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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Monday for a change to laws on conversion to Judaism, which he said had left thousands of Israelis in limbo.
Speaking at a conference on immigrant absorption in Ashdod, Lieberman, who leads the hard-line Yisrael Beiteinu party, urged the state to allow head Rabbis in all Israeli towns to perform conversions.
"It is unacceptable that over 200,000 immigrants are carrying identity cards that give their status as 'no religion'," Lieberman said.
The number of immigrants entering conversion programs has plummeted following a controversial ruling in 2008 by the Rabbinical Court of Appeals, which at a stroke invalidated all conversions performed by the state-run Conversion Administration.
Yisrael Beiteinu, which enjoys strong support from Israel's large population of immigrants from the former Soviet Union - around a quarter of a million of whom are classified as non-Jews or having no religion - now hopes to roll back the changes and ease the process.
"Every town's chief rabbi must have the authority to perform conversions himself," Lieberman told the conference.
"In a generation's time there will be no Jews left in the world outside orthodox Judaism, because of assimilation."
This is not the first time that Lieberman, himself a Russian immigrant, has raised the issue of conversion. An attempt two years ago by Yisrael Beitenu to restore powers to municipal rabbis ran into opposition from religious parties in the government coalition and the rabbinical courts.
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Non Patents On Seeds, 12 May 2016
thank you very much for your interest in becoming involved in actions being taken against the patent on tomatoes held by Syngenta. This document is supposed to enable your active participation, so that together we can oppose patent EP 1515600.
Background: In 2015, the European Patent Office granted the aforementioned patent EP 1515600 to Syngenta, which claims tomatoes with a high content of so-called flavonols. These compounds are supposedly beneficial to health. The patent covers the plants, the plant varieties with the respective plant characteristics, the seeds and the fruits. This so-called “invention”, however, is simply a product of crossing tomatoes from the countries of origin (Latin America) with varieties currently grown in the industrialised countries. European Patent Law prohibits patents on plant varieties and on conventional breeding (Art 53 b, European Patent Convention).
We are filing a joint opposition in which we would like you to become part of if
- you are at least 18 years old and
- you fill in and sign the attached document (please note, this information will become publicly accessible within the course of the opposition) and return it to us by 2 May 2016.
Note: The personal information you fill in has to be correct!
We will then collect all the documents and file a joint opposition through a representative patent lawyer. This opposition is intended not only to start the legal process to obtain the revocation of the above patent, but also to send a strong political signal that no patents on life, especially on plants and animals, should ever be granted.
There will be no costs to you arising from this opposition procedure or any ensuing appeal procedure. For further information, including the text of the patent and the text of opposition please visit:
If you have any further questions, please send an email mentioning “joint opposition” to: email@example.com.
New patent granted on tomatoes derived from classical breeding
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And without dismounting from their horses, they formed a circle round the grotto.
Speaking thus, the goddess went into the grotto and Odysseus followed her.
Eight years elapsed before the grotto was visited by M. Louis Lartet, the great French archologist.
Somebody must have been down to that grotto, and dropped it as he came away.
Apollo is in his grotto, served by seven graceful nymphs: while close by the steeds of the sun-god are being watered by tritons.
At length he decided on having a fountain, a grotto, and an arbor.
As he thought this, he discovered, in a mountain-wall near the roadside, the vaulted entrance to a grotto.
Yes; but the grotto of Locmaria—is it necessary all the world should know it?
The soil of the grotto had apparently risen at a subsequent period.
We'd end up drowned in some grotto in the heart of the planet, says Kroger.
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|Column Tag:||New Technologies
No its not Fred Flintstone, but it is at least as important as Fred is to developers!
By Patrick Rigney, Director of Core Technology, Symantec Corporation
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM or source code disks. These Bedrock samples and headers are not listed here.
Over the past decade, a number of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have become popular in desktop and workstation computing. On PCs the most notable GUIs are Apples Macintosh System Software and Microsofts Windows.
As the demand for GUI-based applications has increased, so has their complexity. Users demand powerful functionality, access to the latest operating system and hardware features, and What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editing. For developers, the GUIs Application Program Interfaces (APIs) present a broad range of functionality, a substantial portion of which must be learned to build such complex applications. Applications that were once small and manageable by one or a small number of engineers now require a larger team. Software developers are searching for solutions to these problems.
Bedrock is a library of C++ classes and tools that provide a toolkit and an object-oriented application framework. An application framework is a skeleton application that contains functionality common to most applications. The developer builds an application on top of this framework.
Bedrocks mission is to reduce the time and effort spent on many complex yet common cross-platform issues, and to provide simpler interfaces to system features (such as the Clipboard and AppleEvents), allowing more time to be spent on quality, maintainability, or additional features that make the application stand out.
Many of Bedrocks classes are designed to hide implementation details of the target platform from the application. In effect, Bedrock acts a translator between the application and the Macintosh and Windows systems, taking high-level requests and invoking the appropriate forms for each platform. While Bedrock hides these issues, it still allows the developer free access to them when necessary. Application code written on top of Bedrock can coexist with code written directly to the platform.
Bedrock also provides classes and methods for features specific to individual platforms. This points out another major goal of Bedrock: to provide simplified interfaces to complex system functionality. Without these, Bedrock would be reduced to a least common denominator solution.
A LAYER- AND COMPONENT-BASED DESIGN
The Bedrock design allows the developer to use pieces that best suit the applications needs. Conceptually, Bedrocks classes are segregated into four layers, each of which contains various components. A component is an abstraction that contains one or more C++ classes and provides a related set of capabilities.
The architecture is layered to organize the information flow between layers. The components of an upper layer request services from and depend upon the lower layers, but components in the lower layers do not call components in the layers above them. Figure 1 shows a sampling of the major components in their parent layers.
Figure 1. Bedrock Layers
This layer-and-component architecture actually makes Bedrock appear and function like many small class libraries, rather than one large one. The relationships between layers and components are more formal and distinct, as opposed to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) and Apples MacApp, in which most classes are derived from a single root class. This makes the framework easier to learn, and more scalable.
THE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK LAYER
When using Bedrock, much of the programming time is devoted to building on top of classes in the Application Framework layer. This layer contains the Application, Document, Clipboard, and Chore components, which are highly interdependent. For example, if the developer changes the way the document component works, this application component will likely also need to be changed.
Bedrocks Application component provides the structure of functionality common to most GUI applications, including support for application-level menu items in the File, Edit, and Help menus, the Apple menu on the Macintosh platform, and managing undo/redo of tasks. The Application component depends on the GUI Layer of Bedrock to dispatch events and provide the user interface, and on the Document component to control windows and the users access to data.
The application framework model of Bedrock has been strongly influenced by the Macintosh and Windows document architectures. The document is responsible for directing the interaction between the data and the users view of that data. It supports document-level commands in the File, Edit, and Help menus, printing, undoing of commands, and multiple open documents.
Clipboard and Scrap
The Bedrock clipboard is closely tied to the document. The document creates a scrap object, which is copied to the clipboard. The scrap object knows what formats it can translate to and from, and knows how to install a view in the Clipboard window to view the current contents of the clipboard.
Bedrock supplies some common scrap objects, including a text object, a Macintosh PICT object, and a Windows MetaFile object. This functionality is extended by providing a scrap object that knows how to deal with new data types.
Chores are tasks that are performed at various times in the application. Bedrock provides an implementation for the following kinds of chores:
Timer chores-executed at a regular intervals, specified at creation time.
Idle chores-performed whenever the application is not performing any other tasks.
Urgent chores-performed immediately, whenever they are assigned.
Chores can be used in limited circumstances to simulate multi-threading.
Actions are typically created in response to events, such as choosing the Cut command from the Edit menu. They provide basic protocol and interfaces for managing changes to the documents data. The application object can track the last action committed and will direct it to undo in response to a users Undo command.
A mouse action is created in response to a mouse button press. The mouse action object continues to exist, providing such functions as visual feedback, until the user releases the button.
An action informs the application whether it is undoable and should be tracked, because some actions are normally not considered undoable (e.g. saving a file or resizing a window).
THE GUI LAYER
Besides the all-important concept of the Application Framework layer, Bedrock provides a layer to handle the GUI. The components in this layer include Event Handling, Menus, Views, Windows, Controls, Cursors, Carets, Icons, and Drag/Drop.
A characteristic of modern event-driven systems is that users can choose to take any of several actions at any one time. These actions, which are typically menu choices, button selections, and keystrokes, result in the generation of operating system events. Procedural applications typically trap the event and take action on it based upon a switch statement somewhere in the event dispatching loop.
System events trigger the creation of a Bedrock event object, which is dispatched to an event-handling object. Every event-handling object has a supervisor, which is also an event handler. The supervisor is specified when the event handler is instantiated. If an event handler does not wish to handle an event, it passes it on to its supervisor.
Behaviors are objects that can be associated with an event-handling object at runtime. They may be associated with a particular instance of an object, or an entire class of objects. When an event is dispatched to an event handler, Bedrock first looks to see if an instance or class behavior can handle the event, before looking at the static event handling methods. This mechanism provides a way to add or change event responses at runtime. For example, a behavior can be added to a button that allows it to be dragged when clicked, as opposed to the normal execute command behavior associated with buttons.
The highest-level event handler in Bedrock is the application object, which supervises the application desktop and the event handlers for dialogs.
Every object that can appear on the screen (with the exception of some menu objects) is drawn within a view. As the highest level visible object, views have the following properties:
Are contained in a visual hierarchy,
Can be hidden, shown, resized and clipped,
Can be enabled or disabled,
Can receive the focus, and it can receive mouse clicks and keyboard events,
Can change background color,
Can change cursor shape as the mouse passes over it,
Have a local coordinate system.
Every view has an enclosure, which is another view that usually encompasses every visual point of the enclosed view. An enclosure always owns all of its enclosed views. This enclosure relationship results in a runtime hierarchy referred to as the visual hierarchy. The application desktop is at the top of this hierarchy, and typically encloses one or more windows. In turn, the windows enclose one or more views. Bedrock uses this hierarchy to dispatch mouse events to views and to handle activation/deactivation of views.
A scroller is a special class of view that can be used when the visual representation of data is larger than the allotted visual area. The scroller knows how to scroll its enclosed subviews in response to the users actions; conversely, these subviews do not need to know how to scroll. Scrollers are typically associated with scrollbars, and manage all interaction with them. Scrollers also manage scrolling via autoscrolling (that is, dragging the mouse) and the keyboard (for example, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys).
Bedrock renders views on a canvas. There are four major canvases in Bedrock: window, printer, metafile, and bitmap. Each implements a common rendering interface, allowing a view to be drawn on either a window or a printer by merely switching the target canvas and telling the view to draw itself.
Each canvas also implements specific behavior for its type. For example, windows can be tiled, cascaded, iconized, and obscured by other windows. Bitmaps and metafiles can be in-memory or disk-based.
Controls in Bedrock are views that encapsulate the platforms native controls, so the buttons look like Macintosh buttons on the Macintosh and Windows buttons under Windows.
Bedrock provides scroll bars, buttons, checkboxes (including tri-state checkboxes), radio buttons, push buttons, group boxes, static text controls, edit controls, and list boxes.
Dialogs consist of a dialog box, a director, and one or more subviews (typically controls). The appearance of a dialog conforms to the GUI standards for the platform. Bedrock supports Modal and Modeless dialogs on both platforms, and Application Modal dialogs on Windows.
A director acts as the mediator between controls. For example, a director may enable the Open button on a dialog in response to a file name selection in a list box. In addition, directors handle keyboard navigation and default button presses.
Bedrock provides the following dialogs:
Print Job Initiate
Print Job Progress/Status
Bedrock allows the developer to create multiple menu bars, and alternate between them by sending messages to the desktop.
Bedrock supports pull-down , pop-up , bitmap and custom-drawn menus. Each menu can have other menus added to it, or removed from it, as well as have individual menu items added. Menus and menu items can also be enabled and disabled (with appropriate highlighting changes occurring automatically).
Bedrock supplies basic text-editing capabilities. This component is useful mainly in the context of controls containing editable text.
Cursors, Carets, and Icons
Every view has a cursor associated with it. The cursor associated with the view will be displayed whenever the mouse is positioned over a visible region of the view. The application can create any number of cursors, but only one may be associated with a view at a given time.
A caret (usually marked with an I-beam cursor) marks the current insertion point in text. Bedrock provides the caret in its default text-editing services, and provides methods for setting the caret in a text view.
Icons are one of the significant characteristics of a GUI. Bedrock provides support for loading icons from resources and displaying them in a view.
Drag-and-Drop is the ability to drag objects (data) between locations. A good example of this is in the Macintosh Finder, which allows the user to delete a file by dragging its icon to the Trash.
Bedrock fully supports the Drag-and-Drop feature, both within an application (between views) and between applications, on both platforms.
THE OPERATING SYSTEM LAYER
Bedrock provides basic components that help hide the underlying operating system from the application. At this layer, the application will normally be using the services that Bedrock provides, with little subclassing or overriding.
Components in this layer include Graphics Support, System Configuration, Memory Management, Files, and Resources.
Bedrock supports platform-independent drawing with the following primitives: Line, Polyline, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Region, Ellipse, Chord, Pie, Arc, Bitmap, Picture (Macintosh PICT and Windows MetaFile), Icon, and Text.
Bedrock also provides a logical coordinate system that supports translation and scaling. By default, Bedrocks coordinate system defines the origin as the top left corner of the view. The coordinate system can easily be changed as necessary. to accommodate, for example, Cartesian coordinates with the origin at the bottom left. In addition, it is possible to independently transform and scale the x and y axes.
The system configuration abstraction provides information about the system upon which the Bedrock application is being run. Thus, the application can request system-wide (as opposed to application-specific) attributes and actions, such as current directory, screen resolution, or (on the Macintosh) hardware configuration flags (Macintosh Gestalt information).
Bedrock provides a general-purpose allocation scheme that shields the developer from the details of managing memory across platforms. Bedrocks allocator requests large blocks from the system and suballocates them on demand to the application. When freed by the application, adjacent free blocks are coalesced in to larger blocks.
Bedrock objects are pointer-based. Handle-based objects are not supported.
The Bedrock file components provide platform-independent file I/O and uniform handling of errors. The FileAccess component is extensible to allow network- or memory-based random access to data.
Most applications use resources to store small pieces of code or data that can be changed without recompiling the application. For example, all strings used by an application can be stored in resources for easy localization.
Bedrock supplies tools to improve the portability of resources. The Bedrock Resource Compiler (BEDRC) takes resources defined in Bedrock resource statements and compiles them into the native resources of the platform. The Bedrock Resource Language syntax is an extension of Apples Rez language, adding type declaration (typedef statements) and complex type creation (struct, class, union). The syntax is C++ compatible, and the compiler supports the ANSI C preprocessor directives, allowing it to read and derive type information directly from C++ header files. The developer can then use these new types in resources.
Bedrocks resource mechanism allows the application to instantiate objects by name from a resource definition. For example, a view hierarchy may be defined in a Bedrock resource, and later be instantiated by name from the resource file. By modifying the resource file, users can modify the view hierarchy without recompiling the application.
THE FOUNDATION LAYER
Bedrocks Foundation Layer provides basic services to the higher layers, or directly to application code. The components at this level are largely independent of one another. The Foundation Layer components, in turn, depend only upon the facilities of the C++ language. These components include Streams, Sinks, Strings, Collections, Exceptions, and International support.
Streams and Sinks
Streams provide a generalized interface for reading and writing data, including protocol for higher-level entities (integers, floats, strings, and so on), and thus provide platform- and device-independence for all kinds of I/O. Streams are generally heterogeneous; that is, they operate on many types of data.
Streams read from and write to sinks. A sink is a device that can be a source or destination for a stream of bytes. Sinks provide only a byte-oriented, untyped interface. Bedrock provides file sinks and memory block (resizable and nonresizable) sinks. Sinks may be extended to construct, for example, serial interface sinks and network interface sinks.
A string is a run of text, composed of characters. Strings always use characters as the units of transfer, so type-safety is guaranteed and access is fast and efficient. Bedrock stores characters in Unicode format, and provides ways to export characters to other character systems such as ASCII.
Bedrock provides support for localization through resources (as discussed earlier), writing systems, and locales.
A writing system encompasses all the information a Bedrock application needs to edit, display, store, and retrieve text strings. It depends on the locale abstraction to supply basic information such as date format, thousands separator, and so on.
Together, the writing system and the locale track and implement script properties, sort orders, word-breaking and boundary behavior, mapping and translation tables, and formatting for times, dates, and numbers.
Data Structures and Collections
Bedrocks collections are a subset of the Rational C++ Booch Components, consisting of Collection, Ordered Collection, Map (a dictionary of domain/range pairs), Queue, Stack, and Tree.
Tools and iterators are used to act on a collection. Bedrock includes tools for searching and sorting collections.
Collections, tools and iterators are implemented using C++ templates, and can therefore store and operate on any data type, rather than just objects.
The components in each layer detect errors that the application must handle. In those cases where the library does not know how to handle an error, it can throw an exception object. The application can catch this object and respond.
Bedrocks exception handling is based on that described in The C++ Programming Language and The Annotated C++ Reference Manual (ARM). The Bedrock Exception Library (BEL) is included to emulate this mechanism on compilers that do not support ARM Exception Handling. BELs syntax is slightly different from the ARM syntax, but is designed to easily translate to that syntax. When using a compiler that supports C++ exceptions, one can remove the BEL emulation.
BROAD RANGE OF FUNCTIONALITY
Bedrocks varied components provide a broad range of functionality to the application developer. Complexity in the framework is reduced by layering the components, which helps organize their interactions. Within the layers, each component acts as a class library in itself, making the entire system easier to learn and use.
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Before You Deliver
When labor begins
- If you go into labor or your water breaks, call your obstetric care provider right away.
- He or she will instruct you on when you should come to the Birthplace.
"They took the fear-factor out of labor and delivery and once our baby arrived they hand-held us through the first few nerve-wracking days and nights with a newborn." - Colleen K
Induction is the starting of uterine contractions and labor by the use of vaginal and/or intravenous medications. Your obstetric care provider will discuss with you the reasons for and method to be used to induce your labor.
- Please call 978.354.3330 and ask to speak to the Nurse-in-Charge regarding your induction time.
- Arrive at the Birthplace approximately 15 to 30 minutes before your planned induction time.
- Once you have been admitted, the nurse will review your medical and obstetrical histories, your allergies and medication uses, check your vital signs and the baby’s heart rate.
Reasons for induction include:
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension (high blood pressure)
- One to two weeks overdue from expected delivery date
- Rupture of membranes/amniotic sac (broken water) before labor begins
- Suspected infection in the amniotic sac
- Abnormal amount of fluid in the sac (high or low)
- Mother’s medical condition, such as diabetes, chronic high blood pressure or heart disease
- Concerns about the baby’s growth
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Elections and the governing rules and regulations to hold them are the pillars of democracy in a free society. These rules and regulations are from people and they are there to insure that elections reflect the true voice of the majority. Regulations on the subject of the right of becoming a candidate for an elected position, and the right of having a free and non-fraudulent oversight and process are from people themselves. In other words, candidates, rules, and oversight are all from people.
However, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have only a disturbed shadow of an election. Discriminatory laws, fraud, and poor oversight make a mockery of any election in Iran, especially that of presidential elections.
So far the fake presidential elections in Iran have been a tool to buy legitimacy among the international community, by showing off the voting people to international media, and the 2009 election is no exception. As always, all four candidates have not only passed through the ideological filter of the clergy, but also they have taken part in all of the killings, tortures, and violations of human rights across Iran.
Evaluating the resumes of all four candidates shows that they have always been against people and turned their back on them in the favour of the ruling clergy. They have been a part of terror against the opposition and other countries and also stealing people’s resources and livelihood. These are the common denominator of all four candidates.
Having said all that, the constitution of the Islamic Republic is not only the main obstacle in the way of having a democratic election, but also it is the main obstacle for a presumably legitimate elected president to act in the favour of the people.
In this constitution, all the real power is in the hands of the supreme leader (Ayatollah Khamenei). He has the power to overrule or even discharge the president should he decide to do so, and he does not need to answer anybody or even the people of Iran as he is the sitting representative of God on earth, as stated in the constitution. The leader is the commander in chief, secretary of state, and the highest religious figure all at once. On the other hand he has the power to impose his idea about even the most personal aspects of people’s lives like the way they dress or the way they eat. He even has the power to disassemble the parliament.
According to constitution, only men (not women), who are Shiite Muslim, and who believe in the divine and absolute power of the leader, have the right to become a candidate.
The actual power of a president is very marginal. During the two terms when the so called reformist government had the presidential seat and had the majority in the parliament, they were disallowed from passing any new laws even though they only differed slightly from the leader.
This list of predicaments can go on, but in short it can be said that under the current laws and constitution, presidential elections in Iran are nothing but a mockery of democracy, and serve no purpose but prolonging the life of this murderous regime.
Nations living in Iran, have a 30 year history of struggling for freedom, democracy, and human rights. They have come to understand that democracy and federalism is the way of the future in order to stop the additional oppression imposed on them. These are not achievable under the current regime’s backward ideology and its murderous institutions, like the Office of Supreme Leadership, president, revolutionary guard, and others who have brought nothing but misery to Kurdish people and other nationalities living in Iran.
We have experienced a rage against us from the day Ayatollah Khomeini, ordered a jihad against Kurds. It is a patriotic duty for all freedom loving people living in Iran and especially those of Kurdish people to not belittle themselves and settle for some false and fraudulent promises by any of the so called presidential candidates. We have come through a magnificent resistance against oppression. We know that under the current system and regime, our goals of freedom, human rights, self determination and democracy will not materialize. We will not be played with and will not be deceived by these games.
We want and deserve the right to hold free elections, to become candidates, to vote for our candidate of choice. The Islamic regime in Iran is struggling with all sort of crisis inside and outside of Iran, and they are as weak as they have ever been.
Voting in this election is helping this regime gaining legitimacy, when it needs it the most. We ask you all to join us in boycotting this election.
Komala, Revolutionary Tailors Organization of Iranian Kurdistan
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
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MEID stands for Mobile Equipment Identifier and is a unique identifier for a mobile device. MEID is a form of ESN (Electronic Serial Number).
MEID numbers often have multiple formats, MEID HEX and MEID DEC. The HEX value is a mix of letters and numbers and the DEC value is all numbers.
When an MEID is request, Swappa generally uses and asks for the MEID HEX, which looks something like this: A1000017F1000D
For more information on the MEID, please visit this Wikipedia page.
- How can I check my ESN / IMEI / MEID to ensure it's clean?
- How do I find my device's ESN / IMEI / MEID number?
- Why should I not share my ESN / IMEI / MEID publicly?
- What is an ESN / IMEI / MEID, and why is it important?
- Does Swappa guarantee the results of the ESN Check service?
- What does whitelist(ed) and blacklist(ed) mean?
- What is an IMEI number?
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The school strives to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including sporting, artistic, literary and scientific activities.
These activities are essential to our vision in order to enhance student’s creativity, physical well-being, spirituality, and leadership.
- Sports Olympic Games
- Aspire Football Tournaments
- Track & Field
- Qatar e-nature
- Qur’an Competition
- Film Festival
- National Scientific Research Competition
- National Astronomy Olympiad
- National Biology Olympiad
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See the responses to questions 1-4 above.
[Answer 1: Korea provides protection for geographical indications through both the measures mentioned above. (i) In general, geographical indications are protected through the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act, the Fair Labelling and Advertising Act, Trademark Act, and several other laws and regulations. Protection under these laws does not require any procedures for notification/registration. (a) Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act Articles 2(1)(iii) and (iv) of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act provide that the following acts fall into the ambit of the unfair competition acts: - an act of causing confusion with another person's commercial facilities or activities by using marks identical with or similar to another person's name, trade name, emblem or any other mark which is widely known in Korea; - an act of making a mark on goods, advertisements, trade documents communicated to the public or in communications, or selling, distributing, importing or exporting goods marked with such mark which would mislead the public into believing that the place of production, manufacturing or processing is different from the actual place of production, manufacturing or processing. (b) Fair Labelling and Advertising Act The Fair Labelling and Advertising Act enacted in July 1999 and enforced by the Korean Fair Trade Commission is not pursuant to the TRIPS Agreement. Nevertheless, it can indirectly have an effect of protecting geographical indications. - Rather than to guarantee the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), the purpose of this Act is to prevent unfair labelling and advertising that may deceive or mislead consumers and to facilitate the provision of fair and useful information to consumers, thereby establishing a fair trade order and protecting consumers (Article 1 of the Fair Labelling and Advertising Act). - However, geographical indications can be indirectly protected in the process of regulating undue geographical indications to protect consumers. - Relevant Provisions: "Article 3 - Prohibition of Unfair Labelling and Advertising (1) Enterprises, etc. shall not post labels or advertisements as set forth in the following subparagraphs that may deceive or mislead consumers, thus impairing fair trade order, nor shall they force other enterprises to do so: 1. false or exaggerating labelling and advertising; 2. deceptive labelling and advertising; 3. unduly comparative labelling and advertising; 4. slanderous labelling and advertising." - Notification on Types of and Criteria for Undue Labelling and Advertising. • Pursuant to the Fair Labelling and Advertising Act and its Enforcement Decree, the KFTC issued the notification specifying the types of and criteria for undue labelling and advertising. • Paragraph 10, Article II: In labelling or advertising the origin and manufacturer of the products supplied, any vague or false labelling and advertising that may mislead consumers shall be deemed as undue labelling and advertising. (c) Trademark Act When any trademark consists of or contains a geographical name, it may be rejected or invalidated, under one of these provisions: - Article 6(1)(iv) of the Trademark Act aims to prevent any conspicuous geographical name from being registered as a trademark, the reason being that such a name lacks the distinctiveness needed to be registered as a trademark, and it would be unreasonable to grant an exclusive right to a specific person, which would result in giving an unexpected disadvantage to his competitors; - even when a geographical name is not conspicuous, the registration of a trademark may be refused or invalidated under Article 6(1)(iii) of the Act if the trademark solely consists of such a geographical name; and, finally, - even if a trademark does not consist solely of a conspicuous geographical name, it may be rejected or invalidated under Article 7(1)(xi) if it is liable to mislead or deceive consumers as to the quality of the goods. (ii) The geographical indications of agricultural and fisheries products and their processed products are protected through formal registration procedures according to the Agro-Fisheries Product Quality Management Act(1999). Protection under the Act requires recognition and registration, by the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service, of the geographical indications of agricultural and fisheries products and their processed products. (iii) The strengthened protection of geographical indications for wines and spirits is provided in the Notice Concerning Liquor Labelling and the Trademark Act. - Additional protection as provided for in Article 23 of the TRIPS Agreement is provided to wines and spirits in the Notice Concerning Liquor Labelling, an amendment to which took effect 14 June 2000. According to the amended Notice, even where the true origin of the goods is indicated or a geographical indication is used in translation or is accompanied by expressions such as "kind", "type", "style", "imitation" or the like, the use of the geographical indication identifying wines or spirits that do not originate in the place indicated by the geographical indication is prohibited. - An application for the registration of any trademark that contains or consists of the geographical indications of wines or spirits that originate in any WTO Member is to be rejected under Article 7(1)(xiv) of the Trademark Act.]
[Answer 2: As indicated in the response to question 1 above, Korea protects geographical indications through a number of regimes.]
[Answer 3: The protection of geographical indications through the relevant provisions of the Trademark Act and the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act is also extended to services.]
[Answer 4: Articles 2(1)(iii) and 2(1)(iv) of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act, Article 3 of the Fair Labelling and Advertising Act, and Article 9 of the Agro Fisheries Product Quality Management Act provide the legal means for protecting geographical indications as required by Article 22.2 of the TRIPS Agreement. The text of the said laws were duly notified to the WTO pursuant to Article 63.2 of the TRIPS Agreement. The strengthened protection of geographical indications for wines and spirits, as required by Article 23.1 of the TRIPS Agreement, is provided by the Amendment to the Notice Concerning Liquor Labelling.] | <urn:uuid:982bf463-14cb-4fc2-9934-be843a30937a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://e-trips.wto.org/En/InformationForReviewArticle242Notifications/View/1339 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.924904 | 1,233 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Occupational injury mortality in the United States for 1980 through 1989 was investigated using information from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities surveillance system. Data were obtained from death certificates for workers 16 years of age or older who died as a result of a work related injury. The findings indicated that from 1980 through 1989, a total of 63,589 workers died from occupationally sustained injuries; 62,289 deaths were in civilian workers. Males accounted for 56% of the civilian work force at this time, but for 94% of the fatal occupational injuries. The age group that accounted for the largest number of deaths was between 25 to 29 years, followed by the 30 to 34 year old age group. The leading causes of occupational injury death were motor vehicle crashes (23%), machine related incidents (14%), homicides (12%), falls (10%), electrocutions (7%), and being struck by falling objects (7%). When ranked by industry and rate per thousand of workers, the mining industry appeared to be the most hazardous followed in decreasing order by construction, transportation and communication, agriculture with forestry and fishing, public administration, and others. | <urn:uuid:44a6ec3e-ac3e-4af4-99f4-a5ff1130df25> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/00217270.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971511 | 224 | 2.625 | 3 |
Senators push expanded tax breaks for donated food
The incentives were first passed in 2006. John Sayles, chief executive at the Barre-based Vermont Foodbank, called them "absolutely critical to what we do" because they help prompt donations of about a quarter of the food the organization distributes each year.
Leahy joined Sens. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., this past week to introduce the bill to continue and expand the tax incentive.
