembled from an assortment of pre-cast design elements. Selection and arrangement of these elements, including letters of the alphabet, could be facilitated by the client making them feel like an important part of the design team for their "custom" jewel. Gold was again the metal of choice for jewelry and the elements were produced in various gold colors for a truly modern look. Chunky colored gemstones, often cut en cabochon, completed the look. Many of these pieces were able to be taken apart and reassembled into a different looking piece making the jewel truly convertible. In fact, Trabert & Hoeffer was known for their innovative designs that allowed a necklace to convert into bracelets, brooches, clips and earrings, a brooch that could clip onto a bracelet for an entirely new look and clips that could be worn as earrings giving the consumer a myriad of fashion choices in one piece.
When World War II crippled the jewelry industry's access to platinum and precious gems and the U.S. imposed a luxury tax on jewelry and other items, many jewelers were unable to keep their doors open. The Army took over the hotels where Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin had retail outlets - Atlantic City, Miami Beach, and Palm Beach. The Reflection line which used advanced manufacturing techniques to keep costs down maintained its successful run during this time along with the smaller zodiac and novelty jewelry. Redesign and re-use of customers gems and precious metals into sleek modern jewels was another way Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin remained viable through the war years. When their French counterparts were closed by the Nazi occupation, Mauboussin was able to continue their operations in the U.S. and eventually return to their former glory. Their association with Trabert & Hoeffer ended in 1953.
Hoeffer began to divest himself of the jewelry business, losing interest in keeping up with the changing styles, and in 1951, he transferred his stock to other members of the firm. The Palm Beach store closed in 1949 and the Miami Beach location remained open until 1966 under the guidance of Alan Cutler. Cutler, Trabert & Hoeffer had a retail presence until 1988. The New York location was sold but remained open until 1971. Hoeffer retired officially in 1956 and died in 1968. | <urn:uuid:d40ac1d4-5d48-4421-889d-5d42321c5fd5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.langantiques.com/university/index.php/Trabert_&_Hoeffer-Mauboussin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00512-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969025 | 1,302 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, speaking to reporters in Idaho on Sunday, praised their son's resilience and asked for time for him to adjust to his freedom.
"The recovery and reintegration of Bowe Bergdahl is a work in progress," his father said.
Bob and Jani Bergdahl, who fought hard for their son's release, thanked everyone who helped. They said they had not yet spoken to their son.
"Bowe has been gone so long that it's going to be very difficult to come back," his father said.
Bergdahl, the only American solider held prisoner in Afghanistan, was freed on Saturday after nearly five years in captivity. He is now at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where his condition is being evaluated.
As the Bergdahls spoke in Boise, their hometown of Hailey, Idaho, was getting ready for a welcome-home celebration. The town of 7,000 residents had taped up signs that read, "Bowe is free at last!"
The Taliban turned over Bergdahl in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The transfers happened after a week of intense negotiations mediated by the government of Qatar, which agreed to take custody of the Afghans.
Addressing her son directly, Jani Bergdahl urged him to give himself time to recover and decompress. There was no hurry, she told him.
"Five years is a seemingly, endless long time, but you have made it," she said. "I imagine you are more patient and compassionate than ever. You are free."
Bob Bergdahl told his son that he was proud of his patience and perseverance, his ability to adapt culturally, his language skills and his willingness to serve his country.
"But most of all, I'm proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people and what you were willing to do to go to that length," Bob Bergdahl said, choking up as his spoke. "I'll say it again: I'm so proud of how far you were willing to go to help the Afghan people. And I think you have succeeded.
He did not explain what he meant by his comments.
Emails that Bergdahl reportedly sent to his parents before he was captured by the Taliban suggest that he was disillusioned and considering deserting.
Bowe Bergdahl told his parents he was "ashamed to even be American" and was disgusted with the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and with the Army, according to emails quoted in Rolling Stone magazine two years ago.
The Rolling Stone article also quoted other soldiers saying that Bergdahl had talked about walking to Pakistan if his deployment was "lame" and that shortly before his disappearance he had asked whether he should take his weapon if he left the base. Bob Bergdahl told the magazine that his son was "living in a novel."
"The future is too good to waste on lies," one email reads. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong." | <urn:uuid:2a8ad298-3269-4d23-aedf-857241a1bd3a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-of-bowe-bergdahl-tell-him-they-love-admire-him/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00084-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994779 | 659 | 1.625 | 2 |
Amsterdam, 31 August, 2002 – Thousands joined in today’s demonstration “Limits to Trade” on the Dam Square in Amsterdam. Over one thousand planks painted with personal messages to the UN Summit were nailed on to the JohannesBridge. The JohannesBridge is a symbol of Dutch people’s concern about the issues on the agenda in Johannesburg.
The Bridge calls on the ministers and world leaders gathered there to stop choosing trade above people and the environment. The demonstration was organised by Friends of the Earth Netherlands together with fifty other NGOs.
At 3:45 pm this afternoon, special envoy to Kofi Anan for the Earth Summit and former environmental minister in the Netherlands, Pronk and the present environmental minister Van Geel were asked some difficult questions. They spoke to the people gathered in Amsterdam live via a huge video screen. Pronk and Van Geel are still hopeful that the Summit will achieve good results.
At present the NGOs are not happy with how the Earth Summit is developing. The negotiating text now on the table is a time bomb under sustainable development. The text says that environmental treaties will be subordinate to trade treaties. It would seem that the Earth Summit is rapidly turning into a new found of WTO negotiations. The current text contains more than 200 references to the World Trade Organisation, WTO.
Yesterday, NGOs including Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, Greenpeace, WWF and Consumers International left the negotiations on trade and sustainability. They have said they will not return until the issue of sustainability i s taken seriously.
Art Installation in Johannesburg on September 1st Tomorrow, Friends of the Earth Netherlands will join its sister organisations from around the world in building a huge art installation with the theme “Hear Our Voice”. Artists from Soweto have made 5,500 paper-maché people sculptures that will be confronted by ahuge corporate giant that symbolises the power corporations have over the people. The sculptures will be surrounded by the sound of radio messages, which were collected from all over the world.
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Initial Certification indicates that physicians have met rigorous standards through intensive study, accredited training and evaluation and that they have the clinical judgment, skills and attitudes essential for the delivery of excellent patient care.
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Eight of the biggest online tech firms have formed a campaign group calling for a major overhaul of the way the government uses the Internet for gathering intelligence. The group has urged President Obama and Congress to follow five principles to defend individual freedoms.
The “Reform Government Surveillance” group is made up of AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo. It has written an open letter to Obama and congressional members referring to the revelations made this summer after the leaking of documents by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The letter, which appears online and as an ad in several major newspapers, argues that:
“The balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual — rights that are enshrined in our Constitution… We urge the US to take the lead and make reforms that ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent and subject to independent oversight.”
The group’s website lists five principles that it believes are necessary in any government policy on Internet surveillance:
1) Legal restrictions that place limits on government data gathering, including only monitoring specific suspects rather than collecting data in bulk.
2) Oversight and accountability, including reviews by independent courts where both sides can make a case and where ruling are “made public in a timely manner.”
3) Companies should have the right to transparently publish information about the number and type of requests/demands they’ve had from the government to hand over data.
4) Governments should not block people from accessing data that is physically stored on servers in other countries.
5) Governments should work together to establish common legal principles governing online data, with a clear system for resolving cases where national laws contradict one another.
It’s notable that, although sparked by the NSA scandal, the list of principles are aimed at governments worldwide. That might be seen as easing the pressure on the Obama administration, but from another perspective it makes a striking point to lump together US issues (such as the secret courts overseeing security agencies) with those in countries such as China (where the different companies have responded in different ways to content restrictions and geoblocking.) | <urn:uuid:9ff60aa4-5e7a-48d0-8a10-c8ddd0b42619> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/12/09/tech-giants-demand-online-surveillance-curbs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.948224 | 457 | 1.796875 | 2 |
(1876 - 1964)
August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Information about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2004 exhibition drawn from the artist's most famous project, People of the Twentieth Century. Four photographs by Sander.
Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne
Based on the work of the important German photographer August Sander, the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur set up by the Stadtsparkasse Köln (Cologne Commercial and Savings Bank) concentrates its field of activity on factual documentary and conceptual photography.
Excellent reproductions of three of his portraits, shown by the Halsted Gallery.
Sander, August: Getty Museum
A biography of the artist August Sander from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection.
The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
A Socialist review and interpretation of Sander's People of the Twentieth Century.
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IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing vol:15 issue:6 pages:1777-1790
In this paper, solutions for combined feedback and noise suppression in hearing aids are developed. The techniques presented are based on the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) and adaptive feedback canceller (AFC), with a prediction error method (PEM) adaptation to avoid speech distortion. Two possible cascades of GSC-based noise reduction and AFC, namely an "AFC first" and a "GSC first," as well as a truly integrated solution that jointly suppresses feedback and noise are discussed. The integrated solution (called PEM-GFIC) achieves optimum synergies between noise and feedback suppression at the lowest computational cost. In addition, it cancels more feedback than the generalized echo and interference canceller, a joint solution for echo and noise suppression. In the cascaded solutions; the feedback and noise suppression filters are not always optimally exploited. For high input SNRs, "AFC firsf' scheme generally may achieve better feedback cancellation because of its larger number of degrees of freedom. However, noise reduction by the GSC-stage seriously affects the feedback cancellation performance. At low SNRs, "GSC first" generally achieves more feedback cancellation than PEM-GFIC at the expense of worse noise reduction. At high hearing aid gains and/or large SNRs, the noise reduction stage however negatively affects the performance of the feedback cancellation filter, resulting in a worse feedback and noise suppression compared to PEM-GFIC. | <urn:uuid:776deae7-a2cd-4c07-a4a0-96ee90317bfa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/71807 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00037-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89851 | 315 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Antique hand colored map of the town of Gorham, Maine, published in the Atlas of Cumberland Co., Maine, by Beers, 1871. Features business notices and inset maps of North Windham, and Popeville. Includes the names of property owners at the time, railroads, bodies of water, schools, post offices, etc. Fair overall antique condition with mild toning throughout and some water staining around the edges, continuing into the map. Measures approximately 13.5" x 10.75" (H x W) to the neatline. *Note: Priced As Is.
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While it's mainly thought of as a simple soft drink company, other businesses could take a page from the Coca-Cola handbook when it comes to using technology for innovation. As a company, Coca-Cola constantly changes, rebrands, advertises for and presents their products in order to keep sales consistently high. Since the dawn of social networking, the green movement and the ability to stay constant connected to the Internet, Coca-Cola has continually harnessed new technology in a variety of ways to further the brand.
Coca-Cola introduced greener bottles and packaging in 2009, producing 2.5 billion of their products using less petroleum. The practice has been so successful that other companies, such as Heinz, have harnessed this technology to create greener packaging as well. While the 2009 production represents only three percent of Coca-Cola's packaging, the movement continues to grow, as billions of cases of Coca-Cola products are shipped globally each year.
Coca-Cola maintains a visible appearance on Facebook and other social networking sites such as Twitter. With over 34 million fans as of 2011, Coca-Cola harnesses the power of social networking to spread the word concerning new products, test advertorial campaigns, invite users to play games and associate Coca-Cola products with positive feelings. Using social networking technology enables a brand to stay young, fresh and current.
Coca-Cola began rolling out its freestyle dispensers in late 2010 and early 2011. Unlike typical soda fountains, the freestyle dispenser allows you to create your own beverage by choosing from over 100 drinks in various combinations. Not only does freestyle technology allow a greater variety of drinks through its computer-like interface, but the dispenser records information concerning consumers' drink choices, then sends the data back to Coca-Cola as market research.
Coca-Cola uses subtle yet effective online advertising to make you feel like you want its products. Targeted advertisements on websites mean that Coca-Cola has greater control over who sees their ads and when they see them. For instance, when you're perusing the online menu of a local eatery, Coke ads may appear, making you associate that restaurant with a tall, icy glass. Or, when you're researching local beaches, you may see an ad for Coca-Cola products, thereby associating heat with the refreshment of Coke.
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Symbolic analysis-Motion and stillness
"To His Coy Mistress" is very concerned with the full range of motion, including stillness. The motion helps the poem pick up speed, and the stillness lets us catch our breath and reflect for moments before we rush on. This back and forth also helps the speaker make his point. His portrayal of stillness isn’t very positive, while his moments of action are full of excitement and challenge, suggesting that our speaker is all about action.
