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..but can also mean something that is useless or a waste of time.
(Yaar, what a bakwaas movie it was... )
Frustrated Mom to Son: "Kya facebook pe idhar udhar bakwaas karte rehte ho....exams agle hafte hai, padhai kab karoge?"
(What bakwaas are you doing on Facebook... the exams are next week, when will you study?)
Gangster to his gan: "Bakwaas band karo re...baja doonga nahi to....ey Chotu, chal chai leke aa."
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Module state changes from COMPLETE to NOT COMPLETE
I have a question regarding the SCORM module COMPLETE state. Some of my students would like to go back to a COMPLETE module to review the material before they take a quiz. Here is the problem: When they re-open the module, my LMS (Litmos) changes the module state from COMPLETE to NOT COMPLETE. This forces the student to review EVERY SLIDE IN THE MODULE OVER AGAIN. Needless to say, my students are not happy.
Litmos says that this is an authoring tool issue, not an LMS issue. They did some testing and found that RapidIntake and OpenSesame both allow a student to re-enter a COMPLETE module without changing the state.
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David, 1772–1823, English economist.
David. 1772–1823, British economist. His main work is Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
[ri-kah-tee; Italian reek-kah-tee] /rɪˈkɑ ti; Italian rikˈkɑ ti/ noun, Mathematics. 1. a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
noun 1. Sebastiano [se-bahs-tyah-naw] /ˌsɛ bɑsˈtyɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1660?–1734, Italian painter. noun 1. Matteo (maˈteo). 1552–1610, Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar, who introduced Christianity to China. He was later censured by the Church for allowing his converts to retain some of their ancient religious customs
noun 1. David [Italian dah-veed] /Italian ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), Rizzio. noun 1. same as Rizzio
noun 1. the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food. 2. the grass itself. verb (used with object), riced, ricing. 3. to reduce to a form resembling rice: to rice potatoes. noun 1. Anne, born 1941, U.S. novelist. 2. Dan (Daniel McLaren) 1823–1900, […] | <urn:uuid:d185556a-f39c-4aed-9dc6-a524e18f2ea4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://definithing.com/define-dictionary/ricardo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00308-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887828 | 344 | 2.703125 | 3 |
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 70.
- adj. Being 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 70.
- adj. Of or relating to a sexagenarian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Being between the age of 60 and 69, inclusive. In one's seventh decade.
- n. A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 69.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A person who is sixty years old.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sixty years old; sexagenary.
- n. A person sixty years of age, or between sixty and seventy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone whose age is in the sixties
- adj. being from 60 to 69 years old
To some, the idea of sexagenarian roommates having fun (and even getting laid) in their old age was too frightening to watch-but that was then, and this is now, where MILFs and even GILFs have their own video series, so how could a respectable parody producer not want to give these old broads their belated XXX bones?
Seasick SteveIn 2006 sexagenarian blues musician and former tramp Steve Wold was living in Norway and recovering from a heart attack when a tape of songs he'd made for his wife found its way to the BBC.
They note that the MUSE artists such as Graham Nash and Jackson Browne are "misguided" and maybe worse than that, tend to be "sexagenarian."
We strongly recommend Sgt. James Crowley, of Cambridge Police, for his impeccable bravery in arresting a cane wieldin 'African American sexagenarian, for a purple heart equivalent medal. thank you Monti
If you like sports, you simply cannot escape sexagenarian dummkopfs.
"I've got wood!" he'll cry when this panting sexagenarian actually manages to get something right, such as whirling on a centimeter into a genital-grinding clutch with a breast-bouncing backbend to follow.
Johnny Carson's guest was Bob Hope, and when the sexagenarian comedian launched into what was his standard routine those days -- lots of jokes about long-haired hippies and smelly anti-war protesters -- the kids crowded into my tiny dorm room were furious.
As one commenter on the NY Mag website wrote, "She puts the" sex "in sexagenarian!"
Dalglish seems to belong to a different generation from the present crop of sexagenarian managers at the top of the English game.
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Bisphenol A Found in Mothers’ Breast Milk and Infant Urine Samples
The research comes from the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Boston’s Simmons College. The researchers tested the breast milk of 27 women and the urine of 31 infants. The infants were between three months and 15 months old, and they were screened for environmental exposure to BPA sources. The infants tested had no known environmental exposure outside of a typical household.
The tests analyzed the levels of unconjugated or free BPA as well as total BPA levels – including conjugated BPA. The researchers used solid-phase extraction along with liquid chromatography-isotope dilution with mass spectrometry to determine the levels with accuracy.
The testing found that 93% of the children had significant total BPA levels – averaging from 1.2 to 4.4 micrograms per liter.
The testing also found that 75% of the mothers’ breast milk had detectible amounts of total BPA – in the range of 0.4 to 1.4 micrograms per liter.
The researchers found that levels of free BPA – considered more harmful – were lower than total BPA levels.
The researchers checked the feeding habits of the children to determine whether there was a relationship between their diet and their BPA levels, but found no relationship. Surprisingly, they also could not find a significant relationship between the amount of BPA in the mother’s breast milk and the BPA levels of her baby’s urine.
Research published last month from the German Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine confirmed similar results from urine and plasma samples taken among the German population between 1995 and 2009. Analyzing 600 urine and plasma samples, the researchers found that total BPA was detectible in over 96% of the samples tested. The BPA concentrations averaged 1.49 micrograms per liter and high levels (in the 95th percentile) averaged 7.37 micrograms per liter.
The researchers found that unconjugated BPA made up the bulk of the BPA found. This indicates environmental exposure. The researchers also concluded, “total BPA in urine as the most appropriate and robust marker for BPA exposure assessment.”
The researchers did not find a significant increase or decrease in overall BPA levels between 1995 and 2009 among the samples.
This of course confirms what science has discovered among so many marine mammals and fish – that BPA tends to bioaccumulate gradually within the tissues and migrates up the food chain. And marine researchers are finding increasing BPA levels among sealife as microplastics are accumulating in the oceans.
These studies also confirm research done in October by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showed children between three and eleven years of age are accumulating BPA and seven other toxins.
In another study out this year, Swedish researchers tested BPA levels among 100 women and correlated those levels with their exposure to BPA from their diets. They found that the most prevalent BPA sources were from fish, meat, potatoes, and dairy products. This study also indicated the women’s primary source of exposure is through the diet, a direct result of animals bioaccumulating BPA and this accumulation effect finding its way up the food chain to humans. In this study, 76% of the women had detectible levels of BPA in their blood.
Bisphenol A is a known hormone disruptor, as it attaches to estrogen receptors within the body. It also has been linked with cancer. Though some government agencies still question the health risks of BPA, in 2006 the Chemical Heritage Foundation, upon request by Congress, conducted a review of BPA research to date. The research concluded that BPA levels found in humans are enough to cause harm and metabolism changes within many of the body’s tissues and organs. “New research on very-low-dose exposure to BPA suggests an association with adverse health effects, including breast and prostate cancer, obesity, neurobehavioral problems, and reproductive abnormalities,” it was concluded. Studies since have confirmed this position.
BPA is a plasticizer and monomer, so most plastics contain BPA. BPA is also used ubiquitously as a building material and among epoxy applications. Industrial manufacturers utilize BPA in many processes, leading to its discharge into the environment. Plastics and microplastics leach into our waterways and soils through garbage and waste disposal plants.
Mendonca K, Hauser R, Calafat AM, Arbuckle TE, Duty SM. Bisphenol A concentrations in maternal breast milk and infant urine. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2012 Dec 5.
Koch HM, Kolossa-Gehring M, Schröter-Kermani C, Angerer J, Brüning T. Bisphenol A in 24 h urine and plasma samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank from 1995 to 2009: A retrospective exposure evaluation. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 Nov;22(6):610-6.
Gyllenhammar I, Glynn A, Darnerud PO, Lignell S, van Delft R, Aune M. 4-Nonylphenol and bisphenol A in Swedish food and exposure in Swedish nursing women. Environ Int. 2012 Aug;43:21-8.
Ye X, Zhou X, Wong LY, Calafat AM. Concentrations of Bisphenol A and Seven Other Phenols in Pooled Sera from 3-11 Year Old Children: 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Environ Sci Technol. 2012 Oct 26.
Lee W, Kang CW, Su CK, Okubo K, Nagahama Y. Screening estrogenic activity of environmental contaminants and water samples using a transgenic medaka embryo bioassay. Chemosphere. 2012 Aug;88(8):945-52.
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Born in Kronstadt,,,Siebenbürgen,AUSTRIA-HUNGARY on 17 DEC 1833 to Martin Gottfried DEUBEL and Josepha Elisabetha STENNER.Martin DEUBEL passed away on 31 DEC 1833 in Kronstadt,,,Siebenbürgen,AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
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Martin Gottfried Deubel
1801 - 1893
Josepha Elisabetha Stenner
1816 - Unknown
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See, this is why we don’t pull apart “crackers” on Christmas in the U.S.—a New Zealand woman found a dead, partially decomposed mouse in hers earlier this week during her family’s Christmas celebration. “I had said to my granddaughter ‘what’s the smell’ and we couldn’t work it out until we pulled the cracker.” Then: Merry Christmas! There’s a dead mouse in yer lap! “It ruined my appetite for the rest of the day,” she told her local paper.
To pick up slack from the undersized/overwhelmed CPSC, states are stepping up to help increase toy safety locally. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois and California have been taking “aggressive measures,” from suing manufacturers to escalating state recalls to the federal level. Newsday describes how New Jersey worked with charities and educators during toy drives to make them aware of recalled toys. The state also assigned 15 state inspectors to a toy safety task force, and over the past month, the inspectors “fanned out across the state with assistance from county health department workers to test products and check for recalled toys.
Today, an advisory panel to the FDA will present its findings developed over the past year. The result is “a scathing review of the state of the FDA” that says it’s “so underfunded and understaffed that it’s putting U.S. consumers at risk in terms of food and drug safety.”
Today the White House will announce its own plan for how to tighten the country’s slack product safety practices. The proposal is being offered as an alternative to the one Congress has come up with, which the White House—along with industry trade groups and Consumer Product Safety Commission head Nancy A. Nord—think is too mean to manufacturers.
The White House version suggests stationing inspectors in other countries to inspect goods before they are shipped to U.S. shores, because “with $2 trillion in imports annually, inspections at the ports had become ineffective.” We’re not sure how the math works on that one—unless sharks or pirates consume large amounts of imports during transit, the same number of goods leave foreign ports and arrive at ours, and having inspectors all in one place where they can work together, instead of spread out in each foreign country, seems a more efficient use of resources. But we’re probably just stupid from too much lead.
Russia has banned the import of chicken and pork from 30 U.S. facilities in the wake of a midsummer audit. Russia has not disclosed what, if anything, the audits uncovered, according to a concerned spokesman from the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council.
All of the banned poultry plants were major suppliers of U.S. poultry to Russia and are some of the most efficient facilities in the country, the export council said.
Investigators from the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent two weeks snooping around China and probably haven’t eaten since. Their investigation revealed a tattered regulatory framework, unable to protect Chinese citizens, let alone foreigners. Among the disturbing facts uncovered:
The Administration envisions a future where science and technology keep our food supply safe and secure. The multi-agency working group tasked with improving food safety has yet to agree on final recommendations, but both interest groups and the Administration seem dead set against new inspectors. Instead, the working group wants to build upon the current system of random inspections to better target potential dangers among the $2.2 trillion worth of goods imported each year.
Seventeen days after Topps launched the second largest meat recall in U.S. history, the 67-year-old company announced that it’s going out of business. Topp’s COO told American Agriculturist:
“In one week we have gone from the largest U.S. manufacturer of frozen hamburgers to a company that cannot overcome the economic reality of a recall this large… We want to thank our loyal employees and customers who have supported us throughout the 67 years in which Topps Meat has been in business,” D’Urso said. “Topps has always prided itself on providing the utmost quality and safety and never had a recall in our history until now. This has been a shocking and sobering experience for everyone.”
This summer, almost 6 million pounds of beef were recalled due to E. coli contamination. Last week, almost 22 million pounds of frozen hamburger meat were recalled after reports surfaced of E. coli infections. It was the biggest meat recall in 10 years, and “the American Meat Institute (AMI) says it noticed a slight rise in positive E. coli tests by the government this summer,” says a USA Today article. In fact, 2007 is the first time in 3 years that the rate of positive USDA sample-tests have gone up. At the same time, the Chicago Tribune reports that in July, a congressman from Minnesota slipped a special measure into the 2007 farm bill that would reduce the need for federal inspections for small meat producers.
Inspections will not keep Americans safe from potentially dangerous foreign imports, according to a Presidential working group representing 12 federal agencies. The working group believes that the sheer number of products arriving at our ports – goods worth $2 trillion, last year – make the development and deployment of an inspection regime impossible. The alternative inspires little confidence.
New York Decries CPSC's Inability To Impose Mandatory Recalls, Announces Initiatives To Combat Lead Poisoning
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is taking action to ensure the prompt removal of recalled products, responding to the CPSC’s unwillingness to ask for, or accept, the authority to impose mandatory recalls. The following proposals do not require approval by the Legislature, and will go into effect immediately:
From now on, the TSA would like you to remove any XBOXs (or DVD players or Nintendos, etc…) from your carry-on during screening so they can be inspected. [USA Today]
Two weeks before announcing the recall of nearly 1 million toys tainted with toxic lead paint, Mattel was featured in the New York Times as a role model, the “gold standard” for companies manufacturing goods in China. The Chinese Poison Train’s ability to sneak past Mattel’s fortified defenses highlights the tremendous difficulties faced by well-meaning American manufacturers trying to police their supply chains. Mattel spared no expense to ensure the safety of their products. | <urn:uuid:255d3b85-f2c2-4d5d-8e0d-926a021024bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://consumerist.com/tag/inspections/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956032 | 1,363 | 1.71875 | 2 |
IPv6: A New Internet Expands The Web By Trillions Of Addresses
You may not have noticed when you woke up today, but the Internet universe expanded overnight by the trillions.
Today at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, the new Internet protocol system IPv6 was born, bringing "more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion" extra Internet protocol addresses into the world, according to the Internet Society, the nonprofit, Internet policy organization that is behind the system's launch and also controls the .org domain.
Every Internet-connected device has an IP address, a series of numbers that allows your computer or smartphone to connect to the Web. Since the early days of the Internet, most devices have logged online with addresses from the IPv4 system.
But back in February 2011, you may have read headlines declaring an "I-Pocalyspe" and "The End Of The Internet As We Know It." That's when news broke that the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave out the last of its IPv4 addresses. Apparently, 4.3 billion IP addresses are not enough for the world's increasing appetite for multiple Web devices.
Still, as CNET.com's Stephen Shankland explained to NPR's Melissa Block last year, most Internet users have nothing to fret about for now.
"Basically, what happened is it stopped raining and snowing in the mountains. But we're downstream - down the river, and we still have plenty of water right now," Shankland said. "At some point in the next year or two, the dry spell is going to come downstream and we're going to have a drought down where the regular folks are."
That's where IPv6 comes in as the long-awaited knight in shining armor, armed with Internet addresses numbering to 340 undecillion (that's 340 with 36 zeroes after it).
Here's what you can look forward to in this brave new world of IPv6:
- You will probably keep your IPv4 address for the near future.
IPv6 is still in a "Field of Dreams" stage: it's built and launched, but the Internet Society is still waiting for the bulk of the world's Internet users to come. Big Internet names like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo have already come on board to connect, but the full transition to IPv6, unlike its launch, will not be overnight. Daigle says IPv4 addresses will still be in use as long as they are useful. But she says, "Once most of the world has moved to IPv6, there will be no point to have them, so effectively they will be retired." IPv4's golden years, though, are still a ways off. But you can check if you currently have IPv6 here.
- The speed of your Internet connection will probably stay the same.
In fact, there may be delays in your connection as more users transfer to IPv6. Future IPv6 users connecting to servers still on IPv4 will need to use hardware that translates the data. As Shankland explained, "When you're trying to get data from some server on the other side of the Internet, the data might have to get translated from IPv4 to IPv6 and then back to IPv4. That has to happen every time a little packet of information goes from one place to another."
- One day, your refrigerator, keys, and maybe even toilet will have an IP address.
With trillions upon trillions of new IP addresses available, Vint Cerf, co-founder of the Internet and currently Google's "Chief Internet Evangelist," predicts an "Internet of Things" where users can control appliances and other everyday objects with just a click on an app. | <urn:uuid:70581ee2-f872-47df-8714-81590e1ea134> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://kenw.org/post/ipv6-new-internet-expands-web-trillions-addresses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00509-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942555 | 762 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Robin Williams’ suicide shined a media spotlight on mental health, depression and addiction – subjects that need to remain ongoing parts of the national dialogue if we’re ever to make progress in these areas.
But as the attention on Williams’ death inevitably subsides, the real emotional work – and suffering – for those closest to him will likely intensify.
That’s because the aftermath of suicide –“a death like no other,” as it’s often been described – creates myriad complications in the grieving process for those left behind.
“It’s a long, difficult path for suicide survivors because they’re going to experience such a wide array of emotions,” says bereavement specialist Jordana Perlman, founder of Psychotherapy of the Palm Beaches (psychpb.com). “And, unfortunately, there’s no ‘manual’ to follow.”
How any of us deal with bereavement is determined by three factors, says Perlman: how we naturally cope with stress, our level of attachment to the deceased, the circumstances of the death.
“The sudden, often-violent action taken by the suicide victim will leave grievers in a state of confusion,” explains Perlman.
And with a host of conflicting emotions – some of which include:• Shock (Perlman labels this “the emotional equivalent of your body producing adrenaline when injured. It prevents you from feeling.”)
• Guilt (Asking yourself: “Why wasn’t I there to save/protect my loved one?”)
• Anger (Justified rage at your loved one for “doing this to me”)
• Guilt over feeling anger (the quintessential conflicted emotion)
• Shame (Feeling you somehow caused this or did something wrong)
• Relief (Especially prevalent when your loved one was in extreme emotional distress; again, often accompanied by guilt over feeling relief)
• Helplessness (Being overwhelmed by the enormity of the tragedy)
• Frustration (Often caused by endlessly asking oneself the forever-unknowable: Why?)
“Everything one feels after the suicide of a loved one is legitimate,” says Perlman.“You have to honor where you are in the process – no matter how long you feel that way.”
Survivors will often overanalyze every last behavior that they – and the deceased – performed in the time leading up to the act.
If there was a suicide note, they’ll reread it countless times, parsing every last word.
Most grieving folks will, at some point, be introduced to the so-called “five stages of grief” – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – that were formulated in 1969 by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
What most lay people don’t understand, though, says Florida therapist Debra Gross, is that these stages – even if the bereaved experiences them all – are not likely to happen in a linear or sequential fashion.
“You will bounce back and forth, especially when dealing with suicide,” says Gross.
Further complicating matters is the regrettable reality that suicide carries a social stigma – one that is often borne by the victim’s loved ones while at their most vulnerable.
“Many suicide survivors feel they’re being judged by people who know them,” explains Boca Raton, Fla., therapist Felicia Levine.
Then there’s the necessary, yet equally painful, intrusion by authorities.
No matter how obvious the circumstances, police initially treat a self-inflicted death as “an apparent suicide” until they can confirm it is so. Thus, loved ones – who are trying to process an emotional nuclear explosion – are also subjected to the prying questions of authorities.
“It’s like clawing at an open wound,” Perlman notes.
Coping with catastrophe
In his book “SOS: Survivors of Suicide,” Jeffrey Jackson notes that “the American Psychiatric Association ranks the trauma of losing a loved one to suicide as ‘catastrophic’ – on par with that of a concentration camp experience.”
Part of that, no doubt, is because one’s memories of the deceased – his or her “legacy,” if you will – will be forever shadowed by this dark cloud.
“You almost have to ‘rebuild’ your relationship with the person so you have positive, happy memories of your loved one,” Levine explains.
What Perlman has found is that in the grieving process many suicide survivors, filled with self-reproach, personalize their own sense of responsibility or culpability to the point that they believe that if they’d just done something different, then the outcome would have been different.
“They beat themselves up by placing unreasonable expectations on themselves. So eventually, we try to help them get to a place where they’re open to challenging those negative thoughts,” Perlman says.
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Morning breath is such a common form of halitosis that it's safe to say virtually everyone suffers to some extent from this type of bad breath. The following article, "How To Stop Morning Breath In Less Than 45 Seconds Per Day", details the causes of this common oral hygiene problem, along with an effective treatment program that will help banish your morning breath permanently.
You'll learn how several factors, including the reduced production of saliva during the overnight hours, contribute to morning breath. This reduction in saliva promotes a dry, oxygen-depleted environment in the mouth that supports the growth of bacteria that produce the chemical compounds responsible for bad breath.
Scroll down to read about a simple, effective and affordable rinse that will virtually eliminate your morning breath. You might also enjoy downloading your free copy of the Bad Breath Bible by Dr. Harald Katz, who authored our featured article.
Since I established the California Breath Clinics back in 1993, I’ve encountered just about every kind of breath condition possible….
…. from the most offensive situations where you can smell the patient’s breath from across the room, to those lucky few with breath sweeter than a baby. We’ve been very fortunate in that we’ve been able to tackle all types of bad breath, taste disorders, and dry mouth with our TheraBreath line of products.
But I wanted to share something special with you regarding a category of bad breath and sour/bitter taste common to just about everybody.
Stats About Morning Breath
Approximately 35% of the world’s population has a chronic, noticeable breath condition which usually leads them to seek help from a professional (which may often be incorrect.) This first group has bad breath concerns 24 hours a day, including, taste disorders, dry mouth, and of course morning breath….
Another 35% of people are “borderline” – meaning that their breath seems fresh throughout the day, but they can easily reach “chronic” levels – if they eat certain foods (dairy, alcohol, sugars), after taking medication (antihistamines, antidepressants, high blood pressure medication) and always when they wake up – in other words, morning breath.
The remaining 30% rarely worry about their breath. The only exceptions are when they eat garlic and onions, or upon wakening – in other words, morning breath…
So what’s going on with morning breath? The thing is, just about EVERYONE has morning breath to some degree or another!
A Dry Oral Cavity Promotes Morning Breath
As we sleep throughout the night, our salivary glands slow down (for some older people, they shut down completely!) because our brain knows we are not eating. This slowdown, combined with the constant flow of air over our palate (for those of us who are snorers or mouth breathers) makes for a very DRY environment on the tongue, within our oral cavity and in the throat (the breeding grounds of the anaerobic sulfur-producing bacteria that cause bad breath and taste disorders).
As I discuss in my article about dry mouth,this creates an environment that is very conducive for ‘morning breath’. (Saliva is nature’s way of protecting us from bad breath, because healthy saliva contains high concentrations of oxygen – the natural enemy of anaerobic bacteria.) So if you get morning breath after a good night’s sleep, don’t worry – you’re not alone!
But what most people don’t know (and this includes most medical and dental professionals), is that morning breath is NOT something that you have to live with.
How To Stop Morning Breath
The key is to find a way to stop the production of VSC’s (volatile sulfur compounds) during the night as you are asleep. One way is to increase the production of saliva within the back of your throat and mouth during the night. But this is very difficult to do – after all, you’re asleep! Furthermore, those of us who are mouth breathers are drying out the back of our throats with each breath that we take throughout the night.
A better and easier way is to stop the production of volatile sulfur compounds by the bacteria that create morning breath – and this is exactly what my AktivOxigen Serum is designed to do. This highly concentrated, unflavored oxygenating serum can be mixed with water or fruit juice to produce a powerful, antibacterial oral rinse solution that is very effective at eliminating the bad breath germs in your throat and tonsils when used as directed. You can also add a few drops to any oral irrigator or water flosser to increase its effectiveness. The serum is affordable and easy to use – and it’s the best way I know for the average person to rid themselves of morning breath.
Also, for those of you who suffer from tonsilloliths (that’s the scientific term for those nasty odorous globs growing deep in the crypts of your tonsils) or congested sinuses will find instant relief from using the combination of AktivOxigen Serum and Nasal-Sinus Drops. Nasal-Sinus Drops are potent drops you put in your nose that slowly trickle through your sinuses and down your throat destroying the bad breath bacteria on contact.
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Humanitarian organizations are organizing aid in the Philippines after the passage of the Typhoon Haiyan. Here in Columbia, some groups are also doing their part.
The MU Filipino American Student Association raised $1.500 in 48 hours to help survivors of the typhoon. The funds will go to World Vision, an international humanitarian organization helping children in need.
MikkoDane Viudez, the treasurer of the Filipino student association, said the crisis brought solidarity in the community.
“We do have a lot of Filipinos that we didn’t even know on campus that wanted to help out, and even people that weren’t Filipino”, Viudez said. “So this whole event just brought everyone on campus together not just the Filipinos.”
Marcie Tigas is responsible for fundraising for the association. She said there are now new goals for the fundraising.
“We raised our goal to $4.000. It was original $1.500. So now this weekend, on today, Friday and Saturday, we’re gonna be canning downtown and collecting donations, and then next week we’re gonna be in the student center collecting donations and having a big sale.”
The Filipino-American Cultural Society of Mid-Missouri has represented the Filipino community in Columbia and Boone County for more than 20 years. President of the society Orly Alcabasa said the members will meet this weekend to organize fundraising.
“For right now I think the best way is to send money because we have been monitoring the situation in the Philippines.” Alcabasa said. “If you send goods, they still have to process it, and right now the system is not really effective yet. I think we’re discussing sending some funds to the local Philippine Red Cross.”
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Democrats are trying to destroy our country and remove its moral values as quickly as possible. They want to undo everything about our country that our forefathers created. And, it is up to us to stop them before they succeed in reinventing America.
The Democrats are now attacking the marriage between one man and one woman with plans to rescind the Defense of Marriage Act.
H.R.3396, (Marriage Act) Introduced in House (05/07/1996) was passed with the majority of votes in both houses and signed by President Bill Clinton. Fourteen Democratic senators voted against the legislation.
Defense of Marriage Act – Amends the Federal judicial code to provide that no State, territory, or possession of the United States or Indian tribe shall be required to give effect to any marriage between persons of the same sex under the laws of any other such jurisdiction or to any right or claim arising from such relationship.
Establishes a Federal definition of: (1) “marriage” as only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife; and (2) “spouse” as only a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife. However, as stated in the above video, same-sex marriage remains in place, but that is not enough for the liberals. They are attacking traditional marriage by wanting words like “husband” and “wife” removed. They have also attacked words like “parents,” “mother,” and “father.”
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Then-Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the 5-4 majority decision using the 14th Amendment citing due process and equal protection clauses.
The justices who dissented in the 2015 case were Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas.
Chief Justice Thomas says, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”
The Hill reports that if Obergefell v. Hodges is turned back to the states, same-sex marriage would be illegal in more than 30 states.
However, Western Journal makes a valid point that even if same-sex marriage were to come before the court again, it seems pretty unlikely Obergefell would be overturned. I agree.
I absolutely believe in the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman as God designed the union at the beginning of creation. It is a scientific and biological fact that only a man and a woman can create a child together.
However, same-sex marriage has become woven into our society and, like abortions, will not go away completely. I agree with Justice Thomas that, like abortion issues, it should return to the states.
However, I do not want to see same-sex couples punished and jailed because they are in their relationship. We are a country established in law and order and justice and mercy. We are not a third-world country, and we must not treat our citizens as third-world citizens for their lifestyle choices.
The problem with liberals is that they do not know when to leave well enough alone. They had their same-sex marriage approved by the Supreme Court. Americans learned to live with the same-sex marriage unit, and average citizens did not cause dissension over it.
The liberals are the ones who had to push the issue and attack traditional marriage and traditional families.
They continue their assault on the American people and our way of life by coming up with an endless amount of various gender titles.
It has placed Americans into an upheaval mess. As a result, the loony leftist has awakened Americans who will not stand for their traditional family unit and lifestyle attacked. Americans are rising up and saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Social media censorship is suppressing the truth about the dangers of globalism and brutal cultures infiltrating the west. Please share this article wherever you can. It is the only way we can work around their censorship and ensure people receive news about issues that Democrats and the mainstream media suppress.
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Drinking Water Standards
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Two students at Harvard invented spray cake batter.
The two came up with the cake batter in a spray can for a class project. It comes out of the can pre-risen, so it bakes in less time and is microwavable.
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WordPress and smart/curly quotes: turning them off
WordPress has some annoying habits. One on my blog is wrapping image divs inside <p> tags, breaking the HTML.
Smart quotes: the problem
Another is its habit of replacing normal quote marks with "curly" or smart quotes - the ones that look different at the start of a quote than at the end.
They look nice - but they tend to break copy and paste (especially when you're pasting code, such as my unique wordpress title / description code, and my code to add page numbers to titles in the loop).
I also noticed that they can interfere with your SEO. I've just written a post about I'm a Celebrity 2009.
However, when it appeared in Google for a search on those words, the I'm in the title wasn't bolded, as this screenshot shows.
