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Soraya Chemaly’s Huffington Post blog thankfully speaks out against 12-yer-old slut memes and Facebook misogyny.
This hatefulness in online social life is one reason why it troubles me to read triumphalist “end of men” and end of feminism pieces about how women are the big winners of the 21st century.
That assertion strikes me as true, but partial.
Cut one way, it’s certainly reasonable. It’s important not to cast success stories as failures, and women have plenty of “having it all” success stories to share.
Women out-enroll men in college and have surpassed men in medical schools. Pew reports that men stand to gain more now from marrying a college-educated woman than the reverse. The Mr. Degree has replaced the historical Mrs. Degree. Women have made breathtaking advances in a short amount of time in careers and economic independence. The “he-cession” seemed to magnify women’s economic edge, since more men lost their jobs. (Now, that’s not so true anymore. More heavily male construction jobs are coming back, and more heavily female jobs in the state and local public sectors are getting cut). Marital and sexual mores have been vastly transformed, and co-equal marriages are a norm for one cohort.
But, even within this select group of well-educated, affluent, economically self-sufficient career women, it’s hard to square the triumphalist generalization with the sort of casual misogyny that Chemaly describes in her post.
There are two junctures where men—in the sense of masculinity, male power, patriarchy and privilege—get resurrected miraculously from their untimely grave. These junctures are: when a woman attempts to date, engage romantically, or have sex with a man, and when she has a child.
At these two junctures, women lose on the one hand some of what they’ve gained on the other.
I can’t square the end of men with the numbers on sexual harassment and assault, domestic violence, slut memes, and online life that seems to have unleashed or amplified misogyny. Maybe that misogyny is no worse than before, and it’s just found a new, powerful megaphone. Or, maybe the medium is the message, and the misogynistic feeling itself has fed off of new media that offer a dangerous combination of privacy and anonymity in a public forum.
You could look at these developments and see them as contrapuntal and reactive. We see examples of lashing out, misogynistic hostility precisely because women are getting more powerful in other arenas.
The problem is that the large majority of women in America consider a romantic or sexual relationship—often with a man—a marriage, and/or parenthood to be key facets of their lives. Maybe they’ll get married and not have children; maybe they’ll do both; maybe they’ll have a child but not marry.
Whatever the scenario, a majority of women spend a fair amount of time in their lives fussing with men in sexual, romantic or marital relationships, and/or being mothers.
And if they’re vulnerable in these arenas, in their sexuality and their lives as mothers, that’s not an inconsequential counter-punch to their often over-hyped economic and educational triumphs. Instead, it hits their lives right in the gut.
Women’s reality today even in the relatively privileged cohorts strikes me as paradoxical and ambivalent. The numbers on college graduation and professional school enrollment could lead you to see many women—and rightly so—as empowered like never before, while the slut memes and the guilt-tripping, perfectionist motherhood standards and the workplaces hostile to motherhood could lead you to believe that men are the most powerful unpowerful people around, and women are the most unpowerful powerful ones. | <urn:uuid:fbdf1b33-e44f-4574-bfb5-836f98120a49> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bigthink.com/harpys-review/reports-of-mens-death-are-greatly-exaggerated | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00446-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950824 | 815 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Reimagining the purpose of VET - expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students
Powell, Lesley (2012) Reimagining the purpose of VET - expanding the capability to aspire in South African Further Education and Training students. International Journal of Educational Development, 32 (5). pp. 643-653. ISSN 0738-0593
This paper applies the capabilities approach to the broader debate of the role of vocational education and training (VET) in poverty alleviation. The capabilities approach provides an approach for conceptualising and evaluating VET which differs in orientation from dominant productivist conceptions. It does so by shifting the focus from economic development to human development. By placing the well-being of VET students at the centre of our concern it shifts the lens from income generation and with it employability to a lens on capability expansion which includes but is not limited to the capability to work. The paper is based on interviews with 20 South African Further Education and Training (FET) college students. The central argument is that VET has an important role to play in poverty alleviation, but only if located in a multi-dimensional view of poverty which understands poverty as capability deprivation across multiple human functionings. In this broader notion of poverty, the role that VET plays includes training for employability, but also includes the expansion of other important capabilities such as, and in the voice of a FET student interviewed in this study, ‘the ability to dream’, or in the language of the capabilities approach, the capability to aspire.
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Suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, it feels like Pokémon Go is everywhere. From articles dissecting its rise to people walking into you on the pavement as they navigate the streets looking for Pikachu and Co., it’s fair to say that Pokémon is once more a trending phenomenon.
The creators have harnessed the power of Augmented Reality and smartphones to revive the characters many of us (perhaps those less video-game oriented, anyway) will simply remember as critters on cards.
Spending pocket money on them, praying for a rare shiny, swapping them in the playground — being a collector of Pokémon cards was an expensive and stressful business for an 8-year-old nearly 20 years ago.
Now it’s back on peoples’ radars, revamped for 2016, but with the essential premise unchanged: collecting different characters of different values.
So what does this have to do with news media companies?
Well in many ways, not a lot. Yet both Pokémon and news media companies have evolved their print presences and harnessed digital opportunities, such as AR, to bring audiences content in exciting and more accessible ways.
Like Pokémon, news media companies’ print presence is enduring. Would Pokémon Go have taken off so quickly if it wasn’t for many 20-somethings familiar with the concept and characters from the cards, unleashing their inner 90s children? Probably not.
For newspapers, print continues to play an important role within the multi-platform mix. In fact, print actually supercharges the effects of digital media. And, its inclusion in a campaign boosts ROI across a range of sectors, according to a new trio of studies into the effectiveness of news brand advertising, commissioned by Newsworks.
Interestingly, a multi-platform study with BDRC Continental also found that using print in a campaign actually increases the perception of a brand as innovative.
When it comes to AR, publishers’ experiments often incorporate a print element. An example of this is many titles’ support of last year’s Poppy Appeal.
In collaboration with the Royal British Legion and Blippar, newspapers including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, i, Evening Standard, and Metro added a blippable poppy to their masthead, giving access to pictures, videos, and stories from service men and women.
Similarly, the Evening Standard incorporated AR into its coverage of the Queen becoming the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch. Scanning the page with a smartphone allowed users to capture images of themselves or others “next” to her majesty.
More recently, the Guardian launched its first Virtual Reality project, called 6x9 and described as “a virtual experience of solitary confinement.” Users are placed in an interactive virtual segregation cell to highlight the psychological deterioration and sensory deprivation that can be effects of long-term solitary confinement.
By employing user interactivity, users “inside” the cell interact with objects to learn what they can and can’t do. Throughout the experience, users hear audio interviews with seven former inmates who were in solitary confinement.
While this was primarily a digital project, the narrative still translated into print, with the Guardian publishing people’s stories of solitary confinement on its centre-spread to coincide with the launch of the VR experience.
So what’s my point?
As gamesters quest to “catch ‘em all” takes on a new lease of (virtual) life, newspapers’ use of AR and VR is also bringing another dimension to its content, including print.
Whether as a central gateway to more information (as with the Poppy Appeal and Queen’s milestone activity) or in a supportive role (as with the Guardian’s 6x9 project) print is often part of the mix — allowing publishers’ to further break down platform silos and offer readers and advertisers an integrated, innovative experience. | <urn:uuid:46bad522-4632-4b20-8fa1-fe72ad34ab57> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.inma.org/blogs/print-innovations/post.cfm/pokemon-go-print-newspapers-harness-augmented-reality-opportunities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00160-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942606 | 809 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Fireworks give thrill, joy, and excitement. People admire the wonders when the skies light up with sparkling displays to celebrate special events. Germany’s traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations are, that at midnight households take to the streets to set off masses of consumer-grade pyrotechnics. However, the thrill and excitement come with a downside. In addition to the acute health threats from handling explosives, fireworks also come with a long list of chemical hazards including polluting gases, particulate matter, chlorinated hydrocarbons, perchlorates, heavy metals, and microplastics contamination.
Some might ask a simple question: are eco-friendly fireworks possible at all? No, says Germany’s federal environmental agency, mentioning the more than 2000 tons of particulate matter emitted, the many injuries recorded, and the tons of waste left in the environment . Others, however, might retort that in recent years, chemists and military engineers have invested a great deal of time and effort in making pyrotechnics less problematic. Here are some examples:
In the 1990s, Walt Disney Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA, was forced to overhaul its pyrotechnics formulations. Every year, Disney theme parks set off an estimated one million fireworks, bringing with them significant smoke pollution, as well as other hazards.
In collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA, Disney succeeded in developing virtually soot-free pyrotechnics. Ordinary fireworks contain cardboard packaging, charcoal in gunpowder, dextrin binders, and organic fillers. Carefully replacing these components with nitrogen-based compounds, for example, tetrazole and tetrazine derivatives as well as nitrocellulose as a fast, fully combusting and hot-burning substance, did the job .
In addition, since 2004, Disney has been launching its fireworks into the air using pneumatic systems instead of lift-off charges made of gunpowder.
The main proponent of perchlorate-free pyrotechnics was the US military. Perchlorates are used as an effective oxidizer in pyrotechnics formulations. They had already replaced chlorates, which were part of the original pyrotechnics developed in the 1930s, but have an even higher chlorination potential leading to dangerous dioxins.
However, neighborhoods close to military training areas recorded high concentrations of these perchlorates in drinking water. If ingested, they can affect thyroid function by impairing iodine uptake and cause growth abnormalities in embryos. This contamination problem prompted the US government to impose strict limits on perchlorates.
Since then, the US military has massively reduced this oxidizer in flares and other pyrotechnic applications, replacing perchlorates with nitrates or periodates. Despite this, perchlorates are still used in consumer fireworks sold the world over.
Preventing Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
Unfortunately, chlorine remains an important component in fireworks because of its contribution to color quality. In particular, copper (blue) and strontium (red) only seem able to create their intense colors when in the form of their chloride salts. However, chlorine-containing additives react with organic by-components to give chlorinated hydrocarbons such as dioxins and chlorophenols, which are carcinogenic.
US studies measuring the fireworks’ output on Independence Day, July 4, detected a huge surge in chlorinated organics around display locations. What’s more, a Swiss study of 2014 monitoring hexachlorobenzene during the firework displays to celebrate the Swiss National Day on August 1, concluded that fireworks emissions may represent up to 14 % of the total hexachlorobenzene released nation-wide .
Recent lab-based studies presented possible solutions to the chloride problem. For example, a paper from 2015 proposes a chlorine-free red flare. The researchers discovered that urotropine (hexamethylenetetramine) addition can repress the orange fraction of strontium oxide emission so that the deep red color band of strontium hydroxide reaches the same intensity as the original chloride-based one . In the same year, a team from the LMU University of Munich, Germany, found that bromides would do the same job as chlorides in the blue copper flame .
Replacing Heavy Metals
Metals are the source of fireworks’ vivid colors. Luckily, most colors come from relatively safe elements such as calcium, sodium, and magnesium. Firework producers also add metals in as small quantities as possible, not least because of their cost. However, barium, which is toxic as a soluble salt, is needed for the green color. Nonetheless, according to a paper from 2014, the same intense green can be produced with a formulation based on tris(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)borate and boron carbide .
Toxic lead and chromium also produce vivid colors, but were banned from fireworks in western countries decades ago—despite sometimes still being used in cheap, imported materials.
Waste from packaging is a big concern especially for those who clean up after festivities. Even if most packaging is made of cardboard, it might release microplastics and chemicals from labels and binders when left in parks and gardens.
Some fireworks producers are addressing this problem either by developing fully combustible plastics that would burn up in the air, or by using biodegradable parts. Weco, for example, a proudly “Made in Germany” producer claims on its website that it uses recycled compounds and 100 % biodegradable materials for any plastic parts.
Switching to Other Ways To Get Your “Aahs” and “Oohs”
When buying fireworks was not possible on New Year’s Eve 2020, many families chose to entertain themselves with sparklers. However, these also carry chemical risks, especially when used in confined spaces. Ernst-Christian Koch, explosives expert and co-author of the paper on urotropine additives in red flares, says he always cringes when watching celebrations using sparklers indoors.
Most commercial sparklers use barium nitrate as an oxidizer. When they burn, traces of the metal are released and fall to whatever surface they are on. “I don’t think you would like barium icing on your cake, would you?” asks Koch.
Soluble barium salts are highly toxic. In poisoning, it blocks potassium efflux channels resulting in an increase in intracellular potassium levels and hypokalemia with effects on muscles and organs. However, fully oxidized sulfur in the flame will bind barium as insoluble barium sulfates.
Lasers and Drones
That leaves laser or drone shows. Unfortunately, there are few companies that can orchestrate an exciting drone display. These shows are also weather-dependent: when Intel tried to launch a big drone light show on July 4, 2018, high winds put a stop to it and the show had to be postponed to the following day.
The German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) also has a suggestion: instead of setting off fireworks in the street or our yards, we should go and watch professional, organized displays. This would also have the benefit of protecting children from eye injuries . If only the other solutions were that simple!
- Ute Dauert, Wolfgang Straff, Holger Gerwig, Thomas Myck, Zum Jahreswechsel: Wenn die Luft “zum Schneiden” ist, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany, 2020.
- Bethany Halford, Pyrotechnics For The Planet, C&EN 2008, 86(26).
- P. Schmid, C. Bogdal, Z. Wang, V. Azara, R. Haag, U. von Arx, Releases of chlorobenzenes, chlorophenols and dioxins during fireworks, Chemosphere 2014, 158–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.03.088
- Dominykas Juknelevicius, Eero Karvinen, Thomas M. Klapötke, Rytis Kubilius, Arunas Ramanavicius, Magdalena Rusan, Copper(I) Bromide: An Alternative Emitter for Blue-Colored Flame Pyrotechnics, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15354–15359. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201502752
- Jesse J. Sabatini, E.-C. Koch, Jay C. Poret, Jared D. Moretti, Seth M. Harbol, Chlorine-Free Red-Burning Pyrotechnics, Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 11118–11120. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201505829
- Thomas M. Klapötke, Burkhard Krumm, Magdalena Rusan, Jesse J. Sabatini, Improved green-light-emitting pyrotechnic formulations, Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 9581–9583. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04616A
- DOG Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft, Silvesterfeuerwerk-Verkaufsverbot reduzierte Augenverletzungen um 80 Prozent, Pressemitteilung, Dezember 2021.
Also of Interest
- Clever Picture: The Chemistry of Fireworks,
- Can Environmentally Friendly Fireworks Improve Air Quality?,
Detailed estimation of emissions validated by data from a large fireworks display
- Better Blue Fireworks,
Chlorine-free blue-emitting pyrotechnical formulations were fine-tuned
- Video: The Chemistry of Fireworks,
The video shows what happens during fireworks and how chemistry is involved
- Clever Picture: Chemistry of a Sparkler,
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The leaves and flowers of Verbascum thapsus.
Therapeutic Action.—Verbascum is diuretic, demulcent, emmollient, pectoral, diaphoretic, and is said to be antispasmodic and alterative. A decoction of the leaves acts upon the urinary organs, promoting an increased secretion of urine. It is a mild and simple diuretic, well calculated to relieve irritation and inflammation of the genito urinary mucous membrane. Gonorrhoea, dysuria, suppression of urine, etc., are much benefitted by its use.
The leaves and pith are employed externally, made into fomentations and cataplasms, in cases of white swelling, hemorrhoids, indurated glands, and other inflammatory swellings The pith is regarded as an important ingredient in the fomentation recommended in Beach's Practice, in cases of hydrarthrus. | <urn:uuid:b61af334-01fc-4d31-a05e-6db824a8cd51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/scudder1898/verbascum.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.920057 | 203 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) audits are performed by trained professionals. An EHS auditor analyzes companies to determine whether they comply with applicable safety and environmental laws.
According to the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL), EHS auditing came about during the 1970s, a time when environmental legislation came into fruition. Noncompliant companies would be fined $25,000 per day for every violation, according to the ACOEL.
An EHS auditor checks the premises of a company and checks for any hazardous materials or potentially hazardous situations.
An EHS auditor interviews business owners and some of their employees to determine whether there is sufficient communication and safety training.
EHS auditors help companies come up with a plan to become compliant if they are found to be in violation of any laws.
If companies continue to violate environmental health and safety laws, even after an audit, owners may be fined after an EHS auditor reports them. Certain laws vary on local, state and federal levels; EHS auditors determine which laws are applicable.
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Col J P Singh
Unraveling tortuous history of J&K is not an easy task for any historian, least a layman like me. The burden of it is more heavy post 3 years of abrogation of Article 370 when the J&K game has taken a sharp turn, from winning to losing spree. It made many proponents of Kashmir goal scorers to a ratty blind loser. For those who thought that most of the history of J&K revolves around 15 August 1947 ie the period of partition and Kashmir’s momentous decision of accession with India with guarantees of special status as eternal, the abrogation of Article 370 came as rude shock. Thereafter much of what is passed of today as Jammu and Kashmir history is a propaganda. Hence there is need to try at a quick sweep of history of J&K to challenge the propaganda propounded by politicians that Jammu & Kashmir is their creation and hence their Sultanate.
If someone asks why clearing the propaganda now when most of history after abrogation of Article 370 has itself washed off its sins. Yet the fact has to be unequivocally understood. The fact is that creation of Jammu and Kashmir as a single political entity began not after partition but during the turbulent times of the history when the Great Game had begun in Central Asia.
For the ease of understanding Kashmir dispute, better is to know what the Great Game was. Simply put it was a ‘political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most part of the 19th century and early 20th century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and adjoining territories in Central and South Asia. Creation of J&K also began precisely then. Hence Great Game had direct effect on the creation of Jammu and Kashmir and for its extension towards Central Asia, which should now be the subject matter for the scholars of history post abrogation of Article 370.
There was a period when Russia was moving Westwards and entering into alliances with Central Asian Republics. At the same time Marathas of Marathwada, Rajputs of Rajputana and Sikhs of Punjab were fighting against tyrannical Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb which caused the decline of Mughals. Downfall of Mughal empire led to a period of great turbulences and instability in India. Afghans, Persians, Sikhs and later the British took advantage of this empirical disarray. The Sikh military power under Maharaja Ranjit Singh reached its zenith at about this time. Rise of Maharaja Gulab Singh and formation of Jammu and Kashmir Princely State also happened in this turbulent period. Partition of India and creation of Pakistan happened much later though during the same march of great game consequently the main sufferer was Jammu and Kashmir.
During 19th century, the India was ruled in part as Princely States and in part by the British East India Company. During this period a political and diplomatic confrontation developed between Britain and Russia over Afghanistan which later came to be known as Great Game. Russia was fearful of British commercial and military inroads into Central Asia whereas Britain was fearful of Russia adding the “Jewel in the Crown” ie India, to the vast empire that Russia was building in Asia. At the same time Dogra rulers were moving forward to take control of Silk Route. This resulted in an atmosphere of distrust over the game plans of Jammu and Kashmir rulers creating constant worry amongst British. Apprehension also arose that if Russia were to gain control of Afghanistan, it might then be used as a staging post for a Russian invasion of India. And if Dogras were to join Russians, British India would be at the risk of Russian take over. Sooner or later Russia will invade India and Dogras may support Russia scared the British. This apprehension made J&K their political envision and playfield.
Certain interesting pieces of the bigger jigsaw of the Great Game so far as J&K is concerned were. British shadow boxing with most imaginary enemy Soviet Russia changed their outlook for J&K. Trans-Himalayan conquest of Dogras of J&K became a constant irritants for them. Their biggest apprehension was a possibility of Dogras hobnobbing with Russia and Nepal against the British. Hence the very first Anglo-Saxon plan was to frustrate Dogras conquests and finally to frustrate J&K’s smooth accession to India to further the future interests of Anglo-Saxon world against Russia. The result was invasion of J&K. The main players of great game in J&K were Maj Gen Henry Lawrence Scott, the Chief of State Forces, George Cunningham, Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Maj William Brown and Capt Methisson, both officers of Gilgit Scouts.
To understand why Kashmir is disputed till today, reference to ‘Untold Story of Partition’, by Narendra Singh Sarila, a diplomat, is necessary. He has deftly used the British Records, official correspondence and US & European sources to describe how British cast their fortune with Pakistan after Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s assurances that the newly formed Pakistan will ally with British to dispossess India of strategic princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The so called Pak raiders ingress into J&K soon after creation of Pakistan was fulfilling that promise. State Forces stood like a rock to frustrate their evil designs and the Kashmiri civilians came forward boldly to defeat Pak invasion and to frustrate British great game in J&K. Later Indian Army pushed the raiders further back to an extent but the untimely ceasefire enforced on the advancing Indian Army partially worked in favour of British design resulting into nearly half J&K under illegal Pak occupation. Why was the ceasefire enforced when Indian Army was on the winning spree is a mystery. This should also be the subject matter of scholars agenda.
Presence of Pak invaders on J&K soil was not acceptable to India. Unlike the British, the US supported the Indian stand on complete withdrawal of invaders from J&K. With aggressive pushing by Lord Mountbatten, the matter was taken to UN. The matter came to a head at the UN in October 1948 when British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin spilled the beans in a conversation with his US counterpart Mr. George Marshal, “the main issue was who would control the main artery leading into Central Asia. Indian proposal will leave that in their hands”. This has been written by Narendra Singh Sarila in his book. At the hindsight it is clear that British return of Gilgit Agency to Maharaja Hari Singh before accession was to skip the stigma of orchestrating occupation of Gilgit-Baltistan by Pakistan.
It is said that had India signed ‘the Stand Still Agreement’ with govt of J&K, a military intervention could have been possible well before the signing of Instrument of Accession and entire J&K would have been saved for accession thus defeating the British in this game. But Indian leaders correspondence with the Maharaja and his Prime Minister Justice Mehar Chand Mahajan shows that Pt Nehru & Sardar Patel were of the firm opinion that Maharaja Hari Singh hands over power to Sheikh Abdullah before acceding to India whereas Maharaja was dithering and allegedly harbouring the idea of staying independent if not accommodated in the political power structure of J&K. Sheikh Abdullah a left leaning politician and his followers cast their lot with India and hence Delhi leaders insisted on handing over power to him before accession. This was another plan to beat the British in their game but they couldn’t score the winning goal. But Pakistan was in a hurry to annex J&K to please its creator. Since road connectivity to J&K was through Pakistan, despite having signed Stand Still Agreement, Pakistan firstly imposed an economic blockade and then attacked Kashmir in October 1947 and the rest is a history.
Later in 1965, Pakistan made another attempt to annex J&K. It sent infiltrators hoping that Kashmiris will welcome them but proved wrong. Kashmiris defeated them yet again. In 1971 Bangladeshi defeated Pakistan. But their desperate attempt in 1989 didn’t fail. This time Kashmiris supported Pak ‘Op Topac’ which saw a dramatic rise in insurgency. But after the abrogation of Article 370, realization has once again come that their future lies with India. The way forward is to march ahead of the nation in development, peace and progress is being demonstrated. The great game of separating J&K from India seems to be a history as of now. The ray of hope is clearer now than before. The issue now is vacation of illegal occupation.
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Module 5: Body – Surya Namaskar
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Surya literally means “giver of energy” or “SUN” and Namaskar means “Salutation”.
Surya namaskar or Sun salutation is one of the most common yoga practices globally. While we don’t know when exactly in history Surya Namaskar began as a practice, in its modern format there are different opinions that when Surya Namaskar tradition started to get formulated.
We believe the ancient yogis woke up to rising sun and tone their body, breath and mind with that.
The module will cover;
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This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.S. Unlike other books on the subject of the Japanese success in manufacturing, it looks at what actually happens in factories. The author brings his experience of working at the Yanagicho Works of the Toshiba Corporation, in Kawasaki City. Like so many Japanese factories, this one is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they constantly strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to this is the continuous creation and application of knowledge throughout the factory, from workers on the shop floor, to research and development engineers, to top management. Fruin explains how Japanese culture and religion prepare workers for their role in this process of creating and disseminating knowledge.
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Durham's Royal County hotel stayed open through two World Wars - but when the coronavirus shut its historic front doors in March, maintenance manager Will Whelan moved in to help prepare for a new normal.
Guests are long gone and bookings suspended for the foreseeable future. But four times a day, Will Whelan checks the water quality in the Royal County hotel pool. It's all about ensuring the right balance of chemicals for when, at some point in the future, the next person dips their toe.
It's anyone's guess as to when that might be. Across the country, most of the UK's 10,000 hotels are standing empty. Though some stayed open for key workers and the homeless, the majority were mothballed during the frantic two weeks in the middle of March when many parts of British life came to a halt due to the lockdown.
With its 100 other staff furloughed, Will, 56, is one of eight maintenance staff keeping the Grade II listed hotel in the heart of Durham alive. At the height of the lockdown, he even moved into one of its 150 four-star rooms. "I've stayed over before," he says. "But not like this."
"To be isolated here for some people would be a blessing. When I first was locked down and staying in the hotel full time it was all sort of a bit exciting, like anyone who goes to a hotel," he says.
Will and a colleague used furniture from the banqueting hall to play table tennis and he moved an exercise bike from the hotel gym to workout beside reception. But it soon wore thin.
"It's spooky. It's not quite The Shining, it's more like Home Alone. You can scream as loud as you like, no one is going to hear you," he says.
"Really what you want is to be around other people. As nice as the beds are, and the showers and the tellies and the fluffy towels and the robes and the complimentary slippers, you can only have so much."
Hotels everywhere have had to grapple with the task of keeping buildings safe even as revenue stopped practically overnight. Marriott, the global giant which owns the Royal County, has around 650 staff still working across its 60 managed hotels in the UK.
Simple things like keeping water running through pipes becomes a Herculean effort when guests aren't there to take showers or brush their teeth.
It's why once a week, Will has to turn each of the Royal County's 600 taps on for five minutes to release standing water. It could easily take up a day of his time, but prevents bacteria that can cause the lethal Legionnaires' disease from building up.
The hotel's 170 toilets need to be flushed twice a week and shower heads need sanitising and hoses replacing. The ice machines are cleaned, every drawer is left open and rooms kept at precisely 16C to prevent mould, their thick blackout curtains tightly closed.
The UK's hotel industry, worth over £20bn in 2018, together with the wider hospitality sector, has so far borne the brunt of the coronavirus. Almost 90% of staff in the sector have been furloughed, according to industry body UK Hospitality, equal to 2.7m people - more than any other.
Over a third of accommodation and food businesses think it will be more than four weeks before they reopen, according to a recent Office for National Statistics survey. The same study showed 60% of hospitality companies that are still trading have reduced working hours.
Industry leaders are calling on the government to confirm reopening can begin on 4 July - the next date for the potential further easing of lockdown restrictions. They say this will safeguard jobs as the tapering of the furlough scheme nears.
"If we don't get that confirmation then there is a very real concern that we'll see job losses in August because these businesses cannot afford to pay anything towards it," says Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality.
One of the biggest problems for hotels, guest houses and holiday parks, is providing enough notice for guests to begin booking again. In Northern Ireland, businesses have been told they can definitely accept bookings from 20 July - though they may open sooner.
It's the sort of message Ms Nicholls wants to hear from the UK government at Westminster. "We need to give consumers certainty that they can book their hotel break from a given date," she says.
The 2m rule for social distancing could also cut vital revenue for hotels by reducing the capacity of food and beverage outlets.
Another headwind for the sector is the government's plan to impose a 14-day quarantine for arrivals into the UK from Monday. Marriott, which attracts foreign travellers to its UK hotels through its worldwide loyalty scheme, describes the policy as "another blow" to the industry.
And Ms Nicholls fears the quarantine will have an even longer lasting effect by sending the message that "Britain is closed". "That lasts not just the three weeks, six weeks, however long quarantine is in force, but will have a longer lasting impact right the way through the rest of this year."
But back in County Durham, Will is optimistic the Royal County's lobby will be filled with a buzz one day soon.
"People will always travel," he says, "I just want to make sure when that day comes, people walk in and it has that wow factor."
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Ford was the last one in the bunch to announce a switch away from Qualcomm’s chip design (most of the big boys have already jumped ship). Ford will still be using Intel chips in cars in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the company said it would “actively pursue partnerships” with other chip makers in the future.
The news came Wednesday, an announcement that was made by Chris Quilty, Ford’s VP of Autonomous Vehicles for the Asia Pacific region.
Ford will continue to use Qualcomm’s initial 5G modems in selected vehicles as part of a pilot program – but by 2020, all major Ford models will be riding on Intel modems and 7G Wi-Fi.
Quilty said the key to getting a smooth transition is that Ford has worked with Intel for 10 years.
Daimler announced its Qualcomm withdrawal earlier this year. Ford says it worked with Intel for 10 years to adopt Snapdragon in vehicles. ©Photo: Allen J. Schaben/ Los Angeles Times
The launch of Intel’s first 5G modem will depend on infrastructure rollout.
Intel sees the potential for edge computing, and is already working with companies such as Netflix and BMW on machine learning software that works on computer vision.
In a statement, Quilty added: “With full integration of voice biometrics, Ford will provide an experience that combines the natural interaction of interaction with more touchpoints.”
Ford intends to start rolling out its 5G solution first in its autonomous vehicle trials beginning in 2020, and plans to offer commercial 5G services in North America by 2022.
Ford’s chairman Bill Ford praised the move, saying: “Ford has worked closely with Intel for 10 years to develop an innovative platform for both ride-sharing and self-driving vehicles, and it’s an important step toward delivering these technologies to our customers.
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In the spring 2016 Realtor® Party magazine there was an article stating that the U.S. Census Bureau reports that rental housing accounts for “more” than 1/3 of the nation’s housing and that this trend has been strong during this last decade in part because of the number of folks that went to foreclosure and in part because of the recession. Apparently a lot of would be homeowners also are spooked by the perceived risks of owning a home. Another reason is that renting a home vs. owning a home gives one the mobility and financial flexibility they desire and also frees them from the maintenance responsibilities that with home ownership.
The article stated that in towns having a university that housing is often a premium and that demand is high making the conversion of single family homes into rentals is often an attractive investment. Austin, San Marcus, and Georgetown are local examples of this claim. On the flip side of the coin renting is often the only option for low income families.
Now that the recent recession is behind us renting has caused shortage of affordable housing nationwide and in the Austin area I must add. This is good news if you own rent housing and not very good if you are a renter. Putting pressure on the availability of affordable rent housing is the increasing number of short-term rentals that have been popping up nationwide. These short-term rent houses obviously are not on the long-term rental market which adds to the shortage.
When you add to the equation that many would be first time homebuyers, folks in their mid-twenties – and mid-thirties are strapped with large student debt and find it tough to save for a down payment that moves upward with the increasing value of housing, it becomes apparent that there is a great need to provide them with a basic need: a rent house. And that is where you and I come into play. As owners of residential real estate we are in a position to provide a well maintained rental that will bring us financial reward.
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The New Great Impostor
David Williams, MD
Alternatives Newsletter, December 2004
Last night my daughter asked me to listen to and critique a short speech she had to give for her history class. During her first attempt it was obvious that she had only skimmed the required background reading for the speech. After I “persuaded” her to read the entire assignment, her speech, as you might suspect, took on a whole different meaning. With no disrespect to her teacher, my daughter has come to the unfortunate conclusionas has most of our societythat history is boring. The idea that if we don’t learn from the mistakes of our ancestors we’ll be doomed to repeat them hasn’t struck a chord with many people these days, obviously. Not only is it apparent when you look at current world events, it’s also currently happening in the field of medicine.
In the late 1940s, it seemed the entire medical community had focused its efforts on defeating syphilis, which was spreading at an unprecedented rate throughout the world. Although syphilis had been around for centuries, it wasn’t really contained until the use of penicillin became widespread. What complicated matters was the fact that syphilis exhibits periods of active inflammation interspersed with periods of latency, as long as 30 years, where there are no clinical signs of the disease at all. Also, the disease can cause inflammation and destruction of any organ system, mimicking the symptoms and problems of hundreds of different conditions. Based on this last trait, syphilis was given the title of “the great impostor” or “the great imitator” of other diseases.
There’s been a very strong effort to contain syphilis during the last half-century, through education of the public and health professionals alike, and great strides have been made. Knowing the specific bacterium that causes the disease, and having the correct antibiotic to eliminate it, have been a godsend. Recently, though, we have seen an increase in syphilis cases directly connected to the spread of AIDS. And while syphilis isn’t the threat it once was, a new, even more destructive disease has now acquired the title of “the great impostor.” Not surprisingly, it’s caused by the same type of bacterium as the one that causes syphilis.
The new “great impostor” is Lyme disease. And, as with syphilis, Lyme is caused by a spirochete, or corkscrew-shaped bacterium. (The spirochete associated with Lyme is Borrelia burgdorferi [Bb], named after its discoverer, Dr. Willy Burgdorfer of the National Institutes of Health.) Unlike syphilis, however, Lyme can’t be cured with a simple dose of penicillin. The spirochetes of Lyme can worm their way into muscles, tendons, and practically every organ in the body. Once imbedded, they can quickly begin to wreak havoc. And, as the latest research has shown, they can dramatically change their shape to avoid detection by the body’s immune system. (Cell Wall Deficient FormsStealth Pathogens by Lida Mattman).
Most antibiotics work by destroying the cell wall of bacteria. The Bb bacterium of Lyme, however, can exist without the cell wall typically characteristic of other forms of bacteria, which makes most antibiotics useless against Lyme. Apparently the bacteria can also change forms to avoid detection when confronted by components of your immune system or various antibiotics, and then turn back again when a threat to their survival is no longer present. These unusual properties of Bb have caused an unprecedented amount of confusion in the medical community and within the public as well.
Some are now calling Lyme the most overdiagnosed disease of our time, while others are claiming that it is the most under-diagnosed. The truth of the matter is that Lyme is far more widespread than has been reported, and hundreds of thousands of people are suffering needlessly due to misdiagnoses and the treatment prejudices of many doctors, the government, and the insurance industry. This is certainly one case where you don’t want to be a victim of history repeating itself; that is, where you suffer needlessly or die prematurely from a lack of information. You need to be fully aware of just how serious the problem is and exactly what steps you can take to protect yourself and your family today.
Lyme was first identified in 1975 in the rural community around Old Lyme, Connecticut, after a large number of children there mysteriously developed large-joint arthritis. It took about seven years of investigative work before Dr. Burgdorfer found the spirochete from the genus Borrelia living in the gut of local ticks, and linked it to the disease.
The particular ticks (Ixodes) in the area are known to feed on the blood of birds, mice, and deer, and until recently were thought to be the only carrier of the infectious spirochete. In fact, many doctors are still under the impression that one has to be bitten by a tick to contract Lyme, and this misconception has contributed to the confusion.
When the Definition Is the Problem
Part of the problem stems from an issue involving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I won’t get too technical here, but, once you see where the confusion is coming from, it’s easy to understand why Lyme is so underreported and going untreated in this country.
To help monitor the spread and number of Lyme cases, the CDC put out what is called a surveillance case definition. Their “definition” of Lyme was based on the early findings, and hasn’t changed since that time. Although doctors are now required to report any confirmed cases of Lyme, most doctors feel the patient must meet the criteria of the early CDC definition for a diagnosis of Lyme to be made.
