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In the past 6 months, all developers of distributed, Web-based systems have undoubtedly wondered about the introduction of ADO.NET and its new object model. The common perception is that ADO.NET will transform existing data-access code into something that resembles legacy code. In most cases, existing data-access code is part of recently built Digital Networking Architecture (DNA) systems.
When Microsoft engineers sat down to design .NET's data access, they adapted ADO, and ADO.NET was the result. ADO emerged during a period of evolutionary client/server computing, and its goal was to offer new ways of working (e.g., disconnected recordsets, data shaping, output to XML, in-memory fabrication). ADO uses OLE DB to accomplish the physical data access, but one often underestimated and seldom cited element of OLE DB plays a fundamental role: the OLE DB Services.
As data travels to the client, OLE DB Services intervene to represent that data in a special way (e.g., irregularly shaped, hierarchically, persisted, disconnected snapshots) by offering functions that aren't strictly part of the original, core ADO library. The recordset object is merely a COM wrapper for the results of a SQL query. In ADO, the result is a rather complex and bloated object.
Designers wanted to make more functionality available in ADO.NET—more disconnected functions, more reading features, and interactivity and integration with XML. Rather than using the recordset as the starting object and filling it with new services, the designers came up with a new object model, ADO.NET, that's aligned to ADO wherever possible and that lets you apply existing skills whenever possible. As a result, the learning curve for expert ADO developers isn't too steep, and the learning curve for data-access newbies is linear and not particularly long. Developers, both experienced and not, can study and work with an object model that's perfectly aligned with the computing world they're accustomed to and the applications they write.
I don't recommend that you import and use ADO in .NET applications, but if you must, you should have good reasons for doing so. Here are some examples:
- You have a lot of working ADO code that you want to save
- You've invested a lot in your business objects that use ADO to read/write
If you have a lot of ADO code that you want to preserve, you must first determine where that code is located. Is the ADO code in Active Server Pages (ASPs) buried in plain-code blocks? Or is the code in COM+ business objects that return recordsets to the ASP presentation builder layer?
For performance and maintenance reasons, placing plain ADO code in ASPs is a bad idea. In such cases, the ADO code is nearly legacy code. You can adapt the code to work with .NET, but you'll encounter performance and coding issues.
You can import any COM object into .NET applications, and the ADODB library is no exception. From a command line or from within Visual Studio.NET, you can use a special system tool, tlbimp.exe, to create a wrapper class that lets you call COM methods and properties through a .NET proxy. In that way, you can create a recordset object even in ASP.NET pages or Windows forms. However, tlbimp.exe isn't a lifesaver. Once you've created and populated the recordset, you still have to figure out how to display its content. With ASPs, you can use an endless series of Response.Write statements to output the UI tags, or you can build a big string to flush in one shot. This code is all but .NET-compliant, yet it works fine.
You'll probably modify a lot of code in any of your ASP—now ASP.NET—pages to bring ADO into the .NET world, but you'll pay a performance price. Is it worth it?
Saving Business Objects
Business logic is the heart of a distributed system. Changing or rewriting the business logic is always potentially harmful for any system. A lot of business objects in existing DNA systems return ADO recordsets to the ASP presentation builder layer. In most cases, those components, which are binary, compiled components written in VB or C++, run under the protective umbrella of COM+ and Microsoft Transaction Services (MTS). The only point of contact the components have with the rest of the system is through the data types they return, which is often a recordset. This modularity provides a precious advantage for migration because you can leave the business logic unchanged and start upgrading ASPs to ASP.NET pages.
You design ASP.NET pages to take advantage of server controls and data-binding, then you simply call into COM or COM+ objects and transform their output into ADO.NET objects. The data adapter object available in ADO.NET (starting with beta 2) can read from ADO recordsets and automatically populate a DataTable object. You take this object and bind it to data-aware server control; you don't need to make any significant changes to the critical parts of the system. Best of all, you can build a new, more efficient UI using .NET's productivity tools. | <urn:uuid:c51a6a4d-de39-4d0d-a0b9-a0d49f00e71c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://windowsitpro.com/print/windows/migrating-adonet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914903 | 1,093 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Mobile Apps to use in the Class.
This Tackk will explore five Apps that are available for iOS phones or tablets, conveniently the default image actually works really well for this too! I chose Apple's iOS just because it's what I use at the moment, and have easy access to the iTunes store to explore. The format for each review will include the Title of the App, in the form or a button that you can click to visit the store website, a brief description, and how it can be used in the classroom (or outside the classroom more importantly sometimes).
Sky Guide is an astronomy reference guide for mobile devices. It allows one to track, identify and find stellar, planetary, or even man-made objects in the sky (both night and day). It is free in it's base form which makes it ideal for educational purposes, and includes significant writings on the objects one may be looking at. It is an excellent resource for taking out into the field with the class on a night time field trip. It can integrate with your location and time, and using the compass built into the device, show you what your looking at. It also has an Haddon that let's you track satellites too, such as the ISS... I might actually be able to take a picture of the ISS going in front of the Moon or Sun with the help of this App (okay, that's a me thing, but students to know when to watch the sky and actually see it fly overhead which is pretty dam cool if you ask me!)
The NASA App is another great tool for teaching anything and everything to do with space. It features links to videos, news feeds, live feeds, current and past mission information, images, and all things space. It is a great reference for space exploration. It provides access to a wealth of resources that can be used in the classroom, from interviews with astronauts, to videos of landing on the Moon. It's quiet simply a must have App for any teacher teaching the Space Exploration section of Science 9.
This is exactly what it sounds like. It is an electronic version the other periodic table. It includes the symbols, names, mass, properties of all the elements on the table. This obviously has extreme values for any teacher teaching chemistry, as it allows students access to all the data they may need on an element in a simple to use interface.
This is an amazing App for learning and teaching, but not because of what the App itself does, but because of what it gives you access to. It give you an interface through which you can use any of the courses offered through iTunes University. It's has access to a large catalogue of FREE educational content that has been published online. The limits of what you can use this for are simply limited by your own imagination, but I see the greatest potential in things like computer sciences, or other 'options' in which students may have more freedom in what they choose to learn. For example, I am currently teaching myself 3d animation using one of the courses available through the application (something that a student might want to do, but a teacher might not have the knowledge to teach).
This is the Edutainment option I'm picking. It's very similar to a game my brother and I played with when we were kids. It allows you to create gravitational bodies, add a velocity, and see what happens if they follow Newtons laws. It's actually pretty darn fun to try and make a working solar system, and you do learn things by trial and error. It can also allow students to test hypotheses regarding the effects of gravity on an object, which is useful in any physics class. | <urn:uuid:6062eb4f-b0f8-45ba-b132-43f6ce38f57b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/rmx2c4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957427 | 742 | 3.25 | 3 |
People exchange Instagram QR codes in New York on Aug. 8, 2021. The service has been eclipsed by Snapchat and TikTok among teenagers. Credit – Jasmine Clarke—The New York Times/Redux
When Lena Kalandjian was 13 years old, she remembers struggling to recreate makeup looks she’d see in beauty tutorials on YouTube and Instagram. No matter how much money she spent on expensive products or time she spent practicing her techniques, her made-up face never seemed to measure up to those of the creators she was emulating. It made her feel stressed out and discouraged.
“I’d spend all my Christmas and birthday money on these products that were supposed to make you look flawless,” she says. “And they’d never look as good on me as they looked online.”
Kalandjian, now an 18-year-old senior at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Fla., says it took her years to realize that the finished looks she was seeing on social media were often the result of a combination of lighting, editing, and filters. “In real life, your skin is always going to have texture and imperfections,” she says. “There’s nothing you can do about that no matter how good of a makeup artist you are.”
One day, Kalandjian says, she started to understand the outsize impact that social media can have on young people’s mental health and the formation of their self-identity. That realization came from an unlikely source, an English class where students watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, which sheds light on the ways social media platforms manipulate and influence their users. Even more importantly, she realized that any problems she had with social media weren’t hers alone. Instead, they were part of the platforms’ design.
“In my younger teenage years, it felt like if you were addicted to social media, it was your responsibility to recognize that and log off when you were spending a lot of time online. It made me feel guilty about being on my phone all the time,” she says, adding that worrying about social media used to keep her awake at night. “But after seeing how the platforms are designed to maximize your usage, it was like, well, they never told us they were making it impossible for us to get off.”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has rejected claims that it puts profits before the safety of its users. “As a company, we have every commercial and moral incentive to give the maximum number of people as much of a positive experience as possible on our apps,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
Since learning about why online content was wreaking havoc on her self esteem, Kalandjian has made it her mission to help other young people avoid the same fate.
Her school is just eight miles down the road from where 17 students were killed in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a tragedy that vaulted concerns regarding student safety to the forefront of community attention. Kalandjian connected with Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Club, an offshoot of gun violence prevention nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise that’s the umbrella for a national network of student-led groups dedicated to keeping young people safe.
Across the country, thousands of SAVE Promise Club members are working on safety for young people, a mission that’s increasingly intertwined with guarding them against the dark side of social media. And the issue is only growing more pressing. Last fall, whistleblower Frances Haugen alleged that Meta downplayed its own research on the harmful effects of its platforms on teens—effects that included eating disorders, depression, suicidal thoughts and more. Her testimony sparked months of news reports and Congressional hearings on social media’s impact on young people’s mental health and safety. Then, in early May, a 16-year-old girl filed a lawsuit against Snapchat alleging the company has failed to protect young users from sexual exploitation.
TIME spoke with three students, including Kalandjian, who have risen to helm SAVE Promise Club’s 13-person national youth advisory board and asked them how they’re feeling about how teens can help keep their peers safe online.
Making their voices heard
For Noor Soomro, who lives in one of the most culturally diverse school districts in the U.S, the turning point was Haugen’s revelation.
When Soomro, a 17-year-old senior at Lawrence E. Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, learned that Meta was aware of the toll its platforms take on young users’ mental health, she says it felt like a betrayal. She submitted testimony with the help of Sandy Hook Promise for the Senate’s October hearing on “Protecting Kids Online.” In it, Soomro detailed how it’s difficult to understand why social media companies would knowingly put young people in harm’s way. “Students already bear the burden of looking out for each other and taking care of one another,” she wrote, highlighting how young people often rely on one another for support when faced with difficult situations both online and off. “Social media companies and responsible adults should help us stay safe, not actively endanger us.”
In the months since, Soomro, who’s also part of a teen leadership program at her mosque, has started running peer-to-peer workshops that offer tips on maintaining a healthy balance between online and real life. “We talk about how stepping away and setting boundaries for yourself are really good starting points,” she says.
She says she’s seen a noticeable boost in school morale—she’s not only witnessed students putting away their phones to have more face-to-face conversations, but has also had people share how taking a social media break has improved their lives. “Students are more willing to connect with each other and aren’t relying as much on social media as their main form of entertainment,” she says.
That anecdotal evidence is backed up by professionals in the field. Shoshana Fagen, a clinical psychologist at Franciscan Children’s in Brighton, Mass., says that young patients she’s worked with have identified a similar correlation between time spent on social media and heightened feelings of emotional distress. “They’ve found that by taking a social media vacation or limiting the amount of time they’re spending on certain platforms, they’re able to have a better sense of self-worth,” she says.
Aashi Mittal, a 17-year-old senior at Del Norte High School in San Diego, said her parents were wary of her using social media at too young of an age. So she waited until freshman year of high school to make her accounts—and soon found that the pressure to appear “perfect” online can be overwhelming. “We see this constant portrayal of life on social media where everyone’s always happy and going out with their friends and doing fun things,” she says. “It can lead to a very negative self-perception.”
Once she started using Snapchat and Instagram, she had to learn how to manage the feelings of inadequacy that would sometimes wash over her when she’d see posts from friends or influencers that made their lives seem perfect. That’s when she truly understood her parents’ hesitation. “A big part of self-care is creating a healthy online environment for yourself and taking breaks from social media when you need to,” she says.
Instagram has, in recent years, become a particular hotbed of photos depicting unrealistic and often unattainable body standards for young women. In 2019, the New Yorker published a story titled “The Age of Instagram Face” that explored how editing apps like Facetune and, more and more frequently, cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were giving rise to a “single, cyborgian face” among “professionally beautiful women” on the photo-sharing platform.
To contend with the harmful effects of online social comparison, Mittal, who founded her school’s SAVE Promise Club, has organized a number of mental health awareness programs with a focus on self-care through the lens of social media. Ironically, some of these programs are run through the same platforms exacerbating some of these issues. “It’s kind of a catch-22,” she says. “A lot of the information has to do with taking care of yourself by getting offline. But then I’m sharing it online.”
Why not just log off?
It’s not as easy as saying teens should just disconnect entirely. Not only has social media been compared to tobacco for how addictive it is, it’s also become an inextricable aspect of young people’s lives—especially since the start of the pandemic. While a 2018 report from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry showed that teens were online for an average of nine hours a day, Common Sense Media reports that, in the last two years alone, the amount of non-school-related time 8-18 year olds spend on screens has increased by 17%.
“It’s this vicious cycle where if you don’t have social media, you feel like you should get on it. But once you’re on it, you feel like maybe you should get off it,” Mittal says. “It’s really hard to stop because the more people that are on it, the harder it is to not be and still feel like you belong.”
At Kalandjian’s school, Michelle Henne, a SAVE Promise Club advisor, history teacher, and cheerleading coach, says it’s obvious that social media dominates students’ lives. “They’re online from the minute they get up in the morning until after they’re supposed to be asleep,” she says. “If they don’t have their phones, they feel like they’ve lost all communication with the world.”
But part of the problem also lies in the fact that social media isn’t all bad. Fagen says that connecting with friends online gives young people an essential support system at a time when “peer interaction is vital to their social, emotional, and even ethical development.”
Despite the system working against them, the positive aspects of social media give Kalandjian hope that it can still be a “force for good” for young people. “Social media is going to be in our lives whether we like it or not,” she says. “So it’s important to know how to use it responsibly instead of listening to people who say, ‘Well maybe your life would be a lot easier if you didn’t use it at all.’ That’s not the solution.”
Since previous generations haven’t grown up with social media in the same way, members of older age groups sometimes don’t grasp the intrinsic role it plays in young people’s opinions of themselves and others. “You see elementary school kids already glued to iPads watching YouTube,” says Chris Nguyen, a SAVE Promise Club advisor and science teacher at Soomro’s school. “They have social media from such a young age and get more and more attached to it as they get older.”
Mittal says that parents and other adults need to be conscious of why things that happen online sometimes feel like the be-all and end-all of teens’ lives: “Adults don’t always understand why problems that seem small and insignificant, like getting a certain comment or not getting enough likes on a post, make us feel so bad.”
In an attempt to rein in Big Tech’s power, lawmakers are moving to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bipartisan bill that would create a responsibility for social media platforms to prevent harms to minors by providing them and their parents with options to protect their personal data, disable addictive product features, and opt out of algorithmic recommendations.
But with no guarantee that the Senate will vote to make KOSA law—and concerns swirling around whether the legislation would infringe on youth privacy—young people like Kalandjian, Mittal, and Soomro recognize that, regardless of what happens in Congress, their work needs to carry on. Frances Haugen herself is advocating for a broader youth-led social movement to build pressure from young adults for social media companies to reform their ways. She recently told the National Education Association that students should be leaders in demanding more accountability from tech giants.
For the teens who spoke with TIME, graduation is on the horizon.
Soomro is currently training juniors in her school’s SAVE Promise Club on how to run social media workshops once she graduates. “Doing this research and educating others has made me more aware of the time and energy I’m putting into social media and motivated me to help others set their own boundaries,” she says. “Hopefully, that can be my legacy and something that the school will continue to do.” In the fall, she heads to the University of Texas at Austin to study political communications.
While Mittal wants to continue to empower young people to have a healthier relationship with social media, she knows that what she’s already achieved is particularly impactful. “It’s really powerful to be in this age group myself and be able to speak about these things,” she says. “All the work that I’m doing right now is special because I’m living through it.” After moving cross country, she’ll start on the pre-med track at Williams College in Massachusetts this fall.
For Kalandjian’s part, she wants to weave this type of activism into her education and career from here on out. In addition to a recent TEDx Talk on online social comparison, she has also presented a social media webinar in collaboration with the National Center for School Safety at the University of Michigan.
There, she spoke to the audience of educators and mental health professionals about their blindspots when it comes to teens and social media. “We need to all be on the same page about how we can do better together,” she says.
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Things your yoga teacher wants you to know
Ever wonder what your yoga teacher is thinking while looking out over a sea of spandex? Most of us are pretty open and chatty, but there are a few things I wish my students knew before coming to my classes. Whether you’re just getting comfortable with basic hatha or can pull off a lotus headstand without breaking a sweat, here is a little enlightenment for all practitioners, straight from the yogini’s mouth.
1. You belong!
Yogis come in all shapes, sizes, and colors from different economic backgrounds. With that, know that no one is watching you as much as you think they are. This is true in all areas of life. If possible, go to a class that does not have wall-to-wall mirrors. Focus on how you feel, not on how you look, because in some postures you will look ridiculous. Remember that being ridiculous makes us laugh, and laughing keeps us young!
2. We care about you!
Talk to us or email us questions—we’re here to help. We want to know what’s going on in your life and hear your feedback so that we can better serve you. On the flip side, be respectful of our time. This profession doesn’t make us rich, and many teachers have to scramble around to teach multiple classes a day.
3. We know when you’re in the wrong class
Everyone can do yoga, but there are certain classes geared for practitioners with a certain level of experience, so we can tell when you didn’t read the class description. I know, I know, it was the only time slot that fit your schedule! I feel your pain, but you’re going to be in real pain if you try to do a class that’s too hard for you. It’s also really stressful for the teacher, who will worry about you the entire time (see #2). If you’re new to yoga, try something like the beginner series offered at Refresh Yoga Center, which allows you to work with the same teacher once a week, make friends, and learn the foundational poses. This will give you confidence to walk into most “all-level” classes. Not sure where to begin? Here’s how to find the right yoga style for you.
4. We want you to be comfortable
To be clear, you don’t need to shell out $90 for brand-name stretch pants, but considering your butt will probably be in the air at some point, make sure you’re appropriately covered. If you’re taking a hot yoga class (see #3), you probably don’t want to wear as much. Second, your mat is important! This is especially true for beginners. Test it out in the store to make sure it’s sticky, absorbent, has enough padding, and is long enough for your height. Still not sure which brand to buy? Most studios will rent you a mat for classes, so you can try out a few different kinds before purchasing your own.
5. Savor the savasana
At the end of class, we are going to lie down on our backs in silence for at least five minutes in a pose called savasana. This is not the cue for you to leave–class isn’t over! For you hyperactive types, this will feel weird, and you will probably hate it. Please just close your eyes and relax (it looks creepy when I see you staring at the ceiling). After a productive practice, this really is one of the best parts. How beneficial is it to just do nothing with your eyes closed for a few minutes? It’s revitalizing! In fact, I want you to know I’m sorry I can’t give you 15 minutes or more of this.
6. We like you to be on time
Life happens, and we get that, but for your benefit and others’, it’s great if you can arrive a few minutes early to chat with the teacher, find your special spot on the floor, and start focusing on the class ahead. Then you can be the one to give the dirty look to the late comer! (Just kidding, don’t do that. Suzanne had a flat tire, so cut her some slack!)
Likewise, if you have to leave early, just tell me before class and position yourself near the door. No big deal (unless you are doing it to skip savasana, then you’re not off the hook). For both instances, don’t make it a habit.
7. Communicate your boundaries
Some places do what’s called “hands-on adjustments.” For the most part, the teacher should be helping in the interest of safety and form, but other times they are trying to deepen a stretch or help you relax. It can feel incredible, but they should ask your permission in some way, either before class or before the actual adjustment. If you don’t like being touched or have an injury, say so! Telling this to the instructor privately before class is the best thing to do.
Example a: Early on in my yoga practice, I went to a class where the instructor had us give adjustments to each other. This was not OK with me. The result of my not speaking up was a strange, sweaty man sitting on my back while I was in child’s pose. I never went back to that teacher again. The class description did NOT say “partner yoga”—I’m very certain about that (see point 3).
Example b: There is one particular style of yoga that will go unnamed, but it is famous for its strong adjustments. One time, the teacher was trying to push me into a position that my body doesn’t like. I simply said, “Nope, I’ll stay this way today” and she moved on. She is a professional; she was not embarrassed and her feelings weren’t hurt. More importantly? I didn’t get injured. In fact, being the one to speak up empowers other students to do the same.
8. Just because I offer a more “advanced” variation of a posture doesn’t mean you have to try it.
You KNOW you can’t do that bind, so why do you insist on pulling your arm out of its socket to attempt it? You don’t have to impress me, and no one is watching you (see # 1), so the only explanation is your ego. Let it go. Seriously, stop holding your arm that way.
9. Props are your friends. I use them too!
Props are things like blocks, bolsters (cushions), straps and blankets. The studio provides them, so take advantage. Using props is not a sign of weakness—in fact, it’s the opposite. When I see students using props, it tells me they are in tune with their bodies. I tweaked my hamstring water skiing (totally worth it), and without blocks I couldn’t do my yoga practice. Few activities allow you to modify the movements in such a way as to allow even injured people to participate. With yoga, the possibilities are endless.
10. Instructors aren’t perfect
As a yoga student, I’ve been late to class, watched the clock in savasana, and did a backbend I shouldn’t have done because I wanted to show off. As a teacher, I’ve dropped someone in headstand (she’s fine), lost track of time, and forgotten what I was going to say. I can’t do the splits, I drink red wine, and I hated “Eat, Pray, Love.” I don’t judge you, so don’t judge me! ☺
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Aadhaar ID saving Indian govt about $1 billion per annum: World Bank
The World Bank has said that India’s Aadhaar ID will save the government $1 billion annually by curbing corruption. India’s Aadhaar digital identification system has already reached close to one billion people enabling many of the poor to access services more easily and making it possible for government to deliver welfare services more easily. India is close to registering its entire 1.25 billion population usingAadhaar ID, the World Bank said.
Technology can be transformational. A digital identification system such as India’s Aadhaar, by overcoming complex information problems, helps willing governments to promote the inclusion of disadvantaged groups,” the World Bank said. | <urn:uuid:5edf9f5f-d66f-42c0-b0f6-8b06c1a9c354> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://studycopter.com/feed/aadhaar-id-saving-indian-govt-about-1-billion-per-annum-world-bank/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00497-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929001 | 149 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Managing European Union Enlargement (CESifo Seminar Series)
The MIT Press| ISBN: 0262025612 | 2004-06-01 | PDF | 321 pages | 1876 kb
In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement particularly challenging. Not only do these countries vary widely in language, culture, and geography, but also their per capita income is less than half that of existing members. EU officials believe that expanded integration will serve the EU's objectives of peace, stability, prosperity, and democracy; but the less abstract questions of costs and benefits of enlargement are more complex.
Each of the chapters in this CESifo volume addresses a different aspect of EU expansion. The contributors, all leading international practitioners and scholars, consider such topics as the effect of euro zone expansion on European Central Bank monetary policy making; using the euro as an external anchor for a national currency; worker migration and income differentials; the Swiss experience with immigration policy in a direct democracy framework; detailed sector analysis using a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy; investment and job creation and destruction in incumbent member countries; and the asymmetric effects of enlargement on high- and low-income incumbent countries. Taken together, the chapters provide useful guidance in shaping the EU policies of the future.
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Pest control services is the process of controlling pests and eliminating them from your home or business. Pests are a problem for many people, but they can be especially problematic for those with allergies or asthma. Pests can also cause structural damage to homes and businesses, which is why it’s important to have pest control services in place. Pest control services are typically done by exterminators who will inspect the property and determine what type of pests need to be controlled and how best to do so. Depending on the type of pest, there are different ways that they can be eliminated from the property.
Residential pest control services is a term used to describe the process of controlling pests in residential properties. This service can be done by professional pest dial pest control services in Suraram. It usually includes the inspection, treatment, and prevention of pests in the home. The most common type of pest that is controlled in residential settings is rodents. Some of the most common types of Residential pest control services are: Termite Control Services, Rodent Control Services, Termite Prevention Services, and Bed Bug Control Services.
Here we will focus on identifying the most common pests and diseases that they carry. The first pest we will discuss is the cockroach. These pests are usually found in moist areas such as kitchens and bathrooms. Cockroaches carry a variety of diseases, but the most notable one is salmonella. This is why it is important to keep your kitchen clean and free of any food that may attract these pests. The second pest we will talk about are bed bugs. Bed bugs can be found in any place that has a mattress or furniture, but they prefer to stay close to humans at night time and feed on their blood while they sleep. They also carry a number of different diseases, but the most common one is scabies which causes an itchy rash all over your body.
Pests are a common problem in Suraram homes. They can cause a lot of damage to your property and make it difficult for you to live in your home. To avoid these problems, you should get pest control services from a professional Pest Dial company. We at Pest Dial pest control service in Suraram will help you eliminate all the pests from your property. We will also provide you with a detailed report of the services they performed for you and what they found on site.
If you are looking for the best residential pest control services in Suraram, then you have come to the right place. We at Pest Dial Pest Control Services, we offer a wide range of pest control solutions to all our clients. If you are looking for an affordable and reliable service provider in this field, then we are the right choice for you. We have been providing pest control services since many years now and our experts have successfully managed to deal with all types of pests. You can call us anytime and we will send someone to your location within no time. We also provide emergency pest control services if there is any need for it.
Pest control services are important for maintaining a healthy and clean environment. These services help in controlling pests that come into your house, office or any other premises. The cost of pest control service varies from place to place and also depends on the type of pest. The cost for a residential pest control service in Suraram will depend on the type of service, the size of the property, and how often the property needs to be serviced.
Ants are one of the most common problem in household. They can cause a lot of inconvenience and damage to your home, especially if you have food in your house...
Bed bugs are a common pest in Suraram. They are small, flat insects that feed on the blood of humans and animals....
Mosquitoes are small, but they can make your life miserable. They can transmit diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and West Nile virus....
Rat are a common problem in Suraram. They can create havoc in homes, restaurants, shops and other businesses....
Pests are a huge problem for any household. They not only cause damage to your property, but also spread diseases.
Flies Control Service in Suraram - You reside in Suraram and are worried about fly infestation in your home or office and you are unable to solve such a problem on your own.
Pest control is a process that is used to remove pests from an environment. Pests are any animal that causes damage, carries disease, or can be a nuisance to humans. The use of pest control means that the pests are either killed, removed, or their living conditions are changed so they cannot carry on with their harmful activities. The process of pest control can be carried out in many different ways and takes between one and five hours (or more) to complete depending on the size and location of the area.
Pest control is one of the most crucial aspects of maintaining a healthy and safe environment for your family. Even though pest control treatments are usually not harmful to humans, it is still important to be aware of the chemicals sprayed. The first thing you should do after pest control has been done is to make sure you are not exposed to any chemicals that may have been used. You should either leave the house or stay in an area where there are no chemicals or fumes from the pest control company. The next step would be to take care of any areas that were sprayed by the pest control company, for example carpets, curtains, baby shops and other fabric items. You should wash these items thoroughly with soap and water to remove any chemicals that might have seeped into them during the spray process.
When you have small-sized property, the time taken for the pest control treatment will be less than 30 minutes as compared to big spaces which take 1 to 2 hours. Another aspect that has an impact on the total time of pest control procedure is the level of infestation. Having years of experience, our experts promise you to accomplish the pest control procedure in your specified time.
Pests like rats and mice can cause a lot of stress and misery. That's why pest control services is often used in order to get rid of pests and keep them away from your house. If you want to know how long does pest control last, then pest control can be considered as a one-time solution that needs to be repeated every now and then in order to provide continuous protection against pests. Since there are different types of pests, it is necessary for the homeowner to renew the treatment every six months or so in order to keep all of them away from the home.
Many people are renting homes or apartments, especially in major cities. Renting tends to be cheaper than owning a home, but it is still costly enough to make people think twice before they decide whether or not to rent. One of the biggest expenses for renters is pest control. The following are some tips on who pays for pest control when renting: If you are renting an apartment, your landlord usually pays for the pest control service. If you are renting a house, your landlord may pay for it if they have a contract that specifies that they have to keep the property in good condition. If there is no mention of pest control being included in your rental agreement then you will have to pay for it yourself. | <urn:uuid:277167bf-084a-41d8-a09a-9cf71be28f7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pestdial.in/suraram/residential-pest-control-services.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968148 | 1,480 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Research programme: human monoclonal antibodies - Takeda/Kirin BreweryAlternative Names: Human monoclonal antibodies research programme - Takeda/Kirin
Latest Information Update: 30 Jun 2011
At a glance
- Originator Kirin Brewery; Takeda
- Class Monoclonal antibodies; Monoclonal antibody diagnostics
- Mechanism of Action Diagnostic imaging enhancers; Immunomodulators
Orphan Drug Status
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
On Fast track
Fast track status is assigned by the US FDA so therapies with the potential to address unmet needs can move faster through development.
Highest Development Phases
- No development reported Unspecified
Most Recent Events
- 19 Jan 2007 No development reported - Preclinical for Undefined indication in Japan (unspecified route)
- 19 Jan 2007 No development reported - Preclinical for Undefined indication (diagnosis) in Japan (unspecified route)
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Whether it be strategic planning at the Executive level or project management at the mid or entry level, every business result or outcome is compromised if there is a lack of cohesion and trust in the group that is charged with that responsibility. Learning the skills and behaviors it takes to become an effective team will greatly improve departmental/organizational results.
WHO SHOULD TAKE PART: A team can consist of 2 people, or a companywide effort can take place to affect an organizational culture change. Talk with us about your needs.
Cooperation and respect for others ideas, without abdication, is the key to the productive workplace of the future.To achieve maximum performance, teambuilding sessions are custom-designed for each group. Options include traditional workshop formats as well as adventure-based activities.
- Develop a concept of effective teamwork and its importance to the organization.
- Clarify team mission/purpose, roles and responsibilities.
- Focus on the importance of communication to team development.
- Improvement of overall communication and problem solving skills.
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The cancer yield in the women
with a personal history of breast
cancer was double that of the
women with a genetic or family
history;© NCI Visuals Online
The American Cancer Society (ACS) guidelines currently recommend annual screening with breast MRI in women with a known gene mutation or with a strong family history indicating a lifetime risk of breast cancer greater than 20 percent. However, the guidelines say there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against MRI screening in women who have already had breast cancer themselves.
"In our study using breast MRI screening, we actually detected proportionally more cancers in women with a personal history of breast cancer, compared with those women with a genetic mutation or strong family history who are currently recommended to have breast MRI," said Doctor Wendy B. DeMartini, assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in Seattle. "Further, women with a personal history were less likely to be recalled for additional testing and less likely to have a biopsy for a false positive MRI finding."
DeMartini and colleagues performed a retrospective review of initial screening breast MRI examinations of 1,026 women from January 2004 to June 2009. Of the 1,026 women, 327 had a genetic or family history of breast cancer and 646 had a personal history of treated breast cancer. Overall, MRI testing identified 25 of 27 cancers in the group for a sensitivity rate of 92.6 percent.
The cancer yield in the women with a personal history of breast cancer (3.1 percent) was double that of the women with a genetic or family history (1.5 percent). Specificity in women with a personal history was 93.6 percent, compared with 86.3 percent for the other group. Specificity refers to the accuracy of the exam in correctly ruling out cancer where it is not present, resulting in lower recall and biopsy rates due to false-positive findings.
Biopsy was recommended in 9.3 percent of the women with a personal history of breast cancer, compared with 15 percent of the genetic and family history group. The positive predictive value of biopsy was also higher in the personal history group, with 35.7 percent of biopsies yielding cancer, compared with only 12.2 percent in the other group.
"Our findings show that the diagnostic performance of MRI in patients with a personal history of treated breast cancer supports consideration of screening MRI as an adjunct to mammography," DeMartini said. "Additional studies such as ours are necessary to establish guidelines for screening this important group of women."
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Do you strongly support the war in Iraq and strict immigration policies? If so, you're more likely to have strong physiological responses to threatening stimuli such as loud noises and disturbing images, according to a study published in Science this week. Using tests of skin conductance in response to different types of images and startle response to loud sounds, researchers found that people with higher physical sensitivity to threatening stimuli are more likely to favor political policies that involve protecting the country from internal or external threats. "I think this is the seminal study, the first of many, where political scientists will think about physiology in the study of political views," said linkurl:James Fowler,;http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/ a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the genetic basis of political behavior. "This is first empirical data to associate physiological response to environmental threat and political attitudes," said linkurl:Kevin Smith,;http://polisci.unl.edu/dept/smith/smith_cv.html...
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Location of Attack
25% of all fatal attacks were inflicted by chained dogs
25% resulted from dogs loose in their yard
23% occurred inside the home
17% resulted from attacks by dogs roaming off their property
10% involved leashed dogs or miscellaneous circumstances
Number of Dogs
68% of all fatal attacks were inflicted by a single dog
32% was the result of a multiple dog attack
79% of all fatal attacks were on children under the age of 12
12% of the victims were the elderly, aged 65 – 94
9% of the victims were 13 – 64 years old
The age group with the highest number of fatalities were children under the age of 1 year old; accounting for 19% of the deaths due to dog attack. Over 95% of these fatalities occurred when an infant was left unsupervised with a dog(s).
The age group with the second-highest number of fatalities were 2-year-olds; accounting for 11% of the fatalities due to dog attack. Over 87% of these fatalities occurred when the 2-year-old child was left unsupervised with a dog(s) or the child wandered off to the location of the dog(s).
Boys aged 1 – 12 years old were 2.5 times more likely to be the victim of a fatal dog attack than girls of the same age.