Why? Because wordpress had put a smart quote in I'm - and so Google wasn't recognising it as the same word as I'd searched for.
How to fix the smart quote problem
To fix this, you can disable the automatic smart quote function. Go to your functions.php file, and enter the following code:
remove_filter ('single_post_title', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter ('the_title', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter ('wp_title', 'wptexturize');
You can remove the use of smart quotes in other places, too. There's a complete list here.
NB This didn't completely solve the problem. Although wordpress now doesn't put curly quotes, the apostrophe in the HTML title is still rendered using the HTML entity of ampersand and then #039; - which means Google still won't recognise the word I'm in its results (ie it doesn't bold them etc). Everywhere else, however, wordpress now puts a proper ' instead of an HTML code.
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This medication belongs to the group of calcium channel blockers. Norvasc selectively blocks channels of L-type (one of six types of channels in tissues) located in a vascular wall, myocard and in particular in cells of conducting and contractile systems of myocardium. By blocking Ca+ ions transfer through membrane Norvasc decreases tone of vessels, arterial pressure. The medication is used to treat hypertension, ischemic heart disease, angina.
Dosage and direction
Do not take this drug if it was not administered to you. Follow all directions of your doctor. It is possible to take Norvasc with or without food. As it is metabolized in liver it should be administered cautiously in patients with liver failure.
Avoid drinking alcohol. Before taking Norvasc, inform your doctor if you have congestive heart failure or liver disease.
Individual hypersensitivity, arterial hypotension, cardiogenic shock, pregnancy, breastfeeding. Cautiousness is important when Norvasc is administered in patients with chronic heart failure diabetes, lipid metabolism disorders, liver failure and to persons younger 18 y.o.
Possible side effect
The most common side effects are edema of lower extremities and headache. Contact your doctor for medical attention if your feel them and also swelling in your hands, ankles, or feet, chest pain, slow, fast, or pounding heartbeats, easy bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness, numbness, burning, pain, or tingly feeling, jaundice.
Medications which contain Á2+ may decrease Norvasc effect. Non-steroid anti-inflammatory medications and estrogens may decrease effectiveness of Norvasc. Diuretics may increase Norvasc activity. Concomitant taking with medications containing lithium might aggravate their toxicity.
If you forgot to take a dose take it as soon as you remember unless it is almost time for the next intake. If so, do not take the missed dose and resume your regular schedule. Do not compensate the missed dose by taking an extra one.
If you experience tingly feeling, severe dizziness, and fainting, seek for immediate medical help.
Keep at room temperature, 15-30 C (59-86 F), in a light-resistant container away from moisture.
We provide only general information about medications which does not cover all directions, possible drug integrations, or precautions. Information at the site cannot be used for self-treatment and self-diagnosis. Any specific instructions for a particular patient should be agreed with your health care adviser or doctor in charge of the case. We disclaim reliability of this information and mistakes it could contain. We are not responsible for any direct, indirect, special or other indirect damage as a result of any use of the information on this site and also for consequences of self-treatment.
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Aromatherapy for stress and mood enhancement is one of the most well known uses of essential oils. Lavender is the most popular choice for stress reduction. A study done at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York showed improvement in the well-being of patients that were given lavender aromatherapy versus patients that were given a massage or rest. Another study published in Holistic Nurse Practice in March 2008 showed that nurses who used lavender aromatherapy perceived lower levels of stress. Other essential oils that can be helpful for stress or enhancing mood are geranium, chamomile, clary sage, and neroli.
The immune boosting properties of essential oils are numerous. Oils can be diffused into the air to clean and detoxify the air naturally. Diffusion of oils can reduce the number of pathogens in the air meaning that you are breathing in less germs. In addition, essential oils can actually improve the way the body does respond to pathogens when they are encountered. Numerous studies have shown the antiviral effects of essential oils by improving the ability of lymphocytes to take care of invaders and also by changing the membrane potential on our cells to help prevent viruses from entering. Essential oils that can be used to help prevent infection include eucalyptus, oregano, lemon, and cinnamon.
Essential oils are often used for pain management
They can be used to reduce inflammation, give a local anesthesia, give a counter stimulus, reduce spasm, and create a sensation of cooling or warming depending on which oil is chosen. A classic case of pain management through essential oils is in labor and childbirth. Midwives have used essential oils for years to help laboring women deal with contractions. Research has shown that a lavender bath in early labor improved labor progress and decreased the need for pain medication. Pain relief for the mother directly affects the baby too; a case study published in the International Journal of Aromatherapy showed that use of aroma therapeutic massage during episodes of fetal distress actually normalized fetal heart rates. Chronic and acute pain not associated with labor also can be reduced with lavender as well as clary sage, chamomile, helichrysum, sweet marjoram, sandalwood, and vetiver.
Essential oils are a natural and effective way to help manage stress, boost mood, fight off infection, and deal with pain. (When choosing essential oils make sure to research contraindications as they are not always recommended for people with certain conditions).
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Career and Education Opportunities for Greenhouse Assistants in Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois provides a wide variety of opportunities, both career and educational, for greenhouse assistants. There are currently 9,840 jobs for greenhouse assistants in Illinois and this is projected to shrink 1% to about 9,740 jobs by 2016. In general, greenhouse assistants work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants.
Greenhouse assistants earn approximately $10 hourly or $22,280 annually on average in Illinois. Nationally they average about $8 per hour or $17,960 yearly. Incomes for greenhouse assistants are not quite as good as in the overall category of Farming in Illinois, and not quite as good as the overall Farming category nationally.
The Joliet area is home to 132 schools of higher education, including one within twenty-five miles of Joliet where you can get a degree as a greenhouse assistant. Given that the most common education level for greenhouse assistants is a high school diploma or GED, it will take only a short time to learn to be a greenhouse assistant if you already have a high school diploma.
CAREER DESCRIPTION: Greenhouse Assistant
In general, greenhouse assistants work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants.
Greenhouse assistants plant and water plants, shrubs, and trees, using hand tools and gardening tools. They also inspect plants and bud ties to gauge quality. Finally, greenhouse assistants clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
Every day, greenhouse assistants are expected to be able to lift, push and move large and heavy objects. They need to use lower back and abdominal strength. It is also important that they twist and stretch their arms and legs to get work done.
It is important for greenhouse assistants to dip cut flowers into disinfectant, count them into bunches, and place them in boxes to ready them for storage and shipping. They are often called upon to move containerized shrubs and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors. They also harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them. They are sometimes expected to haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. Somewhat less frequently, greenhouse assistants are also expected to fill growing tanks with water.
Greenhouse assistants sometimes are asked to tie and bunch flowers, plants and trees; wrap their roots; and pack them into boxes to fill orders. They also have to be able to trap and destroy pests such as moles and mice, using pesticides And finally, they sometimes have to regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.
Like many other jobs, greenhouse assistants must be reliable and have exceptional integrity.
Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Joliet include:
- Farm Labor Contractor. Recruit, hire, and supervise seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers for a fee. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
- Livestock Farmer. Attend to live farm, ranch, or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Greenhouse Assistant Training
Joliet Junior College - Joliet, IL
Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Rd, Joliet, IL 60431-8938. Joliet Junior College is a large college located in Joliet, Illinois. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 14,088 students. Joliet Junior College has an associate's degree program in Agricultural Production Operations which graduated twelve students in 2008.
Arborist / Municipal Specialist: This credential was developed by the ISA and the Society of Municipal Arboriculture for those involved in managing the complex aspect of trees in an urban environment.
For more information, see the International Society of Arboriculture website.
LOCATION INFORMATION: Joliet, Illinois
Joliet is situated in Will County, Illinois. It has a population of over 146,125, which has grown by 37.6% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Joliet, 100, is near the national average. New single-family homes in Joliet are priced at $172,400 on average, which is far less than the state average. In 2008, two hundred forty-four new homes were constructed in Joliet, down from seven hundred sixty-nine the previous year.
The three most popular industries for women in Joliet are health care, educational services, and finance and insurance. For men, it is construction, public administration, and administrative and support and waste management services. The average commute to work is about 29 minutes. More than 18.6% of Joliet residents have a bachelor's degree, which is lower than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 5.7%, is lower than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Joliet is 12.4%, which is greater than Illinois's average of 10.5%.
The percentage of Joliet residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 53.9%, is more than the national average but less than the state average. All Nation Church of God in Christ, All Saints Greek Orthodox Church and Holy Cross Catholic Church are all churches located in Joliet. The largest religious groups are the Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Methodist Church.
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More than 50 Missouri Town staff and volunteers, attired in period-appropriate clothing of the 1850s, will celebrate our country’s founding and freedom. The Missouri Town Musicians and Dancers perform throughout the day.
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Study protocol of the German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA): a national household survey of smoking behaviour and cessation
BMC Public Health volume 17, Article number: 378 (2017)
The prevalence of tobacco smoking in Germany is high (~27%). Monitoring of national patterns of smoking behaviour and data on the “real-world” effectiveness of cessation methods are needed to inform policies and develop campaigns aimed at reducing tobacco-related harm. In England, the Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) has been tracking such indicators since 2006, resulting in the adaptation of tobacco control policies. However, findings cannot be directly transferred into the German health policy context. The German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA: “Deutsche Befragung zum Rauchverhalten”) aims to provide such nationally representative data.
In June 2016, the study started collecting data from computer-assisted, face-to-face household interviews in people aged 14 years and older. Over a period of 3 years, a total of ~36,000 respondents will complete the survey with a new sample of ~2000 respondents every 2 months (=18 waves). This sample will report data on demographics and the use of tobacco and electronic (e-)cigarettes. Per wave, about 500–600 people are expected to be current or recent ex-smokers (<12 months since quitting). This sample will answer detailed questions about smoking behaviour, quit attempts, exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting, and use of cessation aids. Six-month follow-up data will be collected by telephone.
The DEBRA study will be an important source of data for tobacco control policies, health strategies, and future research. The methodology is closely aligned to the STS, which will allow comparisons with data from England, a country with one of the lowest smoking prevalence rates in Europe (18%).
This study has been registered at the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00011322) on 25th November 2016.
In Germany, 110,000 people die from smoking tobacco each year . In total, 13% of the country’s mortality is attributable to smoking . While the implementation of various tobacco control policies has led to a reduction in smoking prevalence in high-income countries such as in England (current prevalence = 18%) , the prevalence in the German adult population is still high (27%) . Like in other countries, smoking prevalence is considerably higher in low income smokers [4, 5], which results in substantial health inequalities between higher- and lower- income groups .
Monitoring of national patterns of smoking and quitting behaviour is needed to inform policies and develop successful campaigns aimed at reducing tobacco-related harm. Relevant parameters to monitor include: smoking prevalence; rates, duration, trigger and success of quit attempts; exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting; the use of harm reduction strategies such as “cutting down”; and the use of cessation aids . Demographic information such as gender or socioeconomic status (SES) and the influence of potential confounders on the smoking cessation process, e.g., the motivation to stop or the degree of nicotine dependence, also have to be considered .
Several national large-scale surveys (ongoing or already completed) [4, 8,9,10] have been providing useful data on tobacco consumption and smoking behaviour in Germany, but they all have limitations. First, these surveys cover a wide range of addictions and other health topics in general which means that they do not allow for in-depth analysis of data on smoking behaviour. Second, these surveys collect data only on an annual or even less frequent basis. Data are therefore often out of date, and there is a lack of flexibility to adjust survey items to new, specific trends in smoking behaviour (e.g., the introduction of electronic (e-)cigarettes). This limits their topical relevance for tobacco control policies and research. Third, the sample sizes of some of these surveys are not sufficiently large to allow statistically reliable analyses.
Collection of observational “real-world” data on the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods is important to supplement randomised controlled trials (RCTs), whose generalisability is somewhat limited because of the participant selection criteria. There is good evidence from RCTs that behavioural support and pharmacological treatment, such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), bupropion, or varenicline, improve the success of quit attempts [11,12,13,14,15]. However, analyses on the real-world effectiveness of smoking cessation methods from the observational Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) from England showed, for example, that smokers who buy NRT over the counter to aid their quit attempt have similar odds of success as those who tried to stop unaided , indicating the importance of providing cessation medication together with behavioural support. The STS is a large ongoing cross-sectional household survey which provides monthly data as well as six-month follow-up data on smoking and cessation behaviour in the English general population aged 16 years and older . Findings from the STS cannot be directly transferred to the German health policy context. Whereas behavioural support and pharmacological smoking cessation treatment, for instance, is offered at no or minimal cost in England, such services do not exist in Germany, and evidence-based treatments are not or only partly reimbursed.
Moreover, little is known about the real-world effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation in the German population. Its popularity and usage has rapidly increased in recent years. In England, for example, the prevalence of “ever-users” (people who used an e-cigarette at least once) in smokers and recent ex-smokers has increased from approximately 2% in 2011 to approximately 25% in 2016 . Data from Germany show a comparable trend [3, 18]. Due to design and variety of flavours, e-cigarettes appear popular among adolescents. Authors have debated whether or not e-cigarettes may facilitate nicotine addiction in this age cohort [19, 20]. Therefore, tracking e-cigarette usage behaviour in adolescents is of particular importance.
The DEBRA study will fill a crucial gap in the literature by collecting up-to-date and in-depth data on key indicators regarding the patterns and trends of smoking and quitting in the German population, helping to guide policy and clinical practice. The collection of baseline and follow-up data provides the possibility for longitudinal analyses on within-individual trends in relevant parameters. These data can contribute to a better understanding of smoking cessation processes in the general population and the role played by triggers such as motivation or physician advice, sociodemographic factors, and aids to cessation such as NRT, behavioural support, or even non-evidence-based methods, including e-cigarettes. The methodology of DEBRA is closely aligned to the STS, allowing comparisons with relevant data from the English population. The study design allows a flexible adjustment of the scope of the survey to address emerging questions relevant to policy changes, practice or research.
Design and sample
The DEBRA study started in June 2016 to collect data from computer-assisted face-to-face household interviews of people aged 14+. Over a period of 3 years, every two months, a new sample of approximately 2000 respondents will complete the survey (= 18 waves, approximately 36,000 respondents in total). Per wave, about 500–600 people are expected to smoke tobacco or to be recent ex-smokers (i.e., have smoked in the past 12 months). It is anticipated that data on approximately 10,000 smokers and recent ex-smokers will be collected during the 3-year period. All smokers and recent ex-smokers who are willing to be re-contacted will be followed-up at 6 months following baseline by telephone to complete a short survey. It is expected that about 120–150 (25%) from each baseline wave will agree to be followed-up, resulting in a total sample size of approximately 2500 respondents with baseline and follow-up data.
The fieldwork is conducted by the market research institute Kantar Health Munich, Germany. The investigation area is the Federal Republic of Germany. The total population of the study covers all German speaking persons aged 14 years or over who live in private households during the survey period. To keep the costs manageable, the baseline survey will use a multi-topic omnibus survey, a regular series of surveys from Kantar Health to which questions can be added. Per wave up to 280 trained interviewers will conduct on average 7 interviews each. Questions of the DEBRA study are placed in the middle of the 1 h multi-topic omnibus survey.
Baseline data collection will be facilitated through multi-stage, multi-stratified random probability sampling. Firstly, all communities within Germany will be stratified by the following regional attributes: federal state (n = 16), administrative districts (a maximum of n = 41 per federal state), and type of community (a maximum of n = 10 per district). For stratification purposes, these attributes will be used in combination. Hence, each type of community in every administrative district builds a different stratum, which theoretically leads to a total of 410, in practice fewer, strata.
To determine the primary sampling units for the study, the geographical area of Germany was divided into 53,000 small areas of approximately equal size, based on communities, and using geographic street mapping system software. For each small area, the sample size was determined in proportion to the total number of households in the area, relative to the total number of households in the whole population. This is called an area sample or sample point. In the current study the number of sample points varies between 360 and 410. All small areas were also allocated to their superordinate geographical units, such as rural and urban districts and municipalities, to allow further stratification of the sample. Sampling units of the second stage will be represented through private households and selected by a random walk procedure. Sampling units of the third stage will be the target persons themselves. These will be selected using a random process (so called “Schwedenschlüssel”), which gives an equal chance of selection to every eligible person within a household .
Data analyses will take into account weighting adjustments for personal and household characteristics. According to the multi-stage sampling procedure of baseline data the weighting has to be done in separate stages, too. One has to differentiate between the so-called design weighting, which corrects unequal selection probabilities due to the sample design, and the outcome weighting, which corrects disproportions based on the structure of target persons who did or did not participate in the survey. Step 1 and step 3 (see further on) are calculated as rim-weighting within an iterative process. Step 2 is calculated by an analytical approach.
First step (outcome weighting)
The sampling procedure gives every household the same chance to be selected which means that the realised sample should be distributed proportionally to the distribution of private households. Within this first step, the structure of the realised sample is compared to the proportions of the original stratification of the first sampling stage. The weighting factors correct differences between the original and the realised household characteristics.
Second step (design weighting)
In sampling stage 3 (see below) every eligible person within a household has the same chance of selection. Hence, the selection probabilities of the target persons differ across the whole sample according to the size of the household they live in. This unequal selection probability is corrected by an analytical mathematical procedure using the size of the households. The household sample is changed into a sample of persons where every respondent has equal selection probability.
Third step (outcome weighting)
The last weighting step corrects for differences between the demographic structures of the respondents and the structures of the total population using the following structures: Federal states combined with sex and generally seven age classes.
The main baseline questionnaire for the DEBRA can be found in Additional file 1. To ensure comparability of data, the majority of questions has been adopted from the STS survey and labelled appropriately in the questionnaire . STS questions were developed by an expert panel and policy makers . Existing questions from the STS were translated into German and new questions were developed by a bilingual team of researchers (see authors’ contributions) with experience in using the STS data. Some of the validated scales from the STS were translated and culturally adapted according to international guidelines .
Baseline DEBRA questions for each respondent cover smoking status and ever-use of e-cigarettes. Depending on the response behaviour, current tobacco smokers (cigarettes or other tobacco products), recent ex-smokers (<12 months since quitting tobacco) and ever-users of e-cigarettes or a similar product (e.g., e-hookah, e-cigar, or e-pipe) will answer on further detailed questions about smoking behavior, quit attempts, exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting, and use of cessation aids (Table 1). In addition, socioeconomic data (including age, sex, housing situation, residential area, marital status, education, respondent and household income, and employment status) will be regularly collected in all respondents as part of the omnibus survey.
The study design is flexible. Depending on trends in population usage of tobacco or nicotine products, in tobacco research, or tobacco control policies, it is intended that new questions can be added from wave to wave while others will be removed when adequate statistical power is reached to address a specific scientific issue.
Smokers and recent ex-smokers who agree to be followed-up will be re-contacted by telephone six months following baseline. The computer assisted telephone interviews will be performed by interviewers from Kantar Healths’ call centre using a Sample Management System (SMS). The SMS manages and controls all telephone contacts (e.g., telephone numbers that cannot be contacted are set deferred, and presented again after a long interval at different times of a day). Interviewers will try to reach the respondents up to ten times at various times and on different days of the week.
Additional file 2 shows the main follow-up questionnaire for the DEBRA study. Follow-up questions focus on current smoking status and on detailed exploration of any quit attempts that have been made during the past six months. Methods used for a quit attempt (if so) will be asked in concordance to the baseline survey. This prospective element enables us to further analyse the real-world effectiveness of smoking cessation methods using longitudinal data and providing data on within-individual trends. The short time frame between baseline and follow-up takes into consideration the fact that many smokers make multiple quit attempts within a short space of time and often rapidly forget unsuccessful ones . Smokers who try to stop unaided, for example, seem to forget failed quit attempts more quickly than those who use treatment, what might lead to an underestimation of the effectiveness of stop-smoking medications .
Main research topics addressed by the DEBRA study
The following research topics will be addressed from the beginning of data collection in wave 1 (June 2016). It is very likely that more topics will be added over time.
Prevalence rates and monitoring of trends
DEBRA will provide prevalence rates and proportions of key parameters on smoking status, smoking behaviour, quit attempts and their triggers, exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting, and use of evidence-based as well as non-evidence-based cessation aids, including e-cigarettes, stratified by socioeconomic factors, nicotine dependence or motivation to quit. Longitudinal analyses from baseline to follow-up will provide insight into within-individual trends in each of these parameters. Time series analyses will assess changes including seasonal trends, linear trends, and as a function of policy changes or media campaigns.
Social gradient in quit attempts and successful abstinence
It is important to determine causes of the higher smoking prevalence rates in disadvantaged groups. Data from the STS showed that smokers in more deprived socioeconomic groups in England are just as likely as those in higher groups to try to stop and use aids to cessation . However, there is a strong gradient across socioeconomic groups in success, with significantly lower success rates in disadvantaged groups being half as likely to succeed compared with the highest . DEBRA data will examine to what extent these findings also apply to different socioeconomic groups in Germany.
External validation of the Motivation to Stop Scale (MTSS)
Smoker’s motivation to stop smoking is an important source of information, as it predicts the incidence of future quit attempts [27, 28]. Moreover, measuring changes in motivation to stop on a population level is useful to assess and to track the impact of tobacco control policies interventions over time. For this purpose, the single-item MTSS has been developed as a valid and cost-effective tool . The MTSS combines key motivational constructs and has been shown to be a strong and accurate predictor of future quit attempts. With the DEBRA study, we aim to determine the external validity of the translated and culturally adapted MTSS (MRS: “Motivation zum Rauchstopp Skala”) among German smokers in predicting future quit attempts.
External validation of the Strength of Urges to Smoke Scale (SUTS)
An important criterion for a measure of nicotine dependence is how well it predicts relapse following smoking cessation. A commonly used scale to assess dependence and predict relapse is the Fagerström Test for Cigarette Dependence (FTCD) . However, no representative data have been published on the predictive validity of the FTCD among German smokers. Furthermore, in recent ex-smokers, dependence cannot be measured with the FTCD, as one of its items includes the number of cigarettes smoked per day. By contrast, the two-item SUTS has been found to be a strong indicator of the severity of nicotine dependence and to be a better predictor of relapse than the FTCD in the English population. Its use also allows analyses on the effectiveness of cessation methods (used during the last quit attempt) in recent ex-smokers through adjusting for urges to smoke as a confounder . We aim to determine the external validity of the translated and culturally adapted SUTS (VRS: “Verlangen zu Rauchen Skala”) among German smokers and recent ex-smokers in measuring nicotine dependence and predicting relapse.
Real-world effectiveness of evidence-based and non-evidence-based smoking cessation methods, including e-cigarettes
Numerous analyses on the real-world effectiveness of smoking cessation aids have been conducted with data from the STS in England, for example, to supplement RCT data and to provide estimates for the effectiveness in the general population . However, transferability of STS results to the German health policy context is difficult because evidence-based cessation aids are not or only partly reimbursed in Germany. The DEBRA study will provide such data for Germany. Moreover, hardly any national data is available on usage and real-world effectiveness of non-evidence-based methods, including e-cigarettes. In England, for instance, e-cigarettes have already become the most frequently chosen method of quitting tobacco, possibly contributing to the country’s decline in tobacco smoking . The DEBRA study aims at assessing the emerging role of the e-cigarette as an aid in smoking cessation in Germany and evaluating its real-world effectiveness to complement sparse data coming from one existing RCT which found a clinically relevant difference in continuous 6-month abstinence between active vs. placebo e-cigarette users trying to quit .
Factors associated with the use of aids to cessation
Recent data from Germany suggest that only a small proportion of smokers use evidence-based aids while trying to quit . Most smokers still try to quit unaided, which is associated with high relapse rates, particularly within the first weeks of abstinence where the strongest withdrawal symptoms occur . The assessment of differences in sociodemographic or smoking characteristics might support health strategies to address specific groups of smokers who are underutilising evidence-based cessation aids in health strategies to a greater extent . Therefore, the DEBRA study aims to analyse variations in use of smoking cessation aids among German smokers trying to quit.
Exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting
Brief advice on smoking cessation delivered by a physician has been found to be effective and affordable [36, 37]. Hence, clinical practice guidelines recommend implementing brief advice on smoking cessation into routine primary care to assist a large number of smokers. Nevertheless, these recommendations seem to be only rarely implemented into practice in Germany and hardly any representative and up-to-date data is available on frequency of delivery and approaches used to deliver such advice. The DEBRA study aims to provide such nationally representative data to inform policy health strategies aimed at implementing the clinical guidelines.
Data analysis and sample size calculation
Statistical data analyses depend on scientific issues that will be addressed by the DEBRA study. Detailed analyses will therefore be reported in the publication of each future study, respectively.
The methodology of DEBRA is closely aligned to the English STS. Our assumptions about expected means and variances for the primary analyses are therefore made on the basis of these STS analyses [17, 23, 39, 40]. Data indicate that, depending on the specific issue, a sample between 1500 and 7000 interviewed smokers and recent ex-smokers are needed to yield adequate statistical power of >80%. The total required sample size was determined considering current prevalence rates of smokers in Germany , available data on rates of cessation attempts within the past 12 months , and physician visits within the past 12 months , whereas average response rates at follow-up were estimated by Kantar Health on the basis of previous surveys. During the 18 waves of the DEBRA study with approximately 2000 interviews per wave, about 500–600 people are expected to smoke tobacco or to be recent ex-smokers (in total = ~10,000). Based on these assumptions the required baseline sample sizes from a total of 1500 to 7000 smokers and recent ex-smokers can be achieved within 3 years. A response rate of 20–25% is expected at follow-up, resulting in a sample size of approximately 2500 after 3 years.
Dissemination of findings
Findings from this survey will be reported in national and international peer-reviewed scientific journals, and at national and international conferences. Up-to-date statistics will be also published on the study website: www.debra-study.info.
Reducing the prevalence of tobacco smoking is one of the most important strategies for reducing the burden of morbidity, premature death, and health inequalities between higher and lower income groups within the next decades . Continuous monitoring of national patterns of smoking and quitting behaviour as well as real-world data on the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods are needed to guide tobacco control policies and clinical practice.
The DEBRA study aims to provide such representative data for Germany. Its methodology is sufficiently flexible to allow adaptions of its research scope and tracking data on every two months permits a much more sensitive test of the possible effects of interventions than can be achieved by annual national surveys. Hence, DEBRA data will provide quick and direct estimates of policy or health strategy impacts aimed at reducing tobacco-related harm as well as of its cost-effectiveness.
The results of the DEBRA study can also be relevant to improve clinical care for smokers. Real-world data on the effectiveness of smoking cessation aids might complement the current state of knowledge on evidence-based and non-evidence-based smoking cessation processes which is usually obtained from RCTs. Data on prevalence of the use of such methods and on exposure to health professionals’ advice on quitting might help to analyse the as-is state of usage and care. Future interventional studies might then address discrepancies between the as-is (e.g., under-usage of evidence-based treatments to aid cessation) and the target state of use (e.g., use of evidence-based treatments). Such interventions could address both, the physicians and the patients themselves, to increase rates of recommendations as well as the use of evidence-based cessation aids.
We expect the DEBRA methodology to be robust and reliable. However, data from the first waves will have to be analysed to compare the representativeness of the DEBRA data to other ongoing national large scale surveys [4, 8,9,10]. Slight deviations can certainly occur due to different modes of data collection (face-to-face interview, telephone, or online), seasonal fluctuations, differences in weighting procedures, as well as differences due to the inclusion of diverse age groups of participants.
There are certain general limitations that apply to large national surveys such as the DEBRA study, including those associated with self-report which may be biased or inaccurate. Furthermore, drop-out rates from baseline to six month follow-up are expected to be substantial and possibly differential. However, representativeness of the follow-up samples will be examined in detail by comparisons with baseline data on key variables from those not followed up and results from such analyses will be interpreted accordingly. Finally, even if the DEBRA study aims to collect a sample of smokers large enough to yield adequate statistical power for several subgroup analyses, certain analyses are likely to be underpowered due to small sample sizes, e.g. in relation to ethnicity, specific professions, or usage of specific e-inhalation products (e.g., e-hookah, e-cigar, or e-pipe).
The DEBRA study will enhance understanding of factors influencing smoking and cessation behaviour on a population level and be an important resource of scientific data for the development of tobacco control policies, health strategies, and future studies in Germany. The study design allows a flexible adjustment of the scope of the survey to specific trends in smoking behaviour, topical questions in tobacco research or policies. The methodology of the study is closely aligned to the STS, allowing international comparisons of data.
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We would like to thank Reiner Hanewinkel for his feedback on the early drafts of the baseline questionnaire.
The study is funded by the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (“NRW-Rückkehrprogramm”) who had no involvement in the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or in the writing of the manuscript.
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Data sharing is not applicable to this article as this is a study protocol.
DK acquired funding for the current study. DK and SK lead the study processes including data collection, data analyses, and the development of new questions for the DEBRA interview guide together with DN. SK and DK developed and co-wrote the study protocol. The team from the English Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) RW, JB, LSB, ER, TR and LS developed the study design of the STS to which the design of the DEBRA study is closely aligned. LSB, ER, TR, DK and LS were part of the bilingual team which translated the STS questionnaire into German. CCB holds a major part in describing the methodological aspects of the data collection conducted by Kantar Health. All named authors contributed substantially to the manuscript and agreed on its final version.
