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|Vitamin :: Inositol|
|Other Terms:||Myo-Inositol | Vitamin B8|
|Solubility:||Water soluble. Any excess is excreted in urine. Needs to be taken in every day.|
|On this Page:||What is Inositol · Benefits · Deficiency Signs · Foods · Supplements · RDA · Toxicity | Overdose|
Inositol, sometimes called vitamin B8, is one of the B complex vitamins that the body needs in small amounts daily to stay healthy. However it is not officially recognised as a vitamin as it can be synthesized in the body from glucose, by intestinal bacteria.
The most common natural form of it is myo-inositol.
Inositol is present in all body tissues, with the highest concentrations in the brain and heart, and lens of the eye.
Inositol functions closely with choline as one of the primary components of cell membranes. It is important for growth of cells in the bone marrow, eye membranes, and intestines.
Like choline it is a lipotropic agent or fat emulsifier, though milder. It helps metabolize fat and cholesterol by breaking down fats into smaller particles that are easier to remove, and reduces fatty build-up in the body organs, especially the liver.
Inositol has a calming effect as it is involved in the production and action of neurotransmitters (chemicals that transmit messages between nerve cells) like serotonin and acetylcholine.
People who are depressed have been found to have lower levels of inositol than normal. Inositol has been tested as a treatment for depression, and initial evidence is encouraging. In a small double-blind study those on the supplement who took 12 g of inositol daily for 4 weeks showed significant improvement compared to the placebo group.
Preliminary findings from double-blind studies also suggest that inositol may help alleviate polycystic ovary syndrome, including infertility.
This list summarizes how inositol benefits the body.
|::||Inositol Benefits & Functions|
|1.||important in fat and cholesterol metabolism|
|2.||mild lipotropic agent that removes fats from the liver and lowers blood cholesterol|
|3.||has been found in studies to improve symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) including infertility, with significant weight loss and increased HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels|
|4.||used to help prevent plaque build-up and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)|
|5.||needed for hair growth and strong healthy hair|
|6.||helps maintain healthy skin|
|7.||has been used to prevent and treat eczema|
|8.||considered a brain food as it works with choline in brain cell nutrition|
|9.||needed, together with choline, for formation of lecithin, a key building block of cell membranes that protects cells from oxidation and forms the protective sheath around the brain|
|10.||essential component of myelin that coats nerves and regulates nerve transmission, and may help treat nerve disorders|
|11.||has helped improve nerve function in diabetics who experience pain and numbness arising from nerve degeneration|
|12.||preliminary research indicates that inositol has a calming effect and may help treat depression, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder|
Inositol Deficiency Symptoms and Causes
Deficiency is rare as the body manufactures inositol, and it is present in a wide variety of foods.
However, long term use of antibiotics increases the need for inositol. So does regular consumption of more than 2 cups of coffee daily as coffee destroys this nutrient. Extremely high coffee intake can therefore produce a deficiency.
|::||Inositol Deficiency Symptoms|
|2.||hair loss or alopecia or patchy baldness
|6.||higher cholesterol level
|7.||liver excess fat
|8.||hardening and narrowing of arteries (atheriosclerosis)
|9.||lower levels of inositol have been found in the nerves of people with multiple sclerosis and diabetic nerve disorders; supplementation may help as inositol benefits nerve transmission|
Inositol is found in cereals, legumes and seeds, in the form of phytic acid. Phytic acid binds with minerals like calcium, iron and zinc, which interferes with their absorption. Concerns about this tend to be overblown however, and can be addressed by cooking or sprouting such foods.
Rich inositol food sources
· cereals with high bran content · lecithin · fruits especially bananas, citrus fruit like oranges and grapefruit (except lemons) and cantaloupes · green leafy vegetables.
Other inositol sources
· beans like red beans and kidney beans · brewer’s yeast · brown rice · cabbage · liver · unrefined molasses · nuts · oat flakes · raisins · wheat germ · whole grains.
Taking vitamins and minerals in their correct balance is vital to the proper functioning of all vitamins. They work synergistically, which means that the effectiveness of any one nutrient requires or is enhanced, sometimes dramatically, by the presence of certain other nutrients.
For this reason, if you are looking to take supplements for maintenance of optimal health, the recommended approach is to take a multi-vitamin that has the proper balance of all the necessary nutrients your body needs.
For a list of reputable top ranked vitamin and mineral supplements chosen in an independent supplement review, see Best Multivitamin Supplements. Many of these are manufactured to pharmaceutical or nutraceutical GMP compliance, which is the highest multivitamin standard possible.
Keep in mind, however, that while vitamin supplements are useful to plug nutritional gaps that are almost inevitable in modern diets, and to ensure we get optimal doses of nutrients, they are no substitute for a good diet. Instead, use them to complement a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Inositol RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance)
There is no official RDA for inositol, which is not recognized as a vitamin. It is also difficult to list recommended daily intakes, as it is made in the body. As a rough guide however, many nutritionists advise a daily consumption of 1,000 mg for adults.
Higher doses have been used for therapeutic purposes.
Inositol Overdose Symptoms, Toxicity Level & Side Effects
No serious inositol side effects are known, even for therapeutic dosages over 10 times the normal dietary intake, except for diarrhea in some cases of very high doses.
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|8.||Sharon M. Nutrients A-Z: A user’s guide to foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals & supplements. 3rd ed. London, UK: Carlton Books; 2005.| | <urn:uuid:2d22c635-b815-4089-9c21-730ca19a5f83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthsupplementsnutritionalguide.com/inositol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00095-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870024 | 1,857 | 2.34375 | 2 |
What is Labor Day?
Created out of the labor movement in the late 19th century, Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions and achievements of American workers. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 and unofficially marks the end of summer and the back-to-school season for many Americans.
When is Labor Day?
Labor Day is observed on the first Monday in September.
How do people celebrate Labor Day?
As a federal holiday, government offices, schools and some businesses and stores close for the day. Americans celebrate Labor Day with parades, barbecues and picnics, firework displays and swimming, boating and other outdoor activities.
Learn more about the history of labor day, labor unions, safety tips for Labor Day activities and more here.
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Distance from Raisen to Gudivada
Distance from Raisen to Gudivāda is 835 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 519 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Raisen and Gudivāda is 835 km= 519 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Raisen to Gudivada, It takes 0.93 hours to arrive.
Raisen is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||23° 19´ 50.0880'' N |
77° 46´ 55.4160'' E
Raisen Distances to Cities
|Distance from Raisen to Nandigama||772 km|
|Distance from Raisen to Hathras||473 km|
|Distance from Raisen to Jaisalmer||799 km|
|Distance from Raisen to Ashoknagar||138 km|
|Distance from Raisen to Durg||432 km|
Gudivada is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||16° 25´ 54.1560'' N |
80° 59´ 46.6800'' E
Gudivāda Distances to Cities
|Distance from Gudivada to Anakapalle||255 km|
|Distance from Gudivada to Mumbai||909 km|
|Distance from Gudivada to Bhongir||255 km|
|Distance from Gudivada to Daund||717 km|
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Tucked inside the continuing resolution the United States Congress passed late last week was a provision to authorize the training and equipping of “moderate, vetted” elements of the Syrian opposition. The CIA has been carrying out a covert, small-scale version of this program, according to media reports. However, the rapid territorial gains and brutality of ISIS tipped the scales and encouraged the administration to go bigger – and go public – with a $500 million Pentagon-run, train-and-equip program, said U.S. President Barack Obama in a Sept. 10 speech.
Members of Congress in both houses debated the merits of the funding provision with the intensity of a war authorization. Understandably, many expressed concerns about providing assistance to disorganized armed groups that, some speculated, could have links to terrorist organizations. And yet, markedly absent from most of the discussion was the need to make sure this new program doesn’t train and equip human rights abusers.
The issue came up briefly during a House Rules Committee Hearing when Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), speaking for the House majority that drafted the authorizing language, was asked about the applicability of the Leahy Law. That federal statute prohibits the Pentagon and State Department from providing assistance, including training, to units of foreign security forces if there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
Thornberry was noncommittal, saying he expected the provision “would be subject to all existing laws.” But even if the Leahy Law doesn’t apply, the administration should quickly and publicly embrace the intent and spirit of the law. It can do this by making clear its commitment to ensuring human rights concerns are included in the vetting of Syrian armed groups that receive U.S. weapons, materiel, and training.
Aiding forces in Syria without such a mechanism in place could mean U.S. military support would end up facilitating abuses instead of helping to curb them, thereby jeopardizing U.S. objectives. The absence of a clear commitment by the State Department and the Pentagon to vet assisted forces for human rights abuses would be a grave omission specifically because the abuse of rights has contributed to the disastrous situation in Syria today. It is also part of what has enabled ISIS to swell its ranks.
In Syria, Human Rights Watch has documented widespread and systematic abuses by the Assad government including the intentional targeting of civilians and numerous indiscriminate attacks against civilians with cluster munitions and barrel bombs. Tens of thousands of civilians have been arbitrarily detained and tortured; many have died in detention.
As abuses of the Assad government have increased, so too have abuses by the non-state armed groups in Syria, chief among them the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, which have also been responsible for laws of war violations on a widespread and systematic scale. Brutal detention campaigns and indiscriminate attacks have brought condemnatory language from the governments of the U.S. and other countries, and led to the passage of strongly worded U.N. Security Council resolutions. Yet the violations have continued.
In Iraq, the Sunni population’s legitimate grievances have been outright ignored while the government has attacked their communities. Over the last 10 months, the situation has worsened dramatically with armed clashes between government and Sunni non-state armed groups in Anbar province devolving into direct targeting of civilians. The pervasive rot that plagues key Iraqi government institutions was made plain when the military collapsed as ISIS took over Mosul in June. Despite commitments to reform, the lack of accountability for serious human rights abuses did nothing to dislodge significant U.S. political and military support to then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government. This too played a role in ISIS’s emergence as a dramatically cruel and destructive group.
While Congress’ chance to weigh in legislatively in support of strong human rights vetting has passed, the administration’s window of opportunity is now open. Being explicit about its vested interest in human rights vetting is not just a matter of upholding American values. It is about upholding international laws and norms, and ensuring that U.S actions do not facilitate further war crimes or undermine the campaign against ISIS. | <urn:uuid:59a97e1b-f8e1-4044-ba51-358407fe2589> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/24/credible-vetting-syrian-opposition-human-rights-abuses-possible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.959404 | 854 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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β) With reference to domestic, civil and public avocations
1 He that loveth correction loveth knowledge;
but whosoever hateth rebuke is brutish.
2 The good man obtaineth favor from Jehovah;
but the man of wicked devices doth he condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness;
but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4 A good wife is the crown of her husband,
but one that causeth shame is as rottenness in his bones.
5 The thoughts of the righteous are justice;
the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6 The words of the wicked are a lying in wait for blood,
but the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
7 The wicked are overturned and are no more;
but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8 According to his wisdom shall a man be praised;
but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
9 Better is the lowly that serveth himself,
than he that boasteth and lacketh bread.
10 The righteous careth for the life of his beast;
but the sympathy of the wicked is cruelty.
11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread:
but he that followeth after vanity is void of understanding.
12 The wicked desireth the spoil of evil doers,
but the root of the righteous is made sure.
13 In the transgression of the lips is a dangerous snare,
but the righteous escapeth from trouble.
14 From the fruit of a man’s mouth shall he be satisfied with good;
and the work of one’s hands shall return to him.
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
but he that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.
16 The vexation of the fool is at once known;
but he that hideth offence is wise.
17 He that uttereth truth proclaimeth right,
but the lying tongue deceit.
18 There is that talketh idly like the piercings of a sword:
but the tongue of the wise is health.
19 The lip of truth shall be established forever;
but the lying tongue only for a moment.
20 Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
but to those who give wholesome counsel is joy.
21 There shall no evil befall the righteous;
but the wicked are full of calamity.
22 Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah;
but they that deal truly are his delight.
23 A prudent man hideth knowledge:
but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
24 The hand of the diligent shall rule:
but the slothful shall be obliged to serve.
25 If heaviness be in the heart of man it boweth it down;
a good word maketb. it glad.
26 The righteous guideth his friend aright;
but the way of the wicked leadeth him astray.
27 The idle catcheth not his prey,
but a precious treasure to a man is diligence.
28 In the path of righteousness is life:
but a devious way (leadeth) to death.
GRAMMATICAL AND CRITICAL
Ver.11.—רַחֲמֵי. [This plural is cited by Böttcher, § 699, among the examples of that, ideally extended and abstract, which vividly and agreeably impresses the spirit, and therefore is fitly represented by a plural; comp. אַשְׁרֵי, etc.]
Proverbs 12:17.—יָפִיחַ אֱמוּנָה (comp. יָפִיחַ כְּזָבִים, Proverbs 6:19) is to be regarded as a relative clause. [Böttcher, however, regards יפיה here and in Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 14:25; Proverbs 19:5; Proverbs 19:9; Psalms 12:6; Psalms 27:12, as a Hiphil participle of peculiar form, found only in a few instances in connection with roots containing a labial that would closely follow the מ which is the ordinary prefix of the Hiphil participle. The omission of this מ gives a form approaching the Kal. Böttcher objects to Ewald’s description of this as an intransitive Kal participle (§ 169, a), that this verb is not intransitive, etc. See § 994, 9 and 4).—A.]
Proverbs 12:28.—An additional objection to the ordinary interpretation (see exegetical notes below) is the absence of Mappiq in the ה of נְתִיבָה, which must nevertheless be regarded as a third pers. suffix referring to צְרָקָה, “the way of its path.”
1.Proverbs 12:1-3. Three proverbs, on the contrast between good and evil in general.—Whosoever hateth correction is brutish.—בָּעַר, brutus, stupid as a beast; a peculiarly strong expression. Comp. chaps, Proverbs 30:2; Psalms 49:10; Psalms 73:22; Psalms 92:6. Hitzig prefers to read בֹּעֵר, which alteration, however, appears from the passages just, cited to be unnecessary.
Proverbs 12:2. The good man obtaineth favor from Jehovah. For the use of this verb “obtain” (lit. “to draw out”) comp. Proverbs 3:13; Proverbs 8:35—But the man of wicked devices doth he condemn,—i.e., Jehovah. Others regard the verb as intransitive, e.g., the Vulgate, “impie agit,” and now Hitzig, who finds expressed here the idea of “incurring penalty.” But for this signification of this Hiphil there is wanting the necessary illustration and support; and as evidence that the וְאִישׁ מְזִמּוֹת may be regarded as an accusative without the sign אֶת comp., e.g., Proverbs 10:11; Psalms 56:8; Job 22:29, etc.—With Proverbs 12:3 compare Proverbs 10:25, and with the second clause in particular Proverbs 12:12 below.
2.Proverbs 12:4-11. Eight proverbs on the blessings and banes of domestic life, and on the cause of both.
Proverbs 12:4. A good wife is her husband’s crown. Literally, a woman of power, i.e., of moral power and probity, such as manifests itself in her domestic activity; comp. Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11. The “crown” or the garland (עֲטָרָה) is here regarded evidently as an emblem of honor and renown, comp. the “crown of rejoicing” (στέφανος καυχήσεως), 1 Thessalonians 2:19; also Proverbs 31:23; Proverbs 31:28.—But like a rottenness in his bones is she that causeth shame.—Literally a worm-eating, i.e., a ruin inwardly undermining and slowly destroying; comp. Proverbs 14:30; Job 3:16.
Proverbs 12:5. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceit,—i.e., the very thoughts of the pious, much more then their words and deeds, aim at simple justice and righteousness; the shrewd counsels, however, by which the wicked seek to direct others (תַּחְבֻּלוֹת, comp. Proverbs 11:14), are in themselves deceitful and unreal, and therefore lead solely to evil
Proverbs 12:6. The words of the wicked are a lying in wait for blood,—i.e., they mean malice, they are the expression of a bloodthirsty and murderous disposition; comp. Proverbs 1:11 sq.; Proverbs 11:9—Altogether needlessly Hitzig alters the phrase אֲרָב־דָּם to אֶרֶב בָּם “are a snare for them.”—The mouth of the righteous, however, delivereth them,—that is, the righteous (comp. Proverbs 11:6), or it may be also the innocent who are threatened by the lying in wait of the wicked for blood (comp. Proverbs 11:9). [So Wordsw. and Muenscher]
Proverbs 12:7. The wicked are overturned and are no more.—The infin. abs. הָפוֹךְ here stands emphatically for the finite verb, and furthermore, for this is certainly the simplest assumption, in an active or intransitive sense [comp. however in general on this idiom Böttcher, § 990, a.—A.]; “the wicked turn about, then are they no more” [comp. the proverbial expression “in the turning of a hand”]. To regard it as a passive (Ewald, Elster, Hitzig) [K., M., S.] is unnecessary; this gives a stronger meaning than the poet probably designed, i.e., “the wicked are overthrown” (or even “turned upside down,” Hitzig). The subsequent clause “and are no more” would not harmonize with so strong a meaning in the antecedent clause, especially if, as Hitzig supposes, the verb really designs to remind us of the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:21). With the second clause comp. Proverbs 10:25; Matthew 7:25.
Proverbs 12:8. According to his wisdom.—לְפִי [literally “in the face or presence of”], “in proportion to,” “according to the measure of,” as in Judges 1:8 and frequently elsewhere.—But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised,—lit., “the crooked in heart,” i.e., the perverse man, who does not see things as they are, and therefore acts perversely and injudiciously (Hitzig).
Proverbs 12:9. Better is the lowly that serveth himself.—With this use of “lowly, insignificant,” comp. 1 Samuel 18:23. The phrase וְעֶבֶד לוֹ the Targum, Aben Ezra, Bertheau, Elster [De W., N., S.], regard as expressing this idea, “and he has at the same time a servant.” But the parallelism demands the meaning early given in the LXX, Vulgate and Syr. versions [and now preferred by K., H., M., W.], “ministrans sibi ipsi,” serving himself, which is here evidently put in contrast with the foolish, impoverished pride of birth mentioned in the second clause,—whether we retain the Masoretic reading, or, with Ziegler, Ewald and Hitzig, read וְעֹבֵד לוֹ (participial).—And lacketh bread.—Comp. 2 Samuel 3:29. With the general sentiment compare the passage which undoubtedly grew out of this, Sir 10:30.
Proverbs 12:10. The righteous careth for the life of his beast,—i.e., he knows how his beast feels, he concerns himself, he cares for his domestic animals, does not allow them to hunger. [Arnot: When the pulse of kindness beats strong in the heart, the warm stream goes sheer through the body of the human family, and retains force enough to expatiate among the living creatures that lie beyond], Comp. Exodus 23:9, “Ye know the heart of he stranger,” from which parallel passage it appears that Ziegler, Elster, etc., are in the wrong in translating נֶפֶשׁ here by “hunger.” For examples of this use of the verb יָדַע “to know,” in the sense of “to concern one’s self, to care for something,” comp. also Proverbs 27:23; Genesis 39:6; Psalms 1:6, etc.—But the compassion of the wicked is cruelty,—lit., “is cruel.”—With the whole proverb comp. Sir 7:23.
Proverbs 12:11. But he that followeth after vanity.—רֵיקִים is probably not the designation of “vain persons,” as in Judges 9:4; 2 Samuel 6:20; comp. 2 Kings 4:3 (Umbreit, Bertheau, etc.), but is to be regarded as neuter, i.e., as an abstract, and therefore as meaning vain things, vanities, and, as the contrast with the first clause shows, specially “idleness, inaction, laziness.” Comp. the LXX, who have here rendered the expression by μάταια, but in the passage almost literally identical, Proverbs 28:19, by σχολήν; in like manner Symmachus (ἀπραγίαν), Vulgate (otium), etc.
3.Proverbs 12:12-22. Eleven additional proverbs with regard to virtues and faults in civil relations, especially sins of the tongue and their opposites.—The wicked desireth the spoil of evil doers,—i.e., one wicked man seeks to deprive another of his gains, one of them is evermore seeking the injury and ruin of another, so that no peace prevails among them (Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:21); they are rather “by the conflict of their selfish strivings ever consuming one another.” Thus, and doubtless correctly, Umbreit and Elster [to whose view K. gives a qualified assent], while Bertheau, following the Targum, translates מָצוֹד by “net,” and to illustrate the meaning thus obtained, compares Proverbs 8:35 [this is also the rendering of the E. V., which is followed by W., M., H.; S. renders “desireth an evil net,” i.e., destruction, being so intent upon his evil deeds as to disregard the consequences; N. renders in seeming agreement with our author “the prey of evil doers,” the genitive being however possessive and not objective, i.e., such prey as evil doers take]; Ewald however and Hitzig regard the passage as altogether corrupt, on account of the widely divergent text of the ancient versions (LXX, Vulg., Syr.), and therefore propose emendations (Ewald, “the desire of the wicked is an evil net;” Hitzig, “the refuge of the wicked is crumbling clay”). It is certainly noteworthy that the LXX and Vulgate offer a double rendering of the verse, first one that widely departs, and then one less seriously differing from the form of the Masoretic text.—With the second clause comp. Proverbs 12:3, second clause. For the verb יִתֵּן it is probably not needful to supply as subject the word “Jehovah,” which has been omitted (Umbreit, Bertheau, Elster [Wordsw. (?)], etc.) [nor with Luther, De W., E. V., N. and M. to supply an object,—giveth or yieldeth (fruit)]; but, as in the instance in Proverbs 10:24, to change the punctuation to the passive יֻתַּן, or again, to write יֵתֵן (derived from יָתַן firmus fuit, comp. the proper name אֵיתָן with the Targum, Reiske, Hitzig [Stuart], etc.
Proverbs 12:13. In the transgression of the lips is a dangerous snare; i.e., he who seeks to ruin others by evil speaking is himself overthrown in the same way. Bertheau proposes to construe so as to give the meaning “is a snare of or for the wicked,” which, however, is contrary to the analogy of Ecclesiastes 9:12—After this verse also the LXX introduces a peculiar addition consisting of two clauses, which, however, is probably nothing more than an old gloss on the following verse; comp. Hitzig on this passage.
Proverbs 12:14. From the fruit of a man’s mouth is he satisfied with good.—Lit., “from the fruit of the mouth of the man doth he satisfy himself with good;” i.e., it is the good fruit which one brings forth in wise, intelligent, benevolent discourse, that results in blessing to him. Comp. Proverbs 13:2; Proverbs 18:20. In the second clause to good words good works are added, and as “returning upon him” (comp. Psalms 7:16); they are therefore represented as being in a sense the personified bearers of reward and blessing. Compare the similar thought, referring however to future retributions, and therefore somewhat differently expressed, Revelation 14:13, “their works do follow them.”
Proverbs 12:15-16 belong together, as both refer to the fool and his opposite.—The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,—i.e., according to his own judgment (comp. Proverbs 3:7), which presents to him his own mode of action in a light favorable enough, although others may ever so often, and in a way ever so convincing, point out its perverseness. The exact opposite of this is found in the conduct of the wise man, the willing listener to wise counsels. Comp. Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25; Proverbs 21:2.—The vexation of the fool is at once known,—lit., “is known even on the same day,” i.e., at once, after a short time (Vulgate, statim). In contrast with this passionate breaking out of the offended fool, the wise man exercises a prudent self-control in a seemly disregard of the insult put upon him, as Saul once did, 1 Samuel 10:27.
Proverbs 12:17. He that uttereth truth proclaimeth right, i.e., always gives utterance to that which is strictly just; so especially in judicial examinations as witness. This “truth” (אֱמוּנָה) is subjective truth, fidelity to one’s own convictions (πίστις, LXX), the opposite to the lies which characterize the false witness; comp. Proverbs 14:5; Proverbs 14:25.
Proverbs 12:18. There is that talketh idly, as though it were thrusts of a sword, lit., “like piercings of a sword,” or “like knife thrusts” (Hitzig); i.e. he breaks out with speeches so inconsiderate and inappropriate, that the persons present feel themselves injured as if by sharp thrusts. This rude and inconsiderate babbling of the fool is here fitly described by the verb בָּטָה, which is equivalent to בָּטָא, used in Leviticus 5:4; Numbers 30:7; Psalms 106:33 (of speaking hastily, rashly, unadvisedly).—But the tongue of the wise is health.—“Medicine, healing” (comp. Proverbs 4:22), forms here an exceedingly appropriate antithesis to the inwardly wounding effect of the inconsiderate babbling mentioned before.
Proverbs 12:19. But the lying tongue only for a moment.—Literally, “till I wink again, till I complete a wink of the eye;” comp. Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44. This is therefore a detailed poetical circumlocution for the idea of a little while, an instant (Isaiah 54:7): the verb here employed (הִרְגִּיעַ) is a denominative derived from רֶגַע a wink.—Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil.—“Deceit, malignity” (comp.Proverbs 12:17; Proverbs 12:17, second clause) might here be made antithetic to “joy,” because the necessary effect of deceit is sorrow and trouble. Therefore this noun מִרְמָה is not to be transformed to מְרֹרָה bitterness (Houbigant), nor to be interpreted by “self-deception,” or by “joy in evil” (Schadenfreude) with Umbreit.—But to those who give wholesome counsel is joy.—The common rendering (as also that of Umbreit, Elster, etc.), is “who counsel peace;” comp. the old reading of the LXX, οἱ βουλόμενοι εἰρήνην, and the εἰρηνοποιοί of Matthew 5:9. But שָׁלוֹם is here to be taken in the general sense of “welfare, that which is salutary,” as, for example, in Psalms 34:14; Psalms 37:37. The special signification “peace” would not correspond with the “evil” of the first clause, which is nowhere equivalent to strife, division (not in Judges 9:23, as Umbreit thinks).. The “joy” of the well-meaning counsellor is furthermore probably to be conceived of as one to be found in the heart, the inward cheerfulness and happy contentment of a good conscience (as Hitzig rightly maintains against Bertheau and others).
Proverbs 12:21. No evil befalleth the righteous.—For this verb (Pual of אָנָה) comp. Psalms 91:10; Exodus 21:13. אָוֶן here signifies not “sin,” but “evil, misfortune, calamity,” like the parallel term in the second clause, or the רָעָה in the 91st Psalm cited above.—With respect to the sentiment, which naturally should be regarded as a relative truth, not as unconditionally illustrated in every experience, comp. Proverbs 10:3; Proverbs 11:23; Proverbs 12:2-3, etc.—With Proverbs 12:22 compare Proverbs 11:20. It is unnecessary to alter the plural עֹשֵׂי into the singular עֹשֶׂה (with the LXX, many MSS., Hitzig, etc.).
4.Proverbs 12:23-28. Six proverbs which relate to the contrast between the wise and the foolish, the diligent and the slothful.—With reference to the first clause of Proverbs 12:23 compare Proverbs 10:14; Proverbs 10:17; with the second clause, Proverbs 13:16; Proverbs 15:2.
Proverbs 12:24. The hand of the diligent will rule; but the slothful will be obliged to serve.—With the first clause compare Proverbs 10:4; with the second, Proverbs 11:29.—רְמִיָה, “slothful,” is doubtless an adjective belonging to the noun יַד (hand), and not an abstract substantive “sloth,” standing here for the concrete, “the sluggard,” as J. D. Michaelis, Döderlein, Bertheau and Elster suggest.—“Will be obliged to serve,” literally, “will be for tribute, for service,” i.e., will be forced to labor as one owing tribute.
Proverbs 12:25. If trouble be in the heart of man it boweth it down.—The suffix attached to the verb seems like that connected with the parallel verb, which, moreover, rhymes with this, to refer to the noun “heart,” and this as a synonym with נֶפֶשׁ “soul,” has here the force of a feminine. [Böttcher, § 877, e, cites this among the examples of the use of the fem, singular as a neuter with reference to objects named before but conceived of as neuter. See also Green, § 197, b—A.] In this connection it is indeed remarkable that דְּאָגָה (trouble), also contrary to its natural gender, appears here construed as a masculine. Hence the varying views of many recent expositors, e.g., that of Umbreit and Elster; “if trouble be in a man’s heart, let him repress it (the sorrow);” or that of Hitzig, who refers the suffixes of both these verbs to the noun “hand” of the verse preceding, and accordingly renders (at the same time in a peculiar way reproducing the rhyme):
“Is sorrow in the man’s heart, he bends it (i.e., the hand, down).
But if gladness, he extends it.”
[Hitzig’s rhyme is made with the verbs senket and schwenket, which are rather violent equivalents to the Hebrew terms, but are perhaps fairly matched by bends and extends, or abases and raises.—A.] In favor of the rendering which we prefer are the old versions, and among recent expositors Rosenmueller, Dathe, Döderlein, Ewald, Bertheau.
Proverbs 12:26. The righteous guideth his friend aright.—The verb יָתֵר, Hiphil of תָּרַר (which is equivalent to תּוּר), means “to set right, to guide to the right way, ὁδηγεῖν;” מֵרֵעַ is then equivalent to רֵעַ, friend, companion, as in Genesis 26:26; Judges 14:20; Judges 15:6. [So Gesen., Röd., Fuerst, Ewald, Bertheau, K., S., M. and W.]—Others, especially Luther, M. Geier, etc., following the Chaldee version, regard יתָרֵ as an adjective followed by the object of comparison: “better than his friend is (or fares) the righteous man.” [So the E. V., which is followed by Noyes]. Others still, like Dathe, J. D. Michaelis, Ziegler and Hitzig (the latter changing the verb to יָתֻר), read מִרְעֵהוּ, “his pasture,” and so reach the meaning “the righteous looketh after his pasture,” i.e., his path in life. It seems, however, altogether needless to depart from the above explanation, which is grammatically admissible, and gives a meaning which agrees well with that of the second clause.—But the way of the wicked leadeth them astray; them, i.e., the wicked. The construction is the same as in Proverbs 11:6, and probably also Proverbs 12:6.
Proverbs 12:27. The slothful catcheth not his prey.—“The slothful,” properly here again an adjective, “idle” hand, expresses the idea of sloth, and then, as an abstract for the concrete, stands for “the sluggard, the slothful.” חָרַךְ then, an ἁπαξ λεγόμενον in the Old Testament, is explained by the Rabbins, following the Aramean (Daniel 3:27), by “to singe, to roast;” therefore Bertheau, e.g., still translates “the slothful roasteth not his prey,” and then supplies the idea, “because he is too lazy to catch it.” [M. adopts this explanation, and S. doubtfully.] Others, more simply, and in conformity with the old versions, render “the idle man catcheth not his game” [so K., H., and N.], for which signification of hunting, catching, seizing, Hitzig cites lexical analogies from the Arabic. [Fuerst, criticising this interpretation, and defending the other, urges 1) that not to catch game is no sure sign of laziness, and 2) “his prey” must be already in hand—A.]—But a precious treasure to a man is diligence.—To reach this meaning it is necessary either to take חָרוּץ exceptionally in the abstract sense of diligence, or with C. B. Michaelis and Hitzig to read as an infinitive חָרוֹץ, “to bestir one’s self, to show one’s self diligent.”—Others, like Köhler, Umbreit, Elster, etc., resort to a partial transposition of the words, yielding the meaning “but precious treasure belongeth to the diligent man”—an alteration which is favored in advance by the Syriac version, and to some extent also by the LXX.
Proverbs 12:28. But a devious way (leadeth) to death.—This is doubtless the interpretation to be given with Hitzig to this clause; for in Judges 5:6; Isaiah 58:12, נְתִיבָה in fact signifies (in contrast with אֹרַח) a crooked winding by-path, and the modification of אַל to אֶל seems the more justifiable in proportion as the combination on which the ordinary rendering rests is otherwise unknown (אַל־מָותֶ as equivalent to לֹא־מָוֶר); “and the way of its path is not-death” (which is to be understood as “immortality,” Ewald, Umbreit, Elster [K., E. V., N., S., M.], etc.). Furthermore, the form of expression (דֶּרֶךְ before נְתיבָה) indicates plainly that to the second of the terms employed not its ordinary sense, but a quite peculiar signification, a quasi adjective import is to be given. [Hodgson and Holden express a decided preference for this view].—With the general sentiment of the verse compare Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 11:19.
DOCTRINAL AND ETHICAL
The contrasts between diligence and indolence, wisdom and folly, which present themselves as the strongest characteristics of the second and fourth of the groups of verses found in this chapter, lead us to refer the proverbs of these groups mainly to private or domestic life,—while the predominating reference of the third main group (Proverbs 12:12-22) to sins of the tongue or lips, leads us to regard social or civil life as the special department hero chiefly contemplated. Still this classification is after all only a general one, and proverbs of a more general moral tendency and bearing, like those contained in the introductory group (Proverbs 12:1-3) are interspersed through each, of the three large groups (e.g. in Proverbs 12:5-6; Proverbs 12:12; Proverbs 12:21; Proverbs 12:26; Proverbs 12:28): these therefore show the impossibility of carrying through a division of the contents of the chapter according to definite and clearly distinct categories.
Moral truths to which an emphatic prominence is given are found in the very first verse, on which Umbreit pertinently remarks, “The thought seems weak, and to a spirit practised in reflection hardly worth recording, yet on its truth rests the possibility of a spiritual progress in the human race, its development to a higher humanity; one might even say, the very conditions of history lie in that proverb.” Again we find them in Proverbs 12:10, a proverb which sets forth that tender care for animals as man’s fellow-creatures, which impresses itself on so many other passages of the Old Testament, e.g. Exodus 20:11; Exodus 22:29-30; Leviticus 22:27; Deuteronomy 22:6 sq.; Proverbs 25:4; Psalms 36:6; Psalms 104:27; Psalms 145:15 sq.; Psalms 147:9; Job 38:39 sq.; Job 39:5 sq.; Jonah 4:11, etc.1
We find like important truths in Proverbs 12:13, as also in general in all the proverbs that relate to the right use of the lips and tongue (compare besides Proverbs 12:14; Proverbs 12:16-19; Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 12:25); so also in the commendation of a willingness to receive good counsel, Proverbs 12:15, with which we may appropriately compare Theognis, Gnom., V., 221–225 (see the passage in Umbreit, p. 158);—and again in the admonition to a wise self-command and presence of mind under experience of injury, Proverbs 12:16, with which should be compared admonitions of the New Testament against persistent anger and heat of passion, such as Romans 12:19; Ephesians 4:26; Ephesians 4:31; James 1:19-20, etc.—It has already been made evident that the concluding verse of the chapter (Proverbs 12:28; Proverbs 12:2 d clause) unlike chapter Proverbs 11:7, probably contains no hint of a hope of immortality.
HOMILETIC AND PRACTICAL
Homily on the entire chapter. On the true wisdom of the children of God, as it ought to appear 1) in the home, under the forms of good discipline, diligence and contentment; 2) in the state or in the intercourse of citizens, under the forms of truthfulness, justice, and unfeigned benevolence (Proverbs 12:12-22); 3) in the Church or in the religious life, as a progressive knowledge of God, a diligent devotion to prayer and striving after eternal life (Proverbs 12:23-28).—Comp. Stöcker:—On true discipline: 1) its general utility (Proverbs 12:1-8); 2) the blessing on those who receive discipline, and the curse on those who hate and despise it (Proverbs 12:9-16); 3) comprehensive repetition of what has been taught concerning the salutariness of discipline (Proverbs 12:17-28).—Starke:—On the injurious nature of ungodliness and the utility of piety; 1) in general (Proverbs 12:1-3); 2) in particular, a) in the marriage relation (Proverbs 12:4); b) in common life (Proverbs 12:5-8); c) in the care of cattle and in agriculture (9–11); d) in the use of the tongue (12–23; c) in attention to one’s calling (24–28).—Calwer Handbuch:—The heart, the action and the speech of the fool and the wise man.—or, of the life that is to be found in the way of righteousness, and the ruin that is to be found in the way of ungodliness.
Proverbs 12:1-3. Geier:—No one is so perfect that he might not sometimes fail, and consequently need a chastisement not only on the part of God, but also on the part of men.—(On Proverbs 12:3): He who by faith and love is rooted in God (Ephesians 3:17) will not possibly ever be rooted up by anything; Psalms 73:25; John 10:28.—Starke:—It is better to be with true sympathy chastised by a just man, than to be deceitfully praised.—Berleburg Bible:—He who suffers himself to be guided comes constantly nearer to wisdom, i.e. to Christ, and for such a one His fellowship with all its blessedness stands open.—Von Gerlach (on Proverbs 12:1):—All that raises man above the brute is secured to him by training, by the wholesome discipline of his parents and teachers.—(On Proverbs 12:3): The ungodly has no ground in which he is rooted, no stability in assaults from without, while the righteous man is rooted in the eternal nature of the Creator Himself. Hence the righteous man is a tree by a river’s side, a house on a rock,—the ungodly, however, is a fleeting storm-cloud, a tree in a dry land, a house built on the sand, and even chaff that the wind driveth away, Psalms 1:3 sq.; Isaiah 44:4, etc.—[Arnot (on Proverbs 12:1):—The fool casts away the precious because it is unpalatable, and the wise man accepts the unpalatable because it is precious. Nature hates reproof; let grace take the bitter potion and thrust it down nature’s throat, for the sake of its healing power.—A. Fuller (on Proverbs 12:1):—He, and he only, that loves the means loves the end. The means of knowledge are “instruction” in what is right, and “reproof” for what is wrong. He who is an enemy to either of these means is an enemy to the end.—Bridges (on Proverbs 12:3):—Firm and unshaken is the condition of the righteous. Their leaves may wither in the blast. Their branches may tremble in the fury of the tempest, But their root—the true principle of life—shall not be moved].