Pit Bull and Pit-bull-type dogs (21%), Mixed breed dogs (16%),
Rottweilers (13%), German Shepherd Dogs (9%), Wolf Dogs (5%),
Siberian Huskies (5%), Malamutes (4%), Great Danes (3%),
St. Bernards (3%), Chow Chows (3%), Doberman Pinschers (3%),
other breeds & non-specified breeds (15%).
Reproductive Status of Dogs
Overwhelmingly, the dogs involved in fatal dog attacks were unaltered males.
From 2000-2001 there were 41 fatal dog attacks. Of these, 28 were attacks by a single dog and 13 fatalities were caused by multiple dogs.
Of the 28 single dogs responsible for a fatal attack between 2000-2001;
26 were males and 2 were females. Of the 26 males, 21 were found to be intact (the reproductive status of the remaining 5 males dogs could not be determined).
States with the Most Fatalities – 1965-2001
California, 47; Texas, 32; Alaska, 26; Florida, 22; New York, 19; Michigan, 18; Illinois, 18; North Carolina, 17; Georgia, 16.
While at times informative, statistics on fatal dog attacks can also be misleading. For example, a number of cases were a Pit Bull, Rottweiler or GSD were counted as causing a human fatality were in reality the direct result of gross human negligence or criminal intent (i.e. discarding a newborn in the yard where the dogs were kept, or cases of extremely emaciated animals, or cases were the dog was ordered or encouraged to attack the victim).
This study was conducted not to determine which breeds of dogs caused fatalities, but rather to examine the circumstances and events that precipitated an attack. Knowing how many Pit Bulls or Rottweilers caused a human fatality has little applicable value, only when examining each case individually can we hope to gain insight into the HUMAN and CANINE behaviors that contributed to these tragic events.
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This guideline covers ways to support social, emotional and mental wellbeing in children and young people in primary and secondary education (key stages 1 to 5), and people 25 years and under with special educational needs or disability in further education colleges. It aims to promote good social, emotional and psychological health to protect children and young people against behavioural and health problems.
This guideline includes recommendations on:
- whole-school approach
- universal curriculum content
- identifying children and young people at risk of poor social, emotional and mental wellbeing
- targeted support
- support with school-related transitions and other life changes
Who is it for?
- Education professionals
- Health and social care practitioners
- Commissioners and providers
- Professionals who work in the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors
- Young people and the families and carers of children and young people
- Members of the public
Guideline development process
This guideline updates and replaces NICE guidelines PH12 (March 2008) and PH20 (September 2009).
The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.
Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.
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Beauty is commonly defined as the mental or physical impression of things which makes these things beautiful to see. These things include sunsets, nature, human beings and other works of art. Beauty, along with personal taste and aesthetic, is the most important theme of aesthetics, another of the major branches of contemporary philosophy. The word ‘beauty’ can also be related to the word ‘happiness’, as beauty is often associated with the former while happiness is often associated with the latter.
Many artists debate on the interpretation of beauty in the work of their own. Aesthetics are not only related to each other, but also interpret each other in complex ways. In art, beauty can be understood not only in terms of the visual art created but also in terms of its artistic value as such.
Art historians trace the development of beauty back to the very beginnings of human art, for example, the cave paintings of ancient Greece. Later, art scholars traced the development of beauty in the works of ancient Greece and Rome to the time of Tiberius, the Romans and the Dutch in the 15th century. French critics and aestheticians also attribute the development of beauty in painting to the works of Rembrandt and Da Vinci. Modern aesthetics particularly agrees with the arguments of ancient aesthetics that beauty is subjective and that there is no such thing as absolute beauty. | <urn:uuid:e22b769d-f964-428f-8c7f-73db595e4d12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infochubut.com/the-concept-of-beauty-in-modern-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.965637 | 279 | 3.390625 | 3 |
- Cisco eNIC
- Cisco fNIC
- Ethernet driver for Cisco VIC
- FCoE driver for Cisco VIC
What is eNIC, fNIC?
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) drivers facilitate communication between supported operating systems and Cisco UCS VICs.
Cisco UCS VIC driver ISO bundles include an eNIC driver and an fNIC driver, where eNIC is the driver for the Cisco UCS VIC Ethernet NIC and fNIC is the driver for the Cisco UCS VIC Fibre Channel over Ethernet HBA. Fiber Channel NIC, also referred to as fNIC, is used by the ESX or Linux flavor of operating systems to communicate with the physical HBA card installed on the server. It is used to connect FC or iSCSI storage LUNs to hosts. The fNIC driver enables FCoE support for the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card family of products.
Flexpod configuration should have the following minimum version of drivers:
|Cisco eNIC||188.8.131.52||Ethernet driver for Cisco VIC|
|Cisco fNIC||184.108.40.206||FCoE driver for Cisco VIC|
How to find the NIC driver version?
- For ESX systems, run the following command:
#vmkload_mod -s fnicfor FCoE Cards
vmkload_mod module information
input file: /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/fnic
Version: Version 220.127.116.11, Build: 472560
#vmkload_mod -s enicfor Ethenet cards
- For Linux systems, run the following command:
[root@linux-host]# dmesg | grep -i fnic
$fnic: Cisco FCoE HBA Driver, ver 18.104.22.168
[root@linux-host]# dmesg | grep -i enic
You can also run
cat /sys/module/enic/version for eNIC and
cat /sys/module/fnic/version for fNIC
- For Windows:
- Under Control Panel, go to Device Manager and right-click Cisco VIC Ethernet Interface
- Select Properties, click the Driver tab, and check the Driver Version.
How to validate supportability of the ENIC/FNIC driver version?
- For latest ENIC/FNIC driver versions, see NetApp Interoperability Matrix
They can be found under the 'Storage Solution': 'FlexPod SAN' and 'Storage Area Network (SAN)' for 'Host HBA'
Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card CNA
Driver = 22.214.171.124 (Inbox),
Firmware = 2.0(2),
Protocol = FCoE,
Spec = Dual-port 10gE PCI-Express CNA, Cisco UCS System Firmware 2.0(2)
How to update the driver?
What are connectivity and best practices for NetApp storage?
- Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Storage Connectivity Options and Best Practices with NetApp Storage
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Organizations world over are exploring open data to find solutions, discover new business opportunities and improve systems and processes.
Open data is fast becoming the buzzword of the market as well as the public sector.
It has wide ranging applications and implications.
You might wonder why open data?
Here’s your answer:
Why Open Data?
Simple: Data is the new oil.
It unlocks the doors of business prosperity, solves problems and enables organizations to grow.
However, data as such is not easy to get hold of.
What you see on the Internet can be accessed but not downloaded. You need to indulge in web scraping to get hold of that data in a usable format.
This is why there is a growing thrust on creating access of data.
Moreover, the data that is available is not enough to throw sufficient light on the bigger picture. We need more data to fully appreciate different phenomena happening across the world.
Open data is vital because it will supplement and complement existing data and make data-based decision-making more immaculate and accurate. While data as such is a costly affair, open data is by nature data which is available either free or at a token fee.
What is Open Data?
Open Data Handbook defines open data as follows:
“Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share alike.”
In other words, open data can be understood under three broad categories:
- Availability and Access- It is easily available at a minimal cost. It should also be available in a usable form.
- Re-use and redistribution- It is made available without any restriction on re-use and redistribution.
- Universal participation- Anyone and everyone can access and/or re-use it. There should be no discrimination against a person or group based on any criteria.
You might wonder from where these revolutionary ideas of open and transparent access to data come from.
Actually, open data comes as a part of a larger movement for all things “open”. There have been several ‘open’ movements such as Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Content, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Government, Open Knowledge, Open Access, Open Science and Open Web.
Open Data movement is a recent phenomenon but it is fast gaining traction. Experts all over the world are wondering about its applications and implications on with respect to business and a diversity of other fields.
Sources of Open Data
The following are some of the sources of open data:
Google Scholar offers an easy way to search across disciplines and gather information regarding a diversity of topics. You can explore academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites. Sources comprise articles, abstracts, books, theses and even court opinions.
US Census Bureau
The Bureau has undertaken the task to make quality data regarding the people and economy of the US available. This includes population data, geographic data and education.
European Union Open Data Portal
It serves a great source of a wide range of data points from the institutions and other bodies of the European Union. You can explore data by subject or group. Subjects include economics, science, trade, education and employment.
Data.gov is the repository of US government’s open data. The US government recently resolved to make all government data available for free. You can find data, tools and resources with which you can carry out research, develop web and mobile applications and design data visualizations.
Google Public Data Explorer
It was launched in March 2010. What Google Public Data Explorer does is that it renders large data sets easy in terms of exploring, visualizing and communicating.
There are various other sources of open data like:
- Social Mention
- Pew Research Center’s Internet Project
- UNICEF Statistics
- World Health Organization
- Freebase etc
Benefits of Open Data
There are a variety of benefits and applications of open data. The world at large is still exploring how open data can be leveraged.
The following are some of the ways in which open data is being used world over:
Open Data for Business Growth
UK’s Open Data Institute facilitates gathering and distribution of open data to companies. The attempt is to ensure social good as well as business growth.
Ever since Open Data Institute came into being in 2012, there are now 270 UK companies are treating open data as a key feature of their policy.
70% of these companies use the data derived from the UK government, including the information received from Companies House, Transport for London, Environment Agency, Met Office, and the National Health Service. These companies have a combined turnover of 92 billion pounds based on their efforts to leverage open data.
Entrepreneurs have the knack of solving problems but they at times lack the resources to kick-start their ventures. They would find it difficult to invest in procuring data which is costly.
On the other hand, governments are trying to solve a lot of problems but lack the problem-solving ability that entrepreneurs have.
Therefore, governments and entrepreneurs are teaming up in different parts of the world to solve common problems. It allows entrepreneurs to showcase their talents and jumpstart their ventures.
Go Code Colorade is a statewide app challenge that provides common platform to developers and entrepreneurs who get to use open data to solve problems.
Examples of such ventures are as follows:
Technical experts, health experts and real estate experts collaborated and created a platform that streamlines water data discovery and analysis. This app helps real estate agents, developers, investors, consultants and people at large to make better business decisions with respect to water resources.
The Fort Collins team devised a solution to perform noise analysis for HUD residential projects. This application enables real estate developers to comply with federal and state regulations. Earlier, real estate developers would need to spend thousands of dollars to perform this kind of noise analysis. It has been made available on a mobile app now.
Magpie Supply enabled state farmers to locate the under-utilized truck space to reduce the cost of transportation. They also provide a platform to access historic farmers’ market prices on a map. This helps agriculturalists to identify new markets for selling opportunities.
These are some of the examples of entrepreneurship taking wings based on open data opportunities. There are hundreds of such stories waiting to be discovered.
Open data can boost customer intelligence endeavours as well.
With open data, one can hope to understand the customer behavior a lot better.
Take a look at a case study of Pandora:
Pandora is the largest Internet radio service. It decided to provide musicians free access with respect to its data regarding the biggest fans. 125,000 artists can now access detailed information regarding the popularity of their songs, age of the audiences, gender data and the map of where these fans live. Based on this, artists will be able to plan their tours and everything else a lot better. These artists will be able to work out specific strategies based on this data.
A company like Red Roof Inn is making creative use of open data regarding weather conditions to create value for its customers. It processes the information about weather conditions, flight cancellations and customers’ locations and comes up with recommendations regarding last-minute hotel deals to stranded travelers. It has developed an algorithm that takes into account travel conditions in order to work out details about availability of nearby hotels and rates. This helps the stranded travelers in a big way.
Streamlining the Public Sector
A McKinsey report highlighted how open data can be leveraged in the areas of education, healthcare, transportation, consumer products, electricity, oil and gas and consumer finance.
Open data could be beneficial to public sector in the following ways:
- It can create greater transparency and integrity of public sector.
- It would be possible to track the money follows and take measured actions accordingly.
- Generally public sector systems lag behind in their response time. With open data, they could track and predict changes in real time and accordingly respond to the changes happening.
- It will allow public sector to streamline its processes and services. It would be possible to pinpoint areas of improvement and enhance productivity in a measurable way.
- It would be possible to devise tailored solutions based on different demographics and other factors.
It would be a huge transformative leap to leverage open data for public sector as it opens up a number of avenues of innovative application.
Citizen Participation and Activism
Citizens are expected to participate in the functioning of a democracy but they are hardly able to do so due to the lack of access to information. Open data can foster citizen participation and activism in the following ways:
- With open data, they can track what is happening around them and they can participate in different processes.
- They will be able to understand the real cause of the problems faced by them and attribute the responsibility to the right stakeholders. This would allow them to fix the accountability and register their grievances to the concerned individual or agency.
- They would be able to participate in any reform as they would be much better armed with information and insight. They would be in a much better position to take a call on tricky legislations and vote accordingly.
- They would be able to launch into activism as they would have access to data based on which they can put pressure of the government officials and other stakeholders.
Alternative data Vs. Open Data
Alternative data: It is the information collated from unconventional sources. Therefore, it depends on the sources from which it is gathered and it can be called alternative data only if it is collected from certain kind of unconventional sources.
Alternative data does not strictly follow any rules and standards whereas open data follows the standards, formats and specifications.
As the Internet evolves, the significance of open data is set to grow. Since the connected world demands more data, open data will come handy for a variety of purposes.
Whether you are a company, marketer, investor, government official or NGO, open data has immense potential that you can leverage for your specific needs.
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Weather protocol to be tested on Giro d'Italia
PARIS (Reuters) - An "extreme weather conditions protocol" will be tested for the first time during this year's Giro d'Italia after the peloton experienced extreme conditions in recent races, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday.
"Representatives from the UCI-- notably commissaires (stewards) -- riders (CPA), teams (AIGCP) and organizers (AIOCC) have agreed on the principles of an action plan in the event of extreme weather conditions during the Giro d’Italia," the UCI said in a statement.
The group considers the safety and the health of riders as an absolute priority.
"The protocol involves notably the compulsory convening of a meeting between the stakeholders (organization including race doctor and chief of security, riders, teams, President of the Commissaries Panel,) when extreme weather conditions are anticipated prior to the start of a stage."
In case of freezing rain, snow, pollution, strong winds, extreme temperatures or poor visibility, a stage may be canceled or its course changed for the safety of the riders.
This year, high temperatures caused tyres to explode at the Tour of Qatar, riders finished a Tirreno-Adriatico stage in a huge snow storm, and some were thrown off their bikes by 100 kph wind gusts in the Gent-Wevelgem classic.
In last year's Giro, organizers attempted to neutralize the race near the top of the Stelvio because of snow falls, only for eventual champion Nairo Quintana to attack on the descent.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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Just a few weeks ago the green taliban were mounting 5 person protests against Monsanto.
They won’t at all be pleased with this news.
When it comes to agriculture, the World Food Prize is the equivalent of the Oscars.
This year, the prestigious award went the mastermind behind Monsanto’s big move into genetically modified crops. In foodie terms, that is like a commercial blockbuster winning best picture rather than an independent, artsy film.
Started in 1987, the prize aims to recognize people who improve the “quality, quantity or availability” of food in the world. The founder of the award, Norman E. Borlaug, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 as the father of the Green Revolution, which vastly increased grain output.
On Wednesday the World Food Prize Foundation said the honor and the $250,000 cash prize would be shared by Robert T. Fraley, Monsanto’s executive vice president and chief technology officer, and two other scientists, Marc Van Montagu of Belgium and Mary-Dell Chilton of the United States. The foundation said the work of the three scientists, who helped devise a way to insert foreign genes into plants, led to the development of higher-yielding crops that can resist insects, disease and extremes of climate.
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SSI and Verifiable Credentials are the latest development in identity management. They offer many benefits over existing federated identity management systems. UBITECH is participating in this years’ EU Identity and Cloud Summit as part of a panel for discussing the integration and benefits brought forth from the adoption of SSI in the healthcare domain. Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, will be discussing the open challenge of how to build trust into the SSI ecosystem.
Currently, there is no way to ensure that each entity is in fact the one it claims to be. How can someone be sure that the DID really belongs to the claimed entity? Towards this direction, our latest work on leveraging hardware-based tokens that can offer you the proof of knowledge to protect the usage of the Verifiable Credentials will be discussed. More information on the panel can be found here – https://www.kuppingercole.com/sessions/5021/3 | <urn:uuid:6e3bdbe0-390b-4359-9a4b-576bb3a6e7b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ubitech.eu/ubitech-participates-at-a-panel-discussion-on-ssi-in-healthcare-at-eic-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.913945 | 211 | 1.5625 | 2 |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The 192 U.N. member nations suspended Libya on Tuesday from the U.N. Human Rights Council in the latest international effort to halt the Gadhafi regime's violent crackdown on protesters.
The General Assembly voted by consensus on the council's recommendation to suspend Libya's membership on the U.N's top human rights body for committing "gross and systematic violations of human rights." General Assembly President Joseph Deiss called for the vote and signaled its adoption by consensus by banging his wooden gavel.
The resolution sponsored by Arab and African states also expressed "deep concern" about the human rights situation in Libya.
The vote does not permanently remove Libya from the council, but prevents it from participation until the General Assembly determines whether to restore the country to full status.
In Geneva earlier Tuesday, top Russian diplomats ruled out the idea of creating a no-fly zone over Libya as Gadhafi unleashed bombing raids, special forces and army troops in a desperate bid to stay in power.
However, British Foreign Minister William Hague said his country and its allies could seek to impose a no-fly zone in Libya without a U.N. mandate. Hague told BBC television on Tuesday that while "ideally" such an action would be sanctioned by a Security Council resolution, it wasn't essential. In fact, the no-fly zones operated over Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the U.S. and Britain did not receive such U.N. approval, while the one over Bosnia did.
The U.S. moved naval and air forces closer to Libya on Monday and said all options were open, including patrols of the North African nation's skies to protect its citizens from their ruler. The Obama administration is demanding that Gadhafi relinquish power immediately.
France said it would fly aid to the opposition-controlled eastern half of the country. The European Union imposed an arms embargo and other sanctions, following the lead of the U.S. and the U.N. The EU and the U.S. have also talked about the possibility of creating a no-fly zone over Libya. | <urn:uuid:7f832d9e-c1d0-4a5b-8d53-091ae3d89ce8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.newstribune.com/news/news/story/2011/mar/02/un-suspends-libya-rights-council/471137/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00550-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959527 | 429 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Council Tax Rates 2022/23
New Forest District Council (NFDC) has set their element of the 2022/23 Council Tax at £188.36 per year, per household (Band D property) at their Full Council meeting on 21 February 2022.
The £5 a year increase is a 2.73% rise on the 2021/22 Council Tax.
Other organisations have also set their Council Tax amounts, and the total bill, for an average Band D property in the district, will be £1,987.99.
The full report that set the Council Tax can be read at https://democracy.newforest.gov.uk/documents/g7278/Public%20reports%20pack%2021st-Feb-2022%2018.30%20Council.pdf?T=10
The different amounts making up the total bill, for an average Band D property are:
- Hampshire County Council, including the specific charge to help fund Adult Social Care, £1,390.86, an increase of £40.41 (2.99%)
- New Forest District Council £188.36, an increase of £5.00 (2.73%)
- Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire £236.46, an increase of £10.00 (4.42%)
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service £75.43, an increase of £5.00 (7.10%)
- Town and Parish Council £96.88, an increase of £3.68 (3.95%) (Woodgreen will be £38.38)
The bills will be sent in March.
NFDC are advising people who may have difficulty paying Council Tax to contact them straight away to see what help and support is available, by calling 01590 646111 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.org
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Famous, all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Today considered a classic of English literature, "Wuthering Heights" was met with mixed reviews when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. "Wuthering Heights" has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, three operas (respectively by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin), a role-playing game, and the 1979 chart topping song by Kate Bush.
This week, the audio book version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights [Trout Lake Media Edition] has made it into the top 50 bestsellers in the Classics category. You can legally download or stream this audio book and listen to it for free at Spotify, and in high quality at Audible. | <urn:uuid:9625a820-ea76-4d24-8600-a78c833d3601> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://audioobook.com/us/free/wuthering-heights-trout-lake-media-edition--43baj63.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941671 | 222 | 1.921875 | 2 |
These presentations on purpose discuss your calling in life and how it is central, not just to personal happiness and fulfillment, but also influences business and the greater good.
Some of these presentations on purpose offer ways to find your own, including a fulfilling life keynote by author Simon Sinek. His talk on the power of purpose helps people find their passion by exploring the 'Golden Circle.' With applications on an organizational as well as individual level, this speech analyzes what you do, how you do it and ultimately why you do it as well.
Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses infusing work with purpose in his values talk. He believes careers should be built not just on self-improvement, but making a difference in the world as well. In her life choices keynote, Barbara Walters speaks about the idea of finding bliss in life. She believes following your calling or bliss is the key to success.
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“Within the Christian mysteries is the concept of the Paraclete, which means the first living person within the Age who advocates for the Holy Spirit’s manifestation upon the Earth. The Piscean Age was known as the Age of the Son. The transitioning Age of Aquarius has long been heralded as the Age of the Holy Spirit. Although very little is said about him in conventional Christian traditions, within the esoteric traditions, the Paraclete was recognized as the Persian prophet Mani, who lived from 216-274 AD. The name Mani has a very suspicious connection to the Atlantean name Manu, which not only stood for the great adept, but was a name used as a title that signified a great teacher of initiated Logoic Wisdom.”
Beyond the Soul’s Meridian July 24, 2020
In the culture of Atlantis came a great Adapt whose name was Manu. In esoteric mystery schools, Manu is considered the Noah of the East as his mythology conveys to us that he was an ark builder. As the waters receded, he landed his ark on mount Everest and founded a new postdiluvian civilization. The people that came forth were called the Aryans. Unfortunately, the meaning of this name has been co-opted, inverted, and perverted by dark usurping aspects of the mystery schools, so that its true meaning will forever be forgotten. This was at one time a great name that now inculcates images of terror, world domination, enslavement, and elitism through conditioned feelings of fear, dread, deception, and suffering.
In the beginning, the name Aryan simply meant those people who carried within them the energies of the astrological sign of Aries. Keep in mind that Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, therefore those humans who emerged into the new postdiluvian world were the first initiates of the New World after the Atlantean disaster. More appropriately, they should be referred to as “Arieans” meaning those of the sign of Aries.
Aries, or Mars, as the Romans referred, was the most despised of all gods of the pantheon because he came to represent war and conflict. Yet, Aries was the first to be summoned when threats to their security arose. Like all our mythological gods, there is a dual nature that exists within them that encompasses light and shadow forces. Just as we possess a darker state of consciousness enslaved to the lower density construct of linear thinking and conflict, and an enlightened state of freedom and liberation through higher spiritual awareness, we are either controlled or empowered by these very same forces which manifest through us. Continue reading “The Return of Mani, the Pure Fool, and the Sons of the Widow”
“Human consciousness is always evolving, and the collective is constantly choosing the path that it wishes to take. Ten thousand plus years ago, we decided to exercise our free will without the presence of a spiritual authority or heavenly Father. That is why this world is called the “Grand Experiment” and we are all invested within it. Today, we are at a point where the collective is once again deciding on what path it will choose based upon the decision that our soul will make as it navigates the embroiling fear and chaos that is intentionally being generated.”
Beyond the Soul’s Meridian June 21, 2020
Everyday is a new day. At the time of this writing (June 21, 2020) we are experiencing a solar eclipse that is reciprocal to the lunar eclipse of June 5, 2020. Studying the celestial aspects of this event suggest that this astrological configuration is significantly archetypal. All celestial events have significance and it is up to an aware soul to meet these energies in the most constructive fashion. I can guarantee you that there are many selfish, egotistical, and nefarious souls who are literally orchestrating schemes that coincide to these astrological configurations. Their idea is to usurp this energy in a negative fashion, like focusing a natural force for destructive purposes. Continue reading “Summer Solstice and The Great Awakening” | <urn:uuid:d23f276b-2712-4019-b4a0-8ebc33c33065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beyondthesoulsmeridian.org/tag/isis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.965078 | 847 | 1.890625 | 2 |
One Hungry Monster
Written by Susan O'Keefe
Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
Reviewed by Jennifer S. (age 7)
This book is about hungry monsters and a little boy. What happens in the beginning is hungry monsters start to annoy a little boy. Then, the boy has to feed them a lot of food. At the end, the monsters leave when there is no food left. The little boy finds a muffin that the monsters didn?t eat.
I think this book is funny. I liked the monsters when they put on lipstick. I liked the monsters because they made we think about numbers. I liked the pictures because they were silly and not scary.
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Dewey Decimal basics
One of the confusing things about libraries is our use of the Dewey Decimal System. It doesn’t help matters that some books, namely fiction and biographies, are actually arranged alphabetically. That means that when you are looking for nonfiction, you must use the online catalog to find where a book is shelved. However, when you are looking for fiction or biographies, you can find books shelved under the last name of the author (for fiction and graphic novels) and by the last name of the subject (for biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and letters). And since the New York Public Library has nearly 90 branches, some with multiple floors and multiple collections, you also need to take note of which branches and collections have your book before you know where to go. Never fear! Read this blog entry, watch this video or talk to a librarian if you need help.
What exactly is a Dewey decimal number? It is a numerical code that consists of three digits, followed by a decimal, then usually zero to four digits following the decimal. For example, 759.13 is the Dewey decimal number for American painters.
Do these numbers mean anything? Yes! The first three digits indicate the category under which the book is classified. For example, the 500s are for natural sciences, the 700s are for the arts and the 800s are for literature. Numbers within these ranges refer to more specific subjects. (759 is the number for painters). And then the numbers after the decimal make it even more specific (13 is the code for the United States). After the number, you will find a letter or a word. Sometimes there can be hundreds of books with the same Dewey decimal number, so we add a letter, usually the first letter of the author’s last name, to help you find your book more quickly.
Why group things by number? Can’t you just arrange books by title or author? Of course we can, but that would mean that you would need to tell us the title or author of the book you are looking for before we can tell you where to find it. With the Dewey decimal system, you can look for books by subject: say you are looking for books on diabetes. If you go to Barnes and Noble and ask for books on diabetes, they’ll just tell you to go to the Health section. With the Dewey Decimal System, we can tell you exactly where to go.
Of course there are caveats: the system was invented over 100 years ago, and although it is continually being modified, it can never meet the rapid pace of knowledge and civilization. Because of the specific nature of the system, sometimes you will need to go to more than one section to find everything that you can on a subject. Finally, looking for numerical labels on the shelf is not easy on the eyes.
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“To plant a garden,” actress Audrey Hepburn once said, “is to believe in tomorrow.”
If Hepburn was right, then cooped-up Americans must be filled with faith in the future. Whether prompted by boredom, the need for a kid-friendly activity, nice spring weather, or fear of not having access to fresh produce, they’re scooping up seeds by the handful and making them grow.
Jennifer Aylward-Kasitz, 39, created a Facebook group for her Coatesville friends and neighbors to encourage them to get their hands dirty. “No experience needed,” the Chester County mom of three grade-schoolers posted on the site.
She called her project the Coatesville Victory Garden Club.
Within days, membership swelled to nearly 150. Everyone is offering encouraging tips on how and what to grow, and where to get free mulch. The posts are full of bright, colorful photos of members’ seed trays and new backyard plots.
“It’s been really lovely to see everybody helping each other,” said Aylward-Kasitz, who already had a garden but is expanding its size this year. "All I did was get it started.”
Other established Facebook garden sites, like Abington Pa Free Garden Community and Share and Chester County Ramblings Gardening Group, are also abuzz with interest from new vegetable and flower gardeners.
Call them the Virus Victory Gardeners.
The concept of Victory Gardens dates to World War I, when food shortages in war-torn Europe put the burden of feeding millions on the United States.
Back then, the National War Garden Commission was organized to encourage Americans to grow and store their own food so that more could be exported to our Allies as part of the war effort. The movement’s motto was “Sow the seeds of victory" — hence the term “victory garden.” The gardens emerged again in World War II, when commercial crops were diverted to the military overseas, according to history.com.
In peacetime, Americans have greened their thumbs in response to other threats. In the 1980s, for example, they planted seeds to avoid ingesting the pesticides used in commercially grown produce. And in the survivalist run-up to Y2K, they sowed backyard crops out of worry that a disruption in the country’s computer networks would create an American dystopia.
“Anybody who had been involved with the gardening movement has watched the ebb and flow,” said Sally McCabe, the associate director of community education at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Big, national events that can scare people into growing their own food often wind up yielding a crop of new gardeners who stick with the movement after the crises pass, McCabe said.
“This way of life doesn’t need to end when the virus comes under control,” she noted.
The country’s current interest in gardening has been an economic boon for seed companies.
“Things have dramatically escalated in the last 45-60 days,” said Jamie Mattikow, CEO and president of W. Atlee Burpee Company, whose retail and online sales have skyrocketed in the last weeks.
The company’s analytics of online sales indicate that new customers are driving the growth. There has also been an increase in the clicks on the garden advice the company offers.
“In the last month, [online] traffic to our content has gone up 75% from the same time last year,” Mattikow said. Obviously, he notes, people come to gardening for any number of reasons, including health, exercise, pleasure, nutrition, and — studies have shown — mood elevation. He believes that some of those needs have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Gardening, he said, "is a particularly positive activity for people to focus on right now.”
Burpee isn’t the only seed company experiencing a sales increase.
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company had to temporarily take down its website so employees could catch up on the two- to three-week backlog of orders, said Kathy McFarland, spokesperson for the Mansfield, Mo.-based company. (Baker Creek had plenty of seeds on hand, she said, but just needed more time to fill them.)
“We are seeing two to three times the number of orders we [usually] see this time of year,” said McFarland.
It was both the uncertainty about the length of the coronavirus-prompted shutdowns and wanting to keep a safe social distance from others that got gardener Bernard Donohue “thinking ahead.”
He decided to increase the amount of spring greens he usually grows and then give away the extras, hoping the latter would keep everyone’s trips to grocery stores to a minimum.
“I’m sure my neighbors and wife’s family will appreciate fresh organic lettuce,” said Donohue, 58, a computer analyst who lives in Mount Laurel.
For others — like commuters now working from home, or parents who no longer have to drive kids to sports — it could be that having extra time on their hands has led them to gardening.
“We are a busy society, and suddenly everyone is home with nothing to do,” said Toni Farmer, 51, a Penn grad student majoring in environmental studies, with a concentration in sustainable agriculture.
When she saw recent mentions of victory gardens on Facebook, Farmer began posting video tutorials for those who want to start their gardens from seeds.
“This feels like a national crisis,” she said, with people concerned about possible food shortages. Planting a garden “feels like a safety net."
Plus, she added, “It’s spring.”
Five things you can do to start a victory garden
1. It’s all about soil and location. Whether you start your garden in a pot or a plot, make sure your soil is fresh and fertile and that your garden will receive plenty of sunlight. A good potting soil will help with needed nutrients. If you are planting outside, you can send off a soil sample to the Penn State Extension for testing to find out if your soil will need to be amended.
2. Start small and build. Don’t try to overachieve with your first garden. Stick to a small number of plants, and watch the watering and weeds. Try vegetable starts and plant them after the traditional frost dates, usually around Mother’s Day. Some easy veggies like carrots and beans can be grown from seed when the soil is warm enough. Keep tabs on what you planted for next year.
3. Tomatoes are the gateway for many gardeners. Tomatoes are the vegetable that keeps giving, but sprouting them from seed can be difficult for a first-time gardener. Look for plant starts at your local nursery or ask on Facebook garden groups to see if anyone has extras. Make sure there is enough space between the tomatoes to give them proper ventilation and room to grow. Don’t forget to use a tomato cage or pole and gently tie the stalk as the plant grows.
4. Mind the bees. Avoid plant starts that were grown using neonicotinoids, an insecticide that is harmful to honey bees, which are needed to pollinate cucumbers and squash. Add flowers like lavender and sunflowers to attract bees to your garden, and marigolds to keep out other pests.
5. For apartment dwellers. Herb or sprout gardens are a great way to bring fresh food into your diet. Plant a small window garden with your favorite herbs like basil, cilantro, or parsley. For soilless gardens, try using organic seeds in a jar and harvest them in their sprout stage. Radish, pea, chickpea, mung beans, alfalfa, sunflower, and lentils can be good salad or sandwich toppers. | <urn:uuid:157e3892-a3a7-41b3-a01a-eb51bbb6ab48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inquirer.com/life/victory-gardens-vegtable-grow-virus-plant-crops-20200406.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.954008 | 1,681 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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What it means to be eco-friendly
Being eco-friendly means living in a way that is kinder to the earth. Ideally, it involves cutting down greenhouse gas emissions (which we all need to do, if we’re to keep our planet habitable) and reducing things like waste, plastic, and the burning of fossil fuels. A lot of the time it involves making life more efficient - like those energy saving light bulbs you almost certainly have in your house!
We can define being eco-friendly as a quest for a way of life that limits our impact and increases our connection with the earth. The chances are if you’re already aware about the issues facing the planet - from climate change to ocean acidification to plastic pollution - there are parts of your life, however small, that you’ve already made more eco-friendly.
How to be more eco-friendly?
There are so many hacks, tips and tricks to becoming more eco-friendly, but among the most simple and powerful are: becoming vegetarian, avoiding flights, and making more sustainable choices (if you want to investigate further, try our blogpost on this topic) like supporting sustainable fashion.
It’s also important for brands to be more eco-friendly. They can reduce their emissions, improve their supply chain, and invest in green energy. The question then becomes: how to communicate this at-a-glance. That’s what eco-friendly labels exist for: condensing a big concept into a single image or word. But if you’re new to a site, it might not be immediately obvious as to what these labels actually mean. Sustainability can seem like a language all on its own. Which is why we’ve created a simple guide to the eco-friendly icons on our site - and a few more that you might already recognise.