Lines 3-4: The speaker is big on hyperbole, and he uses it to suggest various speeds of motion and even stillness. "Picking rubies" implies a somewhat leisurely action.(not leisurley)
Lines 8-10: The speaker’s declaration that (if he had time) he would love her "ten years before the flood" and "till the conversion of the Jews" combines hyperbole and allusion to create motion, in this case a sense of rapid movement through time. He also uses the grand, Biblical language ironically to poke fun at the mistress, whom he accuses of wanting something timeless (like eternal love), while saying in the same breath that he would give this to her, too, if he has time. This might create the motion of the mistress running away from the speaker.
Lines 18-19: The speaker uses "show your heart" as a metaphor for the mistress’s imagined agreement to finally have sex with him, implying faster action, and possibly a faster heartbeat. But, to emphasize the theme of mock leisure in this stanza, he slows things down by using the word "show," which rhymes with the "slow" of a previous line.
Motion and stillness carried on
- Line 20: He then extends the "heart" metaphor in line 20 by introducing the word rate – as in heart rate, another kind of motion. We can’t neglect the sense of "rate" which means "price" or "cost." With this pun, he slyly accuses her of wanting to sell her love for compliments – which brings us back to the running away thing.
- Lines 45-46: The final lines of the poem employ a variety of fun techniques. The simple imagery of the word "sun," which makes ussee yellow or orange or red as we read, combines with personification to deepen the image. We see a red-orange blur, wearing fiery running shoes. As you might suspect, Marvell’s ending flourish is even more sophisticated. The sun is also a metaphor for time. Time is an abstract concept (while the sun is an object we can see). By giving an abstract concept (time) human characteristics (running), the speaker personifies an abstraction, and we are left with an image of a bizarre red-orange clock wearing tennis shoes, trying to stay as far away from the speaker as possible.
In the 1650s, the British Empire has its teeth firmly sunk into the land of India. Andrew Marvell was active politician, and very close with Oliver Cromwell.
Line 5: As noted, the poem briefly alludes to imperialism. The "Indian Ganges" and "rubies," when taken together in this context, can be symbols of imperialism, especially to us, today. When we consider that he generally insults the mistress in this section, the colonialists, by way of rubies and India, become a metaphor for the mistress. She steals rubies from the Indian people. She steals sex from the speaker, by not having it with him. If she doesn’t stop abusing her power, she will leave him in ruins. Line 12: Yep, it’s the word "empire" that interests us here. Building an empire ain’t easy, and it takes time (though not as long as growing vegetables, apparently). Some would say the same of relationships. Thus, colonialism also becomes a metaphor for relationships. The speaker accuses the mistress of thinking that sex and relationships are something big and serious, like ruling the world (the goal of building an empire), when, in fact – or so he says later on – such things are as common for people as for birds. He accuses her of hyperbole, which is ironic, considering all of his hyperbole throughout the poem. If Marvell has anxiety concerning imperialism (which is highly possible), he picks a pretty sly way to talk about it. Of course, this poem wasn’t published until after he was dead.
The great unknown
Andrew Marvell is considered a Metaphysical Poet, which means, in part, that he was concerned with the mysteries of life, death, and the universe. Lines 21-22: The chariot is a nice example of metonymy. The chariot becomes a stand in for time. When the speaker hears the chariot behind him (which is all the time), he associates it with time. The imagery of wings helps us see the chariot, and even hear the sound it makes. This metonymical link between time and the chariot also personifies the abstract concept of time, by implying that time is behind the wheel of the chariot. Either that, or time’s chauffer is behind the wheel – but, if time has a driver, that’s still personification. -Lines 27-30. Hyperbole turns nasty in this section. He makes the ridiculous suggestion that, if she dies a virgin, worms will have sex with her dead body. Ew. This vision of the unknown employs simple, but effective visual imagery. -Lines 36-38. It’s possible that sex is unknown to the speaker, and he implies that it’s unknown to the mistress. His vision of sex, like most of what he envisions, is full of hyperbole. In one of the poem’s few similes, he likens their impending sexual union to that of "birds of prey." While birds mating is innocent enough, the word "prey" sets us up for the weird violence that the speaker imagines taking place before they actually have sex. -Line 39-40: His idea of foreplay is eating time. Conceiving time as something that can be devoured makes our head spin. In this case, time becomes a symbol for everything that the speaker thinks traps him. Ironically, the speaker wants to be nourished by the very thing that he wants to be rid of. The irony suggests a paradox. The speaker wants to be rid of time, but needs time in order to enjoy life.
- Born on March 31st 1621 in Yorkshire and raised in Hull.
- After studying at Cambridge, he travelled in Europe, before taking a post as a tutor.
- He’s known as a metaphysical poet, as he wrote about philosophical subjects like life and soul.
- He was also a satirist and a politician.
- At Marvell’s death, his housekeeper-servant Mary Palmer claimed to be his widow, although this was undoubtedly a legal fiction. The first publication of his poems in 1681 resulted from a manuscript volume she found among his effects.
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Delta County, TX - Jeri Pickering, a former agricultural science teacher at Cooper High School, was arrested on May 18 on a charge of improper relationship between an educator and student. Pickering was booked into the Delta County Jail and released on a $20,000 bond later that day.
Pickering is accused of violating Texas Penal Code 21.12, which forbids sexual contact between a school employee and a student of that same school. The student in question is 17 years old, Delta County Sheriff Ricky Smith said. In Texas, 17 is the age of legal consent, so Pickering is not being charged with adult-child sexual contact.
“[The allegation] was reported to us by the school," Smith said. "It was reported to the school by the juvenile’s parents."
Pickering turned herself in after warrants were issued on May 18, Smith said.
The law forbidding school employee-student sexual contact has been in place since 2003, Smith said. The statute was amended in 2007 to include electronic communications involving images or text.
Pickering, who was hired by Cooper Independent School District in August 2015, has provisional teaching certificates are current through Aug. 17 of this year. The State Board of Education's Professional Discipline Unit is reviewing her status.
Cooper ISD Superintendent Denicia Hohenberger said the district takes its students’ confidentiality very seriously.
“Cooper ISD is committed to providing a positive and safe learning climate for students," Hohenberger said. "The district is aware of the charge against a former employee and has acted, and will continue to act, in a swift and diligent manner. "We are cooperating with all necessary state and local officials and may not comment further at this time. The district will continue to adhere to the highest of safety standards for the protection of our students."
Pickering resigned on April 19. Her husband, Welton Pickering, resigned on May 13. Following their resignation, the CISD Board of Trustees voted for the approval of two new instructors: Britney Bettes for Ag Science and Leslie Harris for Ag Mechanics.
"We will be continuing to focus on the Ag program and continue to make great strides," Hohenberger said. | <urn:uuid:30eea987-f69b-43ae-8f55-1ffb53cf0501> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mugshots.com/Current-Events/JERI-PICKERING.136365943.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.979362 | 455 | 1.570313 | 2 |
ELSS fund dividends provide liquidity to investors, but watch out for the underlying maths
18-May-2015 •Research Desk
Many investors prefer investing in tax-saving mutual fund schemes, or equity-linked savings schemes (ELSS), just before the end of the financial year to pocket a dividend. Some investment advisors also recommend this option because it eases the financial burden on investors and allows them to take money out of the scheme even within the mandatory lock-in period of three years. However, this may not be the right investment approach if one is investing in equity to build long-term wealth.
ELSS typically declare dividends in the last quarter of the financial year. In 2015, 15 out of 38 funds have declared dividend. The table gives the latest NAVs and yields of the 15 ELSS funds.
Dividends, of course, provide much needed liquidity to investors who are short on funds. There is always a gap between declaration of dividend and the date of dividend. Some investors invest just after a fund declares dividend to pocket the dividend in a few days or weeks. These investors and their advisors believe that the method enhances the total returns after tax. They opt for the fund that has declared the maximum dividend while investing their money. Again, this is a wrong way of looking at the performance of the scheme.
This is because the highest percentage of dividend need not be the highest dividend yield. Dividend yield is the ratio of dividend declared by a fund per net asset value (NAV) of the fund, while the dividend percentage is based on the face value of one unit of a fund. A higher dividend percentage is misleading as it gives investors a perception of a high dividend amount received and higher dividend yield.
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|SBI Magnum Taxgain-D||55||44.64||12.32|
|HSBC Tax Saver Equity-D||25||20.22||12.36|
|DSPBR Tax Saver- D||19||15.94||11.92|
|BOI AXA Tax Advantage Eco-D||20||17.57||11.38|
|BOI AXA Tax Advantage Reg-D||20||17.81||11.23|
|HDFC LT Advantage-D||40||38.58||10.37|
|Union KBC Tax Saver-D||15||16.17||9.28|
|Axis Long Term Equity-D||20||22.35||8.95|
|Baroda Pioneer ELSS 96-D||22.5||31.12||7.23|
|BNP Paribas Long Term Equity-D||10||16.73||5.98|
|Birla Sun Life Tax Plan-D||45||74.77||6.02|
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‘Bee Hotels’as Tools for Native Pollinator
Conservation: A Premature Verdict?
J. Scott MacIvor*, Laurence Packer
Biology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Society is increasingly concerned with declining wild bee populations. Although most bees
nest in the ground, considerable effort has centered on installing ‘bee hotels’—also known
as nest boxes or trap nests—which artificially aggregate nest sites of above ground nesting
bees. Campaigns to ‘save the bees’often promote these devices despite the absence of
data indicating they have a positive effect. From a survey of almost 600 bee hotels set up
over a period of three years in Toronto, Canada, introduced bees nested at 32.9% of sites
and represented 24.6% of more than 27,000 total bees and wasps recorded (47.1% of all
bees recorded). Native bees were parasitized more than introduced bees and females of in-
troduced bee species provisioned nests with significantly more female larva each year. Na-
tive wasps were significantly more abundant than both native and introduced bees and
occupied almost 3/4 of all bee hotels each year; further, introduced wasps were the only
group to significantly increase in relative abundance year over year. More research is need-
ed to elucidate the potential pitfalls and benefits of using bee hotels in the conservation and
population dynamics of wild native bees.
Bees and the pollination services they provide are in decline as a result of various anthropogen-
ic activities that undermine bee foraging and nesting [1,2,3,4]. Concern for bees among the
general public has led to increases in the numbers of novice beekeepers in urban centers
and augmentation of habitat for bees including the addition of both food (bee-friendly plants)
[6,7] and nest sites (bee hotels) . The marketing of bee hotels to promote pollination and
wild pollinator conservation is widespread and expanding, at least in North America and Eu-
rope . These structures, also known as trap-nests or nest boxes , use some bee’s prefer-
ences for nesting in above-ground cavities as arise naturally in a variety of settings such as
pithy stems and beetle burrows in wood [11,12]. Bee hotels are usually made from bundled
plant stems, paper-based tubes, or holes drilled in wood or molded in plastic; in all cases they
artificially aggregate nesting sites above densities naturally available for cavity-nesting bees
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Citation: MacIvor JS, Packer L (2015) ‘Bee Hotels’
as Tools for Native Pollinator Conservation: A
Premature Verdict? PLoS ONE 10(3): e0122126.
Academic Editor: Fabio S. Nascimento,
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia
Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, BRAZIL
Received: October 4, 2014
Accepted: February 7, 2015
Published: March 18, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 MacIvor, Packer. This is an open
access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original author and source are
Data Availability Statement: Data cannot be made
publicly available due to ethical restrictions that
protect the privacy of the bee hotel owners. Data are
available upon request by contacting
Funding: JSM received funding from a Natural
Science and Engineering Council of Canada (CGS D
asp). LP received funding from a Natural Science and
Engineering Council of Canada Discovery Grant
funders had no role in study design, data collection
Bee hotel development began in the 1950s when paper straws and wooden blocks with holes
drilled into them were experimentally set out to house the alfalfa leaf cutter bee [Megachile
rotundata (Fabricius)] in transportable and stackable containers . At that time, farmers
from Utah to Saskatchewan were encouraging this exotic species to nest in holes they had
drilled into the sides of their own buildings . Over the ensuing decades there has been an
increasing diversity of designs available for purchase as ready-mades or through DIY instruc-
tions (e.g. http://www.xerces.org/). In agricultural settings, a variety of mason bees, in addition
to the alfalfa leafcutter bee, have been managed successfully using bee hotels [13,14,15]. These
easily manipulated structures have also been used for ecological research [16,17,18,19]. Promo-
tion of bee hotels in urban gardening as a means of supporting native pollinators is a more re-
cent phenomenon. Here we investigate whether they do indeed support native pollinators
rather than introduced ones or other organisms entirely. Specifically, we test the
1. Compared to native bee species, introduced ones are more common in bee hotels. Intro-
duced species often exhibit greater flexibility in habitat requirements [20,21], allowing them
to colonize new environments; bee hotels may constitute such a novel environment.
