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Dielectric spectroscopy was performed on a Nb and In co-doped rutile TiO2 nano-crystalline ceramic (n-NITO) synthesized by a low-temperature spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. The dielectric properties of the n-NITO were not largely affected by the metal electrode contacts. Huge dielectric relaxation was observed at a very low temperature below 35 K. Both the activation energy and relaxation time suggested that the electronic hopping motion is the underlying mechanism responsible for the colossal dielectric permittivity (CP) and its relaxation, instead of the internal barrier layer effect or a dipolar relaxation. With Havriliak-Negami (H-N) fitting, a relaxation time with a large distribution of dielectric relaxations was revealed. The broad distributed relaxation phenomena indicated that Nb and In were involved, controlling the dielectric relaxation by modifying the polarization mechanism and localized states. The associated distribution function is calculated and presented. The frequency-dependent a.c. conductance is successfully explained by a hopping conduction model of the localized electrons with the distribution function. It is demonstrated that the dielectric relaxation is strongly correlated with the hopping electrons in the localized states. The CP in SPS n-NITO is then ascribed to a hopping polarization.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
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ANTALYA, Turkey — A Turkish mother of two daughters is looking for help to treat her daughters born without a nose.
The two sisters – Amine Cetin, 13, and Erva, nine months old – live in the district of Serik in the southern Turkish city of Antalya with their family.
“The doctors told us that this is a very rare disease,” said the mother, Naile Kurtulus Cetin. “There are only 13 cases in the world, four of them in Turkey. I gave birth to Erva at a private hospital.”
Cetin said Erva’s condition drew a lot of attention.
“They did tests on her at the hospital and found there were two more cases in Turkey, but they do not know if they are still alive,” she said.
Both sisters were born with an extremely rare condition called congenital arhinia – a condition where the person has a complete lack of an external nose or nasal passageways.
Doctors told their mother that the odds of two people born in the same family with the same condition were one in a million.
Naile and her partner Serhat Cetin have another daughter named Deniz Cetin, 8, who was born completely healthy and does not have the rare condition like her sisters.
Amine received treatment for the rare condition and even got a nose from a plastic surgeon. However, her mother worries that she still has difficulty in breathing.
Meanwhile, Erva, in particular, struggles to breathe while she sleeps or eats as she quickly runs out of breath when she closes her mouth.
“She [Erva] has a special pacifier. We tape the pacifier to her mouth, and she breathes that way. She cannot hold the pacifier herself because she does not have an upper palate,” the mother said.
Naile explained that Amine had the same problems when she was an infant and underwent several complicated operations. She said despite the doctors saying Amine would die, “God kept her alive”.
“I do not wish for anything other than my daughters to receive treatment, so they can breathe,” Naile added.
Naile and her family remain hopeful they can get the help needed to get the young girls the treatment they need from doctors and dentists.
As of 2019, the U.S. had the largest number of plastic surgeons globally, with 6,900 surgeons. Brazil had the second largest number of plastic surgeons with 6,011. Peru became the 20th country with the most plastic surgeons in 2019, with 563 plastic surgeons. Turkey stood at ninth position with 1450 plastic surgeons registered till 2019.
(Edited by Vaibhav Vishwanath Pawar and Gaurab Dasgupta.)
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GRMN 450: Survey of German Literature
Prerequisite: GRMN 300 or four years of high school German
Credit Hours: (4) Four hours lecture
This course surveys literature in the German language by means of analysis of selected representative works in their historical, cultural and literary background.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
Students read a small sampling of representative literary works from the major periods and movements. Although a major emphasis is placed on reading comprehension, German is spoken and heard in class; likewise, students receive writing practice when preparing the written form of their oral report. An overview of the works read follows:
- heroic lays: Das Hildebrandlied
- the medieval period: Das Nibelungenlied, and some Minnesang
- humanism and the baroque: Der Ackermann aus Böhmen and Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, some Gryphius poems
- classical period: some poems by Goethe and Schiller, Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
- romantic period: selected poems and short prose by Hölderlin, Heine, Kleist, and some of Grimm's fairy tales
- 19th century: novella by Storm, Keller or Droste-Hülshoff
- 20th century: prose by Kafka; a play by Brecht or Dürrenmatt; and poems by Trakl, Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Sachs.
- Students choose oral reports on works not covered in class so as to broaden the sampling of works encountered.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
Class is conducted in the target language. Students read the selected texts before the discussion in class and first receive assistance from the instructor in reading comprehension, e.g. in vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. Subsequently the instructor has the students recapitulate orally the main content and features of the text. The instructor finally lectures on the cultural, literary, and historical background of the work and also on the significant literary features of the text that facilitate an attempt at interpretation of the work. Students present orally a report on a work and include the following parts in their report: a. a brief plot summary; b. the important themes; c. the significance of the form; d. biographical and cultural background information; and e. the importance or representativeness of the work in the history of German literature. Subsequently, students prepare a written form of this oral report. The first submission of the paper is a penultimate draft that is corrected by the instructor and revised by the student.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Students will develop an ability to read with consistent understanding prose of greater length dealing primarily with factual information and intended for the general reader. Moreover, in areas of special interest or knowledge, students will develop an increasing ability to understand parts of texts which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Students also will be able to identify and describe the major periods of German literature and analyze and interpret some leading works in their cultural background.
Students are quizzed regularly on their progress in reading. Reading comprehension and vocabulary tests evaluate students' comprehension of the basic content of the texts and their progress in vocabulary acquisition. Literature tests focus on students' comprehension of the literary, cultural, biographical, and historical issues elaborated on in class lectures. Students demonstrate their ability to study other works independently in the oral and written reports.
Other Course Information
Literary topics that cannot be treated in this course because of the severe time limitations can be focused upon in GRMN 460 Special Topics.
Approval and Subsequent Reviews
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CAT 2013 Tips: 'Please focus on Algebra and Geometry more'
In an online chat with readers on October 17, IIM-K alumnus and CAT expert Nishant Priyadarshi answered questions on CAT 2013, MBA programmes and b-school admissions.
Approximately 4,000 students appeared for the nation's most competitive management entrance exam, the Common Admission Test, that commenced October 16, 2013.
The exam will be held over a 20-day window and will be taken by 1.94 lakh students from across the country. The last day of the exam is November 11, 2013.
To help readers better understand the paper pattern and learn new strategies to crack the exam, Rediff.com had organised a chat with IIM-K alumnus and CAT expert Nishant Priyadarshi, co-director of VistaMind Education, a CAT coaching institute based in Bangalore.
For those who missed the live chat, here's the unedited transcript:
Nishant Priyadarshi: General tips for CAT Takers – 1) Revise basic calculation oriented data tables and bar charts 2) Practise addition, subtraction, percentage and fractions 3) Please focus on Algebra and Geometry more than other areas
rahim: I have one more week for the exam so is attempting sectional mocks a good practice rather than going for the full one??
Nishant Priyadarshi: Write 70 minutes sectionals....
Jitesh: Is CAT the only way to make it to IIMs? what about those who are better with their skills? why do ppl with work ex have to sit through this 140 minute exam?
Nishant Priyadarshi: you will have to ask that question to IIMs. But institutes across the world test your aptitude first....
risa-verghese: Sir, which is the best way to tackle QA?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Focus more on algebra and geometry
Waman: I have always wondered how are CAT scores normalized? Also, what strategy will help to score in QA and LR?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Don't worry about things that are beyond your control. Practise basic calculations and puzzle varieties
Sudaram: Sir I am unable to break 90 percentile barrier in mocks...what should be my strategy?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Try completing the sections in 40-45 minutes, solving questions that you know and marking the ones that you are not very sure of. Then from the 'review marked' button, attempt the marked questions
risa-verghese: Thank you sir. For VA how do we go about with the vocabulary part?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Just revise once all the words that you have learnt so far. Y'day there was no vocab/no grammar though...
Waman: Sir did you take the CAT this year? what to expect from the exam?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Yes, I took the exam. It has become very predictable and boring :o)
Waman: Does it also mean that it has become easy to crack?
Nishant Priyadarshi: No. It has become predictable for everyone. So every one has the same advantage. Remember it not the score but percentile that matters.
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'CAT is not a pass or fail exam'
Appa: How to prepare for English reading passages? My speed is very bad.
Nishant Priyadarshi: Very difficult now to do much in the last 15-20 days. Will advice you to read the questions first and then try searching for the answer in the passage. You can solve direct questions this way. Also try to maximise score from VA and LA questions. It's part of the same section.
Guddy: Sir in CAT mocks my marks are fluctuating between 75 percentile to 95 percentile. How can I work on consistency?
Nishant Priyadarshi: Are you still trying different strategies in the mocks? The next 3-4 mocks should be taken exactly the same way, same strategy. Still a variation of 5-10 per cent will be there, but 20 per cent is a bit too much. You gotta narrow it down
Guddy: In case I don't make it to CAT, what are the other options I can try now?
Nishant Priyadarshi: There are lot of options. But CAT is not a pass or fail exam. You will have colleges at every score. The next big exam is XAT on 1st Sun Jan. Then you will have Feb CMAT.
Shirish: Sir I still refer to CAT solutions while solving Quant. How to improve confidence. I am scared of negative marking
Nishant Priyadarshi: Jo dar gaya samjho mar gaya. On CAT day, there will be no solutions. So just try solving questions from area where you are relatively comfortable. Also, try cracking DI that is 9 questions, in the same section
Jeswal: What about data sufficiency? What was this year's paper pattern like? How to prepare?
Nishant Priyadarshi: No questions on DS yet. But you should remain prepared. See, DS questions are based on QA and LA. So just prepare these areas and be clear with the steps of solving DS questions.
Jeswal: Is there a break between the two sections?
Nishant Priyadarshi: No. But you have to click to start the second section. And the timer starts only when the first question is on your screen. Hence you can take a small break.
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Why the algebra of deterrence is out of balance when it comes to effectively disclosing influencer marketing ads
Professor Scott Galloway talks of the algebra of deterrence. The New York University lecturer, podcast host and serial entrepreneur describes the algebra of deterrence: the probability of getting caught for doing something wrong or illegal multiplied by the size of the penalty for the wrongdoing should exceed the benefit of flouting the rules and regulations in the first place.
algebra OF DETERRENCE
probability of getting caught X severity of punishment > upside of getting away with it
Prof. Galloway often uses the term when describing Facebook’s behaviour. In 2019 the Federal Trade Commission dolled out a $5 billion fine to Facebook. A colossal sum of money by nearly any measure. It is the largest ever fine imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy or data security penalty ever imposed worldwide. For Facebook, however, the fine was tantamount to losing a fortnight’s revenue; like taking an unpaid summer vacation. Here, Mark Zuckerberg’s money-making algebra is more powerful than the regulator’s algebra of deterrence.
Hollyoaks star fails to disclose
Last week, UK soap star Jennifer Metcalfe got rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for failing to ensure an advertisement posted to her Instagram Stories was obviously identifiable as an ad.
The Hollyoaks actor, who plays Mercedes McQueen in the show, promoted hair brand, Haircybele by posting an image of herself holding a hair styling device. Accompanying text stated “hair goals”, with a further line exclaiming “Me again! Use code JEN70 for 70% off! @HAIRCYBELE Swipe up to view website”.
So far, so average. Just another day at the Shoreditch office for the UK regulator. The case, however, highlights two fundamental issues within influencer marketing.
How sharp are the watchdog’s teeth?
Firstly, the sharpness of the regulators’ teeth. In the assessment of the complaint, the ASA commented that it “was concerned by Jennifer Metcalfe’s lack of response and apparent disregard for the Code.” The ASA was forced to “remind her of her responsibility to respond promptly to our enquiries.”
Current influencer marketing compliance and disclosure rules are sufficient and fit-for-purpose. Awareness of current compliance and disclosure rules and regulations are sufficiently well understood by creators and consumers alike. However, the sanctions at the disposal of the regulators, and the process for triggering those sanctions, should be revisited.
In June the ASA launched a non-disclosure website spotlighting several repeat-offending influencers and internet celebrities.
Chloe Ferry, Chloe Khan, Jodie Marsh and Lucy Mecklenburgh all made it onto the ASA’s new wall of shame. Why were these women singled out? According to the ASA they were “all contacted by our compliance team and asked to provide an assurance that they would include clear and upfront ad labels in their advertising posts. They either failed to provide that assurance in the first instance or subsequently reneged on it”.
In other words: these internet celebrities knew the rules along with the risks and made a commercial decision to take a punt anyway. The algebra of deterrence is not weighted in favour of the regulator - or, by extension, society at large.
Until there is a real fear of loss of earnings, some celebrities-come-influencers will continue to flout the rules and show apparent contempt for the regulators.
“If named influencers continue to break our rules around non-disclosure, we have further sanctions we can implement, including taking out ads against them, working with social media platforms to have their content removed or referring them to statutory bodies for possible fines”, reassures the ASA. That’s a terrifically long run-up to a ‘possible fine’. And, there’s no mention of the potential size of the possible fine, either.
Objective-setting, measurement and evaluation
The second point raised by the investigation centres on measurement. Haircybele admitted to the ASA “there was no mechanism for sales to be tracked back to the content from consumer ‘click throughs’ or sales”.
What. Is. The. Point? If you don’t set objectives and can’t measure outcomes, why are you even running the campaign in the first place?
There will be an uptick in similar cases. Social media platforms are opening up their own marketplaces endeavouring to match brands with creators. But having access to tools is not the same as possessing the skills to operate these tools.
Influencer marketing is increasingly nuanced; increasingly sophisticated. It requires talented and experienced practitioners to run successful campaigns.
We’ve been here before with media databases housing contact details for journalists. Media relations is more involved than emailing a journalist with a press release and asking them to write about your brand. Influencer marketing is more than contacting a TV soapstar, telling them to hold up your product on the ‘Gram and offering them a discount code to share with their followers.
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The night before 14-year-old Ahmed Hassan fled Kabul, he awoke to find his father standing over him.
"It was cold and he put a blanket on me. I pretended to be asleep. He was praying, for my happiness and well being. I will never forget that," he said.
The once-respected and affluent Afghan doctor had watched his world destroyed by the Taliban and decided that his second youngest son must get out of the country before he, like so many of his age, was recruited to fight. The following morning he placed him in a car heading for Pakistan where he had paid an agent for a false passport and a flight to the UK. As his father bid him a tearful farewell, the teenager was simply excited, unaware of what lay ahead or that his father would die before they could ever meet again. Seven years later he still has the pen and body spray his father gave him.
The young man is now 21 and is a university student. He speaks with a London accent, sports the spiky hair style of his generation and - after racist abuse following the terror attacks of September 11 in the US - uses a Western-sounding name. His father died two years ago while his mother and sisters remain in Kabul.
Mr Hassan's "corporate parent" for the past seven years has been Hillingdon council, the authority responsible for the countless children and adolescents who arrive at Heathrow each year, permanently severed from their families, terrified of authority and unable to speak the language. Some are pregnant girls who have been raped, others bear the marks of torture or the trauma of having watched their parents killed.
Yesterday the council led a David-and-Goliath court battle against the Government, accusing it of reneging on its responsibility to these vulnerable young people. According to legislation introduced in 2003, Hillingdon, as the children's port of entry, is responsible for their welfare until they finish education or turn 24.
The battle is over funding for those aged 18 to 23 in their care, whose numbers have shot up from 179 in 2003 to 833 last year. The local authority has said that it costs about £198 a week to provide social care, counselling and education as well as partly funding housing for each one. While the Government promised £140 per youngster in 2004, it has retrospectively cut that amount to £100, leaving a shortfall of £5 a year. This has forced severe cuts - more than 100 council job posts have gone with 23 redundancies last year.
They hope that having the world's busiest airport in their borough makes them a special case and a judicial review before the High Court will find in their favour.
Ray Puddifoot, the council's leader, said: "It is pretty shabby treatment from the Government to do this to us. It is unacceptable not to recognise their duty to these people. It is unacceptable that we have to make job cuts in other areas. We are not arguing about our duty to these youngsters. But it is a national duty, not a local one."
At the High Court yesterday, Hillingdon's barrister, James Goudie QC, said that the change in the funding formula in January last year - allowing more authorities to obtain grants even though they were responsible for fewer young people - had led to a cut from £17m to £11m. He argued that it was "unlawful", had "calamitous effects" and inflamed "anti-asylum and anti-immigration sentiments". He asked the court to order the Secretary of State for Education and Skills to increase the funding back to £140 per week.
Paul Brown, for the Government, said that Hillingdon had no legitimate expectation and that the borough had never been promised the rate of £140 per week in the current year. The grants had only been intended to "assist" local authorities and not cover "the entirety" of the costs.
Reserving judgment, Mr Justice Forbes said he hoped to give his decision in the near future.
Asked why the British taxpayer should foot the bill for his upbringing, Ritvan Leknikaj, an earnest young Kosovar, responded: "I have worked really hard. What they have done is invest in me and I am going to pay that back and make a contribution to society."
Unlike most of the children and young people in Hillingdon's care - 1,137 at the moment - Mr Leknikaj arrived by road, thrown out of the back of a lorry, dehydrated and weak after days without food. When a police officer spotted him sleeping rough without even a jacket, the 15-year-old presumed he was in for yet another beating. Unable to speak English, he simply lifted his shirt to show that his back was black from bruising. He turned, his hands clenched, his arms outstretched ready to be handcuffed.
"The policeman ... was shocked. I waited to be handcuffed and he said 'no' and shook his head. He put me in a cell with a mattress and a blanket. It was a freezing October night outside and I was really grateful. Can you imagine when the best thing to happen to you is to be put in a police cell?"
Mr Leknikaj, his mother, father and sister had been among hundreds of Kosovars from a village in Montenegro who fled the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. As they walked over the mountains, they were suddenly arrested and Mr Leknikaj, then just 13, was separated from his family. To this day he has not been able to trace them. It is six years since that cold October night and he is now at university, studying media and film, and works as a volunteer with young people. He says he owes it all to the local social services.
Cathy Bambrough, Hillingdon's acting deputy director of children and family services, said that these young people worked hard and many still suffered from post-traumatic stress. This is all too evident in the way the two young men react to night-time.
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Before producing publications in Publisher 2010 you should know what you'll do with it once it's finished. Learn your options here.
Before you create a publication, you should already have an idea of what you want to do with it when it’s finished. Will you print and distribute it? Will you publish it online? Knowing the answers to these questions is essential to making decisions about how your publication will look.
In this lesson, you'll learn about the things you need to consider before publishing, like layout, print supplies, and more. You'll also learn about printing your publication and converting it to a PDF. | <urn:uuid:0ecfcfae-98de-41e3-b8d1-379d62a42782> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gcflearnfree.org/publisher2010/producing-a-publication/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00030-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958838 | 126 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Monkeypox Vaccines in BRHD
BRHD has a limited supply of monkeypox vaccines. To assist in our planning, we are using this form to gather contact information for people at high risk of exposure who are interested in getting vaccinated. If you are interested in a monkypox vaccine, complete this form. You are not guaranteed a vaccine by filling out this form. However, you will be added to our list to potentially receive a vaccine in the future depending on your risk factors and the available supply. The form is HIPAA compliant, meaning your health information will be protected.
Currently there is not sufficient vaccine available for everyone who meet the criteria for a monkeypox vaccine. If you meet one of these criteria and want to receive a vaccine when it becomes available, please submit your name, phone number and email address on the BRHD interest form, and a BRHD staff member will contact you within 3 business days to provide guidance for next steps. Please note that you will still need to register for an appointment when the opportunity to sign up is made available to you.
If you need assistance filling out this form, or have edits after submission, please contact BRHD at 434-591-1960 (M-F 8AM-4:30PM). Please only complete this survey once.
What is monkeypox?
Monkeypox, first discovered in 1958, is a disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Cases of monkeypox have been identified in the United States, including Virginia. VDH and BRHD are monitoring the spread closely and will provide updates as they become available.
Symptoms of monkeypox can include:
- Muscle aches and backache
- Swollen lymph nodes
- A rash that can look like pimples or blisters that appears on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body, like the hands, feet, chest, genitals, or anus.
The rash goes through different stages before healing completely. The illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks. Sometimes, people get a rash first, followed by other symptoms. Others only experience a rash.
Monkeypox can spread from person-to-person through:
- direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs, or body fluids
- respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact, or during intimate physical contact, such as kissing, cuddling, or sex
- touching items (such as clothing or linens) that previously touched the infectious rash or body fluids
- pregnant people can spread the virus to their fetus through the placenta
If you suspect you may be infected with or been exposed to monkeypox, call ahead to your medical provider before visiting them in-person.
For more information on monkeypox, visit the CDC website.
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|Islam and it's tolerance level|
Myth: Islam tolerates the killing of innocents because:
This misconception is one of the most widely held misconceptions about Islam today. And yet in the Qur'an, the Creator unambiguously states (translation),
Based on this verse and hadith, it is Islamically unlawful to murder anyone who is innocent of certain crimes. It is well to remember at this point the distinction made above between Qur'an and Sunnah, and the Muslims: only the Qur'an and Sunnah are guaranteed to be in accordance with what the Creator desires, whereas the Muslims may possibly deviate. Hence, if any Muslim kills an innocent person, that Muslim has committed a grave sin, and certainly the action cannot be claimed to have been done "in the name of Islam."
It should be clear, then, that "Muslim terrorist" is almost an oxymoron: by killing innocent people, a Muslim is committing an awesome sin, and Allah is Justice personified. This phrase is offensive and demeaning of Islam, and it should be avoided. It is hoped that as the general level of public awareness and understanding of Islam increases, people will keep "terrorism" and "Islam" separate from each other, not to be used in the same phrase.
Another reason advanced in support of the misconception is that the Creator has imposed `jihad' on us. The term "holy war" is from the time of the Crusades and originated in Europe as a rallying cry against the Muslims in Jerusalem. Jihad is an Arabic word meaning struggle, but in the context of many verses in the Qur'an, it carries the meaning of military struggle, or war. Allah gradually introduced the obligation of military struggle to the Muslim community at the time of the Messenger (saas). The first verse ever revealed in that connection is as follows (translation),
This verse lays down the precondition for all war in Islam: there must exist certain oppressive conditions on the people. The Creator unequivocally orders us to fight oppression and persecution, even at the expense of bloodshed as the following verse shows (translation),
As one might imagine, the method of military struggle has been clearly and extensively defined in the Qur'an and Sunnah. Since this subject is a huge one, we simply summarize part of it by noting that it is unlawful to kill women, children, the infirm, the old, and the innocent. From the Sunnah, specifically in the study of the Sunnah called Sahih Bukhari, we find:
A related misconception to jihad is often propagated by Muslims who say that "Jihad is only for self-defense of physical borders." The Qur'an and Sunnah refute this notion categorically. As the verses cited above show, jihad is obligatory wherever there is injustice, and Muslims need not acknowledge imaginary lines around the earth when it comes to upholding this obligation. The Messenger of Allah (saas) has also commented on this extensively in the Sunnah. From the study of the Sunnah called Sahih Bukhari, we find that,
Hence, the Creator obligates us to fight wherever people are being grossly deprived of freely hearing or practicing the Message of Allah as contained in the Qur'an and Sunnah. Sayyed Qutb, a famous Muslim scholar eloquently discusses the notion of jihad and self-defense in his book Milestones,
A third reason often cited for the misconception about Islam which says that this way of life tolerates the killing of innocents is that the judicial system of Islam is unnecessarily harsh. This reason is weak in two respects. First, it presupposes that human beings are more just and more merciful than the Creator, and therefore we can change the law. Second, it is often based on gross oversimplifications of Islamic law, such as saying "all thieves get their hands cut off."
The Qur'an and Sunnah make it clear that the law of retaliation (or equality) governs us for murder and physical injury, but forgiveness is better as the following verses from the Qur'an show (translation),
The Creator ordained the law of retaliation on us knowing full well that we might question it. In many non-Muslim societies today, there are ongoing debates about the death penalty. In Islam, this discussion is moot: the Creator has decided the matter for us. He has however given us an interesting verse in the Qur'an which advises to consider the matter carefully if we want to understand it (translation follows),
Most people are also unaware of the stringent conditions which must be met for the law of retaliation to be applicable. The Sunnah is full of examples of the Messenger of Allah showing us when the law's preconditions were fulfilled. For example, a thief is only liable to lose his or her hand if the item stolen exceeds a certain value, and if it is proven that the item was taken from its normal resting place. Stealing food is not punishable by the loss of one's hand, and other items are exempt as well. This is just an example of how gingerly the law is applied in Islam.
Finally, another reason advanced for this prevalent misconception is that Islam `spread by the sword'. It should be clear by now that we must always distinguish between the Qur'an and Sunnah and the Muslims when it comes to determining what the Creator has asked of us. Allah has stated clearly in the Qur'an (translation),
Hence, it is impossible to accept Islam under duress. Even if misguided Muslims were to try to `force' Islam somehow on others, it would not be accepted by the Creator based on this verse.
Historical arguments that try to demonstrate that Muslims did not `convert others by force' are actually secondary to the argument given above. However, it is worth noting that historically, Islam did spread by peaceful means. The Message of the Creator was conveyed to Africa and to southeast Asia by trading Muslims, and today the largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia. The military expeditions that led to the conquest of large swathes of territory in Europe and central Asia were all marked by tolerance of other creeds and faith.
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Headaches are extraordinarily common – the majority have a headache at a while in their lifestyles. Most headaches disappear on their personal (with a touch time) or with the help of slight ache relievers.
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Although maximum headaches are slight and brief annoyances, a few humans have complications which are so intense they want to consult a health practitioner for ache alleviation.
Children can also have complications, a few properly earlier than they attain the age of 10. Research shows that earlier than puberty, complications are greater commonplace in boys, but that fashion is reversed after puberty. Adult ladies enjoy greater complications than grownup guys, and they are frequently connected to a woman’s menstrual cycle. With advancing age, each men and women tend to have fewer, much less severe complications.
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A man walks his dog through Taikoo Li mall after many retail stores were closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 on May 10 in Beijing
China has reported disappointing economic data for the month of April, underscoring the extensive damage Covid lockdowns have wreaked on the country.
The world's second largest economy reported shocking drops in retail sales and factory production, widely missing market expectations.
Retail sales plunged 11.1% in April from a year ago, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. That was well below the 6.1% drop forecast in a Reuters survey of economists, and also much lower than the 3.5% decrease seen in March.
Industrial production fell 2.9% last month from a year earlier, reversing a 5% gain in March.
This marks the worst contraction in industrial production since February 2020, when China's economy came to a near standstill during the initial coronavirus outbreak. Unemployment also surged to the second highest level on record.
The urban jobless rate hit 6.1% in April, up from 5.8% in March — which was already at a 21-month high. The only time China's jobless rate was higher was in February 2020.
Young people have been finding it especially hard to find jobs, the data showed, with the unemployment rate for those between 16 to 24 years of age rising to 18.2% — the highest ever.
Rising unemployment is a warning sign for the ruling Communist Party given the risk of social and political instability. After all, zero-Covid at the cost of surging unemployment is a hard sell politically,” said Larry Hu, chief China economist for Macquarie Capital.
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DZone Research: The Future of API Management
Let's look at security as it relates to identity, access, and standards in the realm of API management.
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To gather insights on the current and future state of API management, we talked to 17 executives who are using APIs in their own organization, as well as helping clients use APIs to accelerate their digital transformation and the development of quality applications. We asked them "What’s the future for API management from your point of view — where do the greatest opportunities lie?"
Here's what they told us:
Security and Access
- Think of API security like a web. Send data to who you want to make sure you're sending to who you think you are. Real user access. Mobile app user logging in. Some are selling data via an API with a legitimate key. Protect the information whether displayed via raw API, mobile or web page.
- Make it available but give different levels of access. It should be open and available to individuals versus everyone. Integrate and innovate.
- 10 years ago when SOAP and REST were being barely followed not following standards or principles. More standards and competition will weed out those who do not. Security and privacy will need stronger auditing of who uses, when and how. As building software becomes faster there will be more APIs talking to each other. Authentication requirements. First maturation around APIs.