TWOTHIRDS Eco-friendly symbols
The four eco-friendly symbols shown below, you’ll find on the hang tag that comes with every garment.
With a cloud signifying emissions and an arrow pointing down: the message here is that the greenhouse gases created in the sourcing, making and shipping of this product have been reduced and offset. As of 2021, this eco-friendly label applies to all TWOTHIRDS products.
This eco-friendly symbol means that the product is made in Europe, implying high labour standards and excellent quality. By producing our garments regionally in Northern Portugal, we’re also able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Did you know? 20% of Portugal’s energy comes from renewable sources. We’re also encouraging our factories to invest in solar panels.
This icon - also shown on all organic cotton product pages - signals that we use organic materials in the majority of our clothing. What does organic mean? That no pesticides or fertilisers are used in the cultivation of the plant. Some natural chemicals are permitted, but these do not harm the environment.
This eco-friendly icon signals that we use recycled materials in many of our styles.
Instantly recognisable due to its prevalence in our daily lives, we also wrap the recycled arrow around a number of other icons to indicate which material has been recycled! For example, recycled polyester features the outline of a PET plastic bottle; recycled rubber, the outline of a shoe sole.
Used when a garment contains no animal products and is therefore extra eco-friendly!
Representing a strong link in a chain - this eco-friendly label shows the durability of our products, implying that it will last a long time.
Which materials are eco-friendly?
An important part of being sustainable and eco-friendly as a fashion brand comes down to the materials we use. At TWOTHIRDS, 90% of our materials are what we would class as “eco-friendly” while the rest is comprised of wool (which is durable and mulesing-free) and synthetics like elastane and nylon - which we use in small quantities to give some garments (eg activewear) the stretch they need.
As well as organic cotton and various recycled materials previously mentioned, here’s a shortlist of eco-friendly fabrics and eco-friendly fibres alongside their matching symbols.
Selected Eco-friendly Materials
Linen comes from the flax plant and is highly breathable. It’s represented here as a collection of flax seeds. Flax is considered eco-friendly because it requires very little water to be grown.
Recover™ Recycled Cotton
A revolutionary recycled cotton fibre, Recover™ is made predominantly from fabric cutoffs and post-consumer clothing, making the industry more eco-friendly and efficient.
One of our all-time favourite eco-friendly fibres and one of our cutest icons! TENCEL™ Lyocell is made in a closed loop process that reuses 99% of solvents, recycles water, and uses sustainable wood sources only. It is soft and silky, like getting a hug from a koala.
LENZING™ ECOVERO™ Viscose
Produced by the same company who make TENCEL™, this eco-friendly fibre produces 50% less CO₂ than conventional viscose AND eliminates contamination from the toxic gas usually associated with viscose production. We use a leaf to symbolise this kind to the earth process.
TENCEL™, LENZING™ and ECOVERO™ are trademarks of Lenzing AG.
Deadstock garments are made from leftover fabrics that have been overlooked by other brands. This is a low impact and mindful choice, which we represent by a roll of fabric. Shop our Limited Edition collection for full details!
SEAQUAL® YARN is a 100% recycled polyester yarn that contains 10% SEAQUAL® marine plastic obtained by beach clean-up groups, NGOs, plastic collection systems and fishermen. We represent it through the symbol of a plastic bag being recycled.
ECONYLⓇ regenerated polyamide
One of the most interesting sources of plastic for ECONYLⓇ products is rescued fishing nets, which we showed in our eco-friendly labelling. ECONYLⓇ is also sourced from industrial plastic and waste. Used mostly in our women’s swimwear.
How to read other types of eco-friendly labelling
While we prefer not to focus on certifications (which are not even available for some of the most eco-friendly materials we use) you will likely find the following external labels when shopping sustainably.
Represented by a globe and two arrows, the Global Recycled Standard guarantees that materials and products contain the appropriate recycled content and that they are produced in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. The Italian recycled yarns that we use in many knitted products come with this assurance.
The Global Organic Textile Standard is indicated by a green label with white t-shirt. The vast majority of our eco-friendly cotton meets this standard.
This voluntary label can often be found on cosmetics and household products but has also been awarded to fibres like LENZING™ ECOVERO™ Viscose. Signified by a plant with the EU flag, it’s the European label of environmental excellence.
FairtradeDesigned to eliminate exploitation, tackle poverty, and protect worker rights, this well-known blue and green label shows that a product has met fair labour standards. Fairtrade also indicates environmentally sound agriculture practices. The symbol is typically seen on chocolate, coffee, and tea. | <urn:uuid:b4cc81a1-d949-46b5-bbc7-60c03a4617e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twothirds.com/blogs/journal/making-sense-of-eco-friendly-labels | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.935883 | 1,608 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Fire Hits 1855 Courthouse in Madison, Ind.
By Margaret Foster | Online Only | May 22, 2009
On Wednesday evening in Madison, Ind., John Stacier, executive director of Historic Madison, Inc., walked past the 154-year-old county courthouse to admire its restoration in progress.
An hour later, Stacier returned to find the Jefferson County Courthouse's gold dome engulfed in flames. No one was injured in the fire, which destroyed county records, destroyed the building's dome and roof but left its facade intact.
Madison's fire department has not yet determined the cause of the May 20 fire.
Tonight, as part of the city's annual Old Court Days fundraising event, Historic Madison will present a preservation award to the Jefferson County commissioners for their role in building a sympathetic addition to the historic jail—and for the restoration of the now-charred courthouse.
"Everything is still on," Stacier says. "It's kind of a difficult time because the courthouse looks like hell. It's going to be an emotional evening, but hopefully an uplifting one."
Old Court Days have taken place near the courthouse since the 1970s; this year, the venders' booths and other attractions will be located a block away. Jefferson County commissioners, who initiated the current restoration, vow to rebuild the courthouse and have already formed a commission to oversee the project. The Southern Indiana town has rebounded before—after Hurricane Ike, for example.
"The county commissioners will do a fantastic job restoring that building," Stacier says. "They've got a lot to work with.
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For the past few months, I’ve been working with David Landy on analyzing and writing up a series of number line judgment experiments. Participants in these experiments see very large numbers (e.g., 783,000,000) and respond by indicating the appropriate location on a number line with known endpoints (e.g., and ).
My focus has been on implementing a hierarchical Bayesian model of proportional judgments. At the individual subject level, the model looks (mathematically) like this:
Where is a subject’s judgment of the (proportional) magnitude of , which is the stimulus number on trial ; is an appropriately located reference point (e.g., in the model I’ve been working with, ), and indicates the smallest reference point greater than ; governs the magnitude of ‘cyclic’ responses around (midpoints between) reference points (see below); is a possibly inappropriately located reference point, expressed relative to an arbitrary fixed range; and is the number of (appropriately and/or inappropriately located) reference points.
For the data I’ve been working with, this can be simplified somewhat. is set equal to 3, and is set equal to 1. Hence, because there are only three reference points, there is only one free parameter. (In a data set that we haven’t analyzed yet, will be 4, will be set equal to 3, will be set equal to 0, and there will be two free parameters. But I digress…)
Here’s a picture illustrating predicted proportional judgments for a few different parameter values and for stimuli ranging from to :
The free parameter corresponds to the fixed reference point at . This means that if , the model predicts correct proportional judgments. (If a stimulus of were given, the first term in the model equation above would be 0. The correct proportional judgment for is 0.001, so set and solve for the free parameter, with and , and you get 1.002). The three dashed lines show predicted judgments for .
If (black lines), the model predicts judgments that are a linear function of the stimuli, while if (red lines), the model predicts overestimation of lower numbers and underestimation of higher numbers (where lower and higher are defined relative to a point halfway between the fixed reference points), and if (blue lines), the model predicts underestimation of lower numbers and overestimation of higher numbers.
If , the model predicts an ‘elbow’ in the judgment function, as if the middle fixed reference point at were thought to be halfway between and . The predicted judgments are shown by solid lines, with color indicating values as described above.
Because is so much closer to than it is to , when the stimulus numbers are expressed as in the figure above, it’s essentially impossible to see what the models predict for numbers below . Here’s the same model predictions as a function of of the stimulus numbers:
This is the basic model. In the data set we’re working on, a number of subjects give judgments that seem to be a mixture of two such models, one with a nice, proper linear value, and one with a shifted, million-in-the-middle value. So, I fit a mixture model that, for each subject, assigns each trial’s judgment to a million-in-the-middle component with probability or to a linear component with probability .
The model is also hierarchical, as noted above. This is to say that the free parameters in each individual subject’s mixture model are governed by parent distributions with parameters of their own. As it happens, one of the group-level models is a between-subjects mixture model, which allows for one group of subjects who tend toward linear responses and another who tend toward million-in-the-middle responses. I will write another post about the hierarchical structure and multiple mixtures soon. | <urn:uuid:b93f2d03-2597-4df2-93db-492d8d0015ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nhsilbert.net/source/2011/10/modelilng-judgments-of-large-number-magnitudes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928214 | 801 | 2.484375 | 2 |
A University of Michigan Health System-led team of researchers has found a biomarker they believe can help rapidly identify one of the most serious complications in patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders who have received a transplant of new, blood-forming cells.
Known as a hematopoietic stem cell transplant, these patients receive bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells from a matched donor who is either a family member or an unrelated volunteer.
The most common fatal complication of this type of transplant is graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), where the newly transplanted immune system of the donor attacks the patient's skin and internal organs. Up to 30 percent of recipients develop GVHD in their gastrointestinal tract, which is the organ most resistant to treatment.
Without invasive tests such as biopsies, however, GVHD can be difficult to distinguish from other causes of gastrointestinal distress, such as infection or side effects from medication.
The U-M team tested blood samples from over 1,000 patients who were treated in Ann Arbor, Germany and Japan.
"We believe we've found a reliable biomarker in the patients' blood that is specific to graft-versus-host disease and therefore can help us to rapidly identify patients for whom standard treatment is likely to be insufficient," says James L.M. Ferrara, M.D., co-lead author of the study and director of the U-M Combined Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. "This marker can also tell us whether a patient is likely to respond to therapy and may lead to an entirely new risk assessment for the disease. The findings were recently published online ahead of print publication in the journal Blood.
The marker, known as regenerating islet-derived 3-alpha (REG3-alpha), doesn't prevent patients from still needing a biopsy, Ferrara cautions, but taken with other predictive indicators, it could help doctors to ensure patients get the most appropriate treatment as early as possible.
Doctors at U-M hope to start using the test clinically in early 2012.
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David Gower, 75, Luton
I have a severe neurological condition which greatly affects my mobility. It makes it difficult for me to do even the simplest of tasks like picking things up or opening an envelope. I can only manage a few steps with a walking frame. I rely on carers four times a day to help me with my personal care. My local authority has already pared down my homecare service as much as it can.
The carers are already hard-pushed to get me out of bed, dressed and breakfasted, with the bed made, in the allotted 45 minutes. I really need a fully-equipped disabled bathroom but, given the financial climate, it's not going to happen. I dread a further reduction in carers' time or being penalised for extra cash I haven't got. As it is, I struggle with my payments towards the cost of care – on top of my rent and bills – from my pension and dwindling savings.
I have a local authority bus permit that entitles me to free travel to and from the town centre twice a week in a specially equipped bus. Otherwise I would be housebound. I fear this is in jeopardy. It's not fair that the most vulnerable members of society, like myself, should carry the burden of the banks' misbehaviour. I am worried sick about what is going to happen to us.
Cecilia Weightman, 52, Bristol
I have a bipolar disorder known as rapid cycling and can move from manic highs to depressive lows up to 12 times a day, leaving me exhausted and with memory loss. The episodes are triggered by stress. If I choose to do one thing, such as the washing up, it must be at the expense of something else. It is hard to achieve more than a couple of tasks a day.
I claim incapacity benefit, disability living allowance and income support, along with housing and council tax benefits. To be told I was fit to work would put my health at threat immediately. I would find work too stressful. Recently I had to give up voluntary work because I became so ill. If I lost my income support I could not afford prescriptions. I take three medicines daily and more in times of crisis.
I have my finances under power of attorney but even my independent financial adviser is not enough of a wizard to see me through these cuts in income.
Sally Peck, 52, Huntingdonshire
I live next door to my mum and dad in a village near St Neots. They help me get about. My mum pays for a number of courses I go to at my day centre.
I get disability living allowance for help with getting around and other things [I have a learning disability]. I like all of the courses that I do at my day centre. I go to there three days a week. I do sewing and cooking on Thursday evenings and a course called pathways to work where I learn work skills. I used to go to the centre every day. Now I do a work placement at a care home two days a week where I give out toast and help with shopping and washing up.
I would like more transport to give me more things to do and for college. If I couldn't get to my courses, I'd be really upset. I hope they will not cut them. I don't know what I would do instead. | <urn:uuid:166f52c4-2315-4c3d-ba59-d05bd7226fec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/20/spending-review-service-users-perspective | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00327-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975238 | 687 | 1.664063 | 2 |
What happens when you mix the coolest thing in the world – math – with the uncoolest thing in the world – homework? Did you answer, “Fun!!” I though not! Of course if your child doesn’t think math is the coolest thing in the world then math + homework = sulking + tantrum + there goes the evening
Find out how to banish the boring math homework blues using 3 great strategies by watching the video below. The transcript of the video is also below. Click here to watch the video on You Tube complete with subtitles.
1 . Don’t do that boring math
Hello Caroline from www.mathsinsider.com and again and I’m going to answer questions from a Math Insider reader which was “How can I get my child to do their boring math homework?”
Okay, so my first piece of advice is don’t, don’t make them do that boring math homework. If the teacher’s giving them boring homework don’t make them do it, you can be that parent. So I can give you an example, I do have one of my Tabtor parents and she’s actually told her child’s school that her child is not going to do the math homework because the work that her child is doing at Tabtor is far more valuable in helping them, much more than the school homework. So yes she’s radical, that’s pretty cool. So you could follow that example and look for a different resource, look for something that is much more fun, so games or Tabtor or some computer games or some online games or an app that practices that specific skill in a more interesting way and tell the teacher they haven’t done their homework, so that’s the first option.
Actually I have done that, I do that with my six year old’s spelling words, so usually we do them on a board, on a white board with a board pen or I write them on the shower stall or he writes them on the shower stall or on the window, and so his actual spelling book doesn’t have the words and the sentences because he’s written them on the shower stall, so the first time I did this, I actually took a picture of the work on the shower stall with the spellings so that the teacher could see what I was doing, but I haven’t had any comeback from the teacher, so I think I’m getting away with that. So you can follow my example and my Tabtor parents example and just say nope, I’m not doing that.
2. Make math homework a game
The next tip is to actually challenge your child to do their homework and say hey, I reckon you could do this homework in five minutes, but I tell you what, if you do it in 7 minutes, I will give you X, or I bet you can’t do it in seven minutes or bet you can’t do it in 3 minutes. See if that works for your child, it works for some children, or you could say okay you tell me the answers and I’ll write it down. So just make it into a bit of a fun game and into a challenge.
3. Don’t engage in the math homework battle
And number three is to let your child suffer the natural consequences of not doing their homework, so bounce it back to the teacher, don’t get them to do the homework and see if they get detention, they get told off. Hopefully they are not going to fall behind, because hopefully you’re supporting your child on their math topics in other ways. So let them suffer the natural consequences or you know write a letter to the teacher and explain your philosophy.
So, Number 1 is, just don’t do the homework find some way cooler way to practice that skill. Number 2, is to challenge them to do their homework and Number 3 is to let your child suffer the natural consequences of not doing their math homework. | <urn:uuid:944e79db-369d-4162-85a9-4202c5e5ba84> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mathsinsider.com/the-boring-math-homework-blues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00047-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955646 | 848 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Accessible Information Standard
By 31st July 2016 all NHS organisations are required to meet the Accessible Information Standard. This aims to make sure that people with disabilities have access to information that they can understand and any communication support they might need.
As part of this process, we want to get better at communicating with our patients. If you find it hard to read our letters or if you need someone to support you at appointments, please let us know. We are keen to hear from you if you have a visual or hearing impairment or another disability and would prefer to receive information in any of the following formats
Please let us know if you, or someone you know has particular communication needs - you may have requirements that are not shown here.
You can call the surgery on 01844 261066 and ask to speak to the Practice Manager or e-mail your communication preferences to firstname.lastname@example.org. Alternatively you can talk to a member of staff when visiting the practice or write to us at The Rycote Practice, Thame Health Centre, East Street, Thame, OX9 3JZ.
Excellent Care by Working Together
At The Rycote Practice we believe in providing modern healthcare based on traditional values. We feel that we can deliver the best possible care by working together with patients, relatives and other healthcare professionals. With this in mind, every patient is under the care of a usual doctor here at Thame Health Centre so that you can see someone who knows you each time you come in. We will discuss the latest treatments and ensure that you receive the care that is best for you.
The Rycote Practice is a member of Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group
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China reached second place in the overall volume of both surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures and total number of plastic surgeons in the country, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons’ (ISAPS) latest global survey.
China accounted for nearly 13% of all surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures worldwide or about $2.7 billion in sales in 2011. Like most other countries, middle-aged women are the largest consumer group for cosmetic procedures; however, unlike other countries, Chinese college students form the second largest group. Many of these young Chinese job seekers use cosmetic procedures to enhance job prospects in China’s competitive employment market. Up to 10% of plastic surgery is performed on men in China, a similar percentage to the US. For women, breast augmentation remains the most popular cosmetic procedure, with double-eyelid and nose augmentation surgeries following close behind.
In China, some hospitals have seen 50% growth in cosmetic procedures the last five years. Demand is so high that many pursue unlicensed procedures. Complaints of mishandled surgeries number in the tens of thousands. Despite these setbacks, plastic surgery in China is expected to grow by double-digit percentages as the middle class expands. | <urn:uuid:0978b54b-57f6-4a2b-91e2-41bbf84db186> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pacificbridgemedical.com/news-brief/cosmetic-procedures-skyrocket-in-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00001-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936751 | 250 | 1.75 | 2 |
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to test its scramjet engine on Sunday while the launch of weather satellite INSAT-3DR with the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-MkII) has been postponed to September, a senior official said on Saturday.
India’s rocket port is located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh around 80km from here.
“The launch of RH-560 sounding rocket to test the scramjet (air breathing) engine is slated for 6 a.m. on Sunday,” P. Kunhi Krishnan, director of SDSC told IANS.
The rocket will take off at 6 a.m. if the wind speed is conducive for the launch or it may be launched bit later.
The scramjet engine, used only during the atmospheric phase of the rocket’s flight, will help in bringing down the launch cost by reducing the amount of oxidiser to be carried along with the fuel.
Earlier Krishnan had said the Indian weather satellite will be launched on August 28 which has now been postponed to September 8.
Queried about the change in launch plan Krishnan said: “While carrying out the tests there was a technical issue found with a satellite component. It has been sorted out now and hence the delay.”
He said the GSLV rocket that would carry the weather satellite INSAT-3DR is fully assembled.
The weather satellite will be mounted on to the rocket in three to four days.
According to officials, the ISRO will launch ScatSat — a weather monitoring and forecasting satellite — with polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) end of next month.
The Indian satellite will be a co-passenger to an Algerian satellite.
Both the satellites will be put into different orbits. So the fourth engine of the rocket will be switched off after ejecting ScatSat first. Then after a gap of around 30 minutes, the engine will be switched on and put the Algerian satellite into its intended orbit. | <urn:uuid:354f1e21-b25f-4043-8779-fc26e2555946> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.siasat.com/news/isro-test-scramjet-engine-1008446/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00491-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948223 | 440 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Menhir – Hildebrandslied
“Menhir” is a monolithic stone, that can stand alone or with others.
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Themes: Paganism, Nature, Thuringia, History
The Lay of Hildebrandslied is one of the earliest literary works in Germany. It tales the tale of a tragic encounter in battle between a son and his unrecognized father. The importance of this tale lies in the fact that it is the only surviving example of a style that must have been important in the Germanic oral tradition. More information here.
As for the song itself, it is nine minutes long, but I’m sure if you’re a black metal fan, you’re used to songs that go on for eons. This song itself is well worth the time. From beginning to end, many emotions are captured: passion, power, tragedy and beauty – much like the tale of Hildebrandslied. The violin and guitar help capture this dynamic of emotions.
The video itself also does a good job in transitioning from Menhir in concert, to images of ancient Germanic life: heroes riding horses in battle, traditional life in the village, a sword glistening in the sunlight. I’m not a fan of live videos – but this one is definitely an exception to the rule.
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Just because it’s in the swath where I scattered sunflower seeds doesn’t mean this is a sunflower. I can understand mistaking a syrphid fly for a bee, or hemp dogbane for milkweed, or the various other misidentifications I have made. But you’d think I’d recognize a Black-Eyed Susan when every summer I walk around admiring the grand drifts of bright yellow flowers in everyone’s yard. Everyone’s but mine. Now I don’t have to feel so left out.
For one thing, the plant looks totally different from a sunflower: multiple stems (not one thick one), long leaves (not broad ones), and not nearly the bucket loads of pollen the sunflower was dropping during its week of glory. Also it’s been flowering for a couple weeks now, and more flowers keep coming. (Still no bees, though.) And it’s pretty hard to miss the way the the disc pops out instead of the center sinking in.
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Simple DIY Painted Pumpkin Bottles. Perfect way to reuse empty bottle into fall decor!
I am try to get into the fall spirit lately (see my mason jar centerpiece) and pumpkins are perfect for fall.
I got brave with this project as I chose to hand paint the pumpkins. I do wish they came out a little better, but not bad for first try!
I used empty bottles for this project that I had around the house. They were: wine bottle, lemonade bottle, and a pasta sauce jar.
How to spruce up these bottles into awesome fall decor:
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
- 3 bottles or jars
- Rubbing Alchol
- Chalk Paint in the colors of: plaster, pumpkin, green and brown
- Paint Brushes
- Flowers to add for decoration
Step 1: Clean out the bottles or jars.
Step 2: Soak the bottles or jars in water to loosen the labels.
Step 4: To help get rid of all the stickiness from the labels, use GooGone Spray Gel. Read the instructions on how to use.
Step 5: Rub down with rubbing alcohol just to make sure everything is clean
Step 6: Put 2 coats of the plaster colored chalk paint on the bottles. Allow to fully dry between coats and before moving to the next step.
Step 7: Using the pumpkin colored chalk paint, paint your pumpkin shape. You may need 2 layers of paint.
Step 8: The pumpkin looks like an orange blob. So using your brown chalk paint, add a stem and put some curved lines. The darker curved lines will add dimension to your pumpkin.
Step 9: Using the plaster chalk paint, paint some highlights on the pumpkins.
Step 10: Using green chalk paint, add a few vines to the top of the pumpkin.
After is it all dry, you can spray it with a sealant to protect your artwork.
Add some flowers and your bottles are done!
Want to know where I got the GooGone? I as able to find it in the cleaning supplies at Walmart. At my store it was on the bottom shelf.
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In tough situations, our brains default to quick decision-making (aka cognitive laziness) rather than reason, in order to eliminate stress. But if your brain continues to operate this way when stress is gone, it causes problems! Join Dr. Trevor Kashey to learn how to repurpose this system, foster your intellectual resources, and train your brain to make better decisions every day.
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Ads optimization ,As you know, Google’s source of income is advertising.
This is the reason why Internet advertising, including Google, is the best cost performance.
But this mechanism is breaking Google.
1. 1. As a result of optimizing ads to the limit, search results are full of ads
Do you see such a title?
- 5 Ways to Learn English Efficiently
- 20 iPhone apps you should definitely download
Of the five ways to learn English efficiently, the first one I’ll show you is advertising. The first 1-5 iPhone apps you should definitely download are ads.
When it’s terrible, it’s all advertisements …
Flow and examples of undercover marketing on the Internet
- For the time being, insert an article with an advertisement
- Articles that are not accessed are deleted or left unattended
- Articles that get access continue to optimize ads
- When a high-paying advertisement comes in, perform ranking operation
- This flow is repeated infinitely while speeding up
For example, when I googled [Overseas Travel Apps], there was an article in the second place in the search that 20 apps that should definitely be included in order to enjoy overseas travel with peace of mind . Sure enough, the first two apps are ads. If you install it, hundreds of yen will be charged to the site owner.
* Please see the recommended affiliate site introduction article for the detailed mechanism around here.
Why the internet is the best way to “stemma”
In the case of books, the author gets paid when the book sells.
On the Internet, clicking on an ad makes money for the website owner.
In the case of books, it is difficult to rewrite them once they are published.
You can easily edit it on the Internet.
Due to these differences in nature, mass production x stemmer is the best strategy for the Internet. What’s more, once you get the top search in SEO, you can get visitors semi-permanently (site maintenance is required).
2. Don’t believe in the internet
DeNA’s excessive SEO has become a hot topic ( reference: the deep-seated issues of the Internet that have been seen due to the successive closures of curation sites ), but this method is still feasible.
* For the specific method, see [DeNA formula] article Mass production SEO method [explained in 5 steps] .
As you can see from these things, the information on the Internet should be used as a reference.
That said, TV information is also sponsored, so it can be said that it is the same, but in the case of the Internet, it is easier to reflect the intention of the advertiser than TV. * Ranking operations according to advertising costs.
An era in which advice is automatically gathered just by writing a blog
I also put an ad on this blog, but recently the advertising agency kindly sent me an email.
Your site is ranked △ with the search word “◯◯”.
If you like, I would appreciate it if you could place the following advertisement.
▽ Promotion name: ◯◯
▽ URL: http://example.com
▽ Basic reward: △△ yen
・ CVR: Approximately 5.5%
・ Approval rate : Approximately 85%
You will receive an email like this.
It’s a good time, but it’s also a time when publishers are more likely to be overwhelmed by advertisers’ intentions.
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I don’t care about internet information?
The following is quoted from Tsuyoshi Takashiro’s hyperactivity diary .
The only thing I feel around the world is that the information on the Internet doesn’t matter, and I think it’s less than 10% of the world.
Rather than viewing 1000 pages of WEB sites on a daily basis, 20 page views a day is sufficient if you have “missing parts (information for reading the space between lines of information on the Internet)” that you picked up in the city. Information reduction to 1/50.
As you say.
It is good to think of the Internet as reference information only.
Internet ◯ There is also “good information” on the Internet
Some sites occasionally post great information, but anonymous sites shouldn’t be trusted too much .
That said, it is beneficial for the author to send good information under his real name, but there is still some reason to be anonymous. However, it’s not reliable because it’s a real name. This is difficult. Improve your search power.
3. 3. The value of reliable information continues to grow
This is the news I read the other day.
In the Netherlands, there is internet media that the world’s media people are paying attention to. It is “De Correspondent” founded in 2013. Operates only with a subscription fee from readers, without any advertisements. In the small country of the Netherlands, which has a population of 17 million, the number of paying subscribers for 6 euros (about 770 yen) per month has exceeded 50,000.A new form of journalism from the Netherlands to the world
Monthly sales of about 40 million yen. | Ads optimization
Since it is a web media, the profit margin will be high, and it will be completely profitable.
There is also such a thing.
This is Ikeda’s 10,000 yen book. It is quite expensive because it costs about 10,000 yen for 35,000 characters. | Ads optimization
It seems that it was sold out in one day (in fact, a profit of 150,000 yen in a few hours), but this is also an example of information guaranteed to be reliable.
Can Google identify trusted information?
- A site full of ads, but with a sleek design and SEO optimization
- Sites with no ads, but poor design and non-SEO optimization
At present, the former is overwhelmingly strong.
I don’t deny articles that are full of ads, but these days most of the top searches are full of ads.
Is it possible to say that the quality of information is high for sites that continue to operate rankings based on the ad unit price? Perhaps the future is to buy only the products introduced by friends because the information on the Internet is unbelievable.
Recently, even if I googled or googled, there are lots of affiliates and NEVER summaries. ..
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Born August 26, 1918 in White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic earlyera of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a pioneer of the American space movement. She is a research mathematician and physicist who calculated trajectories and orbits for historic missions including the first flight to put a man on the moon. She also helped develop space navigation systems to guide the astronauts. But her career might never have gotten off the ground if not for perseverance. Both her father’s determined effort to send his children to school and her own resolution to pursue her dreams overcame race and gender discrimination and led to an extraordinary life of personal fulfillment and professional achievements.
Katherine Coleman was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Her mother, Joylette, was a former teacher and her father, Joshua, a farmer who worked extra jobs as a janitor. At a very young age, Katherine, who was the youngest of four, showed signs of being a math prodigy. She says she counted everything. “I counted the steps. I counted the plates that I washed.” And, “I knew how many steps there were from our house to church.” Katherine believes she inherited her gift for numbers from her father. “He originally worked with lumber. He could look at a tree and tell how many boards he could get out of it.” One of Katherine’s favorite stories explains how her father could figure out arithmetic problems that confounded some of her teachers.
Though her father had quit school after the sixth grade, he considered education of paramount importance for Katherine and her older siblings Charles, Margaret and Horace. Since the local schools only offered classes to African Americans through the eighth grade, he enrolled his children in a school that was 125 miles away from their home. Katherine’s high school was part of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (formerly the West Virginia Colored Institute). In 1929, the school was renamed West Virginia State College, and later it was renamed West Virginia State University. During the academic year, Mr. Coleman worked in White Sulphur Springs, while his wife and children resided near the school in Institute, West Virginia.
Johnson as a young woman
The faculty quickly recognized her insatiable thirst for knowledge. She often walked home in the evenings with the school principal, Sherman H. Gus, who pointed out the stars in the constellations and inspired Katherine’s interest in astronomy. In her sophomore year, a young professor from Michigan, W.W. (William Waldron) Schiefflin Claytor, the third African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, found a protégé in Katherine. Dr. Claytor added special courses in advanced math including one in analytic geometry in which Katherine was the only pupil. When Dr. Claytor told Katherine she would make a good research mathematician, she took the dream to heart. At fourteen Katherine transitioned easily from West Virginia State High to the associated West Virginia State College. “I grew up across the street from the college and knew everyone on campus,” said Katherine. “I was the fresh kid in the freshman class and was treated no differently than anyone else. Maybe some people had a problem with it, but it was no problem for me,” she said. Katherine earned a full scholarship that included tuition, room and board. In 1937, the teenager graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in French and mathematics.
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Katherine began teaching in rural Virginia and West Virginia schools. Her first job was at an elementary school where she responded to a telegram that said if she could teach math and French, and play the piano, the job was hers.
On the bus ride to this first assignment (in Marion, VA), Katherine says she had her first experience with racism. She says when they crossed from West Virginia into Virginia, the bus stopped and all of the Black people had to move to the back, which Katherine did. Later, they had to change buses. All of the white passengers were allowed on the bus, but the Blacks were put into taxis. Katherine says the driver said “All you colored folk, come over here.” But she would not move until he asked her politely. Katherine also said her mother warned her, “Remember, you’re going to Virginia.” And that she said, “Well, tell them I’m coming.” Katherine says the racism was not as blatant in West Virginia as it was in Virginia.
In 1939, Katherine married James Francis Goble and started a family. The Gobles had three daughters, Constance, Joylette and Kathy. Though Katherine had resigned her teaching position, in 1940 she was invited to return to her alma mater for a graduate program in math. She believes that college administrators were quietly trying to avoid a segregation-related lawsuit. As a result, she became one of the first blacks to enroll in the graduate program. But she was unable to earn her advanced degree. Her husband fell ill in what would become a protracted fight with cancer. To help support her family, Katherine quit school and returned to teaching.
During a trip to visit relatives in Newport News, Virginia in 1952, her sister and brother-in-law told Katherine they believed that opportunities were opening up for Black women in mathematics at a nearby aeronautics research facility. The next week, the Gobles relocated so Katherine could pursue her dream.
It took a year of effort, but in June 1953, Katherine was contracted as a research mathematician at the Langley Research Center with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA. At first she worked in a pool of women performing math calculations.
Katherine has referred to the women in the pool as virtual ‘computers who wore skirts.’ Their main job was to read the data from the black boxes of planes and carry out other precise mathematical tasks. Then one day, Katherine (and a colleague) were temporarily assigned to help the all-male flight research team. Katherine’s knowledge of analytic geometry helped make quick allies of male bosses and colleagues to the extent that, “they forgot to return me to the pool.”
While the racial and gender barriers were always there, Katherine says she ignored them. Katherine was assertive, asking to be included in editorial meetings (where no women had gone before.) She simply told people she had done the work and that she belonged. A male colleague vouched for her. She felt particularly vindicated when a question came up the men could not answer; the engineer said, “I’ll have to ask Katherine about that.” In addition, Katherine says the people in her branch were a special group. “We were all dedicated to NASA,” she said, “and that came first.”
In 1956 James Goble lost his battle with brain cancer and Katherine became a widow. Despite the loss she stayed busy at work and continued to press for inclusion in key project capacities. Working on a secret program with core members of her agency’s flight dynamics branch, Katherine helped author the first textbook on space.
Meanwhile on the home front, Katherine’s minister introduced her to a dashing Korean War veteran, Lt. Colonel James A. Johnson. By the time they married in 1959, America’s space program was heating up and the race to beat the Soviets to the moon was in full gear.
Katherine’s specialty was calculating the trajectories for space shots which determined the timing for launches. “I’d ask (another section at NASA), ‘Where do you want (the astronauts) to come down?’ And they’d tell me the spot and I’d work backward from there.” An early achievement was correctly computing the ‘launch window’ for astronaut Alan Shepard’s Mercury mission. His successful splashdown at sea on May 5, 1961 marked the return of the first American in space.