These criteria include such things as: the illness only comes from ticks; patients would have had to come from or visited areas where animals have been shown to be infected; and patients should have experienced the characteristic “bull’s-eye” pattern of inflammation that forms around the tick bite. The CDC definition was never meant to be used as a check-list for clinical diagnosis of Lyme, but, unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened.
Since the CDC’s definition was developed, research has emerged showing that many of the initial assumptions concerning Lyme were wrong. For example, we now know that the bull’s-eye pattern, originally thought to be the definitive diagnostic sign, may occur in only one-fifth to one-half of those patients.
More than One Way to Spread Disease
More importantly, it has now been shown that ticks are not the only way the spirochete can be spread. When I first learned about the disease, I wasn’t personally concerned about it to any great degree. After all, the domain of the particular tick known to carry the spirochete was an area in which I spent very little time. I was more at risk for contracting malaria or some other jungle associated ailment. But newer research indicates that ticks may be the least of our worries when it comes to contracting Lyme.
Researchers and doctors I’ve spoken with have now found live spirochetes of Lyme in fleas, mites, and mosquitoes. And although it was first thought the disease couldn’t be transmitted directly from human to human, the live spirochetes have now also been found in blood, urine, tears, semen, breast milk, cord blood, and vaginal secretions.
Doctors who specialize in treating the disease are convinced it can be passed from one infected person to another by several means, particularly through repeated sexual contact and passage through the placenta in the womb. (Rheum Dis Clin North Am 89;15(4):657-77) Given Lyme’s syphilis-like nature, this shouldn’t be such a surprise.
Even the CDC has now admitted what researchers found years ago, that Bb bacteria survive the purification process of donated blood and could be passed through blood transfusions. (J Infect Dis 90;162(2):557-9) (Transfusion 89:29(7)646-5) And, as if that weren’t alarming enough, there’s even a possibility that our food supply could be a source of the spirochete. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have found dairy cattle infected with the Bb bacterium, which raises the question of whether milk or other products in our food chain may be a danger. (Am J Vet Res 94;55(9):1228-31) (Int J Food Microbiol 91;14(3-4):247-60)
Testing, Testing, ...
Even the standard blood tests recommended to diagnose Lyme are in question. The most widely used is called the Western Blot test. It checks to see if your body is making specific antibodies to fight various proteins on the Bb organism. As I described earlier, however, if the organism has changed forms or is “in hiding,” or if your immune system is not putting up a good defense, there may be little, if any, indication from the test that you are infected with the organism.
Many doctors unfamiliar with Lyme also don’t realize that if the patient has been taking steroids, antibiotics, or anti-inflammatory medications (even over-the-counter drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen) the Western Blot test can provide false-negative results. To get an accurate reading, patients should be off all medications of these types for at least six weeksand some are saying for as long as six monthsbefore the test.
Doctors are finding increasingly often that Lyme infections can exist without any symptoms until the patient suffers from some traumatic or stressful event. This event could be mental stress or a physical injury or accident. With a relative of mine, a normal pregnancy happened to be the triggering event.
Diagnosing Lyme has also been complicated by the fact that, in many chronic cases, patients are infected with other pathogens in addition to Bbtwo in particular. One is a bacterium called Ehrlichia phagocytophila, and the other is a protozoa, similar to the malaria organism, called Babesia microti. Both of these others are also carried by Ixodes ticks.
Name That Disease
The problems and symptoms associated with Lyme, the new “great impostor,” can mimic over 350 different medical conditions. Doctors learned this fact by watching many of these problems and so-called “incurable” diseases disappear miraculously, sometimes within only 24 to 72 hours after treating their patients for Lyme.
I obviously can’t list all 350+ conditions here, but, after reading just a few, you’ll see how widespread the problem of Lyme has become: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Bell’s palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, schizophrenia, irritable bowel syndrome, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart palpitations, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain syndromes, sleep apnea, mitral valve prolapse, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, Ménière’s disease, esophageal reflux, gallbladder inflammation, and various autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren’s syndrome, lupus, and scleroderma. Lyme can even cause SIDS, if the mother was infected early in her pregnancy.
After reviewing this list, it’s easy to see how the true incidence of the disease could be under-reported. It’s no wonder that Lyme has been misdiagnosed in so many cases.
Keep in mind that the spirochete associated with Lyme can burrow into every tissue and organ in the body, causing widespread inflammation and destruction. Over time, it diminishes your immune system’s ability to mount a proper defense, which opens the door to other pathogenslike those I’ve mentioned above. Additionally, each of these pathogens releases powerful neurotoxins that tend to gravitate toward the fat molecules that make up nerve and brain cells. This tendency helps explain problems like extreme pain, headaches, sudden deafness, reflex problems, and muscle weakness that many Lyme patients experience when their first bout of symptoms appears, as well as the more severe neurological problems that follow.
The CDC reports that there were just 17,730 reported cases of Lyme in 2000. In 2002, that number only went up to 23,763, bringing their total to just over 157,000 cases since 1982, when their national surveillance program was initiated. (MMWR 52(31):741-750)
Doctors on the front line fighting the disease feel that these numbers are unrealistic, and that the real number of new yearly cases could be as high as 200,000, with as many as 20 million people in this country currently infected. Even the CDC admits that their estimate of 157,000 is probably only one tenth the true figure. (MMWR 49(SS03):1-11) I don’t know the real figure. I don’t think anyone does at this stage. I suspect, however, that the number could be in the millions. Fortunately, there are solutions to the problem, natural ones in fact, and the sooner the infection is detected and treated, the better.
A Tick-lish Situation
Ticks may not be the only method of contracting the disease, but they are still an issue. Northeastern and North-central states report the highest incidence of tick-related infections, but reports coming out of California show that the incidence of tick-related infections is just as high in some northern areas of the state. And almost every state now has documented, tick-related cases of Lyme.
If you intend to hike or spend time in wooded areas, it would be wise to use a DEET-free insect repellent such as Shoo-Bug on your clothes. It’s also wise to check for ticks after your hike, but keep in mind that the ticks carrying Lyme can be as small as the point of a pencil and very hard to find. If you do find a tick, remove it with tweezers by grasping the jaw area and pulling it straight out. Place the tick or ticks in either a glass jar or resealable sandwich bag, date it, and put it in the freezer. Don’t contaminate the tick by adding alcohol, insecticides, or petroleum jelly, or burning it with a match. The tick can be checked later for infection, but only if it is uncontaminated.
Generally the tick needs to remain attached 12 or more hours before it can pass on the infective material, so check yourself and remove the tick as soon as possible, and treat the skin around the bite with alcohol.
The following are signs and symptoms to watch for after either a tick bite or a suspected infection from Lyme.
• From 3 to 30 days afterward: the bull’s-eye rash at the site of the bite (in maybe half of the cases); fever; chills; headache; muscle and/or joint pain; fatigue.
• From days to weeks afterward: multiple rashes; facial paralysis (Bell’s palsy); stiff neck; fever; headache; weakness, numbness, or pain in the arms or legs; irregular heartbeat; weakness and fatigue.
• Weeks to months afterward: arthritis in the lower joints (usually the knees); nervous system problems.
It’s important to remember that not all ticks carry Lyme. Also, the symptoms will vary from person to person. Some people may even be totally asymptomatic until, as I mentioned earlier, some stressful or traumatic event lowers their immune capabilities. There are several reasons the reactions to the disease may be different for different individuals. These include such factors as:
• The initial dose exposure to the pathogen. Increased exposure to the Lyme pathogens from repeated sexual contact, multiple tick bites, etc., places a greater burden on the immune system.
• The strength of the immune system. The elderly, the young, and those who are frail or weak to begin with will obviously have a more difficult time dealing with the problem.
• Physical and mental stress levels, and
• The body’s detoxification capabilities at the time of exposure.
Your detoxification ability is a primary factor in all diseases. I’ve repeatedly stressed the importance of maintaining good bacterial flora in the lower bowel through the use of probiotics and fermented foods. Research has shown the bacterial flora in the bowel acts like a “secondary immune system” by helping destroy competing pathogens and detoxifying waste products. Proper liver function and adequate levels of glutathione are also crucial to good health. If you recall, lowered glutathione levels accompany, and probably precede, every known disease. I strongly feel that your glutathione levels are a direct “chemical marker” for aging and overall health. I can’t stress enough the importance of increasing your glutathione levels through the consumption of cruciferous vegetables, the regular use of whey protein powder, and supplementation with Nacetylcysteine. (500 mg of NAC a day is an excellent dosage. One of my favorite sources continues to be Jo-Mar Laboratories at 800-538-4545. Whey protein is available from Wholesale Nutrition, at 800-325-2664.) Taking these steps will help prevent and/or treat many diseases, not just Lyme.
So far, I’ve primarily focused on the tick-bite scenario of contracting Lyme, but knowing what I now know, I would suspect Lyme in practically any disease process that seemed to appear suddenly especially following a stressful or traumatic event. If you have suddenly been “struck” with ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, rheumatoid arthritis, or any other problem I mentioned earlier, it might be wise to get checked for Lyme. Unfortunately, checking for Lyme isn’t as simple as it should be.
Finally, a Test that Works
The conventional tests for the disease involve the Western Blot, which has the problems I mentioned earlier, and another called ELISA, which many doctors still use even though it is very unreliable and may miss as many as 75 percent of Lyme infections. Doctors specializing in the treatment of Lyme, however, utilize a combination of Western Blot testing, physical examination, tests for other related pathogens, and often a new test developed by researchers Dr. Joanne Whitaker and Eleanor Fort. The test, which checks various body fluids for the presence of the Bb pathogen, is highly accurate and can provide results within 20 minutes.
This new test is called Q-RIBb, and is available only by a doctor’s request through the Bowen Research and Training Institute at 727- 937-9077. You can get more information on their Web site at www.bowen.org. (The test costs $150 or $250, depending on the sample used.)
Don’t be surprised if your insurance company refuses to cover the Q-RIBb test or the proper treatment for Lyme. In fact, many insurance companies are using the CDC surveillance guidelines to help side-step paying for the proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme. Those that do pay often limit payment to 30 to 60 days of antibiotics, which, in most cases, is totally inadequate. It’s apparent that insurance companies are starting to realize the widespread problems that can be associated with Lyme and are setting up roadblocks to reduce their financial exposure. This course of action will undoubtedly become a major issue in the months and years to come as the public begins to realize we’re in the midst of a Lyme epidemic.
Our federal government is aware of the problem, and is trying to take steps to remedy the situation. A US Senate committee report states,
The Committee recognizes that the current state of laboratory testing for Lyme is very poor. The situation has led many people to be misdiagnosed and delayed proper treatment. The ramifications of this deficit in terms of unnecessary pain, suffering and cost is staggering. The Committee is distressed in hearing of the widespread misuse of the current Lyme surveillance case definition. While the CDC does state that “this surveillance case definition was developed for national reporting of Lyme: it is NOT appropriate for clinical diagnosis,” the definition is reportedly misused as a standard of care for health care reimbursement, product (test) development, medical licensing hearings, and other legal cases. (Senate Appropriations Report (S.1536, SR.107-84))
For those specializing in the treatment of Lyme, the current therapy consists of antibiotics, either oral (such as Biaxin or Zithromax) or intravenous (such as Rocephin); these are often combined with an anti-protozoal medication (such as Mepron).
Unfortunately, many Lyme specialists are now being harassed by medical boards and insurance companies across the country. They are being accused of over-diagnosing the condition, treating the disease too aggressively, and overusing antibiotics. Several practitioners have either lost their licenses to practice or had to close their clinics. The doctors who continue to properly treat Lyme are being swamped with patients.
I’m afraid the situation will continue to worsen over the next few years. Long-term use of these medications is expensive, particularly when used intravenously. Even the insurance companies that cover the treatment often limit the use of these drugs to 60 days or so, but to completely rid the body of the Lyme spirochete and other pathogens can take 8 to 16 months of continuous use. An inadequate treatment period is one of the primary reasons for the characteristic relapse of Lyme patients and those who continue to suffer from “chronic Lyme.”
Finally, a Solution that Works
Although I don’t recommend treating yourself for Lyme, it might be the only option for many people if things don’t improve and this horrendous epidemic continues. Fortunately, there are currently some very effective natural alternatives that have been shown to eliminate the Lyme spirochete when used alone or in conjunction with the antibiotic and anti-protozoal medications.
One recent study showed that a particular extract of the Peruvian medicinal plant commonly known as cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa) was actually more effective than antibiotic therapy in eliminating the Lyme spirochete.
The six-month study consisted of 28 patients and was conducted by US cardiologist Dr. William Lee Cowden. All of the individuals were suffering from advanced chronic Lyme, and tested positive for the Lyme spirochete Bb using the Western Blot test. Half the individuals were given the conventional antibiotic therapy and half were given the specific cat’s claw product.
At the end of the six-month study, three in the antibiotic group showed slight improvement, three were worse, and the rest remained the same. All of those in the cat’s claw group experienced a dramatic improvement, and 12 of the 14 tested Bb negative at the end of the study. (Presentation at The International Symposium for Natural Treatment of Intracellular Microorganisms, Munich, Germany, March 29, 2003)
The particular product used in the study is marketed under the Samento label by NutraMedix, at www.nutramedix.com, or 800-730-3130. Their product is different from other cat’s claw products because it is devoid of certain chemicals called tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids (TOAs) that can be harmful to the human central nervous system and negate the positive effects of the herb. I don’t want to confuse you (or me) by getting too technical, but it’s extremely important that you’re very specific in choosing the right cat’s claw product if you want to successfully treat Lyme. The only product I can recommend for Lyme is this TOA-free cat’s claw product. (By the way, I have no financial interest in this product. I just believe it’s the one to use. And the company has told me they will offer free shipping on any orders placed with them through their Web site.)
This special form of cat’s claw currently comes in either a liquid extract or capsule form, though the company is phasing out the capsules. The dosage being used successfully for Lyme is generally 5 drops added to 4 ounces of water and taken three times daily [a total of 15 drops daily].) You may have to work up to this dosage.
One good source for Samento TOA-free cat’s claw is Vitamin Research Products. You can reach them toll-free at 800-877-2447 or on the Web at www.vrp. com. Nutricology is another US distributor, at 800- 545-9960 or on the Web at www.nutricology.com. Their product is called Prima Uña de Gato.
There are several points to keep in mind when using this special form of cat’s claw extract.
In severe infections, it’s possible that you may experience what is known as a Herxheimer reaction, which most often consists of flu-like symptoms (chills, fever, fatigue, overall aches and pain, etc.), and may last for a day or a couple of weeks, depending on the severity of the infection and the ability of your body to remove toxins. It happens when the pathogens (spirochetes, bacteria, etc.) die in large numbers and then release their toxic waste into your system. You can help minimize these toxic effects by getting lots of rest, drinking plenty of water, making sure your bowels are moving regularly, and using supplements that support the liver and aid in detoxification, such as NAC and milk thistle extracts. It also helps to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to help keep your pH in balance. If your reaction to the released toxins is too great, you can always reduce the dosage, then gradually work it higher over a week or two until the reaction begins to stabilize.
Cat’s claw can lower both blood sugar levels and blood pressure. If these are problems, you may need to monitor them more closely.
Cat’s claw also stimulates the immune system and helps it work more efficiently, so it shouldn’t be used if you’re taking immunosuppressant drugs (to prepare for organ or bone marrow transplants).
I would also suggest checking with your doctor if you are pregnant or want to give the herbal extract to small children.
As I mentioned earlier, getting rid of the Lyme spirochete is a major undertaking. The bacterium has the ability to transform itself when under attack, and hides throughout the body, including in the fat cells of nervous tissue. The spirochete goes through different growth and development stages. To completely eliminate it from the body, you will probably have to keep taking the cat’s claw for at least a couple of months after all your symptoms have cleared. It is not unusual to continuously take the supplement for as long as 8 to 16 months. If you stop too soon, there’s a greater likelihood of experiencing a relapse. The Q-RIBb test can confirm that the Bb is truly gone from your system.
Alcohol can depress immune function, so avoid alcohol consumption during treatment.
I would also avoid products containing the sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet). Some researchers now feel that aspartame impedes the removal of the Bb spirochete and allows it to remain “locked” in the body tissues. I’ve only heard first-hand reports and observations from doctors treating Lyme, and don’t have any firm research to support this theory, but aspartame does seem to interfere with the process, and I’m certain it doesn’t help matters.
Cat’s claw has been used for centuries throughout South America, particularly by the Amazonian tribes. Researchers have discovered numerous compounds that account for its effectiveness at treating a wide range of digestive disorders, including such problems as ulcers, colitis, diverticulitis, and hemorrhoids. It has also shown the ability to reduce inflammation, blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and cholesterol levels. It is considered quite safe.
Cat’s claw also contains significant amounts of a family of compounds called quinovic acid glycosides, making it a very important tool for the elimination of many of the opportunistic pathogens associated with Lyme, as well as the Bb spirochete. (These compounds just happen to belong to the same family from which the potent antibiotic Cipro was developed. Cipro, as you may recall, was the drug of choice during the anthrax scare not too long ago.)
Some doctors, however, have found that the cat’s claw doesn’t always take care of the protozoan pathogen Babesia that I talked about earlier. So in addition to prescribing the cat’s claw I’ve mentioned, and other items, some doctors are seeing their very best results after adding the herbal extract artemisinin an extract of Chinese wormwood that has been used for decades to treat malaria. I first wrote about artemisinin over 14 years ago. The recommended dosage when used in conjunction with Lyme treatment is 1 capsule (100 mg) taken three times a day by itself without other medications or supplements. Artemisinin is available from Nutricology, at www.nutricology.com, or 800-545-9960.
The natural products I’ve mentioned are being used successfully by some doctors in place of the conventional antibiotics and anti-protozoal drugs, while other doctors use them along with mainstream therapies. Being able to test for the different pathogens makes it easier to demonstrate what treatment works best for an individual.
Knowledge Is Your Key to Recovery
I’ve seen several reports on the growing Lyme problem over the last several years, but it wasn’t until a few months ago, when I started talking to individuals suffering from the problem, and to doctors treating the illness, that I realized just how serious the problem was. It got even scarier when I began to dig deeper and deeper into the research. I’m convinced we have a true epidemic on our hands, and very little is being done to stop it. Several million people in this country are suffering from the effects of Lyme, but have never been diagnosed as such. It’s a very frightening situation.
I’ve been very concerned about the increases we’ve seen in dozens of diseases that used to be considered extremely rare. The incidence of diseases like ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and others seem to be increasing more and more every day. I still believe changes in our food supply, exposure to pesticides and herbicides, and many other factors are contributing to the increase, but it’s often hard to make a direct connection. After a closer look at Lyme, the new “great impostor,” the connection becomes increasingly clearparticularly when you compare it to its older cousin, syphilis.
We have a huge, unrecognized threat spreading quickly and silently among us. If you have the least amount of doubt about what I’m saying, I would encourage you to visit one of the doctors in your area that specializes in treating Lyme. Talk to any one of the dozens of patients desperately trying to get in to see the doctor. Two things will become obvious. One, the clinic will be packed. And two, the patient’s stories will be the samenormal people with normal lives suddenly struck with some mysterious, often life-threatening illness that no one seems to be able to diagnose correctly.
I’m not trying to alarm you or scare you; far from it. My hope is that you’ll be more alert to the problem and realize there are solutions. You need to know why doctors are misdiagnosing the problem, why insurance companies are sticking their heads in the sand, and why record numbers of people are suffering and dying needlessly while bouncing from one specialist to the next searching for answers. Many have been wrongly diagnosed with diseases like ALS and told to go home, get their affairs in order, and wait for death. I don’t want that to happen to you.
The information on what can be done to eliminate the problem is available, but no one except the handful of survivors and those fighting on the front lines seems to be willing to share it with the general public.
Professional Help Is Crucial
Under ideal circumstances, treating Lyme should not be considered a “self-help” situation. I’m not advocating that. In fact, being able to monitor the situation with tests like Dr. Joanne Whitaker’s is invaluable. Having the guidance of a doctor who is familiar with the disease can also be essential. Those treating Lyme on a daily basis are better able to include new knowledge about Lyme in their treatment recommendations. And those who see more patients will be more experienced in tailoring the treatment to the individual, and monitoring results.
To find a doctor in your area that is “Lyme literate,” call the Lyme Disease Association’s toll free information line at 888-366-6611. They are a non-profit organization that provides information on Lyme and its treatment, and referral to doctors in various areas of the US. They don’t send out the names of the doctors by mail or list them on their Web site, so you’ll have to call and leave your name and number so someone can contact you directly. They also have a wealth of information on Lyme on their Web site at www.lymediseaseassociation. org. Another excellent Web site for information on the disease (not for referrals) is that of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society at www.ilads.org.
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Executive Branch--Personal Services Expenditure Freeze
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Article IV, Section 5 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, as amended, and Act 11 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, the Governor may issue executive orders which limit the expenditure of funds by the various agencies in the executive branch of state government; and
WHEREAS, R.S. 39:84 provides authority to the Governor to regulate and control personal transactions;
WHEREAS, pursuant to R.S. 42:375, the Governor has the authority to prohibit or regulate the filling of vacancies in the executive branch of state government.
WHEREAS, in preparation of the budget challenges in the current and ensuing year, Executive Order BJ 2010-12 Limited Hiring Freeze related to personal services was issued on July 1, 2010, and updated periodically, remains in effect; and
WHEREAS, Acts 11 and 41 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature do not contain specific budget authority for pay increases from promotions; rewards and recognition; optional pay lump sum; optional pay base pay; advanced degrees; premium pay; incentive pay; retention pay; individual pay adjustment; on-call; shift differential; cash allowances; gainsharing; or any other methods of pay increase; and
WHEREAS, to ensure that the State of Louisiana continues prudent money management practices, the interests of the citizens of the State of Louisiana are best served by implementing an expenditure freeze on the personal services throughout the executive branch of state government;
NOW THEREFORE, I, BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of the State of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: All departments, agencies, and/or budget units of the executive branch of the State of Louisiana, as described in and/or funded by appropriations through Acts 11 and 41 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature (hereafter “Acts”), shall freeze unclassified personal services expenditures as provided in this Executive Order.
SECTION 2: All departments, and/or budget units of the executive branch of the State of Louisiana, as described in and/or funded by appropriations through the Acts are urged and encouraged in the case of classified employees to also follow the dictates of this Executive Order.
SECTION 3: All other elected state officials or entities with constitutional authority are urged to join in this effort to preserve state services to our citizens by exercising their authority to freeze personal services expenditures as provided in this Executive Order both as to unclassified and classified salary increases.
SECTION 4: No department, agency, and/or budget unit of the executive branch of the State of Louisiana, unless specifically exempt by a provision of this Order or with express written approval of the Commissioner of Administration, shall make any expenditure of funds related to unclassified personal services for the purpose of implementing pay increases.
A. Exemptions from the prohibitions set forth in Section 4 of the Order are as follows:
2. Premium pay, shift differential pay, on-call, and cash allowances for new hires or promotions for departments, agencies, and/or budget units with existing policies for such pay;
3. Gainsharing increases as authorized by R.S. 39:87.5-.6.
SECTION 6: The Commissioner of Administration is authorized to develop additional guidelines as necessary to facilitate the administration of this Order.
SECTION 7: All departments, commissions, boards, offices, entities, agencies, and officers of the State of Louisiana, or any political subdivision thereof, are authorized and directed to cooperate in the implementation of the provisions of this Order.
SECTION 8: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect through June 30, 2011, unless amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded prior to that date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 8th day of April, 2011.
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Child support is a recurring monetary payment meant to help support a child or children whose parents are no longer living together. Factors taken into consideration include:
- Custody Arrangement: Child support payments are almost always ordered to be paid to the parent that has been granted custody of the child. This is because the custodial parent will naturally incur more expenses related to the child (e.g. food, clothing, extracurricular activities).
- Lifestyle Prior to Separation: In situations where the child lived with both parents prior to the parents’ separation, the court will consider the lifestyle that the child was accustomed to when the parents were together in order to minimize disruption in the child’s life. For example, in the case of a child who has always attended an expensive private school, the court will likely order that the non-custodial parent provide enough financial support to allow the child to continue in the same type of school environment.
- Income of the Parties: The court will require both parents to submit proof of their total income so that each parent’s financial means can be used to determine how much support should be paid.
The overarching goal in entering custody or child support orders is to do what is in the best interest of the child.
What Does a Child Support Order Usually Contain?
A child support order will declare which parent is ordered to pay support, the monthly amount due, obligations to help pay for daycare or provide health insurance, and a termination date for the payments. Child support orders involving multiple children will usually lay out the dates when the child support obligation will lessen based on one or more children reaching the age of majority.
The order will also almost always contain a brief summary of the consequences for non-payment and an overview of what must be done to alter the child support order.
Can Child Support Be Lowered or Changed Because of Financial Circumstances?
A child support order can change over time as a result of changing circumstances. If the paying parent thinks that the amount of child support should be reduced, they can request a child support reduction. A reduction is most often ordered due to changes in a parent’s financial situation (loss of job, etc.).
How often a child support order can be altered is almost always limited, usually by requiring a certain period of time to pass before a change can be requested. This is because if there were no limits on how often an order can be updated, the courts would be completely overloaded with modification requests from parents not satisfied with the order entered.
How Can I Get My Child Support Payment Lowered?
In order to change child support payments, a parent must file a Motion to Modify. This is a formal request asking the courts to consider changing the child support order previously entered. The court is not required to grant the Motion to Modify, and usually requires proof that circumstances have changed substantially enough to warrant the change.
Requests to lower child support payments are most often granted as a result of:
- Changes in Income: Usually if the paying parent’s income is substantially less than when the child support obligation was calculated. This could be after the parent loses a job, becomes incarcerated, or becomes disabled.
- Changes in the Custody Arrangement: Modifications will also frequently be granted if the custody arrangement changes so that the paying parent naturally incurs more routine expenses to support the child.
- Change in Costs Taken into Consideration: A steep increase in health insurance costs could mean that a paying parent’s monthly child support payment will be lowered to reflect that.
What Else Should I Know About Lowering Child Support for Financial Reasons?
A parent may also be able to get the amount of child support lowered as a result of increased educational or extracurricular costs. If the parent can provide proof that they are now paying significantly more each month for such an expense, then the court may consider lowering the monthly child support payment.
The courts may also lower a parent’s child support obligation if additional children are born to the parent. Most states assess child support obligations based on the idea that a certain percentage of the parent’s income should go towards supporting their children. If the calculation was based on having a single child, and that parent later has children with a new spouse, then the amount of their income that the courts feel should go towards supporting children must now be spread out between all of the children.
What Happens if a Child Support Order is Violated?
A parent who is ordered to pay child support will face several consequences if they don’t pay, including:
- Fines, jail, or both
- Garnishment of wages, including unemployment and worker’s compensation
- Seizure of tax refunds
- Revocation of passport
- Suspension, revocation or denial of various licenses — professional, driver’s, hunting/fishing/boating
Should I Hire an Attorney if I Want to Lower My Child Support Payments?
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Item Engagement counting on the archive.org website.¶
The Internet Archive organizes it’s digital holdings into a basic unit of storage called an item. Generally, the philosophy is that an item is the thing which in a physical library, would have been given its own card in the card catalog.
audio recording: https://archive.org/details/sci2000-10-27.tlm170.flac16
Each of these web pages represents a single item stored at the Internet Archive. In the above cases the media can be accessed directly in the web browser by pressing the play button, or clicking on the pages of the book as shown on the web page.
In addition to experiencing these holdings in a web browser, the files that makeup an item may be downloaded. On the right hand side of the details page there is a ‘Download options’ info box with file download links.
The Internet Archive maintains a measure of use we call a download or view.
Views work like this:
Each item has an view counter.
The view counter is increased by one when a user engages with the media in an item. This is done, for example, by pressing the play button in an audio/video player, turning pages in the bookreader or downloading data files from the item.
A user can only increase the view count of a particular item once per day.
Downloads of files and engagements with the website’s various players and viewers are treated in the same way.
If a user views and/or downloads from an item multiple times on the same day that user’s activity is only counted as one view on that item.
The archive.org website also has web pages which we refer to as
An example collection page: https://archive.org/details/bostonpubliclibrary
Items stored at the archive are in one or more collections.
The view count of a collection is defined as the sum of all the view counts of the items in the collection.
When an item is in more than one collection, the item’s view counts are added to each collection it is in.
At IA, collections are allowed to be members of other collections. When this happens, an item inside the child collection becomes a member of both the child and parent collections. Because the item is a member of both collections, views of that item are credited to both collections.
When a user engages with a collection page (sorting, searching, browsing etc.), it does not count as a view of the collection. The view counter for a collection consists only of the sum of the views from it’s constituent items.
Because archive.org does not employ tracking cookies to track users, our view counting system uses a privacy protecting hash of the user’s IP as a user id.
At the end of each day we process all of our web server logs from all of our hosts. This log processing extracts from the logs download events, view events, user ids and approximate geolocation for the user ID.
At the end of each day we record a snapshot of all the item collection membership data and in some cases the item’s sponsor, and contributor metadata fields.
We then aggregate this data into count values for items and collections.
For monthly and annual counts, we sum up the daily values for the item counts for those time periods.
Footnote: what is the deal with privacy protecting hashes instead of IP numbers in our logs?¶
In most circumstances, our web servers do not record the IP number of users which connect to them.
Instead, the first 3 bytes of md5(string_concat(daily_key, client_ip)) is logged we call this a user’s obfuscated ip address.
A new daily key is generated each day at UTC midnight from a cryptographically secure random number generator (linux’s /dev/urandom). The same key is distributed to all of our web servers. Old daily keys are deleted. A consequence of this process is that the same user will be assigned a different obfuscated IP address each day and our user analysis activities are limited to saying things about user activity only on a per day basis.
Differences between pre-2017 (old) counting system:¶
Old counting system did not count bookreader in browser views. New one does. (After 2 ‘actions’ in the in browser bookreader, a view is counted for that item)
Old counting system counted audio items as being viewed after only the details page was loaded (audio waveforms image files accidentally triggered this…). The new system works around this to only count an audio item as viewed when an audio file is actually played.
Old counting system counted video items as being viewed after only the details page was loaded (this was because a filter to not count thumbs/* did not match properly the url encoded form of / (%2F)). The new system properly urldecodes paths before applying the filter, and thus only counts video items which are actually played. | <urn:uuid:11e2bea8-4bad-4f58-8434-7a0b02136223> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.org/services/docs/api/views.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.913375 | 1,112 | 2.40625 | 2 |
OK, here is the second part of my approach to (safely) apply software application updates remotely to a Blackfin device without using netboot.
See Part 1 for the background.
So, we now have our Blackfin booting uClinux from a compressed image stored in a flash partition. We allocated two other flash partitions:
- Bootloader (Das U-Boot)
- Flash filesystem (jffs2)
In the startup messages, you should see something like this:
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash.0":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "Bootloader"
0x00040000-0x00100000 : "jffs2"
0x00100000-0x00400000 : "uImage"
The jffs2 partition is mounted in the startup script /etc/rc. You need these two lines somewhere:
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt/flash
The mounted directory /mnt/flash/ is used to store application updates. Those will persist between device power cycles and are deployed each time the device boots.
The application deployment is kicked off by another line in /etc/rc. I simply call a script I created: /bin/deploy. Here’s what is inside /bin/deploy:
md5sum -c $md5name
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
echo "md5 BAD! Deploy aborted."
echo "md5 OK. Deploying applications."
tar zxvf $pkgname -C /
This script changes to the directory /mnt/flash/ (our persistant flash filesystem) and checks if a valid tarball exists for this device. The tarball must begin with the hostname of the device and includes a version id. The tarball must also pass an md5 check. If the check is successful, the tarball is exploded from / (root), placing new software in the device.
Now, how do we get the tarball of updated software and its md5 into /mnt/flash? I created another script for that:
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
echo "Syntax Error"
echo "Usage $0 <version> e.g. $0 1.0.2"
if [ -f $pkgname ]
echo "$pkgname already exists. Download new copy? [Y/n]"
if [ $ans == "N" -o $ans == "n" ]
echo "Using local copy of $pkgname."
echo "Downloading new copy of $pkgname."
echo "$pkgname needs to be downloaded."
if [ $download -eq 1 ]
tftp -g -l $pkgname -r $pkgname fs
tftp -g -l $md5name -r $md5name fs
md5sum -c $md5name
This script is just a smart downloader. It takes an input parameter as the version number of the device application upgrade to download. It prepends the hostname to the version number and creates two filenames: 1) the tarball, and 2) the md5.
It first checks if the upgrade needs to be downloaded and allows the user a choice to download a new copy or use existing one if upgrade version exists. It it does not exist, it automatically downloads it (via TFTP) from a TFTP server. (The setup of that server is outside of the scope of this, but I will explain below how the tarball and md5 are created.)
After the download of the upgrade, it performs an md5 check and deploys the new upgrade.
The final step is creating the upgrade tarball and md5. To accomplish this, I created a slightly crude ant task:
tar czvf $(LCO_VER_FW).tgz -C romfs/ bin/lco-fw-post bin/lco-enviro-update home/httpd/cgi-bin/command home/httpd/cgi-bin/status
md5sum $(LCO_VER_FW).tgz > $(LCO_VER_FW).md5
scp $(LCO_VER_FW).* root@fs:/tftpboot/
It contains three steps:
- Create tarball – based from root dir (romfs), include necessary files
- Create md5
- scp both files to TFTP server
LCO_VER_FW is just a variable conatining the hostname and version id.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Preschool children with uncorrected farsightedness are at risk for literacy problems, new research suggests.
The study included nearly 500 children, aged 4 and 5, who had either moderate farsightedness (hyperopia) or normal vision. Those with uncorrected farsightedness had much lower scores on a test of early literacy than those with normal vision.
This was particularly true on the portion of the test that assessed a child's ability to identify letters and written words, the U.S. National Eye Institute-funded study found.
"This study suggests that an untreated vision problem in preschool, in this case one that makes it harder for children to see things up close, can create literacy deficits that affect grade-school readiness," Maryann Redford, director of the institute's Collaborative Clinical Research program, said in an institute news release.
An estimated 4 percent to 14 percent of U.S. preschoolers have moderate farsightedness. In many cases, it is undiagnosed and untreated.
Although previous studies have linked untreated farsightedness with reading problems among school-age children, there had been no large-scale studies of preschoolers, said lead author Dr. Marjean Taylor Kulp, a professor of optometry at Ohio State University.
"This study was necessary to determine whether or not, at this age, there was a link between the two," she said in the news release.
For many children, formal learning begins in the preschool years. And, previous research has linked early problems in literacy to future problems learning to read and write, which "makes early detection of these problems important," Kulp said.
Study co-author Dr. Elise Ciner said preschoolers with moderate farsightedness and decreased near vision may benefit from an assessment of early literacy skills.
"Educational interventions for children with early deficits can lead to greater educational achievement in later years," Ciner, a professor at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University in Philadelphia, said in the news release.
The U.S. National Eye Institute has more about farsightedness.