SK, LSB and CCB have no conflict of interest to declare. JB has received unrestricted research funding from Pfizer, who manufacture smoking cessation medications. LS has received honoraria for talks, an unrestricted research grant and travel expenses to attend meetings and workshops from Pfizer, and has acted as paid reviewer for grant awarding bodies and as a paid consultant for health care companies. RW has undertaken research and consultancy for companies that develop and manufacture smoking cessation medications (Pfizer, Johnsons & Johnson, and Glaxo Smith Kline). He is an advisor to the UK’s National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training. His salary is funded by Cancer Research UK. DN is a member of the advisory board of Pfizer and has received travel grants and honorarium. TR has received honoraria from Pfizer, Novartis, Glaxo Smith Kline, Astra Zeneca and Roche as a speaker in activities related to continuing medical education. He has also received financial support for investigator-initiated trials from Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. DK received an unrestricted grant from Pfizer in 2009 for an investigator-initiated trial on the effectiveness of practice nurse counselling and varenicline for smoking cessation in primary care (Dutch Trial Register NTR3067).
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The study protocol has been peer-reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany (ID 5386/R). The fieldwork is conducted by the market research institute Kantar Health Munich, Germany. The interviewers from Kantar Health make sure that all participants give oral informed consent. This method of consent has been also approved by the ethics committee.
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Kastaun, S., Brown, J., Brose, L.S. et al. Study protocol of the German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA): a national household survey of smoking behaviour and cessation. BMC Public Health 17, 378 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4328-2
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Sen. Arroyo, Joma Sison: US has many more interests in China than in Philippines
Did the Philippines commit a strategic blunder on the Scarborough standoff when it went to Washington for the much ballyhooed national security meeting?
Senator Joker Arroyo said on Wednesday the United States’ pronouncement that it would not take sides in the maritime row despite the mutual defense treaty with the Philippines might have “orphaned” the country in the face of a superpower like China.
“Geopolitically, why would they offend China, which is very close to them? There are so many economic interests at stake here,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a phone interview.
Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and chief political consultant of the CPP-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines, echoed Arroyo’s sentiments. He said the United States had “far larger interests in China than in the Philippines.”
“As matters stand, China now confirms what it had thought all along, that the 61-year-old mutual defense treaty cannot be invoked in the Scarborough standoff,” Arroyo said in a statement.
“Whereas before there was at least some doubt where the US stands in the crisis, now it has been clarified. Nagkabistuhan na (It’s all out).”
Arroyo was not optimistic that the Philippines could turn to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), whose members “have their own interests to protect.”
Nowhere to turn to
“We’re like orphans. We have nowhere to turn to,” he added, noting that the government “practically tied our hands” when it sought the Washington meeting but failed to get its desired result.
In Monday’s meeting in Washington, the Philippines secured a US commitment to improve its maritime security capabilities, particularly with the delivery of a second ship for the Philippine Navy within the year.
But the US pronouncement in the context of Manila’s row with Beijing over Scarborough apparently left much to be desired.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington does not take sides on the sovereignty claims by two countries. But she said maintaining freedom of navigation in the disputed territory was a matter of national interest for the United States.
“The United States supports a collaborative diplomatic process by all those involved for resolving the various disputes that they encounter,” she said. “We oppose the threat or use of force by any party to advance its claims.”
Lack of preparation
Arroyo blamed the supposed lack of preparation—in particular, “back channeling”—by Philippine officials prior to the Washington meeting.
“The results of the … ministerial meeting is a lesson for us, a small power, and that is, we should not embark on a high-profile meeting unless we are sure about a modicum of success in the negotiation,” he said.
“That underscores the importance of back channeling, the informal diplomacy, the preliminary talks before the formal meeting. For why should we go through highly publicized talks, only to look beggared by puny concessions?”
Presidential political adviser Ronald Llamas yesterday insisted that the US declaration was “consistent with our track of pursuing diplomatic, political and legal solutions to the dispute.”
“It is respectful of our sovereignty and gives us the necessary space to pursue a multilateral approach to the issue of Panatag Shoal and the West Philippine Sea,” he added.
Sison’s take on dispute
“We should not be carried away by the illusion that the US is out to protect us. We must keep in mind that the US has far larger interests in China than in the Philippines,” Sison said in a message read on Monday to post-graduate students at National Defense College of the Philippines in Camp Aguinaldo.
“(The) US-RP Mutual Defense Treaty, which carries no automatic retaliation clause, allows the US to avoid siding with the Philippines against China,” said Sison, who is on self-exile in the Netherlands.
“What the US is bent on doing is to manage and manipulate the Philippine-China contradictions in order to further entrench itself militarily in the Philippines … and intensify its efforts to strengthen US hegemony over the Asia-Pacific region,” Sison said.
He expressed doubt that China would engage the Philippines militarily over the disputed areas.
“Despite its assertiveness, China has so far avoided any outright military act of aggression,” he said, adding that Beijing was “probably mindful” of its international and UN commitments.
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Why is the right winning the abortion debate?
looks at why abortion rights supporters have lost ground.
JANUARY 22 marked the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision giving women the legal right to abortion.
But the few essays commemorating the importance of Roe to women's lives and health were mostly overshadowed by reports that abortion is further out of the reach of ordinary women across the U.S.
Nationally, the abortion rate is at the lowest level since 1974, the year after Roe became law, according to a recent census of abortion providers by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. In Illinois alone, the abortion rate declined by 19 percent in the past five years. Despite an increase in the number of women of reproductive age, the number of abortions in the U.S. has dropped in the last 15 years from a high of 1.6 million in 1990 to 1.2 million in 2005.
In part, this is due to the over-the-counter availability of Plan B birth control (the "morning-after pill") and a rising number of non-surgical abortions resulting from increased use of the drug RU486. But there has also been "a sharp decline in the number of abortion providers," as the Chicago Tribune reported. "Recent years also have seen an upsurge in legislation making it more difficult for women to access abortions and for doctors to perform them."
Together, the statistics point to a bleak reality--that an abortion is harder to obtain for many women today than several decades ago, and that support for the right to abortion, particularly among young people, has declined.
"Pew Research Center polls dating back a decade show that 18- to 29-year-olds are consistently more likely than the general adult population to favor strict limits on abortion," the Los Angeles Times reported. A Pew survey over the summer found 22 percent of young adults support a total ban on abortion, compared with 15 percent of their parents' generation.
Looking specifically at teens, a Gallup survey in 2003 found that 72 percent called abortion morally wrong, and 32 percent believed it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults surveyed that year, only 17 percent backed a total ban.
THERE'S NO doubt that the anti-choice movement has gained a large amount of ground in the ideological, as well as legal, battle over abortion rights.
By chipping away at abortion rights bit by bit since Roe was first made law, the right wing has made the idea acceptable that women are somehow not capable of making a choice for themselves. In addition, the claim that abortion is not only "ending a life" but psychologically "damaging" to women has led to a flood of pseudo-scientific claims about such made-up conditions as "post-abortion syndrome."
But if the right has succeeded in conquering so much ideological territory, it's largely because the leading voices in support of abortion--in particular, the mainstream women's movement--have been so willing to accept the idea that abortion is primarily a moral issue, not a political one.
"No woman wants to have an abortion," begins the standard apology. "Of course, we want to reduce the number of abortions" begins another. By this logic, abortion becomes something to be constantly apologized for, rather than a basic right to be fought for and protected.
Likewise, the failure of the pro-choice movement to stop the gutting of abortion rights is explained away as a problem of changing morals, as opposed to a failed political strategy.
Take, for example, a recent essay by Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for a Free Choice, and Kate Michelman, the former president of the National Abortion Rights Action League (now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America).
Kissling and Michelman write that the reason abortion rights are in peril today is because the Christian Right not only has been savvier at "messaging" than pro-choice forces, but also that it is more in touch with America's changing moral values.
"Twenty years ago, being pro-life was déclassé. Now it is a respectable point of view," they write. "How did this happen? Did the pro-choice movement fail? Or did those opposed to abortion simply respond more effectively to the changing science as well as the social shift from the rights rage of the '60s to the responsibility culture of the '90s?"
The answer, they conclude, is to seek common ground with the right wing--to admit that abortion should be framed as just one part of a bigger "conversation." "Advocates of choice have had a hard time dealing with the increased visibility of the fetus," they write. "The preferred strategy is still to ignore it and try to shift the conversation back to women. At times, this makes us appear insensitive, a bit too pragmatic in a world where the desire to live more communitarian and 'life-affirming' lives is palpable...
"Our vigorous defense of the right to choose," they conclude, "needs to be accompanied by greater openness regarding the real conflict between life and choice, between rights and responsibility. It is time for a serious reassessment of how to think about abortion in a world that is radically changed from 1973."
This strategy does nothing to protect abortion rights or build the fight to make up the ground lost, In fact, it emboldens the right.
Commenting on Kissling and Michelman's article, for example, Joe Scheidler, head of the hard-right, Illinois-based Pro-Life Action League--known for its physical and verbal harassment of women outside clinics--gloated, "[I]t is a healthy sign that the proud pro-choicers, who had society eating out of their hands only a few years ago, are now desperately seeking common ground in an effort simply to survive."
INSTEAD OF rebuilding the fight for abortion rights along the lines of how it was won in the first place--through activism and a fighting women's movement--the mainstream women's movement has instead placed its hopes in the Democrats.
Such hopes are misplaced. Democratic presidents have a history of taking a lukewarm (or openly hostile) stance toward abortion rights. Jimmy Carter, for example, supported the Hyde Amendment, which cut government funding of abortions for poor women. Bill Clinton famously said that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare"--and stood by as access to abortion was gutted during his presidency.
Between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, little is being said on the campaign trail about defending the right to choose abortion. But it's not hard to figure out that neither Clinton nor Obama is likely to blaze a trail forward in protecting abortion rights.
Clinton, whose candidacy has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women, used the anniversary of Roe v. Wade three years ago to declare abortion a "sad, even tragic, choice." Obama, meanwhile, has said little about abortion rights on the campaign trail beyond the standard pledge to appoint pro-choice Supreme Court justices.
Clinton did slam Obama's "present" vote--rather than a "no"--on several right-wing bills in the Illinois Senate dealing with restrictions on reproductive rights. But on at least one--the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have required legal protections for fetuses "born alive" during abortions--Clinton voted along with 97 other U.S. senators to support nearly identical legislation in Congress in 2001.
If the top Democratic contenders aren't saying anything much this year about protecting abortion rights, it's because liberal pro-choice organizations haven't really asked them to.
Despite the bleak picture, however, the possibility exists to build a real fight to win back abortion rights. As the LA Times pointed out, even in the face of the right-wing assault, a "substantial majority" of people in the U.S. want abortion to remain legal, and "millions of young people continue to choose abortion when faced with unplanned pregnancy."
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Elementary Grammar: A Child's Resource Book. Using Your Language Series.
Smith, Carl B.
Written for children who are in the first four years of school, this handbook provides review and additional practice in language, grammar, and punctuation for students who may need such study. Younger children may need parental help in using the handbook, while older children may be able to read and understand the material for themselves. Although not intended to be an activities book, the handbook does contain some practice questions at the end of each chapter. Chapters in the handbook discuss sentences, nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, word study, writing better sentences, and punctuation. A handbook for quick reference and answers to exercises are attached. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Usage, Learning Activities, Parent Participation, Punctuation, Resource Materials, Sentences, Study Guides, Verbs
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10 Commonly Found Terms in Contracts That You Should Understand
Every person will encounter contracts, whether it be related to education, business, or other activities that need agreements between people or groups involved. A contract is an agreement made between two or more “parties” (individuals or companies that enter into agreements) that is binding and enforceable under the law. IT can either be verbal, written, or a combination of both.
When entering into a contract, it is important that you understand all the details in it so you can deliver on your end of the agreement and protect yourself from any unfair activity. There are many complicated terms in law (some are still even in Latin!), but here are ten commonly found terms in contracts that you should learn.
“Bonafide” (pronounced as “bone-na-fayd”) is a Latin term that translates to “in good faith.” This term implies a high level of trust between parties, meaning that both are entering into the agreement without any bad or hidden motives. Bonafide can also be used as an adjective to describe anything real, authentic, or made with good intentions, such as a bonafide student, bonafide contract, or a bonafide offer.
A “breach” refers to a violation of a contract, the law, or a standard. When a party breaches a contract (officially called a “breach of contract”), that means that they have failed to uphold their part of the deal. This can lead to the contract being ended and having the party that breached the agreement pay for damages (payment or award to compensate for loss).
For example, you enter into a contract wherein you must give security service to a company for 12 months. If you fail to offer the service for that duration (e.g., you cut the service short or withhold the service to the company), then that is a breach of contract.
“Conditions” are the major terms in a contract. These are the basis of any agreement. When one of them is broken, then it becomes a breach of contract. For example, an employment contract condition may be that the employee cannot enter into similar work with the company’s competitors during their employment.
Warranties, on the other hand, are similar to conditions but are less important. Unlike conditions, when warranties are failed, these do not necessarily lead to a breach of contract. Instead, it only adjusts in price or the awarding of damages.
Something that is “confidential” is something that is secret, and therefore should not be disclosed to anybody outside those who are concerned (usually the parties in a contract). Contracts sometimes define some parts to be confidential. These can be operational information, trade secrets, or any other sensitive information.
Confidentiality agreements (also known as non-disclosure agreements) are a type of contract which aims to protect confidential information. The parties involved are bound to keep whatever information shared in their agreement—and whatever operations happen about it—secret, to never pass it on to anybody else.
“Deliverables” is a collective term for all the tangible items that parties are obliged to supply based on a contract’s conditions. These are often bound by an agreed date in which the supplying party must complete all transactions.
For example, a fruit vendor and a farmer enter into a contract wherein the farmer must supply 20 cartons of apples to the vendor within 30 days. The deliverables, in this case, are the 20 cartons of apples.
Contractual liability refers to an agreement between parties to pay for any loss or damages that the other may experience during the contract duration. It can also be used as the term “liable,” which describes a person or business with legal obligations (or has entered contractual liability). If a person breaches a contract, he or she is said to be liable (or responsible) for the damages done.
A “proxy” is a representative or a person who acts on behalf of another individual for a specific purpose, usually in relation to voting. For example, a high-ranking official in the company can appoint a proxy (such as their assistant) to attend meetings and vote on their behalf. In contracts, you can choose a proxy to fulfill some conditions should you not be able to do them yourself.
“Term” can mean two things when it comes to contracts. It can refer to the period when the contract is valid (e.g., a contract may operate for a term of two years, after which it becomes invalid). On the other hand, it could also generally refer to any clause in a contract; this is how it is used in “terms and conditions” and “terms of the agreement,” for example.
A contract is “void” when it cannot be practiced or completed, usually when one or all parties cannot perform the conditions stated in the contract based on a mistake or legal problems. A void contract then becomes unenforceable in law, starting from the time it was created. That means that it becomes null and is considered as if the agreement was never made in the first place.
To “waive” something means intentionally and willingly forfeit one’s rights or claims. In contracts, this means that you agree to voluntarily give up your rights or claims without holding the other party liable for any consequences because of it.
A “waiver” then is a part of the contract where one agrees to anything being waived.
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Google has built an advertising marketplace on the principle of opacity. Everybody involved is provided with a modicum of information rather than the complete picture. In doing so, the company creates an atmosphere that asks all involved to simply trust it. While Google might argue that this is needed to minimize opportunism by all involved, this is a dangerous way to run a marketplace.
Here is a top 10 list of what Google does not reveal.
10.Google does not tell advertisers where exactly their ad will get placed.
9. Google does not tell some publishers why exactly they shut them down.
8. Google does not share any network-level performance figures.
7. Google does not provide any information about how overall click rates have changed over time.
6. Google does not share any information on who clicked on the ads.
5. Google does not reveal what leads to higher placement among paid ads.
4. Google does not reveal how exactly it evaluates the quality of a text ad, i.e., the Quality Score. According to Google, the formula "varies depending on whether it's calculating minimum bids or assigning ad position."3. Google does not tell advertisers what countries the users come from.
2. Google never tells publishers why they got paid a certain amount.
1.Google does not publish any research on ad effectiveness.
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Anyone have any clue on how to make a multi-leveled board game? like have one board on the table and then another board raised above it somehow? i have one world on the table and then a slightly different version of that world on top and you can travel back and forth....they are 30x16" board so they can't be placed next to each other....and would it work okay? Any ideas would be helpful! Thanks!
Need help on making a multi-level adventure board game
Considering the size of the boards I can see that will be a real challenge. Do the two maps share a layout, or are they completely different? If they are the same, perhaps you could include a legend on the side and an extra token for each player. If the 'level token' is on 1, they are on the upper map, if they move down to the lower map they then move their token to 2. This way the two maps could share a board and still quickly keep track of where each player is. If, on the other hand, the two boards are laid out differently this might become confusing and players risk following the wrong path.
Do all players move from dark to light at the same time, or is each character moving independently? How often do they switch? Is there only certain places they can cross over or is it a triggered random event? Is it thematically necessary that one hover above the other, or are you just going for effect? Something like this could be a catchy gimmick that draws attention, if done correctly, but could just be an annoying distraction of not handled well. I would still suggest considering a side-by-side board, either by reducing the size of the boards or by incorporating aspects of both boards on one surface, and developing a mechanic to switch between without losing your place.
I'm intrigued and wouldn't mind following this idea more if you find ways to develop it, so please keep us posted.
Having one board above the other sounds like a cool idea, but I can see all sort of problems with getting to pieces underneath the upper board, where "supports" for the upper board would go, how they would fit in etc. Sounds like a bit of an industrial design nightmare!
Why not have 1 30" x 32" board, light world is one half, dark is the other. You could mirror the areas of each world if they are two "identical" worlds, but it sounds as if the dark world is larger (7 dungeons to the light's 4). Your background art could be used to make it obvious which world is which.
I work in metric but the whole board doesn't sound bigger than some of the larger games I own (thinking Arkham horror for example).
Or, as a slightly tongue-in-cheek option, have 1 30" x 16" board, but have two sets of text on each square - but one is in mirror writing. Then play with the board up against a mirror! ;-)
You could use pillars at the four corners of the board....kind of like this:
One way would to just have two boards, for example two 18" square boards next to each other. I think that trying to put them one above the other would make the game difficult to play (hard to reach the pieces, hard to see the board in the shadows) without adding much to the gameplay.
Another way would be to split the board into several mini-boards (each corresponding to a dungeon), each of which is double-sided as light and dark. This would work if you modified the rule slightly about traveling back and forth to be that only one side of a given dungeon can be in use at a time.
Agreed on the hard to play aspect of stacked boards.
Stupid reference, but double decker battle chess on The Big Bang Theory used a mostly translucent top board to remedy that issue, if you have your heart set on stacked boards
Here is what I *think* you are going for:
You have a map of a certain size, complete with paths and locations. Some locations have different functions, depending on whether your character's status is "A" or "B" (<-- an abstraction of the night and day concept. I'm sure it's central to your theme, but we can find a solution for a more general situation). Your character can only change between statuses (A --> B or B --> A) at certain locations (portals).
Is that all correct?
It *would* be pretty cool to have two separate maps (in your case a light one and a dark one), but it would be sufficient to have just ONE, with a few graphics to help identify the different functions at locations that have both A/B functions.
In other words, let's say there's a church at C5 on the grid. If you go in the light, you can be healed. If you go in the dark, you can enchant items. You would only need one map with a church at C5 on the grid, and the above info could be printed right there on the church
All you would have to do it keep track of what state ("light/dark world") your character is in. You could have character sheets with different stats on each side, depending on if they are light or dark. Then flip the sheet at portals. For a "Castlevania II" feel, your strength could be halved in darkness. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNQXwjAlI0)
Or if your character doesn't have any changing stats, you could just have a double-sided token (or a coin!) that indicates his current status. Flip the coin to its opposite side at a portal, if able.
I like the "one map, two state" idea from The ChaZ;
Would a single board with 2 lightly drawn maps work?
For what you're asking, using punch board 'walls' that tab into each base would be an easy solution...you could also just make one big double sided board so you could fold it over on itself (think like a cube net with 2 sides missing) which would give a neat cave-aesthetic. Another way to lift it up would be to use the box lids as supports, which could be combined with either of the above methods. Even if the boards are above each other, putting them on an offset can make it easier to read the bottom board. Mole in the hole has a neat solution for layered boards where there are only some transfer spaces which are cut through, so you can stack the boards directly (this has the added advantage of blocking full knowledge of the other layer).
You could also use some kind of pegs or magnets so the tokens were doubled through the board and you could just flip the whole thing over when you switch (this would also work with a standing board...think connect 4).
You could also use blacklight technologies so when you went to the darkworld you turn off the lights and use a little blacklit maglight to see the secrets of this second world (neat claustrophobic feel if it doesn't totally illuminate the board at one time). You could also use a coloured lens (think old 3D glasses but one colour) to filter out a colour of noise that you build into the design of the light world and see what lies beneath: this would also work with the mirror idea above to create an even more alien darkworld. For another interesting light mechanic check out 'Shadows in the Woods' at http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1070/waldschattenspiel.
Of course the easiest solution still involves a partially transparent top board...which could again be used with the light filter method for neat effects.
Not to be contrarian, but if the *problem* is as simple as what I think it is (locations/characters behave differently based on a binary status of the character), then there is no *functional* reason to have two boards that stack or fold or whatever. Sure, it would be BA to have a 3-dimensional mini-verse to traverse with custom painted orcs and wizards (e.g.), but the mechanics of the game can be evaluated with the simple solution in my previous post.
In any event, this whole concept is rather inspiring. I'll have to add this idea to the stack (which is getting too "tall" these days!)...
Finally, if you (OP, in particular) haven't seen MAGE KNIGHT, you really should familiarize yourself with the way that day/night is handled in that game. It is very similar in functionality to what I imagine your board is, though the board is not fixed (tiles are randomly placed and discovered).
I think this summarizes DRest806's design problem - a light and dark world/dungeon where the light world is significantly smaller than the dark world (4 vs 11 regions) and different players can be in different worlds at the same time.
Based on that, I think your best bet would be to simply use the A/B effect suggested above to solve the problem in the original 4 regions that are in both light and dark and then have an extra board for the 7 dungeon regions that are in the dark world only. This will cut down on the overall board size and let you make the artwork on most of the dark world thematically appropriate.
A fun way to make the game more variable would be to have each dark region/dungeon be it's own smaller board and then you can have a stack with a few extra dark regions. The players will only explore the top 7, which gives the game some extra variety.
If you really want a 3D board, a totally random and probably impractical idea from a production standpoint would be to have the light world on top supported by a small turntable. The 4 dark regions would be immediately below their corresponding light regions, but the artwork and information for the region would be printed vertically and there would be a small ledge for player pieces below that. This allows any player to easily turn the board and see the other dark regions, lets you include your new shadowy artwork, and provides the clear separation you want between dark and light worlds. If a region has multiple action locations, these can be represented on the shelf where player pieces rest. This turntable with the original board of light regions on top can then be paired with a regular board for the rest of the dark regions.
I'm thinking an awesome solution would be having a custom made table in which a rectangular piece of the table top is cut out f3om the center and then remounted so that it can flip around on a lateral axis. The light world board would be mounted on one side of the flipable section and the dark world board would be mounted on the other side. The pieces could be magnetic so when the board is flipped they don't fall off.
Sorry that it's not actually a practical idea :)
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Natzweiler-Struthof was located in eastern France in the Vosges mountains. After the Nazi occupation of France, Albert Speer surveyed the area and mentioned the granite resources indigenous to the region. The SS-owned business, Deutsche Erd Und Steinwerke (German Earth and Stone Works Ltd), began to move prisoners to the area in May 1941 to quarry the granite.
A gas chamber was installed in August 1943, although the camp remained primarily a labor camp. Victims of the gas chamber had their remains scattered in the surrounding area.. Records indicate that the bill for the gas chamber was paid by the Strausberg University Institute of Anatomy. Professor Hirt, director of the institute, wanted a skeleton collection. One-hundred thirty people, mostly Jews, were shipped out of Auschwitz into the gas chamber for this purpose. Explicit reference to the gas chamber was made in this invoice. This was unusual because official Reich policy did not encourage open reference to gas chambers in documents.
Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, socialists, and others were tortured and murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof. Many of the prisoners in the camp were members of resistance groups throughout Europe and were known as Nach und Nebel (Night and Fog) prisoners. Members of the French Resistance were killed immediately upon arrival. Remaining resistance group prisoners were sent to work in the quarry or on road construction, where work conditions were the worst.
In addition to the extreme working conditions, medical experiments at Natzweiler-Struthof were common. Testimonies at the Nuremburg trial relate the details of experiments using mustard gas on patients and detailing their effects. Gas was applied directly to the skin, inhaled, or injected and the effects were recorded. These experiments caused tremendous pain as they slowly destroyed the subjects' organs until their deaths days later . In a separate experiment, another faculty member of Strausberg University wanted to run medical experiments on prisoners with phosgene gas, a poisonous gas. Gypsy prisoners at Natzweiler were used for this deadly experiment. Other experiments at Natzweiler included studying the effects of typhus vaccines and epidemic jaundice.
Natzweiler-Struthof had satellite camps located in Baden-Wurttemberg, Neckarelz, Leonberg, and Schorzingen. By the end of 1944 a total of 19,000 prisoners were in these satellite camps, while the main camp had between seven and eight thousand. The main camp was liberated by the French Army on November 23, 1944, while the satellite camps were only evacuated in March of 1945. As the Allied forces approached, prisoners were marched toward Dachau.
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“Following the leader, the leader, the leader
We're following the leader wherever he may go
We won't be home till morning, till morning
We won't be home till morning
Because he told us so…”
—from Peter Pan, “Following the Leader”
The road to summer seems like a long journey, after waking up to many months of rainy mornings, hot mid-afternoons, and sleeping through cold nights, on and off, since winter. As of this writing, I have just put away the futon! But, we all know once the summer heat in Japan sweeps in, hot is hot! And, foreigners just can’t wait to take off on their summer holiday. But, how does one really get an easy vacation from working in a Japanese company? Japanese are known for taking the shortest vacations on earth—the average, being from three to five days—and, one week is considered a luxury; two to three weeks, a fortune; one month, either a miracle or your next step to being fired! I know someone who flew from Tokyo to Paris for just one night, just to watch one day of the Paris Roland Garros tennis match, then returned to Tokyo the next morning. Why? Because, he had work.
So, this brings us to the senpai-kohai Japanese tradition of inter-relationships. Yup, senpai-kohai does matter when you want to take a holiday from work, because if you’re a kohai, you have to get your senpai’s permission, and normally your senpai’s vacation schedule is more important than yours, so you have to make sure your schedules don’t conflict; and, if your senpai doesn’t take a holiday off, it’s most likely you’ll be pressured mentally to do the same…well, out of courtesy. We, foreigners, don’t probably realize it but so much of Japanese life is dictated by the senpai-kohai system.
Ano ba itong “senpai-kohai”? It can be literally translated to a senior-junior relationship, like a leader-follower, or a supervisor-subordinate system. This system is uprooted in ALL aspects of Japanese life, and even in ordinary circumstances, it is important to know if the person you are relating with is on a senpai or kohai level. The kanji character for senpai begins with the “sen” character meaning “ahead,” or “first,” and the “ko” character in kohai means “after.” Both have the characters “hai” in the end that means a generation or a lifetime. Just imagine, you are a senpai or kohai for a lifetime! And, it probably is so if you live in Japan!