As the work grew more complex, Katherine was tasked with calculations to propel space capsules into orbit around the moon and to send landing units to and from the lunar surface. She also earned kudos for plotting backup navigational charts that would enable astronauts to guide their ships by the stars in case of electronic failures. In 1962 computers were used for the first time to calculate John Glenn’s history making orbit around Earth. But, according to Katherine, NASA officials called on her to verify the numbers. “They knew I had done most of the [the calculations], so they let me do it,” she said.
When Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon in July 1969, Katherine Johnson was attending a sorority convention in Pennsylvania and watched the event on television. Few of her sorority sisters knew that she had calculated the trajectory for the Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. Along with fellow team members, Katherine was given a souvenir flag that made the trip with Armstrong and his crew.
Later in her career she worked on the Space Shuttle program and on plans for a mission to Mars. In total she co-authored 26 scientific papers. And, after 33 years of service, Katherine G. Johnson retired from NASA in 1986. For her pioneering work in the field of navigation problems, Katherine Johnson received the Group Achievement Award presented to NASA’s Lunar Spacecraft and Operations team. She also earned an honorary Doctor of Laws, from SUNY Farmingdale in 1998, and was selected as the West Virginia State College Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 1999. In May 2006, Capitol College of Laurel Maryland awarded Katherine an honorary Doctor of Science. In addition to these honors, Katherine is proud that daughters Katherine and Constance became educators while Joylette recently retired from a successful career at Lockheed Martin as a computer analyst.
At 87 years old, Katherine and her husband enjoy spending time with six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Katherine still plays piano, bridge, and solves puzzles. She also relishes speaking to youngsters about her career. Often she shares words of wisdom, telling them to be self-reliant and to learn everything they can. She says, “Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity. If you’re prepared and the opportunity comes up, it’s your good fortune to have been in the right place at the right time and to have been prepared for the job.”VIDEO CLIPS
• Planet Science's profile on Johnson
• David Blackwell's Visionary Page (Mathematician)
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V. Vijayanath1*, M. R. Anitha2 and G. M. Raju3
1Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, S. S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davangere-577005, Karnataka-India.
2Department of Anatomy, S. S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre Davangere-577005, Karnataka-India.
3Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, J. J. M. Medical College,
Patient's attender assaulting the treating doctor is the commonest scenario. Nowadays this has been very much highlighted in the media. But still this problem is being continued in hospital. When patients consult a doctor for his problems, there is a healthy doctor patient relationship with mutual trust that is essential for successful management. Seldom senior doctors are also attacked even in their own private hospitals. And here are some suggestions for the prevention of the situation.
Key words: Assault, doctors, patient, illness.
|APA||(2010). Assault on doctors. Journal of Clinical Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 1(2), 13 - 15.|
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Privacy is a hot topic, and rightfully so. More and more data subjects invoke their right of access to check which of their personal data organizations process. We applaud this development. But what exactly does this mean for organizations? When an organization is not able to grant data subjects access within the limited timeframe the GDPR or the CCPA imposes, they are at risk. In this article we hope to present a clear-cut overview of your obligations towards your data subjects regarding the right of access under both legislations.
Organizations that have access to, or work with, personal data are responsible for those data. This means you have certain obligations towards the persons of whom you process data. Data subjects can invoke the right of access to request insight into the personal data you process. When you receive such a request the GDPR obligates you to respond within one month. Practically, this means that you have one month to collect every record of personal data pertaining to this person and share this information with the data subject in question. Based on the information provided, the data subject could decide to invoke any of their other rights given by the GDPR, such as the right to rectification or the right to erasure. In this case, you may be required to delete all information about a person from your systems, if, for instance, you no longer have a lawful ground for processing.
With the coming into force of the CCPA, California residents have been awarded a number of similar rights. Covered businesses will have to grant data subjects access to their own data upon request. Such organizations need to have a verification procedure in place and respond to such requests within 45 days. A right to erasure can also be found in the CCPA and consumers may not be discriminated against in terms of price or service for exercising their rights.
Are your employees aware of the steps they need to take when you receive a request for access to personal data? Will they drop everything they are working on and run around the office opening cabinets and drawers to collect records of personal data? How about unstructured folders or email inboxes? And what does your verification process look like? When you have an overview of the different processes required to handle privacy requests, and have an overview of the actual personal data that is being processed in the form of an (obligatory) data register, you are better equipped to handle such requests. When you digitize the data register, for example in the Compliance Management Framework as supplied by Audittrail, this process becomes even more efficient. Using this type of tooling makes it significantly easier to respond to the request for access within the time-limit.
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Congress sued the Trump Administration this week in a bid to force Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to hand over six years of the President’s tax returns, escalating the battle for Trump’s financial information.
But on Wednesday, the lawsuit was assigned to a federal judge who has already sided with the Trump Administration on a clash with Congress.
That’s U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an October 2017 Trump appointee who issued a sweeping rejection last month of House Democrats’ attempt to block $6.1 billion in funding that Trump diverted to build a border wall without Congressional approval.
McFadden ruled that Congress did not have standing to sue and wrote that he lacked jurisdiction to preside over the dispute.
“At law too, whether a plaintiff has standing often depends on where he sits,” McFadden wrote in the June 3 ruling. “A seat in Congress comes with many prerogatives, but legal standing to superintend the execution of laws is not among them.”
Lawmakers had sued the Trump Administration in April, alleging that Trump circumvented Congress’s power of the purse after lawmakers denied his request to fund his border wall.
McFadden described the case as “about whether one chamber of Congress has the ‘constitutional means’ to conscript the Judiciary in a political turf war with the President over the implementation of legislation.”
He reached the decision in part because, in his view, lawmakers cannot “haul the executive branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress’s legislative authority.”
The border wall case, though concerning a separate issue from the tax return lawsuit, focused broadly on where congressional and executive power meet. In the tax return suit, House Democrats accuse Trump of conducting “an extraordinary attack on the authority of Congress to obtain information” by refusing to comply with the request for his tax information. The administration argued that the House had an improper motive for pursuing Trump’s tax returns, an argument House Democrats dispute in their lawsuit.
“It is not for the Executive or the Judiciary to examine the Committee’s motivations for its oversight inquiries,” lawyers for the House Ways and Means Committee wrote in the July 2 lawsuit.
In the border wall case, McFadden said that similar concerns were allayed in part because he found that Congress has other options to resolve the border funding matter, including legislation.
“And it is therefore the political tools the Constitution provides, rather than the federal courts, to which the House must turn to combat the Administration’s planned spending,” he wrote.
Yet, McFadden left room in the opinion for future showdowns between Congress and the White House.
“To be clear, the Court does not imply that Congress may never sue the Executive to protect its powers,” McFadden wrote.
House Democrats sued for Trump’s taxes on July 2, after first requesting the information on April 3 from IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. That request was followed by a May subpoena, which was also denied. The House Ways and Means Committee tailored the initial request with future litigation in mind.
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by T. Sabaratnam, September 2003
Tamils of the north and east of Sri Lanka had declared “their will to exist as a separate entity ruling themselves in their own territory” since the Kankesanthurai by-election held on 6 February 1975. As Thanthai Chelva declared in his victory speech, the Tamils had clearly expressed their will.
They affirmed that decision in the historic Vaddukoddai Convention of 14 May 1976 and ratified it in the 21 July 1977 parliamentary election. Four months before that ratification, on 21 February 1977, Thanthai Chelva categorically told a meeting convened by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike that the TULF would not compromise its stand on a separate state. Amirthalingam in his victory speech on July 22 categorically affirmed Thanthai Chelva’s firm stand. He said:
“We will march forward to achieve the goal of Eelam.”
Seven days after giving that solid assurance the TULF leadership decided to ditch it. The TULF had emerged the biggest opposition party and the post of Leader of the Opposition automatically fell in its lap. It did not want to lose it. The party was prepared to delay the march towards Eelam for the sake of that post. The informal decision to accept the Opposition Leader post was made on July 23 when the full results of the election was known. The decision was made in Jaffna when Amirthalingam, Sivasithamparam, Kathirvetpillai, Yogeswaran and Anandasangari met at the party office.
“We should not miss this golden opportunity,” Kathirvetpillai insisted.
Amirthalingam was reluctant. He was worried about the reaction of the boys. He said: “We must be mindful of the reaction of the boys.” ‘Pediyangal’ was the word he used to denote ‘boys’ and not the usual ‘Paiyangal’.
Sivasithamparam said: “They will shout for a few days and then quieten down.”
The formal decision to accept the post was made on 30 July when the TULF parliamentary group met at the Vavuniya Town Hall. Amirthalingam was elected the leader of the parliamentary group and Sivasithamparam its deputy leader. The decision to accept the post of the Leader of the Opposition was taken after that. There was no discussion on that matter. The group unanimously decided to accept that post.
The youths revolted. The TULF Youth Front issued a statement condemning the decision of the parliamentary group and charged the members of parliament of going back on the mandate given to them. It urged the parliamentary group to constitute itself into a National Assembly of Tamil Eelam, as promised in the election manifesto, to draft, adopt and implement a constitution for the state of Tamil Eelam.
Kathirvetpillai replied in a statement on behalf of the parliamentary group. He said that the parliamentary group would use parliament as a forum to canvas for the separate state. Amirthalingam, in an interview to Reuters, added two reasons for their decision. The post gave an opportunity for the Tamils to carry their message to the four corners of the world. It also gave access to important persons and institutions in the globe.
The decision of the parliamentary group, which met at Thondaman’s office on August 3, to attend the ceremonial opening of parliament the next day provoked the youths further. The decision taken that day to go slow with the demand for a separate state and give the new prime minister, Jayewardene, time to tackle the Tamil problem irked the youths the most.
The TULF attended parliament on 4 August morning to elect the Speaker and Amirthalingam occupied the seat of the Leader of the Opposition. The TULF MPs took oaths affirming their allegiance to the 1972 constitution and participated in the election of the Speaker. R. Premadasa, who would later become prime minister, proposed the name of Anandatissa de Alwis and Opposition Leader Amirthalingam seconded. Premadasa and Amirthalingam led de Alwis to the Speaker’s chair. Amirthalingam told the Speaker the TULF would cooperate with him to maintain the decorum of the House and help him to conduct the affairs of Parliament efficiently.
In the evening, the TULF attended the ceremonial opening of parliament, ending the 20- year boycott which was started in 1957 as a protest against the enactment of the Sinhala Only law. The Jayewardene government responded to the TULF gesture by incorporating verbatim the section “Problems of the Tamil Speaking People” contained in the UNP election manifesto in the “Statement of Government Policy.” To soothe the feelings of the revolting youth Amirthalingam issued a statement on 7 August highlighting this.
Jayewardene rewarded Amirthalingam by providing respectability to the post of the Leader of the Opposition. He was provided an official residence, police security, official car and a secretariat. Jayewardene, an acknowledged master political tactician, was implementing his clever scheme to draw Amirthalingam and the TULF away from its commitment to a separate state. He was trying to make Amirthalingam live in cooperation with the Sinhalese.
Tamil youths saw through this scheme. Their opposition to the TULF leadership, for the first time, turned against Amirthalingam. They pasted Jaffna walls with the slogan:
Keddathu Thamil Eelam
Kidaiththau Ethir Kadchi Thalaivar Patavi
The meaning of the slogan: We asked for Thamil Eelam, but got the Opposition Leader post. They also issued leaflets accusing the TULF of betraying the trust the Tamil people had placed in it. One of the leaflets headlined: What happened to the National Assembly of Thamil Eelam? and asked the TULF hierarchy to implement the mandate the people had given it.
Police on Rampage
As the youths stepped up their ‘war’ against the TULF parliamentary group Jaffna peninsula witnessed the first ugly police rampage in its history. It started as a minor incident. It is customary among Sri Lankan police to travel in buses and enter carnivals without buying tickets. On 12 August a group of policemen in plain-clothes went to the carnival held at St. Patrick’s College.
The carnival was held by the Rotary Club of Jaffna to collect funds to build a cancer hospital in Jaffna. The men at the gate refused the police entry until they bought tickets. After an argument, the police bought their tickets, went to the bar, had a few drinks, came back, and assaulted the ticket collectors. Dr. Phillips, one of the organizers, reported the incident to higher police officers and requested them to prevent police constables going to the carnival.
On the next day, August 13, policemen from other stations in the Jaffna peninsula went to the carnival, drank heavily and clashed with the public. Members of the public chased away the police, who were not in uniform. Police retaliated the next morning, August 14. The policemen got out of their stations and attacked the public. They stopped cyclists, assaulted them and made them to carry the cycles. At Puttur, three policemen stopped three boys riding bicycles, one boy pulled out a revolver from his pocket and shot at a policeman, injuring him in the thigh.
The next morning, August 15, policemen from the Jaffna police station went on a shooting spree. They killed four civilians and injured 21 others. They told the media that they opened fire because some men resisted when they tried to seize the arms carried by some boys. Jaffna Member of Parliament V. Yogeswaran, complained about the incident to the police headquarters in Colombo, but the attacks on the public continued,
Policemen repeated the attack on 16 August. They went in a truck and set shops ablaze. Then, on August 17 morning policemen from Jaffna police station set fire to the Jaffna market. A portion of the market and adjoining shops were gutted. Two persons were shot dead.
Amirthalingam, who was in Colombo when the incident began, rushed to Jaffna on 17 August night and visited the Jaffna market on 18 August morning. He saw the Assistant Superintendent of Police standing there and went up to him, identified himself, and asked in anger, “Why are you people shooting the innocent people?” The police officer scolded Amirthalingam in filth and the constable standing behind him hit him with the butt of his gun.
The riots spread to the south. Sinhala students from the Jaffna Campus instigated the riots and the police did not take any action to prevent it. Jaffna Campus had admitted a small quota of Sinhala students since its inception in 1964 to promote Sinhala- Tamil understanding. The Sinhalese students were not happy because of the distance, climate and unfamiliar social environment. They felt they were foreigners in a totally different linguistic, religious and cultural environment. They tried their best to get a transfer to a university campus close to their homes, to Colombo, Peradeniya, Vidyothaya or Vidyalankara. In addition, in 1977, there were some personal problems for some students. Sinhala students had teased a Tamil female student. Her relatives had assaulted them. The Sinhala students made use of the riots to get back home. They said it was unsafe for them to live in Jaffna because of the heightened tension there.
They were transported with police escort in special buses to Anuradhapura on 17 August. When the convoy of buses stopped at the Anuradhapura bus stand, some of the students leaders got on the bus hood and told the crowd there that Tamils were attacking the Sinhalese in Jaffna. The enraged mob went berserk. That ignited riots in Anuradhapura. Tamil shops, houses and even the Hindu temple were looted and torched. Tamils were attacked. Police turned a blind eye. They chased away the Tamils who ran to the police station seeking shelter. They treated the Tamils as their enemies. The riots spread to Kurunegala, Matale and Polonnaruwa on 18 August, to Kandy and other areas in the hill country during the day on 19 August.
Amirthalingam returned to Colombo on the morning of 19 August and raised the Jaffna incidents in parliament as an adjournment motion. Speaking in the debate on the adjournment motion he said, “…police aimed their gun at me. I am lucky to be here today. The men were in uniform but wore no numbers. When I asked them why they shot innocent persons the policemen abused me in filth and assaulted me.”
Some UNP lawmakers asked Amirthalingam to repeat the filthy words used by the policemen.
“No, Mr. Speaker. I will not repeat those mean, vulgar words in this esteemed chamber. Those words are unparliamentary.”
Amirthalingam gave a detailed account of the incidents in Jaffna and blamed the police for those incidents. Then he pointedly asked the Prime Minister, “Can you rule the country with policemen like this?”
Jayewardene replied: We were at the receiving end of police action not long ago.”
Replying in the adjournment debate Jayewardene denied Amirthaligam’s accusation with anger. He adverted to the Puttur shooting and said the ‘boys’ had the audacity to shoot at the police. He accused Amirthalingam of promoting secessionism and thundered amid applause from the UNP parliamentarians:
“People become restive when they hear that a separate state is to be formed, that Trincomalee is to be the capital of the state, that Napoleon said that Trincomalee was key to the Indian Ocean and that it is going to be the capital of the state. I do not think Napoleon ever said that – I do not think Napoleon ever made a foolish remark like that. Whatever it is, when statements of that type are made, the newspapers carry them throughout the island, and when you say that you are not violent, but that violence may be used in time to come, what do you think the other people in Sri Lanka will do? How will they react? If you want to fight, let there be a fight; if it is peace, let there be peace; that is what they will say. It is not what I am saying. The people of Sri Lanka say that.”
Jayawardene was not repentant about the violence and tension that made thousands of Tamils flee their homes. He only promised to appoint a commission of inquiry.
After Jayawardene’s angry speech violence spread to Colombo, Panadura and Kalutara on 19 August night. Sinhala mobs gathered at junctions and attacked Tamil shops and business establishments in the presence of the police. Unlike in 1958, this time they went in search of Tamil houses, attacked the inhabitants, looted them and burned them. Mobs also destroyed Hindu kovils [temples].
The government clamped a 35- hour curfew at 5 P.M. on 20 August and deployed the army and the navy to quell the riots. The curfew hours were restricted to the night from 22 August and the curfew’s duration was gradually reduced thereafter and lifted on 30 August. The Daily News of 29 August gave the official figures as 112 Tamils killed, 25,000 rendered homeless and Rs, 1000 million worth of property destroyed. Independent sources gave the number killed as 300, refugees as 30,000 and 300 temples damaged or destroyed. The government set up several refugee camps and chartered three ships to transport the refugees to safety in the north and the east.
The riots angered the Tamil public and youths and there were whispered threats to the Sinhala people living in Jaffna. Though there were no attacks on the Sinhalese, some of whom were settled in Jaffna for generations, they sought refuge at the police stations. The police opened refugee camps for them at the Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya and Naga Vihara.
The riot provoked indignation in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu Assembly expressed “rude shock” and requested Prime Minister Morarji Desai to depute a cabinet minister to Sri Lanka to investigate the violence. Desai, who had a soft corner for Jayewardene, asked the Indian Foreign Ministry to express India’s concern to Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in Delhi. In Madras the DMK staged a mammoth demonstration of support for Sri Lankan Tamils and handed a memorandum to the Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner.
The 1977 riots was a turning point in Sinhala- Tamil relations. The riots had varied and far reaching consequences. They can be summed up as:
- Tamils, particularly the youths, lost their faith in Jayewardene.
- Tamils lost their faith in the Sri Lankan Police. They had become the Sinhala Police.
- The faith in a separate state had been reinforced.
- The Tamil homeland, the land to which Tamils were sent, had become a real need.
- Tamil moderates, particularly Amirthalingam, had been weakened. Armed militant groups had won respectability.
- Pirapaharan’s slogan, ‘Hit back’, had grown popular.
- Tamil Nadu and India had been drawn in.
Moderates under Attack
Tamil moderates were the worst sufferers. Tamil youths were incensed with Jayewardene’s defence of the police and his war cry. Militants issued a leaflet in which they declared their readiness for a fight. If Jayewardene wants to fight, the militants were prepared for it, the leaflet said.
Youths who suffered indignity during the rots were also itching for a fight. They were angry that they were attacked by Sinhala mobs because they were Tamils. Some of them joined the two active militant groups, Thangathurai’s group and Pirapaharan’s group. The government’s intelligence outfit, the Colombo Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) estimated that in September the number of cadres in both groups had risen from 30 to 50 and sympathizers from 100 to 200. Public sympathy also shifted towards the militant groups.
The militants’ immediate pressure was against the TULF leadership, especially against Amirthalingam. He was told to take a tough stand against the government. The TULF leadership had no alternative but to fall in line. When the Government Policy Statement was debated in the first week of September the TULF moved an amendment regretting the failure of the government to mention the mandate the TULF had obtained to establish a separate state of Tamil Eelam. This amendment provoked the UNP parliamentarians who accused Amirthalingam of making inflammatory speeches. Mahaweli Development Minister Gamini Dissanayake was very harsh on Amirthalingam. He blamed Amirthalingam for being “double-faced and forked-tongued,” showing a sweet face in the south and a hideous one in the north. He said Amirthalingam’s provocative speeches had incited the Sinhala people.
Later that month, on 22 September, Jayewardene moved a resolution in parliament to empower the Speaker to appoint a select committee and chairman to “consider the revision of the constitution of the Republic of Sri Lanka and other written laws as the committee may consider.” The resolution was adopted the next day. Amirthalingam, yielding to the pressure of the youths, announced on that day the TULF”s decision to boycott the functions in which ministers participated and to keep out of the deliberations of the Select Committee on the Revision of the Constitution. Jayewardene was annoyed. He was anxious to become the executive president on 4 February 1978 and wanted to show the world that the main opposition party, the TULF, was with him. By this action, he wanted to neutralize the opposition of Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s SLFP.
The composition of the select committee was announced on 3 November. The committee did not contain a representative of the TULF, but CWC leader S. Thondaman joined. The committee consisted of J R Jayewardene – chairman, R Premadasa, Lalith Athulathmudali, Gamini Disanayaka, Ronnie de Mel, K W Devanayakam, M H M Naina Marikar, all from the UNP, Srimavo Bandaranaike, Maitripala Senanayake from the SLFP and Thondaman, of the CWC.
Jayewardene organized a virulent media campaign against the TULF, focused on Amirthalingam. With Lake House, Sri Lanka’s biggest publishing house, Rupavahini (television) and Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (radio) under his control Jayewardene had at his disposal a powerful propaganda machine. Though he campaigned for media freedom while in the opposition, he made use of the state-controlled media outfit efficiently and effectively from the moment he assumed office. He appointed his former private secretary, Ranapala Bodinagoda, as Lake House chairman and controlled the press through him. Bodinagoda made it his routine to go to Jayewardene’s private residence at Ward Place on his way to Lake House. He, along with the chairmen of Rupavahini and SLBC, planned the media campaign as directed by Jayewardene. From the beginning of his rule Jayewardene’s main targets were Amirthalingam and Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Amirthalingam to be ‘cut to size’ and Sirimavo to be removed from the political arena. The campaign against Amirthalingam was to portray him as a monster stroking the separatist fire by secretly backing the militants’ acts of violence.
Amirthalingam was under attack from both sides. I did an interview with him on his plight for the Daily News on 5 October 1977, just after he made a statement in parliament. He told parliament the boycott of the constitution drafting process did not mean the TULF opposed the presidential form of government. It only meant that Tamil people were not worried whether Jayewardene ruled the country as prime minister or president. “When our house is on fire, can we worry about the colour and texture of the window curtains?” he asked.
In the interview, Amirthalingam told me he was in the position of the drum and was being beaten on both sides. “Boys think that I am on Jayewardene’s side and are beating me. Jayewardene thinks that I am with the boys and is beating me.” Then he told me in confidence: J. R. (Jayewardene) is the most dangerous of the two, a revengeful man. If we rub him hard on the wrong side he will destroy the Tamils.”
Amirthalingam’s assessment of the revengeful character of Jayewardene was not something new. In the early 1950s, Sir John Kotelawala called Jayewardene “a serpent under the grass.” Sirimavo Bandaranaike had repeatedly called him a revengeful man and had suffered at his hands. Tamils accuse him of engineering the 1977 riots. They charge that he wanted to weaken the Tamil race because he was disgraced by the Jaffna public.
The incident in which he was disgraced occurred during the 1977 election campaign. Jayewardene went to Jaffna to address a UNP election campaign. A temporary stage had been put up on the esplanade, next to Duraiappah Stadium. As Jayewardene got up to address the meeting, the stage crashed, causing pandemonium. Jayewardene and others on the stage fell down. The meeting was abandoned and Jayewardene took it as an insult.
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Sensitive skin in children - what can you do?
Itchiness, redness and sore areas of skin are stressful - not only for the children affected. It is of course a major concern for parents, who often feel helpless when their child constantly needs to scratch or is in pain. As a mother or father, what can you do when your little one's skin has such a sensitive reaction?
It's important that you recognise that your child has sensitive skin at an early stage and are able to treat it quickly if needs be. Skin reactions are often due to an intolerance to a particular food or fabrics. In rare cases, sensitive skin can be a sign of a skin disease such as neurodermatitis. For this reason, caring for a baby's skin is a serious matter. However, the creams and lotions that are good for adult skin are not necessarily suitable for your child.
How is your child's skin structured?
After birth, a baby's skin has an almost neutral pH (around 6.5). It is not until the first few weeks of your child's life that the skin metabolism actually kicks in. Then the pH of the skin slowly falls to 5.5, thereby approaching the pH of adult skin.
Whilst the skin's acid mantle has not yet formed, your baby is not adequately protected from harmful microorganisms. This protective layer is not fully mature until your child has reached the age of around six years. However, even in the years that follow, the epidermis does not have an even thickness that can protect the skin below it from external influences. This is why a child's skin is more sensitive to UV rays or mechanical irritation.
These are the characteristics that make your baby's skin different to your's:
- The structure of the skin is like an adult's – however, the individual layers are much thinner
- Babies have a large skin surface, which is why their skin tends to become dry and cool
- The epidermis has a higher water content
- An infant's or child's skin produces very little sebum or sweat
- The skin's acid mantle is prone to damage
How to recognise sensitive skin in your child
Because of the special characteristics of children's skin, you can generally assume that the skin of your newborn will be more sensitive than that of an adult. However, sensitivity in a child's skin that requires treatment manifests as further symptoms.
If your child's skin has areas of redness, this may have a number of different causes. This could be an allergic reaction. This may be triggered by a certain food or foods that the child has eaten. However, the culprits could also be caused by the detergents and fabrics you use, such as rompers or the beloved cuddle blanket. You should also take a closer look at the shampoo and hygiene products that you use on your child. Many commercially available hygiene products for babies and children contain fragrances, for example: Perhaps this makes the shampoo smell tasty, like strawberries, but it causes skin irritation in your child.
Under normal circumstances, a child's skin should be soft. However, if it feels dry and rough and looks scaly or cracked, it is lacking moisture. This symptom is often related to itchiness. And for children, it is this very feeling that can make it intolerable, the longer it goes on.
What causes sensitive skin in children?
If your child's skin is hypersensitive or has allergic reactions to everyday influences, you should seek the opinion of a paediatrician or dermatologist. A predisposition to sensitive skin is often inherited. Even children who develop an allergy or neurodermatitis later in life are often prone to overreactions in early childhood.
You can determine whether your child is predisposed to sensitive skin if they have any of the following symptoms:
- During the first few weeks of life, many babies develop cradle cap: The newborn has redness, small blisters and yellow crusty skin on the face or scalp. Dandruff tends to be soft and oily and does not cause itchiness.
- White dermographism: Scratches on the skin have white rather than a reddish appearance.
- Milk crust is often an early form of neurodermatitis. It is often confused with cradle cap, however, it occurs after the third month of life and causes dandruff and pruritus.
How should you cleanse your child's sensitive skin?
Children love jumping in puddles and stroking animals. Maybe you are concerned that this might not be good for your child or for their sensitive skin. Here it is important to retain a sense of proportion: To allow your child's skin to fully develop its own resistance to dirt and pathogens, you should not shield your little one from all external influences. It is only through regular contact with animals, dirt or dust that the skin's protective acid mantle can become strong. The risk of damage to the delicate skin barrier by excessive washing and use of products is significantly higher.
Naturally your child needs to wash if they get dirty after playing and running around. However, it may sound contradictory at first, but regular bathing dries out the skin. Hence you should limit bath time to no more than ten minutes and only use tepid water and pH neutral, mild bath additives. Even better if you can shower your child carefully, instead of sitting in the bathtub. Use a mild shower gel which is free from unnecessary additives such as:
- Mineral oils or paraffins
- Petroleum jelly
These ingredients not only irritate your baby's skins, they can also cause allergies. Dry off your child after bathing by gently patting their skin with a hand towel. Never rub your child's skin with the towel! After a bath, wet skin can be even more prone to irritation.
Caring for sensitive skin in babies and children
Your child's skin loses moisture quickly, therefore it needs to be treated gently. The same principle applies here: Less is more! Massage cream into your child's skin once it has been dried off carefully after a bath or shower. After a visit to a swimming pool or a trip to the seaside, you should also apply a moisturising cream or lotion to your child's skin. As with bath and shower products, use products that are free from mineral oil-based ingredients or microplastics. Use care products regularly but sparingly. Apply only as much cream as the skin can absorb.
Normally sensitive baby skin does not need oily creams. You should use these mainly as a barrier to protect your child's skin from the cold. For daily use, a baby body lotion or a gentle skin lotion is enough to keep young skin soft and healthy.
Which household remedies are good for sensitive children's skin?
To provide your child with short-term relief from their discomfort, you can use products which you would find in practically any household.
One alternative is an ice pack, which you should wrap in a cloth and apply to the affected skin area to cool it down. The itchiness will soon subside.
"Mum, it's really itchy!" To stop your child from injuring themselves by continually scratching, you can give them an itching stick: Glue a piece of chamois leather onto a small wooden block. If the itchiness becomes unbearable, your child can scratch their fingers across the chamois. This tricks the brain into feeling welcome relief.
How to prevent skin irritation
During early childhood, your baby's skin is constantly maturing and the slow development of all its protective functions is already under enough stress. For this reason, you should avoid daily activities that will only place a further burden on your baby's sensitive skin.
During the first year of life, do not expose your baby to direct sunlight. Make sure that your little one stays in a cool, shady spot and cover as much skin as possible with clothing, not forgetting to cover your baby's head. Apply sun protection with as high an SPF as possible and reapply to your child's skin frequently, around every two hours.
Skin can often be irritated by labels in clothing. Remove these labels, making sure there is no hard edge left over. Do not dress your child in woollen clothing, as this tends to cause scratching. Make sure that your child's clothes are not tight and are loose enough to allow them to move freely.
If your child does not appear to be allergic to fragrances, use the commercially available fabric softeners for baby clothing. These smooth out the fibres and reduce the amount of friction on the skin. However, fabric softeners are now available which are free from allergens, eliminating the risk of skin irritation.
An overview of sensitive skin in children
- When it comes to cleansing and caring for a baby's skin, the motto "Less is more" always applies.
- Avoid any influences that could irritate your child's skin, for example labels in clothing or clothes which are too tight.
- Protect your little one from extreme heat and cold and from direct sunlight.
- Avoid bathing your child too often or for too long. More tips and tricks for bathing your baby .
- Use a light and gentle care product that replenishes the skin.
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Thyristor valves for high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission - Part 1: Electrical testing
Note: a more recent version of this publication exists
IEC 60700-1:2015+AMD1:2021 CSV
IEC 60700-1:2015 applies to thyristor valves with metal oxide surge arresters directly connected between the valve terminals, for use in a line commutated converter for high voltage d.c. power transmission or as part of a back-to-back link. It is restricted to electrical type and production tests. The tests specified in this standard are based on air insulated valves. For other types of valves, the test requirements and acceptance criteria can be agreed. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition.
a) Definitions of terms "redundant thyristor levels", "thyristor level", "valve section" have been changed for clarification.
b) The notes were added to test requirements of dielectric d.c. voltage tests for valve support, MVU, valve, specifying that before repeating the test with opposite polarity, the tested object may be short-circuited and earthed for several hours. The same procedure may be followed at the end of the d.c. voltage test.
c) Table 1 on thyristor level faults permitted during type tests was supplemented.
d) The alternative MVU dielectric test method was added.
e) It was specified that production tests may include routine tests as well as sample tests.
f) It was added into test requirements for periodic firing and extinction tests that a scaling factor for tests shall be applied when testing with valve sections.
The contents of the corrigendum of January 2017 have been included in this copy.
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Bradenton planetarium manager: Giant leaps happen when humans unite
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.” — President John F. Kennedy, 1962.
A remarkable thing happened 50 years ago: A man took a small step and changed our worldview forever. It happened not by accident or chance, but by design. And while our ascent to the moon and the steps that followed were very much American endeavors, they were not solely American achievements.
They were a human triumph.
I was just 1-1/2 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon — too young to understand the moonwalk’s wider significance for the world or even be enthralled by the idea of humans leaving the Earth’s atmosphere on the biggest, bravest expedition of all time.
But there’s no doubt that event impacted my life — today I’m the manager of The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature’s Planetarium and I can still imagine the awe and wonder of that moment 50 years after it took place.
“How did we ever do it?” I marvel now.
For the technical answer to that question, you can read any number of books, visit dozens of websites and watch documentary after documentary that will answer the question down to the decimal point. There were very real technical challenges that took great minds to overcome.
But beyond the mathematical equations, the complex physics and the scientific calculations, I also like to think about the answer in very human terms: What were the factors that led us toward that brave moment in the first place?
One answer, of course, is our very existence as an outwardly moving species — we have an innate need to explore and go beyond any perceived boundaries.
But I think the real answer to how we did it is about more than just about our need to explore. It’s also about our ability and ingenuity to overcome hurdles to achieve greatness — not alone, but by coming together to solve big challenges and conquer huge obstacles.
Alone, an ant is a tiny, simple thing. But ants together transform into a complex super-organism able to accomplish incredible tasks.
In his 1962 speech, President Kennedy challenged us to reach the moon by organizing “the best of our energies and skills.” And that’s just we did.
Some 400,000 people worked on the technical challenges of getting our astronauts to the moon. And — astonishingly for the time — more than half-a-billion people around the globe gathered in front of television sets to watch it happen. They watched not with animosity, but in celebration of the greatest human achievement to ever take place.
They watched to share in the triumph of that moment, and the moment became a unifying victory for all humankind.
So I think the real answer to the question “How did we do it?” is that we did it together.
Howard Hochhalter is the manager of The Planetarium at The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature. Each month, he hosts Stelliferous, an evening program open to the public where he shares the excitement of the latest news from the world of astronomy and the wonder of our night skies. His new column will appear exclusively in the Herald-Tribune each month. To contact him with questions or comments, email firstname.lastname@example.org.