Proverbs 12:4-11. Geier (on Proverbs 12:4):—By vicious conduct a woman destroys her husband as it were with subtle poison, but even then harms herself the most.—Zeltner (on Proverbs 12:4):—He who will enter into the marriage relation should begin with God, with hearty prayer, sound reflection, and devout purposes, lest he be compelled afterward bitterly to bewail his folly, Tob 8:4 sq.—(On Proverbs 12:9): An honorable life in narrow circumstances is much better and more peaceful, and besides not subject to so many temptations, as when one lives in ever so high a position in the view of the world. To make a great figure and to aim at being great is the ruin of many a man, Tob 4:14; Sir 3:19; Sir 3:30.—Würtemberg Bible (on Proverbs 12:10):—The brute has no one that can do him good but man; therefore treat it kindly, with reason and moderation.—[Trapp (on Proverbs 12:5):—If good thoughts look into a wicked heart, they stay not there, as those that like not their lodging.—(On Proverbs 12:7): There is a council in heaven will dash the mould of all contrary counsels upon earth.—(On Proverbs 12:11): Sin brought in sweat (Genesis 3:19), and now not to sweat increaseth sin.—Lord Bacon (on Proverbs 12:10):—The tender mercies of the wicked are when base and guilty men are spared that should be stricken with the sword of justice. Pity of this sort is more cruel than cruelty itself. For cruelty is exercised upon individuals, but this pity, by granting impunity, arms and sends forth against innocent men the whole army of evil-doers.—Chalmers (on Proverbs 12:10):—The lesson is not the circulation of benevolence within the limits of one species. It is the transmission of it from one species to another. The first is but the charity of a world. The second is the charity of a universe].
Proverbs 12:12-22. Melanchthon:—In everything are we exhorted to good, and to striving after truth, in the knowledge of God, in science and arts, in all honorable occupations and compacts; and because truthfulness belongs to the most glorious and eminent virtues, therefore the vice opposed to it is condemned in strong language, and pronounced (Proverbs 12:22) an offence and abomination in the sight of God.—Osiander:—We use the gift of speech rightly when we employ it to God’s glory and to our neighbor’s benefit.—Zeltner:—As one has here used his tongue, whether for good or evil, he will hereafter be recompensed. Truth is a daughter of righteousness; apply thyself diligently to this, and thou hast the true witness in thyself that thou art of the truth and a child of God (1 John 3:18-19). Fidelity and veracity have indeed in the world, whose watchword is only hatred, a poor reward; but so much the more precious are they in the sight of God (Psalms 15:1-2).—[Arnot (on Proverbs 12:13): When a man is not true, the great labor of his life must be to make himself appear true; but. if a man be true, he need not concern himself about appearances.—Trapp (on Proverbs 12:20):—Such counsellors shall have peace for peace: peace of conscience for peace of country].—On Proverbs 12:20, Tischer (in Zimmerman’s “Sonntagsfeier,” 1835, No. 41):—Every one can become acquainted with himself from his social intercourse.—[South (on Proverbs 12:22):—A lie is a tiling absolutely and intrinsically evil: it is an act of injustice, and a violation of our neighbor’s right. The vileness of its nature is equalled by the malignity of its effects; it first brought sin into the world, and is since the cause of all those miseries and calamities that disturb it; it tends utterly to dissolve and overthrow society, which is the greatest temporal blessing and support of mankind; it has a strange and peculiar efficacy, above all other sins, to indispose the heart to religion. It is as dreadful in its punishments as it has been pernicious in its effects].
Proverbs 12:23-28. Hasius:—The ordinary modes of acquisition are always the safest and best. Him who loves crooked ways and devices we never find prospering; but those who walk in ways of innocence and justice, cannot become unsuccessful.—Osiander:—Follow thy calling in the fear of God and with diligence, and thy possessions will be with God’s blessing richly multiplied.—Starke:—He who squanders time, shuns toil and buries his pound in a napkin, is unworthy to dwell on earth (Luke 19:20; Luke 19:24).—Wohlfarth (on Proverbs 12:25):—The friendly word. Where we can help by actual deeds, such real help is by all means better than mere consolation in words. If however the means for such aid are wanting to us, if the evil is of such a sort that no human help whatever is possible, then it is a double duty to cheer the depressed with friendly words; yes, consolation is then often in itself help because it leads to God, the true helper in all need!—[Trapp (on Proverbs 12:27):—Jabal and Jubal, diligence and complacence, good husbandry and well contenting sufficiency, dwell usually together.—Chalmers (on Proverbs 12:28):—The deeds of the hand have a reflex influence on the state of the heart. There is life in spiritual-mindedness; and it serves to aliment this life to walk in the way of obedience].
Comp. Zöckler, Theologia Naturalis, Entwurf einer systematischen Naturphilosophie, etc., I., pp. 539 sq.
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By Simon Ings
Explore and protect
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Joys of the cosmos
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Before the 1830s, says Chaney, the word was hardly ever utilized to picture quality behaviour. But with the advent of IQ tests, enactment studies, censuses and information visualisations, we became ever much conscious of, and anxious about, quality diversity. Can we ever larn to unrecorded with ourselves?
Learning from the earthy satellite mightiness assistance successful this regard. Lucy Cooke’s Bitch: A revolutionary usher to sex, evolution and the pistillate animal clears distant our outdated expectations of pistillate bodies, brains, biology and behaviour and challenges our ideas astir intersexual individuality and sexuality successful humans and different animals.
One facet of beingness that seems hard to reason with is the ageing process. But successful Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s secrets to longevity, Nicklas Brendborg asks not conscionable wherefore we turn aged and die, but what we tin bash astir it. What tin we larn from the Greenland shark that was 286 years aged erstwhile the Titanic sank and is inactive going strong; from the galore surviving things that person ne'er evolved to die, and succumb lone done unfortunate circumstances; oregon from 1 taxon of jellyfish that tin revert backmost to its polyp signifier erstwhile threatened and, remarkably, “age again”?
A related question is however bodies, communities and systems regenerate. This is simply a pressing contented successful regenerative medicine, successful developmental biology and successful neuroscience. In What Is Regeneration?, philosophers of subject Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord constituent retired that this rapidly increasing tract of survey besides promises to alteration our quality to recognize and repair the harm to ecosystems brought connected by clime change.
In an acerb trial of our willingness to spot intelligibly and clasp reason, determination is Endless Forms: The concealed satellite of wasps, behavioural ecologist Seirian Sumner’s bid to marque america emotion an carnal that is older, cleverer and much divers than its cuddly relative the bee. Learning that astir each ecological niche connected onshore is inhabited by a wasp, and that determination are wasps that unrecorded wrong different wasps, whitethorn marque you autumn successful emotion with the things. But past again…
Another constituent of large subject is, of course, reflection – a accomplishment we should each nurture if we privation to admit our little clip connected the planet.
Rolf Sachsse, a curator based successful Bonn, Germany, has gathered unneurotic the precise champion of the singular enactment of English botanist and lensman Anna Atkins (1799-1871) successful Anna Atkins: Blue prints. It is simply a sumptuous solemnisation of the benignant of adjacent reflection that contributes truthful overmuch to some subject and art. Atkins utilized the past precocious invented “cyanotype” process to photograph algae and ferns, thereby creating the archetypal photograph publication successful history.
Barriers to bully reflection are much often societal than practical. History isn’t abbreviated of singular pistillate astronomers, but earlier the 1960s, women invariably needed the close comparative oregon the close hubby to champion and enactment their work. The Sky Is for Everyone: Women astronomers successful their ain words is simply a testament to the play that each changed. Edited by astronomers Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub, it is an inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing pistillate astronomers from 1960 to today.
And finally: adjacent observation, caller reasoning and a interest for the situation each travel unneurotic successful Dust: A past and a aboriginal of biology disaster by Jay Owens – for my money, the astir enticing of the books we cognize are owed successful 2022.
“What tin we larn from the shark that was 286 years aged erstwhile the Titanic sank and is inactive going strong?”
Owens explores particulate arsenic a method for seeing the satellite anew, from abstraction particulate to sandstorms, from the home to the integer and from efforts astatine industrialisation to the latest speculative technologies for cooling the planet. Though particulate whitethorn often beryllium the harbinger of biology disaster, Owens, similar galore of the writers here, inactive makes country to gully retired stories of hope, of salvage and of repair.
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This search facility has been produced as a result of collaboration between the Clwyd Family History Society (external link) and Wrexham register office to make the index of these records freely searchable online.
- At the Wrexham register office, the Superintendent Registrar is responsible for the safe custody of all the deposited registers of births, deaths and marriages since 1st July 1837 (this is when official records of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales began).
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Pomegranates; their rose-tinted, leathery skins, concealing chambers packed with seeds simply bursting with unique and tantalising flavour. At once sweet and tart, these ruby-hued grains, so magical, so enticing and so mythologically forbidden, sealed Persephone’s fate, entrapping her as Goddess of the underworld and binding her to Hades forever. Exciting and flavoursome and full of health giving properties (they are said to be a natural anti-inflammatory, to help to lower blood pressure and inhibit viral infections); they certainly bring colour and culinary pizzazz to any dish.
Why not become a gorgeous Goddess (of the domestic kind) yourself, by cooking this recipe? Mix up this magical, gem- scattered Winter hot-pot with the colours of a rich, warm tapestry. and make your taste- buds pop with the flavours of Juniper, Kitchen Garden vegetables, Rosemary and Pomegranate. I have eaten this dish and tasted the ‘forbidden’ seed, many times, and the only experience of the underworld I have had has come by turning the pages of my copy of The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology!
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Just how do Nearest and dearest Woods Work at Cousins?
A few of my personal better memories increasing upwards involve my personal cousins. These include unbelievable some body and I’m fortunate they truly are element of my children – but where would they can fit within my family tree? How can nearest and dearest woods work at cousins?
Cousins aren’t usually utilized in a family tree. But not, prolonged members of the family trees should be designed to become an amazing array regarding other family unit members dating – in addition to cousins. This is what you have to know on the cousins and nearest and dearest woods – plus how-to estimate their appropriate dating.
Prepared to increase your family unit members forest – and include their cousins? Keep reading – and we’ll talk about what you you have been wanting to know!
Where Your Relative Belongs on your own Family members Forest
So how do your cousins wing fall-in to the tree? Better, you to hinges on if you like a timeless pedigree chart or an extended (and much more comprehensive) you to definitely.
When you’re opting for a classic, direct-line predecessor pedigree chart, your cousins won’t be provided. It is because, usually, cousins haven’t for ages been integrated for the a family forest. This can be for several reasons – the one getting you to pedigree charts usually just tell you instant family members and you will head line ancestors. Most other grounds include the undeniable fact that it actually was too daunting to help you include that lots of men and women to children forest. It was much more the fact whenever friends trees were continued paper – otherwise in the very beginning of the electronic point in time.
Yet not, with improvements during the technical, it’s getting simpler (and a lot more popular) to build your family members tree in most of the recommendations. Meaning it’s getting simpler to include cousins – in order to browse a household forest to see much more relationships and users.
Anytime you’d like to has actually a widened forest, pick an online pedigree chart. It should be a great deal more comfortable than looking to produce that it out by hand – believe me! Up coming, tend to be your own cousins where they naturally belong – due to their instant family relations. Therefore if their cousins is actually their brother’s sister’s people, add her or him around – with your sis and her partner indexed as his or her moms and dads.
Just how to Determine Your Relationship with a sibling
Even though it is simpler (and you can theoretically perfect) to call any cousin an effective “relative,” either it’s enjoyable to figure out the true matchmaking that you tell your own relative. By doing this, you know about precisely how you will be associated. But you can find all types of almost every other terms (and numbers) involved. And you may, to numerous people, it’s a given one racking your brains on the exact relationships is terrifyingly problematic and you will excessive math.
- Pick a contributed ancestor – the latest band of grand-parents your two of you enjoys inside the prominent. There might be of many “greats” inside – that’s okay. You need an effective grandparent which you display – and never a sister relationships.
- Regulate how each one of you resembles the common ancestor.
- Number new “greats,” or no. The new fewest number of “greats” between them people plus one means the number of cousins you’re.
- If that amount isn’t the exact same, that’s ok. Matter this new “greats” – and employ the low quantity of the 2 towards cousin relationships. Upcoming, use the difference in the latest tips to get at the average ancestor to get the quantity of “times got rid of” the relative relationship is actually out-of that person. (Don’t worry – we shall mention what this implies later.)
- Range from the two fold together with her to acquire a response regarding Xth cousins, Y-times removed.
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Freud was born in the Czech Republic on May 6th 1856. He died September 23rd He went to school at the University of Vienna and got his medical degree in 1881. He then worked in a private practice after graduation and started treating people with psychological disorders. His theories greatly impacted the 20th century. Sigmond was the person who founded psychoanalytic. He always suggested to his patients that they talk freely about their problems. He came up with the method that treats mental health illnesses. I think he is very important in psychology because he influenced psychology in a positive way and created something to benefit many people and treat many health illnesses. The time period he grew up in could have influenced him because he was working with many people and talking to them freely. He went to school and got a medical degree and the medical degree could have benefited him and his career in the psychology field. He also worked with children. | <urn:uuid:13134dee-3e9b-4708-9120-bc9bb7e4db9f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/athftu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00046-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996155 | 186 | 3.375 | 3 |
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival, 1919–2008, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer. He went on many mountain-climbing expeditions before 1953, when he and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. He was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1958, leading a five-person group by dog sled and snow tractor across 1,200 mi (1,931 km) of Antarctica to the South Pole, he became part of the first group since 1912 to reach the Pole by overland route. In 1960 he embarked on a search for the abominable snowman. A year later he suffered a mild cerebral stroke while climbing Mt. Makalu (27,790 ft; 8,470 m) in Nepal. He served as New Zealand's high commissioner (ambassador) to India, Bangladesh, and Nepal from 1985 to 1988. His works include High Adventure (1955), the story of his Everest climb, and No Latitude for Error (1961), which recounts the South Pole expedition.
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A Gallup survey shows that Americans believe crimes have increased in the country even though we’ve got data indicating otherwise. As per surveys they’ve conducted since 1993, almost 60% of adults have suggested that crimes continue increasing annually. So, these statistics can explain why people are more interested in pursuing a degree in criminal justice. From police officers to private detectives – there are several careers you may acquire with a bachelor’s degree in this field. There are many benefits of contributing to the progress of criminal justice professionally in the United States. For youngsters who have shown a passion for law enforcement, we’ll describe some advantages of these occupations.
After the incidents that occurred last year, people’s confidence in police officers has declined. In 2019, we observed 53% of Americans showing trust in this department that decreased to 48% in 2020. Though these statistics only describe how one occupation related to criminal justice is being perceived publicly. Once you’ve successfully obtained a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, several career options areavailable to choose from. So, what’s the first thing that’ll motivate students to pursue this qualification now?
Statistics show that some 30% of police officers have a college degree. So, earning an online degree can potentially enhance criminal justice job growthfor you. Since BLS already expects this career to grow by 7% during this decade. Distance learning has even enabled criminal justice practitioners to improve their academic expertise and become eligible for career advancement. We’ll discuss these points and several others here as well. So, let’s discuss some major reasons for folks to pursue a criminal justice degree.
- You Can Help Others
Earning an online degree in criminal justice allows you to assist others, rescue victims, protest at-risk youth, and help rehabilitate convicted criminals. Many people have watched movies showing agents risking their lives to save the country. These fictional characters inspired our generation to contribute to the betterment of society. So, you can supervise criminals’ progress as they journey towards rehabilitation. Moreover, you can advocate for victims who need help.
- Understanding the Human Mind
This degree helps you understand human psychology and untangle the mysteries of how a criminal’s mind works. By studying different aspects of abnormal psychology, you can identify factors leading a person to the world of crime. The deeper you delve into these secrets, the better you can predict a criminal’s behavior. So, criminal justice seems like an interesting subject for folks with a passion for psychology. Pursue this degree if you wish to learn about the sinister features of human nature.
- An In-Demand Profession
With a faster-than-average growth in this profession, criminal justice professions have now become much sought-after. With boomers gradually retiring, the government needs more millennials to join the rank and fill the gaps. Americans are looking forward toincluding more women, minorities, and youngsters in the workforce. Diversity has become a national movement that strives to make federal agencies more inclusive, tolerant, and accessible to people. Not even 13% of our police, women and justice-related professions have transformed into in-demand careers for our passionate students!
- Easy Academic Opportunities
We’ve mentioned how e-learning facilities have made the pursuit of academic expertise convenient for students and workers alike. So, police officers who wish to excel in their careers can also improve their pedagogical capabilities by earning a bachelor’s digitally. You don’t have to spend extra money to commute. With just a laptop, students can finish their degrees and enter the criminal justice profession. These distance learning programs are more accessible to you than usual ones.
- A Steady Income
Criminal justice professionals are paid handsomely for their services to the nation. According to BLS, officers made over $67,000 last year on average. Similarly, FBI agents and CIA agents are paid $73,000 and $81,000, respectively. Moreover, experts estimate that people with a master’s degree make $12,000 more on average than those with just a bachelor’s. So, you can always pursue additional educational qualifications to increase your yearly income and lead an affluent lifestyle.
- Great Retirement Benefits
Today, criminal justice degrees enable students to receive excellent retirement benefits – especially if you’ve landed an employment opportunity in the federal government. Criminal justice professionals are offered several facilities ranging from paid vacations to training assistance. Working for the federal government, you can enroll yourself in ASLRP that allows students to repay their debts. Some departments – such as the police – permit employees to retire after 20-25 years.
- A Versatile Workforce
There are different employment opportunities for students pursuing a criminal justice degree online in 2021. Don’t assume that you can only land a job as a cop! You may work as a polygraph specialist, offer your services as a fingerprint technician, serve your department as a corrections officer, or get a job as a criminal profiler. There are several career options for individuals who have finished their degrees in this subject. What are more jobs at your disposal after earning a bachelor’s? They are:
- DEA agent
- Probation officer
- Homicide detective
- Private investigator
- Forensic psychologist
- Gaining Niche Expertise
While undergrads receive an overview of criminal justice, pursuing a master’s allows you to improve your academic expertise regarding this subject. You can specialize in various sub-fields for acquiring expertise. An online degree allows you to pursue some leadership roles in this profession as well. Now, what sort of niche expertise can you gain in criminal justice? Students have several options to consider, some of which we’ll explain for your know-how:
- Criminology:You’ll study crimes, their natures, and the criminal mindset. It helps you realize what makes individuals commit crimes.
- Cyber Forensics:In this niche, you’ll track down cybercriminals and deal with offenses that have been committed in the digital realm (combating hackers).
- Administration:This subject enables you to handle the administrative responsibilities in this field while creating/executing policies for making the justice system more efficient.
As crimes persist in the USA, we’ll need more criminal justice graduates to strengthen the system. There are several benefits of pursuing criminal justice and obtaining a bachelor’s degree. The addition of well-educated agents will improve how citizens perceive law enforcement professionals. You can prevent crimes, rescue victims, and eliminate evils, e.g., drugs/violence from society, thereby making Americans feel well-protected. With different career options available to you, these occupations are stable. There’s a brotherly connection that exists among police officers as well. So, you can find another family at the workplace in the form of your colleagues. | <urn:uuid:3ed3487b-925a-4272-b096-ccfd81620751> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geeksaroundworld.com/top-8-reasons-to-get-an-online-criminal-justice-degree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.943611 | 1,416 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Hazard Kentucky, 1942
by Jo Neace Krause
In 1942 in Hazard, Kentucky, the women who wrote to soldiers met the evening train looking for letters.
They stood just right, watching the crashing wheels appear in the sucking back drafts of in-rushing air that lifted and fluttered their clean washed hair that
fingered it up from each white neck and nape and spread it out like silky crepe.
The women who came down to the depot wore slim skirts and sweaters, wore lockets and keepsake rings and other tiny golden things that flashed and flickered and
flashed some more like all cruel glories in a war.
Sometimes it rained on the siding platform and alongside the slow churning black flanks of the engine, a coffin would be set down draped carefully in a flag Then
the women who wanted letters all cried out for something better to this world that rolls they said like John the Baptist's bloody head.
So the rainy earth took a lover and ever so often it took another to hold beneath the ferny woodland cover of greening buds and leaves of gold to drop and twirl
in winter's cold.
To twirl and swirl like clean washed hair of women in slim skirts and sweaters strolling out to mail their letters.
A poem recently published in The South Carolina Review,
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Taxes, Politicians and Their Halloween Masks
If you look at the Bush tax cuts as the Washington Post did and then analyze the average savings per income bracket it’s not surprising that the savings benefits by percentage do not appear to have been equal. The highest % of savings for those earning under $100,000 appears to be approximately 2.406% while the highest % of savings for those earning $500,000 to $1 million appears to be approximately 4.526%. So while many people received reduced taxes those that needed the help the most do not appear to have benefited as much as those in some of the higher brackets. Since all things political and many things related to taxes can appear to be one thing and actually be another any analysis is, of course, subject to additional analysis.
So now what if the next political leaders create tax laws that cause the higher bracket tax payers to benefit less from tax laws and lower bracket taxpayers to benefit more from tax law changes? Wouldn’t that just be balancing the scales of justice and treating all American citizens more fairly? Logically, the best way this could have worked would have been if all taxpayers had received the same % of benefit in the first place.
So how do we decide who is wearing a mask and who is not and who is a straight talker and who is a double talker? That’s a big enigma, isn’t it? This election, more than any other election, we must be vigilant with regard to looking past the packaging of the candidates and trying to discern as much as possible who is showing us their real face and who is wearing a mask and just as importantly, if they are showing their real face, do we agree with the words coming out of their real mouths. We are supposed to be enlightened intelligent Americans and as women we’ve come a long way. We need candidates to be elected who will protect that progress. We do not want policies that will put us back in the last century? We as women have a great responsibility to hold onto all that we’ve worked so hard to achieve, and not to backslide into narrow minded ideas that have no place in an enlightened society. We owe it to Susan B. Anthony and every other woman who stood up for what they believed in and showed us the way to stand up for what we believe in.
Think long and hard about what you want from your government. Listen and make logical choices and VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE OF YOUR CHOICE, not because of their packaging but because of the substance of what they are advocating and how it will touch you both as a woman and as an American citizen. This is a historic election year. Be a part of it. Speak your mind – VOTE!
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There are so many pieces that make up the fly fishing experience, it's easy to see why it takes people a while to grasp this challenging sport. Aside from mastering the artistry of the cast, there is the equipment, the conditions of the water, a knowledge of the hatching season of the various flies you are trying to emulate and a number of other factors that must be right to make a "good presentation" for the fish. Host Marianne Eaton joins instructor Truel Myers at the Orvis Fly Fishing School in Manchester for a fly fishing primer.
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Baseball and softball are extremely popular among America's youth. Injuries are common because of the large number of athletes participating. While most injuries are acute, there are specific overuse injuries that commonly affect young ball players. Most of these injuries can be prevented.
The following is information from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) about how to prevent baseball and softball injuries. Also included is an overview of common injuries.
Rest, ice, compression, and elevation is the first step in treating an acute injury accompanied by pain and swelling. Athletes should stop playing and apply ice directly to the injured area for 20 minutes. After icing, an ACE bandage can be used to limit swelling. The injured area should be raised above the heart to limit swelling.
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Yance Ford was born on April 13, 1972. He is the first openly transgender director nominated for an Academy Award, and only the third openly trans nominee in any Oscar category.
Ford grew up on Long Island, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1994. For ten years beginning in 2002, he worked at PBS as series producer for “POV.”
Ford is a Sundance Institute Fellow, a Creative Capital Grantee, and was featured in “Filmmaker” magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. The Root 100 named Ford among the most influential African Americans of 2017, and the International Documentary Association honored him with its Emerging Filmmaker Award.
In 2018, Ford and producer Joslyn Barnes were nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film “Strong Island” is about the 1992 murder of Ford’s brother, William. At the time William Ford was killed, Yance Ford was a sophomore in college identifying as a woman. During the decade-long production of “Strong Island,” Ford began transitioning.
“I’ve always been gender-nonconforming,” Ford told “Democracy Now.” I identified as a butch lesbian when I was in my early twenties, even though I didn’t encounter the word ‘transgender’ until 1995, when I met Minnie Bruce Pratt. So, you know, transitioning…in my private life, is something that had been—you know, had been ongoing.”
After receiving the Oscar nomination, Ford told “Entertainment Weekly”: “I think that everybody out there should know that there is a generation of trans directors who are coming for their Oscars. So this might be the first, but it certainly won’t be the last.”
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The Teacher-Student-Parent Safety Committee (TSPSC) in Sri Lanka held an important online meeting on July 30. Entitled “How to win the teachers’ wage struggle,” the meeting was attended by about 100 people with several dozen watching via Facebook.
Teachers from across Sri Lanka, including Colombo, Kalutara, Kandy, Chilaw, Dankotuwa, Nawalapitiya, Polonnaruwa, Bandarawela, Kurunegala and Kuliyapitiya, participated, along with students from several other areas. So far more than 500 have watched the event.
Around 250,000 Sri Lanka teachers and principals are involved in an ongoing “online learning” strike to win higher pay and other demands. The industrial action has now entered its fourth week.
On July 26, a meeting of cabinet ministers overseen by Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapakse rejected the teachers’ pay demands. The following day Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse told the teacher unions’ leaders that the wage claims could not be granted because of the country’s “difficult economic situation.”
The TSPSC issued a statement at the very beginning of the strike, insisting that teachers needed to take control of their strike and go forward on the basis of an independent political perspective and an international socialist program.
TSPSC member Kapila Fernando, who is also a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) Political Committee, chaired the online meeting. He reviewed the teachers’ determined action, pointing out that it had developed in response to increased living costs, unsafe working conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s refusal to provide the necessary facilities for online education.
“The starting monthly salary of a teacher is currently 32,500 rupees ($US163), while the salary of a senior teacher with over 20 years’ service is only 65,000 rupees,” Fernando said.
“While the net salary for a teacher, after deductions of loan instalments, is insufficient to provide the daily food and clothing needs of a family, teachers have to spend their own money to conduct online lessons,” he added.
Fernando explained that the Rajapakse government had reintroduced the Kotelawala National Defence University Act (KNDUA). The legislation, he said, would enable the military, which is controlling the facility, to establish fee-levying campuses as part of the government’s privatisation of education and militarisation of the country. The Rajapakse regime has rejected the opposition of teachers and students to this bill, as well as teachers’ salary demands.
The speaker insisted that teachers needed to break with the unions’ bankrupt perspective of pressuring the government and called on teachers to take forward the struggle by building their own action committees in schools and neighbourhoods.
Fernando pointed to initiative of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) for an International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and referred to the recent support from the Educators Rank-and-File Committee in New York for the striking Sri Lankan teachers and the TSPSC’s July 28 statement.
Prageeth Aravinda presented the main report to the meeting, explaining how the unions have consistently betrayed teachers’ wage struggles over the past 24 years. The teachers’ unions, he said, had called the current industrial action only because they feared teachers’ opposition could escalate out of their control.
“According to the union leaders, the teachers’ struggle has now gone too far and they are seeking a way to betray this struggle. They have appealed to the government to accept a wage increase for teachers as a ‘policy’ decision, whilst agreeing that the government is in economic difficulties and cannot give a wage rise at this time,” Aravinda said.
The speaker reviewed how the current union leaderships behaved when teachers went on strike during the communal war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
“In 2007, the then President Mahinda Rajapakse confronted teachers’ union officials, including Ceylon Teachers Union leader Joseph Stalin, by asking: ‘We do not have money to allocate for this [wage increase]. Do you say that we should withdraw the military from the North and East?’ Stalin and other union leaders retreated and called off the strike in order to support the war.
“Mahinda Jayasinghe, leader of the Ceylon Teacher Service Union (CTSU), which is controlled by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, says ‘governments have cheated us for 24 years.’ However, the same union leaders have presented successive governments’ false promises as victories!” Aravinda said.
The speaker said that the Rajapakse government, which is carrying out brutal austerity measures amid the crisis exacerbated by the global pandemic, was gutting social spending, including education and health, imposing tax burdens on the masses and privatising public enterprises. Aravinda pointed out that the government had reduced spending on education and health in this year’s budget by 40 billion and 28 billion rupees respectively.
The Rajapakse government, he continued, is moving towards a presidential dictatorship based on the military and on May 27 used essential public service orders to ban strikes and protests. “The unions have silently supported all these measures, including the government’s essential services decree,” he said.
Aravinda told the meeting that the unions function as sellers of labour power within the capitalist system and defend the major corporations and governments in every country. He referred to “Why are the trade unions hostile to socialism?” by WSWS international editorial board chairman David North and went on to explain how the health workers unions had betrayed their members, forcing them back to work in unsafe conditions amid the pandemic.
The speaker reviewed the TSPSC’s call for teachers’ minimum basic salary to be increased to 60,000 rupees, indexed to the cost of living, the provision of pensions, and for teachers and students to be given computers and internet data access.
“None of these demands,” Aravinda said, “can be met under the capitalist system. Only a workers’ and peasants’ government, implementing socialist policies, can grant them. We urge teachers and other workers to join the SEP, our action committees and read the WSWS.”
During the question session, a teacher from Chilaw in the Northwestern Province asked for more clarification of the SEP’s program to win the wages and defeat government repression. He suggested that the trade unions expected to “market” teachers’ wage demands by basing them on opposition to the KNDUA.
SEP General Secretary Wije Dias responded from the audience:
“The approach of the listener from Chilaw who commented on the struggle of the teachers, suffers from a fundamental fault. He says that the struggle was started by the union leaders, who thought that their arrest during the protest demonstration of teachers and university students against the KNDUA, was an opportune moment to ‘market’ their demand for the eradication of teachers’ salary anomalies.”
The subjective intentions of the union bureaucracies, Dias continued, cannot be used to assess the broad and militant struggle of the teachers who are angered by unbearable cost of living increases and 24 years of delays in correcting salary discrepancies, despite continuous demands and protests by teachers.
“As our listener acknowledges, he is deprived of about 35,000 rupees a month due to the salary anomalies. So these are the objective factors that drove the teachers into struggle, despite the hesitations and opposition of the union bureaucracy. This is part of the widespread struggles of the workers throughout the region of South Asia and internationally, at present.
“The capitalist system,” Dias continued, “is embroiled in an unprecedented economic and political crisis around the world, on which the speakers have spoken at length. This has created a situation where an unbridgeable gulf has been created between what the bourgeois ruling elites are preparing for the people and the aspirations of the working class and the oppressed masses. The answer of the ruling classes everywhere to the demands of the working people and youth is to prepare social counter-revolution and war.
“The working class, under these conditions must end its existence as an exploited class for the capitalist system and become a class for itself. This means overturning capitalist rule and the establishment of working-class power with the support of the rural poor and youth, to implement a socialist program.
“The existing left parties and trade union leaderships are not only totally inadequate for this but completely hostile to such a struggle. This is because they are tied, from head to foot, to the coat tails of the ruling classes. This is why the Socialist Equality Party is fighting to build a mass revolutionary party of international socialism to lead the working class in the socialist economic, political and cultural transformation of society to fulfil the needs of working people,” Dias said in conclusion. | <urn:uuid:9ef9db3f-2768-408c-84cc-d7c254cc0187> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/06/slme-a06.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959545 | 1,914 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Pure Tone Audiometry
In case you have been suspected of hearing loss, you might be asked to go for the Pure Tone Audiometry test, which will allow the examiner to spot deficits and specific frequencies completely. Audiometer will be used to perform Pure Tone Audiometry. Simran Speech & Hearing Clinic uses different audiometer types for different types of functions, which will enable the tester to decrease or increase the sound intensity/frequency of the signal as required.
Pure Tone Audiometry is generally known as the threshold search or screening. There will be screening audiometry tones present, which will come across as 500 to 4,000 Hz. The upper limits given to adults are 25 to 30 dB, while for children it will be 15 to 20 dB. Your results are recorded as they pass, and the results will be deducted from the normal limits, which will be referred to as hearing loss, and if needed, there will be a repeated screening test done as
Through the threshold test, the examiner will be able to know about the softest sound that the patient can hear. This test needs to be done by an expert only who can decipher the results. Simran Speech & Hearing Clinic has a recommended process to be done for Pure Tone Audiometry. The test will begin with the ear, which has a better hearing possibility. The tester will release a pure tone to the ear, which will be clearly audible. | <urn:uuid:799e561f-90de-43b7-bcde-c655be475dd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simranspeechandhearing.com/services/pure-tone-audiometry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95166 | 287 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Grammy Award winner and debut memoirist Stevens recounts the evolution of her pop singing career and personal life.
Born in 1929 to a working-class Italian-American family, Stevens (nee Caroline Vincinette LoTempio) grew up in Niagara Falls, N.Y. She loved to sing at an early age, and brother Nino, six years her junior, joined in as soon as he could on vocals and instrumental accompaniment. Their parents nurtured the children’s musical talents and moved to Los Angeles in 1940 to improve their show-business opportunities. By 1948, Stevens was performing locally in various venues with a unique style that she describes as an “untrained voice, rather breathy and husky, especially if I sang softly.” This suggestive quality became her hallmark. Two years later, she landed her first recording contract for a single, “No, No, No, Not That,” which most radio stations refused to air because of its risqué overtones. She signed with RCA Victor the following year and began to attract a wide following of fans, particularly among American servicemen overseas. While touring domestically in 1952, she met wealthy, married businessman Glenn McCarthy, with whom she began a seven-year affair during which she put her singing on hold. After the relationship ended, she concentrated on rebuilding her career and found success featuring her signature style in “Teach Me Tiger,” which she and Nino recorded in 1959. Other hits followed, and the two reached their pinnacle when their single, “Deep Purple,” won the Grammy Award for the best rock ’n’ roll record of 1963. They enjoyed a spotty string of success in the following years, and she settled into a happy married life in 1985, largely leaving her career behind. Although not deeply introspective, Stevens’ account will likely appeal to her fans and to baby boomers nostalgic for the music of their youth. Those unfamiliar with her career may enjoy reading of 1950s and ’60s Hollywood and the music scenes and celebrities with whom she rubbed shoulders: Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Cher and family friend Carey Grant. Short chapters and a smooth conversational tone move Stevens’ story along briskly. Bonuses include 21 pages of photos, discographies, and her mother’s recipe for spaghetti sauce and meatballs.
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"Cooks Brook" by Al Pittman is primarily a poem about fear. The fear that the speaker feels about cliff-diving is not irrational, however, but very real. After all, he's diving into a natural pool, guarded by a "shelf of rock/ That lay two feet below the surface/
And reached quarter of the way out/into the width of the pool."
There is another sense of fear at work here, however, that comes in the form of peer pressure. The speaker would rather plunge to certain death, "Knowing full well/ It would be better to die/ Skull smashed open in the water/ Than it would be to climb
Backwards down to the beach." The speaker must juggle these fears and decide which to confront.
At the end of the poem, we find out that this isn't the only fear that the speaker deals with. He walks casually to the shore,
As though it was every day of the week
[he] daringly defied the demons
Who lived so terribly
In the haunted hours of [his] sleep
There are other fears at play here for the speaker. Cliff-diving is one way that he has chosen to deal with them.
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Sour boiled Sailfish in a Dusun style is very simple and easy to prepare. This dish is suitable for those who are on a diet because it is cooked without oil. It is eaten with rice or noodles. Dusun people use to eat it with rice wrapped with Doringgin or Tintap leaf either in their house or when they go to their farm or " Mindahu ".
- 1/2kg of Sailfish
- 3–4 inch (7.6–10.2 cm) of ginger
- 7-8 cloves of garlic
- 3-4 onions
- 3-4 Kasturi limes
- salt (according to taste)
- 1 teaspoon sugar (optional)
- 2-3 cups of water
- Chili (optional)
1Clean and thinly slice the Sailfish.
2Pound the ginger, garlic, and onion.
3Squeeze the lime juice on the fish.