SOURCE: U.S. National Eye Institute, news release, Jan. 27, 2016
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Technology gives missing children a better chance today
NEW YORK As investigators in Manhattan end a basement excavation for a boy missing since 1979, a search for a girl missing for more than two days is underway in Tucson.
Searchers in New York said today that they ended the dig for the remains of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who vanished on his way to school. "No obvious human remains were found," said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. "The search has formally ended.''
When an FBI dog indicated the scent of human remains in the room, a block from the home where his parents still live, it was not the first time a tip renewed the 33-year search for Etan, one of the first children whose photo on a milk carton alerted the nation to watch for him.
In Tucson, police are searching for Isabel Mercedes Celis, another 6-year-old, whose parents say they last saw her sleeping peacefully in her bed Friday night. Police are treating the case as "a suspicious disappearance and possible abduction," spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said.
The 33 years that separate the cases have brought new alerts and investigative methods that make finding a missing child much more likely.
Messages on Facebook, electronic billboards and other digital media are now among the strongest links of communication in trying to save a child's life.
"Technology has fundamentally changed how we search for missing kids," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
When the center opened in 1984, days could pass before a child's photo was disseminated, Allen said. Now, details about a child or potential abductor can be circulated almost instantaneously through e-mail, text messages, social media and other electronic means.
That's vital, because "time is the enemy" when a child vanishes, he says. Investigators need to move quickly to prevent an abducted child from being taken out of town, hurt or even killed.
"In 1990, our recovery rate for the cases that we intake here at the center was 62%" — and now it's 97%, he said. "The primary reason for that change is technology."
The digital advances are varied, ranging from cellphone text messages to digital billboards that provide information about a missing child.
Technological improvements also make it easier to create and disseminate public notices that give information about a missing child, says Allen. Such fliers are now being distributed by volunteers in the search for Isabel .
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children also works closely with media companies such as Facebook and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America to get the word out.
Facebook, for instance, has a page that posts safety information for parents, gives details on recent kidnappings and provides information on the AMBER Alert program. AMBER Alerts, which go out when a child is missing, were created after the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in 1996.
The Outdoor Advertising Association of America works with the operators of about 3,200 digital billboards nationwide to post messages about missing children. Most of those billboard operators have agreed to take down advertising messages and post details about a missing child or suspect when a local AMBER Alert arises, said Nicole Hayes, a spokeswoman for the association.
Wireless organizations also work closely with the missing children center.
"There are a whole host of ways that wireless technology has been put in use," said David Diggs, vice president for wireless Internet development at wireless association CTIA.
A suspicious observer, he said, can use a camera-enabled cellphone to photograph a child who might have been abducted and show police.
While technology puts potential rescuers on alert, it also assists in another way: Once an abductor hears that news of a kidnapping is spreading, that person may set the child free, Allen said.
"It's the deterrent effect," he said. "The guys who prey upon children are by and large looking for the risk of apprehension to be as low as possible."
When the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children started, it used strategies such as photos on milk cartons to solicit tips about missing children.
The milk carton campaigns began to fade in the mid-1980s after Benjamin Spock and other pediatricians said the pictures conjured unwarranted fear in children as they ate breakfast, Allen said.
Even though technology has evolved, his center continues to use effective low-tech methods such as mailing fliers that describe a missing child's case.
And while Allen credits digital advances as "primarily why more missing kids come home safely today," he adds that some vital, no-tech methods can help prevent a kid from disappearing.
An important one: making sure the child always has a companion — a parent, another adult or even another kid.
"We still encourage the use of the buddy system," Allen said. "There is relative safety in numbers."
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The chapter 5 tutorials are an excellent way to learn the software. However, it appears some files are missing for the section on ‘Cycle’ – the files are ‘start.wav’, ‘sustain.wav’,’stop.wav’ and the section on ‘Interactive Music’ is missing – ‘Music1_1.wav’, ‘Music1_2.wav’, ‘Music1_3.wav’, ‘Music2_1.wav’, ‘Music2_2.wav’, ‘Music2_3.wav’, ‘Music4_1.wav’, ‘Music4_2.wav’ and ‘Music4_3.wav’.
Does anyone know if these files are meant to be included or should we use our own? Or does anyone have any demo files that would suit these tutorials?
- hmc600 asked 9 years ago
You can use your own files. At this point, the example files are not available – however I’m in the process of cleaning them up (and reducing the file size). I was planning to make them available via the FMOD website. So keep an eye out.
I plan to place them as an extra download to avoid making the designer install any larger than necessary.
Keep an eye on http://126.96.36.199/index.php/download#FMODExtras
They should appear today (or tomorrow at the latest).
There are a number of tutorials in the Designer user manual. I’m also currently working on a number of other educational materials.
If you take a look at the new FMOD wiki, you can see a plan of the educational materials that will be coming in next couple of weeks. You can check out:
If you are only interested in tutorials, then you can go to this section of the wiki.
Hopefully the wiki will grow into a comprehensive resource.
These files are now available from the download page on the main site (look in the extras).
The files have been modified a little from the originals, so some parameters in the tutorials may be a little out. I’ve included a sample .fdp file in the download as a ‘finished’ product / sample solution – which will help until the next release (I’ll update the manual).
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Education is in a state of flux – transitioning from traditional architectures and practices to new ecologies of teaching and learning influenced by the tremendous social and technological changes of our times. What changes are afoot today in workplaces, civic life and everyday community life? What are their implications for education? What are the possible impacts of contemporary social transformations on teaching and learning - including in the areas of technology, media, globalization, diversity, changing forms of work in the “knowledge society”, and, in these contexts, changing learner needs and sensibilities? This course explores three pedagogical paradigms: “didactic”, “authentic” and “transformative” learning. It takes an historical perspective in order to define the contemporary dimensions of what we term “new learning”. It prepares participants to make purposeful choices and link particular theories/instructional approaches to individual and group learning goals.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
AUSTIN — The Texas Department of State Health services has about four months to destroy blood samples taken and stored without permission from millions of babies.
State law allows the department to collect those blood samples for routine disease testing, but the state’s been hanging on to millions of blood samples since the testing began in 2002.
Dad Michael Neff says blood samples taken from his two daughters should have been destroyed.
He fears the state might have used those blood samples in research projects or sold them to insurance companies.
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[efoods]“I don’t think my kid’s DNA should be out there, and if it is it should be mine and their mother’s decision,” Neff said.
The Department of State Health Services now agrees with Neff’s position.
They’ve settled a lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project over the samples which the state was keeping without getting permission from parents.
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Summer! The kids are out of school!
If you feel like your summer fun could use a little structure, try using the calendar below. Need some ideas to fill in the blanks? Let me share a few of our favorites.
Kick off your week with a craft or science experiment. This doesn’t need to be an all-day project–even 15 minutes of quality time together on a project can have a great impact on your relationship. The idea is to simply provide a framework for the many fun things we want to fit into our time off.
- Collect leaves, flowers, etc., then iron between two sheets of wax paper (Make sure to cover with a dish towel first.) Display in a window, cut into bookmarks, or use as placemats!
- Make a volcano with baking soda and vinegar.
- Go strawberry picking & make homemade jam.
No PJs today! Let’s get out of the house! But don’t worry, you don’t have to spend a ton of money to have fun. We love going on free or low-cost field trips.
- Bike ride
- Free park concerts
- Bowling (Look into free summer bowling programs for kids)
- Look for local factories that give tours (Our kids loved watching how cheese is made last summer)
- Movie theaters (Many theaters have free or low-cost movies once a week through the summer)
Summer is fun, but chores still need to be done. Today we can catch up on messy rooms, laundry, grocery shopping, and whatever other chores might fall behind during summer fun. This is a great time to break out the chore charts.
Today we take the focus off of ourselves by doing something kind for someone else. Again, the summer schedule doesn’t have to take up your whole day. We intentionally make time for the things important to us while allowing plenty of freedom and play time.
- Make dinner for a friend
- Pick flowers and deliver them to a neighbor
- Write a note of encouragement to someone you’re thankful for
- Check out these ideas for helping others
Kids miss their friends when school is out. Once a week, open your home and let them connect with their pals. If you’re feeling ambitious, put on a pot of coffee and invite the moms to stay and chat, too. This is a great opportunity to expand your own tribe while letting the kids play.
- Get out the sprinkler
- Have a water balloon toss
- Sidewalk chalk
- Beat the heat (or the rain) with an indoor movie or board game
This year, create a summer schedule full of fun that also allows plenty of breathing room. Go enjoy your kids before you put them back on that school bus this fall!
What are your favorite tips for loving summer with your kids?
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What Is the Bahamian Dollar (BSD)?
The Bahamian dollar (BSD) is the national currency of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The Bahamian dollar is made up of 100 cents and is often denoted by the symbol B$ to distinguish it from other currencies denominated in dollars. The value of the BSD is pegged on a 1-to-1 basis to the U.S. dollar (USD), with businesses in the Bahamas generally accepting either BSD or USD as legal tender.
The BSD is managed by the Central Bank of The Bahamas. Banknotes are available in denominations of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollars, while coins are available in denominations ranging from 1 cent to 1 dollar. Despite being managed by the Bahamas’ central bank, the BSD is also used in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- The Bahamian dollar (BSD) is the national currency of the Bahamas.
- It is pegged to the USD at a rate of 1 USD per BSD.
- The economy of the Bahamas is based largely on tourism, financial services, and specialty exports such as oceangoing vehicles.
Understanding the BSD
The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a group of 700 islands of varying size in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Cuba. Due to their location along the rich trade routes of the 18th century, the area saw frequent use by pirates. Today, the Bahamian economy relies mainly on tourism, with that sector accounting for over 60% of the gross domestic product (GDP) for the country, and half of all the jobs on the island chain.
The BSD has been the official currency of the Bahamas since 1966, when it replaced the British pound (GBP) at a rate of 7 shillings per BSD. The GBP was previously used in the Bahamas because the nation had been a British colony between 1718 and 1973. Although they only formally achieved independence in 1973, the Bahamas began operating as a self-governing nation within the British Commonwealth in 1964.
The BSD’s paper banknotes depict prominent figures and scenes from the history and culture of the Bahamas. These include politicians such as the independence leader Sir Lynden O. Pindling, as well as important places such as Nassau Harbour and the headquarters of the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
Real-World Example of the BSD
Although the value of the BSD is pegged to the USD, the long-term value of the BSD is ultimately reliant on the economic strength of the Bahamas. The economy of the Bahamas is known for its large tourism sector as well as its export of specialty products such as oceangoing vehicles. Financial services are also a major industry for the Bahamas, with the country serving as a major offshore banking center.
In 2016, the Bahamas became the subject of international discussion following the publication of the so-called Panama Papers. This leak of roughly 11.5 million documents showed the extent of international tax avoidance and evasion by wealthy individuals and organizations throughout the world. A similar leak took place shortly thereafter, dealing specifically with shell companies and other entities that were established through the Bahamas between 1990 and 2016. This leaked data comprised over 1.3 million files and has become known as the “Bahamas Leaks." | <urn:uuid:1ed2d2d0-2013-459d-a463-c064b5a09063> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/forex/b/bsd-bahamanian-dollar.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.956914 | 687 | 3.265625 | 3 |
More content on a ship’s deck than in a boardroom or classroom, Edgar Crocker decided after retiring to create a learning experience that combined his passions for education and the sea.
Using experience and connections from 35 years at Cambridge Trust Co., Mr. Crocker helped raise money to buy and restore the tall ship Picton Castle. Novice crews train during world voyages aboard the vessel, which drops off school materials and other supplies in farflung ports.
He also was the director and a founder of Worldwise Education, which promotes fund-raising programs for educators by selling greeting cards featuring artwork created by children.
“Edgar never retired; Edgar worked up until his final days,’’ said Charles Paul, chief executive and cofounder of Worldwise Education, who added that “whatever we needed in resources to help grow the business, he would offer help.’’
Mr. Crocker, who lived in the Chestnut Hill section of Newton for 54 years, died of a stroke Feb. 2 in Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was 81.
He was a founder and former chairman of Windward Isles Sailing Ship Co. and raised money to renovate the Picton Castle, a 179-foot-long barque. People pay to live on board for a few weeks to several months, learning on the job how to be crewmembers. Though their age range is wide, most are younger than 35.
“I wanted to give something back,’’ Mr. Crocker told the Boston Business Journal in 2000. “I build entrepreneurs, and I happen to believe in young people, so I bought the Picton Castle.’’
A three-masted tall ship with a home port in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the Picton Castle was built in 1928 as a fishing trawler and was used by England’s Royal Navy as a minesweeping vessel during World War II, according to the company’s website.
“If he believed in something, he was going to see it through or fall off the mountain trying,’’ said Dan Moreland, captain of the Picton Castle, who knew Mr. Crocker for almost 20 years as a friend and shipmate.
The Picton Castle also brings educational materials to island ports. The materials “made such a big difference to them that we thought it had the makings of a business,’’ said Paul, who met Mr. Crocker in the Kingdom of Tonga.
As a result, the two men and Paul’s wife, Katherine Pham-Paul, created Worldwise Education.
“He was a very compassionate person,’’ Charles Paul said. “He was very concerned. He thought in big pictures and big ideas.’’
Born in Boston, Mr. Crocker grew up in Milton and, as a boy, developed a passion for sailing during summers in Manchester-by-the-Sea.
In 1949, he graduated from Milton Academy. Four years later, he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford with a bachelor’s degree in history and economics.
Education and working in banking were not always easy, though. Mr. Crocker told the Boston Business Journal in 2000 that because he had dyslexia, simply reading a balance sheet could pose a challenge, and though he helped develop a computer system at the bank, he did not own a computer.
Sailing, on the other hand, was part of his ancestry and his youth.
His mother had been in the forefront of women sailing and racing in Manchester-by-the-Sea and Marblehead.
While Mr. Crocker was in high school and college, he worked aboard fishing boats during the summer, off the Canadian coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
“I rode about among the giant ice cubes and gigged for cod in the fog,’’ he told the Boston Business Journal.
He also served in the US Navy Reserve in South Weymouth.
After college, Mr. Crocker moved to Boston and worked in the corporate trust department at the Second National Bank of Boston, which became State Street Bank.
He then worked for 3M Co. and moved to New Jersey. While at 3M, he attended the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
In late 1956, Mr. Crocker moved to Chestnut Hill with his wife, the former Josephine Sturgis, and soon went to work for Cambridge Trust.
The couple had been married 50 years when she died in 2007.
Rising from an entry-level position to senior vice president and trust officer, Mr. Crocker worked for Cambridge Trust from 1957 until retiring in 1992.
In that time, he helped oversee development of an online trust computer accounting system.
“He really enjoyed learning about the high tech start-ups and the industry,’’ said his daughter Heather Crocker Faris of Watertown.
“He really enjoyed thinking about the future. But mostly he really enjoyed people.’’
Long before becoming involved with the Picton Castle, Mr. Crocker sailed the Crocodile, a Concordia yawl his family owned for decades. In 2010, he took his last journey on the Crocodile, sailing from Manchester to the St. John River in New Brunswick with his companion, Naomi Woolf.
“He spent a lifetime sailing and cruising from here all the way up to Halifax and the St. John River, really, all over the world,’’ his daughter said.
In addition to Woolf and his daughter, Mr. Crocker leaves another daughter, Edith of Barnard, Vt.; a son, Haskell of Topsfield; a sister, Augusta Stewart of Sudbury; a brother, Robert of Cambridge; and five grandchildren.
A service for Mr. Crocker will be held at 11 a.m. today in the Church of the Redeemer in Newton.
Mr. Crocker was a director or adviser to several computer hardware and software start-up companies in Canada and New England. “He got excited about how technology would change the lives of business people,’’ said his daughter.
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Remember our MVP teacher Miriam? Well this time our teacher is a relative of her’s – Reinaldo is her daughter’s godfather. And he is also the family’s master chef. Reinaldo is the genius behind the magic that are the family’s holiday meals.
We got together at Miriam’s house – she recently renovated her kitchen so she enjoys having people over - a few weeks ago and Reinaldo taught us how to make two staples of Cuban cooking in general and of the holidays specifically: Frijoles Negros (Black Beans) and Yuca con Mojo,(Cassava with Garlic Marinade). This time you get the black beans, we’ll publish the Yuca in time for Noche Buena.
As usual from the lesson Miriam made a lovely lunch, her sister Nora made a roast pork shoulder that was melt in your mouth delicious – we didn’t get the recipe because we didn’t know she was making it, but we will soon!
7 cups of water
3 medium green peppers
1 large onion - peeled
10 large garlic cloves
28 oz. dry black beans – picked over for any foreign items
1 pack or cube of chicken bouillon – if using cubes, crush before adding
½ tsp oregano
½ tsp powdered bay leaf
1 tsp cumin
Salt to taste
7 oz. roasted red peppers
1 oz. good olive oil
This recipe makes approximately 12 servings.
- NOTE: This recipe was made using a pressure cooker. If not using a pressure cooker, follow the recipe but heat the mixture on high to boil and then lower to medium for approximately two hours or until it thickens. Check periodically to ensure beans are completely submerged.
- Soak beans in room temperature water for 8 hours. Put water and beans into pressure cooker.
- Core the green peppers and place whole garlic cloves inside one or two of them. Add to the pot.
- Add the whole onion to the pot.
- Seal the pressure cooker and cook on high until pressurized.
- Lower to medium and continue cooking for 15 minutes.
- Depressurize the pot. Remove onion, green peppers and garlic cloves.
- Place the onion, green peppers, garlic cloves, 1 pimento and pimento liquid in a blender or food processor. Add 2 serving spoons of the black bean mixture and liquefy.
- Taste the beans from the pot to determine if they are soft enough, if not continue cooking and checking until done.
- Add the liquefied mixture back to the pot. Set to Medium-Low.
- Add ½ cup of water (use your judgment here they may be thin enough), salt, cumin, bay leaf powder, oregano and bouillon. Taste for salt, season as needed.
- Add remaining pimentos and use the pimento can to add 7 oz of water (if needed because it’s been cooking down for a while).
- Boil on Low for 15 minutes or until thick, stirring occasionally. Stir in olive oil.
- Let the beans sit off the heat for about 30 minutes to continue thickening.
- NOTE: To thicken the beans if they are too watery, liquefy a spoonful or two in the blender and add back into the pot. This will help thicken the soup.
Black beans are traditionally served with white rice, and they are integral to the traditional Noche Buena meal along side yuca and roast pork...
...but they also make a delicious soup on its own, garnished with sweet raw onions.
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We’re reading Judith Shulevitz’s The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time over at The High Calling, and I find myself thinking, not about the Sabbath, but about eschatology, or “last things,” end times or the Apocalypse (take your pick).
Blame it on Shulevitz. In Part 4, “The Flight from Time,” she’s discussing the Gospel of Mark, how urgent and immediate he is in his account, and she says it’s because he’s being influenced by the idea of the Apocalypse and the second coming of Christ. (Tradition says he was aiming his account at a Roman audience, who tended to the skip-the-long-introduction-and-cut-to-the-chase kind of people.) She quotes Harold Bloom in an essay he wrote on the gospel of Mark: “Apocalypse hovers.”
Then she says this: “We live as Mark wrote, in a state of apocalyptic urgency. Relatively few of us believe that Jesus is about to return, but just over the horizon of waking life, in nightmares and disaster movies and science-fiction novels, visions of the end play themselves out…”
She lost me with the “relatively few of us believe” and my mind wandered, as it is wont to do, down the proverbial rabbit hole. She’s largely correct in what she says, but she seems to attribute our preoccupation with the end of time with our changed understanding of what time actually is. And she blames clocks.
It isn’t only that, of course. I’m not going to blame it all on clocks. Don’t forget journalists (I was once, once), who thrive on disaster and tend to frame stories in apocalyptic terms. And politicians, who tell us apocalypse is imminent if they and their party aren’t elected. (Where I think apocalypse really hovers is in the current extremes occupied by the two major political parties in Washington, not to mention the smaller parties who truly believe Apocalypse is upon us because of the two major parties.)
But where my mind finally goes is to a question. Why in this “post-Christian” era, when the Christian underpinnings of society and culture are being rather gleefully kicked out one by one, do we seem to increasingly embrace religious language and concepts to express and explain ourselves and what’s happening around us?
The environmental movement, for example, was born preaching about the destruction of the planet and the life it contains.
Corporations are “evil.” Big government is “evil.” Virtually anything big is “evil.” Virtually anything we think we can’t control is “evil.”
We flock to movies about alien invasions and end-times, and obsess over vampires and magic. We may not believe in God but we certainly believe in angels, and we devour accounts of near-death experiences and glimpses into “the other side.”
We erect science as our god and then dethrone it when it doesn’t answer questions the “right way.” We frame issues in terms of good and evil – and we’re good and our opponents are evil. Or we use the David and Goliath analogy even if we don’t know the background or context.
I don’t quite fathom why all this happening, but it strikes me as rather odd that we are increasingly using religious concepts and terminology at the very same time we’re rejecting religion.
Unless, of course, we’re created as inherently religious creatures, it’s in our genes, and we can’t escape our DNA.
Or our hearts.
To see the discussion about Part 3 (“The Scandal of the Holy”) and Part 4 (“The Flight From Time”) of The Sabbath World, please visit The High Calling.
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Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant! (“Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you”). Today, we are going to focus on how to paint different types of skin using some lovely gladiators in 15mm from Forged in Battle. I will also say a few words about how to paint other parts of these gladiators, so that you will find a complete step-by-step tutorial below.
In the following lines I will describe how to paint three different types of skin: dark skin (African people), medium skin (Mediterranean and middle-east people) and light skin (northern people). This is based on my own interpretation of how skin colors should be painted, and it does not mean that this is the only way to do it! You will find dozens of articles about this topic on the internet. Check them, try different ways to paint skin, and find your preferred method!
Step 1 – Primer
Always, always and always apply a primer coat before starting to paint the miniature. The primer will not only make the paint more resistant (which is extremely important when we are planning to play with the miniatures), but it also facilitates the adherence of the paint. Here, I applied grey One-Shot primer from AMMO with a brush.
Step 2 – Skin
To paint dark skin I normally use only two colors: Dark oxide (302, Vallejo) and Tan (066, Vallejo Game Color). We start by painting the skin areas with Dark oxide. Remember to always thin acrylic paints with water (at least 30% water). Then, we begin working on the highlights by mixing Dark oxide with increasing amounts of Tan. The final highlight is done only with Tan.
To paint medium and light skin I use three colors instead of two. For the medium skin we need: Beige brown (875, Vallejo), Dwarf skin (041, Vallejo Game Color) and white. And for the light skin we need: Tan (066, Vallejo Game Color), Dwarf skin (041, Vallejo Game Color) and white. As you can see, the only difference between medium and light skin is the shade color: beige brown or tan. In this case, we begin by painting the skin areas with the darkest color (beige brown or tan), and then we start mixing either color with increasing amounts of dwarf skin, and finally we use pure dwarf skin. To conclude, the final highlight is done by mixing dwarf skin with white in the same proportion.
How many layers or highlights should we apply? It depends on the contrast we want to create. I like to create smooth transitions between layers (shade > base > light), and therefore I normally add additional intermediate layers (I normally apply five layers in total). Another factor that helps to create smooth transitions is the water: I thin my acrylic paints with at least 50% water, so that I can create semi-transparent layers. Thus, we can play with the number of layers to create more or less intense areas.
Where should we apply the lights? This is the most difficult part. The easiest answer is: follow the volumes sculpted on the miniature. That is, you can lead the lights toward the more protuberant parts of the miniature. For example, the elbows, knees and knuckles. This is a little bit unreal (in contrast with the classical zenithal light), but it is a good resource to make our tiny miniatures more striking.
And the same recipes can be applied to 28mm miniatures, as you can see in these Iberian and Numidian warriors from Victrix Miniatures:
Step 3 – Black profiling
I like to add this short step before painting the rest of the miniature when painting 15mm. The idea is to clearly stand out the different elements of the model by painting a very thin black line around each part. This makes easier to identify each part.
Step 4 – Clothes and leather
I will say just couple of things here. When painting white I do not use white paint. Instead, I use Ivory (918, Vallejo). This contains a little bit of yellow, so that it is warmer and covers much better than pure white. In addition, note that the pure white does not exist in nature. It has always reflections of other colors (grey, yellow, blue, etc).
On the other hand, to paint blue clothes I love the Vallejo color “Periscopes” (309, Vallejo). It is a short of grey blue color (with some traces of green) that generates a very interesting tone that in my opinion resembles very well the cheap blue dye used by Romans (= mild or blunt blue).
In fact, it is important to understand the dyes used by Romans. They had different options depending on the price. Normally the more expensive, the more intense. For example, a cheap option for blue was done with fermented leaves of the herb woad (Isatis tinctorial), which generated a blunt blue color. In contrast, more intense blue dyes such as indigo were very expensive. The indigo dye was done using indigo plants (Indigofera tinctorial) and imported from india. Taking this into account, you can tell different stories in your miniatures by using one color or antoher. Here, I wanted to represented a cheap and worn-out blue, and that is why I used Periscopes and I forced the lights with white. In contrast, for the red color I wanted to create a rich and intense color (an expensive red dye was obtained from female insects (Kermes)). To do it, I apply the final warm highlight with vermillion.
Step 5 – Metallic colors
You can find a very detailed tutorial to paint metallic colors here.
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One of our readers, Sam, mentioned that an essay by the Uruguayen poet and writer Eduardo Galeano was required reading in his sustainable transportation class.
The essay is titled The Sacred Car and is in the book Upside Down - A Primer for the Looking-Glass World.
It's a fantastically eloquent and yet scathing attack on car culture. It starts with:
"Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the giant metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory - and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?"
The rest of the essay is just as to the point. I've never had anything in common with a respected Uruguayen - writer or otherwise - before but I'm pleased how his title The Sacred Car is reflected in the essay about The Sacred Bull in Society's China Shop.
Indeed, he writes in the essay that:
"I saw a cigarette ad in a magazine with the required public health warning: 'Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide.' But the same magazine has several car ads and not one of them warned that car exhaust, nearly always invisible, contains much more carbon monoxide. People can't smoke. Cars can."
We have a solution for the health warning labels on cars. We're just waiting for someone to finance our efforts... :-)
All in all the essay is refreshing in its tone and no-nonsense approach to contemplating the destructive road we're all travelling down.
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Regardless of where you stand politically, it’s hard to deny that the 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive and stress-inducing we’ve seen in recent history. Just how bad was it? In October, the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study found that more than half of American adults—55 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of Republicans surveyed—considered the election “a very or somewhat significant source of stress.” Major publications like USA Today and The Boston Globe have even likened post-election stress to post-traumatic stress disorder. Democrats and Republicans alike have suffered splits in families and friendships, and continue to wrestle with lingering uncertainty, anxiety, and tension. But none of this comes as a surprise to most therapists, who’ve been on the front lines of treating post-election stress. Here are some valuable lessons they’ve taken away from their recent work helping clients in these post-election times.
1) Validate, validate, validate
"The day after the election, many people were either shut down or extremely activated, especially the trauma survivors I work with. Many of the Democrats I see felt ambushed—they’d been told they’d be safe, and that nothing was going to happen. But then they were hearing things like 'What’s done is done. Just move on and make the best of things,' which can be a pretty invalidating thing to hear. After the election, I knew I had to find a way to give hope to my clients who needed it. I had to be an enlightened visitor, a confident protector, and a compassionate comforter. I work with immigrants, some of whom are refugees. One had recently immigrated and was worried he might have to return to his war-torn home country. Another had a parent who’d been in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. And another, a Jewish client, who had a relative who’d survived the Holocaust, was worried given the stories that the Trump administration might take inventories of minority Americans. In these moments, I help my clients feel as empowered as possible. I help them find ways to say 'I don’t like that' or 'I don’t want this.' For many of my minority clients, that’s an empowering statement they couldn’t make before. Then I make a connection. I ask them, 'What’s it like to have someone sit with you who gets what you’re going through and validates your experience?'”
- Anita Mandley, psychotherapist of 33 years, Illinois
2) Don’t be afraid to call out the Chicken Littles
“Sometimes our clients’ concerns aren’t realistic. And while we can’t always say this outright and invalidate their concerns, we also can’t say everything is okay, because we don’t know that. There’s no guarantee that some of the things they’re worried about—deportations or registries, for example—won’t happen. But we have to help our clients avoid catastrophizing. Most of the anxiety I’m seeing is related to my clients’ personal struggles. One of my gay clients told me he was scared all gay people were going to be deported under a Trump administration. I responded by asking if he’d heard of any instances where that had been reported. He couldn’t recall any. People may be deported, and Trump may be no fan of gay rights, but gay people aren’t going anywhere. Among many of my clients, the sense of threat is overgeneralized.”
- Stephen Holland, psychotherapist of 25 years, Washington, DC
3) For some, post-election stress is retraumatizing
“Our clients aren’t crazy for feeling this strongly about something. I work with several clients who are sexual assault survivors. For one of these clients, hearing Donald Trump’s hot mic comments on the leaked Access Hollywood tape was extremely triggering. Even just seeing a Trump sign on someone’s lawn caused her to break down. After the election, she cried for days, even sobbing in my waiting room. She kept saying things like 'How could this have happened? What’s happening to our country?' I tell these clients that what they’re experiencing is a trauma response. It’s validating when someone says, 'You know, the response you’re having right now makes sense. There’s nothing wrong with the fact that it troubles you deeply that the president-elect is someone who has publicly bragged that he could grope women. You’re not wrong.' If a bear bites your leg, you go into shock. You become numb, and that takes time to wear off. For some clients, those are feelings that they're struggling with—numbness, dissociation, and denial—which are all trauma responses.”
- Kirsten Lind Seal, psychotherapist of 8 years, Minneapolis
4) Anger is healthy. Just use it wisely.
“Helplessness is the hallmark of depression. If you feel like Trump is going to marginalize women and minorities, you can combat that by volunteering for organizations that protect the rights of these groups. When I’m working with clients anxious or angry about the outcome of the election, I find it can be helpful to do a little psychoeducation. In some cases, I tell them that anxiety is actually nature’s way of mobilizing us to take action, and anger is a tool we’ve been given to deal with what we interpret as injustice. When we’re confronted with an injustice, our energy literally rises. We’re preparing for that fight or flight. We’re preparing for action. And if the action is healthy, then it’s totally appropriate. For instance, if an angry client decides to get involved in the local political system or work for a grassroots organization dedicated to change, that’s using anger constructively. We have to get out of the mindset of just using deep breathing to assuage anger. Let’s actually use it as a healthy tool to encourage action.”
- Chloe Carmichael, psychotherapist of 5 years, New York
5) We all need to extend the olive branch
“The real grief of this campaign is that I’ve heard so many people say they’ve lost someone they cared about. My Democrat and Republican clients are saying things like, 'I’ve lost something I was invested in. That person was my friend. Before the campaign, I loved that person.' Many of my clients who voted for Trump are embarrassed to say so. They’re even agreeing with people who criticize him just to avoid getting into conflict. Everyone deserves to be listened to—regardless of political affiliation. Eventually, we should be asking each other, 'What are your concerns? What are your fears?' Just criticizing isn’t going to get us anywhere. In the end, we have to explore ways we can solve problems without screaming at each other. This whole experience can be a chance for us to ask ourselves how we’d like to see things in the next election, and what we can personally do to make that happen.”
- Elaine Ducharme, psychotherapist of 30 years, Connecticut
6) Things will get better
“I work in Jersey City. It’s the largest gay community in New Jersey. Almost two weeks after the election, Hudson Pride, a community organization working on behalf of transgender rights, held an evening ceremony to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The organizers expected maybe a dozen people to attend, and when I got to the headquarters, only a few people were there. But then something amazing happened. Slowly, more and more people trickled in until we had almost 50 attendees, so many that we couldn’t fit everyone in the room. The cisgender attendees actually outnumbered the transgender ones. For hours, people chatted over dinner and told jokes as if they’d known each other forever. At the end of the night, we filed into the parking lot next door and made a big circle. Everyone held hands and lit candles, and then we read aloud the names of every trans person who’d been killed in hate crimes over the past year—87. It reminded me of the AIDS movement in the 1980s all over again. Knowing we had support from outside our community sustained us then, and it sustains us now. Just showing up like that can provide a sense of safety to people who really need it. These days, that’s what I’m trying to do in my therapy work. It might be a hell of a way to get unity, but if we’re seeing this level of cohesion, I think we’re going to be okay.”
- Margie Nichols, psychotherapist of 33 years, New Jersey
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The Jr. NBA Basketball League Beijing is an exciting new partnership between the National Basketball League (NBA), the Beijing Education Bureau and Beijing Sports Bureau, creating a competitive league for boys and girls aged 15 – 18 years old. The league features 30 Beijing high schools (boys) and 18 Beijing high schools (girls) that will be branded by a NBA team, competing in an 8-game season and culminating in a single game elimination playoffs to determine the Jr. NBA Basketball League Beijing champions. The Jr. NBA Basketball League Beijing format will mirror the NBA including a team selection, Conference finals and a Jr. NBA final being played in at MasterCard Center in Beijing.
The objective of the League is to leverage the excitement of the NBA and to inspire and engage more young people to participate in basketball by having a fun, positive first experience with the game. The League will also promote common NBA, Beijing Sports Bureau and Beijing Education Bureau values as well as encouraging physical activity and healthy living.
· Lead by example: As a participant in the Jr NBA League, you are the leader. Your attitude, effort, and actions will dictate those of the participants and everyone involved. Since the members will be following your lead, it is important to set a proper example for the entire league. Lead by example and preach the skills and attitude that you project yourself.
· Express a confident demeanor and project your voice: For coaches, your players/students are looking up to you. It is important that you are confident. Also, it is very important that your players/students understand the values of this league. The clearer and more concise the values, the easier it is for the members to understand and acknowledge them.
· When no one is watching: The league should keep the members involved through times when they are not taking part in a match – update them with news about performances of other teams, news from the world of basketball and the NBA league and teams they represent.
· Compete! But be a good sport: Competition is a part of the game of basketball and is healthy. However, it should never outweigh the importance of demonstrating character both on and off the court. Practice being good winners AND good losers.
Fairness: Treat everyone fairly. Remember this does not always mean treating everyone equally. Sometimes you will need to adapt your style to the individual personalities of your teammates and coaches, as some players will respond differently.
Continually reinforce the “values of the game”: Basketball as a sport has the power to change. Let the sport do the talking – players will see how the values on the court translate off the court
· Stress the importance of working together: Basketball is a team. The League, players, coaches, referees, fans and everyone that is involved in the game of basketball is a part of a team.
· Be accountable and hold others accountable: When you work as a team, you are one part of a machine. Each person needs to be accountable for what they are doing or the machine will break down. Highlight that accountability and working together is what keeps the engine working.
· Being part of a team means showing commitment and taking responsibility: When you commit, it is written in stone. Have your players keep their word, both on and off the court. Demand excellence in everything. And have them take responsibility for their actions, knowing their actions affect the team as a whole.
· It is a game so keep it fun! : Everyone should have fun when playing basketball. The league will be deemed a success only if everyone enjoys it.