This month, The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
Showing throughout July
“One Giant Leap.” Relive the excitement leading up to the Apollo 11 moon landing during The Bishop’s newest show in The Planetarium, “One Giant Leap,” created by our own astronomy experts. The 15-minute show includes sounds and images from the launch of Sputnik — the world’s first man-made satellite sent into space by the Soviets, which launched the race for dominance in outer space. It also includes audio and video of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech that energized America to “choose to go to the moon” and flight segments from earlier Apollo missions amid visions of 50,000 years of human achievement. “One Giant Leap” is for all audiences and included in the price of admission.
KidSpace. We unleash the awesome power of The Planetarium during KidSpace, where kids can become scientific masters of the universe as we take off from the Earth’s surface and fly to places humans have never been. KidSpace is designed for grades 1-5 and their grown-ups, but everyone is welcome! 10:30 a.m. $5 for eligible members of the Discovery Society; $8 for all others. (Please note: admission to The Bishop is not included with your KidSpace ticket price.) Get tickets https://bishopscience.org/things-to-do/kidspace-2/
Smithsonian Channel’s “The Day We Walked on the Moon.” Witness this incredible day presented through stunning, remastered footage and interviews that take you behind-the-scenes and inside the spacecraft, Mission Control and the homes of the astronauts’ families. This 50-minute, PG-rated movie will be shown in the all-digital Planetarium. Included in the cost of admission. 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 20; 1:15 p.m. Sunday, July 21; 11:15 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 23 through Friday, July 26; 2 p.m. Saturday, July 27.
Stelliferous. The stars are the stars during this live, guided tour of the upcoming month's skies with a staff astronomer, who also shares the most current events in astronomy and opens the floor for Q&A. 7 p.m. $5 for eligible members of the Discovery Society; $8 for all others. Get tickets. https://26965.blackbaudhosting.com/26965/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=879251f7-f6e7-43a5-89fd-80f65bd6e090 | <urn:uuid:87a6ead6-2297-431c-bb86-bad4c3c0f26e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/manatee/2019/07/20/bradenton-planetarium-manager-giant-leaps-happen-when-humans-unite/4649794007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.955653 | 1,374 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Arkansas schools’ shift to new Common core standards begins this year
Arkansas students will soon begin a move to a new school curriculum that administrators say is simpler and more effective.
The state has adopted Common Core standards designed by school administrators nationwide in an attempt to bring every state up to the same level of education benchmarks. More than 20 states have adopted the standards so far.
When school starts later this month, more than 100,000 students in kindergarten, first and second grade will be taught English, language arts and math using standards that are heavily focused on skills needed for future careers and college work. Students in third through eighth grade will move to Common Core in the next school year, and high school students will move in 2013-14.
By 2014-15, all public school students will take new tests under the standards. Education officials plan to work with several Arkansas universities to develop the tests, which could eventually be used in the college application process.
In a meeting with reporters Friday, Arkansas Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell and other officials said the state’s old curriculum has more required standards — things students must learn in a given school year — than any other state in the country.
“With the vast amount of standards that we currently have, what’s happened, unfortunately, is that teachers are so focused on covering checklists, if you will,” Assistant Education Commissioner Laura Bednar said. “They really haven’t had time to go to that deep level of rigor that’s necessary even before we had the move over to common core state standards.”
Under Common Core, third-graders should understand subject-verb agreement, fifth-graders need to know about metaphors and similes and seventh-graders must understand how to calculate surface area.
States that sign up are supposed to use the standards as a base on which to build their curricula and testing, but they can make their benchmarks tougher than Common Core. Only two states, Alaska and Texas, did not sign onto the original idea for the standards.
Asked what would be cut under Common Core, Kimbrell joked that there might be less time in kindergarten for dinosaurs or Johnny Appleseed. But Kimbrell and others said they had heard from employers who want more rigor and more preparation for future recruits.
“We have to get rid of some of these standards that may not lead to college and career success,” Kimbrell said. “And identifying those things is the important piece.”
Students will take a battery of tests starting in the 2014-15 school year, with exams at the beginning, middle and end of the year. Kimbrell defended the increased testing, saying it will help teachers find out if students need more help during the year rather than at the end.
“That’s a model that we’ve used for 30 years that’s ineffective,” Kimbrell said.
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Balfour Beatty Living Places sign HGV Code of Conduct for all commercial vehicles travelling through Cambridgeshire.
- Credit: Archant
Balfour Beatty Living Places has signed the Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) Code of Conduct for all commercial vehicles travelling through Cambridgeshire.
The code ensures that all of the company’s HGV vehicles will avoid passing through villages wherever possible and will reduce the number of heavy HGVs on Cambridgeshire’s roads. The company’s supply chain partners will also adhere to the code.
The commitment also sets out a series of measures, such as observing weight and speed limits, that will help mitigate the negative effects of large trucks passing through the area. In practice, trucks will take longer routes where necessary, to avoid vehicles travelling along narrow roads.
Joe Goldie, Balfour Beatty Living Places contract manager, revealed that in addition to signing the HGV Safer Roads Covenant, the company is utilising Masternaut technology that will allow monitoring of driver behaviour:
He said: “Signing this code of conduct further supports our commitment to the local communities in which we operate and to create great places to live, work and play.
“Environment and safety improvements are always at the forefront of our minds, along every stage of a project. That’s why we use telematics and vehicle tracking in nearly 8,000 vehicles travelling across the country.
“We want to ensure that we are using our vehicles efficiently and this technology enables us to choose the right type of vehicle for the job. It also helps us to identify drivers who may need further training.”
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The code of conduct is an initiative that Cambridgeshire County Council created. Councillor Mac McGuire, chairman of the highways and community infrastructure committee, said: “We welcome this new pledge from Balfour Beatty Living Places. It shows a serious commitment to reduce the number of large trucks and other commercial vehicle entering our villages and rural communities.
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Sunday, September 2, 2007
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
I found something on John Shaw's Utopian Turtletop that struck me as the perfect follow-up to yesterday's post: this mesmerizing clip of protest songwriter Len Chandler, an amazing Joan Baez, and a barely audible Bob Dylan doing Keep Your Eyes on the Prize at the March 18, 1963 March on Washington. The tune behind the song began as Hands on the Plow, a traditional spiritual, but in the mid-fifties was reworked with new lyrics at the Highlander Folk School. The lyrics here were yet another take on what was by then a civil rights movement anthem.
The song never stops being relevant. Below, Bruce Springsteen and The Seeger Sessions Band, wich includes my new hero Mark Anthony Thompson sharing lead vocals, performs this classic forty-three years later in Amsterdam, Holland. This remarkable 2006 concert tour often sold out in minutes at European venues, while U.S. tour dates, even in New Jersey, played to partially empty amphitheaters. Sad. | <urn:uuid:a3ebc880-5a3e-4038-81c2-28fd20fafb78> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://apesmaslament.blogspot.com/2007/09/keep-your-eyes-on-prize.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960379 | 220 | 1.734375 | 2 |
You can place a ScalarSubquery anywhere an Expression is permitted. A ScalarSubquery turns a SelectExpression result into a scalar value because it returns only a single row and column value.
The query must evaluate to a single row with a single column.
-- avg always returns a single value, so the subquery is -- a ScalarSubquery SELECT NAME COMM FROM STAFF (SELECT AVG(BONUS + 800) FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE COMM < 5000); -- Introduce a way of "generating" new data values, -- using a query which selects from a VALUES clause (which is an alternate form of a fullselect). -- This query shows how a table can be derived called "X" having 2 columns "R1" and "R2" and 1 row of data. SELECT R1,R2 FROM (VALUES('GROUP 1','GROUP 2')) AS X(R1,R2);
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Dallas is located in Luzerne county and has a population of 2,557.
Computer Forensics schools in Dallas charged students an average tuition of $22,850.00 if they were Pennsylvania residents, and $22,850.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
The cost, on average, for books and supplies needed for computer forensics schools in Dallas is $800.00. Students who live on campus while attending a computer forensics school in Dallas, can expect to pay an average of $10,050.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $800.00. There is one computer forensics college in Dallas. Computer Forensics programs in Dallas reportedly graduated 0 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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How geckos cope with wet feet
Geckos are remarkable little creatures, clinging to almost any dry surface, and Alyssa Stark, from the University of Akron, USA, explains that they appear to be equally happy scampering through tropical rainforest canopies as they are in urban settings. 'A lot of work is done on geckos that looks at the very small adhesive structures on their toes to really understand how the system works at the most basic level', says Stark. She adds that the animals grip surfaces with microscopic hairs on the soles of their feet that make close enough contact to be attracted to the surface by the minute van der Waals forces between atoms. However, she and her colleagues Timothy Sullivan and Peter Niewiarowski were curious about how the lizards cope on surfaces in their natural habitat.
Explaining that previous studies had focused on the reptiles clinging to artificial dry surfaces, Stark says 'We know they are in tropical environments that probably have a lot of rain and it's not like the geckos fall out of the trees when it's wet'. Yet, the animals do seem to have trouble getting a grip on smooth wet surfaces, sliding down wet vertical glass after a several steps even though minute patches of the animal's adhesive structures do not slip under humid conditions on moist glass. The team decided to find out how Tokay geckos with wet feet cope on wet and dry surfaces, and publish their discovery that geckos struggle to remain attached as their feet get wetter in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
But first they had to find out how well their geckos clung onto glass with dry feet. Fitting a tiny harness around the lizard's pelvis and gently lowering the animal onto a plate of smooth glass, Stark and Sullivan allowed the animal to become well attached before connecting the harness to a tiny motor and gently pull the lizard until it came unstuck. The geckos hung on tenaciously, and only came unstuck at forces of around 20N, which is about 20 times their own body weight. 'The gecko attachment system is over-designed', says Stark.
Next, the trio sprayed the glass plate with a mist of water and retested the lizards, but this time the animals had problems holding tight: the attachment force varied each time they took a step. The droplets were interfering with the lizards' attachment mechanism, but it wasn't clear how. And when the team immersed the geckos in a bath of room temperature water with a smooth glass bottom, the animals were completely unable to anchor themselves to the smooth surface. 'The toes are superhydrophobic [water repellent]', explains Stark, who could see a silvery bubble of air around their toes, but they were unable to displace the water around their feet to make the tight van der Waals contacts that usually keep the geckos in place.
Then, the team tested the lizard's adhesive forces on the dry surface when their feet had been soaking for 90min and found that the lizards could barely hold on, detaching when they were pulled with a force roughly equalling their own weight. 'That might be the sliding behaviour that we see when the geckos climb vertically up misted glass', says Stark. So, geckos climbing on wet surfaces with damp feet are constantly on the verge of slipping and Stark adds that when the soggy lizards were faced with the misted and immersed horizontal surfaces, they slipped as soon as the rig started pulling.
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It won’t have escaped your attention, but it’s Christmas this week!
Mollie has been talking about the big day since about 2nd January so we’ve let her write a blog post about her love of the festive season.
She’s focusing on Christmas traditions here and around the world. It wouldn’t be a Mollie musing without some form of international travel. Off you go, go, go MM.
With this year not turning out the way any of us could have predicted, it’s nice to lean into the little things we can rely on to make this Christmas even slightly normal, even for just a few days. From chatting to my friends about their traditions, it’s become very clear that everyone’s Christmas is unique to them.
Obviously, this also incorporates all of the different religious traditions and holidays that take place around this time too. I thought I would explore the different traditions around the world along with team Clearbox’s Christmas traditions, to get us all in the mood.
Firstly, lets explore a bit more about what happens around the world and who does things a little differently:
In France, many places begin the celebration of Christmas on St Nicholas' day (6th Jan), where children receive little gifts and sweets.
For many Italians, the most important part of decorations is a nativity scene or a ‘presepe’, where Santa is ‘Babbo Natale’ and gift giving most commonly occurs on January 6th, like France, however, this day is known as the Day of Epiphany.
Just like the Italians, it is customary to find a ‘presepio’, a nativity scene in front of a church in Brazil, Santa or ‘Papai Noel’ as he is known travels from Greenland to Brazil to give out presents.
In Norway, they have a different name for Santa too; ’Julenisse’ and he brings presents to children on Christmas Eve. Norwegians have a whole entire name change for Christmas called ‘Jul’.
Germany is where the tradition of putting up a tree came from! They wait until Christmas Eve to put the tree up, the day when Festive Christmas celebrations begin.
Hopping across to Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro has a floating Christmas tree which is said to be the largest Christmas tree in the world.
In Iceland, children put their shoes on their windowsill for Santa or ‘Juletide Lads’, as he is known, to fill with goodies. Similarly, children in Portugal also leave shoes out but for Baby Jesus, not Santa, and gifts are exchanged after attending a Christmas service on Christmas Eve. In the Philippines, there is a special tradition of having a Christmas lantern, this is called ‘parol’ and it is in the shape of a star, to emulate the star of Bethlehem.
Interestingly, Christmas is very commercialised in Singapore. The Gardens on the Bay is a must see for a stunning Christmas Wonderland with lights and a concert. In Australia, many gather on Bondi Beach to celebrate on Christmas Day, with a BBQ. South Africa also shares this tradition on Christmas Day; families gather at a ‘Braai’ which is the South African version of a BBQ, as it is summer season in December.
But what about our own traditions? Here’s what some of our team get up to every year…
Christmas Eve is spent watching Harry Potter with my sister, rather than the traditional Christmas classics.
The Goss family make their top secret Ginger Wine recipe.
Annual family debates occur about whether beads are allowed on the tree.
I love family time at Christmas, along with bread sauce with my Christmas dinner!
BNO at Sally’s in Omagh - if anyone wants to join?
I love a Disney decoration.
One present from under the tree can be opened on Christmas eve with my family - a tradition I have carried down.
Elf on the shelf is a very important part of Christmas in our house!
I’ve only just seen the Grinch for the first time and he’s an inspiration that I hope to honour not just at Christmas, but all year round.
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It often happens that you close your eyes while watching something. Although it seems like a normal everyday thing, it still means it’s time for a checkup!
Blinking is often an automatic mechanism for people whose vision is not clear without eye aids. They often do not feel that they are blinking while seeing something, because it is an instinctive state.
The reason why blinking helps to have clear vision is that it reduces the intake of light in the natural lens. The eye sees clearly, that is, it has a clear vision, due to the light rays that enter the eye and focus on the retina.
If the person is nearsighted, the light rays focus on the front of the retina and cannot be seen well at a distance. If the person is farsighted, then the process is reversed, the light is focused on the back of the retina and the closer things are blurred.
However, closing your eyes helps because it reduces the intake of light that focuses on the retina, through the natural lens.
In addition to the smaller intake of light rays that focus on the retina, closing your eyes also changes the shape of the eye very little.
Although closing your eyes helps to see a little better, this should not be considered a cure for better eyesight. On the contrary, it should be understood as a red flag, that it is time to go for an examination.
The eyelids themselves wrinkle the skin around our eyes, by accelerating the formation of wrinkles around your eyes.
Blinking can be an indication that you need eye aids or a checkup for laser diopter correction.
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I’m excited at the thought of creating treasure baskets for grandbabies. And I’ll be able to start creating them soon … I’ll become a grandmother in November! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Treasure baskets are important in Montessori baby environments. I previously published a post on How to Make a Treasure Basket for Your Baby. You’ll find a lot of basic treasure basket information there along with links to some great ideas for treasure baskets from around the blogosphere.
I recommend using traditional materials for your first treasure baskets: items that are metal, wooden, natural, fabric and leather and that avoid the use of plastic. Later on, you could include themed treasure baskets that might include an occasional plastic item that fits with your theme.
Today, I want to share some ideas for themed treasure baskets for babies (and young toddlers). While it isn’t necessary to create themed treasure baskets, they’re fun to prepare, and they can be a wonderful way to introduce new concepts and vocabulary.
Themed Treasure Baskets
Counting Coconuts has lots of fabulous ideas for themed treasure baskets:
- Treasure Basket: Black & White
- Treasure Basket: Kitchen
- Treasure Basket: Wood (I and II)
- Treasure Basket: Red (or another color)
- Treasure Basket: Rings
- Treasure Basket: Brushes
- Treasure Basket: Reflective
- Treasure Basket: Spheres
- Treasure Basket: Cubes
- Treasure Basket: Instruments
- Treasure Basket: Soft (Photo)
- Treasure Basket: Sounds
- Treasure Basket: Puzzles
How We Montessori also used a number of fun treasure basket themes (Discovery Basket Ideas)
- Ball Basket
- Kitchen Utensils
- Farm Animals
- Rattle/Shaker Basket
- Finger Puppets
Here are some other great ideas for themed treasure baskets from around the blogosphere:
Circles Treasure Basket from The Imagination Tree
Treasure Baskets (with a variety of themes) from Net Mums
Themed Treasure Baskets from Wildflower Ramblings
Themed Sensory Baskets from Toys Naturally
Treasure Basket: Primary Colors from Our Montessori Home
Treasure Basket: Fall from Our Montessori Home
Treasure Basket: Bathroom from Our Montessori Home
Exploring Textures through Balls from Plain Vanilla Mom
Shiny Treasure Basket and Wood Treasure Basket at From Chalkboards to Strollers
Exploring Sound Treasure Basket from Childhood 101
Treasure Basket: Toiletries from Our Montessori Home
Travel Size Baby Treasure Basket from The Imagination Tree
A Scented Treasury Basket for Sarah (this particular one is prepared for a toddler) from An Everyday Story
Montessori Monday Link-Up
If you have some Montessori activity trays/lessons to share, please link up below. It’s fine to link up a post from your archives – and you may link up anytime during the week! Your post may be any Montessori-inspired activity or idea. It doesn’t need to be related to my Montessori Monday post.
Link up your exact post URL so that we can find your activity if we return to the linky at a later date (which I often do when I’m looking for activities for a roundup post). I publish the Montessori Monday post and linky at 6:00 a.m. EST each Monday and keep the linky open throughout the week.
Please place the Montessori Monday button (using the code from the right sidebar) in your post or put a link back to this post. Let’s use Montessori Monday to gain inspiration/ideas and to encourage each other! If you would leave an encouraging comment on the post linked up ahead of you (along with any other posts you’re drawn to), that would be awesome! Thanks for participating!
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The Indian, Singaporean and Malaysian navies have all joined in the effort to find the lost Indonesian sub KRI Nangalla. 53 servicemembers were on board when the sub disappeared during a training dive on Wednesday, and if the hull remains intact, any survivors may only have enough fresh air to last until the weekend.
“Under a blackout condition, KRI Nanggala can last for 72 hours with the existing oxygen capacity, which is estimated until Saturday,” said Indonesian Navy chief of staff Laksamana Yudo Margono at a press conference Thursday.
Singapore’s submarine support and rescue vessel MV Swift Rescue is under way to support the response, and she is on track to arrive in the Java Strait on Saturday. She carries a deep search and rescue submersible and an ROV.
“[MV Swift Rescue] was dispatched expeditiously yesterday afternoon, as fast as she could get ready . . . A medical team was also added to the regular crew in the event that hyperbaric care would be needed,” said Singapore defense minister Ng Eng Hen in a statement. “Our fervent prayers and hopes go out to the crew of KRI Nanggala, for their safety and resilience and also to the search and locate teams of the Indonesian Navy currently on site.”
The Malaysian submarine rescue vessel Mega Bakti – a veteran of the search for the missing aircraft MH370 – is also under way, and she is expected to arrive on the scene on Sunday. She is equipped with an ROV, an emergency resupply pod and an emergency ventilation system.
The Indian Navy has also dispatched a submarine rescue team aboard the OSV SCI Sabarmati, and the vessel is under way in the Bay of Bengal. Given the distance, she is not expected to arrive until the end of next week.
The KRI Nanggala lost contact after receiving permission to dive for a torpedo-launch training exercise, and the cause of the casualty is not yet known.
“It is possible that during static diving, a blackout occurred so control was lost and emergency procedures cannot be carried out and the ship fell to a depth of 600 meters to 700 meters,” the Indonesian Navy said in a statement on Wednesday.
The water depth in the area is well in excess of the sub’s maximum depth rating. An oil spill was spotted on the surface near the Nanggala’s last known position, but the vessel herself has not yet been located. Five Indonesian Navy vessels are engaged in the search, assisted by one helicopter.
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Welcoming the Stranger – I attended a Syrian Refugee workshop presented by my Diocese. It gave me us a better understanding of how we can be present to them. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. This statement from Matthew is one we follow willingly and lovingly in the Vincentian family. The 102nd World Day of Migrants and Refugees, is January 17, 2016. We are called upon to serve those coming to our country. We are called to serve those who may not speak our language or know our ways. They are frightened and displaced. Our job is to serve Jesus in each one of them. Pope Francis has urged us all to reach beyond the “globalization of indifference”1 to listen to the cries and to hear the silent suffering of our brothers and sisters. He has challenged every European parish to welcome a family of refugees. We must respond to this crisis, here and now, as Christians, as Canadians, as human beings. The refugees are larger in number than after the 2nd World. War are in need and we and we are called to serve them. In an ideal world, no one would have to leave the country of their birth. Unfortunately, in our world today, persecution, oppression, and war are giving rise to one crisis after another, forcing the innocent to take flight. Even the child Jesus himself was a refugee when His family fled the persecution of King Herod (Matthew 2.13-14). We are called to serve Jesus in each Refugee and we welcome the stranger.
God’s Mercy – Find a quiet place with God, today. We cannot give to others what we don’t have if we don’t take time to nurture our relationship with God. We live in a very fast-paced world and it seems like we can never keep up with all the demands of this speed. We try harder and work faster and stay busy longer, yet it seems like the people who demand a piece of our time are more numerous than we can handle. How many times do we ask God for something but our prayers don’t get answered? Why does that happen? We’ve heard all the standard answers: God did answer but the answer was no. We didn’t pray enough or say the right prayer. We don’t have enough faith. If our answer is, “God’s too busy to be concerned about my little request.” This just is not true. We have to believe and spend the time with God to feel His mercy. Sometimes we become frustrated with our busy schedule and do not understand why God is not helping us. It is not God who is too busy it is us and we have to take the time to talk to Him. Spend the time in quiet solitude to allow God to nurture us. Find a special quiet place and make it your reflection zone so you can be alone with God without distractions. We pray His will be done. He will always be with us, just take the time to feel His presence and hear His message to us. We are never alone. Take the time to receive His Mercy.
Lynn L’Heureux is Special needs co-coordinator & Advisor of the Society of St Vincent de Paul Calgary Alberta Canada.
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My Computer Won't Recognize My Mini CD
A mini CD is often used to save small amounts of information. It is often used for user manuals for devices, as it is often unnecessary to use the standard-sized CDs for saving information that will only eat a small chunk of the disk space. Your computer may not always be able to recognize or read the mini CD.
Eject the mini CD from the optical drive of the computer and ensure that it is properly placed inside the drive. Close the optical drive and wait for the computer to detect the mini CD. Restart the computer.
Insert another CD into the optical drive. If the computer recognizes the disk, the problem is with the mini CD. Check the mini for cracks or major scratches. If the surface is dirty, wipe the disk with a wet cloth. Ensure that the disk has dried completely before placing it back into the optical drive.
Load the BIOS to check if the optical drive is recognized by the computer. Reboot the computer, read the instructions on your screen and press the key that corresponds to the BIOS. The most common keys are "F2," "F10" and "Delete." Navigate to the "Main" tab or "Advanced" tab (this may vary depending on the type of BIOS you have installed) to check if the CD/DVD drive is listed among the drives installed.
Open up the computer and ensure that the optical drive is properly attached. Before you do this, unplug the power cable from the power outlet and unplug all cables attached at the back of the computer. Refer to the user manual of your computer for instructions on how to open the computer housing.
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Herbert Kohl on Civil Rights
Democratic Sr Senator (WI)
- the flag of the US is a unique symbol of national unity...
- the Bill of Rights should not be amended in a manner that could be interpreted to restrict freedom...
- abuse of the flag causes more than pain and distress... and may amount to fighting words...
- destruction of the flag of the US can be intended to incite a violent response rather than make a political statement and such conduct is outside the protections afforded by the first amendment to the Constitution.
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.
The amendment is about how we are going to raise the next generation. It is not an issue that the courts should resolve. Those of us who support this amendment are doing so in an effort to let the people decide.
Supporters rail against activist judges. But if this vaguely worded amendment ever passes, it will result in substantial litigation. What are the legal incidents of marriage? Is a civil union a marriage?
Strengthen America’s Common Civic Culture
The more ethnically and culturally diverse America becomes, the harder we must all work to affirm our common civic culture -- the values and democratic institutions we share and that define our national identity as Americans. This means we should resist an “identity politics” that confers rights and entitlements on groups and instead affirm our common rights and responsibilities as citizens. Multiethnic democracy requires fighting discrimination against marginalized groups; empowering the disadvantaged to join the economic, political, and cultural mainstream; and respecting diversity while insisting that what we have in common as Americans is more important than how we differ. One way to encourage an ethic of citizenship and mutual obligation is to promote voluntary national service. If expanded to become available to everyone who wants to participate, national service can help turn the strong impulse toward volunteerism among our young people into a major resource in addressing our social problems. It will also help revive a sense of patriotism and national unity at a time when military service is no longer the common experience of young Americans.
Our ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 HRC scores as follows:
The Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of more than 700,000 members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, HRC envisions an America where GLBT people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
Ever since its founding in 1980, HRC has led the way in promoting fairness for GLBT Americans. HRC is a bipartisan organization that works to advance equality based on sexual orientation and gender expression and identity.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 NAACP scores as follows:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has worked over the years to support and promote our country's civil rights agenda. Since its founding in 1909, the NAACP has worked tirelessly to end racial discrimination while also ensuring the political, social, and economic equality of all people. The Association will continue this mission through its policy initiatives and advocacy programs at the local, state, and national levels. From the ballot box to the classroom, the dedicated workers, organizers, and leaders who forged this great organization and maintain its status as a champion of social justice, fought long and hard to ensure that the voices of African Americans would be heard. For nearly one hundred years, it has been the talent and tenacity of NAACP members that has saved lives and changed many negative aspects of American society.
Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity by covered entities (employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, or joint labor-management committees). Prohibits preferential treatment or quotas. Allows only disparate treatment claims. Prohibits related retaliation.
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Retiring in 2014 election:
Retired as of Jan. 2013:
Senate Retirements 2014:
Senate races Nov. 2014:
AK: Begich(D) vs.Miller(R) vs.Treadwell(R) vs.Sullivan(R)
AR: Pryor(D) vs.Cotton(R)
CO: Udall(D) vs.Gardner(R) vs.
DE: Coons(D) vs.O`Donnell(R)
GA: Nunn(D) vs.Perdue(R) vs.
HI: Schatz(D) vs.Hanabusa(D) vs.Cavasso(R)
IA: Braley(D) vs.Ernst(R) vs.
ID: Risch(R) vs.Mitchell(D)
IL: Durbin(D) vs.Oberweis(R) vs.Hansen(L) vs.
KS: Roberts(R) vs.Tiahrt(R) vs.Wolf(R) vs.Taylor(D) vs.Orman(I)
KY: McConnell(R) vs.
LA: Landrieu(D) vs.Cassidy(R) vs.Maness(R)
MA: Markey(D) vs.Herr(R) vs.Skarin(I) vs.
ME: Collins(R) vs.D`Amboise(R) vs.Bellows(D)
MN: Franken(D) vs.McFadden(R) vs.Abeler(R) vs.Ortman(R)
MS: Cochran(R) vs.Childers(D) vs.
MT: Walsh(D) vs.Daines(R) vs.
NC: Hagan(D) vs.Tillis(R)
NE: Sasse(R) vs.Domina(D) vs.Haugh(L) vs.
NH: Shaheen(D) vs.Brown(R) vs.Smith(R) vs.Rubens(R) vs.Testerman(R) vs.Martin(R)
NJ: Booker(D) vs.Bell(R) vs.
NM: Udall(D) vs.Weh(R) vs.Clements(R)
OK-2: Lankford(R) vs.Johnson(D) vs.
OK-6: Inhofe(R) vs.Silverstein(D)
OR: Merkley(D) vs.Wehby(R) vs.
RI: Reed(D) vs.Zaccaria(R)
SC-2: Scott(R) vs.Dickerson(D) vs.
SC-6: Graham(R) vs.Hutto(D) vs.Ravenel(I) vs.
SD: Rounds(R) vs.Weiland(D) vs.Pressler(I)
TN: Alexander(R) vs.Carr(R) vs.Adams(D)
TX: Cornyn(R) vs.Alameel(D) vs.Roland(L) vs.
VA: Warner(D) vs.Gillespie(R) vs.Sarvis(L)
WV: Capito(R) vs.Tennant(D) vs.
WY: Enzi(R) vs.
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Sadly, nursing home abuse is a well-known problem, but it is still misunderstood by many. It is all too common and many people either ignore it or miss the signs till it is too late. When you place your loved one in the care of someone else, you are expecting that they will get the reasonable amount of care they need. When that doesn’t happen, it can be devastating.
It is a difficult choice to trust someone else to care for your loved one. We’ve gathered up some information to help you see the signs of abuse and ensure that your loved one is being taken care of properly. If you suspect that abuse is happening, then it is often a good idea to contact a nursing home abuse lawyer to understand the next steps you should take.
Nursing Home Abuse Statistics
Nursing home abuse affects thousands of families each year. The number of complaints has grown since 2014 when there were well over 14,000 complaints filed about abuse or neglect. The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) found that nearly 10,000 nursing home residents filed complaints related to abuse annually.
Here is the NCVC’s breakdown of nursing home abuse complaints:
- 27.4% reported physical abuse
- 22.1% reported resident-on-resident abuse
- 19.4% reported psychological abuse
- 15.3% reported gross neglect
- 7.9% reported sexual abuse
- 7.9% reported financial abuse
The sad truth is these numbers are likely higher than they seem. There are as many as 5,000,000 elders affected by elder abuse each year. Like many other crimes, not every case of nursing home abuse gets reported. Many people are unwilling or even unable to report their experiences, which makes gathering exact numbers difficult.
Who Is at Risk?
Any elderly person who is in an assisted living facility may suffer from nursing home abuse. There are some that are at more risk than others, though. We’ve outlined some of the factors that increase the risk of the chances of nursing home abuse below.
It has been found that women are more likely to be abused than men. The NCVC found that 66% of all elder abuse victims were women.
It has been found that the lower someone’s socioeconomic status is, the higher they are at risk of elder abuse. If someone relies on Medicaid alone to receive nursing home care, they could end up in a lower-quality facility.
Poor mental and physical health may increase the risk of abuse. Those with Alzheimer’s disease are far more likely to be abused because of their mental health than others. About 50% of elders with dementia experienced some kind of abuse or neglect in nursing homes.
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5) Research & development
When I started this work I was already an experienced stereographer, but my knowledge of panography was limited, as I did not yet know the importance of nodal adjustment. I had two Sony Nex 5 cameras with 16mm optics with which I had already taken many stereoscopic panoramic photos, in DCP/3D format for projection in 3D cinemas, so I thought it was a good starting point.
I immediately realized that if I had to rotate the cameras, it would be better to put them in an upright position to get a larger field of view, keeping the interaxial distance.
My first attempt was to build an automated system based on a robotics kit for the consumer market. I could program the number of photos and shoot the cameras using a servo-driven lever system, and after each attempt I tried to stitch in Autopano Giga until I could find the optimum number of photos around.
The result was spectacular, I was impressed with being able to do a full 360º rotation using my stereoscope, but the 16mm were very short, I had two black holes at the top and bottom that had to be closed.
I knew what I had to do, I needed an automated system with freedom of movement in two axes, which would allow me to capture the whole spheres.
The robotic kit that I used is a toy that is not designed to move a high load weight, which in the case of Sony their optics and batteries reached half a kilo, so I could not make a direct transmission from the servomotors and I was forced to include a gearbox that allowed me to increase the torque.
Once finished I did the programming based on the overlap I had needed to make the cylindrical panorama, but in three rows.
I used a 30º rotation base, 12 photos around and three rows at 0º and plus/minus 45º to which I added a photo of the Zenit because it had a small hole to cover, and two photos in Nadir at 90º.
Then something magical happened! I heard that the director of the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC), the astronomer Dr. Brian May, was coming to Tenerife to participate in the STARMUS festival, so I attended. The (LSC) had a stand in the market place of the congress, so it was easy for me to contact them, and it was exciting to see for the first time, together with Denis Pellerin, a VR 3D 360 photo on the VR OWL.. A few weeks later I stayed at Brian’s guest house in London, and took pictures all over the city downtown.
The London Stereocopic Company asked me to design and build a Robot for the Fuji W3 stereoscopic camera, and it worked correctly, but its post-production system was very slow due to the reduced FOV of its optics, which Autopano read as 40mm, which forced me to write a rather complex robotic capture program, since the robot had to make seven rows…. it was a very long capture that lasted nine minutes, due in part to the long recovery time of this camera after each shot.
In total there were exactly 99 photos in MPO format that had to be processed one by one. It was a lot of work, but it was worth it, the interpolator “Spline 64” combined with the 40mm and the high overlap resulted in a good stereoscopic photo. It turned out to be a great learning curve and motive that later would return to work with the more closed optics.
It was very interesting to see the result and to discover how the use of 40mm optics affects volume and dimensions.
When I finished with the Fuji W3, I went back to working with the DSLRs, because I was still not happy with the results. I already had good photos that I had stitched in Autopano Giga, but the parallax errors were visible despite the high overlap that was being used… so I understood the importance of respecting the nodal point as much as possible. It was clear: “The greater the interaxial distance, the greater the nodal misalignment”, so I decided to reduce this parameter.