4Cut and sliced thinly the lime's skin. Remove the seeds in the process.
5Mix the sliced fish and combine ingredients in a mixing bowl with a spatula.
6Place the wok on the stove and put all the mixed ingredients in the wok.
7Pour the water into the wok and boil it for 5 minutes.
- Make sure to get rid of the lime's seeds because the dish might taste a bit bitter.
- Sailfish scales are very tiny, so make sure to clean it carefully or get rid of the skin.
- The dish taste really yummy when eaten with warm boiled rice.
- If you want the dish to look as if it was fried, boil until the water is dry.
- Put less lime if you don't want it to be too sour.
Things You'll Need
- Wok or pot
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Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy (EECMD), with the financial support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF), carries out the project “Supporting and Enhancing Democratic Political Culture in the Pre-electoral Period.” The project aims to create a positive political agenda and strengthen civic engagement in the pre-electoral period.
The project will facilitate public discussions during the pre-electoral period in Tbilisi and all regions of Georgia. 13 pre-electoral meetings with all major political forces will be carried out. An independent and impartial comparative analysis will be developed. Simultaneously, the project will encourage local community groups to voice their needs and challenges and place them higher on the political agenda. For this purpose, 11 local policy interest documents will be prepared.
The project aims to accomplish three major objectives. 1. To strengthen public demand and interest in pre-electoral programs. 2. To develop an impartial and non-partisan analysis of the pre-electoral programs to inform the public about the programs better and increase the responsibility of political parties in creating more realistic programs. 3. To create a more constructive space, where political parties will be able to discuss the programs’ content. Such platforms will promote better policy-making, increase democratic political culture, and reduce polarization levels in the country.
The project started in September, 2020 and finishes in February, 2021.
Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy (EECMD) with the financial support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF) launched a new project. | <urn:uuid:4a152d34-be58-489e-915e-fef409280b02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eecmd.org/supporting-and-enhancing-democratic-political-culture-in-the-pre-electoral-period/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.904887 | 318 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The DVCrypt system is a software and hardware complex for providing paid viewing of television programs in multi-channel
digital cable and MMDS television networks with a relatively
small number of customers. The system is designed to operate
within the DVB-C standard with standard DVB-C Set-Top Box
signal receivers (hereinafter referred to as STB) equipped with
a CAM module.
Composition of the system.
• Processor 8 ASI / DVB-C 4RF 5ASI_remux MPEG4 / MPEG2 encoder with ASI and IP outputs. Up to 127 converters in the system.
• The programmer of subscriber cards. One unique for each network.
• Standard STB receiver of digital cable television DVB-C or TV. Personal computer with operating system Windows XP / 2000.
• The DVCrypt control program.
• The program of personalization of cards.
General principles of conditional access:
The system fully complies with the DVB CAS standard. Scrambling of video and audio information is carried out by the CSA algorithm key information is transmitted in ECM packages and subscription management in EMM packages. There is an opinion that systems built by this principle are not protected from card-sharing. (card-sharing is the transfer of keys from one receiver prefix or computer working with a paid card to the equipment of other users). But at the design stages this was taken into account and protection from this kind of access is provided. For obvious reasons such systems can not be described in detail we have only to state that a number of measures have been taken to close the possibility of unauthorized access which took place in some common early versions of systems of this kind. The conditional access system DVCrypt is the original development of the manufacturer of DVB-C converters and is designed in such a way that reception of closed programs is possible on standard STBs equipped with a CAM module. This allows you to focus on the most inexpensive subscriber receivers including those produced by Russian manufacturers for example Stavropol Signal www.signalrp.ru and most importantly does not bind the operator of the cable network to a particular model. An important component of the system is a multi-stage protection against unauthorized access which in addition to the means standard for digital TV systems provides two levels of card issuance - at the level of production of access cards and at the operator level. First level. Initialization of cards carried out by the system supplier. To the customer of the system the cards are delivered already initialized with the master data and the number entered in them. The number of cards when ordering the system is not a fixed value the customer himself determines the required quantity and subsequently has the opportunity to order an additional batch of cards with continuing numbering. The number of cards in the network depends only on the number of cards that have been initialized. The initialized card after this operation becomes unique for this network which ensures the independence and non-overlapping of systems for different operators for example in one city. Second level. Personalization of cards is the final operation with cards which is performed by the network operator before issuing to the client. Produced by the programmer included in the delivery manufactured specifically for this television network. And at this level it is no longer possible to change the card number. A personalized card of one network can not be personalized by the programmer of another network except for the one in which the initial personalization was made. Subscribers of one system do not have access to the programs of another system.
The main features:
- Использование стандартных DVB-C приемников и телевизоров.
- Многоступенчатая защита от несанкционированного просмотра.
- Управление до 32 преобразователей по последовательному интерфейсу ethernet от одного технологического компьютера стандартной комплектации.
- Работа конвертеров осуществляется в автоматическом режиме. Вмешательство управляющего компьютера в его работу производится только для загрузки и изменения параметров системы шифрации.
- Ведение базы данных (без бухгалтерского учета) до 64000 абонентов.
- Управление подпиской на 192 программ объединяемых в практически достаточное количество пакетов ( до 128).
- Интеграция с программами внешнего биллинга сторонних производителей.
- Для каждого пользователя пакет разрешенных к просмотру программ может формироваться практически произвольно и может оперативно изменяться.
- Для доступа к закрытым каналам используется соответствующим образом подготовленная карточка условного доступа.
- Возможность использования CAM модулей собственного производства.
- Программатор абонентских карточек. Один, уникальный для каждой сети. | <urn:uuid:76a0650f-fcb9-4101-9447-487c5173c290> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dv-lab.com/en/products/?pid=20700 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.676566 | 1,888 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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Ascorbic Acid and Tocopherol Concentration of Hydroponic and Soil-Grown Lettuces
AdvisorOmaye, Stanley T.
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Self-reliance in food production is an accomplishment that has fallen by the wayside. As we rely more heavily on mass-produced food, we begin to lose touch with one of the most basic needs of life: feeding ourselves. Few people in the world have the luxury of tillable land, yet most of us fail to utilize our meager backyard plots to supplement our diets. It can be a daunting task to till the land, fertilize the soil, and water frequently. When the land is not fertile, as is the case in the desert, it may be an impossible feat. This is where the hydroponic method of crop cultivation can help provide the means to grow a garden. If people starving in third world countries could grow plants out of water, they could be nourished on much more than cassava root or rice. Hydroponically-grown produce may be a way of helping to feed the world, regardless of soil quality, space availability or climate. The objective of this study was to determine whether hydroponically-grown lettuce contains as much ascorbic acid and tocopherol as soil-grown lettuce. We analyzed four varieties of lettuce, including: Waldmann's Dark Green, Red Lollo Antago, Red Romaine Annapolis, and Butterleaf. The first three were obtained from the Mountain View Montessori of Reno's greenhouse. Butterleaf was purchased locally. Results suggest that selected hydroponically grown lettuce varieties are significantly higher in both ascorbic acid and tocopherol content than their soil-grown counterparts. This would imply that hydroponic gardening is a viable option for producing nutritious fruits and vegetables. | <urn:uuid:be9fba79-0466-4dec-8f16-b7f79b1c490e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/3646 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.920824 | 452 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Pride Is Dangerous
ARE you drawn to people who give the appearance of always being right? Rather, are you not repelled by those who continually boast about their abilities, achievements, wealth or position? Does it annoy you that some people are very quick to point out the mistakes of others but refuse to acknowledge their own, even taking offense when some failing is called to their attention?
Yes, such expressions of pride repel and irritate. There can be no question that pride has a bad effect on others, tearing down rather than building up. It can give rise to hard feelings and may eventually ruin good relationships with fellowmen.
Just what is pride? It is inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable feeling of superiority as to one’s talents, wisdom, beauty, wealth and rank. It usually displays itself outwardly by a haughty, conceited, self-important bearing.
As pride is a common fault among imperfect men, we do well to control it and thereby avoid its damaging effects. This requires that we develop or maintain a heartfelt recognition of the fact that pride has no sound basis. Regardless of race, nationality, education, abilities, achievements or economic circumstances, all humans are sinners and the offspring of sinners. That is no cause for boasting, is it?
Yet someone might say, ‘I have worked hard for the position or prominence that I now enjoy.’ But does that give him any basis for being proud? Well, did he give himself the capacity to develop some talent or ability? If he had been born with great mental or physical limitations, would his best efforts have enabled him even to come near to his present achievements? An argument recorded in the Holy Scriptures gives the right balance on this. We read: “Who makes you to differ from another? Indeed, what do you have that you did not receive? If, now, you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?”—1 Cor. 4:7.
Besides a proper evaluation of self, respect for the dignity of fellow humans is vital in controlling pride. The Bible’s counsel is: “[Do] nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with lowliness of mind considering that the others are superior to you.”—Phil. 2:3.
It is good for the Christian to recognize that other fellow believers may have certain qualities superior to his own. They may be exemplary in showing love, kindness, sympathy or consideration. Years of Scriptural study may have given some an excellent grasp of Bible principles and their application to daily living. While others may not be particularly outstanding in knowledge, they may have had much valuable experience in life. Something can be learned from them, too, even if it is just a matter of coming to recognize that there may be more than one way of looking at matters. This will prevent one from making the mistake of trying to fit everyone into the same mold and being overbearing in making decisions or in turning down suggestions.
For a man to make another feel low or inferior because of considering himself superior in knowledge, abilities or experience is dangerous. In the Christian congregation, for example, a ministerial servant might approach an elder with a suggestion. Now, what might be the result if the elder brushed him off without giving due consideration to his suggestion, implying that the ministerial servant was talking out of turn? Would not the ministerial servant feel hurt and be saddened about having been misunderstood? At the same time the display of pride, though minor, may lower the ministerial servant’s view of the elder. In having had his motivations questioned for no valid reason, the ministerial servant might conclude consciously or subconsciously that the elder’s judgment as a whole may not be the best. Being hurt over what has happened, he may pour out his heart to a close friend and that friend’s view may likewise be adversely affected for a time.
The example of Jesus Christ is certainly one worthy of imitation. He did not let ‘knowledge puff him up.’ (1 Cor. 8:1) Though he had all the correct answers, he did not alienate others by calling attention to his superior ability, knowledge, experience and wisdom. He did not make his disciples think that after his leaving them they would never be able to do the work to the extent that he had done it. To the contrary, he expressed confidence in them and accorded them honor, saying to his disciples: “Most truly I say to you, He that exercises faith in me, that one also will do the works that I do; and he will do works greater than these, because I am going my way to the Father.” (John 14:12) And as a body, the disciples of Jesus Christ did do works on a greater scale than he had done and for a longer period of time.—Compare Matthew 5:14.
Now, if Jesus as a perfect man could voice such confidence regarding believers, why should any imperfect man conclude that others simply cannot do what he can? The man who reflects such proud thinking makes things harder for himself and others. He discourages others from wanting to work with him because they are made to feel inferior and undeserving of confidence. As a result, they are robbed of a measure of personal interest.
Especially dangerous, however, is a dominantly proud “spirit.” It causes those possessing it to resent valid criticism, correction or discipline, in fact, to reject the counsel of God’s Word. This leads them into following a way of life that is bound to bring ruin to themselves. The Bible proverb aptly puts it: “A man repeatedly reproved but making his neck hard will suddenly be broken, and that without healing.” (Prov. 29:1) This is so because the dominantly proud person places himself in opposition to God and what He looks for in those whom He accepts as His servants. As the Bible says: “All of you gird yourselves with lowliness of mind toward one another, because God opposes the haughty ones, but he gives undeserved kindness to the humble ones.”—1 Pet. 5:5.
It is vital, therefore, that Christians work hard in keeping pride under control. Not only can the proud person harm others, but he may also lose out on God’s approval and life. Truly pride is dangerous. | <urn:uuid:af1396ca-b407-4749-8615-082b63f9e363> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1974363#h=12:0-13:203 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.975959 | 1,319 | 2.40625 | 2 |
What Should You Charge? 4 Methods to AvoidBy John Tabita
Selling a product is so much easier. You have a fixed cost at which you buy (called wholesale), so you figure out how much profit you’d like, and mark it up according. There’s even the MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) to make your life easier. But everyone who decides to sell their services will agonize over this question: “How much should I charge?”
There are many ways to answer that question. Let’s look at four to avoid.
Many of us used a formula to answer that question:
- How much do I want to make a year?
- How many hours a week do I want to work?
So if it’s your dream to make $60,000 a year, working only 20 hours a week (including a two-week vacation), you do this:
$60,000 / 50 weeks / 20 hours = $60/hour
Next, determine the time it takes you to create a “basic” website (for me, that was a 5-10 page custom-designed static site, no programming). If that takes 35 hours, your pricing would start at $2,100. Or you could simply charge by the hour and the client pays what he pays.
Sounds great, except for one problem. Clients don’t care about your formulas.
Pricing your product is actually simple, as long as you consider it from the buyer’s point of view. How much it costs you to make something is irrelevant. They don’t care …
Your formula has no bearing on what a client is or isn’t willing to pay. How would you justify $60 an hour if the client thinks that’s too expensive? Telling him you’re worth that because you want to make $60k a year working 20 hours a week isn’t going to convince him to hire you. Neither is telling the client “how long” it will take.
The second method to avoid is basing your price structure on what you “deserve” to make. I’ve read books that claim we’re not charging what we’re worth because of low self-esteem. If we improve our self-esteem, we’ll charge what we’re worth, what we deserve—and our clients will gladly pay it. Pardon me if I’m not quite convinced.
Your clients don’t care if you think you “deserve” $60 an hour because you have a computer science degree, 15 years of programming experience, hundreds of hours of formal web training, $10,000 worth of hardware and software, and a $50,000 student loan to repay, or because some self-help guru told you that you do. Clients buy for their own reasons, not yours.
Comparison-based pricing is when you set your prices based on what you think is too expensive. It usually happens after you arrive at some semblance of a price, but then you start thinking, “I don’t know, $1,000 is a lot of money; maybe I should charge $900 …” You might think $1,000 is a lot of money, but what are you comparing that to? Your car payment? Your rent? Your monthly income? I once suffered from this malady, but the first time a client paid three times above what I considered “a lot of money,” I was cured.
Researching the competition is generally considered valuable when starting a business. But I found that to be a tall order in the web industry. First of all, who’s your competition? ABC Interactive Agency, or the teenager with a cracked copy of Dreamweaver? Sure, you can scour the web or post a newbie “How much should I charge?” question on SitePoint’s forum, but most of us keep that pretty close to the vest. And the prices I have found are all over the map. Even fellow web designers can’t agree. Although I did look at others’ prices when I first started out, it wasn’t a determining factor when setting my own.
So what should you base your pricing on? The answer lies in why people buy. Even established companies don’t always know why their customers are their customers. Remember, people buy for their reasons, not yours. If you don’t know what those reasons are, you’ll have a difficult time determining what to charge.
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Trans fats may be on their way out of U.S. foods.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to have so-called "partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)," which are the main source ofin processed foods, to be classified as food additives. That means they won't be allowed to be used in food without authorization of the FDA, which may effectively ban the substances.
FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told reporters Wednesday that the action is being considered because PHOs are "not generally recognized as safe for use in food."
The agency will allow 60 days for comments from the public and food manufacturers, asking the latter how long it might take to reformulate current products should the determination be finalized.
The agency pointed out some companies have voluntarily been scaling back the amount of trans fat in foods. But it wants more to be done - an additional 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths from heart disease each year could be prevented by reducing trans fats, according to the FDA.
"These are significant numbers," said Hamburg.
"While consumption of potentially harmful artificial trans fat has declined over the last two decades in the United States, current intake remains a significant public health concern," she added in a statement. "The FDA's action today is an important step toward protecting more Americans from the potential dangers of trans fat."
The oils behind trans fats can be found in crackers, cookies, frozen pies, other baked goods, microwave popcorn and other snacks, frozen pizza, coffee creamers, refrigerated dough products (like biscuits and cinnamon rolls), ready-to-use frostings, vegetable shortenings and stick margarine, according to the FDA.
Consuming trans fat has been tied to an increased risk for coronary heart disease, a condition in which plaque builds up inside the arteries, which may lead to a heart attack. Previous research, including a 2002 report from the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine, found a direct correlation between eating trans fats and increased levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol, which in turn can increase heart disease risk. The institute recommended against eating any amount of the fats, finding they offered no health benefit.
Trans fat content has been labeled on foods since 2006, and since then, consumption rates have dropped from about 4.6 grams of trans fat per day in 2003, to about 1 gram per day in 2012.
New York City banned trans fats in city's foods in 2006.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller Thursday that his proposal was first met with opposition, but in the years since, no restaurants or manufacturers have told him removing trans fats affected their business.
"The truth of the matter is the restaurant industry adapted very easily," he said. "Their business is better than ever."
But did it improve the health of New Yorkers?
A 2012 study examining fast food receipts found the
Bloomberg added that New Yorkers live about 2.5 years longer than elsewhere in the country, due to public health efforts such as the trans fat and indoor smoking bans, and reductions in crimes and traffic deaths.
"I've always been in favor of not banning things like smoking or fattening foods, but our job is to give you the information," the mayor said. "In the case of trans fats, you don't make the decision as to what's in your food, that's made by the companies. So working with the companies to get them to something that was better for everybody turned out to be successful."
He added that he doesn't anticipate much opposition to the FDA's proposal since many major manufacturers and retailers have already removed the fats from products in recent years.
People worried about trans fats given the FDA's announcement should look to their Nutrition Facts label and consider products with the lowest combined amounts of saturated fat, cholesterol and trans fat, Dennis M. Keefe, director of FDA's Office of Food Additive Safety, said in an FDA Consumer Update.
"Trans fatty acids are added to processed foods as an inexpensive way to improve taste and texture and lengthen shelf life, but there are other ways of achieving these results that do not directly promote the development of heart disease,"Dr. David Frid, a cardiologist with the Cleveland Clinic, told CBSNews.com in an email. "This move by the FDA has the potential to decrease the percentage of Americans who get heart disease while having very little effect on the individual's lifestyle." | <urn:uuid:d9685c06-7b63-4396-9adf-4ccbd5646984> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-eyes-ban-on-trans-fats-due-to-heart-disease-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00477-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966937 | 899 | 2.703125 | 3 |
When migrating ASP applications to ASP.NET, you should be aware of the potential performance issues associated with the following subjects:
Calls to unmanaged codeВ В В Managed-code calls to unmanaged components incur a marshaling cost and can noticeably affect performance. For best performance, COM components should be rewritten in managed code using a runtime-compatible language. If this is not possible, try reducing the number of calls between the managed and unmanaged boundary, with your code doing more work between calls. For more information, see .
Late bindingВ В В ASP used the method to create an object of indeterminate type, as shown in the following example:
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SampleObject = Server.CreateObject("ProgId")
This type of declaration works with ASP.NET, but for best performance, the type of object should be declared when it is created:
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Dim SampleObject As New ObjectType() ' or ' Dim SampleObject As ObjectType = New ObjectType()
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ObjectType SampleObject = new ObjectType();
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Diabetes and chronic dry skin, unfortunately, seem to go hand-in-hand. In fact, it is estimated that 83% of all diabetics suffer from dry skin, particularly in the lower extremities. Why is this?
According to well-documented clinical research, diabetics may suffer from an impaired ability to manufacture gamma-linlenic acid (GLA), an OMEGA-6 fatty acid crucial in the development of healthy skin cells. Used for a number of key functions through-out the body, GLA is a building block in the formation of cell membranes are unable to retain adequate moisture levels, resulting in dry skin. Hence, the link between diabetics (many of whom suffer from GLA deficiency) and dry skin.
Borage oil is the richest known source of GLA (24%). This oil is extracted from the seeds of the borage plant (borago officanalis), a wildflower commonly known as the blue starflower and used for thousands of years for its medicinal qualities. Because of its exceptional concentration of GLA, borage oil is used as the fundamental ingredient in all DiabeticCare™ formulations. | <urn:uuid:23ac700c-8254-4838-aa6a-70c3f89cdfa4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.medexsupply.com/personal-care-skin-care-salk-borage-diabeticare-foot-cream-x_pid-70220.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943141 | 263 | 2.09375 | 2 |
What is 305 feet long, weighs 11,303 pounds and required 1,032 bolts to assemble? The world's longest picnic table. Safeway proudly holds the title after earning a Guinness World Record for assembling the table on National Picnic Day in June at Marina Green in San Francisco. As part of an out-of-the-box marketing event for its new Open Nature natural product line, the retailer invited more than 400 Safeway shoppers, employees and San Francisco Bay Area bloggers to attend a picnic lunch on ...
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Agave, often used in alcoholic drinks and fibres, could be a potential bioenergy crop, according to researchers.
27 January, 2011
Solar has taken the lead in the UK renewable energy market as a result of favourable feed-in tariffs, according to a new report by technology analyst Greenbang.
17 January, 2011
A hybrid of Miscanthus x giganteus, believed to be a viable feedstock for lignocellulosic biofuel production, could make supply more secure, according to researchers in the USA and Japan.
10 January, 2011
Metso will supply a €15 million biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant to Oü Helme Energia in Helme, Estonia.
07 January, 2011
Australian airline Quantas and US biomass fuel company Solena could form a £200 million biojet fuel joint venture using waste to produce jet fuel.
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Past research suggests that religion imbues people with a sense of certainty - via an increase in personal control, by providing meaning in life, or by activating associated norms. Based on findings suggesting that uncertainty and cognitive dissonance share many underlying features, we investigated whether thinking about religion, either situationally or chronically, buffers against cognitive dissonance. In four methodically diverse studies, we found converging support for this hypothesis. Semantically or symbolically activating Christian religious concepts, as well as being a self-reported believer, attenuated participants' need to reduce post-decisional dissonance via a spreading of alternatives in a free-choice paradigm (Studies 1, 2, & 4) as well as after counterattitudinal advocacy in an induced compliance paradigm (Study 3). The attenuation of post-decisional dissonance was found for a US American online sample (Studies 1 & 4) and for German university students in a laboratory setting, where the dissonance-inducing decision had factual consequences (Study 2). | <urn:uuid:57e0066f-1477-4607-9fae-84575becdeaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/196990/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.940474 | 205 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Re: RFC: beginner level script improvementby roboticus (Chancellor)
|on Sep 20, 2013 at 00:40 UTC||Need Help??|
Before I go into one of my long, meandering list of things, I'd like to say:
On a more serious note: By putting your code up here for review, I think you already have the right attitude. Always wanting to improve how you do things is a great skill for a programmer to have.
OK, then, on to the bitching! I've put it in <readmore> tags so people used to my occasional long and meandering nodes can skip it. A brief summary for them: Naming, whitespace, short subroutines! Possibly a bit more, I don't remember what I wrote, and I hate this keyboard.
Random notes as I read your code.
There's too much "decoration". A common beginner habit is to spend a lot of time on formatting large comment blocks and such. It's not a terrible thing, it's just something I see far too often. Some decoration can be nice and help organization. But it's easy to go overboard.
End blocks are pointless. When you have a large heading on each section, it seems pointless to have an equally large end marker--especially since the next item will either be another large heading or the end of the file. Both will be good visual cues to the end of the previous section.
Names should be clear and meaningful. printversion, printtmpl: Neither of them actually print anything. Each simply returns a text string. A name should be suggestive: that's the most efficient method of documenting your code. You don't need to write many comments when your code clearly describes itself.
Digression 1: Many people will tell you to spell out everything in full. I think they're nuts. A proper set of common abbreviations go a long way to making the code simpler to read. Examples: FName means file name, FH means file handle, rpt means report, db means database, etc. If you're consistent--and you should be--the code can be easier to read.
Neither of your printversion, printtmpl functions actually print anything. Each simply returns a string. Rather than having a function for each string you need to retrieve, I'd suggest putting your text strings into a hash at the beginning, and provide a function to retrieve the one you want:
In your help function, breaking your text up into multiple print statements complicates things more than necessary. Try using a single "here document":
Speaking of your help function, it doesn't look like your help function returns a useful value, so I simply removed it.
Then peepul wil haff to contsanly tyep teh saem mispelings evere tim yoo yoose it. And they will curse your name. And make fun of you.
The other problem with the san
Looking at the function, it simply performs a set of replacements with a funky hardcoded bit. I can't think of a good name for the function, which makes me think that you may be approaching the problem sideways.
Except for the hardcoded bit, I'd suggest translate, replace or similar for the function. But you can't use those as the basis for a name with that hardcoded bit unless you start adding adjectives to your function name: translate_with_funky_bit(). I'd suggest splitting out the general-purpose multiple_string_replace function from the do_funky_escape_code() bit. Then you could reuse the replacer if/when necessary. You could write a function that takes your list of things to replace and transform them into the list of things used for the replacer function.
Imagine my surprise when I started looking at the taint function: It's basically the multiple_string_replace function.
Next, gettime. For some reason, you don't mind a simple operation to convert the year to the correct value, but you use an array to fix up the month. Also, you're creating new variables instead of using the ones you have. If I were going to write it (instead of using a module or strftime), I'd do it more like:
I abbreviated the variable names because they're used in a very small area, and the abbreviations are obvious in context. I ignored the unused return values from localtime, since they aren't used. I also reused $yr and $mon to hold the "adjusted" values.
Your parsetempdb function does too much in one place, reducing any potential reuse. (I already mentioned naming, so I won't beat that horse any further.) The function has several interesting operations: Parsing the DB file may be useful by itself, so I'd split that out into a subroutine. Generating a report from the data structure could also be useful, so I'd split that out, too.
So you could wind up with something like:
The same can be said for sendmail: It does more than the name implies. Splitting it into smaller components would be useful. One of those components should be a bit of code to send mail--you could call it sendmail! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)The Main Code
I'm running out of steam, so I'll just note a couple of things:
You don't use enough whitespace. Your indentation style is fine (it's clean and consistent), you just don't use it often enough. Line breaks are good too. It can be difficult to read a "wall of code", so use whitespace to break things up into single "thoughts". As an example, the 'perform various sanity checks' block is too tightly packed, so it's harder to read than it must be. Put in a few line breaks and indents.
Your main code block is all coded straight through. You can break it into subroutines (even if they're used only once!) to "outline the code", making it easier for the reader to understand. It also helps limit the amount of code you need to read to fix an error.
Ah ... you *did* do this a bit later in the code. Good.
OK, I've run out of gas. So I'll leave with one last bit: Your functions in this chunk are just *too big*. I expect that it's more of the same: You're trying to do too much in a single subroutine.
You'll find things easier to maintain and test if you keep your subroutines short and focused. Each individual component can be tested easily. But if you make a large do-all function, it's a *lot* harder to test, and if you make a change, you have to update more tests to ensure you hit all the possibilities.
Thanks for sharing. And please don't be offended at my random writings. After all, I'm just a nitpicky bastard anyway! ;^)
P.S. I don't remember what prompted me to write this, and it's far away from where it was. I didn't want to throw it away, so here ya go, an added bonus:
Roboticus' rule #1: If you always have to do something, you should *never* have to do it.
Many languages foist this stuff on us. Perl is one of the better ones. One example is the switch statement in C:
Here, you *always* have to put in the break statement, or C will fall through to the next case. You should only have to do something explicit for the *NON*default case. | <urn:uuid:aa3c4a89-b864-4192-9457-06451884f52c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1054924 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932582 | 1,607 | 1.703125 | 2 |
A UN investigator on Sunday indicated that Syrian rebels, not the Assad regime, have used chemical weapons in the two-year civil war, the inverse of previous assessments by American and Western authorities.
Carla Del Ponte, head of the independent UN commission investigating reports of chemical weapons use in Syria, told a Swiss-Italian television station that UN investigators gleaned testimony from victims of Syria’s civil war and medical staff which indicated that rebel forces used sarin gas — a deadly nerve agent.
“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in the interview, translated by Reuters.
“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added.
Del Ponte was commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate claims by Syrian opposition groups and the Assad government that either side used chemical weapons in clashes between the two sides. Syria also has asked the UN to investigate a chemical weapons attack in March on the village of Khan al-Assal outside of Aleppo, which the regime blames on rebels and the rebels blame on regime forces. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned a separate investigation into the claims, but inspectors have not been allowed into the country.
Del Ponte stated in February that both sides of the Syrian civil war had committed atrocities and should be brought to justice.
According to a report in the Daily Beast published Thursday, US military and intelligence officials acknowledged that they don’t know where much of Syria’s sizable chemical weapons stockpile is presently located. No reports from Syria indicated that opposition forces captured any of President Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal.
US President Barack Obama previously indicated that chemical weapons use by the Assad regime constituted a “red line” for the United States. Following claims by US officials that they had definitive proof that Assad forces used chemical weapons, Obama last week appealed for patience, saying he needed more conclusive evidence about how and when chemical weapons detected by US intelligence agencies were used and who deployed them.
Obama signaled he would consider US military action against Syria if “hard, effective evidence” were found to bolster intelligence that chemical weapons have been used in the two-year-old civil war. | <urn:uuid:9c6bb259-e2e3-41d4-a48e-a5046ccc7880> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-used-nerve-gas-un-investigator-says/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966739 | 509 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project Applauds USDA for Finalizing Snack Standards for Schools
WASHINGTON (June 27, 2013)—Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, issued the following statement regarding the interim final rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, setting nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages sold in U.S. schools.
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Smart Snacks in School rule is an important step for improving kids' health, setting a minimum nutritional baseline for snacks and beverages sold in schools. Once these guidelines are fully implemented, the options available to students will be healthy ones.
“Millions of students currently have widespread access to snacks and beverages that are high in sugar, fat, and salt, but limited access to nutritious options such as fruits and vegetables in school stores, snack bars, and vending machines. With many students consuming up to half of their daily calories at school, these new standards represent the kind of positive change we need to help reduce obesity rates among children and teens.
“The next vital part of the process is for districts to begin implementing these standards. The guidelines established by USDA serve as a baseline—states and localities can build on them and customize exactly what items are served to students in their schools. Offering nutritious snacks will help to ensure that the healthy choice is the easy choice for all students.”
BACKGROUND: Earlier this year, USDA accepted nearly 250,000 comments from parents, industry, nutrition experts, and other members of the general public on a proposed rule for snack foods and beverages sold in U.S. schools. This interim final rule complements the agency's standards for school meals that took effect during 2012–2013. The guidelines, which will be implemented by 2014–2015, are available at http://www.healthyschoolfoodsnow.org/comments-on-usda-proposed-standards-for-snack-foods-and-beverages-sold-in-schools/
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Typically, I dedicate this column to discussions and perspectives on mergers and acquisitions, and financing these transactions. This month, I have decided to take a giant step back, view the economy from 10,000 feet, and then come up with specific and effective strategies for fuel jobbers and retail chain operators to consider going forward.
At the time of this writing, both Republican and Democratic conventions have concluded and, although President Obama maintains a lead in the polls, it is uncertain whether we will have four more years of the Obama administration or a new president. Unemployment and underemployment remain high, interest rates are being kept artificially at historic lows, Europe’s financial crises continue, and China’s manufacturing and growth rates are steadily declining. Also, real income in the United States is down, prices for most commodities and basic consumer goods such as food and transportation are up significantly, GDP growth worldwide is anemic, and corporate profit warnings and large-scale layoffs continue.
Despite the uncertainty, weak economic indicators and the fighting of two wars (albeit both are winding down), U.S. financial markets are approaching all-time highs, with the Dow as of late September off by just 3.5% from its Oct. 1, 2007, peak. How can this be? I am quickly and hauntingly reminded of Alan Greenspan’s December 1996 irrational exuberance speech. Because the theories that the economy exists in a general state of equilibrium, and that markets are efficient, are clearly in a condition of extreme disorder. Since 2008, these long-held theories have been turned upside down. So where can we turn for some concrete answers and direction? In a burst of inspiration, I have looked to 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes.
During my years at Lehigh University in the ’80s, we studied Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory, which served as the economic model for the United States and other Western industrialized countries from the end of the Great Depression through stagflation in the 1970s. Keynesian economists believe that aggregate demand (total spending capacity in the economy) does not necessarily equal aggregate supply (the total productive capacity of the economy). Instead, it is influenced by a host of factors and sometimes behaves erratically, affecting production, employment and inflation. Looking back, naïve as it may have been, I thought that if I learned these theories, I would be in a great position to execute successful strategies once I got into the business world. Unfortunately, Keynesian theory fell out of favor before Reaganomics.
The melting down of our financial system in 2008 prompted the most widespread and overreaching public policy decisions witnessed since the Great Depression. Interestingly, Keynes was the first economist to popularize the notion that governments should intervene in the economy to alleviate the unpleasant effects caused by unemployment. In fact, to stimulate growth and lead us out of the Great Depression, he argued that the solution was a combination of low interest rates (monetary policy) and government investment in infrastructure (fiscal policy).
Sound familiar? Well, it worked, along with a catalyst known as Roosevelt’s New Deal and massive government spending that continued through World War II, also resulting in mounting U.S. debt. As that famous New York Yankee Yogi Berra once said, it’s déjà vu all over again.
So, post-election 2012, fanned by numerous negative economic indicators, will the monetary and fiscal policies of our government and the Federal Reserve Board, which have been in place for the past four years, work in the future? If history repeats itself, and it often does, they will work no matter who is in the Oval Office. Yet it will be another few years for our economy to fully recover, at which time, to quote my neighbor Bill Clinton, “you will feel it.”
Get in Position to Succeed
In the interim, there are steps that fuel jobbers and c-store chain owners can take to weather the continuing gloom and get into a position to capitalize on the eventual recovery and economic expansion.
- Take advantage of low interest rates. If you have not already done so, consolidate your debt and refinance it. With rates that have gone even lower than imaginable since early 2012, there is no reason not to. Closing costs will quickly amortize with the lower monthly payments. And, with lower interest costs, you can afford more leverage, taking additional equity from the assets and building up a cash reserve.
- Identify expense-saving measures and project-manage them. The larger your organization, the greater the opportunities to cut OPEX. If you can consolidate jobs, do so. Find ways to lower input costs such as property taxes, supplier costs, utilities, maintenance and other services. Once identified, assign responsibilities and manage through completion. But do not stop there. Treat expense controls like a devout religion, with an ongoing program to study and manage them.
- Invest in programs and fixtures that result in higher profits. Develop revenue sources that make money. Upgrade c-store interiors with improved sandwich and coffee offerings, and upgrade merchandisers, lighting and graphics, which produce greater customer appeal and a better shopping experience. If you are a jobber with a dealer-operated chain, package these items for dealer purchase, and both parties win. Some of my clients, in fact, have asked for such assistance given that there is no longer major oil marketing support and grocery suppliers have mostly eliminated their programs as well. Install LED price signs and upgrade dispensers and canopies where this makes sense. The additional volume generated along with the typical cents-per-gallon support from the majors for these items should make economic sense at keeper sites.
- Seek asset investment opportunities. Quality assets (terminals, wholesale contracts and retail stores) are still coming to market, from small to midsized jobbers ready to retire or otherwise exit, as long as you know where to look. Engage an expert with the knowledge and an industry network to assist. While prices paid recently (EBITDA multiples) are on the rise, opportunities to strike a reasonable deal exist if you know how to find and value them, and you employ effective negotiations. | <urn:uuid:a0303a02-9a14-43df-b0b2-3501a0bbbafb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cspdailynews.com/print/csp-magazine/article/where-do-we-go-here | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955296 | 1,273 | 1.5 | 2 |
Sri Krishnarjuna Yuddham
When called upon to join the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, Arjuna refuses to fight until Lord Krishna, disguised as Arjuna's charioteer, teaches him the ways of a warrior in this epic tale. Based on an ancient legend, director Kadri Venkata Reddy's interpretation of the classic story about Indian culture exposes the virtues and vices of a conquering race. Nageshwara Rao Akkineni, Rama Rao Taraka Nandamuri and Saroja Devi B. star.
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I get my love of technology from my Dad, a real technophile who, until Alzheimer’s made it difficult, was never happier than when trying out a new gadget or experimenting with a new app. My Mum, on the other hand, is discombobulated by it all. She's fine doing familiar tasks on her laptop but gets thrown when something different happens. She's the first to admit she needs a lot of handholding – and she isn't alone in that.
When the Covid-19 lockdown happened and she knew I wouldn't be able to pop over and help with her list of problems, she panicked! Fortunately, the technology that scares her also came to her rescue, in the form of Quick Assist.
Quick Assist allows you to help someone less confident by giving you remote access to their computer. Its big advantage over better known alternatives such as TeamViewer is that it's built into Windows so there's nothing to install - although we still struggled a bit getting Mum to find the app on her computer. There are three ways to bring it up, and I think we tried all of them before we got it going:
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ALGONQUIN – District 300 board members Monday resoundingly rejected a proposed online charter school that would have taken thousands of dollars away from district coffers amid cash-strapped times for schools across the state.