The senpai-kohai system originated from Confucianism that influences most of the ways of Japanese life, especially in their family systems and civil laws. Confucianism arrived in Japan from 6th-9th century, and became the underlying doctrines of the Tokugawa regime. That is how long the senpai-kohai system has existed. It came from the Chinese system of “cho-ko,” which means loyalty or filial piety. It teaches loyalty to elders, parents, older brothers or sisters. In the traditional family system, the male member is regarded as superior among others, namely, the father as head of the family, and the eldest son, because he is entitled as heir to the family; thus, all members must show him respect. Consequently, respect for senpais extend to superiors in work, to mentors in schools and social groups. In the early days, samurai warriors were trained by their superiors; and, thus, in present days, kohais in sumo, karate, and generally, all sports clubs pay respect to their senpais. And, in most sports associations, you cannot attain opportunities until you become a senpai. Schools in Japan are the best examples of followers of the senpai-kohai system. Lower-grade students look up to the higher-grade students. In school clubs, you can hear the juniors calling the seniors “senpai” instead of using their actual names. You can see the kohais cleaning the floors, running errands for their seniors, or even carrying club equipment for the senpai. They bow diligently with repeated “hai, hai,” and are always afraid to disappoint their senpai. Even after you have graduated from a university, a junior colleague may still call you “senpai,” and, when you meet for a reunion after 10, 20 or 30 years, don’t be surprised to be called still a “senpai” instead of your own name. It is, after all, a lifetime role, remember? Mind you, the kohai is truly loyal to his senpai. He will only do things the senpai tells him to do. In some cases, he also serves him favors. In social gatherings, you see the kohais serving the senpais beer, or offering them food. The senpai, on the other hand, feels obligated to guide the kohai, and teach him the proper rules. So, you think, after leaving school, the junior-senior relationship is over? Uh-uh. When you enter a Japanese company, the system prevails like the commonest thing on earth. Newly hired employees become the kohais and are expected to obey the guidance of their senior colleagues. In board meetings, you can spot the kohais because they usually sit near the doors, while the senpais are closer to the head of the table. Some kohais are also expected to serve tea or coffee to their senpai colleagues. Many also use the more polite language “keigo” toward their senpais. You know how they say that Japanese don’t work for long hours; they just stay in the office for long hours? Well, that’s true because they feel embarrassed to leave the office earlier than their senpais. And, when a senpai invites the kohai for a drink-out, it is most likely that the kohai cannot turn him down. Senpais and kohais even exist in the political scene. Junior politicians give way to their senior mentors, with the sense of loyalty so strong that it would even be hard for one to change political parties. In the music and celebrity world, young musicians and actors pay respect to their senpais, too. The system sounds militaristic, maybe because it is. When I look at junior train masters in station platforms bowing endlessly to their superiors, department store salesladies tailing behind their managers in those tiny and polite steps, firemen lined up in a platoon while having morning drill exercises, staff of stores practicing “Irasshaimase! Ohayo gozaimasu! Arigatou gozaimasu!” with their loud screams, I can’t help thinking that life in Japan is like one big military parade. And, the thing about senpai-kohai is that the senpais are usually older than the kohais. Age is critical in Japan, and the older you are, the more respectable and reliable you become. Did you notice that even pop idol groups have “ri-da-“ (leader) as head of their groups? The “leader” is usually chosen by his age. Thus, in the work force, it is the usual case that you cannot reach to top “senpai” executive level with all the benefits until you are over 40 and above.
Uh-oh…now I smell the reason why suicide is common in Japan…oops. Senpai-kohai gives the Japanese a lot of advantages, especially as foundation for their success and efficiency. After all, it pays to have more obedient citizens than rebellious activists. (Maybe Filipinos should adopt this system.) But, one wonders if one doesn’t lose himself in the senpai-kohai rules. You become so conscious of how you should be, instead of knowing who you really are. Of course, as the times modernize, some people become less dependent on the senpai-kohai system. Some eager, young enthusiasts strike out as adventurous, bold and daring, compared to their seniors. Still, these novices are just part of a small minority, for nothing seems to topple the Japanese sense of loyalty. That’s right, that’s what the kanji characters mean: an entire lifetime…
So, what’s the 11th commandment? Of course—Thou shalt obey your senpai.
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| The beautiful art of film photography |
Building mirroring the sky, photographed on Tungsten film in clear day light, processed in E6.
Hasselblad 503CXFuji RTP T64, Tungsten filmE6 process
Thank you! 🙂
Wonderful! I love the color too.
Thank you Gracie! 🙂
Nice shot Marie!
Thank you Stefano! 🙂
This is excellent, Marie. The sky and building seem to merge as one. And the color is fabulous!
Thank you Luddy!
The tungsten film is very exciting to use experimentally. Have you tried it? When I used it on very cold winter days with clear blu sky, it all turned purple. That was Lomography Tungsten film. This was the Fuji T, and this was a clear blue day, but in the springtime, so it was not that cold. Haven’t used it more than that, so I can’t say the difference more, but I will use it more this winter to come. Very exciting!
I have yet to try it — for some strange reason, I had assumed it wasn’t available in 35mm 😛 (ack, me and my middle age brain!) — but I’m ordering films this weekend, so now I’m definitely going to add some Tungsten!
A very wonderful Photo. Orofiorentino from Italy
Thank you very much!
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Brilliant! The mirroring is almost indistinguishable!
Thank you Madhu!
Yes, it is quite easy to think that the building is extremely high… 🙂
What a terrific shot and the use of the tungsten film has added even more mystic to the ghostly clouds
Thank you James! 🙂
I like tungsten film a lot, most often I strive to strengthen the effect of the “colder” hues, for example using tungsten film a very cold blue winterday, and magic can happend! And crossprocessed, well, even more magic! 😀
Wow! this techniques sounds wonderful.
excellent view, great colors and truely creative… I love this shot!
Thank you very much! 🙂
I have a few pictures like this but none as good as this one, with the clouds emitting out from the building.
Well, I had a bit of luck there…. 😉
Thank you very much Steve!
Such a great set of photos. Wish i had found this blog earlier. Look forward to your new posts!
Thank you very much for your kind words, following and all the likes! Most appreciated! 🙂
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RIYADH: Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok said a Saudi pledge to invest $3 billion in his country could rise to $10 billion as the country looks to rebound from an economic crisis.
“In our last visit to Saudi Arabia, we met the crown prince and agreed on an investment of $3 billion, and it can exceed up to $10 billion,” Hamdok told Asharq in an interview.
Saudi Arabia has committed to investing $3 billion in a joint fund for investments in Sudan, and to encouraging other parties to participate, Sudanese minister of Cabinet affairs Khalid Omer Yousif said in March.
Also in March, Sudan secured a recommitment from Saudi Arabia to a $1.5 billion grant it had first announced in April 2019.
Sudan has been struggling with economic woes that deepened after the April 2019 ouster of president Omar Al-Bashir following mass protests triggered by economic hardship.
The transitional government installed in August 2019 has vowed to fix the economy which was battered by decades of US sanctions and mismanagement under Bashir.
The coronavirus pandemic has further compounded the country’s economic crisis.
In recent months, Sudan has embarked on tough reforms including scrapping diesel and petrol subsidies and declaring a managed float of the Sudanese pound to stem a rampant black market.
The measures, seen by many Sudanese as harsh, were part of reforms backed by the IMF to enable the country to qualify for debt relief.
Sudan received more than $857 million as part of a global allocation by the International Monetary Fund to help vulnerable countries, the central bank said on Thursday.
It said the funding will allow it to “press ahead with implementing flexible managed float policies, stabilising the exchange rate, and the overall economy.”
Financially, the government views the banking sector in Sudan as a fragile and weak sector and that mergers are important to liquidate some banks and raise the capital of other banks, Hamdok told Asharq.
Sudan has started real projects with US energy companies to meet Sudan’s power needs from solar energy, he said.
The United Nations Development Program launched a roadmap for renewable energy in Sudan last September as it seeks to bring electricity to the 60 percent of the population who don’t currently have access to it. It noted that Sudan has high potential for wind energy in Northern State, River Nile and Red Sea, and high levels of solar irradiance throughout the country.
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He became sin for us…so that we might become the righteousness of God.
“The gospel tells us that the Creator has become our Redeemer. It announces that the Son of God has become man “for us men and for our salvation” and has died on the cross to save us from eternal judgment. The basic description of the saving death of Christ in the Bible is as a propitiation, that is, as that which quenched God’s wrath against us by obliterating our sins from his sight. God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness; it shows itself in retributive justice. But Jesus Christ has shielded us from the nightmare prospect of retributive justice by becoming our representative substitute, in obedience to his Father’s will, and receiving the wages of our sin in our place.
By this means justice has been done, for the sins of all that will ever be pardoned were judged and punished in the person of God the Son, and it is on this basis that pardon is now offered to us offenders. Redeeming love and retributive justice joined hands, so to speak, at Calvary, for there God showed himself to be “just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.”
Do you understand this? If you do, you are now seeing to the very heart of the Christian gospel…” ~J.I. Packer, Knowing God
The Prophecy concerning Jesus as found in Isaiah 52-53:
“Look, my servant will succeed!
He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted
(just as many were horrified by the sight of you)
he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;
His form was so marred he no longer looked human
so now he will startle many nations.
Kings will be shocked by his exaltation,
for they will witness something unannounced to them,
and they will understand something they had not heard about.
Who would have believed what we just heard?
When was the Lord’s power revealed through him?
He sprouted up like a twig before God,
like a root out of parched soil;
he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention,
no special appearance that we should want to follow him.
He was despised and rejected by people,
one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness;
people hid their faces from him;
he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
But he lifted up our illnesses,
he carried our pain;
even though we thought he was being punished,
attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.
He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds,
crushed because of our sins;
he endured punishment that made us well;
because of his wounds we have been healed.
All of us had wandered off like sheep;
each of us had strayed off on his own path,
but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
He was treated harshly and afflicted,
but he did not even open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,
like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not even open his mouth.
He was led away after an unjust trial
but who even cared?
Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living;
because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.
They intended to bury him with criminals,
but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb,
because he had committed no violent deeds,
nor had he spoken deceitfully.
Though the Lord desired to crush him and make him ill,
once restitution is made,
he will see descendants and enjoy long life,
and the Lord’s purpose will be accomplished through him.
Having suffered, he will reflect on his work,
he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.
“My servant will acquit many,
for he carried their sins.
So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes,
he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful,
because he willingly submitted to death
and was numbered with the rebels,
when he lifted up the sin of many
and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”
…just as many were horrified by the sight of you…
He was so disfigured He no longer looked like a man;
His form was so marred He no longer looked human
so now He will startle many nations.
The revelation of His Story might be right around the corner —
The Suffering Servant will come to earth as The Exalted King!
Will you be found in Christ, alone?
My sin — oh the bliss of this glorious thought —
My sin — not in part but the whole —
Was nailed to the cross and I bear it no more!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the LORD,
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Homemade Pasta - A Taste of Italy
Mention Italian food, and pasta immediately comes to mind. While pasta is a staple in every part of Italy, pasta and pasta dishes vary from region to region. Many northern regions of Italy use all-purpose flour and eggs, while Southern Italy traditionally uses semolina and water.
By Italian law, all dried pasta (pasta secca) must be made from 100% semolina. Fresh pasta (pasta fresca) can be made with slightly different ingredients. The silky texture of fresh pasta is a joy on the tongue; the flavor is thought by many to be richer, most probably due to the inclusion of eggs and olive oil in the dough.
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"A world become one, of salads and sun…"
This post is written for those who hold the view, understandably, that peak-oil may be a hoax. I sometimes forget that skepticism of corporate power distorted by bubble-vision makes the study of peak-oil seem like the quest of a knave.
But if it’s not a ruse, the ramifications are vast. And it’s my contention that most people view technology, energy, and its related solutions with an irrational, often theocratic belief. I want to skip the numbers, if possible, and simply suggest that the issue called peak-oil deserves serious reflection.
Some things just stick in your mind… I remember finishing Matthew Simmons’ Twilight in the Desert before the book was actually released in Great Briton. Apparently, I considered it that important. It was the most difficult book I’d ever read. Well written for the subject matter, but it was a mountain of data and dry as hell. I’d already digested other peak-oil related books; Kunstler’s The Long Emergency was the most enjoyable. But I needed to scrutinize Simmons to eliminate possible misinterpretations. His extensive and conservative background, as a high powered energy investment banker, was essential for balance. I’ve also read a few books regarding economic collapse and, in my view, the two are hopelessly interconnected.
First, the definition. Peak refers to the top of a standard bell curve, of production, formed on a chart. It goes up, rolls over, and then goes down. Oil refers to crude, coming out of the ground. It does not represent coal, tar-sand, corn, or solar cells. Peak-oil refers to the irrefutable fact that oil-wells are discovered, tapped, drained, then abandoned. And if something like “abiotic” oil is mysteriously refilling them, it’s painfully slow. Once you acknowledge a limit, the question on peak-oil becomes when – not if.
US oil production peaked around 1970, and it did this because America was first to explore and exploit crude-oil in a big way. This massive historical trend is essentially unaffected by environmentalists and regulation. US/Peak-oil/Historical fact; short & simple, but also understand that peak-production follows peak-discovery.
There’s no getting around it, the same fate awaits the rest of the world; as the planet wide drop in discoveries and aging production begin to confirm. But it’s the resurgence of nuclear and coal, plus the recent assumed cost effectiveness tar-sand and other solutions that sound the alarm. Regardless, the fact remains; no alternative exists to replace any reasonable fraction of 80+ million barrels of crude oil per day, every day.
It’s a bit early to check the rear-view-mirror, but… "Energy Information Administration data showed world supply of crude oil has declined to 83.98 million barrels per day in the second quarter after hitting 84.35 million bpd in the fourth quarter of 2005." When the drop off occurs and continues, the affects cascade.
Obscuring this unfolding reality is a less-than-obvious industrial complex that renders copper, suburbia, wind turbines, and modern food production as products of a fossil fuel infrastructure. The list is long, the interconnections incomprehensible; because much of technology itself is a byproduct of energy derived from oil. Adding insult to injury, unrealistic expectations are propagated by failures to discern false alternatives. Case in point, tropical sugar cane biofuel for a country with a few cars vs. temperate corn biofuel for a country with a lot of cars.
Our civilization doesn’t just run on oil; it was built on, maintained with, and continues to function as a result of cheap-oil; and lots of it. Picking the low hanging fruit doesn’t mean you’re out, it means continued harvesting requires more work for the same yield. Regarding crude, once you’ve harvested half the deposit, energy input increases as petroleum output decreases. Energy Returned over Energy Invested.
We’ve been pulling oil from the earth for over a hundred years, and the current rate of over eighty million barrels per day is more than any period in history. Clearly the opposite of running out; but running-out isn’t the problem, at this time. It’s producing less that can be catastrophic. Remember, peak-oil refers to crude-oil max production; not tar-sands or coal. In some respects, it’s even a distraction to think of the down-slope as costing more money; as in money to produce oil-energy. More importantly, it costs more energy to produce energy. ERoEI
Notice also that the concepts of energy and technology are often used interchangeably. They go hand in hand, but they’re not synonymous. And how much clean natural gas are we willing to squander fabricating usable liquid fuels from tar sands? As I recently read, this may be akin to using "caviar to make fake crab-meat." The upside of Hubbert Peak grew human population to levels never-before possible. On the downside we deal with it; a commodities bullfight.
History provides myriad examples of market bubbles. At the end of 2006 we consider the housing bubble. A larger bubble yet is the bubble economy itself, and an argument could be made for the largest bubble of all time. Spending half the earth’s endowment of ancient sunlight,
in synergistic combination with an international, century long
expansion-of-credit, produced the jet-powered Keynesian misallocation
of recourses - that is, the Bubble of Civilization.
"I heard it was you, talkin’ ’bout a world where oil is free; it just couldn’t be…"
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Start Blogging, not Managing Websites When you start to learn how to make money blogging, one of the big challenges is the steep learning curve. There are many more issues, and we will touch them one by one, but the biggest problem for a beginner is the learning curve. You just don’t know what to … Read more
The New Social Network – Google Social media is not a new trend in promoting online content. Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, and more recently Facebook and Twitter are used for quite some time by companies and writers to promote content. Search engines used to love social media to rank web content, and they are still relying … Read more
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When a woman reaches a certain age, she is expected to start thinking about having children. If she doesn’t, society demands an answer. (Telegraph)
Sarah Rainey recently took up the much discussed and debated February Vogue article in which Dame Helen Mirren “confronts the final female taboo“: childlessness. Like many commentators, Rainey finds Mirren’s candor refreshing in a media maelstrom prone to condemning childless celebrities (or at least badgering them to explain and justify why they are childless.) Regarding her own experience, Mirren explains that women never judged or harassed her. Men did.
[It] was only boring old men. And whenever they went ‘What? No children? Well, you’d better get on with it, old girl,’ I’d say ‘No! F— off!’ ~ Dame Helen Mirren (Telegraph)
Female childless celebrities like Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and Kylie Minogue are relentlessly interrogated. Pregnant? Baby bump? Just pudgy? Why no baby bump? When will you become mother? Why aren’t you a mother?
“The expectation is that they [women] will marry and have children,” explains Sue Fagalde Lick, author of Childless by Marriage. “If they don’t, everyone wants to know what’s wrong with them.” (Telegraph)
What’s Right with Them
Sure, once upon a time, looong ago childbearing was an almost essential and unquestioned connubial responsibility. Make babies to chop firewood, grow crops, protect us from marauders, care for us when we are old. I get. We get it.
But one of the really groovy perks of living in the first world in the dawn of the 21st century is that we’re no longer locked into this breed-or-bust marital model. Here’s a telling statistical arc.
An ONS study in 2010 found that just one in nine women born in 1938 remained childless, rising to one in five women born in 1965. It is projected that a quarter of 45-year-olds will be childless by 2018. (Telegraph)
Who are these disreputable, irresponsible scallywags? It’s time to expose them, to reveal them for who and what they are!
“You will find them among the higher educated, the ambitious and the high-flyers,” explains [author Fay] Weldon. “They, like Mirren, have a different but equal service to make to the community. They should be praised, not condemned.” (Telegraph)
Right. Different but equal. Ambitious, highly educated high-flyers.
Childless Women: From Taboo to Equality
Yet, as Mirren articulates, women are frequently derided when childless. And while she lays the bugaboo at the insensitive feet of men, it seems that she may be oversimplifying the equation.
It was mostly women who were negative about my decision… I saw that it’s often women who don’t support other women’s life choices; it’s often women’s stereotypes of what we should be and do that get in our way. (Flurt!)
We’ll let Dame Mirren and Ms. Anderson debate whether men or women are more to blame for reinforcing long stale judgments and condescension toward childless women. What is evident is that the taboo endures despite statistical shift and more widespread recognition that motherhood should be a decision, not destiny.
Men, women, society. Something is stuck. Or clinging. Either way, it is high time we move forward. There’s a bright future ahead. It is a Technicolor tomorrow where equality reigns and we encourage and celebrate diversity of all flavors. Moms respect dads. Dads respect moms. Let’s start with that! And parents respect childless couples. And childless individuals. And childless by choice respect parents. And all of us embrace and support those who wanted to be parents but couldn’t. We might even discover that it is pretty fascinating to hear each other’s stories about why we are the way we are, to listen without judging or sneering or condescending or belittling. Sounds great, right?
To all women with children who unfairly judge those of us who have decided not to follow in your motherhood footsteps, I say, “accept every woman for who she is. Respect the decisions she has made for herself. Just because her choices are not the same as yours is no reason to criticize or belittle. She is not any less a woman than you are because she chose not to have children. Women need to support one another and to encourage one another to be who and what we each want to be.” (Flurt!)
Transform Childless Taboo into Folklore
In truth, it is “boring old men” and myopic mothers who perpetuate the breed-or-bust stereotype for women. But it’s also true that many of us in the childless by choice camp perpetuate “breeder” stereotypes that offend parents. Sometimes it is unintentional. Sometimes not. Often we are just as guilty of judging and sneering and condescending and belittling. Perhaps it’s a defensive mechanism or a way to vent after absorbing yet another breeder bingo. But it is not helpful. And it too reinforces the divide between parents and childless couples.
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Apprenticeships are particularly suited to the maritime sector because so many jobs require the mix of practical learning and theoretical study which is at the heart of the apprenticeship model. From managing a busy port to catering on a cruise ship, from navigating the open sea to lifting a customer’s yacht ashore to clean it, from building a fast ferry to driving it, the maritime sector offers a wide and growing range of apprenticeships as the starting-point for some very rewarding careers.
the maritime sector offers a wide and growing range of apprenticeships as the starting-point for some very rewarding careers
Apprenticeships are jobs which mix practical learning on-the-job alongside a more experienced colleague, and more theoretical study. They’re designed to give apprentices a strong foundation for their career, and the fact that so many senior people in the industry started their careers as apprentices is powerful evidence of just how successful apprenticeships are.
And they’re not just for school leavers like the apprenticeships of the past. Many people join the maritime sector after doing something else first, and an apprenticeship offers an excellent foundation, with training to a standard agreed nationally by employers. More than that, there are some apprenticeships for people who re-train after gaining substantial experience first, such as the marine pilot apprenticeship, which enables someone who’s been to sea to gain the additional skills they need to become a pilot.
Governments throughout the UK are keen to encourage businesses to offer more apprenticeships, providing subsidies to all sizes of business, whether they pay the Apprenticeship Levy or not.
For individuals, apprenticeships have the major attraction that apprentices get paid (in many cases, well-paid) while they are learning – rather than accumulating debt as students do.
Apprenticeships are currently available for crew in the shipping sector (particularly ferries and cruise ships), with roles both on deck and in the engine room, for crew on the Thames and other inland waterways (leading to the Boatmaster licence), and for workboat operatives (mostly supporting the construction sector).
There is a specialist boatbuilding apprenticeship covering both building and repair for all types and sizes of boats and yachts. And there are many related apprenticeships in the engineering field.
Ports offer apprenticeships for port operatives and a wide range of engineering and other roles.
In marinas and boatyards there are apprenticeships for the people who move and maintain, and clean customers’ boats and yachts.
And there’s a huge range of apprenticeships in the Royal Navy, and in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (the civilian fleet which supplies Royal Navy vessels at sea).
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Craig students attend international conference in China
JANESVILLE — Nichole Wilson, a senior at Craig High School, didn't know what to expect when she boarded a plane to spend 10 days in China.
Now that she's back, she wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
"Their culture is so different than ours," Wilson said. "I didn't know what to expect, but it was way better than I imagined. They are very friendly and understanding people."
Wilson, along with six classmates and Craig teacher Albert (Fritz) Elsen, participated in the 2014 Global Student Leaders Summit in Shanghai before traveling to Beijing and Shenyang. They returned from their trip Sunday.
"There were so many smart people in the same room," Nick Schieldt, senior at Craig, said. "It was intimidating at first, but we learned a lot. No one at the table had the same background."
The summit consisted of 800 students, 600 Americans and Europeans and 200 Chinese students. The topic was socially responsible business practices. Students were broken into groups and had to create business plans and inventions in the areas of environment, human safety, education and human rights that fit into the summit's theme. The ideas were meant to improve each student's own country in the four categories.
"My group had a guy from Italy, two Chinese students and Americans," Schieldt said. "No one at the table had the same background. We had to go through it ourselves to bring it all together."
Elsen credited the students with making the trip worthwhile.
"These guys really were serious about it," Elsen said. "They took it as an opportunity to learn stuff, not as an excuse to get out of school. It's a testament to them."
The students were handpicked by Elsen to attend the event. He had been planning the trip since last year.
The students, who paid for the trip themselves, were the first students from Wisconsin to attend the summit, Elsen said.
"When we were walking around, it was really neat," Elsen said. "Being in the culture and learning the culture was a great experience. These guys did a great job. It says a lot about what they got out of it and a lot about their character."
Although not directly related to the Janesville School District's international initiative, the trip was endorsed by the district," Elsen said.
"The fact they let us do it was pretty cool," Elsen said.
Even though the students were in China for only 10 days, they formed unexpected friendships that have extended beyond the trip, Wilson said.
"I thought the summit was great to be able to share ideas and set goals for the future," Wilson said. "It was cool to meet with people from around the world who have the same passions."
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Artist Leo Villareal said he learned that art could be stripped down and be much less than he had previously conceived, during a lecture about creating sculptures from light October 22 in Milstein Auditorium.
Villareal also discussed "Cosmos," his new LED installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, installed above the museum's Mallin Sculpture Court.
Villareal grew up interested in structure and how things worked. He went on to earn a B.A. from Yale University and a graduate degree at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he learned to use then-high-tech graphics programs. | <urn:uuid:c06c48a4-e695-4974-b1b0-39d454d0f1ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cornell.edu/video/artists-talk-leo-villareal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969522 | 188 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Scoppa, Vincenzo (2007): Quality of Human and Physical Capital and Technological Gaps across Italian Regions.
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This paper evaluates the relative contribution of factor accumulation and technology in explaining output per worker differences across Italian regions in the period 2000-2004. The contributions of physical and human capital are separately estimated through the variance decomposition of output per worker. Whereas from a basic analysis of development accounting with crude data TFP emerges as a fundamental determinant of output per worker, when more accurate data are used in the estimations of human and physical capital, results change radically, showing a higher importance of factor accumulation with respect to previous standard estimations. Several measures of quality of human and physical capital are introduced: a) individuals’ cognitive skills as measured in international test scores; b) region specific rates of return on human capital; c) public investments and public-subsidized investments are weighted differently from private investment in the determination of physical capital stock. We show that better measurement of factor inputs allows a reduction in the solowian “measure of our ignorance”.
|Item Type:||MPRA Paper|
|Original Title:||Quality of Human and Physical Capital and Technological Gaps across Italian Regions|
|Keywords:||Growth; Technological Gaps; Human Capital; Physical Capital; Development Accounting; Quality of inputs|
|Subjects:||O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E23 - Production
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models > E13 - Neoclassical
|Depositing User:||VINCENZO SCOPPA|
|Date Deposited:||16. Jun 2009 00:34|
|Last Modified:||14. Mar 2015 09:48|
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YOUNG, A. (1995) The Tyranny of Numbers. Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110, 641-80. | <urn:uuid:053fb2ed-7a1f-4d6f-9698-a7d7248edd62> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15740/ | 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 | 0.680513 | 2,530 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Huawei faces EC ban on its 5G networking equipment
According to Reuters, the European Commission is considering a ban on the use of Huawei networking equipment for the build out of 5G networks in Europe. The U.S., calling the manufacturer a national security threat, has already blocked the company from selling its cellular components in the states, as has Australia. Both countries fear that Huawei gear spies on consumers and corporations by using a "back door" to send information to the Chinese government.
The trade group that represents wireless network providers, the GSMA, is concerned that if Huawei equipment is banned in major markets, it could set back the wireless carrier industry by years. Later this month, the GSMA will be holding its next board meeting and the group's Director General, Mats Granryd, has sent out correspondence to members that includes a proposal to add to a debate about Huawei to the agenda.
and current chairman Liang Hua, Huawei can't seem to do anything to disprove the rumors that its phones and equipment spy on consumers and corporations.Besides worrying about possible "back doors" used by Huawei, U.S. and European officials are concerned because the communist Chinese government requires that the tech companies under its regime help in intelligence matters. Even with denials from company founder Ren Zhengfei
Considering that Huawei is the global leader in providing networking equipment to wireless carriers, the GSMA is worried that some operators won't have access to the latest technology if Huawei can't sell its gear in certain markets. The trade group's board meeting will be held while the Mobile World Congress (MWC) is taking place in Barcelona from February 25th to the 28th. The GSMA is the organization behind the MWC shows.
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Krsna Kirtana Songs est. 2001 www.kksongs.org
Song Name: Caturmukhadi Samstutam
Official Name: Radha-Varastakam
Book Name: None
halāyudhādi-saḿyutaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
manoharāsitālakaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
vrajāńganānurańjanaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
nṛśaḿsa-kaḿsa-daṇḍanaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
sura-drumāpahārakaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
dhanańjayā-jayāvahaḿ mahā-camūkṣayā vaham
pita-maha-vyathā-pahaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
dharā-bharāvatāraṇaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
sva-kīya-dhāma-māyinaḿ namāmi rādhikādhipam
idaḿ samāhito hitaḿ varāṣṭakaḿ sadā mudā
japańjano janurjarādito drutaḿ pramucyate
1) To the One who is worshipped by the four-faced Brahma and other demigods, worshipped by the people of the mode of goodness, Who is accompanied by the Halayudha (the bearer of the plough, Balarama) and others, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
2) To the One who killed many demons like Bakasura (the crane demon), the caretaker of the cowherd boys and girls, Who has enchanting black hair, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
3) To the One who destroyed the false pride of the king of demigods (Indra), the One who destroyed the illusion of Viranci (Lord Brahma), who pleases the damsels of Vraja, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
4) To the One who bears the peacock feather, the One who broke the tusks of an elephant (Kuvalayapida), relieved the suffering of the public by punishing King Kamsa, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
5) To the One who returned the child of the brahmana (Sandipani Muni), who removed the poverty that Sudama had, who stole the tree of the demigods, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
6) To the One who made Dhananjaya (Arjuna) victorious, the one who brought defeat to the great army, the One who removed the pitiful state of the Grandsire Bhisma, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
7) The One who was the cause of the curse by the brahmana (Durvasa Muni) that destroyed the entire Vraja dynasty, thus removing the burden from the Earth, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
8) To the One who rested and reclined on the banyan tree, Who liberated the hunter (Jara) who pierced His foot, Who returned back to His mystical abode, I offer my obeisances to Lord of Sri Radhika.
9) Thus, the eight prayers glorifying the Lord of Sri Radhika (Varastakam) is equally beneficial to all, and will deliver happiness to all. It will quickly free one from the material word to the one who chants this.
The author of this bhajan is disputed.
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British-era Ranchi Lake to get Rs 14 crore makeover
The Ranchi Lake, commonly known as Bada Talab, is set for a face-lift with the city civic body drafting a multi-crore plan to conserve and beautify the British-era water body.
The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has drafted a plan to conserve the lake with an estimated cost of Rs 14.42 crore. The lake over the years has become polluted due discharge of untreated sewer water and waste dumped by residents.