I had reached the physical limit of Sony´s, both objectives could not be joined anymore, so I valued the possibility of creating a nodal “BeamSplitter”, but the fragility of the glass used in this system and the instability of LEGO led me to experiment with another very old solution, the so-called “cha-cha”, which consists of making the two photos with the same camera moving it to the right and left.
A three-axis robotic system is not easy to calculate and build, much less to transport a heavy camera like the Alpha 6 that I acquired for its WIFI function, so before doing so I built an identical system, designed for a very light camera, the camera of my Samsung 6 edge.
EV1 Robot & Samsung Galaxy 6 edge plus photo camera.
It was amazing to see how the stitching errors were reduced exponentially, because by reducing the interaxial distance by half, the errors were reduced in size four times, so I decided to build the robot for the Sony Alpha 6.
I already had stereopanoramas without appreciable stitching errors, but the capture was too slow, I needed higher FOV optics that would allow me to make a faster capture. But a greater FOV using reduced interaxial distances meant a turn in the investigation and a change of cameras.
I decided to go to the GoPro Session for several reasons, mainly because of its square design that I was passionate about, because by turning it 90º I could take photos vertically or horizontally. It had a greater FOV than Sony’s 16mm optics, its small size allowed me to reduce its interaxial distance and its synchrony with the shot was very good using the GoPro remote control.
I was pleasantly surprised to see how well the two Gopro were stitched in Autopano, probably because Kolor had been acquired by Gopro.
With the exception of four or five examples, no one and no company has talked about stereoscopic panoramas yet, so I thought I had invented something interesting, and I built a robot specifically for Gopro. Thanks to the robotics and extended FOV, I gradually reduced the capture sequence to 8 double photos that were taken in just over half a minute.
My proposal was to modify the Gopro Karma “Gimball”. It was perfectly possible to eliminate the accelerometers and program the Gimball as if it were a robot.
At that time Gopro and Google were very busy trying to start the “JUMP” and their 16 Gopros…. so they didn’t listen to me!
Thanks to the experience with robotics I continued to evolve the product until its maximum miniaturization. This RIG has a rotator and a photographic nut, so it was only necessary to make six double photos to the horizon plus zenit and nadir.
But the photographic quality of the Gopro´s was somewhat far from what I needed, so I replaced the cameras with the Sony AZ1, the best miniature photo camera on the market, and this robot was transformed into what would later become NANOMINI a RIG with which I made hundreds of stereopanoramas.
An acquaintance and dear photographer discovered me and invited me to meet the panograph community, so I knew that almost everyone uses 8mm lenses, so I decided to research and buy the then new Samsung 2016, an exciting 7mm test camera.
“My first project was called “The Broken Egg”, I tried to separate both cameras to use them “side by side” with native “genlock”, but Samsung had already foreseen this case and mounted some flat cables impossible to weld”.
I measured the distance between their optics and saw that the nodal misalignment of one entry pupil with respect to the other was 1.8 cm, so it was a stereoscopic camera “back to back”, and I decided to try to make a “rotational” capture, and it worked!
The first INSTA 360º just appeared with a configuration of six lenses with which you could make stereoscopic panoramas using the rotational technique, so I made the first rotational panorama taking six photos, but as I had a camera on each side I only had to make three double photos.
“Something didn’t work right, the INSTA 360º videos had no stitching/parallax errors while my capture made with a much smaller interaxial distance did, something I didn’t know… So I understood that the VR video software was designed to work with non-nodal captures and that they had a perfect stitch thanks to interpolation and optical flow.
By chance, I got in touch with the best film software engineer in the world, who curiously lives here in the Canary Islands; Roman Dudek, father of “Jaleo”, a “soft” presented in 1993 for the postproduction of analogue cinema in 35mm, using “Silcon Graphics” computers that at that time cost 250,000 dollars.
Thanks to Roman we were able to carry out several tests. First we imitated the capture of the Insta360, and little by little we looked for a capture that offered the same quality as the capture side by side. Until we decided that Samsung 2016 didn’t give enough quality, and that’s when Jürgen Schrader helped us. Between the three of us we decided on the photographic capture that Jürgen did and that Roman stitched.
“Thanks to Jürgen’s photographic quality and Roman’s perfect stitching, we had the first perfect picture in history. I can make this statement, because interpolation and “Optical Flow” for photography had never been experienced before.”
Now I had to start over! From this point I could work with two different techniques, rotational or parallel and the interaxial distance was no longer a problem, so I went back to work with DSLR´s, but this time with the learned experience.
I decided that the use of two-axis robotic systems could be interesting working with 16mm optics, but using 8mm or 10mm the number of photos we had to do, did not compensate for the additional work involved in travelling and running a robot, so I decided to create two-axis manual nodal heads.
And finally I equipped them with Fanotec Mecha E1 (Nodal Ninja).
From this moment on and after the presentation of the rotational technique in Tokyo with only 8 shots, I started to collaborate with photographers from all over the world who I had met thanks to the IVRPA. They sent me photos, taken with the best sensors and the best optics, and so little by little, for six months I was standardizing the capture using all possible variables.
There are still many tests to be done and a lot of work, because now is when we start to understand the mechanisms of stereopanoramas and how they are affected by different optics, the interaxial distance, the technique used or even the height of the tripod. However, when I saw the Nodal Ninja Stereo head, I decided to make a small stop on the way to publish and share all these experiences because, now I can offer a standardized workflow thanks to the Nodal Ninja initiative.
PATENT PENDING (PCI)
A Stereopanorama at the touch of a button!.
I’ve filed many patents, and every time I file a new one, the old ones become obsolete. In the latter I have managed to reach the limit of both technical and physical miniaturization. In this patent I describe an automated motorized system of No-Nodal capture for the accomplishment of stereoscopic photographs of 360º for its exhibition in VR Gears.
At first glance it may seem like something that already exists in the market, but its function, objective and operation are completely different, so the patent office has accepted it as a MODEL OF INVENTION.
Motorized system for capturing stereoscopic panoramas.
In any spherical capture there will always be a timelessness between the photos, so indoors we can do it with a single camera.
Using two servomotors it is very easy to create a pseudonodal motorized system, in which the parallax is obtained, displacing the distance that joins the vertical servomotor with the camera. In this case we must take into account that the “offset” used will be equal to half the interaxial distance that we calculate for the shot.
Panning: The horizontal servomotor will use a rotation base of 60º with which we will obtain enough overlapping even with the optics of 12mm.
Tilt: The vertical servomotor must use a 90º rotation base, making its four stops at 45º, 135º, 225º and 315º.
The most interesting thing about this capture is that both servomotors will always rotate in the same direction, in the graphic above we see how the colour changes depending on whether the camera looks to one side or the other, which means that in each rotation two photos will be taken for the right side and two for the left side.
I have designed a broad-spectrum capture system that will allow us to work with both APSC and Fullframe, as well as 7.5/8/10 and 12mm optics, with which we will take 24 photographs to compose the stereopanorama.
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The first national qualification that teaches vulnerable young people the skills they need to run a home and maintain a tenancy will be launched in September. It is aimed at those aged above 16 living in supported housing, a hostel or foyer or who are threatened with homelessness. But it will also help other young people already in social or private-rented housing who are struggling to maintain a tenancy.
Sheena Field, resident consultant with Town and Country Housing Group in Tunbridge Wells has recruited nine young people to complete the Level 1 award in pre-tenancy skills. All candidates live in supported accommodation at the West Kent YMCA and were previously in care or moved to the hostel following family breakdown.
The hope is that the qualification will give them the confidence to go on to apply for a tenancy, which they will then have the skills to sustain. The qualification is significant, says Field, because for the first time a young person will have something positive to offer to help secure a tenancy.
Field said: "I have been working with young people for 20 years and the way that you get rewarded with housing is that you have to make out that your situation is as worse as possible, and I think that is so wrong.
"Until this qualification, there has been nothing positive that a young person can do to help secure affordable housing. I am absolutely passionate about this qualification."
Jackie Sumner is head of community investment at Town and Country Housing Group, which has 9,000 homes in 22 local authority districts in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and south London. She says her organisation supports the new qualification because it fits in with its commitment to supporting people to maintain their tenancies and move into sustainable employment.
Taking young people through the qualification and teaching them how to be a good tenant also makes economic sense when you consider that the cost of eviction can be around £15,000, she says. "This isn't necessarily about the qualification; what it gives us is the reassurance that the tenancy is going to be sustainable."
The level 1 qualification has the same status as a GCSE grade D to G. It has seven units including how to manage money, the rights and responsibilities of being a good neighbour and tenant, how to apply for housing and how to look after a home. Developed by the National Open College Network (NOCN) and endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) it is likely to be delivered in-house – although it may also be made available at further education colleges.
The initiative is a response to housing associations and groups, which called for formal national accreditation for pre-tenancy training, according to NOCN's education consultant and designer of the qualification Mary Riddiford. "Having a qualification which is nationally accredited boosts a learner's sense of achievement and can be a step towards further learning," she says.
The award is being targeted at social landlords, local authorities and public and voluntary sector organisations running young people's services. Roger Keller, head of education at the CIH, says: "The qualification is transportable and is something which a young person can show to potential landlords – it gives them a bit of an edge."
Rob Marsh, chief executive of West Kent YMCA, says gaining CIH endorsement was an additional bonus. "It takes it up to the next level, in terms of value. Qualifications are becoming more and more important these days, at the same time the housing market is becoming more difficult for tenants and landlords. This qualification gives both sides that extra edge to make sure that their business arrangement works."
Marsh is also hopeful that as the qualification becomes more well known it will attract additional housing points to help boost a young person's chances of gaining a tenancy. "We are confident that local authority social landlords and others will begin to give people additional housing points if they take on this qualification because this is so good for the whole sector." | <urn:uuid:956da83a-9d4c-45c5-a9ae-10cb82c06ea7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2012/jul/31/how-to-get-ahead-tenancy-management | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973037 | 799 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Some of us may not have experienced violence first hand, but most of us know of someone who has. We do not know the details, this is not something a victim is not prepared to share with others, nor should they have to. They have been violated in indescribable ways. And the effects will always remain.
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This project requires a small contribution. The Care Packs are a small gesture which will go a long way in telling a survivor that people care. We are sorry it happened. That she is not alone.
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Mini first aid kit: Because many government hospitals do not have basic necessities, and are unable to provide victims with items to change their dressings after they have left.
Sanitary Disposable Underwear: Because when a woman is raped her underwear is destroyed, or taken for evidence.
Tissues: To hold her tears
Soap, wash cloth, toothbrush, toothpaste, lip calm, and cream: So that she can clean herself, to feel human again, before she has to face the world.
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100 bags to help victims is a drop in the ocean when you take into account that the 2020/2021 crime stats reported that 36 330 women reported being raped.
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There are few terms more overused these days than “social media expert.” Now Unified wants to actually certify those experts, through a new program called Unified University.
Unified calls itself “the first social operating platform” — it offers tools for planning, purchasing, and analyzing social media advertising campaigns. Even though CEO Sheldon Owen says he wants to build a big enterprise technology company, Unified sometimes finds itself working as a social media consultant, of sorts for the agencies and brands that it works with, helping to train them in the best practices of social advertising. With Unified University, the startup can get its customers up-to-speed more efficiently.
Despite the “university” name, this isn’t actually something people need to commit to for weeks or months. Instead, it’s a series of online tutorials that can be completed in about a day, and at the end, the “students” get certified in different subject areas. The curriculum focuses on three broad topics — Metrics & Reporting, Tactical, and Strategies for Success.
In the short-term, people need that certification in order to unlock certain Unified features. For example, Owen says there are lots of unique challenges to promoting content on StumbleUpon. Rather than allowing customers to waste their time and money, Unified’s StumbleUpon feature only turns on after they’ve completed the relevant tutorial in the University. In the long-term, Owen is hoping that the certification will become a generally recognized way to recognize social media knowledge, say within large organizations, or when you’re moving between jobs.
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Julie Govan is the Brand Manager at Crutchfield, and has been writing about consumer electronics since 1999. Her areas of expertise include home theater, surround sound, digital cameras, and HDTV. In her spare time, she also writes book reviews and fiction. She earned a B.A. in English from Davidson College, and went on to receive a master's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia.
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720p, 1080i, 1080p — HDTV resolution can seem like a confusing numbers game. Find out what the numbers mean for your HDTV and high-def video sources.
Video TranscriptJulie: . I'm Julie. In this video I'm going to explain HDTV resolution, including 1080p. TV makers use picture resolution numbers like 720p or 1080p to describe how sharp the picture is on their HDTVs. That is the amount of picture information a TV can display. Now, throwing around these numbers can make this topic seem pretty complicated, but the stuff you really need to know isn't hard, so here goes.
Today's digital TVs create their pictures using a grid of dots called pixels. Generally, more pixels mean a sharper picture. So an HDTV with top of the line 1080p resolution can show a more detailed picture than an HDTV with 720p resolution. You may be wondering if they're both high definition. Will I really see a difference? Chances are you're going to spot it. If your TV only has 720p screen resolution, but you're watching a 1080p Blu-ray movie, it's kind of like trying to shove ten pounds of sugar in a five pound bag. Your TV has to throw away some detail to fit that 1080p image on the screen. But with a 1080p screen resolution you can see every type of high-def signal without losing anything. That extra detail is especially visible on today's larger screens. That's why we usually recommend a 1080p TV for your main viewing area where you're likely to have the largest screen in your house.
Now when it comes to the resolution of video signals as opposed to screen resolution, there are just a couple of things you need to know. First, the "p" in resolutions like 720p and 1080p stands for progressive, while the "i" in resolutions like 1080i stands for interlaced. The main thing to remember here is that a progressive signal has twice as much picture information as an interlaced signal with the same resolution and generally looks a little more solid and stable, with on screen motion that's a little more fluid.
Second, although you will find standard definition 480p TV signals and high definition 720p and 1080i TV signals, you may be surprised to learn that there aren't many 1080p broadcasts available. Right now your main source for 1080p content is actually high definition Blu-ray discs. For more information on TV resolution see crutchfield.com/HDresolution, or you can always call us at 1-800-555-9408. | <urn:uuid:3b6ad1ba-a031-4b38-b28b-441e409496c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.crutchfield.com/ISEO-rccbcspd/learn/videos/HDTV/resolution.html?g=347850 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955431 | 629 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Blogs are an exceptional means to reveal your very own opinion about existing occasions or any other topic. These website are typically displayed in reverse sequential order, with the most current post appearing on top. There are many benefits to blogging. Here are some of one of the most noteworthy ones. Continue reading to get more information concerning the advantages of blog writing. While there are a number of, right here are several of the more common ones. Allow’s dive in. What are the benefits of blogging?
To start with, blogging is an efficient method to produce more website traffic to your site. Whether you are anti-social or social, a blog site will provide you a distinct possibility to interact with individuals with various pastimes as well as passions. Another major advantage is that it permits you to connect with other people of a different geography or culture. A blog can likewise aid you build partnerships. You can find out more about other individuals by sharing your experience and presenting brand-new individuals to your service.
Blog writing is a terrific method to share your ideas with others, and also it’s additionally among the best means to network with others. While blogging is often a terrific method to share concepts, it can additionally be a draining pipes and tiring experience. If you’re not interested in producing your very own neighborhood, you can make use of the solutions of other blog writers that may have the ability to write posts for you. The benefits of blogging are numerous and also you can construct a devoted audience with the help of your blog.
The largest benefit of blog writing is that it’s easy to use. There are few obstacles to setting up a blog. All you need to do is begin your own web page, as well as publish your content. Afterwards, you’re ready to release your material online. As well as you’ll quickly have a blog site of your own! The benefits of blog writing are countless. The Net has actually made blog sites one of the most popular means to share suggestions, as well as your blog site will become a beneficial resource.
Because of this, blog writing has actually become a very crucial facet of the Internet. It is an exceptional method to promote a product or service. Having a blog site will assist you build a dedicated target market, which will assist you generate income. It’s a fantastic way to advertise your company, and will certainly give you a lot more liberty to reveal on your own in your very own voice. But, if you’re not technological, it’s not the right thing for you.
Blog sites can be used for a wide variety of purposes. Some people utilize their blogs as an area to share shopping lists. Other individuals utilize them to connect with friends and family. Nonetheless, the idea of blog writing is not restricted to this objective. It can be utilized for any type of objective. If you’re intending on promoting your services or products, you can produce a blog site about it. In other words, blog writing is a powerful advertising and marketing tool.
Besides advertising your products, blog writing also helps you raise recognition about vital problems. The popularity of blogs makes it a great way to promote your organization. To name a few benefits of blogging, it’s a reliable device for raising your brand name’s presence. Developing a blog can assist you get the word out regarding your products. The benefits of blog writing can be massive: For example, you can boost your exposure. A blog can make your internet site look even more expert. You can promote your services or promote your brand name.
When you start a blog site, you have the ability to boost your brand name’s direct exposure. You can communicate with possible clients through it. Additionally, blogs assist your organization to attract even more visitors. Consequently, you can enhance your company’s online reputation. A blog site can assist you build a lot more earnings as well as make you more pleased. You can likewise market your product or services. So, blog writing is an effective means to increase your firm’s photo.
Many individuals use blogging as a way to promote their brand name and reach a broader audience. It has actually helped a lot of minority languages. While it is not constantly one of the most lucrative means to advertise your items, it helps you to advertise your brand name. You can additionally get your organization observed by a blog site by your niche. The blog will certainly assist you broaden your audience. It will certainly help you develop integrity as a specialist in your field. If you have an excellent quality blog, you’ll achieve success.
A blog is a web site that contains distinct diary-style text entrances. The majority of blog sites are shown backwards sequential order, with the most recent post showing up at the top of the website. The goal of a blog is to share suggestions as well as thoughts, typically on a particular subject. It’s a fantastic means to share yourself and also share your thoughts and viewpoints with other people. It’s also a wonderful means to develop an existence for yourself on the web.
Blogging can be a wonderful way to connect with your target market. Several blog writers write to share their experiences, share their opinions, and advertise brands and also products. A blog site is a powerful device for company individuals to build recognition. It can additionally be a fantastic method to market a product and services. If you can use valuable information, you can monetize it to generate income from it. It is essential to remember that blog writing isn’t about acquiring fame.
While some individuals use blog sites to make a living, others utilize them to elevate recognition concerning essential problems. For example, some individuals use blogs to advertise charities, health issue, and also pets. Businesses additionally utilize blog sites to share info regarding their knowledge and help consumers come to be much safer. These 2 types of blog sites can have a profound impact on your company’s bottom line. If you’re wondering what type of benefits you can receive from blogging, consider this short article. Click to find out more
As a means of driving website traffic to your web site, blog sites are a perfect option. Numerous company owner use blog sites as a means to increase search engine optimization, as fresh material tends to rank greater on online search engine than older content. While numerous forms of website material do not require constant updates, a blog is an important addition to any type of site. It can also aid you establish your personal branding as a sector thought leader. Once you’ve developed a fascinating, useful blog, it’s simple to share it with the globe. | <urn:uuid:7e1b3076-8490-4695-ad75-5818361a526a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://centri-impiego.com/2021/11/19/secrets-concerning-blog-writing-only-a-handful-of-individuals-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.95728 | 1,363 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Feeling lighter in the wallet and unhappier about Obamacare? You're not alone.
Support for the Affordable Care Act has plummeted since late last summer, and people with employer-based health insurance say they increasingly are paying more for out-of-pocket medical expenses, a new Bankrate.com survey released Wednesday revealed.
When Bankrate.com first polled people in September—right before the launch of Obamacare insurance exchanges, there was an even split between those who said they would repeal the Affordable Care Act if given the power to do so and those who would keep it: 46 percent each. (The rest either had no opinion or didn't know how they felt.)
But three months later, after the botched launch of those government-run exchanges, the number of people who said they would gut Obamacare had risen to 48 percent, while the number of respondents who said they would keep it as law had plunged to 38 percent.
The survey also found that people, by a 2-to-1 margin, felt Obamacare had had a more negative than positive impact on their own, individual health care. The poll questioned 1,005 adults, and had a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
"We have seen a softening in support of the law," said Doug Whiteman, Bankrate.com insurance analyst. "I really think that stems from all the adverse publicity in the last several months" that focused on the technologically crippled federal Obamacare exchange and the resulting low enrollment in the first two months of operation, he said.
His company's survey also found that a total of 44 percent of people with employer-provided insurance said they are shelling out more dollars in deductibles and copayments than they were a year ago. And 47 percent of that group of people reported having more money deducted from their paycheck to pay the cost of those insurance plans than in 2012.
People earning between $50,000 and $75,000 annually were the most affected group: with 64 percent of them reporting a bigger hit on their paychecks from health insurance. Just 38 percent of the people earning less than $30,000 reported paying more for insurance in payroll deductions as of 2013.
'Cadillac tax' wallop
Whiteman attributed the jump in the number of people reporting increases in their out-of-pocket expenses to companies anticipating Obamacare's so-called Cadillac tax, which beginning in 2018 will levy a 40 percent tax on company insurance benefits that exceed $10,200 for an individual and $27,500 for a family.
"Some employers are citing the Cadillac tax as the reason they are paring back some of their health insurance benefits," Whiteman said. Increasing deductibles—which forces employees to pay a bigger share of their medical care and possibly may make them more price-conscious about using their benefits—is one strategy companies are using to address the tax.
He said that trend will "most definitely" strengthen the closer it gets to 2018.
But insurance executive David Sterling, while saying anticipation of that tax has played some role in employees paying more for their health costs, contended that a number of other Obamacare mandates are spurring the upward trend of insurance prices.
"One of my clients called me yesterday, he has a small group, with a few employees, and United [HealthCare] sent out a communication that the premium went up 18 percent, and [it] had already gone up about 20 percent in 2013," said Sterling, CEO of Sterling Healthworks, the health-care reform arm of SterlingRisk. "I'm getting calls from my customers, they're saying, 'Who can afford these premiums, we've never seen premiums this high.' "
Sterling cited the Obamacare mandate that requires health plans to cover the adult children of their customers up to age 26, and the requirement that plans include certain minimum essential benefits as a reason for the premium increases.
He also said that the employer mandate, which as of 2015 will require companies with more than 50 full-time workers to offer health insurance, also is playing a role in driving up prices.
"I would say that for at least the last ... year and a half, we have been making radical changes to employers' plans in reaction to other employer mandates," said Sterling.
While inflation in deductibles and copayments was occurring even before the adoption of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Sterling said that trend "has accelerated because employers are preparing for their greatly increased costs" from providing insurance to workers.
But health policy expert Judy Feder, a Georgetown University professor, said it was "ridiculous" to blame increases in out-of-pocket costs on Obamacare.
"It seems to me that it was something that is increasing anyway," said Feder, who is also a fellow with the Urban Institute think tank. "I think the impact on the costs from the ACA is minimal."
A step toward price transparency
Regardless of the cause of those increased out-of-pocket costs, United Healthcare on Tuesday announced an online service specifically aimed at people in high-deductible insurance plans that is designed to help them limit such costs.
The service, called myEasyBook, lets customers compare prices for doctors and other providers in their insurance plan's network, and then schedule appointments with them online as quickly as within two days.
Tom Paul, United Healthcare's chief consumer officer, said myEasyBook lets the consumer know upfront what their share of the cost will be, and also charges it right away. Because of the price transparency, Paul said, consumers can limit their out-of-pocket cost, and, he added, providers "offer discounts" on their services because of the agreement that the cost is paid upfront.
United Healthcare announced myEasyBook at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Currently available in Phoenix, it is scheduled to go online soon for plans in Dallas and Denver, with expansion through the rest of the country thereafter.
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The sixth blog prompt comes in two parts.
First, what word or words do you dislike. You can choose words based on how they sound, their meaning, etc. For instance, I dislike the word ointment, primarily based on the way it sounds. My least favorite sentence is the imperative, “Apply ointment to prevent issue.”
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Ben Carson, one of the top-tier contenders in the GOP presidential primary, has long been known as an ardent creationist. He has debated prominent scientists who defend evolution, and it’s no secret that his advocacy of creationism springs from his deep faith in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Christian religion established in the mid-1800s. Creationism is a core belief for many Seventh-day Adventists, and one of the religion’s founders, Ellen White, was one of the first purveyors of the notion that the Earth is merely 6,000 years old.
This week, Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, took some heat for his creationism when Buzzfeed reported that during a 2011 lecture that was part of a “Celebration of Creation,” Carson decried the Big Bang theory and asserted that Darwin’s theory of evolution was “encouraged” by Satan.
In that talk, Carson did take slight issue with White and those creationists who claim the Earth came into existence just several thousand years ago. He noted, “I am not a hard-and-fast person who says the Earth is only 6,000 years old.” Yet Carson quickly added, “I do believe in the six-day creation.” And he meant literally six days, not metaphorical days—that is, not days that might have lasted millions of years.
It says in the beginning God created the heaven and Earth. It doesn’t say when he created them, except for in the beginning. So the Earth could have been here for a long time before he started creating things on it. But when he did start doing that, he made it very specifically clear to us the evening and the morning were the next day because he knew that people would come along and try to say that, “Oh, it was millions and millions of years.” And then what else did he say in the very first chapter? That each thing brought forth after its own kind. Because he knew that people would come along and say, you know, this changed into that and this changed into that and this changed into that. So at the very beginning of the Bible, he puts that to rest.
So Carson may not be hard-and-fast on the when of creationism, but he is a biblical literalist on how long it took for the living Earth and all its inhabitants to come into being: six days.
Carson’s belief is a personal matter, but his fundamentalist religious views may have a political consequence. If Carson, a political novice who has recently placed second behind Donald Trump in many polls due to the support of evangelical GOP voters, actually believes that Satan actively encourages evolution and other misguided notions, then does he consider his adversaries in political or scientific debates to be the useful idiots of the devil? If so, can he accept the idea of compromise or collaboration with those being encouraged and exploited by the Prince of Darkness? His belief in six-day creationism is not merely a curiosity. It is tied to a deeper belief that may profoundly skew how he sees his opponents and the workings of the political world.
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But many remain in the dark about the costs involved.
The United States of America may be the world's second-largest automotive market, but there has been strong pushback from the buying public when it comes to electric vehicle adoption. But according to Consumer Reports' latest and largest survey, it seems Americans are warming to the idea of an EV, or at the very least, low-carbon fuels. This comes at a time when Q2 sales reports have shown strong growth in EV demand, revealing that fears of range anxiety are being allayed and the cost of new EVs is coming down.
According to Consumer Reports, 71% of Americans have shown some interest in buying or leasing a battery-electric vehicle.
That figure can be further broken down, however, as only 14% would "definitely" purchase or lease a BEV if they were buying one today. This represents a big jump from CR's study in 2020 in which only 4% said the same, although back then, only 3,392 licensed drivers were surveyed compared to 8,027 consumers sampled this year. 22% of those taking part in the survey claimed they would "seriously consider" one, while 35% "might" consider an EV.
Driving this change of mindset is the ever-increasing price of gas. When the survey was conducted in late January to early February, gas prices had risen to $3.52 per gallon on a national average. Several months down the line and prices have risen further, now at a national average of $4.87.
33% of consumers claimed that an EV being cheaper to charge than refueling a car was the primary factor in their interest, while 31% attributed the lower lifetime cost of ownership to their interest. 28% of those polled were in favor of lower maintenance costs as the main proponent of EV adoption.
There are, however, a number of barriers in preventing buyers from making the switch, among them the access to charging infrastructure, the lack of knowledge pertaining to incentives, and range anxiety, which still plagues the masses. 61% of the consumers who would "definitely" buy or lease an EV were concerned over where and when they'd be able to charge it - a growing concern for those who don't have access to home charging as CarBuzz discovered recently. 55% were concerned about the range between charges, and 52% were most worried about the cost of purchase and ownership.
The latter point is crucial, as CR found that 46% of Americans are unaware of the incentives available when it comes to purchasing an EV. Admittedly, these do fluctuate vastly from state to state, with California providing more incentives and benefits than some others. There's also the ever-changing nature of federal tax rebates for EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). The current maximum credit is $7,500 for qualifying buyers and vehicles, although there has been talk of raising this amount. However, brands like Tesla are no longer eligible due to the volume of plug-in type vehicles it has sold, a threshold that Toyota recently crossed as well, signaling a reduction in the credit available to buyers of the Toyota bZ4X. 53% of American buyers say rebates and benefits at the time of purchase would sway them in favor of EVs.
On the topic of charging infrastructure, this is something that is improving. At present, the USA has more than 48,000 public EV charging stations. However, these tend to be located away from low- and mid-income communities. Home-charging costs anywhere from $500 upwards and is often limited to homeowners, not renters.
CarBuzz has previously spoken of a change in mindset needed among EV buyers, plugging in daily rather than when your battery runs low. This notion is supported by experienced EV owners, as Consumer Reports claims that only 27% of EV owners are concerned about range, compared to 56% of non-EV owners.
Much has been said about carbon-neutral synthetic fuels, with Porsche, Bentley, Aston Martin, and others all pursuing this as a means of keeping the combustion engine alive. CR found that 61% of Americans value environmental impact when acquiring a new vehicle. Despite this, only one in four were aware of low-carbon fuels (including ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, propane, and liquefied natural gas). Of those polled, 67% would be willing to use these fuels if they were comparably priced to traditional fuels.
"As automakers roll out more electric vehicles, there are other low carbon fuels that could eventually complement this shift to more sustainable transportation," said Dr. Mohammad Tayarani, senior policy analyst at Consumer Reports.
European lawmakers have left the door open to this as well, after rewording the proposed 2035 combustion ban to allow for the potential use of these fuels - provided manufacturers can prove their viability and sustainability.
The general consensus among CarBuzz staffers is that there doesn't need to only be one solution to personal mobility. While the nature of EVs technically suits the majority of the US population's needs, giving buyers the option of a more traditional alternative with low-to-no impact on the environment and a more traditional vehicle ownership experience is far from the worst option. By maintaining a diverse automotive ecosystem, the world would also be able to make necessary adjustments easier than trying to change methodologies wholesale.
At the end of the day, vehicle ownership needs to finely balance cost, convenience, and environmental impact. For many, cost is a driving factor, though, and the other factors are only truly considered when they fall within an affordable price range.
Dr. Quinta Warren, associate director of sustainability policy for Consumer Reports with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering puts it quite succinctly when she says, "A growing number of people want clean cars that cost less to drive." | <urn:uuid:a950b51c-19a9-4545-90d8-b10d992bcf88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://carbuzz.com/news/record-gas-prices-are-forcing-americans-to-consider-evs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.97434 | 1,183 | 2.015625 | 2 |
How many times have you passed your neighbours who look unpleasant? Maybe they are unhappy because they feel like nobody cares about them; maybe they have no one to smile for, well you can change that starting today. Here are 13 tips on how to make people happy and spread some joy around the world!
Giving can be more pleasurable than receiving. This is one of the most important tips on how to make someone’s day and at the same time be happier yourself. Try to give the best you can with out expecting anything in return. You can start with your smile, it is free and smiling at people makes you feel more positive and happy too. Donate to a charity if you can and give something to those who are less fortunate than you. If you can’t afford to do this why not check your wardrobe and give away some of your unused clothes to charity. Simple, right?
Leave some love notes in your spouse’s, parents’ wallets or kids’ lunchboxes. They will feel the love and the surprise will make their day!! A cheap, fast and effective route to happiness!
Try to make a random person happy. Whenever somebody asks you for the time or directions to a place answer them politely with a smile. If you see somebody who is struggling with their car – help them, hold the door open for someone, compliment somebody. The World will be a better place for it and you will be happier in return.
Eating is a fundamental part of of our existence and can make us happy. Try to cook something for your family or your spouse just to make their day a little bit more special and spread around the happiness bug. You can make their favourite dish or bake a cake. If you do not like cooking or it is not your cup of tea – order something delicious from the takeway and spend your new found free time with your loved ones.
Send flowers to your mum or your spouse for no reason. Flowers make everybody’s day and provide the recipient with lot’s of happy vibes. Surprising someone for no reason can be one of the best feelings ever! People feel happy in the knowledge that you thought about them.
Saying “hi” to a random person, hug your friend or family member, leave a note “thank you for serving us, you were great” on the receipt for your waitress. Going the extra mile will make someone’s day and also improve your self worth at the same time !
Giving is pleasant but when somebody gives you something do more than just say thank you, smile and pay it forward when people do something unexpected for you.
Being a good listener is a very important skill. Ask your friend for their opinion, your mum or dad for advice, it will make them feel more valuable and important to you. When you see that somebody is sad ask what them happened. Everybody has problems and issues just try to listen to somebody’s story and be there for them in their time of need, it will help them to feel better and costs absolutely nothing.
Be nice to your neighbours. Especially to those who are older than you. Help them with their driveway when it is winter, bring their trashcans in, invite them for tea, walk their dog, smile. The psychology of happiness says that you do not need to move a mountain to make somebody’s day – small gestures help people to feel so much better about themselves.
Say something nice to someone. It makes them happier. For example tell someone that their dress is very beautiful or tell someone that their hair looks good or that they have a nice smile. Compliment those who look sad on the street, be nice and share what you really think. Be thoughtful, simply just because you can! You can do this at work, home, everywhere! Just be aware of appropriate boundaries and never go out of your way to offend or upset someone.
Did you notice that people never seem to have enough time for their friends or family? Put a social event in your calendar, make yourself available and helpful. Spend time with them, socialise, ask how their lives are going etc. Being available in the 21st century can seem like a miracle, everybody is busy and seems like they work all the time, give your time to your loved ones. You will be rewarded!