· The three Es – Encouragement, Enthusiasm and Energy – are essential: Use encouragement and positive reinforcement as your primary method of motivating everyone. Try to make a conscious effort to stay positive. Enthusiasm is contagious and must come from everyone, especially the coach/teacher. And if you are energetic and excited, then your players will reflect that approaching the game with proper attitude and effort. Focus on effort and execution rather than outcomes.
Be patient! Learning the game, coaching takes time: No one is an expert and neither are you. Be patient with yourself, with your players, coaches and referees.
Respect the game, respect the rules and respect others: League must incorporate the concept of respect from the top down. Players need to realize that basketball is a team sports, they must follow the rules on and off the court, and they should show character when dealing with others.
· Be an ambassador of the game: The League must demonstrate all the values that NBA stands for. The values should be transferred to the players through the game of basketball.
· Be a student of the game: Coaches and players should strive to learn as much as possible about the game, including rules, strategies, and history. The game is always evolving, so the best players and coaches continue to study the game. Watch games, read about the game, talk to other coaches, and continue to grow your knowledge about the game. Developing your knowledge of the game will help guide your decisions as a coach.
· Share your knowledge: By building a solid foundation and sharing your knowledge with others, you will gain respect from others.
Keep it fun: Basketball is much easier to teach and play when everyone is having fun. Keep your everyone engaged using games and competitions. Make sure to balance fun with fundamentals!
Energy and enthusiasm: Enthusiasm is contagious and must come from the coach. If you are energetic and are excited about each part of practice (particularly the less “glamorous” elements of the game, such as defense, or hustling for a loose ball), then your players will reflect that enthusiasm and approach the game with proper attitude and effort. Focus on effort and execution rather than outcomes. Encourage your players for giving maximum effort, even if the play doesn’t completely go your way.
· Encouragement and positive reinforcement: Use encouragement and positive reinforcement as your primary method of motivating your players. Motivating players by focusing solely on mistakes or criticizing them will empty their “emotional tanks,” meaning that they will not respond to teaching after a certain point, or they will lose confidence and give up. Instead, try to make a conscious effort to stay positive and fill your players’ “emotional tanks” by complimenting them when they do something well or show improvement. Encourage your players to fill their teammates’ emotional tanks, too.
· Set expectations and engage parents: Make sure to clearly set ground rules and explain expectations from the beginning. If you can, try to conduct parent education meetings because it is essential to develop some sort of good relationship with players’ parent. These meetings can give you the coach the opportunity to explain and emphasize the program mission/goals, rules and regulations and parental expectations. If you cannot conduct meetings, write a letter explaining these elements and make sure each player gives the letter to their parents. Invite the parents to attend practices and be involved as much as possible in order to get their support for the program and see the good things you are doing both on and off the court.
· Fairness: Treat all your players fairly. Remember, however, that that this does not always mean treating every player equally. Sometimes you will need to adapt your coaching style to the individual personalities of your players, as some players will respond differently to different coaching methods.
· Values: Reinforce key values that will translate beyond basketball and into players’ lives: positive attitude, respect, sportsmanship, teamwork/unselfishness, commitment, accountability, work ethic, perseverance, etc. These values all fall under the broad umbrella of citizenship, and will have a positive impact both on and off the court.
· Emphasize good and healthy lifestyles: Everyone in the league should strive to be physically fit and healthy. Personal health and wellbeing is the fundamentals of positive attitude and happiness.
· Being healthy means smart decisions on and off the court: Physical health is important but both emotional and social health is significant as well. The values of the game can serve as pillars for making smarter decisions off the court.
IMPORTANT REMINDER – The basketball and leadership goals outlined in the practice sessions can be reused based upon adapted practice sessions. Work with the players to set different goals for different elements. For example, I can set a leadership goal to start one good habit and continue it daily for a set period. That same commitment goal can be utilized – just have the players start another good habit and continue to build positive habits, both on and off the court. | <urn:uuid:92e65b58-f4e9-4f51-b32c-70e5cc54ac37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nbachina.qq.com/a/20151118/036426.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.749394 | 7,816 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Life after COVID-19: How the coronavirus outbreak will change the world of sports
Countless days of lockdown have made us realise how dependent we are on simple things that we take for granted. Technology is helping us through these tough times.
Entertainment through social media, OTT platforms and plain old TV is also becoming integral in these times, not only to pass one’s time, but also to avoid overindulging in the news. But during this lockdown, live sporting events are being missed the most by sports fans.
Sports has always been the most thrilling and engaging form of entertainment for many. Unfortunately, it was probably one of the first to be hit by the pandemic, since the suspension of most leagues was essential to maintain social distancing and control the outbreak of the virus. Right now, if it weren’t for the pandemic, we would have been rooting for our favourite IPL, EPL or NBA teams.
Nevertheless, sports broadcasters are trying to keep fans engaged by re-airing the classics, showcasing a round-up of previous matches. Some sports leagues are engaging with fans on social media, OTT platforms are promoting sports docu-series, and overall the industry is innovating continually to keep fans involved.
Here are some ways I see the industry and its stakeholders getting set for the next innings of sports in 2020.
In the last few years, sporting events have become highly accessible to fans worldwide, thanks to smartphones and high-speed internet connectivity. A lot of sports content is being consumed online/digitally.
When the pandemic situation starts improving, sports will start resuming in pockets. There is a high probability that tournaments will be organized behind-closed-doors for a few months without a live audience in stadiums. But that will not prevent fans from enjoying their favourite events live.
In India, sports viewership on television alone has grown around 90% in the last four years. Interestingly, even in the absence of any new sporting event, viewership of sports channels grew 21% as they re-telecasted India’s most historic wins in cricket, along with WWE reruns.
And, these are just television numbers. Sports content on OTT and other platforms are also witnessing high traction for live updates, streaming of sports events, live blogs with experts, testing sports IQ with quizzes and trivia, among others. This simply indicates how sports content is consumed by fans.
Once sporting events resume, there is a possibility of sports viewership and consumption reaching an all-time high, making up for weeks of no live-action.
Content is King
The biggest learning for the sports industry during this lockdown has been to realise the potential of digital and social media platforms to engage with fans. Sports leagues, celebrities and companies are making their presence felt on social media to avoid the ‘out of mind and out of sight’ syndrome.
Sports content platforms are coming up with live chats, blogs, highlight packages, and identifying matches that are still ongoing to live stream on their platforms. All top global leagues, including Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, National Basketball Association, National Football League, have reported the highest ever fan engagement on their social media platforms. Broadcasters and OTT platforms are promoting sports-related documentaries and series.
As per recent Nielsen report findings, all sports leagues have increased week-over-week fan engagement by 113% since mid-March. When the matches resume, the leagues will have a strong base of deeply engaged fans, that will help them bring a better fan experience throughout their events.
The match fitness
Even after the pandemic situation improves, athletes and sportspersons might not be at their optimal fitness level to perform well in the upcoming matches. Due to the lockdown, most athletes are not likely to be able to train at high intensity and will definitely need match practice.
Some sports associations and players are trying to adapt to new formats of training. The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has started providing online classes to Indian boxers who have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and India’s top-ranked table tennis player G Sathiyan is training with a robot. But match-fitness for sports like cricket and football is defined purely by on-field training which would take a little longer than other sports categories. Right after the lockdown, they will need to resume training and get back in match shape.
What lies ahead
Sports leagues and sports broadcasters are dependent on each other from a revenue standpoint and during this pandemic, both have been equally affected. It highlights the need for both leagues and broadcasters to explore more diverse income streams and relook at the fan engagement approach.
Engagement with fans through digital mediums can be the answer. These could include live monetization models, such as fantasy sports, gamified viewership, fan commentary, statistical analysis, and so on.
Sports bring people together and that attribute of sports is missed the most in these times. The industry is facing a crisis like never before, but with the right strategy, it can emerge from this crisis stronger and more relevant than ever before.
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Princess Irene of the Netherlands Turns 74
August 5th, 2013
Princess Irene of the Netherlands turned 74 on August 5th. The Princess is a younger sister of the former Queen Beatrix and an aunt of the present monarch, King Willem Alexander.
The Princess was born at the Soestdijk Palace, a month before the outbreak of World War II, as the second daughter of the future Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. The Dutch Royal Family fled to the United Kingdom in May 1940 following the Nazis invasion of the Netherlands, and later resettled in Canada until the end of the war.
In 1963, Princess Irene converted to Roman Catholicism and a year later she married the future Carlist Pretender, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma. The marriage and her conversion caused a storm in the then conservative Netherlands, Princess Irene renounced her rights of succession to the Dutch throne. The marriage, which took place in Rome, was held on April 29th,1964 with no members of the Dutch Royal Family in attendance.
The couple had four children, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1981. Prince Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma died in August 2010. Princess Irene most recently attended the abdication ceremony of her older sister Beatrix and the investiture ceremony of her nephew, Willem-Alexander, in April of this year.Filed under Dutch Royals
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Soaps and body washes that are labeled "antibacterial" have now come under fire by the Food and Drug Administration, as the government agency has submitted a proposed rule that will require manufacturers of such products to prove they are safe for long-term use.
As part of a larger review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers will also need to show how their products are more effective at preventing illness and the spread of infection than ordinary soap and water.
If such companies are unable to meet these requirements, they will need to reformulate or relabel their products, in order to keep them on the market.
"Antibacterial soaps and body washes are used widely and frequently by consumers in everyday home, work, school, and public settings, where the risk of infection is relatively low," says Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
"Due to consumers' extensive exposure to the ingredients in antibacterial soaps, we believe there should be a clearly demonstrated benefit from using antibacterial soap to balance any potential risk," she adds.
Because of the widespread use of antibacterial soaps by the general public, the FDA cites health care groups and consumer groups that have convinced the agency to re-examine data on whether or not the ingredients in such products are "generally recognized as safe and effective."
Weighing the pros and cons
The FDA is requiring manufacturers of antibacterial soaps to prove their products are safe and effective.
In recent years, two of the main ingredients in antibacterial soaps, triclosan and triclocarban, have been analyzed closely in scientific studies.
One study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, suggested that triclosan fuels the development of resistant bacteria in streams and rivers.
Still, other research has lauded the positive effects of antibacterial soaps. One study, for example, suggested these products may reduce MRSA infection rates in hospitals.
Scrubbing up for the FDA
Representatives from the FDA say the proposed rule only covers antibacterial soaps and washes that are used with water, which means hand sanitizers, hand wipes or other agents that are used in health care settings are not being analyzed.
The agency says some data has suggested long-term exposure to ingredients like triclosan and triclocarban could pose risks, such as hormonal effects or bacterial resistance.
Additionally, the FDA notes there is currently no evidence that antibacterial soaps are any more effective than plain soap and water at preventing illness.
To continue marketing their products, manufacturers will need to show the FDA additional data on the safety and effectiveness of their soaps, including information from clinical studies.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently assessed triclosan and has concluded that the chemical is eligible for reregistration, "provided the measures and associated label changes identified in the RED [Reregistration Eligibility Decision] are implemented and required data are submitted," which is why the FDA is bringing antibacterial soaps under such scrutiny.
Dr. Sandra Kweder, from the Office of New Drugs at CDER, urges consumers to make educated choices about the products they use, adding:
"Washing with plain soap and running water is one of the most important steps consumers can take to avoid getting sick and to prevent spreading germs to others."
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Abortion and Fertility
The idea that abortion is likely to impact a woman’s fertility in the future is a common misconception. There is no medical procedure which is completely 'risk-free', but complications after safe medical and surgical abortion are extremely rare.
There is absolutely no evidence that a safe abortion procedure has future effects on fertility.
In a safe medical environment the risk of a womb infection is prevented (antibiotics are usually given before the abortion to reduce the risk) or treated at an early stage with antibiotics, avoiding any affect on fertility.
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Boxed Miniature Display Partizan 'Pike' by Wilkinson Sword. Sn 9745:2 Boxed Miniature Partizan 'Pike' by Wilkinson Sword. The 'Partizan' evolved from the pikes, which became widely used in the English Civil War as defence against attacks by massed cavalry. The Partizan is well presented in a dark blue box measuring 11 1/4" x 3 1/2" x 2" which is embossed on the lid in gold with 'Wilkinson Sword' and the crossed swords. Inside the box there is a blue velvet base with locating loops for the Partizan. Also inside the box is a 'Wilkinson Sword' card with a description and history of the Partizan on one side. The Partizan measures 9" overall. It is a true miniature in every detail. This would make an excellent presentation gift. The price includes UK delivery.
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Bath Salts Synthetic Drug Abuse
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There has been a lot of talk lately about the new drug, bath salts, and while the concoction is illegal in many states, some areas of the country are still unaware of the dangers of this drug. The use of this drug is spreading like wildfire, however, and states that haven’t seen its abuse soon will.
A Synthetic Drug
Bath salts is the newest designer drug to hit our country and it is quickly becoming popular among recreational stimulant drug users. The drug consists of synthetic chemicals like mephedrone and MDPV, although each batch is different. That’s part of the danger with this drug – you never know what you’re going to get. The unpredictability, along with the fact that it is labeled “not for human consumption”, makes it very hard to track and regulate. “Drug makers will keep creating new combinations at home and in illicit labs,” Zane Horowitz, MD, medical director of the Oregon Poison Center says. “It’s almost impossible to keep up. And the motivation for buying them is always the same: Drugs like these are new and below the radar, unlike named illegal drugs.” New drugs tend to be harder to regulate when compared with well-known drugs such as cocaine, brand-name prescription drugs like Adderall, or the psycho-stimulant drug dexedrine.(1)
Banning Bath Salts
At least 31 states have banned the substance, also known as Ivory Wave, and authorities are hoping the federal government will make it illegal. The DEA has already begun looking at the substances that make up bath salts and will most likely list them as Schedule I within the next year.
Dangers of Bath Salts
Bath salts are a serious drug. It causes agitation, extreme paranoia, hallucinations, and suicidal thoughts. High blood pressure and increased temperature are also common. One report tells of a man with a temperature of 107.5 degrees Fahrenheit after taking bath salts. “Some of these folks aren’t right for a long time,” said Karen E. Simone, director of the Northern New England Poison Center. “If you gave me a list of drugs that I wouldn’t want to touch, this would be at the top.” (1)
But the problem is that not everyone experiences such drastic effects. “One person could take it and have a great time and the next person takes it and has a horror story,” police Chief John DeLeo, of Ellsworth, Maine, said. (2) Mark Ryan, the director of the Louisiana Poison Center, said, “if you take the worst attributes of meth, coke, PCP, LSD and ecstasy and put them together, that’s what we’re seeing sometimes.” (3)
Paranoia and Hallucinations
Some people become so paranoid after using the drug that it takes a whole team of physicians to handle them. “We had two instances in particular where they were acting out in a very violent manner and they were Tasered and it had no effect,” Chief Joseph H. Murton, of Pottsville, PA said. “One was only a small female, but it took four officers to hold her down, along with two orderlies. That’s how out of control she was.” (3)
Other emergency room doctors have resorted to general anesthesia to calm patients down because sedatives alone do not work. Some users continue to suffer from paranoia for weeks after use of this drug.
Bath Salts: An Epidemic on the Rise
With the unpredictable nature of this drug, it is amazing people still continue to use, but the numbers keep rising. In 2010, only 303 calls were made to poison control centers about this drug. The number has already risen to 3,470 calls for the first half of 2011. Police departments are becoming overwhelmed. “Bath salts are quickly becoming an epidemic for law enforcement and something we are all starting to deal with,” Police Lt. Michael L. Moody, of Brunswick, Maine, said. (2) The dangers of this drug are not something to take lightly.
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KPIs or “Key Performance Indicators” are considered a vital management tool to measure staff performance. But especially in aviation, we must be very much aware of the weakness of the KPI idea.
An old question on KPIs is “How do you calculate ‘service’?” If the company does good product, service is of low need. Their KPIs are low valued. So service is frequently outsourced by those wise guys (and gals). On the other hand, if you produce crap, “service” covers for it (or should) and is in great demand. Then it is easy to generate good KPIs. Large call volumen, strong problem solving, low loss of customers.
But in both cases, good service usually needs “reserves”, so if you keep your head count low, once something happens (and that’s rarely under controlled circumstances, prepared for or in the responsibility of the service team), you need “all hands on deck”. If you outsourced your service to save money, that’s when the bill backfires on you…
Another good example are flight attendants. They are not there to serve your every whim, they are not the “Saftschubsen” (juice pushies) they are often disrespectfully named. Once you had your very first inflight emergency, you hopefully start to understand their real value.
Why is it that I know senior airline managers who still try to argue that you need one or two flight attendants less on the flight for service reasons and they have to be reminded of the requirements by aircraft makers and governmental aviation bodies that that many flight attendants are certainly needed to evacuate aircraft.
So what’s those KPIs all about?
In my experience and not just mine as I see from discussions and comments, KPIs are being (ab)used by accountants (up to CFO or CEO) to “measure” stuff they do not in reality understand. KPIs are also used to discourage staff from working beyond the line of duty, to find “reason” by disqualifying them from benefits and bonuses.
There’s a good reading on KPIs in Marketing. Addressing the immeasurable impact of your competitors action. Or that you hardly ever launch a single marketing campaign, but you’re likely firing on all cylinders, ain’t you?
Very, very few companies understand that KPIs must be used without “threats”, not as a “measure”, but as a means to improve products, services. What’s the number of complaints? How have they de- or increased and not just that, but most important why. Don’t “blame”. The “blame game” is for shortsighted idiots to play. KPIs can be set together in a team for motivation. If they’re dictated (openly or implied) by your boss or worse, used against you, they won’t work.
There was some buzz on LinkedIn this week on Disruption Management. Bringing to mind how an airport I worked with disqualified their own historic KPIs as trash by implementing a check on the reasons for disruptions. Where before the airline was responsible for the brunt of all disruptions and delays, suddenly ATC, weather, ground handling or security became clear problems. But in the past it was so much easier to click “airline” and not research what was the real cause. So the real cause never got addressed. To low on the KPI scale. Whooops.
There was also a very good article about KPIs and triggers on LinkedIn. It clearly votes for “internal triggers and motivation”.
Don’t get me wrong. On any projects I worked on in the past years, I used KPIs and Milestones. My own that is. But if I would have made them my mantra, I’d have achieved nothing ever. As a fire-fighter, you don’t care about the water spent. You blow out the fire. And at least for me, my KPIs and Milestones are taken like all good plans. They hardly ever survive meeting reality. So I don’t take them for granted, I adjust them to reality and use them to measure the planned vs. the achieved performance to identify why I turned out better or worse. Not for blame. But to learn to better forecast… To learn for the next project to apply KPIs that are more realistic.
While Einstein said: “Not everything that can be counted counts. And not everything that counts can be counted.”
Drucker said: “If it cannot be measured. It cannot be improved.”
Both are right, but if you make numbers the only thing that counts for you, you have no vision, will never make a dream come true. KPIs are a tool from a large tool box. It needs an master artist to sculpture something beautiful out of someone’s imagination. It’s so similar to what we do at CheckIn.com. We crunch numbers, but we cannot predict the future. Don’t believe in the numbers only. But use them to solidify (or disqualify) your intuition! But I would have bet against some new routes in the past ten years that turned out surprisingly stable business! It takes guts to sometimes run a controlled risk. If you don’t play, you cannot win. Then use your own previously assumed KPIs (also i.e. load factors, yields) to learn.
What’s your experience with KPIs?
How do you use them?
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Final Data Recovery And Burial Removal At Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa Counry Sheriff's Substation, Washington And 48th Streets, Phoenix, Arizona
In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing development plans were followed, requiring compliance with ARS 41-865. Subsequently, an initial data recovery and burial removal program was implemented to excavate all prehistoric cultural features and human burials inside the area of the building foundation and all such features and burials located elsewhere in the lot that were within 2 ft of the existing ground surface. Finally, the demolition of existing structures in the lot and the construction of a facility for preventing underground toxic gas accumulation were monitored to assure that no prehistoric features were disturbed by those activities. The development was never completed, and instead the parcel was sold to Lauth Property Group, LLC, who requested that the remaining archaeologically sensitive areas on the parcel be subjected to data recovery and burial removal. This document presents the results of both the initial data recovery and burial removal and the later work completed for the new owner of the parcel.
Cite this Record
Final Data Recovery And Burial Removal At Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa Counry Sheriff's Substation, Washington And 48th Streets, Phoenix, Arizona. Banks L. Leonard, Donelle Huffer, Rebecca J. Hill, Andrew D. Lack, David R. Abbott, Blayne R. Brown. Soil Systems Technical Report ,08-12. Phoenix, AZ: Soil Systems, Inc. 2008 ( tDAR id: 373083) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8M906Q5
This Resource is Part of the Following Collections
- Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: Soil Systems, Inc. Lauth Property Group Data Recovery •
- Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: Soil Systems, Inc. Kitchell Development Testing and Data Recovery (The Former Maricopa County Sheriff's Substation)
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Ancient Communal / Public Structure • Ancient Earthwork • Ball Court • Canal or Canal Feature • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Plaza
min long: -111.991; min lat: 33.439 ; max long: -111.966; max lat: 33.466 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Principal Investigator(s): Cory D. Breternitz
Project Director(s): Banks L. Leonard
Pueblo Grande Museum No.(s): 99-03
Soil Systems Project No.(s): 06-03
Soil Systems Technical Report No.(s): 08-12
Soil Systems Project No. (s): 99-01
General Note: This report serves as the final data recovery report for all of SSI's archaeological work in Unit 15 of Pueblo Grande. It describes Kitchell Development Testing and Data Recovery at Washington and 48th Streets, and the later Lauth Property Group Data Recovery in an adjacent parcel.
General Note: A separate report and related data were produced for the Kitchell Development Testing (Soil Systems Project No. 98-07) in Unit 12, Gateway and 44th Streets. Please see http://core.tdar.org/project/373050.
General Note: Please note that SSI recorded the Pueblo Grande number as AZ U:9:7(ASM), which is the designation for a portion of Pueblo Grande. The correct number for the site as a whole is AZ U:9:1(ASM).
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Do you believe in your ‘future’ based on CRYSTAL BAll gazing?
Can a human being predict his or her future?
When we are aware that none can predict our future including ourselves, why this obsession for future predictions?
Do you go through your daily horoscope in newspapers or magazines?
Did anyone predict that 2020 will be the year of Corona?
As a child, can you be sure of what you will be by the time you reach the age of 30 years or how you are going to be in your middle age or when you become a senior citizen?
Why this craze for checking newspapers and magazines for horoscopes?
Do animals act based on their predictions? Then why we try to predict?
What are the methods by which predictions are made?
Water divining, astrology, numerology, fortune-telling, interpretation of dreams, etc
Personally I too loved the idea of future predictions.
Do these predictions have any scientific backing? I don’t know.
At Least one can say the weather prediction is based on scientific models.
For those who blindly depend on future predictions, here is the answer
“Look to the future, because that is where you spend rest of your time” George Burns
“You don’t have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book”. Aneurin Bevan
Please share your thoughts on the prediction of our Future.
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming
90 minutes, 1996, Zimbabwe Producer: Media for Development Trust in conjuction with Development for Self-Reliance, Director: Tsitsi Dangarembga
ABOUT THE FILM
Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent production from Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust (MFD). This prolific production company represents one significant trend among African filmmakers: producing feature films to intervene explicitly in urgent social issues. For example, MFD's first feature, Neria, which called on women to exercise their newly won legal rights against patriarchal custom, broke box office records so that eventually one in three Zimbabweans saw it.
Everyone's Child was produced in direct response to the prediction that by the year 2000 there will be over 10,000,000 AIDS orphans on the African continent. At the same time, the film focuses attention on millions of other children left homeless by civil wars or abandoned because their parents could not support them. MFD first conceived Everyone's Child as a training tape for community-based orphan care programs. But the rapid spread of AIDS made the problem so acute they felt only a feature film could place the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.
For their production team, MFD drew on some of the most creative young talent in Zimbabwe. The script was based on a story by novelist Shimmer Chinodya, author of Harvest of Thorns, and was directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of the novel Nervous Condition. The exceptional soundtrack features 12 original songs by Zimbabwe's most popular musicians, including Thomas Mapfumo, Leonard Zhakata and Andy "Tomato Sauce" Brown. Leading Zimbabwean actors star in the film, but many of the younger roles were played by actual streetchildren trained in a special workshop.
Everyone's Child tells the story of four siblings, Itai, Tamari, Norah and Nhamo, whose parents have both died of AIDS. After a traditional funeral, the villagers, ignoring custom, shun the orphans because of the stigma of AIDS. Their guardian, Uncle Ozias, a struggling small businessman, sells the family's plow and oxen to pay off their father's debts. Without the means to support themselves, the family inevitably disintegrates.
Itai, the eldest brother, chasing empty promises of high-paying jobs, leaves for Harare where, alone and penniless, he inevitably takes up with a gang of homeless boys. Their clothes, music and attitudes identify them as belonging to an international fraternity of forgotten youth who look to each other for family and to crime for a living.
Itai's sister, Tamari, played with moving vulnerability by Nomsa Mlambo, is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Unable to afford food, deprived of affection, she is an easy victim for the predatory shopkeeper, Mdara Shaghi. The other villagers ostracize her as a prostitute and we can't help worrying that her promiscuous "benefactor" may be exposing her to HIV infection. One night, Shaghi brutally forces Tamari to leave the two younger children alone and accompany him to a club. In her absence their house catches fire and the younger brother, Nhamo, burns to death. Only the charred remnants of his toy helicopter remain, symbolizing the ruined dreams and promise of so many of Africa's young people.
Nhamo's death finally convinces Uncle Ozias and the other villagers of their responsibility to help the three remaining children rebuild their lives. Everyone's Child offers its audience no easy answers: an official of an NGO tells the villagers that the problem of orphans is so wide-spread they cannot look to outside agencies or government for relief but must create their own self-reliant solutions.
The audience watches this painful tragedy unfold knowing there is no one but adult society (in other words themselves) who can save children like these. As the now familiar African proverb says: "It takes a village to raise a child." If a Zimbabwean film can forthrightly call upon that country's citizens to shoulder the burden of insuring adequate parenting for every child, one is left to wonder why American society with all its wealth regards this goal as hopelessly Utopian.
Everyone's Child also illustrates a controversy growing among African filmmakers. Some argue that films like Everyone's Child show the power of European funding agencies to impose their own social agendas on African directors. This, they believe, has inhibited the development of a commercially viable and hence self-reliant African film industry producing the comedies, romances and action adventures Africans would pay to see. Sub-Saharan Africa no doubt needs a commercial film industry analogous to that in Egypt, India or Hong Kong. Perhaps, it will come now that a technologically advanced South Africa can again address African markets. At the same time, there is no reason to believe hard-pressed aid organizations would feel justified in subsidizing an African entertainment industry. Nor should we expect this industry, once it exists, to produce more socially useful films than its commercial counterparts elsewhere.
The fact that films like Neria and Everyone's Child can be both popular and contain serious social messages argues that there remains the potential for building in Africa a film-going public which looks to cinema for more than mindless diversion. Is it possible that African filmmakers could take the lead in pioneering a film culture which regards film as a place for collective reflection and community building?
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Find out more about AIDS in Southern Africa at Treatment Action Campaign online - www.tac.org.za
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Since its inception in 1990, the public Kedumba Collection has acquired almost two hundred drawings. These have been sourced from the annual Kedumba Drawing Award, approved gifts from artists and other benefactors, and acquisitions by the Artist Trustees and Director on behalf of the Collection. As a result of this unique approach, the collection is considered by distinguished art authorities to be of outstanding significance and importance.
The diversity of work highlights just how varied the personal visions of different artists can be within a single discipline. Artists represented include Rick Amor, Elisabeth Cummings, Rachel Ellis, Donald Friend, Kevin Lincoln, John Olsen, Lloyd Rees, Jan Senbergs and Aida Tomescu among many others.
It also demonstrates the varying subjective tastes of the judges of the Kedumba Drawing Award over the years, a list which includes notable artists such as Kevin Connor (1991), James Gleeson (1993), John Wolseley (1997), Garry Shead (2001), Nicholas Harding (2005), Cherry Hood (2007) and Jenny Sages (2008).
It is important to acknowledge the vital role that the Kedumba Award and Collection have played in fostering the appreciation of drawing in this country over the past two decades.
Drawing is the foundation of all visual art and this principle lies at the heart of the Kedumba Collection. While there are periods when the art of drawing is overlooked in teaching institutions and the contemporary art world, it continually re-emerges as an essential practice. This is largely because it is the primary means of visual expression, offering to the artist a direct and immediate way of responding to experiences and expressing ideas.
The appeal of drawing generally is that there are no secrets to how most drawings are made and it is less mediated than most digitally based or graphic arts. Usually burnt pieces of willow, a simple pencil or watercolour wash are enough. The rest depends on how well the artist integrates the hand, the eye and the mind.
The Kedumba Collection embodies and reflects all the elements of outstanding drawing created in Australia over more than thirty years. Recently, for the first time in the Collection’s twenty-two year history, almost the entire collection was exhibited at the Orange Regional Gallery for a period of seven weeks giving audiences in the Central West an unprecedented overview of the art of contemporary drawing in Australia. Over the next two years some of the Collection will be exhibiting at Orange Regional Gallery and at the galleries annex at the Orange Hospital.
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Study: Do Vouchers Spur Public Schools to Up Their Game?
An intriguing new study out of Florida suggests that public schools tend to improve their game when competition from nearby private schools heats up.
David N. Figlio and Cassandra M.D. Hart at Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research draw that conclusion from a study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program. Begun in 2001, the state-run program initially provided low-income families with vouchers of $3,500 to cover the cost of tuition and fees at private schools. To qualify, a student had to have spent the entire previous year in a public school, or be on the cusp of entering kindergarten or 1st grade.
Before you read any further, though, there's one thing you have to know about most research that attempts to gauge the impact of school choice programs on public schools: It's very tricky stuff. That's partly because, when a voucher program launches, the demographics tend to shift at both the private and public schools. The most motivated or the most able students, for instance, might abandon the public schools to head for private ones. That could skew results from any study looking to see how public school students' achievement changed after the introduction of the voucher program.
The way Figlio and Hart get around this problem is to focus on measuring achievement changes in the public schools in the year before students actually move to private schools. In that year, even though students are just applying to the private schools, the threat is already looming large for public school educators. In Florida's case, the pressure may have been especially intense because the vouchers were particularly generous. On average, they covered nearly 90 percent of the cost of attending nearby religious schools, which made them a realistic option for many families, according to the study.
In all, though, the researchers collected achievement data across a lot of years—from 1999-2000 to 2006-07—for nearly 3 million students throughout the Sunshine State. They also gauged competitive pressure four different ways. They looked, for instance, at whether there was a competing private school within five miles as the crow flies from a public school, how many private schools lay within a five-mile radius, how many different "types" of private schools were nearby, and how many schools there were of each of those types.
The bottom line: The nearer or more intense the competition, the more the test scores rose in that transition year. And scores continued to rise over time.
Of course, it's entirely possible that public school students' performance was already on an upward trajectory. To some extent, the researchers concluded, that was true. But the magnitude of that growth was much smaller before the tuition program materialized. Also, the report says, during the 2000-01 school year, before the program officially came to be, the researchers could find no relationship between any changes in test scores and the intensity of competition from nearby private schools. (For the record, Florida introduced its statewide student-testing program in 1998-99—the year before researchers began collecting achievement data.)
One caveat here is that this study focuses on Florida; there are no guarantees that the results would generalize to other states. Ninety percent of Florida students live in metropolitan areas, which means that students tend to have a lot of private schools from which to choose—possibly more than students elsewhere do.
"Nevertheless," the researchers write, "this study indicates that private school competition, brought about by the infusion of means-tested scholarships aimed at low-income families, could have sizable effects on the performance of traditional schools."
The gains don't look huge to me, but that's a matter for real researchers to debate. You should also know that this is technically a working paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which means it's still a work in progress. You can find the full study here. It could make for interesting weekend reading. | <urn:uuid:bc54545a-bd78-4719-9897-8e854facd628> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2010/06/one_of_the_justifications_that.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974814 | 798 | 2.421875 | 2 |
You probably have noticed women with thicker and darker eyelashes; don’t they look good with that? Those of you who do not know how they get their eyelashes to look that way, the answer is simple, it is because of Mascara.
Those of you who are still not privy to what mascara is, it is a mixture of polymer, and various black pigments made thicker in texture with the use of oils and different waxes. Applying mascara makes your eyes look naturally beautiful.
There are two ways to make mascara. The first process is the anhydrous method; this method does not involve the use of water. The other technique is the emulsion method; this method is best when mascara requires a base with lotion.
History Of Mascara
In the early days, women used to color their lashes by applying the dye. The juice of elderberry and ashes were also combined to make the color have a natural touch. This method was renowned until the 1830s.
But after that, the change was on the horizon. It all began when a perfume maker from France migrated to the city of London with hopes to make and sell cosmetic products, and he started his work with perfumes.
After some time, the son of this French man had the ingenious idea of using the combination of petroleum jelly and coal dust; this was the origin of Mascara. Mascara gained popularity all over the world, especially Europe and came to be known as Rimmel over there because Eugene Rimmel was the name of the French perfume makers son who invented the mascara.
The word Mascara is Spanish in origin, and it means "mask." People caught up with the phrase mascara relatively recently. In the earlier days, mascara popular as cakes and creams. Cake mascara was introduced in 1917 by Mabel Labs. It was the inaugural product that also came along with pigments, soap and a small brush as well.
Women in 1933 used eyebrow dye and lashed lure. But it proved to be dangerous later on as Lash lure was causing them to go completely blind. The suggested reason for blindness given by most people was that there was a toxic dying agent that went into the eyes of women causing them permanent blindness.
So, after a large number of unfortunate incidents, eyelashes got banned in many states and then finally a cosmetic act law was passed, and superficial drugs got popular.
Mascara In Ancient Egypt
In the 2500 B.C the use of mascara was prevalent in ancient Egypt and not only did the women use mascara, but men also used it. Different ointments were applied to make the eyelashes have a darker appearance and also as a shield to protect the eyes from dangerous sun rays.
The belief that malachite was an aphrodisiac made women apply it on their eyelashes to get the effect of mascara. Egyptians also believed that mascara was helpful in keeping away evils which is explains why almost everyone wore mascara back then.
Keeping long, thick and dark eyelashes was a priority for every Egyptian, and they went through a lot of trouble to make sure that their eyes looked perfect. Because at that time mascara was not introduced, a lot of kohl was applied to the eyes to get the desired effect.
The Decline Of Mascara In Europe
Even though mascara is commonly used in Europe these days, there also used to be a time when it started to lose its popularity. The reason for the gradual loss was that there were numerous incidents where women got permanently blind, and there were even reports that a few women passed away due to its use.
The governments of most of the European countries took notice of this and banned the production of mascara. After some time, governments enacted laws for the production and distribution of mascara. Even after it was available in the markets of Europe, sales were down as people did not have faith in the safety of using mascara.
The companies made desperate attempts to win their trusts back by promoting their mascaras through many advertising gains. Strict guidelines were to be followed by the companies to make sure that their mascaras were practical as well as safe. Chemicals with little to no amount of toxicity were present in the production of mascaras instead of harmful ones.