Leahy called the program "an efficient way to match a pressing need with valuable food resources that otherwise would be wasted. ... We must do more to ensure that no one in America goes hungry, and increasing the amount of food available to food banks is a vital step toward meeting that goal."
The senators said food banks across the country have been stretched thin since the Great Recession. More than 50 million Americans were living in food insecure households, meaning they had difficulty providing food, a 2011 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found.
Meanwhile, "as much as 40 percent of the food that is produced, grown and transported in the United States will never be used," a statement from Leahy's office said. It said some businesses find it cheaper and easier to throw food away rather than to donate it.
The law was previously reauthorized through the end of 2013 and already has prompted the U.S. restaurant industry to increase food donations 137 percent, Leahy's office said.
The new bill would make the tax incentives permanent and extend it to farmers.
Fran Voigt, president of the New England Culinary Institute, a Montpelier-based cooking school that operates a restaurant and bakery in the city, said he and other NECI officials support the tax incentive law and its expansion.
But he said it probably would not make a big difference for NECI.
"We've donated food from the start to many organizations," Voigt said. "Our incentive for doing it was never a tax benefit, but to the extent it motivates other people (to make donations), we're all for it. Our difficulty would be keeping track of the donations and putting a monetary value on them."
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We’ve followed The Masters 2016 training course to the end and, boy, have we learnt a lot. Our Masters students – also known as The Perfume Shop’s in-store experts – have had an incredible journey, creating a new perfume, devising a brief AND making it in a lab. The last stop? A lecture from Will Andrews, Principal Scientist at Procter & Gamble. Here are some of the mind-blowing facts they learnt:
- People are tuned to enjoy pleasing smells, and fruity top notes are immediately more satisfying. Check your favourite fragrance now – chances are it will have a fruit as a top note.
- We are naturally drawn to floral smells, but there’s no real reason for it.
- A rose note is made from 300 chemicals.
- We are born with a sense of smell but no association to anything. We have preferences to the smells we grow up with. The Japanese grow up with a smell of fish, so are drawn towards it. We Brits favour the smell of grass.
- You shouldn’t wear a totally new perfume on your wedding day as, for your partner, it’ll be a bit like marrying a stranger. Our partners are naturally attracted to our sense of smell, even if they don’t know it.
- In the 1770s, people were less hygienic, so homes and society smelt dirty.
- Perfumes don’t change your natural odour, they add to it.
- Fruit doesn’t exist in perfume. To make a fruity smell, flowers are mixed together. Similarly, almond is made from the compound benzaldehyde, and the smell of water is created from calone, a chemical that smells of water.
So, as you can see, the experts at The Perfume Shop have an INSANE amount of knowledge. Need a date night scent or one for your next holiday? Come into store and ask our staff. You won’t be disappointed, promise.
With tears in their eyes, The Masters students graduated in November 2016 (graduation cape and all) and shared their best moments. Some mentioned their trip to Paris and visiting the Thierry Mugler offices, while others got the tissues out and talked about their life-long friendships.
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When penetrated by magnetic fields, superconductors acquire "super memories": Electric currents flowing through them in this state are long remembered. Weizmann Institute scientists have now shown how these currents leave their lasting signature.
Unique in their capacity to conduct electricity without resistance, superconductors could one day bring a wealth of good tidings: the ability to carry electric currents across vast distances, for instance, and a wide variety of industrial and transportation technologies. A considerable number of these innovations are based on controlled exposure of superconductors to magnetic fields, and the manner in which these fields penetrate the superconductors.
Magnetic fields infiltrate some of the superconductors in the form of tiny whirlpools, each containing a weak magnetic flux at its core. Under optimal conditions, these whirlpools settle at equal distances from each other, in a fashion similar to the arrangement of molecules within a solid crystal.
However, Prof. Eli Zeldov of the Weizmann Institute's Condensed Matter Physics Department proved in the past that under certain conditions this "crystal" may undergo a "meltdown" so that the whirlpools are transformed to a disorganized state resembling the material's liquid structure. An electric current passing through a superconductor may affect the motion of the magnetic whirlpools, impairing conductivity.
In a paper recently published in Nature, Zeldov, research student Yosef Paltiel, and colleagues, including Drs. Yuri Myasoedov and Hadas Shtrikman, explain how these "whirlpools" enable the superconductor to "remember" the properties of currents that flowed through it (for example, their strength, direction, and frequency). The scientists found that the electric current leaves its mark on the magnetic "whirlpools," forming them into lasting patterns. Essentially a story of past current events these patterns provide information regarding the physical properties of currents that had previously infiltrated the superconductors.
The enhanced understanding of superconductors generated by this research may lead to a wide spectrum of advanced technologies, including the development of novel sensors that rely on this memory effect.
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A House Painter Dies When He Falls Through a Roof Opening
California Case Report: 11CA005
A house painter died when he fell through a roof opening on a private residence. For color matching purposes, the victim had gone up on the roof to retrieve a paint sample from a weather vane which was located on the roof of the residence garage adjacent to the roof opening. As he crossed the roof to the weather vane, he tripped and fell through the opening 15 feet to the breezeway floor below. There were no safeguards in place to prevent the fall through the opening. The work crew included the company owner, the owner’s son, and the victim. They were on and off the roof several times over the past four weeks on the job. Key contributing factors identified in this investigation include unguarded roof openings, lack of employee training, and lack of a job hazard assessment to determine potential risk factors employees may encounter. | <urn:uuid:e70beae1-b4cb-4f2d-bbd6-d85cc565ded1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/stateface/CA/11CA005.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.977469 | 196 | 1.554688 | 2 |
This application has potential uses in supply-chain and enterprise-resource planning software.
PrimeSupplier, a supplier cross-program and element-impact simulation model, with supplier solvency indicator (SSI), has been developed so that the shuttle program can see early indicators of supplier and product line stability, while identifying the various elements and/or programs that have a particular supplier or product designed into the system. The model calculates two categories of benchmarks to determine the SSI, with one category focusing on agency programmatic data and the other focusing on a supplier’s financial liquidity.
To expand further on programmatic data, excessive time gaps between manufacturing, repair, and/or failure analysis requirements [and subsequent purchase orders supporting the logistics purchase requests, established by the project elements through Logistics Supportability Analysis (LSA), which are for flight hardware (personal property) only] focus on hardware meantime- between failure, manufacturing lead time, quantity per assembly, and system effectiveness. Procurement minimum buy quantities, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs), and International Traffic and Arms Regulation (ITAR) also influence, and sometimes extend, this time-gap exposure for manufacturing product, thus leaving the supplier and subsequent second- and third-tier suppliers vulnerable to financial instability. This results in either poor product quality, or in a supplier-induced product discontinuance.
To understand this time-gap exposure, the last supplier product or service requirement need date, and first expected need dates, are documented in number of days for all three supplier offerings of manufacturing, repair, or failure analysis. Each functional capability of manufacturing, repair, and failure analysis is weighted slightly differently, with manufacturing having a heavier weight than repair, and repair would have a heavier weight than failure analysis.
The programmatic data feeding into the weighting calculations are collected from internal logistics support analysis data, like Line Replaceable Unit Probability of Sufficiency (LRUPOS), mean-time-between-failure, and repair generation rate forecasts, as well as last supplier capability need dates and first capability need dates that are all reported from the NASA project elements to the Program Office. Supplier capabilities include: manufacturing, repair and sustaining engineering, failure analysis and teardown, and test and evaluation. Other programmatic weighting factors include: procurement data, contract value, a supplier’s percentage distribution of NASA business, and procurement-order time-gap exposure. The financial benchmarks include liquidity performance measures, such as net profit margin, current ratio (current assets over current liabilities), and price earnings ratio. These financial indicators are all compared against industry standards with various business-centric weighting factors, and could be automated with a real-time data feed.
PrimeSupplier was developed to help NASA smoothly transition design, manufacturing, and repair operations from the Shuttle program to the Constellation program, without disruption in the industrial supply base. Complicating this effort are today’s economic conditions that have created unprecedented volatility within the country’s industrial supply base, negatively affecting quality and ability to deliver. PrimeSupplier helps organizations identify at-risk suppliers by providing a holistic assessment of suppliers’ total economic stability accounting for programmatic and enterprise-wide demands and general economic conditions. | <urn:uuid:9aaf0f2f-6fc3-4e07-818b-a24a62392b90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.techbriefs.com/2009/4-ntb/tech-briefs/information-sciences/5656-ksc-13185 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926444 | 656 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The Prossers were the younger branch of a Brecknockshire family who had become sadlers and mercers in Brecon.
Brecknockshire, alone of the South p. 203Wales counties, enjoyed exemption from these disturbances.
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Charles Walbeoffe was a man of considerable importance in Brecknockshire.
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History has fixed this spot as the scene of action where the fate of Brecknockshire Scene of a Welsh battle.
Brecknockshire, according to fable, is called after this king.
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Landing in containers is a quick and easy way to create a green corner on a loggia, balcony or veranda. They can grow flowers, herbs, and even vegetables.
More recently, the choice of vegetables for containers was limited – green onions and parsley and celery roots. What is grown now, is striking in its diversity and beauty. Recently, for example, small tomatoes from the cherry group have become very popular. They are not only tasty but also very decorative. 50–80 cm high, with long beautiful tassels and red or yellow fruits, these mini-tomatoes can successfully grow in large pots and pots, such as the F1 Kishmish hybrid. Compact varieties Mikron-NK and Florida Petit 20–25 cm high are suitable for small containers. Hybrid F1 Tumbler It is a cascade bush with a height of 0.9–1.5 m, which looks very beautiful in tall vases and flowerpots. Its sweet fruits ripen earlier than other hybrids within 80 days (for other varieties and hybrids, the ripening period starts 3–3.5 months after sowing).
Another great variety of modern hybrids of pepper. They have a more clearly pronounced decorative direction, and they belong to hot peppers to taste. Spectacular hybrids with dark burgundy large foliage, like basil. These powerful cute plants (about 35–45 cm in height and width) will decorate the balcony or loggia all summer. Peppers with green foliage have other decorative features: different shape, color, and location of the fruit. Peppers can peek out from under the leaves or rise up above a bush like peak tips. The elongated wriggling fruits of such a hybrid as Medusa, Pepperoni, Chilly Chili look unusual. Their peculiarity is that fruits on one plant can be of two colors – yellow and red. And the variety Masquerade even three – yellow, red and purple.
To the tomatoes and peppers, you can add a variety of herbs. Especially beautiful is basil ‘ Clove aroma ‘ with a compact as if shrub bush.
Until late autumn, containers are decorated with curly parsley, chard, and a variety of salads, some of them look like exquisite flowers. Chao Bambino varieties with claret-green leaves, Ruby lace with rich colors of strongly fringed leaves form a rosette up to 30 cm and will be able to decorate your decorative garden in 25–35 days. Cort Uno Momento c burgundy leaves can be sown not only in spring but in August, the plants pleasing to the eye until late autumn.
When planting a home garden, one cannot overlook the decorative remontant strawberries. Most of its hybrids – with white or unusual for strawberry pink flowers of various shades – form beautiful cascades of edible berries that grow all summer. You can grow them yourself from seeds or buy seedlings in the spring, the plants bloom and bear fruit in the year of sowing. Currently, there are quite a few such hybrids, for example, F1 Moscow delicacy – with large white flowers and large berries, as well as F1 C-141 blooming until autumn – with bright pink flowers and tasty berries. Particularly impressive strawberries look in hanging baskets.
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Support in a mattress is crucial for ensuring a healthy back, healthy joints, and a long-lasting bed. Spine alignment, pressure relief, edge support, and durability are some of the most important factors to consider for support. If you need to twist awkwardly to feel comfortable in your bed, you could eventually injure your back. A soft but supportive mattress that lets you sleep comfortable on your back or side can keep your back straight and prevent injuries from developing. Side sleepers will need a softer spring mattress to allow their shoulders and hips to sink into the mattress, keeping the spine straight without causing pressure points on the joints. There are many factors that affect back pain and how you sleep, but a good mattress is proven to make a positive difference – and if you have the wrong mattress for you (or your once-suitable mattress is now old and tired) – you may be aggravating your pain. There are two schools of thought regarding the worth of expensive mattresses. There are people who say that they are completely worth the price while others object. According to research studies, good sleep is essential for normal body functioning and brain health. You can use almost any type of mattress with an adjustable bed, but it's best to shop for mattresses specifically designed for this bed frame. The main concern in selecting a mattress is to select one that provide a mattress high enough to make your bed easy to get in and out. Since the bedframe is adjustable, it is made of steel and a rigid mattress may not have enough give for sleeping comfort.
The most common breed of mattress in the market, innersprings feature layers of coils plus layers of foam like latex or memory foam. The hybrid design allows you get both the solid and responsive support of springs and a layer of comfort to your choosing (contour-to-your-body memory foam or bouncy and breathable latex foam). Latex mattresses are gaining in popularity for their organic appeal of being made from a natural rubber plant. They are naturally cooling and comfortable, similar to the memory foam mattress type. The latex foam contours to the body but in a more responsive way than a hug, while also offering bounce. Latex is often combined with memory foam to be used in hybrid beds. When you buy a bargain brand mattress, you simply aren't bringing home as much bed as you would with a well-built mattress. Even if they're the same dimension, the better bed is made with three times more foam. That superior construction requires more raw materials and increases the final cost, but you get the density you pay for. Typically, guest beds are only used occasionally, and so the mattress won’t need the same level of support and comfort as your own. However, this doesn’t mean you should scrimp entirely, because a really cheap mattress won’t usually last long and will be uncomfortable for your guests. Instead of saving money by skipping the quality, its worth spending a little more on a Pillowtop Mattress for a good night's sleep.
How Do I Choose The Right Mattress?
The best mattress for you is likely going to cost more than buying a low-quality mattress. Buying a cheaper brand will definitely help you save money, but it could come at the cost of a good night’s sleep. If you eat healthy and want to be overall healthy, you have to take care of your sleep, and a good mattress plays a lot more important role in your sleep that you can ever imagine. If you opt for a cheap mattress, you’re more than likely going to get low-quality sleep. Not getting enough sleep, or not getting enough restful sleep, can affect almost every aspect of your life: your work, relationships, diet, and overall mood. Your memory, judgment, and focus will all be affected by a little sleep deprivation, to say nothing of chronic sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep has a severe impact on your physical and mental health; and, if you’re always buying new accessories for sleep, a serious impact on your wallet. Luxury mattresses should be expected to last many years, even longer than most mattresses, and have a warranty to match that expectation (think 25 years). They're usually hybrids, or made of latex and other premium materials, and these mattresses are a worthy purchase if you can afford one. Sleepless nights are a source of unhappiness for many people. So how long do you put up with an uncomfortable nights sleep before biting the bullet and getting yourself a new mattress? Not only that, but with so much choice, how do you decide the right one for you? As sleep is so important, don't skimp when purchasing that Luxury Mattress for your bedroom.
We spend a third of our lives in bed – sounds good doesn’t it! Living to the age of 90 means 30 years are spent in bed so you need to be comfy! That’s why getting the right mattress is so important. Edge support is what prevents you from rolling off the mattress in the middle of the night. Innerspring mattresses usually have a separate support layer around the edges that help keep you on it, while foam mattresses typically don’t have a separate edge layer. However, it’s also harder to “roll off” a foam mattress. A hybrid mattress is a combination of innerspring and foam. The innerspring coils make up most of the mattress, but there may also sometimes be micro coils and other materials like foam included in it. For this reason, they’re not too firm or too soft and are good for sleepers of any position. Be careful in your assumptions that a high cost means higher quality. Often retailers mark up prices to account for the middleman. Shopping online can save you money, and you don’t always have to choose the most expensive mattress. Many mattress review sites recommend budgeting about £800 for a new mattress. Though this number can feel pretty high, it’s better to spend more from the get-go rather than opt for a cheap mattress you’ll need to replace in a few years. Though some mattresses are inexpensive, the sleep risks aren’t worth the price. Always do your research when buying a Super King Mattress online.
A mattress is too firm if instead of enhancing your comfort during sleep, it leads to increased tossing and turning. While an extremely soft mattress can also lead to sleep discomfort, adjusting to sleeping on a firm one can prove extra challenging. The best mattress will differ from person to person based on their individual sleep styles and preferences. Different sleepers need different things from a mattress, so the right mattress for you may not always be the best mattress for someone else. If you spend $a few pounds on a discount mattress, you may still feel like you have won the price battle, but if you’re stuck replacing it after only a few years, you will more than likely end up spending more in the long-run. The ability to get adequate amounts of undisturbed sleep will have both an instant and long-term effect on your wellbeing. However, one of the biggest problems affecting this ability is the old, uncomfortable or damaged mattresses many of us are sleeping on. If you’re starting to forget when you bought your mattress, it might be time to throw out the old and invest in a high-quality mattress to improve your overall health. Durability is important to sleepers of any weight, but people over 230 pounds can cause more wear in the top layers of a mattress. For this reason, sleepers with a higher body weight often opt for a mattress with a thicker comfort system that uses high-density materials. For optimal sleep, its worth paying extra for that Vispring Mattress for your home.
The Mattress in a Box is becoming an increasingly popular option, due to the convenience, affordability, and quality of these mattresses. As the name suggests, it's simply a mattress that has been compressed to fit inside a box. It is the most convenient of all the options, as you order it online, it's shipped directly to your door. Back sleepers specifically should consider the mattress’ firmness. While it is up to personal preference, scientifically, the best mattress for a back sleeper is a medium-firm mattress that will give your lower back the support it needs so you don’t wake up with lower back pain. Not everyone can afford a lot of the more expensive high quality beds. However, you can always buy a mattress with a multi-layer support zone that is softer around the hips and shoulders and firmer around the spine. This option is cheaper while still remaining high quality. If you sleep on your side, you might need a softer mattress that allows your shoulders and hips to sink into the mattress which helps keep your spine aligned. Mattress choice also depends on your weight. A lighter-weight side sleeper might need a more-soft mattress, while a heavier side sleeper would likely do better with a less-soft mattress. Knowing when it’s time to buy a new mattress isn’t always quite as evident as knowing when it’s time to buy something like a new car. Your mattress may appear fine, but there are so many things that happen beneath the cover that will make a difference in the way you experience the product. Your Pocket Sprung Mattress is probably the most important part of the bed.
Choose A Mattress That Fits Your Sleeping Style
With all the benefits of a budget mattress ticking most of the boxes for the majority of customers, is there any point in spending out more money and buying an expensive mattress? Well, as the price goes up, so does the quality of the materials used. And with pocketed sprung mattresses, the spring count. The best mattresses don’t come cheap so changing your mattress or upgrading it to something better is not naturally on the top of your checklist. It is actually more important than you think. It is not just some piece of foam that you lie down on. It is where you rest at the end of a very productive day so it should be a place you look forward to sleeping on. When you do sleep on your mattress, you actually want to be rested and fully ready for the next day. Generally speaking, foam mattresses provide the best pressure relief and body contouring. If you desire pain relief at key pressure points, look for a mattress that gently conforms to your body when you lie down. This allows for your hips and shoulders to sink in slightly. You can get more intel about Best Mattresses on this Wikipedia entry. | <urn:uuid:67a784f9-2816-445f-a9ed-454bcfdcf7f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sweetcrudeband.com/forum/general-discussions/the-right-mattress | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.954045 | 2,217 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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The author of the book: Simon Fowler
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Edition: The History Press Ltd
Date of issue: 1 June 2012
Description of the book "Family History: Digging Deeper":An exciting new addition to any family historian's library, Family History: Digging Deeper will take your research to the next level. Joined by a team of expert genealogists, Simon Fowler covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. Helping you push back the barriers, this book details how to utilise the internet in your research and suggests some unusual archives and records which might just transform your research. It will teach you about geneological traditions, variants of family history around the world and even the abuse of geneology by the Nazis. It will PDF help you understand current developments in DNA testing, new resources and digitised online material. Problem-solving sections are also included to help tackle common difficulties and provide answers to the brick walls often reached when researching one's ancestors. If you want to dig deeper into your family tree and the huge array of records available, then this book is for you. SIMON FOWLER is the former editor of Ancestors, the family history magazine of The National Archives. He has written many books on family history and is one of the leading genealogical reporters in the country. He lives ePub in Richmond upon Thames.
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning and privacy: From threats to solutions
Ontario Tech University (a.k.a. University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
Khalil El-Khatib (Principal Investigator) and Rajen Akalu (Co-Principal Investigator)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of several modern approaches to achieve human-equivalent machine intelligence. It is described as a field of study focused on creating intelligent entities, with numerous applications in various domains including security, commerce, and intelligent transportation systems. Machine learning (ML) is a tool to help create and implement artificial intelligence systems and leans heavily on statistical methods to accomplish its goals. While an artificial intelligence system may perceive its environment with sensors and take actions with actuators, machine learning enables the system to learn from data collected from these sensors.
Despite the fact that there are numerous perceived benefits for developing human-equivalent machine intelligence, such as fostering the rapid development of human technological advancement, there are also a number of public concerns about the technology ranging from economic instability to apocalyptic scenarios. AI and ML systems are subject to various threats including reconstruction, model inversion, membership and de-anonymization threats.
This project explored the known and new privacy risks associated with artificial intelligence and machine learning. The researchers surveyed the literature and provided various scenarios for the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning and highlighted the potential risks to privacy. The project identified as well a number of various mitigating strategies to eliminate or reduce the privacy risks.
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Khalil El-Khatib, Professor
Director, Institute for Cybersecurity and Resilient Systems (ICRS)
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Ontario Tech University
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For all construction projects that will disturb more than one acre of land area the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) requires operators to obtain TPDES General Permit coverage for the project. This requires the preparation of a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). The City of Plano will require the Owner or the Owner and his contractor(s) to use the Standard SWPPP Sheets below for projects within the City's jurisdiction.
These documents were developed as an aid for those preparing storm water pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs) and to aid the City in the review of SWPPPs for projects in the City of Plano. Their use does not relieve the Operator(s) from complying with the Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System (TPDES), General Permit for storm water discharges from construction sites or any other applicable law.
STEP 1 – WHAT TYPE OF PROJECT WILL BE CONSTRUCTED?
If you are a design consultant working for the City on a City funded project you need to prepare a CIP SWPPP Narrative Sheet.
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Determine the amount of disturbed land area for your project. If the disturbed land area is from 1 to 5 acres you will prepare a small site SWPPP Narrative Sheet. If the disturbed land area is 5 acres or more you will prepare a large site SWPPP Narrative Sheet.
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Healing Stones and Crystals – How do they work?
A 2011 study in Bioscience Trends Journal lends support for the use of healing stones and crystals in alternative medicine.
The study revealed a revolutionary discovery: cells actually communicate via energy fields and vibrations. Up to this point, biology text books point to chemical messengers as the main mechanism by which cells communicate. Cells have lots of little “antennae” projections sticking off the edges of the membranes which pick up chemical signals coming from other cells. This is how cells communicate with each other, whether they are saying “Its about time to divide” or “Hey there’s a virus over here, better release something to come fight it,” the cells released chemicals to do the talking.
But cells communicate so fast that scientists have wondered how the chemicals could really be traveling so fast and be interpreted so quickly.
It turns out that our cells can pick up energy waves and vibrations, like a radio, and turn it into information, the same way that the radio picks up radio waves and turns it into sound.
Implications for Healing Stones and Crystals
What this has to do with healing stones and crystals is that we have finally found how our bodies use energy to communicate, so we know where to look to see if something external (like stones) can actually affect that energy.
Stones and crystals are thought to emit their own energy fields, much like scalar energy pendants emit scalar energy, its something that our bodies are attuned to even though we aren’t aware of it and can’t detect it. These energy fields can either be damaging, like electromagnetic fields which cause tumors in healthy cells, or beneficial, like healing stones and crystals.
Many people have found that simply adding a stone or crystal to their person, whether by using jewelry or just slipping it in their pocket, changes their mood, outlook, well-being, health, and other indicators in very drastic ways. But before there wasn’t a lot of evidence that our body produced its own energy field that could be affected by outward things.
Now that imaging techniques are becoming more sophisticated, we are finding that alternative medicine once dismissed as a sham actually has measurable effects on the body’s energy fields, and telomeres (sections of DNA) suggesting that there is something to many of these alternative medicine practices, like healing stones and crystals, after all. Healing stone jewelry acts as the antidote to that poisonby acting as a shield to these vibrations. Stones and crystals are imbued with natural good vibrations and energy from the processes in the Earth that it took to make them.
Electronic devices are notorious for being sources of bad energy that slowly turn everything around them into hotspots of negative energy, too.
Keeping natural stones in your home helps counterbalance this negative energy. This is something that societies and cultures have known for thousands of years, explaining it as hundreds of different religions and doctrines, but we’re just now starting to accumulate the proof. People who try it say there is no going back and that healing stone jewelry has changed their lives.
In the next decade we are going to start seeing more and more Western doctors prescribing “alternative” treatments and cures to their patients, including the use of gemstones and natural rocks.
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Electron. J. Biotechnol. vol.15 no.4 Valparaíso jul. 2012
Ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles: A potential formulation for a long-acting antibiotic to treat animal infections
Cristian Vilos1,2,3 · Luis Constandil1,2,3 · Natalia Herrera3 · Paula Solar3 · Jorge Escobar-Fica4 · Luis Alberto Velásquez*1,2,3
1Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Química y Biología, Santiago, Chile
*Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org
Financial support: The authors acknowledge the financial support of CONICYT under Projects Tesis en la Industria TPI-06; BASAL Grant FB0807, and FONDECYT 1090589.
Keywords: ceftiofur, drug delivery, livestock breeding industry, PHBV, polymeric microparticles.
Background: The infectious diseases in the livestock breeding industry represent a significant drawback that generates substantial economic loss and have led to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. The formulation of polymeric microparticles loaded with antibiotics for veterinary use can: reduce the number of required doses; protect the drug from inactivation; and maintain a sustained-release of the antibiotic drug at effective levels. Accomplishing all of these goals would have a significant economic and animal health impact on the livestock breeding industry. Results: In this work, we formulated ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles (PHBV-CEF) with a spherical shape, a smooth surface and diameter sizes between 1.65 and 2.37 μm. The encapsulation efficiency was 39.5 ± 1.1% w/w, and we obtained a sustained release of ceftiofur in PBS-buffer (pH 7.4) over 7 days. The antibacterial activity of ceftiofur was preserved after the encapsulation procedure, and toxicity of PHBV-CEF microparticles evaluated by MTS was represented by an IC50 > 10 mg/mL. Conclusions: Our results suggest that PHBV-CEF particles have a potential application for improving the treatment of infectious diseases in the livestock breeding industry.
Antibiotics are therapeutic agents produced by bacteria or fungi that destroy or inhibit the growth of susceptible organisms. Antibiotics have been used to treat a variety of infectious diseases, both in humans and animals (Barton, 2000; Demain and Sanchez, 2009). In animals, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the livestock breeding industry is a global problem due to their impact on the environment, human health and the generation of antibiotic resistance (Wallmann et al. 2003; Knezevic and Petrovic, 2008). Moreover, issues associated with the current antibiotic administration paradigm include the necessity of a large staff specialized in evaluating and dosing many animals; the requirement of repeated drug administration to maintain plasma concentrations at an effective level; and in some cases, the use of high doses to reach therapeutic concentrations at the site of action. The latter two requirements can lead to toxic drug levels in the plasma as well as to adverse reactions (Ahmed and Kasraian, 2002; Sun et al. 2004). In order to promote the productive development of the livestock breeding industry, and to reduce the negative impact of the over-use of antibiotics it is necessary to develop novel drug delivery systems (DDS). The main role of those DDS is provide support to reduce the number of doses, improve the effectiveness of treatments, and maintain the plasma concentrations of antibiotics within a safe therapeutic-window for extended-time periods.
Biodegradable and biocompatible polymers such as poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL), and poly (sebacic acid) (PSA), provide a multifunctional platform for the sustained release of drugs based on microencapsulation technology (Edlund and Albertsson, 2002; Vilos and Velasquez, 2012). Although a large number of human therapeutic agents have been encapsulated into polymeric microparticles (p-MPs), the development of microparticles for veterinary applications has been reported only in a limited number of studies (Atkins et al. 1998; Blanco-Príeto et al. 2002).
Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) is a natural biodegradable and biocompatible polymer obtained from large-scale bacterial systems (Mitomo et al. 1999; Park et al. 2001; Loo and Sudesh, 2007), and has showed promising biomedical applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery (Li and Chang, 2005; Huang et al. 2010). Ceftiofur is a broad-spectrum cephalosporin (third-generation) used to treat a variety of infections in animals such as bovine and porcine respiratory diseases associated with Pasteurella haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, Haemophilus somnus, Actinobacillus pleuroneumonia, Salmonella choleraesuis and Streptococcus suis (Brown et al. 1999; Hibbard et al. 2002; Tang et al. 2010). The mechanism of action of ceftiofur is through inhibiting the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall, and its site of action is the penicillin-binding protein (PBP), which is involved in cell wall synthesis, and is located on the inside of the bacterial cell membrane. In actively growing bacteria, the ceftiofur binds to the PBP in the cell wall and leads to the interference of the production of the cell wall peptidoglycans. This binding leads to the subsequent bacterial cell lysis in an isotonic environment due to the inadequately constructed bacterial cell wall (Hornish and Kotarski, 2002).
The low commercial cost of PHBV, and the need for novel drug delivery systems for livestock breeding industry exhibits a strong potential to generate a long-acting veterinary antibiotic formulation based on pMPs. In this work, we synthesized and characterized ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles, evaluated their antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity in cells cultures as a potential system for sustained release of antibiotic to treat animal infections.
Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), with 12% PHV by weight and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with an average mol. wt. of 30.000-70.000 were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). Dichloromethane (DCM), chloroform and methanol were purchased from Merck (Germany). Ceftiofur hydrochloride was kindly provided by Centrovet (Santiago, Chile).
Formulation of ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles
Ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles (PHBV-CEF) were formulated by a double emulsion (w1/o1/w2) solvent evaporation method. Briefly, 15 mg of ceftiofur was dissolved in 450 μL of liquid containing a 2:1 mixture of water: methanol. This solution was added to one mL of PHBV (25 mg/mL) dissolved in dichloromethane. The first emulsion (w1/o1) was prepared by homogenization using a tissue-tearor at 35.000 rpm for 40 sec, Biospec Products (Bartlesville, OK, USA). After this first homogenization, the water-in-oil emulsion was further emulsified under the same conditions in 4 mL of an aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) (0.5% w/v) (w2). This w1/o1/w2 emulsion was immediately poured into a beaker containing 25 ml of PVA (0.1% w/v) solution and was stirred in an orbital shaker at 120 rpm for 12 hrs in a hood to evaporate the solvent. The solidified ceftiofur-loaded PHBV microparticles were washed three times with distilled water and harvest by centrifugation at 5,000 rpm for 10 min. The microparticles were either stored at 4ºC for immediate use, or lyophilized for storage at -80ºC for later use.
Particle size and zeta potential
Dynamic light scattering (DLS) was used to characterize particle size (diameter, μm), particle size distribution and zeta potential. Each preparation was suspended in 1 ml of distilled water or phosphate buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4. The particle size was obtained from three independent measurements on a Zetasizer Nano S90 (Malvern Instruments, UK), and the zeta potential (mV) was determined from three repeated experiments using a Zeta Pals instrument (Brookhaven, USA) at 25ºC.
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
The morphology of the PHBV-CEF microparticles was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) DSM 960 (Carl Zeiss, Germany). The samples were lyophilized and deposited onto a 300-mesh, carbon-coated copper grid that had been previously hydrophilized under UV light (Electron Microscopy Sciences, Hatfield, PA) and coated with gold prior to sample examination.
The drug loading and encapsulation efficiency
The experimental loading and efficiency of ceftiofur encapsulation was analyzed by an extraction method described by Coimbra et al. (2008). Experimentally, 10 mg of MPs-CEF was dissolved in 1 mL of chloroform, followed by the addition of 9 mL of methanol to precipitate the polymer. The resulting suspension was centrifuged, and the supernatant was filtered and analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) (Coimbra et al. 2008). Triplicate measures were performed for each batch. The experimental drug loading was calculated using the formulas as follow:
Experimental drug loading = (weight of detected drug) / (weight of drug loaded microparticles).
Theoretical drug loading = (weight of added drug) / (weight of added drug + weight of added polymer).
The encapsulation efficiency (EE%) was calculated as the ratio between the experimental drug loading and the theoretical drug loading.
Ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)
UPLC was performed using an Acquity system (Waters, Milford, MA, USA) equipped with a binary solvent delivery pump, an auto sampler and a tunable UV detector. The chromatographic separation was performed using a Waters Acquity BEH 50 x 2.1 mm, 1.7 µm C18 column. The mobile phase was a 78:22 (v/v) mixture of 20 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate buffer (pH 6.0, pH adjusted by the addition of 85% ortho-phosphoric acid) and acetonitrile loaded at a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. Peak detection was carried out at a wavelength of 292 nm. The injection volume was 0.5 µL, and the mobile phase was used as a diluent, while the column was maintained at 27ºC. An amount of ceftiofur reference standard equivalent to 25 mg of ceftiofur was accurately weighed and transferred to a 25-mL volumetric flask. The mobile phase was added to give a final concentration of 1000 μg/mL. Chromatographic standard solutions (0.25, 50, 100 and 150 µg/mL) were prepared fresh every day in a volumetric flask, along with the mobile phase.
In vitro release assay
The in vitro release of ceftiofur was performed by a dialysis system. Experimentally, 20 mg of PHBV-CEF and ceftiofur non-encapsulated were incorporated into dialysis membrane bags with a molecular weight cut off 14.000 g/mol. The bags were tied and dropped into 50 ml of PBS-buffer, pH 7.4. After, the preparations were placed in an orbital shaker (120 rpm) and maintained at 25ºC. At predetermined time intervals, 2 mL of medium was taken for analysis and fresh medium of an equal volume was replaced. The in vitro release of ceftiofur was evaluated in triplicate, and the concentration of ceftiofur in the medium was determined by UPLC.
Antimicrobial activity was measured by bacterial growth of Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) on a microplate during a 24 hrs time interval. All tests were conducted in triplicate and according to the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS). The bacterial inoculum was prepared from a Mueller-Hinton plate that had been streaked with a single colony from an initial subculture plate, and incubated for 18 to 24 hrs. The culture growth was carried out in 96 well ELISA plates after the inoculum was adjusted to 105 UFC/mL in Mueller-Hinton liquid medium in a total volume of 300 μL per well. The cultures were treated with 1000, 100, 10, 1, 0.1, and 0.01 μg/mL of PHBV-CEF in a total volume of 100 μL of Mueller-Hinton liquid medium. In addition, as control we used PHBV-empty microparticles and ceftiofur non-encapsulated at 1000, 100, 10, 1, 0.1 and 0.01 μg/mL in Mueller-Hinton liquid medium. The plates were incubated at 37ºC, and during 24 hrs at 1 hr intervals, the optical density was determined at 400 nm using a Labsystem Multiskan MS Type 352 (Helsinki, Finland). These experiments were performed in triplicate from three independent formulations. The optical density results were expressed as bacterial growth curves (Log CFU/mL versus time).
Hep-G2 cell cultures
Hep-G2 cells (ATCC No. HB-8065) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). The cells cultures were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS (v/v), 100 U/mL penicillin, and 100 μg/mL streptomycin at 37ºC under a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2. The cells were passaged once every 2-3 days.
Cytotoxicity assays for microparticles
Cell viability was examined by the MTS CellTiter 96 AQ Non-Radioactive Cell Proliferation assay (Promega, Madison, USA), following the manufacturers protocol. Experimentally, Hep-G2 cells were seeded into 96-well plates (75,000 cells per well), grown to 80% confluence, and treated with different concentrations (1, 10, 100, 1000, or 10000 µg/mL) of PHBV-empty microparticles, PHBV-CEF, or with vehicle (PBS-buffer, pH 7.4) alone as a negative control for 24 hrs at 37ºC under a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2. After this treatment, the cells were carefully washed with Hanks Medium and treated according to the MTS manufacturers protocol. The light absorbance of the solution in the wells was determined at 450 nm using a 96-well plate reader (ThermoScientific, ON, Canada). The cell viability (%) relative to the control wells containing cell culture medium without microparticles or PBS as a vehicle was calculated by (OD-test/OD-control x 100), where OD-test is the light absorbance (450 nm) of the test sample and OD-control is the light absorbance (450 nm) of the control sample. Each sample was measured in triplicate from three independent experiments.
The results are presented as means ± SE. Overall statistical analysis was performed by the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by a Mann-Whitney test for pair-wise comparisons when overall significance (p < 0.05) was detected. The Two-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data from the groups in the cell viability assay.
The double emulsion solvent evaporation method described by Ogawa et al. (1988), is a highly reproducible method that provide support to create particles with a uniform size and inner core-shell structure (Ogawa et al. 1988). Figure 1 shows a scheme of synthesis of PHBV microparticles loaded with ceftiofur (PHBV-CEF). The size (diameter, μm) and particle size distribution measure by DLS was 1.89 ± 0.24 μm to PHBV-empty and 2.2 ± 0.17 μm to PHBV-CEF. The size of particles of PHBV-empty and PHBV-CEF was not statistically significant (p > 0.05) and revealed that the incorporation of the drug did not affect the size, as is shown in Figure 2. The particle size obtained from our formulations was smaller and with less dispersion of size than previous reports of PHBV microparticles loaded with others antibiotics such as rifampicin, gentamicin and tetracycline (Sendil et al. 1999; Li and Chang, 2005; Duran et al. 2008).
Studies about the inner distribution of hydrophilic and hydrophobic dyes-loaded polymeric microparticles synthesized by double emulsion method, and characterized by confocal microscopy have showed a localization of hydrophilic dye in the core of particles and the hydrophobic dyes in the shell structure of microparticles (Lamprecht et al. 2000; Mao et al. 2007). These antecedents together with the physicochemical structure of ceftiofur suggest that distribution of ceftiofur inside of PHBV microparticles is uniform in both, core and shell structure.
The zeta potential of microparticles was calculated for preparations in distilled water and phosphate buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.4). The results obtained showed that PHBV-empty microparticles and PHBV-CEF microparticles exhibited a negative zeta potential in water and PBS, as illustrated in Figure 3. The microparticles suspended in PBS (pH 7.4) showed a less negative zeta potential than in water, which could be explained by the adsorption of ions to the surface of the microparticles when they were suspended in PBS due to carboxyl groups of PVA and PHBV presents in their structure. It has been described that micro and nanoparticles with negative zeta potential are more advantageous as drug delivery systems because prolong the circulation of the particulate into the bloodstream and decrease their less RES uptake by the reticuloendothelial system (RES) (Sustronck et al. 1995).
The SEM micrographs of microparticles showed spherical shaped particles with a smooth surface (Figure 4a). The morphology of the particles suspended in phosphate buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.4) was analyzed after 7 days by SEM and did not show apparent differences compared to the fresh microparticles. After 30 days, the particles were examined again and structures like flowers with highly rough surfaces and small particles with a broad size distribution were found agglomerated, as illustrated in Figure 4b.
The polymer-drug interactions are highly specific generating a diverse morphology of microparticles. In previous reports, flurbiprofen, metformin and diazepam loaded PHBV microparticles exhibited a surface thoroughly rough and with large porous (Chen and Davis, 2002; Coimbra et al. 2008; Farago et al. 2008). In contrast, Wang et al. (2007) showed a formulation of PHBV microparticles loaded with ibuprofen that presented a smooth surface without pores.
The experimental ceftiofur loading of PHBV-CEF microparticles was achieved as triplicate measurements from three different batches were analyzed and parameters were calculated as described in the Materials and Methods section. The experimental drug loading of PHBV-CEF microparticles was 6.6 ± 0.2%, w/w. The theoretical drug loading was kept constant (37.5%), and the encapsulation efficiency (EE%) was 39.5 ± 1.1%, w/w.
The in vitro release of ceftiofur from PHBV-CEF microparticles and ceftiofur non-encapsulated was measured during 7 days in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) at pH 7.4 and 25ºC. The samples were incorporated into dialysis bags and maintained in an orbital shaker during the 7 days. At predetermined time intervals, aliquots were taken for analysis and medium that was removed was replaced with fresh medium equal to the volume taken. The PHBV-CEF released was compared with the measurement of ceftiofur non-encapsulated directly added to the dialysis bags. The cumulative release of ceftiofur is illustrated in Figure 5. The results showed that 100% of ceftiofur non-encapsulated was delivered at 12 hrs, while almost 60% of PHBV-CEF was delivered during the first 2 days.
The degradation mechanism of microparticles synthesized from biodegradable poly (alpha-hydroxy esters) has been well established, and the bulk-degrading is the most common mechanism that occurs in PLGA, PLC and other polyesters (Göpferich, 1996; von Burkersroda et al. 2002). Bulk-degrading is a homogeneous process that occurs throughout the polymer matrix and include four stages: (i) the polymer absorbs water and undergoing soft swelling, which is followed by the penetration of water in the amorphous region stabilized by van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonds; (ii) begin the cleavage of the covalent/ester bonds in the polymer backbone (by hydrolysis), and are generated carboxylic end groups which may auto-catalyze the hydrolysis; (iii) in this stage, exist a massive cleavage of the backbone covalent bonds, which generates a decreased of molecular weight with a significant mass loss, and loss of physical and mechanical integrity; (iv) finally, the polymer loses substantial mass due to solubilisation of their oligomers into the surrounding medium and breaks down to many small fragments, which will be further hydrolyzed into free acids (Lao et al. 2011).
The PHBV is a copolymer formed by ester bounds, and the profile release of ceftiofur from PHBV-CEF microparticles fits with the mathematical models of release described by Batycky et al. (1997) and Siepmann et al. (2002) from PLGA microparticles. The chemical nature of PHBV and the profile release of ceftiofur from PHBV-CEF suggest that as well PLGA, the mechanism of degradation of PHBV microparticles correspond to bulk-degrading (Lao et al. 2011).
The antimicrobial activity of microparticles was analyzed by the bacterial growth in microplate cultures of Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922). Our results are shown in Figure 6 and illustrate that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of ceftiofur free was 1 μg/mL. The cultures treated with PHBV-CEF at the same concentration (1 μg/mL) showed a slight bacterial inhibition during the first 5 hrs and a delay in the onset of the bacterial exponential growth curve. The MIC of PHBV-CEF was determined to be at 10 μg/mL. This result is well correlated with the experimental loading obtained (~7%), and the in vitro release assay. The antimicrobial activity of PHBV-CEF confirms that ceftiofur maintains antibacterial activity after the microencapsulation procedure.
In the preclinical development of a new pharmaceutical formulation, the toxicological characterization is a critical point. We examined the viability of Hep-G2 cultures treated with different amount of ceftiofur non-encapsulated, PHBV-empty and PHBV-CEF microparticles using the MTS Cell Proliferation assay, as illustrated in Figure 7. The results were analyzed by a two-way ANOVA test, showed that PHBV-empty, PHB-CEF microparticles and ceftiofur non-encapsulated did not affect the viability of these cells at the doses used. In addition, the cells were challenged up to 10 mg/mL of PHBV-empty and PHBV-CEF microparticles, and do not reduced the viability of cells (data not show), thus confirmed that the toxicity microparticles is very low and the IC50 > 10 mg/mL.
The aim of this work was the development of a drug delivery system to treat infectious diseases observed in the livestock breeding industry based on the antibiotic ceftiofur, and the biodegradable and biocompatible poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV). This polymer has a low commercial price that makes it a good candidate for large-scale applications. In addition, PHBV has shown suitable properties for the production of micro and nanoparticles loaded with drugs. Our PHBV-CEF microparticles had a diameter of 2.2 ± 0.17 μm. The SEM studies showed freshly made particles with a spherical shape and smooth surface. The experimental drug loading obtained was 6.6 ± 0.2% w/w, and the encapsulation efficiency reached 39.5 ± 1.1% w/w. The in vitro release experiment showed a sustained release profile of ceftiofur during 7 days, and the antimicrobial test demonstrated that ceftiofur kept its antibiotic activity after the encapsulation process. Finally, the cell proliferation assay showed a very low cytotoxicity of PHBV-CEF on Hep-G2 cells with an IC50 > 10 mg/mL. The results obtained support PHBV-CEF particles as a suitable sustained release system of ceftiofur, and provide evidence to continue the research of its pharmacokinetic and toxicological assessment in animal models. The PHBV-CEF particles have a potential application for improving the treatment of infectious diseases in livestock compared to current practices in the breeding industry.
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After the events of the last month and a half, I am continuing to reread George Fitzhugh whose critique of liberalism and free-market capitalism have shaped my views toward our current social order. We’re moving on now to his second book, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (1856).
“My chief aim has been to shew, that Labor makes values, and Wit exploits and accumulates them; and hence to deduce the conclusion that the unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society, is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.”
George Fitzhugh begins the preface of Cannibals All! by endorsing the labor theory of value which is rejected by the Austrian and neoclassical schools of economics. He uses this to argue that the working class is more intensely exploited under free-market capitalism than under chattel slavery because the profit margins are higher. Capitalism is slavery. The difference is that under free-market capitalism the laborer lacks the benefits of slavery while the employer has none of the obligations of masters.
“Yet, I believe that, under the banners of Socialism and more dangerous, because more delusive, Semi-Socialism, society is insensibly, and often unconsciously, marching to the utter abandonment of the most essential institutions – religion, family ties, property, and the restraints of justice. The present profession is, indeed, to stop at the half-way house of No-Government and Free Love; but we are sure that it cannot halt and encamp in such quarters. Society will work out erroneous doctrines to their logical consequences, and detect error only by the experience of mischief.”
This is an interesting prediction.
Are we marching toward the utter abandonment of the foundations of our social order – religion, family, property and the restraints of law and order and justice – under our current system of liberal democratic capitalism? Is there something about the diabolical unfolding logic of liberalism that erodes its cultural foundation as it works itself out over time? Have we detected mischief?
“It is now evident that those axioms have outlived their day – for no one, either North or South, has complained of our ferocious assault on them – much less attempted to reply to or refute our arguments and objections. All men begin very clearly to perceive, that the state of revolution is politically and socially abnormal and exceptional, and that the principles that would justify it are true in the particular, false in the general. “A recurrence to fundamental principles,” by an oppressed people, is treason if it fails; the noblest of heroism if it eventuates in successful revolution.”
Progressive liberals like Thomas Main are always invoking these liberal axioms to justify the latest waves of social revolution. “Equality” now means black trans liberation and dismantling systemic racism. A revolutionary state is exceptional in history, but normative under liberalism.
“But a “frequent occurrence to fundamental principles” is at war with the continued existence of all government, and is a doctrine fit to be sported only by the Isms of the North and the Red Republicans of Europe. With them no principles are considered established and sacred, nor will ever be. When, in time of revolution, society is partially disbanded, disintegrated and dissolved, the doctrine of Human Equality may have a hearing, and may be useful in stimulating rebellion; but it is practically impossible, and directly conflicts with all government, all separate property, and all social existence.”
This is interesting.
The -Isms of the North were already known in the 1850s. The axioms of liberty and equality were already being invoked to tear down and level the social order which was mistaken for progress. Fitzhugh concludes that the doctrine of “equality” is practically impossible and directly in conflict with all government, order and subordination, all separate property and social existence. Slavery was one front in the war against all types of hierarchy with the demolition of religion, culture and government being the ultimate objective.
“We cite these two examples, as instances, to show how the wisest and best of men are to deduce, as general principles, what is only true as to themselves and their peculiar circumstances. Never were people blessed with such wise and noble Institutions as we; for they combine most that was good in those of Rome and Greece, of Judea, and of Medieval England. But the mischievous absurdity of our political axioms and principles quite equals the wisdom and conservatism of our political practices.”
This is George Fitzhugh’s take on the American Founding. It was an organic and necessary development. The institutions that we inherited from England and the West – our culture of liberty, constitutional liberty, our republican form of government, the common law – which found expression in the Constitution were basically sound. American rights and liberties were the “accretion” of countless generations and were well suited to our natural environment in the New World which lacked feudalism.
This is a key point. Americans were already free in the colonial era before the American Revolution. We were free by the neglect of Britain which essentially left us alone to govern ourselves. We were free by the colonial charters, the British Constitution and tradition which had created our colonial institutions. We were free by the nature of our environment where anyone could move to the frontier. Americans were zealots about their rights and liberties before anyone in the colonies had read Locke.
Americans were cursed by our political axioms and principles which were given a universal form in the Declaration of Independence. As Alexander Stephens said, it was “a sandy foundation.” As Fitzhugh lamented during the war, our institutions were undermined by “basing them on such inflammable and explosive materials as those to be found in the instruments which we have mentioned.” The Founding Fathers left “all men are created equal” at establishing a republican form of government for the United States in which equality only existed between the states, but subsequent generations have taken those words to mean liberalism and thus a mandate for a perpetual social revolution.
“We cannot believe what is so entirely different from all our experience and observation, and they have become familiarized and inattentive to the infected social atmosphere they continually inhale. Besides, living in the midst of the isms, their situation is not favorable for calm observation or calm generation.”
Free Society is sick.
The people who live “in the midst of the isms” in these large metropolitan areas do not realize that they are psychologically sick. They are accustomed to the toxic social atmosphere. It seems normal to them, but perverse to us. Their souls are disordered. They live in a highly unsettled environment. They have been deracinated and stripped of their religion and their minds have been polluted with fashionable Critical Theory jargon.
“Further study, too, of Western European Society, which has been engaged in continual revolution for twenty years, has satisfied us that Free Society every where begets isms, and that isms soon beget bloody revolutions. Until our trip to the North, we did not justly appreciate the passage which we are about to quote from Mr. Carlyle’s “Latter-Day Pamphlets.” Now it seems to us as if Boston, New Haven, or Western New York, had set for the picture:”
From George Fitzhugh’s perspective in the 1850s, Western Europe and the American North were already being convulsed by “-isms” and social and political revolution as Free Society (i.e., the new liberal social order) put down roots in those areas in the early 19th century and began shredding the social fabric while concentrating wealth in the hands of a tiny capitalist oligarchy.
“To rectify the relation that exists between two men, is there no method, then, but that of ending it? The old relation has become unsuitable, obsolete, perhaps unjust; and the remedy is, abolish it; let there henceforth be no relation at all. From the ‘sacrament of marriage’ downwards, human beings used to be manifoldly related one to another, and each to all; and there was no relation among human beings, just or unjust, that had not its grievances and its difficulties, its necessities on both sides to bear and forbear. But henceforth, be it known, we have changed all that by favor of Heaven; the ‘voluntary principle’ has come up, which will itself do the business for us; and now let a new sacrament, that of Divorce, which we call emancipation, and spout of on our platforms, be universally the order of the day! Have men considered whither all this is tending, and what it certainly enough betokens? Cut every human relation that has any where grown uneasy sheer asunder; reduce whatsoever was compulsory to voluntary, whatsoever was permanent among us to the condition of the nomadic; in other words, LOOSEN BY ASSIDUOUS WEDGES, in every joint, the whole fabrice of social existence, stone from stone, till at last, all lie now quite loose enough, it can, as we already see in most countries, be overset by sudden outburst of revolutionary rage; and lying as mere mountains of anarchic rubbish, solicit you to sing Fraternity, &c. over it, and rejoice in the now remarkable era of human progress we have arrived at.”
According to Thomas Carlyle, the abstract liberal principles of universal freedom and equality are a social solvent that erodes traditional cultures over time. By rotting the social fabric, liberalism and free-market capitalism weakens it to the point where it can be toppled and overthrown by a “sudden outburst of revolutionary rage.” Finally, after the sovereign individual is deracinated, alienated, separated from his kin and his traditional culture has been destroyed, he is invited to “sing Fraternity, &.c” over the ruins and celebrate the new “remarkable era of human progress we have arrived at.” He whips out his smartphone and snaps a picture of a toppled monument which has torn down by the possessed mob.
Carlyle and Fitzhugh are saying that the logic of liberalism leads inexorably to practices like abortion and social movements like “black trans” liberation:
“Now we plant ourselves on this passage from Carlyle. We say that, as far as it goes, ’tis a faithful picture of the isms of the North. But the restraints of Law and Public Opinion are less at the North than in Europe. The isms on each side the Atlantic are equally busy with “assiduous wedges,” in “loosening in every joint the whole fabric of social existence;” but whilst they dare invoke Anarchy in Europe, they dare not inaugurate New York Free Love, and Oneida Incest, and Mormon Polygamy. The moral, religious, and social heresies of the North, are more monstrous than those of Europe. The pupil has surpassed the master, unaided by the stimulants of poverty, hunger and nakedness, which urge the master forward.”
Thomas Carlyle had a major impact on George Fitzhugh’s thinking. He admired Carlyle and adopted aspects of his style of writing. It was also mainly through Carlyle’s influence that German romanticism began to have an impact on the intellectual elite of the antebellum South.
“Society need not fail in the Northeast until the whole West is settled, and a refluent population, or excess of immigration, overstocks permanently the labor market on the Atlantic seaboard. Till then, the despotism of skill and capital, in forming emigration to the West, makes proprietors of these immigrants, benefits them, peoples the West, and by their return trade, enriches the East. … Northern society is a partial failure, but only because it generates isms which threaten it with overthrow and impedes its progress.”
This was once considered a major objection to Fitzhugh’s critique of liberal democratic capitalism. Free Society had not failed completely in the East because of the existence of the Western frontier which provided an outlet for discontent. America also found other ways to employ the laboring classes and to ease extremes of wealth in the 20th century. See the American Empire.
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The ability to monitor several volcano’s in Alaska is being diminished due to funding constraints. The Alaska Volcano Observatory confirms that all of the monitoring instruments and stations at the Fourpeaked Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula have failed.
John Power is the Scientist in Charge for AVO.
“The cause is not completely known but the most likely thing is deferred maintenance. Maintenance that has not been performed. It’s beginning to catch up to us.”
Power confirms that AVO will continue to use satellite data, infrasound, and first hand reports from pilots to detect signs of eruptive activity. The Fourpeaked Volcano lies within the Katmai National Preserve and there have been no reported historical eruptions of the volcano. The announcement that the monitoring equipment on the Fourpeaked Volcano was not working comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that the same thing had occurred at the Aniakchak Volcano, also on the Alaska Peninsula. In total there are 5 volcano’s in Alaska that have monitoring equipment on them that are not currently working.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the State of Alaska’s Division of Geophysical Surveys. The Observatory was created in 1988.
- Juneau Police Chief Bryce Johson said the crime bill made it less risky to commit property crime and its intended rehabilitation options haven't come online yet. At the same time, state prosecutors are pursuing fewer cases because of state budget cuts.
- Edgmon said he’s hopeful the Legislature will reach a fiscal solution that is both balanced in terms of serving vulnerable populations and sustainable into the future.
- Alaska Gov. Bill Walker will give his State of the State address from the Alaska State Capitol. Live coverage on Gavel Alaska and KTOO begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
- Alaska's senators had called on Trump to quit. They say they'll attend in support of the peaceful transition of power. | <urn:uuid:297e92b9-3004-4115-99ab-7cfa5826e6e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ktoo.org/2014/02/11/budget-cuts-shrink-avos-seismic-network/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957555 | 420 | 2.09375 | 2 |
As the traces of the Baby P case continue to be kicked over, and quick fixes demanded, three issues have not received the attention they deserve.
The first is the consistent failure of social work education to meet the challenges of those who have to deliver services. Swayed by the popular winds of sociological thinking, it has failed to establish the body of knowledge that was essential for each new recruit to social work to possess. This should, in the case of children, have include child development, the law as it applies to children, some knowledge of medicine, and the professional structures through which services are delivered.
Given the complexity of many of the families who are the bread and butter of local authority caseloads, those who can bring experience of life have a considerable contribution to make. The failure is when the widening of academic backgrounds is accompanied by a lack of rigour in measuring and evaluating individual performance. It has become a potent cocktail for failure and, despite the recent introduction of the three-year degree course for social work, we remain ambiguous about evaluating success or failure.
What we are talking about is the kind of academic discipline that is found at the heart of other professions. It is worth noting that since an 18-year-old can now apply to do the relatively new three-year BA in social work, and will be qualified by the time they are 21, their life experience is very limited.
Furthermore, because the supervision of student social workers has never received the status that it deserves, many of these newly qualified workers have not received the opportunity to work with small, tightly supervised caseloads to hone their skills.
The third area that has been largely ignored in the noise surrounding the Baby P case could almost be the subject of the 1960s' sociology paper: "What are the characteristics of a real profession?"
Doctors rise through the ranks, but largely continue to see patients. Judges practise the law, a lot of headteachers still teach the occasional lesson, and accountants still dissect balance sheets. But for some reason, social workers feel so ambiguous about the core activity of working with people that many gratefully abandon the work for which they are ostensibly trained.
Isn't one definition of "wisdom" that you have to live through situations to see how they turn out? By doing this, you build upon the knowledge of what you have previously experienced. Yet a social worker seldom gains the wisdom from living through situations in the way that, say, a GP does through years of contact with patients.
Both the issue of professional training and valuing the tasks of social work are retrievable, if they are accepted. But this won't happen immediately, and it won't answer the government's insatiable demand for immediate action. Social work training can widen its pool of recruits and develop the same academic rigour as other professions. It can value those who bring mature life experiences, but who are then the recipients of first-class, evaluated training. And we can rebuild a career structure around those whose working lives are dominated by the activities for which they are trained. But it will take time. The fix may not be quick. | <urn:uuid:de8f984e-e71d-47cd-91b3-d24803f9d335> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/society/joepublic/2009/mar/11/social-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00163-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974545 | 640 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Lot 315: 18eme Salon Internationale de l'Aviation. 1949
30 October 2016
New York, NY, USALive Auction
Description: Artist: PAUL COLIN (1892-1986) Size: 45 x 61 1/4 in./114.4 x 155.5 cm Imp. Bedos, Paris Three years after his excellent design for the 1946 event (see PAI-XXVII, 74), Colin conceived another brilliant work for the 18th Parisian International Air Show. Anticipating both the passenger-jet revolution and the Space Age, as World War II receded into the past, Colin placed a jet orbiting the sun-drenched Earth through a break in the clouds. This is the rare, large format version of the poster. (aviation)
Condition Report: A.
Dimensions: 45 x 61 1/4 in./114.4 x 155.5 cm
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Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center is a residential treatment center located in Canon City, CO. The campus is a few miles from the Royal Gorge of Colorado, surrounded by mountains and wide vistas of this part of the country. They provide "gender specific treatment to adolescent boys and girls, in addition to sex offender treatment. All programs are in separate living units."