Some members from the Carpentersville-based school district also had concerns with K12 Inc., the company selected to oversee daily administrative and curriculum management for the proposed Virtual Charter School at the Fox River Valley.
The board was equally upset at the lack of interest from Virtual Learning Solutions, the newly formed nonprofit pushing the proposal.
The group, which would govern the online charter, largely ignored many of the district’s questions about the charter during a public hearing last month.
“It’s another attempt to siphon off dollars to a public school system that is already stretched beyond its means,” said board member Chris Stanton. “The matter in which they made their presentation, I’m not sure I would let them baby-sit my dog.”
The district had earlier projected to lose anywhere between $535,430 to $906,700 annually in tax dollars, without any easy way to compensate for the loss, if the charter school was approved.
Other members, such as Joe Stevens, argued that K12 Inc.’s spotty track record with student performance at similar online, K-12 charter schools in more than 20 states was too grave to overlook. K12 Inc., a Virginia-based for-profit company, has been scrutinized by national media and academic researchers since its founding for its obligation to shareholders in the face of a subpar record on student achievement.
Virtual Learning Solutions has proposed starting an online-only, K-12 charter school that would enroll students from 18 school districts throughout the Fox Valley. District boards from Elgin to Yorkville also were taking similar votes on the proposal Monday night.
The nonprofit has already come under heavy criticism from school administrators throughout the region for ignoring their concerns about the charter during public hearings last month.
In a last-second effort to answer concerns, the nonprofit released a 1,100-page document to districts throughout the region late last week. On Monday, District 300 board members argued that the nonprofit’s overture was made too late.
They unanimously denied the proposal, despite knowing that the nonprofit plans to appeal any rejection by a district to the Illinois Charter School Commission.
Members argued that Virtual Learning Solutions’ plan all along was to ignore local school districts and win the appeal with state commission members, who favor the proposal.
“I think this is a political decision all the way through, and I don’t think it had anything to do with how the 18 school districts felt about it,” Stevens said. “I’m very concerned about the appeal.” | <urn:uuid:62a1b2e9-2064-45a0-9804-db228541187c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nwherald.com/2013/04/08/d-300-rejects-online-charter-school-proposal/ajv9psk/?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00185-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976643 | 578 | 1.609375 | 2 |
More and more tiny babies born at less than 25 weeks in the womb are surviving - a triumph for medical science which also fuels the debate about the 24-week limit for abortion.
The debate was sparked again this week when a 67-year-old Romanian woman, Adriana Iliescu, became the world's oldest mother, giving birth to a girl in Bucharest.
Alok Jha: From a purely medical perspective, there's little wrong with it. In fact, most obstetricians argue that birth by caesarean section is probably the safest thing for a baby. But that doesn't mean it's the best option for the mother. | <urn:uuid:7e8af68d-7caf-4712-9ea6-cfc26526118d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/behindthenews+society/midwifery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980745 | 135 | 1.9375 | 2 |
One man's mission to revolutionise education
From teaching asylum-seeking children in London to dressing up as a zombie in Parkes, Dr Matt Finch's passionate crusade to revolutionise education has had an indelible impact on a country community.
It's probably safe to say that not every 34 year-old you meet will get as excited about dressing up as a zombie as Dr Matt Finch does.
Matt is the outgoing Reader in Residence for the Parkes Shire in western NSW, and has spent the last seven months revolutionising the way literature is taught to school kids in the region.
He's tall and broad with a scruffy light brown beard, piercing blue eyes and a rich English accent.
Matt's a natural storyteller who has you enthralled from the moment he opens his mouth, even if it's a story about life's most mundane chores.
While he grew up in rural England, Matt traded the rolling green hills for the hustle and bustle of London's crooked streets when he turned 18.
"I guess I'm somewhere between a city boy and a country boy; and I'm somewhere between a scholar and a storyteller," he says with a grin.
After extensive study of literature at university, Matt turned his hand to teaching English to asylum-seeking children.
"It gets to that point where you realise that you might not want to be a tweedy professor. Libraries are great, but you don't necessarily want to be sitting among the archives for the rest of your life; you want to get out there and do something.
"Suddenly I'd gone from this high-level, abstract research about refugees, to basically being a kindy teacher. It was really intense, but it was actually a really joyous challenge as well," he says.
"I'm like six-foot-one and there's all these little four and five year olds running around squealing, basically wanting to play. There are their parents, and then their pet dog, and then their teacher who is the number three person in the world and you have this huge emotional role and responsibility."
It was during this time that Matt developed his own ideas about how to teach kids what are perceived to be 'boring' topics in new and interesting ways.
"It's always been about breaking out of that box and showing that those dividing lines between scholarship and play and storytelling are not so important and they're not impassable borders," he says, gesturing passionately.
In mid-2013, Matt arrived in Parkes to take up the role of Reader in Residence.
It's a role that has seen him give kids in western NSW a chance to learn in new ways, from zombie apocalypse role plays, to comics festivals and a variety of other 'think outside the square' activities.
Tracie Mauro is the branch librarian at the Parkes Library and says Matt's time in the region has broadened a lot of people's perspective on how to teach.
"Working with Matt is always an unexpected experience," she says.
"He really gives things an edge. For library staff, working with Matt is an inspiration. I'll have staff say to me, 'I'm reading this book, but I'm trying to read it like how Matt would read it.'
"He's our 'champagne', but we need to make the bubbles sustainable."
With his time in the region coming to an end, Matt says the library has proven doing anything different can be achieved and successful.
"It doesn't have to require a tonne of funding, and that's the strength of working in the country; people are keen to get involved and give of their time and their passion," he says.
"Learning is about so much more than just passing exams.
"Life is so complicated and so hard, and if you just get this one moment, a little bubble where you get to play and you get to try out things that are a bit different, it's something you can't get through the cinema screen."
With a glint in his eye, Matt has one last message to share before he jets back to the UK.
"In life it's really important to get good qualifications, but we all know that there's so much more than that to being a well-rounded human being, having a good time, and making the most of your lot in life.
"Anything is possible. We've shown that if people get stuck in and share, you can do incredible things.
"It's been an eye opener for me. It's been brilliant."
- Police interview with Robert Xie
- Elvis fans left Sydney this morning bound for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival.
- WARNING: Graphic footage shows moment woman with axe allegedly attacks two people
- Briefs: The Second Coming
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- Sustainable urban development
- Local master plans
- FI / SV
The trial involves testing ways to clean the streets of the residential area in a manner that hinders the residents’ everyday life as little as possible and without emissions on in the Jätkäsaari district of Helsinki. Pilot is organized by Trombia company and the City of Helsinki.
Starting from 19 April, people can see the automated Trombia Free street sweeper in action in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. The robot’s suitability for use in a bustling urban residential area will be tested as part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab project.
The street sweeper will work on weekday evenings from 19 to 27 April on Välimerenkatu in Jätkäsaari and the Baana bicycle path in Helsinki. The working hours will change from day to day.
“The autonomous and electric street sweeper is so quiet that it makes it possible to sweep the streets at night, hindering traffic as little as possible. For us, Jätkäsaari is an ideal smart city test location and a reference for the world’s major cities, as Jätkäsaari at night will show what can really be achieved with automation in an urban environment,” says Managing Director Antti Nikkanen from Trombia Technologies, the developers of Trombia Free.
The trial will be carried out in close collaboration with Helsinki City Construction Services Stara. Stara’s goal is to utilise digitalisation and robotisation to seek productivity and create living comfort in the city and its residents’ everyday life. With electric and automated work machinery, Stara is implementing the Carbon-neutral Helsinki 2035 programme and contributing to the creation of the world’s most functional city.
In particular, the pilot will involve testing the noise level of the sweeping operations, the sweeping efficiency and the operation, benefits and limitations of the autonomous street sweeper. The machine will detect obstacles, such as a pedestrian in its path, and stop. In the city pilot, the machine will always be accompanied by an operator to ensure safety.
Helsinki is seen globally as a pioneer of smart traffic. Jätkäsaari, in particular, serves as a platform on which businesses can try out new services and technologies in a genuine urban environment. The trial and pilot operations focus on the promotion of sustainable, smooth and safe traffic.
“Our goal is for the best solutions to be exported from Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab to other cities in Finland and abroad. At the same time, we are promoting Helsinki’s climate goals and creating a more enjoyable urban environment for the residents,” says Project Manager Janne Rinne from the City of Helsinki innovation unit Forum Virium Helsinki.
Developed in Finland, Trombia Free is the world’s first fully powered, electric and autonomous street sweeper. It consumes only 15% of the energy required by conventional brushing vacuum cleaning machines and does not generate emissions in the cleaning situation. Furthermore, the unprecedented street sweeper consumes only a fraction of the amount of water required in conventional cleaning methods. The market for the Trombia Free street sweeper is believed to lie especially in pioneer cities like Helsinki. | <urn:uuid:3eef5aff-22bc-4fe1-9e8e-0cc6491c3209> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uuttahelsinkia.fi/en/news/2021-04-19/robot-sweep-street-dust-jatkasaari-quietly-and-without-emissions-night | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.890491 | 685 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Target: Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Goal: Hold referendum on law being cited in justification of death sentence.
An Irish law has been cited in the case of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for drinking the same water as her Muslim neighbors. The Organization of Islamic Co-operation, with 57 member states, has even proposed adopting the exact wording of the Irish law in future legislation, citing the European nation’s policy as an exemplary standard. Ireland’s blasphemy law prohibits the “publishing or uttering [of] matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion.” Ireland is the only major nation in Europe or the American continents to have passed such a law in the 21st century.
Activists, scientists, writers and academics in Ireland and around the world have spoken out against this form of censorship. The acting Taoiseach (Ireland’s head of government or Prime Minister), Enda Kenny, promised to hold a referendum on the law, but has since reneged, sparking outrage among Irish citizens and global onlookers. The recent case of Asia Bibi, that Pakistani woman awaiting a punishment of death for her impudent thirst, has reintroduced a pressing need to reevaluate Ireland’s balance of religious freedom and freedom of speech.
A referendum would not entail an automatic change to standing Irish policies, but rather a necessary opportunity for the people of the Gaelic nation to submit their own opinions regarding a clearly controversial issue. The United Nations Human Rights Committee, composed of a body of independent experts, has told Kenny’s administration that its failure to hold a referendum constitutes a violation of human rights.
By signing the petition below, you are adding your voice to the many already speaking out against what has become a tyrannically rigid stance held by Kenny and his supporters in the Irish government.
Dear Taoiseach Enda Kenny,
Policy makers looking to justify a death sentence handed to a woman in Pakistan accused of drinking water have cited Ireland’s blasphemy law. This highly questioned piece of legislation has become a source of dangerous international influence, while your administration has remained silent and inflexible. Loosely enforced within your own nation’s boundaries, the law provides its only service as ammunition for vitriolic rulings abroad.
The promise made to your own citizens to hold a referendum for the blasphemy law must be weighed more heavily now than ever before. A model for the international community, Ireland has an obligation to uphold democratic values, and preserve the power of public opinion by maintaining functional democratic channels.
The Irish blasphemy law is the only one of its kind passed by a Western democracy in the 21st century. Immediate consideration must be given to its continuity, as international policy makers are looking to emulate the Irish example. I am asking you to honor your initial promise and grant the Irish people their wish to have a referendum, confirming Ireland as a safe home for democracy and guaranteeing reevaluation of what has become an urgent national and international matter.
[Your name here]
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The Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival takes place from April 21-24 at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. Festivities include field trips, a family day, guided birding activities and a BioBlitz for recording observations.
This year’s theme is “Carrion Birds: Nature’s Clean Up Crew” with the turkey vulture as the featured bird.
Admission to Dead Horse Ranch State Park will be free to festival participants. Dead Horse has over 423 acres of land with three stocked lagoons making it a prime location for bird watching and wildlife encounters. More than 180 species of birds have been recorded at the park.
Many bird species will be migrating through the area during the month of April so the festival offers the opportunity to see both species common to the area and those traveling through to their summer homes to our north.
Presentations at the festival will cover topics such as Verde River ecology, backyard birding and birding basics, mammals and wild plants of the Verde Valley, and recognizing bird calls.
Each day of the festival from 8 to 10 a.m., an Armchair Birding activity allows beginner and experienced birders to take a short walk on the Canopy Trail at the bottom of Owl Road in the park to a location where feeders allow close-up encounters with birds. A knowledgeable guide will attend each session to help with species identification.
Saturday at the festival is “Family Day” with free admission and special activities geared toward children from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. between the lagoons at the park. Guided family nature walks will take place every hour, on the hour. Participants with smart phones and the iNaturalist app can keep a record of the animals, plants and fungi observed during the walks to participate in the Verde Valley Community BioBlitz and contribute to the scientific examination of the state of the river basin.
Family day will also have displays of skulls, snakes and other live reptiles, and live rescued birds from the Arizona Game and Fish Department. A vulture “scavenger” hunt sponsored by the Tucson Audubon Society and live painting by artist Syri Hall, the 2022 VVBNF winning artist, will also happen throughout the day.
In addition, Jay’s Bird Barn, Verde Valley Archaeological Society and Pindrop Travel Trailers will host displays.
A full range of workshops and field trips are available with prices ranging from $15 to $100. Workshops include educational presentations about bats, birds and owls, a birding photography sessions and bird related story-telling.
Field trips to observe birds and other wildlife range from Flagstaff to Prescott to Black Canyon City including multiple locations around the Verde Valley.
Kayaking trips along the Verde River with Doug Van Gausig of the Verde River Institute and stargazing with Dennis Young of the Sirius Lookers Astronomy Club are also on the agenda. Workshops and field trips require pre-registration.
The Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival is hosted by Friends of the Verde River and sponsored by the Salt River Project (SRP), the City of Cottonwood, the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau, The Melting Pot (Sedona) and the Northern Arizona Audubon Society. For more information or to register for an activity, visit VerdeRiver.org/birding-festival.
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Re: DB Design Dilemma!! One DB or Many DBs??
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:43:15 -0800
I'm in camp D! :-)
Before I explain what it is, think about this: Why would you let security decide your physical database design if you can adress this on the logical database design level (e.g. views). Do physical database design for performance and concurrency only (If that matters for your app). Let the app and the logical design handle the rest.
camp D solution would be (I'm just sketchiing this. I don't have the time to
try it out):
1) store all "accounts_payable" and "accounts_recievable" data in single database tables. These tables would have very restrictive permissions (only DBA or some other highly restricted user). 2) create a table that contains information which users can access which divisions or groups. E.g.
CREATE TABLE permissions (user varchar(128), group integer)
insert into permissions ('ROB', 14)
insert into permissions ('ROB', 15)
3) Then create a view on top of that that's resticting the columns that a user can see. E.g.
CREATE VIEW user_accounts_payable AS
SELECT FROM accounts_payable a
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM permissions p WHERE CURRENT USER=p.user AND a.group=p.group)
I don't really like that you have to have an entry for each user in 2, but DB2 doesn't have a CURRENT GROUP, which would give you the current OS user group. You could do that in an UDF.
The access through the views shouldn't be that bad if the permissions table is small and can be held in memory.
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Eight additional conferences offer educational opportunities on a broad scope of manufacturing technology advances and trends.
Registration is now open for the IMTS 2016 Conference, a key educational attraction at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show. The IMTS 2016 Conference, which runs for four days during IMTS, offers 55-minute long seminars that provide solutions to current manufacturing problems, such as improving productivity, improving part quality and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.
“These conferences provide opportunities to stay on the leading edge of technology, a core mission of IMTS,” says Peter R. Eelman, Vice President — Exhibitions & Business Development, AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, the parent organization of IMTS. “Presentations from thought leaders in many different disciplines inspire new ways to transform your business, whether that’s learning how to implement Industry 4.0 practices or improving results in a specific work cell.” Eelman also notes the conferences provide excellent networking opportunities.
The IMTS 2016 Conference runs from Sept. 12-15. There are nearly 70 individual conference sessions from which to choose, all held in the West Building – Level 1 of McCormick Place in rooms W192 A-C, W193 A-B and W194-A.
IMTS also hosts eight additional educational conferences that focus on specific technologies: Additive Manufacturing (Sept. 13-14), EOS North American User Day (Sept. 14), Fluid Power (Sept. 14), Industrial Laser (Sept. 13), Integrated Industries (Sept. 13), Global Automation & Manufacturing Summit (Sept. 14), OPC Foundation (Sept. 15) and TRAM Aerospace (Sept. 14-15).
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What could go wrong? Eurabia Update: “Despite Alarm by U.S., Europe Lets Hezbollah Operate Openly,” by Nicholas Kulish for the New York Times, August 15 (thanks to Lachlan):
BERLIN “” As American officials sound the alarm over what they call a resurgent threat from the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, thousands of its members and supporters operate with few restrictions in Europe, raising money that is funneled to the group’s leadership in Lebanon.
Israeli and American officials have blamed Hezbollah and Iran for last month’s deadly Bulgarian bus bombing.
Washington and Jerusalem insist that Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terrorist organization with bloody hands, and that it is working closely with Tehran to train, arm and finance the Syrian military”s lethal repression of the uprising there. Yet, the European Union continues to treat it foremost as a Lebanese political and social movement.
As Israel heightens fears of a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, intelligence analysts warn that Iran and Hezbollah would respond with attacks of their own on targets abroad. Israeli and American officials have attributed the Bulgarian bus bombing last month that killed six people, including five Israeli tourists, to Hezbollah and Iran, saying it was part of a clandestine offensive that has included plots in Thailand, India, Cyprus and elsewhere.
While the group is believed to operate all over the Continent, Germany is a center of activity, with 950 members and supporters last year, up from 900 in 2010, Germany”s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual threat report. On Saturday, Hezbollah supporters and others will march here for the annual Jerusalem Day event, a protest against Israeli control of that city. Organizers told the Berlin police that the event would attract 1,000 marchers, and that two counterdemonstrations were also likely.
Hezbollah has maintained a low profile in Europe since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, quietly holding meetings and raising money that goes to Lebanon, where officials use it for an array of activities “” building schools and clinics, delivering social services and, Western intelligence agencies say, carrying out terrorist attacks.
European security services keep tabs on the group’s political supporters, but experts say they are ineffective when it comes to tracking the sleeper cells that pose the most danger. “They have real, trained operatives in Europe that have not been used in a long time, but if they wanted them to become active, they could,” said Alexander Ritzmann, a policy adviser at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels, who has testified before Congress on Hezbollah.
The European Union’s unwillingness to place the group on its list of terrorist organizations is also complicating the West’s efforts to deal with the Bulgarian bus bombing and the Syrian conflict. The week after the attack in Bulgaria, Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, traveled to Brussels for a regular meeting with European officials, where he called for the European Union to include Hezbollah on the list. But his pleas fell on deaf ears.
“There is no consensus among the E.U. member states for putting Hezbollah in the terrorist-related list of the organizations,” Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the foreign minister of Cyprus, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, said at the time. “Should there be tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terrorism, the E.U. would consider listing the organization.”…
The Netherlands declared Hezbollah a terrorist organization in 2004, saying that it did not distinguish between the group’s political and terrorist wings. Britain distinguishes between the parts, listing only the militant wing….
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This cabinet card features a handsome young man, probably from the City of New York. The imprint reads: Rud Bachmann, 6 East 14th St., New York.
The photographer was likely Rudolph Bachmann, born about 1850 in Switzerland. He came to the U.S. about 1880. By 1884 he was running a photography business at 1437 Broadway in New York and remained at that location until 1892. From 1892 to at least 1922, the business was located at 6 E. 14th Street in NYC. From 1914 to 1922 most directory listings note “& Son” when referencing the business.
Since cabinet cards were produced from in the late 1800s through the 1920s, and given the address of the business on the photograph, it can be assumed that the photograph was taken between 1892 and 1920s. However, cabinet card popularity began to taper off in about 1905, so a better estimate is probably 1892 to 1905.
1. 1900 U.S. census population schedule, Manhattan Borough, New York City, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 103, sheet 163A, p. 163 (stamped) dwelling 88, family 147, Rudolph Bachmann; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 February 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 1085.
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Body Language Project: Dating, Attraction And Sexual Body Language
Image 9508: Despite feeling a little bit awkward in front of the camera, Dave shows the proper body language. His feet are shoulder width apart or slightly greater than shoulder width, his hands are out of his pockets, and he is not using the bar or wall for support or comfort. He is saying that he is alright all by himself. The only thing missing in the photograph is someone to dialogue with. A buddy or group of women would definitely complete the picture.
Image 0420: This photograph illustrates how some feel in a novel environment. Mark’s face is tensed, his eyebrows are crunched up, and overall, he looks nervous. It’s plainly obvious that he isn’t comfortable at this location. He would be best to relax his posture and facial muscles. Women won’t take well to this look.
Image 0809: Touching the face, fidgeting or playing with your hands or clothing, is never good. Avoid these gestures as they make one seem uncomfortable and out of place.
Image 9469: In this photograph, Dave has the right idea but is using it on the wrong woman. He is comfortable enough to take up space with his body. His body is completely open and he is acting like a dominant man. His legs are wide, his arms are open, and his head is cocked. His gaze is all wrong however, as he is giving Scarlett far too much attention. He is also giving her the up-and-down which is a big turn off for women. In reality, Dave is putting Scarlett off because he is treating her like an object. Even though Scarlett isn’t directly looking at Dave, she is subconsciously aware of his glare. She avoids his eye contact altogether and if Dave continues to stare, she will most likely leave the area altogether. Her gaze might also be toward another man hoping to be rescued. If her gander was toward you, and if she added a 45 degree head turn then looked downward, you would be advised to steal her away.
Image 0798: This is a relaxed body position, but not a dominant one. Mark is using the bar for support and has his arms somewhat crossed. This is a fairly common posture for men who tend to end up as “wallflowers” for the majority of the night. Instead of holding this position for too long, he should move about the room and socialize with others.
Image 0305: Mark is displaying perfect body language here. He is relaxed, leaning back and away, with his legs slightly spread. He is showing that he has high value and is entertaining Julie with his conversation. Because he is leaning back, Julie is forced to lean forward to engage him, and because she is doing so, it’s a signal of interest. She is also playing with the stem of her glass which adds to her indicators of interest.
Image 8957: Something that stands out right away in this photograph is that Dave is covering his mouth and seems to be hiding something. His left hand is also pointed nearly palms up so he is trying to offer something in his speech. Far too often people in awkward situations speak with their hands up on their face, touching their face, or covering their mouth partially or completely. It gives everyone else a poor impression and makes one look out of place.
Image 0893: Mark is showing some good signs of opening up and this is causing Julie to open up as well. His palms are upward and gesturing and this has led Julie to start to play with her hair as a sign of interest. Mark is still showing a bit of timidity though with his legs crossed at the ankle. He’d be better served to have them separated at around shoulder width. Julie is still not completely open to his advances which is evident because she has her legs crossed and her arms are partially crossed as well.
Image 8942: Peek-a-boo can be played by either of the sexes. Parting hair a certain way or looking at someone of interest through hair can all create arousal. Menus and drinking glasses are no exception. It seems juvenile to think that this happens in grown adults, but it really does when two people fall in love with each other.
Image 0819: The head drop is performed when you use your head in a “come here” motion. It can be very powerful since it takes a fair amount of self confidence to pull off. For this to work, you will need to establish eye contact and be certain that she will be receptive to the request. It can also be done by using the finger in a come here motion.
Image 9583: By putting his hands in his belt, Dave is using a classic dominant body position. He has his thumbs hooked into his belt with the remainder of his fingers pointed downward, drawing attention to his crotch. Susceptible women will fall for this tactic by looking in this area. Scarlett has fallen for it and is definitely smitten with Dave.
Image 8964: Dave is doing a full steeple. It is a bridge formed with the fingers meeting at the fingertips. This body language says that he knows something that no one else does. It is a dominant position and you will often see people do this in business situations. It is generally not a good signal to give off in dating. The higher the steeple, the greater the affect it has in convincing people that you are smug or a “know-it-all,” even if just subconsciously. Some can even go so far as to look at people through their steeple as their elbows are propped up on a desk or table.
Image 8967: This is a half steeple and is more subtle than a full steeple. The sender of this message is saying that he isn’t quite as smug and doesn’t know quite as much as someone with a full steeple, but he still knows more than you. If you find yourself doing this, stop immediately and move onto more open and accepting body language such as palms up or neutral body language such as palms down but visible.
Image 8972: This is the most subtle form of steepling. It is a relaxed position and not as offensive to others as the full or half steeple. It is not an open body posture, but it is still fairly acceptable.
Image 1055: Because Mark’s arms are open instead of crossed, he is able to use them to appear larger and also to perform random touches. In this case, his arm is in a position for Julie to initiate touching as well. Julie’s focus is entirely on Mark, with eye contact and arms and legs uncrossed.
Image 9571: This is a very intimate handshake. In performing this handshake, Dave is pulling Scarlett into him slightly and Scarlett is cooperating nicely. She has an erect posture, her legs are open, and she even has her left hand reaching for her lap to steady herself so she can move into Dave even more. On a first introduction, things look good for Dave. If one is keen on the study of body language, they will also notice that she has puckered her lips, which is a signal that she may be interested in a kiss at some point throughout the night. Her eyes are also cast toward his face, and quite likely at his mouth, furthering the intimacy.
Image 9154: Dave is performing a really bad handshake which will set the tone for the next few minutes. His hand is loose and weak and his hand is turned over palm down. Normally palm down indicates superiority but in this case, since it is so loose, it does not.
Image 9159: This is a much better handshake. Both hands are vertical which indicates that each party is equal. Had Dave used either palm down (superiority) or palm up (inferiority) it wouldn’t come across as nicely for a first impression. Handshakes are best at about 5 seconds long, firm (not hard), and with a dry palm. To increase the intimacy, Dave might make the handshake last a little longer than normal.
Image 0492: Mark has overshot Julie’s boundaries by touching too soon. Touching, when unwelcome, is difficult to recover from, so it is best to allow the woman to indicate strong interest before initiating. Since her arms are crossed, they were more than likely crossed before Mark made his move. He should have known that touching her knee would only make matters worse. Since his advance, she has moved her head away in disgust. Mark would have been much better off to have moved to the same side of the table and made touching less forward and more incidental and perhaps only to emphasis a point.
Image 0496: In this situation, it is obvious that touching is welcome. Julie has offered to fix Mark’s collar. She still shows some reservation by continuing to lean backwards. Her gaze is toward his mouth, however, so that could mean she is thinking about a kiss but the rest of her body is holding back.
Image 0773: Mark is showing poor body posture by slouching, allowing his head to lead him and is hunched over.
Image 0777: Here is proper body posture. Mark’s head is up, back and level, his hands are to his side and are relaxed and curved upwards, his shoulder are back and his weight is evenly distributed across both feet.
Image 0978: Mark is playing hard to get and Julie is ramping up her intimacy. Mark is using his body position to eliminate Julie as the centre of attention. Julie is countering his body language by pushing herself up against him to reassert her position and make her interests obvious.
Image 0860: Mark is still closed off to Julie with his hands in his pockets, but she doesn’t seem to mind. Her body shows that she is still interested with her left leg pointed toward him. She is also leaning in with her head cocked to the side and her left arm extended toward him. Mark’s negative postures have served the purpose of inducing Julie to chase him.
Image 0349: Mark is playing the alpha male with his extremely open body posture. This position can sometimes be offensive to women, especially those not interested in dominant men. His body is taking up as much room as physically possible. His legs are spread with his left arm behind him and on the sofa opening himself up even further. If Mark was testing this position to verify its effectiveness, he should note that it has succeeded in securing Julie’s interest. She has her head cocked at 45 degrees showing interest and is playing with her hair.
Image 9522: Dave is demonstrating how not to hold your drink. Holding a drink at your chest is inadvertently showing a defensive position because it blocks the chest. It is akin to having your arms crossed. Scarlett’s body language is basically neutral, but she may be giving off signals of interest by touching her neck.
Image 9532: Dave is now showing the proper way to hold a drink. He is displaying an open body posture by lowering his drink to his side. He could also put his drink down every once in a while or permanently and use his wits to woo his mate.
Image 0368: Mark is playing a little game in this photograph. He is teasingly showing Julie disinterest, which is a test to see if she will reciprocate with additional cues of interest. By looking over his shoulder he is showing that she isn’t the center of attention. Julie is falling for the tactic by leaning toward Mark and extending her interest. Dating is a game of cat and mouse.
Image 0355: Mark is taking control with this open body posture. Julie is interested in Mark as she is leaning in and is playing with her hair.
Image 0315: Mark is showing great open male body language, but even so, could be losing Julie’s interest. Her head is turned away from him and she is guarding her body with her arms which is a closed body position. She is however, playing with her hair which could either be interest as it would be in grooming or disinterest if due to boredom. There are some mixed signals here, but for the most part disinterest is present.
Image 0380: This is another method Mark has used to force Julie to chase him instead of always being the one to chase. His legs are crossed away from Julie and his left arm is blocking his body from her. His arms are also up and open showing that he is honest and engaging. Julie is moving toward him with her right hand extended forward and is smiling. She is enjoying Mark’s story and hence his company.
Image 0431: Just as a dominant man can glide through a room, Mark is gliding through his motions. He is adjusting his sleeve but his motion is smooth and planned and he is showing that he is in control at all times. His movements aren’t erratic or unpredictable, they are deliberate. Even though Mark is doing something completely basic, Julie is giving him her undivided attention. Remember that the vast majority of what people say is non-verbal.
Image 0465: Julie is on display but is sending mixed signals. She has an erect posture showing interest but her left arm and leg are crossed away from Mark and she is looking away from him. It would seem as though she is either playing hard to get or is demonstrating that she has outclassed him and that he is not worthy of her attention. Mark is showing timidity by sitting on his hands and leaning away. He seems to only have the courage to admire her beauty.
Image 8993: Dave is missing the big picture here. He should ask Scarlett to dance as she is obviously enjoying the music by dancing in her chair. Because she hasn’t gotten up on her own, she is most likely waiting for Dave to ask her. Women are generally not the aggressors in a relationship. They will give hints and hope to have the man take the lead. Go for it Dave. Ask her to dance!
Image 9053: Here Scarlet has moved directly in front of Dave after approaching him. She is comfortable because she is directly facing him but still shows some timidity. This is evident because she is holding her hands and arms out and in front of herself. Dave has a great open body posture. His legs are open slightly and his arms are apart. His left hand is in fair proximity to Scarlett and could serve to escalate the intimacy with some fleeting touches.
Image 9139: Dave is striking out here again. He is trying to escalate intimacy by whispering. The only problem is that Scarlett is not interested and instead of leaning in to shrink the distance between them and actually hear what Dave is saying, she is leaning backwards giving off all sorts of indicators of disinterest. Scarlett will most likely resume her conversation with her other friends once she humours him with a false laugh.
Image 9440: Now Dave has Scarlett where he wants her. Dave is using his body language teasingly to block Scarlett out and is scanning the room as if she wasn’t the most important girl. He thinks she is, but he doesn’t make it obvious to her. Scarlett, on the other hand, is hook, line and sinker for Dave. She is leaning around him trying to regain his attention, has her arms open, and is even thrusting her chest forward into Dave. Dave has his hands out of his pockets showing that he is comfortable in his environment.
Image 9334: Dave is showing stern, proper, and authoritative body language. He is holding the typical military posture. It is also fairly negative, since his hands are hidden. A woman would prefer to see a man’s hands and for him to appear less rigid.
Image 9315: Dave is using body language to his advantage in this situation. His hands are out where people can see them and he is using them to emphasize points in his speech. His hands are also facing upward, which is an open posture showing both honesty and the desire to offer something. In this case, Dave is probably offering a story, but the hardwiring for body language is the same as if he were giving a gift or other tangible item. We can also see that Scarlett is taking well to his posture as she is showing a slight smile and eye contact. She is still a bit unsure of Dave though since her arms are serving to block herself off.
Image 9321: Dave is showing some very poor body language in this situation. His arms are crossed in a defensive manner. He would be advised to open his position up and display in such a fashion that was more open to the conversation and situation. While having one’s arms crossed may seem comfortable, one must also understand the reason that makes this so. Crossed arms form a protective barrier against outside ideas and people and creates a solid line between yourself and the rest of the world. This position might be acceptable for a tough boss, but it isn’t useful in dating.
Image 0564: Mark has waited too long to speak to Julie. Julie has closed herself off and because Mark waited so long his value in her eyes has been lowered. Some time ago, Julie has removed her hair to expose her neck and Mark missed the signal.
Image 0604: This form of touching can go dramatically in either direction. A woman’s arm around the shoulder could be a signal of friendship or a flirty and fleety display of affection.
Image 0755: Mark is showing a relaxed body posture. His arms are open and not fully supported by the bar. His feet are slightly apart and his right hand is hooked into his pocket rather than being totally hidden in a pocket. Julie is showing interest by extending her left arm toward Mark’s arm and pointing her toes inwards. She is also making eye contact. Mark is looking away and giving off negative body postures to establish himself as pursuit worthy.
Image 0858: Mark is showing a closed body position and this has forced Julie to become more aggressive toward him. She is trying to get more attention by touching his sides, probably trying to open up his posture. Her left foot is also pointed toward him meaning that her attention is all his.
Image 0793: This is showing poor body posture once again. Here Mark is leaning to one side by placing most of his weight on his right foot.
Image 1036: Mark is making his discomfort evident by playing with his hands.
Image 1048: Here, the attention is being put on a third party outside of the photograph.
Image 0986: Mark is hiding his hands, which is never a great body position. He should have his hands to his sides and visible. In this position, he comes across as having something to hide.
Image 9817: From Scarlett’s reaction it’s pretty obvious that she is being put off but still remains playful towards Dave’s advances. It’d be best, at this point, for him to back off a little. His point of interest has been made and now Dave should let Scarlett reciprocate interest without imposing further.
Image 9902: Lending a piece of clothing is a way for Dave to get close to Scarlett without actually touching her. It’s also a great way to score a phone number since he’ll need to be able to get it back from her at some point. Scarlett could also be testing Dave’s chivalry and therefore his interest in her, as she might not be cold at all. Sharing clothing can be a very intimate thing to do.
Image 9129: It’s a losing battle, Dave! Dave would have a much better shot at regaining or simply gaining Scarlett’s attention by standing up and circling to the front of her. He is showing that he is insecure by not leaving his post at the bar to make his approach. Even if he tapped her on the shoulder, I doubt he could secure her interest. No amount of “body groveling” will get her to move around and nobody responds well to a stiff jab in the back from a stranger, especially from a seemingly subordinate man.
Image 0518: Julie is taking control of the interaction by leaving. Mark is trying to regain her company. It looks like she has found someone more interesting to accompany her. By reaching for her in this way, Mark is lowering himself to her and will be forced to continue the chase indefinitely. He would be better off to approach her at a later time or wait for more signals of interest before continuing his pursuit.
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102: Vanessa Bohns on Influence
Today’s episode is with Vanessa Bohns Professor of organisational behaviour at Cornell University. I spoke to Vanessa about her recent book “You have more influence than you think” with the subtitle of “How we underestimate our power of persuasion and why it matters”.
I found this topic fascinating – because we spend so much time thinking about our ideas, interact with other people, trying to create change, while often being overly worried about what judgements people make of us. The book and the discussion helps you overcome some of those worries and champions us you to realise that we are influential.
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A handheld ‘bio pen’ developed in the labs of the University of Wollongong (UOW) will allow surgeons to design customised implants on-site and at the time of surgery.
The BioPen, developed by researchers from the UOW-headquarteredAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), will give surgeons greater control over where the materials are deposited while also reducing the time the patient is in surgery by delivering live cells and growth factors directly to the site of injury, accelerating the regeneration of functional bone and cartilage.
The BioPen works similar to 3D printing methods by delivering cell material inside a biopolymer such as alginate, a seaweed extract, protected by a second, outer layer of gel material. The two layers of gel are combined in the pen head as it is extruded onto the bone surface and the surgeon ‘draws’ with the ink to fill in the damaged bone section.
A low powered ultra-violet light source is fixed to the device that solidifies the inks during dispensing, providing protection for the embedded cells while they are built up layer-by-layer to construct a 3D scaffold in the wound site.
Once the cells are ‘drawn’ onto the surgery site they will multiply, become differentiated into nerve cells, muscle cells or bone cells and will eventually turn from individual cells into a thriving community of cells in the form of a functioning a tissue, such as nerves, or a muscle.
The device can also be seeded with growth factors or other drugs to assist regrowth and recovery, while the hand-held design allows for precision in theatre and ease of transportation.