Gradually as time went by, people started using mascaras again, and when they found out that they weren't harmful like used to be. They started recommending it to more people and just like that the European mascara producers won their trust back and are now available in every household for women to use.
Victorian Era Revival
You would be surprised to find out that the inventor of mascaras Eugene Rimmel was Queen Victoria’s perfumer. The production of mascaras was on a small-scale as not many people knew about mascara at that time. The ingredients were mainly composed of petroleum jelly, ashes, and coal dust.
Even though it was the Egyptians who were responsible for the fame that mascaras accumulated, the people of the Victorian era took it to the next level. They made the mascaras have a more vibrant look, better texture and made them safer as compared to the older incarnations of the mascara.
The women of the Victorian era were very particular about choosing what to wear and what to put on, spending hours to find the perfect combination of clothes and makeup. They were famous for spending hours even a day at times to look their best and tried almost every ointment and eyeliners they could.
Victorian ladies were partially responsible for bringing the revival of mascaras in their eras as they had learned a lot from their time spent in making them as beautiful and as elaborate as they possibly could, as a result of which they made makeup creations of their own.
These creations were not for sale, but for personal use, hence they were not marketed for the regular citizens. You could never go wrong with Queen Victoria endorsing mascara indirectly whenever she went somewhere.
Whenever people laid their eyes on her, they wanted more and more to achieve her look. So you can say that Queen Victoria is partially responsible for mascaras fame.
Mascaras have a vibrant and storied history, and it has had its fair share of ups and downs. However, there have been far more ups than downs otherwise they wouldn't have been the worldwide make up phenomenon they are today.
It has been an exciting evolution for mascaras, dating back to thousands of years ago where only a couple of things were present in the production process.
There were health hazards and a variety of dangers along the way, but manufacturers rectified them as time went by. Now you can easily find mascaras on the corner shops of every street, that is how much popular they are. In the old days, they were homemade, or only a couple of companies produced them.
Mass production of mascara is leading to severe competition between companies and the race to stay one step ahead of the other seems to be never-ending. The way we can tell how mascaras have changed for the better in these modern times is just by comparing how safer they are from the old times.
You can look everywhere you want, and you will not be able to find any cases of permanent or temporary blindness caused by mascaras, whereas in the old days there were almost daily cases of damages caused by mascaras. Another thing that you can prominently notice is the better packaging of mascaras; they are infinitely better than they were before.
A lot of methods were used to package mascara to make sure that they can sustain for a more extended period. Modern mascaras have convenient and sustainable packaging; it is straightforward to pour out the exact amount of mascara you want without the risk of it falling or coming out in additional quantities. It is possible with the help of a tube or a small glass bottle.
People made use of their fingers to apply mascara o their eyes in the old times; this was potentially dangerous as there were risks of getting your eyes scratched by your nails with harmful chemicals and a lot of unwanted chemicals on fingers which were not easy to wash.
It caused people to unknowingly digest their food with chemicals which were potentially poisonous and life-threatening.
These things aren't a matter of concern in the modern era as the mascaras come with brush wands that make it significantly simple to apply without any damage. More than one type of brushes are available to the people depending on their convenience. Some of the models are as follows
These are just a few of the examples of the brushes that come along with mascaras as there are many more.
Only a single type of mascara was used back in the day as compared to the different varieties we have available now, for example, the eyebrow mascara, mascara with zero lumps, curling mascara, mascara for lengthening, mascara for lash definition and last but not the least, waterproof mascara.
How Does Mascara Work?
You should not fret about applying mascara as the process is relatively simple. The way mascara works are pretty straightforward as it should be. You have to squeeze the tube a little bit with your fingers for the mascara to come out. While the mascara has come out, place your wand or brush, precisely above or below the tube.
The opening of the container as soon as the desired amount of mascara has come out on your brush, close the bottle and you are then ready for its application. Once the mascara is on your brush, start stroking it on your eyelashes so that you can apply the whole quantity on every small fiber of hair.
Using it will create a thick coating of wax, which is due to the high amount of concentrated wax present in it. Don't think that the layer of wax is a bad thing though; it is beneficial as it helps in protecting from bleeding and smudging. In addition to that, your eyes stand out as well.
As discussed earlier there is a wide variety of mascaras available, and all of them have different uses. Some are for lengthening the eyelashes; some are for thickening the eyelashes while some are for giving the eyelashes a defined look. For every different purpose, there are different brushes as well, so there is nothing but a lot of conveniences available for mascara users.
Some important things to understand how mascara works are that you should always make sure to decide whether you are going to apply any other makeup like eyeshade. If you do choose to wear eyeshade, then we strongly suggest you use that before putting on your mascara.
It is advisable to put on full face makeup before the application of mascara. Another thing to keep in mind to make sure that you can apply the mascara in a trouble-free manner is always to curl your eyelashes with the help of a curler so that it is easier to use the mascara. Otherwise, there are chances of it spreading making your eyes look like a complete mess.
Basic Ingredients Of Mascara
Mascara has gone through many ingredient changes since its beginnings and is still experimented with other ingredients every once in a while. But three mainstay ingredients have always been around and will not be changing any time soon. They are as follows.
Oils have been ever-present in mascaras. Many different types of oily substances are present in mascaras. The variety of oils varies with different brands as each brand has their preference. To figure out which mascara brand is of superior quality, you can always check which type of oils are present in the ingredients.
If there is the presence of essential oils, then it is a positive sign as oils not only make the mascaras readily applicable, but they also promote healthy hair growth and are safe for the eyes. Following are some examples of excellent essential oils.
In the earlier days carbon black and coal tar were used in the making of mascaras. Things are a little different now as dyes with a dark and rich color is used as one of the key ingredients.
A critical quality that every customer looks for when buying mascaras is how long do they last. The longer the mascara lasts, the better it proves its worth for money. It is why companies make sure that they add preservatives to the mascara so that they are usable for an extended period.
When adding chemicals was a relatively new concept, the quality of the mascaras was greatly sacrificed but with discoveries and better quality preservatives the mascaras last for ages while still maintaining their quality. To make sure that the mascara you are planning to buy is not harmful, be on the lookout for the following preservatives.
Everybody wants to look their level best all the time, and they go to great lengths to achieve their goal. But no effort is worth going to if there is danger paved in its way. Mascara with toxic preservatives should be avoided at all costs as they will do you no favors when they cause your body harm.
How Does Mascara Become Waterproof?
Waterproof mascaras have been the rage as of late. With regular mascaras, sweat, rain, water, etc. made the mascara-wearing off a virtual guarantee. No one wants to get the hideous look when mascara is dripping from all over their face.
It is why everyone was so grateful when waterproof mascaras came on the market. The quality of being waterproof is what people look for when looking for mascaras. Otherwise, it is a big no-no. With all that, everybody must be wondering how mascara becomes waterproof.
The reason how mascara becomes waterproof is straightforward. Most waterproof mascaras incorporate dimethicone in their ingredients; it is a chemical that makes the mascara forms an even layer.
Some mascaras are based on silicones as well they also develop a stable layer which doesn't easily get removed with water or sweat. Some mascara companies also use wax; a lot of wax is helpful in making sure that the mascara is waterproof.
DIY Waterproof Mascara
There are a lot of people who love to do tests and experiments at home. Some have tried these experimentations with mascara as well. Some have succeeded, and some have failed. But to make the perfect mascara at home, all you will need is a teaspoon of bee wax, a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil, around four teaspoons of Aloe vera gel.
If you are looking for a mascara that is brown, you couldn't go wrong with some cocoa powder, and if you're looking for black, then a couple of black activated charcoal capsules will do the trick. To make sure that your mascara is waterproof and can even endure fountains of water, be sure to add some extra beeswax. It will help in giving your mascara some much-needed hold.
Pros And Cons Of Waterproof Mascara
Let's take a look on some notable pros and cons of this product:
There is no difference between the application of regular mascara and waterproof mascara; both of them are the same when it comes to applying.
Removing Waterproof Mascara
Removing waterproof mascara is difficult when compared to regular mascara as it washes off easily. Waterproof mascara requires multiple washes. You can apply cotton ball with oil on the area where the mascara is present after that it is advisable to make use of a mascara remover with water and dry your face off very gently afterward.
Commercial Vs. DIY
There are a few differences between commercial and DIY waterproof mascaras and. The main difference is that DIY mascaras are considerably cheaper and safer as compared to commercial mascaras, as commercial mascaras make use of some dangerous chemicals. However, business mascaras come with infinitely better packaging.
Mascaras are an essential item for every makeup enthusiast and has become a must-have. Its popular demand has proved that water proved that waterproof mascaras are better than the regular mascaras. Safety should be a priority before buying mascaras and products with harmful chemicals should always be avoided.
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Author, The 21 Day Financial Fast (2014)
Her award-winning Washington Post column, "The Color of Money" syndicated to 100 newspapers across the country
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Michelle Singletary Talks Financial Freedom
Award-winning financial columnist Michelle Singletary says people should remain the same financially no matter what the economy. With the recession, people are under more financial strain and this is a new financial day! People can no longer live pay check to pay check. She urges individuals to not go back to their old financial habits. We need to take care of debt, regroup, relearn how to handle things, and move forward financially. She also says we need to change our viewpoints about money. Consider where budget cuts/changes can be made. Get more out of your comfort zone. This doesn’t mean to live a “miserly life” - God wants us to prosper. Find the balance, the safe way financially to live in God’s prosperity. Also ask yourself, “What is your financial legacy? What will people remember you for financially?
As Christians we should not fear because where there is fear there is no faith. Michelle says we don’t have to fear with the basic financial principles God has given us. The Bible is a great source of financial advice and wisdom. Christ’s teachings are full of financial wisdom. The book of Proverbs cites the blessing of the Lord comes with no sorrow. Borrowing is not a part of God’s plan because it comes with sorrow. We can’t be fearful of investing.
Also in Genesis, the story of Joseph shows that what you do financially is not just for us, but to help others. Michelle encourages people to not just do enough for yourself and your family - do more!!! It’s not about us; God wants us to give to others. For Michelle, Matthew 6:21 sums it up: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
THE FINANCIAL FAST
Michelle still conducts the 21-Day Financial Fast. She just completed a nationwide fast that started on January 13, 2014. People were asked to sign up at wapo.st/financialfast. This link had day-to-day tips, accountability, and encouragement. Nearly 1,000 people signed up to fast together and dozens of them posted their progress on Facebook and Twitter. As a result, many of the participants said they saved money for the first time and several people tweeted or posted that they began to tithe for the first time. Also, during a separate twitter chat with Essence Magazine, hundreds of people join in to discuss the fast asking questions about how to do it successfully.
To review, this financial fast is for 21 days. You will not shop or use your credit or debit cards. (This is to separate you from credit cards. Debit cards too, which are the “kissing cousins” to credit cards. Debit cards are not the same as cash. Studies show that people spend more using both of these than they would with cash.) You can only buy necessities (food, medicine, bare essentials). You will refrain from any type of shopping (this includes window shopping, on-line shopping, or on-line browsing of any kind because these lead to the temptation to spend money on non-essential items). No restaurant meals of any kind. No buying meals at work or getting coffee. No spending on entertainment, such as movies. Also, no buying gifts or gift cards during the fast. You can have fun on the fast; you just can’t buy or spend on anything that isn’t a necessity.
As a part of a volunteer program at her church, money expert Michelle Singletary introduced the concept of a financial fast to the members of the congregation. Michelle was inspired with the idea of this fast by looking at the prophet Daniel’s fast in Daniel 3:10. For three weeks, Daniel “ate no choice food; no meat nor wine.” Michelle thought that if Daniel could apply this fast to food, these principles could apply to finances as well. Daniel fasted as a way to get closer to God. The principle of the financial fast is also for the purpose of denying the flesh so you could get closer to God. The principle of the financial fast is also for the purpose of denying the flesh so you could get closer to God. Fasting is a way to separate yourself from worldly pleasures. During this time of separation and away from worldly temptation, you can begin to break the bonds that keep you broke.
You have to understand that you can’t make financial changes until you know the reasons why you use money the way you do. It is good to track your money and budget. You have to see where the money from each paycheck is
going. (Michelle has updated the financial resources provided, such as financial website links and budgeting worksheets.) We all need the resources/tools and it is important to do the lessons and exercises in the book for each day of the fast.
THE PURPOSE OF THE FINANCIAL FAST
The purpose of the financial fast is to get us closer to God and get a balanced, Godly view of money, giving, spending, and money management. It’s not just about adjusting our consumer habits, but also adjusting our mindsets, like the feelings of entitlement. God wants us to prosper, with a purpose. God’s prosperity is where financial blessings help community and our country, not just ourselves. Also, we need to rely on God, for His provision, and manage properly what He gives us. We say we rely on God, but our actions show we don’t. People should get away from using debt. Michelle says that there are no positive scriptures about debt. Worldly wisdom tells you to use debt, but there is no such thing as good debt. Many people are serving the master of debt by using credit cards to the detriment of their relationships and families. No matter if you already manage your money well, or are in debt, or are somewhere in between, the financial fast can help you be a better steward of your money. Breaking bad money habits doesn’t just stop after 21 days. Michelle suggests continuing what you’ve learned in your daily life. You can begin this by tracking your spending with a 30-day spending journal.
TWO AREAS TO FOCUS ON DURING THIS FAST
For this financial fast, Michelle would like to focus on the areas of long term care (Financial Fast Day 16: The Caregiver Cliff) and leaving a financial legacy (Day 11: Leave a Legacy of Good Money Sense). For long term care, there is a caregiver cliff crisis. Most long-term care plans are costly. You have to ask some tough questions, like, “Can you afford it?” You have to plan. Some things to consider are: insurance, how to save for it, where you are going to stay (i.e., with family members, in a care facility, etc.).
For leaving a financial legacy, Michelle says it is important to leave a financial legacy to your family. This means not just leaving money, it means leaving practical knowledge about finances as well. You can do this at any age. It’s never too late - as long as you have breath, teach your family. Teach your children your knowledge about finances (if you don’t know, you can learn and pass on what you’ve learned). Many times, people waste money from inheritances because they don’t have any financial wisdom. It is godly to leave a financial legacy for your family and others.
MICHELLE’S TOP THREE TAX TIPS FOR 2014
1) Free File: If you earn $58,000 or less you may qualify to have your taxes filed for free through the IRS Free File program. Go to the IRS website. Once there you can select one of the private companies that will help you prepare, print and e-file your tax return. Even if you don’t qualify for the Free File program, you can still file your return electronically using IRS e-file. When you use e-file, the math is done for you. To e-file, you have to use tax-preparation software or file electronically through an authorized professional preparer. Nearly all tax preparers use e-file now, and many are required by law to do so.
2) Where’s Your Refund: This year the IRS won’t be taking questions about your refund right away. So you need to get used to using the agency’s online refund tool “Where’s My Refund.” The IRS says its customer-service representatives will research the status of your refund only if it has been 21 days or more since your return was filed electronically. If you file a paper return through the mail, you’ll also have to use the online tool unless it has been more than six weeks. If you have a question about your refund, the IRS will direct you to its “Where’s My Refund?” tool available in English and Spanish through the IRS2Go mobile app, IRS.gov and the agency’s automated telephone service.
3) Tax Time Scams: This time of year there’s always an increase in the number of scams related to filing your taxes. So be extra careful of emails or phone calls from people claiming to be from the IRS. In particular watch out for preparer fraud. About 60 percent of taxpayers used tax professionals last year to prepare their tax returns.
Remember that you are legally responsible for what’s on your tax return even if it is prepared by someone else. If you get an email you suspect is fraudulent don’t open any attachments or click on any links in the message. Forward the email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Leadership is a process that helps in directing and mobilizing people. It has for the past 100 years been a subject of many studies. These studies have come up with theories of the nature and exercise of leadership. Some of these theories include trait theories of leadership, theories of emergent leadership, leadership style theories, psychodynamic theories, and the path goal theories among others. The second section of this paper focuses on evaluation of behavior of selected leaders. Leaders of different organizations exhibit specific behaviors that are in line with models and theories of leadership. Their behaviors can guide the behavior of individual followers, groups, or even teams. The analysis section touches on how leaders perceive their roles and what makes them develop as leaders. The summary wraps up all that the paper is about and what I have learnt.
Management and leadership are interchangeably used in our everyday lives. Leadership is normally used to refer to a process that helps in directing and mobilizing people (Kotter, 1990). For the past 100 years, much attention has been paid to leadership. Some of the current theories of the nature and exercise of leadership are authentic leadership, new-genre leadership, complexity leadership, shared/collective/distributed leadership, servant leadership, and transformational leadership. Bill (2005) described authentic leader as one with a genuine desire to serve others through their leadership. Such caliber of leaders is more interested in empowering their juniors to make a difference. He reiterated that authentic leaders are never born that way and those born with natural leadership gifts have to be fully developed to become outstanding leaders.
Bass (2008) referred to a transactional leader as one that dangles the carrot and stick at the same time. Employees are rewarded with carrot for meeting agreements and standards or beaten with stick for failing to meet the standards. Through transformational leadership, followers are encouraged to perform beyond expectations while transcending self-interest. Northouse (2010) described the style approach as emphasizing the behavior of a leader as opposed to traits approach that exclusively emphasize on what leaders do and how they act. According to style approach, leadership is composed of task and relationship behaviors. Gill (2011) highlighted a number of leadership theories.
Notable among them were trait theories of leadership, theories of emergent leadership, leadership style theories, Bradford model of leadership, psychodynamic theory, the path goal theory, and contingency and situational leadership theories. Trait theories according to Gill are also referred to as Great Man theories. They touch on common qualities and characteristics of effective leaders. Theories of emergent leadership adduce that leaders may emerge who have characteristics and skills that meet the needs of their group, organization, or society. Psychodynamic theory avers that effectiveness of leaders as a function of psychodynamic exchange between leaders and group members.
Avolio, Walumbwa & Weber (2009) posited that cognitive leadership entails broad range of approaches to leadership. It does emphasize how leaders and followers think and process information. They averred that transactional leadership is founded on exchange of rewards contingent on performance.
Evaluation of behaviors of selected leaders
Leaders in an organization where I worked embodied human handling skills like attention through vision, meaning through communication, trust through positioning, and the deployment of self through positive self regard and the Wallenda factor. Since our leaders were result oriented, their visions and intentions were compelling. This pulled many people to them. They simply got attention because of their intensity and commitment rather than coercing those whom they led. At formative stages in my work station, I noticed that some of my line managers were very unique in the way they carried out their duties and responsibilities. They never wasted any time and were very clear about what they wanted done from his juniors. They were so precise and emphatic about what they wanted done at any given time. That they were fixated and had undeviating attention to outcome was not in doubt. They were so obsessed with whatever they wanted done implying that they were visionary. They were burning with passion that was mirrored in their actions. Their passion could only be compared to a child who says that he wants a castle built for him and that comes to pass. The visions they conveyed gave us employees a lot of confidence and we finally came to believe that we could perform the necessary acts. They were literal challengers and not coddlers (Bennis & Nanus, 1997).
Our leaders made us believe that an undertaking was very important and equally nearly impossible. Such beliefs made us develop some kind of drive that actually made us strong. It gave us a strong resolve to pursue the issue intellectually. Because of their burning desires to transform purpose into action, our leaders had power of concentration. They clearly knew what they wanted. They in deed had limitless dimensions of a conscious self, it conditions and capacities of deployment. This made them capable of delay, double-talk, maneuver, hesitancy, and compromise. Their resolve was founded on the belief that the harder they worked the longer they lived. My leaders were also conversant with the fact that leadership was a transaction between leaders and followers and the fact that leaders could not exist without their followers. They ensured that there was some sort of resonance between them and us. They therefore paid a lot of attention to us and in the process caught our attention. Our leaders ensured that they brought the best out of us. This created some sense of unity (Bennis & Nanus, 1997).
Our leaders also perfected the art of communication. They seemed to have known that belief in ones dreams was not enough and that there can be a lot of intoxicating visions and lots on noble intentions. They knew that without communication, rich and deeply textured agendas cannot be actualized. Because of this, they portrayed images that induced enthusiasm and commitment in others. They were so engrossed in ensuring that they captured our imaginations and getting us aligned behind our organization's overarching goals. They were aware that workers have a knack for recognizing and getting behind something of established identity. They were not ignorant of the fact that effective leadership must integrate management of meaning and mastery of communication. Majority of our leaders were tremendously articulate with good communication styles. Those who were silent had intensely commanding appearance. Some of our silent leaders managed to make us know what they expected by drawing models. Some of them used metaphors. We liked it like that. Our leaders effectively used communication to rally us behind a given idea (Bennis & Nanus, 1997).
Our leaders were capable of packaging whatever information they wanted to pass around in the sense that its form and meaning made sense. This facilitated coordinated actions. They were capable of articulating and defining what previously remained implicit by inventing images, metaphors, and models that provided focus for new attention. This enabled them to consolidate and challenge prevailing wisdom. Our leaders were capable of conveying and shaping meaning through visual exercises, symbolic "letting the sunshine in," and exquisite verbal imagery.
Our leaders were quite aware of the fact that it was imperative that they communicated the blueprint to shape and interpret situations so that our actions are guided by common interpretation of reality. They were also aware that there was some disparity with regard to what was meant by "meaning" and "communication" and that the former has little to do with facts or even knowing. Our line managers specifically dealt with problem solving that involved a problem, a method, and a solution. Our leaders had a taste for problem finding and this gave our organization a new direction and vision. This characteristic made them stand out distinctly.
Our leaders seemed to have noticed that without trust, it was almost impossible for an organization to run. They seemed to have taken notice of the fact that trust was synonymous with accountability, predictability, and reliability. With trust an organization was capable of selling its products and also maintained an organization's integrity. To earn our trust, our leaders ensured that they were predictable. They also made themselves known and their positions clear. They knew where they were taking themselves from the being that has been to the one that wishes to be. They were reliable and tirelessly persistent. They appeared to be willing to face death for causes they believed in by choosing to stick to them. Theirs was persistence and determination. The leaders engaged in positioning so as to implement their visions. Through positioning, they established trust. They wore their visions like clothes and enrolled themselves then others in belief of their ideals as attainable. Their behaviors exemplified their ideals in action. They never wavered but instead maintained constancy. They stuck reasonably to the directions they chose (Bennis & Nanus, 1997).
An organization with a healthy structure has a clear sense of what it is and what is to do. This is why our leaders chose a direction and stayed with it. In this…[continue]
Leadership is the process of directing the behavior of others toward the achievement of some general objectives. Effective leadership is very important for molding a group of people into a team, shaping them into a force that serves as a sustainable business benefit. Effective leaders have an inspirational vision. Forethought and change expectation is their hallmark. Leaders know how to make people function in a joint fashion, and how to
Leadership is a complex process involving the ability of an individual to inspire, motivate and redirect ways of thinking. It refers to the ability to bring out the best in oneself and others. In any set up, there must be rules and regulations to guide the relationships between people and activities. In a set up like an organization, there are goals and objectives that the organization aims to achieve. These
Leadership Type a versus Type B Leadership The ability to guide and direct a group, department or entire organization is predicated on being able to balance task and relationship orientation through transformational leadership. The most effective leaders balance short-term transactional strategies for getting immediate results with transformational leadership skills, intermediating between each using emotional intelligence (EI) to guide their decision making (Ivey, Kline, 2010). The foundational elements of transformational leadership include individualized
Leadership played a substantial role in the recent economic troubles. The banking industry suffered from leadership that was incentivized to pursue high-risk short-term policies that resulted in high levels of return but subjected the entire economy to substantial risk. In the automobile industry, leaders failed because they did not adequately anticipate industry trends and did not adjust the corporate culture soon enough to respond to changes in the external environment
They become mired in the emergency phase of crisis management. The authors contend that because of this, leaders may fall into the trap of "hunkering down" and try to solve problems with short-term fixes such as tightening controls, across-the-board cuts, and restructuring plans. Leadership will turn to what they know how to do in order to reduce frustration and quell their own and others' fears. Their primary mode will be
Leadership is defined as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive (Robins, Pinsky, & Krichko, 2004). Bernard Bass' theory of leadership (Bass, 1990) states that there are three ways to explain the development of how one becomes a leader. The Trait Theory explains that some personality traits may lead people naturally into leadership
Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out specific objectives for the followers). Furthermore, anyone that is willing to assist and help others could be referred to as a leader (p.8) Leaders see what others do not Most leaders have
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Corporal punishment is an outmoded tool of parenting (and education, which is a whole other topic), so it is a sweet relief that the American Academy of Pediatrics officially rebuked spanking as an effective disciplinary tool on November 5. In all the news of the midterm elections, I do not want this full-stop, empirical recommendation on how to raise less anxious, depressed, and potentially violent children to get lost amid the headlines.
I grew up in a home where spanking was practiced, and I knew if I was ever lucky enough to have a family, I would never spank my child. From the moment I became pregnant, I discussed my long-held beliefs in using positive reinforcement and developmentally appropriate consequences with my husband and extended family, and, to some degree, my anti-spanking stance alienated a few family members from how we raise our 19-month-old daughter. While pre-motherhood I may have cared about such familial shunning, after bringing our daughter into the world, I do not have the time nor inclination to worry about the ironically thin skin of people who had their shot at parenting.
For me, my rationale against spanking is quite simple—when my parents spanked me, I learned nothing from them other than to fear them and operate more covertly moving forward. While my parents and others of their generation may boast about picking switches off a tree for their spankings, the been-there-survived-that legacy is not one I am willing to pass along to our daughter. What is difficult about this discussion is that the judgment of one’s parenting is involved—the judgment that spanking is ineffective, abusive, and may create long-term negative consequences for a child. I understand not wanting to be judged, especially as a parent learning the ropes, and yet we owe it to our children to end a practice that causes harm.
I know for some, like two of my three siblings, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ announcement will not stop them from spanking their children. Part of what compels my younger siblings to spank is what Proverbs 13:24 has to say on the issue: “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.” Those who believe spanking is an effective disciplinary practice rooted in religion, even with pediatricians, psychologists, and researchers showing ample evidence to the contrary, is a divide representative of American politics. Op-eds in favor of the practice tend to be written by evangelical Christians, such as Dr. Jared Pingleton’s 2016 essay in TIME Magazine. Granted, many Christians also speak out against spanking, such as Heidi Schlumpf, a national correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
But here is the problem of thinking spanking is an innocuous practice: We bemoan violence in our schools, churches, synagogues, outdoor concerts, and elsewhere, but do we actively contemplate how spanking perpetuates a culture of violence not only in the home, but also in society? In 2018, moral and scientific evidence resoundingly shows that spanking does not change a child’s behavior for the better (in fact, there are numerous mental health risks posed by routinely spanking a child), yet here we are, with the Pew Research Center reporting that a little less than half of all parents “often/sometimes” spank their children (17 percent) or “rarely” spank (28 percent). Spanking, overall, is down from earlier decades, but when will the rod be put away for good? When will we join other countries who have banned spanking? The issue of spanking is, for certain, divisive, but it also has the chance to unite us in choosing a more patient, more humane approach in teaching our children how to exist in the world. | <urn:uuid:e23f4830-7cd0-445f-84a7-4d6dc32bbe2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://commonreader.wustl.edu/why-spanking-does-not-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.967686 | 789 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A cataract is “any opacity which establishes in the crystalline lens of the eye or its envelope.” Cataracts create a range of factors, with one of the most typical element being the lasting direct exposure to ultraviolet light. Cataracts could additionally create from innovative age or additional impacts of illness such as diabetes mellitus.
An outcome of denaturation (the conversion of DNA from the double-stranded to the single-stranded state; splitting up of the hairs is frequently completed by home heating) of healthy lens proteins, there are numerous hereditary aspects which are likewise understood to play a significant function inclining a specific to cataracts. As discussed over with progressing age the occurrence of cataracts ends up being even more leading. Cataract development is anticipated in any private over the age of 70 (50% of all individuals in between the ages of 65 as well as 74 & about 70% of those over 75).
Cataracts are most frequently assisted through a surgical treatment called cataract surgery. The surgical procedure intends to recover the eye back to its initial state by getting rid of any cataracts that are existing.
We’re just provided one collection of 2 eyes. Caring for them is very essential. This could suggest straightforward preventative measures such as putting on sunglasses to stop our eyes from aspects such as ultraviolet light, wind, as well as from obtaining fragments in the eye that could harm or lenses. Reflexology for eyes can also be used. | <urn:uuid:5492e5ca-05d0-4b22-9a76-f146d6d4b930> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.wabashvalleyeye.com/opacity-cataracts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965021 | 312 | 3.078125 | 3 |
State Sen. Jake Corman, one of the most vocal opponents to the NCAA’s sanctions against Penn State in the Pennsylvania legislature, was denied the opportunity to intervene in the NCAA’s lawsuit against the state. Corman has his own lawsuit going against the NCAA in state court and wants to avoid inconsistent judgments:
Corman said in court papers that his lawsuit against the NCAA gave him an interest in the outcome of the NCAA’s lawsuit against the state. He said he wanted to avoid “inconsistent rulings” between the Commonwealth Court and Kane, as well as the litigation of similar lawsuits.
Corman said the constitutionality of the law could be litigated in front of the Commonwealth Court judges, and that the constitutionality issue did not belong before a federal judge.
One of the whole points of federal courts is to decide issues regarding the constitutionality of state laws, so it was not surprising that argument did not fly. But Corman should not worry about the judgments being inconsistent.
At some point, the two judgments will be reconciled. Both the NCAA’s lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania and Corman’s lawsuit against the NCAA deal with the Pennsylvania Institution of Higher Education Monetary Penalty Endowment Act, which was proposed by Corman. If the state court rules the NCAA has violated the act but the federal court rules the act is unconstitutional, the Supremacy Clause would resolve the conflict. That might need to get sorted out in a higher court, but it would happen eventually.
And maybe it should. This is the NCAA’s characterization of one of the issues with the Endowment Act:
The Endowment Act is unconstitutional because it attempts to negate a legally binding agreement between private parties and divert funds to state coffers. (emphasis added)
Penn State and other public universities are not normal private parties. Even accepting that the NCAA is just a private corporation (still hotly debated even if it is settled law), that still creates an odd situation where a private corporation regulates the activities of sovereign state governments. Whether that should be allowed and what limits there should be on that power have never be adequately explored by the Supreme Court of the United States and the existing decisions (NCAA v. Miller primarily) punt the question in a way.
When trying to read the tea leaves of the NCAA’s ongoing legal battles, both in the Penn State and O’Bannon cases, never underestimate the value to both sides of seeing the case all the way through. Settlements do not entrench or destroy the NCAA’s legal protections. They simply put those questions off until another day. | <urn:uuid:cb1594be-dadf-4ca7-b33f-7c351576168b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.athleticscholarships.net/2013/10/17/pa-state-senator-cannot-intervene-in-ncaa-suit-against-state.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.96999 | 537 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Springtime, when fresh green leaves shove their way through the damp soil and spring flowers begin to put in an appearance. Everything that appears is bright and glorious, from the early Gorse with its strong scent reminiscent of Coconuts, to the tiniest snowdrop.
The other week Dunvegan Castle & Gardens hosted a Snowdrop open day. Wow, what an array of Snowdrops too, huge drifts of them cascading down to the burns and through the woods. Large ones, with bold green skirts contrasted with diminutive species, yet all amazed and delighted the eye.
Snowdrops weren’t the only flowers in evidence at the gardens either, there were beautiful Hellebores, delightful Crocuses and even a Rhododendron or two in flower, plus Narcissi great and small.
Enter the hot house in the walled garden and your senses were assaulted by the scent of Jasmine. Strong and beautifully coloured Passion Flowers plus tiny oranges on a tree. It was a feast for the eyes and nose.
Elsewhere on the Island there are Horsetail Ferns emerging in damp and soggy places, looking more like miniature Triffids than any plant you can readily identify. Bluebell leaves are pushing through in woods and Primroses wink from sheltered nooks and crannies wherever they have managed to gain a foothold.
Even the birds have changed their songs to a more melodious version of their usual repertoire, especially when the sun shines and the day warms up as it did last weekend. An unusual few days of almost balmy temperatures that not only cheered us humans up, but put an extra zing into every creatures’ day. Robins sang heartily, Chaffinches proclaimed their new spring plumage and even the Eagles called relentlessly as they climbed and drifted and played on the thermals.
It wont be long before the grass starts to grow, when the hills change from yellow to bright green and trees that are presently merely dark branches and twigs will suddenly begin to come to life again as the sap rises. Especially obvious will be the Larch, that will suddenly change from appearing to be dead to turning lime green as new leaves emerge. Catkins are on show already.
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1st Quarter 2019
Opening of SDE4, an inventive educational architecture
April 30, 2019
The new National University of Singapore (NUS), School of Design & Environment 4 (SDE4), the first net-zero energy building of its kind, opened in Singapore in January 2019. The building, a prototype of sustainable design, combines a stringent net-zero target and a revalidated grammar of tropical architecture. It is a 8,500-square-metre, six-storey, multi-disciplinary space that is located on a hillock near the southern coastline of Singapore.
SDE4 is a new addition to the Design & Environment zone and is part of a larger campus redevelopment. The building includes more than 1,500 square metres of design studio space; a 500-square-metre open plaza; a wide variety of public and social spaces; workshops and research centres; a café; and a library. The building has a flexible design with high efficiency—most of the rooms are designed in a variety of sizes to allow for an adaptable rearrangement of layout for exhibitions, school-specific installations and future change of use.
Lam Khee Poh, dean of SDE, explained, “Buildings are not isolated entities in their own context. They form an environment, a precinct or a neighbourhood that supports community activities, which is crucial for educational institutions. Our students and faculty get the opportunity to learn both inside and outside the classroom, and be engaged in an integrated process of designing, developing, constructing and operating state-of-the-art buildings that will, in turn, influence them to adapt their own behaviour when they occupy it.”
Awarded to Serie + Multiply Architects with Surbana Jurong through an international design competition in 2013, the building was envisioned as a porous architecture structured as a juxtaposition of ‘platforms and boxes’, expressing its programmatic content. Christopher Lee, principal, Serie Architects, shared, “One of our ambitions when we started the project was to challenge the notion that a high energy-efficient building has to be opaque. Therefore, the completed building is incredibly open. This is where I think it is successful: it is able to reduce its energy demand, but at the same time, doesn’t end up being a solid building. SDE4’s large platforms are configured in a way that promotes interaction and visual connectivity. We envisioned transparent volume where the outside and inside spaces are ambiguous; where nature and landscape play an important role as the backdrop to the building.”
This design carries the principles of vernacular tropical architecture in Southeast Asia. More than 50 per cent of the total area is naturally ventilated and most of the rooms can be opened to prevailing breezes. Air-conditioning is used only when needed while the spaces interspersed between cooled volumes benefit from cross ventilation, acting as thermal buffers/social spaces that emulate the signature tropical verandas. The architecture is punctuated by an alternation of terraces, landscaped balconies and informal spaces. There are no formal boundaries between the spaces to study, work and socialise.