- In the modern API world of REST HTTP, there are not that many problems or policy management needs. The greatest opportunity starts with the developers knowing what they need to do — start left, train the developer, certification, know how to write secure code. Will need an independent security standard for APIs. Document the security characteristics of the API. What are the security standards and characteristics?
- Identity and scope with limited access authorization by understanding the use cases you are designing for. Understand what you are trying to do before granting someone access.
- What I’d like to see — and what I think is coming — is greater integration with the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph. There is a great opportunity for API management in helping defend against bad actors within a given system and reporting data that can help secure other systems. One of the goals of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph is to help tie together all of their different signals from different sources to expose and mitigate against advanced threats. API management would help provide additional signals to that system and can use signals of that system to both throttle or protect against bad use. We’re not there yet, but I’d be shocked if they’re not thinking about it.
- This new scale of API use, combined with the lack of experienced API engineers, the criticality and speed of change in organizations going through their digital transformation journey create a lot of pain points that traditional API management vendors are only addressing partially. The increasing number of business-critical use cases requiring access to core data from outside the organization — while ensuring end-to-end data security, compliance, and change management — will require a new generation of API platforms, more closely built within battle-tested data integration and governance solutions.
- API management and integration are coming together. We’re more of an integration player. As the world of integration becomes cloud and API based the two worlds merge together nicely. That’s the future. People will try to buy a solution that does both from a single vendor. Traditionally API management vendors would talk about integration – orchestration, workflows but designed as gateway product so it doesn’t make sense. Back away from that as a way to solve problems. Leverage tools that do both.
- Serverless and how API management becomes a service AWS offers. We could see ourselves moving away from Nginx to use something else like application load balancers. Having more repeatable patterns around AWS will be interesting.
- APIs are built into three levels of the platform: 1) edge data management; 2) APIs managing data at the sensor level with blockchain and security; and, 3) vertical-specific end application APIs.
- APIs will be ubiquitous people will stitch together business applications by calling out to APIs. For example, customers start exposing some sort of risk scoring a retailer could use. Not necessarily credit risk, could be fraud risk, other types of risk. A ubiquitous landscape of APIs. Stitch together best of breed applications that meet their need. There will be monetization of this. Ubiquity, sharing like Home Depot where you buy two by four and nails to build a shed. It will be the same for application development.
- Transitioning to autonomous capabilities using AI/ML self-driving, self-defining, self-healing?
- Having specific solutions for industries and use cases. Can happen to a larger extent e.g. PSD2 directive by the European Union for financial services opening the apps with APIs more visibility into what’s happening with data. Healthcare, social media, telecommunications all have opportunity and needs for tailored solutions. By 2020 seven unique devices per person. Having developer kits for IoT APIs. Get developers involved with IoT and APIs.
- A lot of great things happening. A lot of customers are using them. Getting to a reusable environment. A big change in containers and container management. Containers to deploy backend software has changed their development method. Start to see more API management within the container management service mesh (ISTIO) fine grain automatic form of API management between container clusters. Visibility into fine grain things.
- Simplification, automation, orchestration. On simplicity side rather than just look at as a coding problem we look at as a visualization problem, what applications are available in the enterprise, show integration points, drag and drop with no coding. Should happen with limited to no coding. If you can do that then the next step is to not even think of it as an API think of it as one fluid application or business process transparent to the business and the users. That’s where the automation comes into play. If you get it right, there shouldn’t be a need for additional technology in between.
- Event-driven APIs are the future of APIs. While protocols of the endpoints may come and go (REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC vs. websockets, etc.), a whole new world has been opened up by serverless compute and cloud-native architectures. IoT and Edge compute add yet another layer of opportunity to this for the event-driven space. Small-footprint API micro gateways (like open source Project Mashling) can enable data transfer, microservice and function execution, and analytics of devices and sensors on the edge, but only when triggered by an event. This enables highly distributed, yet highly integrated and cost-effective infrastructure for the digital enterprise.
- The greatest opportunities for API Management lie in the delivery of end-to-end use cases, from building microservices around data and application logic to testing, deploying and monitoring those APIs, to consuming those backend services via mobile and IoT clients, all with built-in security and complete DevOps integration. An application pipeline built around these modern architectures and patterns will provide incredible benefits to the velocity and adaptability of adopters, resulting in market differentiation and improved business outcomes.
Here's who we talked to:
- Maxime Prades, Vice President of Product, Algolia
- Jaime Ryan, Senior Director, Product Management & Strategy API Management, CA Technologies
- Ross Garrett, VP Marketing, Cloud Elements
- OJ Ngo, CTO, DH2i
- Reid Tatoris, Vice President Product Outreach and Marketing, Distil Networks
- Oren Novotny, Chief Architect, DevOps and Modern Software, Digital Innovation, Insight
- Raj Sabhlok, CEO, ManageEngine
- Keith Casey, API Problem Solver, Okta
- Vikas Anand, Vice President Product Development, Oracle
- Mike LaFleur, Global Director Solution Architecture, Provenir
- Steve Willmott, Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure, Red Hat
- Keshav Vasudevan, Product Marketing Manager, SmartBear
- Chris McFadden, V.P. of Operations, SparkPost
- Jerome Louvel, VP of Product Management, Talend
- Derek Birdsong, Product Marketing Manager, Connected Intelligence Cloud, TIBCO
- Setu Kulkarni, Vice-President of Product and Corporate Strategy, WhiteHat Security
- Roman Shaposhnik, Co-founder VP Product Strategy, and Vijay Tapaskar, Co-founder VP Engineering and Ops, Zededa
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Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans provide information about the status not only of soft tissue structures like organs, nerves and the brain, but also exquisite detail of even the smallest bony structures such as the vertebrae.
CT scans are considered to be one of the best ways to evaluate the sinuses. They are also helpful for evaluating swelling, inflammation and tumors.
During a CT scan, you will lie flat on a table that automatically slides into a doughnut-shaped piece of equipment. Most scans take only a few minutes and have a low risk of radiation exposure.
As X-rays pass through your body, different tissues absorb different amounts. Detectors inside the gantry measure the radiation leaving your body and convert the radiation into electrical signals. A computer gathers these signals and gives them a color ranging from black to white, depending on the signal's strength. The computer then puts the images together and displays them on a computer monitor. A technician in a separate room supervises your exam and watches the images on the computer. He or she can see and talk with you through an intercom.
Depending on what information is needed, the doctor may order a CT scan that is done using a contrast fluid or dye. This requires injecting a small amount of a colorless fluid (called dye or contrast) into a vein in your arm or hand before the CT scan. (If you have any allergies to drugs, iodine or other contrast agents, let your doctor know.)
A CT scan is painless. It can be done on an infant or toddler. Unlike magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) , a CT scan can be done even if you have a pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator.
Usually having a CT scan done takes less than an hour. Most of that time is spent preparing for the actual scan. As with an X-ray, a radiologist who is specially trained to read the images will look at the scan and send a report to your doctor or surgeon.
A CT scan is about as safe as an ordinary X-ray. There is some brief exposure to radiation. However, the information that a CT scan provides outweighs the risks of the radiation exposure.
If any of the following apply to you, please tell your doctor:
- You are or think you might be pregnant. In this case, your doctor may want to recommend another type of diagnostic test.
- You have asthma or allergies. If it is necessary for you to have a contrast medium while the CT scan is done, there is a small possibility that you would have an allergic reaction to the medium.
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What are 3 ways to adapt your message to your audience?
Adapting Your Message to Your Audience:
- Identify ALL possible audiences. Who are ALL the people who may eventually want or need to read your document?
- Analyze the discourse community.
- Identify the audience’s expectations, needs and wants, and structure your message to satisfy these in specific ways.
- Revise ALL documents for the following:
What are the elements of effective speaking?
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech
- Gentle eye contact.
- Kind facial expression.
- Warm tone of voice.
- Expressive hand and body gestures.
- Relaxed disposition.
- Slow speech rate.
- The words themselves.
What are at least 4 different factors one should consider when crafting their speech with the audience in mind?
Knowing your audience —their general age, gender, education level, religion, language, culture, and group membership—is the single most important aspect of developing your speech.
What are some methods of audience analysis?
4 Research Methods for Audience Analysis
- Primary Research. The first step when beginning audience analysis is gathering as much information as possible.
- Qualitative Research.
- Focus Groups.
- Quantitative Research.
- Social Media Analytics.
- Surveys and Questionnaires.
- Secondary Research.
What are the 5 categories of audience analysis?
In addition, this chapter explores the five categories of audience analysis: (1) the situational analysis, (2) the demographic analysis, (3) the psychological analysis, (4) the multicultural analysis, and (5) the topic interest and prior knowledge analysis.
What are the 3 types of audience analysis?
There are three phases in audience analysis: adaptation before, during, and after the speech. When we analyze our audience, there are three ways to do this; demographic analysis, attitudinal analysis, and environmental analysis.
What are the elements of audience?
Demographics. The demographic factors of an audience include age, gender, religion, ethnic background, class, sexual orientation, occupation, education, group membership, and countless other categories. Since these categories often organize individual’s identities and experiences, a wise speaker attends to the them.
What makes a good audience?
Being a good audience member is a characteristic that guarantees your respect in your relevant community. Good listeners are engaged and respectful of the presenter while trying to make a genuine connection, smiling, listening, nodding their heads and make the most of their time spent attending the presentation.
What are the two types of audiences?
Different Types Of Audiences You May Encounter
- Neutral Audience. These will be the kind of people who are directly or indirectly interested or don’t want to invest in your idea.
- Hostile Audience. These are the people who are in strong disagreement with your idea.
- Uninformed Audience.
- Expert Audience.
- Business Audience.
Can an audience be one person?
2 Answers. One can use the word audience for one person alone, but only if the nature of the event is such that there could have been, and normally would have been, more people attending it, and it just happened that nobody else showed up on the particular occasion.
What is an example of a target audience?
Examples of a Target Audience Target audiences center around a specific group of people. These can be men, women, teenagers, or children. They generally share an interest such as reading, running, or soccer. Personas can help advertisers investigate relevant magazine titles or industry publications.
How do you target the right audience?
Top 10 Ways To Reach Your Target Audience
- Getting to know your target audience:
- Focusing on your target audience’s needs:
- Talking to (or even better – with) your target audience, not at them:
- Building Trust and Credibility:
- Creating an Engaging and Attention Grabbing Message:
- Maximizing Your Budget:
- Finding the Right Channel/Medium:
What is audience strategy?
The definition of audience targeting is exactly what you’d expect: It’s the practice of using data to segment consumers by demographics or interests in order to find the holy grail that is the right person on the right device at the right moment.
What is audience first strategy?
“Audience first” is the always-on approach of leveraging first- and third-party audience insights, metrics and KPIs to develop and distribute content that meets the evolving needs of both new and existing target audiences. This approach is truly about audience development and sustainment.
What is the purpose of audience segmentation?
Audience segmentation enables programs to match audiences, messages, media, products and services based on the specific needs and preferences of the audience. Tailoring an SBCC strategy to the characteristics, needs and values of important audience segments improves the chances for desired behavior change.
Why is target audience important?
Since it’s impossible to reach everyone at once, narrowing your focus to a core audience helps you to develop an effective marketing strategy. It helps your company craft a messaging strategy that appeals directly to the type of consumers who are more likely to convert into customers.
What are the 5 main different segments for demographics?
Demographic segmentation groups customers and potential customers together by focusing on certain traits that might represent useful markets for a business. What are the 5 main different segments for demographics? The five main demographic segments are age, gender, occupation, cultural background, and family status.
What is segmentation and its purpose?
Segmentation acknowledges that different people and groups have different needs. Successful marketers use segmentation to figure out which groups (or segments) within the market are the best fit for the products they offer. These groups constitute their target market.
What are two methods for automating segmentation?
There are several ways you can automate segmentation in Marketing Cloud: filter activities, query activities, and Audience Builder. We focus on filter activities, since they are the most common way to segment an audience.
What is the difference between tags and segments in Mailchimp?
Unlike Tags or Groups, you are not adding data to your audience, instead, you are using the data you already have in your audience to categorise your contacts. A segment can be created from any of the information you have in your audience merge fields (this is the information you put in for a contact).
What is the difference between groups and segments in Mailchimp?
Both are ways of organizing your subscribers in order to send better targeted emails to them. Groups and segments are similar but different. Groups in Mailchimp organize folks by interest into sub-categories. Creating segments in Mailchimp filters subscribers with specifically similar characteristics.
Can we create email segmentation according to gender yes or no?
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If you’ve read enough, you’ve probably come across sic. And you probably also have a good idea of how it’s used. If you’re not familiar with it, or you’ve seen it used but aren’t sure what it means, no worries. It’s not something that’s taught much in schools, and it’s not something most of us ever need to use in our lives. It might be mentioned in a style guide at university, especially on a course with a strong focus on writing, such as journalism. But generally, it’s not talked about much. Which is a bit of a pity, as it can be quite a powerful weapon. Continue reading
This is the beginning of one of the most common questions English teachers get asked. And the answer is usually, Well, it’s technically correct, but we never actually say that in English. Which in turn is usually met by frustrated sighs. For all the language’s flexibility, we often fix on only one of the many possible ways to express an idea. This is often a tremendous source of frustration for learners, especially if they’re feeling pleased about using a certain grammar form, only for their teacher to tell them what they’re saying doesn’t really sound natural.
Often, this stems from direct translation from one’s mother tongue. In French for example, it’s standard to use nouns to refer to feelings. For example: Continue reading
There’s a bathroom on the right
Excuse while I kiss this guy
What do these statements have in common? They’re all mondegreens. What’s a mondegreen, you ask? Let me show you…
Ireland’s industry – Islands in the stream (Islands in the Stream, Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers)
There’s a bathroom on the right – There’s a bad moon on the rise (Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Excuse me while I kiss this guy – Excuse me While I Kiss the Sky (Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix)
A mondegreen is a misheard song lyric. The unusual-sounding word was coined by American writer Sylvia Wright in 1954 when she wrote about how she misheard the line …and laid him on the green from the 17th-century Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl of Moray” as …and Lady Mondegreen.
I’m quite fond of mondegreens, simply because they can be very funny, but they’re also a great leveller. No matter your mastery of the English language, the rhythms of song lyrics and the accompanying make it often quite hard to heard lines correctly. Plus, we tend to expect language to follow familiar patterns, so it makes more sense to our brains to kiss a guy than kiss the sky. (It’s also only fair to point out that in normal conversational connected speech, Excuse me while I kiss this guy and Excuse me while I kiss the sky sound identical.)
We all have our own mondegreens. The one I always remember from my youth is Prefab Sprout’s “The King of Rock n’ Roll.” I always thought the line Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque was actually Hot dog, jump in fire, how about turkey? Which I think works equally well. I also thought the Transformers jingle proclaimed them to be robots in the skies, as opposed to in disguise. It never made sense to me, because only some of them could fly.
I was surprised to discover that the most-commonly misheard line, according to a British survey was Call me if you try to wake her up from R.E.M’s “Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite,” which people mishear as Calling Jamaica. It kind of fits I suppose, but you really need to stretch it! I would have thought Haddaway’s “What is Love” (When You Don’t Hurt Me instead of Baby Don’t Hurt Me) would be more common, or Abba’s “Waterloo” (How does it feel to have won the war? instead of I was defeated, you won the war).
What are some of your mondegreens?
What does it really mean to be grammatically correct? Is it important? People often tell you that you shouldn’t get bogged down in grammar when learning a language, and should aim for real communication. And I agree about that whole communication thing, but you still need good fundamental grammar to do so. Grammar and natural use of English don’t have to be enemies. Continue reading
First of all, I’d like to thank Spanglish Jill for giving me the idea for this post.
We’ve probably all found ourselves in a situation like this:
Little Timmy: Yesterday, John and me went to the beach and…
Heartless Teacher: No, Timmy, it’s John and I!
Little Timmy: Huh?
Heartless Teacher: You don’t say John and me, you say John and I! John and me is for vulgarians only…
Little Timmy: Oh, ok. John and I went to…
It’s one of those golden rules we have drilled into us repeatedly as children that we never forget, like i before e except before c (more on that in the future): never say (insert name) and me.
But, does this rule always hold? The fact that I’m asking should tell you the answer… Continue reading
Today I came across the phrase zombie film maker (to describe someone who makes zombie films) somewhere online. I don’t really remember where now, but that’s not important. What struck me about this fabulous phrase was that it was crying out for some punctuation! Before I go any further, I want you to think about how it should be punctuated. Should it be:
zombie film-maker? Continue reading
This is a question that always sparks debate, and we probably all know people whose views fall on opposite sides of this debate. Some are sticklers for grammar, pouncing on any tiny error with relish. Others put less thought into how they use language and make errors without regard to how well they’re understood. And most people fall somewhere in between these two extremes. If you’ve ever been concerned about whether you have good grammar or not, then let me reassure you that your grammar is almost definitely much better than you think. Such is usually the case for most people in terms of their native language. But to know exactly what we mean by having good grammar, first we need to look at what grammar is.
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Activism is Necessary for Balance; Balance is Necessary for Activism
Activism is defined as a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue.
Before learning the specific term “activism,” it’s been known that blacks have historically positioned themselves as activists within our communities in the United States. Activism isn’t limited to race and it seeks its place among communities all over the world.
Every figure and leader who has exercised their voice and taken action to overturn injustice while educating their oppressors and witnesses to their work have taught us what it means to give voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, and vision to the blind all in the name of change.
Because of the advances in technology, whether we know it or not, most of us are activists in some form through work within our careers, conversations with friends or strangers and through social media activity-digital advocacy, but how we use our voice and position is what makes the difference.
In a world flooded with group-thought and social media persuasion, it’s easy minimize individual thought and nuance or even become conflicted on whether or not you are “doing enough”.
- Am I posting/sharing enough current events?
- Am I up-to-date on what’s happening around the world?
- Frankly, AM I EVEN DOING ENOUGH?
I’ve asked myself these questions while examining the authenticity of others (because we all know those folks who do things just for the glory of trend and attention). But then, I am reminded that the life I live each day is dedicated to doing exactly what people post about.
- There are those who post.
- There are those who act.
- There are those who do some of both.
Both are beneficial, even if the intention isn’t pure because awareness is a significant precursor of activism.
Each day I work within the education system of New Orleans, I face the discomfort of being a black woman working amongst predominately white educators to support both sides and ensure cultural and class differences don’t result in unfair treatment of our students. Time spent supporting families plagued with systemic educational and economical barriers.
Conversations with young black boys and girls about societal standards and privilege and lack thereof. Even my time spent as an education blogger shines light on topics that are often evaded because of politics, but need to be said. This is my fight whether it makes it to the internet or not.
But, do know that this fight does not come without sacrifice. I’ve experienced periods of anxiety as a result of so much exposure and I worry about worldly occurrences of oppression and suffering; becoming envious of those who don’t operate based on emotion connected to social issues. I’ve had to be cautious with who and how I bring up certain questions and issues to avoid becoming angry about reception and the like mindedness of my audience. But even with this occasional discomfort, the stress associated with activism is one I welcome because I know that at the end of the day, it does not go without benefit to someone.
Despite the strain, I know that standing on the front lines has and will continue to make me a better human being overall. It’s challenged me to research more to avoid succumbing to following trends or the majority opinion. It’s made me a stronger thinker and writer, which aids in my confidence while speaking about the plight of my people to others.
Given that this is work one has to decide to opt-in, if done wholeheartedly, it is crucial to know when it’s time to secure your mental and emotional state because fighting on the front-lines gets dangerous and can be a lonely place depending upon one’s support network.
This means ensuring you take time to log-off and unplug. Unplugging can seem like a disadvantage in this work because of the need to remain updated on current events, but in a time where information is so accessible, it can potentially be less harmful than one may think.
Some additional ways I choose to promote balance in my own personal life to maintain the physical and mental strength to continue to work within my community are:
- It’s essential to my serenity and peace, specifically when I become aware of the increase in being worrisome and restless.
- Spending time with my son through learning and play
- The innocence of childhood will forever provide a sense of relief for me. But most importantly, working to save the world and others can’t be at the expense of creating memories and fostering the emotional, physical and spiritual health of my own seed.
- Often done in conjunction with prayer, while I haven’t gotten great at this, when I am still and in the moment before starting my day, it serves a solid preparation for whatever life brings throughout my day.
- Going outdoors and enjoying the simplicity of nature
- An inexpensive and calming measure in this fast-paced world. There are no expectations and this for me is super beneficial.
- Engaging in adult socialization through dinner, etc.
- What better way to relax than time spent with loved ones, whether friends, fam, etc.? Considering that relationships often take a backseat to career and family, remember to take time to foster meaningful friendships and alliances.
- Being physically active- biking, fitness class, swimming, boxing, dance class, etc.
- It’s no doubt the mental stress of social issues has damaging physical effects on our bodies, so exercise is definitely necessary for maintenance of health. Plus, most people aren’t engaging in stressful, wordly conversation during this time because they’re too busy trying to keep up and breath!
- Watching and/or attending sporting events, music concerts, comedy shows etc.
- I love sports, music, and laughing, so any opportunity to see someone display their talents is another healthy escape of the day-to-day.
- Journaling-writing down goals
- As a visual learner, seeing my thoughts illustrated on paper (not the phone) is nostalgic and makes ideas seem easily identifiable and tangible.
So whether your activism is digital or through the work within your career and community, you are influential, you are important and we need you to be your best and healthiest to continue to fight for those who cannot.
While advocacy is optional.
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How many calories are in a pork chop?
Serving Size 4 oz
|Amount Per Serving|
|Calories : 193||Calories from Fat: 99|
|% Daily Value*|
|Total Fat 11.0g||17%|
|Saturated Fat 1g||5%|
How many calories are in a medium sized pork chop?
How many calories are in a 4 ounce center cut pork chop?
How many calories are in 2 thin pork chops?
Are pork chops good to eat on a diet?
As long as your opt for a lean cut of the meat, pork chops can be low in fat and sky high in protein, aiding in weight loss and speeding up workout recovery.
Do pork chops have a lot of calories?
The favorite choice for the term ” Pork Chops ” is 4 ounces, with bone of (yield after bone removed) Broiled or Baked Pork Chop which has about 210 calories .
What is a serving size of pork chop?
|1 small or thin cut (3 oz, with bone, raw) (yield after cooking, bone removed)||118|
|1 medium (5.5 oz, with bone, raw) (yield after cooking, bone removed)||218|
|1 large (8 oz, with bone, raw) (yield after cooking, bone removed)||318|
Is pork healthy than beef?
Pork . Lean pork is every bit as good for your body as lean beef and chicken. In one study, substituting lean pork for beef and chicken led to less body fat and better heart health.
How many calories should I be eating to lose weight?
When trying to lose weight , a general rule of thumb is to reduce your calorie intake to 500 fewer calories than your body needs to maintain your current weight . This will help you lose about 1 pound (0.45 kg) of body weight per week.
How many pork chops is 4 oz?
How much is 4 oz of meat? 4 oz of raw, lean meat is about 3 ounces after cooking.
Are boneless pork chops healthy?
Are pork chops healthy ? Boneless pork chops are a great way to incorporate lean protein into your diet. Boneless pork chops are high in protein, low in calories, and low in carbohydrates. Pork chops also contain zinc, iron, potassium and Vitamin B.
How many calories are in a lean boneless pork chop?
There are 33 calories in 1 ounce of Pork Chops (Top Loin, Boneless, Lean Only).
How much does an average pork chop weigh?
How much does an average pork chop weigh? Chops are approximately 1.25″ thick and weigh 6 ounces each. Total weight: approximately 2 pounds.
How much protein is in a thin pork chop?
|Calories 130||(544 kJ)|
|Total Carbohydrate||1 g||0%|
How many calories are in fast fried pork chops?
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IntroductionPolity is the term used to describe the way in which the church is governed. Mennonites, while looking to the example of the church in the New Testament as normative, exercise considerable freedom and flexibility in working out their patterns of church government. In the past several decades there has been a considerable shift in patterns of congregational oversight in the North American churches, for example, with some conferences eliminating the office of bishop in favor of conference ministers and area overseers. The Brethren in Christ, meanwhile, have strengthened the office of bishop with a bishop responsible for the administrative and spiritual oversight of each district conference.
The Mennonite churches of the Two-Thirds World during their formative years by and large took on the organizational and leadership patterns of the founding churches of North America and Europe as mediated and interpreted to them by the pioneer missionaries Other factors over the years have also been significant in shaping their governing structures, notably the theological influences of' the seminaries and Bible schools where the pastors have studied. The indigenizing process has also affected the way in which the younger churches have modified their organizational life. Yet an additional factor has been the way in which a growing number of these churches are reading the Anabaptist sources, not simply adopting 16th-century European models but adapting basic Anabaptist principles to their own situation in life.
There is considerable diversity in forms of governance among the several groups of Mennonites and Brethren in Christ and even within a given group. Some congregations have a plural ministry with the historic threefold pattern of elder or bishop, preachers, and deacons; some have lay ministers; and an increasing number have professionally trained and salaried ministers. Some have boards of elders and others have boards of deacons who, along with the pastors, provide spiritual leadership within the congregation.
Mennonites tend more toward the congregational pattern than episcopal, or presbyterian forms (congregationalism). That is, they emphasize the central importance of the local fellowship of believers though they vary on the relative degree of congregational autonomy. Each congregation is responsible for church discipline, for maintaining standards of faith and life. Each has a voice in the selection of its pastoral leadership. Each is free to plan its own order for worship services. The lay members participate in the governance of the congregation and of the wider church organizations its well.
However, Mennonites are not pure congregationalists and have at some points in their history drawn certain elements (bishops, elders) from both the episcopal and presbyterial traditions. General Conference Mennonites lean closest to a congregational model while the Brethren in Christ would he least congregational. The Mennonite Church (MC) in its reorganization of 1971 emphasized the centrality of the local congregation. At the same time in the decade following, its 21 district conferences took on new strength and vitality in their roles.
Mennonites have historically recognized their need for mutual support and counsel from beyond the single congregation and their patterns of organization have reflected this. All of the several Mennonite, Mennonite Brethren, and Brethren in Christ bodies have organized themselves into general [churchwide] conferences coordinated by a general board. All have also organized themselves into district conferences. In addition they have provided some form of congregational oversight ranging from consultation only to direct administrative and spiritual supervision.
In many parts of the church in North America, conference ministers or area overseers serve functions similar to those of the bishops at an earlier time with somewhat less authority and a more narrowly focused range of responsibilities. In some cases, administrative and spiritual guidance responsibilities have been separated with administrative guidance given by an executive secretary for the conference. This pattern is still in process of being refined as the district conferences gain more experience with it.
On the local level, many congregations have set up (1) church councils for administrative oversight and program coordination and (2) boards of elders or deacons for the spiritual oversight of the congregation and counsel to the pastor(s). The trend on congregational, district and church-wide levels seems to be that of separating administrative and spiritual direction rather than keeping them integrated.
The historic Mennonite pattern of ordaining bishops or elders for pastoral oversight continues in many places in the church, notably among the Brethren in Christ and in several conferences of the Mennonite church (MC) in the eastern United States (e.g., Lancaster, Virginia, and Franklin) which have bishop districts. Midwestern and western Mennonite church conferences have overseer "districts," "clusters," and "councils" with oversight provided by "overseers," "coordinators," and those bishops ordained for life who are still active in the conference.
The historic Mennonite office of bishop should not be confused with the classic episcopacy. "Bishop" in Mennonite practice has its roots not in the Anglican or Catholic tradition but in the tradition of Titus 1:5. It has simply been a term meaning senior minister or pastor. The ministers were normally chosen from among the brethren in the congregation and the bishop was selected from among the ministers. There was no sacramental distinction, only a functional one, between the ministers and the people and between the bishops and the ministers. Nor was there any thought of apostolic succession through ordination.