2. Wasps (such as many solitary Vespidae) that seek out the same nesting cavities will be more
common than native bees in bee hotels because wasps use widely available nesting materials
Fig 1. Bee hotels. A. Bee hotel on a rooftop in London, UK (Photo: Thierry Spiess). B. Cartridge-style hotels made by bundlingwood (left) or plastic (right)
cartridges having drill holes along one edge for opening, inspecting and cleaning. C. Bee hotel having different nesting tube widths made of cardboard and
enclosed in a PVC pipe for protection (Photo: Ed Snodgrass). D. Ant colony (Tetramorium caespitum) that took over an unmaintained bee hotel. E. An
ichneumonid wasp parasitizing Osmia sp. through a cardboard nesting tube. F. Damage to the faceplate and nestingtubes in a bee hotel by an unknown bird.
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and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of
Competing Interests: The authors have declared
that no competing interests exist.
to partition their nests (e.g. mud and grass) whereas bees use more site specific materials
(e.g. tree resins and leaves of certain plants) [10,11,22].
3. Introduced species will be more common in bee hotels located in areas that are most heavily
anthropogenically-modified. This is expected because recent studies that investigate urban
insect diversity find introduced species to be the dominant taxa [23,24].
4. Compared to native species, introduced ones will have decreased rates of parasitism. This is
a test of whether the enemy release hypothesis applies to bees that nest in bee hotels. In
bee hotels, parasitism is greater compared with natural nesting sites in part because ag-
gregated nests create an easier search target for parasites . This may exacerbate the dif-
ferences in parasitism rates between native and exotic species.
If hypotheses 1, 3 and 4 were to be supported we could suggest the following two additional
5. Introduced bees will show a greater increase in bee hotel use over time from year to year.
6. Introduced bees will exhibit greater population increase (expressed as number of females
per nest tube) than native species.
We test these hypotheses with 200 bee hotels set up annually for each of three years within
the city of Toronto, Canada. We test the first five hypotheses using all bees and wasps detected;
the fifth and sixth were explored using two congeneric pairs of the commonest species found,
in each case one member of the pair was introduced, the other native.
From May to October 2011–2013, 200 bee hotels were set up each year throughout the Toronto
area (each bee hotel representing one ‘site’) to survey above ground nesting bees . The ma-
jority of sites were sampled all three years (73.7%), 16.9% were sampled over two years, and
9.4% were sampled in just one year. The bee hotels were made from 10cm-diameter, 28cm long
white PVC piping, with a circular faceplate made of insulation board into which 30 cardboard
nesting tubes (10 of each of three tube diameters; 3.4mm, 5.5mm, 7.6mm; all 15cm in length)
could be mounted (Fig. 1; see for more detail). A bee that uses the hotel enters a suitable
cardboard tube (the one that best fits her body dimensions) and constructs brood cells in a se-
ries from the back of the tube to the front [10,11,28]. Bee hotels were set up individually at sites
at least 250m apart, in four different urban green space types: community gardens, residential
gardens, city parks, and building rooftops. Permission was granted to set up at each site after
meeting with individual site managers or homeowners to discuss the research.
At the end of each field season, the bee hotels were collected, each cardboard tube opened
and each brood cell removed, individually labeled and placed in storage to overwinter at 4°C.
In April of the following year brood cells were moved to a sealed incubation chamber kept at
26°C and 60% humidity until adult emergence. They were then sexed and identified to species,
permitting categorization of each individual as native or introduced to the study region
[29,30,31]. All bees and wasps are stored at the Packer Collection at York University (PCYU).
Over all sites and years, colonization (determined as presence in a bee hotel) and relative
abundance (the proportion of all brood cells that were of the focal species per bee hotel)
were compared between native and introduced bees (NB vs IB), native and introduced wasps
(NW vs. IW), as well as among all four groups using linear regression analysis (GLM) (α=
0.05) with a Tukey post hoc analysis in SPSS v21 (all analyses described hereafter used this
program). Colonization and relative abundance of native bees (NB) were also compared with
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all potential competitors of native bees for nesting opportunities in bee hotels (introduced
bees and introduced and native wasps grouped together; hereafter referred to as “AO”,asin
“all others”) using a paired t-test. The same GLM test was used to determine whether coloni-
zation or relative abundance between native and introduced bees and wasps differed by
The total number of parasites attacking bee and wasp brood were recorded by site, and the
parasites reared and identified as accurately as possible using standard morphological ap-
proaches combined with DNA barcoding . The total parasitism rate combining all brood
cells over all three years were compared separately as before between native and introduced
bees and wasps using GLM analysis with Tukey post hoc testing to distinguish between differ-
ent bee and wasp groups. Although the bees and wasps we sampled were not released back to
the site from where they were collected, to examine patterns in use over time, the abundance of
each group per site were independently examined over the three years using a repeated mea-
sures ANOVA with data from the first year of sampling acting as a baseline for comparison.
This was completed only for the sites sampled in all three years (N = 147).
We compared the sex ratio, as well as an estimate of the rate of increase in population size
of the four most common bee species over the three-year study period. The most common bees
were two native [Osmia pumila Cresson, Megachile campanulae (Robertson)] and two intro-
duced species [O.caerulescens (L.) and M.rotundata](Table 1). The estimate of population in-
crease for each species was determined by comparing the number of female offspring
provisioned by nesting females in 30 individual nests of the same nesting tube width dimension
(1 per site; 10 sites selected randomly among those colonized by the species in all three years).
The sex ratio (recorded as the proportion of females per nest) and the estimate of population
increase over the study period were independently compared for two pairs of bee species using
GLM testing and post hoc analysis.
Of 600 bee hotel/years set up, data were obtained from 574 (186 were recovered in 2011, 194 in
2012 and 194 in 2013). We found a total 27,275 individuals including 31 species of pollinating
bees (comprising 52% of all cavity-nesting bee species known from the area ) and an addi-
tional five cleptoparasitic bee species (36 bee species total) (Table 1). Ten of the species we
found were not native to the region, representing 76.9% of the known introduced cavity-
nesting bee fauna in southern Ontario (Table 1). The offspring generations of two introduced
species: O.caerulescens and M.rotundata were particularly common; representing 20.7% and
15.4% respectively of the total number of bees reared over the entire study period.
There was no significant difference between native and introduced bees in the number of
sites occupied (Fig. 2A), with introduced bees nesting in bee hotels at an average of 32.9% of
sites per year (native bees: 39.8%). Native bees colonized significantly fewer sites than did all
other groups combined (AO: 70.5%) (Fig. 2B).
There was no significant difference in the relative abundance of introduced and native bees
reared from bee hotels (Fig. 2C); introduced bees represented 47.1% of the total number of
bees reared (56.9% for native bees), and 24.6% of all bees and wasps reared (27.6% for native
bees). However, the relative abundance of native bees was significantly less (t = 9.239,
p<0.001) than that of all competing groups combined (AO: 72.4%) (Fig. 2D). Native wasps
were significantly more abundant than any other group (Fig. 2A;F
= 20.46, p<0.001) and
comprised 37.8% of all bees and wasps reared from bee hotels.
The type of urban green space was a significant determinant of the abundance of native bees
= 5.369, p = 0.001, greatest in residential gardens), introduced bees (F
= 4.511, p = 0.004,
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greatest on rooftops, and to a lesser extent community gardens) and native wasps (F
p = 0.006, greatest in urban parks), but not of introduced wasps (Fig. 3). Significantly more na-
tive bees were parasitized compared to introduced bees (t = 13.904, p<0.001) (Fig. 4), although
parasitism rates did not differ between introduced and native wasps.
Table 1. List of all bee species recorded in the study area per year (Y: yes; N: no).
Family Genus Species 2011 2012 2013
Apidae Anthophora terminalis Cresson N N Y
Megachildae Megachile brevis Say N Y N
campanulae (Robertson) Y Y Y
frigida Smith N Y Y
inermis Provancher Y N N
mendica Cresson Y Y N
pugnata Say Y Y Y
relativa Cresson Y Y Y
rotundata Fabricius Y Y Y
sculpturalis Smith N N Y
Heriades carinata Cresson Y Y Y
variolosa (Cresson) Y N N
Chelostoma campanularum (Kirby) N Y Y
rapunculi (Lepeletier) Y N Y
Hoplitis producta (Cresson) Y Y Y
spoliata (Provancher) Y Y N
truncata (Cresson) N N Y
Osmia pumila Cresson Y Y Y
caerulescens (Linnaeus) Y Y Y
lignaria Say Y Y Y
atriventris Cresson N Y N
Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) Y N Y
Coelioxys alternata Say
Stelis lateralis Cresson
Colletidae Hylaeus affinis Smith Y Y Y
annulatus (Linnaeus) Y Y Y
hyalinatus Smith N Y Y
leptocephalus Morawitz N Y Y
mesillae (Cockerell) Y N Y
modestus Say Y Y Y
punctatus Brullé Y Y N
verticalis (Cresson) N Y N
Bolded species are introduced to the study region. Missing introduced cavity-nesting bees known from the region included: Anthidium oblongatum (Illiger),
Hoplitis anthocopoides (Schenck), and Megachile ericetorum Mitchell.
*M.centuncularis status is not clear, with Giles and Ascher (2006) denoting the species as introduced.
denotes species that are cleptoparasites.
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Repeated measures analysis showed that there was no significant change in relative abun-
dance of native or introduced bees or native wasps year-over-year; however, there was a signifi-
cant increase in introduced wasps (F
= 6.555, p<0.001) (Fig. 2C).
Finally, the sex ratio as determined by the number of females provisioned per preferred
nesting tube width in the two pairs of native and introduced bees species was significantly
more skewed towards females in introduced than native bees (F
= 28.683, p = 0.033) (Fig. 5A).
This trend was driven by one native, O.pumila, which provisioned, on average, half as many fe-
males as the other native (M.campanulae) per brood cell. Osmia pumila was the only bee
among the four to prefer the 3.4mm nesting tube width (73.1% of all nest tubes occupied and
77.1% of all brood produced). The average number of female offspring provisioned per female
did not change significantly for any of the four species over the three years of study (F
Fig 2. Presence and abundance of bees and wasps over all sampling years. A. The number of sites occupied by native bees (NB), introduced bees (IB),
native wasps (NW) and introduced wasps (IW) over three years at over 600 bee hotels set up through out the city of Toronto and the surrounding region. B.
Comparison of the number of sites occupied by NB and the other groups competing for nesting space combined (AO). C. The total number of brood cells
produced in bee hotels per year by native and introduced bees and wasps, and D. shows a comparison between native bees and the remaining groups
combined. Lower-case lettering indicates significant differences and in all graphs hereafter.
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p = 0.481). However the estimate of the rate of population increase differed significantly
among species with both introduced bees (M.rotundata,O.caerulescens) and one native
(M.campanulae) provisioning significantly more female offspring per nesting female com-
pared to native O.pumila (F
= 25.636, p<0.001) (Fig. 5B).
We investigated the relative use of bee hotels by native and introduced bees and wasps to assess
the potential of these novel habitat augmentation schemes for increasing populations of native
bees. Several lines of evidence suggested that native bees performed comparatively poorly.
First, although there was no difference in the abundance or colonization of bee hotels by in-
troduced and native bees, native bees were in the minority, representing 27.7% of all bees and
wasps reared (AO + NB). Thus, our hypothesis that introduced bees would use the hotels more
often than native bees was rejected. This result was similar to that found in a study in California
where native bees or wasps never amounted to more than 25% of bee hotel occupants over two
years . Grouping all potential competitors of native bees for nesting opportunities in bee
hotels (AO), we found that their colonization rate and abundance was greater than that of na-
tive bees. Native wasps were significantly more abundant than native and introduced bees, and
so our second hypothesis, that wasps could outcompete bees for these nesting structures was
supported. Our third hypothesis—that site type, as determined by the type of urban green
space where the bee hotel was installed—would influence the relative abundance of native bees
was supported. Bee hotels in residential gardens had significantly more native bees (e.g. )
while more anthropogenically-modified sites (e.g. vegetated rooftops) supported significantly
higher numbers of introduced bees (Fig. 3).
Our fourth hypothesis was that introduced bees would be parasitized less often than native
bees. This pattern was evident when all years were combined (Fig. 4) and so we accepted our
Fig 3. Mean relative abundance of bees and wasps at all site types over all years. Lower-case lettering indicates significant differences.