Located at the base of the landmark Ranchi Hill, the 53-acre man-made lake–2,100ft above sea level–was dug up by Colonel Onsely, a British agent and his men in 1842.
The RMC plans to develop the historic lake as tourist spot that will have a food court, a jogging track, lightning and landscaping of the lake.
“The lake will be developed in three phases. The first phase, which is likely to being in a month or two, will see construction of basic infrastructure like a boundary wall, a pathway, lighting and sitting arrangements and beautification work,” said Bijay Kumar Bhagat, superintendent engineer at RMC.
Local residents said the years back, water from the lake was used for drinking. “The water has become polluted due to the inflow of untreated sewer water,” said Rajeev Kumar, a local resident.
“The polluted water is affecting the health of residents as it has turned into breeding ground for number of water-borne diseases due to the pollution,” he said.
RMC officials said conservation plan for Bada Talab was being drafted since 1980 but the plan has not been executed so far.
In 2013, the RMC drafted Rs 53.47 lakh renovation and beautification plan.
The corporation has decided to stop the draining of sewage water into the lake, said RMC executive engineer Uma Shankar Ram.
“A by-pass drain has been constructed so that sewage water is not drained into the lake,” he said.
The RMC planned to set up a sewage treatment plant for treat untreated sewer water with the help of Neeri (national environmental engineering research institute) technology. “The plan was dropped as we did not want to depend on a single technology,” Bhagat said, adding that an expression of interest has been floated for maintaining the cleanliness and water quality in the lake for five years.
“We are expecting agencies to come up with different technologies out of which the best will be picked,” he said.
The Jharkhand government wants to develop the Ranchi Lake as a major tourist destination of the city.
In January this year, chief minister Raghubar Das, laying the foundation of a statue of Swami Vivekananda at the lake, said a 30ft statue will be installed in the middle of the sprawling lake and the government will develop Bada Talab as a tourist spot in the next two years.
Cases of crime reported in Delhi till July 15 this year increased by 8.1%, compared to the same period last year, according to statistics shared by the Delhi Police on Wednesday, showing a broad increase across most categories in 2022. In 2021, in fact, a total of 2,485 home burglaries were reported for the entire year. Cases of non-heinous crimes, such as snatching, burglary and vehicle theft, too went up by 8%.
Police have recovered four pistols and their ammunition, believed to be dropped by a drone in the Lopoke area of the district near the India-Pakistan border. A team led by Lopoke police station in-charge Mantej Singh, launched a search operation in the area where the drone was spotted. More than 20 incidents of drone movements and smuggling of weapons and drugs at the Punjab border with Pakistan have been reported in this year.
An interstate gang involved in ATM fraud was busted with the arrest of three of its members in Pathankot on Wednesday. The accused – Ramesh Kumar, Pareen and Sikander of Hisar in Haryana – were arrested during a special operation. As many as 66 ATM cards, ₹19,000 cash, and a swipe machine were seized from the accused. Their SUV was also impounded.
With 11,000 of the 90,000 subsidised machines supplied to farmers over the last four years for in-situ stubble management missing, the Punjab agricultural department has decided to rope in the vigilance bureau to look into the matter and take action. The loss incurred has been pegged at ₹140 crore, as per the agricultural department's preliminary investigation. It is likely that action will be taken against machine manufacturers, dealers, users and some department officials.
A day after three men were arrested with arms and explosives, police on Wednesday said the accused would send money earned from the sale of drugs to their Pakistan-based handlers through hawala channel. Their car, a Mitsubishi Lancer, was also impounded. The arrested accused had also been in contact with head of banned outfit International Sikh Youth Federation, Lakhbir Singh Rode. Rode is suspected to be living in Lahore. | <urn:uuid:0352f6ef-145c-4456-8a63-a2e20f3625f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/ranchi/british-era-ranchi-lake-to-get-rs-14-crore-makeover/story-rgB3u9FCB0xdGRhqGqvmSP.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.975966 | 1,096 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Build a BalanceBot with the Raspberry Pi!
The BalanceBot extension kit takes your GoPiGo3 and turns it into an upright balancing robot! Kit includes an IMU sensor, IR receiver, IR remote control and a set of 3 sensor mounts. Program examples provided in Raspbian for Robots in Python.
Please Note. The GoPiGo3, Raspberry Pi and other associated hardware are NOT included in this purchase.
- BalanceBot Power Cable (longer than the original one that comes with the GoPiGo3 base kit)
- IMU Sensor
- Infrared Reciever Sensor
- Infrared Remote Control
- Sensor Mounts (s/3)
What else do I need:
- Raspberry Pi (B+ or 3 recommended)
- GoPiGo3 Base Kit (Does not work with GoPiGo2 or GoPiGo1)
- 8 x AA Batteries
- Mini Wifi Dongle
- Raspbian for Robots SD card (will not work with DexterOS)
NOTE: This expansion kit will not work with the GoPiGo2.
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Science is really dragging its heels on the whole jetpack thing.
The world’s poindexters have decoded the human genome, listened to the echo of the big bang and pretty much perfected brew-by-the-cup coffee technology.
But we still don’t have decent jetpacks.
Some advances are being made — particularly in the water jetpack field, which is kind of cheating — but there are many kinks yet to be ironed out of the technology.
Until scientists stop lollygagging and come up with a proper jetpack, foolhardy souls will continue to try (and fail) to fly with these imperfect prototypes.
For now, the rest of us can merely learn from their mistakes.
Rule #1: Don’t try out a jetpack on live national television
Rule #2: Jetpacking is not an ideal backyard hobby. Try badminton instead.
Rule #3: If someone tells you to go “no hands” while jetpacking, ignore them.
Rule #4: Until jetpacks are perfected, you might want to avoid the even-more-perilous “flyboard”
Rule #5: Don’t try to build your own jetpack.
The assembly instructions are probably going to be in Chinese.
Rule #6: See rule #5
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That has the moment to be in a depression 24/7? I know I do not. The adhering to happiness challenges were produced to stimulate your state of mind as well as construct a better life. Put the unfavorable ideas aside as well as offer one a try!
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Ask any individual what their ultimate goal in life is, and also whatever their solution is— be it a task, a partnership, or something else— everything boils down to one basic want: happiness. Nonetheless, most of us are doing happiness all wrong. It’s not really anything on the outside that’ll make us happy; it’s all interior.
2. LoveAndMarraige’s one month Of Happiness Challenge
I am really delighted concerning this happiness challenge. I am a strong follower in little things making a large influence in our lives, we simply don’t always discover it.
I intended to make a straightforward yet effective happiness challenge that would not take a great deal of initiative however would be things we might weave right into our everyday. They state it takes one month to damage a habit and also you require to make it a behavior to be pleased!
3. TheCultureTrip’s 30 Happiness Obstacle
The goal of ‘moring than happy’ can be frustrating. Culture Journey has broken this goal down into 30 very easy actions, one you can take every day for a month, to function towards everyone’s utmost life goal.
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If you’re not grinning all long, are you doing life right? The season is generally synonymous with joy, so maximize it. We have actually created a difficulty for you — try to complete every one of the following jobs by the end of the. Doing these things will certainly make you feel happy as well as satisfied, no doubt. Assume you can do it? There’s no much better time to start than currently!
5. Naly’s 30 Be More Favorable Challenge
You produce the tale of your life. You have the flexibility to choose if it’s a pleased story or a downer. It’s all in the means you see things. You can see difficulties as impossible barriers or discovering possibilities. You make a decision when you have sufficient (money, success, love), when you can begin loving yourself, as well as when you like your life. What’s hard about accepting positivity as well as selecting to be happy is that our minds obtain embeded the negative.
6. NotesFromJoana’s 20 Ways Be Better
When life obtains hard, it’s very easy to emphasize the adverse and also feel sorry for on your own. While it takes a whole lot even more initiative to be positive and grateful of what we have, it is so much worth it, trust me. It’s all about putting things right into perspective and picking joy. Let’s be genuine, you can’t enjoy at all times and also it’s alright to have negative days and also allow it all out— most of us have those days every so often — however there are lots of tiny ways to be better.
7. PopSugar’s 365- Joy Challenge
One of the most essential point in life, certainly, is to more than happy. With that said being said, do not overthink your joy — continuing to be material is in fact unbelievably basic. We developed a 365-day challenge that will certainly make you more cheerful than you’ve ever before been. One year may feel like a long time, yet these are tasks you will genuinely enjoy. We made them very easy to ensure that achieving a lasting objective will be a breeze.
8. ApostrophesGreetings’ 30 Joy Difficulty
There are many easy means to enhance your total health. This difficulty is actually easy: review the graphic listed below, choose one routine to concentrate on every day (it does not have to be in the order listed here) as well as write down every day what you choose. You do not need to do every thing on the listing— do not hesitate to duplicate what help you!
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A Megalithic passage tomb dating back some 5,500 years has been discovered at the 18th century Dowth Hall in Co Meath.
The discovery, described by archaeologists as "the find of a lifetime" is within the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site.
It was made during an excavation carried out by the agri-technology company Devenish in partnership with University College Dublin School of Archaeology.
To date, two burial chambers have been discovered within the western part of the main passage tomb, over which a large stone cairn (c.40m diameter) was raised.
The six kerbstones that have been identified so far would have formed part of a ring of stones that followed the cairn perimeter.
One kerbstone is heavily decorated with Neolithic carvings and represents one of the most impressive discoveries of megalithic art in Ireland for decades.
During the course of this project, a further two possible satellite tombs were also found.
Dr Clíodhna Ní Lionáin, Devenish's lead archaeologist for the project said: "For the archaeologists involved in this discovery, it is truly the find of a lifetime."
"The find of a lifetime" - archaeologist Dr Clíodhna Ní Lionáin on the discovery of a Megalithic passage tomb dating back some 5,500 years at the 18th century Dowth Hall in County Meath. pic.twitter.com/MhkAAoCTxp— Philip Bromwell (@philipbromwell) July 16, 2018
Dr Stephen Davis of the UCD School of Archaeology said today: "This is the most significant megalithic find in Ireland in the last 50 years, since the excavation of Knowth.
"The spate of archaeological discoveries in Brú na Bóinne in recent weeks highlights what a globally significant place this is."
Speaking about the company's presence at Dowth and the importance of its heritage, Owen Brennan, Executive Chairman of Devenish said: "Devenish invested in this farm at Dowth because of its fertile soil, its location beside the Boyne and its beautiful landscape.
"From our archaeological research, it seems we made the same decision for the same reasons as a long line of our farming colleagues from the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, medieval and more recent times.
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KJV Standard Lesson Commentary 2022-2023, by David C Cook
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The Standard Lesson Commentary (SLC) has been the world's most popular annual Bible commentary for over two decades. Experience 52 weeks of study in a single volume with thorough Bible study filled with relevant examples and questions. In this edition you will find printed Scripture, verse-by verse explanations of the Bible text, detailed lesson background, a pronunciation guide for challenging words, discussion starters, and a review quiz for each quarter.
This edition of the SLC, developed for use with the King James Version Bible, is based on the popular Uniform Series, also known as the International Sunday School Lessons (ISSL). This series, made by scholars from many different church fellowships, outlines an in-depth study of the Bible over a six-year period.
The four primary themes for the 2022-2023 study are:
- God’s Exceptional Choice (Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, 1 Samuel, Ephesians)
- From Darkness to Light (2 Chronicles, Isaiah, Joel, Luke, 1 Corinthians, 2 Timothy, James, 1 Peter)
- Jesus Calls Us (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts)
- The Righteous Reign of God (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Matthew, Romans, Galatians, 1 Corinthians)
The SLC makes a wonderful primary resource for an adult Sunday school class, personal Bible study, or as a supplemental resource for any curriculum following the ISSL/Uniform Series. Nearly two dozen ministers, teachers, and Christian education specialists lend their expertise to SLC, making it the most popular annual Bible commentary available.
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According to the latest report published by Acute Market Reports, Inc. “Spinal Implants and Surgical Devices Market By Product (Thoracic Fusion And Lumbar Fusion Devices, Cervical Fusion Devices, Non-Fusion Devices, Spine Bone Stimulators, Spinal Decompression Devices), By Technology (Spinal Fusion And Fixation Technologies, Motion Preservation/Non-Fusion Technologies, Spinal Decompression), By Usage Area (Hospitals, Ambulatory Centers, Private Clinics) – Growth, Future Prospects and Competitive Analysis, 2017-2025,” the global spinal implants and surgical devices market was valued at US$ 12.85 Bn in 2016, and is projected to reach US$ 21 Bn by 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2017 to 2025.
Spinal implants are utilized as a part of spondylolisthesis, degenerative disc infection, traumatic fracture, and few types of spinal uncertainty including scoliosis with a spinal implant surgery. Predesigned shape and function of implant systems are utilized according to the need in the surgical procedures. These implants helps in balancing out and reinforcing the spine. They also encourage fusion and correction of deformities. Metals utilized as a part of spinal implants include titanium or titanium-alloy and stainless steel. Carbon/PEEK material and non-metallic compounds can also be used to make implants. They are available in various structures and sizes to cater the vast range of patient age groups.
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Spinal cord injuries (SCI) mainly occur from different causes; for example, trauma and infection, followed by falls, sports activities, and a blocked chain supply. In 2016, according to the National Safety Council (NSC) data, the number of individuals injured in traffic accident was 4.5 Mn in the United States. In addition, in 2017, the prevalence of spinal cord injuries were 285,000 individuals, with a range between 245,000 to 353,000 individuals. Growing incidence rate of spinal injuries each year among adults is the one of the main factors enhancing the market of spinal implants and surgical devices.
Based on the product types, the global spinal implants and surgical devices market is segmented into non-fusion devices, cervical fusion devices, spinal decompression devices, spine bone stimulators, vertebral compression fracture treatment devices, and lumbar fusion and thoracic fusion devices; additionally the technologies studied in this report are categorized into motion preservation/non-fusion technologies, vertebral compression fracture treatment, spinal decompression, and spinal fusion and fixation technologies. Expansion in technology and rising incidence of spinal injuries in adults, better patience awareness and surge in disposable income in the evolving nations would additionally boost the acceptance of spinal implants.
Geographically, the worldwide spinal implants and surgical devices market is projected for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and North America. As for revenue share, North America at this moment drives the global market and is expected that the situation will remain consistent amid the forecast period. Though the ascendancy of North America will be clearly challenged by Asia Pacific. The need of spinal implants and surgical devices has become prominent in Asia Pacific because of growth in the healthcare infrastructure, healthcare expenditure, and flexible income. There are massive chances for market diffusion in nations like India, Mexico, and China to the market occupants already having a grip in developed countries.
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Report Scope by Segments
By Product Type
- Cervical Fusion Devices
- Thoracic Fusion and Lumbar Fusion Devices
- Vertebral Compression Fracture Treatment Devices
- Spine Bone Stimulators
- Non-fusion Devices
- Spinal Decompression Devices
By Technology Type
- Vertebral Compression Fracture Treatment
- Spinal Fusion and Fixation Technologies
- Non-fusion Technologies /Motion Preservation
- Spinal Decompression
By Usage Area
- Ambulatory Centers
- Private Clinics
By Geography Segment
- North America
- Asia Pacific
- Middle East & Africa
- Latin America)
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Manufacturing and packaging facilities may move and sort tons of bulk on conveyors, but the sorters, diverters, and pull-offs that route products to their next destination must be as trim as possible to make the most of valuable floor space. Engineers at Hytrol Conveyor Co., Jonesboro, Ark., needed such a space-saving solution when designing a diverter for an overhead pull-off system that would divert 150-lb boxes to a different conveyor line. For help with the solution, Hytrol turned to Tolomatic of Hamel, Minn., manufacturer of rodless-style actuators.
“Our conveyors are used to move products down the line, divert them to the next station in the manufacturing process or, if a product is defective, divert them to a reject line,” says Jackie Smith, application engineer at Hytrol. “When we needed to design a diverter that was more compact and could be simply integrated into our systems, we decided that we needed to employ a different type of actuator.”
Rod cylinders vs. rodless
The traditional actuator used to operate diverters on a conveyor system is a pneumatic rod cylinder. Normally, a rod cylinder with up to a 48-in. stroke would be mounted off to the side, perpendicular to the conveyor, and operate a paddle that pushed a product off the conveyor or diverted it to a different line. However, these rod-style diverters consumed a lot of space because the cylinder extended about 48 in. beyond the width of the conveyor. When floor space is at a premium, Hytrol offers a framed overhead diverter design that uses a Tolomatic BC2 rodless pneumatic actuator. The BC2 actuator’s length is the same as the conveyor’s width, and the carriage moves entirely within the length of the actuator.
“The Tolomatic BC2 actuator is a space saver,” says Guy Holloway, president of Fraleigh Co., the local distributor for Tolomatic that helped design the application for Hytrol. “The length of the rodless actuator is the same as the width of Hytrol’s conveyor, making it much simpler to work it into new or retrofitted diverter stations. It can be mounted over or under the conveyor, depending on the application.”
A rodless band cylinder actuator contains its stroke within the length of the cylinder itself. For example, a 2-in. bore rodless band cylinder with a 48-in. stroke can provide 43% space savings compared to an equivalently sized rod cylinder. In addition, a rodless actuator guides and supports the load throughout the entire stroke length, so there is minimal bearing wear and load deflection compared to rod-style cylinders. As a result, bending moments are better controlled, resulting in longer wear without seal or bearing stress.
Actuator design advantages
According to Holloway, Hytrol initially looked at other types of actuators, but liked the size and performance of the rodless actuator and found it easy to mount within its pull-off design. Designed with fewer carriage bolts and an adaptive mounting system, the Tolomatic design saved Hytrol assembly time and labor. Rodless band cylinders also feature numerous design advantages over rod-style cylinders that provide dependable, long-lasting solutions. For example, rodless cylinders offer equal piston areas in both directions, eliminating load variations. Plus, the load and piston have a floating connection, resulting in less friction and longer seal life.
“In Hytrol’s overhead diverter design, the actuator has to move a large triangular paddle that pushes boxes weighing up to 150 lb,” says Holloway. “This can create very high bending moments on the actuator’s carriage and guide bearings. The BC2’s carriage has a very robust bearing system with higher side-load capacity than other actuators in its class, resulting in greater capacity and longer life. When designing for very high bending moments, sometimes we specify dual carriages on the actuators to distribute the forces.”
Depending on the application, Hytrol uses BC2 actuators with 1.5-, 2.0- or 2.5-in. bores. The 2.5-in. BC2 actuator can exert forces of up to 800 lb and withstand bending moments of up to 1800 lb, depending on carrier selection.
“Tolomatic’s rodless cylinder has been a dependable component in our compact pull-off systems,” Smith says. “By offering a trim solution for crowded warehouse operations, customers keep coming back for more."
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Waste collection and management is a big problem for many African cities. Littering, open dumping, almost non-existent waste separation and minimal recycling are some of the challenges city authorities on the continent are grappling with.
One company in Liberia is creating a cleaner environment and making products from trash that it sells for profit.
James Mulbah is the CEO of Green Cities, in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. The company was registered in 2014 and focuses on waste management by collecting and recycling organic, plastic and electronic waste.
Mulbah previously ran an organisation that rehabilitated youths affected by the war. He got them involved with cleaning the environment and making compost they could sell. In this way, the youths earned money and stayed busy. Post-war, there was no waste recycling company in Monrovia and garbage collected in mounds and blocked roads. A large proportion of this waste was plastic as Liberians buy drinking water in plastic sachets. Mulbah knew he needed to focus on more than compostable waste and that he was going to have to run the enterprise as a for-profit business to make it sustainable.
Green Cities collects trash for a fee, makes products from recyclable materials and sells e-waste abroad. The company also obtains contracts from residential estates, restaurants and hotels to manage their trash. It sources other recyclables from scavengers and youth organisations that collect garbage in city neighbourhoods; young people are encouraged to form clubs to collect waste to sell to Green Cities.
Any waste the company doesn’t make use of – such as aluminum cans – is passed on to other recyclers. Only paper waste ends up at landfills as there is currently no organisation in Liberia for paper recycling.
Mulbah explains that up to 45% of the garbage collected is organic; this is shredded and left for two to three months to decompose and then turned into fertilizer sold to farmers. Organic waste includes food scraps, cardboard, paper towels, wood, leaves and branches.
Plastics are washed, crushed and dried, and made into pellets or end products. Green Cities manufactures geometric sets, rubber latex collection cups for farmers and petroleum products like diesel, gasoline and kerosene from recycled plastics. “Our petroleum products have been classified as grade one and can compete with the best internationally,” reveals Mulbah.
Any electronic waste is taken to the company’s testing site, where items in good condition are refurbished and sold locally and the rest dismantled and exported for income. “We are the only company that recycles e-waste in Liberia. Our partners in Holland and Dubai buy the e-waste from us for end-of-life recycling,” Mulbah says.
Green Cities hopes to acquire additional equipment to recycle more classes of waste and increase production.
Green Cities has reinvested most of the profits it has made. However, funds have also come from grants and competition prizes. In 2020, it received an investment through the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund to focus on off-grid energy waste and other electronic trash in Liberia.
A training course in Switzerland inspired Mulbah to establish the pyrolysis system that creates petroleum products from plastic waste. A Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) grant of $25,000 funded the dream to reality.
A presentation at the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme won the company $10,000, which it has used to purchase land for composting facilities. The business is currently also constructing an electronics refurbishing and recycling facility on an additional one acre of land.
Setting up in Monrovia has given the company the right experience, structures and time to grow capacity. The aim is to replicate its model in five other towns in Liberia in the next two years. Mulbah also wants to see Green Cities expand into Sierra Leone and Guinea where there are vast opportunities for waste management. “People think this is a job for the informal sector, but we have shown waste management is a formal business,” he says.
“Most waste management companies are not focused on innovation. We conduct a lot of research and try to come up with creative solutions to create a zero-waste environment. We are always generating and testing ideas,” Mulbah adds.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock from the United States. The rock was one of 270 such lunar samples U.S. astronauts brought back from Apollo moon missions in 1969 and 1972 that the Nixon administration gave as gifts to foreign countries. But the item vanished -- allegedly taken by a relative of an American diplomat. And with Cyprus reeling from war and internal strife in 1974, the year the U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger P. Davies assassinated, the rock was never presented to the tiny country. Three years ago, the moon rock was returned to NASA and locked up in a vault. On Wednesday, a Cyprus Foreign Ministry official said U.S. authorities are favorably considering a Cypriot request that the rock be handed over. The official, who insisted on anonymity because he's not authorized to speak to the media, said it will still take some time before the rock reaches Cyprus because some bureaucratic hurdles are involved. The lunar souvenir is encased in a plastic globe. An attached plaque reads, "This fragment is a portion of a rock from the Taurus Littrow valley of the Moon. It is given as a symbol of the unity of human endeavor and carries with it the hope of the American people for a world at peace." Joseph Gutheinz, a University of Arizona instructor and U.S. former government investigator who has been tracking down missing moon rocks, told The Associated Press that the Cyprus moon sample was taken by a relative of a U.S. diplomat who had been posted to the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia at the time. Gutheinz said that in 2009, he put pressure on the individual with the rock to "do the right thing" and return it, while urging U.S. authorities to reclaim it. The pressure worked, he said, and the individual returned the rock to NASA after a five-month-long negotiation. Many lunar samples gifted to other nations have been stolen, were destroyed or went missing, Gutheinz said. | <urn:uuid:e6dc8e9f-beae-4910-8479-41b15ead5b11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/nation/article/Cyprus-may-get-its-moon-rock-after-40-years-8198847.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964818 | 441 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The Value of the Passive Voice
When should an author choose the passive voice over the active voice? What is the difference between them?
The passive voice emphasizes the person or object receiving the action (e.g., Samples were analyzed). The active voice, in contrast,
emphasizes the person or object performing the action (e.g., We analyzed samples).
Because active-voice sentences are clearer, livelier, and often more concise than
passive-voice sentences, most style guides advise scientific authors to prefer the active voice in their writing.
Notice though, that the recommendation is not to write entirely in the active voice. An all-out active writing style
would be just as difficult to read as an all-out passive style: balancing the two perspectives is key.
Other than to add variety, when is the passive voice the better choice? Here are three good reasons to use it.
1. The performer is unknown, irrelevant, or obvious
The passive voice is preferable if the performer cannot easily be named or if the performer is irrelevant to
the discussion, as in the following examples:
Up to 90% of the energy in light bulbs is wasted in the form of heat.
The first edition of Freud's earliest writings on dreams was published in 1899.
Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most extensively studied species in genetics
In the first sentence, the author's attempts to name the performer would be awkward; in the second sentence, the
author assumes the reader will not be interested in the name of the publisher; and in the third sentence, the
performer (researchers) is obvious.
When naming the performer would prove difficult or unnecessary, the passive voice works well.
2. The performer is less important than the action
When discussing an experimental procedure in the Methods section, a researcher might write:
The honey bees were kept in a humidified chamber at room
The solution was heated to 90°C for approximately 30 minutes and then allowed to cool.
The sentences could be converted to active voice by writing the following:
We kept the honey bees in a humidified chamber at room temperature overnight.
We heated the solution to 90°C for approximately 30 minutes and then allowed it to cool.
Does the active voice shorten the sentences? No. (In fact, the second sentence is one word longer than it is in the
original version. The active voice is not automatically more concise than the passive.) Does the active voice add
clarity? Perhaps, although the reader may be justified in assuming that the authors are also the performers.
The active voice has changed the focus, however, from the research to the researchers, an emphasis the
author may not desire in the Methods section, where the general topic is the research materials and
On the other hand, if an author does emphasize the active voice over the passive in the Methods (or any section),
most sentences will begin with we, which is distracting when overdone.1 In that case, passive style
sentences vary the structure and rhythm while keeping the emphasis on the work.
Whether in the Methods or elsewhere in a manuscript, the passive voice redirects attention to the action
(or the recipient).
3. The recipient is the main topic
Choosing a passive writing style is sometimes necessary to position important information at the beginning
or end of a sentence.
For instance, the subject (person, thing, or idea) that the author wishes to discuss in a sentence should occur
near the beginning in the topic position where the reader expects to find it ("first things
The following active-voice sentence begins a new section in which the topic is "green plants" (the performer):
Green plants produce carbohydrates in the presence of light and chlorophyll.
If, on the other hand, "carbohydrates" (the receiver of the action) is the opening topic, the sentence is better
written in the passive voice:
Carbohydrates are produced by green plants in the presence of light and
The topic of a sentence is not an isolated island, however—it has context in relation to the
surrounding sentences and paragraphs.
The topic must not only identify the subject for the reader, but it must prepare the reader "for upcoming material
by connecting it backward to the previous discussion."2
For example, look at the first three sentences of a classic article written by Watson and Crick in 1953:
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid
(D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.
A structure for nucleic acid has already been proposed by Pauling and Corey.3
Notice that the authors used the active voice in the first and second sentences, but the passive in the third.
If the third sentence is changed to active voice, it becomes:
Pauling and Corey have already proposed a structure for nucleic acid.
This revision shortens the sentence and identifies the performers. However, the original passive style creates
parallel structure by repeating the topic of the second sentence ("This structure has...") in the third
sentence ("A structure for..."). The topic in the third sentence connects backward and prepares the reader
for the upcoming information. These three sentences are more cohesive as a result.
By focusing on the topic, the authors have incorporated the passive voice to advantage, producing a passage that
flows naturally and is comprehensible and enjoyable for the reader.
Just as varying the sentence length in your scientific manuscript creates more variety and interest for your
readers, so, too, does using both active and passive voice.
Choose the active voice whenever possible.
Choose the passive voice if you have a good reason to do so. Consider passive voice when:
- The performer is unknown, irrelevant, or obvious.
- The performer is less important than the action.
- The recipient is the main topic.
You can also use the passive voice to
hedge (i.e., to be noncommittal).
However, that is one use that cannot be recommended. (That is an example of hedging!)
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- Watson JD, Crick FHC. Molecular structure of nucleic acids. Nature. 1953;171:737-738.
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This collection of rusted anchors, also called the cemetery of anchors is located on the island of Tavira, near Barril beach in the region of Algarve, Portugal. As you can see from their perfect alignment, they were not abandoned, but rather put in this place on purpose.
A story exists to explain their presence. It's the story of an active tuna fishing activity who sustained hundred of families for centuries, along with all the plants that go wit such activity.
At a certain point the resource was over fished, and couldn't sustain the fishing activity anymore. The tuna fishermen and the fishing industry is long gone now, it's been replaced by hotels and tourists. This strange cemetery is now a reminder of the past, when tunas were a living resource.
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Is the Vatican a Sovereign State?
Elena Kagan and her colleagues in the solicitor general's office say it is. They should be ashamed.