One of the most significant developments of the past decades is the ordination of women in the Mennonite Church (MC) and General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM). There have been strong differences of interpretation and opinion as these denominations and their constituent district conferences and congregations have taken up this issue. Proponents of the ordination of women have emphasized spiritual gifts, asserting that gifts of leadership, preaching, and pastoral care are sovereignly bestowed by the Spirit of God and given to various women and men alike without regard to gender. Opponents have emphasized office and the spiritual authority that goes with the pastoral office holding that the Scriptures are clear that women are not to exercise authority over men. Here again the considerable diversity of interpretation and practice on this issue has not for the most part caused the churches to break fellowship with each other. This is further testimony to the belief that freedom and flexibility with their attendant diversity are appropriate when it comes to church polity.
The following paragraphs are a description of the organizational patterns of four of the larger groups of Mennonites in North America. Having been written in the late 1980s, they do not anticipate the polity under review in the merger of the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite Church approved in 1995, but scheduled to be implemented in 1999/2001. RTB
Mennonite Church (MC)The Mennonite Church (MC) maintained its principal office in Lombard, Ill., until 1988, when it was moved to Elkhart, Ind. Its organization included a (1) General Assembly which met every two years with delegates from the 21 district conferences in Canada and the United States and a (2) General Board which served as the church's board of directors. Each district conference was represented on the General Board; there were also a number of members at large.
Each district conference is composed of local congregations. The delegates from the local congregations normally meet at least once each year both for spiritual inspiration and for conducting the business of conference. Their agenda has to do with the mission of the church in evangelism, nurture, church planting, stewardship, youth work, congregational leadership and oversight, and being a liaison between the programs of the larger denomination and the local congregations. The determination of ministerial credentials is a district conference responsibility.
The bylaws of the Mennonite Church (MC) stated that "the congregation is God's people with a common confession of Christ uniting in worship, nurture, fellowship, proclamation, service, discernment, reconciliation, mutual care and discipline. It is a local group of believers whose commitment to Christ and to each other and whose proximity to each other makes it possible to experience these activities on a regular and continuing basis."
There were five church-wide program boards whose work was coordinated and reviewed by the General Assembly and the General Board. They were Congregational Ministries, Publication, Missions, Education and Mutual Aid. The Mennonite Mutual Aid Board has become an inter-Mennonite board serving also the General Conference Mennonites and the Mennonite Brethren. Some program board members were elected by the General Assembly delegates and some were appointed by the General Board.
The General Assembly, in addition to receiving reports from program boards, standing committees, and associate groups (e.g. the Women's Missionary and Service Commission, the Afro-American Mennonite Association, and the Concilio Nacional [National Council of Hispanic Mennonite Churches]) dealt with issues of faith and life identified by the district conferences. This usually involved a process of study and discernment covering several biennia and involving local congregations. It sometimes resulted in policy statements referred to in the bylaws as "interpretive guidelines for congregations and conferences in biblical and practical doctrine." One important is sue before the General Assembly in 1987 was the development and adoption of a contemporary confession of faith; this confession was formally approved in 1995 in cooperation with the General Conference Mennonite Church. WN
General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)The General Conference Mennonite Church had central offices in Newton, Kansas. Every three years delegates from its member congregations met. The Conference of Mennonites in Canada, the conferences in various regions and provinces of Canada, and the conferences of the five districts in the United States, meet annually. They were all part of the General Conference. Changes were anticipated in the relationship of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada to the structure of the MC/GCM, when that merger is completed in 1999.
Each conference is composed of autonomous local congregations. Decisions and actions of conferences are not binding on their member congregations. The General Conference constitution stated: "The congregations have every responsibility to support the conference and, therefore, the conference has a right to lay claim to the support of the local congregations. However, in fulfilling its mission, the conference seeks to serve and strengthen the local congregations and regional conferences, not to control them."
The three commissions -- on education, on home ministries, and on overseas mission -- carried out the programs of the conference under the overall coordination of the General Board which sets the annual budgets and reviews the work of the commissions. The Conference of Mennonites in Canada and the district conferences in the United States had representation on these commissions.
Each conference seeks to serve the congregations. Conferences cooperate to reduce duplication and competition. General Conference was a resource to regional conferences and to congregations.
In each district and each province a conference minister assists congregations who are seeking pastors and support the pastors. A regional conference committee processes candidates for ordination who are ordained in and by the local congregation with some involvement of that conference.
General Conference has had no national conference in the states. Annually the district presidents and the U.S. members of the conference executive committee met as a U.S. council to handle unique agenda. A U.S. delegate assembly gathers each time General Conference met.
Resolutions could be brought to a triennial session by the General Board, one of the commissions or a resolutions committee. A study process was used for major issues which may or may not result in a statement voted upon by the delegates at a triennial session.
General Conference has consistently sought to be open to inter-Mennonite cooperation. The Africa overseas mission work is carried out through the Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission. VP
Mennonite Brethren Church (MB)The General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches (which became the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America in 1987) is registered as a corporation in the state of Kansas. The head office of the conference shall be in the town of Hillsboro, Ks., or at such place as the conference may from time to time determine.
The conference includes all churches founded on the confession of faith adopted by its members at a regular convention. The conference in session has the right to make the final decisions in all matters that relate to the united activities and the common welfare of the churches. Each church is autonomous in the government and administration of its own local affairs. However, churches are to accept as binding decisions made by the conference in accordance with the provisions of its constitution.
The churches that comprise the General Conference come from two national conferences: Canada and the United States. These in turn are divided into six provincial conferences and five district conferences respectively.
The General Conference convenes once in a period of three years. This convention is called for the purpose of hearing reports, projections, and recommendations of the conference boards. There are seven General Conference boards: Reference and Counsel, Christian Education, Christian Literature, Mass Media, Missions and Services, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, and Trustees. In addition, there are three committees: Executive, Nominating, and Program. The Executive Committee, made up of a moderator, assistant moderator and secretary, is responsible for those affairs of the conference not within the jurisdiction of any board or committee. These three officers are members of the Board of Reference and Counsel. This Board is to watch over the spiritual life of the General Conference and its churches and give guidance in matter of faith, doctrine and Christian life. It also convenes study and faith conferences for the purpose of examining faith and discipleship. HJB
Brethren in Christ (BIC)The Brethren in Christ is a General Conference comprised in 1987 of six regional conferences in Canada and the United States and over 200 congregations.
Each local congregation represents a self-governing unit, functioning with the oversight of the bishop and under the direction of the pastor and the church board. When a pastor is being chosen, the bishop serves as chairman of the local church board. Each congregation holds its own business meeting and is responsible for its life and practice, but with ties to its regional conference and the General Conference.
The bishops each reside in their own regional conference, but are chosen by the General Conference. The bishops are responsible for the administration of their respective regional conferences in cooperation with the General Conference. There is an annual meeting of each regional conference.
The General Conference has a biennial meeting as a representative body of all regions and congregations. It is served by a Board of Administration that includes representatives of the regions, the six General Conference boards, and administrative personnel. The general secretary of the General Conference is accountable to the moderator of the General Conference (one of the six regional bishops), and the six bishops are accountable to the general secretary. The six General Conference boards are: Board for Brotherhood Concerns, Board for Congregational Life, Board for Evangelism and Church Planting, Board for Media Ministry, Board for Ministry and Doctrine, and Board for World Missions. The Board of Administration also has within its structure the Board of Bishops, the Board for Stewardship and the Jacob Engle Foundation. The Board for Ministry and Doctrine with the Board of Bishops care for the credentialing of ministers.
The decisions of the General and Regional Conference are considered guidelines for all congregations. The Manual of Doctrine and Government includes the denominational statements of faith (under revision in 1987), bylaws and conference rulings, conditions for membership, and guidance in Christian living. These are given to local churches to be received for unity, to promote spirituality, and increase efficiency in program. Some congregations are more oriented to General Conference ties; others tend toward independence. North American culture accents the latter, but as a conference, Brethren in Christ call for a focus on the concept of the larger church family, including other evangelical groups in such associations as Mennonite Central Committee, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Christian Holiness Association, with which they have official representation. RDSh
|Author(s)||Ross T. Bender|
|Herbert J. Brandt|
|R. Donald Shafer|
Cite This Article
Bender, Ross T., Wayne North, Vern Preheim, Herbert J. Brandt and R. Donald Shafer. "Polity." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 23 Jan 2017. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Polity&oldid=103615.
Bender, Ross T., Wayne North, Vern Preheim, Herbert J. Brandt and R. Donald Shafer. (1989). Polity. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 January 2017, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Polity&oldid=103615.
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My friend has a Yoder-inspired "radical discipleship" kind of theology similar to the one I tried to have before I stopped bothering. This tends to get him in trouble. There's a bit of a game to navigating an evangelical church when your theology doesn't quite match up, and he's so adamant that there shouldn't be a game that he refuses to play it. Plus, his situation is interesting: he gets a very meager stipend to lead music, which he thought was basically a staff position, until he learned recently that the elders mostly think of him as a benevolence case. That has to hurt a little.
Recently, his Sunday School class was studying the passage in Numbers about the 12 spies. The spies are sent into Canaan and 10 of them report that the Canaanites are a bunch of preternatural badasses and they might as well turn back, whereas Joshua and Caleb come back convinced that YHWH will fight for them and this will be a cakewalk. 10 were bad and 2 were good, as the old song goes, a conspicuous numbering that probably comes to us (perhaps along with the rest of the story) from the southern tribes somewhere around the 6th century BCE.
One of the obvious take-aways from the story, at the Sunday School level, is to trust in God despite the obvious circumstances. This is the angle my friend took, encouraging them that with God on our side, we can do anything God asks of us. This was met with resistance, however, from a couple of women in the class, who insisted that sometimes life is just too hard. We're human and frail. For good or for ill, they could relate to the 10 naysayers and weren't afraid to say so. When my friend tried to correct their theology on this matter, they began, rather loudly, to discuss canning pickles.
Later, when they got to the part where Moses falls face down on the ground, the class pondered what this might be about. Some suggested that Moses had simply given up, falling on his face out of pure frustration. My friend pointed out that the Hebrew word used in the passage means to prostrate oneself in worship, and that Moses was probably humbling himself before the Lord and surrendering the situation to God's control. He pointed out that it is a corresponding Greek word that is the one most commonly translated "worship" in the New Testament. The pickle canners responded to this by saying something to the effect of "Yeah right. Like we're gonna do that," whereupon they resumed their discussion.
Now, the story comes to me from my friend, so I'm not sure that you or I would have experienced the pickle ladies as quite that rude. Then again, they might have been. I don't know. But I invited him to look beyond both the passive-agressive tactics and the theological content of their resistance and consider their social context. This is a small town in a downward economy. It might not be terribly surprising that they identify more with the 10 "bad" spies. It's quite possible that, however much they might be faithful churchgoers, their religion has never really offered them the sense that they can do anything, and they don't expect it to.
Instead, it offers solace, repose, and a form of community in the midst of a repressive economy -- not just recession but capitalism itself -- that they're not allowed to see for what it is. What I call oppression, from my academic, leftist, nerdy white guy perspective, they call bad luck or hard times. I'm going to guess, and I'm going to sound like I'm stereotyping horribly, that they're probably more likely to have the country station tuned in while they're canning pickles than they are the local Christian pop station. Their theme song is probably less "I Can Do All Things" than it is "Help Me Make it through the Night."
These thoughts are inspired, at least in part, by a book I read for a comprehensive exam called White Soul: Country Music, the Church, and Working Americans. It's actually a theological work, whose author, Tex Sample (I did not make that up), studied at Boston University and now teaches at St. Paul's in Kansas City. His goal is to help the church understand and minister to working-class culture, using country music as the lens through which to do this, and along the way he offers a challenge to those of us who might look down our liberal bourgeois noses at working-class culture and country fans in general.
I'm totally guilty of this. I remember going to my first demolition derby, on a fluke, and though I admitted to really enjoying it, I qualified this to one of my artsy friends by saying "I felt like I should be eating pork rinds and wearing a wife-beater." The subtext here is that I was allowed to enjoy it only as a form of slumming. I've also made my share of NASCAR jokes. It's true; I confess.
As my friend and I discussed his Sunday School class, "canning pickles" quickly became a trope for the quotitidian, for the daily concerns of people who do not have time for or interest in arcane theological arguments. The pickle canners were saying, to my friend, that his theology was not practical for them. It was literally nonsense. They couldn't see any impact on their daily lives from his reading of things, and being theologically or exegetically correct was not a priority for them. They wanted cameraderie, fellowship, a bit of solace. They wanted their weekly opportunity to check in and be seen, maybe catch a bit of gossip -- to encounter the divine for a moment and then go back home to the roast in the crockpot. This ritual -- from the gossip to the roast, with the numinous in between -- serves to confirm both their perspective on the world and their place in it.
In this, I think they're like most people. Let's face it: the people who go into theology, or ministry, or religious studies, or become militant atheists -- and I submit these people have more in common than they might think -- are kind of weird. They think about religion a lot more than normal people do. It looms large in their minds. I remember listening to A Prairie Home Companion one night and discovering that, as odd as it sounds, I envied the people of Lake Wobegone, not for their idyllic life on the edge of the prairie but because their relationship with religion was so...normal.
Seriously, most people do not think about religion with the kind of frequency or at the level that I do, and sometimes I envy them. In a way, it's been my goal to find a way closer to where they are in spite of the fact that I'm constitutionally unable to be truly irreligious. Hence the turn from theology to religious studies, from being conservative to trying to be radical to admitting that I'm really just a liberal.
This doesn't make a lot of sense to my friend (not that I tried to explain it as such), who takes Jesus more seriously than that, to his credit. I don't find it realistic, and he's constantly running up against the realpolitik of a small-town church. I encouraged him to look at it more like a mission field, and to spend the kind of time learning the culture that a good missionary would, and that this includes the religious culture as well -- even when it clashes with his theology. I encouraged him to think less in terms of what he was there to teach than what he was there to learn. I also told him they wouldn't understand his theology until they knew what love looked like as it flows from his understanding of the gospel. Model that, and teach it, I said, and then they'll have a framework in which the theology makes sense.
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U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the the nation’s first African-American members of the United States Marine Corps, which includes six Louisville residents. The Montford Point Marines broke the color line in 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order desegregating the Marine Corps, which was the last branch of the military to do so. At the time, more than 19,000 black marines trained at Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, North Carolina between 1942 and 1949.
For the first time in this fall campaign season, the three candidates for lieutenant governor shared a ‘debate’ setting. It came during a series of forums broadcast statewide by Kentucky Educational Television. Taxes and jobs dominated much of the discussion.
State Sen. David Williams, R-Burkesville, made Northern Kentucky one of the first stops on his statewide bus tour, which kicked off in Louisville Monday morning. State Sen. David Williams, R-Burkesville, made Northern Kentucky one of the first stops on his statewide bus tour, which kicked off in Louisville Monday morning.
This political season, the topic of jobs is a high priority talking point. The three people running for Kentucky lieutenant governor answered questions about jobs and other topics on Kentucky Educational Television last night.
Deep cuts in federal spending are coming to Kentucky. The so-called ‘super committee’ is at work slashing more than a trillion dollars from the national debt. The state has two powerful leaders in Congress, yet neither sits on the special panel. Serving in Congress is more than just casting votes. Hoping to make a lasting imprint on the nation’s laws, legislators jockey for favored committee assignment.
Just over a fourth of registered voters are projected to cast ballots in next month’s election. Secretary of State Elaine Walker predicts between 25 to 28 percent of eligible voters will turn-out for the November 8th election. While Kentucky’s six-statewide campaigns are in the final stretch, there’s also a great deal of media attention focused on next year’s presidential race. Walker’s says it may be distracting voters. "You know, I’m not sure if the presidential race is having an impact on the local….it could…but…my feeling is more that people are not really angry with the state of the commonwealth,” said Walker.
While the number of registered Republicans in Northern Kentucky has increased in recent years, Democrats think Gov. Steve Beshear this year can repeat or exceed his success in Northern Kentucky four years ago. He won Kenton County by 10 percent and Campbell County by 11 percent and lost the heavily Republican Boone County by 1.5 percent in 2007 en route to unseating Republican Ernie Fletcher as governor. Both Beshear and his Republican challenger David Williams see Northern Kentucky as critical in winning statewide office and stumped last week in the region.
A year ago, “Aqua Buddha” made national headlines after Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway ran ads focusing on allegations that his opponent, eventual U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, was part of a group at Baylor University that worshipped a god called “Aqua Buddha.” The term has returned in this year’s election cycle, with the Republicans bringing it back. Republican attorney general candidate Todd P’Pool, who is running against Conway in this year’s general election, started airing a statewide ad Tuesday reminding voters that Conway attacked Paul with “Aqua Buddha.”
Gov. Steve Beshear told supporters in Newport Wednesday he not only wants to win re-election, he wants to win by a landslide. “We’re going to win this race, but I don’t want to just win this race, I want to beat the socks of this guy,” Beshear said. “We need to beat him bad, because we need to send a strong message out here, and that message is this: ‘We don’t want the kind of dysfunctional politics going on in Washington D.C. right now.” Polls show Beshear ahead of GOP candidate and state Senate President David Williams by as much as 31 points.
If a proposed confidentiality ordinance passes in Fort Mitchell, council members with loose lips could serve time if they let secrets slip. Ordinance 2011-16, which received a first reading at Monday night’s meeting, details penalties that could be imposed if confidential information is discussed outside of executive sessions.
Responding to a new contract agreement between Ford Motor Company and Louisville’s local United Auto Workers, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., praised the automobile company and its employees for coming together.
A political group whose TV commercials were banned when a Franklin circuit judge issued a restraining order has now asked the Kentucky Court of Appeals to hear the case. The group, Restoring America, was airing TV spots critical of Gov. Steve Beshear and urging people to vote for his GOP opponent, state Sen. David Williams. But Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled Restoring America was violating Kentucky campaign finance law by not revealing the names of its monetary contributors.
Frankfort - Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate on Monday issued a restraining order to stop a group from airing TV commercials against Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. Wingate ruled the Restoring America group was not disclosing its donors -- a violation of Kentucky campaign law.
The first debate between the candidates for Kentucky attorney general repeated many themes of the campaign. Democratic incumbent Jack Conway and Republican challenger Todd P’Pool squared off on KET last night. Conway continued touting his accomplishments as the state’s chief prosecutor fighting cyber crime, child pornography and prescription drug abuse. P’Pool, meanwhile, continued his efforts to nationalize the race and said Conway should join other state attorneys general in a lawsuit against President Obama’s healthcare overhaul law.
Kentucky Congressmen Hal Rogers and Ed Whitefield endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Monday, giving the former Massachusetts governor two more GOP lawmakers in his bid for the Republican nomination. Whitfield represents the 1s District while Rogers represents the 6th District and chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Their nods of approval give Romney 31 endorsements from GOP elected members of Congress, which is a sign that he remains the establishment candidate.
All three candidates for governor of Kentucky have failed to turn in a survey put out by the non-partisan group Project Vote Smart. The Political Courage Test quizzes candidates on a variety of issues, including abortion, education and taxes. To encourage participation, candidates are not allowed to use the results of the survey in campaign ads.
Offering an alternative to President Obama and his American Jobs Act, a trio of Senate Republicans have drafted a “Real American Jobs Act” they will present on Thursday. The legislation is being spearheaded by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has joined Sen. Rob Portman, R-Oh., and Sen. John McCain, R-Az., to propose less labor and environment regulation, lower taxes, expand free trade and enact a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
With President Obama's $447 billion dollar jobs bill failing to clear a supermajority hurdle yesterday, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell says the country avoided another catastrophic stimulus bill. But a handful of McConnell's constituents decided to take their dissatisfaction to his Lexington office.
For the first time in this year’s race for Kentucky governor, the three candidates appeared together in a debate. The hour long political event at Eastern Kentucky University featured, as predicted, produced accusations, assertions, and rebuttals. Within the brand-spanking-new, E-K-U Center for the Arts, Governor Steve Beshear, Republican David Williams, and Independent Gatewood Galbraith each stood at a podium beneath three oversized American flags.
During an appearance with Kentucky Public Radio Tuesday, Republican attorney general candidate Todd P’Pool said he believes Democratic incumbent Jack Conway has a conflict of interest regarding the pending hospital merger. Conway has asked for more information about the proposed merger of University of Louisville Hospital, Jewish Hospital and Catholic Health Initiatives.
State Rep. W. Keith Hall was fined and reprimanded by a legislative ethics panel Tuesday after he admitted the panel had evidence sufficient to convict him of violating state ethics laws. The ethics probe centered around work a company owned by Hall did on a sewer line extension project in 2005. Hall voted to approve the state budget which contained coal severance tax funding earmarked for water and sewer projects. A portion of that money found its way to Hall’s company via its work installing electrical boxes as part of the sewer extension.
Urban County Council members sparred over the creation of an Affordable Housing Trust Fund Tuesday. The issue could come to a public referendum. The Affordable Housing Trust Fund, as envisioned by the committee tasked with exploring it, would need around four million dollars of dedicated funding every year. The committee determined the best way to pay for the fund would be a 1-percent raise in the insurance premium tax, or an increase of about $30 dollars a year for the average household. Councilman Chris Ford said the need for more affordable housing is very real.
A plan to re-draw Lexington's Urban County Council Districts is on a path to formal passage, which would put 33,000 residents in a new district. The proposal will get a first reading at the council's meeting on Thursday and a second reading on October 27. If approved, 32 Fayette County precincts would switch to new council districts. The new boundaries are necessary because of population growth and shifts over the past ten years.
Rumors of a "wet" petition circulating in Barbourville are now more than rumors. According to a local attorney, a petition calling for a local option vote in Knox County is now being circulated in the community."I represent several business people in Knox County. They feel it is time to get the sale of alcohol out of the alleys and hollows," said Barbourville attorney Randy Jewell. "They feel it will further business interests. But their primary concern is the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages to minors and, with bootleggers, typically there is more being sold than alcohol."
The Kentucky secretary of state is predicting low turnout for the general election, but state officials are still encouraging residents to register to vote before the deadline expires Tuesday. During the May primary, voter turnout was an abysmal 10 percent and many expect a similar result due to the wide margin in the governor’s race. Secretary of State Elaine Walker says the initial data shows turnout will once again be low for the fall election.
People who want to participate in the upcoming Kentucky election this November have until the end of business Tuesday to register to vote. According to Kentucky Revised Statute 116.045(2), the final day to register for the Nov. 8 election is Tuesday, pushed ahead by one day because of the federal holiday Columbus Day.
Speaker of the House John Boehner will visit Kentucky at the end of the month. Boehner will speak at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center on the 31st. The Ohio Congressman has been a central figure in American politics over the last three years as one of the most powerful and influential Republicans in Washington. He was a key player in the recent debt ceiling negotiations, and has been a leader in the GOP opposition to President Obama. | <urn:uuid:85ffbb59-2fdd-4c49-bd27-9009a2ef2256> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://weku.fm/term/all-politics-are-local?page=32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00385-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957049 | 2,369 | 1.578125 | 2 |
An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts. A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties, including possible monetary sanctions and even imprisonment. They can also be charged with contempt of court. Counterinjunctions are injunctions that stop or reverse the enforcement of another injunction.
The injunction is an equitable remedy, that is, a remedy that originated in the English courts of equity. Like other equitable remedies, it has traditionally been given when a wrong cannot be effectively remedied by an award of money damages. (The doctrine that reflects this is the requirement that an injunction can be given only when there is "no adequate remedy at law.") Injunctions are intended to make whole again someone whose rights have been violated. Nevertheless, when deciding whether to grant an injunction, courts also take into account the interests of non-parties (that is, the public interest). When deciding whether to give an injunction, and deciding what its scope should be, courts give special attention to questions of fairness and good faith. One manifestation of this is that injunctions are subject to equitable defenses, such as laches and unclean hands.
Injunctions are given in many different kinds of cases. They can prohibit future violations of the law, such as trespass to real property, infringement of a patent, or the violation of a constitutional right (e.g., the free exercise of religion). Or they can require the defendant to repair past violations of the law.
An injunction can require someone to do something, like clean up an oil spill or remove a spite fence. Or it can prohibit someone from doing something, like using an illegally obtained trade secret. An injunction that requires conduct is called a "mandatory injunction." An injunction that prohibits conduct is called a "prohibitory injunction." Many injunctions are both—that is, they have both mandatory and prohibitory components, because they require some conduct and forbid other conduct.
When an injunction is given, it can be enforced with equitable enforcement mechanisms such as contempt. It can also be modified or dissolved (upon a proper motion to the court) if circumstances change in the future. These features of the injunction allow a court granting one to manage the behavior of the parties. That is the most important distinction between the injunction and another non-monetary remedy in American law, the declaratory judgment. Another way these two remedies are distinguished is that the declaratory judgment is sometimes available at an earlier point in a dispute than the injunction.
Injunctions in United States law
Injunctions in the United States tend to come in two main forms.
Permanent injunctions are given after trial. Different federal and state courts sometimes have slightly different requirements for obtaining a permanent injunction. Typical requirements include that without an injunction the plaintiff would suffer "irreparable injury" for which there is "no adequate remedy at law"; that the balance of hardships does strongly cut against giving an injunction; and that the injunction would not disserve the public interest. Note that the balance of hardships inquiry is also sometimes called the "undue hardship defense."
Preliminary injunctions are given before trial. Because they are given at an early stage, before the court has heard the evidence and made a decision in the case, they are more rarely given. The requirements for a preliminary injunction tend to be the same as for a permanent injunction, plus the additional requirement that the party asking for the injunction is likely to succeed on the merits.
A special kind of injunction before trial is called a "temporary restraining order." These can be given without notice and a hearing, and they tend to be given only for a short period of time before a court can hold a hearing and decide whether to issue a preliminary injunction. Temporary restraining orders are often, but not exclusively, given to prevent domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, or harassment.
For both temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, the goal is usually to preserve the status quo so the court is able to decide the case.
Injunctions have been especially important at two moments in American history.
First, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, federal courts used injunctions to break strikes by unions. For example, after the United States government successfully used an injunction to outlaw the Pullman boycott in 1894 in In re Debs, employers found that they could obtain federal court injunctions to ban strikes and organizing activities of all kinds by unions. These injunctions were often extremely broad; one injunction issued by a federal court in the 1920s effectively barred the United Mine Workers of America from talking to workers who had signed yellow dog contracts with their employers. Unable to limit what they called "government by injunction" in the courts, labor and its allies persuaded the United States Congress in 1932 to pass the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which imposed so many procedural and substantive limits on the federal courts' power to issue injunctions that it effectively prohibited federal court from issuing injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes. A number of states followed suit and enacted "Little Norris-LaGuardia Acts" that imposed similar limitations on state courts' powers. The courts have since recognized a limited exception to the Norris-LaGuardia Act's strict limitations in those cases in which a party seeks injunctive relief to enforce the grievance arbitration provisions of a collective bargaining agreement.
Second, injunctions were crucial to the second half of the twentieth century in the desegregation of American schools. Federal courts gave injunctions that carried out the command of Brown v Board of Education to integrate public schools in the United States, and at times courts took over the management of public schools in order to ensure compliance. (An injunction that puts a court in the position of taking over and administering an institution—such as a school, a prison, or a hospital—is often called a "structural injunction.")
Injunctions remain widely used to require government officials to comply with the Constitution, and they are also frequently used in private law disputes about intellectual property, real property, and contracts. Many state and federal statutes, including environmental statutes, civil rights statutes and employment-discrimination statutes, are enforced with injunctions.
Antitrust intervention and injunctions for patent infringement
The DOJ and the FTC have investigated patent holders in the United States for seeking preliminary injunctions against accused infringers of standard-essential patents, or patents that the patent holder must license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. There is an ongoing debate among legal and economic scholars with major implications for antitrust policy in the United States as well as in other countries over the statutory limits to the patent holder's right to seek and obtain injunctive relief against infringers of standard-essential patents. Citing concerns of the absence of competition facing the patent holder once its technology is locked-in to the standard, some scholars argue that the holder of a standard-essential patent should face antitrust liability when seeking an injunction against an implementer of a standard. Other scholars assert that patent holders are not contractually restrained from pursuing injunctions for standard-essential patent claims and that patent law is already capable of determining whether an injunction against an infringer of standard-essential patents will impose a net cost on consumers, thus obviating the role of antitrust enforcement.