Erik L’Heureux, vice dean, Special Projects, SDE, commented, “SDE4 represents a ‘scaffold’ for learning, teaching and research designed for the 21st-century university. Not only does it envision how we teach today, but it also paves the way we might teach in the future.” The interstitial space between the inner and outer skins on the east and west façade is, for instance, designated for research. In these areas, elements of the façade can be dismantled and replaced with new systems depending on the school’s research needs. Therefore, the building serves as a canvas for test-bedding and developing relevant Green building technology, becoming, in effect, a living laboratory.
Circulation corridors and straight flight staircases link and penetrate these volumetric platforms, allowing spaces to bleed from one learning and research space to another, thereby broadcasting a collaborative nature of design. The large over-sailing roof protrudes along the south elevation embedding a tropical portico, which is built around existing mature trees. This openness allows spaces to flow freely across the envelope of the building, bringing the surrounding landscape into close proximity with the interior spaces and vice versa. The east and west façades are designed as a veil, an aluminium curtain that filters sunlight and emphasises a connection to the surroundings.
The south gardens are integral to the pedagogical experience of the building. Designed as a natural purification system, the landscape improves water quality while encouraging lifestyle activities and teachings around water. Runoff from the roof and hardscape is cleansed by passing through soil, which removes sediments and soluble nutrients. Nearly 50 per cent of the selected plants are native species and most are from the southern tropics, a choice that also provides opportunities for environmental education. The building has a strong biophilic component in the deliberate use of the raw and natural characteristics of materials like steel, perforated metal and concrete. As a result, the finished concrete surfaces are distinctive; some columns resemble marble, and all possess a tactile quality that enhances the materiality of the architecture.
Health and wellbeing
The building is designed to be climate-responsive with net-zero energy consumption—it features a range of sustainable design attributes and more than 1,200 solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftop. SDE4 exceeds standards of health and wellbeing, creating new avenues for delivering comfort in the tropics. Embracing an innovative hybrid cooling system designed by Transsolar KlimaEngineering, rooms are supplied with 100 per cent fresh pre-cooled air, albeit at higher temperatures and humidity levels than in a conventional system, which is augmented with an elevated air speed by ceiling fans. This cool circulating air creates a comfortable condition in a high energy-efficient system.
Giovanni Cossu, senior manager, SDE, explained, “The main story of SDE4 is how we progress to net zero through design. During this process, the building has demystified the general perception of spatial quality, comfort and cost for sustainable buildings. SDE4 changes the argument that Green buildings cost more; rather, it has limited or no extra cost compared to similar, industry- standard models. Preliminary results of subjective surveys completed by occupants show high levels of user acceptance of the environmental conditions offered by the building. In doing this, SDE4 speaks to multiple audiences: occupants and users, policymakers and developers.”
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First, the facts:
Title: Contemporary Irish Knits
Author: Carol Feller
Published by: Wiley, 2011
2. Kerry Woollen Mills
3. Cushendale Woollen Mills
3. Donegal Yarns
4. New Directions: The Hand Dyers
The In-Depth Look:
What calls to you when you think of Irish knits?
Do you picture cables? Do you love the interplay as they weave in and out, twist around as they climb?
Perhaps it’s the tradition that draws you in? The history of the sweater shapes and where the cable patterns came from?
Maybe it’s the yarn itself that attracts you–the knowledge that it is produced in the same way it’s been made for generations.
Or, heck, maybe you just want to make warm handknits for everyone in your family.
Either way–you must check out this book.
Twenty patterns in good, Irish wool. Sweaters, shawls, hats, gloves … the usual suspects … designs and sized for everyone. Boys, girls, men and women. Some of them are traditional gansey-type shapes, while some (like the Aran skirt or the girl’s yoke cardigan) are more modern. All of them, though, have a firm sense of their roots in their interpretation of “contemporary Irish.”
Nowhere is that more clearly seen than by the visits to the Irish woollen mills highlighted in each section. The author writes, “Ireland has a long history of yarn milling, which was once a very large industry. Due to rising costs and reduced demand, all but a few mills are now closed. …Yarn from Irish sheep creates coarse but hardwearing and durable wool. … For me, a sense of heritage and inspiration comes from the remaining Irish mills. Specifically, I am impressed by the ways in which they move forward–by listening to the knitting community and by innovating their manufacturing processes–while retaining the treasures of the past like the distinctive flecks, technically called ‘nepps,’ of Donegal tweed.”
I admit I’ve always been fond of Aran-styled, Irish-inspired knitwear. I adore the intricacies of Celtic knots and interweaving cables, so it’s no surprise that I was ready to love this book. Luckily, though, it does not disappoint. The patterns are updated without losing track of their roots. The look at the Irish wool industry (as well as some of the traditions) is interesting without getting bogged down by dry historical facts.
The illustrations are lush and evocative, while still giving good looks at the actual knitwear. There are charts and schematics. The patterns are listed in the table of contents and in the index, so they’re easy to find. And even though each pattern is designed for a specific manufacturer’s yarn, there’s a list of reasonable substitutes at the back in case you can’t find the authentic stuff.
All in all, this is a charming book. The kind that makes me wish I was Irish.
You can get your copy at Amazon.com.
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The spring climbing season on Everest and other big peaks in the Himalaya is proceeding on schedule. Most of the teams have now arrived in Base Camp on both sides of the mountain or will be there very shortly, and the acclimatization process is now underway. But before anyone can go up the mountain for the very first time, they must first complete an important step in the climbing process – the Puja ceremony.
Those who follow the Himalayan climbing scene closely probably already know about the importance of the Puja. During this ceremony, a Buddhist lama comes to Base Camp and performs a ritual in which he asks permission of the mountain for the climbers to safely pass up and down its slopes.
The lama will also bless the climbers themselves and the gear that they are using for the expedition. This is a long standing tradition amongst the Sherpa people and most will not proceed up to the higher sections of the mountain they are on until the Puja has been completed. It is not mandatory for the western climbers to attend the ceremonies, but it is part of the Himalayan climbing experience, so most do come and take it all in.
Once the Puja has been wrapped up the teams are now free to start their climb in earnest. Several squads are at that point now, particularly on the South Side of Everest where climbers have been getting settled, making acclimatization hikes, and working on their rope skills for the past week or so.
Some have ever gone into the notorious Khumbu Icefall where they’ve practiced climbing ladders and negotiating their way through that dangerous section of the climb. Reportedly, this year’s route through the icefall is as direct, quick, and straightforward as any have seen before. Hopefully this will limit the amount of time spent in that section of the climb, which is widely considered the most treacherous on the Nepali side of the mountain.
One of the first teams to pass through the Khumbu Icefall is IMG. The operator’s Team 1 went up yesterday and arrived in Camp 1 for its first rotation. Today they’ll climb higher up into the Western Cwm, before returning to C1 for a second night of rest there.
It’s all part of the plan to slowly get their bodies accustomed to the altitude over the next few weeks. British guide Tim Mosedale is leading his team into the icefall today too and they will make their way up to C1 as well. He reports that so far, the route doesn’t seem all that busy or crowded, although that will change as more climbers arrive in BC and start heading up the mountain.
Meanwhile, the Adventure Consultants have made their first foray into the icefall as well, but mostly just to scout the route and prepare themselves for the crossing. They’ll actually head up to Camp 2 in a few days time, starting their acclimatization process too.
Finally, The Himalayan News is reporting the numbers for the 2018 season in terms of climbing permits issued. According to officials, 649 permits have been issued this year for 22 peaks across Nepal.
That includes 316 foreign climbers and 20 Nepalese on Everest, which is down some compared to last year. Additionally, the numbers for the other big peaks look like this: Annapurna I 1, Dhaulagiri I 26, Lho Tse 88, Makalu 27, Manaslu 8 and Kangchenjunga 42. A lone Korean climber on Annapurna is especially of interest.
That’s it for now. More news to come soon I’m sure.
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“Development Of Women Rights Going To Be Hampered In New Government Of Afghanistan”
Hey, here’s a question for you. What would you do, if one day, you have to live like you’re in old days especially for women ? Oppressed and suppressed by external factors. And you can just stay inside looking for kids, fully dressed. If they could they would even make you put a curtain on your eyes?
Feels very suffocating right? This is the situation of Afganishtani women right now due to the Taliban. This question doesn’t only stop with women. If you’re a guy, do think about what your life would be like. Having to live in such a world.
Many women anchors and presenters have come forward to report that Afgan State Television isn’t letting them work anymore. It’s because, from this week onward, the Taliban fighters have barred women from working.
This clearly shows what kind of view they hold on women and how bad this situation with the Taliban is getting. Not just women but even children are suffering due to these monsters of men. Who value nothing but power.
What can the poor citizens do?
A woman named Shabnam Dawran made a video on Wednesday to report the abuse she faced. She is a Radio Television Afghanistan employee. But when the passionate and hard-working woman made her way to her office.
But as she arrived at her workplace, she was stopped by some Taliban militants. And they threatened her.
Even when Shabnam showed them her employee ID card. They told her that the regime has now changed and their lives are now in a danger. But the male employees were going in and out with ease.
Moreover, Khadija Amin, an anchorwoman, and colleague of Shabnam made similar claims as well. She said that along with her, many other female employees are banned from even entering the office station.
Since this is a huge concern, Amin along with other colleagues went to talk with the new director of RTA. Likewise, the director is someone especially appointed by the Taliban himself. And when asked about the situation, even the director gave somewhat of the same answer.
Moving on, the new change in the rules says that women are now only able to get involved in some government and public life.
Some of the private news channels still have their female news reporters working for them. And one even interviewed the Taliban just recently. Where the Taliban even promised that their lives aren’t in a danger right now.
This is coming as a serious issue, and the fact that anyone is not able to harm or even plug a single strand of hair from the Taliban’s head is concerning. Moving on, UNESCO’s head has issued that the Taliban gives women the freedom they deserve. And let them work as journalists. But clearly, he is not listening.
With that being said, the Afghans deserve a peaceful society and nation. But, we can see that the Taliban has no intention of ever letting the citizens live in even a modest enough society. If this keeps going on. What is to become of the poor citizens?
Now that the Taliban is back in power, it’s going to be a hell of a ride for them. And as fellow human beings, all we can do is pray for their safety.
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Today is the birthday of Henry Williamson (Dec. 1, 1895 – Aug. 13, 1977)—ruralist author, war historian, journalist, farmer, and visionary of British fascism.
Two rather incongruous points of Williamson’s life stand out. One is that he achieved fame with what is usually regarded as a children’s book, Tarka the Otter (originally published 1927, with a movie version in 1979).
The other is that he was a friend of Lawrence of Arabia; and that it was on his way back from posting a letter to Williamson that T. E. Lawrence was mysteriously killed in a motorcycle accident. This was 1935. The matter under discussion in the correspondence was a request by Williamson that Lawrence join Sir Oswald Mosley in a campaign for European peace. Reportedly, Lawrence agreed.
Williamson was a prolific, compulsive writer (over 50 books, including posthumous volumes). Sometimes he is described as an author whose fame was consigned to “the memory hole” on account of his fascist associations and enthusiasm for National Socialism.
But this is very misleading. Even as an old man in the 1960s, Williamson was called upon by one of his old papers, the Evening Standard, to revisit and recount the 1914-18 battlefields of the Western Front , and ten years later he was engaged to draft a scenario for a long-delayed film version of Tarka. When he died in 1977 he merited a 1700-word obit in The Times that described his great output and scarcely mentioned his “Fascist sympathies.”
Blackshirt sympathies are really a side-note with Williamson, as they are with Yeats, Belloc, and Wyndham Lewis. If he is largely forgotten today, this is not because he went to Nuremberg rallies (nobody forgets the Mitfords, after all), but rather because of the peculiar nature of his output. Apart from his war memoirs, most of his writing consists of highly detailed close observation, with little direct commentary on the world at large. (The newspaper column at the end of this article is a good example of Williamson’s work. Taken in large doses, such detail tends to become tedious.)
A good contrast with Williamson is the case of George Orwell, whose pose as “a man of the Left” was purely for literary viability in the 1930s. From his social attitudes and military bearing, to his patriotic pronouncements (England, Your England) and anti-Stalinism—even his funny mustache—Orwell was a most unlikely “man of the Left.” Yet that is how he styled himself. Orwell even shared with Williamson a fondness for nature-writing, though their differences in approach are striking, as I will come back to.
First, though, I want to say a few words about Williamson’s ruralist books and journalism. He wrote in a time when nature-writing was a popular genre, and a mainstay of daily newspapers, particularly in England, much as wine columns seem to be today. I guess these “countryman” columns in London papers functioned as “breathers,” giving tram and Underground riders a break from the usual Fleet Street headlines and Oxo adverts. And maybe editors and press-lords believed thought that throwing in a bit of farming, foxes and foliage would raise the overall tone of their newspapers.
The most famous example of these “countryman” columns is the one Evelyn Waugh made up for his satirical novel, Scoop (1938). In Scoop, a newspaper tycoon wants to hire a fashionable young novelist named Boot to cover a civil war in Africa. By mistake he gets the wrong Boot. Not society star John Courtney Boot, but his impoverished hick cousin, William.
Shy, befuddled William Boot lives in deepest Devon where he writes a column called “Lush Places,” for the vulgar London newspaper The Daily Beast. (The title has since been repurposed for an even more vulgar webzine).
We get only one snippet of this impenetrably rhapsodic column, “Lush Places,” but that leaves us gasping for no more: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”
Henry Williamson, you might say, was the real “Boot of The Beast” in Scoop. He was unworldly. He wrote “countryman” columns. He described, close-up, the behavior of the salmon and the otter, the “feather-footed vole” in the “plashy fen.” He lived out in Devon, later in north Norfolk, worked a countryman writer and farmer.
What a contrast with Orwell, who was not only a sort of war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War (for the Tribune, and in his memoir Homage to Catalonia) but made a special point of joining an eccentric faction, the POUM, that opposed Stalin but supported the Spanish Loyalists.
But Orwell’s mindset was not that far off from Williamson’s. They were near-contemporaries (Williamson: 1895-1977, Orwell: 1903-1950), and Orwell too often wrote about nature and farming.
One of Orwell’s best known essays, “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,” is a mystical-whimsical contemplation on toad-spawning as an annual rite of spring:
Frequently one comes upon shapeless masses of ten or twenty toads rolling over and over in the water, one clinging to another without distinction of sex. By degrees, however, they sort themselves out into couples, with the male duly sitting on the female’s back. You can now distinguish males from females, because the male is smaller, darker and sits on top, with his arms tightly clasped round the female’s neck. After a day or two the spawn is laid in long strings which wind themselves in and out of the reeds and soon become invisible. A few more weeks, and the water is alive with masses of tiny tadpoles which rapidly grow larger, sprout hind-legs, then forelegs, then shed their tails: and finally, about the middle of the summer, the new generation of toads, smaller than one’s thumb-nail but perfect in every particular, crawl out of the water to begin the game anew.
I mention the spawning of the toads because it is one of the phenomena of spring which most deeply appeal to me, and because the toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets.
Orwell constantly fantasized about living in the countryside, and even talked of becoming a farmer someday. Around 1936 he got as far as living in North Hertfordshire country store beside an estate called Manor Farm—a name he borrowed some years later when he penned a fantasy about a farm where all the animals, led by smart pigs, take control and rename the place Animal Farm.
The romance of the country permeates his other fiction. In one novel after another, Orwell’s human characters rouse themselves, suddenly and unaccountably, to go tramping through meadows and hedgerows. In A Clergyman’s Daughter the title character gets amnesia and finds herself hop-picking in Kent. The superficially different stories in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Keep the Aspidistra Flying both have romantic episodes in which a couple go for long hikes through idyllic woods and fields, where they marvel and fornicate amongst the wonders of Mother Nature. The middle-aged narrator of Coming for Air spends much of the novel dreaming of fishing in the country ponds of his youth, but when he finally takes his rod and seeks down his old haunts, he finds that exurbia has encroached and his fishing-place is now being used as a latrine and rubbish-tip by a local encampment of beatnik nature-lovers.
For Orwell, fauna and flora are never just interesting specimens by themselves. They are always somehow political and anthropomorphized, tied up with human associations. Toads having sex are like tiny people performing The Rite of Spring. The wild is a place where you can escape to make love safely, far away from the eyes and ears of your landlady or The Party (although Winston Smith does worry that there may be microphones hidden in the trees!). Despoiling your fishing hole is a Bad Thing not because of pollution or dead fish but because it insults your inner picture of the world.
In his abbreviated career, Orwell remained very much the urbanized literary man, never the countryman. He saw natural phenomena as things that had to be justified and rationalized in a utilitarian way, so they could fit into his world view. Or at least have some literary usefulness.
For Williamson, literary usefulness was pretty much beside the point. He received commissions and royalties from his columns and books, but basically he earned his living from the soil. For him, toads were toads and pigs were pigs. This was reality, and the important thing about his little piggies was that they were starving and needed to be fed, or else they would die.
Here, then, is a Henry Williamson column from the Evening Standard, early 1940. He is describing a scene on his north Norfolk farm. The column is followed by its then-worldly (but now extremely obscure) adjoining headline. Williamson’s agony over his hungry piglets describes a situation that could very well have occurred a millennium before.
Come with me into the open air this afternoon, and help me saw up logs for the hearths in the farmhouse below. It’s frosty, the pipes in the cow-house are frozen.
Take this Norwegian saw, with its razor-thin serrated band, which will cut through a two-inch green bough in four strokes – or would, before someone used it for four-hundred-year-old oak posts.
It’s pretty hard work, you say, using it now? Well, carry on, it will get you warm, anyway!
Half an hour later, we are warm and glowing, although when we touch the blade of either saw with a finger, it sticks to the steel. That will tell how keen the frost is.
It’s as cold as it was in the High Pyrenees, years ago with old Kit, when we climbed up all day stripped to the waist, and skied down at night, when the stars were flashing and the frosty snow-flakes glinted in the flashes of Sirius.
Down there, before a typewriter, one shivers, although a rug is round the knees; out here, it’s grand, and the pile of logs grows higher. Forgotten for the moment are the problems of farming: the delay in delivery of the deep-digger plough; the pigs below which are being fed on sugar-beet tops and crushed oats, because there is no proper food available.
Twenty-four little pigs – and for weeks I have not been able to buy any proper food for them. I can’t send them to market, either, for the market is closed to ‘stores’, owing to swine fever in the district.
The food-merchants tell me they get supplies only with the greatest difficulty, and then in small quantities.
Meanwhile my little pigs are half-starved, and I only hope that the R.S.P.C.A. won’t prosecute me for cruelty.
However, let’s forget it for a while and saw some more wood. And when the arm is tired we’ll enjoy the view. Isn’t everything quiet? The gold of the sunshine seems frozen, immingled with the frosty air; hardly a sound.
Even the sea is silent on the distant sands, where the geese wait until twilight to come in and feed on the clover in the fields. Let’s hope they leave some for hay next summer. Shoot them? You’ll be lucky to get within two hundred yards of them. They have sentinels out, watching with raised heads.
Twilight comes suddenly, with purple-red afterglow of the sun hiding coldly behind the frosty fog creeping up the valley with still layers of cottage chimney smoke. The nip comes back to ear and finger-tips. The old car slithers over the rimed grass, drawing the trailer. And suddenly five airplanes roar overhead, low, from their vigil across the North Sea. One lags behind, the engines spluttering. It lurches through the air, so low that we can see one of the crew be- hind the crystal dome.
Are they very cold in there? They fly on, and we go down to the farm to look at the little pigs. This is the age of endurance – for a better future, we hope.
Wednesday, 17 January 1940
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Health Quality Ontario’s Opioid Use Disorder Quality Standard provides guidance on the care for people 16 years of age and older who have or are suspected of having opioid use disorder. The quality standard applies to all services and care settings.
The quality standard includes 11 quality statements and one emerging practice statement addressing areas that have high potential for improving the quality of care in Ontario for people with opioid use disorder.
Below is a sample of tools that may help you with the implementation of the quality statements into practice, organized according to purpose. Many of these tools will help to support multiple quality statements.
This list is not exhaustive. Are there other tools or resources you use? Do you have experience implementing these tools? If so, please use the comments section below to share!
Comprehensive resources related to opioid use disorder
Tools to support clinical practice
- The Methadone and Buprenorphine/Naloxone Toolkit by the Ontario Pharmacists Association can support those wishing to initiate a methadone or buprenorphine/naloxone program in their pharmacy setting
- Sample protocols can support the prescription of buprenorphine/naloxone for use in several care settings:
- The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale is an 11-item scale to rate common signs and symptoms of opiate withdrawal and can be used to monitor these symptoms over time, while the Subjective Opiate Withdrawal Scale is a self-administered scale for grading opioid withdrawal symptoms
- Both of these scales can be used to address Quality Statement 7: Treatment of opioid withdrawal symptoms
Educational opportunities for health care professionals
The Ontario Pain Management Resources website by Health Quality Ontario includes an up-to-date list of educational resources for health care professionals.
Additional educational resources specific to opioid use disorder include:
- The Opioid Dependence Treatment (ODT) Certificate Program from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is intended to prepare physicians, pharmacists, nurses and counsellors to provide a comprehensive range of services for people with opioid dependence
- The Methadone Program from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario outlines the expectations for physicians who will be prescribing methadone
- Project ECHO Ontario Mental Health hosts weekly CME-accredited videoconferencing sessions to build capacity in the treatment and management of mental health and addictions
Resources for patients and families
These resources support Statement 4: Information to participate in care and Statement 5: Opioid agonist therapy as first-line therapy in this quality standard.
Access to local programs and supports
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Shop-bought gooseberries can be disappointing – a few miserable berries rattling around in an over-priced punnet simply can’t compare to plump, sun-ripened fruit plucked straight from a bush in your back garden. Once you’ve tried home-grown gooseberries, you’ll settle for nothing less.
Luckily, gooseberries are easy to grow. It only takes a couple of years for them to produce around 2.5kg of fruit per bush, and the yield increases as the plants become more mature. You can eat them straight off the bush or use them to make gooseberry fool, pie or crumble.
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Hot Trends aren’t the search terms people look for most often — those are pretty predictable, like [weather] or [games] or perhaps [myspace]. Yes, [sex] too. Instead, the Hot Trends algorithm analyzes millions of searches to find those that are deviating the most relative to their past traffic. And the outcome is the Hot Trends list.
This makes Hot Trends more than just a search term popularity ranking web site. The analysis used are more leveraged towards seasonal popularity and offsetting them from consistently popular search queries. Pretty smart analysis… not that I expect any less from el-Goog. | <urn:uuid:5128d22d-6711-4d69-8a77-da64f5617709> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.heritage-tech.net/468/google-hot-trends-near-real-time-analysis-of-whats-hot-on-the-search-front/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939345 | 128 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Is it possible that inertial motion under zero external forcing can change the rate of a mechanical or atomic clock? No! Because with zero external forcing there is nothing which can affect the inner working of a clock and thus the clock rate must be independent of inertial motion. It is inconceivable that clock rate can be affected by inertial motion.
An illusion of changed clock rate is created by the Doppler effect: The light from a receding body will be red-shifted and thus will give the illusion of a changed frequency or change of clock rate. But this is only an illusion like the illusion of the size of an object decreasing with distance.
What about special relativity then? The reading of the same event in space-time in two inertial systems $S$ and $S^\prime$ with coordinates $(x,t)$ and $(x^\prime ,t^\prime )$ moving with constant velocity $v$ with respect to each other, are here supposed to be connected by the Lorentz transformation (in one space dimension)
- $x^\prime =\gamma (x - vt)$,
- $t^\prime =\gamma (t - vx)$,
What to make out of this? Is the clock rate really affected by motion, or is it only an illusion? Lorentz gave the answer by pointing out that the transformed time $t^\prime$ is not physical time, but only illusionary time. It was Einstein who against the judgement of Lorentz claimed that the transformed time $t^\prime$ is physical time, and out came the special theory of relativity, which is no theory according e.g. Louis Essen as shown in the preceding post. An mere illusion is not a physical theory.
Real clock rate cannot change by inertial motion, only imaginary illusionary invented non-physical clock rate can change by inertial motion. This statement is believed to be wrong by 99% of living physicists. No wonder that modern physics is in a state of crisis.
Physicists have been complaining since the mid 1920s when quantum mechanics was born, that quantum mechanics is incompatible with relativity theory, without however doing anything about it.
But if two theories of physics are incompatible or contradictory, then one must go. Your choice?
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New York, NY, July 7, 2016—The Affordable Care Act’s subsidies have made health insurance premium costs in the marketplaces more affordable for lower-income enrollees and nearly comparable to costs in employer-sponsored health plans, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Sixty-six percent of marketplace enrollees with annual incomes under $30,000 reported paying either nothing or less than $125 a month for individual coverage, compared to 60 percent of people in employer plans.
However, for enrollees with higher incomes, the phaseout of the marketplace tax credits means health care costs are greater compared to those in employer plans. Fifty-eight percent of marketplace enrollees with incomes above $30,000 paid more than $125 in monthly premiums compared to 34 percent of people with employer coverage, most of whom receive premium contributions from their companies regardless of income level.
Americans’ Experiences with ACA Marketplace Coverage: Affordability and Provider Network Satisfaction, a new brief based on The Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tracking Survey, February – April 2016, finds differences in the cost and cost protection that marketplace plans provide, depending on enrollees’ incomes. Under the health care law, marketplace enrollees living under 250 percent of the federal poverty level (just under $30,000 for a single person) are eligible for the most generous subsidies. But enrollees earning above that level, up to $47,000 annually, qualify for smaller tax credits and may face higher cost-sharing. Those with higher incomes pay the full premium for their coverage.
Because of the phaseout of subsidies as incomes climb, marketplace enrollees with lower incomes are less likely to have per-person deductibles of $1,000 or more compared to higher-income enrollees (30% vs. 68%). And while less than half (45%) of lower-income adults with marketplace coverage reported their premiums had grown over time, about two-thirds (64%) of higher-income adults reported paying increasing premiums.
“Affording health care remains a top concern for consumers,” said Sara R. Collins, Vice President for Health Care Coverage and Access at The Commonwealth Fund and one of the study’s coauthors. “The survey findings suggest that the law’s premium subsidies have been effective for people with lower and moderate incomes, who have been most at risk of being uninsured. We know from prior surveys that people are also getting the health care they need and using their insurance to get care they wouldn’t have been able to get before.”
Other key findings from the report:
- Cost continues to be the primary factor in plan selection among marketplace enrollees.
Premiums and cost-sharing figured most prominently in people’s decisions regarding choice of marketplace plan. Six of 10 (62%) adults who either had enrolled in private plans through the marketplace for the first time or had switched health plans said that the amount of the premium (36%) or the amount of the deductible and copays (26%) was the most important factor in their decision. Additionally, more than one-quarter (28%) said the inclusion of their preferred doctors and hospitals in their plan’s network was the most important factor in choosing a plan.
- Half of people in marketplace plans view their premiums as affordable.
Nearly half (49%) of marketplace enrollees said their premiums were very easy or somewhat easy to afford, compared with 75 percent of people with employer plans. This difference is partially due to income differences between those with employer and marketplace coverage. While about half (51%) of individuals with employer coverage had incomes above $47,000 ($97,000 for a family of four), only 19 percent of those in marketplace plans did. This means that higher-income consumers in marketplace plans are spending more on premiums, as a share of their income, than people with employer health benefits.
- Four of 10 adults chose a “narrow network” plan when given the option.
Consumers were not averse to selecting a plan with a narrow provider network if it offered a lower price. More than half (54%) of people who switched plans or bought marketplace coverage for the first time had the option to pay less for a plan with fewer participating doctors or hospitals. Of those, 41 percent selected the limited network plan.
- Most marketplace enrollees are satisfied with the doctors covered by their insurance.
Of people who had new marketplace coverage or switched plans, more than three-quarters (78%) reported they are very or somewhat satisfied with the doctors included in their plan’s network. Nearly two-thirds (64%) said their plans included some or all of the doctors they wanted.
The authors note that for next year’s marketplace open enrollment period, it is likely that marketplace premium increases on average will be higher in 2017 than in 2016. The majority of enrollees have subsidies that will help shield them from paying the full premium increase. And consumers are also likely to shop for better deals, as they did in 2016. Still, efforts are needed to ensure that marketplace plans and health care are affordable over time.
“The Affordable Care Act was designed to ensure all Americans have access to affordable and comprehensive health insurance so they can get the health care they need,” said Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D. “This survey shows that we will need to continue to monitor the affordability of marketplaces, especially as health care costs continue to rise and incomes remain flat.”
The Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey, February-April 2016, was conducted by SSRS from February 2-April 5, 2016. The survey consisted of 15-minute telephone interviews in English or Spanish and was conducted among a random, nationally representative sample of 4,802 adults, ages 19 to 64, living in the United States. Overall, 1,496 interviews were conducted on landline telephones and 3,306 interviews on cellular phones.
This survey is the fourth in a series of Commonwealth Fund surveys to track the implementation and impact of the Affordable Care Act. Like the prior waves of the survey, the February-April 2016 sample was designed to increase the likelihood of surveying respondents who had gained coverage under the ACA. Interviews in Wave 4 were obtained through two sources: (1) stratified RDD sample; and (2) households reached through the SSRS Omnibus where interviews were previously completed with respondents ages 19 to 64 who were uninsured, had individual coverage, had a marketplace plan, or had public insurance. As in all waves of the survey, SSRS oversampled adults with incomes under 250 percent of poverty.
The data are weighted to correct for the stratified sample design, the use of recontacted respondents from the omnibus survey, the overlapping landline and cellular phone sample frames, and disproportionate nonresponse that might bias results. The resulting weighted sample is representative of the approximately 189 million U.S. adults ages 19 to 64. The survey has an overall margin of sampling error of +/– 2.0 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. | <urn:uuid:29b360d7-2403-401a-8c09-88c977696284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commonwealthfund.org/press-release/2016/new-aca-marketplace-findings-subsidies-lower-income-enrollees-make-insurance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.97035 | 1,460 | 2 | 2 |
I is for Ideas
"The mind feeds on ideas, and therefore children should have a generous curriculum."--Charlotte Mason
What ideas are we going to take in today? Where are we going to get them? Which ones will take root?
What idea food will we put on the table? Swiss Family Robinson, the stories of Elisha, the life of Abraham Lincoln, a poem by John McCrae, math problems, and the wonders of our digestive system. For a start.
And we are so very thankful.
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Dan Bricklin, co-creator of Visicalc the first spreadsheet for the personal computer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on July 16, 1951.
VisiCalc helped to make the Apple, for which it was initially written, a success and also has a big impact on the IBM PC as people bought personal computers simply to run VisiCalc.
It was Bricklin's partner in Software Arts, Bob Frankston, who gave VisiCalc its name. Bricklin's suggestion for the application that he devised was "Calcu-Ledger", which while not as good a product name was a fairly accurate description of what his program does.
Dan Bricklin, born July 16, 1951
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. Born October 16, 1854, in Co. Dublin, to professional and literary parents, Wilde was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake.
Wilde is best known for his novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891)’ and his comic masterpieces ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)’. He was the object of celebrated civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality which lead to his imprisonment in 1895 to 1987.
In the final decade of his life, Wilde wrote and published nearly all of his major work. With exposure of a secret sin or indiscretion and consequent disgrace being the central design in many of his works.
On November 30, 1900, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde sadly died of meningitis following an acute ear infection. He was 46 years old when he passed away.
We remember and celebrate Oscar Wilde with some of his most famous quotes –
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth”
“I can resist everything except temptation”
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction”
“True friends stab you in the front”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much”
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination”
“Everything in moderation, including moderation”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known”
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear”
“I am not young enough to know everything”
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talking about, and that is not being talked about”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that it all”
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The Göttingen Seven (German: Göttinger Sieben) were a group of seven professors from Göttingen. In 1837, they protested against the abolition or alteration of the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover by Ernest Augustus and refused to swear an oath to the new king of Hanover. The company of seven was led by Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, who himself was one of the key advocates of the unadulterated constitution. The other six were the Germanist brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm (famed fairy tale and folk tale writers and storytellers, known together as the Brothers Grimm), jurist Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht, historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus, physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and theologian and orientalist Heinrich Georg August Ewald.
The constitution that Ernst Augustus opposed came into effect in 1833, while the King was still heir presumptive to the Hanoverian throne. Historian and politician Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann contested Ernest Augustus' plans to change the constitution to his liking, as Dahlman himself had contributed to the constitution's framing. Additionally, Dahlmann existed as the representative of the University of Göttingen, in the second chamber of the noble court.
The death of King William IV on June 20, 1837 had a great impact on Hanover's political positioning, relations, and union with the group of constitutional states in the German Confederation. With William's death, the personal union ended between Hanover and the United Kingdom, and William's brother (Ernest Augustus) took over as ruler of the kingdom of Hanover. Augustus' niece Victoria acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom, but could not inherit Hanover due to the provision of Salic Law in force in Hanover, which barred females from ruling.
About one month after he succeeded to the throne, King Ernest addressed the matter of the Constitution. He stated that he was not bound by it, as his consent had not been asked to it. He also indicated that it would have been different, or perhaps even non-existent, had he been in power at the time of its composition. He declared that it was his aim and ambition to make the necessary changes to the constitution and rewrite it to reflect his values.
Hearing this, Dahlmann made an attempt to persuade his colleagues at the University of Göttingen senate to disapprove of the king's intent to change the constitution, and take some form of action. None of his over 40 different colleagues were willing to support Dahlmann's view and possibly cause public conflict or unrest during ongoing festivities of the 100th anniversary of the Georg-August University of Göttingen.
Protest and aftermath
On November 1 of the same year, Ernest Augustus annulled the constitution. This move was met with political criticism from some German states. The move also provoked Dahlmann to again appeal to the university and to compose a protestation opposing Augustus' decision. This time, he received a better response: six other professors were now willing to sign as opposers. These six plus Dahlmann became known as the Göttingen Seven. Dahlmann's document was published on November 18 and it met with an explosive influence — the students at the university produced many hundreds or even thousands of copies and disseminated them across Germany.
The protest's impact forced the king to take action, and the seven defiant professors were questioned before the university court on December 4. Ten days later, the seven were relieved of their posts at the university, and three of them (Dahlmann, Jacob Grimm, and Gervinus) were given three days to leave the country. The university viewed the dismissal as a great loss to the university, confirmed in writings about the event during the time.
The direct effects of the protest were limited, but public sensation and media interest was high in Germany and much of Europe, and the seven were popular among the general public. Each of the seven had his own personal reasons for defying the king, but the fact that they had done so was the central catalyst for the media and public attention. The efforts of the Göttingen Seven outlived each of them, and the creation of a liberal republic in Germany can in part be traced back to their protest.
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- Suzanne L Marchand Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970. Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-691-11478-1
- Margaret B. W. Tent The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss. A K Peters, 2006. ISBN 1-56881-261-2
- Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848. Berghahn Books, 1997. ISBN 1-57181-099-4
- Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. University of Chicago Press, 1986. ISBN 0-226-41582-1
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- Marshall Dill Germany: A Modern History. University of Michigan Press, 1970. ISBN 0-472-07101-7
- Hajo Holborn A History of Modern Germany: 1840-1945. Princeton University Press, 1982, p. 28. ISBN 0-691-00797-7
- Hans-Christof Kraus "Die Gelehrten und der cholerische König" [The scholars and the cholerical king] (in German). In: Damals, vol. 45, No. 5, 2013, pp. 40–41.