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fourth hypothesis. From the repeated measures analysis and using the first year of abundance
data per sites as a baseline for comparison, no significant difference in changes in abundance
was evident from year to year for native or introduced bees, and we rejected our
Our sixth hypothesis that introduced bees would exhibit greater population increase than
native bees was partially supported. Our most common native bee, O.pumila, provisioned sig-
nificantly fewer females per nest than did either of our two introduced bees (Fig. 5). Osmia
pumila preferred smaller diameter nesting tubes than did our other three species and because
males are smaller than females use of smaller diameter tubes is expected to result in a more
male-biased sex ratio. For example, an increasingly male biased sex ratio was reported for
Osmia lignaria in smaller sized nesting tube diameters . To check whether reduced female
Fig 4. The proportion of parasitized brood cells from all sites and years combined.
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Fig 5. Number of females provisioned in nests by the most common native and introduced bees. A. Differences in the mean number of females in
nests of four bee species [two introduced: Osmia caerulescens (OC), Megachile rotundata (MR); and two natives: Osmia pumila (OP), Megachile
campanulae (MC)]. B. Estimates of the rate of population increase in those same bees as determined by the number of female offspring provisioned per
individual nesting female over three years. Lower-case lettering reflects significant differences.
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production by O.pumila might have been an artefact of tunnel width preferences we looked at
its sex ratio in tubes of both diameters. In 3.4mm tubes, 7.9% of the brood was female whereas
in 5.5mm tubes 58.6% were females giving a total of 19.5% female overall in the population of
O.pumila. The other three species preferred to nest in the 5.5mm nesting tubes (M.campanu-
lae = 81.3% of all brood reared, M.rotundata = 60.2%, O.caerulescens = 77.8%).
Altogether, our study findings show that bee hotels appear to differentially augment popula-
tions of wasps rather than those of native bees, and introduced bees outperform at least some
native bee species in some population parameters in bee hotels and in some urban green space
types. These results highlight a need for increased study of bee hotels and their associated im-
pact upon bee biodiversity and pollination in the urban setting.
One reason bee hotels are promoted is their potential for augmenting pollination of native
plants and/or crops . However, introduced pollinators, which in this study represented
almost half of all bees reared, are often the dominant or sole pollinator(s) of introduced plants
[37,38,39], whereas, native bees prefer native plants to alien ones .
At their worst, bee hotels may act as population sinks for bees through facilitating the in-
crease of parasites, predators (e.g. Fig. 1D-F), and diseases as a result of functional responses to
unnaturally high nest densities and nesting site entrances set up in two-dimensions rather than
in the more three dimensional arrangement found in nature (e.g. erect plant stems, decaying
logs) . Bee hotels may be designed to encourage different bee species by varying nesting
tube/hole width or length, but encouraging different bee species to co-aggregate in a bee hotel
might inadvertently increase opportunity for parasites to attack related species: developing
novel hosts or affect more susceptible species . Although there has been little discussion of
parasite loads obtained with different bee hotel designs in all cases where nesting sites and
nesting bees are aggregated, the chance of parasites finding and attacking nests is increased
. Some bee hotels have thin-walled nest tubes that facilitate parasite transfer within the
hotel, even by parasitic insects with short ovipositors such as generalist Monodontomerus
wasps . This can result in mortality of entire hotel contents . The relative influence of
host aggregation was not examined in this study, however we did find a significant increase in
the total number of parasites attacking native bees compared to introduced ones. These find-
ings might have resulted from enemy release among introduced bees, which were free of spe-
cialist parasites that attack them in their native ranges .
Given bee hotels could have a negative or a positive impact on their target organisms, an ob-
vious question is: How can designs be modified to promote the desired outcomes? Finding an-
swers to this would involve increased research on the parameters that vary among different bee
hotel designs and their relative success at promoting native bees. This could include studies
that manipulate the number, positioning/location, and materials used in bee hotel construc-
tion. The impact of maintenance might include replacement of completed nesting tubes with
new unoccupied ones to reduce within-season competition for nest sites. Matching the length
or especially the width [11,13] of nesting tubes in bee hotels to that of preferred plant stems
and beetle-bored holes in wood could reveal parameters that increase attractiveness to specific
native bees, reduce rates of parasitism, and/or increase the number of females provisioned per
nest (e.g. [34,43]). For example, a nest tube diameter between 3.4mm and 5.5mm would seem
to be necessary for population increase in O.pumila.
“Bee-washing”: A Call for Research
We advocate for due diligence on the part of retailers and promoters of bee hotels to avoid
“bee-washing”; that is, green-washing as applied to potentially misleading claims for aug-
mentation of native and wild bee populations. To ensure “bee-washing”is minimized, it is
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imperative that more research be performed on the design and effectiveness of bee hotels. Bee
hotels are useful for ecological and behavioral studies, outreach in citizen science and pollinator
education campaigns. Sampling with them can even reflect the diversity of the larger bee com-
munity (e.g. including bees that nest in the ground ). However the magnitude of potential
pitfalls noted above needs to be assessed through continued study, especially of the impact of
hotels on native bee population dynamics. Such work would also provide detailed data on the
pollen and nesting resources used, parasite associations, sex ratios, and behaviors.
Comparing nesting success in bee hotels with that at naturally occurring nesting sites
[46,47] could improve the effectiveness of this management tool and permit its integration into
landscape planning practices targeting conservation. Specifically, through better designs mod-
eled after natural conditions both in materials used and details of positioning in the environ-
ment. At present, some bee hotels marketed for consumer use may act as sinks for their target
organisms through provision of entirely inappropriate edaphic conditions as a result of the ma-
terials used. For example, some designs are simply holes drilled (or molded) into solid plastic
blocks. It seems highly improbable that these designs will provide the same moisture balance as
occurs in nature and increased moisture retention likely leads to increased brood mortality due
to mold, which can represent a large proportion of total brood mortality . Set up and orien-
tation could also be linked to attractiveness to native bees, especially versus wasps (e.g. );
for example, solitary wasps can be more prevalent in bee hotels placed in shaded conditions
. These wasps may provide important services to urban gardeners as predators of pests
, but compete with bees for nesting space in bee hotels. This suggests the need for a deeper
understanding of the relative importance of the pollination augmentation versus pest control
potential of bee hotels. In sum, we advocate for more research and increased responsibility on
the part of retailers and advocates of bee hotels so that these structures are designed and man-
aged to minimize negative effects and become truly useful tools for conservation biologists and
We thank all of the homeowners and site managers for allowing us to set up and monitor bee
hotels. We also thank Alana Pindar for commenting on the manuscript, Baharak Salehi, Jenni-
fer Albert, Jennifer Cabral, Veronica Ladico, Armando Ponte, and Sheila Dumesh for help sort-
ing bees and wasps reared, and Ally Ruttan for contributing to the data on Megachile
Conceived and designed the experiments: JSM LP. Performed the experiments: JSM. Analyzed
the data: JSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSM. Wrote the paper: JSM LP.
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The Connection Between Literacy and History
“Do we just use the text as evidence to answer this question or can we use the date of the document also?”
A bright 8th-grade student asked me this question in the middle of a lesson on Reconstruction. He and his partner were working their way through several prepared documents to answer the lesson’s central question. Matt was figuring out that the specific circumstances surrounding an historical account mattered to making sense of that account. When I answered, “Yes, by all means use the date,” he answered, “Because the date matters to the question.”
Matt was “reading historically,” even if he didn’t know it.
Consider another scenario: Susie, a conscientious 5th-grader, was working on writing an essay about the events leading up to the American Revolution. She asked me for help with beginning her essay. I asked, “What story will you tell in this essay? Or will you make an argument? What will you argue about this topic?” With a blank look that turned into a slightly annoyed one, she told me that she would do neither: “It’s an essay on the American Revolution, we’re just supposed to include important facts.”
Susie had not yet learned that historical essays tell stories and make arguments. Without one of these coherent structures, introducing her “important facts” was a difficult task.
Both of these are instances where literacy was central to the work that students were doing in history classrooms. And this is how it should be, as all history teachers are also literacy teachers.
This may be obvious to you, depending on your own teaching context, training, and experience. Even when I earned my teacher credential, more than two decades ago, I was required to take a “content-area” reading course. Together, prospective teachers of all the secondary subjects spent a semester learning about pre-reading strategies and different kinds of reading guides. But the truth is that this course didn’t help me identify as a reading teacher; I was a history/social science teacher through and through and this approach to literacy seemed only marginally useful to me.
My easy dismissal was partly my mistake and partly due to the generic nature of the course. I should have known better. Doing history in college meant reading mountains of material—identifying and critiquing arguments and their evidentiary warrants, and seeking out alternative interpretations and multiple voices. These were some of the aspects of history that drew me to the subject and reading was core to all of them. Regardless of historical topic or task, I had to read to do my work. As Princeton historian Hendrik Hartog said in a Journal of American History roundtable on the state of the historical practice, "The one [practice] we all engage in as historians is reading." But, in my content reading course, it was not obvious to me how learning about cloze reading guides was important to teaching history.
We’ve all heard about “content area literacy” practices and “reading and writing across the curriculum.” Both of these terms support my first point: that even if you’re not an English teacher, you are still a literacy teacher. But some of the books and programs that focus on “content-area literacy” fall short in their answers to two key questions: in history class, what should students read? And how should students read?
Too often, these programs identify textbooks as the primary, if not the only, history/social studies classroom text and focus primarily on generic literacy practices that cut across all disciplines, like scanning and summarizing.
Textbooks can be useful classroom tools and students should be taught how to read and use them wisely, but when students read only these books, they do not get experience, practice, or coaching with reading more authentic discipline-specific texts. Doing history requires reading many genres of text, from presidential proclamations to private letters to political cartoons. It includes “reading” images and video, objects and art. It includes analyzing primary sources for perspective and reliability and secondary sources for argument and supporting evidence.
True content-area literacy in history requires students learn reading and writing strategies specific to history. In the examples above, Matt is “sourcing” even if he doesn’t know it and this is an essential skill for reading in history. Susie is struggling with how to communicate historical knowledge in writing and needs help with understanding and producing historical arguments.
History requires particular kinds of reading and writing strategies that are critical to students being college-, career-, and citizenship-ready. It requires that students become creators and connoisseurs of arguments, careful readers, and good questioners. Students must learn that place, time, audience, and purpose matter to how authors craft and deliver their message. They should learn to ask questions of text like: whose voice is missing? What is the evidence for that claim? How are conclusions about this topic limited? History offers opportunities for students to learn how to identify and write causal claims, use hedging language to assert neither too little nor too much, identify ambiguities, and weigh evidence to make a convincing claim.
Teachinghistory.org has many resources that can help you teach students discipline-specific reading and writing strategies and competencies. We strive to be faithful to the discipline in the materials we compile and produce for the site and this means that reading and writing are central to our classroom resources. We pay special attention to providing resources for teaching historical thinking, or what we call, “the reading, analysis, and writing that is necessary to develop our understanding of the past.” Given that class time for history instruction, especially at the elementary level, is threatened in some schools, history educators need to be clear and explicit about how our discipline demands and fosters students’ critical reading skills. Teachinghistory.org can help with that message as well as with providing classroom resources for developing those skills.
(Author's note: All names are pseudonyms.)
Faust, Drew, et al. "The Practice of History." Journal of American History 90: 2 (Sept. 2003): 576–611.
See this blog, “What is Historical Thinking” for links to features at Teachinghistory.org that provide relevant teaching resources and more detailed explanations of historical reading and writing.
For a taste of studies that investigate this literacy link, see this Research Brief about contextualizing texts, or this one about teaching historical writing. This study addressed middle-school learners and this one was done in an elementary classroom.
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Two years ago tomorrow, homeless transgender woman Jennifer Gale died on the streets of Austin — from a heart attack likely caused in part by the extreme cold. Gale was a perennial political candidate who ran for Dallas mayor in 2007. She slept on the streets because the only shelter for women in Austin, run by the Salvation Army, wouldn’t house her according to her gender identity, which would have forced her to sleep and shower with men. Gale’s death prompted changes in Dallas, where the city’s homeless shelter, the Bridge, subsequently adopted a policy under which it houses people according to their gender identity. Gale was an activist and a regular speaker at City Council meetings in Austin, where she also ran for office. On the eve of her death, she stood before a City Council committee and sang “Silent Night.” This morning, the Austin City Council honored Gale by playing video of the rendition. Watch by going here and fast-forwarding to the 1:20 mark. | <urn:uuid:f8a0349c-1241-4cb7-8010-f8093476e885> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dallasvoice.com/tag/lying-on-the-ground | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975616 | 203 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Family Conflicts Over Elderly Parents
As elderly parents begin to rely on family for more support, the amount of conflict between adult children can increase. Dealing with a parent’s care can rekindle sibling rivalries that have lain dormant for years, and the discord can tear families apart.
Learn more about family disagreements that can occur when siblings are caring for their parents.
Causes of Conflict Between Siblings Caring for Elderly Parents
Family dynamics are infinitely complex, but two underlying themes run through most sibling disputes about their parent’s care: injustice and inheritance.