Australian apprehended violence orders
In the state of New South Wales, a court may grant an apprehended violence order to a person who fears violence, harassment, abuse, or stalking. The order prohibits the defendant from assaulting, harassing, threatening, stalking, or intimidating the person seeking the order. Other conditions may be included. A court may issue the order if it believes a person has reasonable grounds for their fears. Non-compliance may result in the imposition of a fine, imprisonment, or both.
In England and Wales, injunctions whose existence and details may not be legally reported, in addition to facts or allegations which may not be disclosed, have been issued; they have been informally dubbed "super-injunctions".
An example was the super-injunction raised in September 2009 by Carter-Ruck solicitors on behalf of oil trader Trafigura, prohibiting the reporting of an internal Trafigura report into the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump scandal. The existence of the super-injunction was revealed only when it was referred to in a parliamentary question that was subsequently circulated on the Internet (parliamentary privilege protects statements which would otherwise be held to be in contempt of court). Before it could be challenged in court, the injunction was then varied to permit reporting of the question. By long legal tradition, parliamentary proceedings may be reported without restriction. Parliamentary proceedings are covered by absolute privilege, but the reporting of those proceedings in newspapers is only covered by qualified privilege. Another example of the use of a super-injunction was in a libel case in which a plaintiff who claimed he was defamed by family members in a dispute over a multimillion-pound family trust obtained anonymity for himself and for his relatives.
The term "hyper-injunction" has also been used to describe an injunction similar to a super-injunction but also including an order that the injunction must not be discussed with members of Parliament, journalists, or lawyers. One known hyper-injunction was obtained at the High Court in 2006, preventing its subject from saying that paint used in water tanks on passenger ships can break down and release potentially toxic chemicals. This example became public knowledge in Parliament under parliamentary privilege.
By May 2011, Private Eye claimed to be aware of 53 super-injunctions and anonymised privacy injunctions, though Lord Neuberger's report into the usage of super-injunctions revealed that only two super-injunctions had been granted since January 2010. Many media sources were wrongly stating that all gagging orders were super-injunctions. The large volume of media coverage of super-injunctions lead to a drop in numbers after 2011; however, in 2015, four were granted up to the end of May.
- Anti-Social Behaviour Order (UK)
- Anti-suit injunction
- Anti-Injunction Act
- Burden of proof
- Civil litigation
- Interim order
- Cross-border injunction
- Declaratory judgment
- Equity (law)
- Equity court
- Gang injunction
- Lawburrows (Scotland)
- Mareva injunction
- Petition for stay
- Peace bond
- Protection From Abuse
- Quia timet
- Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, 456 U.S. 305, 311 (1982).
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- Dobbs, Dan (1993). Law of Remedies: Damages—Equity—Restitution (2 ed.). St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. p. 224. ISBN 0-314-00913-2.
- International Union, United Mine Workers of America v. Bagwell, 512 U.S. 821 (1994).
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- Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7 (2008)
- Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Statement of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on Its Decision to Close Its Investigation of Samsung’s Use of Its Standards-Essential Patents (Feb. 7, 2014) [hereinafter DOJ Closes Its Samsung Investigation], available at http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2014/303547.pdf; Decision and Order § IV.D, Robert Bosch GmbH, No. C-4377 (F.T.C. Apr. 23, 2013).
- J. Gregory Sidak, Injunctive Relief and the FRAND Commitment in the United States at 16, forthcoming in 1 Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law: Antitrust and Patents (Jorge L. Contreras ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2017), https://www.criterioneconomics.com/injunctive-relief-and-the-frand-commitment-in-the-united-states.html.
- Joseph Farrell, John Hayes, Carl Shapiro & Theresa Sullivan, Standard Setting, Patents, and Hold-Up, 74 ANTITRUST L.J. 603 (2007); Jorge L. Contreras, Fixing FRAND: A Pseudo-Pool Approach to Standards-Based Patent Licensing, 79 ANTITRUST L.J. 47 (2013).
- J. Gregory Sidak, The Meaning of FRAND, Part II: Injunctions, 11 J. COMP L. & ECON 201 (2015), https://www.criterioneconomics.com/meaning-of-frand-injunctions-for-standard-essential-patents.html.
- "New South Wales – Apprehended Violence Orders". National Council of Single Mothers and Their Children. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- Press Gazette, 14 October 2009, MPs slam 'super injunction' which gagged Guardian
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Divorce and a New Life
Upon the pronouncement of divorce by the Maltese Courts, every person has a right to remarry and to start a new life with another partner. Hence, divorce and a new chapter in life seem to follow each other. However, this remarriage can have repercussions in the sense that if the spouse used to receive maintenance from the other spouse, such maintenance will stop upon remarriage of the spouse who was receiving such maintenance. One is to note that upon separation in accordance to Maltese Law spouses still owe each other fidelity to one the spouse who is receiving maintenance engages in a relationship with another person s/he forfeit his/her right to maintenance from the other spouse. Moreover, the spouses will continue to enjoy the joint and legal custody of their children and divorce and a new life of the spouses when one or both of the spouses remarry do not change that. Hence, although divorce implies the start of a new life, both parents continue to have the obligation of maintenance towards their children until the age of twenty three years old in the case of those children who are furthering with their education while until the age of eighteen years old in the case of those children who stop from furthering with their education. Each case has to be seen in its own merits.
Divorce and the State
When one says that upon the pronouncement of divorce and then one one can remarry, this means that one can only remarry by virtue of the civil marriage. Hence, divorce and the State can be considered as one thing while the Church and its annulment proceedings have to be considered as another totally different thing. Indeed, divorce is only pronounced by the State which can be resorted to by any of the spouses, both if they are already separated by a pronouncement or judgment and even if they are still not yet separated. The only important condition that needs to be satisfied for the Maltese courts to accept a Malta divorce application is that the spouses have lived apart for four(4) years out of the preceding five years from the date of application for divorce and then there has to be no probability of reconciliation of the applicants.
Hence, a person has to make a distinction between the civil marriage and the church marriage. The State offers a person to resort to either separation proceedings, to divorce proceedings or even to annulment proceedings. However, a distinction shall be drawn between the three (3) types of proceedings, themselves since they have different implications. Divorce and then the implication that a person has an absolute right to remarry, mean that one will lose any maintenance that is person receiving from the other spouse, annulment also means that the spouses can remarry since the first marriage is declared as non existent and none of the spouses can ask for maintenance from the other spouse since such marriage is declared non existent while separation means that the spouses can stop cohabiting together but cannot remarry and maintenance can be asked by any of the spouses from the other spouse. The Courts will take into consideration the means of both spouses to come to a decision if there is the need to provide for maintenance by any of the spouses to the other spouse or otherwise.
Annulment can be pronounced by the State on the grounds as indicated in the Marriage Act. The said Act provides for an exhaustive list from which the Maltese Courts decide if there is the possibility for an annulment decision or otherwise.
On the other hand, separation is only pronounced by the Court if one of the following four (4) cases arises, which are:
2. excesses, cruelty, threats or grievous injury
3. desertion (but four years have to pass from the date of marriage to be cited by any spouse)
4. irreconcilable characters (five years have to pass from the date of marriage to be cited by any of the spouses)
Hence, two important distinctions seem to arise between divorce, annulment and separation being:
Nonetheless, a common characteristic between these different types of pronouncements is that maintenance for children is always granted by both spouses even if any of the spouses remarries and even if the marriage is declared null.
Divorce and the Church
The universal acceptable thinking is that a person can only celebrate a Church marriage once in his or her entire life, unless such marriage is pronounced annulled by the Ecclesiastical Tribunals but such annulment procedure can take time. However, if a person wishes to resort to such annulment, he can do so but one has to bear in mind that such annulment is only given in specific cases mentioned in the Canon Law, with the Ecclesiastical Tribunal having full discretion to decide to approve such annulment or otherwise. Nevertheless, for a lawyer in Malta to represent a person in such Tribunal, he or she must be qualified to do so.
A rather significant point to make is the distinction between the State annulment and the Church annulment where although a person might be able to obtain the annulment of the State, this in no way will guarantee the same person the annulment pronounced by the Ecclesiastical Tribunal. Thus, it might be the situation where a person’s marriage might be declared null for the State but not for the Church. This leads to the issue that annulment pronounced by the Maltese Courts will in no way give a person the right to remarry in Church. One cannot institute parallel cases both in the in Ecclesiastical Tribunal and before the Courts of Malta. | <urn:uuid:227fd250-bf89-4a9d-9999-49164e472b50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maltadivorce.com/divorce-and-then/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964399 | 1,137 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Court will question its power to decide Puerto Rico case
The Supreme Court, scheduled to hear on Wednesday an important case on Puerto Rico’s constitutional status, told lawyers involved on Friday that they should come prepared to talk about the Justices’ power to decide the case. The Court’s jurisdiction had been challenged in an amicus brief filed in the case of Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle.
In taking the case to the Supreme Court, lawyers for the Puerto Rican government relied on a federal law that gives the Justices the authority to review “final judgments or decrees” by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court, including in situations in which that court has ruled on a question under the U.S. Constitution. The decision being challenged involves the Fifth Amendment’s ban on “double jeopardy” as it applies in Puerto Rico criminal courts. Puerto Rico wants to be able to prosecute crimes in its courts even though the federal government has already prosecuted those same crimes; to do that, it must be treated as a separate “sovereign.”
The Court granted review of the case on October 1, and no question was raised at that time about its jurisdiction. However, an amicus brief by the Virgin Islands Bar Association, which opposes Puerto Rico’s position on the merits, on December 22 raised that issue. It argued that, because the ruling of the island’s supreme court was not a final one, the Court may not decide it. The bar association contended that the two men who had been prosecuted had been charged with multiple counts, and the decision in their favor only struck down one of the counts, leaving the others still pending.
“The record thus reflects that the constitutional question in this case is limited to a single count in each of the multi-count indictments. . . . Because the [Puerto Rico] Supreme Court’s decision affected some but not all of the counts against [the two men], it was not a final judgment.” The Court should dismiss the case, the bar association contended.
Puerto Rico’s lawyers responded briefly to that point in a footnote in a reply brief, asserting that the challenge was “meritless.” The double-jeopardy issue in the case, the footnote said, was a federal issue that was “finally decided by the highest court in Puerto Rico” and — quoting the Court’s 1975 ruling in Cox Broadcasting v. Cohn — “will survive and require decision regardless of the outcome of future state court proceedings.” The language governing appeals in that case, from a state court, is the same regarding appeals from Puerto Rico’s highest court, the bar association said.
One or more of the Justices or their clerks apparently concluded that these exchanges did not settle the matter, so the Court’s clerk told the lawyers on both sides to be ready to be asked about it on Wednesday. The hearing will go on as scheduled, at 11 a.m.
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Our complex health care system requires coordinated, interdisciplinary care, yet most health professional schools offer limited interprofessional clinical opportunities during students’ formative preclinical time. Not so at Yale, home to the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) course. This innovative, impactful program is a logistical feat for its organizers that requires a significant time commitment from its many clinical coaches. For the past three years, every first-year MD, Physician Associate (PA), and Graduate Entry Pre-specialty in Nursing (GEPN) student has participated in ILCE, which occurs each year over 16 weeks from September through April.
Yale’s Schools of Medicine (YSM) and Nursing (YSN) view this as a highly worthwhile investment due to ILCE’s effectiveness in advancing its two important learning objectives: interprofessional education, with medical, PA, and nursing students working with clinical coaches to learn about, from, and with each other; and clinical skills (history taking, physical exam, oral presentation, and clinical reasoning). The positive impact on student outcomes is apparent. For example, over the past few years, ILCE students from all three programs have demonstrated a significant increase in empathy, according to the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, based on testing before and after the course.
Kirsten Wilkins, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and co-director for the psychiatry clerkship, served her inaugural year as executive director of ILCE this academic year, overseeing a course involving 123 nursing students, 104 medical students, and 40 PA students, organized into 72 teams. Each team was comprised of three to four students from at least two of the participating degree programs. These teams were placed at 72 different clinical sites, under the guidance of 151 clinical coaches, who included both active and retired YSM and YSN faculty. Among the wide range of inpatient and ambulatory clinical sites used for the program were Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) Emergency Medicine, YNHH Hospitalist, VA Psychiatry, VA Rehab Unit, Middlesex Hospice, Fair Haven Clinic, and the APT Foundation.
The ILCE’s associate directors mirror the interprofessionalism of the program: David Brissette, PA-C, MMSc, PA program assistant director and assistant professor, directs the ILCE simulation curriculum; Linda Honan, PhD, MSN, CNS-BC, RN, professor of nursing, directs the clinical skills curriculum; and Barry J. Wu, MD, FACP, professor of clinical medicine, directs the clinical coach program.
The ILCE’s many moving parts and people came together at the New Haven Lawn Club (NHLC) on Friday, April 12, 2019, to celebrate the end of the academic year. Students, coaches, and leaders from across the three degree programs filled the reception spaces. YSN Dean Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN; PA Program Director Alexandria Garino, PhD, PA-C; and YSM Associate Dean for Curriculum Michael Schwartz, PhD, all were present to congratulate the students and thank the clinical coaches.
The dedication and intensive coordination of Danette Morrison, ILCE course coordinator (YSM), Tracy Yale, manager of clinical education programs (YSM), and Tracy Chidsey, ILCE clinical coach coordinator (YSN), who are critical to the success of ILCE year-round, also contributed to the success of the April 12 gathering.
The energy and comradery at the celebration were evident as the evening’s formal remarks began. Each speaker emphasized how ILCE enhances interprofessional education and develops clinical skills. Another key message was appreciation for the clinical coaches’ dedication to the program, with Schwartz remarking, “they love teaching, they love fostering the development of our students. We can’t thank them enough.”
Wu shared that this year’s clinical coaches included 13 PAs, 39 nurse practitioners, and 99 physicians. He also noted that 46 clinical coaches have participated in ILCE for three years, 14 for four years, and 3 for five years. Morrison created a special pin that was presented to all clinical coaches who had participated for three or more years. Wu described the pin a sign of appreciation for the clinical coaches “volunteering their time to pass on the profession to the next generation.”
Clinical coaches weave their ILCE teaching into their already full schedules. For example, some hospitalists on overnight shifts arrive a couple of hours early to teach their ILCE teams. Each week the clinical coaches strategize about the patient interactions that will be most beneficial for the students to develop their clinical skills. And the clinical coaches spend time at the beginning of each clinical session reviewing lessons learned the previous week, and about 30 minutes at the end of each session providing what Wu describes as “just-in-time” direct observations from the session, concrete feedback about one thing each student did well and one area each student could develop for their next session.
In addition to the small-group clinical experience, all students participate in four large group sessions on topics including oral presentation and clinical reasoning, as well as three simulation sessions, starting with history taking, then layering in physical exam, and finally progressing to include clinical reasoning.
In her formal remarks, YSN student Caitlin Simons reflected “what I learned during my ILCE sessions is invaluable. I was fortunate to get to spend my time with three incredible clinicians who showed me what it means to be a skilled and caring provider and were kind enough to pass those skills and lessons on to me. I leave a much more confident student thanks to your time and guidance and will carry your lessons into my future practice as an APRN.”
Simons specifically thanked Wendy Mackey, MSN, lecturer in nursing, “thank you for everything these past months. Watching your warm personality put patients and families at ease showed me how important patient provider interactions and trust are. You served as a role model of the type of APRN I hope to one day be.”
MD student Julian Weiss, whose ILCE was at the Yale Addiction Recovery Clinic at YNHH’s Saint Raphael Campus, similarly viewed his clinical coaches, Stephen Holt, MD, MS, FACP, associate professor and associate program director of the Yale Primary Care Residency Program, and Caroline Falker, MD, addiction medicine fellow, as role models. “I want to thank all the ILCE clinical coaches, especially Dr. Holt and Dr. Falker, for the time and energy they put in to give us an amazing experience. The valuable clinical skills we learned - of interacting with patients, accepting and being proactive about progress or the lack thereof - will provide the foundation for all our clinical experiences moving forward. The effort and thought they put into each of their patients was so incredibly heartening, and something I aspire to do moving forward.”
First-year PA student Madeline Kratz’s remarks reflect her appreciation of the scale of commitment ILCE requires from clinical coaches and organizers, “I want to say thank you to not only my ILCE clinical coach but to all clinical coaches and everyone who had a hand introducing us to our first round of patients as students. Thank you for volunteering your time every week to help further our education. Your guidance and commitment to teaching was extremely valuable and the skills we learned will be reflected in our future practice.”
Schwartz shared a snapshot of the history of the program during his remarks, describing how Brissette, Honan, and former colleague Eve Colson, MD, launched ILCE in 2013 as a pilot, involving nine students and six ILCE faculty, who themselves served as clinical coaches, at three different clinical sites. Schwartz described the “remarkable effort” in gradually expanding the program over its three-year pilot phase, including shifting to the model of recruiting interprofessional clinical coaches, eventually resulting in the current structure. In 2016, ILCE was implemented as a required component of the first-year curriculum in all three programs, with now over 250 students and 150 faculty.
Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, professor of nursing, described ILCE as having “redefined interprofessional collaboration in practice." Garino described how “collaboration is part of the PA's DNA- it's a basic tenet of our professional identity - so it should come as no surprise that the ILCE has become a valued part of our curriculum. It is also something that is uniquely Yale. The ILCE provides students with the space to learn from and about each other.”
Simons reflected on her ILCE team’s growth over the year, saying “one of the main goals of the ILCE program is to teach students how to work effectively in an interprofessional team and our simulations were a great opportunity for us to do that. At the end of our last simulation we were able to look back at the prior ones and see just how far we had come in history taking, physical exams, and successful collaboration.”
Similarly, Weiss reflected upon his team’s and his own development. He shared that he had called his parents after his first day of clinical training “to tell them how upset I was about this patient’s story, and how I didn’t feel equipped to help her as a provider. While I could offer comforting words, I did not yet have the skills or knowledge to truly do anything concrete for her, or even tease apart the different threads of her story and address the overwhelming number of issues in an effective manner.” He continued “while working with Dr. Holt and my ILCE group, we all got better at sifting through all that was going on with her to zero in on the most contributory problems and determine how to tackle them.” After describing steps they took working with the patient, he explained “it finally feels like our holistic goals are in reach. It’s like we are now dealing with a completely different patient, and I similarly feel like a completely different provider than I was for her at the start of ILCE.”
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Project Number 2011-1-ES1-LEO05-35981
Product Guide of Lessons Learnt
Title Guide of Lessons Learnt
Product Type others
Marketing Text This result, included in the Dissemination WP(5), is a manual of lessons learnt created as a fundamental element of dissemination to the institutions that have competence in the professsional qualitifications and the european knowledge networks interested in the project.
The guideline illustrated the validation of the Competences Map, on each country and also the Validations of the Learning Environment on each country as well.
It included the specific results on each country and the general conclusions.
Target group Professionals of the textile sector and training institutions.
Result The result consisted in a guideline in english and spanish versions (in one model).
Area of application The application of this resul was the dissemination of the guideline to the target groups. Also each partner had freedom to translate the guideline to its own language and make a wider dissemination trhough Europe. | <urn:uuid:e077febb-e595-4d73-9836-ae8e049fe9f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.adam-europe.eu/adam/project/view.htm?prj=8601&prd=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00521-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877308 | 210 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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Spend an hour in someone else's life each weekday. 'Conversations with Richard Fidler' draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
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Drawing from the accounts of early explorers, Bruce asks whether Australia's first people were really hunter-gatherers.
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In India culture, women always encourage one another, give special attention to their body and their beauty. They are always decorated with many beautiful ornaments and make special occasions such as weddings. The bride or groom Mehndi is an art form in itself and there is a great demand for the cast and special lounge Mehndi Mehndi wedding season. Bridal Mehndi designs have changed occasionally. There Mehndi has designed Marwari Rajasthan and even Indian Mehndi and Arabic. Designer sari wears a bride who will match the latest craze Mehndi design. Most importantly, hide the name of the bride and groom in the use of mirror effect like bridal Mehndi games. Mehndi usually has auspicious items and bride and groom faces in the hands of the bride.
Mehndi is a very popular feature of almost all Indian weddings, and it is a tradition to apply a henna on the hands and feet of the bride. It is believed that the dark color of Mehndi is strong and there is a love between the couple and if the color of the Mehndi is strong, then it is bonded with the child’s family for a long time. Bridal Mehndi designs are very delicate mehndi patterns of hands and feet. The interior design of the bride and bride’s face on the bride’s hands, with various art lines, hand-drawn.
Mehndi is a formal art form which was born in ancient India. Flowers are one of the most beautiful compositions of God. And when we add these two compositions, then we get the flower henna design for hands, which are definitely the most beautiful of all henna designs. Floral and Mehndi designs are very common in Mehndi art. Both of these are essentially the foundation of Mehndi Arts. This is a simple but beautiful floral design for the feet. Flowers are very interesting in the center of the foot and wealth design. Small points used to fill designs also look good.
Karwa Chauth Bharwa Mehndi Design | Full Hand Easy Henna Mehendi 2018
This beautiful flower Mehndi design is not symmetrical on both hands so that you can try any design. In this design, index finger is given more importance. The big flower size attracts attention behind the palm. Flowers are filled using shading techniques. With flowers, design also uses forms of leaves.
One of the most beautiful birds we all know, peacock is our national bird. His mix of deep colors and their wings pattern is attractive to many of us, that we can worship all day. This is the reason that More Design makes more popular choices after more demand among the many designs available. The pattern and most importantly, the effort is clearly reflected after washing and drying. However, why peacock is chosen as a choice, there is no specific reason, our best estimate is that due to the splendid performance of feathers and the beautiful beauty of the bird, it makes a popular choice. Also, when drawn on the henna, the bird looks beautiful and gorgeous. But it is important to know what format works well with the design. To get a beautiful design from this, someone should keep in mind the slightest complexities of design, as well as what format should be used and when.
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Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is one of the most significant insect-borne diseases found in humans, with 2.5 billion people living in high-risk areas globally. In recent years, the number of cases occurring has increased dramatically. Being able to predict the trend of dengue fever facilitates early public heath responses to minimise morbidity and mortality.
A research team led by Qiyong Liu of the State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, and China CDC, and Linwei Tian of the Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, correlated weather conditions, including minimum and maximum temperature, wind velocity, humidity and rainfall with the number of cases of dengue fever in the city of Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, China, over a six year period from 2001 until 2006
As dengue fever is a legally notifiable disease in China, the researchers were able to retrieve the monthly incidence of dengue fever from the Notifiable Infectious Disease Report System in the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. They correlated this with monthly weather data obtained from the China Meteorological Data Sharing Service System over the same period of time.
Higher minimum temperatures and lower wind speeds were associated with the highest number of cases of dengue fever. If the effects of humidity were factored into the mathematical model, the model fit actual events even better. The effects of minimum temperature and humidity on the incidence of dengue fever were subject to a lag of about one month, whereas the effects of wind velocity were apparent in the same month.
The authors suggest that the effects of humidity and temperature are likely to be related to mosquito survival; low humidity and cooler temperatures decrease mosquito survival. Wind speed affects mosquito flying, so high wind velocities lead to lower density of mosquitoes. But the authors point out "the transmission of dengue fever is more complex, and is influenced by community intervention measures, human behavioural influences on mosquito population and human mosquito interaction," and conclude, "future studies require studying mosquito populations."1. Time series analysis of dengue fever and weather in Guangzhou, China
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For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket. The MAIUS mission demonstrates that quantum optical sensors can be operated even in harsh environments like space – a prerequi-site for finding answers to the most challenging questions of fundamental physics and an important innovation driver for everyday applications.
According to Albert Einstein's Equivalence Principle, all bodies are accelerated at the same rate by the Earth's gravity, regardless of their properties. This...
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Yersiniae cause severe intestinal infections. Studies using Yersinia pseudotuberculosis as a model organism aim to elucidate the infection mechanisms of these...
Researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, have synthesized a new superconducting material by growing a few layers of an antiferromagnetic transition-metal chalcogenide on a bismuth-based topological insulator, both being non-superconducting materials.
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Cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy, and sensorineural hearing loss (CAPOS) syndrome is a neurological disorder. The syndrome gets its name from the different parts of the body it usually affects:
CAPOS syndrome typically begins after a fever-related illness with a sudden episode of ataxia, such as having a hard time walking or coordinating leg or arm movements. The ataxia is usually associated with generalized weakness and/or inflammation of the brain (encephalopathy). The first episode most often happens between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Pregnancy and delivery may also trigger episodes. Most people with CAPOS syndrome have one to three episodes during their lifetime. Other signs and symptoms during an episode may include low muscle tone, unusual eye movements (nystagmus or strabismus), problems with speech (dysarthria), difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), reduced or absent reflexes, and hearing loss. Some people may lose consciousness or go into a coma during an episode. Though many of the signs and symptoms of CAPOS syndrome get better as the fever and illness improve, some symptoms, including movement problems, may continue. Vision changes (optic atrophy) and sensorineural hearing loss tend to worsen over time, although the severity and rate of progression varies. Long-term management may include physical therapy, hearing and vision aids, and regular exams to check for changes in vision, hearing, and muscle coordination.
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Scalar Triple Product
The mixed product of three vectors is equivalent to the development of a determinant whose rows are the coordinates of these vectors with respect to an orthonormal basis.
Calculate the triple product of the following vectors:
Volume of a Parallelepiped
Geometrically, the absolute value of the triple product represents the volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are three vectors that meet in the same vertex.
Find the volume of the parallelepiped formed by the vectors:
Volume of a Tetrahedron
The volume of a tetrahedron is equal to 1/6 of the absolute value of the triple product.
Calculate the volume of the tetrahedron whose vertices are the points A = (3, 2, 1), B = (1, 2, 4), C = (4, 0, 3) and D = (1, 1, 7).
Triple Product Properties
1. The triple product does not change if the order of its factors are circularly rotated, but changes sign if they are transposed.
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OXFORD, England, Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — In a recently released report by PwC, Mirico has been acknowledged as one of the top emerging climate tech companies in the UK. The Net Zero Future50 report showcases leading high growth UK technology businesses that are making a significant impact on climate change across the globe.
Mirico quantifies greenhouse gas emissions (such as methane and carbon dioxide) across entire industrial sites with just a single instrument, through continuous, wide-area monitoring. Operating reliably even in inclement weather, data is collected and analysed in real-time, delivering rapid insights to operators about emissions at their sites. Automatic alerts are raised upon detection of anomalous events, enabling faster response times, reducing maintenance costs and minimising emissions.
PwC’s report describes how they scanned the market to map the key innovators that look set to define the climate tech landscape for the next decade, then selected the top 50 based on net zero impact, maturity, and scalability. The report highlighted that Mirico’s solutions can be used to help organisations to reach their net zero targets across a range of industries including oil and gas, industrial processing and agriculture.
"I am delighted for Mirico to be recognised by PwC in this report as one of the top UK climate tech businesses," said Mark Volanthen, chairman of Mirico. "Our greenhouse gas monitoring solutions are already helping customers all over the world, and we look forward to supporting more organisations reach their net zero targets in the future."
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BeschreibungOne of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls "core-to-core culture confrontation."Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world-class Judaic scholar who has also published children's books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories.Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999. Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels-in particular, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- on his work. Interviews bear witness to Potok's many other influences -- Orthodox Jewish doctrine, Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Picasso's Guernica, and Jewish kabbalah mysticism.Though labeled an American Jewish writer, Potok argues that Flannery O'Connor should then be called an American Catholic writer and John Updike an American Protestant writer. "In his mind, " editor Daniel Walden writes, "just as Faulkner was a writer focused on a particular place, Oxford, Mississippi, . . . so Potok's territory was a small section of New York City."Potok often explores conflict in his writings and in his interviews. Strict Jewish teachings deem fiction an artifice and therefore unnecessary, yet since the age of sixteen Potok has been driven to write novels. At the root of all of these conversations is Potok's intenseinterest in the turmoil between Jewish culture, religion, and tradition and what he calls "Western secular humanism."As he discusses his work, he continually includes broader issues, such as the state of Jewish literature and art, pointing out with pride and enthusiasm hi
Untertitel: 'Literary Conversations'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI
Erscheinungsdatum: Juli 2001
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Age-dependent tolerance to an endogenous tumor-associated antigen.