By Christopher Hitchens
Those scrutinizing the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court might want to pay some attention to the recent decision of her office—the office of the solicitor general of the United States—to take the side of the Vatican in the continuing scandal of child rape and the associated scandal of a coordinated obstruction of justice. Faced with a number of court cases in the United States that have named the pope himself as a defendant in the enabling and covering up of many rapes, the Vatican has evolved the strategy of claiming that the Holy See is in effect a sovereign state and thus possessed of immunity from prosecution. It has now been announced that the Obama administration will be advising the Supreme Court to adopt this view of the matter.
There are a number of fascinating ramifications of this opinion. It is not usually considered polite to mention that the majority of Supreme Court justices are practicing Roman Catholics. (Writing about this delicate matter during the argument over the nomination of John Roberts, I did warn that there might come a day when it could pose a double conflict of interest, both in respect of church teachings and in respect of the Vatican's decision to shelter Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston after he skipped town to avoid a subpoena. This was before it came to light that the current pope had been so deeply and personally involved in the church's strategy of delay and obfuscation.) We will soon have a Supreme Court that contains no Protestants and no secularists and which is being asked to rule on a matter central to the religious beliefs of a majority of its members, who are bound to regard the man formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger as the vicar of Christ on earth. If they now take refuge in the lesser claim that he is the bureaucratic head of a foreign government, will that serve to assuage their consciences?
Even if they do decide the matter in this way, they will not succeed in banishing the terrible question of Vatican responsibility for the destruction of so many childhoods and the protection of so many hardened criminals. To give just one example that has not so far had the attention it deserves, the State Department is required by Congress to make an annual report on the human rights record of every government with which we have relations. Yet there is no annual human rights report on the Vatican—or Vatican City or the Holy See, if you prefer. When questioned on this rather glaring lacuna, officials at Foggy Bottom say that for human rights purposes, the Vatican is not a state. It enjoys, for example, only the status of an observer at the United Nations. Very well then, if the Supreme Court rules that it is a sovereign government, then it necessarily follows that it must be subjected to official scrutiny on its rights practices, which in international law include the treatment of children. It will be interesting to see how the Obama administration gets itself off the horns of that dilemma. (It is also perhaps a pity that this question was not resolved earlier, so that we could have had an official U.S. government report on, say, the open complicity of the Catholic Church and the papacy in sheltering the men who organized the genocide in Rwanda.)
This all arises because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made a ruling that effectively lifted the Vatican's immunity under a 1976 law (the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which governs the extent to which foreign entities can be pursued on American soil). The case involves an Oregon victim who was molested by a priest who had been moved, after previous offenses, from parishes in Ireland and Chicago. Other plaintiffs in other states such as Kentucky and Wisconsin have asked the courts to view offending priests and complicit bishops as employees of the Vatican, thereby illustrating the general responsibility of the papacy. The church's response to this has been especially absurd, claiming that the pope exercises only spiritual authority and not managerial control. The first thing to say about this is notice how it abolishes the church's other claim to be a political and accountable state! Then ask yourself what would happen to a priest or bishop who expressed doubts about the Vatican's teaching on abortion or divorce. He would soon find that Rome was very interested in disciplining him. It was Joseph Ratzinger himself who invited Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson all the way from Argentina and back into the fold in an attempt to conciliate Catholicism's more reactionary wing. It was Rome that gave shelter and succor to Cardinal Law after the long disgrace of his tenure in Boston. Suddenly we are asked to believe that the church is not really responsible for the actions of those who have a sworn duty of obedience to its headquarters? This will not wash. State or no state, the church is a highly disciplined multinational corporation that allows little or no autonomy to its branches and can no more be the judge in its own cause than British Petroleum.
It will be a disgrace if the Supreme Court overrules the sane and legal finding of the 9th Circuit. It is already a disgrace that so many innocent victims and their families have had to seek redress on their own and fight for decades against a ruthless and cynical clerical hierarchy that on its own admission was more concerned to protect the predators than to do justice. Where were the nation's law officers and policemen while all this was going on? Did they not feel it their bounden duty to represent the interests of the most vulnerable? Now at last the majesty of American law is being deployed in this matter—but on the side of an institution that has irreparably stained itself with crime. Kagan and her colleagues should be made to feel the shame of this, as should the president, who talks so glibly about human rights and equality before the law. | <urn:uuid:a59579da-873e-4efb-a5ec-0ff2a4acb3da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://newagedeception.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-administration-sides-with-vatican.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00284-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974791 | 1,180 | 1.664063 | 2 |
You get an anonymous letter on January 2nd informing you that the market will go up during the month. It proves to be true, but you disregard it, owing to the well-known January effect (stocks have gone up historically during January). Then you receive another one on Feb 1st telling you that the market will go down. Again, it proves to be true. Then you get another letter on March 1st – same story. By July you are intrigued by the prescience of the anonymous person and you are asked to invest in a special offshore fund. You pour all your savings into it. Two months later, your money is gone. You go spill your tears on your neighbour’s shoulder and he tells you that he remembers that he received two such mysterious letters. But the mailings stopped at the second letter. He recalls that the first one was correct in its prediction, the other incorrect.
What happened? The trick is as follows. The con-operator pulls 10,000 names out of a phone book. He mails a bullish letter to one half of the sample, and a bearish one to the other half. The following month he selects the names of the persons to whom he mailed the letter whose prediction turned out to be right, that is, 5,000 names. The next month he does the same with the remaining 2,500 names, until the list narrows down to 500 people. Of these there will be 200 victims. An investment in a few thousand dollars worth of postage stamps will turn into several million.
It is not uncommon for someone watching a tennis game on television to be bombarded by advertisements for funds that did (until that minute) outperform others by some percentage over some period. But, again, why would anybody advertise if he didn’t happen to outperform the market? There is a high probability of the investment coming to you if its success is caused entirely by randomness. This phenomenon is what economists and insurance people call adverse selection. Judging an investment that comes to you requires more stringent standards than judging an investment you seek, owing to such selection bias. For example, by going to a cohort composed of 10,000 managers, I have 2/100 chances of finding a spurious survivor. By staying home and answering my doorbell, the chance of the soliciting party being a spurious survivor is closer to 100%.
The same logic that applies to the spurious survivor also applies to the skilled person who has the odds markedly stacked in her favour, but who still ends up going to the cemetery. This effect is the exact opposite to the survivorship bias. Consider that all one needs is two bad years in the investment industry to terminate a risk-taking career and that, even with great odds in one’s favour, such an outcome is very possible. What do people do to survive? They maximise their odds of staying in the game by taking black-swan risks; those that fare well most of the time, but incur a risk of blowing up.
The most intuitive way to describe the data mining problem to a non- statistician is through what is called the birthday paradox, though it is not really a paradox, simply a perceptional oddity. If you meet someone randomly, there is a one in 365.25 chance of your sharing their birthday, and a considerably smaller one of having the exact birthday of the same year. So, sharing the same birthday would be a coincidental event that you would discuss at the dinner table. Now let us look at a situation where there are 23 people in a room. What is the chance of there being two people with the same birthday? About 50%. For we are not specifying which people need to share a birthday, any pair works.
A similar misconception of probabilities arises from the random encounters one may have with relatives or friends in highly unexpected places. “It’s a small world!” is often uttered with surprise. But these are not improbable occurrences – the world is much larger than we think. It is just that we are not truly testing for the odds of having an encounter with one specific person, in a specific location at a specific time.
Rather, we are simply testing for any encounter, with any person we have ever met in the past, and in any place we will visit during the period concerned. The probability of the latter is considerably higher, perhaps several thousand times the magnitude of the former.
When the statistician looks at the data to test a given relationship, say to ferret out the correlation between the occurrence of a given event, like a political announcement, and stock market volatility, odds are that the results can be taken seriously. But when one throws the computer at data, looking for just about any relationship, it is certain that a spurious connection will emerge, such as the fate of the stock market being linked to the length of women’s skirts. And just like the birthday coincidences, it will amaze people.
What is your probability of winning the New Jersey lottery twice? One in 17 trillion. Yet it happened to Evelyn Adams, whom the reader might guess should feel particularly chosen by destiny. Using the method we developed above, researchers Percy Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller estimated at 30 to 1 the probability that someone, somewhere, in a totally unspecified way, gets so lucky!
Some people carry their data mining activities into theology – after all, ancient Mediterraneans used to read potent messages in the entrails of birds. Michael Drosnin provides an interesting extension of data mining into biblical exegesis in The Bible Code. Drosnin, a former journalist (seemingly innocent of any training in statistics), aided by the works of a “mathematician,” helped “predict” the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination by deciphering a bible code. He informed Rabin, who obviously did not take it too seriously. The Bible Code finds statistical irregularities in the Bible; these help predict some such events. Needless to say, the book sold well enough to warrant a sequel predicting with hindsight even more such events.
The same mechanism is behind the formation of conspiracy theories. Like The Bible Code, they can seem perfect in their logic and can cause otherwise intelligent people to fall for them. I can create a conspiracy theory by downloading hundreds of paintings from an artist or group of artists and finding a constant among all those paintings (among the hundreds of thousand of traits). I would then concoct a conspiratorial theory around a secret message shared by these paintings. This is seemingly what the author of the bestselling The Da Vinci Code did.
My favorite time is spent in bookstores, where I aimlessly move from book to book in an attempt to make a decision as to whether to invest the time in reading it. My buying is frequently made on impulse, based on superficial, but suggestive clues. Frequently, I have nothing but a book jacket as appendage to my decision making. Jackets often contain praise by someone, famous or not, or excerpts from a book review. Good praise by a famous and respected person or a well-known magazine would sway me into buying the book.
What is the problem? I tend to confuse a book review, which is supposed to be an assessment of the quality of the book, with the best book reviews, marred with the same survivorship biases. I mistake the distribution of the maximum of a variable with that of the variable itself. The publisher will never put on the jacket of the book anything but the best praise.
Some authors go even a step beyond, taking a tepid or even unfavourable book review and selecting words in it that appear to praise the book. One such example came from one Paul Wilmott (an English financial mathematician of rare brilliance and irreverence) who managed to announce that I gave him his “first bad review,” yet used excerpts from it as praise on the book jacket (we later became friends, which allowed me to extract an endorsement from him for my book).
The first time I was fooled by this bias was upon buying, when I was 16, “Manhattan Transfer”, a book by the American writer John Dos Passos, based on praise on the jacket by the French writer and “philosopher” Jean-Paul Sartre, who claimed something to the effect that Dos Passos was the greatest writer of our time. This simple remark, possibly blurted out in a state of intoxication or extreme enthusiasm, caused Dos Passos to become required reading in European intellectual circles, as Sartre’s remark was mistaken for a consensus estimate of the quality of Dos Passos rather than what it was, the best remark. (In spite of such interest in his work, Dos Passos has reverted to obscurity.)
I am frequently asked the question: when is it truly not luck? There are professions in randomness for which performance is low in luck: Like casinos, which manage to tame randomness. In finance? Perhaps. All traders are not speculative traders: there exists a segment called market makers whose job is to derive, like bookmakers, or even like store owners, an income against a transaction. If they speculate, their dependence on the risks of such speculation remains too small compared to their overall volume. They buy at a price and sell to the public at a more favorable one, performing large numbers of transactions. Such income provides them some insulation from randomness. Such category includes floor traders on the exchanges, bank traders who “trade against order flow,” moneychangers in the souks of the Levant. The skills involved are sometimes rare to find: Fast thinking, alertness, a high level of energy, an ability to guess from the voice of the seller her level of nervousness; those who have them make a long career (that is, perhaps a decade). They never make it big, as their income is constrained by the number of customers, but they do well probabilistically. They are, in a way, the dentists of the profession.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The sine function is 1 at 90 degrees or
I find it hard to type the problem on the computer, so I included a picture with a note on where I am stuck. I know I can't divide "1" by "sin2theta" to get 30 degrees, so I don't know what to do next. Thanks.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Fray Francisco de Ayeta
A Spanish Franciscan of the seventeenth century, and (while time and place of his birth and death are not known as yet, his memorable deeds having been overlooked and neglected until now) one of the most deserving and energetic characters of the end of that century in New Spain or Mexico. He became successively Visitor of the Province of the Holy Evangel of New Mexico, and its Procurator at Madrid; also Commissary of the Inquisition in New Spain. The decline in useful activity among the regular orders in Mexico, which began about the middle of the seventeenth century, being taken as a pretext by the secular authorities for despoiling the regulars of their missions, Ayeta became one of the most fervent defenders of the Franciscans, and he wielded a very aggressive pen. Three books are known to have been published by him, all without date and place; an "Apología del orden de San Francisco en América", which is supposed to have appeared about 1690; "Defensa de la provincia del Santa Evangelio de México sobre la retención de los curatos y doctrinas"; and "Ultimo recurso de la provincia de San José de Yucatan sobre despojo de parroquias". Ayeta investigated in person the most remote missions, especially those of New Mexico, and he was the first to warn the Spanish authorities of the storm then preparing among the Pueblo Indians. His report, from 1678, in which he exposed the defenceless condition of the New Mexican colony as against the wild Indians, and the dangerous impression which it had made upon the sedentary tribes, induced the authorities of New Spain to reinforce the garrison at Santa Fe, but it was too late. The Pueblos broke out on the tenth of August, 1680, and for fourteen years New Mexico was lost to Spain. Ayeta hurried to El Paso, and when the fugitives from the North reache4d that post, to the number of two thousand famished and attenuated persons, Ayeta was the first to tender them the needed relief in food and clothing. He was a man of superior mind and indomitable energy, entirely devoted to his task and to his order.
Betancourt, Cronica de la provincia del Santa Evangelio de Mexico (2d ed., Mexico, 1871); Beristain de Souza, Biblioteca Hispano-americana setentrional (Mexico, 1816), I; Sarinana Y Cuenca, Oracion funebre . . . . en las exequieas de veinte y uno religiosos de la observancia & ca. Que murieron a manos de los Indios apostatas del Nuevo Mexico (Mexico, 1681). This sermon is manifestly based upon the data furnished by Ayeta in a yet unpublished report on the priests who were murdered in 1680. - Bandelier, Histoire de la colonisation et des missions du Sonora, Chihuahua, Nouveau Mexique, et Arizona, jusq'a l'an 1700 (MSS. at the Vatican, 1888). See also Documentos para la historia de Mexico (third series, very rare); and Bandelier, Documentary History of the Zuni Tribe, in Journal Am. Arch., No. 1.
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The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is recognized today as one of the most significant historical sites in western Missouri because of its role in the history of the area and the people that lived there. Plotted in 1827 on that super highway west called the Santa Fe Trail, the Estate played an important part in our region's history. Of the many colorful owners, characters and residents of this now legendary home, the most famous is the artist and politician George Caleb Bingham. Bingham had some very strong feelings about the Civil War -- particularly the war as it played along the western border. He soon became an active opponent of the military government and the infamous Order No. 11. The execution of this merciless act by government troops caused chaos and death. While residing at the Estate he painted one of his most famous works, "Order No. 11". In 1879, the Waggoner family -- well-known millers of flour -- purchased the Estate. They became nationally known for their "Queen of the Pantry Flour," considered the very best in baking and cake flours. George Gates, grandfather of Bess Truman, became a partner in the mill and the name became the Waggoner-Gates Milling Company. Three generations of the Waggoner family occupied the home for almost 100 years. In 1979, a group of private citizens, in cooperation with the City of Independence, purchased the home including the 19.5 acres for a museum and park. The Bingham-Waggoner Estate stands today as a tribute ot the hundreds of thousands of searching souls who passed by and laid their hands to the task of settling the land and building a nation. Beginning in our Carriage House/Gift Shop, let our Tour Guides take you into the 1800s where history and romance come to life among the original furniture, paintings and decor. Large meeting/luncheon room available for 10-50 people. The Estate is also available to rent for most any private event." | <urn:uuid:30a0b268-7434-4789-a4cc-3256c939062b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.visitindependence.com/listings/Bingham-Waggoner-Estate-/28/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00313-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974031 | 400 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Reacting to leaked documents that accuse Pakistan of helping Afghan militants, British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned Pakistan not to “promote the export of terror.”
, School of International Studies director, notes Britain depends significantly on sharing intelligence with Pakistan to get a handle on possible terrorism in the U.K. “So, though what Cameron said is, pretty certainly, factually correct, no useful point was served by his saying it.”
, a security expert in political science, says: “Cameron could not avoid saying something about the issue given his visit to India and desperate desire to stimulate U.K.-India trade. Cost? Not much at this point. He may be preparing the ground for a U.K. withdrawal from combat role in Afghanistan far sooner than the Americans might hope.”
, a security expert in Hellenic Studies, says: “Pakistan’s intelligence service is either becoming a rogue outfit or Pakistan’s government is using the service to pursue a dangerous policy by using terror.” Gerolymatos adds his next book is about Pakistan, and the last two chapters will address relations between the country, its intelligence service and the Taliban.
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Project l 01
Polymeric materials have been used to realize optical systems that interact with holographic signals through periodic variations of their structural or optical properties.
The conjugated polymers display three different holographic modes in a single architecture. Using dithering mask lithography, we realized two-dimensional patterns with varying cross-linking densities on a conjugated polymer, forming 2D periodic refractive index variations that displayed structural colour via diffraction. Anisotropic shrinkage causes optical and structural heterogeneities along the third dimension, displaying three-dimensional full parallax signals.
Unlike typical optical systems displaying a single-mode hologram, our system realizes multimodal holograms in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Our study presents a next-generation hologram manufacturing method for multilevel anti-counterfeiting and encryption technologies.
Project | 02
Maskless flow lithography (micofluidics)
Low-cost and high-resolution on-chip microscopes are vital for reducing cost and improving efficiency for modern biomedicine and bioscience. Despite the needs, the conventional microscope design has proven difficult to miniaturize. The optofluidic microscope design, readily fabricable with existing microfluidic technologies, offers low-cost and highly compact imaging solutions. More functionalities, such as encoding microparticles and fluorescence bioassay, can also be readily adapted into industrial systems. We anticipate that the our low cost optofluidic micro particle fabrication system can significantly address a range of biomedical and bioscience needs, and engender new microscope applications.
Project | 03
Spectrally tunable microarchitectures are effective information media because they act as carriers of luminescent materials. Among them, upconversion nanocrystals(UCNs) are materials that attract attention due to the unique optical properties(e.g., anti-Stokes effect, high photochemical stability, and low toxicity). In this project, we are trying to develop UCNs-embedded smart functional 3D microstructure using opto-fluidics. In previous research, UCNs-based encoding systems with exponentially scalable encoding capacities and an ultralow decoding false-alarm rate, and luminescence color transition based on the crystal phase control. These systems can be applicable in barcoding of pharmaceutical packaging, multiplexed microRNA detection or a high temperature industrial thermal process.
Project | 04
Behavioral Optical Tactile Sensors
Tactile sensor system is a recognition and expression of external stimuli like as pressure, heat, torsion, and so on. Different from conventional electronic signal based tactile sensor, we investigated optical nanoparticles based optical tactile sensor. This system can detect various stimuli with quick, intuitive, and precise visible range signals. We also focus on types of nanoparticles, luminescence method, detection signal type. Our research will be applied to e-skin, smart devices, and new generation displays.
Project | 05
Conjugated polymers recently have drawn much attention as an emerging sensory material due to their meritorious signal amplification, convenient optical detection, readily tunable properties, and easy fabrication. We review the molecular design principles of sensory conjugated polymer recognition events, which can trigger conformational change of the conjugated polymer, induce intermolecular aggregation, or change the distance between the conjugated polymer as an energy donor and the reporter dye molecule as an energy acceptor. These recognition/detection mechanisms result in mainly three types of measurable signal generation: turn on or turn off fluorescence, or change in either visible color or fluorescence emission color of the conjugated polymer. In this article, we highlight recent advances in fluorescent and colorimetric conjugated polymer-based biosensors.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Philosophy Cat..."Dharma the Cat"
Dharma the Cat is a philosophical humorous webcomic by David Lourie. The topics of Dharma the Cat handle the basic philosophical questions of life and existence.
Characters in the comic are:
Dharma - A Buddhist, black and white cat, whose thoughts can be interpreted by the reader.
Bodhi - A Buddhist novice monk, who tries to walk the path to enlightenment.
Siam - A mouse, hell-bent on cheese, who can communicate with Dharma.
The main idea of Dharma the Cat is not in the comic itself, but in the commentary of the comic strips. The author has sent the comic strips to be commented by representatives of different religions and their commentary of every episode is displayed in the web page, along with the authors. The included religions are: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanism/Atheism, Hindu, Interfaith, Islam, Judaism, Paganism/Wicca and Taoism.
Awards:10 best on TheWeb, The Juno Award, Surfers Choice Best Of The Web, and Cyber-Teddy's Peoples Choice Top 500.
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China on the hunt for Taiwanese Hacker
China is searching a man who has allegedly spied on sensitive government data after hacking into its computers on the country's mainland, reported The Global Times of China state on October 30, 2007.
The newspaper established that Lee Fang-rong of Taiwan was the alleged spy who was responsible for a series of assaults on the computer systems of the Chinese government. 20-year-old Lee has been accused of installing Trojan programs onto the computers of certain diplomatic, economic and military institutions in order to capture classified data.
Spokeswoman Jiang Yu, on behalf of Chinese Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that China had clear laws that prohibited such criminal activities related to computers. AHN published Yu's statement on October 31, 2007. Hacking problem is a world issue that has not even spared China, Jiang added.
The Global Times reported that although Lee was staying in Taiwan, but he possibly conducted the hacking crime from Moscow where he had been residing previously.
Military analyst Andrew Yang of Taipei-based Chinese Council on Advanced Policy Studies, thinks the attack could be an intention to warn Taiwan, and that Beijing wants to tell Taipei about its successful seizure of information relating to Taipei's spying operations. AHN published this in news on October 31, 2007.
Meanwhile, The Taiwan Affairs Office of China said on October 31, 2007 that following the report of The Global Times, it was collecting further details in connection to the incident. International Herald Tribune published this on October 31, 2007.
Taipei Times in Taipei reported that Sandy Yen of Democratic Progressive Party said through an October 31, 2007 press release that by making the accusation, Beijing was lowering its own dignity.
Yen said that while they knew about various international complaints of Chinese hacking activities, they also found through a research that 33% of computer viruses in the world were creation of Chinese hackers.
So Yen asked how China could charge other people of committing similar thefts of confidential data or of damaging them.
Meanwhile, China faced severe criticisms from United States, Britain and Germany for alleged hacking into their military and government networks.
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25th June, 2014 by Richard Ross
New laws in Turkey banning the domestic marketing and promotion of alcohol have forced organisers to cancel an annual Istanbul visit by a panel of MWs.
Since 2010, a group of four MWs has been invited to Istanbul each summer for a weekend of tastings, organised by Turkish wine enthusiast and businessman Yunus Emre Kocabaşoğlu. Turkish producers were asked to present a selection of their best wines which the MWs would taste blind, then score and offer feedback to the producers.
However, this year’s weekend could not take place because of the current political restrictions in place.
The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party has its largest support base amongst rural voters and in recent years has begun to promote more clearly Islamic policies despite Turkey’s strong secular traditions. These include a series of moves to restrict the sale and promotion of alcohol.
One of the regular attendees, Sarah Abbott MW, told db that “it is quite right that the sale of alcoholic drinks should be controlled for reasons of public health, but the ban on all marketing of wine is needlessly damaging to the Turkish wine sector.”
The restrictions are gradually being tested by Turkey’s wine community, but current interpretations suggest that the ban applies to all domestic wine advertising, marketing and tasting events. For that reason, the organisers felt obliged to cancel this year’s MW weekend in Istanbul.
Sarah Abbott says that it’s hugely disappointing that they can’t continue to offer their support to winemakers in Istanbul this year “Over the four years we have been taking part in this event, I’ve seen that the quality of wines has really gone sky-high, mostly from a strong base of enthusiastic boutique producers looking to build new markets.”
She adds: “If you’re a wine writer in Turkey today, you can no longer offer wine recommendations, and a group of producers in the region of Thrace, for example – just an hour’s drive from Istanbul -have had to stop marketing their ‘wine route’ to visitors, although they are managing to call it a ‘vineyard route’.” | <urn:uuid:38f0a4ca-dbef-4ca2-835a-3f95477e7cfd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2014/06/mws-turkey-weekend-cancelled-over-government-restrictions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965326 | 461 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Chinese / United States Playwright Exchange
This residency brings playwrights from the Chinese speaking world to the U.S. and U.S. writers to the Chinese speaking world to work on translations of their work. It is designed to create stage-worthy translations of new works from Greater China and the U.S. Our larger purpose is to establish ongoing channels of artistic collaboration and communication between Chinese and U.S. theater artists and their communities.
This program increases the profile of Chinese playwrights in the U.S. and, reciprocally, U.S. playwrights in Chinese speaking countries while fostering respect and mutual understanding among playwrights and their collaborators. We want to create a replicable model for community engagement and artistic expression, and represent a balance of U.S. and Chinese perspectives through a more relevant and culturally inclusive theater repertoire by working on stories that are relevant to both societies.
The Selection Process
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RICHMOND, Ind. — A local museum plans to unveil an exhibit on the history of a former school bus manufacturer here that had once been one of the area’s well-known employers, Palladium-Item reports.
Starting on Aug. 13, the Wayne County Historical Museum’s exhibit will feature memorabilia from Wayne Works, which was at one time a leader in school bus manufacturing, according to the newspaper. The event is closed to the public, but those with direct connections to the former manufacturer can attend.
The exhibit will run for about six to nine months and will feature donated photographs, documents, and transcribed stories from former workers at the plant, Palladium-Item reports. The plant opened in Richmond in 1876 after having moved from Dublin, Indiana, and closed in the early 1990s after it was bought by a competitor, according to the newspaper.
Jim Harlan, the executive director of the museum, told Palladium-Item that the museum is still accepting donations for the exhibit, and is looking for former workers at the plant to contribute accounts of their experiences to the exhibit. Harlan added that a significant amount of plant history was preserved by searching through the trash at the site of the former plant: After items were thrown away, people collected about 17 boxes worth of materials. Those materials will be on display in the exhibit.
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Construction began in 1802 on St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on the Green in Monroe. The Federal-style church, completed in 1807, has been attributed by J. Frederick Kelly to the architect David Hoadley, who designed a number of churches in Connecticut. The Episcopal church building, the oldest in Monroe, was raised for additional space in the 1920s. The church rectory (below), at 171 Old Tannery Road, was built in the early nineteenth century by Dr. Ezra Curtis and was acquired by the church in the 1950s.
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Children are born creative, and crayons are their favorite tool to express their creativity. But sometimes, it’s hard to keep them from using your walls as a canvas. That’s where the problem begins!
It can be frustrating when you find out that your favorite wall color has been destroyed with the crayon markings. But hold on your breath and don’t overthink because there are ways of removing those stubborn crayon marks.
So, read this article before using a scrubbing brush or any other harsh crayon removers on stains. As in this article, we’ll provide some easy solutions for removing crayon from walls forever!
Before starting your cleaning method, it’s essential to know what type of paint is used on the wall. For example, if there is latex paint on the wall, you can remove crayon using a regular pencil eraser. However, if oil-based or water-soluble paint is used, use a different method to clean the stain without damaging the wall color.
Then, you must know from which type of surface you will remove the crayon marks. Is it a flat painted wall or a textured wall? Is it painted matte or glossy? Is it a big or small area you are going to clean?
You must remember these important details before removing crayon off walls, as there is no universal recipe that will remove crayon from every surface. A solution may work on one type of paint but not the other. Even if your walls are painted glossy and have been covered with crayons- don’t try to use the same remover for textured walls – this can lead to irreversible consequences!
However, be prepared beforehand to avoid making any mistakes in removing crayon stains from your favorite wall color.
Ways to Remove Crayon from Walls (Easy Methods)
There are many ways of removing crayon marks. But among them, below we offer you some convenient solutions which you can use according to your needs.
Method1: Use Soap and Water
This age-old mark removing method can work well as crayon remover than most of the latest techniques. The crayon stain will break up and be easier to wash away with soapy water. All you need is a dry microfiber cloth or paper towel, dishwashing soap, and a bowl of warm water. But the main key is to have patience and go slow.
The first thing you have to do is to soak a piece of microfiber cloth or paper towel in warm water. Then add an ideal amount of dishwashing soap over it.
Make sure not to use hot water. Then start to rub the crayon stain gently with that damp cloth. Remember that don’t rub too hard or make the wall too wet as it can fade or remove the paint from your wall.
So, take your time and rub slowly to remove the mark. And rinse the cloth frequently so that the stain doesn’t transfer from one area to another.
Tips: If you are dealing with more than one crayon mark on the same area of your wall, it is better to use a microfiber cloth rather than a paper towel. Because they have longer fibers which help get rid of all stains quickly without leaving any marks behind.
Method2: Toothpaste with Lemon Juice
You may have heard that toothpaste helps to remove permanent marker stains from different surfaces. And lemon juice is an excellent cleaner that tackles even hard stains like ink or wax easily.
But do you know how effective both of these ingredients are for removing crayon art from wall?