The treatment model is cognitive-behavioral therapy, focused on "consistency, structure and setting clear expectations." A level system is used to monitor the behavior and progress of each student. Emphasis is placed on immediate and appropriate consequences allowing the student to learn from their mistakes. They use a multidisciplinary model with teams assigned to small units of 16 youth per team, allowing for "a personal touch in the delivery of services." The program is designed to "teach and mold skills to enable youth to maintain positive relationships. Therapeutic interventions address building self-esteem, improving coping skills, establishing personal boundaries, accepting personal responsibilities and developing problem-solving skills."
The Southern Peaks student is "one who has serious impairments in functioning and requires 24-hour supervision. Many have had severe disturbances in their cognitive, academic and social skills, and many have been troubled by alcohol and drug abuse and poor impulse control."
The program has a "well developed aftercare program providing case management for 60 days following discharge." Aftercare services are coordinated with each family's therapist, school districts and other appropriate local services. | <urn:uuid:8dfaefc7-a365-4eae-9150-f803fc37ab02> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/publish/printer_5106.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00268-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955864 | 297 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Kohl's Case Study Kohl's Corporation Research Proposal
- Length: 9 pages
- Sources: 12
- Subject: Economics
- Type: Research Proposal
- Paper: #7190915
Excerpt from Research Proposal :
The main objective is to therefore maintain a stable level of market share or even to increase it. It is best that Kohl's activates in a stable environment. Therefore, given the latest economic trends that affect the global economy it is expected that the company will register sales and income decreases, the same as its competitors.
Therefore, it is recommended to implement strategies that allow the company to maintain low costs, so that prices will not be increased. This way, the company is able to ensure the same number of customers as before the financial crisis.
Such a defender type company should best rely on long-term planning, given the slow modifications that characterize the macro-environment. However, it is recommended to implement a short-term strategy also, in order to overcome the negative aspects that emerge because of the financial crisis.
The company's strengths are:
The company was established a few decades ago and the fact that Kohl's has continuously developed since its beginning proves that stability is one of the most important strengths a company could have. Even more, given the financial crisis that characterized the global economy, customers will appreciate stability. Customers are now oriented towards higher quality and higher priced products. Kohl's has acknowledged this orientation that is followed by the company's strategy.
The company's weaknesses are:
Large number of employees
The company is operating approximately 1003 stores nationwide that require many employees at store level and at corporation level. This means that the company does not have a flexible organizational system. Also, given the fact that Kohl's is a defender company, its strategy is a long-term one. As mentioned above, given the new economic trends, such a strategy might not be effective.
The company's opportunities:
New outsourcing countries
It is recommended that the company maintains prices as low as possible. This means that the company's products require production and transportation that can be achieved at low costs. Such production outsourcing countries include Vietnam and Bangladesh.
The company's threats:
Although the company may not be severely affected by the financial crisis in a direct manner, it may be affected indirectly through its customers that may choose to cut back on unnecessary goods.
In more normal and stable economic circumstances, it would be recommended that the company develops a long-term strategy based on growth and international expansion. However, given the financial crisis that characterizes the global economy, it is recommended that Kohl's follows a short-term strategy until economic matters return no normal and the macro-environment will be more stable.
It is expected that customers will change their purchasing priorities in the next period of time and will not focus on items like apparel, footwear, or small electronics. Therefore, it is recommended to lower the prices for the most purchased products at Kohl's. However, such an action must be implemented without diminishing quality.
As mentioned above, it is expected that customers' purchasing priorities will change in the next period of time. The company should remove its focus from expensive, luxury products to other products that have more frequent usability and that are purchased in larger quantities by customers.
The standards of quality must be maintained at the same level as before. It is not recommended to involve in any research and development activities right now or to launch new innovative products. It is likely that such products will not rise customers interest in such economic instability.
As mentioned above, it is recommended that the company tries to lower its prices, at least for the moment, so that the number of customers will not decrease. This strategy can be applied to the company's own brands especially. Production outsourcing destinations like China and India have increased the manufacturing and transportation costs. Therefore, such countries may not represent such a cheap alternative. However, the company should take advantage of other alternatives represented by emerging outsourcing possibilities like Vietnam, Bangladesh, or some African countries.
The distribution process will probably not suffer significant modifications. However, it is recommended to reduce costs wherever possible. The distribution process must also become more flexible.
It is not recommended to invest a great deal in the promotional strategy in these times. The company must prove its solidarity with its customers and the hardships they are going through because of the financial crisis. Therefore, luxurious and expensive promotional strategies may not be the best alternative. Print ads and mail advertising are the recommended methods for the company.
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Four Strategic Types - Raymond Miles and Charles Snow (2008). 12 manage. Retrieved October 26, 2008 at http://www.12manage.com/methods_miles_snow_four_strategic_types.html.
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Energy Management Programs (2008). Kohl's Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2008 at http://www.kohlsgreenscene.com/KohlsInitiatives/EnergyManagementPrograms.html. | <urn:uuid:4f962f39-b279-4d4c-855b-446c2331c3da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.paperdue.com/essay/kohl-case-study-corporation-27319 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922495 | 1,477 | 1.867188 | 2 |
O'Hara, Geoffrey. Composer, singer, lecturer, b Chatham, Ont, 2 Feb 1882, d St Petersburg, Fla, 31 Jan 1967; honorary D MUS (Huron, S Dak) 1947. He played the piano as a child, and at 12 was a singer and organist in a Chatham Anglican church. In 1904 he joined Lew Dockstader's Minstrels and went on to sing light opera as a baritone at Daly's Theater in New York. Later O'Hara travelled the Lyceum and Chautauqua vaudeville circuits as a singer, lecturer, and community song leader.
Appointed instructor of native music in 1913 by the US Secretary of the Interior, he collected and recorded songs of the Navajo and other tribes. He also taught 1936-7 at Teachers' College, Columbia U, and lectured on songwriting at Huron College. During World War II O'Hara visited military camps as a singing instructor and morale builder. He was president in 1925 of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association, board member in 1941 of ASCAP, and president in 1945 of the Composers-Authors Guild.
O'Hara's first work was a ragtime composition, Coloured Fireworks (Canadian American 1904), written under the name Geoffrey de Vere. His first hit song, 'Your Eyes Have Told Me' (Ricordi 1913), was recorded by Caruso. He is remembered best for the songs 'Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride' (1917) and 'K-K-K-Katy' (1918), both written while he was visiting in Kingston, Ont; for 'There Is No Death' (Chappell 1919) and 'The Living God' (Huntzinger 1930), both with words by Gordon Johnstone; for 'Wreck of the Julie Plante' (Ditson 1921) and 'Leetle Bateese' (Ditson 1921), both settings of verses by the Canadian poet William Henry Drummond; and for the barbershop-quartet favourite 'The Old Songs' (Boston Music 1927).
He also composed 12 operettas 1927-48, listed in Catalogue of Canadian Composers, and some 500 hymns, patriotic songs, and popular tunes. With J.M. Gibbon and O. O'Brien he prepared the songbook Canadian Folk Songs, Old and New (London 1927, 1949). Recordings of O'Hara's songs 1913-27 are listed in Roll Back the Years, as are his own 78s 1914-18 for Victor and HMV. | <urn:uuid:5f9302cb-b3ed-4de5-84a6-4cb6d58bbf71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/geoffrey-ohara-emc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.946554 | 559 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, by ANDREWS,WILLIAM L.
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The Literature of the American South reconsiderssouthern writing from its seventeenth-century origins to itsflourishing present. Featuring the works of eighty-seven classic,contemporary, and newly recovered writers of all genres'”poetry, shortfiction, drama, novels, autobiography, criticism, sermons, memoirs,journals, and letters'”this groundbreaking anthology sheds new light onthe creative power of the southern imagination. | <urn:uuid:5a12669b-75f0-4a45-a6d5-9f086593a6b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biggerbooks.com/literature-american-south-norton/bk/9780393316711 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829075 | 163 | 1.648438 | 2 |
"Back to the future" best describes the new license plate issued by New York in April. The "Empire Gold" design now appearing on streets has been deemed "quite unappealing" by more than 80 percent of New Yorkers polled by WCBS-TV. [via jalopnik]
New Yorkers: Consider yourselves lucky.
Compared to some states, New York's design is a prize winner. Plate designs have become graphically congested and legibility is often compromised. From a design standpoint, I think license plates fall into three categories:
The Acceptable, the Unfortunate, and the So-Bad-It's-Good
Connecticut: This plate is so harmless it says nothing in the right way.
Florida: This is a "more is more" design where everything is as important as it can be.
Utah: With two state mottos, snowy peaks, a skier, and Native American petroglyphs, the only things missing are images of the Utah Jazz, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Great Salt Lake.
In many states, license plates can be a form of personal branding. The state of Washington offers no less than 45 designs from which to choose. If you want fellow motorists to know you're a Mason, a firefighter, or a square dancer, there's a plate for you. Custom plates are revenue generators for budget strapped states, so I applaud the strategy — but the designs could be better.
Rethinking the Problem
When it comes to the standard issue, I asked a few talented designers from around the country to reimagine their state license plates and to experiment with the possibilities for three designs: Texas, Illinois, and California. And here they are.
Craig Minor in Houston took the big, bad, "Don't Mess with Texas" approach but with a bilingual accent. It's a roughneck solution that makes the state's current plate look terribly silly.
Bart Crosby from Chicago strikes a contemporary note with speed and style. Left to right across the top of the plate are color coded city, state, and emission stickers that are read with a hand held scanner. The result is a "Formula 1" alternative to the muddled "Land of Lincoln" clunker.
Stefan Bucher from Los Angeles offers a 10-digit design that expands the pool of available license plates. He loads it with personal information about the driver that is ideal for our networking culture. The frame is color-coded to distinguish political leaning. A regional mark allows for "faster stereotyping," and he adds a QR code for a touch of edgy technology.
As for New York, I can imagine a stripped-down design with minimal graphics exposing the raw plate. Numbers are punched through a recycled alloy imbedded with registration information. This will complement the metallic trim on all automobile makes and models.
These forward-looking plates aren't too far away from reality. Although New York's plates — like many other states — are still stamped by inmates at the Auburn Correctional Center, there are technological advances in plate production that are changing the face of plate design. 3M's Digital License Plate (DLP) System integrates vehicle registration and logistical data with automated, on demand plate production. And license plates are also entering the social media landscape. QuickCarFlirting.com is a free social networking site that is, according to founder Sharanne Pearson, "revolutionizing the way singles meet." QCF uses license plates to help drivers connect with people they spot in traffic jams and parking lots. (It looks suspicious and has a slight air of predation about it, but...)
Current license plate design is a sadly low-tech solution for our high-tech cars, and not even a Tesla escapes having one slapped on to the bumper. Although not the highest priority for the advancement of car culture, I think some creative and innovative opportunities are just around the bend.Did you like this post? Leave your comments below!Found this Post interesting? Receive new posts via RSS (What is RSS?) or Subscribe to CR by Email | <urn:uuid:ed0987a5-fab1-4116-9b70-c010adb60823> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.curiousread.com/2010/06/how-to-fix-american-license-plate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00046-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939792 | 833 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Risk assessment is a critical aspect of a project. Although difficult, it becomes manageable and easier when a form is used to identify, document and analyze the potential risks that may surface up during the project execution.
Risk, which is often equated with uncertainty and constraints, cannot be completely removed. However, a thorough understanding of the risks using a risk assessment form helps in finding propositions to subdue the risks to a great extent.
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Risk assessment offers a way to document and understand the risks that are likely to retard or stop the project from continuing normally. The risk assessment form is a tool that helps in determining the intensity of the risk in terms of the probability of occurrence and the impact of the risk. Accordingly, the project team can redirect its efforts to either completely prevent the occurrence or to reduce the impact of the risk.
By and large, risk assessment forms are used only when someone in the project team points towards a likely risk, but it’s always advisable to use this form as a customary part of the project management process. Early identification of the risks allows timely risk mitigation.
The risk assessment form contains not only the list of tentative risks and details regarding their likelihood and impact, but also information on what proactive measures can be taken to substantially reduce the risks and their impact. Here is a list of the things that must be recorded in the risk assessment form:
- The area, part of phase of the project for which a risk has been identified.
- The type of risk and who or what all things will suffer from the risk.
- The probability of occurrence and the intensity of the impact of the risk.
- The preventive measures that can nullify or reduce the impact intensity and the occurrence probability of the risk.
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To understand how to fill up a risk assessment form, a sample risk assessment form template can be downloaded for free here: Risk Assessment Form
Here are the details you will be required to fill in into the risk assessment form:
Problem Area or Activity: The phase, area or activity that is likely to face risks.
Risks Identified: A list of the likely risks associated with each of the activities identified in column one.
Description: A short description of the kind of risk and the possible damages it can cause.
Probability of Occurrence:The risks can be categorized as very likely, probable and unlikely based on the likelihood of these risks cropping up, where
- Likely means 70-100% chances of its occurrence
- Probable means 30-70% chances and
- Unlikely can be used for risks which have less than 30% chance of occurrence.
Impact Intensity: The impact intensity of the risk can be categorized as High, Medium and Low depending on how critical the risk and its effects can be.
Priority: Based on the probability of occurrence then the intensity of the impact, the risk factors can be assigned a priority level using a scale ranging from 1 to 5, where 1 means high priority and 5 means least important.
Existing Measures: The policies, procedures and resources which are already available to prevent or reduce the impact of the risk.
Mitigation Strategy:After analyzing all the aspects of the risks and the existing preventive measures that can be used, the project team needs to decide on the mitigation strategy to deal with the risk. There can be four different mitigation strategies:
- Deflection: in this the risk is managed by transferring the risk handling to a third party or agency,
- Control: device a plan and work out strategies so as to prevent, minimize or bye-pass the risk.
- Avoidance: This strategy is used when the risk factor does not pose any considerable threat. The basic idea here is to ignore the risk, do nothing and accept the consequences.
Additional Measures: This field needs to be filled in only for those risks for which control mitigation strategy is decided.
Contingency Plan: A contingency plan can also be added for high impact risks with a high probability of occurrence, just in case the basic measures fail to perform.
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US onslaught on Najaf triggers protests and fighting across Iraq
14 August 2004
A tense standoff in the Iraqi city of Najaf is underway between hundreds of poorly-armed supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and several thousand US troops backed by tanks, attack helicopters and warplanes. The US military has consolidated its cordon around Najaf’s old town centre and the Imam Ali mosque—regarded by Shiites as one of the sect’s most sacred shrines—and is preventing not only armed militants, but also food and other essential supplies from entering the area.
After more than a week of savage fighting, in which hundreds of civilians and militiamen have been killed and injured, the US-installed Iraqi interim regime was negotiating on Friday to convince al-Sadr and his Madhi Army to quit the area. Interior Minister Fallah al-Naqib declared yesterday that the cleric “will not be touched if he leaves the shrine peacefully” but insisted that the military would continue to go after the “criminal elements” in his movement.
Al-Naqib’s comments mark an abrupt change of tone from Tuesday, when Prime Minister Ayad Allawi insisted that he would “teach these criminal outlaws the lesson they deserve... Your government has decided to hit back with an iron fist [against] all these desperate criminals that are attempting to hinder the bright future of the people of Iraq.”
There is no doubt that the real criminals—the US and its Iraqi collaborators—are poised to use their vastly superior military means to finish off the Madhi Army in a massacre. What has forced a temporary pause in the fighting is concern, in Baghdad and Washington, over the political backlash such a bloodbath would cause.
Outrage over the US actions in Najaf has led to a series of public protests as well as open armed conflict in other cities in the predominantly Shiite south of Iraq. Even the loyal defenders of the US occupation have been compelled to acknowledge the extent of public hostility. Saad Jawal, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), declared yesterday: “The people feel anger. They feel the [Shiite community] has been attacked by American forces.”
On Thursday, about 5,000 protesters took to the streets of the southern city of Basra, demanding the withdrawal of US forces from Najaf and condemning Allawi for working for the US. A Madhi Army commander Sheikh Saad al-Basri warned: “If peaceful demonstrations do not work we will take the path of jihad in defence of our country.”
Protester Hasan Ali Abdul-Wahid told the media: “We condemn the criminal acts done by the occupation forces and the Najaf police against our people in Najaf.” Abed Jassim angrily denounced the prime minister declaring: “Allawi and the governor of Najaf are responsible for this massacre. They provided protection for the Americans to kill the Shiites.”
Basra’s deputy governor Salam Uda al-Maliki condemned the Allawi regime for allowing the US military onslaught in Najaf and called for the formation of a breakaway government in the south. He was joined by al-Sadr’s representative in Nassiriya, Aws al-Khafaji who denounced “the crimes against Iraqis committed by an illegal and unelected government, and occupation forces.” He said: “We have had enough of Baghdad’s brutality. The authorities in Nassiriya will no longer cooperate with Baghdad.”
Protests took place in towns across Iraq on Friday. In Diwaniya, thousands of demonstrators attacked the offices of Prime Minister Allawi’s Iraqi National Accord. At a protest in central Baghdad, a spokesman for al-Sadr urged the thousands of participants to march to Najaf, 160 kilometres to the south, to show their support for the rebel fighters. Another thousand marchers set out from Karbala for Najaf. Al-Sadr representative Sheikh Abdulrazaq al-Nadawi told the media: “We’re going to Najaf to break the siege on our brothers.”
After Friday prayers in Kufa, about 2,000 people marched to Najaf, just 10 kilometres away, pushing through the US and Madhi Army frontlines to reach the Imam Ali shrine. They chanted: “All of us are soldiers of Moqtada Sadr. With our blood and soul, we serve you Ali.”
Demonstrations were not confined to Shiite areas. In Fallujah, the largely Sunni centre of anti-US resistance, around 3,000 protesters marched in the town centre, shouting “Long live Sadr. Fallujah stands by Najaf against America.” They carried pictures of al-Sadr and denounced the US attack on Najaf. In the Sunni town of Samarra, about 100 kilometres north of Baghdad, some 700 demonstrators chanting “Long live al-Sadr!” demanded that US troops leave Najaf.
Angry protests erupted elsewhere in the Middle East yesterday. Thousands marched through the Iranian capital of Tehran carrying banners declaring “Death to the occupiers” and “American democracy = massacre of innocent people”. Demonstrations also took place in other Iranian cities including Qom, Mashad and Isfahan. In the conservative Gulf state of Bahrain, 2,500 protesters marched along a major highway shouting anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans. Protests also took place in Lebanon.Fighting spreads
Fighting has also erupted in other southern cities. According to Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan, 400 al-Sadr supporters were killed, injured or taken prisoner in fighting in Kut this week. US Special Forces, as well as Iraqi national guardsmen, were rushed to the town on Wednesday after the Madhi Army took over positions in the city. That night US and Iraqi troops, backed by an AC-130 gunship, conducted a series of raids on suspected resistance strongholds. The following night the US carried out a two-hour bombing raid against an alleged al-Sadr militia base.
Clashes with US and Iraqi government troops have also taken place in Amara, Diwaniya and Shia districts in Baghdad, including Sadr City, Shula and parts of the capital’s downtown area. In the city of Hilla, a group of 20 Polish soldiers were surrounded at a police station by several hundred militants loyal to Sadr. According to the Christian Science Monitor, hundreds of militants have been detained by Iraqi police while attempting to join al-Sadr’s fighters in Najaf.
At this stage, there are conflicting reports about the negotiations in Najaf. According to one of al-Sadr’s spokesmen, Sheik Ali Smeisim, the cleric may be prepared to withdraw his fighters from the city if the US does likewise and places the Imam Ali Mosque under the control of religious authorities. Smeisim is also reported as saying that al-Sadr wanted to take part in the country’s “political process”.
However, in a sermon read on his behalf at the Kufa mosque on Friday, al-Sadr defiantly declared that the United States was intent on occupying the whole world. “The presence of [the] occupation in Iraq has made our country an unbearable hell, ” he stated, calling on all Iraqis to rebel “because I will not allow another Saddam-like government again.”
Whatever the outcome of negotiations, it is clear that Washington intends to make an example of al-Sadr, in order to terrorise the Iraqi people as a whole. If the cleric fails to agree to anything less than abject surrender, the US military is preparing to carry out a bloody massacre.
In a chilling statement yesterday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared: “Our forces in Najaf are squeezing the city, frankly, to help stabilise the situation and deal with [the] Mahdi army... The violence is being perpetrated by outlaws and by former regime elements and by terrorists who respect no truce, who respect nothing except force.”
The US military is using the temporary break in fighting to tighten its grip around the Iman Ali shrine and to destroy any other pockets of resistance in the city in what a senior military spokesman described as “clearing” operations. On Thursday night, US troops stormed a complex of buildings alleged to be a base for al-Sadr supporters.
The New York Times described the attack: “Backed by American warplanes that pounded the area and unleashed a huge plume of black smoke, a Marine strike force battled through to a house used by Mr Sadr, which the Americans said had been abandoned before the attack, and to a school and a hospital taken by the militiamen. About 50 rebels were inside, said Major David Holahan, second-in-command of the Marine unit involved, and nearly all were killed.”
The situation in Najaf makes a mockery of US claims that its Iraqi “national conference”, due to begin on Sunday, represents a step towards democracy. Those who take part in this stage-managed charade, while American military forces are preparing to annihilate al Sadr and his followers, will be rightly regarded with contempt and revulsion by the vast majority of Iraqis who oppose Washington’s seizure of their country.
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Il confronto tra politiche di rigore fiscale e politiche di sviluppo economico in Italia e nell'UE
Austerity Fiscal policies versus Development policies in Italy and European Union The debate on economic policy issues underway in Italy and EU shows two different stances: on one hand a support to restrictive budgetary policy, aimed at achieving the balance of government finance, as required by European Union, and accepted by 25 EU countries, that is the ones signatories of the Fiscal Compact; on the other hand the priority assigned to the objective of economic development, shared by many representatives of the political and academic institutions of southern European countries, who claim to loosen the constraints stemming from public finance surveillance. In this framework the first paper, drafted by Aurelio Bruzzo, recalls this debate, highlighting the considerations mentioned by each group of economists, which you may find mixed in some studies worked out by supporters of intermediate positions. The second paper, written by Massimiliano Di Pace, after having pointed out the reasons and the content of the Fiscal Compact, as well as the changes to the Italian Constitution entailing the budget balance rule, quantifies the impact of these new guidelines of fiscal policy on Italian public finance. Both papers of this work are based on the belief that the two intended objectives of ongoing economic policy, that is financial stability and economic recovery, are not alternative, but complementary, and, under certain conditions, also compatible. In fact, together with the Fiscal Compact, it is still operational the Europe 2020 strategy, whose main objective is to create conditions for an intelligent, inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
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Show ? for Cows This Valentine’s Day
Ah, Valentine’s Day! It’s a day when romantic cards are exchanged secretly in college halls (swoon). It also gives you the opportunity to buy yourself a box or two of vegan chocolates (double swoon), and it’s dedicated to one of the best things ever: love.
Although we know it’s easy to get caught up in the lovey-dovey excitement of le jour d’amour, it’s important to remember one important fact: Humans aren’t the only animals with the capacity to love.
The bond between a mother cow and her calf is so strong that cows on dairy farms often wail, sometimes for days, when their babies are taken away shortly after birth so that humans can steal the milk that was meant for them. These gentle giants mourn the deaths of—and even separation from—those they love. They even shed tears over their loss.
This Valentine’s Day, remind your friends and family that all animals deserve love. Not just the human ones. Not just the cute and fluffy ones.
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- Download your “I’m Sweet for You” valentine.
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Consider Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. I know that some of you have read this book, but perhaps not all of you, so please bear with me.
Nabokov was a Russian who knew English better than most Americans. He wrote Lolita in English and later translated it into Russian. You may have seen a film of it, but no film can depict Nabokov’s sublime and sometimes flamboyant English. The book is narrated (not always reliably) by Humbert Humbert, a literature professor in his 30s who falls in love with a 12-year-old child named Dolores Haze. This is shocking. The child has already had sex and aims to seduce Humbert Humbert. This is also shocking, though it may be one of Humbert’s lies. Humbert Humbert marries the child’s mother in order to be closer to Dolores, or, as he calls her, Lolita. This too is shocking. The book came out in the late 1950s, a few years before the Beatles shocked the world.
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” Thus the book begins. Humbert attributes his attraction to young girls a result of his loss of a childhood friend. This may be accurate or it may be an excuse. Either way, he agrees to marry Lolita’s mother, Charlotte. But before long, Charlotte falls out of the book. Humbert and Lolita, or “Lo,” launch themselves on a road trip, driving more or less aimlessly around the country. This is part of the middle. While Lo is convalescing in hospital, a Mr. Clare Quilty swoops in, like a hawk, to grab Lo away from Humbert. More… “Menacing Middles” | <urn:uuid:d93df1c1-f313-47a0-bda1-ae949d4fa393> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thesmartset.com/tag/writing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965693 | 401 | 2.125 | 2 |
Infants delivered by cesarean more obese in childhoodBy Sheryl Kay • Published: September 6th, 2012
Category: Health in a Heartbeat
Cesarean-section births have become much more commonplace during the past 30 years, as have the complications associated with them, including higher risks of asthma in children and childhood-onset diabetes.
Now, research shows the procedure may also be linked to childhood obesity.
The findings, just published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, were gleaned from a study involving more than twelve-hundred pairs of moms and their newborns. Researchers began assessing the mothers at week 22 of their pregnancies and then followed up by evaluating the height and weight of the offspring at birth, at 6 months and also at age 3. Of the total number of deliveries, almost one-quarter were via C-section, while the remaining three-quarters were vaginal births.
On average, the moms who delivered via cesarean weighed more than the women who delivered vaginally. Still, even after taking that observation into account, as well as other factors that could have altered the results, the researchers found that almost 16 percent of the children delivered via c-section were obese by 3 years old. Among children born through vaginal delivery, only 8 percent were obese at 3. The little ones delivered by C-section also tended to have a higher body mass index.
The study did not pinpoint a definitive cause for these differences, but the investigators suggest the disparities might be linked to gut bacteria that babies acquire at birth. The composition of gut bacteria in babies varies depending on how they were delivered and may have long-term effects on digestion and weight gain.
Many cesarean sections are medically necessary and often save babies’ lives. But if you’re thinking of planning a C-section for convenience, you may want to reconsider and base your decision on your and your baby’s health instead. | <urn:uuid:06860db1-a41e-4f38-befc-ec00a45fc029> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://news.health.ufl.edu/2012/19942/multimedia/health-in-a-heartbeat/infants-delivered-by-cesarean-more-obese-in-childhood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00528-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974746 | 398 | 2.65625 | 3 |
When it comes to personal well-being, most us know that taking care of our overall health is important. How we make progress in our emotional, mental, and spiritual lives is largely up for debate. The world of self-help is viewed by many as being too woo-woo and more fluff than helpful. And the industry brings in billions of dollars every year, with no sign of slowing down.
But the topic of self-help in regards to improving and knowing oneself is as old as humanity. Spending time and energy nourishing our souls has been treated as the goal by many of history’s most celebrated thinkers.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard ThurmanTweet It!
The best part? Self-reflection is free and can be done anytime, anywhere. Whether going for a walk or pouring a cup of tea (or wine) and writing in a journal, taking time to self-reflect is part of how we live, in the words of Socrates via Plato, well-examined lives.
To help get started, here are five prompts inspired by five great thinkers on the art of self-knowledge:
1. "Trust thyself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prompt: What do you believe to be true? When has someone challenged that belief?
2. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
Prompt: Spend the first five minutes every morning for a week writing down all the things you’re grateful for and notice how this changes your outlook.
3. "We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be." - Anne Lamott
Prompt: Think back to childhood. What did you want to be when you grew up? Better yet, who did you want to become? Are you that person now? If not, what is the first step you can take to change?
4. "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
Prompt: What daily actions or habits do you do that make you feel more alive? What daily actions or habits do you do that feeling draining? What can you do to align your actions and habits with your beliefs?
5. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prompt: Think about something that is upsetting you in the present moment. Is there a deeper problem than might first appear? What actions can you take to change your circumstances?
"When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it." - Julia CameronTweet It!
Nourishing the soul doesn’t happen overnight: it's a lifelong practice. For best results combine curiosity with kindness, and trust that pursuing self knowledge isn’t selfish, but rather the greatest gift we can give ourselves and one another.
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|Obama Signs JOBS Act Into Law|
|Mary Bruce||Apr 5, 2012, 5:40 PM|
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President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act today, calling it a "game-changer" that would remove barriers that prevent small businesses from growing and hiring.
"Because of this bill, start-ups and small business will now have access to a big, new pool of potential investors - namely, the American people. For the first time, ordinary Americans will be able to go online and invest in entrepreneurs that they believe in," the president said in a Rose Garden signing ceremony.
The president said the JOBS Act would make it easier for business owners to take their companies public, noting "that's a big deal because going public is a major step toward expanding and hiring more workers."
Going forward, the president said it was important to make sure the Securities and Exchange Commission is properly funded "so that they can do the job and make sure that our investors get adequate protections."
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Phenomenalism is an epistemology or theory of knowledge in which the basic premise is that we can only know that which is validated by our senses. It is similar to Idealism as they both state our only knowledge comes directly from empirical perceptions, we have no innate ideas and can garner nothing about our environment but that which we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. The theory gets its name from the Greek phainomenon meaning that which appears or is seen, used here to refer to our sense experiences.