Immunologic tolerance to endogenous antigens reduces antitumor responses. Gp70 is an endogenous tumor-associated antigen (TAA) of the BALB/c-derived colon carcinoma CT26. We found that expression of gp70 mRNA is detectable in tissues of mice 8 months of age and older. We showed that expression of gp70 establishes immunologic tolerance and affects antitumor immunity in a similarly age-dependent manner using gp70-deficient mice. We found that tumors grew in all gp70-sufficient mice, while approximately half of gp70-deficient mice controlled tumor growth with endogenous T-cell responses. Protection in gp70-deficient mice correlated with more robust gp70-specific CTL responses, and increased numbers and avidity of responding antigen-specific T cells after vaccination. We conclude that immunosurveillance may decline with age due to increased or de novo peripheral expression of endogenous TAAs.
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I'd like to know the precise meaning of "flow" in the phrase "a flow of thunder" in the chapter five of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. It was the hour of a profound human change and excitement was generating on the air.
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The term "flow", taken from "a flow of thunder" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, refers to the sound of the thunder moving in a continuous stream. Given that the line suggests that a storm is hitting, suggested by the loud wind and thunder, the phrase refers to the typical "rolling" of thunder.
This means that the thunder reverberates after it crashes. In stronger storms, one can hear thunder resonate over and over, in a wave-like fashion. Technically, "flow" refers to something (typically a liquid) which moves steadily and continuously. Think of the flow of a river, something constant and steady. In the same way, the thunder in this phrase is not singular like a strike of lightening. Instead, the sound of the thunder is continuous (as if it never stops).
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by Andy MacPherson
The start of a new fall polar bear season!
The Turbo Beaver being busy down south, our first group of guests arrived in style in a helicopter, landing right at our front door. After settling into their rooms and taking in a brief safety orientation, we had them out viewing polar bears Churchill Wild style before lunch.
There were three bears in the immediate vicinity and all were accommodating. We were able to get close and view all three without disturbing them from their day beds. At this time of year the polar bears are focused on conserving as much energy as possible in anticipation of freeze up and the availability of their favourite meal, ringed seals, which will help them replenish their waning fat reserves.
On our way back to the lodge for lunch we discovered that the first bear we’d stopped to view earlier had ambled into the bay north of us. He was now comfortably bedded down in a bed of kelp lying on his back; stretching and playing with a piece of kelp, pulling it gently threw his teeth as if he were flossing.
After lunch we hiked out towards the west, to Swan Lake and back. We were met by a subadult bear on our way back, walking towards us up the path. He stopped when we asked him to, looking a little confused as to why we were blocking ‘His’ way. We moved off to one side, giving him the right of way – a smart thing to do when questioned by a polar bear. He passed by at a safe distance as our hearts pounded, pausing to get a good scent of us and posing for a few great photos along the way.
We are often approached by polar bears while we are out on hikes and away from the safety and comfort of the lodge. These are always exciting moments, and important times to be very observant of bear behaviour. Every bear that approaches us acts differently based on life experiences past and present. Negative or positive, these experiences will influence the way a bear reacts to us. This initial communication will determine our response to each approaching bear. While polar bears aren’t usually vocal, they do communicate very well through subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) body language and behaviour.
We watched the bear as he moved away from us and continued down the path towards Swan Lake, our excitement at his approach subsiding slightly as we moved back on to the path. Some of the guests asked where the bear was going and what he was thinking; how old he was and how much he weighed. Others marveled at what had just happened.
The largest land carnivore on the planet, a Churchill polar bear, had just walked by us and gone about his business, whatever that might be. It just wasn’t us…
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Thoughts & Intents
"and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7
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My son’s favored farewell phrase of late is, “Alright, love you, peace,” or some variation on that theme. I smile a bit at the retro feel of that—straight out of the sixties. The B.C. sixties, for of course the Hebrew for peace, shalom has been used as a blessing and greeting/farewell for millennia. What is this peace?
From my heart to yours
We do not live in a peaceful world. But we will. I pray that as you move through this day and this week, you will have the peace of God in your heart, and will be a peacemaker in your family and your community. Shalom.
Serving our sweet Savior,
LeeAnn Bonds, Bible Basics Editor
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American Sweet Corn kernels: 1 cup. (or) 1 can of corn kernels
Water: 4 cups
Ajinomoto: 1/4 tsp
Salt: to taste
Sugar : 1 tsp
Milk : 1 tbsp
Pepper: 1/2 tsp
Corn Flour : 1 tbsp, made into slurry
1. Boil corn kernels in enough water until tender. (Alternately, you may pressure cook them.)
2. Add the 4 cups water to the corn in a pan, and allow to boil.
3. Add salt, sugar, ajinomoto, pepper and let it boil for 5 more minutes.
4. Add corn flour slurry. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
5. Finally, add milk, allow one boil and remove from fire.
Serve hot with soy sauce as accompaniment.
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WWC - Corn for Dinner
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Presentation on theme: "1 Samuel Chapters 4-7. 1 And Samuel's word came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at."— Presentation transcript:
1 Samuel Chapters 4-7
1 And Samuel's word came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek. 2 The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. 3 When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why did the LORD bring defeat upon us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the LORD's covenant from Shiloh, so that it may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies." 4 So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim. And Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 When the ark of the LORD's covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout that the ground shook. 6 Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, "What's all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?" When they learned that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp, 7 the Philistines were afraid. "A god has come into the camp," they said. "We're in trouble! Nothing like this has happened before. 8 Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the desert. 9 Be strong, Philistines! Be men, or you will be subject to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men, and fight!" 10 So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated and every man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 The ark of God was captured, and Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
I need to know when God is disciplining me otherwise the disciple will continue until He has finally gotten my attention.
12 That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh, his clothes torn and dust on his head. 13 When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry. 14 Eli heard the outcry and asked, "What is the meaning of this uproar?" The man hurried over to Eli, 15 who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes were set so that he could not see. 16 He told Eli, "I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day." Eli asked, "What happened, my son?" 17 The man who brought the news replied, "Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured." 18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had led Israel forty years. 19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in- law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains. 20 As she was dying, the women attending her said, "Don't despair; you have given birth to a son." But she did not respond or pay any attention. 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"--because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."
I dont need to despair when I am disciplined by the Lord; instead, I need to fix the problem that brought on the discipline.
1 When the ark of the LORD had been in Philistine territory seven months, 2 the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place." 3 They answered, "If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you." 4 The Philistines asked, "What guilt offering should we send to him?" They replied, "Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers. 5 Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and pay honor to Israel's god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. 6 Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When he treated them harshly, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way? 7 "Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. 8 Take the ark of the LORD and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, 9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us and that it happened to us by chance."
When God is disciplining me it is not good advice to seek my own self counsel or counsel from the wrong place because I will end up with the wrong advice.
1 So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD. They took it to Abinadab's house on the hill and consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the LORD. 2 It was a long time, twenty years in all, that the ark remained at Kiriath Jearim, and all the people of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD. 3 And Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." 4 So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the LORD only. 5 Then Samuel said, "Assemble all Israel at Mizpah and I will intercede with the LORD for you." 6 When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel was leader of Israel at Mizpah. 7 When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them. And when the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid because of the Philistines. 8 They said to Samuel, "Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines." 9 Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it up as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on Israel's behalf, and the LORD answered him. 10 While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the LORD thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites. 11 The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Car.
When I realize it is the discipline of the Lord that has caused the problems to flow into my life; the only valid response is to repent.
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October 30th, 2005
It’s so goofy when people pontificate about something they know nothing about.
Coal gasification, the technology of the Mesaba DEMONSTRATION project, is anything but proven. Even the DOE knows this, and states “DEMONSTRATION” in all their materials – -check the DOE’s NOI, which acknowledges the risk of this project and discusses the serious technological problems. Where does Ray get these crazy ideas? It’s like the guy at the Taconite meeting who was trying to say that it wasn’t a wetland — if he won’t believe his eyes, I wish he’d read the Notice of proposed Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement! Humans have such aversion to reality!
The most recent attempt at coal gasification was the Wabash River plant, where they repowered an old coal plant with a 262MW coal gasification DEMONSTRATION project.
Imagine this nestled in the woods and bogs of the Range!
Mesaba and Wabash are DEMONSTRATION projects, deemed by the DOE as too risky for private development and which must be supported by grants and federally guaranteed loans.
Here’s the Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project – Final Technical Report which will tell you all about the problem experienced.
Construction costs were twice what they expected
Wastewater was “routinely” in violation of the permit due to high levels of selenium, cyanide and arsenic, and the problem had not been corrected by the time of this report.
Plant had 36-38% efficiency factor – that’s regarded as GOOD!
Plant was out of service much of the demonstration time, towards end had 60% capacity factor. That’s 19% better than an NEG Micon wind turbine!
They often say that the plant was “unavailable” and it would be a tad bit more honest if they’d say that the plant was shut down because they couldn’t or didn’t pay their gas bill!
Here’s a couple more blurbs on Wabash:
Wabash River Coal Gasification Project: A DOE Assessment This report is from January 2002, after the “final” report.
Wabash River Coal Gasification Project: An Update This report is from September 2000, just after the “final” report.
Here’s the CCPI Public Abstract for Mesaba.
Here’s a handout from the meeting, Project Facts, Mesaba Energy Project.
Here’s a Power Point from October 2005! Excelsior Energy, Inc.: A CCPI Round 2 Project.
Coal gasification goes back a bit further, but not much in the way of projects. There have been very few over the last 30 years. In the 70’s, there were two STEAG plants in Europe, and following that, air blown and oxygen blown were compared with the STEAG plants, with the US plants winning out. The EPRI report on this was prepared by FLOUR, the Mesaba engineers on the project (see Economic Evaluation of GCC Power Plants based on the STEAG Combined-Cycle Design and Comparison With a U.S. Combined-Cycle-Based System, EPRI AF-1288; see also Economic Studies of Coal Gasification Combined Cycle Systems for Electric Power Generation, EPRI AF-642, Flour; An Economic Evaluation of MHD-Steam Powerplants Employing Coal Gasification, RI 7796, Bergman, Plants, Demeter & Bienstock).
Yup, Ray’s not the only one who hasn’t a clue, but that’s what happens when you don’t do your homework and rely on lobbyists — for this “Two Lobbyists and a Wife” project, that’s an obviously flawed approach!
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Easiest Slideshows Ever
You can create PDF slideshows with Photoshop in about… oh… 10 seconds. I’ll show you how easy it really is.
First, put all the files you want in your slideshow into one folder (they don’t have to be, it’s just easier that way). Open the File Browser window in Photoshop by clicking the icon in your Option bar or [Window > File Browser].
With the File Browser open, navigate to the folder where your slideshow images are stored.
Select the images you want in your slideshow. [Ctrl + A] will select all, holding [Shift] will select a range, and holding [Ctrl] will allow you to select and deselect specific images. Now, in the File Browser window, go to [Automate > PDF Pesentation].
When the PDF Presentation window opens, all of your selected files will be in the Source Files list.
In the Output Options, choose “Presentation”. In the Presentation Options, set the time delay between each fram with the “Advance Every X Seconds” option. You can also choose if you want the slideshow to loop or not.
Finally, select the transition you want (if any) and click “Save”. Save your file as whatever you want.
Now just set your PDF options, I left mine as the default, and press “OK”. Now sit back, relax, and let Photoshop build your presentation.
The great thing about these slideshows, is that they’re PDF format, which is very widely accepted and easy to share!
- Posted at March 25th, 2005 05:25pm
- Posted by Tommy Maloney
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TOOLS FOR MOVING TOWARDS COACHING-BASED EVALUATIONS
This page serves as additional resources for Principals and evaluators for use with the NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument. All materials here can be reproduced and used for educational purposes.
"It's Not About The Forms: Growing Human Capital Through Coaching-Based Supervision"
This presentation was delivered to principals, stakeholders and Department of Public Instruction Transformation Coaches on June 23, 2009. It provides a context for and instructions about the tools listed below.
NC Comparison Table
This table offers a side-by-side comparison of the North Carolina Teacher Evaluation and School Executive Evaluation processes. The processes are grounded in a common vision for the development of professional capacity to teach North Carolina's students' 21st century knowledge and skills. The table outlines the required and optional forms associated with the teacher and principal process, the common rating scale, the standards areas and timelines.
Self-Assessment for Supervisors
This self-assessment is designed for supervisors of both principals and teachers. The document is grounded in research-based best practices in supervision. Users are asked to respond to prompts in terms of their own practice and practices in their districts. This self-assessment can become the basis for powerful conversations in peer groups as participants compare ratings, strengths and weaknesses. Discussion groups can share effective practices, and determine next steps for themselves and for their districts.
Self-Assessment Summary for Teachers
Each teacher is required to complete the "Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers" as a self-assessment. This tool is designed to allow a teacher to summarize the self-assessment highlighting areas of strengths and areas for growth for each of the five standards on a single page. This page can be used as a cover sheet with the rubric allowing a snapshot of the self-assessment. Utilizing this tool can expedite the conversation about a teacher's strengths and growth areas.
Artifact Cover Sheet
The North Carolina Teacher and Principal Evaluation Processes call for the use of a variety of artifacts as data sources. This cover sheet is designed to be stapled to any artifact to be submitted. The cover sheet should be completed by the evaluatee, who is asked to reflect upon the implications of the artifact in substantiating a rating, and in thinking about next steps. The evaluator may also want to make written comments on the cover sheet.
Observation Data Half Sheet
These pages are designed to be used as note taking guides for informal short classroom visitations. Completed note pages can be left for teachers as a form of feedback, or can be used as the basis for the crafting of narrative notes.
Quick Visit Notes Chart
This simple table is designed to help principals to keep track of the classrooms they have visited in quick walk-throughs, and to spot patterns in their observation data. We suggest that principals make a point of visiting all classrooms regularly. Even the most effective teachers appreciate regular visitations and feedback. We also recommend that feedback from quick walk-throughs generally be positive. Where principals have serious concerns about teacher performance, longer observations and post-observation conferences are called for.
NC Standard 2 Observation Tool
Using the lens of Standard 2, an observer can use this tool to look for specific teaching and learning evidence that demonstrate its implementation. This tool provides the standards elements and note-taking space to record evidence as well as room to pose reflective questions for the teacher to consider. Evidence of teaching and learning tied to Standard 2: Establishing a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students, might be "during Writer's Workshop, the teacher checked in with individual students around their writing project and offered specific feedback about the student's progress and offered suggestions specific to the student's learning needs". A question that this evidence might provoke is, "How are your writer's conferences scheduled to ensure that the student's with the greatest need are getting the support necessary to be successful throughout the writing process?" *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document
NC Standards 2-4 Observation Tool
This tool allows the observer to gather observable evidence during a classroom visitation. The left hand column has the standard listed. The elements standard's elements are not listed, making this tool most appropriate for the evaluator who has foundational knowledge of the standards. The middle column provides space to record activities reflecting the standard; the right column provides space to record questions to provoke teacher self-reflection. *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document
NC Standards 2-4 (with Elements) Observation Tool
Since North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards are not observable during a classroom observation, this allows the observer to gather observable evidence during a classroom visitation. The left hand column has the standard listed with each element below its standard. The elements have a space to check what is observed. The middle column provides space to record observable teacher evidence of the standard and element; the right column provides space to record notes of observable student evidence. The tool also provides a space to record questions to provoke teacher self-reflection. *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document
NC Standard 4 Diagonal Chart
This tool is designed for use during a classroom observation. The evaluator/observer can enter the classroom with a lens specific to this teaching standard and look for specific evidence of teacher behaviors and student behaviors that demonstrate its implementation. Use this tool to record the specific behaviors observed -on the top side, record the specific things that the teacher says or does as evidence of the standard and its elements; on the bottom of the page, record specific things students say or do as evidence. For example, if upon entering a classroom you see "students working in groups of three to solve the Problem of the Day." In the Student Behavior section of the page you might record this as evidence of a teacher facilitating learning for students (Standard 4) demonstrating evidence of the elements around critical thinking and problem-solving skills (4e); students working in teams and developing leadership qualities (4f). *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document
NC Standard 4 Observation Tool
Similar to the Standard 4 Diagonal Chart, this observation tool allows the evaluator to focus on a single teaching standard. The two-columned observation tool states Standard 4 at the top of the page. Below the standard are two columns. The left column offers the standard elements; the right column provides space to record observable evidence specific to the standard's elements *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document
Feedback Protocol (Evidence Sentence Frame)
Our goal in teacher supervision is to support teacher growth by getting into classrooms frequently, examining data from a number of sources, and giving teachers frequent feedback. Feedback that is specific and that is grounded in professional and content standards reinforces our focus on those standards. Feedback that includes a teacher's impact upon students reinforces our focus upon student outcomes. This protocol is intended to help principals and other observers to frame feedback to teachers in a way that is likely to contribute to their professional growth. Use this frame as a guideline in crafting feedback to teachers after short informal classroom visitations, or as an overarching approach as you provide more extensive feedback after longer formal observations.
Blended Coaching Stems
Post-Observation Planning Form
Think of a post-observation conference as a teaching opportunity, and think of this form as a lesson plan format. This form is not intended as something to be filed or shared with an evaluatee. Rather, it is a tool for clarifying your thinking before you have a post-observation conference. What outcomes do you hope to produce? What is the most important data for you to share?
Formal observations are typically preceded by a pre-conference so that the observer understands the context and objectives of the lesson, and so that teacher can share what he or she hopes to learn from the observation. The post-observation conference is a time for the observer to lead the teacher through reflection upon the lesson and the lesson's outcomes. The observer shares observation data, but avoids dominating the conversation or overwhelming the teacher with judgmental statements. In an effective coaching-based post-observation conference, the observer leads the teacher as she/he arrives at his/her own judgments about the lesson, and agrees to next steps. This protocol outlines the typical steps in the pre-conferencing and post-conferencing processes. Blended Coaching Language will support the use of these protocols.
Communicating Concerns Directly - Conference Planning
Many of us avoid conversations where we have to share negative feedback with our supervisees. We tolerate poor or mediocre performance and students suffer. This protocol is designed to help you to design a conversation where you share a professional concern, outline your expectations, and specify next steps and accountability. These difficult conversations are easier if they are planned out in advance, and even role played with a trusted colleague. Don't allow professional conversations to be hijacked by emotion; keep student outcomes at the forefront.
Professional Development Plan (PDP) Progress and Reflection
The evaluation process is started with a teacher self-assessment and leads to a Professional Development Plan based upon the teacher's growth areas. As the year (and the evaluation cycle) progress this tool offers a chance for both the teacher and evaluator to record the teacher's progress throughout the evaluation process and provides space to include observations on the impact of the activities and strategies being used to achieve the goals; this tool also prompts consideration of next steps
Peer Observation and Note Taking Page
The process for evaluating probationary teachers in North Carolina includes one peer observation. This tool lists the three standards that are observable during classroom observations (Standards 2,3,4). A box is provided for the peer evaluator to record observable teacher behaviors linked to the standards; a second box is provided to record observable student behaviors linked to the standards; and a final box to record any artifacts collected during the observation as well as space to list questions for reflection. *Since this one page is less cumbersome than the required evaluation forms, the evaluator can use this for taking specific notes linked to the standards and then transfer relevant information to the required document | <urn:uuid:4688a931-8a0e-4c68-8fb8-f6bdc17d78c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/profdev/resources/coaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920466 | 2,225 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Taking a business trip is often part of the job. You may even enjoy the trip, but that doesn’t make it a vacation. Business travel is considered work time. And when thinking about the business travel compensation and reimbursement you’re owed, you should understand what you’re entitled to.
Responsibility for Reimbursing Business Travel Expenses
When employers think about business travel compensation, they typically begin by putting reimbursement guidelines in place so employees know exactly what they can (and cannot) expense. Business travel expenses can fly out of control in a hurry, and employers typically use these policies to identify how the expenses you incur while traveling for business will be managed and paid for.
Typically, business travel expenses incurred by you, the employee, will be reimbursed by your employer. The employer may require you to estimate the expected cost prior to your business trip or event so they can pre-approve the various anticipated expenses in advance against their travel budget.
Business travel policies will typically specify limits for reimbursement and list your company’s preferred vendors. Preferred vendors typically include airlines (e.g., JetBlue), car rental companies (e.g., Avis), and hotels (e.g., Marriott). Employers will often negotiate rates with preferred vendors to obtain the best rates for business travel, especially if business travel is a large corporate expense.
Some companies require employees that travel on business to utilize a contracted travel agency for making travel arrangements. Travel agencies typically offer their business clients pre-negotiated and preferred rates, helping organizations manage their business travel budgets.
Travel expenses are usually restricted to business-related travel. If you plan to extend your stay in the city in which you are visiting for pleasure, you can expect to pay for that portion of the trip on your own.
Some employers do make an exception to this business travel policy if you are able to extend your trip without increasing total cost. For example, if your return flight is pushed to a Saturday instead of a Friday, you might see the total cost of airfare decrease. That flight cost reduction may offset the incremental cost of an extra day of lodging. In this instance, your employer may be willing to cover the extended trip. It all comes down to how it is worded within your corporate travel policy.
Unpacking Business Travel Categories
Business travel expenses typically fall under three categories: transportation, lodging, and meals. As an employee, you are entitled to business travel compensation in each of these three areas, and you should keep track of your business travel expenses and receipts for use in the business travel reimbursement process.
Airfare costs will often be the largest of your transportation travel expenses. In urban areas, your employer may suggest you swap airfare expenses for rail travel, as a train trip can often be a less expensive alternative to air travel. Your employer’s business travel policy should include guidelines for how you should handle and pay for extras (such as seat upgrades or baggage fees), as well as flight changes (which incur change fees).
Your transportation expenses can also include rental car fees, limos, taxies, ride shares, and subway fares. In the instance of car rentals, your employer’s travel policy should include what car types and sizes are approved to rent, as well as the types of insurance that should be selected as an add-on. Regardless of the type of transportation you leverage, you will want to keep track of all receipts and tips, which you can submit for business travel compensation and reimbursement.
In instances where you drive your own car to a business meeting or event, you will typically be reimbursed at a flat mileage rate, plus tolls. For 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has set the standard mileage deductible rates for the use of a car (or vans, pickups, or panel trucks) at 58 cents per mile for business miles driven. While most companies use the IRS mileage reimbursement rate as stated, you will want to confirm with your business travel compensation policy to confirm you’re your employers is in alignment with the IRS deduction.
Parking is also considered a transportation expense, regardless of whether you drive your own car or rent one during your business trip, and can be submitted for business travel reimbursement.
You will often incur lodging expenses at hotels when your business travel is for consecutive days in a location substantially far away from home. The “distance away” needed to qualify for a night’s stay will vary by company. For instance, if you are traveling from Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine for business, that is less than a 2-hour drive. Your employer’s travel policy should clarify whether a hotel stay would meet with approval, or whether you should make the trip home on the same day after work is concluded without incurring the added expense of a hotel stay.
Many businesses will allow you to have their own hotel room when traveling. However, some employers still require employees to share a room with a same-gendered coworker to save on business travel expenses. Guidelines for booking your hotel stay, including policies like these, should appear in your organization’s formal business travel policy document.
When traveling, you will typically be reimbursed for meal expenses for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, your employer may place a daily limit on meal expenses, or set a per diem meal expense allocation. Your meal expenses can also be classified as entertainment expenses if your employer allows you to entertain customers or suppliers by taking them out to lunch or dinner.
Your company will probably also have rules in regard to the extent to which alcohol is a reimbursable expense. These guidelines would be outlined in your corporate business travel compensation policy.
Other Business Travel Considerations
- Rewards points – when it comes to rewards points associated with air travel or hotel stays, most employers will allow you to keep those reward points. A minority of employers will require you to grant the rewards points to the company. If you travel frequently for work, consider signing up for free air, train, hotel, and rental car loyalty programs so you can accumulate points for later use.
- Insurance – many employers provide their employees with business travel accident insurance, which covers the employee from any injury obtained during business travel. Your employer’s policy should be outlined in your employee benefits or business travel reimbursement guidelines.
- Tax deductions – if you want to check if your business travel expenses are tax deductible, you can view rules within the IRS Topic Number 511. However, consider that when the employer is reimbursing travel expenses, they are typically not also tax deductible by the employee.
- Travel pay – in the United States, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations require employers to pay for travel time in some circumstances. Generally, time spent traveling is compensable, unless it is normal home-to-work commute time, or when travel requires an overnight stay and the time spent traveling as a passenger falls outside of your normal work hours. When pay is required, the time spent traveling is considered hours worked and must be included when determining overtime pay obligations.
To learn more about you company’s business travel expense program, first determine if your company has a formal business travel compensation policy. Ask for it from the Human Resources department or the Finance department. And travel safe!
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It’s been a while since I last posted from a battlefield, but felt today was a good time.
I’m sitting within the lines of what was the left flank of the Stonewall Brigade (as of this very hour, 150 years ago). I’m within the area in which the 33rd Virginia stood… and to my right, the 2nd Virginia. In front of me the denseness of the Wilderness is obvious. A sign to my right refers to the nearby Culpeper Mine Road, and also quotes a New Jersey chaplain who said, “It was impossible to see the enemy… and though we peered through the thick woods, we were fighting invisible foeman.”
Such a statement holds some strange irony, for it was within this general area where my third great grand uncle fell, struck (likely) by a shot from a soldier in the US Regulars.
I took the time to post a photo of him on a nearby tree…
My journey with my third great grand uncle has been an interesting one… spanning nearly 30 years. I remember finding out about Capt. Michael Shuler from work on my family tree. I wrote Bob Krick back in the mid-80s, asking if he had any info on him. When he replied that Shuler’s diary was at the Library of Congress, I was thrilled. Since then, I’ve put together what I could, hoping to gain some understanding as to who he was. In fact, it became even more complex within the last decade, having learned how his father (about whom I’ve also written) spoke out against secession, and his uncle was clearly a wartime Unionist.
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Pleurotus eryngii – The edible mushroom Pleurotus eryngii might just be of great interest to sports supplements manufacturers. We draw this conclusion, ignorant as we are when it comes to mushrooms and wapiti metabolism, from a Korean study in which wapitis synthesized dramatically more testosterone, growth hormone and IGF-1 when given mycelium from Pleurotus eryngii mixed with their food.
Pleurotus eryngii is rapidly becoming a whole industrial sector in Korea. Hundreds of companies are now producing this flavoursome oyster mushroom. One of the waste products of this is spent mushroom substrate: a mix of compost, fibres and mycelium. This waste is produced in such quantities that it’s becoming a problem for the sector.
Researchers at the Korean National Institute of Animal Science published a possible solution for this problem in the Asian-Australian Journal of Animals Sciences in March 2012. They looked at whether would be possible to use the waste from the Pleurotus eryngii mushroom nurseries as food for wapitis. Wapiti breeding is also a commercial activity in Korea.
Each gram of spent mushroom substrate contained 199.2 mg beta-glucans. The researchers gave their wapitis food containing 0, 15 or 20 percent spent mushroom substrate for a period of 80 days.
The wapitis that had received 15 percent mushroom substrate had a sixty percent higher monocyte concentration [MO] than the 0 percent group. Monocytes are white blood cells. They are the immune cells in the innate immune system, the ones that provide the first line of defence to infections or when healthy cells mutate into cancer cells.
In the same group the concentration of haemoglobin [Hb] was 13 percent higher than in the 0 percent group.
The researchers were particularly surprised by the changes in levels of a number of anabolic hormones in the animals used in the experiment. In the 15 percent group the levels of growth hormone, IGF-1 and testosterone were respectively 28, 30 and 400 percent higher than the levels in the 0 percent group.
“The results of the current study confirmed the applicability of SMS as a feed ingredient in elk diets”, the Koreans conclude. “Further study with more focus on growth performance is therefore suggested.”