The BioPen prototype was designed and built using the 3D printing equipment in the labs at the University of Wollongong and was this week handed over to clinical partners at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, led by Professor Peter Choong, who will work on optimising the cell material for use in clinical trials.
The BioPen will help build on recent work by ACES researchers where they were able to grow new knee cartilage from stem cells on 3D-printed scaffolds to treat cancers, osteoarthritis and traumatic injury.
Professor Peter Choong, Director of Orthopaedics at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Sir Hugh Devine Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne said:
“This type of treatment may be suitable for repairing acutely damaged bone and cartilage, for example from sporting or motor vehicle injuries. Professor Wallace’s research team brings together the science of stem cells and polymer chemistry to help surgeons design and personalise solutions for reconstructing bone and joint defects in real time.”
The BioPen will be transferred to St Vincent’s for clinical projects to be carried out at the proposed Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery in Melbourne.
“The combination of materials science and next-generation fabrication technology is creating opportunities that can only be executed through effective collaborations such as this,” ACES Director Professor Gordon Wallace said.
“What’s more, advances in 3D printing are enabling further hardware innovations in a rapid manner.”
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Fly Like a Bird
A project by squidsoup.
Imagine flying like a bird through a musical composition that surrounds you, immerses you and reacts to your presence.
Driftnet is a confluence of two ideas – bird-like flight, and a spatialised, navigable musical environment.
At one level, it experiments with intuitive methods for freely navigating 3D virtual space. Users are invited to ‘fly like a bird’ to navigate through a virtual space. Using NO worn equipment - just by flapping their arms/wings and tilting their arms and bodies – people can intuitively (and amusingly!) navigate freely in virtual space. The metaphor used harks back to childhood play, imitating birds and planes in the playground.
The virtual space is regarded as the notation paper for a spatial, navigable musical composition – we use it to create immersive and responsive virtual spaces that can be explored both visually and aurally – an area we have been exploring with “Altzero” (www.squidsoup.org/altzero) since 1999. Sounds become reactive agents, visualised within the space and with behaviours that respond to one’s presence. By moving through the space, participants are able to navigate the musical composition, as proximity and relative position directly affect what is heard.
The immersive experience, and the slightly tongue-in-cheek flavour of the interface, are both enhanced by the use of anaglyphic red/cyan specs to create a strong illusion of 3D depth.
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Driftnet I was exhibited at Shunt (London Bridge, UK) from 13-22 June 2007 as a public trial. The first prototypes were shown at Future of Sound events at SAGE (Gateshead UK) and Goldsmiths (London UK) in early 2007, as part of a Cybersonica artists' showcase.
Driftnet is a collaborative project by Gaz Bushell, Anthony Rowe and Ollie Bown.
Grabbed from the interface that allows participants to fly like a bird through the virtual space. The system derives depthmap imagery by comparing a pair of camera images in real time, using a Point Grey Bumblebee stereo-vision camera. The colour of a pixel shows its distance from the camera - red is nearest, blue furthest away. Grey is beyond the distance boundaries set.
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What’s in a name?
CHI St. Luke’s Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center (St. Luke’s Baylor) is quite a mouthful. It’s a joint venture of two of the most storied and well-known names in Houston’s Texas Medical Center, St. Luke’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.
It's an academic or teaching hospital where St. Luke’s provides the nursing, therapy, technical, and administrative employees. Baylor completes the health care team by providing the physician medical staff, including attending physicians and professors, who are fully trained, and residents and fellows, who are doctors still completing their clinical training.
Although it’s located at 1001 Bates Avenue, in Houston, St. Luke’s Baylor is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), which is headquartered and operated out of state. With the loss of local leadership in this important hospital several years ago, it’s my opinion that there’s been a change in culture and some new quality of care concerns.
When it comes to quality of care, St. Luke’s Baylor has had some high-profile problems in recent years. For example, Painter Law Firm represented two different clients who had surgical towels left inside their abdomens after surgeries at the St. Luke’s Baylor flagship hospital.
These serious sentinel events led to the patients having to undergo the risks and pain of second surgeries to remove what should’ve never been left there in the first place.
CHI St. Luke’s Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center was back in the news for more quality of care concerns. This time it was when Medicare announced its undistinguished list of hospitals with the lowest performance for readmission rates. St. Luke’s Baylor made the list.
The Affordable Care Act created a program that requires Medicare to collect data on hospitals nationwide, including readmission rates. Medicare studies the percentage of patients who have to be readmitted to the hospital within a set period of time. Of course, one of the points of quality care is to see patients discharged from the hospital. The lower the readmission rate, the better.
There are a variety of factors that can influence hospital readmission rates. Poor discharge planning is one. When a patient is pushed out the door without hospital assistance to set up necessary home health, home nursing, prescriptions, and durable medical equipment, the patient’s condition can rapidly plummet. That can lead to readmission.
Sadly, this isn’t the first year that Medicare named CHI St. Luke’s Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center as an underperforming hospital in terms of readmission rates. In fact, it’s made the undesirable list every single year since 2015.
As a result, in fiscal year 2022, just like each of the past seven years, Medicare will penalize St. Luke’s Baylor by reducing its reimbursement or payment rate. In other words, Medicare hits the lowest performing hospitals where it hurts—their financial bottom line.
As a former hospital administrator, I know that financial sanctions and penalties get the attention of hospital leadership. I’m surprised that an institution like St. Luke’s Baylor continues to struggle with this issue year after year.
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Environmental protection and combating climate change have been playing an important role for the South Korean Government under Moon Jae-In since 2017. According to its “Renewable Energy 3020” implementation plan, the share of renewable energy sources for power generation are to be increased from the current 7% to 20% by 2030. The EEHH Cluster along with the Office of Economics, Transport and Innovation (BWVI) is organising a delegation visit for interested Hamburg companies from 23-29 February 2020 in order to give Hamburg stakeholders a better understanding of this promising market.
This Republic of Korea is heavily dependent on electricity imports because this Asian country has insufficient energy resources itself. The general goal is not just to expand the use of renewable energy sources, but rather to also reduce the general energy demand by 13% and the electricity demand by 15% by 2035. Currently, Korea is in a transitional stage and just starting an energy system transformation – LNG is being used as a transitional source of energy during the switch from nuclear and coal energy to renewable energy sources.
Ambitious objectives for renewable energy sources, especially wind energy
As a country that is at the absolute forefront when it comes to IT, South Korea can combine the expansion of renewable energy sources with progressive digitisation. A great many Korean stakeholders work in the fields of big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The plan is to build renewable energy facilities with an output of 63.8 GW by 2030 at an investment level of 110 billion WON. Eight offshore wind farms will be built by the end of 2020. The government would like to implement various incentive programmes that involve citizens and small businesses in projects in order to increase acceptance of the plan.
MOTIE (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) as the key player in the Korean energy revolution
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, MOTIE for short, compiles the basic plan for promoting renewable energy sources with targets for technical developments as well as the use and distribution of renewable energy sources. In December 2017, it adopted the 8th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand. MOTIE also oversees the approval of power companies for the generation business, with the exception of generation operations with a capacity of 3 MW or less.
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What does it imply whenever my return deposit date came plus my deposit wasn’t there. Next the following day the taxes code 152 shows up. Is there anything incorrect?
Answer by LOKI301
Topic 152 – Refund Information
Taxpayers have 3 choices for getting their individual federal money taxes refund: a paper check, direct deposit (electronic funds transfer) into a checking, savings or additional account; or perhaps a buy of U.S. Series I Savings Bonds. Taxpayers might request which refunds be straight placed inside as much as 3 separate accounts. The return need to be $ 1.00 or even more. Form 8888, Allocation of Refund (Including Savings Bond Purchases), will provide taxpayers a choice of choosing as much as 3 accounts including checking, savings plus retirement accounts. Note: You cannot have a return placed into multiple account should you file Form 8379 (PDF), Injured Spouse Allocation.
If you file a complete exact taxes return, a return can commonly be issued inside six weeks within the received date. Should you filed electronically, return checks might usually be issued in 3 weeks following the acknowledgment date. Refunds from amended returns may usually be issued in 8–12 weeks. Injured partner claims may take longer, depending found on the circumstances. Refer to Topic 203 to acquire more information concerning Injured Spouse Claims.
To check on a return, go to “Where’s My Refund” or call the Refund Hotline at 800–829–1954. Please let 72 hours once you electronically file or 3 weeks once you send the return before utilizing the automated systems. If you call, you need to offer the Social Security quantity, the filing status, as well as the actual complete dollar amount of the return shown about the return. There are many factors for delayed refunds. Refer to Topic 303 for a checklist of usual mistakes whenever preparing a taxes return, as well as for more products which might delay the processing of the return.
Should you get the return to that you are not entitled, or 1 for an amount which is much more than we expected, never cash the check till we get the see explaining the difference. Follow the instructions found on the see.
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On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, a member of the International Solidarity Movement stood with others to defend a Palestinian home from demolition by Israeli Defense Forces. The photos of Rachel, in her bright red ISM jacket, confronting the Goliath earth mover were some of the first indications Americans had of how the IDF was using bulldozers as weapons of war. Though Rachel was plainly visible to the driver he continued to move forward, using his machine to crush her to death.
On August 28, 2012, Israeli judge Oded Gorshen ll invoked the “combatant activities” exception, noting that IDP forces had been attacked nearby and ruled Corrie’s death an “accident.”
Corrie was one of a group of around eight international activists acting as human shields against the demolitions. According to witness statements made at the time and evidence given in court, she clambered on top of a mound of earth in the path of an advancing Caterpillar bulldozer.
“She was standing on top of a pile of earth,” fellow activist and eyewitness Richard Purssell, from Brighton, said at the time. “The driver cannot have failed to see her. As the blade pushed the pile, the earth rose up. Rachel slid down the pile. It looks as if her foot got caught. The driver didn’t slow down; he just ran over her. Then he reversed the bulldozer back over her again.”
Tom Dale, an 18-year-old from Lichfield in Staffordshire, said: “The bulldozer went towards her very slowly, she was fully in clear view, straight in front of them. Unfortunately she couldn’t keep her grip there and she started to slip down. You could see she was in serious trouble, there was panic in her face as she was turning around. All the activists there were screaming, running towards the bulldozer, trying to get them to stop. But they just kept on going.”
In response to the ruling by the Haifa court, the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, restated a position that the U.S. government has long held: “Israel’s investigation into the death of American activist Rachel Corrie was not satisfactory, and wasn’t as thorough, credible or transparent as it should have been.”
“The lawsuit is just a small step in our family’s nearly decade-long search for truth and justice,” said Craig Corrie, Rachel’s father, in a press statement. “The mounting evidence presented before the court underscores a broken system of accountability – tolerated by the United States in spite of its conclusions that Israel’s military investigation was not ‘thorough, credible, or transparent.’”
Oral testimony in the case began March 10, 2010. There have been 15 court hearings since with 23 witnesses testifying. The trial has exposed serious chain-of-command failures in relation to civilian killings and indiscriminate destruction of civilian property at the hands of the Israeli military in southern Gaza.
“This trial is an attempt to hold accountable not only those who failed to protect Rachel’s life but also the flawed system of military investigations which is neither impartial nor thorough,” said Hussein abu Hussein, the family’s attorney. “Under international law, Israel is obligated to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians from the dangers of military operations. The Israeli military flagrantly violated this principle in the killing of Rachel Corrie and it must be held accountable.”
Rachel Corrie’s courageous witness – only one story among thousands of Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals who demand justice for Palestinians and peace for Israel – didn’t stop with her death. American churches initiated a boycott of Caterpillar, the supplier of bull dozers to the IDF. Rachel’s parents have spoken at thousands of venues, continued the civil and criminal court cases, and started the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice. Many, like me, include Rachel Corrie on our “martyrs roll,” remembering her as one who died in service of others defending justice and peace.
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Global food systems are increasingly at risk. Rising demand, scarce resources and increased volatility are putting new pressures on agriculture and food systems.
Governments, companies, international agencies and civil society groups are looking for new approaches to food security and agricultural growth, leveraging new investments while ensuring sustainability for communities and the environment.
AIDF Food Security Summit: Asia 2014 will run Agriculture and Nutrition stream in parallel, with delegates able to move between both sessions to get most of this experience.
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Be it any commercial business, catering to the needs of the customers and making a profit out it serves as the main motive to achieve the long-term goal. The functional space where any business is running, must be safe, comfortable and adhere to hygiene standards. Redesigning these commercial venues with rubber flooring rolls can help to uplift the appearance of space along with providing a long-term, durable and affordable solution of flooring.
Commercial Rubber Rolls
There is a multitude of features available in the commercial rubber rolls offers an array of benefits to the different businesses. This is why these rubber flooring rolls are slowly being adapted in various commercial spaces.
Gym Rubber Rolls
The large spaces in the gyms typically install gym rubber rolls that acts as a layer of protection between the gym’s equipment and machinery and its hard floors. Additionally, it offers a firm ground for maintaining body balance during the performance of physical activities.
Commercial Rubber Flooring Rolls in Different Spaces:
Swimming Centres: The nearby areas of the swimming pools are often identified as hazardous for walking of the people. Water splashes mainly tend to accumulate in the solid concrete floors like stones and tiles, rendering them slippery and prone to fatal accidents. The high risk of such accidentals can be evaded by installing the commercial rubber flooring rolls that provide natural traction even when the area is wet and moist.
Music Studio: To create a musical masterpiece, the several sounds that are produce needs to be appropriately arranged. The main-stream musical artists use a million-dollar music studio that offers a complete sound-proofing by using different technologies. One among such technologies is the installation of rubber subfloors. The sounds are absorbed within the rubbers rather than bouncing them back since it has an inherent shock absorbent molecular structure. This provision in the studio results in producing a cleaner soundtrack.
Gym and Fitness Studios: As we toss and move the heavyweights and other machinery, there is a higher probable risk of simultaneously damaging both the equipment and the base surface. To guard your gym against the costly repairs and replacements, the area can be covered with rubberised flooring rolls. These rubber rolls can prove to be extremely beneficial in high impact areas like the deadlift zones.
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No matter whatever be the niche of the commercial business, the versatile utility derived from rubber flooring rolls are not present in any other flooring alternatives. It maximises the satisfaction of both the business entity and its patron. It is indeed a prudent decision to invest in rubber floorings for your commercial space, as it is inexpensive and provides a life long service for years. | <urn:uuid:3f0461b8-4ffe-4575-932f-1f124420d3df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wholesalershop.in/rubber-flooring/commercial-rolls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.926478 | 799 | 1.5 | 2 |
Roosting Rooster, In Tree
Category: Outdoor Scenes
Photo and caption by Sally Stone
Wild roosters and chickens abound in New Orleans since post-Katrina, when domesticated fowl flew the coop from backyard pens. The local SPCA chapter dispenses officers to keep this wild population in check, but there's plenty of cock-a-doodle dooing at LaFreniere Park. This was the first time I'd ever seen in a rooster in a tree. Apparently, without a coop, they like to roost in a tree or on a roof.
Location: Lafreniere Park, Metairie, Louisiana
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A rhythmic clanging interrupted the soothing lapping of the water against the boat as we glided slowly through the shallow sea in the soft morning light. It was the sound of the rakes used by the mariscadoras, the women who were collecting shellfish at low tide on a sandbank under the bridge that links Arousa island to the southern side of the Ría de Arousa in O Salnés.
The Ría de Arousa is 25 km long, making it the biggest of the estuaries that form the crinkly coastline of the Rías Baixas on the Atlantic ocean in Galicia in the north west of Spain. The rías have similarities with the fjords of Norway and the firths and sea lochs of Scotland. The mix of fresh and salt water creates optimum conditions for cultivating shellfish and the area is of great ecological interest.
Cormorants and herons perched on rocks as we drifted down the ría, gazing at the blue mist on the horizon. We were sailing on the Amare Un, a small boat owned by Gabi Comojo Cristobo, who used to be a full-time fisherman but now runs Amare Turismo Nautico. He takes groups out to cruise around and swim, snorkel, dive and fish. If you like, you can get off the boat at one of the fabulous beaches on Arousa island or one of the other tiny islands along the ría.
“You can walk or cycle around Arousa island,” said Gabi, as we sailed past a coastline of empty sandy beaches flanked by dunes and dense pine forests. “This southern part is the Carreirón nature reserve.”
All along the ría there are wooden rafts – more than 2,000 – which are known as bateas and are used for cultivating mussels and oysters. On previous visits to the Rías Baixas I had seen them from afar, but this time we were sailing right up to one of them. “There are about 500 ropes with mussels attached to them, dangling into the water from the platform – a lot more on an oyster raft,” said Gabi, leaning over to lift up one of the ropes for us to see, as seagulls circled and squawked overhead. “You can just eat the shellfish straight from the sea here. There’s no need to purify them as the water is so clean.”
We sailed right around Arousa island and arrived back in the harbour feeling very chilled out indeed. As we got off the boat and walked back along the jetty, thoughts turned of course to lunch. It was time to devour a large portion of those fabulous mussels – and some clams and crab too.
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Specifically, Qutac is to contribute to bringing industry-relevant applications for the technology, chemical and pharmaceutical, insurance and automotive industries to market maturity. This is intended to lay the foundation for the successful industrialisation of quantum computing in Germany and Europe. “Quantum computing is one of the most promising technologies of the future and can revolutionise fields of application from materials research to automated driving,” said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. “Germany and Europe need a strong quantum computing ecosystem to be at the cutting edge of technology and remain globally competitive. With Qutac, we are laying the foundation for a successful ecosystem that will allow us to optimally exploit the great potential of quantum computing technology.”
The participating companies consider an economically strong and resilient quantum computing ecosystem in Germany and Europe to be crucial for promoting successful industrialisation and digital sovereignty in this field. Qutac aims to drive such a quantum computing ecosystem.
According to insider sources, the initiative to found the consortium came from Chancellor Angela Merkel, who holds a doctorate in physics . She had approached the head of the chip manufacturer Infineon, Reinhard Ploss, who finally brought the group together. The group is not supposed to receive state funding because it does not build quantum computers itself.
Qutac sees itself as a platform for action. The consortium promotes applications of quantum computing for the economic use of this technology, which create added value in the member companies. The membership includes a broad cross-section of the German economy – thus the applications that are identified, developed and tested within the consortium point the way for entire industries. Through its orientation, Qutac occupies an important position in the existing landscape of quantum technology-related institutions.
The small circle of currently only ten members allows for a pragmatic exchange and rapid decision-making in order to develop practical solutions in the short and medium term, Qutac announced. The results are intended to benefit all participants in the ecosystem.
In a position paper, the consortium defines concrete steps: First, the need for quantum computing in the economy is to be identified in order to create the basis for a cross-industry application portfolio. Currently, possible applications are being identified and their potential for industrial implementation is being evaluated. These reference applications will be jointly implemented and further developed beyond the boundaries of the consortium.
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Classical Singing To Musical Theatre
Posted 07 March 2008 - 21:19
I am having problems with singing musical theatre!! I have has singing lessons since yr 7 and am now in sixth form. I used to do a lot of musical theatre in the earlier grades but now i am doing grade 8 and for a long time now have been doing a lot of classical and opera stuff. I am singing a musical theatre piece in my AS drama performance and am finding it really hard to sing even though the level is very low! What techniques can i use to sing it? its really frustrating because i sound really bad!!! Please help. Thanks in advance
Posted 10 March 2008 - 11:11
Classically I'm Lyric-Coloratura Soprano.
Thank goodness I've got some low notes.
All the Passagi are in the same place that is because they are individual to each persons voice, however where you place your voice is completely different.
For a classical singer everything is about getting that BEL-CANTO sound, that ring from aa high soft palette and a feeling of the whole head ringing and everything hinging from there and blending through each passagio and opening and broadinig no lower than the neck, even in "chest register" which is hardly touched.
From the intitial "float" sound the aim is to "ring"
Musical theatre is different. The initial float sound should still be your aim, but placing ins much further forward. Your head voice is "in the mask" a placing that feels amost two inches further forward than your face. IF AT ANY POINT YOU CAN'T RETURN TO FLOAT THEN YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
You mix down into chest voice which you really feel in the chest. You never bring chest up. Every note is always places as per where your voice holds that note and you find that note on your mask.
If I look through my diary and know I'm singing Belt and Mix, I have to ease off the Classical practice a little that day and do a belt and mix warm up.
The object is to take care. At 16 you are unlikely to have working ranges of 3 octaves as your voice is not going to be that well developed. If you are naturally a Mezzo, having a go under supervision at a belt and mix style is unlikely to "ruin your Classical technique". However I waited until I was 25 before establishing both so that I wasn't likely to ruin either.
The rules Kids: Natural Voice
Teenagers Natural Voice and a bit ot either classical or Musical theatre depending what they want.
Adults: what they nee.
Oh Its so nice to look at my diary and think, great I'm teaching Panis Angelicus this evening this lies nicely on my voice. However as a teacher you do find you are practising away at the Rachmaninov Vocalise, and the next thing you do is teach "Luck be a Lady" - and I want the right style, Like Brando not Sinatra.
Posted 10 March 2008 - 17:25
Thing is I mostly sing classical music with my teacher - I'm not sure she's heard me singing anything else, and having read this thread I've become worried that by switching like this I might have done my voice some damage... I've never been trained to switch, or to belt it's just something I do... how can I make sure I'm not hurting myself?
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Begonias are summer-flowering plants closely related to gloxinias. They are descended from tropical plants, and native to rain forests and hot tropical areas, so have a reputation for cold intolerance and difficulty. The flowers grow best in temperatures of 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which leads many homeowners to grow them indoors. Because begonias are toxic, any homeowner should handle them with some caution.
Begonia Tubers and Rhizomes
Begonias start as tubers, or bulb-like growths, which contain the necessary growing material for the plant. Tubers are hardier than seeds, and are best planted in February, in peat moss or quick-draining soil. These tubers are also the best way to transplant begonias once they've established.
Begonias are extremely cold sensitive and must stay indoors after the last frost of the season. They require modestly filtered sunlight, and do well in protected areas of the garden, in either pots or under shade trees. According to the Learning Store, begonias only need morning sun to thrive and grow.
According to North Carolina State University, every member of the family Begoniaceae is mildly toxic. The most toxic pieces of the plant are the rhizomes, tubers and roots.
Effects and Symptoms
North Carolina State University states that begonia toxicity is non-fatal, even if a gardener or pet swallows the plants. Symptoms include burning mouth, throat, lips and tongue, accompanied by some swelling and difficulty speaking. At worst, a person experiences nausea and vomiting.
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Fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy were used to investigate the interaction of coumarin-3-carboxylic acid with human serum albumin (HSA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) under physiological conditions in a buffer solution of pH 7.4. <alternatives> [...] </alternatives> Quenching constants were determined using the Lineweaver-Burk equation to provide a measure of the binding affinity of coumarin-3-carboxylic acid to HSA/BSA. Binding studies concerning the number of binding sites, n, and apparent binding constant, K, were performed by a fluorescence quenching method at different temperatures (298, 303 and 310 K). The thermodynamic parameters, enthalpy change (ΔH0) and entropy change (ΔS0) as calculated according to the van’t Hoff equation, indicated that hydrogen bonding and van der Waals forces play a major role in coumarin-3-carboxylic acid-HSA association whereas electrostatic interactions dominate in coumarin-3-carboxylic acid-BSA association. The distance, r, between the donor (HSA/BSA) and acceptor (coumarin-3-carboxylic acid) has been estimated using Förster’s equation, on the basis of resonance energy transfer. Furthermore, CD spectra were used to investigate the α-helix changes of the HSA and BSA molecules upon addition of coumarin-3-carboxylic acid.
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CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) is a system organized and administered by the American Medical Association and contains the codes and definitions that describe the procedures used to care for patients. Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes are a small component of CPT and describe the cognitive services provided to patients. As cognitive specialists, most care given by neurologists who care for patients with brain tumors and the neurologic complications of cancer falls under E/M services, which include office visits, hospital visits, and other direct face-to-face services that require no special technology.
Proper coding for E/M requires correct identification of the specific type of patient encounter. Questions to ask include the following:
1. Is this an inpatient or outpatient encounter?
2. Is this a consultation? If so, does the insurance carrier allow me to bill for a consultation?
3. Is this a new patient or an established patient?
4. What level of service was provided to the patient?
The first three questions are straightforward (although the definition of a consultation is often misunderstood). A consultation is a request for an opinion from a physician or other qualified health care provider. If the patient’s insurance carrier covers consultations, a member of your group (another neurologist as well) can request a consultation. In general, an outpatient referral made so that you will assume the ongoing care of that patient is not a consultation. If the intent is for the patient’s care to be transferred to you, this should not be considered a consultation or new patient but an established patient. Likewise, if the patient comes from outside the practice, if the intent is for you to assume ongoing care, that patient should be given a new patient code. Admittedly this can be difficult to determine, which is one reason the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has done away with consultation codes.
How to Select the Proper E/M Code
There are two different ways to choose the level of service:
1. The bullet system, which relies on meeting set standards of “bulleted” elements to determine the level of billing
2. The time-based system, which relies on the total time of the visit when the counseling and coordination of care account for more than 50% of the time of the visit
Neuro-oncology patients, like other patients with complicated neurologic illness, often require evaluation or treatment that qualifies for higher levels of medical decision making (MDM), thus potentially increasing the level of service for a visit. In such cases, when it is apparent that MDM is high, be sure to gather adequate history and perform adequate examination elements to fulfill that higher level of service by the bullet system.
Likewise, the extra time spent with patients may qualify for coding by time rather than bullets. If using the time-based coding, the document must state the following:
* the number of minutes spent face-to-face
* that more than 50% of the time was spent on counseling/coordination of care
* a general idea of what the counseling/coordination of care involved
Time is either face-to-face with the patient or family (outpatient) or bedside and on the unit or floor (inpatient). The rest of the note can be whatever is appropriate for good patient care.
Example 1: A neurologist was asked by a neurosurgeon to consult on the care of a 45-year-old man with a glioblastoma. The patient had had surgery 2 weeks ago after presenting with a series of seizures and had already seen the radiation oncologist. The neurologist reviewed the MRI films from before and after surgery and the pathology report and engaged in a discussion with both the neurosurgeon and radiation oncologist before recommending temozolomide chemotherapy. The neurologist also addressed the issue of dexamethasone taper, anticonvulsant use, and seizure management.
Analysis: This is a high level of MDM because, although one could argue that management options in this patient’s situation are limited, the amount of data to review reaches the high complexity based on Marshfield Clinic Criteria and the risk of morbidity and mortality is also quite high, based on the diagnosis. If a comprehensive history and physical examination is performed, this encounter could be billed as a level 5 outpatient consult (99245) using the bullet method. Time-based billing could be used in this situation, but given the work needed to be performed in order to best care for the patient, bullet-based billing is more important.
Example 2: A patient with a cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma of the cerebellum resected 5 years ago returned to his neurologist for a routine visit. He reported no symptoms and his MRI was interpreted as showing “no change,” but the neurologist did not review the MRI. The patient told the neurologist he felt great and had had no contact with doctors since his last appointment 2 years ago. The neurologist asked a few questions and the patients’ responses convinced the neurologist that he was well. The patient reported that he was in college and played on the baseball team. The neurologist performed an examination touching on 12 examination items.
Analysis: In this example, the neurologist performed an expanded problem-focused history and a detailed examination, but the decision-making aspect of this office visit is straightforward or low. This is an outpatient level 3 established patient visit (99213) based on the history and examination elements. This visit will usually take 15 minutes. There are few ways to get this visit at the 99214 level.
Example 3: An established patient with a glioblastoma completed his radiation therapy and finished two cycles of chemotherapy. In the past week he developed headaches, and the neurologist asked three questions about the quality of these headaches and two questions that could be related to review of systems. He developed left arm weakness over the past day. His MRI showed clear progression of the mass with midline shift, and the neurologist discussed the MRI with the radiologist to get his thoughts about tumor progression versus radiation necrosis and with the neurosurgeon to see if additional surgery would be possible. The neurologist completed a comprehensive physical examination.
Analysis: The MDM in this case is high based on the work done and the high risk involved given the diagnosis. The history is probably at the “expanded problem-focused” level, but with established patients only two of the three key elements are needed to select the level of service. On the basis of the high level of MDM and the comprehensive examination, the most appropriate code is 99215.
Example 4: A long-time patient came to see his neurologist to discuss end-of-life decisions. The patient had been through many rounds of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, but an MRI 2 days ago showed progression. The platelet count of 48,000/µL had not recovered since chemotherapy ended 3 months ago. Following some brief social exchange lasting 5 minutes, the neurologist realized the patient was exhausted and wanted to discuss the future. The neurologist spent the next 35 minutes discussing the expected natural progression of the illness and palliative options and introducing the palliative care team to the patient. The neurologist documented the highlights of the discussion and the fact that more than 50% of the patient encounter that lasted 40 minutes was spent with counseling and coordination of care.
Analysis: This visit meets the criteria for 99215, a level 5 outpatient established patient visit, based on the time criteria. The neurologist does not need to perform or document any history or examination (however standard medical care would suggest this may be appropriate), and the level of MDM is also not relevant.
Example 5: A neuro-oncologist was running a phase II study for a novel drug. Another neuro-oncologist requested a consultation on a patient because the patient qualified for the study but had questions about the study drug and the consulting doctor’s medical center provided several treatment options not available elsewhere. The consulting doctor spent 80 minutes face-to-face going over all treatment options. Essentially 100% of the time was spent counseling the patient.
Analysis: This patient does not need another history or physical examination— his referring doctor has done a great job of management. Both the referring doctor and patient only want the consulting neuro-oncologist’s opinion. Like example 4, this visit also meets the criteria for 99215, a level 5 outpatient established patient visit, based on the time criteria.
OTHER TYPES OF E/M SERVICES
Prolonged Visit Codes
E/M time for these codes is considered “to the closest hour,” and the first hour is any time between 31 and 74 minutes. If 31 minutes is not reached, you cannot bill. If the time is between 31 and 74 minutes, 1 hour of time can be billed, and if the time is from 76 to 104 minutes, an additional 30 minutes can be billed. The 30-minute codes are used for repeated (and not necessarily consecutive) time spent, using 15 minutes on either side as a factor in determining when each additional 30-minute code can be added. In reality these codes are seldom used in the outpatient setting (an end-of-life discussion is one example where it could be used). In the inpatient setting, if many hours a day (not necessarily continuous) are spent on a patient in the intensive care unit these codes may be used on occasion.
In some states, a doctor must record the start and end clock times for each patient. It is a good idea in all instances to put the exact amount of time within the body of the note, regardless.
Prolonged Care Codes
99354: First hour of prolonged outpatient service (31 to 74minutes), face-to-face
99356: First hour of prolonged inpatient service (31 to 74 minutes), face-to-face
99358: First hour of prolonged service (31 to 74 minutes), not face-to-face, on a day prior to or after an E/M visit
Prolonged care codes are used when service involving direct patient contact exceeds the usual, and they are reported in addition to the appropriate E/M code for the evaluation. The face-to-face codes are reimbursed by most carriers.
The reason and time taken for the prolonged service must be included in the note.
If the prolonged service takes longer than 90 minutes (ie, 91 minutes or more), other codes are available for the extra time: 99355 for each additional 30 minutes on an outpatient service and 99357 for each additional 30 minutes on an inpatient service. 99355 or 99357 cannot be billed unless you have gone 30 minutes past the initial 74 minutes (see above for that code). In this case you would bill for the initial service (99214 for a level 4 established patient, for example), 99354 for the next 60 to 74 minutes, and 99355 for anything that takes the visit an additional 15 to 44 minutes to an additional 75 to 104 minutes.
Hospital Discharge Day Codes
99238: 30 minutes or less
99239: more than 30 minutes
The discharge day is coded as hospital discharge day management. This code allows the attending physician to summarize all services on the day of discharge (ie, final examination, discussion, instructions, and record preparation). Time need not be continuous. Total time must be documented.
CPT CODES FOR NEURO-ONCOLOGISTS
Chemotherapy Codes 96401-96549
These codes are used for the administration of nonradioactive chemotherapy and biologic agents and are differentiated from the usual medication administration codes 96360-96379 on the basis of how toxic these medications may be and how much staff work is involved in terms of monitoring the infusions.
Codes 96401, 96402, 96409-96425, and 96521-96523 are not to be used in the facility setting. Facilities are entities that may report services in addition to the physician for the same service. Use of these codes must be discussed with a practice manager because of the nuances regarding practice setting.
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Aims and Scope
Health and Environment (HE) (ISSN: 2661-3034) is an open access, continuously published, international, refereed journal aiming to analyze and introduce the relationship between environment and health from different angles and levels. Health and Enviroment publishes high quality special report, investigations, techniques and methods, supervision and monitoring, reviews, communications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
• Air quality
• Health impact assessment
• Occupational health
• Urban health
• Chemical safety
• Housing and health
• Preventive Medicine and hygienics
• Water and sanitation
• Climate change
• Transport and health
Waste disposal on dumpsites has resulted in significant vanadium pollution of the soil and ecosystem. This study assessed the pollution status and potential ecological risk of vanadium in some selected waste dumpsites in southeastern Nigeria. In this study, the soil samples were taken from the active waste dumpsites using a stainless-steel soil auger at a depth of 0 - 20 cm. Five sub-samples were taken from each sample location. A control sample was taken from an area devoid of industrial activities and waste dumps. Soil samples were air-dried at room temperature, pulverized with an agate mortar and pestle, and stored using appropriately labeled polythene bags prior to analysis. Vanadium analysis was conducted using an FS240AA atomic absorption spectrophotometer, and the data generated was analysed using IBM SPSS version 20.0 and Ms-Excel 2007. The mean vanadium concentrations in the studied waste dumpsites were found to be in the following order: Okpuno-Egbu dumpsite > Nekede dumpsite > Enyimba dumpsite > Rice-mill dumpsite. Acceptable potential ecological risk indices were observed in the Rice-mill, Enyimba, and Okpuno-Egbu dumpsites, while Nekede dumpsite recorded a high potential ecological risk. Furthermore, the pollution load index revealed that all the studied dumpsites were heavily polluted. Statistical analysis revealed no significant variations in vanadium concentrations in the studied dumpsites (p>0.05). Additionally, there was a strong and positive correlation between the dumpsites of Enyimba/Nnewi (r = 0.634), Nekede/Nnewi (r = 0.615), and Nekede/Rice-mill (r = 0.842). This indicated that the metal found in the dumpsites is of the same origin.
The level of heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As, Cr, Ni, Co, Zn) and physicochemical parameters in borehole water sources within selected mining sites in Ebonyi State, Nigeria were determined using FS240AA Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) according to the method of American Public Health Association (APHA). Water samples were collected from Enyigba mining site, Ikwo mining site, Ameri Amekamining site, Izza mining site, Mkpume Akwatakwa mining site and Mpume Akwaokuku mining sites. Composite water samples were collected within the mining locales and 500 metres away from the mining locations using two liters plastic jars. Similarly, the control samples were taken from Abakaliki (about 15 km away from mining area) where there was no evidence of mining activity. A total of 14 sub-samples were collected for this study. Generally, the levels of heavy metals in the borehole water samples were higher than the values recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). This however suggests a possible mobility of the metals from mining sites into the groundwater sources through leaching. The findings from this study have revealed the need to purify borehole water within mining areas prior to industrial and domestic use.
Heavy metals pollution has been a great concern generally due to their toxicity and persistence in environment. This study evaluated the level of pollution and health risks of heavy metals in surface irrigation water used for vegetable cultivation and sediment from Nimo vegetable farm. Three samples each from three different sampling points for water and sediment were collected in dry and rainy seasons and analyzed for Pb, Cd, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu and Ni concentrations using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. The result showed that heavy metal concentrations in the irrigation water ranged from 0.004 to 0.147 mg/l, 0.119 to 0.773 mg/l, 0.014 to 1.644 mg/l, 0.006 to 0.056 mg/l, 0.009 to 0.576 mg/l, 0.040 to 0.181 mg/l, 0.082 to 0.147 mg/l, for Cd, Pb, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, and Ni respectively for the different seasons. In sediment, Cu had the lowest mean concentrations of 0.02±0.01 mg/l while iron had the highest mean concentrations of 6.86±3.06 mg/l. The obtained results were compared with Food and Agriculture Organization and the Department of Petroleum Resources standards for surface irrigation water and sediment respectively. The heavy metal distribution in water was Fe > Pb > Mn > Cd > Ni > Cu = Zn in dry and Zn > Fe > Pb > Ni > Mn > Cu > Cd rainy seasons respectively. Overall, the heavy metals level in the water and sediment were low when compared to the standards. Computed contamination factors and pollution load index showed that the sediment were not polluted while in water, only Cu, Zn, Mn and Fe (in rainy season) showed low contamination, while Ni, Pb and Cd had moderate to very high contamination in both seasons. Hazard Index values for the heavy metals in adults and children via the water and sediment of this study is less than one (HI < 1). Hence the water and sediment from this site poses no health risk to the public. Correlation analysis for metals in water and sediment showed significant and positive relationships amongst the metals which indicated that the most of the metals originate from the same source while few originate from mixed sources mainly from agricultural activities, atmospheric deposition and runoff into the irrigation water.