The most important form of phenomenalism is that of A.J. Ayer, Logical Positivism, in this view a statement can only be true if a sense experience can verify it. For example, I may say that Dem Bones is a genius, but unless I have direct sense data, i.e. I've seen the light and heard the word, my statement cannot be proved true or false. An example used by Ayer is that of a man who says, "I can turn invisible but only when I close my eyes, no one is looking and there are no cameras, etc." This statement cannot be proved true or false and is therefore nonsense; this questioning is called the Verification Principle. The phenomenalist’s view tells them that anything which could possibly be experienced by the senses could exist. In effect, the fact that we could see aliens one day, means that aliens could exist, we could even go so far as to say that every possible facet of the imagination exists in potential. They account for objects we experience everyday as 'permanent possibilities of experience', as opposed to the Idealist view that such objects do not exist.
This verification principle presents one of the main criticisms of Phenomenalism, and Logical Positivism in particular, if anything we cannot verify with our senses is nonsense, then surely any theory about knowledge which cannot be verified by our senses must be nonsense, phenomenalism effectively shoots itself in the foot with its own principles.
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Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl Of Anglesey (1614-1686), British statesman, son of the 1st Viscount Valentia (cr. 1621) and Baron Mountnorris (cr. 1628), and of Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Philipps of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, was born at Dublin on the 10th of July 1614, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1634. Having made the grand tour he returned to Ireland; and being employed by the parliament in a mission to the duke of Ormonde, now reduced to the last extremities, he succeeded in concluding a treaty with him on the 19th of June 1647, thus securing the country from complete subjection to the rebels. In April 1647 he was returned for Radnorshire to the House of Commons. He supported the parliamentary as against the republican or army party, and appears to have been one of the members excluded in 1648. He sat in Richard Cromwell's parliament for Dublin city, and endeavoured to take his seat in the restored Rump Parliament of 1659. He was made president of the council in February 1660, and in the Convention Parliament sat for Carmarthen borough.
The anarchy of the last months of the commonwealth converted him to royalism, and he showed great activity in bringing about the Restoration. He used his influence in moderating measures of revenge and violence, and while sitting in judgment on the regicides was on the side of leniency. In November 1660 by his father's death he had become Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris in the Irish peerage, and on the 20th April 1661 he was created Baron Annesley of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire and earl of Anglesey in the peerage of Great Britain. He supported the king's administration in parliament, but opposed strongly the unjust measure which, on the abolition of the court of wards, placed the extra burden of taxation thus rendered necessary on the excise. His services in the administration of Ireland were especially valuable. He filled the office of vice-treasurer from 1660 till 1667, served on the committee for carrying out the declaration for the settlement of Ireland and on the committee for Irish affairs, while later, in 1671 and 1672, he was a leading member of various commissions appointed to investigate the working of the Acts of Settlement. In February 1661 he had obtained a captaincy of horse, and in 1667 he exchanged his vice-treasuryship of Ireland for the treasuryship of the navy.
His public career was marked by great independence and fidelity to principle. On the 24th of July 1663 he alone signed a protest against the bill "for the encouragement of trade," on the plea that owing to the free export of coin and bullion allowed by the act, and to the importation of foreign commodities being greater than the export of home goods, "it must necessarily follow ... that our silver will also be carried away into foreign parts and all trade fail for want of money." He especially disapproved of another clause in the same bill forbidding the importation of Irish cattle into England, a mischievous measure promoted by the duke of Buckingham, and he opposed again the bill brought in with that object in January 1667. This same year his naval accounts were subjected to an examination in consequence of his indignant refusal to take part in the attack upon Ormonde; and he was suspended from his office in 1668, no charge, however, against him being substantiated. He took a prominent part in the dispute in 1671 between the two Houses concerning the right of the Lords to amend money bills, and wrote a learned pamphlet on the question entitled The Privileges of the House of Lords and Commons (1702), in which the right of the Lords was asserted.
In April 1673 he was appointed lord privy seal, and was disappointed at not obtaining the great seal the same year on the removal of Shaftesbury. In 1679 he was included in Sir W. Temple's new-modelled council.
In the bitter religious controversies of the time Anglesey showed great moderation and toleration. In 1674 he is mentioned as endeavouring to prevent the justices putting into force the laws against the Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. In the panic of the "Popish Plot" in 1678 he exhibited a saner judgment than most of his contemporaries and a conspicuous courage. On the 6th of December he protested with three other peers against the measure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking bail from them to keep the peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the guilt and voting for the death of Lord Stafford, he interceded, according to his own account, with the king for him as well as for Langhorne and Plunket. His independent attitude drew upon him an attack by Dangerfield, and in the Commons by the attorney-general, Sir W. Jones, who accused him of endeavouring to stifle the evidence against the Romanists. In March 1679 he protested against the second reading of the bill for disabling Danby. In 1681 Anglesey wrote A Letter from a Person of Honour in the Country, as a rejoinder to the earl of Castlehaven, who had published memoirs on the Irish rebellion defending the action of the Irish and the Roman Catholics. In so doing Anglesey was held by Ormonde to have censured his conduct and that of Charles I. in concluding the "Cessation," and the duke brought the matter before the council.
In 1682 he wrote The Account of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey ... of the true state of Your Majesty's Government and Kingdom, which was addressed to the king in a tone of censure and remonstrance, but appears not to have been printed till 1694. In consequence he was dismissed on the 9th of August 1682 from the office of lord privy seal. In 1683 he appeared at the Old Bailey as a witness in defence of Lord Russell, and in June 1685 he protested alone against the revision of Stafford's attainder. He died at his home at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the 26th of April 1686, closing a career marked by great ability, statesmanship and business capacity, and by conspicuous courage and independence of judgment. He amassed a large fortune in Ireland, in which country he had been allotted lands by Cromwell.
The unfavourable character drawn of him by Burnet is certainly unjust and not supported by any evidence. Pepys, a far more trustworthy judge, speaks of him invariably in terms of respect and approval as a "grave, serious man," and commends his appointment as treasurer of the navy as that of "a very notable man and understanding and will do things regular and understand them himself." He was a learned and cultivated man and collected a celebrated library, which was dispersed at his death. Besides the pamphlets already mentioned, he wrote: - A True Account of the Whole Proceedings betwixt ... the Duke of Ormond and ... the Earl of Anglesey (1682); A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian (1683); other works ascribed to him being The King's Right of Indulgence in Matters Spiritual ... asserted (1688); Truth Unveiled, to which is added a short Treatise on ... Transubstantiation (1676); The Obligation resulting from the Oath of Supremacy (1688); and England's Confusion (1659). Memoirs of Lord Anglesey were published by Sir P. Pett in 1693, but contain little biographical information and were repudiated as a mere imposture by Sir John Thompson (Lord Haversham), his son-in-law, in his preface to Lord Anglesey's State of the Government in 1694. The author however of the preface to The Rights of the Lords asserted (1702), while blaming their publication as "scattered and unfinished papers," admits their genuineness.
Lord Anglesey married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir James Altham of Oxey, Hertfordshire, by whom, besides other children, he had James, who succeeded him, Altham, created Baron Altham, and Richard, afterwards 3rd Baron Altham. His descendant Richard, the 6th earl (d. 1761), left a son Arthur, whose legitimacy was doubted, and the peerage became extinct. He was summoned to the Irish House of Peers as Viscount Valentia, but was denied his writ to the parliament of Great Britain by a majority of one vote. He was created in 1793 earl of Mountnorris in the peerage of Ireland. All the male descendants of the 1st earl of Anglesey became extinct in the person of George, 2nd earl of Mountnorris, in 1844, when the titles of Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris passed to his cousin Arthur Annesley (1785-1863), who thus became 10th Viscount Valentia, being descended from the 1st Viscount Valentia the father of the 1st earl of Anglesey in the Annesley family. The 1st viscount was also the ancestor of the Earls Annesley in the Irish peerage.
Dict. of Nat. Biography, with authorities there collected; lives in Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (Bliss), iv. 181, Biographia Britannica, and H. Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors (1806), iii. 288 (the latter a very inadequate review of Anglesey's character and career); also Bibliotheca Anglesiana ... per Thomam Philippum (1686); The Happy Future State of England, by Sir Peter Pett (1688); Great News from Poland (1683), where his religious tolerance is ridiculed; Somers Tracts (Scott, 1812), viii. 344; Notes of the Privy Council (Roxburghe Club, 1896); Cal. of State Papers, Dom.; State Trials, viii. and ix. 619.
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Protests of the Lords, by J. E. Thorold Rogers (1875), i. 27: Carti's Life of Ormonde (1851), iv. 234; Parl. Hist. iv. 284.
Carti's Ormonde, iv. 330, 340.
Cal. of State Pap. Dom. (1673-1675), p. 152.
Memoirs, 8, 9.
By Sir J. Thompson, his son-in-law. Reprinted in Somers Tracts (Scott, 1812), viii. 344, and in Parl. Hist. iv. app. xvi.
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Hawaiian Airline announced the commencement of non stop flights between Honolulu and Fukuoka. Fukuoka is going to be the third destination where Hawaiian airlines are going to ply their services.
The services are going to commence from April, 2012 subject to approval from the Government of Japan. Fukuoka will be the fourth destination in Asia that Hawaiian has introduced recently to its route network.
Before this development, Hawaiian Airlines started their services to Tokyo in November 2010, Seoul in January 2011 and Osaka in July 2011. Depending on the approval of the Government of Japan, Hawaiian Airlines will start its services and Hawaiian Flight #453 will depart Honolulu International Airport daily at 1:20 p.m. reaching Fukuoka Airport at 6:40 p.m. on the subsequent day.
April 17th onwards, Hawaiian flight #454 will leave Fukuoka at 9:00 p.m. and reach same day at Honolulu at 10:00 a.m. (Honolulu is 19 hours behind Fukuoka and the flight crosses the international Dateline) Hawaiian Airlines will initially operate the new Honolulu-Fukuoka flights with its wide-body, twin-aisle Boeing 767-300ER aircraft that comfortably seats up to 264 passengers.
It is shortly going to introduce a new fleet of airbus which is going to have a large body and twin aisle. It will seat 294 passengers. Airbus A330-200 aircraft would be used on this route.
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Chances are, most Elis have bought a product marketed by Shelly Lazarus. Coca-Cola is pretty hard to miss.
Berkeley College Master Marvin Chun hosted Lazarus, the chief executive officer of marketing agency Ogilvy and Mather (and a Yale mom), on Monday afternoon, drawing over two dozen people to the master’s house for a discussion of brands and the future of advertising. Lazarus, who has occupied a place on Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business since the list’s inception in 1998, heads the high-profile international advertising and marketing firm based in New York City. Credited with building brands like American Express, Ford and Barbie, Ogilvy is one of the most prolific advertising firms with nearly 500 offices spread across 125 countries.
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“Brands are now everywhere,” Lazarus explained to a crowd of students and adults. “Nothing compresses data better and faster than a brand. When you see one you think, you remember, you smell, you hear … it brings a history of ideas.”
Lazarus pointed to the drug store cold medicine aisle as an example of how brands are more than just marketing tools; they can also help consumers.
“There are so many choices today,” she said. “You need brands to sort and edit.”
Lazarus found the advertising business purely by accident. A political science and psychology double major in college, Lazarus said she had no plans to enter marketing until a friend invited her to accompany her to a daylong seminar on the subject in New York City. Fascinated by the strategies presented, she applied to Columbia’s MBA program, won acceptance and graduated as one of only four women in her class.
“The advertising world is a wonderful place for women,” said Lazarus. “I think one of the reasons why women have been so enormously successful in this world is because ideas are such items of currency that no one can care which gender they came from.”
She spoke at length about the marketing technique of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign. The magazine Advertising Age honored the Obama campaign as its Marketer of the Year in this week’s print issue, taken from a vote among hundreds of marketers, agency heads and marketing-services vendors at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual conference this month. Lazarus said the campaign’s use of Internet ads and viral marketing has been crucial to the success of the Democratic nominee.
When asked how the country’s current financial crisis would affect the world of marketing, specifically at Ogilvy, the CEO was optimistic.
“Smart, strong companies will advertise through bad times,” Lazarus said. “Some of the companies will even increase their spending, because they do tend to come out with a better market share.”
Matt Levinson ’10, a friend of Lazarus’s son, Ben Lazarus ’10, said he found the CEO’s descriptions of different advertising strategies “fascinating.”
“I’ve met her a few times,” he said. “She’s always funny and engaging.”
Olivia Wheeler ’10 shared similar sentiments.
“I thought it was really interesting,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s because she’s in advertising that she knows how to seem candid, but she I thought she was really honest about the business.”
It is a business that has taken Lazarus from New York to London to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where Lazarus said the idea of the brand is on the rise. Early in the tea, Lazarus recounted a conversation she once had in that hall with the Chinese minister of commerce.
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There are plenty of rumours around the cryptocurrency market that the other digital tokens are not affected by the prices of bitcoins, but these are entirely fake. As a cryptocurrency trader, you must always acknowledge the primary reasons behind the fluctuation of prices of different digital tokens. In the cryptocurrency market, you will find that the digital token prices fluctuate whenever the bitcoin has price fluctuations. The cryptocurrency traders from different nations may not pay much attention to this thing at bitcoinprime.software, but it is quite a crucial thing to pay attention to. A significant reason behind the same is that bitcoin has always been the dominant digital token all over the market.
In the cryptocurrency market, there are many options for you to trade, but people prefer going with bitcoins. The primary reason is that bitcoin is beneficial and leads the market. Have you ever pondered why this is the case? Well, indeed, you would not bother yourself to understand why bitcoin is the market dominator. Well, it is crucial because it will help you understand how the prices go up and down all the time. Also, bitcoin leads to the fluctuation in prices of different digital tokens, which is why it is crucial to understand the mechanism of bitcoin itself. If you are aware, it would be easy to trade in the digital token. So, some of the prominent reasons why bitcoin leads to fluctuation in the market are given below.
The derivation of the technology for all the cryptocurrencies spread in different nations is none other than the bitcoin technology. Bitcoin was the first digital token to come into the market; therefore, it was the first to explore technological advancements. The other companies that came after bitcoin have the exact mechanism. Also, they copy the technology embedded in the cryptocurrencies like bitcoin because it has always been successful and wants to reach its levels.
Dominant market capitalisation
If you do proper research over the internet, you will find that the dominance of bitcoin over the cryptocurrency market is higher. The cryptocurrency market capitalisation is taken over the bitcoin. The high amount of market capitalisation entirely points out the dominance of bitcoin. If the price of bitcoin is high and also, it is the largest shareholder in the cryptocurrency market, it is going to have an impact on the whole cryptocurrency market.
Blockchain is another prominent reason for the other digital tokens to copy bitcoin. The prices of different cryptocurrencies fluctuate along with the bitcoin because the Blockchain is the basis for all of them. Most of the time, bitcoin prices fluctuate because of the demand and supply and some global events.
At the same time, Blockchain technology, which works under bitcoin, also affects the prices of other digital tokens. Because its mechanism spreads throughout all digital tokens; therefore, their price gets affected along with the bitcoins.
The base for tech advancements
The concept of making a technological advancement is the same as bitcoin only. Even though the other digital tokens kept making advancements, when it comes to substantial technological advancements, none can match the excellence of bitcoin. Bitcoin keeps reducing the rewards after every four years for the cryptocurrency miners, and other digital tokens very well follow this mechanism.
It is significant from this thing that the other cryptocurrencies follow the price movements of the bitcoins all the time. So even if there might be a difference in the degree of fluctuations, the price movement direction will be the same.
The trend of cryptocurrencies was first brought into the market by bitcoin. Even though it did not become trendy in the initial stages of its creation, it is because people are aware of this incredible technology. You must understand that when something becomes a trendsetter, it becomes the market element which also gives price fluctuations to the other elements.
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Most likely you’ve heard that the government has raised the age at which you can start collecting your old age security (OAS) pension — to 67 from 65. Whether you are subject to the delayed start depends on your birthdate. But before we get into those details, let’s review the basics. OAS is a monthly pension provided by the federal government that is adjusted for inflation every three months. Your employment history is not a factor in determining eligibility; even people who have never worked can receive it. If you have resided in Canada for at least 40 years after turning 18, you should get the maximum.\n\nIn 2014 the maximum monthly amounts were: \n\n January to March — $551.54 \n April to June — $551.54\n July to September —$558.71 \n October to December — $563.74 \n\n\nTherefore, the total a person was entitled to last year was $6,676.59. \n\nThe problem with OAS for higher income people is the clawback. In 2014, 15% of any net income before adjustments (line 234 on your tax return) above $71,592 is clawed back from the OAS received. This is called the threshold amount. \n\nPeople with a net income of $116,103 will have all their OAS pension clawed back. That is because 15% of the difference of $44,511 ($116,103 less $71,592) is equal to $6,676.59. If you have to pay back a portion of your OAS, it will show as a deduction on line 235 of your tax return as "social benefits repayment." This amount is deducted from line 234 to give line 236, your net income. The amount you owe is listed on the last page of your tax return on line 422 as "social benefits repayment." \n\nThe government has brought in changes to the OAS age of eligibility because it is worried about the future cost of the plan. It is estimated that there will be twice as many people aged 65 and older in 2030 as there were in 2011 — 9.4 million versus five million. Paying out the pension to that many people would put significant pressure on the federal government’s annual deficit because the OAS program is paid out of regular government revenue and therefore affects the bottom line. \n\nHere’s how the eligibility age affects you. If you were born in: \n\n 1957 or earlier, you can still collect at age 65.\n 1958, before April 1, you can still collect at age 65. For April and May birthdays you’ll have to wait one month after turning 65. June or July will mean you’ll have to wait two months. August or September means a three-month delay. October or November means a four-month delay and those born in December will have to wait five months after turning 65. \n 1959, January is a five-month wait, February or March is six months, April or May is seven, June or July is eight, August or September is nine, October or November is 10 and December is 11 months. \n 1960, January is an 11-month wait; those born in February or March will have to wait until they turn 66. The wait for those born in April or May is one month after turning 66. June or July is two months, August or September is three, October or November is four and December is five months. \n 1961, January is a five-month wait after age 66. February or March is six months, April or May is seven, June or July is eight, August or September is nine, October or November is 10 and December is 11 months. \n 1962, those with January birthdays have to wait 11 months after turning 66. Those born after January have to wait until they turn 67. \n 1963 or later, you will have to wait until age 67. \n\n\nAnother significant change is the voluntary deferral of the OAS pension for up to five years after the age of eligibility. If you elect to delay, you will get a higher, actuarially adjusted pension when you do start collecting. Your pension will be increased by 0.6% per month of deferral. That’s 7.2% a year up to a maximum of 36% at age 70. \n\nThis provision is already in effect so it should be considered by anyone who can afford to wait. For people who earn more than the threshold amount, if they are able to delay receiving it until they have a lower income, they will get to keep more of the pension because it will be higher due to the monthly bonus. | <urn:uuid:162cd78c-3f28-4211-82a2-d8d9a5bc92d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cpacanada.ca/en/connecting-and-news/cpa-magazine/articles/2015/march/oas-the-new-rules | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00000-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986627 | 985 | 2.15625 | 2 |
BORP Transforms Lives
Participation in sports, fitness and recreation activities have been proven to have numerous positive effects. For people with disabilities and vision impairments, however, there are multiple barriers that prevent them from engaging in these activities. BORP breaks down those barriers, and, as a result, our participants’ lives are transformed.
What Participants Say
In surveys about the impact of BORP programs, participants report the following outcomes:
Making a Difference for YouthFor young people, participating in sports and recreation is extremely important in supporting their health, social and emotional development, and promoting success in school. For these reasons, BORP’s programs are especially important for youth with physical disabilities and vision impairments.
What Youth Participants SayBORP’s youth participants report the following outcomes:
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This paper proposes a standardized representation of function for use by the research community, industry, and eventually commercial software vendors. This includes schemata (information models) for representation of function and associated flows, as well as an initial attempt at developing taxonomies of functions and flows. The objective of the latter effort is to generate taxonomies that are as small as possible, yet generic enough to allow modeling of a broad variety of engineering artifacts. This representation is intended to provide a generic infrastructure that will facilitate the capture and exchange of function information among researchers at present, and eventually in industry by contributing to interoperability between design systems, be they commercial or developed internally within a company.
Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 1999 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences (11th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology) Paper No. DETC99/DTM-8742
Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV
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How to project videos and animations on scale over the Canada Parliament building in Ottawa ? It takes brilliant and creative designers like NEO6 and ID3. With a little bit of laser 3D expertise, we obtain a precise model to map out the entire presentation!
A foretaste of what Northern Lights reserves for you, the light and sound show offered on the parliament hill. This thematic journey of Canada’s history has been presented every evening from the 10th of July to September 12th 2015 and agin next year.
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RAPID CITY (AP) - Effective in July 2009, a new law says South Dakota parents will be held responsible for their children being in school until age 18 or graduation. Leaders in the Rapid City School District say they are preparing by working with parents to keep students from dropping out. Jeff Norris, a Rapid City deputy chief court-services officer, bridges the gap between schools and the court system by working with students and parents on truancy issues. ''We have to absorb all the kids back into the system somehow,'' he said at a meeting last week. Schools, law enforcement and the courts have a new program called Abolish Chronic Truancy. ''The goal of ACT is to keep kids in the building and get them success in those buildings,'' said Judd Thompson, a chief court-services officer. The message to parents is simple, said Norris: Please get involved. Nationally, Indians students have a 50 percent graduation rate, while white students' rate is 90 percent, according to the Department of Education. In Rapid City, Indian students' graduation rate is about 65 percent, compared with white students at 90 percent. Lack of transportation, economic hardships and harassment in school are part of the problem, according to parents and others at the meeting. | <urn:uuid:5277c55c-6810-4e38-be65-1d813ec153eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2008-02-25/news/26419869_1_graduation-rate-truancy-issues-white-students | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00467-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973128 | 252 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Orange smoothies and Lego™
When parents think about childcare, they think about caring, healthy environments, where their children will learn and be safe. When their children think about childcare, they think about fun.
For Jarred Charles, the fun began at our 91 Bellevue Childcare Centre as a toddler. A few years later, Jarred started elementary school at King Edward and joined our childcare centre at the school. And when he switched to the Lord Lansdowne school, he joined our newest childcare centre there. Lord Lansdowne accepts children ages five to 12 from the schools on site: Lord Lansdowne and the daVinci school. Jarred was there for the Centre’s opening, just in time for the 2017–2018 school year. And the important thing for Jarred at each Centre: fun.
“The first thing I remember at Bellevue was the big play area and the computers. And the food Noemia made. That was the best. King Edward had a big playground and I liked making the yummy smoothies. At Lord Lansdowne, we play basketball or with Lego™. And Matt and Tom are pretty funny. I met my friend Judah at King Edward — he’s here with me at Lord Lansdowne too. I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t go to child care.” We’re not sure either but we’re guessing it wouldn’t be as much fun…
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grows on hazel and alder, fascicularis on aspen. The latter is much smaller, but usually not as rusty coloured as this one. I can’t say for sure what it is..
I have only seen the Encoelia once before and that was growing on dead Hazel (Corylus). In this current case the wood was very dead and difficult to tell species but could have been Aspen (poplus) or Alder (Alnus).
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Could Avastin be used to treat Retinopathy of Prematurity?
Image via WikipediaAn interesting read from the web this morning from the NEJM.
Premature, low birth weight babies face a minefield of issues when brought into the world. One of most serious issues is the propensity for retinal blood vessels to grow amuck in response to erratic biochemical signals; these vessels can bleed and scar, leading to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) — a major cause of childhood blindness in the developed and developing worlds.
The NEJM asks this question, and answers it in part:
So why not directly inhibit VEGF? Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that does just that. Soon after it was approved to arrest new blood supplies to colon cancer metastases in 2004, doctors began using the inexpensive, easily administered drug off-label to treat a neovascular condition similar to ROP: age-related macular degeneration. Case series have suggested that it works for ROP, but now we have more definitive proof.
In a prospective multi-center trial reported inNEJM this week, researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston randomized 150 infants with posterior, stage 3+ ROP in zones 1 and 2 to receive either the standard confluent laser therapy (CLT) or an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (IVB) in each eye. Stage 3+, defined by prominent new blood vessels growing between the vascular and avascular regions of the eye (the + indicates the vessels are twisted), may be the optimal time for treatment—after VEGF has promoted normal vascularization and before the vessels have formed fibrous bands that would permanently disrupt the retina. The zone refers to the concentric region of retina affected (zone 1 disease includes the optic nerve and is the hardest to treat). The researchers’ primary goal in this federally sponsored study was to prevent recurrence of ROP in one or both eyes before 54 weeks postmenstrual age.
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In the world of The Terminator, Skynet is an artificial intelligence system that gained self-awareness and launched a massive nuclear attack after determining that humanity would attempt to destroy it.
Skynet was able to launch simultaneous global attacks by spreading into millions of computer servers worldwide and taking over nuclear missiles. If it didn’t have the ability to take over the servers and the nukes, Judgment Day could have been prevented.
Now, a recent article warns of a serious security flaw that could allow a malware to infect the “entire Internet.”
Google Inc. and software company Red Hat have discovered a “critical security flaw affecting the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), found in a universally used protocol.” In layman’s terms, “This means that an attacker could use it to infect almost everything on the entire Internet,” the article said.
How could that happen? The security flaw tricks Internet browsers into looking up suspicious domains, the article said, causing servers “to reply with DNS names that are far too long, thus causing a buffer overflow in the victim's software.” This overflow, in turn, would allow an attacker to take over the computer remotely. The security flaw will most likely take years to fix, according to the article, given that the last DNS flaw took a decade to fix.
Let’s hope Skynet doesn’t become a reality before the flaw is fixed.
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This past spring, filmmaker Yassine “Yazzy” Ouhilal and a crew of four other surfers went on an epic month-long surfing expedition north of the Arctic Circle. A film documenting their adventure will be shown at the Atlantic Film Festival on Thursday. | Photo courtesy of Yassine Ouhilal, www.yazzyphoto.com | To read an interview with Yazzy along with some more photos from his Arctic surf expedition, CLICK HERE
When it comes to surfing, the farther north you go, the smaller the crowds.
This past spring, accomplished surf photographer and filmmaker Yassine Ouhilal and a crew of four other surfers went about as far north as you can possibly go to surf uncrowded breaks.
In fact, they went so far north they were above the Arctic Circle in the land of the midnight sun where they rode waves in the middle of the night on breaks that had never been surfed before.
Ouhilal documented this epic month-long surf expedition in a nine-minute film called Arctic Surf that will be screened this Thursday at the Atlantic Film Festival.
(To read an interview with Yazzy along with some more photos from his Arctic surf expedition, click here)
The expedition began in April in northern Norway. Ouhilal, who lives near Lawrencetown Beach, was joined by Australian Mathew Whitehead and three Californians – Christian Wach, Patrick Millin and Cyrus Sutton.
Sutton, also an accomplished filmmaker, was in Halifax last November during the screening of his film Under the Sun.
“Everyone was very easy going which is key for a trip like this…To spend 44 days in a cold and harsh environment with a group of people can turn sour pretty quick if you’re not with the right kind of crew,” said Ouhilal.
For most of the expedition, the crew lived out of a restored fisherman’s cabin in the Norwegian fishing village Kraemmervika. From there, the crew hopped on more than 20 flights, drove over 10,000 kilometres and travelled through ice and snow to get to undiscovered surf breaks on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
Being that they were the first to surf some of the breaks, the crew got to name a few spots one of which they called “Discos”, a spot they surfed at midnight during a snow shower.
Nearing the end of their journey the crew crossed into Russia with hopes of surfing on the Barents Sea. However, some of the communist-era bureaucracy still exits in that part of the world and the crew was unable to get the proper permits to access the coastline.
“It was definitely at this point we kind of all looked at each other and began asking ourselves ‘What are we doing here?’” said Ouhilal. “We had gone to that extreme to try and surf new places and we were beginning to question if perhaps we had gone a bit too far.”
Returning to Norway, Ouhilal and Whitehead managed to score a tank ride from a Norwegian soldier who took them to a river mouth where a break, if surfed, would cross the Norway-Russia border.
“We thought about surfing across the border on that beach…but had we done that, we would have had to suffer pretty dire consequences,”said Ouhilal. “I do think it could be done as long as it was prearranged with the appropriate authorities.”
The expedition ended with a stellar tube-filled surf session at a break that looked “like Indonesia, stuffed into a freezer,” according to Millin.
“We came back to Norway from Russia just in time to score the best swell of the entire trip, and the very last day was absolutely perfect,” said Ouhilal. “This left point turned on with barreling waves and nobody else out – it definitely made it all worthwhile.”
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UArizona offers free swim lessons to families affected by Sunshine Swim School closing
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Students and families who were impacted by the sudden closing of Sunshine Swim School now have access to free swim lessons, courtesy of the University of Arizona’s Campus REC.
Campus REC officials announced on Friday, July 1 the free swim lessons fit perfectly with their mission: to help young people learn and grow. They also say the swim lessons promote things like pool safety.
The group lessons will be held every Saturday from July 16 through Aug. 6 from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the SouthRec facility pool at 1400 East Sixth Street.
There are six different levels, ranging from parent/child level to advanced.
To sign up for classes, click here.
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CIIS firmly believes that the students in China or those who are ready to come abroad to live abroad are full of wonderful illusions about foreign countries. Many people really yearn for life like Hollywood movies in North America, as well as the sun-beach beaches in North America and the shopping malls with famous brands. Even people will look forward to the luxury car brands in North America. Today, I will take you to learn about Canada’s splendid moments in the movie.
1. Canadian prices and tax rates
How much does it cost to earn in Canada each month? This topic is heavy for people living in Canada. Anyway, the current annual income of 100,000 is not crowded into the real estate market in Toronto/Vancouver; about a quarter of Canadians feel that the price of supermarket food is unacceptable; the tax paid is more than all the necessary expenses for eating and drinking. ...feeling that spending more every month is not enough.