Work. This is where you spend almost 40% of your lives. Give some happiness away it is free! Be the person who says “hello” first, if you go to grab a coffee – bring one for a colleague, compliment someone, ask how they are, help them out, share a funny story. You will feel happier, people at work will be very appreciative and this ripple of happiness will return to you!
If you have a little extra this month why not share with someone less fortunate? For example, you may have some items of food in your cupboard close to expiry – can you donate them to a food bank? Maybe you cooked way too much of your favourite dish, drop in on your neighbour and see if they fancy sampling your amazing cooking! Its a great way to start a conversation and spread a little love around.
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- Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder marked by extreme shyness, flat affect, reclusiveness, discomfort with others, and an inability to form close relationships.
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of schizophrenia. No longer in scientific use.
- Informal Relating to or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements: "This schizoid town is part resort, part sardine cannery” ( Jean Anderson).
- A schizoid person.
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It wasn't just the music world that the Beatles took by storm in the '60s. From mop tops and Pierre Cardin collarless jackets to neon suits and facial hair, the Fab Four left an indelible print on all things fashion. Though they started out with a generic style consisting of leather jackets and greaser hair, they quickly embraced the art of reinvention. During the tumultuous period of Beatlemania, the group's dark suits gave way to the mod look and then to bright colors and paisley. Not only were the Beatles selling records; they were also selling trends, as millions of copycats adopted everything from their Cuban-heeled boots (known as Beatle boots) and their shaggy hair to their mustaches and John Lennon's signature glasses. Though the Beatles were perhaps the best band in rock-'n'-roll history, it was their style savvy that gave them a boost toward being a bona fide worldwide cultural phenomenon. | <urn:uuid:6cae26ee-2c5f-4844-bf08-812c37fe9098> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2110513_2110627_2110708,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978162 | 194 | 1.773438 | 2 |
If you are an amateur woodworker and you don’t have strategies in front of you, how will you ever know which prepares to start with? With Do It Yourself projects, there is always a ready-made or pre-made package. However, if you are searching for something a bit more special and you do not know where to begin, why not try to find complimentary Woodworking Strategies?
There are a variety of different sort of complimentary Woodworking Strategies to select from. There are even some complimentary patterns readily available online that you can download and print out. For instance, if you are thinking about making a little bench, you might want to look at totally free woodworking strategies that include directions for building an easy bench. You can likewise have a look at totally free pattern sites that offer free patterns for benches. If you have a bit more understanding in woodworking, you can probably figure out what sort of bench you require to make without any issue.
If you aren’t rather as experienced in woodworking, there are a variety of diy tasks you can find on the internet. There are woodworking plans for all kinds of cooking area tools, such as a little table saw for cutting down the ends of wooden boards, and a hand saw for the deal with and blade. There are likewise plans for making birdhouses, furniture, racks, etc. There are also prepares for embellishing your house, such as plans for a nice garden or outdoor patio area.
If you have actually never ever tried to build your own DIY jobs, I advise you start out with a totally free set of plans or a complimentary pattern site. By utilizing totally free plans and patterns, you can conserve yourself a bunch of money on having to pay somebody to develop it for you. If you don’t know where to begin, you can simply search for complimentary pattern websites or search for complimentary strategies online.
If you are not really into DIY projects, you might wish to look at the more customized sets available. There are many different types of woodworking plans, so if you want a special bench or a very particular type of table, you might want to look at kits that use whatever.
Before purchasing any strategies or a set, you need to constantly make certain that they are safe to use for Do It Yourself tasks. There are specific kinds of wood that can not be utilized with certain DIY projects. You need to have a look at the instructions to make sure that the strategy is compatible with the sort of wood you are dealing with. If you are utilizing oak for your bench, you will not be able to use a strategy for a pine bench.
You also require to take a look at the directions of the plans prior to you begin the task. Check out all the guidelines thoroughly, specifically the section on sanding and finishing the wood.
When searching for a totally free woodworking plan, make certain to take a look at other individuals’s projects initially, specifically if you are new to Do It Yourself tasks. These people might have constructed the same sort of bench that you are considering. You might be able to take some beneficial information from them and after that construct it from their plans.
When planning your strategies, you need to likewise think about the product you will use for your DIY tasks. Different types of wood will need various amounts of tools, depending on what type of job you are developing. The most expensive wood is often the hardest wood to deal with, and wood like oak can take a lot of abuse without breaking down.
You might also wish to look at the size of the jobs prior to you purchase the plans. Some strategies are large enough to include a number of projects in a single book. The smaller sized strategies may just include a couple of, so make sure you have a good concept of what size jobs you wish to make prior to buying the strategies.
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Ornithological Biography/Volume 1/Rathbone Warbler
THE RATHBONE WARBLER.
PLATE LXV. Male and Female.
Kind reader, you are now presented with a new and beautiful little species of Warbler, which I have honoured with the name of a family that must ever be dear to me. Were I at liberty here to express the gratitude which swells my heart, when the remembrance of all the unmerited kindness and unlooked-for friendship which I have received from the Rathbones of Liverpool comes to my mind, I might produce a volume of thanks. But I must content myself with informing you, that the small tribute of gratitude which alone it is in my power to pay, I now joyfully accord, by naming after them one of those birds, to the study of which all my efforts have been directed. I trust that future naturalists, regardful of the feelings which have guided me in naming this species, will continue to it the name of the Rathbone Warbler.
I met with the species now under consideration only once, when I procured both the male and the female represented in the plate. They were actively engaged in searching for food amongst the blossoms and leaves of the Bignonia on which I have placed them. All my endeavours to discover their nest, or to procure other individuals, having proved abortive, I am unable to say any thing of their habits and history; but should I be more fortunate at some future period, I shall not fail to record the result of my observations respecting this delicate little Warbler.
The Bignonia on which they are represented, grows abundantly in the low alluvial grounds of the States of Mississippi and Louisiana, sparingly in Tennessee, and about the mouth of the Ohio. It twines round the trunks of various trees, and produces beautiful flowers, in which Humming Birds are frequently seen to search for the minute insects which form their food. They are destitute of smell, but are seen both during spring and autumn.
- Sylvia Rathbonia.
Adult Male. Plate LXV. Fig. 1.
Bill of ordinary length, nearly straight, subulato-conical, acute, as deep as broad at the base, with sharp edges. Nostrils basal, oval, half concealed by the feathers. Head rather large, neck short, body ovate. Feet of ordinary length, slender; tarsus compressed, covered anteriorly with a few long scutella, acute behind, a little longer than the middle toe; toes free, scutellate above; claws arched, slender, compressed, acute.
Plumage blended, soft, and tufty. Wings of ordinary length, the second quill longest. Tail rather short, nearly even, of twelve obtuse feathers.
Bill yellowish-brown above, yellow beneath. Iris hazel. Feet flesh-colour. The general colour is bright yellow, the upper parts olivaceous. Quills and tail wood-brown, the former yellow on the outer web, the latter margined externally with the same colour.
Length 41⁄2 inches; bill along the ridge 1⁄3, along the gap 5⁄12; tarsus 7⁄12, middle toe 1⁄2.
Adult Female. Plate LXV. Fig. 2.
The female is almost precisely the same in external appearance.
The Ramping Trumpet-flower.
- Bignonia capreolata, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 297. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. ii. p. 419.— Didynamia Angiospermia, Linn. Bignoniæ, Juss.
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As I’m surfing blogs and other security related Websites these days, I’m seeing a lot of good advice on how people can protect themselves from hackers. Everyone advises people to use anti-virus/spyware software, use a firewall, update everything as required, and to be careful when opening email and browsing Websites. There is also good advice about what to do in the event someone gets hit with malware that makes its presence know by causing all types of errant computer behavior. But what many bloggers and Websites don’t seem to be writing about, are hackers that can circumvent these and other types of security measures, including network intrusion detection systems. Professional and Top Tier Hackers There are hackers out there that are much smarter than the type of hackers you hear about in the media. They don’t go after every computer, they don’t try to obtain millions of credit card number or Facebook passwords, and they are not out to cause chaos and mayhem. These hackers target specific organizations and individuals for specific information. They spend a lot of time doing reconnaissance on their targets to determine what type of computing and security infrastructure is in place, how users act to specific stimuli (i.e. email, free removable media delivered via postal mail, etc.), and how fast people react to certain types of detectable malware. To these hackers, what we refer to as “security” is nothing more than technical obstacles that can be overcome by careful research and planning. Avoiding detection by anti-virus/spyware and network intrusion detection systems is simply a matter of testing tools against everything out there and making modifications to avoid known signatures and heuristic algorithms. These are the type of hackers that develop zero-day exploits and take advantage of other zero-day exploits as soon as they are announced. At home If you’re a home user and only have the basics (firewall + anti-virus/spyware), you don’t stand a chance against a more sophisticated hacker. Your anti-virus/spyware software won’t detect their presence and you won’t see any errant computer behavior. The hacker is going to do all kinds of things to your computer that you won’t even be aware of, including but not limited to: making configuration changes; swapping out legitimate programs and utilities; disabling certain security features; and taking anything and everything of possible interest. After he’s obtained what he’s looking for, he’ll erase every trace of his activities and tools from your computer and disappear. At the office If you’re in an office environment, depending on your organization’s security, a more sophisticated hacker is going to be a lot more careful about what he does to your computer, but he will go after any information on your computer, shared drives and internal Websites that he can access using your credentials. There are many other things a hacker may do on your computer, depending on what his objectives are and what he knows he can get away with without being detected. Because he’s done his homework, his activities are less likely to draw the attention of system administrators and security personnel. He also knows that lingering too long on a computer will increase his chances of being detected, so as soon as he has accomplished his objectives, he’ll cleanup after himself and leave. So what can you do? You can reduce your chances of being a victim of these types of hackers by implementing additional security measures and following best practices. Notice that I said reduce, not eliminate. Also keep in mind that you have to weigh the risk versus cost and your ability to use and manage more advanced security measures. For home, here are some things you should consider: Purchase an Internet Security Suite. This does much more than just anti-virus/spyware software. Not all products offer the same features, so you’ll have to do some research. If you already have an Internet Security Suite, you may want to compare it with more current offerings from other companies. If you shop online or manage your finances online, purchase credit monitoring and identity theft protection. Check monthly statements for unusual or unauthorized transactions. Use a separate computer just for managing your finances online. Buy your kids a separate computer. They really don’t know better when it comes to computer security, so you’re more at risk if you share the same computer. If you use PayPal, open a separate bank account just for PayPal transactions. Don’t copy documents containing confidential or propriety information from work onto a internet connected home computer. This includes sending yourself documents via email. These are exactly the type of documents a hacker is looking for and expecting to find on your home computer. Use a virtual environment (virtual machine) for browsing Websites, like VMware Player\or something like it. Use a Hotmail, GMail or Yahoo email account instead of your ISP email account to register for Websites and download software. If your ISP allows you to create more than one email account, use a separate email account just for financial institutions. If you own or manage a business and have concerns that your organization may not have adequate protection against more sophisticated hackers, you need to speak to your security team about these types of issues. If you don’t have someone in-house, contact a computer security firm. A computer security firm can do a security and risk assessment, and provide you with a variety of options that meet your needs and budget. The most important assessment you can do yourself, is determining what information is of value to global competitors and how providing competitors with that information can negatively impact your business. This includes customer information as well. | <urn:uuid:b74aab0a-fdfb-47f5-bac9-b2ba33463b6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cracking.org/threads/the-hackers-that-people-don%E2%80%99t-write-about-protect-yourself.17792/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947707 | 1,164 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Over deze norm
1.1 This test method covers determination of ultimate bending moment capacity and cracking moment capacity of concrete bases used as foundations for tapered steel lighting poles in accordance to Specification .
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
|Nederlandse titel||Standard Test Method for Full Scale Bending Test of Spun Prestressed Concrete Bases for Tapered Steel Lighting Poles|
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Nursing Apprenticeship Funding gets £172m Boost.
Funding of up to £172m for thousands more apprentice nurses in England has been unveiled by the government.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the money will allow healthcare employers to take on up to 2,000 nursing degree apprentices every year over the next four years. It said this will help make the career more accessible.
The Royal College of Nursing welcomed the move but said the plans did not go far enough.
An Alternative to University Courses
Nursing apprenticeships offer an alternative to full-time university courses, allowing people to earn a salary while their tuition costs are paid. At the end of the programmes, which usually take four years, apprentices are able to qualify as fully registered nurses.
The government said its funding would enable more employers to meet the costs of taking on apprentices and help it deliver its target of 50,000 more nurses by 2024-25.
Both the NHS and other healthcare employers will receive £8,300 per placement per year for new and existing apprenticeships under the scheme.
It comes as the number of people looking for information on nursing on the NHS careers website rose by 138% between March and June, the DHSC said.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “I’m thrilled to see a rising interest in nursing careers, but we must ensure this fantastic career is truly diverse and open to all.”
Gillian Keegan, apprenticeships and skills minister said: “Apprenticeships are an excellent way for anyone, regardless of their background, to kick start their career or to progress.”
However, Mike Adams, the Royal College of Nursing’s director for England, said wider investment was needed to educate enough registered nurses. The union called on ministers to scrap tuition fees for nursing students who choose to train at university.
He added: “It is also the case that a full-time, three-year nursing degree remains the fastest way to deliver a registered nurse through education.”
NHS and social care employers currently train around 1,000 nurse apprentices every year.
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19641588 , Related PDB ids: 3H9V, 3I5D
- Kawate T, Michel JC, Birdsong WT, Gouaux E
- Crystal structure of the ATP-gated P2X(4) ion channel in the closed state.
- Nature. 2009 Jul 30;460(7255):592-8.
- P2X receptors are cation-selective ion channels gated by extracellular ATP, and are implicated in diverse physiological processes, from synaptic transmission to inflammation to the sensing of taste and pain. Because P2X receptors are not related to other ion channel proteins of known structure, there is at present no molecular foundation for mechanisms of ligand-gating, allosteric modulation and ion permeation. Here we present crystal structures of the zebrafish P2X(4) receptor in its closed, resting state. The chalice-shaped, trimeric receptor is knit together by subunit-subunit contacts implicated in ion channel gating and receptor assembly. Extracellular domains, rich in beta-strands, have large acidic patches that may attract cations, through fenestrations, to vestibules near the ion channel. In the transmembrane pore, the 'gate' is defined by an approximately 8 A slab of protein. We define the location of three non-canonical, intersubunit ATP-binding sites, and suggest that ATP binding promotes subunit rearrangement and ion channel opening. | <urn:uuid:afc01b5f-664d-40e4-a373-2fdd418111d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/pmbin/getpm?pmid=19641588 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.892974 | 331 | 1.664063 | 2 |
This is a medium-length article from the Tax Foundation. I found it fascinating to read, because I am busy making plans myself to deal with the next four years under Barack Obama.
On December 31, 2012, a large swath of the federal income tax code is scheduled to expire, an event which has come to be known as the “fiscal cliff.” Among the expiring provisions are the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts enacted under President Bush, a compromise on the estate tax, a “patch” in the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) reducing its impact, the temporary 2 percent payroll tax holiday, increased business expensing, and the “extenders” package of miscellaneous tax deductions. On January 1, 2013, five taxes enacted as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)—popularly referred to as Obamacare—also take effect, along with sequester spending reductions of $109 billion due to the failure of the “Supercommittee” to reach consensus on budget reductions.
In late February, the U.S. government will hit the debt ceiling, exhausting its ability to borrow to finance ongoing spending without an increase by Congress. Finally, the federal government’s continuing resolution appropriating spending expires on March 27, 2013.
Here are some of the things to look out for, which are all described in detail in the article:
- 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts Expiration
- Estate Tax Increase
- Alternative Minimum Tax
- Payroll Tax Increase
- Business Depreciation Expense
- Taxes in PPACA (Obamacare)
- Debt Ceiling
I am most concerned about income tax increase, the capital gains tax increase, the dividend tax increase and the payroll tax increase. These are all going to clobber me. I will have less money for charity and savings, and will have to retire later – and have less time for my Christian activities as a result of having to work longer. The voters in the last election have decided that I must sacrifice more of my earnings so that Obama can hand it all out to his constituents in exchange for their votes.
It helps to know exactly what will be changing in the future, because I have to know how to respond to this. Some adjustments that I might make cannot be done at the drop of a hat. Some take months to plan and execute. It’s best to think about things in advance. We have two deadlines: December 31st and March 27th. It will be interesting to see what Washington decides to do.
UPDATE: James Pethokoukis of AEI explains the significance of the tax increases for capital gains and dividends. Other countries have lower rates on these taxes, so expect the capital that funds businesses and creates jobs to leave the country. Obama likes to rail against outsourcing, but he actually causes it – because of his ignorance. | <urn:uuid:7b975a84-a8a9-444e-b0d2-9c7d8e56658d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://winteryknight.com/tag/depreciation-expense/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00272-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970307 | 588 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Reduction of Uncertainty in Optimization of Web Services Using Dynamic Proxy Method
Service orientation has become the most significant technology for businesses to reach their customers in an efficient manner. For end users sake B2B era of web is getting changed to B2C era of web by introducing possible support methodologies to the customers. One of the main factors that have to be taken into consideration in this B2C era of web services is quality of services (QoS). Different optimization methodologies were introduced in order to improve the performance of the services during its delivery to the clients.(Application level). But the authors argue that - every optimization methodology has some amount of uncertainty in measuring the QoS of the services and in specific no defined methodology for QoS management is provided at the end user access level. | <urn:uuid:0325c90d-30fb-41a2-982b-21d9e48936f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/whitepapers/reduction-of-uncertainty-in-optimization-of-web-services-using-dynamic-proxy-method/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951734 | 161 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Israel’s Religiously Divided Society
1. Comparisons between Jews in Israel and the U.S.
The United States and Israel combined are home to an estimated 80% of the world’s Jews. The new survey of Israelis, together with Pew Research Center’s 2013 survey of U.S. Jews, can be used to compare the world’s two largest Jewish populations.
Jews in the U.S. and Israel have deep connections. Majorities of Israeli Jews feel they share a common destiny with U.S. Jews and have either “a lot of” or “some” things in common with U.S. Jews. And most think that, overall, American Jews have a good influence on Israeli affairs. For their part, most U.S. Jews say they are either very or somewhat emotionally attached to Israel and that caring about Israel is essential or important to what being Jewish means to them. More than a third of Israeli Jews have traveled to the U.S., and a similar share of American Jews have been to Israel.
At the same time, however, Jews from the United States and Israel have differing perspectives on a range of political issues concerning the State of Israel and the peace process. While Israeli Jews are skeptical that Israel and an independent Palestinian state can peacefully coexist, most American Jews are optimistic that a two-state solution is possible. On the controversial issue of the continued building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the prevailing view among Israeli Jews is that settlements help the security of Israel. By contrast, American Jews are more likely to say the settlements hurt Israel’s own security.
The two communities also differ over the U.S. government’s level of support for Israel. The most common view among Israeli Jews is that the U.S. is not supportive enough of Israel, while the most common opinion among American Jews is that the level of U.S. support for Israel is about right.
Most Israeli Jews describe their ideology as in the center (55%) or on the right (37%) within the Israeli political spectrum. Just 8% of Israeli Jews say they lean left. American Jews, meanwhile, generally describe their ideology as liberal (49%) or moderate (29%) on the American political spectrum, while about one-in-five (19%) say they are politically conservative.
These two political spectrums (liberal/moderate/conservative in the U.S. and left/center/right in Israel) represent different constellations of views on political, economic and social issues in each country. Nevertheless, in both Israel and the U.S., religious Jews tend to lean more to the right, while more secular Jews are centrist or liberal.
When it comes to opinions about the peace process, settlements and U.S. support for Israel, both Israeli Jews and American Jews express a wide range of views. But on the whole, Israeli Jews are more deeply divided along ideological lines than are American Jews. One way to see the magnitude of these ideological differences in each society is the gap in opinions between Jews on each end of the political spectrum. For example, among American Jews, 43% of those who describe their political opinions as conservative say a peaceful two-state solution is possible, compared with 70% of those who say they are liberal – a gap of 27 percentage points. Among Israeli Jews, 29% of those on the political right say a peaceful two-state solution is possible, compared with 86% on the left – a 57-point gulf.
While they follow the same ancient religious tradition, U.S. Jews and Israeli Jews also differ in their relationship with Judaism as a religion. Virtually all Israeli Jews say they are Jewish when asked about their religion, even though nearly half of them also identify as secular Jews and one-in-five do not believe in God. But fully 22% of American Jews – including about one-third of those in the Millennial generation (adults born in 1981 or later) – do not identify as Jewish on the basis of religion. Instead, they say they have no religion but they have Jewish parents and consider themselves Jewish in other ways, such as by ancestry or culture.
Many American Jews identify with Jewish denominations that do not have a major presence in Israel, such as the Conservative and Reform movements. And Orthodox Jews make up a bigger share of adults among Israeli Jews than American Jews (22% of Israeli Jewish adults are Orthodox, compared with 10% of American Jews).
Overall, Jews in Israel are more religiously observant than Jews in the United States. In part, these differences reflect the higher share of Israeli Jews who are Orthodox. But even among the non-Orthodox, American Jews are less religious by several measures of observance, such as frequency of synagogue attendance, certainty of belief in God and rates of keeping kosher at home or attending a Seder. For example, nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews say they keep kosher at home, compared with about a quarter of Jewish Americans.
This chapter takes a deeper look at connections and similarities between Israeli Jews and U.S. Jews as well as some areas of divergence between the two groups, beginning with religious differences between the two communities.
Israeli Jews more observant than U.S. Jews
Share of Jews who are Orthodox is twice as large in Israel as in the U.S.
Although they share the same religion, Israeli Jews and U.S. Jews often do not practice Judaism the same way. Israeli Jews themselves range from very religious to secular, but they are, on average, more religiously observant than American Jews.
One driver of the religiosity gap between Israeli Jews and U.S. Jews is the fact that Orthodox Jews make up about one-in-five Jews in Israel (22%) but only one-in-ten Jewish adults in the United States (10%). In both countries, Orthodox Jews tend to be far more religiously observant than other Jews.
In this report, Israeli Jews are categorized into four main subgroups – Haredi (often translated as “ultra-Orthodox”), Dati (“religious”), Masorti (“traditional”) and Hiloni (“secular”). Nearly all Israeli Jews self-identify with one of these four identity categories. Both Haredim and Datiim are classified as Orthodox in this report. (For more details on Orthodox Jews in the U.S., see “A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.”)
In the U.S., meanwhile, Jews commonly identify with more formal, institutionalized movements, often called “Jewish denominations” or “streams” of Judaism. About half of U.S. Jews identify with either the Conservative (18%) or Reform (35%) movements, and roughly 6% belong to smaller streams, such as the Reconstructionist and Jewish Renewal movements. An additional 30% of U.S. Jews do not identify with any particular stream or denomination of Judaism.
For this reason, it is perhaps best to compare Orthodox U.S. Jews to Orthodox Israeli Jews and, separately, to compare all non-Orthodox Jews in the two countries.
In both Israel and the U.S., Haredim are analogous groups. Haredim in both countries tend to live in tight communities and to divide themselves into numerous small groups, including many different Hasidic sects as well as Yeshivish (also known as Lithuanian Orthodox) communities. And in both countries, Haredim tend to view their strict adherence to the Torah’s commandments as largely incompatible with secular society.
To some extent, Datiim in Israel are analogous to Modern Orthodox Jews in America. But Masortim and Hilonim do not have direct equivalents in the U.S., even though the term “Masorti” is the official name of the Conservative Jewish movement in Israel.
To explore the overlap (or lack thereof) between American Jewish denominations and Israeli Jewish identity, the survey asked Jews in Israel about common streams within Judaism around the world. Acknowledging that some of these streams may not be familiar to them, the survey asked respondents, using the transliterated English terms, whether they identify with any of these streams – Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or no particular stream. (See survey topline results for full question wording.)
Fully half of Israeli Jews say the international stream of Judaism they identify with is Orthodox. In addition to the vast majority of Haredim and Datiim, roughly two-thirds of Masortim and about one-in-five Hilonim say they identify with the Orthodox stream, even though Masortim and Hilonim are commonly considered non-Orthodox groups. In some cases, their identification with Orthodox Judaism may have less to do with their personal religious beliefs or practices and more to do with a recognition of Orthodoxy as the oldest and most traditional kind of Judaism, or perhaps with Orthodox rabbis’ key role in Israeli public life.13 The second most common choice among Israeli Jews is “no particular stream” (41%). Relatively few Israeli Jews identify with either Conservative (2%) or Reform (3%) Judaism.
Israeli Jews more likely than U.S. Jews to observe Jewish rituals and practices
Overall, Israeli Jews display more religious involvement than U.S. Jews on several measures. Roughly a quarter (27%) say they attend religious services at least weekly, more than double the share of American Jews who say the same (11%). Israeli Jews also are somewhat more likely than U.S. Jews to say religion is very important in their lives (30% vs. 26%), and considerably more likely to say they believe in God with absolute certainty (50% vs. 34%) and that they believe God gave Israel to the Jewish people (61% vs. 40%).
Additionally, Jews in Israel report more frequent participation in specific Jewish practices than do Jews in the U.S. For example, 56% of Israeli Jews say someone in their home always or usually lights Sabbath candles on Friday night, compared with 23% of U.S. Jews who say the same. Roughly six-in-ten Jews in Israel (63%) say they keep kosher in their home, nearly three times the share of American Jews who do this (22%). Israeli Jews also are more likely than U.S. Jews to say they hosted or attended a Seder for Passover (93% vs. 70%) and fasted all day on Yom Kippur (60% vs. 40%) in the last year.
While the larger share of Orthodox Jews in Israel accounts for some of these differences, it does not always fully explain the gaps. By some measures, Orthodox Jews in Israel are even more religious than U.S. Orthodox Jews, and non-Orthodox Israelis show higher levels of religious engagement than their U.S. counterparts.
Even self-identified secular Jews in Israel (Hilonim) have higher rates of observance of certain Jewish beliefs and practices than do U.S. Jews overall. For instance, a third of Hilonim (33%) say they keep kosher in their home, while 22% of U.S. Jews overall do this (including just 7% of Reform Jews). And 87% of Hilonim say they attended a Seder last Passover, higher than the share of all U.S. Jews who observed this ritual (70%).
One possible explanation for the differences in levels of religious practice across the two countries is that Jewish observance is more ingrained in daily life in Israel than it is in the U.S. For example, many Israeli businesses close early on Friday afternoon before the start of the Sabbath, kosher food is more widely available in Israel, and major Jewish holidays are generally Israeli national holidays (whereas American Jews may have to miss normal business or school days to observe Jewish holidays).
But when it comes to standard measures of religious commitment, almost no Hilonim (2%) say religion is very important in their lives, and a majority say they never go to synagogue (60%). Virtually all Jewish subgroups in the U.S. are more religious than Hilonim by these measures.
In fact, the strongly secular habits of many Israeli Jews add a layer of nuance to the comparison with U.S. Jews, who by some measures are more likely to display a moderate level of religious observance. While Israeli Jews overall are more likely than U.S. Jews to attend religious services weekly, they also are more likely to say they never attend synagogue (33% vs. 22%). Roughly a third of American Jews (35%) say they attend synagogue “a few times a year, such as for High Holidays,” far higher than the comparable figure for Israeli Jews (14%).
There are also some demographic differences between Israeli and American Jews. While Israeli Jewish men overall show higher measures of religious commitment than women, the opposite is true among U.S. Jews by some measures. For example, among Israeli Jews, men are more likely than women to say religion is very important in their lives (35% vs. 25%), but among U.S. Jews, women are more likely to say this (29% vs. 22%).
U.S. Jews are older, more educated than Israeli Jews
But perhaps the more striking demographic difference between the two groups is that, overall, American Jews have considerably more formal education than their counterparts in Israel. This reflects the fact that American Jews are a small minority (roughly 2% of the total U.S. population) at the high end of the U.S. educational spectrum, while in Israel, Jews make up roughly 80% of the total adult population and are more evenly distributed across the spectrum of educational attainment.
A majority of American Jews (58%) have a college degree, including 28% who have a postgraduate degree. Among Israeli Jews, a third of adults have finished college (33%) and roughly one-in-ten (12%) have a postgraduate degree. Israeli Jews’ rates of attainment are roughly similar to U.S. adults overall, 29% of whom have finished college (including 10% who have a postgraduate degree).
While very few American Jewish adults (2%) have not finished high school, fully a quarter of Israeli Jewish adults say they did not complete high school.
Close connections between Jews in U.S. and Israel
Despite the differences in affiliation and other demographic characteristics between Israeli and American Jews, strong bonds between the two communities are readily apparent. A sizable minority of Jewish Americans (43%) say they have traveled to Israel, comparable to the share of Israeli Jews who have made the lengthy trip to the United States (39%).
Even many U.S. Jews who have not traveled to Israel feel an emotional attachment to the Jewish state. About seven-in-ten Jews in the U.S. say they are either very (30%) or somewhat (39%) attached to Israel, while more than eight-in-ten say caring about Israel is either an essential (43%) or important (44%) part of what being Jewish means to them personally.
The connection is also felt in the opposite direction. About two-thirds of Israeli Jews (68%) say they have at least some things in common with U.S. Jews, including 26% who say they have “a lot” in common with Jewish Americans. Three-quarters of Jews in Israel (75%) feel they share a common destiny with U.S. Jews in at least some way, including 28% who say they feel this way “to a great extent.” And 69% say a “thriving diaspora” is necessary for the long-term survival of the Jewish people (although even more – 91% – say a Jewish state is necessary for the long-term survival of the Jews).
Moreover, Israeli Jews are far more likely to say U.S. Jews have a good influence on the way things are going in Israel (59%) than to say U.S. Jews are having a bad influence (6%). About three-in-ten Israeli Jews say Jews in the U.S. have neither a good nor bad influence on Israeli affairs.
In the United States, younger Jews express lower levels of emotional attachment to Israel than do older Jews. Among Jews in Israel, however, the new survey finds few, if any, significant differences by age in attitudes toward U.S. Jews.
Israeli and American Jews also feel similar connections to the Jewish people more broadly defined. More than nine-in-ten in both groups say they are proud to be Jewish. Three-quarters or more of Jews in both countries say they feel a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people (88% in Israel, 75% in the U.S.). And more than half of Jews in Israel (55%) and a solid majority in the United States (63%) say they feel a special responsibility to care for fellow Jews in need around the world.
Different perspectives on the peace process, settlements and U.S. support for Israel
American Jews, at the time of the 2013 survey, were more optimistic about the prospects for a two-state solution than were Israelis when they were polled in 2014-15.14 Most U.S. Jews (61%) said in 2013 that they believe a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully. Fewer Israeli Jews (43%) take this view, while 45% say a two-state solution is not possible and 10% volunteer that it depends on the situation.
U.S. Jews and Israeli Jews also differ on the impact of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. While a plurality of Jews in Israel (42%) say the continued building of these settlements helps the security of Israel, only 17% of U.S. Jews agree with this view. By contrast, in the U.S., a plurality of Jews (44%) say the settlements hurt Israel’s own security interests; fewer Israeli Jews (30%) take this position.
About half of Israeli Jews (52%) feel their country should be getting more support from the U.S. government, while roughly a third (34%) say the amount of support the U.S. gives Israel is about right. Among Jewish Americans, these figures are flipped: Roughly three-in-ten (31%) say the U.S. does not support Israel enough, while more than half (54%) say U.S. support for Israel is about right (as of 2013).
On all of these questions, Israeli Jews’ views vary widely based on political ideology. The large segment of Israeli Jews on the political right are far more likely than the smaller number on the left to say a two-state solution is not possible and that settlements help Israel’s security.
Self-described politically liberal and conservative American Jews also offer differing opinions on the two-state solution and the impact of settlements on Israel’s security. But on these two questions, the difference in opinion between Jews on either end of the political spectrum in the U.S. is smaller than the ideological divide on these issues in Israel.
While American Jews are more optimistic than Israeli Jews about the possibility of a two-state solution, they are considerably less likely than Israeli Jews to say the Israeli government – controlled by a center-right/right-wing coalition for the last several years – is making a sincere effort to achieve peace with the Palestinians (38% vs. 56%). Like Israeli Jews, relatively few American Jews (12%) say the Palestinian leadership is making a sincere effort to achieve peace.
Orthodox Jews in both countries are about equally likely to say the Israeli government is making a sincere effort to bring about a peace settlement. But non-Orthodox Jews in Israel are considerably more likely than their American counterparts to say the Israeli government genuinely seeks a peace settlement (55% vs. 36%).
Once again, in both countries, Jews on either end of the ideological spectrum offer differing opinions on the sincerity of both parties in the peace process (i.e., Jews on the left are less likely than those on the right to say the Israeli government is sincerely pursuing peace and more likely to say Palestinian leaders are sincere). But the ideological divide between left- and right-leaning Jews in Israel is deeper than the divide between liberal and conservative American Jews. Among Israeli Jews on the left, 23% say the Israeli government is making a sincere effort to achieve peace, compared with 70% of those on the right (a 47-point gap). There is a 31-point gap between liberal (27%) and conservative (58%) U.S. Jews on this question.
When it comes to these political issues, one key demographic difference between Jews in the two countries involves age. Younger American Jews (that is, those between the ages of 18 and 29) are more likely than their elders to take a more liberal stance on political issues involving Israel – e.g., more likely to say that a two-state solution is possible and that the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. However, there are few significant differences by age among Israeli Jews.