The paper reveals the role of wastewaters in the spread of Coronavirus in cities and focuses on the need for collection, treatment, and management of wastewaters. While the focus of the fight against COVID-19 is on the production of vaccines, drugs and treatments, this article emphasizes the cleanliness of the environment with wastewater management. This paper is a novel work, since it presents a multi-side research concerning fighting against coronavirus through wastewater collection and treatment. Studies show that coronavirus exists in urban wastewaters and spread the COVID-19 everywhere. Coronavirus is attacking people globally and shrinking the economy. The question addressed by this paper is; will communities overcome the coronavirus without well-collected and treated wastewaters? The methods to achieve the goals are theoretical surveys, case study strategy, mathematical modeling, statistical procedures, forecasting the future, and discussions. A mathematical model will be built to calculate the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus with the help of registered statistics and predict the future trend of the disease pandemic in Iran. Since Coronavirus has been seen in wastewaters, results of this research demonstrate the need for carefully collected and treated wastewaters to overcome the coronavirus. This paper gives suitable techniques to treat wastewater as stabilization ponds, bacterial reactors, and anaerobic ponds. Concluding, this paper suggests indicators to select a wastewater treatment technique in every city, and its outcome will assist the global community in fighting the coronavirus more successfully.
Abbreviation: Health Environ
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Shaoyong Lu（China）
Publishing Frequency: Continuous publication
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Show Me The Money Game
Another cool game for a teen party and it is equally entertaining for Christmas or New Years Parties. Here's what you do: Place different amounts of money in envelopes, same number envelopes as people playing, number the envelopes, hand them out, then...
Make little notes of paper or tickets with corresponding numbers on, place the tickets in a hat, each person draw a ticket, if they draw the number out of the hat with the number envelope they hold they are safe.
If not, they must find the person who holds their envelope, taking turns, perform a funny act to make the person laugh or smile to get the envelope from them. They get 3 attempts, if they fail, that person may keep the envelope. | <urn:uuid:f30ac680-31c6-4e6f-a885-c437f0c029a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fun-stuff-to-do.com/show-me-the-money-game.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00109-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940681 | 155 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This section provides some examples of interesting SQL features.
It also includes a few non-SQL tips.
- Retrieving the database connection URL
Derby does not have a built-in function that returns the name of the database. However, you can use DatabaseMetaData to return the connection URL of any local Connection.
- Supplying a parameter only once
If you want to supply a parameter value once and use it multiple times within a query, put it in the FROM clause with an appropriate CAST.
- Defining an identity column
An identity column is a column that stores numbers that increment by one with each insertion. Identity columns are sometimes called autoincrement columns.
- Using third-party tools
You can hook into any JDBC tool with just our JDBC Driver class name (org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver) and Derby's JDBC connection URL.
- Tricks of the VALUES clause
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Three magic tricks for your device.
1) Mind Reader - This trick is designed to guess your symbol after doing a little math.
2) Guess My Number - This trick will guess your number (1 to 63)
3) Guess My Card - Tell the app which hand your card is in, and it will guess your card.
Yes, the tricks are fairly simple to figure out (all three are based on some simple math rules), but the power of a magic trick is NOT on knowing how it's done, but in being able to impress others with your ability to perform the tricks convincingly.
NOTE TO REVIEWERS: If you figure out the tricks, please don't post the methods here, as that will spoil the fun for others.
All three of these tricks are available separately as free ad sponsored apps, but we've decided to release all three as one download as a single paid app (baby needs new shoes).
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Tornadoes and hurricanes are the most dangerous storms nature can throw at us. They can destroy entire buildings and cause thousands of injuries or deaths. Most people who live in areas susceptible to these storms keep a close eye on weather reports and take cover or evacuate when one is on the way. Storm chasers keep an even closer eye on weather data, but for a different reason. When a tornado or hurricane happens, they want to be there to observe and record it.
There are some really good reasons for chasing storms -- mainly, scientific research, though a few people make a living selling photographs or footage of storms. There are also several reasons why amateurs shouldn't go storm chasing, no matter how fun it looks. For one thing, the eight to 12 hours spent driving around with no guarantee of actually seeing a tornado is anything but exciting. But also, storms are very dangerous. Professional storm chasers have meteorological training that allows them to understand the storms they're chasing. They know when conditions are safe and when it's time to back off. They also learn by chasing with other experienced storm chasers. Amateurs should never chase storms. Ever.
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“They taste of elderberries...”
ROFLWAFFLES is a phrase in internet-speak that was created when a n00b realized that "ROFL" and "waffle" rhyme (unless you pronounce each letter of ROFL like "R-O-F-L" or if you pronounce waffle so that it rhymes with "raffle"). It is not to be confused with wafflecopter, the arch enemy of the roflcopter.
edit Prehistoric ROFLWAFFLES
The ROFLWAFFLE was first discovered as a fossil in 1923 by archaeologist and mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary during a dig in Great Britain. Soon after he found the fossil, Hillary dubbed it Wafflus rofflus, meaning in Latin "ROFL WAFFLE", because he couldn't stop cracking up when he realized he had unearthed a giant, fossilized waffle. When Hillary gathered himself, he built a large toaster, cooked the waffle, drenched it in syrup and butter, and ate it for breakfast. Of course, because the waffle was huge, Sir Hillary's stomach exploded, killing him. Sadly. Although he had dubbed it "one of a kind", the fossil Hillary found was not the last. The rest of Hillary's expedition, after deciding that Hillary was certainly dead, came to the consensus that they should not let a perfectly good trip go to waste and unearthed more fossils in the next few days. When word of this got out, the scientific community was shocked.
The fossils Hillary's expedition had found showed the ROFLWAFFLE was a winged creature standing ten feet tall and twenty-five feet across, covered in green scales, and very much to the liking of the band Queen. He believed the ROFLWAFFLE to have dominated the skies, terrorizing and breathing fire on civilians. Scientists easily denounced this as absurd, offering the explanation that the group had merely come across ancient deposits of baked goods.
However, when the ancient cave of Lascaux and its many cave paintings were stumbled upon September 12, 1940 in France, the scientific community realized their grave mistake: Amongst the paintings were depictions of the ROFLWAFFLE terrorizing primitive European tribes too poor to afford internet access.
This find stunned scientists, verifying many of the claims made from examining fossils, and yet causing controversy. Many scientists claimed that Lascaux must be a hoax created by ROFLWAFFLE fans such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Claude Monet, as there was no way such waffles could have existed without superior baking technology. This absolute denial went on until finally, in 1955, a group of scientists who studied the ROFLWAFFLE in its natural habitat (modern Europe) published their findings. The very next year, Wafflus rofflus was officially named a species. When hearing of this news, the rest of Sir Edmund Hillary's expedition said, "Told you so!"
edit ROFLWAFFLES as Food
ROFLWAFFLES are known to be quite delicious as well as nutritious. It is often said that ROFLWAFFLES taste so incredibly awesome that no matter what they are topped with, they always taste awesome. This was proved in a famous experiment by Albert Einstein. To begin, he took two dead ROFLWAFFLES and topped one with disgusting things such as bugs and poo-poos. The other was left plain. Both were then fed to a blindfolded colleague. Einstein was astounded when his colleague stated that both waffles tasted precisely the same: awesome.
No one, however, has dared to top a ROFLWAFFLE with another ROFLWAFFLE because of the fear that combining such awesomeness can be deadly. This fear is not unfounded, according to many physicists. They say that the human skull is not strong enough to contain the awesome power of two ROFLWAFFLES on top of each other. Therefore, eating a ROFLWAFFLE topped with another ROFLWAFFLE would cause your head to asplode. This is one of the few known methods to kill Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood or the dancing milk.
edit Destructive Power
Despite this, there has been one known instance in history where topping a ROFLWAFFLE with another ROFLWAFFLE produced a force of awesome so powerful it almost completely leveled Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, killing 73,000 people. Strangely, the explosion left behind large amounts of radioactive material, indicating that ROFLWAFFLES are probably composed largely of enriched uranium.
The news of such an atomic explosion did not reach the nearby city of Nagasaki in time for another disaster to be prevented, though. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, another explosion completely leveled Nagasaki in the same manner as Hiroshima. It was a tragedy. But, with the application of modern thinking, "a whole buttload of deaths" became statistics.
The further combination of ROFLWAFFLES and the resulting destructive power is yet to be proven. Though, there are mathematically calculated theories of such combinations, working from the knowledge of the atomic explosions achieved by the combination of two ROFLWAFFLES. The main theory states that the combination of three ROFLWAFFLES accumulates enough power to generate a super nova, or cause the immediate creation of a black hole. It is further speculated that the sun was created by such a fusion.
Research on combining larger numbers of ROFLWAFFLES has been impossible, as there is no method of mathematical calculation known to mankind able to predict any results. Hence, it is officially stated the fusion of four or more ROFLWAFFLES results in absolutely nothing. This is because the potential energy of the ROFLWAFFLES cancel each other out, causing a total neutralization between them.
It has often been said that the United States is, in fact, responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that the cause of the explosions were two atomic bombs named Fat Man and Little Boy, dropped by two planes called the Enola Gay and Bocks Car, but this is false. Although it is true that the U.S. was planning to bomb the two cities, military reports show that when the Enola Gay and "Bocks Car" reached their targets, they were already obliterated. Regardless, President Harry S. Truman, determined to prove to the world he was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands, announced on the radio that Enola Gay and Bocks Car had done the deed. Certain near death victims claim to have witnessed all time in a single instant and report that the big bang might have been 2 roflwaffles dubble teaming an anti-roflewaffle while this is unconfirmed half of the group admit they were not fighting but cross breeding to create a hybrid also know as matter and it was coolies. It is also believed one of the rofl waffles was diagnosed with bro syndrome meaing that the spark could have come when he kept on saying bro
It is possible to eat two ROFLWAFFLES simultaneously, despite the fact it is dangerous, so long as neither ROFLWAFFLE makes direct contact with the other. Or, in simpler terms, it is possible to eat a sandwich using two ROFLWAFFLES instead of two slices of bread. This fact has led to the common substitution of ROFLWAFFLES for sandwich bread. It is not commonly known that a great many of famous sandwiches used ROFLWAFFLES for bread, including the great Bacon and Cheese Sandwich of 1905 and the fabled Überwich.
- Note: It is not suggested that someone should buy ROFLWAFFLE bread and create a famous sandwich on their own. Both the Bacon and Cheese Sandwich of 1905 and the Überwich were created in top-secret, classified labs by expert sandwichologists under extremely safe conditions. Refusal to comply with such safety standards could result in death, or worse.
As long as ROFLWAFFLES have existed, of course, there has been Anti-ROFLWAFLLEism. Although there have not been any major anti-ROFLWAFFLE movements, several groups have existed solely for the reason of opposing ROFLWAFFLES for a very long time. The most recent of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, formed in the late 1800s by a man named Kevin Ku Klux, whose initials are, ironically, ROFLWAFFLES. It is believed that his initials were a main factor that led to Kevin Ku Klux's fierce opposition of ROFLWAFFLES. However, with the manner in which he spelt "clan" as "klan", historians now believe that Kevin's initials were ROFLWAFFLES merely because he was horribly unable to spell. New research also indicates that this Kevin Ku Klux was the same guy who came up with the internet-speak phrase "ROFLPANCAKES".
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June 3, 2016 (To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)
For new readers, see my previous articles about the scientific fraud that is Zika. In a nutshell, there is no convincing evidence the Zika virus causes the birth defect called microcephaly.
One study claims that, in several groups of mothers and babies born with the defect, the Zika virus was found. But at best, it was found in a small minority of cases studied. This weak correlation proves nothing. In fact, it is evidence against Zika as the cause. Why? Because scientific standards dictate that the virus should be found in all, or an overwhelming percentage of, cases.
The other study was done on mice. Needless to say, mice are not humans. In fact, mice are far from ideal animals to study, when inferences to human are going to be made.
The CDC and the World Health Organization are determined to weld Zika to microcephaly. Scientifically, they’ve utterly failed, but that doesn’t stop them. They can get headlines, and that’s all they care about.
Brazil, as everyone knows, has been made the target of the hysteria surrounding Zika. And the Rio Olympics are coming up shortly. Obviously, many tourists are going to stay home because they fear Zika. This could cut deeply into expected profits the Games generate. “Brazil is a terrible place to visit; Zika is rampant; run from the virus.”
More importantly, the global political scene is experiencing a ripple of disruption owing to what are called the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This alliance is establishing its own monetary fund, independent of the IMF, and conversation have been held about defecting from the US dollar as the currency of choice in all sales of oil.
From the US government’s point of view, this toppling of the dollar must never happen. It was one reason Libya was destroyed. Ghaddafi was in the process of promoting a gold-backed currency (not the dollar) to be used in oil transactions.
Therefore, Brazil, as a BRICS nation, comes under the political gun. The entirely fraudulent Zika crisis is one vector in that attack.
Unfortunately, people are inexperienced in making connections between political/economic attacks, and medical ops. So they can’t see the links. But the links are there.
Since 1988, I’ve been detailing them. Just to take one example, the manufactured 2003 crisis called SARS was used, by the World Health Organization, to show it could bring a large city to its knees. WHO issued a travel advisory against flying into a “SARS epicenter,” Toronto. The city lost billions in tourism revenue. SARS had no basis in reality. The supposed cause, a coronavirus, was found in fewer and fewer patients—until the whole op was exposed as a rank fraud, for those who were paying attention.
And after all, the globally televised Games will create an ideal opportunity to push more Zika fear at viewers.
The CDC and WHO are the Ministry of Fear. They use that emotion to front for pharmaceutical companies, who in turn sell vaccines and drugs.
“Be afraid. But don’t worry, we can help you and save you.”
If you buy that formula, I have some wonderful and inexpensive condos for sale on the dark side of the moon.
Bottom line: Any doofus can say, “Look, here is a disease, and I’ve found a particular virus is present in a few cases, so the virus causes the disease.” Any doofus can say that, but he isn’t a real scientist, no matter how many credentials he has attached to his name. He might be a salesman, he might be a propagandist, he might be an incompetent, but he isn’t a scientist.
The most recent numbers I’ve found out of Brazil state that, in 854 confirmed cases of microcephaly, 97 were found with some trace of the Zika virus. That’s called evidence that Zika isn’t the cause. In any reasonable lab, the researchers would say, “Well, we go back to the drawing board. Far too many cases that don’t have the virus.”
But we aren’t dealing with reasonable people.
We’re dealing with an agenda.
And the agenda must be pushed, for purposes that have nothing to do with science or healing.
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here. | <urn:uuid:d1a41f7b-9df8-4a72-8f00-275822456ed5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.robertscottbell.com/government/zika-fraud-update-rio-olympics-the-op-against-brazil-by-jon-rappoport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.96503 | 1,129 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Understanding Islamic Private Equity Funds
When people talk about private equity, they are referring to shareholdings in companies that are not listed on a public stock exchange. Non-listed companies are not subject to the same level of government regulation and disclosure rules as listed ones. Since there also is no “daily market” where the stock is regularly traded, private equity is less liquid than publicly traded equity. And anyhow, those smaller companies have far less outstanding stocks to be traded or negotiated, leaving little room for sufficient volatility. Moreover, the transfer of private equity in such companies is mostly regulated by law, the articles of association or even stipulated in shareholders’ agreements.
Venture capital (VC) usually means capital that is made available to small- and medium-sized enterprises with perceived exceptional growth potential. VC investments are generally classified as high risk with high return potential. The aim of the VC investor is to build substantial additional business value within a certain time frame (mostly four to six years) and then exit, typically through an initial public offering (IPO), merger or buyout strategy. A VC investment is typified by active ownership, extra capital injections, the implementation of aggressive but realistic business plans, additional managerial and technical expertise, and networking contacts/synergy offered by the investor to the target company. Effective governance and a disciplined approach are key to realising the projected rapid but sustainable growth.
In Europe, private equity is to be understood as VC at any stage of the life cycle of the target company. In the US, however, VC typically refers to early-stage investments, while private equity is normally related to financial involvement in later stages (eg management buyout or buyin).
Besides the so-called private equity, the following major asset classes could be available for Islamic funds:
- commodities and money markets
- real estate
- fixed income
- trade finance contracts (Murabahah, Ijarah)
- equity listed on stock exchanges
Private equity can also be aimed at middle-sized to large target companies and even listed companies (so-called “take privates”). Those deals, however, usually involve companies in the “out zone” (already too much debt financing because they’re at a later stage of their life cycle) for Islamic compliant private equity investment and, moreover, often thrive on big interest-based financial debt leverage. Generally, the following industries are within the scope of activities of private equity investors:
- industrial products
- healthcare and pharmaceuticals
- services and retail
- leisure and media (sometimes regarded as unlawful – or allowed only under strict conditions – by Shariah scholars because of the possible sale of alcoholic products and the presence of reprehensible music and movie displays).
The present growth of the sovereign wealth funds and an expanding market of “secondary buyouts” (private equity funds that take over companies already in the portfolio of other private equity funds in order to propel them to a higher stage of their development), however, will also open markets for upscale and major Islamic compliant-geared transactions.
Most jurisdictions do not have specific guidelines for setting up and managing Islamic VC. Malaysia is an exception, and it is useful to direct the reader’s attention to the “Guidelines and Best Practices on Islamic Venture Capital” issued in May 2008 by the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) in this regard. Other sources of information are the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) in Bahrain and UAE-based Dubai Financial Services Authority.
In essence, Islamic finance strives to promote the real economy by means of:
- risk/profit- and loss-sharing (PLS) partnerships; and
- asset-based trade finance contracts (Murabahah, Ijarah and Salam).
A broad generalisation would be that for the Islamic economy, unlike assets, money is not a commodity that can be traded for profit. Money is merely an instrument to measure the value of things (eg one glass of soft drink = EUR1 = two candy bars) and a payment facilitator (instead of barter). Rather, money has to be exchanged against money at par value and on the spot.
The lending of money against interest (payment reflecting a perceived opportunity cost to the lender and an increment that is due because of the simple lapse of time) is riba and haram or prohibited. Islamic finance, therefore, will need to be asset-based instead of debt-based.
For a long time now, learned Shariah scholars have been pushing towards PLS partnership structures. These partnerships lead to: (i) shared investment of money and labour; and (ii) benefits and losses that are shared equitably.
The PLS mode of finance – and in general, all asset-based finance – provides the most appropriate instrument for the accomplishment of fairness in an efficient manner. By way of illustration, consider that a conventional bank or financier relies on the pure lending of money against interest with a secured and preferred status (debt-based finance). The goal is to isolate risk, if any, from the banker who in effect seeks not to share risk and profit. Actually, the banker does not want the outcome of the venture for the entrepreneur (big or small success or even failure) to affect his position at all (in any case, fixed return/profit and, if so needed, even a forced payback).
The PLS principle in Islamic finance generates efficiency through sharing risk and therefore, appears destined to play a more important role in private equity investment.
(Public) equity investment relates to investment in shares listed on public stock exchanges. Its shareholdings are generally in companies with considerable size and known performance records. Those companies also are subject to disclosure and governance regulations of the jurisdiction in which they are traded. They are supervised by local capital markets regulators and stock exchange authorities. The reporting and transparency duties allow the investor to gain sufficient insight and make educated investment decisions. Depending on the volatility of the markets, it is relatively easy to invest or disinvest in that kind of stock.
Private equity investment, on the other hand, refers to shares of non-listed companies. These are usually young companies still in the start-up or early phase of their existence. As they do not yet have a proven performance record and usually also lack sufficient assets, these companies have difficulty in getting access to public investment or even to much-desired bank loans. Most of the time, additional injection of capital is the only option available.
Another issue with this type of companies is that generally, their shares are not easily transferable. This may be due to legal barriers such as laws, articles of association or private shareholder agreements.
Furthermore, without an exchange listing, their shares are not available for easy trading. Investors therefore often find it difficult to exit their investment until a certain growth potential has been reached so other investors can be attracted. Private equity, by consequence, is marked by a higher risk profile and a longer time span of illiquidity. This last aspect is in line with the vision of many Shariah scholars.
More conservative scholars are relatively hesitant to condone the fast buying/selling of equity on stock markets as this comes close to gambling, in their opinion. This perspective explains why, at least in part, not all of Islamic jurisdictions have taken a binding positive stance towards the public equity markets. The slower turnaround, combined with PLS principles, is therefore appealing to many Shariah scholars.
There are basically three major groups of private equity investments:
- investment in organic growth
- increasing the value of the core business (restructuring)
- buy and build (growth by synergy between the target companies in a portfolio).
Special focus is given by investors to maximise any potential upside in those areas in order to optimise the value – and the profit – on exit. Such exit typically takes place through an IPO, a sale, a merger or a buyout. In most cases, an exit at mid-period may not be possible or can only be done at great cost. However, a considerable number of target companies fail to, or at least, do not reach the desired return on investment (ROI) on exit.
This explains the need to “pool” the money of several investors in a fund and then channel that money to several target companies. Such an approach will disperse the risk and spread the financial failure of one venture over the total investments held by the (Islamic) Private Investment Fund (I)PEF and ultimately, over all the individual investors.
As is the case with other asset classes, markets evolve in cycles. It is difficult to predict if they will move up or down over a longer investment period. Nevertheless, the overall annual return of investments through private equity funds between 1960 and 2000 was 19.6%1. Private equity statistically generates more return than investments on the stock exchange, provided there is a good strategy and sound management.
Islamic Private Equity Funds (IPEFs)
IPEFs allow the pooling of investors and results in a more substantial concentration of capital. This provides access to a more diverse range of investments than would be accessible to each investor individually.
It also spreads the risk over more target companies and allows the services of specialised investment managers to be brought in.
The choice of jurisdiction and legal structure of the IPEF are important. Attention should be paid not only to the types of fund structures available in the host country of the IPEF, but also to the potential funds that may be marketed to investors in their home jurisdictions and the type of investments they are allowed to venture into in the jurisdictions of the target companies. It is important to consider cross-jurisdictional issues between the investor, the IPEF and the target company home markets (FDI regulations and so on).
The final decision on what legal vehicle to use for the IPEF will be influenced by, among other things, the legal structures available in any specific jurisdiction (trusts, companies and funds), tax requirements and specific Shariah constraints.
As the basic structure of fund transactions is one of money flows – downstream from the investors to a fund, and then to the target company and then again upstream from the target company, over the fund to the investors – tax evasion and exchange regulations/treaties for the avoidance of double taxation and money laundering regulations will also be aspects of significant consideration.
The organisation and function of the fund vehicle must be Shariah-compliant. This means that the legal advisers will have to model some of the clauses and mechanisms to meet the requirements of the Shariah in general, and the principles of Mudarabah or Musharakah PLS partnerships and Wakalah, in particular.
The structure can be open-ended (easy outflow of existing investors and additional inflow of new investors) or closed-ended. It must be noted that open-ended structures are often avoided and, on the contrary, certain lock-in structures are sometimes perceived as more Shariah-compliant.
Bearing these issues in mind, the most appropriate structure for an IPEF may vary from a standalone corporation (with general assembly of shareholders/investors and board of directors) and with an internal or external management team to a real fund/trust structure that holds the monies (and later, the equity), managed by an outside management team (either a company or real persons). This second structure may behave as a (sub)-contracting fund manager or as a general partner in an overall partnership structure.
The IPEF will invest in the underlying target companies and will, upon the exit thereof, incur losses or gain profits. The IPEF will then distribute net capital gains (or losses) back to the underlying investors.
Sufficient consideration should be given to the choice between a regulated (listed) or non-regulated (discreet) special purpose vehicle (SPV) as this might have a significant impact on the tax implications for any capital market regulatory issues.
Some scholars do not consider the type of vehicle used to be significant as long as its aspects do not contravene the basics of the Mudarabah and Musharakah PLS partnerships or other nominate contracts like the Wakalah. In this context, it may be observed that Malaysia allows the use of corporations.
Some conservative Shariah scholars however oppose to the use of western-style “companies”. They only accept the Mudarabah and Musharakah PLS partnerships or at least legal structures that emulate those very closely (frequently common-law style limited partnerships (LPs) where the same investors – mostly high net worth individuals and institutional investors – may be grouped as limited partners), together with the use of other nominate contracts like the Wakalah.
After the initial fundraising, the promoter of the IPEF usually becomes the general partner (management team). They will identify the target companies, conduct due diligence reviews, obtain the investor agreement and undertake the initial equity acquisition in the target company. The general partner is also responsible for managing the target companies and to ultimately conduct the exit strategy on behalf of the IPEF.
Any conventional financial institution (ie the bank) can set up such an IPEF, provided its local regulations do not require special licenses for the activity and the vehicles are properly isolated from conventional activities and managed in a compliant way.
Investors in private equity might be real or legal persons. They are typically high net worth individuals, family trusts, corporations and institutions. They want to diversify their portfolios and achieve higher returns on investment for their medium- to long-term financial commitment and higher risk profile by:
- optimising the innovative characteristics; and
- exploiting the strong growth potential of the target company.
The origin or residence of certain underlying investors, combined with the legal structure and home regulations of the IPEF structure that is withheld, and the regulations of the host countries of the target companies, may influence the range of possible investments available. The combination of those three aspects needs to be well balanced from the start.
For IPEFs, investor profiles indeed may be as important as company profiles. Some jurisdictions have a reputation of being tax havens (usually, they also have few or no money laundering compliance regulations). Investors resident in those jurisdictions are sometimes shunned by local regulators at the IPEF or target company level, even when the investors originating from such jurisdictions would only have a small portion in the IPEF.
Foreign investment restrictions, financial market regulations, disclosure requirements and so on might cause serious problems. The compliance requirements of a Luxembourg-based IPEF vis-à-vis those of US-, Gulf- and Malaysia-based investors might therefore cause several sets of regulatory hurdles in different jurisdictions at the same time.
The promoter of any type of investment fund – IPEFs included – generally prepares a memorandum and an executive summary to introduce investors properly in the set-up of the envisaged fund. Usually, there will be a series of “closings” when the various investors confirm their commitment to the IPEF.
When the traditional “road show” undertaken by investment brokers can be considered a “public offering”, local capital markets regulations must be followed, permission obtained from the relevant authorities and official memoranda drafted and approved.
As innovation evolves faster and faster and sometimes in unpredictable directions, it becomes more and more difficult for the individual investor to single out a good investment, manage it properly, keep a competitive edge and then grab a good exit opportunity.
This is important when that private equity portfolio becomes diversified over several target companies with a geographical spread. Specialised and reliable help from a good management team then becomes essential.
If a partnership structure has been chosen, then usually the general partner becomes the management team. It is possible, however, that (part of) this task is outsourced to outside fund managers.
The composition of the management team, which may consist of natural persons or a separate legal entity, is crucial to the success of the whole venture. The team should not be too broad and should be eager to make the business. The portfolio(s) that are managed should not be too wide and should be within the scope of the available capabilities and qualifications of the team.
Sufficient local introduction and experience are important for good management of the target companies. Indeed, the same line of business is performed in different ways, according to different regulations and business cultures in the various geographical locations of the investments. It is hardly “one size fits all”.
Experience has taught us that the past track record of a management team has little or no value in determining future performance. Markets and opportunities change constantly and one lucky shot might hide a consistent history of failure of a management team.
Furthermore, a team that follows the beaten track might venture into a mature and over-competitive market, destined to underperform or fail. An innovative approach in emerging markets has to be preferred, combined with a weathered management team.
Where the management team also is to run other (maybe even non Shariah-compliant) portfolios, it is necessary to verify whether or not the presented strategies are still compatible. Where there is a mix of Shariah-compliant and conventional portfolios to be managed, it has to be determined whether or not the strategies could cause friction with the compliant project.
Sound and transparent reporting to investors during the lifespan of the IPEF is a must. Things often do not happen suddenly and timely intervention with additional funding can save many a mishap.
During the first stage, the management team has the crucial responsibility of identifying the target companies that meet the desired investment profile and that match the fixed return on investment (ROI) strategies. It has to make sound due diligence, to present the opportunity properly to the investors and then make the acquisition on behalf of the IPEF. Strong cash flow, profitability, ability to attract and keep high-profile clients, good governance and sound business strategies should prevail in choosing and managing the target companies.
During the second stage, in addition to new financial resources brought in by the IPEF, the management team could add value to the target companies through intellectual capital and synergy.
Where needed, it will be involved in:
- restructuring part or all of the business activities and strategies;
- changing the CEO and/or CFO or adapting management structures;
- optimising cost structures; and
- providing general assistance and guidance to realise the set growth targets.
It could also be important to keep the in-house management of the target company to deal with the operational side of the business, but to disconnect them from the financial issues and shift those to the management team.
During the third stage, the management team will negotiate and finalise the envisaged exit strategies. Depending on the IPEF structure, the general partner (management team) will take a profit share or management fee that may be dependent on a mixture of performance-based criteria and a fixed fee.
Any agreements between the IPEF and its managers are favoured to be structured around the nominate Mudarabah and Musharakah concepts (may be combined by a Wakalah).
A sufficiently diversified portfolio should target an attractive return with acceptable risk through carefully selected and monitored investments, taking the following criteria into consideration:
- Geographical distribution
- Business and industry sectors involved
- Currency risk
- Term of investment
- General risk profile
- Projected return
Attention should be paid to local regulatory restraints such as access to ownership of financial institutions, strategic industries and real estate acquisition by foreigners etc.
The strategy should be clearly defined and manageable by the management team, which should obviously not only have financial expertise but also specific business knowledge in the fields of activities of the target companies. Although diversity of industries in a portfolio certainly has merits, it has been proven that private equity investments are more likely to be successful when they are more focused.
The strategy will also be bound by the haram activities and financial ratios that the target company will face, as explained below.
Target companies will be identified through contacts within the IPEF network, soliciting by the target companies themselves and sector tracking. A thorough due diligence on financial and non-financial issues, projected ROI, synergy and timing will help single out any interesting investments.
Smaller companies with the potential for significant growth are high on the list of priorities. These types of enterprises have little interest leverage and there still is a considerable scope of negotiation room for structuring and asserting compliance.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of possible elimination criteria that would classify an investment opportunity as haram or unlawful. The definition of “haram” may vary and will be subject to fine tuning by the Shariah adviser or Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) of the IPEF. They include companies that:
- produce/slaughter/sell/trade or distribute pork (or pork-related) products, blood
- engage in pornography or obscenity in any form
- primarily engage in the entertainment business (films, video, theatre, cinema)
- engage in gambling, casinos, lotteries and related games and activities like bookmakers
- are active in non-compliant finance or insurance
- weapons industry, defence or related
- produce/distil/sell/trade or distribute alcoholic beverages or related products
- produce/grow/sell/trade or distribute intoxicants or related products (drugs, tobacco)
- engage in human cloning, trades/produces or products related to aborted human foetuses or other ethical border transgressions
- have bad employee records, environmental records
For referral and comparison, below is a list of haram activities as stipulated in the Guidelines and Best Practices on Islamic Venture Capital from the SC. The IPEF should not engage in:
- financial services based on riba (interest)
- gambling and gaming
- manufacture or sale of non-halal products or related products
- conventional insurance
- entertainment activities that are non-permissible according to the Shariah
- manufacture or sale of tobacco-based products or related products
- stockbroking of share trading in non Shariah-compliant securities
- hotels and resorts
- by ijtihad, other activities the Shariah adviser may deem non-permissible.
The list of excluded activities may vary from time to time and from source to source. The reason is that some of those activities are not really haram but rather should be avoided, or because they could lead to “problem” situations (for instance, the hotel business). They are either included or excluded following the decision of the Shariah adviser.
In any case, careful attention should be paid to all target companies that could derive partial income from such haram activities such as supermarket chains, airlines, hotels and restaurants that incidentally sell alcohol, cigarettes and so on.
For investments in publicly listed companies, it is more or less generally accepted that any haram income of a non-compliant target company that does not exceed 5% (some scholars even go as high as 15%) of overall gross income is considered marginal or incidental.
The target company is therefore still acceptable, provided sufficient cleansing according to the guidelines set forth by the Shariah adviser is undertaken. It is likely that the adviser will allow the same leniency towards the private equity investments.
Note that by respecting this threshold, the company does not become compliant but is only acceptable for investment.
Therefore, it is recommended that the company strives for 100% compliant activity – otherwise, undesired business developments in the haram activity may cause problems and the cleansing exercise could affect the profitability of the IPEF overall. Since the IPEF will mostly focus on relatively immature target companies, such selection should be possible.
It is extremely difficult to find target companies that are completely “interest free”. Most Shariah scholars have recognised and accepted this, and allow cooperation for the general benefit of all.
Though some scholars still insist on prompt pay-off of all outstanding riba-based debt, the general accepted standard is that a partial contamination of a target company does not pose an insurmountable hindrance to investment.
Following the methodology set out in 1987 by leading Islamic finance scholars Justice (Rtd) Muhammad Taqi Usmani (Pakistan), Prof Saleh Tug (Turkey) and Sheikh Mohammad Al-Tayyed Al Najar (Egypt), Dow Jones developed the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index in 1999. Since then, similar templates have been developed and widely accepted in the Islamic finance community. The criteria governing these types of investments in equity of listed companies may be outlined as follows:
- Total debt
Excludes investments when total interest-based debt divided by 12-month average market capitalisation exceeds (or is equal to) 33%.
- Total interest-bearing securities and cash
Excludes investments when total cash and interest-bearing securities divided by 12-month average market capitalisation exceeds (or is equal to) 33%.
- Accounts receivable
Excludes investments in target companies if accounts receivable divided by total assets is greater than (or equal to) 33%.
In short, companies will be excluded when they are much too exposed to interest-based lending or when the liquidity or debt ratios are too high and would boil down to actual trading of cash or debt (both problematic for the Shariah and, therefore, to be avoided). As the Prophet Muhammad said: “One third is big or abundant.” As we will see later, sometimes a “majority” rule (50% or even more) is applied by certain parties.
As mentioned earlier, any haram income from unlawful activities and interest also has to be contained at low rates, usually a 5% maximum is acceptable (and then this income has to be cleansed). Note that by respecting these thresholds, the company does not become compliant but is only acceptable for investment and free trading of its equity.
The follow-up and application of these guidelines may be difficult. The financial needs of the target company may fluctuate quickly and local markets often do not offer sufficient compliant “interest-free” financing products.
It also is important to note that the DJIM approach (market capitalisation as a benchmark) may be an easy tracker and results in easily verifiable figures but has the downside of making the actual threshold float. The consequence, indeed, is that market fluctuations can suddenly affect a target company’s eligibility. Higher share prices result in higher upwards leniency toward the level of allowed interest-based financing and a sudden drop in share prices may suddenly force a company into the “out” (haram) zone.
In general, since IPEFs will target unlisted companies, the FTSE screening ratios that are based on total asset values appear to be a sound tool. The Shariah adviser sets out rules and may decide on delays for compliancy before or after an acquisition is made. The parameters set forth above weigh more heavily than one might appreciate at first glance. Any impure income – also under the 5% threshold – will have to be cleansed.
This process of purification entails distribution of said “haram” profits to charity. Since such distributions have a negative influence on the overall profitability of the investment, it is best to keep them to the minimum.
The Shariah screening criteria from AAOIFI, as set forth in Standard No 21 on Financial Papers (May 2006), follow the regular haram business activity screening (be it that the articles of association of the company may not contain reference to any excluded activity – even if the company is not actually engaged in that activity). Two out of three of the included financial screens use the market capitalisation as a basis, the one-third rule of thumb reigns as does the 5% threshold rule (with cleansing duty). Companies that are fully liquid or debt can only be traded at par value, just to name the most important characteristics.
Together with FTSE Group and Yasaar, the Shariah Advisory Council (SAC) of the SC developed two screening methodologies: the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Hijrah Shariah Index, which follows the international FTSE standards; and the FTSE Bursa Malaysia EMAS Shariah Index, which caters more for the local markets and uses different benchmarks – 5% revenues max (clearly unlawful activities: riba from interest-based companies such as banks, gambling, liquor and pork), 10% revenues max for items that are difficult to avoid in present market conditions (interests from fixed income deposits, tobacco-related activities), and a 25% benchmark (non-permissible profits from otherwise permissible business activities including share trading and stockbroking, hotel, resorts that may be serving alcoholic drinks to non-Muslims and so on). The ratio for accounts receivable is not withheld mainly because of the different stance taken by the local authorities to the sale of debt (Bai Dayn).
