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USTA Florida is celebrating Black History Month this February by shining the spotlight on members of the vast Florida tennis community. Meet Marc Atkinson, Director of Tennis at the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation, in Jacksonville, Fla. When asked what celebrating this month means to him, Marc responded with it “is extremely important to me because it shows how much my ancestors had to overcome. But black excellence is more important to celebrate. It’s about showing our youth the things we can do.”
What is your name? Marc Atkinson
How old are you? 32 Years old
Birthplace? Jacksonville, Florida
Current city? Jacksonville, Florida
How did you get involved in tennis? I began playing tennis at the age of 12 at the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation. I was the oldest player in the program at that time. I did not take the sport of tennis serious until the age of 16. The sport of tennis kept me out of trouble as child in Jacksonville, FL. I played tennis to be different from all my friends because I never had the desire to be like anyone else.
What would you say is your greatest contribution to the sport? My greatest contribution have been my ability to teach the youth in the community I was raised in. It’s no better feeling than that. Being able to come back to the community that made me the man I am today and teach tennis to youth that wouldn’t be exposed to the sport is the reason. I truly enjoy giving the youth of Jacksonville, FL a different option to make it out of the inner city.
Does your family play tennis? My family does play tennis. My wife and my kids truly enjoy the sport. I enjoy seeing the smiles on their face when they able to hit the ball in and pass me. Greatest feeling in the world. My kids actually want to play in some tennis tournaments soon.
Why is it important to celebrate Black History Month in general, as well as in tennis? It’s important to celebrate Black History month because black youth need to see black excellence. We should not just celebrate one month out of the year. Black history should be celebrated all year long. Especially in tennis. Black youth always see the black football and basketball players, but it’s extremely important that we promote the black tennis players just as much to our youth. So I make sure I connect our youth via Instagram to black tennis players that I follow because this are the things the need to see.
Why is celebrating Black history important to you? Celebrating Black History is extremely important to me, because it show how much my ancestor had to overcome. But black excellence is more important to celebrate. It’s about showing our youth the things we can do.
How has Black history inspired you in tennis, or, your life in general? I knew of Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, but I did not understand as a child their importance to the game of tennis for blacks. I did not know that many blacks played tennis and coach it as well. Coach Helen Thomas inspired me to play tennis because it could get me into college. Coach Harrell Thomas help me with the life and tennis skills to play college tennis. Coach Devin Reddick spent countless weekends at tournaments with me trying to get better. Coach Carl Goodman, gave me the opportunity to play college tennis as a walk-on a FAMU. My brother Areon Atkinson learned how to play tennis to connect with me more. That meant the world to me because I played basketball to connect with him more.
Being a black tennis teaching professional have gave me the ability to share my knowledge of the game to the kids in my community. I am more connected to the youth because I look like them and grew up in the neighborhood they live in today. That give me the kids trust and attention for me to teach them the game of tennis.
Recently the conversation within many industries has been about racial equality, inclusion, and what’s being done to encourage it. How would you like to see these conversations impact the tennis industry? l love that the conservations are happening but it means nothing without actions. If the actions match the conversation then I am with it 100 percent. I look forward to the USPTA and ATA partnership. With the “USPTA holds a strong belief in making both capital improvements to tennis facilities and establishing Professional Tennis Management (PTM) programs at HBCUs. To attract coaches of color to our industry, HBCUs need to improve their facilities to be on par with other major universities across the country. By creating a PTM program at one or two HBCUs, candidates who seek to become a tennis-teaching professional will better understand the pathway to an exciting career in tennis.” Via USPTA website. This will give the coaches and players an better opportunity to get certified and elevate themselves in the teaching world.
Why is it important to not only support and celebrate other cultures, but be inclusive to all? Everyone you encounter in this thing call life have a different point of view than you. So it’s important to be able to understand all because they can help you see something that you wouldn’t see from your point of view.
Why do you volunteer? I give back because I love to share my knowledge of life and tennis with the youth. Someone volunteered their time when I was younger, so the best thing I can do is to do the same.
What does being a part of the USTA Florida Leadership Academy mean to you? It is important to be a part the USTA Florida leadership academy because I get to be in the room to help make change. To grow the sport of tennis in Florida. Each person in the leadership academy has a unique background that will help grow the sport of tennis in Florida.