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Until recently, rugged devices were only offered by a small number of specialized manufacturers and were extremely expensive relative to retail tablets. Today, high-performance rugged devices are mainstream and affordable, changing the game for enterprises by making it affordable to equip employees working in the field. With the option to turn your field device into your laptop while charging by adding a docking station and keyboard, the 2-in-1 rugged tablet becomes the more affordable office tool.
In industries such as field service, construction, health care, manufacturing, and logistics, the purchasing decision has to include rough handling, the potential for drops and shocks, and working environments such as wet weather, dirt, and extreme temperatures. Other industries like food & beverage, hospitality, and golf clubs have unique challenges to consider such as dealing with grease, corrosive fluids, vibrations, and hot & cold temperature transitions.
At first glance, the difference in price between a consumer off-the-shelf device and a rugged device may appear substantial. It might tempt the uninformed to simply replace a consumer device with a new one when they inevitably break. However, with a little more research, many businesses are finding that the investment in rugged tablets actually saves a significant amount of money. The reason consumer devices are so susceptible to breakage and failure is that they require frequent – not one-time – replacement. That constant churn of devices causes work stoppages and lost productivity which is far more costly than simply replacing a device. Consumer devices also have a shorter useful life because manufacturers of these retail devices, want to keep replacement cycles short and continually release new features (most of which have no added value for enterprise use). Rugged tablets, on the other hand, are factory-supported for a useful life that is twice that of most consumer products.
Before You Purchase Consider the Total Cost of Ownership
When you consider important consumer purchases such as buying a car, most people not only look at the sticker price but consider reliability, repair costs, safety and longevity. All those elements contribute to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). So, it only makes sense that when it comes to choosing a vital piece of business equipment, such as a mobile tablet, the same standards should apply. Purchasing in larger quantities allows a company to order custom rugged tablets to better address the complex challenges of their specific industry or business.
When medium to large businesses purchase tablets in bulk or in high volumes, it can further increase their ROI.
Consumer Grade vs. Rugged: Hardware Costs
A more mobile workforce means businesses need to provide equipment that can withstand frequent vibrations, extreme temperatures, moisture, dust, and hazardous situations. For this reason, consumer tablets, that might have initially looked attractive, will in the “real world” fall short of meeting minimum standards. Studies have shown that not only do consumer devices fail up to four times more often than rugged devices, but each failure results in longer periods of lost productivity and more IT support time to resolve.
Software – The Hard Reality
Rugged computers, such as Minno Tablets, aren’t only robust and purpose-driven when it comes to case design and components, but they are also built with operating systems and applications that can be easily managed, upgraded, and used by employees in any workplace setting. Some off-the-shelf tablet PCs may offer users software that’s familiar, but these apps tend to be better suited for consumer use, and less optimized for business purposes. By customizing your rugged tablet with business-specific applications, you can drive up productivity and efficiency.
Choosing the right OS is also key for versatility and reduction of project risk. Most rugged tablet producers and business-related software and application vendors build their tools to be compatible with Windows or Android. Other consumer-focused business-related operating systems can create project roadblocks when crucial applications don’t integrate. Non-compatibility issues waste time, and cost money to resolve, as developers are forced to retool essential applications.
It’s important for the operating system to be as robust as possible to support your business software. Currently, there are few consumer tablets with the ability to operate as fast and effectively as their rugged counterparts.
Add-Ons – Added Cost and Problems
An important consideration is whether to accessorize a tablet with add-ons or to choose a completely integrated solution that offers the capabilities you need as standard features. Most mobile devices have add-on capabilities. Some industries require multiple add-ons such as a barcode scanner or card reader. The downside of add-ons is that they are separate hardware components. The more add-ons needed, the higher the cost and more potential for problems. It is commonly understood that failure rates are higher for peripherals added to consumer tablets, than ruggedized mobile computers with components built-in. Bolting on peripherals can increase the risk of downtime, and in companies with many employees, managing tablet PCs, add-ons, and multiple ports and connectors can become a logistical and inventory headache.
One of the most significant benefits of rugged tablet computers like Minno, is that they have been designed with business-specific functionality. Integrated components and accessories seamlessly work together. Rugged computers often feature built-in barcode and RFID scanners, GPS, and high-resolution cameras. One well thought out, integrated tool to get the job done.
While the tangible costs are readily apparent (cost of the device, software, installation, training, etc.) the often hidden intangible costs are frequently far more important in the long run.
Immediate Costs vs Long Term Costs
Businesses of all sizes are concerned with their return on investment (ROI) when it comes to making mobile computing purchase decisions. Companies simply cannot invest in tablet PCs without understanding both short-term and long-term costs. Often times Total Cost of Ownership analyses neglects to look carefully at the soft costs and variables that can impact the productivity of their employees.
A recent study produced by VDC Research (a B2B tech consulting firm) reported that over 50% of the total cost of using an enterprise mobile computing device can be traced to lost worker productivity due to device failure. The same report also noted that the average annual TCO of rugged tablets is $3,423 compared to a TCO for a non-rugged device of $7,330. Their analysis takes into consideration not only the cost of the equipment but the equally important long-term costs generated by lost productivity when employees have to deal with equipment failure. It is estimated that employees lose between 76-101 minutes of productivity when mobile devices fail. Multiply that by repeated failures over the life of the device and you can see how that would represent a significant cost.
Independent research has shown that if a non-rugged mobile computer spends more than 40% of its time outside of the workplace, or in taxing environments such as a warehouse or manufacturing floor, the annual failure rate can exceed more than 30% per device. Companies still using consumer-grade tablets run the risk of having one-third of their computers in the field needing to be repaired or replaced entirely. By comparison, rugged tablets have much lower failure rates, less than 4% a year. The cost of failure rates also tends to rise yearly as part costs and repair labor costs are estimated to rise as much as 30% over the next three years. Thus, the reduction of computer failures is a key consideration for TCO.
Other TCO Considerations at a Glance:
- TCO falls with each level of ruggedness, so the more rugged the computer, the lower the TCO over time. The difference can amount to more than $3,900 per device, per year.
- On average the TCO for rugged computers over three years is 15% lower than that of non-rugged computers. That represents hundreds of dollars of savings per unit.
- The average life expectancy of a consumer tablet in a mobile or fieldwork environment is around 90-180 days. Business-grade off-the-shelf tablets perform a bit better but still are not designed for in-field use. Rugged tablets designed and built for use in challenging environments can be going strong four to six years later.
- A recent mobile industry study showed that consumers have become more impatient. Overall 38% of survey respondents said they were less patient than they were five years ago and 45% of millennials said the same thing. So delays caused by equipment failure can have a significant effect on customer satisfaction, which can directly impact an organization’s bottom line.
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Catastrophe bonds and parametric insurance have both been highlighted by the President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in a speech laying out priorities for 2022 and a plan for marshalling financing to support regional economies.
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is designing a “financing ecosystem” through which it aims to support the regions economies and distinguish between three key financing stages, Rescue, Recovery and Repositioning.
The goal is to support its Borrowing Member Countries’ (BMCs) immediate economic needs and also propel their long-term growth and development, while transitioning to sustainability.
Speaking yesterday, CDB President, Dr Gene Leon explained that the Bank will aim to “marshal financing for a range of innovative instruments” with the goal of supporting and propelling future growth and prosperity.
“To meet the region’s development needs, and for the attainment of the SDG goals, we need to approach our financing needs in a wholesome manner, addressing both the existing debt stock problem and flow financing for development. This would require a wide spectrum of financing instruments that is underpinned by a strong regulatory environment and a well-developed financial market infrastructure.” Dr Leon explained at the CBD’s annual news conference.
One of the key areas of focus for 2022 is expected to be disaster risk financing, which is where the first stage of financing, Recovery, is seen as particularly important and this is where insurance-linked securities have a role to play.
“Financing for Rescue needs to be highly flexible and targeted for meeting liquidity needs arising from emergencies, especially natural hazards, be sufficient, have minimum conditionality, and with automatic triggering for fast paced disbursement,” Dr Leon explained.
Going into more detail, Leon said that possible instruments that can be applicable to this stage of Caribbean economy financing needs are the CBD’s own emergency loan facilities, alongside parametric insurance delivered by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds, and rapid paying credit and investment facilities from the IMF.
The goal is to leverage the three stages of financing to enable faster response or recovery and to build resilience as well.
Dr Leon said, “Our development challenge is not merely to recover lost ground and close the distance to achieving SDGs, but to fundamentally alter the development path so that our societies can be placed on a higher and more sustainable welfare path in the future.”
The Caribbean economies have gained experience in responsive disaster risk financing thanks to the CCRIF and its range of parametric insurance products.
In addition, after the first catastrophe bond for a Caribbean nation was issued for Jamaica last year, the region is now also increasingly being exposed to the subject of accessing the capital markets to source responsive disaster risk financing as well, so it’s encouraging to see catastrophe bonds placed on the financing agenda for the CBD.
Securing responsive post-disaster risk financing, using catastrophe bonds or parametric insurance instruments, is seen as a key way to ensure the important rescue funding is available, through a true transfer of risk off the economic balance-sheet without having to increase the debt burden, which is seen as very important in the Caribbean.
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The author of the book: Arnold Lobel
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 911 KB
Edition: HarperCollins Publishers
Date of issue: 23 December 2013
Description of the book "Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury":Celebrate the power of friendship with all four of the beloved Frog and Toad I Can Read stories by Arnold Lobel--now in one volume! This treasury includes the complete art and text from four classics: Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad. Share the adventures of best friends Frog and Toad as they fly a kite, resist the temptation of cookies, and search for a lost button. No matter what kind of situation they find themselves in, one thing is certain: Frog and Toad will always be PDF together. This reading collection is a Level Two I Can Read, geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help.
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Lately a post discussing the definition of influence has shown the changes of the term regarding its use and distinguished it from popularity alone, which formerly had a more closer connection to the term. Today influence happens in the social media space by communications rather than by idols promoting a message. The following article is going a bit deeper and evaluates the influence within the long tail. By comparing the influence at the social web with an ABC Analysis usually done to evaluate goods the article is showing the value of influence beyond communications done the media elite of today.
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Current high school and college students interested in pursuing careers in Alabama’s multi-billion-dollar automotive industry have two weeks to apply for a scholarship to use at one of Alabama’s community colleges.
The Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Assocation (AAMA) and the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) are providing scholarships, as well as mentors, to students who want to pursue a technical education certificate or associate degree in the automotive manufacturing industry. The deadline to apply is October 29.
Funding is available to award $3,600 scholarships to students who are enrolled in a program at an Alabama community college that is associated with automotive manufacturing careers.
Students who are awarded the scholarship may use the funds for their spring, summer, or fall 2022 tuition, books, and fees associated with the approved program of study.
Applicants must use the scholarship toward an automotive-related program, including the following: Automotive Manufacturing Technology; Automotive Manufacturing; Automotive Service Technician; Computer Numerical Control; Engineering Technology; Industrial Electronics Technology; Industrial Maintenance Technology; Injection Molding; Logistics; Machine Shop/Tool Technology; Manufacturing Technology; Mechanical Design Technology; Mechatronics; or Welding Technology.
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Sentinel-Standard back in the day: April 25-27, 1881
Linda Ciangi Special to the Ionia Sentinel-Standard
This week's stories are from the Ionia Daily Sentinel 1881.
- Spring has come to stay. The morning opened up warm and pleasant with a gentle April shower.
- Fishing is said to be good. n
- It is a good idea to put cross-walks on a level with the street.
- Henry Eberhardt has the brain fever and is not expected to live.
- Wanted - First class dry goods salesman. None other need apply. Miller & Hudson.
- Henry G. Wright has sold his house on Lafayette street to Burton Babcock for $3250.
- Mr. A. W. Dodge says he has made chemical tests of the water pumped from wells along Main street and finds it unfit for use.
- Henry Eberhardt whose illness was announced, died yesterday. His funeral will take place on to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the M. E. church.
- The fair grounds is now entirely free from water, and is drying off rapidly, so that the owners of some of the many fast nags in town can have the satisfaction of speeding them again.
- M. J. Young's immense cistern caved in this morning just as N. S. Goodrich was driving over it, but luckily his horse and the front wheels of the buggy had passed over before it gave way.
- The vote on fixing the amount of liquor bonds stood as follows: for $5000 bonds, Aldermen Rich and Fargo; for $2000 bonds, Aldermen Dye, Shannon, Cain, Dean and Tower; absent, Alderman Watrous.
- The Cow Question. Now that the legislature has decided that cattle cannot be privileged to run in the streets without affirmative action on the part of the supervisors, those men who desire to keep milch (sic) cows are getting up a scheme to do so and comply with the law at the same time. They propose to engage a boy or man as herder, all cows to be driven by the owners to a certain point at an appointed hour in the morning, and there placed in charge of the herder, who is to take care of them during the day, keep them together, see that they get into no mischief, and return them to the same place in the evening, owners to go there after them and keep them shut up during the night. It is a good plan. The expense will be slight if all will join in it and pay their share. No damage would be done; cattle would not get into people's gardens nor into the pound, and everybody would be better satisfied than under the old plan.
- PALO. Palo must be increasing in business; we have two daily stages to Ionia now.
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not sure I quite agree with Emerson's definition of success.
When someone dies, how does one judge the sum of a life? When you read obituaries, there are usually lists of children and grandchildren left behind. There is often a recounting of jobs and positions held. But what does this tell us about the person that lived?
I have been writing and painting quite a bit lately. And there is always this voice in my head that says that my work is meaningless unless it is one day consolidated and sold to a public. I am a product of my society. I have been socialized to only find meaning in what can be commodified. And this is a source of great anguish for me. I like creating. I like painting. I like writing. I like taking photographs. If I leave this life with an apartment full of journals, canvasses and photographs that have never been shared with a greater public, will that mean my life was unsuccessful? Is there merit in the individual journey unwitnessed by others?
The reality is that most of our journey goes unwitnessed in this life. The greatest journey, the hero's journey, is taken within the mind, within the heart, and no one beyond the journeyer truly knows that experience. We can create art, write books, leave behind children and companies and 'redeemed social conditions' but what does it all mean? Is this what defines a life?
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ONT cannot get IPV6 with PPPoETMAdmin
The ONT is not receiving the IPv6 address by PPPoE, the BRAS assigns prefix and address through a DHCPv6 server. The ONT only gets the prefix, but not the address.
2. We can make the debuggings logging by CLI to the ONT and apply the following command
3. Also took some packet captures with the command set ethportmirror sourceport X destport Y mirrordate 2 enable 1
4. Checking the packet capture, the Protocol Reject packet is because the BRAS is sending a PPP IPCP Configuration request, but the ONT will reject the IPCP packet, only will accept IPv6CP Configuration Request
5. In the packet captures we can see that the ONT requests the IPv6 address and prefix of the WAN through DHCPv6, but the BRAS only allocates the prefix information and does not allocate the IPv6 address.
a) The ONT requested the IPv6 address (IA_NA) and IPv6 prefix information (IAPD) in the DHCPv6 Solicit message:
6. Checkin the response, the BRAS only replies the IPv6 prefix information (IAPD) in the Advertise message, and does not reply the IPv6 address information (IA_NA), so ONT’s WAN cannot obtain an IPv6 address. Need to further investigate the problem of the upper BRAS。
Although the ONT is requesting the IPv6 address in the IA_NA packet and the prefix in the IAPD, the ONT is only receiving the IAPD.
7. The Neighbor Discovery protocol uses a Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement to get the peer IPv6 address.
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The workshop is about how to manage your child’s exposure to foreign languages. As more and more families become global citizens, the languages they are exposed to is increasing. Children from these families are being exposed to 2 or more languages. At E.S.B. these children may well have to complete their education in a second -or even third language. This can be problematic if parents are not aware of the consequences of the language choices they make for their children.
Over the years the instructor, Mrs Nicky van Kiel, has gained insight both from lessons learned within her own family as well as through her many years of experience as a teacher of children of many nationalities! Nicky has developed a method to manage these situations and enable parents to make individual language plans for their children.
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If you're throwing an Oscar-viewing party, make it green one. We had our annual Pre-Oscar Party this week and made it eco-friendly with food, drinks, decor, and more. Here are a few things you can do to green your own party. Pop it right. You don't need to buy those microwave popcorn laced with chemicals that are not good for you or the environment. Pop your own microwave popcorn with this Alton Brown recipe or use a good old-fashioned air popper.
Prepare film-inspired food: We have foodie friends who serve bites or full-on meals inspired by the nominated films. You could make Southern food for "The Help" with Food & Wine recipes inspired by the film; organic hot dogs for the baseball flick "Moneyball" (in California, we're lucky to have delicious Let's Be Frank dogs); or French bistro food (hard to go wrong with Julia Child) for "Midnight in Paris" -- you get the idea. Adapt any favorite recipe by using organic and locally sourced ingredients.
Toast without toxins: Choose beverages made with organic ingredients and without artificial colors, flavors and other bad-for-you-and-the-planet fillers. (Hint: look at the label and see if you recognize what's listed.) Pictured, organic and biodynamic wines we served at the Global Green Pre-Oscar Party this week. We also prepared a specialty cocktail at our Pre-Oscar Party using organic vodka (recipe here).
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Reno, Sparks, Nev. June 30, 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed Washoe County as having a “High” community level for COVID-19 and recommends that people wear masks when in public indoor places and stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccines.
People who have symptoms or have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 should get tested. Aside from seeking medical care, people who are sick should stay home and isolated from others in their household.
For further recommendations from the CDC, go here. The increase in community level from “Medium” to “High” is a result of 12.4 hospitalizations per 100,000 people in the past seven days, which exceeds 10 hospitalizations per 100,000 according to the CDC.
According to the Washoe County COVID-19 dashboard, the 7-day moving average for new COVID-19 cases is at 202.29 per day. The Nevada Hospital Association reported today that 48 people hospitalized in Washoe County are confirmed or suspected to have COVID-19.
Those who are at higher risk for severe illness may need to take additional precautions. This can include having a plan for rapid testing if needed and talking to your health care provider about options for treatments with oral antivirals and monoclonal antibodies. If you have tested positive in recent days, please call the Nevada Treatment and Therapeutic Services 1-800-401-0946 or visit the website here https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/find-treatment/ to see if you are eligible for any treatment options.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures COVID-19 community levels using a combination of three metrics. These include new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 population in the past seven days, the percent of staffed inpatient beds occupied by COVID-19 patients, and the total new COVID-19 patients per 100,000 population in the past 7 days.
The Washoe County Health District has COVID-19 vaccine and booster appointments for anyone 6 months or older in its clinic Monday – Friday at 1001 E. 9th St. in Reno, and nurses that can come to your residence if you are homebound. Call 775-328-2427 for appointments.
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From Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Cantonment at Harpers Ferry [Virginia]
March 28th. 1800.
By the last post, I received from the Ajutant General, your orders to stop the recruiting service of the twelve Regiments.1 As the Fifth Regiment hath but very few men, if any, as I have not heard they have yet commenced recruiting, as the sixth Regiment has not I think 150, and as the Seventh Regiment has only about two hundred, (the returns being at my Quarters at Shepherds Town, I cannot speak accurately), I presume you will not, under existing circumstances, think of carrying your design into execution, of having a camp formed near Augusta, with these three skeletons of regiments. If a peace should be patched up with France, & we should find it necessary to endeavour to reinlist our men on account of a probable rupture with other powers, we should find this a more practicable operation, if the Men were in the States they were enlisted from, than at a distance. Some officers of the Seventh Regiment have expressed a wish to me, that you will permit that regiment, to march here next month, rather than proceed to the Southward, as they think they and their troops will receive more improvement, by being with such a considerable body of Men, as will be here, than by doing duty by themselves, or with a smaller number of men. Brigr. Genl. Washington is of opinion that it will be advantageous to adopt this plan. He, Colo Watts and Lieutt. Walbach are with me and we are hard at work.2
I shall direct Colo Moore to join me here with the 10th Regt. by the 1st. of May.3 I shall be obliged to direct Captn. McClellan and Captn. Ingersoll,4 with their companies of Artillery to join me also here at that time. Am I to expect the pleasure of Major Toussards5 company here this Summer?
With very great esteem & regard, I remain Your most obedt. Servt
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Honble: Major Genl: Hamilton
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
2. William Washington, John Watts, and John De Barth Walbach were assisting Pinckney in the compilation of a drill manual for the cavalry. See Pinckney to H, January 9, 1800; Walbach to H, January 23, 1800.
3. Although Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lloyd Moore, commanding officer of the Tenth Regiment of Infantry, had been originally assigned with his regiment to winter quarters at Harpers Ferry, he was subsequently informed that he could remain with most of his troops at Carlisle and York in Pennsylvania (H to Moore, October 6, 1799 [listed in the appendix to this volume]). | <urn:uuid:814851c2-bc82-428a-b8b7-db6ceb8d7444> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-24-02-0302 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976 | 580 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Netherlands follows in Germany's footsteps.
AT LAST A HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia. Italy's Parliamentary Affairs minister, Carlo Giovanardi, said during a radio debate: "Nazi legislation and Hitler's ideas are reemerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia laws and the debate on how to kill ill children."
Unsurprisingly, the Dutch, ever prickly about international criticism of their peculiar institution, were outraged. Giovanardi's critique cut so deeply that even Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende felt the need to respond, sniffing, "This [Giovanardi's assertion] is scandalous and unacceptable. This is not the way to get along in Europe."
As is often the case in the New Europe, what is said matters more than what is done. Thus, the prime minister of the Netherlands thinks that killing babies because they are born with terminal or seriously disabling conditions is not a scandal, but daring to point out accurately that German doctors did the same during World War II, is.
That being noted, one wishes Giovanardi had thought twice before raising the Nazi specter. Partly, this is because nothing we are talking about today matches the scope or magnitude of Nazi crimes. As a result, accusing people of Nazi-like behavior allows those amply deserving of moral condemnation to deflect reproaches. Thus, Giovanardi says that killing disabled babies is what the Nazis did, and the Dutch merely retort (correctly) that they are not Nazis.
Still, the "Nazi" analogy is worth exploring, precisely because it is unequivocally true that German doctors did kill thousands of disabled babies, for which a few such physicians were hanged at Nuremberg. Dutch apologists know this, of course. But they claim that the Netherlands' infant euthanasia program is substantially different: Dutch doctors are motivated by compassion whereas the Germans' were motivated by the bigotry of racial hygiene. Of course it is the act of killing disabled and dying babies that is wrong, not the motivation. But even leaving that aside, the Dutch defense is not as persuasive as Prime Minister Balkenende would like to believe.
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The scapular of St. Joseph belongs to the Capuchin Order and was approved by the Diocese of Verona by Decree of the Congregation of Rites in 1880. The scapular of St. Joseph serves as a reminder of the virtues of St. Joseph (humility, modesty, and purity), as well as to pray to St. Joseph, ask him for his prayers for the Church and to assist the dying. The scapular of St. Joseph is created from two violet colored wool pieces, on which are sewn two pieces of gold fabric of the same size, connected with white strings. On the front segment of gold cloth is the image of St. Joseph holding the child Jesus in his right arm with a stem of lilies in his left. Below this image is the inscription, “St. Joseph, patron of the Church, pray for us.” The other gold piece of fabric is decorated with the papal crown, above the crown is the dove, to represent the Holy Spirit, and below a cross with the keys of Peter and the inscription, “The Spirit of the Lord is his Guide.” As with all other scapulars it is recommended to have the scapular of St. Joseph blessed by a priest.
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Understanding learning gaps for system transformation
In 2021, in a world first, ACER, with the Australian Government-funded INOVASI program and the Indonesian Ministry of Education Culture, Research and Technology, mapped the learning gaps of Indonesian students against international benchmarks. We now have clear directions for students’ learning recovery.
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Closing the gap of educators’ competence in early childhood education
The implementation of early childhood education can be viewed with at least two lenses: equitable access and quality of provision.
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Strengthening playful practices in the classroom
ACER and LEGO Foundation have developed a framework to help improve the quality of learning through play at primary school.
Cultivating development in the Pacific
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Attributes of Population
The attributes of a population are of two basic types : i) Numerical attributes such as density, mortality (birth rate), mortality (death rate), dispersal and ii) structural attributes like age distribution, dispersion and growth form. Some of the basic attributes of population are briefly described below.
a) Numerical attribute:
Density: number of individuals per unit area.
Natality (Birth rate): the rate at which new individuals are added to a population through reproduction.
Mortality (Death rate): the rate at which individuals are lost from a population by death. ,
Dispersal: the rate at which individuals of a population emigrate or migrate from an area.
b) Structural attributes:
Population growth form: refers to the pattern of population growth. There are two basic patterns of population growth represented by 'T' and "S" shaped growth curves, see Figure for explanation.
Dispersion: the pattern of distribution of individuals in space, Age distribution: the proportion of individuals of different age groups in a population.
Now you know some of the more important attributes of a population. It is reasonable to ask: How populations are studied? Do all attributes have equal importance, or are some more important than others? In analysing population, the main attributes studied is the density of the population which depends on four parameters: i) natality, ii) mortality, ii) immigration and, iv) emigration. | <urn:uuid:5b67b614-f929-4435-b605-9cb252f51b37> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.expertsmind.com/questions/attributes-of-population-30124966.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725470.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00076-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916007 | 301 | 3.9375 | 4 |
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The Role, Beginnings, Membership, and Services of High School Press Associations in the United States.
Campbell, Laurence R.
This study had three purposes: (1) to stimulate discussion of the role of the high school press association in the future by reviewing its current policies and programs, (2) to gather information about the associations, particularly the date of founding and the name of the founder, (3) to gather information on the members in each association and on the number of potential members. A questionnaire concerned with history and membership was mailed to all high school press associations in the directory of regional, state, and area high school press associations. More than 30 associations answered the questionnaire. Findings include: (1) Nearly all of the high school press organizations were founded with the cooperation of schools or departments of journalism; (2) The first state-wide high school press association was The Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association; (3) High school press association policies on membership vary widely. A total of 24 tables is included. (CK)
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Dinwiddie County Marker, Z-39
Formed in 1752 from Prince George, and named for Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia 1751-56. General Winfield Scott was born in this county, and in it took place the battle of Five Forks, 1865.
Marker Information:Year On Marker: 1928
Geographic Location: Dinwiddie County
Physical Description of Location: Located on East Colonial Hwy (Hwy 460), 0.83 miles east of the junction of East Colonial Hwy (Hwy 460) and State Route 642. Marker is on the right when traveling east on East Colonial Hwy (Hwy 460).
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Scientists in South Korea have made a discovery that explains why homeopathic remedies work. It has to do with what happens when you dissolve a substance in water and then add more water. The discovery could provide the first scientific insight into how some homeopathic remedies work.
Homeopaths repeatedly dilute medications, believing that the higher the dilution, the more potent the remedy becomes. Some dilute to ?infinity? until no molecules of the remedy remain. They believe that water holds a memory, or ?imprint? of the active ingredient which is more potent than the ingredient itself.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the dissolved molecules simply spread further and further apart as a solution is diluted. But two chemists have found that some of them do the opposite: they clump together, first as clusters of molecules, then as bigger groups of clusters. Far from drifting apart from other molecules, they got closer together. Diluting a remedy may actually increase the size of the particles to the point when they become biologically active.
German chemist Kurt Geckeler and his colleague Shashadhar Samal stumbled on the effect while working at their lab in the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. They found that football-shaped buckyball molecules called fullerenes kept forming clumps in solution, and tried to find ways to control how they formed.
?When he diluted the solution, the size of the fullerene particles increased,? says Geckeler. ?The history of the solution is important. The more dilute it starts, the larger the aggregates [clumps].? Also, it only worked in polarized solvents like water, in which one end of the molecule has a positive charge while the other end is negative.
Fred Pearce of University College London agrees and says this discovery could offer clues as to why homeopathic remedies work. Large clusters and clumps might interact more easily with biological tissue. Chemist Jan Enberts of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands says, ?It?s still a totally open question. To say the phenomenon has biological significance is pure speculation.? But he has no doubt that Samal and Geckeler have discovered something new.