Global Investment House (GIH) developed the Global GCC Islamic Index for equities listed on the GCC stock exchanges (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE). It holds the companies of which the articles of association mention that the company is fully compliant.
The final screening criteria that will be withheld by the Shariah scholar will be a mix of the abovementioned generally accepted standards used to track larger numbers of listed stocks and maybe his personal opinion based on larger consensus. The final criteria comprise a mix of the abovementioned “generally accepted standards” and a personal opinion based on consensus.
It is common practice during the life cycle of an investment by an IPEF for the target company to calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) based on fair market value (FMV). This valuation calculation is used to determine the share price. Standard rules (such as the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines) may be applied to this calculation, subject to the approval of the Shariah adviser to the IPEF.
Besides the haram categories and financial ratios explained above, there are important restraints in the form and contents of the legal documentation related to the compliant project. These must be compliant with the Shariah.
Anyone who has worked in a Shariah-compliant environment knows that combining conventional regulations with the provisions of the Shariah is, in general, possible. There are, however, certain restrictions of public order at some of the local host jurisdictions that may cause legal headaches or undesired tax results.
The fundamentals of the Shariah will govern all aspects of the IPEF’s business practices. For instance, the financial relations between the investors must be compliant. The new legal environment will have to be tailored to the fundamental principles of the Mudarabah of Musharakah PLS.
While Shariah principles require that any loss is borne by the participants in proportion to their invested capital, profit can be shared at levels agreed earlier, stipulated in equitable financial agreements.
For instance, preferred stock – in so far as for instance giving the holder the right of:
- a preference payout before the common stock at liquidation (this would eliminate the equal sharing of the risks and the losses)
- a periodically guaranteed fixed return on investment (this would lead to riba and could lead to the exclusion of loss sharing) are prohibited. Furthermore, any cascade of equity classes with different subordination is not acceptable.
In general, guaranteed liquidation/exit pricing (in a way securing profit and excluding the risk of sharing a loss) is also contrary to the Shariah. Sometimes, parties wrongly want to negotiate beforehand a guaranteed minimum price at exit (initial investment or even a multiple thereof). Evaluation of fair market value and company performance are to be preferred.
On the other hand, unequal preference to profits might be construed within limits when attached to common stock, as long as there is no guaranteed minimum return. Also, certain convertible and exchangeable structures have been approved.
Certain vesting techniques might be used. This roughly means that some stocks only accrue value for the entrepreneur (or key employees) after agreed periods have elapsed or benchmarks reached.
Such stock helps to retain investor/employee interest in the business or it simply places a time frame on value creation before the actual transfer. Certain lock-in agreements also have been approved.
Contractual restrictions and insertion of any such criteria into the target company’s by-laws are suggested to ensure compliance.
Indeed, good covenants with the management team and the target company (reporting, board meetings, financial follow-up and so on) are necessary to ensure that the venture is being managed according to plan and to the agreed guidelines.
Where the IPEF has influence on the target company, restraints will also have to be transposed to that underlying level, to avoid friction or incompatibility with the other shareholders or existing contracts.
At the setting up of an IPEF structure, it must be recalled that Islamic finance is based on a set of religious beliefs. It is therefore important to remember that though various investors may commit themselves to using an IPEF, their personal perspectives on the Shariah may prevent them from participating in certain concrete investment proposals. To address this situation, well-balanced “opt-out clauses” will be an inherent part of the commitments.
Also after the investment, differences of opinion may arise concerning the application and the “exit” position of the IPEF. Conciliation and remedy clauses will be key steps to resolving such issues and should be taken into consideration at the setting up of the structure.
Islamic Liquidity Management
A substantial part of the available cash will stay liquid for some time. At the early stage of the IPEF, this will be the case simply because no investments have been made yet and all funds are still in cash. That liquidity will then slowly be replaced by equity (shareholdings) as the IPEF starts investing in the target companies.
When the investments have been done, probably a floating 20% or so of the funds will be held liquid, to be at hand for any additional financial intervention in one of the target companies. These funds may not be deposited in interest-bearing bank accounts for obvious riba-related reasons. It may, however, be invested through Islamic compliant means, for instance, in available Shariah-compliant liquidity management products or compliant stock, commodity Murabahah and other contracts as long as they are approved by the Shariah adviser. Short-term trade finance contracts may also be envisaged either by the IPEF or a special SPV, either to the target companies or to third parties, provided local business and company laws and regulations and tax rulings allow this in a profitable way.
Shariah Adviser and Compliance Officer
The Shariah adviser or the Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) will assume responsibility for the Shariah compliancy of the IPEF, and eventually the target companies and management team.
First of all, the overall quality and independence of the Shariah adviser or SSB are important. The composition of the SBB or the choice of Shariah adviser must be such that their decisions support rather than contradict the Shariah position of the individual compliant investors. A clear statement of the investment policy criteria with respect to Shariah compliance, rules for refusal/acceptance of investments, cleansing procedures and the level of monitoring by the SSB (through the Shariah compliance officer) of the portfolio should also be given special attention.
Here is a summary of the standing guidelines of the SC. It is advisable to appoint at least one Shariah adviser who will:
- Ensure that all aspects of the business are in accordance with the Shariah (including portfolio management, trading practices, operational matters, administrative matters and so on)
- Provide Shariah expertise on documentation, structuring, investment instruments and ensure compliance with the general Shariah principles and the standards, regulations and resolutions of the regulator.
- Scrutinise any compliance report or any investment transaction report prepared by the Shariah compliance officer.
- Provide written opinions of compliance from time to time or when needed and at least annually to the board of directors of the IPEF.
In Malaysia, the appointment of such a Shariah adviser is also regulatory to the management team (if this fits into a different management corporation). The guidelines do not exclude that this could be the same person for the IPEF and the outside management company.
For both the IPEF and the management team, Malaysia also advocates appointing a Shariah compliance officer who will do the following on a daily basis:
- ensure full compliance of the activities
- report any non-compliance to the Shariah adviser
- assist the Shariah adviser in certifying that the business is compliant
- maintain the compliance records
In general, the appointment of a Shariah compliance officer to the board of the IPEF and the management team is advisable.
There is an absence of uniformity in the way that Shariah principles are applied in different regions and over time. This is not a downside. Differences challenge and spur innovation.
At present, there is not only a shortage of qualified professionals (lawyers, bankers, scholars, academics and so on) who are well versed in both the Shariah and conventional standards, but also a lack of Shariah awareness among entrepreneurs and managers.
In order to obtain full compliance, it is not only necessary that the Shariah adviser monitors the IPEF and the target company. The management team, which will be the link between the investors and the target company, should not fully depend on the Shariah compliance officer but provide and raise awareness among its members and keep close contact with the target company and the SSB.
Besides sufficient business/financial compliancy, standardised Shariah compliancy checks should be incorporated into basic systems to ensure follow-up. Certainly, at the level of the (maybe conventional) target company, inadvertent, qualified breaches of the Shariah could cause substantial damage to reputation.
Coexistence with Conventional Finance
When simple equity stakes are acquired through purchase of shareholdings from public companies on the stock exchanges, the influence of investors on the daily compliance of the target company is close to non-existent. Investors basically have to live with the majority vote.
With private equity injections, however, the case is different. Private equity financing can place the same investors directly in a position to influence the target company. A controlling stake in a target company will allow the implementation of fully compliant policies.
Besides compliance with the abovementioned financial ratios, in general, the Shariah advisers tend to advise full transition to Shariah-compliant structures (repayment of conventional debt) within three years following an acquisition. This time frame is usually given so it would not disrupt the going concern.
Highly leveraged companies should be restructured to meet acceptable levels of Islamic debt at the earliest possible time. This may be done using compliant finance structures such as Ijarah wa iktina etc.
The use of a trade finance company (TraFiCo) or the guarantee of sufficient compliant funding from an Islamic financial institution could conventional investors and the target companies to “go all the way” and commit to the compliant project.
Regulatory, tax and accounting issues have to be dealt with on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, and this can sometimes lead to costly and lengthier transaction periods.
If the Islamic finance instrument is not well known to target companies, it will be necessary for management to be educated in order to fully understand the different compliant financing tools available. Rather than financing needs not being met, the variety of options available may surprise those new to the field. Confidence in the possibilities should be built.
When compliant investors – through an IPEF – do not have a majority stake in a target company, they should pay special attention to the reduction and enforceability of a strong shareholders’ agreement. Such an agreement should guarantee Shariah compliance at all times. They should also reiterate the Shariah principles at the general assembly of the target companies at any time that’s convenient.
Having said this, one can envision the intervention of a local Islamic financial institution to assist the target company if possible through a facility framework agreement in refinancing Shariah-compliant financial products where needed. Exposure to such products enhances the awareness of the target company to the Shariah, and provided that local regulatory and tax regulations are favourable, it would be possible to set up an assisting TraFiCo.
Case Study: Coexistence of Conventional and Islamic Investors
A basic scheme for cooperation between Islamic and conventional investors in a private equity fund (PEF) can be drafted now. The PEF has been made attractive to Shariah-compliant investors through a focus on investments in specific halal sectors. Cash management has been restricted in a compliant and socially responsible way. The PEF furthermore is located in a tax-friendly capital gains environment and targets emerging markets in carefully chosen geographical regions. The compliant investors opted to locate their SPV offshore (Bahamas). At the level of the Islamic SPV, there is full compliance and a Shariah compliance officer has been included. The jurisdiction of the PEF was chosen so that its regulators and tax- and money-laundering supervisors would not to be too weary of the offshore Bahamas funding by the compliant underlying SPV.
The conventional investors in this case are all European and living in “tax-unfriendly” jurisdictions. They have opted, however, to locate their SPV in a European but tax-friendly jurisdiction. Their personal tax authorities do not like the offshore structuring in the Bahamas very much and the application of international treaties for the avoidance of double taxation has been optimised.
At the levels below the SPV (PEF and target companies), sufficient reporting systems have been installed to allow the Shariah compliance officer and the Shariah adviser of the Islamic SPV to ascertain that the investment strategy meets the Shariah standards as agreed.
The compliant investors have a Shariah screening opt-out clause in place (prior to investment) and a conciliation clause (after investment) to prevent their investments from inadvertently being mixed up in any target company with unacceptable haram activity.
The PEF, the management team and even the conventional investors are happy and confident that the ethical approach injected into the project by the compliant investors will be matched by them without too many difficulties.
It will be obvious from this scheme that other constellations may be agreed upon, depending on the situations, the parties involved and the financial weight of the overall project.
For example, an additional TraFiCo or Islamic bank could assist on the level of the target company to arrange for additional financing. Liquidity surpluses at the level of the target company, the PEF and the Islamic SPV could be handled through compliant short-term investments (compliant stock, Islamic money markets, TraFiCo, Islamic bank investment accounts and programmes).
Private equity investment is to be encouraged. Investment in stock exchanges in so-called (public) equity is a good basic for portfolio diversification. However, it benefits companies that are already big and the money goes from one investor to the other; it is not directly invested for economical growth.
Private equity investment confirms a social commitment to the real economy in the real, tangible sense of the word. The money will help creative entrepreneurs develop optimal business. It is a direct cooperation between money and labour on a fair and equitable foundation. And that is exactly what the Islamic economy and partnerships stand for.
Investors, however, do not necessarily have the time and knowledge (business lines, financial structuring, and cultural or legal know-how) to enter those markets in the different geographical locations and to manage the ventures closely. This certainly is the case when the investments need to be diversified into several target companies to spread risk.
There are ongoing complaints on the lack of PLS partnership funding at commercial/retail Islamic banks. Islamic banks indeed mostly stick to equity-based finance contracts, such as Murabahah and Ijarah. These complaints are without merit, since this kind of equity venturing simply is not (and will never be) their line of business. The products they want to finance most of the time are not suitable for partnership funding at all.
IPEFs, on the contrary, are perfect carriers for PLS purposes. One may use the traditional Mudarabah or Musharakah PLS partnership. However, venturing/investing outside of the Islamic world sensu stricto will lead to the use of different, but still Shariah-compliant, vehicles.
This will likely also lead to permissible cooperation with conventional financiers. There is hardly a better way available to make the conventional business world aware of the Islamic ethical standards and to learn to respect them in a positive and inviting way.
The information contained in this document is provided for general information purposes only. It is intended to highlight issues and not meant to be comprehensive nor to address the circumstances of any particular individual or entity. Data and figures can be subject to changes and are for illustration only. Every situation is different and needs specific counselling. Professional (legal) advice should be sought before taking (or refraining from) any decision or action as a result of the contents of this article.
Paul Wouters is a Belgian lawyer who has been a Turkish resident for some years now. Trained as a corporate and financial regulations practitioner in Europe, he focused on melting down differences in legal cultures that would benefit a large, international clientele. Wouters is a member of the advisory board of Islamic Finance news (Malaysia) and publishes worldwide opinions and articles on the subject of Islamic finance and banking. He is a partner at Bener Consulting (Istanbul-Turkey) and B-S-C-C Capital Partners (East Sussex – UK).
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I try to play my own data (in fact a portion of WAV file). Following is my code (Win XP and C compiler):
[code:2tfp9vmp]unsigned int Mode= FSOUND_8BITS | FSOUND_MONO | FSOUND_UNSIGNED;
SoundHandle = FSOUND_Sample_Alloc(FSOUND_FREE , ElementsRead, Mode, Frequence,Volume, FSOUND_STEREOPAN, Priority);
Status = FSOUND_Sample_Upload(SoundHandle , (void*)(Buffer), Mode);
ChannelHandle = FSOUND_PlaySound(Channel ,SoundHandle);[/code:2tfp9vmp]
Currently, the output sound is not perfect (some “noise” is added to the sound output). Do I forget something?
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07 July '16..
UNRWA spokesman, Chris Gunness harshly criticized our decision to demolish the homes of two terrorists who last December stabbed two Israelis to death at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City.
I have one question for Mr. Gunness: Who asked you? UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Its role is clearly defined. It is supposed to help Palestinians find work and if they can’t find work then to assist them with food and medication.
That’s it. It doesn’t have another role. There is nothing in UNRWA’s mandate which justifies intervention in Israel’s security matters.
There is nothing in Chris Gunness’s past which qualifies him to give us advice on how to protect ourselves or to act as judge in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But if we’re already speaking Chris, I have few more questions: Why doesn’t the State of Israel appear on maps in UNRWA schools? If you condemn violence, why were you silent when it became clear that an UNRWA building was used as a hiding place for a terrorist tunnel used to kill three Israeli soldiers? Why are you silent when gays are persecuted and church’s burned down in Gaza? Why are the Palestinians the only people in the world who can inherit the status of refugee from their parents? Why can someone be born in Qatar, live in a villa in Paris, hold a Spanish passport and still be considered a Palestinian refugee? Why is it that among the 23,000 UNRWA employees there are so many Hamas people (I didn’t say that Chris – as you know the commissioner- general of your organization said so himself)?
In fact, why is it that only the Palestinians have a refugee agency of their own? What do they deserve that the 21.5 million refugees from Tibet, Darfur, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere don’t? How is it that, since UNRWA was founded in 1950, the number of refugees has multiplied from 750,000 to over 5 million (!) without a single Palestinian being expelled? Is UNRWA creating refugees?
And I also have a question to the citizens of the United States: Do you know that your taxpayer dollars fund this insanity?
And not only this. UNRWA didn’t grow in a vacuum. It is part of a well-organized global anti-Semitic campaign in which a number of UN agencies take a suspiciously active role.
Take for example the UN Human Rights Council. Its treatment of Israel strayed from the boundaries of legitimate criticism long ago.
In the past decade the council has voted for 61 resolutions condemning human rights abuses across the world and 67 resolutions which condemned Israel.
That’s not a mistake. The council has condemned Israel, a democratic country which upholds international law, more times than the rest of the world combined.
A short reminder: In the past decade more than 400,000 people have been massacred in Syria; there were wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine; in China and Iran there are daily executions.
But the facts don’t interest the UN Human Rights Council. It continues to condone the murderers and condemn Israel where the rights of women and the LGBT community are protected, where elections are free and the media is free, where Arab citizens sit in parliament and on the Supreme Court, in the military and in every government office.
And it doesn’t stop there. Let’s take a quick look at the World Health Organization – another agency connected to the UN – which not long ago held its annual meeting. As expected, the meeting dealt with questions of life expectancy, mortality, the spread of disease and the need for vaccines.
But the assembly also included one exception: It included a harsh condemnation of only one country in the entire world – Israel. The resolution condemned what it coined the “Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights.” There was no explanation how this might be relevant to health issues. Two hundred meters from the Israeli Golan, in Syria, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are being massacred and that wasn’t mentioned even once in the resolution.
In fact, the only connection between the Israeli Golan and health issues is that for the past few years Israel has quietly rescued hundreds of Syrian children who were wounded in the fighting, and treated them in our hospitals.
The resolution also contained a series of false “facts” based on disgraceful Palestinian propaganda in a report presented to the WHO.
For example, the report argues that “Israel injects Palestinians with viruses which cause cancer.”
This is a monstrous accusation which wouldn’t be out of place in Der Stürmer.
The report was also decorated with photographs meant to enhance the drama. One, which was captioned, “Taken during the Israeli war on Gaza 2014,” is an image of a simulated attack on Tehran which appeared on a popular blog a few years ago. The mountains surrounding the Iranian capital were removed using Photoshop to increase credibility.
Another photograph is captioned, “The devastation caused by the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014.” It was actually taken in Beirut in the early 2000s. All this, in an official United Nations report which is distributed and quoted.
How did this happen? The UN underwent a hostile takeover.
The 136 countries of the Non- Aligned Movement serve today as an automatic majority against Israel in every vote in every UN agency.
A large number are Islamic states, others rely on oil money. They allow themselves to behave like that because they discovered that the democratic nations are silent.
But why are they silent? They could put a stop to it.
The United States funds 22 percent of the UN budget. In fact six countries – the United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany – fund around 65 percent of the entire UN budget. All that is required of those countries is to raise their voices and say they refuse to allow this to continue, and then this wild and distorted attack against Israel would end.
The UN has been taken hostage. It’s time to rescue it.
The writer is a member of Knesset and the chairman of the Yesh Atid Party.
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If you’re lucky enough to get to travel abroad, you know it’s getting easier and easier to use our phones and other gadgets to translate for us. So why not do so in a way that makes sense to you? This little gadget seeking funds on Kickstarter looks right up my alley, offering quick transcription and recording — plus music playback, like an iPod Shuffle with superpowers.
The ONE Mini is really not that complex of a device — a couple of microphones and a wireless board in tasteful packaging — but that combination allows for a lot of useful stuff to happen both offline and with its companion app.
You activate the device, and it starts recording and both translating and transcribing the audio via a cloud service as it goes (or later, if you choose). That right there is already super useful for a reporter like me — although you can always put your phone on the table during an interview, this is more discreet, and of course a short-turnaround translation is useful, as well.
Recordings are kept on the phone (no on-board memory, alas) and there’s an option for a cloud service, but that probably won’t be necessary, considering the compact size of these audio files. If you’re paranoid about security, this probably isn’t your jam, but for everyday stuff it should be just fine. (Data will never be used for commercial purposes or sold to third parties, the creators said, only for helping train a user-specific language model. You don’t need an account, and they’re GDPR compliant.)
If you want to translate a conversation with someone whose language you don’t speak, you pick two of the 12 built-in languages in the app and then either pass the gadget back and forth or let it sit between you while you talk. The transcript will show on the phone and the ONE Mini can bleat out the translation in its little robotic voice.
Right now translation online only works, but I asked and offline is in the plans for certain language pairs that have reliable two-way edge models, probably Mandarin-English, Mandarin-Korean, and Mandarin-Japanese.
It has a headphone jack, too, which lets it act as a wireless playback device for the recordings or for your music, or to take calls using the nice onboard mics. It’s lightweight and has a little clip, so it’s probably better than connecting directly to your phone in many cases.
There’s also a 24/7 interpreter line that charges two bucks a minute that I probably wouldn’t use. I think I would feel weird about it. But in an emergency it could be pretty helpful to have a panic button that sends you directly to a person who speaks both the languages you’ve selected.
I have to say, normally I wouldn’t highlight a random crowdfunded gadget, but I happen to have met the creator of this one, Wells Tu, at one of our events, and trust him and his team to actually deliver. The previous product he worked on was a pair of translating wireless earbuds that worked surprisingly well, so this isn’t their first time shipping a product in this category — that makes a lot of difference for a hardware startup
He pointed out in an email to me that obviously wireless headphones are hot right now, but the translation functions can be spotty and battery life is short. This adds a lot of utility in a small package.
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Does language matter when writing about the Arab uprisings? In a piece first published on Arabs Think, Mona Chalabi challenges the use of the verb, ‘fall’, in analyses of the revolutions. “Hosni Mubarak didn’t lose power because of gravity,” she writes, “and Ben Ali certainly wasn’t force to flee Tunisia because of a lack of good balance.”
This is the first piece published as part of the MEC blog’s partnership with Arabs Think, an initiative launched by students specialised in the broader Middle East and Arab world. The site aims to provide comprehensive analyses and synopses of issues covering the recent developments and evolutions relating to the uprisings in the region.
By Mona Chalabi
Like any spring, the so-called Arab one has had a rise and a fall. Written analyses of every variety from magazine articles, to a burgeoning academic literature on the subject have made reference to the fall of regimes, the fall of leaders, of political parties. What is more, this language of a fallen something, is every bit as prevalent in the diverse oral accounts that are being recited from coffee shops to conferences.
It is however incorrect. Hosni Mubarak didn’t lose power because of gravity and Ben Ali certainly wasn’t forced to flee Tunisia because of a lack of good balance. These leaders didn’t fall. They were pushed. Why does this matter? Isn’t it just another harmless means of political description, no more inaccurate or offensive than iron ladies or political mudslinging? The imagery of falling is however distinct from these because it robs Arabs of agency at precisely a time when they are desperately in need of it. Syria is showing that tipping points can be hard to find and that in the meantime, regime change can be a long, drawn-out blood bath. Prognosticating has already begun over the national and regional sectarian repercussions of the crisis in Syria. Consequently, the need for a thoroughly recast form of Arab Nationalism, built on a new sense of empowerment is more urgent than ever. The verb ‘to fall’ is however an intransitive one, meaning that you can’t ‘fall’ a leader in the same way you can ‘topple’ or ‘oust’ one.
One can understand why the idea of falling has gained such currency. Take for example Syria’s (admittedly opaque) tipping point mentioned above. It is often only when the risk of a ‘fall’ becomes great enough that even a regime’s supporters don’t want to be on the wrong side of a fall, because doing so would be on the wrong side of history. History has no doubt played a role in the construction of this language. The unexpected overthrow of political systems that seemed solid, albeit hollow, does have something in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But the idea of a fall conjures up a bricks-and-mortar image that is dangerously misleading at a time when the state building to be done consists of constructing corruption-free, efficient and reliable political institutions. As many post-Saddam Iraqis will themselves tell you, trust is anything but a solid matter. Yet Iraqis still use the term ‘al soqoot’ (meaning the fall) to make a grim, euphemistic reference to the rupture between the country’s black past and its grey present. Iraq holds painful lessons about sectarianism, intra-sectarianism and the splintering of identities that the idea of a solid fall fails to capture. True, Saddam’s forced removal from office bares little resemblance to that of Ben Ali, Mubarak or Gaddafi or Saleh but it nevertheless shows that even when an entire political party is removed from office, endemic corruption can stay behind. When political systems ‘fall’ they do not always break, a fact easy to miss when political figureheads are gone. Mubarakism could survive without Mubarak if the economic strength of a centralised and abusive military regime remains in his absence.
Crucially, the idea of a fall fails to capture the economic dimension of the causes and consequences of the Arab uprisings. It therefore neglects the crucial economic redistribution and reconstruction needed in states where long-term unemployment ranges between 10 and 25%, where jobs are particularly elusive for women and the youth. Perhaps more strikingly, even for the most educated in the Arab world, unemployment is high. Economic systems, like political ones, can become weak, can fail and can be reformed. But they cannot fall.
Many Arabs will soon begin (or have already begun) to feel powerless after a moment of empowerment. To describe that moment of empowerment as a ‘fall’ is a serious injustice to those who helped bring it about. Mistaken terminology around the Arab revolutions is not in scarce supply, as the phrase ‘Arab awakening’ demonstrates. To ascribe the inaction of Arabs to ‘sleep’ is a serious insult to their ability to intellectually rationalise their political lives. Moreover, to claim Arabs have woken up is to gravely underestimate the fear inspired by brutal regimes that forced them to appear dormant. Challenges which are as monumental as those that stand before Arab countries that have risen up can not be met if the major successes of their civil societies are undermined by false analogies.
These terms are not just media buzz words, nor are they hype exclusively in English. As the Iraqi case shows, they are integrated into language and serve as important cultural and historical artifacts, signposts by which an entire nation defines what is and is not possible. It is crucial to get these terms right if future governments are to feel accountable if they commit the same crimes as past governments who were pushed. Otherwise tomorrow’s leaders continue business as usual fearing only the forces of nature that caused their predecessors to apparently ‘fall’ yesterday.
What goes down must sometimes come up. By using the term ‘fallen’ regime rather than, for instance, ‘ousted’ or ‘deposed’ regime, it isn’t clear how it came down nor indeed the chances it might come up again.
Mona Chalabi is a political and security risk consultant at INCAS Consulting. Prior to joining INCAS, Mona worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant at the International Organisation for Migration’s Iraq office, as a Research Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit and, more recently, as a Researcher evaluating levels of corruption in Iraq and other MENA countries for Transparency International. Mona can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on Twitter @MonaChalabi. | <urn:uuid:a9637bb9-61a6-4d4c-8f5b-4c60c058a028> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2012/08/15/why-none-of-the-revolutions-have-caused-an-arab-leader-to-fall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.951212 | 1,390 | 2.109375 | 2 |
British actor James Callis was born on June 4, 1971 in London, England. The Jewish actor, whose parents were descendants of Russian and Polish immigrants, studied and later graduated at the University of York, leaving with English and literature degrees in 1993. During his stay there, he was an avid participant in the performing arts—he directed, acted and wrote several productions, and even appeared in productions put on by his friends in nearby Cambridge University.
He then pursued further training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and after his graduation in 1996, launched his career on stage productions in the West End, as well as on television. His screen debut was in an episode of the comedy series Murder Most Horrid, and moved on to play guest roles in other British television series. He also appeared in several films, first appearing in the 1997 short Weekend Bird. His career on stage was also applauded; in 1996, he won a Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his performance in Old Wicked Songs.
At the dawn of the new century, Callis began getting bigger roles on screen. In 2001, he starred in the hit romantic comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary, which starred Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth. He also starred in the film’s sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, in 2004. In 2003, he joined the cast of the science fiction miniseries Battlestar Galactica, a reboot of the cult 1970s series. He played the role of Gaius Baltar, a scientist who survives the Cylons’ initial attacks on the Twelve Colonies. Despite having an indirect hand at causing the invasion, he was brought into the Galactica, where he works to fight the invaders. The miniseries acted as a backdoor pilot to the 2004 television series, where he reprised the role. He stayed with the show until its conclusion in 2008. In 2010, he was cast as Dr. Trevor Grant on the SyFy series Eureka. | <urn:uuid:d393fe4d-2f7e-4838-b0e5-7862b2dd9fdf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.buddytv.com/info/james-callis-info.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986173 | 419 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Moscow marched down a path toward war Tuesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region and suggested that he is prepared to go much further, while President Biden and America’s NATO allies unleashed a coordinated package of sweeping economic sanctions in a last-ditch bid to halt a full-blown invasion.
Mr. Biden delivered a sharp rebuke of Mr. Putin in an afternoon speech at the White House. He announced the first in what could be a series of unprecedented financial punishments targeting the Russian president, his inner circle of oligarchs, Russian banks and other power players and influential companies in Moscow.
European nations followed suit with their own round of sanctions. Germany delivered one of the biggest blows by announcing it will halt certification of Moscow’s prized Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between the two countries.
Mr. Biden said the U.S. will reposition 800 troops along with helicopters and fighter jets from elsewhere in Europe to the Baltic states — which, like Ukraine, are former Soviet republics — to shore up defenses along NATO’s eastern border.
However, he again stressed that he is not sending U.S. troops to fight the Russians in Ukraine.
As stocks fell amid fears of war and a subsequent global energy crisis, Mr. Biden said the long-anticipated “invasion” had officially begun.
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He specifically blasted Mr. Putin’s decision Monday to formally recognize as independent states the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine. He said the move was a key step in Russia’s plan to create a false pretext for war.
“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belongs to his neighbors?” Mr. Biden said. “He’s setting up a rationale to take more territory by force. … This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
‘Starting a war’
Mr. Biden made his comments just hours after European officials said the first Russian forces had crossed into Donbas and after Russian lawmakers granted Mr. Putin permission to use military force outside their country.
One of Mr. Putin’s top deputies opened the door to permanent military bases in Donetsk and Luhansk. Such a move would cement Russia’s grip on those regions and give the Russian military much greater capability to launch ground attacks on Ukrainian territory.
There was growing fear that Mr. Putin ultimately may seek to push deeper into Ukraine to link Donetsk and Luhansk with the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized by military force in 2014.
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Despite getting the green light from his parliament to go to war, Mr. Putin was coy about his ultimate goal. He seemed to leave open the door to mobilizing all of the roughly 190,000 Russian troops stationed along Ukraine’s border for a full-scale invasion.
“I haven’t said that the troops will go there right now,” Mr. Putin said. “It’s impossible to forecast a specific pattern of action. It will depend on a concrete situation as it takes shape on the ground.”
To deescalate the conflict, Mr. Putin demanded that Ukraine recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea. He also demanded that Ukraine renounce its bid to join NATO and partially demilitarize.
Those demands are nonstarters in Kyiv and within NATO. The U.S. has rejected in writing Russia’s insistence that NATO never expand to include Ukraine.
The U.S. and NATO stressed that the door to diplomacy remained open and that Mr. Putin could avert a major land war in Europe, but hope for a peaceful resolution began to fade.
At a press conference alongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was scrapping plans for a meeting this week with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
Foreign policy analysts said the world is standing on the edge of catastrophe.
“We’re at one of the most dangerous periods in our history, certainly since 1945,” former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen told CNN. “The danger that we face here is that once we take a step and then Putin responds to it, the cycle tends to escalate. In the event they go into Ukraine and in the event there are wayward missiles fired at Ukrainians but end up hitting some American forces in the region, then the United States has to respond. And up the ladder we climb.”
Mr. Biden sounded a similarly pessimistic note. He called out Russia’s construction of field hospitals along the Ukrainian border and the movement of wartime supplies such as fresh blood.
“You don’t need blood unless you plan on starting a war,” the president said.
The scope of Russia’s military push into Donbas remained murky. European officials said Russian troops were in the territories but it was not yet the full-scale invasion that the West had feared for months.
Regardless, the development represented a sharp escalation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to tamp down panic among his people late Monday night.
“We are not afraid of anyone or anything. We don’t owe anyone anything. And we won’t give anything to anyone,” he said.
On Tuesday, Mr. Zelenskyy said he would call up some of the nation’s military reserves, signaling that Kyiv is preparing for a serious confrontation with Russian forces.
He said he would consider breaking formal diplomatic ties with the Kremlin. Earlier Tuesday, Kyiv recalled its ambassador in Moscow as diplomatic relations between the nations crumbled.
Russian officials did little to ease the tensions. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said Moscow’s agreement with the so-called independent regions of Donetsk and Luhansk allows for permanent Russian bases on their soil.
If established, such bases would represent a major blow to Ukrainian sovereignty and would reaffirm that Russia is able to seize Ukrainian territory by force.
“So far, there hasn’t been any talk about setting up bases,” Mr. Rudenko said, according to RT.com. “But, if necessary, we will do everything that needs to be done. The agreement stipulates that.”
First wave of sanctions
At the White House, Mr. Biden rolled out the first wave in a sanctions package that, if fully implemented, would be perhaps the harshest in history.
The president said he will impose penalties “far beyond” the sanctions levied in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea.
“If Russia goes further with this invasion, we stand prepared to go further as with sanctions,” the president said.
The sanctions announced Tuesday prohibit American financial institutions from processing transactions for Russia’s VEB and PSB banks. The move effectively cuts the banks out of transactions involving the U.S. dollar, the global reserve currency.
In 2014, the U.S. slapped sanctions on VEB that restricted U.S. individuals and companies from doing business with the institution.
During the first year, the bank sustained massive losses, leading to a multibillion-dollar bailout from the Russian government. The U.S. Treasury Department lifted those sanctions in 2019.
Mr. Biden said the Russian government would be blocked from accessing Western financing to service the country’s debt. That means it can no longer raise money from the West and cannot trade on its new debt in U.S. and European markets.
The U.S. also imposed sanctions on individual Russians, including Alexander Bortnikov, the director of Russia’s Federal Security Service, which is the successor to the KGB. His son, Denis Bortnikov, also was sanctioned, as were Petr Fradkov, chairman and CEO of PSB, and Sergei Kiriyenko, a Russian politician.
The European Union and its member states, along with Britain, rolled out coordinated sanctions, which also explicitly targeted Russian banks and wealthy individuals.
Administration officials said Russia’s largest banks could be the next targets of sweeping sanctions if Moscow further invades Ukraine.
“No Russian financial institution is safe if the invasion proceeds,” an administration official told reporters. “This is only the sharp edge of the pain we can inflict.”
Other sanctions available to the U.S. could be cutting off Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), a high-security network that connects financial institutions around the globe.
A removal of Russia would severely hamper its ability to do business with other countries. Shipments of metals, oil, gas and other commodities could stop for at least some time.
“We are not taking SWIFT off the table,” the official said.
In Berlin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his nation will take steps to halt the certification of the massive Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.
The landmark project has sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, critics have long warned that the pipeline would give Moscow far too much power over European energy supplies.
Mr. Scholz said his government will “reassess” the pipeline’s future in light of Russian military actions in Ukraine.
“That will certainly take time, if I may say so,” he said.
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The government of New Brunswick has handed the management of millions of acre of Crown land to six multinational corporations. In Forbidden Forest, we meet two very different men united by a passion to save the forest and to bring some of this public land under community control.
Jean Guy Comeau is an Acadian woodlot owner who fought his way out of poverty and retired after nearly 40 years in a pulp mill. Born to a wealthy family, Francis Wishart is a painter and winemaker with homes in France and New Brunswick.
Together, they travel to Finland--home of UPM-Kymmene, one of the largest licence holders of New Brunswick Crown lands--to urge company officials to practise responsible forestry. And they go head-to-head with the New Brunswick government in an effort to secure a new, community-based forestry policy--one that is environmentally sustainable and that produces more jobs than the highly capital-intensive, mechanized techniques used today.
Forbidden Forest is a tale of corporate greed, lax government oversight and people passionate about the places they love.
The DVD features a French and English language option.
2004, 69 min 44 s
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Thousands of New Yorkers are impacted by abuse - in fact, New York has the highest demand for domestic violence services in the country. Our state must respond with solutions that meet the diverse needs of survivors and their families, and that work to prevent domestic violence from occurring in the first place.
As a coalition representing domestic violence programs and the survivors they serve across New York State, NYSCADV knows that the best legislation comes when the voices of survivors and advocates are heard. And this is what NYSCADV's annual Legislative Advocacy Day is for: to convey a unified message, representative of the unique needs of a diverse range of survivors, to our state government that will protect rights, promote justice, and prevent domestic violence.
NYSCADV is pleased to announce that Mary Kay, Inc. is serving as the primary sponsor for our 2016 Legislative Advocacy Day! Through their Lobbying For Good program, Mary Kay staff and members of their independent sales force work in collaboration with state domestic violence coalitions to lobby Congress and state legislatures on issues including the Violence Against Women Act and, most recently, teen dating violence awareness and prevention. We are excited that Mary Kay will be sponsoring a lunch for LAD participants and will be joining advocates from across the state to support our legislative advocacy efforts.
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During our numerous years in the pest control industry in Parma, Ohio, our exterminators have found that pests may cause a substantial level of property damage. The bites and stings many insects use as self-defense mechanisms can cause you to experience a considerable amount of pain, and it can also trigger various diseases. Having pests in your home can be even worse if you have pets or infants because a bite or sting might have even stronger effects on their underdeveloped immune systems. As soon as you find pests living in your home or office, you should call the exterminators at Local Pest Control Pros at 888-410-2140
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New York University has enclosed the atrium of the school's main academic library with randomly perforated aluminum screens, in an effort to curb suicides while completely mindfucking the NYU population, reports The New York Times' City Room.