The so-called high prices do not want to buy brand-name clothes or brand-name bags, these are indeed cheaper than domestic, but these things can really eat, can you drink? The price of purchasing daily necessities in Canada is often much higher than the domestic price, such as mineral water, milk, fruits, vegetables, meat and so on. The cost of these daily necessities and hygiene products is not comparable to that of the country. Please see the comparison chart below:
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In terms of accommodation, Canada's first-tier cities such as Vancouver and one-bedroom rents in downtown Toronto have reached more than 2,000 Canadian dollars. For young white-collar workers, they need to earn 4,000 Canadian dollars before tax every month to barely pay for living expenses!
Before talking about taxes, I have to pay the Canadian tax rate. Many new immigrants and international students will be spoiled in Canada when they first arrive in Canada. What is the most expensive? The tax is the most expensive! The price of the items in the mall is excluding consumption tax. If you purchase the product, you need to pay extra HST/GST, and the consumption tax rate is specified according to different provinces, which is basically between 5% and 15%. The BC and Ontario consumption tax rates for Chinese residents are 12% and 13% respectively.
Another point is the personal income tax rate that is quite different from China. The federal government will set tax rates according to different income classes:
But it is because the tax residents of Canada work diligently and legally to pay taxes every year to make Canada a good social welfare.
2. Canadian traffic
CIIS’s speculation may be due to the fact that Canada’s sparsely populated and sparsely populated areas have caused Canada’s public transport to lag behind. Take the first-tier cities of Vancouver and Toronto as an example. Toronto's subway is far from the domestic ones. The first is speed. The domestic subway is about 3-4 minutes, and the subway in Toronto is about 5-6. Minutes a minute or even longer. In Canada's subway, the frequency of bus departures is much lower than that of the domestic ones. If you miss this car, you may have to expose to the sun for a while. Rong Xiaobian compares Toronto's subway lines with Beijing and Shanghai subway lines:
it was unable to spit after reading. . .
In China, taxis can be said to be everywhere. In addition, the various car services and carpooling services launched in recent years have really improved the convenience of traveling in China. Then Xiaobian continues to use Toronto as an example, in most of Toronto. The taxis that run on the street are all ordered by others. In addition to taxis in the city center that can be used for parking like the domestic ones, the rest need to book cars in advance, and the waiting time for booking cars is generally not too short. Fortunately, the popularity of UBER/Uber in recent years is good for everyone to take a taxi in an emergency, otherwise there is no alternative to the bus. . .
3. Weather in Canada
What are the impressions of Chinese friends on the summer and winter of their hometown? Friends in the South may experience the wet summer in the summer, the temperature is often as high as 40 degrees, and the shower is at least 3 times a day, while the winter is about 10 degrees, and it is rare to see snow. The friends who live in the northeast are snowy in winter and cool in the shade in the summer. Chinese people living in different provinces have different memories of the weather in their hometowns. So for Canadians their comments on the weather is too cold in winter!
Canada is located in the northern half of North America, between 41° and 83° north latitude and 52° to 141° west longitude. It is east to the Atlantic Ocean, west to the Pacific Ocean, northwest to the United States of Alaska, south to the United States, north to the Arctic Ocean to the Arctic Circle. Canada is a Nordic-type continental climate with four distinct seasons. The winter season is long (November to April), the climate is cold, the summer period is short (July and August), and the rainfall is concentrated in spring (4, 5, and 6 months). Canada's climate is very different, and the temperature and precipitation in different regions vary greatly from season to season. For the most Chinese in Vancouver, it is the warmest city in winter in Canada. The coldest January average temperature is 3 °C, and the average temperature in July is 17 °C. Basically, it is spring all year round, but there is more rain; Toronto In winter, the weather is colder and has a body temperature of -20° to -30°. In July, it is 25 °C compared to the southern cities of China. It is cooler.
4. Canadian entertainment life
I believe that many domestic friends or parents and friends have the habit of going to the supermarket or shopping malls after dinner, strolling around the mall and then taking the subway home to enjoy the beauty. However, in Canada, it may be disappointing. In Canada, most shopping malls and supermarkets for human rights equality are closed at around 8-9, and it may be earlier if it is in a small town. So when I came to Canada, I had to go out shopping after dinner. Then you really can only go shopping, and there is no window-shopping after domestic dinner.
Therefore, Canada’s nightlife is not as convenient as domestic ones. If you are used to having a late night’s sleep in the country, you must have a little more food at home. Most of the restaurants in Canada are closed very early, except for the bar. Friends who are used to eating roadside stalls in China may be disappointed in Canada, but it is said that if you come to Canada to stay up late, you can still lose weight. Friends who want to lose weight can consider coming to Canada for further study.
Most of the Canadian daily entertainment activities are concentrated in the natural mountains and rivers, skiing. On the weekends, a few friends will barbecue in their backyard, and drive to the surrounding natural scenic spots on long weekends. Compared with domestic, the nightlife of white-collar workers can be said to be rich and colorful. From restaurants, KTV to bars, saunas, various types of consumption are everywhere, and in these big cities in the north and the north, there is not enough to buy a few thousand in the wallet.
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Agri-Plas, Inc. has grown out of Dari’s passion for preserving the environment. Growing up in the dairy industry in California, Dari knew first hand the tremendous plastic waste generated from agricultural operations.
In 1995, Dari began to realize her dream of cleaning up this wasted resource. Starting with plastic binder twine, she created a work force to clean and process the twine into bales of ground material.
Moving north to Oregon, Agri-Plas started processing agricultural plastic in a rented Salem location, that quickly gave way to the need for a larger facility. In 2004, the company moved to its present location, 5016 Waconda Rd. NE, Brooks, Oregon.
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Let’s concluded with series of posts with titular character herself, Notre Dame.
Notre Dame means in French Our Lady. Notre Dame de Paris mean Our lady of Paris. All churches that have Notre Dame in them refer to the Virgin Mary.
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By the close of 2011, one in nine hospital beds in this country existed in a Catholic or Catholic-sponsored health-care facility. If viewed together as one corporate entity, the ten largest Catholic-sponsored health systems of hospitals and clinics would constitute the largest in the country. And these hospitals are routinely denying medical care to women, citing Catholic doctrine as justification.
Case in point: It took months of appeals and the threat of a sex-discrimination lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union before one Catholic hospital in California reversed course this month and agreed to allow an area doctor to perform a postpartum tubal ligation on a patient. Mercy Medical Center, owned by Dignity Health of San Francisco—a not-for-profit benefits corporation that was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986 and that operates Catholic hospitals and ancillary care facilities in 17 states—had previously refused to allow Rachel Miller to undergo the procedure when she delivers her third child later this month via a scheduled cesarean section.
Mercy Medical, like all other Catholic hospitals in the country, follows “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services” written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those directives forbid doctors at Catholic facilities from participating in common reproductive health procedures like tubal ligation, contraception, sterilization, abortion even when the patient’s health is at risk, and in vitro fertilization, referring to many of them as “intrinsically evil.” The rules also direct health-care providers not to inform patients about alternatives inconsistent with the directives, even when those alternatives are the best option for the patient’s health.
In response to Mercy Medical’s original denial of the procedure, Miller’s insurance company had offered to cover her delivery at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, which would allow her to obtain the tubal ligation. But that hospital is more than 160 miles away. It would have required her to deliver with a different doctor and to force her family to travel that distance to be with her.
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After the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of California sent a demand letter on Miller’s behalf charging that the hospital had unlawfully denied her reproductive health care, Mercy Medical eventually approved the procedure.
“This is a decision that I made with my family and my doctor and no one else should be involved in that process,” said Miller in a statement. “I hope my case will shine a light on this issue so that others aren’t turned away.”
Advocates point out, though, that Miller’s situation was just a small part of a systemic problem. “While we’re grateful Mercy Medical has agreed to provide medical care in this instance for Ms. Miller, the reality remains that there is a clear conflict between the best interests of patients and the directives of the Catholic hospital system,” Elizabeth Gill, senior attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, told Rewire in an interview.
As Gill explained, hospitals like Mercy Medical, which serve the general public, should not be permitted to withhold care based on doctrine. “Religious institutions that provide services to the general public should not be allowed to hold religion as an excuse to discriminate or deny important health care,” said Gill. “With Catholic hospitals increasingly prevalent, including as the only option for some women, Rachel is just one of many women who risk being denied care, because Catholic bishops are telling medical professionals how to operate.”
This presents a real challenge for making sure patients across the country have access to high-quality, comprehensive reproductive health care. Such a difficulty is exacerbated by the fact that across the country, there is no consistency in which Catholic or Catholic-sponsored hospitals strictly adhere to the directives and which do not—as seen with Mercy Medical’s eventual concession to Miller’s requests.
“There are a lot of variations in what Catholic hospitals will do,” Lois Uttley, the director of MergerWatch, a nonprofit group that tracks Catholic mergers in health care, told Rewire.
“It has to do with the stance of their local bishop, it has to do with what system they might be in and what ethical policies they follow,” said Uttley, who holds a master’s degree in public policy.
Overall, though, the reality is that Catholic interference with reproductive health care reaches well beyond Hobby Lobby and the contraception challenges to the Affordable Care Act, or even the web of state-level abortion restrictions. It reaches all the way into the labor and delivery ward.
A Web of Denials
For mostly economic reasons, such as the dominance of insurance companies in driving health-care costs prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals—including Catholic-sponsored ones—went through a period of rapid mergers in the 1990s. These mergers allowed previously stand-alone facilities to better negotiate prices with insurance companies by consolidating local market share within one hospital system. Catholic facilities merged with other Catholic and non-Catholic ones, in a trend that continues today.
That trend means that the reach of Catholic health-care institutions has spread throughout the United States. According to a 2011 report released by the ACLU and MergerWatch, in many states, such as Washington, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri, almost 30 percent of hospitals are Catholic or Catholic-affiliated. Meanwhile, in California, where Miller was almost denied care, Mercy Medical—itself the fifth largest system in the country—is the state’s largest hospital provider.
Such an overwhelming presence means that for some patients, it’s either a Catholic hospital or no hospital at all. And advocates say that for every Rachel Miller who pushes back against religious refusals of care, there are countless other patients unable to do the same. Hospitals don’t specifically have to disclose their affiliation or notify patients up front that the directives will dictate the range of medical care available, so some patients don’t even know they will be subject to potentially limited services by seeking help at certain facilities.
When it comes to birthing care in particular, the influence of religious doctrines is especially evident when patients request procedures like tubal ligation, which in many cases is the standard of care following labor and delivery. “It makes no sense to tell a woman who is pregnant and wants to have a tubal ligation upon delivery of the child that she has to wait and do that later at another time because the hospital won’t allow it,” said Uttley. “It makes great medical sense to do it at the same time because the woman is already in the hospital, you are paying for the delivery, and in many cases if it is a c-section it makes great sense to do a tubal ligation while the woman is already under anesthesia. It is not good quality to send her away and force her to go back either into the hospital or the doctor’s office and to have a tubal ligation.”
Still, “there are many ordinary women out there who are refused the service and don’t understand that they could argue,” Uttley said.
“The problem is the most acute in areas where patients have no choice and where physicians are limited in where they can practice,” Uttley added. “We hear from doctors, for example, who are practicing in rural areas of western states where there is only a Catholic hospital and these doctors have patients who desperately need a tubal ligation at the time of delivery.”
Uttley continued, “Many times there are also complicating factors for the patient. For example, the woman could be obese, she could have diabetes, she could have hypertension. She could have a lot of complications that make pregnancy quite dangerous for her and she and her doctor have decided that upon delivery of the last child she will have a tubal ligation. We hear from doctors who are distraught at not being able to provide what they see as essential, quality care for their patients.”
Because pregnant patients often work with one OB-GYN, not hospitals, even those who try to avoid the doctrines can end up having their care restricted, Uttley said. She shared one example of a patient with whom her organization was in touch while working on the 2011 report: “There was a woman in upstate New York who already had four children [and who] was having her fifth child, and was talking with her OB-GYN ahead of time about having a tubal ligation at the same time as delivery.”
“The physician had admitting privileges at both a Catholic and a non-Catholic hospital, so they had planned this would take place at the non-Catholic hospital,” she continued. “However, when the time came for her to deliver he was at the Catholic hospital, so she ended up not being able to get the tubal ligation that she wanted even though her doctor did have admitting privileges at a non-Catholic facility because he wasn’t there at the time she delivered.”
These rules can also make obtaining care dangerous for patients experiencing pregnancy complications. Dr. Ashlee Bergin, a practicing OB-GYN in Chicago, shared a story during an interview with Rewire of seeing a patient within the last month who came to Bergin’s non-Catholic-affiliated hospital experiencing a spontaneous miscarriage at about 18 weeks. According to Bergin, the patient was bleeding quite significantly and yet had been turned away from two different Catholic hospitals, because there was still a fetal heartbeat. By the time the patient got to Bergin’s hospital, she was anemic and in an emergency situation.
“In a lot of these situations, it definitely impacts our ability to provide the complete spectrum of care, especially reproductive health care, to women,” Bergin told Rewire. “Catholic doctrine interferes with our ability to provide medically timely care,” she continued. “Not only that, it’s the right thing to do for these women and we are being told we can’t do what’s right for these women because of these doctrines.”
“Ideally, we should be able to provide the full range of reproductive health care for women and Catholic directives don’t allow that happen,” she said.
A recent national survey found that 52 percent of OB-GYNs working in Catholic hospitals experience conflict with religiously based policies about care. Physicians interviewed reported reactions ranging from “mild concern” to “outright shock” about the way the directives impacted their ability to offer treatment to patients experiencing certain emergencies, such as miscarriage or pre-viable premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). In these cases, physicians felt ending the pregnancy via abortion was justified, especially when the failing pregnancy was deeply wanted. The “wantedness” of the pregnancy was referenced in the context of defending the need for treatment and arguing that it was solely for the sake of safety and comfort for the pregnant patient, not because she did not wish to have a child. Still, the directives prohibited the the procedure until there was no longer a fetal heartbeat.
Holding Catholic Hospitals Legally Accountable
Such restrictions on care have yet to be successfully challenged in the courts. In 2010, a then-18 weeks pregnant Tamesha Means showed up at Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon, Michigan, in the middle of having a miscarriage. Her water had broken and she was experiencing severe cramping. Mercy Health, a Catholic-sponsored facility, told Means there was nothing it could do for her, because treatment would have terminated the pregnancy, and sent her home. Means came back the next day, this time in more pain and bleeding, and was again told the course of action was to wait and see.
As detailed in court documents, Means, a mother of three, returned to Mercy Health a third time, this time suffering from a significant infection from her untreated miscarriage. In response, the hospital gave Means some aspirin to treat her fever and prepared to send her home. Before the hospital discharged Means for a third time, she started to deliver. It wasn’t until then that the hospital decided to admit Means and to treat her condition. Means eventually delivered a baby who died within hours of birth.
Means sued, claiming the directives followed by Mercy Health—and other Catholic hospitals—amount to the delivery of negligent care.
A district court dismissed Means’ case on procedural grounds, ruling in part that the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention prevents courts from reviewing cases like Means’. That doctrine dates back to an 1871 Supreme Court decision, Watson v. Jones, which first established principles limiting the role of civil courts in deciding religious controversies. Watson and the cases that followed limit the power of courts to hear suits “whenever the questions of discipline, or of faith, or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by … church judicatories.”
The idea behind the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine is that courts should not settle what would amount to disputes about religious doctrine. In other words, it is not up to the judiciary to decide whether or not particular religious tenets are “correct.” If it involves a question of interpreting church doctrine, the courts are supposed to just stay out of it.
In Means’ case, the defendants, including Mercy Hospital and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, claimed the directives offer “a statement of the Roman Catholic Church’s moral and religious postures as it relates to health care issues” and are in place “to provide authoritative guidance on certain moral issues that face Catholic health care today.” Therefore, the defendants argued, a court must interpret the directives in order to assess whether they ensure patients receive reasonable care. In turn, they claim that interpreting the directives in this way means interpreting Catholic theology, which the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine prohibits.
Means’ attorneys responded that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine was not at issue because they were not asking the court to determine the validity of the directives, but to determine whether the imposition of the directives on Mercy Health caused her harm. It wasn’t the validity of the directives that was at issue, Means’ attorneys argued, it was the delivery of substandard medical care they dictated. But the lower court disagreed, ruling Means’ claims “oversimplifies the text and theological underpinnings of the ERDs, as well as how the Directives are applied in hospital settings.” According to the court:
Plaintiff’s complaint about the unavailability of “direct abortions” under the ERDs would require a nuanced discussion about how a “direct abortion” is defined in Catholic doctrine. Directive 45 clearly prohibits direct abortions, defined as “the directly intended termination of a pregnancy before viability.” Do procedures that directly intend to treat a serious pathologic condition of the mother (such as acute chorioamnionitis and funisitis), and indirectly result in termination of the pregnancy, constitute a direct abortion? (See Directive 47.) When do medical procedures that augment—rather than induce—labor constitute a direct abortion? (See Directive 49.) Must the procedure satisfy the Catholic principle of double-effect to be permissible under the ERDs? (See Directive 45’s discussion of “sole immediate effect” and “material cooperation.”) Can the treating doctor exercise independent judgment or is she required to consult a Catholic ethicist before providing emergency care? (See Directive 37.) Does the ethicist have an obligation to consult the local bishop in his moral and theological analysis of the medical treatment options? (See General Introduction; Directive 37.)
The court continued:
These questions demonstrate how the application of the Directives are inextricably intertwined with the Catholic Church’s religious tenets. This Court is competent to address whether the medical care provided by Mercy physicians, and vicariously provided by Trinity Health, constitute negligence or medical malpractice. However, the Court cannot determine whether the establishment of the ERDs constitute negligence because it necessarily involves inquiry into the ERDs themselves, and thus into Church doctrine.
The court could look at individual applications of care, but could not explore the fact that the directives were the source of that care thanks to the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. Attorneys representing Means filed an immediate appeal of the decision with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
That case is still pending. But should conservatives prevail in advancing their argument that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine insulates Catholic hospitals from medical negligence liability, patients will be left with very few, if any, ways to hold those institutions accountable for delivering any substandard medical care.
A Market-Based Solution?
Although the courts may be doing very little to advance policies that promote good patient care, Uttley hopes the market can do more. While individuals may not think of market-based approaches to care when choosing an OB-GYN, health insurers and employers who offer benefits plans to their workers do when deciding which facilities to contract with.
“There is a big push right now in the country for what is called ‘value-based health care,’” explained Uttley. “It’s a big push of HHS; it’s also a huge drive of many state governments and of insurance companies and employers. They are all looking to purchase health care that meets the standards of quality and cost-effectiveness. It is [MergerWatch’s] position that refusing to give women reproductive health care when they need it doesn’t meet those standards.”
From a government perspective, investing in high-quality, cost-effective care is especially fiscally relevant because at this point, medical services at Catholic facilities are heavily subsidized by taxpayers. In 2011, Catholic-sponsored or -affiliated hospitals billed the federal government approximately $115 billion related to patient care and reported receiving $27.1 billion in net government revenues in 2011, principally from Medicaid.
“There is a big drive to establish quality metrics [for value-based health care] now, and in fact some Catholic hospitals are in the leadership of that movement and do deliver high quality care in other areas of their health-care delivery,” said Uttley.
But when it comes to reproductive care, she says, “this is a big gaping hole, and we see it potentially as quite a challenge for Catholic hospitals and health-care systems to meet their aspirations of delivering quality, cost-effective care when because of doctrine the care ends up being fragmented.”
Ultimately, as seen in the Miller case, the decision to deny a patient reproductive health care based on religious directive is completely, utterly arbitrary. But it has lasting, potentially devastating effects—both for the individuals involved and for those who may rely on the hospital in the future.
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The global energy crisis has driven demand for Australian resources to all-time highs, with the country’s resource exports expected to hit a record of more than $400 billion, according to reports.
The ongoing Russia–Ukraine war and the resultant sanctions on Russia have led to global shortages in coal and natural gas, which has in turn seen commodity prices spike.
Australia’s record resource export earnings have come as countries look to non-Russian sources of fuel, a situation federal Resources minister Madeleine King said highlighted Australia as a “stable and reliable” global supplier.
“Australia’s resources and energy sector continues to underpin Australia’s economy and to support international energy security during the global turbulence caused largely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” she said.
Trade figures from the federal government to be released on Monday 4 July are expected to show a jump from $320 billion in export earnings in the 2020–21 financial year to $405 billion this year – a 26 per cent year-on-year increase.
Earnings from coal and liquefied natural gas have both more than doubled in the past 12 months. It is expected the trade figures will show that exports of thermal coal have jumped from $16 billion to $39 billion year-on-year as a result of historically high prices, while metallurgical coal has risen from $23 billion to $60 billion over the same period.
Iron ore remains Australia’s most valuable export, with the new trade figures estimating its export earnings reached $133 billion for the year. However, King said those earnings were expected to decline as mines in Brazil lift production volumes and global demand slows.
“The value of iron ore exports is expected to moderate further in 2023–24, as prices ease toward their historical average below US$100 a tonne,” she said.
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The PhD viva has been described as mysterious (Burnham, 1994; Morley et al, 2002), unpredictable (Rugg and Petre, 2004) and potentially fearful for students (Delamont et al, 2004), with its form and duration a function of the predilections of individual examiners as well as a function of differences across disciplines. Despite its myriad manifestations the PhD viva voce (live voice), as oral examination of the doctoral thesis, constitutes the final ‘test’ of the PhD endeavour. In the UK this is a private event, though in some countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, for example, the viva is conducted in a public arena (Delamont et al, 2004). Although there is no standard or prescribed format, students across all disciplines can expect to defend their thesis with this involving questioning, clarification and discussion of key elements. This critical commentary discusses a number of issues that inform the preparation of students focusing on the role of the internal and external examiner, the viva voce process, guidance for students and some practical suggestions for supervisors and students, particularly the value of full role-play in building students’ confidence. The extent to which the doctoral viva, in its current ‘secret’ form, can be seen as a fully accountable and independently rigorous process is taken up in the conclusion that highlights the phenomenon of ‘cosy’ reciprocal examining arrangements, the spectre of litigation when things go wrong and the need to consider a fundamental review of both the purpose and conduct of the viva.
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Environmentalists don’t get the joke. The situation is too dire – extreme weather from a changing climate, toxins in our food, endangered species dying off – for this to be a laughing matter. At least, that’s our reputation: Serious, earnest, humorless.
The reputation is partly deserved. Most environmental activists take their work very seriously. We see huge problems facing our world, and know that human lives are at stake. Take a look at this new study from the National Academy of Science, about the abrupt impacts of climate change, and you’ll know why. When you focus on issues that are so serious, it’s easy to slip into taking yourself too seriously.
It’s a condition you find with activists across the ideological spectrum, many of whom feel like they’re in an uphill struggle to do what they think is right. Tea Partiers, Wall Street Occupiers, and proponents on both sides of the abortion debate often come off as stern and unamused. Or they’re happy to laugh, as long as the joke is on their ideological opponents.
If you believe what you’re doing is important, it’s certainly good to take your work seriously. But it becomes a problem when you imply that your mission is more important than what’s going on in other people’s lives. And even worse, when you get the reputation for being irritating, it becomes harder to get support for your cause or grow your movement.
The good news is that this reputation is far from a full picture of people who work on conservation issues. If you spend time with environmental activists, you’ll find that most of us don’t fit the stereotype. We won’t scold you for driving the wrong car* or turning up the heat on a cold day, and we probably tell more jokes about ourselves than any else. (Q: How do electric car owners drive? A: One hand on the wheel, the other patting themselves on the back.)
Sure, some of this perception problem is the result of unfair caricature, but it is a real problem. The reality is that environmentalists often have a difficult time reaching the people with whom we most need to build trust in order to accomplish our goals: Americans who don’t feel a natural kinship with the traditional environmental movement. We need to accept that other people’s priorities – economic or cultural – are valid and important.
Many of the people I know who work to protect our air, land and water do take this more constructive attitude. My colleagues who are trying to keep our oceans sustainable care as much about the fisherman as the fish. The activists working to reduce toxins in products on our supermarket shelves are trying to make life safer for regular families like their own. But sometimes it is hard to build alliances because potential partners assume environmentalists will be inflexible – and see their work as more important than anyone else’s. We need to fix that perception.
A good place to start would be showing that we can take a joke. That’s a small thing, but it’s amazing how taking yourself less seriously can open up conversations.
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After 26 continuous days airborne, Airbus has broken the record for the longest flight of an unmanned aircraft. The unmanned, solar-powered aircraft avoids commercial traffic and weather by flying high in the atmosphere. Its onboard batteries to keep it airborne overnight, so it does not need to land to recharge. Flight data shows the aircraft has flown from its test range in Arizona to Belize in Central America, and then back again.
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|A few brownstone residences still survived along Madison Avenue at the time of the church's completion -- photo Library of Congress|
In 1904 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had a problem. It had become one of the largest insurance companies in the nation and its 10-year old headquarters building was already inadequate. The firm desperately desired to expand the structure, filling the rest of the block along Madison Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets.
But the impressive brownstone Gothic Revival Madison Square Presbyterian Church sat on the site. The church’s congregation was not only composed of wealthy and influential New Yorkers, but it was headed by the highly-regarded and powerful Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. The church was, in fact, most commonly called “Dr. Parkhurst’s church.” Obtaining the site would be a feat.
|The Gothic brownstone church stood in the way of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's expansion -- photo NYPL Collection|
Directly across 24th Street from the church was the mansion of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe; one of the surviving remnants of Madison Square’s residential glory days. When the property became available, John R. Hegeman, president of Metropolitan Life, purchased it for $700,000 and offered to trade the site with the church—the properties being about the same in value. To sweeten the pot, Hagemen threw in an additional $300,000 in cash.
The trustees of the church agreed and plans were begun for a new structure. Famed architect Stanford White was given the commission. It was the beginning of a battle between two strong-willed and self-assured men. White envisioned a Roman basilica, chaste and pure; Dr. Parkhurst insisted on a traditional Gothic Revival church with a high steeple.
Stanford White won.
When the architect’s plans were released in March 1904, Dr. Parkhurst begrudgingly explained to the press why he had conceded. “Why is it to be a church without a steeple?” he told reporters. “If anyone could know the awful struggle I had before I could consent to such a thing he would be sure that there was a good reason for it.
“There is nothing like the Gothic for church architecture. It is the accepted style in this country and elsewhere. But the environment of the church in this city makes such a style absolutely impossible, unless its incongruity with its surroundings can be overlooked…a steeple couldn’t be built high enough to overtop the roofs of the buildings all around it, and the result would be a dwarfing of the structure.”
The pastor sighed with resignation. “It is a deplorable state of affairs, but it can’t be helped, and the only alternative is the one adopted by this church.”
“The only alternative,” according to White’s mind, was the Roman basilica and it would prove to be one of the architect’s greatest masterworks.
Ground was broken in April. Before the church was completed in October 1906, Stanford White had been murdered by Harry Thaw in Madison Square Garden just two blocks away. In his dedication sermon on October 14, Dr. Parkhurst admitted that White had created a thing of beauty.
|Century Magazine published a watercolor rendering of the new edifice -- copyright expired|
“With all the many responsible undertakings with which he was charged it was to this church that he seemed particularly to dedicate himself, and to make of it the idol of his thought and effort.” The pastor added “We have the right in a humble way to be proud of this splendidly architectural home in which we are to meet.”
Art critic Helen Henderson, not often one to lavish praise, said in her “A Loiterer in New York,” “White never stopped short of the best…The exterior is exceedingly beautiful, executed in grey brick, throughout which is repeated, in the mannor of a diaper pattern, the Maltese Cross, giving variety and interest to the surface. The porch is supported by exquisite pillars of polished granite.”
The granite pillars rose 30 feet to support a classical pediment. The low saucer dome was surmounted by a gilded lantern. To break the monotony of the grey façade, White splashed color in the form of polychromatic terra cotta elements, such as the massive Corinthian capitals. Outwardly it was an uncorrupted architectural gem. Inside, it was dazzling.
|Louis Comfort Tiffany lavished the interior with iridescent glass and dazzling mosaics -- photo "A Loiterer in New York" 1914, copyright expired|
Among the congregants of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church was the Louis Tiffany family. White worked closely with Tiffany, giving the artisan unusual freedom. Henderson noted that “the interior is, perhaps, most notably a monumental example of the Tiffany favrile glass, in whose happy use the building has no rival.”
The cavernous sanctuary could accommodate 1,300 worshipers. Along the chancel wall, a continuous band of the ten commandments was spelled out in favrile glass on a white mosaic background, suggestive of mother-of-pearl. F. Hopkinson Smith, in his “Charcoals of New York,” called the church a “mosaic of light and shade.” Tiffany windows illuminated the space and, due to the shadows cast by the tall office buildings, hidden “electroliers” assured that the iridescent windows were always flooded with light.
|Metropolitan Life Insurance got its new tower and Madison Square Presbyterian got a new church -- NYPL Collection|
Unknown to most, the completed structure was not complete. Stanford White intended that the pediment be ornamented with an immense, colored terra cotta sculpture. Not until 1910 would his vision be executed. On May 29 of that year The New York Tribune noted “When Mr. White made his first designs for the church and thought of this decoration he called to his aid Mr. H. Siddons Mowbray, the accomplished painter.”
White and Mowbray worked out the basis for a design but with White’s death, the project temporarily stopped. It was further delayed when the young sculptor Antonin Skodick who was commissioned by Mowbray to prepare a sketch model of the pediment died.