?It?s in line with what many homeopaths say, that you can only make homeopathic medicines in polar solvents,? says Peter Fisher, director of medical research at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. ?It doesn?t prove homeopathy, but it?s congruent with what we think and is very encouraging.?
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Wise : Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in Eb : Printable cover page
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Composer: Michael Wise (1648 - 1687)
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Lyrics: Book of Common Prayer, 1662
Wise was one of the first generation of boy choristers to be trained by Captain Henry Cook at the Chapel Royal after the restauration; a generation which also included John Blow and Pelham Humfrey.
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Who Are We?
Ferst Readers' mission is "strengthening communities by providing quality books and literacy resources for children and their families to use at home during the earliest stages of development." Ferst Readers wants every child to have the best start in life - and nothing helps a baby's brain develop more than exposure to rich language and loving interactions. The key is having books in the home and being read to - right from birth. Our vision is "to create better learners, brighter futures, and stronger communities by giving every child under five access to quality books in their homes."
What Do We Do?
Ferst Readers was founded in 1999 to address the growing problem of children, many from low-income communities, entering kindergarten without basic early literacy skills and school readiness, a preventable problem that has far-reaching impacts throughout students’ lives. The recipe for early school success is simple: start school with strong literacy skills. Ferst Readers’ recipe for encouraging early literacy development is even simpler. Ensure children have developmentally appropriate books in their home and provide parents with resources that support them in their role as their child's first teacher.
Children in the Ferst Readers literacy program receive a bookstore-quality, age-specific book, and resources mailed to them at home every month until their fifth birthday. It's this access to print that helps create a language-rich environment in the home.
Why Is Our Program Important?
- 61% of low-income families do not have a single book suitable for a child.
- The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.
- Children who have not already developed some basic literacy practices when they enter school are three to four times more likely to drop out in later years.
- The only behavior measure that correlates significantly with reading scores is the number of books in the home.
Our impact: Participating communities with a robust Ferst Readers program have seen:
- Kindergarten readiness assessment scores rise significantly; in some cases as much as double.
- Higher post-test gains for 1st-grade students who were Ferst Readers.
- School-wide standardized reading scores increase by several percentage points each year as Ferst Readers graduates progress through the school system.
- Increased awareness of the importance of developing early literacy skills - in the home, and throughout the community.
The majority of the cost of the Ferst Readers program, $36 per year per child, is raised in each community through donations from individuals, corporate sponsorships, and foundation grants.
How Do We Do It?
Community Action Teams, or CATs, are made up of dedicated volunteers who oversee and administer the program in each participating county/community. CATs may differ in composition from county to county, but five to ten members make up the core. Naturally, the more diverse the CAT, the more successful it is at getting the message out, registering children, and gathering support for the program. The CATs are ultimately responsible for raising the majority of the funds needed for each child who participates in their program. This local involvement enables sustainability by building capacity at the community level around the important issue of literacy.
While the Ferst Readers program is open to all children regardless of income level, many participating communities target at-risk populations such as Early Head Start, Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and low-income neighborhoods for program registration. This is often driven by limited funding in the community. As funding increases, more children are eligible for enrollment.
Partner Action Teams, or PATs, are another way we are able to implement our program. PATs generally involve a specific donor group or designated funding that targets a specific group of children. This might be in the form of a grant award or a civic organization such as Rotary or Kiwanis that provides funding for a group of children they especially want to champion. We have PATs that sponsor Early Head Start programs, daycare centers, and children of residents in apartment complexes, to name a few.
There are Ferst Readers programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.
Our Publishers: Ferst Readers is proud of its partnership with the publishers who make this program possible:
- Peachtree Publisher
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After a rise in pedestrian fatalities in 2016, the City of Toronto is taking action to reduce the number of accidents this year.
In seeking ways to eliminate fatalities, a massive Vision Zero Road Safety Plan was introduced by the City.
Mayor John Tory and Councillor Jaye Robinson, Chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, outlined 45 new measures that will be introduced this year as part of the City’s $54 million in funding plan.
The plan targets the elimination of fatalities and reducing serious injuries with an emphasis on pedestrians, school children, older adults, cyclists, aggressive and distracted driving, and motorcyclists.
This year, we’re rolling out #VisionZeroTO’s Road Safety Plan on a massive scale to make our streets safer for all who use them.
— Jaye Robinson (@JayeRobinson) January 10, 2017
“The number of pedestrians and cyclists injured and killed by vehicles in our city last year is both alarming and unacceptable. We must do more to prevent these deaths and protect our residents across the city,” said Mayor Tory in a press release. “I am committed to making sure all those who use our roads – pedestrians, cyclists and drivers – can get where they need to go as efficiently and safely as possible.”
Among the initiatives that the City is introducing immediately include:
• creation of Seniors Safety Zones to be implemented at 12 high-priority locations, with increased pedestrian walk-times, enhanced signage and enhanced pavement markings
• implementation of red light cameras at 76 new locations
• accessible pedestrian signal installations at 20 additional locations
• geometric safety engineering improvements at 13 locations
• road safety audits at 14 high-risk collision locations
• expansion of the school Watch Your Speed Program at 20 additional locations
• speed reductions along 32 additional corridors
• expansion of the mobile Watch Your Speed Program – including 12 additional pole-mounted speed display units in the city’s central core, and
• implementation of increased pedestrian walk times at 50 additional signalized intersections.
The City has also created the VisionZeroTO website, providing information about the plan, along with a mapping tool, and future planned work.
— TO Transportation (@TO_Transport) January 10, 2017
In 2016, there were 77 fatalities in Toronto, including 43 pedestrian deaths – up from 38 pedestrian fatalities in 2015, according to the City.
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How to Get Seeds From Clematis Vines
Clematis vines (Clematis spp.) produce an abundance of flowers in many different colors and shapes depending on the variety. The climbing vines can decorate arbors and trellises or cling to unsightly walls. Clematis vines of different varieties can overwinter in a wide range of climates, from U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 11. Unfortunately, much of the time these beauties are short-lived perennials. To grow the vines again, collect the seeds after flowering ends.
Identify the seed heads that follow the flowers and watch for signs of maturity, including browning of the head and a feathery texture to the hairs. Do not harvest before this point as the seeds are not yet ripe. The seed heads often begin green with silky or floss-like hairs.
Pull the seed head toward you, pinching the stem behind it to make a clean break. Hold a container under the head with your other hand to catch any seeds that fall.
Gently shake the seed head over the container and examine the seeds. They should be brown. If they are green, stop harvesting and wait a few more days to try again. If the seeds to do not easily fall out of the head, use tweezers to pull them out gently by the hair.
Secure a lid on the container and store the seeds in a cool, dry place. You can plant them directly in the ground in the fall or germinate them indoors.
- Clematis seeds need to go through a stratification, or cold, period before germinating. They usually receive this naturally outdoors, but you can mimic the process by placing them in a seed starting mix and keeping the container in the refrigerator for a few months.
- Clematis seeds often take six months to a year to germinate, but some can take up to three years.
- If you harvest seeds from a hybrid, the plant that grows from the seed will most likely differ from the parent plant.
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Implementing Environmental Regulation: An Inter-industry Analysis
Many studies show that inspections (or the threat there of) promote compliance with environmental law. Therefore, it is important to understand what influences inspections. Existing research tends to focus on plant characteristics when explaining inspections, often reporting conflicting results. In this paper I suggest that regulators may respond to industry-level attributes when deciding whom to inspect. I find that industries that garner a larger share of a state’s manufacturing employment are also inspected less frequently. Moreover, the effect is not limited to employment. Industries garnering a larger share of a state’s manufacturing gross state product are also inspected less frequently.
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Issue (Month): 1 (Winter)
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Death and Decay: two words that give the image of something decomposition, smelling foul and traveling to blow. In Shakespeare ‘s drama Hamlet, these two words symbolize the bulk of the plot line and the entireness of the action happening in the drama. Whether the focal point is on the decease of the bulk of the characters, or the decay that comes along with those deceases every bit good as the decay of “ the province of Denmark ” ( 1.4, 100 ) , the subject is reoccurring. Because decease and decay are so prevailing throughout Hamlet, it could be said that Shakespeare intended for them to be a major subject.
Decay, a decomposition of an thought, object or organic structure is a major property to the Ghosts monologue spoken to Hamlet. The hebona toxicant is a deathly constituent that in itself leads to the decay of a organic structure. This monologue is filled with words associating to disintegrate ; some could state Shakespeare ‘s point was to give the audience this image. An illustration of how the Ghost references decay is when he speaks of the “ leprous distilment ” ( 1.5. 71 ) , and “ a most instant tetter barked about, /most lazar-like, with vile and nauseating crustaˆ¦ ” ( 78-80 ) . In itself, the thought of a leprous distilment gives the gross outing thought of something infective and perverting. When he speaks of the “ tetter [ that ] bark [ s ] about, [ which is ] lazar-like.. ” he is mentioning to a strikebreaker that looks like a leprous tegument disease, runing off and disintegrating at his tegument, or doing his tegument to scab and deteriorate. The subject of decease and decay is really obvious in the Ghosts monologue, and illustrates the image of death and putrefaction in its most of import context. The passing of King Hamlet is a strong influence on the drama itself.
Throughout the drama, decease and decay is brought up several times. Since this subject drives the drama through, it is of import of Shakespeare to touch to it several times so that the drama maintains a kind of solemn feeling. Many characters throughout the drama usage slaying or self-destruction as a solution to their jobs, and the decay that follows this decease is frequently mentioned. A valid illustration of this subject is illustrated when Hamlet and the King are talking of the location of Polonius after Hamlet has killed him. Hamlet tells the King he is “ non where he eats, but where he is eaten. ” ( 4.3, 22 ) . This sentence in itself exemplifies decay: it illustrates the thought of a dead organic structure being eaten as it rots, and Hamlet intimations to the King that his organic structure “ is non where he eats, ” ( possibly some kind of dining hall ) , “ but where he is eaten, ” ( where his organic structure is being devoured. ) As he continues, he speaks of a “ convocation of politic worms, ” or the Diet of Worms called upon by the metropolis of Worms. Although Hamlet could be stating this in a actual manner, in another sense a Diet of Worms illustrates that a individual feeds off of worms, that they are on a worm diet. He subsequently speaks of the thought that after a King dies worms will feed from his flesh and so that same worm will be used as come-on to angle with. After this, the fish will hold eaten the worm and a hapless mendicant will eat that fish, intending he has besides fed on the worm inside the fish. Because of this, the provincial now has the Kings flesh in his organic structure, organizing slightly of a full circle. What Hamlet has said relates to the subject of decease and decay because non merely must a organic structure be dead in order for it to die, but worms and maggots assistance in the procedure of decomposing every bit good as feed off from it.
What is being suggested by Hamlets conversation with the King about worms and maggots and the location of Polonius and his dead organic structure suggests and shows many similar and different thoughts with the Ghosts soliloquy. One analogue among them is that the Ghost of King Hamlets organic structure is stating Hamlet to seek retaliation on his decease, which in bend will ensue in the decease of another individual, this being Claudius. The thought that one decease will take to another, whom caused the decease of the first individual relates to the full circle facet of what Hamlet said to Claudius. In both state of affairss, one event is caused by another, which causes another, and so on and so forth. Besides, a really obvious similarity is that in each state of affairs decease occurs, and because of this decease there is decay. A difference between the two is that there are different grounds for the violent deaths in both state of affairss, King Hamlet is killed for Claudius ‘ benefit and Polonius is killed either by accident or because of lunacy. This is demoing that although decease causes assorted events, the events that occur depend extremely on the logical thinking for the violent death.
The subject of decease and decay in Hamlet ties the entireness of the drama together. Not merely does the play get down off with the decease of King Hamlet, but because of this the whole drama is filled with ideas and actions of self-destruction, slaying and decease. Shakespeare uses the images of decease and decay on a regular basis throughout the drama in many different ways, and each passing of a character relates to another decease before it. Decay is used in many ways throughout Hamlet, whether it be the decay of Denmark, the decay of moral or emotions, but the bulk of it associating to the decay of a dead organic structure. Because the decay of a organic structure is non possible unless the organic structure is deceased, one time a character dies in the drama decomposition or the feeding of flesh is normally mentioned thenceforth. Without decease and decay occurring, there would be no Hamlet, since every other subject and thought from the drama directs to the two. | <urn:uuid:9bea10bf-0d09-4c2d-b4d1-f000b5a3a51d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaylead.com/the-theme-of-death-and-decay-hamlet-english-literature-essay-2527/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961698 | 1,317 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Hopefully you've never experienced the feeling, but for most of us who have given a presentation, we've had at least one moment where we could feel the audience's attention slipping through our fingers. So what can we do when this happens? (And no, bursting out into song doesn't work… I can tell you that for sure.)
We don't have hurry to the end, or pack it in when we start losing the audience's attention. There are things we can do to bring them back under our spell. The Eloquent Woman blog has some pretty good tips for us. And even though they are for presenting in person, they can be used in our conference calls as well.
Get Out Into the Audience – All right, so we can't do this literally, but the Eloquent Woman does have a point. Once the audience has mentally put us in a box, they pay attention quick when we step out of it, and walk around the room. We can do the same with our webcams. After fifteen minutes of our head and shoulders, why not tilt the webcam, stand up and step back, showing our full body while we talk. It's different, more dynamic, and will wake a few participants up.
Gesture – Again, another tip best used on a video conference, gestures help focus our body language to fully support what we're saying. And again, a gesture here or there will help break up the monotony of just our heads talking. Of course, we need to stay aware of what can and can't be seen on screen, and we should remember to keep movements a little slower and smoother than normal to avoid blurry or choppy video.
Get the Audience Involved – Finally, something that's perfect for a web conference. We can talk about our chosen subject matter for hours, but we should never forget the point of our presentation is to educate the participants. At random times, it's good to stop and ask questions. We can ask specific people—waking up all the others—or ask the group in a poll. A versatile part of a web conference is the chat feature. Encourage people often to type in their comments or questions so you can stop to give the answer, or work it in on the fly.
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"Ruins" Top 5 Page for this destination Sarnath Things to Do Tip by NedHopkins
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At one time Sarnath was India's main center of Buddhist learning and devotion. As Hinduism revived and replaced Buddhism as the country's principal religion, Sarnath declined.
Still, the monastic complex thrived until, in the 12th century, Muslim invaders destroyed most of the temples, monasteries, and other buildings -- and slaughtered an estimated 5,000 Buddhist monks.
The picture shows only a small part of the complex. The foundation of what is thought to have been the main temple is at the upper left. The other ruins are mostly those of classrooms and sleeping quarters.
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Take a look at some of our learning for Empathy Day
Last Friday we had a fantastic day across Stepney Park, as from Nursery to Year 6 we had a wellbeing day focused on Empathy. Across the school we did activities to especially develop our awareness and understanding of empathy and how we can become more empathetic.
We know that when we show empathy we are likely to have a happier school. Empathy is important because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation. It is typically associated with social behaviour and there is lots of research showing that greater empathy leads to more helping behaviour. We like to help others at Stepney Park!
In Year 3, we wrote letters to show Empathy to Cinderella
In year 5, we explored words and phrases we could use to show empathy to other people:
In year 4 we wrote an empathy recipe - You will need respect and kindness in your recipe!
We discussed being safe across the day and used the NSPCC resources to "Talk Pants"!
We thought about the five rules for staying safe:
Parents and carers can explore more about this on the NSPCC website here.
Don't forget the writing competition!
Writing Competition- Emad the Elephant
Now that we have all taken part in ‘Empathy Day’ you have an opportunity to create the school’s story for Emad the Elephant. The winning story or stories will be published and shared across the school!
Your story should:
Be a picture book- with imaginative, colourful illustrations on each page
Have Emad as the main character
Be a fun story that is about empathy
Remember that we would like all children in the school to enjoy this book so please keep your story engaging and easy to read.
Entries by Friday 22nd October
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A new study found that for advanced heart failure patients with diabetes, having higher blood glucose levels may actually help improve survival rates.
Currently published online in the American Journal of Cardiology, UCLA researchers compared levels of a marker used to track glucose levels called glycosylated hemoglobin in advanced heart failure patients with and without diabetes. The marker is gauged through a simple blood test.
The study assessed the relationship between levels of the marker and mortality outcomes. Researchers found that for heart failure patients with diabetes, for every unit increase in the marker, there was a 15 percent decrease in mortality.
"We were surprised that the optimal level of glycosylated hemoglobin in this patient population with diabetes was higher than levels in current treatment guidelines," said senior author Dr. Tamara Horwich, assistant professor of cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "We may find that doctors who treat patients who have both advanced heart failure and diabetes may not need to focus on aggressively lowering blood sugar, but rather keep it under moderate control."
Approximately 25 to 50 percent of patients with heart failure also have diabetes, compared to just 7 percent of the general population. The relation could be due to similar physiologic processes that underlie both conditions such as oxidative stress, patterns of hormonal activity and vascular lining dysfunction that can lead to conditions like atherosclerosis.
For the study, researchers assessed medical records of 845 patients with advanced heart failure, referred to a single university center, the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center. Most of the patients (72 percent) were men and the average age was 55.
Patients were classified as having diabetes or not and also grouped by four levels of glycosylated hemoglobin. Using statistical analysis, researchers calculated risk of death or need for an urgent heart transplant.
"For heart failure patients with diabetes, we found that higher, not lower levels, of the marker had better outcomes," said first author Sofia Tomova, a medical student in the division of cardiology, Geffen School of Medicine.
Researchers found that for diabetic heart failure patients, two-year event-free survival was highest amongst patients with the highest elevated glycosylated hemoglobin levels: 65 percent survival rate for patients with level four (greater than 8.6 percent of the marker) and 61 percent survival rate with level three (7.3 to 8.5 percent of the marker).
Patients with lower levels of the marker had worse survival rates: 48 percent survival rate for patients with level one (less than 6.4 percent of the marker) and 42 percent survival rate with level two (6.5 to 7.2 percent of the marker).
According to researchers, the ideal level of glycosylated hemoglobin in heart failure patients with diabetes appeared to be in the 8.3 to 8.9 percent range. Current national treatment targets aim much lower at 7 percent.
In the heart failure patients without diabetes, there was no significant mortality risk difference between the glycosylated hemoglobin levels.
Researchers note that for those without heart failure, having diabetes and elevated glycosylated hemoglobin levels is a risk factor for developing the condition. However, the study shows that if a patient already has heart failure, having higher glycosylated hemoglobin levels may be protective.
The next steps are studies to test the optimal glucose management goals as well as assess the best anti-diabetic medications for heart failure patients with diabetes.
Heart failure affects six million in the United States alone and is caused by weakened heart muscle function that can cause build-up of fluid in the lungs and other organs due to the heart's inability to pump effectively.
No outside funding was used for the study.
Additional UCLA study authors include Vani Nimbal.
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It's summer, so that means fireworks season! It's a tradition for many families - a way to celebrate the 4th of July holiday as well as getting your inner pyro on!
We tease my son about that. He loves fireworks and looks forward
to putting on a show for family and friends.
His show is always done with adult supervision and we obey the local laws governing fireworks. Again, he's careful. But make no mistake, he knows fireworks (if used improperly) can be dangerous!
It seems now we're also reminded daily about the dangers of lighting off fireworks, especially when it comes to children. It is a concern!
Forty percent of fireworks injuries are to children under the age of 15. Twenty-three percent of those to kids under the age of five! Most of them sparkler burns.
Knowing all of this, how do we justify allowing our son (age 15) to use them? Well, when it comes to fireworks, we need to gather our common sense!
Young children should not be handling fireworks! Keeping a safe distance between the "shooter" and audience is important. A bucket of water is always close by.
He doesn't try to re-ignite dud fireworks. He obeys the local laws governing fireworks.
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The complaints were made by persons concerned to SC/ST/OBC/PWD category for irregularity in the implementation of reservation policy of Government of India in the university system.
Hence, in the view of monitoring the complaints made by these groups for irregularity in reservation policy, UGC has requested to intimate details of complaints received during last two years from various quarters in the universities relating to the issue.
Moreover, UGC has ordered all universities to create OBC cell as per instructions issued dated 4th January, 2013 and that actions to be taken at the earliest.
About UGC and its Reservation policy.
As we all know, Central Government has been issuing various instructions from time to time for implementing the Reservation policy of the Government.
UGC, being an autonomous statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, has been directed to strictly implement the said instructions by all grant-in-aid institutions.
In order to safeguard the interest of Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Persons with Disability and the most deprived groups of the Indian society, the constitution provides reservation in various services under Central and State Governments.
The main objective is not just to provide jobs to increase their representation in services, but to improve their social and educational status, so that they can have their rightful place in the main-stream of the society, said the notice.
As per the constitutional provisions, the reservation for Schedule Castes is 15%, 7.5% for Schedule Tribes, 27% for OBC and 3% for PWD.
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How Cryptocurrency Gambling Is Regulated In Different Countries?
The blockchain-based gambling usually takes place in 2 ways which are either through the off-chain or the chain. The off-chain cryptocurrency gambling is nothing but where online casinos and the physical casinos accept cryptocurrency which is usually the bitcoin system with which amount is deposited into the internet account of the casino. Most of them take the help of a third party like BitPay so that they will be able to convert either Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to the local fiat currency. They have accepted cryptocurrency as one of their transaction methods in the casino.
Most of the online casinos now operate their casinos with the help of Bitcoin rather than fiat denominations. When it comes to on-chain gambling it’s through the blockchains via the smart contracts which include decentralized application. It also comes with a backend code that runs through the blockchain network rather than the traditional centralized server. The government can easily go for the off-chain casinos. The gambling website casinos prevent or ban IP addresses for certain countries. So, when the user tries to use such website’s they get blocked.
Different countries have their own online gambling rules and regulations but there are only a few nations that regulate cryptocurrency gambling like Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium, Greece, and Netherland. In several countries, Bitcoin isn’t considered to be a legal payment method under the guidelines that exist. And this is the reason why Bitcoin shouldn’t be used in gambling in all the countries. One should look for individual countries to check whether they allow the Bitcoin system. Japan is one of the top listed countries when you checkout the gambling industry that actually exceeds Nevada by $4 Billion. It’s also estimated to be $15.8 billion just in Japan.
There are several online service providers and gambling platforms that accept cryptocurrency in the U.K. Those who would like to go for the cryptocurrency- oriented services need to make sure that they follow the existing gambling laws which are already active in the United Kingdom. Here sports betting are very popular activity that has grown to 700 million GBP industry.
One can also find several crypto-focused sports betting websites online from which they can choose the best site that provides maximum benefits on various betting. Though the gambling commission in the UK had allowed the Bitcoin gambling, they have also issued a warning as there were websites that were providing untrustworthy services to their customers. This is the reason why they have warned and cautioned all their users to be very careful with the associated risks of using bitcoins.
However, the advantages which a cryptocurrency can provide to the gambler are huge. With the help of bitcoin one can now get a great degree of privacy though it is not anonymity. One can be sure and feel safe, as there won’t be any transmission of personal information of those who are performing a bitcoin transaction. But with the help of Anti-money laundering procedures and through the customers KYC it could be identified when the person is trying to convert Bitcoin to fiat in certain countries.
Other than Bitcoin there are other privacy coins that can be handled like Zcash and Monero which provides users with a higher level of identity protection. But these aren’t as acceptable as that of Bitcoins. Joseph Hugh believes that by following tighter crypto regulations one can make use of digital currency for legal purposes as well.
Every government should check and regulate the financial activities of their countries citizens and no one has the right to blame them other than those who are managing some kind of fishy and grey businesses. Though there are several technical and regulatory challenges that have been faced by adopting in casinos, the gambling industry is now getting increasingly friendly to the cryptocurrency. Most of the online casinos along with the popular Las Vegas establishments have started to accept the Bitcoin system payments and other kinds of cryptocurrencies that are becoming a trend which has to be followed by one and all in mere future.
When we look at gambling in Japan, they really follow the strict rules in this regard and the same thing they follow with that of the crypto gambling. Joseph D. Hugh who is the CFO of the international cryptocurrency betting platform has said that though it’s hard to restrict the players’ government will ensure to keep a close tab over the crypto transactions that are happening in Japan using the taxation as an excuse. Even in the year 2018, July Japan had passed a federal law that allows the physical casinos in the Country. He also said that Japan will be opening an offline casino license for major players after the next year’s Olympics. He also said that he feels that the online casinos will follow only after the offline casinos have started operating in this way. Japan is also yet to approve for the integrated resort which should still make use of the cryptocurrency industry. The integrated resort is nothing but a comprehensive entertainment complex where one can find every aspect related to entertainment like the shopping malls, casinos, hotels, theme parks, theatres, etc.
The crypto gambling in Japan isn’t that interesting as it was expected to be. In the year 2019, blockchain network Tron who had been claimed to build infrastructure for a decentralized internet had actually blocked the gambling apps over the decentralized app stores in Japan due to the pressure that has been built by the regulators of Japan.
By blocking the access to apps that were led by Tron’s Chief Technology Office and Lucien Chen the founder Tron made them leave the team. He also said that there wasn’t good consistency between it being decentralized and their actions with that of Tron’s dedication. Chen said that these were inherent when compared to the centralized entity. Crypto gambling is seen at a greater range in the United States, China, Japan, Italy, Australia and slightly in U.K and Canada but still, the US is known to be the one that tops every other country in gambling losses.
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Could any way be invented to harvest simple average temperature heat into reusable wanted electricity? Back when the nature of heat had been found to be local sonic speed random molecular motions and vibrations way down at the invisibly tiny submicroscopic molecular size scale, none of our best technicians were constructing devices that extremely tiny.
It had been argued early that due to the nature of average temperature heat, it couldn't be so converted, such as by some submicroscopic ratchet and saw-toothed wheel trying to convert sonic speed random heat molecular motions or vibrations into a single direction wheel spin to get converted into electricity. That was considered almost dreamy wishful nonsense. The sonic speed random molecular heat motions and vibrations would too often knock the ratchet wild, letting the wheel then get knocked to spin the wrong way almost half the time!
Possibly that argument had been partly because technicians weren't then forming special shaped things way down near molecular sizes. But unsurprisingly over time technicians gradually became able to make things better and much smaller, eventually even down near molecular sizes.
So suppose multiple ratchets are put around the wheel. Then when some get randomly knocked uselessly out away from the wheel, it would be likely that at least one of the ratchets would briefly be in place able to halt any unwanted wrong direction spins of the wheel. So the wheel would often get selectively spun in one wanted direction usable for converting into electricity. Then the Fullball world could become importantly self cooled throughout its 3D interior while converting such avg. temperature heat into much needed reusable electricity.
Actually, humans even for centuries had been effectively exploiting some local or altered temperature kinetic heat molecular motions to produce some wanted results. E.g., high enough sonic speed kinetic heat molecular motions in hotter cooked food became usefully destructive to bacteria etc.
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A Social Context: Group Photography and Identity
At the Mishkin Gallery, September 24 – October 22, 2010
Photographs of people in groups can convey a broad range of subject matter and meaning, from the familial and fraternal to the disturbing and sinister. Social constructs and perceptions influence both our individual and collective identities, as the work of the eleven photographers in this exhibition demonstrates (see exhibition poster). Photo credit: Steven Tucker
A Social Context: Group Photography and Identity will be at the Mishkin Gallery from Friday, September 24 – Friday, October 22, 2010. Opening reception is Thursday, September 23, 6 – 8 PM. Free and Open to the Public.
This exhibition includes images that have become touchstones of 20th century history and culture. The French photographer Gilles Peress has chronicled the trauma of violence and war in Rwanda, Bosnia, Iran, and Ireland. His images can be disturbing and heart-rending; they are never sentimental. In these eloquent photos, group identities, ethnic and tribal, provide the impetus for violence and fear. Especially shocking is Candace Scharsu’s portrait of a female child soldier in Sierra Leone, branded for life with RUF (Revolutionary United Front) etched on her chest. Her affiliation with the group, however involuntary, is permanent.