Since 2003, three students jumped to their deaths in the Bobst Library: a junior and a freshman in 2003, and another junior in 2009. Following the second death, the school installed eight foot high clear barriers along the balconies.
When it came time to [better] suicide-proof the atrium, said Andrew T. Repoli, a director of construction management at NYU, the designers had one concern (apart from better suicide-proofing the atrium): giving the renovations the modern look "of today".
"The whole idea was to come up with something sympathetic to the Philip Johnson design while being in and of today. We didn't want something that would have been hip 40 years ago."
Nothing is worse than an architectural aesthetic that, while the height of modernity at the time of its construction, feels dated and stale just a few years down the line. Accordingly, designers took inspiration from one of the most elegant and beautiful motifs of the modern era: clunky digital pixels.
City Room notes that the pixels "can also look like showers of gold confetti, in keeping with the late-'60s aesthetic of the building." The 1960s, a decade which took many of its design cues from the AMC workplace drama Mad Men, was famous for the showers of gold confetti that fell like acid rain any time an important man stepped out-of-doors.
Repoli told City Room that the aluminum barrier "is almost like a beautiful piece of lace that's been stretched taut against the balcony slabs," though a more accurate description would be that the barrier "is almost like a digital image of a beautiful piece of lace that's been magnified to pixels that's been stretched taut against the balcony slabs."
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There is one real big world event that we Filipinos seem not to know of: The First World Outgames. It’s a sports competition, yes, of Olympics magnitude. It won’t be any other sports event if not for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered players involved.I am not very certain if our beloved The Philippines is represented. I wish we Filipinos are present there, too.
At its opening on July 29th, in one of the world’s gay-friendliest cities, Canada’s French city of Montreal, 28,000 people of all genders and sexualities trooped to witness the event. There are 12,000 athletes participating in the games held inside and out of
Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.
“Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered athletes from 111 countries took to the field from the four corners of the stadium in a winding procession, unfurling national flags, rainbow flags, pennants, glow sticks and, in the case of the German team, bright yellow umbrellas,” reads the Montreal Gazette.
Not only that, they all “danced and waved to the beat of high-energy dance music and Bob Marley’s Get Up, Stand Up. The largest cheers were reserved for participants from about 20 countries where homosexuality is still a crime.”
Canada’s public works minister, who stood in for the prime minister, got booed by the crowd. The government’s position on LGBT issues, particularly on same-sex marriage, is wanting, that’s why. Performances threw the Olympic Stadium into a party place and capped the opening day.
Prior to that, however, an equally important if not more important event took place. It is the adoption of the “Declaration of Montreal,” a product of the International Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Human Rights.
It is a framework to promote gay and lesbian human rights which sounds off universal declaration of human rights, which states in its introduction: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
Montreal’s leading daily, Montreal Gazette, reported: “Human rights advocates plan to present the declaration – a manifesto that sets out guidelines to protect the rights of gays and lesbians – to the United Nations and national governments. The goal is to gain ‘unequivocal’ support of gay rights worldwide.
“The document declares that homosexuals must have protection against state-sanctioned violence and gay bashing, freedom of expression and association, as well as freedom to engage in consensual sexual activity.
“It also spells out some key issues facing the community internationally: Fighting ignorance and prejudice, working for a safe environment in every country, fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic and gaining recognition for same-sex partnerships during immigration.”
I am certain that an LGBT group in the country would push for its ratification. What I am not certain about is whether the Arroyo government would stamp it OK. Like most of the Filipinos, the government has been wrapped in lack of respect for the beliefs and practices of people.
Our hope is in all of us who understand that there is a need for such a legal instrument to protect and shield the LGBTs from harm, discrimination and all of the violations that have been committed all this time. I wish the government realizes that there are people whose beliefs and practices should be respected the way they respect that of others.
It may not be an easy battle but it could be won. Based on my unscientific observation, fathers do not send their gay sons to military schools or seminaries anymore. Maybe they have realized their sons would end up gayer than sending them to coed schools. More and more gay couples could be seen exhibiting their sexualities in public. There is “Ang Ladlad” Party that would test the political arena in next year’s polls too.
Oh, how I wish we would have a Rue St. Catherine here the way Montreal has. It’s got clubs like the Parking, where men in leather could either dance, play billiards or simply booze, or enjoy the sights and sounds of the Campus, and others where gays and lesbians party, party and party.
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More and more often, child custody disputes in Montana involve multiple states or multiple countries. In this case, the central issue was whether Montana could (or should) exercise jurisdiction over a child. The decision turned on how long the child had lived in Montana and whether he was temporarily absent or had relocated to Canada.
The background is important to understanding the Montana Supreme Court’s decision:
Matthew and Michelle Sampley were married on January 23, 2010, in Alberta, Canada. In October 2010, they moved to Alaska, where their son, was born in 2011. Michelle and Matthew moved to Washington in October 2011 and then to Billings, Montana during the end of September 2013.
In October 2013, Michelle and [their son] travelled to British Columbia, Canada to stay with Michelle’s parents. They were scheduled to return to Montana on November 1, 2013. After Michelle’s father was diagnosed with cancer, Michelle and [their son] extended their stay until the end of December 2013. Matthew visited Michelle and [their son] in Canada for five days in November and for ten days in December. During Matthew’s December visit, Michelle told Matthew that she and [their son] would stay in Canada through March 2014. In February 2014, Michelle travelled to Billings to retrieve her and [their son’s] personal 3 belongings. She removed these items without Matthew’s knowledge and returned to Canada.
Marriage of Sampley, ¶¶ 3-4.
Matthew filed for divorce with the Yellowstone County District Court in May of 2014. Michelle then asked the District Court to dismiss all matters relating to parenting and custody because Montana was not the “home state” of the child. The District Court agreed and Matthew appealed that decision.
Montana, like many other states, has adopted the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA). It says that Montana courts can only exercise jurisdiction over parenting and custody issues if Montana is the “home state” of the child which requires that the child has lived in Montana for at least six months at some point in the past.
Michelle argued that their son only lived in Montana for a day. Since he had not lived here the required six months, Montana did not have jurisdiction to decide the child custody issues. Matthew argued that the trip to Canada was a temporary absence from Montana, that this was his home the entire time.
The Supreme Court’s decision looked at what the law means by “temporary absence” and found that it is not defined. After reviewing the approach of other states, and the legislative history here in Montana, the Court ultimately focused on a totality of the circumstances test. They found that the law’s purpose “was to create a bright-line rule based on the assumptions that a state is the established home of a child after the child is integrated into a community of the state and that such integration usually occurs after six months of living in a community.” Based on that, the Court made the following statement:
We, therefore, conclude that an absence is not temporary if the character of the absence would make it unreasonable to assume that a child would integrate into a community of Montana during the portions of the six-month period when the child is not absent from the state.
This included a footnote with an important disclaimer: We do not decide whether the contrapositive is true. As the state conclusion is sufficient to resolve the present appeal, we need not consider whether all absences that do not render the integration assumption unreasonable are necessarily “temporary.”
The decision went on to find that the child only lived in Montana for either one or four days before relocating to Canada. That he stayed in Canada temporarily until February 2014, at which point Michelle retrieved his things from Montana and fully relocated him. Even if his absence was temporary until February, it ceased being temporary after that point. This means that, at most, the child resided in Montana for five months and did not meet the six month mark. Therefore, the District Court was correct when it dismissed the custody related claims.
As a side note, I think it’s interesting that the Supreme Court went to the trouble of defining temporary absence here. Usually, appellate courts limit themselves to only deciding issues that are necessary to resolve the conflict. Here, the ultimate decision was factual: that the child fully relocated to Canada in February. Even if the absence was temporary, we don’t get to five months. So it didn’t really matter what the definition of temporary absence was – at least to this case. | <urn:uuid:27119c00-77d6-44ab-8db9-2cb46abf8fa1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mtfamilylawblog.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00252-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977351 | 945 | 1.945313 | 2 |
How to Prevent and Treat Arthritis
Family Circle Magazine—April 1, 2010
While there are over 100 different arthritis-related conditions, half of the 46 million sufferers in the U.S. have osteoarthritis. In fact, it's estimated that almost 50 percent of us will be dealing with some form of it by the time we turn 65. The first signs are typically puffy or swollen knees and legs that hurt when straightened or bent. The pain is caused by bone rubbing on bone after cartilage (which acts as a cushion) has broken down. Early symptoms are often attributed to general muscle soreness. "People need to zero in on the pain they're feeling," says Lisa Mandl, MD, a rheumatologist at Hospital for Special Surgery, an orthopedic hospital in New York City. "With arthritis, you'll have pain in certain pivot points—like your knees and hips—and less in the surrounding muscle tissue." Plus, muscle aches go away in a few days and feel better with rest and massage; arthritis pain doesn't.
Initially, over-the-counter remedies may help. Anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil and Motrin are best for alleviating swelling, inflammation, and pain, while analgesics like Tylenol provide pain relief. But if you rely on these every day or have to take the maximum allowed dosage in order to function, or if you have symptoms for more than six weeks, make an appointment with a primary care physician or a specialist like a rheumatologist, advises Dr. Mandl. The doctor should inquire about a family history of the disease (many forms of arthritis, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, have genetic links) before making a diagnosis. "Certain blood tests, like the one for rheumatoid factor, can help diagnose rheumatoid arthritis," says Dr. Mandl. Currently there isn't a test for osteoarthritis, but X-rays can help with a diagnosis. | <urn:uuid:143ef0b5-7382-423a-80ba-3cc58214aa5b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hss.edu/newsroom_how-to-prevent-and-treat-arthritis.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944995 | 412 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The public enjoys mocking people who desire to venture on new paths, yet this does not affect those hearty souls in the least. Nor does the derisive smile undo them. They possess a unique power to slough off the mockers and stop the jabbering mouths of fools and to shed light on benighted minds. They do not tire in making known their thoughts and criticisms until all become convinced and it becomes clear to the whole world that it is not they who are the fools but rather their tireless scoffers.
Think, for example, of the movement for the Yiddish language. It began decades ago. At that time, there awoke the question in certain minds: why is it that when other nations jumble several languages together and derive from this melange a separate tongue with its unique soul, it is accorded the legitimacy of a separate language and the due respect of nations? Why then when Jews have done the same with the German, Hebrew and Slavic languages is it disparaged as a jargon and sneered at? At that time, assimilation was still powerful and the ethnonational movement had scarcely come into being. There were probably few people who were informed with respect to the new language question, and those that were, reacted to it with peals of uproarious laughter. Nevertheless, the idea did not wither away, and one of its first pioneers, if not the first, Aleksander Harkavi, lives till this very day in New York and has joyously lived to see the realization of his ideal.
When Jewish intellectuals became ethnonationally conscious, it must be admitted that they looked askance at the Yiddish language. They viewed it as a nuisance which must be suffered patiently but which must not became the object of dedication. It never dawned on them that the nationalist intellectual must not only be bound closely by ties of the heart and will to his people but must, first of all, live in their midst. He must breathe the same cultural atmosphere, and his spiritual life must grow out of the folk-soul. Furthermore, he must be able to infuse into it the simple and unpretentious strength of the people. It never entered his mind that to speak any language other than his very own - the language of his people, the language of their innermost thoughts and feelings, of joys and sorrows, of tears and of laughter - is tantamount to leaving his people and going off into the desert-wilderness without friend or mentor, to follow the winding road into a chaotic world, to turn oneself into a rambler, a lost wanderer, torn from home and nationality.
When the intellectuals were approached about this matter-when the attempt was made to convince them of the legitimacy of Yiddish - they laughed and jeered. "What, you want us, cultivated people, to stoop to the level of using your jargon, your most ugly jargon? You can be certain that you will not have your way with us. Better not make fools of yourselves." So they proclaimed arrogantly and considered those who spoke to them of Yiddish to be crazy, pure and simple.
The Yiddish language took no notice of their laughing scorn and ugly disparagement. With quiet but firm tread, it pursued the road which the new age and the old nationality had diligently paved for it. The new age found it, the language, necessary in order to open the eyes of the common people so that they could at last see, voice their demands and carve a place for themselves in a hostile world. The old nationality, wakening from an age - old dream and as if longing for a major task, could not avoid the Yiddish language. Slowly, there blossomed forth new intellectuals (even nationalist intellectuals) who viewed Yiddish with a brighter and newer vision than their predecessors. They were seized by the powerful feeling that this language is the very soul of our people - its very heart, the very center of our life. Why do we weep that we lack self-esteem? Where should we derive this strength from, when we have spent our entire lives sunk in self-abasement? From which source can we draw on, when we demonstrate greater fidelity to the Hottentots than to ourselves, when we elevate the speech of others to the rank of dignified languages and when we invidiously belittle our own as nothing more than gibberish, as jargon; our language into which we have infused and secreted hundreds of years of our spirit, our heart, our humor and our deepest joys and sorrows? How can a nationality that suffers such supreme denigration ever, of its own accord, recover a modicum of feeling of self-respect and a sentiment for ethnonational sovereignty? Let us shed these garments of shame in which our language is swaddled-with which our weak and sickly yidishkayt has permitted it to be clothed - and our people will once more shine forth and bask in the warm glow of a long neglected self-respect.
Why do we shed tears that we possess too dim an appreciation of beauty, or that Yiddish life has banished beauty? Is beauty not that which we extract from our minds and hearts and offer up to the world? Is beauty not the reflection of our inner beauty, or our deeper harmony? Could we not have already begun to perceive with true aesthetic sense, to see with eyes sensitized to beauty, and realize that the paltry bit of German and Polish speechifying has not elevated our inner beauty but only completely spoiled that trifling sum found among us? Only then would we comprehend that any unsightliness of Yiddish derives from our inner ugliness and discern what a guarantee of luster and beauty a language can afford us, a language that is held in high estimation and adorned by love. If we would understand, then let us make the effort to do so! Let us remove the opprobrium from our language and permit a new Jewish beauty to come forth from our midst and illuminate our lives.
Why do we cry that we do not possess sufficient strength in the world? Do we endeavor to tap new wellsprings of strength and power? Have we not heard of what a language can do for a people? That it shelters and screens its culture and enables a people to unlock the door of ethnonational equality? Is this not a large dose of strength and power, and is it not found very near us, in our very mouths and on our own lips? We have only to reach out and grasp it and make it our own.
These and similar claims have been given greater voice ever so gradually. Meanwhile, Yiddish literature has steadily developed. The first generation of poets were followed closely by a second, then a third generation, and, bit by bit, Yiddish was being widely used, entering into the general stream of life, and people were increasingly becoming sensitive to the inescapable obligation of helping it develop and prosper. This was efficaciously executed by the establishment of rules and systems, codes of grammar and the regulation of spelling. The call was burgeoning for the recognition of Yiddish as a separate language.
Today, Jews from different lands have come together to proudly reacquaint themselves with our language and to discuss what can be done for our beloved Yiddish. We have the good fortune to have with us those great writers who evoke pride and command the deepest respect, even among the opponents and deriders of our language.
You see, my dear guests and members of the conference, that ridicule has not foiled us; it has left us untouched and in the future it will not hurt us. As long as our struggle was an individual one, there existed the faint possibility that our strength would weaken and our spirit and patience falter. Now that we are gathered in strength from all over the world, we have nothing to fear.
We are not spoiling for a fight with anyone. If fanatical adversaries will waylay us, they will find us steady and imperturbable. They cannot harm us in the least. Honest opponents who demonstrate propriety in their dealings with us will be answered with the utmost respect. The essence lies in work - quiet, tireless and devoted work.
The following five days can be the start of our endeavors, but we remain cognizant that every beginning is connected with enormous responsibilities.
I hereby declare to be opened the first Conference of the Yiddish language.
The Russian-Jewish publication, Razsvet, in reporting N. Birnbaumís
opening remarks preceded them with the following introductory comment:
"A quarter past ten in the morning [Sunday, August 30, 1908] there walked
onto the stage Dr. N. Birnbaum in the company of Y. L. Perets, S. Ash,
Dr. Kh. Zhitlovski and other distinguished guests. Dr. N. Birnbaum opens
the conference, reading his first speech in Yiddish fluently from his notes.
His expressions pure Yiddish. Recognizable on occasion are pedantries of
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Do you struggle to get through the day without umpteen cups of strong coffee? Are you normally falling asleep on your keyboard by 3pm? Do you catch every virus and cold going? If the answer is yes to all three of these things, you need to start taking some natural health supplements to give you an energy boost and help strengthen your immune system. So what are the best natural healthy supplements on the market today?
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Carbohydrates give us energy but when we consume a lot of the bad carbs (white bread, white pasta and white rice) it can leave us feeling deflated and sluggish later in the day. Whole grains are a much better way of enjoying an energy boost and if you replace some of your refined carbs with whole grains, you will soon notice the difference. Instead of eating a slice white toast for breakfast, have some whole grain toast with a poached egg on top. You will breeze through the day on a cloud of energy.
Dried leaves from the Moringa tree have lots of health benefits. Moringa is known as a ‘super food’ and is packed full of nutrients, including anti-oxidants, proteins, minerals, vitamins and amino acids. Taking a teaspoon of Moringa powder or drinking Moringa tea every day will boost your immune system and leave you feeling energised. You can add Moringa powder to your cereal or blend it onto a drink – either way, it will give you a great boost as the day progresses, which if you have kids will be most welcome!
Bee Pollen Granules
Who would have thought that the humble bumblebee could help us feel more energetic? Bee pollen granules are a surprising way to beat the mid afternoon energy crash. Bee pollen contains every nutrient you need to maintain health and wellbeing. You can mix bee pollen granules into food and drinks, or consume it as a liquid extract or pill.
The Chinese have been drinking green tea for thousands of years. Green tea contains bioflavnoids, which are a natural energy booster. If you drink green tea daily it will increase your metabolic rate and make you feel more energised – which is good for your mind and great for weight loss.
COQ10 is a naturally occurring antioxidant in the body, but it is also available as a health supplement. COQ10 is used to treat a number of different conditions, including chronic fatigue, high cholesterol and asthma, so it could be worth trying if you are feeling fatigue all the time.
Lots of us are deficient in Vitamin B12 without even realising it. Vitamin B12 converts carbohydrates into glucose energy, so a lack of Vitamin B12 will leave you feeling tired and sluggish. Taking a multi vitamin supplement that contains Vitamin B12 should perk you up no end.
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Autor: Pablo O'higgins
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Major retrospective exhibition presents various essays by leading experts on the life and work of painter and engraver O'Higgins (b. United States 1904- d. Mexico 1983) celebrating the centenary of his birth. His mural "La lucha obrera" made for the Talleres Graficos de la Nacion (TGN) until it was moved in 1969, becomes the title of the exhibition divided in two venues that reunites more than 250 pieces, including photographs and documents presenting a complete analysis of the master muralist life and artworks. O'Higgins, a social activist who portrayed his social and political ideology in his painting subjects, was an important figure of the muralist movement in Mexico, a founding member of the TGN and LEAR and friend of many art personages Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Leopoldo Mendez, Juan de la Cabada, Tair Salajov, Rodrigo Moya, Adolfo Mexiac, and others. Social and political the subjects. Important reference for the Muralism Movement, the TGP and LEAR. | <urn:uuid:70c76794-92bc-4a63-af5b-97d5e6b7766c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coleccionesdigitales.cl/laura-martinez-rodriguez.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.944473 | 252 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Why are cashews and chocolate so good together? We don't have an answer, just a lot of evidence to prove what a great pair they make Ð and Milk Chocolate Cashew Clusters are Exhibit A in the case for chocolate cashew goodness!
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National Guard (Iraq)
|Active||2003 - December 2004|
(until June 2004)
Iraqi Interim Government
(from June 2004)
The Iraqi National Guard (NG; Arabic: الحرس الوطني, al-Ḥaras al-Waṭanī) was part of the new Military of Iraq but has since been absorbed by the Iraqi Army controlled by the interim government. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, United States Coalition Provisional Authority Chief Paul Bremer disbanded the military apparatus of Iraq as existed under Saddam Hussein. As the security situation in occupied Iraq deteriorated and the Iraqi insurgency became increasingly active, the U.S. set up, recruited and trained the new security force in order to combat the insurgency. Despite attacks by insurgent and terrorist groups, the Iraqi National Guard was able to recruit many Iraqis from the vast ranks of the unemployed. The force has been used to assist Coalition troops in combatting the insurgency. However, there have been several instances where they have refused to take military action against fellow Iraqis, such as in Fallujah, deserted, or allegedly aided the resistance.
In September 2004, a senior member, General Talib al-Lahibi was arrested on suspicion of having links with insurgent groups. In December 2004, it was announced that the Iraqi National Guard would be dissolved. At this time its strength was officially over 40,000 men.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — An effort to control school overcrowding in New Hanover County may mean a loss of funding to the tune of more than $750,000.
The new lines that have been drawn to divide New Hanover County School districts have been the cause for a lot of controversy. Like the districts, the school board’s opinion is split.
“My conclusion is that yes, we have segregated our schools,” school board member Elizabeth Redenbaugh said.
Fellow board member Don Hayes disagrees.
“We have not segregated the school system,” Hayes said. “Yes, there’s a higher concentration of one race or the other in the schools, but that’s due to the housing patterns.”
This debate is the result of a new state law regarding disadvantaged students supplemental funding. The state has asked the school board to decide whether its policies were made to intentionally segregate. If the board’s answer is yes, New Hanover County Schools will lose more than $750,000.
School board members in favor of neighborhood schools supported redistricting to control overcrowding not to segregate, but Redenbaugh, who voted against the adopted redistricting plan, believes her fellow board members did not take into account some important factors.
“If you don’t take into account socioeconomic status, you can end up, putting the majority of the children in a school that come from a background of poverty, which makes it much more difficult on them. Their problems, they compound when they’re all under the same roof,” Redenbaugh said.
Hayes says those children are the ones who will suffer if the disadvantaged student funding is lost.
“I’m just very surprised and disappointed, because our schools have been doing so well, and the children have made so much progress, and now, they would want to jeopardize funding that we spend in these high-poverty schools,” Hayes said.
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Why the Patients gets different BP Results at Home and at Clinic
It is always recommended by the doctors that a BP(high or low) Patient must check his blood pressure Regularly at home.
A single measurement done by a doctor is not sufficient to decide the medication.
A good Physician will go through the previous records of measurements done at home by a Digital BP Machine before he will increase or reduce the dose of the Medicine or change the medicine.
But Measuring at home has always been confusing for the patients. The patient is always confused
Why I get the different Results when he repeats the measurement immediately after the first measurement.
Answer- when you press your arm during the measurement the bp changes the more you press more it is affected.Especially the systolic bp falls in the repeated measurement.
Solution-1 Use New Latest third generation MDI Technology of BP Monitors which checks your BP during inflation.
solution-2-Wait for 10 minutes before you take a repeated measurement.
Why my bp is higher at when measured by a Doctor and my digital bp monitor for home use gives a lower Result.
Read about white coat Hypertension- white coat hypertension means that your blood pressure is higher when checked at clinics by a white coat(mean Doctor or nurse) but
when you are relaxed at home and check it on your sofa on the dining table with your home Blood pressure Monitor it is on the lower side.
The reason may be that you are relaxed at home and a little nervous and conscious when your bp is checked by the doctor or nurse.
Why i am getting different BP readings throughout the day
Your BP Keeps changing throughout the day.
It is lowest at night and in the morning.More in the afternoon. and may change when
You walk talk run or do physical Exercise
when you smoke or take alcohol.
It is reduced after you have food as the blood flow is towards intestine.
Why my BP Monitor sometimes gives Really Crazy Results.
Main reason is you move your arm while measurement
Your BP Monitor monitor has old Technology and has no automatic error correction in the software.
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In today’s article I will explain how you can create a trigger and what you can use it for. A trigger is a procedure within the database which is automatically executed by the database when an event takes place. I will focus on table triggers and there you have three events: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. That means when a row is inserted an event takes places and if you have a trigger defined for this event it is executed. What do you need this for? You can use this for several things. For example you want to fill some columns based on other columns. Or you want to log something in another table.
In my following example I will create two tables. One with the data itself and some kind of logging table. If I insert a new row to the table I will also add a row to the logging table with a timestamp and the action performed.
First we need the two tables:
|CREATE TABLE TBL_TRIGGER_TEST( ROW_ID NUMBER, ROW_VALUE NUMBER, ROW_COMMENT VARCHAR2(1000) ); CREATE TABLE TBL_TRIGGER_TEST_LOG( ROW_ID NUMBER, ROW_VALUE NUMBER, ROW_COMMENT VARCHAR2(1000), ROW_TS DATE, ROW_ACTION VARCHAR2(1) );|
The table TBL_TRIGGER_TEST is the main table. We have a ROW_ID, a ROW_VALUE and a ROW_COMMENT, just to have some columns. In the table TBL_TRIGGER_TEST_LOG we will log all actions on the main table. In the case of the insertion of a new record we will insert a copy of it with date & time to the logging table. In the ROW_ACTION column we will insert an I (= INSERT).
Now we need the trigger:
|CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TRG_TEST_INS BEFORE INSERT ON TBL_TRIGGER_TEST FOR EACH ROW BEGIN INSERT INTO TBL_TRIGGER_TEST_LOG VALUES(:new.ROW_ID, :new.ROW_VALUE, :new.ROW_COMMENT, sysdate, ‚I‘); END;|
A trigger is created via the CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER statement. If a trigger with the same name already exists it is overwritten. The next important thing is BEFORE. That defines when the trigger should be executed before the DML operation takes place or after. In the case of after you just write AFTER instead of BEFORE. INSERT is the kind of DML event. You can choose between INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE. When you select UPDATE you can also specify a column. Then you defined with ON followed by the table name on what table this trigger should be implemented. The FOR EACH ROW option defines that the trigger should be executed for each row that is inserted and not only once for all rows within the transaction.
After BEGIN the code itself starts. We are just inserting a new into the logging table. The first three columns will be filled with the values that are to be inserted in the main table. You can access them via :new. This is something like a pseudo row. Beside :new you can use :old to access the old values. That is important when you delete a row or update it.
You are not allowed to put a COMMIT in a trigger. The trigger is commited by the transaction that inserted a row in the main table. That’s why it is not needed here.
Now you can test the trigger. Just insert a new row to the main table and commit it. Afterwards you can show all rows from the logging table. You should find an exact copy of the row you’ve inserted to the main table and the timestamp should match the date/time when you’ve inserted it.
As a task you can try to implement a trigger for the delete event. When a row is deleted you want a copy in the logging table. The action flag should contain a ‘D’. The examples and the result to this task can be found in the download area. Have fun!
If you are interested in this or other advanced Cognos/SQL topics you can also attend training on my corporate homepage. At the moment my open courses are only available in German. Inhouse training and online courses are also available in English language. So check out my open trainings (German) or my online courses (English)! | <urn:uuid:355dae85-b3dd-4e7f-a6cd-63536a0a040d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bi-solutions.gaussling.com/how-to-create-a-database-trigger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.872217 | 974 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The island is celebrating its 400th founding anniversary, and the Jewish community now has a building where it can conduct services, hold events and house its Hebrew School.
This development stems from the fact that the US Naval Base, situated on the island during World War II, closed in 1994 due to budget cuts. That site has been repurposed and is now what Jewish Bermudians and their families, as well as expatriates from the United States, Canada, the U.K., and a dozen other countries, use as home base for the primarily Reform/Conservative community.Few Jews moved to the island because of English 18th century policies toward Jews. Jews Bay (marked on an early survey as Jewes Bay), proves there were Jews, and the name dates to the early 1600s.
In April 1943, Bermuda hosted a secret Bermuda Conference where delegates discussed methods of rescuing European Jews from the Nazis. Bermuda officials avoided the Jewish survivor topic; ultimately, no promises were made to help.
In 1694, the law “An Act Laying an Imposition on all Jews, and reputed Jews, Trading or Merchandising on These Islands” levied a five pound tax on any Jew attempting to execute business in Bermuda.
This bill declared that Jews “have come to and resided in these islands, and have sold and vended great quantities of goods, wares, merchandizes and commodities, and the monies thereby received and gotten do still send out and carry away from these islands into foreign and remote parts and places, to the great impoverishment, hurt and prejudice of their majesties subjects in these islands.”
In 1760, the previous bill was revoked on the grounds that it was bad for Bermudian business, because Jews were taking their trade elsewhere.
Many European Jews immigrated to the island post-WWII, but were not welcomed. Jewish travelers faced discrimination - which even limited the numbers who could travel there.
Some hotels refused to permit Jews to stay, and many who lived on the island did not publicly declare their religion. Puisne Judge Hector Barcillon held the highest office for a Jew, but he didn't reveal his religion until 1967. Emotionally stirred by Israel's Six Day War, he wrote a letter to the newspaper and disclosed the truth.
In the 20th century, a congregation was established in Hamilton.
For more resources on Bermuda:
Jewish Exponent travel article
Bermuda in the Jewish Virtual Library
JewishSightseeing.com - an interesting 1999 story about Jewish life.
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The video describes the steps I use when creating a base image for architectural illustrations. Kerkythea is simple to get started with, but has sophisticated settings to produce very professional final outcomes.
Kerkythea and the Sketchup Plugin can be downloaded HERE. The Plugin can be found under Integration along with easy install instructions
If used correctly, Kerkythea can be quick. However, as you fine tune the rendering settings, add more lights, soften the shadows, give the material textures and bumpmaps, you will quickly find out that the rendering times exponentially grow. I will most often do the bare minimum, to get my rendering times down, then put more effort in post processing. However, there are times when spending the extra effort to add nice textures and lights outweigh the time it takes to post process in photoshop. Either way, it’s good to know what pieces significantly alter rendering time.
Things that extend rendering times:
Multiple lights. Adding more lights slows the rendering time. Lights that are made up of many surfaces, such as a sphere, make it even worse.
Lots of geometry. This one is obvious, but using a lot of trees or just really big models will really increase rendering times. Deleting part of the model so that only objects in view remain is something I do a lot.
Complex textures. Textures with a lot of reflection or shininess really slow things down. Use these textures sparingly.
Presets. Choosing the right preset makes a big difference. Photonmap-High+AA03 seems to be the quickest for me. Metropolis Light Transport looks the best, but can take days to render. | <urn:uuid:9c7362aa-9f84-4f93-ba1c-b75dc2d1e2d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://visualizingarchitecture.com/kerkythea-tutorial-part-1-basics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936714 | 342 | 1.640625 | 2 |
International Human Resource Management Articles in This Essay
- Length: 11 pages
- Sources: 16
- Subject: Business - Management
- Type: Essay
- Paper: #95671175
Excerpt from Essay :
International Human Resource management Articles
In this paper, we will critically evaluate two separate journal articles related to international human resource management (IHRM) and draw out their contribution to IHRM in an integrated literature review. The topics of these two articles are Development and Globalization. First, we will overview both of the articles separately in this introductory phase and then in the literature review we will support our outline of concepts and ideas in the two articles. A critical analysis will then be done relevant to the articles which will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the articles. After the critical analysis we will advise how both of the subject matter discussed can be applied to multinational companies either large or small.
Finally, we will give a conclusion and recommendation in which the former will include summary of what we have found looking back at the overall paper and the later will consist of recommendations as to how our selected findings can influence the area of International Human Resource Management.
This article is about the development practices and Human Resource Management in indigenous Russian firms and foreign multinational companies. It has uncovered a wide variety of differences in the practices of Human Resource Management that exist between the indigenous Russian firms and the multinational companies that operate in Russia. The article also suggests that the Russian firms tend to focus more on making their workforce to contribute more on strategic decision making, the evaluation of the implemented decisions is followed by this step.
The Multinational firms working in Russia put more preference in the methodologies of personal control as well as direct communication, they also put less emphasis on involving the managers of their respected firms to take participation in the strategic decision-making phase. Here it should be noted that the multinationals put more focus on the training and development of their employees as compared to the local Russian firms, but the local companies put more emphasis on structured approaches as well as technologies for the fulfillment of their objectives which are set by heads of the firms. By closely analyzing both of these strategies, it is seen that they both can be very much effective if applied appropriately.
The article also focuses on the future research directions which mainly fall into three types. The first type suggests that the article is basically focused on only a selected portion of the technology industry namely the I.T and advertising, therefore it is very important that a similar research must be carried out to determine the facts about other parts of Russian economy, examples of these parts include engineering, retail, services and consulting since these sectors involve huge multinational activities.
Secondly, the article is based on a study which uses surveys as its primary and main source for acquiring data. Here the data should include more results which are based on interviews involving a chosen set of respondents. "There are many ways through which the interviews can be conducted such as the manner which is guided by the IiP (investors in people) framework which includes a vast variety of methodologies helpful in the collection of data" (Kamoche, 2001). The third recommendation addresses on the limits of the study conducted by the article. It is very important to know here that any future studies can include more varieties of samplings from the databases of companies which include both the multinationals and the local Russian corporations. "Better consumer response always results from better HRM" (Scott, 1998).
This article is about Europe and the management of globalization. It emphasizes on how Europe is trying its best to manage the factor of globalization according to its own terms, it has also listed in detail five ways by which the European Union (EU) tries to manage globalization. Let's have a brief look here on each of these ways. The first method of management involves the expansion of the scope of policies of European Union, this is done by the development of new measures for usage such as the introduction of Euro currency. The creation of European Central Bank also falls in this spectrum as one of its primary objectives is to provide assistance to European nations in fighting inflation.
The second way includes efforts through which the setup of regulatory standards is formed whose influence exists as much outside Europe as it is within it. As an example, it is seen here that the European Union is the biggest regulatory authority in many different sectors which includes industrial chemicals, food and telecommunications. Third way details on the senior European management's effort to make the international organizations more powerful. In this spectrum the European Union has made great efforts in order to strengthen organizations which include International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, OECD and others. Here the main aim is to develop an institutional architecture which monitors the rules of globalization and if possible enforce them on the terms of Europe.
Fourth way involves different strategies which aim for the enlargement of territorial sphere which comes under the influence of European Union. The final way involves the management's efforts in redistributing costs of globalization.
The article suggests that every agenda discussed has its side effects as well which can possibly make the European Union weak instead of strong. Here example includes scenarios where European Union loses its trade cases. Its efforts to have more states in the international trade organizations can also weaken its status within the trade organizations as the new members may have their own preferences which might even contradict the official European interests.
A big doubt which is faced by the European efforts in the management of globalization is that the very same institutions which Europe wants to see strong have come under great criticism from the Europeans themselves for not being successful enough in managing globalization, in some cases it is even though that these institutions are responsible for many problem's acceleration. All of these issues aside, Europe is currently going through a massive financial crisis which has posed a great challenge to the entire capitalist world.
The five mechanisms that we have briefly discussed are hardly regarded as exclusive for Europe only. Here many different nations such as the United States and China are trying their best to put globalization according to their terms and best interests. Above this, the 2008 financial crisis showed the limits of European efforts to organize global economy according to their terms since it does not enjoy the backing of the greatest spender as well as borrower nation which is the United States and neither support of the nation which is the greatest exporter and saver in the world, namely China.
The European Union may not be able to rig the system of globalization but it can attempt to improve its predictability along with oversight and regularity through the rules which accommodate European interests.
In this section, we will do a review of both of the articles and outline the concepts and ideas presented in the two articles. " In Russian literature on HRM, the term 'HRM system' is defined as a subsystem of the company management system aimed at attraction and effective utilization of the labor force available to the company" (Bizukov, 2005).
The Human Resource Management article gives a view on how the local Russian companies and the foreign multinationals take the approach of their businesses emphasizing on the fact that both of the methodologies can give good results in different functional elements such as labor relations management, operational management, personnel planning, employee training, recruitment, development and assessment, providing legal support, providing appropriate labor conditions as well as work safety, compensation management, employee records management, Human Resource systems information support and the development of management structures.
"It is commonly observed that multinational organizations offer more incentives to employees as compared to other local firms" (Cyr, 1995), this is the main reason why individuals choose to go there instead of the homegrown companies but in the case of Russia it seems that stiff competition exists everywhere even among offering benefits, this is one of the main reason why both of the models adopted by the two types of firms discussed are capable of success.
The development article specifically focused on surveys as a source for data, here some of the important topics which it selected to ask queries from its representatives includes questions regarding organizational goals on how to achieve them, how the management involves employees in the development of organizational plans and about any measurable performance objectives which might be present in plan of the organization. "Effective participation from the employees in the affairs of the organization is the key to success for any firm" (Keeley, 2001).
Employees of both multinational as well as local Russian companies were also asked how they participate in their organization's performance in which majority replied that they prefer direct communication with the manager. " One of the most important things to look… | <urn:uuid:892a549c-116b-4f08-b757-e1edce1935c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.paperdue.com/essay/international-human-resource-management-53162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00315-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964782 | 1,720 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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