Finally Adolph A. Weinman executed the sketch model along the lines of White’s vision; although as The Tribune pointed out, “he was given entire freedom as to the composition of the figures, and the relief is essentially the product of his art.”
|The completed white-and-blue terra cotta pediment sculpture was finally installed in 1910 -- photo the New York Tribune May 29, 1910 (copyright expired)|
The completed pediment, cast at the Atlantic Terra Cotta Works in Perth Amboy, was titled “The Adoration of the Shrine of Truth.” The pristinely white figures of angels, cherubs, a knight and a shepherd contrasted with the vivid blue background. The Tribune called it “a production of rare significance in the history of American architecture.”
Stanford White’s masterful Madison Square Presbyterian Church was now complete.
|By 1912 the brownstones of the congregants had all been replaced by soaring office buildings -- photo Library of Congress|
Eight years later on May 26, 1918 Charles H. Parkhurst preached his last sermon after 38 years at Madison Square Presbyterian. With the church’s wealthy congregants moving further north, it merged with First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue. The trustees saw no value in keeping the church open.
In his sermon, Dr. Parkhurst made his opinion on the closing of the church apparent. “The general disposition of Presbyterians has been to retreat from the lower sections of the city and to drift northward on the current of culture and wealth,” he said. The pastor admonished that “the successful promotion of civilization is not to be secured by special efforts at Christianizing the refined and affluent classes. Christ’s efforts were given to the people, the common people, for they are the basis of society.”
Parkhurst’s rebuke changed nothing.
“The Madison Square Church closed its doors yesterday for good,” reported The Sun on May 27. “It is understood that the property is for sale and unless disposed of for church purposes the building, one of the last creations of the late Stanford White and one of the finest church edifices in the city, will be torn down.”
Only twelve years after its construction, demolition began in October 1918. “It is a striking comment on the rapidity of changes in New York City ,” said The New York Times. “Within twelve years from its opening the usefulness of the church, in view of the commercial invasion, has gone, and its ultimate destruction will make New York so much the poorer architecturally.”
The New York Tribune was more pointed. Comparing the destruction to “any French cathedral within range of German guns,” it said on May 8, 1919, “There is a shocking waste taking place in New York to-day that illustrates the strange destructiveness of our age that we like to praise for its swift and tremendous creations.”
“But the church is vanishing,” the article went on, “and with it more beauty than our jungle of horror and glory can spare.”
In an astonishingly early example of architectural salvaging, many of the exquisite elements were rescued. The Times reported that “The fine pipe organ, the pews, and wainscoting and even flooring are being utilized in various buildings belonging to the First Presbyterian Church.” Stanford White’s son requested certain architectural pieces and the Columbia University School of Architecture received fragments of the cornices, friezes and balustrades.
Robert W. DeForest was not only a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, but President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had the priceless pediment sculpture removed and put in storage for future exhibition in the museum.
And then, as summer 1919 approached, the Madison Square Presbyterian Church was no more. The New York Tribune mourned, “We wonder if a country can be the home of great creative beauty while the juggernaut of progress is joy-riding over the land. The fate of the Stanford White church is certainly not easy to explain.”
Remnants of the church still survive. An ornate doorway was found in storage in the Brooklyn Museum. In Riverside, California a wedding chapel is beautified by some of the Tiffany windows and the massive granite columns from the portico are now part of an office building in Hartford, Connecticut.
As for the matchless terra cotta pediment, “The Adoration of the Shrine of Truth,” things did not go so well. The 44-foot wide sculpture was exhibited on an exterior wall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the Met expanded the building in 1960, neither the museum nor any donors was willing to pay for its removal. The irreplaceable artwork once described as “a production of rare significance” was destroyed. | <urn:uuid:b8deee6e-53e6-4685-b565-fcd56a8480e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/04/lost-1907-madison-square-presbyterian.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967286 | 2,371 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Faberge Fractals are spectacular to look at. Full of intricate details, they are named after the famous Fabergé eggs, jeweled creations that were made by the Russian House of Fabergé between 1885 to 1917. But in place of the delicate shells of eggs, the Faberge Fractals appear laser cut out of wood.
Created by Scotland-based laser physicist-turned-artist and web developer Tom Beddard, who is also known as subBlue, the Faberge Fractals are a result of a formulaic method that digitally renders the three-dimensional models. He reveals, "The fascinating aspect is where combinations of parameters can combine to create structural 'resonances' of extraordinary detail and beauty—sometimes naturally organic and other times perfectly geometric. But then like a chaotic system it can completely disappear with the smallest perturbation."
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In past couple of weeks, pictures of school and college going Kashmiri girls and women pelting stones at Indian security forces went viral. These young women were reportedly from various government colleges of Kashmir and were protesting against alleged injustices by the Indian army and security forces.
The pictures made it to international media where it was argued that India has virtually lost Kashmir as the next generation of Kashmiris, including girls, were ready for pitched battles. In response, government was reported to be planning to raise women police battalion to take these women stone-pelters.
However, before the women policemen could take them on, Hizbul Mujahideen has cautioned the women to stay away from the stone-pelting. It should be noted that the current phase of violence in Kashmir was triggered after Burhan Wani, the commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed by security forces.
Zakir Musa, the man who succeeded Burhan Wani in the terrorist organisation, has released an audio message asking women to abandon stone-pelting and stay at home.
In fact, he virtually went on to blame the young women for the mess Kashmir is in today because they were not wearing burqa while pelting stones.
“I want to tell the sisters that whatever you are doing is against Sharia law, as pelting stones without being in veil is un-Islamic. In Islam, there are no such protests and that is why Allah is punishing us in the form of occupation (sic),” he is reported to have said in his message.
He further told the women that their brothers (terrorists like him) were alive and thus women did not need to indulge in such acts that were against Islam.
Zakir Musa had earlier in March asked people to throw stone at security forces “for Islam”.
“Whenever we are fighting with gun or throwing rocks, this should not be for nationalism but for Islam,” he had said back then. Perhaps he failed to clarify back then that he was addressing only men and not women, for whom he has additional instructions like staying at home or at least wearing a burqa.
The latest statement by the terrorist organisation has once again confirmed that the current “agitation” in Kashmir is not for something called “Kashmiriyat” but for “Islam”. It is more about religion than politics, as an earlier article on OpIndia had argued. | <urn:uuid:04590fe9-6940-49af-b6b6-fe4a19327aed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opindia.com/2017/05/not-wearing-burqa-while-stone-pelting-is-against-islam-hizbul-mujahideen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.988529 | 505 | 1.945313 | 2 |
You can ignore the signs and numbers, but this doesn't make their magical properties any less, you cannot even imagine the gravity of their power over the fate of people. For a long time, in many nations, the number “seven” was considered happy and complete, full of energy and higher spirituality. Many things in religions and kazakh beliefs of the people, in art and science, in language and culture are connected with it.
The presence of the seven is felt at every step in the world around us. Remember, 7 wonders of the world, 7 basic notes in music, 7 colors of the rainbow, 7 days of the week, etc.
Kazakh people also associate the number 7 with a number of titles. (Jeti Yrys – Seven Lucks, Jetі Jargy – a Corpus of Kazakh Customary Law established by Tauke Khan in 17th century, Jetі Galam – Seven Universes, Jetі Ata – Seven Generations).
But a special place in the ideology of Kazakh people is occupied by the concept of “Jety Kazyna” – Seven Treasures. By treasure people mean the seven necessary components of life of a real human: masculinity of a young man, a beautiful and intelligent wife, a fast-footed horse, a hunting golden eagle, a faithful Kazakhstan dogs called the Tazy (Central Asian greyhound) breed, good weapons, and comprehensive knowledge. With these seven treasures life feels complete and happy.
Why the first component of “Jetі Kazyna” is “a young man”? This is explained by the fact that a man was always the head of Kazakh families, nomads, he was an earner, a breadwinner, a protector of the clan. As Kazakhs say, an intelligent woman (wife) brings wealth into the family. The task of a wife is not just to keep the family hearth, but also to wisely allocate the husband's prey to avoid a situation when “feast today and fast tomorrow”. Moreover, it is up to a woman to bring up children worthy of their father. The head of the family does not bring up the children – he is constantly at work, riding on his horse, hunting. The mother instructs children to respect their father, to look at his deeds, and to learn from him. That is why a beautiful companion of life should be according to "Jeti Kazyna" legendary tradition – a smart woman. This is true happiness.
By the way elders in Kazakhstan instruct their children on the necessity to know their ancestors up to the seventh generation. Seven again! Kazakhs have this "unwritten law" "Jeti Ata" (Seven Generations) that is still being passed over from generation to generation. Traditionally, Kazakhs have always been against the marriage between relatives the kinship marriage. In order to have a healthy generation and to avoid genetic diseases, it is forbidden to be related to anyone up to the seventh generation. Today, a high risk of mental and other diseases in children born in marriages between close relatives has been scientifically proven. Our ancestors acted so intuitively!
Three friends of the 'jigit' (a young man)
Three more treasures of a real man in the concept of nomads are three faithful friends of the 'jigit': a fast-footed horse, a tazy (greyhound), a hunting golden eagle. What could a man get with his bare hands? A natural predator, such as the golden eagle, is able to get hares, foxes, and even wolves!
Moreover, the Kazakhs believed that the house, where a golden eagle resides, is always protected from evil. Therefore, the wings, feathers, and paws of this bird were hung on an honorable place or above the head of the cradle. It was believed that the sacred bird protects against the evil eye and any damage, kind of serves as a talisman.
Tazy, a greyhound, was also a faithful friend at hunting. It is believed that with the abundance of tazy puppies, wealth and happiness come into the house. Nomads took care of puppies since birth, trained them and when the puppies were ready, they were released back to the wild alongside its master to assist him in hunting. Catching the first prey with the dog was a real thrill. Tazy, together with a hunting bird and a horse, were always taken to large 'toi' (celebrations) and festivals – they were the real pride of a man.
In Kazakh folklore, a horse is an indispensable companion of a man. People say “He is not a 'jigit' if he has never sat on a horse”.
Did you know that Central Asia and, particularly, Kazakhstan is considered to be the most likely place where horses were domesticated? Even today, when these animals don't have such a great significance for nomads as before, a large number of horses continue to be bred in Kazakhstan. Steppe horses remain an indispensable element of the cultural heritage and modern symbol of the country. One of the most popular ones here is the local Kazakh horse breed.
Animals of this breed are universal, equally good in all kinds of uses: as a horse for riding, as a workhorse, and a source of meat and dairy. A key feature of the Kazakh breed of kazakh horses is their high stamina and endurance, which is necessary for life in the steppes, expanding through the heat of the summer to the frost of winter. This feature makes this horse suitable for sports tournaments as well where stamina and endurance are more important than the speed of the animal.
The list of "Jetі Kazyna" concludes with good weapons (Sabers, bow and arrows, "kamshy-pyshak" – a sharp blade which was hidden in the handle of the horsewhip, etc.), which will not fail in combat; and comprehensive knowledge that will help him to take the right path in life and make wise decisions.
Of course, today it is impossible for everyone to have a personal horse, a tazy dog, a golden eagle – a civilization, city life dictates their own rules and regulations. But there are guardians of these traditions! Most often it is hereditary berkutchi (a falconer), hereditary hunters and riders. Owing to them and their initiatives, we have got the Association of National Sports in Kazakhstan, including hunting with hunting birds; various national events also happen upon their initiative – falconer festivals, ethnic festivals, art symposia, and sports where horses are an inseparable part of national games like baiga, kokpar, kyz-kuu. Owing to such people, anyone can be closer to the nomadic culture of Kazakh people. You only need to decide what activity is the closest to your heart and then you may start your trip! | <urn:uuid:26d21110-28cc-45e1-8277-1140e9ae8bb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kazakhstan.travel/publications/en/52/the-most-valuable-for-a-nomad-7-treasures-of-the-kazakhs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.965173 | 1,422 | 2.15625 | 2 |
In any field, including programming, some problems commonly appear, and the solutions to those problems are often the same every time. Christopher Alexander first introduced the term design patterns in the context of architecture (building architecture that is, not systems architecture), to represent the idea that the same general problems are encountered in many different architectural designs and that these general problems share the same solutions. This is hardly a debatable concept: Across thousands of architectural designs, there is a certain amount of repetition. Based on either experience or academic knowledge, many different architects will solve the same problems in the same way.
It wasn't long before this idea was applied to other fields, including the design and implementation of computer systems, where it has found an enthusiastic response from many different architects and developers. The book Design Patterns, by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (nicknamed the "Gang of Four" by some) presented an overview of this idea, along with a detailed description of 23 specific design patterns. Now, each of these patterns describes a general problem and a general way in which that problem could be handled, but all do so at a very high level and in a language-independent fashion. For the most part, design patterns tend to stay away from implementation. They exist at a level above the specific language or platform that you are working on. However, this concept of generic solutions for generic problems can be applied at whatever level of detail you want.
With these concepts in mind, you can see that many of the more common problems or requirements encountered in your own projects are really generic design issues for which the solution is the same, regardless of which project it occurs in. The wonderful thing about these generic problems is that, if you recognize them, then you can find and reuse the same solution.
In this article, I take a look at a very common problem that is encountered when writing Windows applications, and then I show you a solution implemented using .NET. The generic requirement or problem is background processing, the need to perform tasks while a user continues to interact with your program's user interface.
Why Do We Need Background Processing?
The primary aspect by which a user will judge your application is its interface. If that interface appears to hang, runs slowly, or otherwise forces users to wait, they will think poorly of your program. This is a well-known UI concept, in which the perceived speed of a system is often more important than its real speed, and it forces you to use some form of background processing. Consider a sample application that scans the user's hard drive for Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, lists them on the screen, and then lets the user browse, select and play them. Without any form of background processing, the system would perform the scan as a dedicated task, which would be the fastest method, but it would force the user to wait until the scan was complete to start interacting with the program (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Without background processing, the user has to wait whenever the program is working on a task.
Alternatively, and certainly what the user would expect, the scan could run in the background (see Figure 2), filling in the list a little more slowly than in the dedicated example, but not requiring any user wait time.
Figure 2 Processing the task in the background means that the user experiences the minimum amount of delay.
So, the general issue is that you need to maintain a responsive user interface even when you have one or more processing tasks to perform. The general solution (and you will see this being done in almost every piece of commercial software that supports a user interface) is to run those processing tasks in the background while still allowing the user to interact with the system. Now, the trick is how to accomplish this using Visual Basic .NET. The remainder of this article details the implementation of both a background process and the technique required to have that background process update the user interface. | <urn:uuid:083311d4-d7bc-410a-84fc-b2fbce772225> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25854&seqNum=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953548 | 799 | 2.625 | 3 |
From Green Right Now Reports
Climate action group 350.org announced today that more than 5,200 events are planned for this year’s work party on Oct. 10, 2010.
That means the 10-10-10 work party is on track to surpass participation in last year’s global demonstration in which people in 181 countries took part in 5,248 events. CNN called those gatherings to raise awareness about climate change the “most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history,” said 350.org founder Bill McKibben.
This year’s 10-10-10 event is asking people to seize the moment and take small but meaningful steps toward saving the planet, even if, and especially because, politicians won’t. Groups will be installing gardens, solar panels and weatherizing buildings.
“When we see our leaders failing, we want to show them how it’s done. We want to get to work,” McKibben said today in an update.
Actress and environmentalist Ellen Page of Inception and Juno fame has joined the movement and invites everyone to participate:
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The income tax return (ITR) deadline for the fiscal year 2021–2022 has passed.
It is fine if you have already submitted the return but for any reason if you failed to file your return by July 31, you still have time until December 31, 2022, by paying a late fee. However there are other repercussions too along with the late fee.
“Missing deadlines have several consequences in addition to the late fees. You will have to pay interest on the late tax payment if you miss the deadline” said, Himachal based Charted Accountant, Umesh Waliya.
According to the Income Tax Act of India, income tax is charged on every individual, HUF, partnership, LLP, and corporate income. If an individual’s income exceeds the minimal threshold limit, they are subject to the slab system of taxation (known as basic exemption limit )
Talking about the basic exemption , Waliya, said that” the basic exemption threshold is determined by the income tax system one select. The baseline tax exemption ceiling is Rs 2.5 lakh under the new concessional income tax regime, regardless of the taxpayers’ age. The basic exemption threshold for those aged 60 to 80 is set at Rs 3 lakh. The exemption ceiling for those above 80 is set at Rs. 5 lakh.
Adding further about the late fine he explained that , For taxpayers with a yearly income up to Rs 5 lakh, there is a Rs 1,000 late fine. The late fee is Rs 5,000 if your yearly income exceeds Rs 5 lakh. However, you won’t be required to pay a late filing penalty if your gross total income is less than the basic exemption amount”.
According to ITR guidelines, If any one file return before the due date, can simply deposit the unpaid tax. But if someone miss the deadline, than one has to submit the unpaid tax, as well as the interest, retroactively from July 31. If the outstanding balance is not paid before the 5th of the month, the interest for the entire month must be paid at a rate of 1% per month.
A taxpayer’s burden can be reduced by offsetting losses from company activities or the sale of property against other income. However, losses can be carried forward only if the ITR is filed before the deadline.
If the ITR is not submitted by the deadline, a taxpayer will not be permitted to carry forward any losses for the current year. As a result, no loss under the “business income,” “capital gains,” or “housing property” heading over Rs 2 lakh may be carried over to the following year.
In case you miss the , December 31, 2022, deadline for submitting a late income tax return for the fiscal year 2021–2022 one would have to submit an appeal for condonation with the commissioner of income tax of your ward for a refund and losses carried forward | <urn:uuid:f42ae885-efff-4b33-b7b5-f7167d30e4dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/1503096195-1503096195.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.956811 | 604 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Every pupil at Cundall Manor is a member of one of our four Houses: Normans, Saxons, Stuarts and Tudors. Siblings and cousins are put in the same house. The vertical House system brings together pupils of all ages and provides opportunities for every pupil to understand the importance of friendship, support, respect and care for others within the greater school community.
House meetings take place weekly and give the pupils the opportunity to mix with all age groups to carry out a variety of activities. Recent themes have included ‘The History of your House’ and ‘The Great Outdoors’; alternatively activities may focus on the pastoral theme of the term (such as Integrity, Perseverance, Heroism, Courage and Honesty).
All staff are also assigned to a house and attend the weekly house meetings, allowing them to develop uniquely relaxed and supportive relationships with a broader range of pupils than their classroom teaching may allow.
With children earning house points for good behaviour or exceptional school work, the house system reinforces our ethos of hard work and good manners, and allows for a healthy degree of competition within the school. During the year, a number of house competitions (in the form of sports tournaments, general knowledge quizzes, talent shows and singing contests) add to the very keen sense of service and support of one’s house. At the close of the school year the winning house enjoys a house outing. | <urn:uuid:8bef3615-e51c-4530-b380-47250c7edebc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cundallmanorschool.com/the-school/house-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952073 | 294 | 2.03125 | 2 |
To the Editor:
An item in the MidWeek’s Looking Back 50 years ago section stated that “the Post Office Department’s revolutionary new system of improved mail dispatch and delivery goes into effect July 1.”
That would make that 1963.
Has it only been 50 years? I can hardly remember a time when we did not have to include this on our outgoing mail.
I do remember people complaining about yet another set of numbers we had to memorize. That came after the long distance area codes we all had to put in our memory banks. But they did not stop there. We were reminded later to dial the number one first.
I guess we are fortunate we no longer use Roman numerals.
Despite a memory lapse from time to time, I am impressed with how wonderful it is that our minds can adapt to so many events, things, circumstances, etc.
How we adjust our thinking makes up who we are. Needless to say, some of us cope better than others but we are all given a brain.
Someone once told me that we have grooves in our brain and in those grooves is gray matter. The number of grooves and amount of gray matter determines our intelligence. (I can’t verify this, so don’t quote me.)
I don’t pretend to understand the workings of the thought process but it does astound me what we can do if we put or minds to it.
At night our mind conjures up so many strange dreams and nightmares. Perhaps it is influenced by our daytime activities plus all the sights and sounds with which we are bombarded in an evening of watching TV. The myriad commercials, the stories with the intriguing plot lines. And we remember when we have seen a movie after viewing just a small segment of it.
And yet scientists say we use only a small percentage of our brains. What if we could use ALL of it? We’d all be geniuses with no room for improvement.
Wait a minute. I do remember seeing a sign on a roadside one time that said there is a difference between genius and stupidity. Genius does have its limitations.
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China’’s Internet chiefs ban use of names of Olympic gold medal winning athletesAugust 20th, 2008 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Aug. 20 (ANI): China’’s sport authorities have banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country’’s Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves.
According to Xinhua, the step is being taken to prevent commercial exploitation of sports people’’s names and follows the public controversy over the commercial use of the names of gold medalists at the Athens Games in 2004.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and the General Administration of Sport (GAS) have demanded a veto over the registration of domain names featuring the names of Chinese gold medallists.
A CNNIC official surnamed Hu said: “The move will better protect the interests of the Olympic gold medallists.
The domain names would be given free to the gold medalists to build their own sites.
Those who had already registered before the GAS order could keep the the domain names, but were advised to give it to the medalist “as a gift”, the CNNIC said in a notice on its website.
The protection of domain names is especially difficult in China, where thousands of people can share the same name or the same spelling of their name in Pinyin.
More than 9,000 people are reported to share the name of diving diva Guo Jingjing, excluding those whose names bear the same Pinyin spelling.
China has so far collected a record 43 gold medals at the Beijing Games.
The Beijing News has reported that domain names featuring at least 10 gold medalists, including weightlifter Chen Xiexia, who bagged China’’s first gold this year, and gymnast Yang Wei, were registered before the Games. (ANI)
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- Canada hopes to finish among top 12 in London - May 30, 2012
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- Cuba expecting better show at London Olympics - Jul 19, 2012
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Harnett Water Shortage Eased by Weekend Rain
Posted May 28, 1997
LILLINGTON — People in Harnett County can rest assured their lawns will get needed water. Last week county leaders asked folks not to water their lawns, wash their cars or fill their pools, but rains this weekend have helped ease some of the area's water shortage.
Now the county is putting residents on a rotation according to their zip codes. That means people will be able use water for all of their non-essential uses two days a week until the entire ban can be lifted. | <urn:uuid:80cca5ee-bf71-4766-9674-074afb328128> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/162959/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00037-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975331 | 119 | 1.539063 | 2 |
New Frontiers is proud to launch an FIT programme to St Helena – one of the most remote islands in the world!
We were privileged to be selected as one of only two tour operators to join SA Airlink on their final test flight to St Helena island. After a year of testing, the green light has finally been given for commercial flights to fly into the new airport built on the island – the first ever link by air. For the 500-odd years that the island has been inhabited, the only way to reach it has been by ship – a 6 day journey.
SA Airlink will be operating the only commercial flight from 14 October. The flight will initially be once a week in an Embraer E90 (98 seater), from Johannesburg, with a stop in Windhoek, to allow Cape Town passengers on the CPT-WDH flight to connect. The flying time is approximately 5 hours, although the return flight is shorter owing to the prevailing winds.
St Helena is a volcanic island, and isn’t a beach destination, but it has a rich and varied history, engaging people and excellent guides: we are delighted to have a dedicated New Frontiers guide on the island who guides to the same level as our New Frontiers Escapes guides in Cape Town.
St Helena Highlights:
- Whale sharks (it is not uncommon to see 20 whale sharks in an outing during the season, which is January, February and March)
- Dolphin spotting, including Pantropical dolphins, Bottle-nosed Dolphins and Rough-Toothed Dolphins. The Pantropical Dolphins are seen 95% of the year, often in schools of 100-400 dolphins, swimming close to the boat
- Jamestown – charming buildings and quaint island-life, as well as an excellent Museum that charts 500 years of the island’s history
- Jacob’s Ladder, a taxing 699 steps above Jamestown, which affords incredible views over the town
- The grouping of Plantation House, home to the Governor and Jonathan the Tortoise, the world’s oldest animal at 180 years old, St James’ Church and the Boer Cemetery, set in wood-shaded avenues and rolling hills
- Meeting St Helenians, known as Saints, who are expressive, entertaining and have an opinion on all of island life, including each other! A home dinner with a family is a perfect way to get to know them better
- Napoleon’s House, where he died in exile and which is beautifully maintained. Some prior reading of Napoleon is useful to put the importance of the house in perspective.
- Sandy Bay – far from Sandy, but dramatic volcanic rock scenery
We have put together a week-long itinerary, guided throughout, which encapsulates the best of the island, headed up by our New Frontiers guide, and using additional specialist guides. While there is an option for a fully tailor made programme – which we are very happy to create – the necessity of a week-long stay means that some structure in advance is recommended. Details of the itinerary, with three different hotel options can be found here: Discover St Helena. Remember that this isn’t a group tour: it is a weekly privately guided FIT option, although owing to the limited guide and vehicle resources on the island, other New Frontiers clients may join the tours and excursions.
There is something special about being one of a handful of people to visit a place and the remoteness of the island really comes to life when you stand on the fort at the top of the knoll, and you realise that nearest landfall in any direction is 1900 kms away… | <urn:uuid:ecec3105-5f2b-4959-8dc2-453d1685c47e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kusinicollection.com/blog/unlocking-st-helena-island-discovering-one-of-the-most-remote-island-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.954127 | 756 | 1.765625 | 2 |
– Dr. Frank Webbe, Florida Tech professor of psychology, has been elected to Fellow status in the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Only one-half of one
percent of the organization membership is elected to Fellow status annually. Webbe resides in Palm Bay.
Neuropsychology involves the study, evaluation and treatment of known and suspected brain disorders using the method of psychology. The academy is a
professional society that includes clinicians, scientist-practitioners and researchers interested in neuropsychology. Webbe is known for his studies of the
correlation between soccer ball heading and problems of brain function or development and has published widely on the topic. Past dean of the Florida Tech
School of Psychology, he has been on the university faculty since 1978. Webbe earned the Ph.D. degree in
psychology from the University of Florida in 1974.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a salad bowl.
The metaphor shifted and it matters.
The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly
You don’t consider yourself a writer? There are so many reasons to cultivate the habit, even it is making a Facebook post.
Trauma Can be Passed from Parent to Child
So important. What is the spiritual term for epigenetics?
What would you say to the presidential candidate who claims “religion is literally killing us?” #apologetics
Economic Insecurity Increases Physical Pain
Two Atheists Try to Express Happiness in Face of Death.
I’m not convinced.
More Millennials Recognize Pikachu than Joe Biden
From virtual reality to the possibility of uploading the brain to a computer, humans are trying really hard to naturally create supernatural realities.
Better than Blood?
Can Transhumanism Lead Us Back to Orthodoxy?
Neuroscientists and Philosophers Debate Whether the World Exists
Food and Friendship
“Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a much more essential commodity: food.”
How to Change Your Habits: What We Have Learned
Sperm Whales All Descended from Single ‘Eve’
In The Next 30 Years, You Can Grow Your Baby in a Womb
Analysis of Metaphor: Methodology for the Psychological Interpretation of Culture
Sex or Intimacy
“Porn” use is by far the most common online sexual activity for adult males.
But we are missing the point. The male culture of escape and lack of intimacy is a big deal. We start life by being carried next to another human being for 9 months. By age 8, males begin receiving less touch from others. By age 30, friendships begin to drop off. Virtual reality is no substitute for screen time.
As Seen on Twitter
“Christians don’t actually read their Bibles. They pay a guy to read it for them and show up on Sunday for the book report.” | <urn:uuid:ae829e7f-03f3-42d1-972c-a63e521dde85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preachthestory.com/origins-and-wellness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.894316 | 437 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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An archive of the various Davemanuel.com blog posts on the site which include short views on the stock market, real estate market and the economy in general. | <urn:uuid:a5a2b60a-4ba3-4e73-b024-a34f3b5499cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.davemanuel.com/articlearchive.php?show=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935797 | 863 | 1.546875 | 2 |
- National Geographic: “Mars Rover Finds Intriguing New Evidence of Water”
As high resolution photographs taken by orbital reconnaissance craft and rovers such as Opportunity showed evidence that Mars may have once had liquid water, the effort to look for evidence of life the water may have spawned has intensified. After all, we could sum up an article of evolutionary faith with the statement, “And the water ‘said,’ let there be life.”
Recent research has suggested that Mars may actually be a fairly target-rich environment as the search for the past presence of water and associated evidence of past life go on. For instance, in January a Brown University team published an analysis of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs of two heavily cratered regions. They suggest ridges visible in the photos were likely formed by water flowing beneath the surface. “This gives us a point of observation to say there was enough fracturing and fluid flow in the crust to sustain at least a regionally viable subsurface hydrology,” Lee Saper said of his analysis. “The overarching theme of NASA’s planetary exploration has been to follow the water. So if in fact these fractures that turned into these ridges were flowing with hydrothermal fluid, they could have been a viable biosphere.”1
McLaughlin Crater is another likely candidate, according to geochemist John Parnell and planetary geologist Joseph Michalski. In a paper also published in January, they point out that craters are probably the most promising places to search. In craters the meteorites have already done the work of drilling deeply into the Martian surface, sometimes tossing rocks that may have been affected by subsurface water into the bottom of the hole. Like the Brown University team, Parnell and Michalski have examined high-resolution photographs. They report evidence of geologic layers and debris flow that are strong evidence, in their estimation, of “groundwater upwelling.” They therefore recommend McLaughlin Crater as a future high priority destination for direct examination.2
“We could be so close to discovering if there is, or was, life on Mars,” says Parnell. “We know from studies that a substantial proportion of all life on Earth is also in the subsurface and by studying the McLaughlin Crater we can see similar conditions beneath the surface of Mars thanks to observations on the rocks brought up by the meteorite strike. There can be no life on the surface of Mars because it is bathed in radiation and it's completely frozen. However, life in the sub surface would be protected from that. And there is no reason why there isn't bacteria or other microbes that were or still are living in the small cracks well below the surface of Mars.”3
Meanwhile, Mars rover Curiosity has reached the lowest point in Gale Crater and is about to begin drilling. Detouring temporarily from the planned visit to examine sedimentary rocks at the base of Mount Sharp, the rover’s earth-bound support team considers the site, called Yellowknife Bay, a “candy store” of targets. They expect to find a variety of hydrated minerals—minerals that have incorporated water molecules within their chemical structure. Preliminary investigations have revealed mineral-filled veins that are ordinarily only deposited by underground water.