- John Derbyshire Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. Joseph Henry Press, 2003. ISBN 0-309-08549-7
- Klaus Hentschel Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Birkhäuser, 1996. ISBN 3-7643-5312-0
- See, Klaus von (October 2000). Die Göttinger Sieben. Kritik einer Legende (The Göttinger filters. Criticism of a legend) (in German). Universitätsverlag Winter. ISBN 978-3-8253-1058-5.
- Hunger, Ulrich (2002). "Die Georgia Augusta als hannoversche Landesuniversität. Von der Gründung bis zum Ende des Königreichs (The Georgia Augusta as hanoverian national university. From its establishment to the end of the kingdom)". In Denecke, Dietrich; Böhme, Ernst. Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Anschluss an Preußen - Der Wiederaufstieg als Universitätsstadt (1648 - 1866) mit 32 Tabellen (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 3-525-36197-1.
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The 58-acre Greenacres Landfill site is located near Liberty Lake, about 14 miles east of Spokane, Washington. Between 1951 and 1972, the site owner operated a landfill on site. The landfill accepted household, industrial and agricultural wastes. Site activities contaminated groundwater with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semi-volatile organics and heavy metals. Following cleanup, operation and maintenance activities and monitoring are ongoing. | <urn:uuid:d3b393af-cbcc-40a2-ad39-85f077a4827a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=1000850 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00366-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905138 | 89 | 1.773438 | 2 |
PHYS226 : General Physics II
Calculus-based. Topics include simple harmonic motion, wave motion, sound, interference phenomena, electricity and magnetism, AC and DC circuits and electromagnetic waves. Modern Physics is a running theme. Laboratory utilizes computers for data acquisition and analysis. Meets General Education requirement for Science.
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However, his book Hayat Al-Sahabah, which may be translated as The Prophet’s Companions’ Way of Life, has earned wide acclaim and become essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the Islamic way of life or to explain Islam to Muslims and non-Muslims. In this book, Al-Kandhlawi collects reports mentioned in books of Hadith, history and biographies about the Prophet himself and his companions.
It highlights the aspects related to Islamic propagation and advocacy. It thus reflects life at the time of the Prophet’s companions, and shows their manners, feelings and thoughts in different situations. The book was published in Arabic in three volumes many times by different publishers. It has more recently been published, with annotation, in four large volumes, with two introductions by two highly reputable scholars, Syed Abu Al-Hasan Ali Nadwi, and Sheikh Abd Al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah. | <urn:uuid:0198692f-66f8-4423-9624-9f38af071588> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tablighijamaattruth.blogspot.com/2012/07/indian-islamic-scholar-maulana-yusuf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00549-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9706 | 195 | 2.296875 | 2 |
A lot of people want to know what to say in a thank you card. They know they need to write one. They know they need to say thanks. But, what else needs to go into the wording of a thank you card?
Well, the truthful answer is, it depends.
What is the reason that you’re thanking this person? Different situations call for different thank you card wording.
Thanking Someone for a Gift
Often times we feel compelled to give a thank you card after receiving a gift. Whether it’s Christmas, your birthday, or after a wedding, the general content of these thank you notes are more or less the same.
Cover these bases (at the least):
Thank the person for giving you the gift (duh).
Tell them how much you appreciate the gift.
Consider telling them what you’re going to do with the gift.
Thank them for being so thoughtful and/or generous.
Try to make the wording as personalized as possible. You don’t want it to seem like said the same thing in every thank you card. This can be especially difficult when you need to thank a lot of people (like after a wedding).
Here are some examples of thank you note wording after receiving a gift.
Sometimes friends can deserve a hearty thank you for any number of reasons. Thanking friends should always be from the heart, while also acknowledging anything special that they’ve done for you recently.
Here are some popular sayings for more personal thank you notes:
Thanks for being such a good friend.
I’m so glad to have you in my life.
I don’t know what I’d do without you.
I appreciate all the things you do for me.
If you’re thanking a friend for a specific deed or favor, make sure to make that the focus of the thank you card, while also telling them how glad you are to have them as a friend.
Here are a few guides on what to write in a thank you card when thanking friends:
The important thing to remember when writing a thank you card to a friend, is to be as personal as possible while also explaining the reasons for your gratitude.
Business Thank You Card Wording
When it comes to writing thank you cards in a business setting, the wording should, in general, be much more professional. You’ll need to keep in mind the position of the person to whom you’re writing, and make sure the tone of your thank you note is appropriate given your relationship to this person.
If you’re writing to your boss, or a potential employer, be professional and courteous. If you’re writing a card to your employees, or to a benefactor of your organization, your wording can be more informal.
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In November 2000 one of humanity’s greatest dreams came true – the International Space Station was built and we finally had a base for humans in space!
The International Space Station, often called the ‘ISS’, is a special kind of spacecraft floating in space around the Earth. It’s slightly bigger than a football field and heavier than 450 cars combined, but the ISS whizzes around the Earth 16 times every day!
The huge space station acts as a laboratory and house combined. Up to six people can live aboard the ISS at once and they can stay there for up to 6 months.
While on board the crew run all kinds of science experiments that can only be done in space. They range from biology to astronomy, such as experiments to tell us the risks of living in space to help keep astronauts safe on future missions to the Mars and beyond!
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is now more than halfway into his six-month mission on the ISS called ‘Blue Dot’. This mission will deliver over 100 exciting science experiments designed to improve life on Earth, test out new technologies and prepare for further exploration of the Solar System and space.
For example, astronauts exercise 90 minutes a day to stay fit and keep their bones and muscles healthy while they live in space. But a post-workout shower isn’t an option on the ISS. One of the Blue Dot experiments is testing two new clothing fabrics that can soak up sweat, keep people cool and even have cleansing properties.
Some of the experiments are slightly more challenging than others, such as those Alexander is currently running on himself! These tests will help us find out how people’s bodies age in very low gravity.
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Mexicali can be characterized under an arid climate type because of the low precipitation levels and high temperatures.
Winter: From November to mid-March the weather is around 27 degree Celsius and can be considered to be winters when compared with the rest of the year. Nights can be especially cold. There is chance of slight precipitation during this period.
Summer: Summers in Mexicali start in April and last all the way till October. The temperatures are very high, especially during the months of June to August.
The winter months of November to March are easily the best time to visit Mexicali. The temperatures are still moderate and comfortable. Irregular showers also help in bringing the temperature down.
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It will encourage infrastructure building assisting communities in the transformation of their current systems to modernized infrastructures with a focus on cultivating African Culture utilizing the most advanced technologies. The core of our system will be our lobbying for trade and circle of affluence to promote a African global holistic circular economy system. We will promote a global program for Africans and Diaspora with a focus on the 55 African countries and the US, repurposing new and used materials to reduce waste and increase effiency. Our systems are providing greater reliability, efficiency and security. Using distributed energy resources, smart technologies and other automation technologies, a reliable network of communications infrastructure is essential to implement grid modernization and SCADA architecture. We have launched our services in several African countries and the US including Atlanta, Seattle Washington, Ethiopia, Botswana, The Philippines, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya & Uganda. Please preview the video. We are working jointly with the commission s, Government Officials, Ministries, small and large Businesses in the US and Africa in a Rebranding campaign to highlight all of the beauty and resources in African countries & communities, US communities, African American communities & Diaspora communities globally.
We will lead a complete community holistic restructuring taking the best from our old systems, working with systems & models that are thriving now and adding new systems to streamline Logistics, Transportation and Distribution. Integrating a holistic infrastructure system that promotes Cultural enhancements, Education, Building usable parks, Affordable housing, Training & Retraining programs, Transportation agreements, Fulfillment centers, and SMART TRADE CENTERS with comprehensive transportation systems in multiple countries.
The system will promote policies and integrate with government initiatives globally like The African Continental Free Trade Area is an ambitious trade pact to form the world's largest free trade area by connecting almost 1.3bn people across 54 African countries & the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and “favored nation” status from the IMF and World Bank, plus all of the other things needed to provide our Diaspora regions with the support for secure and prosperous communities. Over the past two decades, the United States has provided assistance and support for sub-Saharan Africa’s efforts to transform its economic and trade relationships, centered around the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). First enacted into law on May 18, 2000, AGOA was designed to significantly enhance designated sub-Saharan African countries’ market access to the United States by providing duty-free treatment for specific import categories. The legislation’s primary goal was to promote economic growth through good governance and free markets. To qualify and remain eligible for AGOA, countries were expected to demonstrate progress toward market liberalization and to improve the rule of law, human rights protections, and core labor standards. More than 20 years later, AGOA continues to provide preferential treatment to 44 countries in the region, spanning over 6,500 tariff lines. Since May 2000, AGOA has been amended four times, mostly to clarify preferential treatment terms, technical standards, and sunset deadlines. The act was initially designed to be valid for eight years, expiring at the end of September 2007. In July 2004, however, President George W. Bush signed the AGOA Acceleration Act, extending it to 2015. Toward the end of his second term, in June 2015 President Barack Obama extended its validity by signing the Trade Preferences Extension Act, under which AGOA is set to expire in 2025.
The global political and economic landscape has changed profoundly since AGOA was enacted in 2000, even before the Covid-19 pandemic created new disruptions and accelerated several ongoing changes. The mobile telephony revolution has created new opportunities for millions to participate in the digital sphere, use mobile banking and payments systems, and receive commercial, educational, and medical services via the internet. Even as the sub-Saharan African region’s middle class continues to grow, it is also set to experience a youth population boom in the next three decades—which, under the right conditions, could pay a demographic dividend and avert a social crisis.
Meanwhile, the United States has also entered an era of great-power competition with China. With China’s influence in sub-Saharan Africa rising significantly, this competition is also playing out through the region’s political and economic institutions. Considering these opportunities and challenges, leaders in Washington (and their constituents across the United States) ought to look at Africa as a prospect for deepening commercial partnerships, not as a continent that needs to be “saved” through foreign assistance.
What industry should I make my EB-5 investment in?
In prior years, real estate projects were favored EB-5 investments because jobs were modeled by an economist to be created so long as the full budget in the business plan was spent. As real estate projects rarely come-in significantly under budget, this simplified job counts considerably and lowered the job-creation risk. Thus, big real estate projects in marquee locations were deemed to be most attractive as they were seen as “safer” for job creation.
However, since the enactment of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, and the new EB-5 program rules for Targeted Employment Areas (TEAs), many of these big-city projects no longer qualify at the lower investment level. Thus, real estate may not be attractive for an EB-5 project choice as it once was.
As many investors are motivated to pursue a TEA project for lower investment amounts, visa set-asides and premium processing for rural investments, they should understand that TEA investment projects, especially those in rural locations, can encompass a wide variety of industries.
Many new commercial enterprises are no longer location dependent, thus making them easier to qualify for TEA designation. Contemporary EB-5 projects can be in various industries including manufacturing, health care, call centers, technology businesses, and many others.
Unless an investor is comfortable investing $1,050,000 million in a non-TEA project, he or she should be open to a variety of project types and locations.
How do I make the EB-5 investment?
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The Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (HFC) SUPERGEN Hub seeks to address a number of key issues facing the hydrogen and fuel cells sector specifically: (i) to evaluate and demonstrate the role of hydrogen and fuel cell research in the UK energy landscape, and to link this to the wider landscape internationally, and (ii) to identify, study and exploit the impact of hydrogen and fuel cells in low carbon energy systems. Such systems will include the use of HFC technologies to manage intermittency with increased penetration of renewables, supporting the development of secure and affordable energy supplies for the future. Both low carbon transport (cars, buses, boat/ferries) and low carbon heating/power systems employing hydrogen and/or fuel cells have the potential to be important technologies in our future energy system, benefiting from their intrinsic high efficiency and ability to use a wide range of low to zero carbon fuel stocks. One major drive for the Hub is to contribute to technology development that will help the UK to meet its ambitious carbon emissions targets. We will also link the academic research base with industry, from companies with global reach through to SMEs and technology start-ups, to ensure effective and appropriate translation of research to support wealth and job creation for UK plc, and with local and national government to inform policy development. The Hub will champion the complete landscape in hydrogen and fuel cells research, both within the UK and internationally, via networks, knowledge exchange and stakeholder (including outreach) engagement, community building, and education, training and continuous professional development.
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Campaigners who saved a 150-year-old village pub from closure have won an award for their efforts.
The Save the Packhorse Project was set up six years ago by residents in South Stoke, Bath, after their local was sold to new owners, with plans to convert it into a house and office.
They started a petition, signed by 1,500 people, and succeeded in adding the Packhorse Inn to the local council's Asset of Community Value list.
A fundraising campaign was launched to buy the pub, which led to £600,000 being raised with the help of 200 investors.
The inn is now owned by 430 shareholders who reopened it as a community pub earlier this year following renovations, during which a 17th century fireplace was discovered.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) announced it had given its Pub Saving Award to the campaign.
Dom Moorhouse, managing director of the Packhorse Community Pub, said: "It's really a testament to our visionary, generous shareholders and the hundreds of volunteers who have helped make the project a reality.
"It's really hard work, doing what we've done, and it's so rewarding for everyone involved to not only have a great community asset but also be recognised for our achievement as a team."
Paul Ainsworth, who organises the award, said: "The Packhorse Inn was unanimously selected by our judges as the winner. I have followed their story closely and with interest - it really is inspirational stuff. I hope that success stories such as this of the Packhorse Community Pub encourage other communities to fight for their local pub.
"The Packhorse has served the village of South Stoke for centuries - to have lost it would have been devastating, and I am delighted that the team have been rewarded for their unyielding persistence and effort."
The runner-up in the competition was the Volunteer Pub in Bexleyheath, which closed in 2017 after 152 years of service as a public house and was saved by local campaigners.
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First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of medieval history.
For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the historiography of the past decade into account.
The Two Cities covers a colourful period from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante.
It encompasses key topics such as: * the Crusades * the expansionist force of the Normans * major developments in the way kings, emperors and Popes exercised their powers * a great flourishing of art and architecture * the foundation of the very first universities.
Running through it all is the defining characteristic of the high Middle Ages: the delicate relationship between the spiritual and secular worlds, the two 'cities' of the title.
This survey provides all the facts and background information that students need, and is defined into straightforward thematic chapters.
It makes extensive use of primary sources, and makes new trends in research accessible to students. Its fresh approach gives students the most rounded, lively and integrated view of the high Middle Ages available.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560 pages, 19 black & white tables, 27 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date: 08/04/2004
- Category: European history
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Less than six kilometers before river Bidasoa, near the French-Spanish border, empties into the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a small river island called Pheasant. It was here, in 1659, that representatives from France and Spain met and signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, officially ending the Thirty Years War. The treaty also drew a new border that runs along the Pyrenees mountains, and then follows the Bidasoa river to the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic Ocean, forming a natural border between France and Spain. As is usually the case with borders that follow the course of a river, the French-Spanish border was fixed along the center of the river. Ideally, the border should have cut right through Pheasant Island splitting the 1.6 acre island into two halves, with France and Spain controlling their respective sides. But the Treaty of the Pyrenees agreed upon a different kind of arrangement, by which Pheasant Island became a condominium.
Pheasant Island (Isla de los Faisanes, in Spanish, and Île des Faisans, in French, as seen from the Spanish side. Photo credit: Zarateman/Wikimedia
A condominium is a territory over which multiple nations exercise equal dominion and sovereignty, without diving it into different national zones. Antarctica is one example of a successful condominium. Historically, there have been a few condominiums but most didn’t survive for too long. The success of such an arrangement requires cooperation of all parties involved, something which is difficult to ensure over long periods of time. Once the understanding fails, the condominium fails.
Pheasant Island is not only the oldest surviving condominium, it is also the only one where sovereignty isn’t shared simultaneously, but alternately. For six months a year, Pheasant Island is French. For the other six, it is Spanish. As the New York Times puts it, “it’s like the ball in an extremely slow game of ping-pong between France and Spain.”
Prior to the war and the signing of the treaty, Pheasant Island’s status was undefined. As a neutral venue, it was frequently used as a meeting place between French and Spanish monarchs and as a place where prisoner exchanges took place. As a result, many important historical events took place on the island. It was here, on Pheasant Island, that French king Louis XIII met his Spanish bride, Ana of Austria, while at the same time her brother, Philip IV, laid his eyes on his French bride and Louis XIII’s sister, Elisabeth of France. Later, Louis XIII’s son, Louis XIV met his future wife Maria Theresa of Spain. Over the years, other bridal exchanges took place —Marie Louise d'Orléans was handed over to Charles II of Spain, and Mariana Victoria of Spain to the French king, Louis XV, although the marriage never went ahead.
Today, Pheasant Island is off-limit to visitors, although one can get pretty close to the island. It lies less than 100 feet from the Spanish bank of river Bidasoa, in the town of Irun, and about 150 feet from the French side in the commune of Hendaye.
Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain meeting on Pheasant Island for the Treaty of the Pyrenees. Oil on canvas by artist Jacques Laumosnier.
Photo credit: www.armada.mde.es
A monolith built on Pheasant Island to commemorate the signing of the treaty. Photo credit: Eugenio Perez/Panoramio
Every six months officials from Spain and France meet for a little ceremony during which transfer of documents take place. For the next six months, the receiver assumes control of the island. Photo credit: www.armada.mde.es
Photo credit: Eugenio Perez/Panoramio
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Would you like to play a word game with David as the subject? Participation is not mandatory; it’s all in fun. The goal is to keep the game going until David comes back from his mission in 2014.
The first poster posts a word about David, starting with the letter A. It can be anything from a food he likes to the name of one of his siblings to an adjective used to describe him, to the name of one of his songs to the name of one of his band members to…well, you get the idea.
The second poster uses letter B and so on. When we get to Z we just start over again.
Please continue posting regular comments as always; the game answer is to be posted right beneath your comment, like a trailer.
When we put the next article up, the game can continue beneath each comment, for those who wish to continue playing.
I’ll give you an example starting with the letter A. No wait, I’ll do A and B. The next poster can do C. The next, D, etc. It’s okay if more than one person takes a turn for the same letter.
A – Archuleta (hard one, eh? LOL)
B – Balut
Remember, C is next!
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A cantilever is a structure that is only anchored along one side, and it protrudes or juts out into space like an overhang. Cantilever shelves seem to emerge from the wall, sometime with no visible support at all, which is why they are sometimes called floating shelves. Choosing the best cantilever shelving is a decision based on a number of factors, including personal taste, budget and, most importantly, the type of wall to which the shelving is to be attached.
Cantilever shelves rely on the integrity of the wall to which they will be attached for their support, so the building materials making up the wall must be considered before any cantilever shelving is selected. Walls made of sheetrock, sometimes called dry wall, typically can only hold cantilever shelving if two or more studs behind the sheet rock are located, and the fasteners used to mount the shelving are driven directly into those studs. Special fasteners called toggle bolts can further reinforce the attachment of cantilever shelving to sheetrock walls, though these are not designed to go into the studs.
Trying to attach cantilever shelving, or even a heavy piece of framed art, to a sheetrock wall without locating the studs and using the proper hardware often results in precious home decorations crashing to the floor, leaving behind a crumbly hole in the wall where the screw or nail used to be. Locating studs behind sheetrock walls is best done with a stud finder. Knocking on the wall with your knuckles and listening for the rise in pitch can sometimes give a hint as to where the studs might be, though this is not a recommended method for pin-pointing the exact location. Once studs are located and adequate hardware is established, choosing the best cantilever shelving for sheetrock walls is now a matter of aesthetics, in terms of both the form and function of the shelves.
Attaching cantilever shelving to brick or stone walls requires using concrete screws and a hearty drill. While more difficult than finding a stud behind the sheetrock wall, the solid structure of brick walls allows for heavier shelves to be mounted and more weight to be held. Again, once the structural elements of support have been considered, the best cantilever shelving for brick walls becomes a question of the design and décor of the room, and what looks most attractive in the space.
Determining which cantilever shelving is best in terms of style must be based on the purpose of the shelves. Small, decorative cantilever shelving serves a different purpose than shelving meant to hold books or showcase a heavy, ceramic vase. When cantilever shelving is chunky and bold in design, it becomes the focus, so if the shelves are intended to showcase a sculpture or other decorative pieces, the shelves should not draw too much attention to themselves. If the goal of cantilever shelving is more practical, such as providing a way to increase storage in a room without giving up floor space, strong, thin shelves work well, and the design element can come in with color.
Stainless steel and glass block materials are modern, urban twists on cantilever shelving. Shelves made of rare materials, such as exotic woods or slabs of granite, will likely be expensive and may be heavier than your wall can support. There are plastic and hallow cantilever shelves made to look like wood and concrete that are much lighter and less expensive than the real thing. Harvesting shelving from older buildings being torn down is becoming a popular way to “build green” and would be considered the best cantilever shelving if your priority is protecting the environment.
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- August 8, 2014
- By Marv Knox / Editor
Have you ever seen the pessimist’s bumper sticker? “Due to budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.” It would be funnier if it didn’t feel so true.
That sticker echoes a classic conversation from the original Star Trek TV show …
Dr. McCoy: “Tell me, Spock. Why are you Vulcans such pessimists?”
Mr. Spock: “Doctor, do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? The pessimist simply has more information.”
We certainly live in pessimism-inducing times.
The rate of war nears unprecedented levels. According to one Internet source, wars—defined as conflicts that result in 1,000 or more battle-related deaths per year—are being waged in 10 countries. Serious armed conflicts—which inflict 200 to 999 casualties per year—are scarring eight more nations. Other armed conflicts have broken out in 14 additional countries.
Beyond war, Ebola is ravaging West Africa, HIV/AIDS still afflicts parts of Africa and elsewhere, planes have fallen from the sky, Russia’s Vladimar Putin is behaving like a bully, and children are immigrating to our border. Congress is gridlocked. The stock market has limped lately. Even paradise, Hawaii, is enduring two hurricanes.
If this feels like déjà vu, you’ve been paying attention to the news. And you may have read the editorial in this space two weeks ago.
So, it’s not surprising multiple polls show pervasiveness of pessimism across the planet.
How we respond to these conditions often depends upon our mindset. Winston Churchill, who led Great Britain through unspeakable adversity during World War II, acknowledged the same circumstances can produce opposite results: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
Churchill probably was correct. But with all due respect to the “Last Lion,” the opposite of pessimism is not optimism. It is hope.
That’s why it’s hard to be a faithful Christian and a pessimist. We possess hope.
Don’t sell hope short. Hope isn’t Pollyannaish. It’s not naïve. It realizes evil exists, and evil sometimes prevails.
Hope in the furnace
But hope does not despair, even in the face of calamity. In the Old Testament book of Daniel, the Hebrew young men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego held fast to hope, even as they acknowledged they might die in their persecutor’s super-heated oven. They told the king: “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
They spoke with confidence because they embraced a divine truth: Hope tells us present circumstances are not ultimate.
Hope helps us remember resilience. It recalls occasions when darkness seemed to prevail, but dawn arrived again.
Hope confirms we do not fear evil, because “… the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Hope is evangelistic
Hope repeats wisdom from the Apostle Peter: “Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened. But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:13-15).
In that regard, hope is evangelistic. When we lean into hope, it grows in us. When we speak of hope, it grows in others.
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Codis Solutions for Air Traffic Management (ATM)
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Codis ATM and ATC display solutions include displays as well as networking, for accurate real-time information throughout the ATM system.
Codis ATC displays are designed for optimum reading quality, reliability, and user comfort and even exceed the specifications imposed by the ATC community. They offer breakthrough LCD technology at the lowest life-cycle cost and offer the best optical performance (brightness, contrast, and color behavior) for multi-display applications.
The growing reliance on advanced software tools in today's ATC and ATM environments creates a need for more diverse HMI display surfaces. Today's air traffic controllers are using more and more tools to display an ever-increasing load of information. That's why Esterline has designed its Codis 24-inch ADP-361/3 display to offer extra visualization capabilities with respect to size and resolution, while maintaining a good optical match with the main display. | <urn:uuid:edf0f269-99ef-4eec-9b01-9fb1c8666f1e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.esterline.com/controlandcommunication/Codis/Markets/AirTrafficControl.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903762 | 209 | 1.59375 | 2 |
What is KYC and AML? How to verify KYC successfully
- 1.What are KYC and AML?
- 2.What is KYC?
- 3.What is AML?
- 4. How are KYC and AML important?
- 5.Documents to prepare for successful KYC identity verification
- 6.Why it is necessary to verify KYC?
- 6.1 Avoiding Identity Theft
- 6.2 Financial Assistance to Terrorist Organizations
- 6.3 Financial Fraud
- 6.4 Money
- 7.How do we do KYC and AML?
What are KYC and AML? These are two essential concepts that players need to know if they want to participate in the financial markets. One question is how the government and financial institutions can know where Blockchain's money comes from. Do not worry! KYC and AML will help you control this. Check out the article below for more details!
1.What are KYC and AML?
KYC and AML are understood as the due diligence process of a company or organization to verify the identity of their customers.
This process ensures that the customer's money is in legal possession. In addition, KYC and AML also ensure that customers are not on the "Blacklist" list, such as criminals, corruption, terrorism, etc. In today's article, KYC and AML are mentioned in the field. Cryptocurrency
KYC and AML are due diligence processes by a company or organization to verify the identity of their customers.
2.What is KYC?
Know Your Customer (KYC) is understood as knowing your customers or understanding customers. KYC process collects identifying information related to customers of certain services. Basic information is collected, including portrait, ID card, Passport, address, etc.
The primary purpose of KYC is to remove unqualified people from using a service. Each other will develop different standards in this regard.
For example: Exchange X only allows US citizens to register and trade, but exchange Y enable global citizens to use information so that the authorities can investigate or track wrong doing
The KYC process collects identifying information related to the customer of a certain service
3.What is AML?
AML (Anti Money Laundering) is understood as anti-money laundering. Money laundering is the practice of storing illegally earned money to make the proceeds “seem” legitimate. Anti-money laundering includes regulations put in place to prevent revenue generation import from illegal acts such as corruption, smuggling, drugs,...
AML (Anti Money Laundering) is understood as anti-money laundering
4. How are KYC and AML important?
The importance of KYC and AML? Terrorists earned 1 million dollars after carrying out the bombing. Currently, he is a wanted person. If he wants to transfer money to someone else, he has to convert this money into Bitcoin.
To change USD into Bitcoin on the exchange, the criminal needs to perform KYC to verify the identity, and indeed that account will be disabled in the first place because it is on the Blacklist. Then, KYC and AML properly perform their role in preventing " dirty money."
KYC and AML do their part in preventing “dirty money”
5.Documents to prepare for successful KYC identity verification
How can users use KYC successfully. Below is a list of documents required to perform KYC listed:
- Identity, identity card (ID card), or Passport (Passport).
- Driving license.
- Notarized residency documents are valid for 3 months. These documents must contain information about your address, whether utility bills, television bills, etc.
- Present proof of personal income to ensure that you do not use "dirty money" for that ICO or exchange. (Depends on whether the ICO project/exchange requires it.)
ICO projects or exchanges will ask you to provide a photo or scan and submit it. Some notable projects may require users to "take a selfie" holding their ID card or Passport.
After submitting all the documents, their side will check the information by comparing the information you have registered with the submitted papers. A KYC identity verification cycle takes 1-2 days, depending on different projects and exchanges.
Documents to prepare for successful KYC identity verification
6.Why it is necessary to verify KYC?
KYC verification aims to confirm exactly where the funds are coming from and from whom. Governments of countries around the world have minimized illegal activities and protected stakeholders. Some of the reasons for requiring KYC verification are listed below.
6.1 Avoiding Identity Theft
KYC solves identity theft by providing valid proof to establish your legitimate identity. Banks and institutions using KYC prevent fake accounts by keeping accurate records of each invoice and ensuring only the right people can receive their services.
6.2 Financial Assistance to Terrorist Organizations
The United States government recognizes that many different people and agencies use the money generated in this country to finance terrorist organizations.
Therefore, the US government has begun to crack down on suspicious activities such as shell account transfers to prevent terrorist activities. KYC collects a list of accounts that help prevent currency exchange and track money being created and transferred.
6.3 Financial Fraud
KYC is also very helpful in fighting financial fraud. The most complex copy is that the perpetrator will set up an account using fake or stolen IDs. Next, they fill out a loan application. After the approval process, the perpetrator stole the funds raised from various versions.
This is the situation that makes KYC verification necessary. To curb illegal financial activities, the US government introduced the Bank Secrecy Act and the Patriot Act to end these activities.
KYC is also very useful in fighting financial fraud
Laundering Money laundering is understood as illegally transferring money and turning it into legitimate sources of capital. Organized and unorganized criminal elements will use fake accounts in banks to store money.
This amount will be spread across different versions to avoid suspicion. The money is then transferred through illegal means to other countries and states for money laundering.
Money laundering is understood as the process of transferring money illegally and turning them into legitimate sources of money
7.How do we do KYC and AML?
The US, Korea, UK, and the European Union have also integrated KYC and AML processes into their cryptosystems. These are the leading countries to apply and issue regulations for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.
In the US, Korea, UK and the European Union have also integrated KYC and AML processes into their crypto systems.
The governments of these countries have integrated KYC and AML into their cryptocurrency systems. Currently, Vietnam has not issued laws related to cryptocurrencies and Blockchain.
Hopefully, this article has helped readers understand “what are KYC and AML?” in Cryptocurrency. These two processes may take a little longer to complete the identification steps. However, you will be trading and buying in the safer market. If you want to know more helpful information about Blockchain and Cryptocurrency market, visit the BHO Network website. Thank you for reading!
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I have a pi 1 B based osmc set up just fine. except…
As its in a bedroom linked to tv, powerlines, xbox etc on the same 4 way gang, the lot is switched off when not in use.
When I switched it on, the tv, power line etc comes to life. I can see that the kodi has started up as the remote on the ipad is working. However the tv says no signal.
I then tell osmc/kodi to reboot via the ipad app and then osmc comes to life just fine.
Any ideas as to why I have to perform this reboot, or anyway to avoid it?
THanks for the reply. that seems to be my issue.
is there another tutorial that actually explains what doing a sudo means?
that wiki doesnt seem to have a full explanation and how to attached
Do I assume correctly you want to know what it means to use sudo? sudo is a command that allows the “normal” user to execute commands as super user (root) http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_sudo.htm
Maybe also check
Details how to access OSMC via command line locally or via ssh can be found here: https://osmc.tv/wiki/general/accessing-the-command-line/
Here is a cheatsheet for how to navigate in a linux shell: Cheatsheets and Tutorials for users new to Linux based operating systems
Perfect. awesome help.
Exactly what I was needing.
sorry. more linux help needed.
ssh’s in ok using putty. ran the sudo command and created a edid.dat file in the root that I can see with the ls command.
i can change to the /boot directory using cd /boot and then a ls shows me loads of osmc files including config.txt.
so according to the other link i tried the linux command
cp edid.dat /boot
to copy the edid from root to the boot /but get
cannot create regular file. permission denied.
any tips. also, how do I edit the config.txt file in putty/linux?
rapid linux course here
thanks yet again. Your help is very appreciated.
So managed to copy the edid.dat file to the /boot. ta.
Now looking at editing the config.txt file. google tells me to use
it opens the file and I can make the changes. however, when I try and save, either as the same config,txt or as a new name I get permission denied.
sudo pico config.txt
seems to work!
sudo is the answer to all my questions it seems - lol
Everything that you do on /boot you have to do as as superuser so using sudo.
sudo pico /boot/config.txt or
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
If you do a
ls -lah /boot you will see the owner and the permission of the files on /boot.
They all belong to root and are only writeable by the owner
Don’t forget there is an option in My OSMC -> Pi config to capture and install an EDID file for you without doing all this manually…
But I wouldn’t have had as much fun that way. lol
WOW LOL… I totally forgot about that…
BTW, is your actual problem now fixed? If yes please set the post to SOLVED
erm. dont know. Angelic child is watching Pinocchio just now (having been watching Disney all day) and I’ve not had the chance to reboot yet!
All working great now.
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' - Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll.
The claims of a patent specification define the scope of a patentee's monopoly. Some inventions can be described using words that have fixed meanings, but many require the use of terms that are more ambiguous. Terms used in claims are usually given their 'plain meaning', but the courts have routinely held that the specification can be used as a dictionary to help with interpretation. This concept is known as the dictionary principle. Therefore, it is common for specifications to include definitions of any terms that are novel, or being used in a specific manner.
This can be beneficial to a patentee, as claims with unclear terms may be held invalid. But care must be taken not to define terms too narrowly. The flip side of being allowed to use the specification as a dictionary is that the patentee is then restricted to the definition they are given.
The recent decision of the Australian Patents Commissioner in Securency International Pty Ltd v De La Rue International Limited APO 112 (24 October 2012) highlights how specification definitions can affect claim interpretation.
Securency opposed the grant of De La Rue International Limited's application on several grounds, including lack of novelty, inventive step and clarity.
The disputed application related to a security device having a microlens array and corresponding microimages which were formed from an anti-reflection structure, a method of manufacturing such a device, and a document incorporating such a security device.
The Commissioner identified five key features in claim 1: (i) An array of microlenses, (ii) a corresponding array of microimages, (iii) an anti-reflection structure on the substrate formed by a (iv) periodic array of identical structural elements, and (v) a partially reflecting layer on the same side of the substrate as the anti-reflection structure.
Some terms were easily given their plain meaning, for example a 'microlens' is a lens with a diameter less than 1mm. However, there was some dispute over the term 'antireflection structure'.
The plain meaning of 'antireflection structure' is any structure that prevents the reflection of light. It is typically a material's properties (e.g. its colour) rather than its structure (e.g. whether the surface is rough or smooth) which predominantly determines whether a surface will reflect light. However, the specification provided a different, more limited definition:
An anti-reflection structure of the type utilised in the described embodiments of the current invention, is any periodic structure that is finer than the wavelength of light and provides a surface layer in which the refractive index varies gradually from unity to the index of the bulk material, and thereby minimises reflections that are associated with sudden changes in refractive index.
Arguments and determination
The applicant and opponent both submitted that the term 'antireflection structure' should be interpreted using the plain meaning of the term, not the definition in the specification. Both parties argued that because the narrower definition was recited in one of the dependant claims, claim 1 should be given a broader interpretation based on the 'presumption against redundancy'.
The hearing officer disagreed. He held that the dictionary principle suggested the term 'anti-reflection structure' should be construed as limited to a structure with a refractive index gradient. The fact that the description provided a definition for the term outweighed the parties arguments in favour of a broader interpretation.
The prior art cited by the opponent operated on a different principle to the refractive index gradient used by the anti-reflection structure in the claims, and the opposition was dismissed.
Although the applicant was successful in defending the opposition, they now have a public decision stating the claims of their patent are of a far more limited scope than it appears they intended.
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In the mid-1950s, a naval officer in the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C., with gold up to his elbows, took a hard look at the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, which would earn the nickname Whale, and thought: Hmmm. Here we have the biggest airplane ever to trap on a carrier—an airplane with an immense bomb bay. Pilots are flying a whole fleet of them around empty, theoretically honing their skills. Gotta do something about that. So he dictated a note to his chief. “Pressurize the bomb bay and make it a VIP transport. Or how about a tanker?”