Perhaps one of the strongest indications that Israeli Jews and U.S. Jews have different perspectives on life in Israel is the question of the biggest long-term problem facing Israel. In response to an open-ended question, roughly equal shares of Israeli Jews cite economic issues (39%) and security (38%) as the biggest long-term problems facing their country. But among U.S. Jews, very few (1%) mention the economy as the biggest long-term problem facing Israel, while fully two-thirds of Jewish Americans cite security (66%). Similar shares in both countries – about one-in-six – say social, religious or political issues are the biggest problem Israel faces.
U.S. Jews have more social connections with members of other religions
American Jews are much more likely than Israeli Jews to have close friendships with people of other faiths, and intermarriage is also comparatively common among non-Orthodox U.S. Jews. This no doubt reflects the fact that Jews make up only about 2% of all U.S. adults – a far different religious environment than in Israel, where Jewish adults make up roughly 80% of the population. But it may also speak to the integration of Jews into the proverbial melting pot of American society.
Among U.S. Jews who are married, 44% say they have a spouse who is not Jewish. Just 2% of Israeli Jews who are married have a spouse who is a member of another religious group or religiously unaffiliated.15
American Orthodox Jews, however, look more like their Israeli counterparts. Very few married Orthodox Jews in the U.S. (2%) say they are married to a non-Jew. Similarly, no Haredi or Dati Jews surveyed in Israel are in a religious intermarriage. Among non-Orthodox American Jews, half of those who are married say they have a non-Jewish spouse. By contrast, very few non-Orthodox Israeli Jews in a marriage (2%) say they have a spouse who is not Jewish.
U.S. Jews also are much more likely to have friendships with non-Jews: 98% of Israeli Jews say all or most of their close friends are Jewish, while only about a third of U.S. Jews (32%) say the same. Roughly two-thirds of Jewish Americans say just “some” or “hardly any” of their close friends are Jewish.
Even among Orthodox Jews in the United States, friendships at least sometimes extend beyond the Jewish community; 84% of American Orthodox Jews say all or most of their friends are Jewish, but 15% say at least some of their friends are not Jewish. By comparison, virtually all Israeli Orthodox Jews (99%) say all or most of their friends are Jewish.
Jewish Americans are more likely than other religious minority groups in the U.S. to have close friends from outside their religious group. Previous Pew Research Center surveys have found that a majority of U.S. Mormons (57%) and roughly half of American Muslims (48%) say all or most of their friends share their faith.
Differing ideas on what is essential to Jewish identity
Religious practices, political views and social circles are not the only ways in which Jews in Israel differ from Jews in the U.S. Indeed, American Jews express different views from Israeli Jews about what it means to be Jewish.
Both surveys asked respondents about a series of possible “essentials” of personal Jewish identity. While most Israeli Jews and U.S. Jews say remembering the Holocaust is essential to what being Jewish means to them, personally, there are bigger gaps on several other questions.
In general, more American Jews are inclined to see personal and social responsibility as essential to their Jewish identity. For instance, U.S. Jews are more likely than Israeli Jews to say leading an ethical and moral life is essential to their Jewish identity (69% vs. 47%); the same is true of working for justice and equality (56% vs. 27%). Jewish Americans also are more likely than their Israeli counterparts to emphasize intellectual curiosity (49% vs. 16%) and a good sense of humor (42% vs. 9%) with respect to their Jewish identity.
Israeli Jews, by contrast, are more likely than U.S. Jews to see observing Jewish law as an indispensable part of what being Jewish means to them (35% vs. 19%).
In addition to the eight specific items mentioned in the survey (remembering the Holocaust, observing Jewish law, etc.), respondents in both countries were asked if there is anything else that is essential to what “being Jewish” means to them, personally. This open-ended question, which respondents were asked to answer in their own words, drew a relatively small number of responses in the U.S. survey – most American Jews (62%) did not describe any further attributes of their Jewish identity.
By contrast, nearly all Israeli Jews offered at least one additional essential element of their Jewish identity, and many offered more than one. The vast majority of Israeli Jews emphasize being connected with Jewish history, culture and community as central to their Jewish identity (93%). Specifically, 32% of Jews say having a sense of belonging to the Jewish community is essential to their Jewish identity. Roughly one-in-five Jews also mention having knowledge about one’s history and roots as being central to their Jewish identity.
A majority of Israeli Jews also cite being connected with one’s family (73%) as central to their Jewish identity. This includes roughly half (53%) who say passing on Jewish traditions to children is essential to what being Jewish means to them.
This large difference in open-ended responses between U.S. Jews and Israeli Jews may stem from several factors. Because of the difference in the social and political context between the United States and Israel, Israeli Jews may have been culturally predisposed to talk at greater length than Americans about their Jewish identity. Also, the Israel survey was conducted in person, which may have encouraged respondents to be more engaged with this open-ended question than the American respondents, who were interviewed on the phone. (For a full evaluation of how the mode of survey administration could have influenced the results of the study, see the methodology.)
Further, the questions about Jewish identity that preceded the open-ended question were originally designed for American Jews and used in the Israel survey to allow for comparisons between the two groups. Israeli Jews may have felt dissatisfied with the choices offered to them in the closed-ended questions, which led to more extensive responses in the open-ended question.
While U.S. and Israeli Jews may not always agree on what is essential to their Jewish identity, they generally concur on what does or does not disqualify a person from being Jewish. Both U.S. and Israeli Jews generally agree that someone can be Jewish even if he or she is strongly critical of the Jewish state (89% of U.S. Jews and 87% of Israeli Jews say this), works on the Sabbath (94% in U.S., 87% in Israel) or does not believe in God (68% in U.S., 71% in Israel).
Both groups are far less likely to say someone can be Jewish if that person believes Jesus was the Messiah (34% in U.S., 18% in Israel).
Regardless of Orthodox or non-Orthodox background, Jews in both countries take the same side on whether a person can be Jewish if he or she believes Jesus was the Messiah, works on the Sabbath or is strongly critical of the State of Israel. But when it comes to the question of whether a person can be Jewish if they do not believe in God, a much lower share of Orthodox than non-Orthodox Jews in Israel say this (48% vs. 78%). In the United States, majorities of both Orthodox (57%) and non-Orthodox (69%) Jews agree that a person can be Jewish even if he or she does not believe in God.
Israeli Jews are somewhat more likely than American Jews to say being Jewish is mainly a matter of religion (22% vs. 15%). This gap is driven primarily by differences between Orthodox Jews in both countries; 60% of Haredim and Datiim in Israel say their Jewish identity is primarily about religion, compared with 46% of American Orthodox Jews who say the same, although considerable shares of both groups say being Jewish is a matter of both religion and ancestry/culture.
Overall, nearly a quarter of Jews in both countries (23% each) say their Jewish identity is a matter of religion and ancestry/culture.
- This concept is captured in a quote from Israeli political scientist Shlomo Avineri: “The synagogue I do not attend is the Orthodox one.” ↩
- Opinions on the peace process may be especially prone to changes in recent years given several events that have occurred in Israel – including the 2014 Gaza war, the 2015 Israeli elections and the wave of stabbings and other violence in late 2015 and early 2016. The survey of U.S. Jews was conducted before all of these events, while the Israel survey was conducted after the Gaza war; interviewed through the 2015 Israeli elections, held in March. ↩
- Religious intermarriages are not conducted in Israel, although they are recognized if they are conducted in other countries. For details, see a sidebar on marriage and divorce in Israel. ↩ | <urn:uuid:4f7503db-22a3-4d97-8f91-7bb313902a65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/comparisons-between-jews-in-israel-and-the-u-s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00142-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964758 | 6,297 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Veterinarian Sabina De Giacomo uses every available space at the Animal CARE Foundation East Honolulu Intervention Center to house the 50 animals looking for an adoptive or foster homes. The center recently rescued 35 cats from an apartment in Kalihi and was able to keep only seven, which needed acute care. The other 28 were placed temporarily in Waianae but still need homes.
Caretakers sought for 35 sickly cats
The owner lost her home because she kept the animals and unit in filthy condition
An animal rights organization is looking for people to care for 35 cats whose owner was evicted from a Honolulu rental unit.
For more information or to help, call 396-3333 or visit acfanimals.org. The Animal CARE Foundation is located at 6650 Hawaii Kai Drive, Suite 105.
According to the Animal CARE Foundation, the owner was evicted about a week ago because she kept the cats and the rental unit in a filthy condition.
"Housing space and donations to offset the cost of food, litter and medical care are in very short supply," said Sabina De Giacomo, Animal CARE Foundation chief veterinarian.
The foundation, which follows a "no kill" policy and has limited space, seeks people to provide foster care for the cats as they heal and possibly adopt them afterward. The foundation also needs supplies for the large group.
The foundation is currently providing the cats with medical attention.
Some of the animals are in poor condition or malnourished. One cat had a broken leg. Others will undergo surgery. All of the cats are lice-infested and will need 30 days of proper medical attention.
The previous owner tried to care for them, such as sheltering a feral cat with a broken leg, but soon became overwhelmed, De Giacomo said. The woman called the foundation after learning she would be evicted.
"Somebody tried to do the right thing and then didn't find us until very late," De Giacomo said.
De Giacomo said the cats were fed but inadequately. Some are on liquid diets, some need better nutrition and some are fighting parasites.
"Most of them are pretty skinny, although one did die on the first day," De Giacomo said.
"We've got to be able to feed them, and we've got to be able to house them," she said. "Money is especially helpful. That buys food, cat litter, blankets, towels -- nobody sleeps on the floor here."
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In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read 4 paragraphs and answer the word definition questions that go along with each reading.
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Have you ever been treated or looked at differently because of your race, gender, religion, social rank or any other attribute? If you did, then you must have experienced one type of discrimination. So, what do we mean by discrimination? In general, discrimination is the judgment of qualities and recognition of the differences between things, and it comes in different forms and frames. At” workplace discrimination occurs when an employee suffers from unfavorable or unfair treatment due to their race, religion, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Employees who have suffered reprisals for opposing workplace discrimination or for reporting violations to the authorities are also considered to be discriminated against”(Allbusiness, 2010:1). Many countries, in particular the modern and developed ones, issued decrees and laws that prohibits discrimination in work-related areas, such as recruiting, hiring, job evaluations, promotion policies, training, compensation and disciplinary action
Direct vs. Indirect
Workplace discrimination can be characterized as direct or Indirect. Direct discrimination involves treating someone less favorably because of their possession of an attribute (e.g., gender, age, race, beliefs, socio-economical status, national origin, disability, etc…), compared with someone without that attribute in the same circumstances. An example of direct discrimination would be not offering a job to a woman because she is likely to take maternity leave whereas a man is not. Indirect discrimination involves setting a condition or requirement which a smaller proportion of those with the attribute are able to comply with, without reasonable justification.
Types of workplace Discrimination
As mentioned earlier, workplace discrimination happens when some employee suffers unjust treatment, perception of or even interaction with, due to the fact of a physical attribute of the offended prejudiced by the discriminator. Among various types of discrimination, researchers and specialists identified five main discriminated attributes at workplace: Race, Gender, Age, beliefs, and disability. “While discrimination occurs in a variety of workplace environments, certain organizations may be structured in ways that increase the likelihood of biased treatment and subordination of employees occupying lower social status positions”( Wizdom Powell Hammond et al, 2010)
Racial discrimination differentiates between individuals on the basis of real and perceived racial differences, and has been official government policy in several countries, such as South Africa in the apartheid era, and the USA. For example, a black employee may suffer illegal discrimination, if working in a white dominant environment, just because of his racial attributes, like color, structure and others that don’t fit the majority. Many researchers found out that racial discrimination is by far the most obvious type of discrimination and contributes to a major stake of discrimination cases and lawsuits. Another obvious example is of Arab immigrants in western countries, who suffered increasing discrimination after 9/11 due to the fact that terrorists behind 9/11 were Arabs.
Nowadays, countries with growing economies attract various ethnic groups to come and work together. This results in more discrimination issues floating on the surfaces with no governing law framing this type of malice. For example, in Gulf countries like UAE, Saudi and others race discrimination is tolerated with absence of rules and acts prohibiting such behaviors and polices within organizations. "There is a lot of discrimination according to race in the labour market, which affects the contribution of those who suffer from it. They feel dissatisfied and this reflects in their work and affects the lives of sometimes large families in the UAE and abroad." (Charles Stratford,2009) | <urn:uuid:920c0b99-3bcd-436d-bf48-6d563193b745> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Discrimination-At-Workplace-359306.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94995 | 703 | 3.890625 | 4 |
The Michigan Concussion Law took effect on June 30, 2013. It essentially requires that any child that participates in an athletic activity receive educational information about the signs/symptoms and consequences of concussions. Most often, this is associated with youth sport teams. It also applies to our PE students. Therefore, your child is receiving a concussion informational sheet. Please review this document and sign the accompanying form that acknowledges that you received the information. (Please note that any child suspected of a concussion must receive written clearance from an appropriate health professional before he or she can return to physical activity.) Please have your child return this acknowledgement form to the office. Thank you. | <urn:uuid:c4e7f278-3db0-449d-bd15-39410a7f9595> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.glcomets.net/ourschools/middle-school-grades-7--8/hayesmiddleschool/concussion-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964632 | 131 | 2.296875 | 2 |
When George was a child he was born a slave and his mom was kidnapped. He did get to go to college but had to work on a farm all along. As a result, he used all these challenges to become stronger.
What obstacles did Carver face in his life?
- The owner of the plantation was able to rescue Carver, but his mother was never found. Thus began a difficult life, with many obstacles to be overcome. Carver was unable to attend school regularly until he was 12, but he desperately wanted to be there to learn as much as he could.
What problems did George Washington Carver solve?
George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets.
How did George Washington Carver overcome adversity?
George Washington Carver demonstrated heroism when he overcame hardships like being an African American who was orphaned during the times of slavery and segregation. … His mother, stolen and sold on a slave market, then died of sickness caused by her life in unsanitary conditions.
What was George Washington Carver’s greatest accomplishment?
George Washington Carver was a prominent American scientist and inventor in the early 1900s. Carver developed hundreds of products using the peanut, sweet potatoes and soybeans. He also was a champion of crop rotation and agricultural education.
What did George Washington Carver fear?
Carver received much acclaimed for his findings and talents; Time magazine deemed him “a black Leonardo” in 1941. “Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.”
What is George Washington Carver’s most famous invention?
George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed), sweet potatoes and soybeans.
Why is Booker T Washington so important to history?
Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits.
Did Carver invent peanut butter?
Contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. He was one of the greatest inventors in American history, discovering over 300 hundred uses for peanuts including chili sauce, shampoo, shaving cream and glue.
Who first made peanut butter?
Marcellus Gilmore Edson
How did George Washington Carver help farmers?
Carver and others encouraged farmers to restore nitrogen to their soils through systematic crop rotation – helping the region to recover. … Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. According to the National Peanut Board, Dr.
How did George Washington change the world?
During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero. In 1787, he was elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution. Two years later, Washington became America’s first president.
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The impossibility of a progressive tax structure
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Autism Awareness Month, Part One
Dr Rajini Sarvananthan, Consultant Developmental Paediatrician
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The eighth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2nd, 2016 but some countries also observe autism awareness for the whole month. Find out what it's like to live with a developmental disability and where you can find support, intervention and treatment with Consultant Developmental Paediatrician, Dr Rajini Sarvananthan.
To learn more about autism, check out ANDI Initiative. Part Two of the show presents a parent’s perspective on caring for a child with autism.
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Researchers hope that commercially available inhalers could be used to deliver novel treatment to infected lungs.
Molecular dynamics offer ways to improve lipid-based therapeutic delivery systems.
Researchers look to the guts of chickens’ ancestors to gain insights into domestication.
A part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein could prove to be its Achilles’ heel.
Chemists improve the properties of bio-based resins using spent coffee grounds as a key ingredient.
A biomaterials platform offers a stable center within the body for antibody development against SARS-CoV-2.
Meteorite exploding in the Earth’s atmosphere thought to be responsible for sudden and violent destruction of city 3600 years ago.
Scientists at Sarbonne University reveal the chemical secrets behind the Romantic era’s most celebrated artists.
By simplifying the production steps needed to treat surfaces with antibacterial films, scientists hope they can become more widely adopted in clinical settings and beyond.
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In Dr. George Smith's book, there's really only one way to go flying.
Take off on a balmy summer evening and spend an hour or so just cruising over the Bluegrass, enjoying the sunset from a 69-year-old open-cockpit biplane.
Smith does it several times a week in his 1945 Stearman.
"I usually take someone along; it's more fun that way," he said. "It makes for a nice summer evening, just going out to look at the sunset. That's all I do. I don't do aerobatics."
Smith, 62, took up flying at age 40. He owns two airplanes: the Stearman and a 2007 Aviat Husky bush plane, both of which will be on display at this weekend's Aviation Education Expo at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington .
The event, to be held at the airport's Aviation Museum of Kentucky , will draw dozens of antique and modern planes Saturday and Sunday, including a World War I vintage trainer, a World War II combat aircraft and a Vietnam-era Huey helicopter and jets. Some planes and helicopters will be available for rides.
There also will be displays by vendors and schools that offer aviation programs, so young people with career questions can get answers, said Jerry Landreth, who is organizing the event.
"There are many careers in aviation other than flying airplanes. Every job in an airport, for example, is related to aviation and requires training," including administrators, engineers and mechanics, Landreth said. "It's just that the pilots get all the glory."
About 10,000 Stearman biplanes were built, starting in the 1930s , to train pilots for the U.S. Army and Navy. After they went out of military service, the planes' civilian uses included crop dusting and air shows.
Smith owns one of the last nine to be built.
He acquired it about five years ago after seeing a picture of the plane in its bright-yellow paint job.
"I had to have it," he said.
Smith, a Lexington radiologist, admitted that he didn't know much about biplanes back then. He said he wasn't even sure how to taxi or take off when he first bought the plane.
For the first few days, he just taxied around and around the airport, not even trying to get into the air.
"The people in the tower probably thought I was nuts," he said.
He soon caught on, however, after getting some instruction from a pilot with biplane experience.
He has added some modern touches to his plane, including GPS and radio communications. But its primitive character remains, and Smith likes it that way.
"You sit in it, and you think you're driving a tractor," he said. "Sounds like a tractor, handles like a tractor."
In the air, however, the old plane is a living, breathing legacy from the past, he says.
"It's not a modern aircraft; you have to watch it, or it will bite you," he said. "There are some quirky things about it. If you compare the altimeter in the front cockpit with the one in the back cockpit, there's a 200-foot difference. That's just Stearman altitude."
Smith says a 69-year-old plane attracts people in a way modern aircraft can't.
"There's always somebody around who wants to go for a ride," he said. "As soon as I pull the plane out of the hangar, they just show up.
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The Facebook advertising platform is changing again. The latest move sees the social media giant usher in its newest ad classification – Facebook Special Ad Category. Ads that fall under any of these special categories are subject to additional restrictions. The most significant of these involve your audience targeting options.
While in practice, placing a special category ad isn’t too different from placing a normal ad. And it’s possible that many of your ad campaigns won’t fall under any of these categories. However, incorrectly identifying your ads could prevent them from being approved and derail your marketing plans.
What Are The Special Ad Categories?
There are four types of ads that fall under the Special Ad Categories umbrella. They are housing, credit, employment, and social issues & politics. At first glance, you may not think your financial planning ads will fall under any of these categories. But keep in mind that Facebook can be picky at times, and some of these categories are very broadly defined.
Housing and Credit
Most agents and advisors won’t have to worry about these categories. Ads pertaining to credit opportunities include, but are not limited to, “credit card offers, auto loans, personal or business loan services, mortgage loans and long-term financing.” With no mention of financial products, you should be safe to ignore this one.
Housing ads are another category we can overlook. However, any agents whose services include homeowners or mortgage insurance need to be aware of the new policy when crafting their campaigns.
Do you actively recruit new agents to join your team? Are you hiring a new administrative assistant or office manager? If you’re using Facebook to push out your help wanted ads, the new policy will definitely affect you.
According to Facebook, employment ads are defined as “ads that promote or directly link to an employment opportunity, including but not limited to part- or full-time jobs, internships or professional certification programs. Related ads that fall within this category include promotions for job boards or fairs, aggregation services or ads detailing perks a company may provide, regardless of a specific job offer.”
Social Issues & Politics
This is the broadest and most ambiguously defined special ad category. We can overlook the politics aspect of this category, as those pertain almost exclusively to political candidates. Social issues, however, are a little trickier.
On paper, these are defined as “sensitive topics that are heavily debated, may influence the outcome of an election or result in/relate to existing or proposed legislation. Ads about social issues seek to influence public opinion through discussion, debate or advocacy for or against important topics, like health and civil and social rights.”
The list of social issue topics is pretty much what you might expect. Civil rights, crime, and environment, to name a few. There are a handful of topics on this list that agents and advisors should be aware of – economy, education, and health.
On the surface, it might seem like a stretch to think that your ads about financial planning or life insurance would fall under any of these categories. But Facebook has been vague about the finer points of each of these categories. For example, ads about solar panels have been flagged for not going through the special ad category process.
Do your services include college tuition planning? Long-term care or health insurance? Are you running a campaign based around tax season? If so, it’s possible you will need to identify your ad under the special categories umbrella.
If your ad does meet the requirements for a special ad category, your ability to hyper-focus on a specific target audience will be limited. The new policy aims to prevent discrimination based on certain personal characteristics. This means you will be hitting a much broader pool of consumers, including many who might not find your ads relevant.
Targeting options for ads that meet the special categories requirement include:
- Location: Zip codes are not an option when targeting based on geographic location. Instead, any specific locations you select (be it a city or specific address) will reach everyone within a 15-mile radius.
- Age & Gender: Targeting based on age and gender is not an option for special category ads. All of these ads must reach both men and women, ages 18 – 65+
- Detailed and Interest Targeting: Special category ads still allow for some detailed targeting based on user interest. However, many of the options you can choose from when running normal ads are not available here. You also cannot exclude any demographics from seeing your ads.
Will This Affect My Ad Campaigns?
For many of you, the answer is “probably not.” As mentioned above, there are only a handful of circumstances that could see your ads check the boxes for a special ad category. That said, this is something all business owners need to be aware of. For one, if you run across any issues getting your ads approved, this new policy could be the reason why. Also, keep in mind that Facebook is constantly changing the rules with their advertising platform and it’s not unreasonable to think that these categories could one day expand.
For those of you who have been or will be affected by this change, and will be advertising to a broader, less-targeted audience as a result, remember the golden rule about marketing – content is king.
Having your ads seen by a much bigger audience is not always a good thing. Especially when it comes to niche services like financial planning. The number of eyes that will pass over your ad without a second thought can seem frustrating. The trick is to create content that grabs the attention of those who you do want to reach.
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DIFC-LCIA Arbitration comparison with DIAC Arbitration
Manchester United is playing Arsenal. In an incredibly intense contest between the two, at the 85thminute, there is a coming together between the players inside the penalty box. The referee, to understand the incident and know who the perpetrator was, uses the help of Video Assistant Referee (VAR). The referee, with the assistance of VAR, was able to identify and resolve the issue at hand. Similarly, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) works in the same manner. When two parties have a dispute, resolving it through the process of litigation can often be an extremely lengthy and time-consuming process, not to mention, rigid as well. ADR, in the form of arbitration, mediation, etc., brings various other options in settling these disputes without going through the process of litigation.
In this article, we will run through a brief comparison of the procedural and substantive laws in the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC).
The DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre:
The DIFC was established as a financial centre and free zone 2004. In 2008, in agreement with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), an arbitration centre was created with the primary objective being the promotion and administration of effective and efficient arbitration proceedings for parties based in the Gulf and MENA region. The Arbitration Rules 2016, issued by the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, govern all arbitration proceedings of the Centre, with some of the sectors being construction, media, financial and telecommunications.
All arbitration proceedings will be conducted by an Arbitration Tribunal which will be formulated by the LCIA Courts, who have the exclusive authority to appoint arbitrators. The nationality of the arbitrator must not be the same as that of either of the parties unless the party with the different nationality agrees in writing otherwise. The appointed arbitrator may be revoked by the LCIA Court if:
- The arbitrator gives a written notice stating his/her intention to resign.
- The arbitrator becomes seriously ill and unfit to act and carry out the duties of an arbitrator.
- The impartiality and independence of the arbitrator are reasonably doubted due to circumstances.
Once the Arbitration Tribunal has been formed, the parties must contact the Tribunal within 21 days in whichever manner possible. The duties of the Tribunal are as such:
- To act justly and impartially between all parties.
- To ensure that the procedures adopted are suitable to the circumstance and provide an efficient and expeditious way to the final resolution.
After the Tribunal has been formulated, the claimant must deliver a written statement of the case to the Tribunal and the other involved parties within 28 days of the formulation of the Tribunal. Along with the written statement of the case, all legal submissions and details of relevant facts, as well as the relief being claimed, must be submitted. Once the claimant's documents have been received, the respondent must deliver to the Tribunal and all other parties the statement of defence and any counter-claim, if applicable, along with relevant legal submissions and other essential documents. Without exceeding 28 days from the date at which the respondent made the submissions, the claimant must make a statement of reply and any statement of counter-claim, if applicable, that is supported with the relevant documentation. If there is a statement of counter-claim by the claimant, the respondent must, within 28 days, must deliver a written statement of reply. Should the respondent fail to do so, the Tribunal can go ahead with the proceedings and issue the award as necessary.
The seat of arbitration can either be mutually agreed by the parties before the formulation of the tribunal and in the event that it is being decided after the formulation of the Tribunal, the decision must be taken with the consent of the Tribunal. If any such agreement has defaulted, the seat of arbitration shall be the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The tribunal can also conduct the hearings at a geographically convenient place other than the designated seat upon consultation and agreement with the parties. With respect to the language of the arbitration, initially, the parties will use the language in which the Arbitration Agreement is formed unless the usage of a different language is specified in the agreement. If mutliple languages are used, the LCIA Court can determine which language can be utilized. If any document is submitted to the Tribunal in a language different from that in which the Arbitration is being conducted, then a translation must be provided.
The Arbitral Tribunal is empowered to issue interim orders, after a reasonable opportunity has been given to the parties to respond to the claims, such as:
- Issue order to any party to provide security for the amount in dispute in the form of a deposit/bank guarantee/any other manner.
- Issue the storage/sale/disposal of any documents, goods, property which is under the control of any of the parties and is related to the subject matter of the arbitration.
- Issue an order for provisional relief, pending the final award, in the form of payment of money or disposition of property in between the parties.
With regards to the final award, it can be made in any currency provided the parties have agreed otherwise. The award issued is considered to be final and binding on the relevant parties and must be carried out immediately. The parties won't have any right to appeal or review the award. The choice of law that is to be followed in such agreements is mutually agreed upon by the parties.
The jurisdiction of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre has been contended several times. The UAE is a party to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards. The convention is of the view that an arbitration award issued in any contracting state can be enforced without any unreasonable restriction in any other contracting state except on the following grounds, as per Article 5 of the convention:
- The invalidity of the arbitration agreement according to the governing law.
- The defendant was not given proper notice of the proceeding or was unable to present his or her case.
- The subject matter of the arbitration cannot be settled by arbitration in the jurisdiction where recognition/enforcement of the award is petitioned.
- The recognition or enforcement of the award is against the public policy of the jurisdiction where the award is seeking to be recognized or enforced.
The recognition and enforcement of awards have been further set out in Part 4 of the DIFC Law No. 1 of 2013, which states that arbitral awards will be recognized and enforced not just within DIFC, but outside the DIFC as well, in accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 12 of 2004. The jurisdiction of DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre was further affirmed in the case (1) Egan (2) Eggert v (1) Eava (2) Efa DIFC ARB 002, where the claimant wanted to enforce an award, that was issued outside DIFC but within the emirate of Dubai, in DIFC. The defendants contested that since they did not have anything to do with DIFC and did not have any assets in DIFC, the DIFC Courts did not have any jurisdiction over the same. It was held that the defendant is not required to be present in DIFC or have any assets in order to recognize an award, which was in accordance with Article 42 of Part 4 of DIFC Law No. 1 of 2013.
The Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC):
The Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) was established by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1994 as a Centre of Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration. The DIAC is an independent and autonomous organization that is governed by the UAE Federal Laws. The primary objective of DIAC is to provide arbitration services with the help of internationally qualified arbitrators at an affordable price. The services offered include:
- Overseeing arbitral proceedings and disputes.
- Appointing arbitrators
- Choosing the venue for arbitration
- Fixing the fee of arbitrators and mediators
The Dubai International Arbitration Centre is governed by the UAE Civil Procedural Code Federal Law No. 11 of 1992 and the DIAC Arbitration Rules 2007. The arbitration proceedings that are followed are quite similar in nature to that of the LIAC/DIFC Arbitration Centre. The structure of DIAC is as follows:
- Board of Directors of the Chamber (Dubai Chamber)
- DIAC Board of Trustees
- DIAC Executive Committee
- DIAC Manager
- DIAC Administrative Body
The Board of Directors advises the Ruler on the appointments of the Board of Trustees, and their primary function is to oversee the structure and operations of the Arbitration Centre and appoint the senior management. The Board of Directors is not tasked with handling any of the cases that comes the way of the Arbitration Centre. The Board of Trustees, on the other hand, are entrusted with the responsibility of the overall management of the DIAC and is comprised of 15 members having experience in the field of arbitration with the term of the appointment being three years. The Board also has to provide the approval to organizational structure, regulations and bye-laws of the Arbitration Centre, give guidance in the adoption of DIAC's general policies and propose possible changes to the rules and procedures, if any. The Executive Committee is responsible for the implementation of the decisions that are taken by the Board of Trustees and carry out other functions under the DIAC Rules. The Manager, who is appointed by the Board of Directors, is expected to control and administer the rules of DIAC and its bodies. The Administrative Body of DIAC ensures that the arbitration services provided by DIAC run in an efficient manner, that adheres to the DIAC Rules.
The Arbitration Tribunal, as set up by mutual agreement between the parties or at the discretion of the Centre if the parties are not in agreement, must always be uneven in number. The arbitrators appointed by the Centre must be impartial in nature and must not, in any manner whatsoever, attempt to act as advocates for either of the parties involved. As per the DIAC Rules, the seat of arbitration can be mutually agreed upon between the parties, and if on the contrary, the seat shall be Dubai, unless the Executive Committee determines a more appropriate seat.
Once the Arbitration Centre receives the request for arbitration, it shall transfer the file to the Tribunal at the earliest of its formation. Within 30 days from the date at which the Tribunal receives the file, the Tribunal must let the parties know the date and venue of a preliminary hearing and accordingly, the Tribunal will fix a schedule for the proceedings. If the Statement of Claim, which has a comprehensive outline of the facts and legal arguments supported with the relief being claimed, was not submitted with the request for arbitration, it must be done so in a span of 30 days of the receipt of notification from the Centre on the establishment of the Tribunal, with a copy being submitted to the Respondent, the Tribunal and the Centre. The Statement of Claim must be accompanied with the required documents the Claimant might be required to rely on. The Respondent shall, within 30 days of receiving the Statement of Claim or the receipt of formation of the Tribunal by the Centre (whichever is later), must submit a Statement of Defence to the Claimant, the Tribunal and to the Centre and this statement must be supported by the required documentation that the Respondent intends to use. If the Respondent intends to pursue any counter-claim, the same must be made in the Statement of Defence. In addition to the Statement of Claim by the Claimant and the Statement of Defence by the Respondent, it is the discretion of the Tribunal to allow any further written statements. In the event that it does, all submissions must be made within a time limit of 30 days.
The Arbitration Tribunal of DIAC has the power to evaluate the evidence that is submitted, including the admissibility, relevance and expert opinion, if any, on a case-to-case basis and is even empowered to determine the time, manner and format which the exchange of evidence happens between the parties. The Tribunal further has the discretion to hold hearings, allow oral arguments and bring in witnesses. If the witness needs to be heard by the Tribunal, the following must be submitted before the Tribunal at least 15 days prior:
- Identity and address of the witness
- The subject matter of their testimony
- Relevance to the issue at hand
- Language of testimony
The Tribunal is also empowered to issue any provisional/conservatory orders it deems necessary. If any party requests a competent judicial authority for an interim or conservatory measure or for the implementation of any directive issued by the Tribunal, it will be deemed to be compatible with the Arbitration Agreement entered between the parties. In the event that the Claimant does not produce a Statement of Claim, the Tribunal can refuse to proceed with the claim, but this will not stop it from pursuing the Counter-Claim of the Respondent. If any party fails to utilize the opportunity to present its case to the Tribunal and does not show any reasonable cause for the same, the Tribunal can draw any inference it deems appropriate from such conduct.
With respect to the rules of law, the Tribunal can decide to implement the rules of law as mutually chosen by the parties, and if that is not the case, then the Tribunal is to apply the law which it deems to be most appropriate. Once the Tribunal decides that it is satisfied with the opportunities given to the parties to present their submissions and pieces of evidence, it can declare the proceedings to be closed. In exceptional circumstances, the Tribunal can re-open the proceedings, either on its own motion or at the application of either of the parties, at any moment before the award is made. Within six months from the date at which the Tribunal received the file, the Tribunal must issue the award and can extend the time-limit for an additional six months. If the Tribunal feels that it needs further time, then it can request the Executive Committee to do so. The awards made by the Tribunal are binding on the parties, and since the parties wave their right to appeal in agreeing to proceed with the arbitration proceedings, it is final. If the parties need any further clarification on the award, within 30 days from the date of receipt of the final award, the parties can request the Tribunal for an interpretation of the said award.
The UAE is a signatory to GCC Convention for the Execution of Judgments, Delegations and Judicial Notifications as well as the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. This means that an arbitration award that is made in any of the contracting states can be recognized and enforced in any of the other contracting states. If the enforcement of the award by a contracting state is against the public policy that it follows, then the award cannot be enforced.
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