When one sibling shoulders a disproportionate burden of Mom or Dad’s care, that sense of unfairness can foster resentment. Often, by virtue of distance, the siblings who live further away are “off the hook” when it comes to caring for an aging parent, while the nearest siblings are obliged to take on a caregiving role. When the caregiving sibling asks for help from other siblings, the other siblings often don’t fully appreciate, or choose to ignore, how much help their parent needs, and how much work one sibling is doing.
Many siblings clash over a parent’s finances. With the average American household’s net worth declining since 2007, siblings must divide an even smaller inheritance, naturally increasing the likelihood of conflict. In a perfect world, each of us is selfless and not motivated by money, but we live in a far from perfect world where money is indispensable, so it remains a problem within families.
Caregiving is stressful on its own, but when injustice and inheritance are added to a situation, they can create animosity between siblings. When family dynamics are already tense because one sibling feels unjustly overburdened with a parent’s care, money can compound the conflict.
A sibling who provides most of a parent’s care may feel entitled to a greater share of an inheritance. Or, siblings who are more distant or not involved may believe that the caregiving sibling is spending too much money on a parent’s care. Sometimes, the children of aging parents will even resist plans for professional care in order to “protect” an inheritance.
Tips for Improving Communication with Your Siblings During a Family Disagreement
There are no easy answers to settle disputes between siblings who are butting heads over a parent’s care, but maintaining communication is crucial. Consider using these tips for improving communication with your siblings during a family disagreement:
A Family Meeting
Ideally, siblings can identify and correct issues before they become irreconcilable. The key is good communication, and a tried and true strategy to facilitate the exchange of ideas is the family meeting. At a family meeting, there should be frank and open discussion about a parent’s care needs. Each sibling’s role and obligations should be established, and future plans should be made. But if the question of where to hold a family meeting leads to a bitter argument in and of itself, the friction may have gotten past the point when a family meeting can help.
Advisors, Counsels and Mediators
Sometimes a neutral third-party can calm feuding siblings. A Place for Mom Senior Living Advisors, who work directly with families as they plan a parent’s care, have defused many disputes between siblings over lengthy conference calls. Family counselors can also help to bridge the differences between siblings, assuming they still talk to one another. If things have become really heated, a family mediator specializing in senior care issues may be able to break through the ill will and help build consensus and find middle-ground.
The High Road
Ultimately, the only person we can change is ourselves. No matter how much we try to reason with a disagreeable sibling, we may not succeed.
While advocating for what’s best for our parent, it’s wise to let go of anger or resentment towards a sibling who has been unhelpful or hurtful, and to strive for the undeniable peace that comes from acceptance and forgiveness; neither stifling our impulse to call out an uncooperative brother or sister, nor allowing ourselves to be consumed with anger.
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Following discussion on Ringing Chat and Change Ringers email lists in February 2008, the following is believed to be the list of the oldest ringing societies still functioning as a ringing society.
It has to be acknowledged that over a period of approximately 400 years any organisation will have had its high and low points. The dates shown are for generally accepted original formation.
1612 - The Company of Ringers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln
The Company of Ringers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln was formalised on 18 October 1612, in a constitution granted by the Dean, Laurence Stanton, and his Chapter and is the earliest known Company of Ringers still performing their duties for which they were set up.
1623 - Saffron Walden (Essex) Society
Ernest Morris - "This is the oldest local company of the present day".
1637 - Ancient Society of College Youths
Established in 1637 based in the City of London, with a national and international membership that promotes excellence in ringing around the world. First peal - 1690.
1672 - Society of Sherwood Youths
The origins of the Society are lost in history but there are references to its establishment in 1672 and it may well be that it was the successor Society to the 'Northern Youths' who gave the two new treble bells making the octave to St Peters Church Nottingham in 1671. First peal - 1762.
1724 - Society of Cambridge Youths
The SCY are the second oldest ringing society at any church with a continuous history as a ringing society after the Lincoln Cathedral Guild of ringers.
1734 - Oxford Society
Considered to have been founded at the time of the ringing of the first peal in Oxford, Grandsire Caters at Christ Church by a local band.
1747 - The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths
The Society of Cumberland Youths was founded on September 6, 1747 - the word "Royal" being added in the 1870s.
Old Societies No Longer in Existence
1620 - The Antient Society of St Stephen's Ringers
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A Saturday story in the Banner-Herald's Living section, headlined, "Crime won't keep women from going hiking on their own," caught my eye. As a regular hiker, I felt the message to women - that the advantages of hiking alone outweigh the disadvantages - was not sensible and even dangerous.
It only makes sense to take a friend when venturing into a remote area. There are dangers to be reckoned with that could range from sustaining an injury, getting lost, or worse still, encountering an individual who intends to cause harm. If hiking alone, these dangers could be insurmountable, even deadly.
In the article, University of Georgia master's degree student Allison Ginn, who has studied who uses the Appalachian Trail, is quoted as saying, "Public lands, because they are so wide open and often without law enforcement, are havens for some people who live on the margins of society and may not have the best intentions."
That quote sums things up for me. Crime and common sense always have, and always will, keep me from hiking on my own.
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SNYDER: Sportsmen a necessity to outdoors and wildlife
Let’s walk through a door we opened last week.
The idea of harvesting a bear that had become iconic in a suburban neighborhood is controversial. But many sportsmen argue it was the best move.
My response is to urge you to spend a moment imagining a world without sportsmen. It’s not a pleasant thought. The picture in my mind is of a world in which I wouldn’t want to live. There are few critters; woodlands are unhealthy; waterways are polluted; and nobody wants to go outside.
Without sportsmen, it's an ugly world. That’s because this group of like-minded folks act as the heart of the conservation movement. They’re the ultimate environmentalist. They pump time, energy and money into one of the most underrated causes to preserve what was here long before we were.
Without sportsmen, Pennsylvania wouldn't have one of the greatest state park and forest programs in the country. Without them, we would have far fewer outdoor recreational activities. I am convinced, without these folks, our world would be a place few of us would be proud of.
Take the long-term success of the national duck stamp program. To the outsider, it doesn’t sound like much — just an expensive $25 license that lets hunters bag migratory birds. But to anybody that’s followed the program through the decades, duck stamps play a critical role in the nation’s conservation efforts.
The stamp program has been around since 1934, when Franklin Roosevelt used his mighty presidential pen to sign the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act into law. That first stamp cost just $1, but it set the stage for a great source of revenue for the conservation movement. Stamp sales now raise over $25 million each year.
Over the last 82 years, the federal duck stamp program has raised nearly a billion dollars. The money was enough to allow federal agencies to purchase or lease 6 million acres of wildlife habitat and dedicate it to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Take a second to ponder that idea. Without this sportsmen-funded program, a land area roughly the size of Vermont would be at risk of permanent development and potentially off limits to the migrating birds that depend on that land. Hunters did that — those same “evil” hunters so many folks love to vilify.
The chances are good that unless you are a hunter, you never bought a duck stamp. But, I guarantee you’ve benefited from it. If you’ve ever enjoyed the sound of a flock of geese flying overhead, or if you’ve ever relished in the sight of two mallards paddling across a pond, you’ve benefited from the stamp program. And, most important, you’ve witnessed the power of conservation-minded sportsmen.
Now imagine if we didn’t have to rely on just this relatively small segment of our population. What if everybody cared about the critters we share our environment with as much as sportsmen? If one small group can do so much good, a much larger group can do much more.
That’s why I urge you to go to your local post office and buy a federal duck stamp. Not only will you get a collectible piece of art (this year’s stamp features a beautiful duo of Trumpeter swans), but you’ll walk away knowing you did your part.
You don’t have to hunt. You don’t even have to call yourself a sportsman.
But, I argue all of us have to do what’s right. We all need to conserve the world we live in. A duck stamp is just one way to do it — even if you don’t agree hunters are the ultimate environmentalists.
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In the world today, nearly everyone has encountered an HVAC system at one point or another. These essential systems make our homes and vehicles more comfortable.
But what exactly are they? Why are they so crucial? What factors should one consider when finding such services, if need be?
This article quickly covers the what, why, and how to choose HVAC systems like an AC service, to help you understand them better.
What is HVAC?
HVAC is an abbreviation that represents heating, ventilation, and cooling in full. The terms in the acronym translate to whatever happens in such systems.
The heating component is used to produce heat and raises temperatures in colder times. Cooling components, on the other hand, are for lower temperatures.
Sometimes, complete heating, ventilation, and cooling systems also come with a humid control function. This function regulates the moisture levels in air, humidifying dry air or dehumidifying extremely moist air.
Factors to consider
Let’s face it, the cost of something is a huge determining factor of whether or not anyone buys something. No one wants to spend money on something of no value.
Similarly, when something of value exceeds one’s ability to buy it, it becomes unattainable.
Heating, ventilation, and cooling systems come at costs ranging from several hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. Some of the factors that determine how much you may have to pay to include:
- The size of the system. You may have to pay more for larger ones than small ones.
- The type of unit. Simple systems that perform either one of the functions are generally less expensive than complex ones.
- Its energy efficiency. The more energy efficient it is, the higher the chances of you paying more.
- The brand. Different manufacturers offer different prices for their products. When settling for a brand choice, it is essential to look at factors other than the cost. A great example would be to check a company’s reputation through its reviews.
The size of the system determines how effectively it performs. As such, it is important to pick out a size that perfectly suits your house or building.
Selecting a system whose size relative to the building is too large causes a lot of energy wastage. Big units take time to power up and start working.
The time spent on this, albeit small, is a big waste over time. On the opposite end, when the unit to building size ratio is too small, the system is constantly struggling to accommodate the needs of the building, which it cannot do due to the size differences.
- Quality of air
Poor-quality indoor air causes the system to overwork. This makes it waste energy and generally inefficient.
Some of the ways to counter this factor include:
- Consumption of energy
Some units use up more energy than others. These are generally less cost-effective since they lead to a higher than necessary electricity bill.
Therefore, consider just how energy efficient a system is. To do this, you can check the EER. The EER refers to the Energy Efficiency Rating. The higher the rating is, the more the efficiency and the better for you.
- Quality and Durability
When making any purchase, it is best to choose the highest quality possible. However, this is often accompanied by a higher price. A good quality product offers better service and lasts longer, thus ending up more cost-effective than a cheaper, low-quality product.
As far as durability is concerned, the more durable a unit is, the better. An HVAC system is money, time, and labor-consuming endeavor. It, therefore, only makes sense for it to last you a long time.
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There are plenty of reasonable things to say in any given conversation. Telling your nephew he’ll have to work hard to make the starting lineup-that’s reasonable. Instructing your friend to buy tomato seeds if she wants to grow tomatoes-that’s reasonable, too. Convincing your brother not to get too excited about the Brewers in April-that’s definitely a reasonable thing to say. Reason makes conversations run smoothly. We talk about accepted things that both parties understand. That’s how we communicate.
But then comes Easter. Jesus’ crucified, pulse-less, dead body came back to life and left the tomb empty. Does that seem reasonable to you?
Maybe not. After all, I’ve never seen a resurrection. I have never visited my brother’s grave and seen Joe Thompson come bursting out of his a few plots down! I’ve never even seen a resurrection on the news. It doesn’t seem so reasonable to say something like that actually happened. Sounds more like a myth or a Michael Jackson video minus the dancing.
Perhaps that’s why talking about the resurrection is such a dangerous thing. Listen to what happened to a Christian named Paul in our lesson. Paul said, “’I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— 23that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles.’ 24At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. ‘You are out of your mind, Paul!’ he shouted. ‘Your great learning is driving you insane.’”
Festus was a governor in the Holy Land in the first century who thought the idea of an empty tomb was insane. When Paul told him Jesus rose from the dead, he jumped in with a shout, “That’s nuts, Paul! How many books have you been reading? That’s just not reasonable.”
I wonder if you haven’t faced the same reaction. Tell people you had a good Easter and they might smile. Tell them you celebrated with good food and good family and they’ll be happy for you. But tell a crowded room you got to hear about Jesus rising from the dead and you’ll understand what the phrase “awkward silence” means. Some might shake their heads. Others might mutter under their breath. Maybe someone will interrupt like Festus and tell you how unreasonable that idea is.