All you need is to combine toothpaste and lemon juice with a paste. Then apply the mixture on the crayon art and leave it for 15 minutes. After that, you need to rub it with an old towel or clean cloth. You can also use soft bristles brush to scrub properly until the stain vanishes. Then clean the wall with normal water.
This method works because of its abrasive power – when those two ingredients are combined together, they remove stubborn stains like crayon marks quickly. Not only that, but this remedy leaves behind no soap residue, which would attract more dirt onto your walls! It also means there’s less risk of damage to any paint and not leaving any mark behind.
The best part about using toothpaste is that, unlike other products found in grocery stores, it won’t leave any residue on the surface of your walls. Unlike other solutions such as bleach which can cause damage if overused, these ingredients are not harmful at all!
Tips: To achieve the desired result, you must use non-gel white toothpaste. The reason is that gel toothpaste is not strong enough to remove crayon art from wall altogether. It can leave a stain mark behind.
Methos3: Baking Soda with Vinegar
Vinegar is a common household item available in most of your kitchens. And cleaning up stains from walls with vinegar may be well known to some people. For your kind information, it not only removes other stains but removes crayon stains as well.
It also helps to get rid of crayon marks out of clothes. And baking soda is such an ingredient that can do almost all home cleaning jobs easily. So, think that when these two ingredients will meet, what happens?
For crayon removal from wall, you have to mix one part of baking soda with two parts of white vinegar properly. Just take an old cloth or sponge that you will use and then soak the fabric in this mixture thoroughly. Then, apply the mixture on the crayon stains and let it dry for a while before scrubbing away.
Afterward, gently rub on the wall surface until all crayon’s smears disappear off the surface. You have to do it gently so that the paint remains untouched. Finally, you can use a paper towel or sponge to clean up the leftovers from your wall too. Then rinse out thoroughly with clean water!
It’s a diluted solution of baking soda and vinegar. And, also this is one of the best ways to remove crayon stains from walls without damaging your paint.
Tips: If you can’t find vinegar near your hand, use dish soap instead. Mix one tablespoon of baking soda, dish soap, and water in a bowl. Then use it as before.
Method4: Using Pencil Eraser Technique
If you want to remove the crayon marks from your walls, you should start with a pencil eraser as it’s commonly available. Pencil erasers are softer than other types of erasers, and they will do less damage to the surface if used correctly. A regular pencil eraser will be enough for this job.
You should first remove the stains with a damp rag or cloth as much as possible. After that, gently rub the pencil eraser over the surface and erase as much of it without applying too much pressure.
To use a pencil eraser on the wall, rub it back and forth over the stain for about five minutes until all traces of color are gone. For stubborn stains that don’t respond well to this method, try using the soapy water method mentioned above as an alternative cleaning solution.
Keep in mind not to use this method if your walls are made from plaster, cement, or wallpaper, which can be easily damaged by excessive rubbing. You also shouldn’t use any abrasive stuff on these surfaces either because you risk damaging them permanently!
Tips: While using this method, you must need to rub gently. Otherwise, your paint will be damaged by hard rubbing. And if your eraser is too soft, it won’t work effectively.
Alternative Wall Cleaning Tools (Quick Methods)
Natural and available ingredients have been used in the process we’ve mentioned so far. But if you want a quick result without any damage of your wall, then check out the cleaning kits mentioned below.
WD-40 Multi-Use Product
WD-40 spray is a trendy cleaning kit. Though it’s a multi-purpose spray, it’s mostly used to free up the sticky metal parts. It removes all types of grease, super glue, gum, sticker, and many other sticky things from different surfaces. It also lubricates the moving parts like – wheels, gears, chains, rollers, etc.
Fortunately, you can remove crayons with the help of this WD-40 cleaning spray. It has a unique ability to break down grease and dirt, which is what’s in most crayon stains.
So, it should be able to remove any kind of marks without any problem. You just need to spray on the stained area and let it sit for about an hour. Then, take a paper towel, spray a little bit on the towel, and wipe off the stain carefully. In some cases, the spray also works instantly. It actually depends on the stain that how old it is.
Go Gone is another professional-level stain remover kit. It is specially designed to remove stubborn marks but safe to use. It removes glue stain, grease, oil, wax, marker, etc. You can find it on Amazon or other home improvements stores nearby.
However, for removing crayon stain art from wall, you have to take a clean microfiber cloth and pour a handsome amount of it on the cloth. Then softly rub the stained area so the paint remains untouched.
The reason is, rubbing through roughly and putting too much pressure can lead to paint damage.
keep in mind that, don’t even try to spray it directly on the stained wall as it can damage the paint. Then clean the oily residue from the wall with soapy water. And use another microfiber cloth or paper towel to wipe it properly. Always be gentle with all the procedures.
When you use any of these removal methods, try first to use it on a small area to find out that the technique will work on the stain or not. It’ll help you not to make the stain worse. And be gentle with all the procedures.
Another thing is, while using those ingredients, avoid all types of contact with eyes and skin for a longer time. And keep your children safe from these ingredients.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: Will ‘Magic Eraser’ get crayon off the wall?
Magic eraser is a very popular tool renowned for its ability to remove dirt, dust, and grime from many surfaces. It is a non-abrasive scrubber that extracts all types of marks with minimal effort without damaging the surface in any way. Even you can use a magic eraser for removing permanent marker stain. But remember that markers and crayons stain are not the same.
With so many people relying on this product for their cleaning needs, it’s not surprising how someone would use such a tool to remove crayon stains as well.
However, be aware that a magic eraser may discolor your painted walls or remove a layer if not used correctly or over scrubbing. Sometimes, the paint faded away due to the quality of the color also.
So should you use Magic Eraser on Crayon Stains? Unless you are willing to risk stripping away some of your favorite color schemes, then we recommend against it.
Q: Can you paint over crayon marks on the wall?
The short answer to this question is “NO.”
And the long answer is that painting over the crayon stain will not be effective. Since crayons are made of wax, paint alone will not be able to cover it. Even after you put paint layer after layer, the stain will be visible beneath it when the paint dries.
So, if you want to try your luck with this option of removing crayon from walls, make sure that –
You have an extra gallon of paint on hand as well as a few hours for letting the paint dry before touching it again because painting over crayons is not easy!
The wall should be in good condition without any damage, leading to peeling off paints after years.
In fact, painting over old crayon stains may end up damaging the surface rather than cleaning them mostly.
Hopefully, with the help of the simple steps mentioned above, you’ll be able to remove crayon stains from walls without damaging the paint. If anything else, please leave a comment here.
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A look inside my wood crafter's tool box.
The spokeshave pictured (A.) was found in the Markland region of Norway and now resides in the Hedeby museum in Denmark. The next lower photo (B.) was taken after forging the reconstructed blade.
It is made of two grades of steel, with the inserted blade of better quality carbon steel, forge welded to the lesser grade steel forming the reins. The completed tool measures a little over 11" in length.
Photo (C.) shows the hackberry wooden handles which were driven onto the tangs, burned into predrilled holes. Also you will see the edge protection in place. Tools with fine edges are most always given special protection as sharpening and eventual replacement needed to be avoided at all times. Tools like these were ascribed for use by journeyman carpenter status only.
(D.) Here the blade is exposed for use and the "blade safe" (E.) is lying open. The safe is made of European beech and with a goat skin strap. The waxed linen threads lie in a groove below the surface to prevent the thread from being cut when placing the spokeshave back into its cover.
The photo illustration is a composite of stages of the same blade. The Spokeshave is delightfully sharp and a pleasure to use.
These drawknives were used for hollowing boards on the inside of an arc, such as the inside of barrel or bucket staves. I have also made the grips from hackberry wood and the sharpsafe is made of a scrap of beech and a goat skin strap to fasten it to the blade when not in use. The over all dimentions are 8 1/2" wide X 6" high."
Attached to the bottom of photo on the left, I have placed the sharpsafe on the drawknife to illustrate it in use.
To the right are two examples of similar blades found in Viking age tool collections, one with the actual wooden grips still attached.
This axe, created by Albion Armory, was designed to look like the Mastermyr carpenters axe. An archeologist's rendering of the axe head can be seen to the right of this tool.
Of all the tool kits discovered from the Viking times, the Mastermyr tool box has been the most inspiring to students of tool history as the box was packed with a range of tools belonging to a skilled craftsman. Unfortunately for him, it is speculated the box was apparently lost while crossing an ice covered swamp. The tool box's loss, tragically impacted the man's life work. Such a collection represented a fortune in replacement costs.
The tool has a hammer head on the "pole" used for hammering nails and heading rivets. The sidewall's of the eye are thick to withstand heavy use. The handle design I chose to apply is a standard tool length with a bulb end, something common to European tools of later date. I do not have proof the handle was made this way during the Viking age but tool patterns were very well established at that time. This was my personal choice. I also included a thong on the end of the handle so if the shipwright uses the tool over water, he can slip his hand into the thong, preventing accidental loss. This too, is a workman's habit but not documented for the Viking age.
My tool kit should represent a similar collection owned by a craftsman who has experience as both a shipwright and general woodworker.
This woodcutter's, builder's axe is made to emulate an axe from Professor Dan Carlson's Birka collection. The blade width is 4 1/2" and the handle is about 36" in length. Comfortable for felling trees and other large body work.
As for the hand axe pictured in the insert and it's accompanying vignettes of some of the stages, the picture is proportional to the larger axe above. I forged this axe inspired by an axe from the Mastermyr tool kit (Pictured right) though many of this design have been found. The blade is narrow as it is a special purpose axe for finer or "close in" work. Again, the handle has a flared end to help the workman maintain a grip.
The blade on the smaller axe is 2" across the sharp and the head is 6" in length. As the pole (hammer head) has spreading damage from being struck and as the relative light weight of the axe, I suggest the tool was not swung but rather it was used like a chisel with a handle, perhaps for making mortises in timbers. Later morticing hatchets of similar design are known and available today from modern suppliers. It is worth mentioning, that although all these axes are intended as workman's axes, they do perform double duty when called on. The axe is clearly the weapon most associated with the Viking age.
The adze, companion and cousin to the axe, with it's blade perpendicular to the handle, was the major tool for shaping and smoothing boards or removing large quantities of stock. This particular tool also has a hammer head. Oddly enough, though the carpenters plane was known as far back as the time of the Pharaohs and Roman age planes were found in Denmark, almost no planes or apparent blades found in the context of the Scandinavian culture until periods after. The one exception was a tool shaped like a broad spokeshave. To most historians the adze is seen as the primary smoothing tool for Vikings. Various studies of remaining tool marks on wood seems to support this. The absence of planes or their blades may be a quirk of the filter of time but modern carpenters wait for that certain clarifying find.
The insert drawing is of the Mastermyr toolbox adze.
Drills, mounted on a "T" handle, were prolific during the Viking age. Examples of the iron bits have been found throughout the range of Scandinavian culture. Later illustrations have shown the same tool in use, though there are no pictures from the Viking age.
To the right are examples from the Mastermyr tool box. The kit had a full array of bits from small to large.
A story I have heard, is only the journeyman or master carpenter could use the drill, as there were so many man hours expended in making one board they wouldn't risk having a hole drilled in the wrong location.
Chisels, common of all periods and prolific in finds, graces any tool kit. The top chisel is a close copy of the Mastermyr chisel pictured on the right. large and heavy, that one would be used for chopping out rough shapes.
The second chisel below is a "router", made for lifting out wood from between two parallel cuts or scribed lines, thus creating a "rabbet" or groove.
The third is a smaller version of the top, then the lowest, smaller is a carving "fishtail" chisel. The handle is an apple wood branch with a natural curve, which fits nicely into the hand.
Needed for the chisels, a wooden mallet is the "hammer" of choice against wooden handles. Even today, a favorite of wood carvers, the rounded striking surface of the tool makes aiming a small matter. Note the three little dots on the head's upper face, I just wasn't quick enough to stop an enthused ten year old boy from using it to strike a steel tool... also a bad idea.
On the right is the inspiration for this mallet, found on the Oseberg ship burial from around 700AD. In the archeological record, this mallet is listed as being intended as a textile tool, for beating flax. Mallets had many uses.
Of the few saws found from the Viking age, none were found that could have been used for sawing large slabs of wood or to be used as cross-cut saws. This might have something to do with the fact that the Viking age smiths did not have the technology to make large sheets of iron. The effort and skill of the smith/saw-wrights to have made such a thin and flat blade, made the tool rare and valuable. Boards were hand split off the log rather than sawn. This saw's blade is 14" in length.
Above the saw, is the "saw safe" a simple case to keep to teeth from damage. Something as valuable and difficult to sharpen was kept from casual use and well protected.
This small saw is designed to cut the teeth in bone combs. I did not have a documented original but what I did want was a saw that was designed for small work, a narrow blade and what is most important, the teeth of the saw are NOT set. Saws, going back to the time of the pyramids, have been made to have each tooth "set" so each tooth points, left, right,left, right, etc. But examination of extant find of combs, the bottom of the saw curf is V shaped. If the saw teeth had set, the bottom of the cut would have a W shape.
The blade length of my comb-tooth saw is 3 1/2" long. The handle is from a local ash branch.
This hand vise was needed for delicate hand work. Used for working anything from bone, wood or metal, crafter of all trades kept versions of this vise in their collection. One iron pin, peened over a square washer holds the two jaws at the fulcrum point, while a wedge tightens the jaws onto any sized work piece.
I have pictured the vise gripping a shaped piece of bone which will eventually become a new comb, to illustrate the vise's usefulness.
On the right are two museum pieces and the B&W photo is of a hand vise recovered from an excavation in the Viking ship building community of Hedeby, Denmark. (Now part of northern Germany.) You might notice, the photographer has his tool reversed and the working end is shown sans comb. The first, smaller photo, has the wedge placed in the correct position. Remember, this tool is still found in even the most skilled of crafter's and jewelers tool kits today. The tool's total length is 7" long.
The first clamp to the left is intended to assist in boat building, clamping the wide boards where they overlap. This clamp has a reach, twelve inches deep. The jaws are made of ash branches, utilizing the natural curve. A wedge or two would be driven into the far left end of the clamp, to tighten it on the intended spot needing clamping. For building a boat, the carpenter would employ many of these, similar in size or bigger, as the needs dictate. The tools total length is 22" long.
On your right is an insitu discovery of the woodworkers clamp, found while excavating in an ancient boat harbor.
This second clamp is smaller but based on the same principle. Made of curved branches takes advantage of the natural strengths. This smaller clamp can be adjusted for a bigger variety of uses, though the reach of the jaws is about seven inches deep. The tool is made of maple and its total length is 14" long.
Though these knives do not have a specific museum artifact original as their inspiration, close in tools are always needed by a crafter. The first knife works well for cutting leather or sheet goods, while the second two are simple cutting and carving knives.
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Lincoln University collaborates with Chinese scientists to reduce nitrate leaching
6 May 2008
China is tapping into research being carried out at Lincoln University to reduce nitrate leaching from agricultural land into waterways.
Professor Hong Di, a soil and environmental scientist at Lincoln University, who visited China as part of Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker’s delegation to Christchurch’s sister cities of Wuhan and Gansu has been collaborating on the research with scientists at Wuhan’s Hauzhong Agricultural University since 1999. In addition to his full-time role at Lincoln University, Professor Di was made an Honorary Professor at Hauzhong last month when the Wuhan University’s vice president visited Lincoln University.
Professor Di said that the level of cooperation between Lincoln and Hauzhong strengthened even further two years ago when Lincoln’s Dr Chris Kirk was part of the Mayor’s delegation for the signing of the Christchurch-Wuhan Friendship City relationship.
“In common with the situation that we face in New Zealand, China is facing increasing pollution from nitrate leaching from farmland. The research that we have been doing at Lincoln University on this subject is very relevant to the Chinese situation,” he said.
Professor Di said he and fellow scientist Professor Keith Cameron had developed a nitrification inhibitor technology, Eco-N, which reduced the conversion of ammonia to nitrate in the soil to decrease nitrate leaching from animal urine patches. It also reduced greenhouse gas nitrous oxide emissions and increased pasture production.
“The inhibitor is a bio-degradable chemical that does not leave long term residues in the soil. In New Zealand it is applied twice a year, in late autumn and early spring,” Professor Di said.
The Government (FRST) funded the research and Ravensdown Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd entered a joint venture with Lincoln University to develop and commercialise the new technology. It was released onto the New Zealand market in 2004. Its use on New Zealand dairy farms has increased rapidly since then.
“At present the product is not available in China. However there is a lot of interest in this product in China and there is potential for its use there,” he said.
While in China Professor Di attended the Science to Market conference in Beijing with Mr Parker where the Minister of Research, Science and Technology Peter Hodgson referred to the joint research programme involving Lincoln University and the Chinese collaborators as an outstanding example of existing collaboration between scientists in China and New Zealand.
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The Tallahassee Automobile Museum features a large collection of historic outboard and trolling motors. The collection spans decades of boat motor engineering innovation and American manufacturing development.
The Amphion is the rarest of the 270+ antique outboard motors in the museum. It is believed that the number of these 3-4 hp motors still existing is in the single digits. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin based company was in business between 1915-1919. This represents one of the earliest in-line, alternate-firing two cylinder outboards.
The Sweet is also rare as the Detroit, Michigan Company was only in business for 2 years, 1914-1916. The outboard motor looks very similar to a Waterman Porto of the same era. This similarity suggests some connection between the two “Motor City” companies. The Sweet is a 4 hp, single/forward-pointing/
Above is a 1960 Mercury Quincy-Looper Class C Racing outboard motor. This alcohol burning modified motor came in four sizes; the 30 cubic inch, shown here, was the second largest version. This Quincy, Illinois Company only made these motors in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s. | <urn:uuid:ba747460-975a-497d-8507-0923d7b38a21> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tacm.com/museum-collections/boats-motors.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00042-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936413 | 246 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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When caring for a patient with a laceration we often do lcoal infiltration prior to suturing but remember the benefits of regional nerve blocks
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Q: How do I set a different Media Player for playing back videos on a Windows computer ?
Answer: If you right-click on top of a Video in Windows, you can tell your computer which Media Player you would like to use as your main video player.
Most Windows based computers are set to use Windows Media Player by default, for playing compatible video files. If you have installed a different Media Player on your computer for playing videos and it is not working, please follow the instructions below to set your new media player preference.
You have two options.
If you select a program in the zone I have marked with the pink dotted arrow, this will tell Windows to play your video only once with the chosen media player. Next time you play another video, it will default back to Windows Media Player.
If you want to make the change permanent, ignore the list of programs and select Choose default program instead. Then move to Step 3.
*Please note that the list of available media players will be different on everyone's computer. The more programs you have installed, the more you will have to choose from.
To set a new Default Media Player, choose one from the list of Recommended Programs.
If you can't find your media player in the top list, you may have to search a little deeper in the Other Programs list.
Once you have made a selection press OK.
You have now set a new default Media Player. If it any time you wish to change this, just repeat the process.
Recommended Media Players
This is a bought program. It comes with many extra features and will play all the latest video formats. This is an excellent choice if you need a player that can play DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. I have this installed on my own computer and use it mainly for playing DVDs and Blu-rays. It produces thumbnail pictures well. There are a few different versions you can buy.
There are different versions of this program you can download. There is a free basic version you can start with. I have been using this media player for many years and still like using it. It does a good job with creating thumbnail pictures to represent videos.
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Monetary Policy Regimes: a fragile consensus
The last fifteen years have seen the emergence of widespread consensus that optimum monetary policy is designed on the basis of three pillars: a short-term official rate of interest as the sole policy instrument and the placing of that instrument in the hands of a central bank which is (a) independent of government and (b) transparent in its decision-making. We take a critical look at each of these. In the first case, we focus attention on the failure of mainstream economics to recognise the choice of instrument and the implications of its adoption. In the case of independence we argue that he theoretical case for independence has been misunderstood and that it is not an essential requirement for successful policy. We also show that ‘independence’ is not best measured against a checklist of statutory characteristics. As regards ‘transparency’ our argument is slightly different, though we come to a similar conclusion. Unlike independence, ‘transparency’ does address a real problem for central banks. However, the evidence suggests that transparency is not the only, or even the best, solution. A variety of evidence tells us that agents can understand and anticipate the actions of the most secretive institutions.
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Reduce the Negative Effects of Bad Weather on Your Conservatory
You can enjoy the conservatory throughout the year regardless of the weather if you can regulate the room temperature. The conservatory is mainly made of glass roofing and windows; it can get either too hot or cold during bad weather. It can get unbearable to stay in there when it happens; the best way to reduce the negative effects of bad weather is to use long-term solutions. Short-term solutions will not be favourable for all weathers. These are some of the things you can do to prevent the negative side effects in your conservatory.
All Seasons Roof
Durable, insulated roofing solutions such as CosyPanels reduce bad weather effects in the conservatory. You will be able to enjoy the space regardless of whether it’s raining or sunny outside. The roofing is the main contributor to the room’s temperature change; it makes sense to have an insulated roof. That will regulate the temperatures and make the room habitable at all times; you will save the cost of adopting some temporary solutions in the hot or cold seasons. CosyPanels are made to fit your existing roof; you will not need to make any alterations to the room’s design. The roof insulation is a quick solution that lasts longer and will not require a lot of maintenance.
Electric Heating Is an Option
You probably have a heating system installed in your home; connecting the conservatory is something to consider. It will require a professional and might take a few days, but it will come in handy on the unbearably cold days. The room will be conducive to stay during winter because the electric heating system will help regulate the temperature. You can turn off the heating system during hot days and also when you are not using the space to conserve energy and avoid high electricity bills. A portable electric heater can also warm up the room; they are easy to use and affordable.
A highly ventilated conservatory will minimise bad weather’s negative effects, especially hot weather. The room will remain cool because of air circulation; you will not be affected by the hot weather when you stay for long hours in the conservatory. Ventilation will control impunities in the room; the air inside may be more condensed and polluted than the air outside. There are many ways to ventilate, including opening windows and doors. When you want to use the room during hot days, make sure the windows and doors are wide open, you will create a more comfortable environment you can enjoy. Trapped air causes overheating; to lower the temperatures, find a way to ventilate the conservatory.
Glass makes a big part of the conservatory, and as you know, glass is not the best insulator. The glass you install on the windows, doors and roof should be more than an afterthought. The glazing option you choose will not match a brick wall, but it will help minimise bad weather’s negative effects. If you are using ordinary glazing in your conservatory, it’s time for an upgrade. There is a double and even triple glazing option you can upgrade to; it might be costly to replace all the glass windows and doors at once; you can upgrade gradually.
Weather is not all that predictable; it might be hot today and cold tomorrow. These are some of the ways you can ensure you enjoy your conservatory regardless of the weather. Controlling the temperatures creates a perfect environment; make sure it’s a lasting solution that you can afford and use it. You will have an all-weather conservatory which will be a great addition to your home. | <urn:uuid:dffa97c0-3c47-4535-89c8-fa0d5f246b81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iliveup.com/blog/reduce-the-negative-effects-of-bad-weather-on-your-conservatory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.935188 | 757 | 2.703125 | 3 |
While there isn’t an official definition of a superfood, it’s generally accepted that superfoods offer maximum nutritional benefits for minimal calories.
What are the 7 Superfoods you should try?
Not many nowadays are aware of the health and medicinal benefits of natural ingredients like coconut oil, black pepper, ginger, aloe vera, coriander seeds among others, that have been promoted as healing ingredients for centuries.
In fact, the younger generation apparently seems ignorant about the fact that some of these easily available and accessible ingredients when added in our day-to-day lives, can help keep a host of diseases at bay.
So, in an attempt to highlight the health benefits of some of these components, we have made a list of seven such ingredients with the possible benefits that they can provide.
Take a look.
Beside treating chapped lips, Coconut oil, which is high in natural saturated fats, is believed to be a contributor in increasing healthy cholesterol (known as High-density lipoprotein or HDL) in the body.
By increasing the HDL, the saturated fat in coconut oil helps keep the health healthy and lowers the risk of heart disease.
Apparently, it also contributes to higher energy levels and a stronger metabolism.
Not only does Aloe Vera accelerate the process of healing wounds, its antibacterial, antiviral, and antiseptic properties, but also helps in treating skin problems.
The ingredient helps in preventing constipation through its latex and also helps in improving skin and averting wrinkles. It is also sometimes used as a remedy for diabetes, keeping in mind that it may help enhance insulting levels and contribute to improving blood sugar management.
It is believed that coriander seed extracts help in lower blood sugar levels.
Apparently, it contains antioxidants that help boost immunity and prevent cellular damage. It also has anti-inflammatory, anticancer and neuroprotective properties.
Since diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s are associated with inflammation, coriander seeds may help prevent these. It also helps manage anxiety and improve memory.
Contains antioxidants that may help boost your energy levels and improve skin health. According to a study, cumin helps in controlling the multiplication of cancer cells, thereby helping in prevent the disease.
Besides these, cumin has been suggested by practitioners as a treatment of diarrhoea. It also helps in controlling cholesterol in turn aiding in weight loss.
Betel leaves’ cooling properties provides instant relief from pain.
So, when you have alleviating pain caused due to cuts or bruises, all you have to do is make a paste with betel leaves and apply on the affected area.
It contains digestive enzymes which help in the quick break down of food and aids in digestion.
One can even chew betel leaf to get relief from pain internal pain.
Besides this, betel leaf is said to ease constipation. Rich in polyphenols especially chavicol, betel leaves have amazing antiseptic properties.
An ingredient that comes with a host of medicinal properties, ginger aids digestion, helps reduce nausea, and fight the flu and common cold.
Also known as the king of spices, black pepper has a lot of health benefits, first being it helps in weight loss without any side effects. It helps detoxify your body and it said to be good for digestion too.
Potassium in black pepper helps regulate heart rate and high blood pressure. It helps prevent constipation, aids in producing red blood cells and is rich in vitamin B.
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Why You Need to Research before Designing Your Landing Page?
If you are someone who's trying to make business online or if you want to capture more targeted leads, then your landing page web design has to convey your message well.
Before directly getting hooked up with why attractive designing of a landing page is important, let us understand what is landing page.
Read till the last and get deeper insights.
What is a Landing Page?
A landing page is one of the initial points of contact between your user and brand. Landing pages are generally the marketer's secret tool used for attracting an external audience.
In other words, this is the page where users "land" after interacting with an ad, marketing email, or promotion. Designing a compelling landing page is a proven system that has the convincing power to speak and appeal to your potential customers even in your absence.
Why do you need a landing page?
As per the survey of Hubspot, 48% of marketers design a new landing page every time they run a landing page. The reason for requiring a landing page for each business may differ, but in nutshell, it helps you to boost your conversion rates, which in turn shoots up your ROI.
Some of the main benefits of a landing page for any business are given below:
- Promote a positive first impression
- Take advantage of visuals
- Increase conversion rate
- Text landing page
- Video landing page
Now, you must be wondering how to do that? To get the answer to this read further.
Why do we need research for designing a landing page?
Every good and compelling landing page starts with market research. It helps you to gather vital information about your target market and customers which in turn helps you to create value and provide a desirable customer experience.
The intense market research also helps you to find how popular your topic is and what is in demand in your industry.
To perform research, here are the 3 steps that you can't afford to miss.
Step 1: Visit google trends to find trending topics and your targeted keyword.
Step 2: Study the trend for the past year helps you to find what works in the market.
Step 3: Understand the mindset of landing page visitors, which helps you to re-orient your entire business around your customer.
Step 4: Analyze to find which social media to focus on to monitor your customer on social media.
Step 5: Understanding keyword intent and how it relates to your targeted audience.
Landing pages are effective for building your business; however, the rule to design might differ from industry to industry.
It is a trial and error method and as always, we recommend you to do series of testing different landing page designs and call-to-action buttons to see which one works best for your market before finalizing landing pages.
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The writer of “Flaws in the Argument” (Spotlight Letter, April 24) seems to have some flaws in his own thinking. Does he really believe people would stop coming to McDonald’s if the price of a hamburger rose by 10 cents? Or that raising the minimum wage to $9.50 will result in its being worth only $7.50?
One doesn’t need to be a “liberal cohort” of the writer of an earlier letter who offered to pay a dime more for his burger to realize that $7.50 an hour yields at best only $15,600 a year — less FICA — for one working 40 hours a week without vacation. It’s tough living on that. The point has nothing to do with “the cohorts” feeling good about themselves. It’s about providing fair compensation for hard work. Even $9.50 an hour will really not make for easy living.
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There are three main types:
Urinary incontinence is more common in women who have had children. It is thought that tissue damage due to childbirth, in combination with age leads to the gradual onset of incontinence symptoms. Some women seem particularly prone to developing incontinence. There are surgical procedures that can correct your problem. Your doctor will discuss various options with you to help you decide what is likely to be the best solution.
Pelvic floor exercises, weight reduction and a decrease in caffeine, alcohol, and/or nicotine intake will all reduce the incidence of urinary incontinence. These conservative measures alone may be enough to treat symptoms. Pelvic floor exercises should be taught and supervised by a physiotherapist who specialises in pelvic floor defects. Ideally these should be initiated prior to having surgery to maximise your pelvic floor function and reduce the potential for recurrent incontinence.