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His note started the paper mill rolling, and eventually a letter of intent went to Douglas Aircraft. The legendary designer Ed Heinemann balked at loading up his Skywarrior with refueling equipment, but the Navy insisted.
At the Douglas test facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1956, flight test engineer Warner Lowe and I had just investigated the high-angle-of-attack engine stalls on A3Ds coming off carrier catapult shots. We were cooling our heels, wondering what fiasco would be tossed at us next, when we were told to go to Douglas in El Segundo, California. An A3D had just been configured into a tanker there, and Warner and I had to fly it to Edwards. For a couple of weeks, the test facility made various tweaks to it.
The tanker had a four-inch-diameter hose with a refueling basket attached, wound on a large reel in the rear of the bomb bay. On the first test flight, we extended hose and basket to its full 60-foot length and listened for what the pilot of our Lockheed T-33 chase plane would say about its stability. Before he could open his mouth, the hose and basket whipped in a large circle and snapped off. Doing his best to sound like Chuck Yeager, Chase said, “Gents, y’all’s hose and basket are on their way down. Looks like a big ol’ snake flyin’ through the air. Better luck next time. See ya.” He did a slow roll and flew off.
The Navy decided to try a “flying pipe” system of rigid tubing that hung beneath the A3D. Though it proved somewhat stable, during one plug with a Grumman F9F, part of the tubing broke off from the Whale but didn’t disconnect from the Grumman. The F9F pilot was very unhappy about landing on the lakebed with several feet of tubing hanging off the nose, and didn’t want anything more to do with us. (Let him grumble. There was always another young test pilot eager to log plug time.) That was the end of the tubular refueling system.
Various sizes of hose, drogue, and basket were then tried. We attempted hooking up with another A3D: That seemed to work after a fashion.
The Navy wanted a pilot new to refueling to try our system. I was an old World War II fighter pilot (P-39, P-40, and P-51), and before the A3D flights had never even heard of a probe. So I was chosen. Although I had been the tanker pilot, I would now pilot another A3D and hook up with the A3D tanker.
The system was still a little unstable, and we were in light turbulence. While Warner, as copilot, wore a big grin, I edged toward the basket at 15,000 feet and eased the probe into it while it danced its little jig. When I thought I had it, I added a little power to make the plug—and missed. I shaved off some power, backed out, and set up to try again. Warner was now chuckling. I gave him a dirty look and again eased the probe into the basket. Bingo! A solid plug. I held it for a few turns, climbs, and descents at various speeds. I grinned back at Warner. “Piece of cake.”
I had recently spent a week aboard the USS Forrestal and had ridden along on four A3D catapult shots and traps. Now I thought about the black of night with rain and more turbulence, and stopped grinning.
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Philosopher Kierkegaard defined awe “as a state of existential fear and trembling”. However today because of rapidly advancing technology we have all lost our sense of awe. As a child I was always awe-struck with lighting thunder, the rains, waves in the ocean and mountains. Even magic shows, visit to a zoo and the circus would leave me awe-stricken for hours on end.
Just what is this elusive emotion, and how can we nurture it in today’s technology driven world, where nothing seems to amaze or intrigue us anymore. Even in the world of arts, letters, poetry, literature and transcendental pursuit’s, people pay scant attention and are no longer amazed.
Most of us have lost our capacity for this acutely profound emotion - the paucity of time does not permit us to stand and stare in awe of something. Yet we struggle with loneliness in our lives despite, the I phone, face book, Gmail and internet which are supposed to enhance our interconnectedness. The results can be seen in the increasing violence and dysfunctional families.
Our consumption behavior has changed and it is also related to ethics, we don’t mind shopping for thousands of dollars, replacing, gizmos for the latest models yet ignore the misery on the face of the beggar and his plaintive cry for help, a material bulimia has set in our life.
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The loss of awe has a direct connection to this predicament. The experience of awe increases our sense of time and our own mortality, which in turn will enhance our sense of well being and lead us to act more generously with the world.
Awe raises our awareness levels; we begin to see the images through the eyes of our soul. The sounds we hear, the smell, taste, touch and thoughts transcend to a higher realm.Our perception of life changes and despite our fears and worries we make choices to alleviate suffering and bring joy. As Vanna Bonta says “a heart needs only its own voice to do what is right”. As for me I am always in awe of life.….. Vinay | <urn:uuid:df366f62-f648-4598-b9e4-e7ea16950df8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.speakingtree.in/blog/in-awe-of-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00325-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93784 | 439 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Area: 799,380 sq km
The Zambezi and 24 other rivers divide the 2,800 km-long land and make north-south travel difficult.
Population: 23,405,670 Annual Growth: 2.35%
Official language: Portuguese, understood by less than 30% Languages: 53 All languages
Largest Religion: Christian
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The country has enjoyed peace since 1992 after 30 years of war, and the politicians have genuinely endeavoured to maintain and build on this peace. The government has performed admirably in advancing the nations democratic, economic and religious freedom status.
Mozambiques brokenness continues. After being shattered by colonialism and civil war, natural disasters and debt burdens, Mozambique remains one of the worlds poorest nations. Personal brokenness also persists as many have been traumatized by the violence and deprivation. Turn these major challenges into prayer:
a) Continuing natural disasters. The cyclones, floods and earthquakes disrupt development and destroy infrastructure, not to mention take many lives.
b) Dependency. Heavy reliance on aid and a high public debt combine with existing poverty to make economic growth a challenge. Many struggle from day to day just to survive, but progress is being made.
c) Disease. Life expectancy averages only 48 years, to a large degree because of disease and extremely basic medical facilities for most. Pray for effective, practical programmes that assist those who need it most.
i AIDS is a major challenge, with 16% of the adult population HIV-positive. The faith communities and government have united with a national action plan. Pray that a reversal, as in some other African countries, might occur.
ii Malaria is an even greater bane, with a much higher prevalence over 5 million cases a year taking many lives and sapping the health of those who survive.
iii Other medical issues such as diarrhoea and tuberculosis become even more lethal amidst intense poverty and especially when combined with the above two diseases.
For an additional 6 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.
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The Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP) is a program of the University Library that licenses a sub-set of the University Library's health sciences e-resources for access by Saskatchewan's licensed health care practitioners, post-secondary institution students and employees.
Licensed health care practitioners in Saskatchewan may access SHIRP resources either through their health region library or the SHIRP website. They may request articles not in the collection through SHIRP free of charge. Practitioners who hold UofS Faculty appointments or are Preceptors are encouraged to access resources and services from the University Library website using their NSID.
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The learning process is composed of 3 parts, which are brain, sensorial nerve and muscle. The coordination of these 3 parts can create the learning process.
Like a little sponge, Baby has absorb and learn everything around since born.. He can learn through every senses, Watch, Listen, Smell, Taste and Touch. Baby also learns about the world around him by observing, imitating and trying. After that, he starts to practice every skill deftly.
The early childhood is essential which make an important role in his life. It’s a stage that baby accumulates knowledge about himself and environment surround. Baby could develop his small muscle and discover his newfound skills.
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The death of Apple's inspirational leader is likely to have a deep impact on the maker of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, giving major rivals a greater chance to catch up with the technology giant.
Steve Jobs' creative spirit was so closely tied to the fortunes of Apple that his death at 56 raises questions about the company's ability to keep its pipeline of transformational products running at such a fast pace.
As a technology analyst, I am sorry for his death. It was Jobs' Apple, not Apple's Jobs, said Kim Young-chan, an analyst at Shinhan Investment in Seoul.
The CEOs of rivals including Samsung Electronics, Amazon, Google and Sony mourned the death of Jobs, a sign of the respect they held for the Silicon Valley legend.
Investors had known about Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer. In August, the man known for minimalist design and marketing genius handed the reins to long-time operations chief Tim Cook.
Apple no longer has someone as creative and ambitious as Jobs that they can rely on, said Simon Liu, deputy investment officer of Polaris Group's fund unit.
In Asia, the fortunes of Samsung are most closely tied to Apple.
Analysts have said the South Korean conglomerate is one of the best placed companies to deliver something fresh and exciting to rival Apple. Samsung produces the closest competitor to Apple's iPad tablet computer.
The two companies are scrapping for top spot in the smartphone market, having overtaken Nokia, the market leader for the past decade, in the second quarter.
Apple is also Samsung's biggest customer through the sale of mobile chips and display screens.
The relationship and rivalry has helped Samsung become a top global brand over the past decade with a stock market value of $115 billion -- still modest compared with Apple's $345 billion.
But the relationship has also produced tensions as Samsung emerged as a credible challenger to Apple's mobile devices. The two companies have sued each other in 10 countries involving more than 20 cases since April.
Samsung's Galaxy range of smartphones and tablet computers running on Google's Android operating system are seen as the main competitor to Apple's game-changing iPhones and iPads.
The competition was flummoxed by the iPad, Jobs declared in March when he took the stage to unveil Apple's latest tablet.
They went back to the drawing boards. They tore up their designs because they weren't competitive, Jobs said.
Lee Seung-woo, technology analyst at Shinyoung Securities, said Apple had transformed the industry, but its influence would wane without Jobs at the helm of the company.
Under Jobs, Apple consolidated segmented IT sectors into one big consumer market and claimed so many victims, Lee said. Without Jobs, Apple's rivals now have some time to step up and majors such as Google, Samsung, Microsoft and Facebook will try to fill the gap.
Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at research consultancy Ovum, said Apple would do well in the short term as the company would roll out products Jobs had a hand in.
The iPhone -- introduced in 2007 with the touchscreen template now adopted by its rivals -- is the gold standard in the booming smartphone market, and its sales have dealt a blow to ambitious plans of many competitors.
The question is whether it can continue to launch iconic and successful products without him (in the longer term)... In the longer term, Apple risks becoming a more ordinary company without him.
Jobs' influence was underlined by the outpouring of tributes from executives of the world's biggest companies.
Chairman Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur, Samsung Chief Executive G.S. Choi said in a statement.
Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony Corp said: The digital age has lost its leading light, but Steve's innovation and creativity will inspire dreamers and thinkers for generations.
Jobs' death comes after Apple this week launched the latest version of its iPhone, in what was Cook's first big product introduction.
However, the iPhone 4S failed to wow fans and investors and some analysts said the rare loss of momentum could give rivals room to push their products.
Jobs was an outstanding CEO and his successor Tim Cook faces a test (as to) whether Apple will be able to lead the global market as it was before, Lee Jun-hyuck, a fund manager at Dongbu Asset Management.
On Thursday, Samsung's shares rose 3.9 percent, LG Electronics advanced 6.6 percent and Sony rose 3.6 percent as part of broad gains in Asian markets.
Phones based on Google's Android, which is available for free to handset vendors such as Samsung, HTC, LG and Motorola, have a greater combined market share than Apple's iPhone, which is still the world's No. 1 selling smartphone.
Apple faces big challenges with the loss of Jobs and that will offer other technology companies opportunities to challenge its supremacy, said Lee at Shinyoung.
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Swimming Pool Algae
Swimming Pool Algae
If you have not had this problem, the more certain is that you may have it in the future. Sooner or later, as much care a person has with its swimming pool, ends up having problems with algae: a plague which, although not directly harmful to humans, creates conditions for the development of many other bacteria - such this, dangerous. Moreover, they have inevitable aesthetic consequences, which take up all the beauty of the swimming pool, turning it into something uninviting to a dive.
Initially with a microscopic format, reproduce in a frighteningly quick way, and there is no way to prevent that they settle in your pool: they are transported by wind, rain or even the clothing worn by bathers. The aim is to avoid that they reproduce by removing them as soon as they get in your pool. Algae require specific conditions to flourish, passing by the water temperature, by a pH level too high and low chlorine (or another equivalent agent). As such, the best way to prevent them is to often correct the treatment of water, keeping its various components within the optimal levels, regular cleaning of your own pool, vacuuming and brushing regularly, it is also a great way of prevention.
With so many variables that create good conditions for the development of algae, it is natural that something will eventually fail and algae arise. The first step is the identification: usually take spots on the walls of the pool that start small, but that can be spread over large areas from night to day, when you see the first signs that does not mean that you are starting to have a problem with algae. It means that you already have it, because there will be plenty of other pockets already, just not yet visible.
In total there are over 20,000 different types of algae. Regarding the pool algae, they are generally grouped by the color they assume, and therefore there are four main types:
- Green algae: it is the most common type, which assumes a greenish color, like moss, is easily identified in the water line, stairs and corners. It can be brushed or vacuumed without difficulty, but this solution is only provisional, requiring further treatment. It is also the type that spreads more quickly, can cover the water in 24 hours!
- Yellow Algae: assuming a dark yellow or brown color, this type of algae is not as quick to develop as green, but is more difficult to remove, being very resistant to brushing, the probability of relapse is high. It develops mainly in the darkest walls of the pool.
- Black Algae: without wishing to scare you, this maybe your worst nightmare. With a color that is actually something blue, initially appears as small spots, sometimes in the deeper areas of the pool. With an extremely strong layer of protection, its main asset are the deep roots that infiltrate the lining of the pool: if not completely removed, after a while the small spot will be there again. Their proliferation is gradual: the beginning is slow, but then spreads rapidly and may in extreme cases, fully cover the lining of your pool.
- Pink Algae: despite being known as such, does not really deal with algae, but rather a fungus. Assumes a foamy consistency at the water line and is easily removable.
Knowing what is in your swimming pool, what can be done?
The first step will inevitably be cleaning the pool. Dirt (tree leaves included) will absorb the chlorine, making it unnecessary to adopt any other procedures. Vacuum the pool, and brush your walls (especially the visibly affected areas) and empty the skimmer basket. This is also a good time to clean the filter.
Then adjust the swimming pool pH level: if you have a problem with algae, the more likely it is that is not within the recommended values (between 7.4 and 7.6). Once set, go to the sanitization of water, preferably using a shock treatment (there are specific products for that matter). Allow water to circulate continuously during 2-3 days, making the treatment acting in full strength. During this time, brush the pool once or twice every day, and do not forget to go checking the pH levels and chlorine: the ideal is to always keep it above 6 ppm, strengthening it where necessary. Also check the status of the filter and, if necessary, clean it, the elimination of algae can mess it up quickly.
When chlorine has declined to the levels of around 3 ppm, may return to routine maintenance, taking care to brush every day (at least) one week after treatment. Even without seeing signs of them, the algae will still be there and will come up again - but only if you leave!
Alternatively, you can also use an algaecide, more aggressive but effective. On the other hand, do not think that just apply it and hope that all the algae disappears by itself: the ideal would be to use it in conjunction with the procedure described above.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the QUEENSBORO BRIDGE in “The Great Gatsby,” and Simon and Garfunkel wrote a song about it. This bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is close to where I live on Manhattan's Upper Eastside. I made this image last Thursday night after a short run along the East River. The bridge recently celebrated its 100th birthday.
Author Bob Singleton - “It’s really the quintessential American bridge. You get a massive feeling of the use of steel that went into that bridge. It’s a graceful bridge when you take a look at what they tried to accomplish, and it’s an iconic symbol of the city. It’s been in movies from ‘Dead End’ in the ’30s to ‘Spider-Man.’ But it’s very unassuming as it goes about its work.” | <urn:uuid:4e6b200d-7365-434a-b3bf-5a0a8b1a4f50> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nyclovesnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/moon-over-queensboro-bridge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00223-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970303 | 201 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Last week I discussed design considerations for APIs, given that APIs aren't applications and shouldn't be treated as such. At small scales, APIs that come along for the ride with bulky Web frameworks might be fine, but beyond that you're asking for trouble. If you're building an API that will serve a large number of clients, your API code should be thin and tight, as well as make liberal use of caching. Otherwise, the future headaches will be crippling.
- Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol
- Researchers propose a way to use your heartbeat as a password
- Spanish police nab suspected hacker behind Neverquest banking malware
- Trump nominee suggests IRS cybersecurity and staffing boosts
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Cambodia’s national election on July 27 produced a significant victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP). The preliminary official result released on August 9 by the National Election Commission (NEC) shows the CPP won 58.11 percent of the 6,010,277 votes cast, compared with 47.3 percent in the 2003 election. Voter turnout fell sharply, however, dropping from 83 percent five years ago to 75 percent.
When seats are allocated in the 123-member parliament at the end of this month, the CPP is expected to have 90 MPs, up from 73 following the 2003 election. The result will allow the ruling party to govern in its own right, without having to form a coalition.
The largest opposition party, the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), won 21.9 percent of the vote—little more than 2003. It is expected to be allocated 26 MPs, compared with 24 in the previous parliament. The SRP conducted a populist campaign, promising lower fuel and food prices and free health care. It also promised free land grants to landless peasants. It promoted its leader Sam Rainsy as a man free from the endemic corruption in Cambodian politics. It failed, however, to make any inroads into the support for the CPP in rural areas.
The SRP has denounced the election, claiming that the result is the outcome of “massive fraud” by the ruling party.
The small gains that the SRP did make were primarily at the expense of three parties linked to the royal family of Cambodia, which won only seven seats between them.
The Norodom Ranariddh Party, which is loyal to Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who fled Cambodia in 2006 after he was found guilty of corruption, polled 5.62 percent of the vote and will hold just two seats. Norodom Ranariddh endorsed the election result on Tuesday in what commentators believe is part of a deal with Hun Sen to allow the prince to return from exile.
The traditional royalist party, Funcinpec, which removed Norodom Ranariddh as its leader in 2006, won 5.05 percent and will also take only two seats.
The Human Rights Party, which was formed in 2007 by a former Funcinpec leader, Kem Sokha, won 6.62 percent of the vote in its first election, mainly in rural areas. It is expected to be allocated three seats. Like the SRP, it campaigned against the alleged corruption of the CPP, which, in various forms, has held government in Cambodia since the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime.
Six smaller parties contested the elections but none registered a high enough vote to take a parliamentary seat.
Several factors explain why the CPP has been able to once again hold on to power. The state media barely concealed its bias toward the ruling party in its election coverage and there are numerous allegations of intimidation of opposition candidates and voters by CPP-sympathising police and government officials.
During the campaign, Hun Sen also exploited a dispute with Thailand over the sovereignty of the Preah Vihear temple near the Thai-Cambodian border to divert attention away from the social questions such as rising prices being raised by opposition candidates. The government hailed the United Nations World Heritage listing of the ancient site as evidence it scored a nationalist victory over Thailand.
While corruption and the anti-Thai campaign undoubtedly played a role in the CPP’s vote, the main factor was Cambodia’s economic growth over the last five years. The government was able to claim it is creating conditions for a better life for the desperately poor Cambodian population.
The International Monetary Fund estimated that Cambodia’s GDP growth rate was 10.5 percent in 2007, one of the fastest in Asia. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been rising and is predicted to reach $US2.7 billion this year, flowing into the garment industry, tourism, infrastructure construction and agriculture.
Cambodia shares with Vietnam, Laos and Burma the same features that are attracting the interest of foreign capital: huge untapped natural resources, a young population and wage rates that are among the lowest in the world. The liberalisation of investment rules has also played a part in the upsurge in capital inflows. In April, the World Bank praised the Cambodian government for its economic reforms, including the decentralisation of administrative power.
Chinese investment is increasingly prominent. Chinese firms are currently constructing two major dams and Beijing has promised $US1 billion in aid to help Phnom Penh develop hydro-electric projects. The demand for electricity is growing at the rate of 15 percent a year and inadequate power generation capacity is potentially a major obstacle to future investment.
Despite the impetus given by the recent economic growth, the Hun Sen regime went into the elections acutely conscious that serious economic problems and social conflicts are looming. Rises in world oil and commodity prices are having a severe impact. The government stopped publishing inflation figures after January, when a year-on-year inflation rate showed prices had risen by 18.7 percent compared with 5 percent a year ago. The price of staples such as rice rose 80 percent.
The price hikes have intensified the resentment among the urban and rural poor over the grotesque inequality that characterises Cambodian society. While a small number of business owners and government officials have amassed significant fortunes from the inflow of foreign investment, the majority of the population faces poverty.
Tens of thousands of people who migrated to Phnom Penh from rural areas to work in the export industries still live in squalid shanty towns on the edge of the city. Over recent years, there has been growing unrest over the eviction of shanty dwellers and the seizure of land for corporate development projects. When South Korean investors undertook the construction of Gold Tower 42 and the International Finance Complex, hundreds of people were forced to move.
Economic conditions are now set to worsen, leading to significant job losses. On the broader economic front, commentators are predicting a slowdown in growth as part of global trends. The garment industry, which employs over 360,000 people, is expected to suffer from falling US demand and fierce competition from China and Vietnam. Sales to the United States fell in the first three months of 2008 to just $1 billion, compared with close to $2 billion in the first quarter of 2007. Some economists expect overall growth to fall to 7 percent in 2008 and 2009. Tourism is also predicted to decline.
The CPP’s nervousness over the election was reflected in the efforts it made to manipulate the poll to guarantee that it won a large majority. The SRP claimed that as many as one million people were struck off the electoral rolls. The NEC admitted to removing 585,723 names in a 2007 review but claimed this was due to migration, death or loss of voting rights. Some monitors claimed that up to 50,000 people were turned away from voting stations.
Both the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and local non-government organisations reported that opposition candidates were subjected to intimidation, including demands that they join the CPP. On July 11, newspaper journalist Khim Sambo, who wrote for a paper connected to the SRP, was murdered along with his son by unknown assailants. HRW claimed that the murders appeared to be “intended to send a message not to engage in opposition politics”. In the course of the campaign, the Ministry of Information shut down a pro-SRP radio station.
Despite accusations that the ruling party used its control of the state to influence the outcome, investors and the Western financial press welcomed Hun’s re-election. Since 1993, the CCP has opened up the country for capitalist exploitation, enforced some of the lowest wage rates in Asia and repressed strikes and other protests demanding an improvement in the conditions of workers.
Investment management firm Leopard Capital CEO Douglas Clayton told the Financial Times on July 19: “We can now predict who will be running the government for the next five or even 10 years—and a government that is pro-business—which isn’t the case in Thailand, Malaysia or the Philippines.”
The British-based Economist commented on August 6: “The election was riddled with irregularities, mostly in favour of his [Hun Sen’s] Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP). But he would likely have won anyway: the stability he has brought to a war-wracked country, though often iron-fisted, has given Cambodia one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies.”
The director of the Cambodian Acleda Bank, Peter Kooi, told the Phnom Penh Post on Monday: “The general view is that the political situation is more stable now than five to ten years ago. Our customers want stability. They are saying if there is stability we will invest our money.”
The local and foreign financial circles were not the only source endorsing the result. There were 13,000 election monitors in Cambodia, including from Europe and the United States. Martin Callanan, the head of the European Union’s monitoring team, noted that the use of state resources in favour of the CCP and the unequal access to the media tarnished the election, but refused to characterise it as unfair. The EU team will not even release its final report until October, well after Hun Sen has formed a new administration. Compared with Hun Sen’s guarantee that he will use his parliamentary majority to continue pro-investment policies, the voting “irregularities” are small change. | <urn:uuid:a1ed82a2-2608-4d5e-b5d3-ea2f0fe4f416> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/08/camb-a15.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.96778 | 1,984 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The VTM kit is a culture media for the non-propagating transport of specimens. The kit includes three mL of sterile viral transport medium and two types of swabs. The swabs are used for collection of the nucleic acids. A standard PCR method, the VTM method does not use live viruses. Instead, it requires intact nucleic acid particles.
A VTM kit contains just four ingredients, including phenol red. It's a pH indicator that turns purple when exposed to bleach. This allows you to visually inspect the tubing after it's been sterilized. The test is accurate to half an hour, which is enough for most purposes. The PCR process is not required. CDC's SOP for the preparation of viral transport media is an excellent reference guide.
The CDC formulation of the VTM kit requires only four ingredients and is designed for use with aspirates and swabs. The initial production of the kit was challenging because of the low-cost and slow delivery of supplies. A call to the research community was made on social media and emails were sent to lab suppliers. Donations of materials were abundant and the reagents used in the manufacture of the VTM were quickly placed on allocation lists.
A VTM collection kit is a useful tool for the collection of clinical samples containing viruses. Its plastic screw-cap tube makes it easy to transfer the sample without damaging it. The sample remains viable for up to 48 hours after transport. Its pH indicator provides proof of its integrity and a flat bottom for centrifugation. A VTM kit should be used for viral culture if the sample contains a virus.
The CDC's formulation of the VTM is easy to use and is compatible with the SOP for the preparation of VTM. CDC recommends using the phenol red color indicator to check the pH of the samples in the tubing. The PCR assay can test for a wide range of pathogens, and the sensitivity of the testing depends on the viral strain. This test is important because it is important for the detection of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
The CDC's VTM is a suitable solution for the collection and preservation of clinical samples containing viruses. The VTM kit is available in a plastic screw cap tube, which can be used with swabs or aspirates. The virus remains viable for up to 48 hours. It does not contain antimicrobial agents and is not affected by the pH of the culture. In addition, the conical shape of the VTM facilitates centrifugation.
The VTM swab kit is a set of swabs for the collection and transport of viral specimens. The collection tube is sterile and contains VTM. Nasopharyngeal swabs are available separately. The swab collection tube contains the virus transport medium. It can be purchased from a pharmacy or a specialized laboratory. If you are using the kit for a commercial purpose, the sterile tube and the swabs are required for further research.
For laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases, proper specimen collection and transport are crucial. VTM Collection Kits allow for safe and easy viral sample collection. Made in the USA and following CDC guidelines, VTM Kits are designed to meet the needs of both clinical laboratories and research laboratories. Ruhof Corporation manufactures a VTM medium and a flocked swab collection kit. Both are available from Captivate Bio, an authorized distributor of Ruhof products. You can buy a larger case pack for a lower price.
The Viral Transport Media Kit is specifically designed for transporting clinical specimens. This cultured medium consists of a sterilized swab, a viral tube, and a sample solution. The biopro Viral Transport Media is an industry standard and has been approved by the ICMR. It is also made with stringent low temperature preservation procedures to preserve the virus samples. Choosing a VTM kit manufacturer that is ISO 13485-certified is a great choice for your research laboratory.
A VTM Kit is an essential part of diagnostics. It allows scientists to analyze samples for viruses in a way that is safe and convenient. It contains a sterile 13-ml tube and swab, which are used for in vitro diagnosis. Care should be taken to read the instructions carefully, as VTM kits must be stored at low temperatures. If you are unsure about how to properly store your samples, consult your physician.
A VTM Kit is intended for the transportation of clinical specimens. It is a liquid that contains viral RNA, DNA, and protein shell. It is a cultured virus that is intended for long-term transport. During this process, the samples must be stored at temperatures as low as 0 degrees Celsius. This ensures their integrity over the course of time. A well-made VTM Kit is essential for the successful diagnosis of infectious diseases.
There are many factors to consider when choosing a VTM Kit. Besides the cost of the media, the VTM is an inactivated version of the virus. It protects the testing personnel from the risk of developing the infection again. It is composed of nucleic acid extract, which is a product of the virus. The RNase is responsible for protecting the viral nucleic acid. The inactivated VTM is ideal for in-vitro diagnosis.
Commercial VTM kits must contain a statement stating that the product has been validated in accordance with the CDC SOP. This statement should be clearly labeled on the product and must be submitted to the FDA. A successful application for a VTM will be acknowledged by the agency. This validation ensures the quality of the product and helps to make it compliant with the regulations. If it meets the guidelines, the VTM is a certified product.
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Clarifying our position on proposed e-bike ordinance
Active Trans made a mistake the other day. We stated our support in the news media for a recently proposed Chicago e-bike ordinance, when in fact the ordinance contains a provision that we’re opposed to.
The ordinance includes several stipulations about e-bikes that we support:
- Speeds can’t exceed 20 mph.
- No one can operate them under the age of 16.
- They can be used in the existing bike lanes in Chicago.
The problem we have with the proposed ordinance is that it also applies to bikes that are gas-powered.
This past November, 32nd Ward Ald. Scott Waguespack proposed a similar ordinance that did not apply to gas-powered bikes. Active Trans made the mistake of assuming that the new ordinance proposed by Waguespack and 1st Ward Ald. Joe Moreno was the same as Waguespack’s earlier e-bike ordinance.
Gas-powered bikes do not belong in bike lanes because they can be noisy, they emit noxious fumes and they tend to be more powerful.
We like e-bikes because they are a cleaner alternative while providing assistance to individuals — like older people and people who are disabled — who need extra help getting around on a bicycle. In fact, we have been contacted by people with health problems who tell us that e-bikes have allowed them to continue to get around on bikes — an option they would otherwise not have.
Active Trans supports allowing people to ride e-bikes in bike lanes as long as the speeds they travel are close to the speeds of people using conventional bikes.
We have contacted Ald. Waguespack to voice our opposition to the provision for gas-powered bikes in the ordinance. Stay tuned.
Photo courtesy of Wanderbikes.
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Accurate mitotic spindle assembly is critical for mitotic fidelity and organismal development. mitotic spindle assembly ensures the replicated genome is usually equally partitioned into child cells via chromosome segregation. In animals, centrosomes and the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) regulate efficient and accurate mitotic spindle assembly. Centrosomes are the main microtubule (MT)-organizing centers of the spindle. Although spindle assembly can occur in their absence, it is inefficient, and accuracy of chromosome segregation is generally compromised (Lerit and Poulton, 2016). The SAC restrains anaphase onset until all kinetochores are INNO-406 enzyme inhibitor attached to MTs (Musacchio, 2015). Mutations in centrosomal and SAC genes can cause human disease, including main microcephaly, mosaic variegated aneuploidy, and microcephalic primordial dwarfism (Klingseisen and Jackson, 2011; Megraw et al., 2011; Genin et al., 2012; Mirzaa et al., 2014; Nigg et al., 2014). Mechanisms by which the mutation of these genes prospects to disease are a important query for the field. Our earlier work in the epithelial cells of larval wing discs exposed that centrosome loss (mutant) prospects to slowed spindle assembly, chromosome missegregation, and cell death (Poulton et al., 2014). In contrast, centrosome loss in larval take flight brains does not elevate cell death (Basto et al., 2006) or cause microcephaly, but instead prospects to mind tumors (Castellanos et al., 2008). Furthermore, although aneuploidy/polyploidy causes apoptosis in imaginal discs INNO-406 enzyme inhibitor (Dekanty et al., 2012; Poulton et al., 2014), mutations in mitotic regulators (e.g., Polo kinase, Asp, Separase, Hold91, and Sticky) lead to highly aneuploid and polyploid larval mind cells INNO-406 enzyme inhibitor INNO-406 enzyme inhibitor that continue to divide (Ripoll et al., 1985; Sunkel and Glover, 1988; Gatti and Baker, 1989). This suggests that these two cells INNO-406 enzyme inhibitor evolved different mechanisms to ensure mitotic fidelity or respond to mitotic errors. In wing imaginal discs, the SAC partially compensates for centrosome loss; discs depleted of both centrosomes and the SAC (double mutants) suffer massive cell death, leading to a complete loss of imaginal discs (Poulton et al., 2014). Given the apparent variations in how mind and wing disc cells respond to centrosome loss, we explored the tasks of the SAC and centrosomes in the brain. We found that double mutant brains are dramatically smaller and highly disorganized, exhibiting improved apoptosis and chromosome missegregation. We also explored the mechanisms by which loss of centrosomes and the SAC prospects to small mind size. These data shed light on the basis for the different reactions to centrosome loss in imaginal disc epithelia versus neural stem cells. Results and discussion Combined loss of centrosomes and Mad2 prospects to apoptosis and reduced mind size Centrosome loss is definitely well tolerated in larval brains. Based on our findings in wing discs, we hypothesized the SAC compensates for centrosome loss in the brain. To test this, we compared apoptosis (via cleaved Casp3 levels) in wild-type (WT) brains, solitary mutants lacking either centrosomes (mutant brains showed highly elevated apoptosis (Fig. 1, ACE). Because double mutant brains were much smaller than WT or solitary mutants (observe next paragraph), cell death was even more pronounced when standardized for mind size (Fig. 1 F). The apoptosis markers Hid GFP and cleaved Dcp-1 were similarly raised (Fig. S1, ACH). The SAC is suggested by These data helps compensate for centrosome reduction and stop apoptosis. Open in another window Amount 1. Centrosomes as well as the SAC cooperate to market neural stem cell human brain and viability size. (ACD) Apoptosis (cleaved Casp3) had not been Rabbit Polyclonal to RNF111 seen in WT (A), (B), or one mutant brains (C), but dual mutants displayed improved apoptosis (D). Arrows suggest apoptotic cells. (E and F) Examples had been quantified per human brain hemisphere (E) or standardized to human brain size (F). (GCJ) Third instar brains of indicated genotypes stained for actin (crimson) and -tubulin (green). Take note small brains in dual mutants aswell as decreased optic lobes (find Fig. 2). (K) Human brain size quantification. Both and twice mutant brains were smaller sized than WT or the respective one mutants significantly. and one mutant. | <urn:uuid:5c565e2e-e38c-4e77-b216-3a5ae2e49278> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://liraglutide.info/accurate-mitotic-spindle-assembly-is-critical-for-mitotic-fidelity-and-organismal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.895627 | 1,040 | 3.375 | 3 |
Who Killed Canadian History? Revised Edition
Canada is one of the few nations in the Western world that does not teach its history to its young people and to its new citizens. The result is a nation that does not understand and respect its past. J. L . Granatstein's impassioned evaluation of the study. and teaching of Canadian history is even more relevant today than when it was first published nine years ago. The original edition of this slim but eloquent polemic caused a stir with its revelations that Canadian history had all but vanished from schools and universities in favour of trendy subjects and specialized social history.
Almost a decade later, however, nothing has been done, and even less Canadian history is taught today in most provinces. In this revised edition--updated with a new introduction and conclusion, and two new chapters--Granatstein once more addresses the question of who killed Canadian history and offers detailed suggestions for putting history back into the schools and the minds of Canadians.
About this Author
J. L. GRANATSTEIN is the author of over 60 books, including the bestsellersWho Killed the Canadian Military?andWhose War Is It?, along withYankee Go Home?,Victory 1945andThe Generals, which won the J. W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. A distinguished research professor of history emeritus at York University, he was a member of the RMC Board of Governors and is chair of the Advisory Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He lives in Toronto. Visit Granatstein atwww.whosewar.ca.
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According to me all the branches in Engineering are good.Every trade in Engineering has its own advantages in different fields.I recommend you to choose the trade in which you are completely interested do not prefer the trade which is having great scope,so you must choose a trade on the basis of your interest,every trade is having great future scope.
Most popular Engineering trades in India:
Electronics and Communication
As you want to know about ECE,it is one of the most fastest developing trade in India.ECE is a combination of two trades i.e. Electronics and Communication,so it as got the most number of jobs.Moreover in India there are large amount of Government core companies,so the most number of Government jobs are available for ECE.
Most reputed Government and Private Core companies in India:
- Samsung India
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Most prestigious Engineering Colleges in India:
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PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore
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