Our culture certainly does think the idea of a resurrection is crazy. Thomas doubted the idea in our Gospel lesson and many, both inside and outside of the church, have followed in his footsteps. In an interview with a Christian author, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said, “The God of Christianity is a little too childlike for me.” Muslims follow the words of the Koran, which claims that Jesus never really died and therefore was never raised from death. The Passover Plot, a best-selling book, has this intriguing trailer on its cover, “Given a drug that would render him unconscious and make him appear dead, Jesus would then be cut down from the cross in a deathlike trance, removed by his accomplices to the tomb where he would be nursed back to health and then ‘resurrected.’” And then there’s the ELCA. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination, has denied an actual physical resurrection of Jesus in its seminaries and increasingly from its pulpits. Their website says, “All of this has led some scholars to write that the risen Jesus and apparitions of the risen Jesus are a supernatural reality which does not belong to this world and cannot be the object of historic investigation.” In other words, Jesus rose spiritually, but not physically. Therefore, we can’t investigate the matter historically. That would seem a bit unreasonable.
So are they right? Is the resurrection unreasonable? Is Easter a pie-in-the-sky theory from religious extremists who have no proof to back up their claims? Well, let’s examine the evidence and see…
But we need to begin by saying two quick things. First, the question of the resurrection is really a question of your worldview. If you believe in an all-powerful God, then the resurrection is easy and reasonable. If you believe God created the universe out of nothing, raising Jesus from the dead is no big deal. However, if you believe no god exists, then the resurrection is bound to be unreasonable. Without a divine force to work a supernatural miracle, then the resurrection would raise a skeptical eyebrow. It’s a question of worldview. Second, I have to tell you the proofs we’re about to discuss didn’t create my faith; they simply confirmed it. Faith comes from hearing the message and the Holy Spirit created faith in my heart through the message. I rejoice in the reasonable proofs from that historic event, but I had faith long before I knew every detail.
That being said, we can present a reasonable response to those who doubt the resurrection. Listen to the Apostle Paul, “24At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. ‘You are out of your mind, Paul!’ he shouted. ‘Your great learning is driving you insane.’ 25’I am not insane, most excellent Festus,’ Paul replied. ‘What I am saying is true and reasonable. 26The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.’” Paul wasn’t shaken by the accusation of insanity. He didn’t resort to name-calling (“No, you’re insane, Festus! No, you are!”). No, Paul knew the evidence was behind him. So with great respect he presented his reasonable case.
To grasp the full effect of Paul’s argument, you need to understand the king he was addressing. Julius Marcus Agrippa, also know as King Agrippa II, ruled over parts of the Holy Land from 44 A.D. when his father died until his own death around 100 A.D. What’s fascinating is how often his own family’s story intersected with the story of Jesus. Agrippa’s great grandfather knew Jesus. His name was Herod the Great. When he heard that Jesus was born as the king of Israel, he tried to have him killed. He ordered the slaughter of every baby boy under two in Bethlehem in a twisted attempt to secure his throne. Agrippa’s great uncle knew Jesus, too. His name was Herod Antipas. He was the ruler who had Jesus’ cousin John beheaded. He was also the man who appeared at Jesus’ trial, hoping to see a miraculous trick or two. He mocked and ridiculed Jesus and sent him to his death. Even Agrippa’s father knew about Jesus. He was the king who murdered James, one of Jesus’ closest disciples, and arrested Peter with plans to do the same. However, God intervened and stuck him dead. Agrippa II was 17 years old when daddy died, plenty old to realize this Jesus was no ordinary man. So when Paul speaks of Jesus doing something incredible like rising from the dead, it was a reasonable thing to say and Agrippa knew it.
What’s more is that King Agrippa was Jewish. He knew the Old Testament and what it said about the Messiah. He was familiar with Isaiah 53, the prophecy of the suffering servant, and with Psalm 110, the prediction that the Messiah would not decay in the grave. What Paul was saying about a resurrected Messiah was not unreasonable to a Jew.
There were good reasons for Agrippa to listen to the claims of Paul. And even though we have not seen the risen Lord in the same way Paul did, we still have good reasons to believe it’s true. I’ll mention two of the many proofs that exist. First, the apostles died. Besides John, they all died in R-rated ways. Nails were hammered through their hands. Swords were put to their throats. Crosses were set up to make them suffer. Why? Because they said the tomb was empty. They died brutally for that claim.
But, you object, people die for false things all the time. On 9/11, Muslim extremists died for a lie that they would end up in paradise. True, people do die for false causes. But the apostles’ situation was different. The apostles knew whether Jesus was alive or not. The 9/11 terrorist were going on a tradition passed down for over 1,000 years, hoping it was true. But not Peter. He was there. He knew if Jesus was a cold corpse or a living, breathing, risen Lord. Why in the world would he die for the message if he knew the message wasn’t true? Please tell me. I can’t think of one reason that is not completely unreasonable.
A second reasonable proof is the embarrassing account of the resurrection itself. Embarrassing details strengthen our trust in someone’s testimony, don’t they? We are skeptical about the applicant who paints himself as the too-good-to-be-true employee. There’s something fishy about his story. But the woman who admits her weaknesses and mistakes up front is different. She paints an honest picture that convinces us she’s not making this up.
The same is true for the resurrection. You see, women weren’t seen in the best light in the first century. Jewish men could have used a good Bible study like we just had where we saw that women are equally valued and gifted in the sight of God. Sadly, the Jewish law books said things like, “Sooner let the words of the Law be burnt than delivered to women.” The Jewish historian Josephus agreed, “But let not the testimony of women be admitted, on account of the levity and boldness of their sex.” While those are sad statements, they remind us that no one brought women to court in those days. If you wanted to make a strong case in the 1st century, you didn’t bring your sister, your mother, and your cousin Mary. Their testimony as women would be viewed as worthless in their culture.
And yet the Bible says the first testimonies about the resurrection came from women. How embarrassing for Jesus! (Not really.) If the apostles wanted to get rich or powerful or prestigious by inventing a story, I guarantee you that they would have edited that part out. To make women the first witnesses of the biggest event of the story would be absolutely unreasonable. Unless it were true…
More evidence to confirm what many of us already know—He is risen! Risen indeed! The profound message of Easter is reasonable and its implications are astounding. The empty tomb means Jesus was telling the truth—He is the Son of God who came from the Father. The empty tomb means his mission was accomplished—He saved us from our sins and declared us “not guilty.” The empty tomb means one day his promise will be fulfilled—We will hear his voice and rise from our own graves to live eternally, body and soul. The empty tomb means we don’t have to be embarrassed about our faith, even though some might think it’s ridiculous. We can tell of Jesus’ love on Easter and the other 364 days of the year. We can calmly and passionately discuss the message that creates faith and the proofs that back it up.
Some might find those claims unreasonable. Some might mock like Festus and resort to the name calling Paul endured. Yet some, like Agrippa, might listen to the reasons and the proofs and consider the claim. Let’s let Mr. Hefner close with his startling admission, “If one had any real evidence that, indeed, Jesus did return from the dead, then that is the beginning of a dropping of a series of dominoes that takes us to all kinds of wonderful things. It assures us of an afterlife and all kinds of things that we would all hope are true.” Real evidence? I think I just heard the first domino drop. Amen. | <urn:uuid:35e4f1fe-92fc-4090-badb-aefaa04bbcd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.eastsidelutheran.org/sermon/apr/19/09/reasonable-resurrection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720026.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00456-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974361 | 2,613 | 2.21875 | 2 |
For the past six weeks, I've been running around the country in support of my new book: "A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life". The book starts out as a look at the "cult and culture" of dog rescue and becomes a much deeper investigation of the relationship between humans and animals. It is also an examination of the upper limit of what's possible for dogs, though, as I've come to conclude, we really have no idea what's the upper limit of possible when it comes to dogs.
Because of all these things, I have lately been told a lot of really incredible dog stories. We'll return to these stories in a moment, first I need to explain one of the other phenomena I investigate in the book: the question of cross-species communication.
In part, looking at human/animal communication possibilities means looking into what we now know of mirror neurons and empathy and such. In part this means taking a deeper peak at shamanic traditions and the possibility that humans and animals share a common—albeit mystical—language. While the latter may sound like nonsense, it's also a serious anthropological puzzle.
Almost all archaic cultures speak of an age when humans and animals spoke the same language. Some still do. The dreamtime of the Aborigines being the most well-known example, but the Zuni still begin all their ancestral tales with the phrase, "A long time ago, when the animals could speak." In his seminal "Shamanism," University of Chicago history of religion Mircea Eliade addresses it this way:
"Finally, we must take into account the mystical solidarity between man and animal, which is a dominant characteristic of the religion of the paleo-hunters. By virtue of this, certain human beings are able to change into animals, or understand their language, or to share in their prescience and occult powers. Each time a shaman succeeds in sharing the animal mode of being, he in a manner re-established the situation that existed in illio tempore, in mystical times, when the divorce between man and the animal world had not yet occurred."
So pervasive is this belief that even our own religions are not immune. The very first scene in the Bible features a talking snake, the most familiar example.
But here's the puzzle: Archaic peoples lived long before the age of mass communication so either the entire world was sharing the same mass hallucination or something else was going on.
In my book, I examine what this something else could be from serious scientific directions. But out here, on book tour, people are less inclined to make such distinctions. So for the past six weeks, I have heard a lot of "my dog spoke to me" stories. Most defy scientific interpretation.
The other day a journalist told me about the time her dog came and got her out of the bathtub—literally walked into the bathroom and said: "you need to get out of the tub for a moment, I think there's something out here you need to see."
I have never had an experience similar so have never known what to make of these types of stories. In the book, I try to explain talking animals in the context of ritual and what Maslow called "peak experience" or what Csikszentmihalyi labeled "flow states," but not when someone is just chilling out in the bathtub.
So normally, in this situation, hearing this kind of psychic talking dog story, I just keep my mouth shut and nod. But now, perplexingly, I have to tell you a dog story of my own.
Two days ago, I was reading in bed, when Damien ran up to me. Damien is an ancient and arthritic Chihuahua whose running days are long behind him. Just the fact that he had all this energy caught my attention. He then spent the better portion of ten minutes trying to lick my nose and dance on my face and with more fervor than I've seen in a long time. This was even more peculiar because the weather turned this last week and the temperatures dropped down near freezing and Damien hates the cold. He can barely move when temperatures are in the 60s. We were already down to the 40s, yet he was still bouncing about like a wind-up toy.
All of this was curious. I started wondering what all the fuss was about, but no sooner did that question form in my mind then I very clearly received an answer. I heard a voice in my head that didn't sound like my own. It sounded like Damien—though how I knew it sounded like Damien is another question.
"I'm saying goodbye," is what Damien seemed to say.
My heart skipped a few beats. Of course, I had to ask: "You mean you're going to die?"
"No," said Damien, "but I have to go get lost."
And that was the end of the conversation. Damien turned around and walked away and I was seconds away from telling my wife what had happened, but it was too ridiculous.
And it wasn't just the psychic talking dog part that was ridiculous, but let me explain:
My wife and I co-run Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary. This means, among other things, we hike about 20 dogs, off-leash, through the badlands of New Mexico, near every day. But it has been too cold outside for Damien to hike this past month. Most days he won't even get out of bed. And if Damien isn't going on walks then there's no way he could actually get lost, so the whole scenario was, well, ridiculous.
Sometimes, my wife, Joy, and I split the dog walking responsibilities. I'll take out the big dogs and she'll take the small dogs. Yesterday was one of those days. I took the big dogs out around 8:00 and Joy took the small guys out around 10:00. Around 11:00, she returned in a panic: Damien was missing.
All of this took place when I was in my office working, but, apparently, even though he hadn't wanted to go on a hike in over a month, yesterday morning Damien was insistent. Joy told me that he ran out of the house and demanded to come along. She thought it was too cold and put him back inside, but he turned around and dashed out again. Finally, she relented.
Even stranger, when Damien goes on hikes, he rarely strays from the center of the pack. He's just too old and too arthritic and with all the potential dangers running around the badlands (coyotes, bobcats, owls, etc.) he prefers to hang close. But yesterday he'd run off and not returned and that was really unusual.
Our next hour was unpleasant. We jumped in our truck and drove to the hiking trail, but Damien wasn't there. We parked and jumped out and ran around shouting. Joy hiked one way, I hiked another, but neither of us saw any sign of him.
After about 45 minutes, we jumped back in the truck to head home—on the off chance that Damien had already made his way there—when we rounded a bend and found him sitting near the entrance to the trail. Perfectly healthy, big smile on his face, wagging his tail.
So what does any of this mean? Who knows. Seriously, barring madness, and despite having this first hand experience of whatever it was that I just had an experience of, I am no closer to being able to offer anything that looks like a scientific explanation.
But more and more I am coming to realize that there are a whole lot of folks who have had similar experiences, so perhaps this isn't just about some old stories anymore. One other thing I would like to point out is that as silly as this might sound, last month's issue of the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" had "Feeling Future," a study done by Cornell University's Daryl Bem that showed—at least as far as Bem can tell—evidence of both precognition and premonition.