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No hot chocolate or campfire is complete without one very important element: a super sweet marshmallow!
Step-By-Step Images and Instructions
Start by taking a black fineliner pen, and drawing a long, thin shape, almost like a bone, in the center of your page. This will be an arm!
Now, add two angled lines in the middle of your page, around an inch apart from one another.
Connect these at the top and bottom with a curved line…
And then add another arm to the left.
Now, add two small circles to the face. Add two smaller dots, and fill in the eyes, leaving these dots blank.
Draw a “crescent moon” shape between the eyes…
And then give your creature two short legs.
Now, add a series of other small marshmallow shapes above the head of the main marshmallow.
Fill in the arms and legs with the black pen…
And then use a red pen to add a series of small dashes on either side of the eyes.
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Download the free 4-week schedule template in Excel, fill in the data, and check the performance and compliance of project activities.
The 4-week timeline template in Excel is a very simple and friendly timeline that will help you schedule tasks in time for each of the members of your project team and verify their compliance, in a period of 4 weeks.
This Excel template is free and anyone can download and edit it easily, it can even be completed by each of the members of the project team.
If you are the Manager or Coordinator of the project you can check the status of each of the tasks assigned to each person, you can also modify the tasks, add new ones or delete those that are already completed or if they do not need to be in the planning.
Project management uses many templates that make it easier to track the project, such as timelines, histograms, charts, and budgets.
The 4-week schedule template in Excel can be used by anyone who knows MS Excel basic or intermediate, there is no need to enter new formulas or program formulas or Visual Basic. If you need to learn or review the operation of MS Excel, you can watch some very well explained videos from the Microsoft Office Support website.
How to make a 4-week schedule?
- Create a list of tasks you’ll be doing in the next 4 weeks
- Verify that that list is within your project’s deadlines (for example, if you have a master schedule)
- Write the activities in an Excel with 4 weeks of deadline, you can use a simple template.
- Stable a logical sequence of activities, analyzes if there is dependence from one activity to another
- Include those responsible for each task
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he began to forget the further he went
the way of men he tried hard to resent
and in his solitude, the longer he spent
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There is something that we must be conscious and careful of as the world moves deeper into the path of technology and innovation. That is, we must never confuse humanity with insanity.
We can imagine a world a hundred years in the future, where we have a new generation born on mars. Many people may own flying cars. There may be explorations being set forth past our solar system, into the great unknown. However, we must never forget what we are. We are humans, first.
We are explorers and crafters, yes. We are inquirers and questioners, always.
But, we are also lovers. We are helpers. We are believers and dreamers. We are passionate. We have fear, and anger. We have sadness too, and it’s okay to feel all of it. It natural to be vulnerable, and feel helpless for a moment. Because when you feel helpless, that’s when we need humanity most. We need the embrace of a friend. When we fall, we can grasp for the hand humanity extends. We must be there for each other.
Will we forget to look fondly at the earth as we soar past our atmosphere? Will love and mercy become a distorted in our minds, as a hurdle we must jump over for success? Will reacting naturally to emotionally stimulating experiences become some sort of psychological anomaly, and therefore looked upon as the real problem? Will the logical operations that run our machines overrun us, and cause us to forget who we truly are at our core? Will we lose our purpose on the way to the stars? If the answer is yes to any of these, that is the insanity that we must fear.
The farther we go, the more we learn, the better we build, we must not forget our home. And our home is this. It’s us. Humans on planet earth.
There will never be a star for us like the sun. And earth will forever be home with its peoples.
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Lisa M. Freeman, DVM, PhD, DACVN
Nutrition is an important adjunct to medical therapy in cardiac disease. In patients with cardiac disease, nutrition can not only make the patient feel better but also can help to modulate the underlying disease. One concept that is becoming increasingly important is to feed animals with cardiac disease according to the underlying disease and individual patient characteristics. Not all dogs or cats with congestive heart failure (CHF), for example, are the same or require the same diet. Some patients with CHF will be overweight and some will have lost weight, some will be hypokalemic while others will be hyperkalemic, and a small number will have specific nutrient deficiencies. Therefore, the same diet will not meet the requirements of all patients with cardiac disease.
Nutritional Issues of Concern in Cardiac Disease
Cardiac cachexia, a loss of lean body mass, is common in patients with CHF and has deleterious effects on strength, immune function, and survival. Anorexia, increased energy requirements, and metabolic alterations all contribute to the syndrome of cardiac cachexia. However, the inflammatory cytokines (eg, tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1) appear to be the primary mediators of cachexia. These cytokines directly cause anorexia, increase energy requirements, and loss of lean body mass. Therefore, a logical approach to treating patients would be to block these cytokines. One approach to reducing inflammatory cytokines is supplementation of fish oil, which is high in omega-3 fatty acids. Fish oil decreases cachexia and in some animals with CHF-induced anorexia, fish oil supplementation improves food intake.
For patients in International Small Animal Cardiac Health Council (ISACHC) Stage 1, the author recommends < 100 mg/100 kcal sodium. Owners should be specifically counseled to avoid diets, treats, and table foods high in sodium. For ISACHC Stage 2, the goal should be for < 80 mg/100 kcal in the pet food. In ISACHC Stage 3, further sodium restriction may be useful. Controlling sodium intake from other foods (e.g., treats, table food, foods used for medication administration) is important as these can be major sources of sodium.
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and spironolactone can increase potassium retention and some animals receiving these drugs can develop hyperkalemia. As some commercial cardiac diets contain increased potassium concentrations, these diets can contribute to hyperkalemia.
Nutritional Deficiencies/Nutritional Pharmacology
Nutritional deficiencies are now uncommon (unless an animal is eating a homemade or otherwise unbalanced diet. However, there may be a number of examples in animals (e.g., taurine) which still are important. There also are some nutritional deficiencies that can develop secondary to the cardiac disease and its treatment. Finally, supplementing certain nutrients may provide benefits above and beyond their nutritional effects (i.e., nutritional pharmacology). It is not always clear whether the benefits of a nutrient are the result of correcting a deficiency or pharmacologic effects.
Restriction of dietary protein intake used to be made for animals with CHF. However, there is no evidence that protein restriction is necessary for patients with CHF and, in fact, it probably is deleterious since these patients are predisposed to loss of lean body mass. Unfortunately, some clinicians recommend a renal diet for patients with heart disease because many renal diets are restricted in sodium. Unless severe renal dysfunction is present, high-quality protein should be fed to at least meet canine (5.1 g/100 kcal) or feline (6.5 g/100 kcal) maintenance requirements.
There has been a dramatic reduction in cases of feline dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) since the late 1980's when increased dietary supplementation of taurine of commercial foods was instituted. Most of the current cases of feline DCM are not taurine deficient but taurine deficiency should be suspected in all cases of feline DCM. Cats that have been fed a poor quality, homemade, vegetarian, or otherwise unbalanced diets are at risk for taurine deficiency. Taurine deficiency may be present in some dogs with DCM. Typical breeds (e.g., Dobermans, Boxers) are highly unlikely to be taurine deficient. I currently recommend measuring plasma and whole blood taurine concentrations in dogs with DCM that are of high risk (e.g., Cocker spaniel, Newfoundland, golden retriever, Newfoundland) or atypical (e.g., Corgi, Bassett hound) breeds. In addition, taurine concentrations should be measured in dogs with DCM that are eating lamb meal and rice-based diets, high-fiber diets, or diets that are highly protein restricted. Although the extent of benefits of supplementation is not yet clear, I recommend taurine supplementation until plasma and whole blood taurine concentrations are available. The optimal dose of taurine for correcting a deficiency has not been determined, but the dosage currently recommended is 250 to 1000 mg q 8–12 hrs.
The omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are normally in low concentrations in the cell membrane but levels can be increased by a food or supplement enriched in omega-3 fatty acids. There are a number of potential benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, including a reduction in inflammation, improvement in appetite, and suppression of arrhythmias. Fish oil supplements (fish oil concentrate capsules with vitamin E but no other ingredients at a concentration of 180 mg EPA + 120 mg DHA per 1 gm capsule) can be prescribed at a dose of 1 capsule/10 pounds body weight. Flax seed oil or cod liver oil should not be used.
Some cardiac medications are associated with magnesium depletion so animals with CHF can be at increased risk for hypomagnesemia. Hypomagnesemia can increase the risk of arrhythmias, decrease cardiac contractility, cause muscle weakness, contribute to renal potassium loss, and can potentiate the adverse effects of certain cardiac medications. Animals with low serum magnesium concentrations should be fed a diet higher in magnesium or may require magnesium supplementation.
General Dietary Issues for Animals with Cardiac Diseases
The process of choosing an optimal diet for a patient with cardiac disease involves evaluation of the patient, the diet, and the owner's feeding practices. Generally, there is not a single "best" diet for all animals with cardiac disease. What might be the best diet for one patient may be contraindicated in another. So, it is important to assess a number of factors to determine which diet or diets might best suit a particular patient.
In general, the nutrients of concern in cardiac patients are calories, sodium and chloride, protein, potassium, and magnesium. However, patients with cardiac disease vary tremendously in terms of their clinical signs, laboratory parameters, and food preferences and these will all affect diet selection. For example, cats with asymptomatic heart disease require less severe sodium restriction than those with CHF. Overweight dogs require a less calorically dense diet than would a dog with weight loss and/or muscle wasting. Laboratory results (e.g., hypo- vs hyperkalemia) and concurrent diseases also influence diet choice.
Based on these and other patient parameters, a diet or diets can be matched to the individual patient. For example, in an animal with cardiac disease without CHF (e.g., an asymptomatic cat with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), I recommend only mild sodium restriction and counsel the owner to avoid diets, treats, and table foods high in sodium. Most owners are unaware of the sodium content of pet and human foods and need very specific instructions for which foods are appropriate. When CHF first arises, additional sodium restriction is recommended.
Meeting the owner's expectations in terms of diet is important for animals with cardiac disease. Their pet's quality of life is of tremendous importance to owners so providing diets that are palatable and readily eaten is critical. Some animals receive treats and some (although not as many for cats as for dogs) receive their medications with "people food." Including this information in the overall diet plan is important to achieve success with nutritional modification. Also, cost preferences should be considered as veterinary therapeutic diets may be out of the price range for long term use by some owners; in this case, lower priced alternatives should be offered.
Optimal nutrition is an important part of the overall medical treatment for animals with cardiac disease.
Alterations in body composition are common and important issues in patients with heart failure and can negatively affect the outcome and quality of life.
Every patient with cardiac disease should have a thorough nutritional assessment to determine whether the overall diet is optimized. This includes the main pet food being provided, but also treats, table food, dietary supplements, and medication administration.
Careful monitoring and clear client communication are key to optimal outcomes in patients with cardiac disease.
1. Freeman LM, Rush JE. Nutritional management of cardiac disease. In: Ettinger SJ, ed. Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 7th ed. St Louis: Elsevier; 2010: 579–583.
2. Freeman LM, Rush JE. Nutritional management of cardiovascular diseases. In: Fascetti AJ, Delaney S, eds. Applied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition. West Sussex: Blackwell; 2012:301–313.
3. Freeman LM. Beneficial effects of omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease. J Small Anim Pract. 2010;51:462–470.
4. Freeman LM. Cachexia and sarcopenia: Emerging syndromes of importance in dogs and cats. J Vet Intern Med. 2012;26:3–17.
5. Tufts HeartSmart website (information on heart disease for pet owners, including nutrition). www.tufts.edu/vet/heartsmart
6. WSAVA Nutritional Assessment Guidelines Taskforce: Freeman L, Becvarova I, Cave N, MacKay C, Nguyen P, Rama B, Takashima G, Tiffin R, Van Beukelen P, Yathiraj S. 2011 Nutritional Assessment Guidelines. J Small Anim Pract. 2011; 52: 385–396. | <urn:uuid:206da3ea-8aa0-4a53-992a-bbfa38967c40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vin.com/apputil/content/defaultadv1.aspx?pId=11372&catId=35311&id=5709919&ind=221&objTypeID=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.900312 | 2,170 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - IBC Company Incorporation
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an independent nation and became independent in 1979. It is a full member of the British Commonwealth, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the International Labour Organisation, CARICOM, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is approximately 1600 miles southeast of Miami and 100 miles from Barbados and is part of the Windward Islands.
The International Business Companies Act 1996 gave the Caribbean jurisdiction some excellent advantages, combining privacy with tax benefits.
Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Advantages of Saint Vincent and Grenadines:
- Shares can be issued in any currency.
- Shares may have any rights, privileges and limitations agreed in statutes.
- Any word can be used to imply limited liability - SA, Sàrl, Limited, GmbH etc.
- Statutes need not be filed.
- No disclosure of directors or shareholders to the registry.
- No corporate taxes, withholding taxes, capital gains taxes in St Vincent for 25 years.
- Exemption from Stamp Duty on property transactions or share transactions for 25 years.
- No inheritance duties on the bequeathing of shares.
- Can transfer domicile out of the jurisdiction or re domicile into St. Vincent.
- Incorporate within 3 days.
- Information filed with the Offshore Finance Authority is protected by Confidentiality Acts.
- Provision for meetings of Directors and shareholders can be held by telephone anywhere in the world.
- Limited Duration Companies are permitted.
Confidentiality in Saint Vincent
Points to highlight:
- No requirement to disclose the names of beneficial owners, directors or officers.
- Directors can be Corporate entities.
- Saint Vincent confidentiality laws.
There is strict confidentiality following the Preservation of Confidential Relationships International Finance Act 1996. This is one of the strongest confidentiality acts in the world and protects against disclosure of confidential information.
The Confidentiality Act states that the public policy of the State is to protect and preserve the confidentiality and to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of all confidential information with respect to business of a professional nature which arises in or is created or disseminated within or is transported into the jurisdiction of the State.
Any information about a person or entity unless specifically described in the Act. The law applies on a worldwide basis, as any consent given under the compulsion or direction of a foreign court shall not constitute consent for the purpose of compliance of the Act.
Disclosure of information is permissible abroad only where foreign criminal proceedings have been commenced against the named defendant in another state, the proceedings must be criminal in nature both in the country of origin and in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
To incorporate the following information is required:
- Name of Company. The name must end with Inc. Incorporated, Ltd, Limited, Corp, Corporation, SA or any other suffix that denotes limited liability.
- Names of the Directors of the company.
- If the company has more than one shareholder, a minimum of two directors is required.
- Names of the Officers of the company.
- Currency in which shares will be issued.
- Authorised capital.
- Par value of shares usually $1 per share.
- Number of shares to be issued.
- Names of shareholder(s) and number of shares to be issued.
St. Vincent International Business Companies
Company names must include a designation or abbreviation that signifies limited liability. Foreign denotations such as Aktiengesellschaft, Anonima, Societe Anonyme or the abbreviations such as A/S, SA, AG, GmbH, NV and BV are allowed. Incorporation under documents in foreign language is allowed provided translation is attached.
- There are no requirements for a local director or any domicile requirements. One director companies are allowed, and any director may be a corporate entity.
- Two types of Incorporation Certificates are available, namely with or without the director’s name displayed.
- The filed Articles of Incorporation is designed to contain a minimum of information including the company name, the Registered Agent, the currency of the capital and authorised capital, type of shares and any other provisions that may be required by the company. A certificate of compliance by the Registered Agent or Solicitor that the requirements of the act have been complied with must accompany these articles. This is the only information on the Public Record. All other matters, such as the operational aspects and rights of the shareholders, directors, and meetings are reserved for the bylaws, which are not public but remain a company internal document.
- The IBC Act explicitly foresees wide objects. No list of shareholders has to be submitted. Beneficial owners of shares are not made public.
- Simply amending the Articles of Incorporation may now effect amendments to a company name.
- Company books, share registers, etc., may be kept in or outside of St. Vincent. There are no limitations on where or how meetings may be held, and there are no mandatory annual returns.
- An IBC may issue powers of attorney and management mandates in writing to any person.
- The IBC Act freely allows mergers and consolidations, mergers with a subsidiary, merger or consolidation with foreign companies etc.
- The IBC Act also has provisions for limited duration companies to pass through companies known as limited liability companies in the USA and resembling the German GmbH and Latin American-style Limitada with a single member provide for and the governance of these entities under private operating agreements as opposed to bylaws.
- Registration, name clearance, payment of annual fees, good standing certificates can now be processed through a confidential and secure electronic system.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Finance Sector
St. Vincent and the Grenadines was a colony of Britain that became independent in 1979. Its parliamentary system of democracy mirrors that of Westminster as does the evolution of the two party system in St. Vincent. The legal system is that of the common law, with a common Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the final appeal in the Downing Street Privy Council.
In 1996 the international finance legislation was overhauled and a package of financial laws was introduced. The laws provide the basis for the formation of the following entities:
- International Banks
- International Business Companies including LLC's and hybrid companies
- International Trusts
- Mutual Funds
- International Insurance Companies
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has a small, carefully vetted and properly regulated international private banking sector. At present there are only ten banks licensed to conduct international banking business. The regulatory body, the International Financial Services Authority, has concentrated its efforts on ensuring that only banks with a real presence, and sound business operations and policies, operate in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The government, in its attempt to ensure that the international banking sector is reputable, took the strategic decision in 2001 that the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank should have a significant role to play in the supervision of the international banks in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in conjunction with the IFSA. The International Banks Act was amended in 2002 to provide for the joint supervision of international banks with the ECCB. This development has greatly increased the capacity of the regulatory regime. The Central Bank has been regulating commercial banks in the Eastern Caribbean formany years, and it now brings its wealth of experience in banking supervision to the offshore sector.
The role and function of the ECCB includes:
- To issue currency notes and coins in the territories of participating governments.
- To supervise and regulate mainly domestic banks of the member states.
- All domestic commercial banks in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are regulated by the ECCB.
The Regulatory Authority - Structure and Function
The International Financial Services Authority was created by Parliament to institute a new system to manage, direct control and supervise the offshore financial services industry in this country.
Its role is clearly defined by the governing stature. The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Offshore Finance Authority Act, 1996. The business of The Authority is under the direction of a five-member board of directors.
The Authority is headed by the Executive Director who is also the Chief Executive Officer of that body. The day-to-day business of the administration and management of the International Financial Services Authority, together with the supervisory duties of the Authority, fall within this portfolio.
The statutory duties of the Executive Director are outlined in The Offshore Finance Authority Act, The Registered Agent and Trustee Licensing Act, the International Business Companies Act, the International Banks Act, the International Trusts Act, the Mutual Funds Act, and the International Insurance Act.
The International Financial Services Authority has been charged with these particular duties:
- To administer and oversee the process of licensing Registered Agents, Private Trustees, Financial Fiduciaries, and Registered Trustees and regulate the activities of Registered Agents and their services to ensure compliance.
- To administer and oversee the licensing, regulation and supervision of International Banks.
- To appoint, and to supervise the activities of, the Executive Director.
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Such a test could spare a subgroup of people who need the surgery a time-consuming and costly treatment for infection, while helping to ensure that people who need the procedure get it. The test is described in the March issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of joint replacement surgeries are performed in this country. And each year, thousands of them must be revised (the prosthetic joint must be removed and replaced) due to severe pain and swelling. These symptoms are often due to infection, says Rocky S. Tuan, Ph.D., chief of NIAMS' Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch.
The standard treatment for suspected infection is to remove the joint prosthesis and replace it with a spacer that has been impregnated with antibiotics. After about six weeks, patients must undergo another surgery to remove the spacer. Only then can the surgeon implant the new prosthesis.
The problem with this approach is that confirming the presence of infection-causing bacteria is an inexact science. Currently, doctors check for infection by culturing a sample of the joint fluid. A positive culture confirms live bacteria, making spacer surgery a certainty. A negative culture, however, does not necessarily mean there is no infection. In fact, Tuan says that estimates of the false negative rate for joint cultures in revision surgeries range from 27 percent to 50 percent. But because failure to treat an infected joint could lead to severe infection and limb amputation, spacer surgery is sometimes performed for safety's sake even when infection test results are inconclusive.
To get around the false-negative problem, Tuan and his colleagues developed a way to test for joint infections using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which detects the presence of bacterial DNA. However, this approach proved to have pitfalls, too. It picked up all bacteria — even dead or dying bacteria that cannot perpetuate infection — thereby giving false positives.
Tuan says this new problem led them to expand their PCR approach by testing for bacterial messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). "When bacteria are dying, their mRNA is one of the first things to go," he says. As a result, the researchers hypothesized that a good mRNA test would not only detect bacteria, but would likely tell them if any bacteria they detected were still viable. Unlike DNA, mRNA is not directly quantifiable by known techniques, so the mRNA test that Tuan's group developed employs a process called reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) to convert the mRNA into DNA for measurement.
Tuan's group tested the validity of their new method by introducing bacteria into infection-free joint fluid to simulate infection. To ensure that the bacteria were indeed present, they used the PCR test, which accurately showed the amount of bacterial DNA. The researchers then treated the joint fluid cultures with potent antibiotics designed to kill off the bacteria. As expected, the PCR-DNA test still showed that the fluid contained plenty of bacteria, but when the group analyzed the cultures with the RT-PCR test for mRNA, they found that the viable bacteria population was declining.
Now Tuan's team is recruiting 50 people who need joint revision for a clinical trial that will involve testing patients' joint fluid for bacteria and then following them for 6 months to a year after surgery. They hope that the results from this study will validate the protocol to identify or rule out infections before a person begins a surgical revision.
Tuan would like to be able to tell patients who need infection treatment, "There is a really bad infection and we know what to do."
"But we also want to tell the person without infection that it's O.K. to put in a revision joint. That saves the spacer, the additional surgery and its associated risk, and 6 weeks of being laid up," Tuan says.
The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. For more information about NIAMS, call the information clearinghouse at (301) 495-4484 or (877) 22-NIAMS (free call) or visit the NIAMS Web site at http://www.niams.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.Reference:
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3 Things to Know About Septic Tanks in Warmer Weather
Water consumption in the summer tends to be higher than in other seasons. Swimming pools need to be filled, water parks are open for business and plants need more water. Your kids are also out of school for summer vacation which means they are at home using the toilet and playing in the sprinklers. Is your septic tank ready for this increased use? Read on for some tips to help you, as a septic owner, survive the summer.
Spread Out Water Use
You don’t want to overload your septic system by using too much water at one time. Things like washing machines, dishwashers and baths use a lot of water. Try to spread these out, so you don’t stress your system in one 24-hour period. Try doing one load a day instead of 5 loads in one day. Also, be aware of the effects of summer showers. These have potential to flood your system, so if your forecast is calling for heavy rain, try to limit water use.
Know Where Your Septic System Is Located
Summer is a great time to be outdoors, and you may decide to install an above-ground pool, swing set or patio. Make sure you know where your septic system is located and keep these structures away from it. Anything heavy like vehicles, trees or storage sheds can damage an underground septic system.
Don’t Fret Over Brown Grass
We get a lot of calls from customers who see dead grass around their septic tank during warmer months, and they think there could be a problem. This is generally just caused by gases and is not an indication of septic failure.
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Detective Inspector Fiona Bail, below, is Head of Cyber and Innovation at the Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre (ECRC) which supports and strengthens SMEs, supply chain businesses and third sector organisations against cyber crime. Here, she guides us through what we need to know.
When an SME comes to you for advice, what are the first things you tell them? How aware are SMEs of the dangers of cyber criminals?
The very first thing is a reassurance that even if they don’t have any technical expertise there are some simple free steps that they can take to drastically increase their cyber resilience. We try to use real world examples to make the ethereal digital world mean something more. For example, businesses wouldn’t dream of leaving their physical premises unlocked, in fact they probably have secure door locks, window locks, CCTV and maybe a safe for important items. The ECRC aims to do the same with their digital premises, making sure that only those allowed can get access to the private side of the business. I think businesses have become more aware over the past couple of years about cyber crime, mainly due the reporting in the news of large organisation being victims, however I don’t think many understand why these attacks are successful. And, unless the why and how is explained, smaller businesses may struggle to see comparisons between these large companies and themselves, but at the heart of it all businesses are at risk.
If an SME says to you that they are too small for a cyber criminal to bother with, what do you tell them?
Every business with an online presence is at risk. Most cyber criminals target vulnerabilities rather than specific companies, so size is not a safety feature. In the same way that a burglar would prefer to steal from a house which isn’t overlooked, has been left unlocked and has no CCTV, cyber criminals will go for the easiest targets, and that is frequently smaller companies with limited or no technical controls. Smaller companies may actually be more attractive in some situations as they will be more likely to pay a ransom if their data gets encrypted due to them not having backups or the technical help to recover in a way that doesn’t shut down their business.
How have the threats of the cyber criminal changes in recent years?
Cyber crime has become a business, with organised crime groups having affiliate schemes, bug bounties and are able to buy services from other criminals to launch or escalate attacks. This means that phishing emails have become more sophisticated and harder to spot and that new hooks are created as soon as a news event occurs. It also makes law enforcement more complicated as attributing attacks to a particular group becomes harder. Criminals no longer need to have technical expertise; they just hire it.
Criminals using ransomware have also started to steal data before encrypting it. This is known as double extortion. If companies can recover from the encryption through backups, then the criminals will threaten to release the data they have stolen if they are not paid. Depending on what data they have managed to take, this is an effective threat and emphasises the need to prevent this from happening. Companies really need to think about whether they could survive, both financially and reputationally, if this did happen. But paying isn’t the answer. Cybereason found that that 80 per cent of companies that paid a ransom were hit a second time, with 40 per cent paying again, and 70 per cent of these paid a higher amount the second time round!
And as these criminals group continue to explore what is going to make them the most money, it is likely going to target IOT devices, some of which are inherently insecure. If companies use IOT, they need at assess the risk this poses to their business.
Has the increasing popularity of working from home led to an increase in cyber security threats? If so, how?
Yes, it has. Companies had to adapt very quickly during the pandemic so they could keep functioning, and consequently cyber security may not have been prioritised. Along with the fact that it is harder to monitor and secure devices outside of a set network, many businesses have allowed remote workers to use their personal devices without additional training or technical controls. This has increased the risk of unauthorised access via the personal devices as well as the introduction of malware onto systems through shared use of devices within families.
How can companies ensure their passwords are strong and safe?
Password should be unique and complex. Unique meaning that they are not reused across different systems and aren’t going be used by anyone else, such as Liverpool1 or Password123!, and complex meaning over 12 characters with a mixture of upper, lower, numbers and special characters. You can generate super strong passwords by following the National Cyber Security Centre’s guidance of using three random words and adding some numbers/symbols e.g. Horse4Spider8Millipede1000! The added challenge is remembering them all, as most people now have over 100 passwords. Passwords managers are great at this, so you remember one super strong password and your manager remembers the rest.
What kind of training do you provide for SMEs?
Our free membership includes a series of weekly emails built around the key considerations in cyber resilience. It is a great starting place for companies who aren’t sure what they need. We also signpost to free resources such as the online training available from the National Cyber Security Centre and the free staff awareness session that local police protect officers can deliver to small businesses. The ECRC also delivers bespoke affordable security awareness training through local university students who are trained and mentored by senior ethical hackers. The students get really good work experience for when they leave university and customers get a quality service at an affordable rate.
You are involved in something called Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. Can you tell us about that and how it works?
Cyber Essentials is a government-backed scheme to try and raise the standard of cyber resilience within small and medium businesses. It concentrates on five fundamental control areas, which, if implemented can fully or partially mitigate businesses from 99 per cent of common cyber-attacks. It is a great way to demonstrate to customers and supply chains that cyber resilience is being taken seriously. There is also cyber insurance which comes with the scheme which smaller business might find very reassuring if the worst does happen.
To sum up, what would be your top tips to build resilience against the cyber criminals?
Firstly, cyber isn’t as scary as you might think, a non-technical person can do a lot without any help to improve their resilience. Help is available for free, such as the ECRC’s membership, and is a great place to start building that resilience with support and guidance when required.
The one thing I would get everyone to do, would be to enable Two Factor/Multi-Factor Authentication wherever possible, especially on email accounts and social media. This could be the difference between a criminal logging on to a business network through stolen/leaked credentials and them not being able to access the system at all. There are some excellent “how to” videos online about setting up 2FA for almost every system imaginable and it will only take a few minutes to do. | <urn:uuid:e604e0c5-8f3a-4902-bd13-00db66ebd637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smeweb.com/2022/07/04/all-smes-no-matter-how-small-are-vulnerable-to-a-cyber-attack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.969226 | 1,486 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Published: 4:12 PM 7/31/2021
objects form a pattern like this...
New Hartford, New York - 07-25-21
I had second thoughts about releasing this video, but later decided the world needs to see it.
Maybe somebody can figure out what the sign means. This sighting was witnessed by 2 individuals.
Editor's Note: This appears to be quite interesting at first sight.
The problem is when taking a video of any distant object like the moon, objects between the earth and the distant object are very hard to determine what their distance from the earth is.
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