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Neal Slavin and Milt Hinton are also represented in this exhibition and reflect a more benign context for their group images. Slavin’s photographs are carefully arranged, often in neat rows, to show company employees, hobbyists, or organization members, joined in a common endeavor with a group identity superimposed on disparate individuals. In contrast, the great jazz bassist Milt Hinton, who photographed his fellow musicians throughout his life, often took advantage of the moment to capture images of jazzmen at work and play. His photographs, taken in train stations, recording studios, barrooms, and street corners, are spontaneous and fluid, but collectively they document the lives of musicians, particularly African-American musicians in a world where they were often segregated and marginalized.
Considered a master of the “snapshot aesthetic,” Elliott Erwitt captures his subjects with casual humor and grace. His fascination with the unexpected moment in the midst of the mundane is shared by Andy Warhol. Often associated with glamour, spectacle, and celebrity, Warhol was equally fascinated with the banal. His groupings can be intimate, as in photos of Sean Lennon’s birthday with family and friends, or anonymous, as in the many streetscapes he snapped as casual and random signposts of his comings and goings.
All photographs in this exhibition are from the permanent collection of Baruch College. The photographers represented include Elliott Erwitt, Larry Fink, Milt Hinton, Garry Winogrand, Lucien Clergue, Neal Slavin, Gilles Peress, Candace Scharsu, Leonard Sussman, Carrie Mae Weems, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition is curated by Mishkin Gallery director Sandra Kraskin.
The Mishkin Gallery is located at 135 E. 22nd Street, New York City. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, noon to 5 PM; Thursday, noon to 7 PM.
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Earthquake felt in Los Angeles area of California
- 29 March 2014
- From the section US & Canada
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Los Angeles area of southern California, the US Geological Survey says.
The quake happened at about 21:10 local time on Friday (04:10 GMT on Saturday) and its epicentre was 1 mile (2km) east of the town of La Habra.
There were no immediate reports of significant damage or injuries.
A 4.4-magnitude quake was felt near Los Angeles earlier this month, rattling nerves but causing no major damage.
The latest earthquake was shallow at only 1.2 miles (2km) deep, according to the USGS.
It was felt across four counties, from Palm Springs in the east and Ventura County to the north, Reuters news agency reported.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said it was checking buildings and transport infrastructure for damage.
It said the quake was a reminder for people to be prepared.
The San Andreas fault, on the edge of the Pacific tectonic plate, runs directly through California, and the western US state has long braced for a devastating quake.
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For nearly 40 years physicists have had to live with the disconcerting knowledge that the universe favors its left hand. In subatomic interactions involving the weak force--the force of nature responsible for radioactivity--things can happen in one direction but not in the other. For example, all neutrinos formed during radioactive decay spin in the same direction. It’s as if all the tops in the world could only spin clockwise.
Many physicists, however, refuse to believe that the universe was simply born left-handed. They assume that in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the cosmos was ambidextrous, just as it was symmetrical in other ways--for instance, the weak force is thought to have been just as strong as the three other fundamental forces, the strong, the electromagnetic, and the gravitational. The assumption of ambidexterity has been very much an act of faith. But now, thanks to their ability to measure atomic-scale phenomena with unprecedented precision, some physicists think they’re close to proving it true. What we’re looking for is what I like to call a ‘fossil’ of the original symmetry, says Geoffrey Greene at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s a lingering relic of what was originally a fully symmetrical system that still remains even though we’ve gone on to become a dominantly left-handed universe.
Physicists refer to spinning objects as being left-handed or right-handed because the terms clockwise and counterclockwise depend on which side of the object you look at. Handedness (or chirality) is determined from the direction in which the object moves as it spins. Most screws are right-handed--that is, as you twist the screwdriver in the direction that the fingers on your right hand curl, you drive the screw in the direction of your right thumb. If the DNA double helix were a screw, it would be right-handed, too, and many other organic molecules have folds or twists that can be described as either left- or right-handed. Subatomic particles don’t have folds, but they do have spin, as physicists discovered early in this century. So when such particles are on the move, as they invariably are, they too have a handedness.
And particles produced in weak-force interactions, it turns out, are preferentially left-handed. Whereas the strong nuclear force holds protons and neutrons together in an atomic nucleus, the weak force transforms one of these two particles into the other, sometimes breaking the nucleus apart. The most frequently observed weak interaction is beta decay, in which a neutron gives rise to a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino (the antimatter counterpart of the neutrino).
In 1957 researchers studying the beta decay of cobalt nuclei found that electrons tended to fly off the spinning nuclei in the left- handed direction more often than in the right-handed direction. (In this case the curl of the fingers indicates the direction in which the nucleus is spinning, and the thumb points in the direction the electron travels.) The effect wasn’t large--56 lefties for every 44 righties. But after subtracting out all the other factors that influence the electron’s motion, physicists realized that the weak force was the source of the asymmetry: its push was exclusively in the left-handed direction. Later this finding was confirmed by physicists examining neutrinos, which are created only through weak interactions: those researchers found that every neutrino had a left-handed spin, while every antineutrino was right-handed. When the standard model of subatomic particles was pieced together in the 1970s, this absence of parity in weak interactions was left as an unexplained given of nature.
Unexplained properties don’t sit well with physicists. Although some of them accept weak-force asymmetry as, in effect, an act of God--a reflection of the conditions under which the universe was created--others believe there was an original symmetry that was broken. Just because screws, clocks, and DNA tend to have a certain handedness, the argument goes, doesn’t mean they must have that handedness. Screws would still work if they had left-handed threads, and clocks would tell time if their hands went backward--indeed, some early clocks did. But over time, standardization set in and counterclockwise clocks and left-handed screws became rare. This is what physicists call a broken symmetry. For the weak force, broken symmetry would mean that for a short time after the Big Bang, the weak force was just as likely to produce right-handed particles as left-handed ones; but as the universe cooled, its original ambidexterity was lost. By chance, left-handed particles came to dominate.
The current resurgence of interest in this issue began in 1990 when a team of Russian researchers made the controversial claim that they had found a faint trace of primordial right-handedness in the weak force. Since then physicists like Greene have been trying to confirm the Russian results. In principle there are two ways to show that the weak force can produce right-handed particles at extremely high energies. You could create such particles from scratch the way chemists synthesize organic molecules not seen in nature--but only if you had a particle accelerator powerful enough to rival the Big Bang. Obviously no such accelerator exists.
Instead physicists must search for the remnants of right- handedness in our dominantly left-handed universe. It’s the same way that you’d look to see if screw threads were all forced by God to be right- handed, Greene says. You start looking around for left-handed threads. In sorting through every screw and bolt in a hardware store, one would eventually find a tiny percentage of left-handed bolts--like those used to keep left bicycle pedals and left-handed toilet handles from coming off-- which would be the trace of a fundamental screw-thread parity. Likewise, by carefully measuring interactions that involve the weak force, one might see that a purely left-handed universe couldn’t completely account for them. Just a smidgen of right-handedness would need to be included in order to make everything add up.
The easiest place to look for a trace of symmetry is in the beta decay of neutrons, where the asymmetry was first discovered. At a laboratory operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Greene and his colleagues are measuring the lifetime of a free neutron--which, unlike a neutron tucked inside a nucleus, survives only about 15 minutes. If Greene finds that the neutron decays more quickly than is generally believed, then this will imply that the weak force is slightly stronger than physicists think. In that case it must have a small right-handed component to counterbalance its dominant left hand: otherwise it would be pushing even more electrons in the left- handed direction as they fly off the decaying neutron.
The same logic applies to experiments under way at the Chalk River National Laboratory in Canada. There researchers are measuring not the entire strength of the weak force but its vector coupling constant-- an indicator of the strength of a part of the weak force that interacts with protons and neutrons. A stronger-than-expected coupling constant would again imply the presence of right-handedness in the weak force.
Finally, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are coming at the question from the other side: they’re counting the left- handed and right-handed electrons produced by beta decay more precisely than ever before. If the lefty excess turns out to be smaller than the 56- 44 split first observed in 1957, that too would be evidence for a right- handed component of the weak force.
None of these experiments alone can prove right-handedness, because the different measurements--the strength of the weak force, its coupling constant, and the electron motions it produces--depend on one another. But together the results may show that a left-handed weak force cannot account for them all. The experiments take a long time, though, and the results are not yet in. Greene’s group and the one at Chalk River have seen tantalizing suggestions of right-handedness, but not convincing enough to publish.
Looking at the neutron lifetime data alone, one finds a hint of something a little beyond what you’d expect from statistical errors, says Greene. Now our question is, is this an experimental artifact? Or are we onto a real indication of right-handedness?
Right now parity violation--left-handedness--is part of the standard model of elementary particles, Greene goes on. It’s built into it from the foundation, and if you pardon the expression, that handedness is put into the theory by hand--there is no fundamental reason it should be there. Quite the opposite: Nobody likes it. It would be a truly significant discovery to establish that, in fact, the universe is symmetrical, and what we perceive as a choice of one handedness or another is an accident, not an edict of God. | <urn:uuid:d9a6e5a7-1488-4240-a9f7-6cad44a5c757> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/lookingfortherig591 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00119-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956458 | 1,886 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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China is a fascinating country to visit, brimming with historical sights dating back thousands of years. It’s also one of the fastest developing countries in the world, with its city skyline dominated by skyscrapers. Here is just a selection of the fantastic sights you can see while on your China tour.
The west lake is set in the centre Hangzhou, an influential city in Eastern China. This mammoth water body covers over 2.2 miles, it offers a place for tranquillity and the chance to escape the hustle and bustle of the inner city. It is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site this year and has been an inspiration for many Chinese garden designers. West lake is brimming with small islands connected by bridges and passageways, among the highlights is the abundance of lotus flowers within the Crooked Courtyard
At nearly 4,000 metres long, the Yangtze is the longest waterway in the country, and the third longest river in the world. The Yangtze rampages from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, penetrating through the middle of steep rocky valleys all the way to the East China Sea in Shanghai. It offers some breathtaking landscapes with steep gorges, rainforests and mountain ranges all offered on the way. It is often a hugely popular destination for river cruises, there couldn’t be a better way to view the river than via a vessel.
Terra cotta warriors
First buried in 210BC, this incredible work of ancient art wasn’t discovered until 1974 when local farmers recognised a life size terracotta figure. Little did they know that there would be around 8,000 more warriors buried under ground, along with 130 chariots and 520 horses This collection depicts the armies of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. The collection was buried along with him as a method to protect him in the afterlife. The collection still stands as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made.
The Great Wall of China
No guide on china could be complete without its most famous landmark. The Great Wall of China is a collection of fortification walls which, some dating back to the 5th century BC. It has been estimated to be over 5,500 miles long and stretches from the Far East to the West. It has become intrinsic with the country, becoming a national symbol and easily the most visited attraction of all. | <urn:uuid:6be56541-a434-4349-8ce5-42c987974e34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chinahouston.org/incredible-sights-on-your-china-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.946149 | 495 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Both North Olympic Peninsula counties have reached some of the highest COVID-19 case rates they have seen since November.
Clallam County reached 189 cases per 100,000 population for the past two weeks as of Monday. The county’s highest case rate was recorded in November at 216 cases per 100,000, said Dr. Allison Berry, health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties.
Jefferson County has reached 147.34 cases per 100,000 for the two weeks prior as of Saturday, the second highest case rate it has reported since the pandemic began, Berry said.
Jefferson County’s highest case rate of 156 per 100,000 was also recorded last November during the holiday season surge, Berry said.
The high case rates and virus transmission in both counties are “near exclusively” caused by unvaccinated residents traveling out of county, getting infected with COVID-19 and then bringing it back and spending time with unvaccinated friends, family and coworkers, Berry said.
Jefferson County also confirmed its first case of the more contagious delta variant Monday following genetic sequencing from a previously confirmed case, while Clallam County remained at 15 delta variant cases so far, Berry said.
Genetic sequencing has a delay of two or more weeks, and it’s expected that more delta cases will be found in both counties because it is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the state and nation, Berry said.
Berry continues to urge unvaccinated residents who can get vaccinated for COVID-19 to do so as soon as possible to protect themselves and those around them from becoming infected with and transmitting the novel coronavirus.
Only 8 percent of new cases in Clallam County and 6 percent of new cases in Jefferson County have been breakthrough cases since mid-January — cases in which fully vaccinated residents contracted the virus, Berry said.
She added there has been no documentation of transmission in either county so far of a breakthrough case infecting someone else because of the added protection of the vaccine.
“The vaccine is like a really good raincoat,” Berry said. “Really high quality if you’re in a standard rainstorm, most of the fall and winter, it will take care of you, and you won’t get sick.
“If you were in a hurricane or monsoon, you would still get wet. Now it would still help — better than not having a raincoat — but it can get past it,” Berry continued.
“So, when you’re in a situation where you’re getting very high viral load exposures, so if you have delta variant around or in a closed indoor space with lots of unvaccinated people, it’s like being in a raincoat in a monsoon, and it can get past it.”
In most situations, being fully vaccinated is enough protection against COVID-19. However, in higher-risk situations, additional protections such as wearing a facemask are needed, Berry said.
Clallam County Public Health is currently investigating two long-term care facilities due to a resident testing positive for COVID-19 at one and a staff member infected at the other, Berry said.
An outbreak is defined as two or more cases at a facility that has documented transmission.
The facility with one resident sick had its first round of testing completed and returned with no additional cases found yet, Berry said.
It’s believed the resident was infected by a visiting family member, Berry said.
“It’s too early to know for sure we won’t get additional cases,” she said. “It’s still pretty early in the infection period, but we’re hopeful that one will be stopped relatively quickly.”
The facility with the positive staff member was completing its first round of testing Monday, Berry said.
Data compiled by the state Department of Health shows 75 percent of Jefferson County residents 12 and older have initiated vaccinations, with 71.9 percent fully vaccinated, while 69 percent of the total population has started vaccinations, and 66.1 percent are fully vaccinated, according to the state’s dashboard.
Clallam County has vaccinated 64.8 percent of residents 12 and older with at least one dose, with 60.5 percent fully vaccinated, while 57.6 percent of the total population has begun vaccinations with 53.7 percent fully vaccinated, according to the state’s dashboard.
Clallam County confirmed 42 COVID-19 cases over the weekend and has confirmed a total of 1,710 cases since the pandemic began, according to county data. Seventeen residents have died of the disease.
Jefferson County confirmed six COVID-19 cases over the weekend and has confirmed 516 cases since the start of the pandemic, according to county public health data. Four residents have died of the virus.
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Title: Ribocomputing: Cellular Logic Computation using RNA Devices
Speaker: 김 종 민 교수님 (포항공과대학교 생명과학과)
Date & Time: June. 12. (Wed.) 2019 4:30 PM
Place: Natural Science 1, Room No. 31214
Abstract: Synthetic gene circuits that combine DNA, protein, and RNA components have demonstrated a range of functions such as bistability, oscillation, feedback, and logic capabilities. Despite many advances, technical challenges remain for scaling up the complexity of these networks due to the limited number of designable, orthogonal, high-performance parts, the empirical and often tedious composition rules, and substantial resource requirements for encoding and operation. Here, we report a strategy for constructing RNA-only nanodevices to evaluate complex logic in living cells. Such ‘ribocomputing’ systems are composed of de novo designed parts and operate via predictable and designable base-pairing rules, allowing for effective in silico design of computing devices with prescribed configurations and functions in complex cellular environments. We demonstrate that these ribocomputing devices in Escherichia coli can evaluate two-input logic expressions with dynamic range up to 900-fold and scale them to four-input AND, six-input OR, and a complex 12-input logic expression . Successful operation of ribocomputing devices based on programmable RNA interactions suggests that systems employing the same design principles could be implemented in other host organisms or in extracellular settings.
Green AA*, Kim J*, Ma D, Silver PA, Collins JJ, Yin P, Complex cellular logic computation using ribocomputing devices, Nature 548:117–121, 2017.
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We live in a world with very limited solutions to our sustainability problems. I often hear the view, “If we would just get off fossil fuels, then our society would be sustainable.” Or, “If the price of oil would just go high enough, then renewables would become economic, and our economy would be sustainable.”
Unfortunately, our problems with sustainability began a long time before fossil fuels came around, and the views above represent an incomplete understanding of our predicament. When fossil fuels became available, they were a solution to other sustainability problems–rapid deforestation and difficulty feeding the population at that time. Getting rid of fossil fuels would likely lead to very rapid deforestation and many people dying of lack of water or food. If getting rid of fossil fuels is a solution to our predicament, it is one with very bad side effects.
A couple of different events this week reminded me about how deeply embedded our sustainability problems are. For one, I had the opportunity to read a draft of a soon-to-be published paper by James H. Brown and a group of others from the University of New Mexico and the Sante Fe Institute called, “The Macroecology of Sustainability.” This paper points out that sustainability science has developed largely independently from and with little reference to key ecological principles that govern life on earth. Instead, sustainability science is often more of a social science, looking at slightly greener approaches which are almost as unsustainable as the approaches they replace.
A second thing that reminded me of our long-term problems with sustainability was a pair of articles in this week’s issue of Science. There is a research article called, The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia by S. Rule et al, and an accompanying perspective article called The Hunters Did It by M. McGlone. The perspective article explains that there had been a controversy as to why marked changes in habitat took place shortly after humans settled Australia. Some thought that the loss of forest and animal extinctions were the result of climate change. New research shows that the changes almost certainly came from hunting and the use of fire by humans. This is further evidence that humans did not live sustainably, even when they were still hunters and gathers. (See my earlier posts, European Debt Crisis and Sustainability and Human population overshoot–what went wrong?)
Below the fold, I will offer some ideas about truly sustainable solutions.
Truly Sustainable Solutions
Humans at this point do not fit in at all well with the natural ecology–the natural systems of plants and animals. In fact, we have disturbed these systems greatly, making natural systems “fit” into the little niches we have reserved for them. In order for humans to fit back into natural systems, it almost seems as though humans would have to evolve to become more like monkeys or gorillas. We would need to stop living in houses, wearing clothes, and cooking our food. It would be helpful to be able to live in trees, to stay away from predators. Somehow, this doesn’t sound at all appealing, or likely.
But if we think about the situation, it yields a few ideas regarding where we need to be, if we are to live in an ecologically sustainable way:
1. In terms of local foods, we need to focus on foods that truly grow wild, or with very little support, in our area. We may need to discard some foods that can be grown today, but which require soil amendments which must be hauled from a distance, sprays for insects, irrigating, or much tilling.
2. To limit our ecological impact, we should be eating plants and perhaps small animals (including birds, fish, and insects) that reproduce in large numbers. We certainly should not be eating cows and pigs grown on industrial farms. The food we eat should be minimally processed–not packaged or finely ground. If we could eat food raw, that would be ideal, from the point of not disturbing other systems. The human digestive system has evolved to work better with cooked food, however, so cooking will probably be necessary, perhaps using solar cookers.
3. Our housing should be simple. We certainly shouldn’t be building more huge houses and buildings. We shouldn’t expect buildings to be heated very much, and probably not be cooled at all.
4. Walking should be our primary means of transportation. Perhaps dugout canoes or rafts would also be suitable for fitting in with the ecosystems.
5. Medical treatment should largely disappear, because it interferes with normal evolutionary processes and because it tends to leave a large dependent elderly population. It also tends to lead to far too high a population in total.
6. We probably need to live in smallish groups (<150 people) and have an economy based on a gift economy. With such an economy, people gain status by what they give away, rather than what they accumulate. Land would probably be shared in common. No one would be wealthy.
If Truly Sustainable Solutions are Impossible
If truly sustainable solutions are virtually impossible, then what do we do? There are 7 billion humans on earth. If human populations were similar to those of monkeys or gorillas, there would probably not be more than more than 1 million (with an “m”) humans in the world, mostly living in warm places. Our basic problem now is that there are far too many of us.
Some choices that might slightly reduce our impact:
1. Reduce our incomes. The amount of resources a person uses is mostly determined by a person’s income. If a person cuts back on his income, he will use less. Trying to cut back within the same income is less effective, because the money a person doesn’t spend one place is likely to be spent somewhere else. (This is one reason that many attempts at being “green” don’ t really work out.)
2. Plant at least some food crops. This too, disturbs the natural ecology, but it is about as good as we can do. If perennial plants are planted, it is possible that others will benefit as well. Animals, birds, and insects may also get some benefit from the crops.
3. Share what petroleum is available more equitably. If I use less oil, by driving a smaller car, or by driving fewer miles, it doesn’t mean that petroleum will be left in the ground. What it does mean is that the gasoline or diesel that I didn’t buy will be available for someone else to buy. This rather strange result happens because total oil supply is pretty much “maxed out”–total world oil supply doesn’t increase by very much, even with more demand. Instead, all that happens is that price rises. If I use less, price may drop a bit, but the same amount of oil in total will be consumed. So by using less petroleum, someone else, somewhere can use more. The result is better sharing of what oil is available.
4. Have smaller families. One child, or even no-child, families are to be encouraged.
How about all of the “green” things that we hear about?
I have a hard time believing that most of the “green” solutions presented to us today are more than marginally beneficial from an ecological point of view. Even substitutes like wind turbines and solar PV have their difficulties. Most of the time wind and solar PV are used as parts of large electrical grids, and the grids themselves are not sustainable. In addition, we have to disturb natural ecological systems to make and use these systems. The intermittent electricity they produce is not a reasonable substitute for petroleum, which is the fuel we are having most difficulty with.
The problem our economy is facing now is recessionary impacts associated with high-priced oil. High priced substitutes are even worse, in my view. If low-priced substitutes for oil are available, they may make sense. For example, if natural gas could substitute for oil that would be a small step in the right direction, but even natural gas has its difficulties–it too produces CO2 when burned and it is out of synch with the natural ecology.
If there are “green” solutions that are helpful and not too ecologically disturbing, I expect that most of them will be smaller and simpler–for example, small windmills made with local materials, or small water wheels. Recycled materials may be used for some of these–perhaps parts of old autos or recycled building materials.
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Who, or what is this? Why are we talking about him?
Let us give you a clue: his name in Homunculus.
Explanation: The cortical Homunculus is a physical representation of the human body, located within the brain. It is a neurological “map” of the anatomical divisions of the body. And you can easily notice which areas are overrepresented, indicating the most sensitive areas in our bodies (because there are more nerves and because our brain devotes more resources to process information from those nerves)
See more detailed explanation Here.
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From Wave to Table: The Wave of the Future
Bill Spencer is not a fish farmer. But that’s precisely the business he’s wading into. “Frankly, our whole business model is not to be fish farmers,” says Spencer. “Our business model is to learn the best way to sustainably and environmentally responsibly farm fish in the open ocean.” The president of the Hawaiian Venture Capital Association since 1999, Spencer’s latest venture is Hawaii Ocean Technology, an open-ocean aquaculture company that’s thinking big—really big.
Spencer and his business partner, local oceano-grapher Paul Troy, have developed what they hope is the new wave of fish farming: the oceansphere, an 82,500-cubic-meter fish cage that will hold 20,000 100-pound bigeye tuna, Hawaii Ocean Tech’s fish of choice, which they’re branding as King Ahi. The way Spencer sees it, why not farm a fish that’s in high demand—it’s more likely to be profitable and his company may help ease pressure on wild stock. It’s an interesting idea, but one that has never been tested on this large a scale. “Our projected annual yield once we’re fully operational is 6,000 tons,” says Spencer. He plans to sell 10 percent to the local market, to avoid negatively impacting the local fishery, and the rest to the Mainland and Japan.
While Spencer and Troy came up with and patented the design of the oceansphere, they’re relying on Science Application International Corp. (SAIC), a publicly traded company that specializes in scientific, engineering and technology applications, to vet their concept, from finalizing the designs to devising an engineering and construction plan. Hawaii Ocean Tech hopes to site 12 oceanspheres on 247 acres approximately 2.6 nautical miles off the Big Island’s Kohala Coast. The spheres, which will all have topside buoys, will not be tethered to the ocean floor; instead, they’ll remain in geostatic position, with the tops of the spheres about 60 feet below the ocean’s surface, using technology similar to what the Navy employs to keep its observation buoy platforms in place. The spheres are designed to be as fully automated as possible, which means they’ll have buoyancy controls to raise and lower for annual cleaning. It also means investing in a variety of monitoring technologies to measure everything from water temperature and water quality to food distribution and fish size. “Our No. 1 design objective is to make this environment for the fish as friendly as we want to make it for the ocean we’re operating in,” says Spencer. Pretty much the only thing not being done in the oceanspheres is raising the fingerlings, which will take place at the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Research Center, which is also helping to develop Hawaii Ocean Tech’s broodstock.
The next step for Hawaii Ocean Tech is to receive its conservation-district use permit from the Department of Land and Natural Resources Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands. Once that happens, the company plans to deploy the first oceansphere in 2010 and, if all goes well, will add a second in 2012.
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The majority, about 85 per cent, agreed that cats should be kept inside, or at least safely under their owner's control in a harness or structure at all times — an option I should have added.
I also should have mentioned coyotes, an increasing threat to outdoor cats. The local coyote numbers appear to be growing. I have seen two myself behind the West Hunt Club shelter. Coyotes can catch and will kill cats and small dogs. Some U.S. communities with large numbers of coyotes simply have no outdoor cats, as any cat venturing outside is killed in short order.
Several added a concern about the effect of roaming cats on songbird populations, a point I didn't make and should have. Most studies point to outdoor cats as the number one cause of the death of millions of birds and small mammals annually. Some species are threatened as a result.
Those that disagreed, disagreed vehemently. T.C. wrote in part:
"...I think it's terrible that people don't let their cats outside, if the cat wants to go outside, and you live in a location that isn't "busy", you should totally let your cat out.. ..Animals want to frolic!! Our children may live longer if we keep them in the house and never let them out either! Think about it, they could get hit by a car, or kidnapped, or freeze.. ..Stop living in fear and let the animals be animals! S--- CAN happen, that doesn't mean it will!! Let them enjoy their unfortunately short lives whichever way they want!"
Many that agreed that cats should be kept inside expressed their personal frustration about the issue. L.L. wrote in part:
"We have a neighbor who allows his cats out all the time. One of which constantly comes and urinates on my basement window – which has a screen and happens to be right over my desk. I can’t open that window any longer because of that, and my best efforts don’t keep this cat away. To be honest, it's disgusting and I’m at my wits end about it. I wouldn’t let my own dog do this.. ..They tell me they are ‘outside cats’ and they just can’t keep them indoors.. .. An entire neighborhood shouldn’t have to ‘adopt’ a cat just because one family chooses to have one they let run loose"
Many writers expressed tremendous concern about the cats they see in their neighbourhoods. J.A. wrote:
"Cats do not belong on the streets yet a lot of people think it's ok to have an 'outdoor' cat or in-outdoor cat. I see kitties in our neighbourhood regularly. I've even emailed the OHS on one little guy that we kept on seeing throughout the winter, we know he belongs to someone as he is collared and we were concerned for his safety. It breaks my heart every time I see a putty outside. Especially in the winter time..."
|Cats are better off indoors.|
"A quick walk through my neighbourhood, wallpapered in posters for missing cats, was enough for us to decide to keep our girl inside. Sure she stares out the window longingly sometimes but it is my responsibility to keep her safe. She is fixed and vaccinated should she escape though. Humans need to do better"
Some shared their journey to keeping their cats indoors. P.W. wrote:
"In the past we have owned 2 cats and both were inside and outside cats. Unfortunately both were killed on the road. It was very traumatic for our family and when my 20 year old son stated to talk me into another cat (he missed having a pet in the house).. .. We talked as a family and agreed to adopt a cat. I only agreed to this if we kept the cat indoors."
Thank you to everyone who shared thoughts and ideas. The goal of the blog was to stimulate discussion and, I hope, change.
With the greatest respect to those who feel cats should roam, for me this debate was over long ago. After 16 years at the Ottawa Humane Society, I simply cannot accept that cats are better off outside. Every one of those years, 3,000 to 5,000 lost cats have needed our care. Many of them were injured or sick and in pain. Many suffered frostbite, needed amputations of tails and legs. Some were intentionally harmed. All of them needed a safe refuge.
And the reality is, most wouldn't have been here if they hadn't been allowed outside.
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