I would also like to add that this is a fairly prestigious journal published by the APA.
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A new report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) — that's the CDC and the FDA of the European Union — analyzes the bench-to-market "pipeline" of new drug development in the EU and finds... not good news. Out of 167 antibacterial agents that are somewhere in the pipeline of development, only 15 look likely to improve treatment of resistant organisms over drugs that already exist — and 10 of those 15 are in early-stage trials and will not come to market anytime soon.
That leaves 5 potential new drugs, for an epidemic of antibiotic resistance that, just in the EU, causes 25,000 deaths and $1.5 billion Euros ($2.27 billion) in extra healthcare spending each year.
(Within that epidemic of resistance, by the way, the single most common organism is MRSA.)
It's worth understanding how the agencies conducted their analysis. When we look for new drugs to treat resistant organisms, we ideally need several things:
- a formula or molecule that is new (and not just an improved version of an existing one, because if bacteria have developed resistance against the existing one, they have a head start in developing resistance against the new one)
- a new mechanism or target on the bacterial cell, and not an improved version of an existing one (ditto)
- evidence that it works in living organisms, and not just in lab dishes (in vivo, not just in vitro)
- evidence that it can be given internally, not just topically (necessary for addressing the most serious infections)
- and some indication that it is making its way through the regulatory approval process in time to achieve some practical good.
- 167 agents in process
- 90 that have shown effectiveness in vivo
- 66 that are new substances
- 27 that have a new target or mechanism
- 15 that can be administered systemically
... it is unclear if any of these identified agents will ever reach the market, and if they do, they may be indicated for use in a very limited range of infections.The agencies call for a concerted government effort to turn this around, and ask for quick action because it takes years to get drugs through the pipeline:
...a European and global strategy to address this serious problem is urgently needed, and measures that spur new antibacterial drug development need to be put in place.This echoes a call that has already been made in this country by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which has asked for changes in incentives to drug-makers, and has backed what's known as the STAAR Act (STrategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance). With this latest EU report — which comes on the heels of a US-ER agreement to work cooperatively on resistance — the IDSA is asking for an international commitment to bringing forth 10 new drugs in 10 years, what they are calling 10 x '20. | <urn:uuid:0dad2c36-e818-4ce2-9968-7feca10afa02> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.superbugtheblog.com/2009/11/antibiotics-eu-pipeline-is-empty-too.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948569 | 601 | 2.765625 | 3 |
In one of our projects we were required to keep track of the changes in the database for a particular period of time. MySQL has an inbuilt functionality for saving information on data modification for a specific period of time in log files.
To display content of a binary log , myslbinlog command can be called. However, this command also requires parameters including the log file name. A proper invocation of this method would look like the following.
mysqlbinlog [options] log_file..
There are plenty of options available but for demonstration’s sake I will describe a few only.
- -d => which requires us to give a db name and to fetch the log file for a particular database
- –start-datetime => which is used to provide the start_date from which period the log should be fetched
- –stop-datetime => which is used to provide the stop date and to provide the range
- –read-from-remote-server => it is used to fetch the binary log from remote server provided we give the right host name and password
Besides these, there are many more options available which can be found in MySQL documentation.
To get a binary log file we can use something like –
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1. As King Antiochus was traversing the inland provinces, he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, famous for its wealth in silver and gold,
2. and that its temple was very rich, containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon, the first king of the Greeks.
3. He went therefore and tried to capture and pillage the city. But he could not do so, because his plan became known to the people of the city
4. who rose up in battle against him. So he retreated and in great dismay withdrew from there to return to Babylon.
5. While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news that the armies sent into the land of Judah had been put to flight;
6. that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army and been driven back by the Israelites; that they had grown strong by reason of the arms, men, and abundant possessions taken from the armies they had destroyed;
7. that they had pulled down the Abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur.
8. When the king heard this news, he was struck with fear and very much shaken. Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
9. There he remained many days, overwhelmed with sorrow, for he knew he was going to die.
10. So he called in all his Friends and said to them: "Sleep has departed from my eyes, for my heart is sinking with anxiety.
11. I said to myself: 'Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now!
12. Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.' But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of gold and silver that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
13. I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land."
14. Then he summoned Philip, one of his Friends, and put him in charge of his whole kingdom.
15. He gave him his crown, his robe, and his signet ring, so that he might guide the king's son Antiochus and bring him up to be king.
16. King Antiochus died in Persia in the year one hundred and forty-nine.
17. When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up the king's son Antiochus, whom he had reared as a child, to be king in his place; and he gave him the title Eupator.
18. The men in the citadel were hemming in Israel around the sanctuary, continually trying to harm them and to strengthen the Gentiles.
19. But Judas planned to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.
20. So in the year one hundred and fifty they assembled and stormed the citadel, for which purpose he constructed catapults and other devices.
21. Some of the besieged escaped, joined by impious Israelites;
22. they went to the king and said: "How long will you fail to do justice and avenge our kinsmen?
23. We agreed to serve your father and to follow his orders and obey his edicts.
24. And for this the sons of our people have become our enemies; they have put to death as many of us as they could find and have plundered our estates.
25. They have acted aggressively not only against us, but throughout their whole territory.
26. Look! They have now besieged the citadel in Jerusalem in order to capture it, and they have fortified the sanctuary and Beth-zur.
27. Unless you quickly forestall them, they will do even worse things than these, and you will not be able to stop them."
28. When the king heard this he was angry, and he called together all his Friends, the officers of his army, and the commanders of the cavalry.
29. Mercenary forces also came to him from other kingdoms and from the islands of the seas.
30. His army numbered a hundred thousand foot-soldiers, twenty thousand cavalry, and thirty-two elephants trained for war.
31. They passed through Idumea and camped before Beth-zur. For many days they attacked it; they constructed siege-devices, but the besieged made a sortie and burned these, and they fought bravely.
32. Then Judas marched away from the citadel and moved his camp to Beth-zechariah, on the way to the king's camp.
33. The king, rising before dawn, moved his force hastily along the road to Beth-zechariah; and the armies prepared for battle, while the trumpets sounded.
34. They showed the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries to provoke them to fight.
35. The beasts were distributed along the phalanxes, each elephant having assigned to it a thousand men in coats of mail, with bronze helmets, and five hundred picked cavalry.
36. These anticipated the beast wherever it was; and wherever it moved, they moved too and never left it.
37. A strong wooden tower covering each elephant, and fastened to it by a harness, held, besides the Indian mahout, three soldiers who fought from it.
38. The remaining cavalry were stationed on one or the other of the two flanks of the army, to harass the enemy and to be protected from the phalanxes.
39. When the sun shone on the gold and bronze shields, the mountains gleamed with their brightness and blazed like flaming torches.
40. Part of the king's army extended over the heights, while some were on low ground, but they marched forward steadily and in good order.
41. All who heard the noise of their numbers, the tramp of their marching, and the clashing of the arms, trembled; for the army was very great and strong.
42. Judas with his army advanced to fight, and six hundred men of the king's army fell.
43. Eleazar, called Avaran, saw one of the beasts bigger than any of the others and covered with royal armor, and he thought the king must be on it.
44. So he gave up his life to save his people and win an everlasting name for himself.
45. He dashed up to it in the middle of the phalanx, killing men right and left, so that they fell back from him on both sides.
46. He ran right under the elephant and stabbed it in the belly, killing it. The beast fell to the ground on top of him, and he died there.
47. When the Jews saw the strength of the royal army and the ardor of its forces, they retreated from them.
48. A part of the king's army went up to Jerusalem to attack them, and the king established camps in Judea and at Mount Zion.
49. He made peace with the men of Beth-zur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no food there to enable them to stand a siege, for that was a sabbath year in the land.
50. The king took Beth-zur and stationed a garrison there to hold it.
51. For many days he besieged the sanctuary, setting up artillery and machines, fire-throwers, catapults and mechanical bows for shooting arrows and slingstones.
52. The Jews countered by setting up machines of their own, and kept up the fight a long time.
53. But there were no provisions in the storerooms, because it was the seventh year, and the tide-over provisions had been eaten up by those who had been rescued from the Gentiles and brought to Judea.
54. Few men remained in the sanctuary; the rest scattered, each to his own home, for the famine was too much for them.
55. Lysias heard that Philip, whom King Antiochus, before his death, had appointed to train his son Antiochus to be king,
56. had returned from Persia and Media with the army that accompanied the king, and that he was seeking to take over the government.
57. So he hastily resolved to withdraw. He said to the king, the leaders of the army, and the soldiers: "We are grow-ing weaker every day, our provisions are scanty, the place we are besieging is strong, and it is our duty to take care of the affairs of the kingdom.
58. Therefore let us now come to terms with these men, and make peace with them and all their nation.
59. Let us grant them freedom to live according to their own laws as formerly; it was on account of their laws, which we abolished, that they became angry and did all these things."
60. The proposal found favor with the king and the leaders;
61. he sent peace terms to the Jews, and they accepted. So the king and the leaders swore an oath to them, and on these terms they evacuated the fortification.
62. But when the king entered Mount Zion and saw how the place was fortified, he broke the oath he had sworn and gave orders for the encircling wall to be destroyed.
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What Are The Main Factors That Determine Climate?
Introduction: Climate is determined by the temperature and precipitation characteristics of a region over time. The temperature characteristics of a region are influenced by natural factors such as latitude elevation and the presence of ocean currents.
What are the 4 factors that determine climate?
Identify four factors that determine climate. Climate is determined by a variety of factors. These factors include latitude atmospheric circulation patterns oceanic circulation patterns the local geography of an area solar activity and volcanic activity.
What are the main factors of climate?
The two most important factors in the climate of an area are temperature and precipitation. The yearly average temperature of the area is obviously important but the yearly range in temperature is also important.
What are the five main factors that determine climate?
Hint:The five main factors which affect the climate of a region are Latitude Altitude relief currents and winds and distance from the sea.
What are the 6 factors that determine climate?
Climate factors are the conditions that affect the climate characteristics of a particular location. There are six major natural climate factors: air masses and winds latitude ocean currents elevation relief and bodies of water.
What are the 7 climate factors?
These include latitude elevation nearby water ocean currents topography vegetation and prevailing winds.
What are the factors that influence climate and weather?
- pressure and wind.
- ocean currents.
- mountain barriers.
- land and water distribution [how close to or far from a large body of water]
What are the factors influencing climate and weather?
The five factors that determine the weather of any land area are: the amount of solar energy received because of latitude the area’s elevation or proximity to mountains nearness to large bodies of water and relative temperatures of land and water the number of such storm systems as cyclones hurricanes and …
What are the 3 main factors that affect climate?
- distance from the sea.
- ocean currents.
- direction of prevailing winds.
- shape of the land (known as ‘relief’ or ‘topography’)
- distance from the equator.
- the El Niño phenomenon.
What are the two factors influencing the climate?
- Elevation or Altitude effect climate. Normally climatic conditions become colder as altitude increases. …
- Prevailing global wind patterns. …
- Topography. …
- Effects of Geography. …
- Surface of the Earth. …
- Climate change over time.
What are climate elements?
These elements are solar radiation temperature humidity precipitation (type frequency and amount) atmospheric pressure and wind (speed and direction).
What are the types of climate?
How is climate measured?
Global average surface temperature:
Climate change is most commonly measured using the average surface temperature of the planet. … For this reason scientists traditionally use a period of at least 30 years to identify a genuine climate trend.
What are the factors that affect the climate of a region your answer?
- Latitude. …
- Elevation. …
- Ocean Currents. …
- Topography. …
- Vegetation. …
- Prevailing winds.
What is climate short answer?
Climate is the average weather in a given area over a longer period of time. A description of a climate includes information on e.g. the average temperature in different seasons rainfall and sunshine. Also a description of the (chance of) extremes is often included.
What are the 3 measures that define a climate?
The simplest way to describe climate is to look at average temperature and precipitation over time. Other useful elements for describing climate include the type and the timing of precipitation amount of sunshine average wind speeds and directions number of days above freezing weather extremes and local geography.
What is climate monitoring?
A climate change monitoring system integrates satellite observations ground-based data and forecast models to monitor and forecast changes in the weather and climate. … This has become particularly important in the context of climate change as climate variability increases and historical patterns shift.
What are climate parameters?
The parameters commonly-considered to define climate are the mean annual precipitation and mean annual potential evapotranspiration. The mean annual precipitation at a given place depends on several factors. … The most commonly understood definition of a drought year is a year with less than average precipitation.
What are the 8 factors that affect climate?
Important Terms: Climate latitude windward leeward elevation precipitation prevailing winds Materials: Student Activity Sheet ” Factors That Influence Climate” world atlas pencil/pen Procedure: 1. Review the table entitled “Factors that Influence Climate with the class.