The likelihood that Mars once had a different environment allowing the presence of liquid water does nothing to support the idea that our solar system formed billions of years ago. The belief that life evolved on earth is also based on unverifiable assumptions. If evidence of microbial life—past or present—on Mars is eventually found, evolutionists will of course claim that life proves evolution happened. But in reality, such a finding would simply be evidence that life is (or once was) there, not a demonstration of that life’s origins. The Bible does not say whether God created life on any other planets, but the Bible does tell us God created all life on earth during the first six days of Creation week, the same week in which He created the rest of the universe, about 6,000 years ago. Discovery of evidence of water and even life on Mars would not disprove or undermine that biblical truth.
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- The Curious Case of Martian Mania
- Don’t Alienate the Aliens
- Did Viking Find Life on Mars? (Life on Mars? A look at Viking)
- Evolutionary Martian Madness!
- Kepler’s Mission: To Boldly Seek Out Where Life Could Have Evolved
- More Ice on Mars?
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Unlocking finance for smallholder farmers
Many smallholders African farmers manage their finances through a Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA), a savings and loan group made up primarily of female farmers. VSLAs are part of the approach of development organization CARE to fight poverty. The app developed by CARE makes it easier for members of VSLAs to borrow, save and invest. This in turn improves their farming practices and their livelihood. CARE has turned Chomoka into a social enterprise that is working with Rabo Foundation to reach even more farmers.
Chomoka helps to bundle savings
“African farmers – often small-scale farmers or fishermen – are incredibly enterprising. About 37% of these are women. They work hard to provide their families with enough food and a better future. The best way to achieve this is to grow their business, but that often doesn’t work because they need more financial resources than they can save themselves or borrow from fellow villagers. Chomoka helps them formalize their savings to position them for a successful integration into the formal economy,” says Zuabida Bai, Managing Director, CARE Social Ventures.
Chomoka (Swahili for “rise up”) helps farmers in Tanzania gain access to that credit. “Because banks have traditionally wanted guarantees against loans” Zubaida explains. “These farmers do not have access to land that can serve as a collateral for financial institutions.”
How does the app work? “It’s specifically intended for the members of VSLAs who pool their savings and give each other small loans from that pool. This enables them to buy new hoes, plows or fishing nets, for example. Prior to Chomoka these transactions were manual and prone to errors and inconsistencies, there was also a fear of loss/damage of the physical paper records. There was no backup,” says Zubaida. “Chomoka allows them to enter the date into the app through a smartphone or feed data via SMS into the app. The app not only creates ease of transaction and storage of data for refence in the future, but also allows the group to harvest the power of this transaction history. The groups and individual members can use these digital records to access loans from banks or microfinance institutions .”
The digital record enables greater transparency about the resources that the VSLA has, and reduces the likelihood of errors. Perhaps most important of all, it helps farmers to build a digital credit history. They can then share this digitally with banks and insurers, so that they no longer need to make long trips to the city to apply for credit. Financial services and products have therefore literally become accessible.
Other countries and languages
Increasing numbers of farmers now use the Chomoka app – in Tanzania, where it was launched in 2017, at least 10,000 VSLA members are using the product. “There is clearly an excitement around the usage of the app,” Zubaida says. “The Chomoka app helps them save time and transaction errors, it also gives them hope that the usage of the app will help them get integrated into the formal economy, through access to bank and microfinance credit.” Chomoka has recently launched versions in local languages in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Uganda. “These countries are strategically chosen as expansion countries because of CARE’s longstanding activities in these regions.
Growing with care
The establishment and expansion of Chomoka is due in part to strong support of CARE. “As a global development organization, we are committed to fighting structural poverty and social injustice,” says Richard Kooge of CARE. It makes sense to him that CARE turned to the Rabo Foundation for support. “Our vision is in line with that of the Rabo Foundation: to fight poverty and inequality through innovation, and facilitating entrepreneurship.”
It was this vision that has motivated CARE to develop Chomoka and turn it into a social enterprise. “It encourages entrepreneurship with the help of innovation, so that small businesses start earning enough to grow sustainably. In addition, we have been helping to set up VSLAs in Africa – the Chomoka app’s exact target group – for many years. We also encourage women to become members as it gives them a better social position; they are often more responsible with loans as well. In this way, Chomoka and CARE’s activities reinforce each other.”
Chomoka hopes to reach at least 7,500 VSLAs in Uganda in the coming years. “We collaborate with Rabo Foundation and its allies on the ground in achieving this,” says Zubaida. “Rabo Foundation’s investment in terms of capital and access to networks has positioned Chomoka for scaling and success. We are confident that we will be able to scale, and with that increase the impact on the lives of un(der)banked population in Africa.”
Why Rabo Foundation supports Chomoka
When CARE told Rabo Foundation about the Chomoka app, Julia Peters, innovation manager, and her colleagues at Rabo Foundation quickly became enthusiastic. “Chomoka is helping a hard-to-reach part of our target group with this app. That’s why we are now funding their activities in Uganda and putting them in touch with our local network,” says Julia. “We also share our financial expertise with Chomoka, for example in the area of credit scoring. This is all aimed at helping them to move forward, so that more farmers can access financial products and services.” | <urn:uuid:9ec158ee-d0b5-4aef-bd1a-e010064cb694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.carenederland.org/carexpertise/chomoka-the-app-that-is-unlocking-access-to-finance-for-smallholder-african-farmers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960082 | 1,178 | 1.945313 | 2 |
I was reading an article on an acclaimed wine site/blog, vinography.com, which has been around since 2004, and started by Alder Yarrow who began as a wine enthusiast but is now something of a phenomenon. Since I had just purchased a Malbec I clicked on Where Malbec comes from, tasting the wines of Cahors, and what interested me was not that Malbec originated in France, but rather the way the Malbec from the Cahors region tastes. Yarrow writes:
“Having only had maybe three or four wines from Cahors in my entire life, I was excited to clearly establish in my own mind “what Cahors tastes like. The answer turned out to be rocks, wet dirt, leather, and a hint of cassis.”
Wow, I thought… “rocks, wet dirt, leather, and a hint of cassis (blackcurrants).” I was wondering if I had missed something about drinking wine because I felt certain I did not remember tasting any hint of rocks or wet dirt in any of the wine I had tasted (perhaps some leather, and blackcurrants), but never rocks and dirt. As I continued reading I found Yarrow was not convinced that the Malbec from the Cahors region of France was going to do well in the U.S.. He is probably correct.
As it turns out I was going through a book I mentioned in another post, How to Taste: A guide to enjoying wine by Jancis Robinson, and another book I recently pulled from the library, Wine for Women: A guide to Buying Pairing, and Sharing Wine by Leslie Sbrocco, and it seems there are no set vocabulary rules when it comes to wine. I am surprised by this because when I read tasting notes they almost always sound similar: berries, oak, fruity, chocolate, etc.., surely, I thought, there must be specific flavors lurking in the wine somewhere and it was my job to find them or I would seem as if I knew nothing about what I was tasting; how dreadful that my sense of taste and smell were ridiculously primitive. But, according to Sbrocco, and Robinson, the best thing to do is begin to make associations based on what seems right for you. Robinson explains:
“you can evolve your own wine-tasting vocabulary. If a wine smells like clean sheets and tennis balls to you, then register the connection” (p.35).
No doubt, there are general tastes which correspond to our taste-buds, but when sweet is expanded to cherries, strawberries, apple pie, and chocolate, then it is a matter of metaphor.
Lastly, Leslie Sbrocco, and Jancis Robinson both have websites. In my opinion, Robinson’s books are better than her website (her site is a bit snooty, and costs money to read the interesting stuff), and Sbrocco’s website is better than her books, complete with informative little videos, and a blog with a team of bloggers. | <urn:uuid:fe788100-c825-4f0a-9c29-93ce466f13ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.timesunion.com/vinoteca/in-your-wine-you-taste-what/589/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978393 | 632 | 1.5 | 2 |
Worldwide, there are more than 5 billion people who own a smartphone. According to recent studies, the number of users accessing the Internet on their smartphones has more than doubled in the past 5 years, as has the number of users downloading and using mobile apps. Of those who use the Internet or email on their phones, more than a third go online primarily through their handheld devices.
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This is Christopher Milne’s first autobiography, which was followed by Part 2—The Path through the Trees. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous author’s son was one of much joy and some pain. It was also one of deep introspection. This book illuminates the shy, quiet man who was a thoughtful observer of the natural world and a gentle commentator on humankind’s relationship to it. Christopher’s writing offers an intriguing portrait of a gifted man who chose to live simply, a choice that ultimately brought him satisfaction—more than could ever come from the empty fame of being the “real” Christopher Robin.
“This complete sweep of his life, with an introduction by his widow, allows the reader to see him as an introspective, independent child, certainly, but also as the husband, father, bookseller, and writer that he became. All in all, he was much more than the playmate of a bear.” (Booklist)
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The Irish Exporters Association have expressed concern that the sale of the Irish government’s share in Aer Lingus would severely curtail Ireland’s ability to transport air cargo to and from the US, the Irish Examiner reports.
Aer Lingus currently carries goods that amount to 52% of Irish exports to the US, and 43% of US imports to Ireland, according to the Examiner. €18 billion of the over €22 billion import/export industry between the countries lies in pharmaceutical and medical technology, which must be exported by air.
Ryanair has expressed interest in the government’s quarter-share of the airline.
“Ryanair have a policy of not handling air cargo across their entire fleet,” John Whelan, chief executive of the exporters association, told the Examiner. “If they succeed in buying this stake they are likely to drop air cargo handling.
“We want certainty for our investors,” he said. “Whether Ryanair is the buyer or not we believe it should not be sold.”
he British Competition Authority may yet prevent Ryanair from purchasing the share of Aer Lingus, but for Whelan, that potential is too insecure.
“Sitting on our hands and hoping is not the way to go,” he said.
The association will provide a report to the government next month to substantiate the importance of Aer Lingus’ air cargo transport to Ireland’s import/export business with the US, according to the Examiner.
On Wednesday, the board of Aer Lingus urged shareholders to reject Ryanair’s bid for the company.
In a statement, the board said the budget airline’s offer of f €1.30 per share "fundamentally undervalues" Aer Lingus.
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Welcome to BOTANY WITHOUT BORDERS! - BSA Member's BOTANICAL video clips
The response tothe 2009 "Botany without Borders" was so good, and
turned out to be such an easy way to highlight the Botanical
Sciences, that it has prompted us to add video clips from
BSA members around the world to uour web site. We also use videos to share poster presentations and featured talks from our Botany Conferences each summer. Ask about sharing your favorite botanical
video clip online through www.Botany.org- firstname.lastname@example.org!
Plenary Address Celebrating diversity in the understanding of science: Botanists as ambassadors to a spectrum of humans
Donal R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture From genes to complex networks and morphologies in plant evolution
Dr. Nalini Nakarni
University of Utah Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Dr. Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Ecología Cd. Universitaria Mexico City, DF, 04510, Mexico
Address of the BSA President-Elect "Learned Societies" -- Past, Present, and Future?
Annals of Botany Lecture From sex ratio to sex chromosomes: ecological and genetic insights into dioecy using strawberry
Dr. Pamela Diggle
University of Colorado Department of Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Boulder, CO, USA
Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman
University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Regional Botany Special Lecture The Geological and Natural History of Coastal Louisiana from the Perspective of a Wetland Plant Landscape Ecologist - and a lover of plants
Enhancing Scientist Diversity in Botany Luncheon Cultivating the Next Generation of Plant Biologists
Dr. David A. White
Loyola University Department of Biological Sciences New Orleans, LA, USA
Dr. Muriel Poston
Pitzer College Environmental Analysis Claremont, CA, USA
Botany 2013 Poster Interviews
Amy Faivre - Plant Reproductive Biology of Chasmogamous and Cleistogamous Flowers of Federally Threatened Clitoria fragrans (Fabaceae) Along the Lake Wales Ridge in Florida. Botany 2013 Abstract
Anna Freundlach - Invasion of Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) correlates with decreased native plant diversity in riparian communities along the Susquehanna River. Co-author: Christopher Martine Botany 2013 Abstract
Bill Trebelcock - Elucidating tolerance: selenium’s effect on lipid peroxidation and glutathione peroxidase in rhizospheric fungi. Co-authors: Domonique Martinez, Zachary Roehrs and Ami Wangeline Botany 2013 Abstract
Courtney Godbolt - Do Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi) pollen tubes prefer the cold?. Co-authors: Mehveen Qureshi and Amy Faivre Botany 2013 Abstract
DeAna Smalls, Angel Rogers - Arabidopsis scaffold protein RACK1A regulates diverse environmental stress signaling pathways. Co-authors: Victor Leonard and Hemayet Ullah Botany 2013 Abstract
Emily Rollinson - The diversity of riparian plant communities of small woodland streams in northern New York State. Botany 2013 Abstract
Gemma Dugan - Sex-differential insect herbivory in dioecious Australian nightshades. Co-author: Christopher Martine Botany 2013 Abstract
Harsh Kansagra - Antimicrobial Properties of Essential Oils Isolated from Anthoxanthum (Poaceae) Against Soil Bacteria. Co-authors: Terri Hildebrand, Mary Tufte and Preston Manwill Botany 2013 Abstract
Jacquelyn Scherer - Ground-truthing Paleoprecipitation Proxies Across Modern Texas Floras. Co-author: Marina Suarez Botany 2013 Abstract
James Erdmann - Elemental analysis of vegetation in the selenium-rich Wind River Basin of Wyoming. Co-authors: Zachary Roehrs and Ami Wangeline Botany 2013 Abstract
Julia Gehring - Effects of Fragmentation, Fire Regime, and Landscape Position on the Vegetation and Insect Metacommunity Dynamics of Pine Rockland Sub-Tropical Forests. Co-author: Suzanne Koptur Botany 2013 Abstract
Karoline Oldham - The taxonomic revision and historical biogeography of the hemiparasitic annual wildflower, Melampyrum lineare (Orobanchaceae). Co-author: Andrea Weeks Botany 2013 Abstract
Monica Cox - 3-D Reconstruction of Chlorenchyma Cells in Oplismenus, a C3 Forest-dwelling Grass (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae). Co-author: Jorge Sanchez-Ken Botany 2013 Abstract
Nabarun Ghosh - Shift in flowering, allergy season and aeroallergen index and AHPCO Nanotechnology to reduce allergy symptoms. Co-authors: Jeff Bennert and Constantine Saadeh MD, FACP Botany 2013 Abstract
Natalia Contreras - Architecture of three Lupinus life forms in the Colombian Andes. Co-authors: Alfredo Navas and Santiago Madriñán Botany 2013 Abstract
Nichole Kupisz - Comparison of understory biodiversity between Ailanthus altissima versus native tree canopies in two disparate forests. Co-author: Gary K. Greer Botany 2013 Abstract
Preston Manwill - Antimicrobial Properties and Composition of Essentials Oils Isolated from Ericameria linearifolia (Asteraceae). Co-authors: Terri Hildebrand, Jared Weaver, Nathan Heyborne and Kim Weaver Botany 2013 Abstract
American Journal of Botany Special Lecture Descent with Modification; uniting paleontology and molecular genetics to integrate pattern and process in plant evolution
Donal R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture Mycorrhizas - Co-ordinated development between plants and fungi
Dr. Gar Rothwell
Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Corvallis, OR, USA
Dr. Larry Peterson
University of Guelph
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Guelph, ON, Canada
Botany 2012 Plenary Special Lecture
Dr. Peter Crane
Botany 2012 Poster Interviews
Alexandra Dinicola - SWITCH (SouthWest Idaho: The Comprehensive Herbarium). Co-authors: Don Mansfield and James Smith Botany 2012 Abstract
Alexandria Igwe - Elemental Defense in Alyssum murale: Effect on a Specialist Herbivore, Pieris rapae. Co-author: Mary McKenna Botany 2012 Abstract
Brittany Stallworth - Interactions between fungi and the Ni-hyperaccumulator, Alyssum murale. Co-author: Mary McKenna Botany 2012 Abstract
Bryan Thompson - Comparison of hydroponics to conventional agriculture: Analysis of overall yield, biomass and root growth of basil (Ocimum basilicum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Botany 2012 Abstract
Charles Blair - Invasive Aquatic Weeds: Implications for Mosquito and Vector Management Activities. Botany 2012 Abstract
Daniel Borkowski - Amplification of Introns within Stress Tolerance Candidate Genes in Northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.). Co-authors: Tim McCleary and Jeanne Romero-Severson Botany 2012 Abstract
Grady Zuiderveen - Geographic Distribution of Native and Invasive Haplotypes of Phragmites australis along Michigan's West Coast. Co-authors: Timothy M. Evans and Mark Luttenton Botany 2012 Abstract
James Jones - Growth responses of the Cape sundew (Drosera capensis L.) to low, medium and high levels of calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and potassium bicarbonate. Co-authors: Art Fredeen and Hugues Massicotte Botany 2012 Abstract
James McDaniel - Does the Polyploid Derivative Smell Just as Sweet: Rosa carolina and R. palustris. Co-authors: DeAnne Moore, Priscilla Gannicott and Nancy Cowden Botany 2012 Abstract
John Hodge - Inflorescence development of three species in the tribe Andropogoneae (Poaceae). Co-author: Elizabeth Kellogg Botany 2012 Abstract
Kevin Spatz - Investigating the taxonomic status of ponderosa pine from the Spring and Hualapai Mountains. Co-author: Ann Willyard Botany 2012 Abstract
Lorena Endara - Using webpages as a tool for teaching plant taxonomy in a laboratory. Co-authors: Kurt Neubig, Lucas Majure, Gregory Stull and Walter Judd Botany 2012 Abstract
Rachel Hakett - Prairie fen plant biodiversity: the influence of landscape factors on plant community assemblages. Co-authors: Hillary Karbowski and Anna Monfils Botany 2012 Abstract
Rebecca Allington - Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences leads to discovery of a previously unknown population of an uncommon, yet widespread, Australian spiny Solanum. Co-author: Christopher Martine Botany 2012 Abstract
Sally Stevens - Stuck between a rock and a hot place: the role of climate in driving population and species boundaries in an endemic Appalachian fern species. Co-author: Nancy Emery Botany 2012 Abstract
Sushil Paudyal - Ethnobotanical study of plants used in treating skin ailments by Tharu culture in Dang Valley (Nepal). Co-authors: Govind P.S. Ghimire and Timothy Motley Botany 2012 Abstract
Temitope Adeyemi - Epidermal Morphology of West African Sapindaceae. Co-authors: OLUWATOYIN T. OGUNDIPE and JAMES D. OLOWOKUDEJO Botany 2012 Abstract
Victoria Hanna - The effects of plant sex and genotype on plant-herbivore interactions. Co-author: Kailen Mooney Botany 2012 Abstract
Pat Harrison - The Open Science Network for Ethnobiology. Co-authors: Keri Barfield and Karen Hall Botany 2012 Abstract
Alastair Plant - Conservation of dissected leaf ontogenetic regulation between basal and core eudicots. Co-authors: Anandi Bhattacharya, Andrea Scholz and Stefan Gleissberg Botany 2012 Abstract
Grant M. Barkley, Jennifer A. Fike - Origins of American Experimental Plant Physiology. Botany 2012 Abstract
Helen Trumble - Bottle Biology: Making Cranberry Cutting Tubbe Necklaces. Co-authors: Tom Bryan, Emily Gustin, Diego Fajardo, Shawn Steffan, Rebecca Harbut, Paul Williams and Juan Zalapa Botany 2012 Abstract
Botany 2011 Poster Interviews
Colin Khoury - Planning for Collecting the Crop Wild Relatives of the World's Major Crops. Co-authors: Nora Patricia Castañeda Alvarez, Holly Vincent, Andy Jarvis, Nigel Maxted, Ruth Eastwood and Luigi Guarino Botany 2011 Abstract
Wendy Applequist - The Missouri Botanical Garden's DNA Bank: Expanding opportunities to serve the American systematics community. Co-authors: Alyse R. Kuhlman, James C. Solomon, Porter P. Lowry II, Rainer Bussmann and Robert E. Magill Botany 2011 Abstract
Jim Mickles - Micromorphological Insights on the Systematic Position of Bowenia and Stangeria (Cycadales). Co-authors: Maria Rosaria Barone Lumaga, Aldo Moretti and Paolo DeLuca Botany 2011 Abstract
Tanisha Williams - Identification of Populus species and hybrids through morphological analyses and single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping in the American southwest. Co-authors: Kirsten Fisher, Nathalie Isabel and Stacey Thompson Botany 2011 Abstract
Catherine Rawlins - Characterization of potential therapeutic properties of the Hmong medicinal plant, Tradescantia zebrina. Co-authors: Benjamin Leist, Rebecca Abler and Kitrina Carlson Botany 2011 Abstract
Colin Khoury - Initial Steps toward a National Conservation Strategy for Crop Wild Relatives of the United States. Co-authors: Stephanie Greene and Nora Patricia Castañeda Alvarez Botany 2011 Abstract
Charles Blair - Invasive Aquatic and Riparian Weeds and Mosquitoes; Challenges, Successes, and Oppoutunities. Botany 2011 Abstract
Saul Hoyos - Anatomical and morphological characteristics among Fusispermum spp. and Rinorea apiculata group (Violaceae) can be useful for understanding the phylogenetic relationships. Botany 2011 Abstract
Gretchen Nelson - Morphological and phylogenetic relationships of an unusual species, Amelanchier bartramiana (Rosaceae). Co-authors: Michael Burgess, Kevin Cushman, Eric Doucette and Christopher Campbell Botany 2011 Abstract
Amber Paasch - Development of microsatellite markers to enable population assessment of skewed sex ratios and genetic diversity in Mojave Desert Syntrichia caninervis. Co-author: Kirsten Fisher Botany 2011 Abstract
Sasha Dow-Kitson -Reproductive biology of Hydrocharis morsus-ranae in Lake Champlain, a likely source population for the next region-wide aquatic plant invasion. Co-author: Christopher T. Martine
Marsh Sundberg - Assessing Botanical Capacity to Address 21st Century Grand Challenges in the United States. Co-authors: Patricia DeAngelis, Kayri Havens, Kent E. Holsinger, Kathryn Kennedy, Andrea T. Kramer, Rachel Muir, Peggy Olwell, Kristina A. Schierenbeck, Larry Stritch and Barbara Zorn-Arnold
Rafael Arevalo - Who's a Mormolyca? A first look at the recircumscription of this orchid genus. Co-author: Kenneth M. Cameron
Hoai Trang Nguyen - Evolutionary relationships of the 'sky island' pines (Pinus subsection Ponderosae) based on nuclear and plastid microsatellite loci. Co-authors: Nicole Segear, David A. Gernandt and Ann Willyard
Colin Ahrens - Research on plant community assemblage for Agrostis supports ecological risk assessment for genetically engineered Agrostis stolonifera. Co-authors: Geoffrey Ecker and Carol Auer
Amanda Birmbaum - Volatile Oils of Monarda viridissima, an Endemic Species of the Carrizo Sand Formation in Texas.
Shabnam Jabbari - Flower Color Variability and Mixed Mating in the Protandrous Herb Saponaria officinalis (L. Caryophyllaceae). Co-author: Sandra L. Davis
Jonathon Jasinski - In Vitro Assessment of Allelopathy in the Invasive Aquatic Fern Salvinia molesta. Co-authors: Michael E. Kane and Ryan Dickson
John Silvius & Daniel Thomas -An Integrative Approach to the Characterization of Psilotum (Psilotophyta): Insights from the Past and Recommendations for the Future.
Pedro Escobar Garcias - Evolution and phylogeography of the Western Mediterranean Lavatera triloba aggregate (Malvaceae).
We are pleased to present BSA President, Dr. Karl Niklas'
inaugural address and gift to all plant societies, the multi-media
event, "Botany without Borders."
The short clip (10 minutes) outlines the importance of plants and those who study them. It explores the magic and wonders
plants represent and the people who unlock their secrets.
If your internet connection is slow, let the entire program
download before watching to get the full effect. Click on the arrow and enjoy!
Botany & Mycology 2009 Poster Interviews
Michele Brower - An Exploration of Chicken Litter-Induced Trace Metal Phytotoxicity in Plants. Co-authors: SR Tuberty, Y Sakamachi and MJ Colgan Botany 2009 Abstract
Heather Driscoll - Molecular phylogeny of the genus Costus (Costaceae). Co-authors: Irene T. Liao, Yizhuo Wang and Chelsea Specht Botany 2009 Abstract
Rachel Schmidt Jabaily - Evolving towards semelparity in Andean Puya (Bromeliaceae): testing differential investment in reproductive displays. Co-authors: Cody Williams and Kenneth J. Sytsma Botany 2009 Abstract
John Pascarella - Evidence of Hybridization between a federally endangered plant, Baptisia arachnifera (Fabaceae), and a native congener (Baptisia lecontei) at an ex situ conservation planting. Botany 2009 Abstract
Ralph McNeilage - Fertilization timing and pollen tube growth in Nymphaea (Nymphaeales). Co-authors: Mackenzie L. Taylor, and Joseph H. Williams Botany 2009 Abstract
Plants are Cool, Too! Videos
Plants are cool, too!
Hosted by Dr. Chris Martine, featuring Dr. Maggie Koopman
Plants Are Cool, Too! Episode 2: Fossilized Forests!
Hosted by Dr. Chris Martine of Bucknell University, with guest experts Drs. Bill Rember and Dave Tank of the University of Idaho.
Plants Are Cool, Too! Episode 3: Undead zombie flowers of Skunk Cabbage
Hosted by Dr. Chris Martine of Bucknell University, with guest expert Dr. Rachel Schultz of the SUNY Plattsburgh.
Plants Are Cool, Too! Episode 4: Desert Blooms and Marathon Moths!
Hosted by Dr. Chris Martine of Bucknell University, with guest expert Dr. Krissa Skogen of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
BSA Member Videos
Chris Martine, Growing
Better - the Oaks (Quercus)
Chris Martine, Growing
Better, Serotiny In Jack Pines
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Flat-topped point marking the S side of the entrance to Markham Bay on the SE side of James Ross Island. Discovered by a British expedition under Ross, 1839-43, who named it Cape Hamilton after Capt. W.A.B. Hamilton, RN, then private secretary to the Earl of Haddington, and later Second Secretary to the Admiralty. First surveyed by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-04, and resurveyed by the FIDS in 1953. Point is considered a more suitable descriptive term for the feature than cape.
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Researchers from University of Houston have developed a disease diagnostic system based on nanotechnology that will only require a smartphone and a Rs 1200 lens attachment to check for diseases.
The diagnostic system developed by Richard Willson and Jiming Bao relies on precise chemical interactions that form between a virus or bacteria and a disease-fighting antibody to form an iron-clad diagnosis.
The researchers used a simple glass slide and a thin film of gold with thousands of holes poked in it for the light to pass through. The system diagnoses an illness by blocking the light with a disease-antibody bond as well as a few additional ingredients. The researchers state that with a few changes, they can make similar readings with a smartphone’s camera, flash and an attachable lens. The system would be helpful to health care providers across the globe and will provide an affordable and 'easy to read' method to diagnose diseases.
"The trick is finding a way to detect these chemical interactions quickly, cheaply and easily. The device involves a simple glass slide and a thin film of gold with thousands of holes poked in it," explained Jiming Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Houston.
"One of the advantages of this system is that the results can be read with simple tools," said Richard Willson, Huffington-Woestemeyer professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
Recently, Researchers at Cornell University developed a "smartCARD," with sophisticated camera technology that can read out users cholesterol levels in just a minute. The device checks bio markers in the user's blood and gets the results based on color analysis. The smartCARD checks the color values on the cholesterol test strip using the flash on the smartphones and the results are displayed on your smartphone's screen.
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Today, let’s talk about the #RuleOfThirds.
This is one of the most basic principles of photo composition, and using it is a great trick to improve composition in your images.
According to the rule of thirds, an image should be divided horizontally and vertically into thirds. In order to create a balanced and harmonious composition, points of interest should be aligned along those lines or in the areas where those lines intersect.
Like this image, where the horizon is placed along the upper horizontal line, and the child is placed at the intersection of two lines:
Or this image, where the eye in this portrait is placed at the upper right intersection, and the subject is placed off-center, in the right-hand third of the frame:
Or this one, where the telephone pole aligns perfectly with the left vertical line:
Employing the rule of thirds is an excellent exercise in composition. Try it out today, and share your creations with the hashtag #RuleOfThirds! | <urn:uuid:fd4fa108-6b2d-452c-8ebb-ece6996e23cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://picsart.com/blog/post/monday-inspiration-ruleofthirds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939558 | 206 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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