What is climate in geography class 7?
The average weather condition of a place for a longer period of time represents the climate of a place.
Who monitors the climate?
Climate Monitoring | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
What kinds of factors would you have to consider when designing the climate monitoring program?
Identifying appropriate levels of sampling effort through examination of variance stabilization. Maximizing efficiency during adaptive sampling tests. Estimating spatial and temporal patterns in habitat elements or populations.
How do you collect climate data?
In the United States daily observations at stations that meet specified criteria methodically collected by volunteer observers and automated weather stations are used to document our weather and climate. One volunteer weather observer program in the United States is the Cooperative Observer Program (COOP).
What do you mean by climate system?
The climate system is the highly complex global system consisting of 5 major components: the atmosphere the oceans the cryosphere (snow and ice) the land surface the biosphere and the interactions between them.
What is a climate indice?
Climate indices are diagnostic tools used to describe the state of the climate system and monitor climate. They are most often represented with a time series where each point in time corresponds to one index value. An index can be constructed to describe almost any atmospheric event as such they are myriad.
What is the basic difference between weather and climate?
What is climate for class 5th?
What do you mean by climate Class 9?
The climate refers to the sum total of weather conditions and variations over a large area for a long period of time. … elements of weather and climate. Answer: Temperature atmospheric pressure wind humidity and precipitation.
What type of climate is in India Class 7?
The climate of India is described as that of the monsoon type.
Where does climate data come from?
Modern observations mostly come from weather stations weather balloons radars ships and buoys and satellites. A surprisingly large number of U.S. measurements are still made by volunteer weather watchers.
What are the 5 factors that evaluate the efficiency of monitors?
- Define a Monitoring Framework. …
- Design and Integrate an Event Management Process. …
- Transactional flow. …
- Process methodology. …
- Data consumption and creation. …
- Process integration. …
- Apply Service Design Disciplines to Monitoring Services.
What do you need to consider when monitoring performance?
- Watch employees work. One of the most effective ways to monitor an employee’s performance is with your own eyes. …
- Ask for an account. …
- Help employees use self-monitoring tools. …
- Review work in progress on a regular basis. …
- Ask around a little.
What should you consider when monitoring?
- Scientifically valid techniques are used.
- Aspects relevant to your project are measured.
- It’s carried out regularly and consistently.
- Accurate records are kept.
- It is used as part of your evaluation to support or adjust project goals and actions.
Which factor generally controls the distribution of climates on earth?
There are different factors affect the climate like planting areas land surface location for latitude and longitude lines Ocean currents and other bodies of water snow and ice. The two most important factors in the climate of an area are temperature and precipitation.
Factors Influencing Climate
Five Factors that Affect Climate
Factors that affect climate: altitude
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- Tutorial de Agnihotra (español)
- How Does Agnihotra Work?
- Effects of Agnihotra
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- Agnihotra Mantras
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- Fine-tuning Agnihotra
- Order Agnihotra Supplies
- Agnihotra Timetables
- Homa Therapy
- Applications of Homa Therapy
- Additional Homa Therapy Mantras
- Scientific Validation
- Studies on Water
- Studies on Microorganisms
- Studies on Animals
- Studies on Medicinal Plants
- Studies on Horticulture
- Studies on Agriculture
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First Homa Resonance System Activated in Malaysia
Submitted by lee on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 05:05
In September, 2011 Frits Ringma of Homa Therapy Association of Australia was invited by Mr Alan Yong to conduct a Homa Resonance activation at his organic Jack fruit farm in Lanchang, Pahang, Malaysia.
Shared Agnihotra sunrise took place at Datin Ky's place called Phoenix Rise situated in the hill district of Kuala Lumpur. Mr Soh coordinates the Homa Therapy activities here. Agnihotra and Om Tryambakam take place regularly. New people sit in the middle of the group Agnihotra circle to receive the healing from all sides. Mr. Soh is well known for his ash water eye drops which have been healing people of eye irritability and even cataracts.
Phoenix Rise gathering at sunset, Kuala Lumpur
From there Frits and Mr Soh went on to Alan Yong's Jack fruit farm 1.5 hours north of Kuala Lumpur. He has resident Brahmin cows for their dung and a potential for ghee supply.
Agnihotra and Om Tryambakam have been performed there for the past 2 years and the trees are already producing large jack fruits.
The adjacent farm also planted jack fruit at the same time. It is not a Homa farm. The jack fruit trees are half the size and not bearing fruit. Left: Frits and TV Chin, pyramid activation in Agnihotra Hut
Frits installed the Homa Therapy Resonance System over 2 days with the help of Mr Soh and TV Chin, a retired agricultural scientist. A simple but robust hut had already been constructed from local material such as split bamboo for the walls and a grass thatched roof. The floor is covered with claybrick and cowdung render. 10 pyramids were activated with special Mantras and 4 of these were installed in the Agnihotra hut. 2 more for the Om Tryambakam hut. The remaing 4 were installed in resonance columns situated on the N-S-E-W boundaries of the farm. The effect of one Agnihotra fire covers approx. 40 acres. The resonance system boosts this effect to approx. 200 acres increasing vitality and pest resistance. The farm workers were keen to be instructed on Mantras and further refinements for the Homas.
After 2 days at the farm, Alan and Frits went back to Kuala Lumpur where a group Agnihotra meeting was orginised. After Agnihotra they did Mantra practice with the participants, before Frits flew back to Australia. Left to right: TV Chin, Frits, Mr Soh, Alan YongShare | <urn:uuid:44b814bf-428d-4eca-9aa9-3487cefbd4b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.homatherapy.org/content/first-homa-resonance-system-activated-malaysia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00333-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925569 | 775 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Parental rights and religious freedom are the two pillars of the constitutional right of parents to teach their children at home. But today homeschooling freedoms are in jeopardy. This session shows how growing opposition to homeschooling by the intellectual elites is based on a belief that the state, not the parents, has the exclusive right and responsibility to educate children. Homeschoolers are in their crosshairs and we are clearly at risk.
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We derive and estimate an econometric model of export versus foreign production using firm-level data on foreign activities of German multinationals. Proximity-concentration theory which we derive our model from shows that firms face a trade-off between concentrating their production at home to save on plant set-up costs and producing abroad to save on distance costs. Firms facing this trade-off choose between export and foreign production according to their expected profits. The model is brought to the data using a pooled-probit analysis over the period 1996-1999. We find support for the proximity-concentration trade-off. In particular, market size and distance affect positively the probability of foreign production whereas fixed costs have a negative impact on the decision to engage in FDI. | <urn:uuid:c90a2cd4-7c38-4de4-b435-1572f6b5f328> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/22088 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93415 | 156 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The following video is a perfect example of why so many people, including Swedish preppers, are prepping for an upcoming event, large enough to change life forever.
The never-ending threat of war and invasion has been around for thousands of years, often catching many people by surprise and leaving them vulnerable and exposed.
But while many governments around the world would rather adopt a ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ mentality, Sweden’s government has taken a more realistic approach.
They are actively encouraging their citizens to join thousands of other people around the world who are adopting a prepping lifestyle.
Important Things Worth Knowing
Because of the continuing rise of the Russian threat, many Swede’s are now learning how to store food for the long term, using guides like The 14 Best Foods for Long Term Food Storage.
There’s also The 10 Best Tips for DIY Long Term Food Storage, showing preppers the importance of not just what foods to store, but the best ways on how to store them, to ensure they survive the passage of time.
But storing food isn’t the only question that needs answering, many people starting to see the real benefits of food dehydration. And while there are some significant reasons to dehydrate food, there are also many helpful hints and tips for dehydrating food.
Did you know that you don’t even need a designated food dehydrator to dry your own food? Your oven is just as efficient, and that’s why this guide will help you in using your oven for just this purpose.
Water is also a very important commodity, often overlooked because of its easy accessibility during times of peace and prosperity. But if things go pear-shaped, you will need to get your hands on a decent supply of fresh, clean water.
That’s why this guide not only shows you how to find water, but also how to make it safe to drink, making the guide truly invaluable. There’s also a great guide on how to conserve the water once you do find it and make it safe to drink.
Things That Will Make All the Difference
But food and water aren’t everything, other very important decisions needing attention as well. Just like the Swedes who are preparing for a Russian invasion, staying home may not always be an option.
Here are a few ideas on what to consider when deciding whether to bug out or stay in. Your main bug out location will be one of the most important decisions you’ll make, but should it fail you, how will you handle surviving without a home?
Swedes, like most preppers, are finding that food and water aren’t the only things needed for prepping. There are many other things to consider, including tools to help you survive a disaster.
Some of these tools will make all the difference, whether bugging out or staying in. There are many things to consider when planning to prep.
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Pest infestation is a great problem for many households and properties. A pest control visit from expert professionals is often needed to safeguard the property. Scheduled monthly visits or any needed frequency usually works. However, there are some sings that should tell you to get an instant pest control visit. Most of these signs are pest infestations or signs of pests that many people usually miss.
Some remedies can help slowing pest infestations down and also stop them from happening. However, if your property has already been run over, only professional pest control services will be able to help. Immediately call up on your local pest control service providers. Get quick pest control visit to have all unwanted buggers removed from the property.
1: Unexplained Sounds in Walls or the Ceiling
Mice, rats, and all other rodents are known to make weird noises. Gnawing sounds and tiny footsteps can be heard in properties where rodents roam. Also, mice and rats usually settle inside ceilings, walls, and/or floors. If you don’t want these to keep you up all night, call Vancouver bed bug control or any local services today.
If you often get strange weird sounds from your ceiling or walls, they are probably mice or rats. They will regularly produce such sounds. Aggressive rodents may fight among each other. Fast movements will cause tiny sounds as well. You need to identify these rodents sounds and act accordingly. A quick pest control visit should follow as soon as you identify these sounds successfully.
2: Visible Mosquitoes, Fleas or Any Other Pests
Flying pests including mosquitoes and fleas are not only the most annoying but able to multiply fast too. Female mosquitoes will lay several hundred eggs on smallest of water collections. Fleas will reproduce quickly close to any rotting or fresh food sources. Fleas can keep you from enjoying your meals any day. Mosquitoes can certainly keep you awake all night.
Whenever you see too many mosquitoes or fleas in your property, it is time for a pest control visit. Delaying this will only give more time for their populations to strengthen even more. Mosquitoes also bring threat of malaria with them and fleas can be filthy and perfect bacteria or virus carriers. Get them removed to get peace back in your home.
3: Hollow Sounds from Wood Upon Knocking on It
Dreaded termites are everywhere even if you don’t see them. These shy pests stay out of the light and into the dark inside woods, floors, walls and ceilings. From time to time, do a light knock on your wooden fixtures, walls, floorings or ceilings. If you hear hollow sounds, chances are they have been eaten from the inside by none other than termites.
Another termite sign can be sawdust sprinkled in tiny amounts on surfaces. Termites can cause quite a bit of property damage when left unattended. Call your pest control Surrey or any other local service providers for instant pest control visit. Also look for their tiny wings collected in a small stack. Termites are best kept away from your home or any property.
4: Tiny Mud Tubes Along the Floor or the Walls
Unfortunately, when termites really get a grip on your property, they will start moving around. They do not wander anywhere in light. Their trick to avoid light and fresh air is to build tiny mud tubes along floors or on the walls. Termites are very efficient at building mud tubes as well. From any starting points, you can see a whole network or maze of mud tubes on your walls or floors.
Termites are particularly shy and no one ever sees any usually. Their signs are pretty visible though. If you see mud tubes running along the floor or on the wall, a pest control visit is needed. Termite control is also one of the hardest pest control jobs. Make sure to get service from a well reputed agency with the ability to provide permanent termite removal.
5: Rodent Droppings Especially Mice and Rats
Mice and rats roam the property they find refuge in. They will move along in different parts of the property in order to look for food sources. Usually, you can find their belly marks along the edges of the floors near walls. This is because mice and rats tend to avoid light and also avoid being seen. They will move in the dark most probably in the night.
Mice and rat droppings will be blackish to very dark grey in color and about a centimeter in diameter. They will be round and should be found scattered along the floor. Do a survey often of your property. Also look in places where people don’t often visit. Basements, ceilings and wall cracks are common grounds for mice and rats. A pest control visit is in order when you find any droppings.
6: Eaten Up Wires, Plumbing Pipes and Trash
Unfortunately, mice and rats love eating away wirings, plumbing pipes and just about anything they can get their teeth on. If you find any eaten-up electric in-wall wires or plumbing piles, it’s a sign of rat or mice infestation. Similarly, chewed up piece of paper, thick clothes and plastic are also telltale signs of rodent infestations.
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