If you’re interested in sharing your own story, experience or suggestions with us, please visit www.USTAFlorida.com/Amplify. To learn more about USTA Florida’s Amplify Project: the long-term initiative to engage and amplify Black voices throughout the Florida tennis community, click here. | <urn:uuid:194c14ef-2b21-4a3c-ad62-b62833d01053> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ustaflorida.com/celebrating-black-history-month-marc-atkinson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966168 | 1,256 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Over the past 20 years, a revolution has occurred in the way that scientists think about the relationship between cognition, neuroscience and the brain.
Contrary to early beliefs, modern researchers have now established that the brain remains malleable throughout a person's life span. You can train your brain and create new neuronal connections.
The following sections presents more information about your brain and several studies that CogniFit has conducted in collaboration with scientists at recognized scientific institutions, including major universities and hospitals. We have also included studies of other prominent sources. see more - Scientific Validation | <urn:uuid:1f358829-2310-44b7-88db-b33b97d81a0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cognifit.com/science | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955259 | 114 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A NSW Government website
The Housing and Property Group. was established to provide a more strategic approach to leveraging government-owned land and property to deliver improved economic, social, environmental and cultural outcomes for the people of NSW.
The AHO is focused on delivering better housing choices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW.
Crown Lands is responsible for managing NSW’s Crown land on behalf of the people of NSW.
Landcom is a State-owned Corporation land and property development organisation, delivering housing projects in NSW.
The Property & Development NSW team is responsible for the management and delivery of large scale or complex real estate projects and
Cemeteries & Crematoria NSW (CCNSW) is a statutory agency created in 2014 under the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013 that supports and
The NSW Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) is responsible for the NSW Government’s social housing portfolio.
The Valuer General is an independent statutory officer, appointed by the Governor of New South Wales to oversee the State's land valuation | <urn:uuid:156ddf19-faaf-4cb1-86a5-7c5fc9f22ec6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dpie.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-property | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.934265 | 221 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The trend for headphones among teenagers and young adults is always wearing one in your ear. As far as driving is concerned, is it safe to wear headphones this way? What about the more traditional, over the ears style? And how do Bluetooth earpieces play into this safety protocol? These questions are just a few that drivers deal with daily. See what is (and is not) allowed by law and how you can drive safely on the road.
The Legal Aspect
There are many laws that dictate what drivers can and cannot legally do. Every state has its own driving laws, including laws on earpieces. According to AAA, most states do not have restrictions on drivers using an ear bud, headphones, or blue tooth earpiece speaker while driving. Other states require that only one ear may be covered while driving. They list a complete list of current state laws for headphones and earpieces on their site.
The Common Sense Aspect
Whether or not it is legally allowed, drivers should still consider whether using earpieces is responsible and safe. When there is any sort of device blocking the hearing in an ear, the ears cannot hear as well. It is important that drivers can hear if there are emergency vehicles coming, hear honks or warnings given from other drivers, and be able to listen to their car in case there are odd noises.
Hearing is important to the driving process. While people who are hard of hearing or are deaf can drive, there is a difference when people choose not to use their hearing. Having music, a phone call, or any type of audio in their ear is a distraction from the road. If you must have something in your ear and it is legal in the state where you are driving, at least wear it only in one ear. This can help you hear important noises while driving.
Use Tech in a Smart Way
Car manufacturers are working hard to design vehicles that use technology in a safer, smarter way. There are safer ways to use technology while driving. Rather than putting any sort of earpiece in your ear, why not utilize the technology that is already there? If you must make a phone call, use the Bluetooth through the dashboard. If you want to listen to music or an audio book, keep your ears open by listening through the speakers.
Enroll in a National Driving School to learn other smart ways to use technology while driving. Staying safe on the road helps protect you and everyone else on the road too. | <urn:uuid:2132be38-3228-41ca-8dfe-715bf44ede07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://911drivingschool.com/is-it-safe-to-drive-with-headphones-and-earpieces/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969477 | 498 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The World Benchmarking Alliance is a foundation officially registered as an ANBI (A Public Benefit Organisation is best comparable to an ANBI) in the Netherlands under the registered name Stichting World Benchmarking Alliance Foundation with RSIN 850999765.
World Benchmarking Alliance
1018 TX Amsterdam
Mission and vision
WBA envisions a society that values the success of business by what it contributes to the world. To do so WBA’s mission is to build a movement to measure and incentivise business impact towards a sustainable future that works for everyone.
Our long-term strategic plan is the seven systems transformations for benchmarking companies on the SDGs which can be consulted here. This report, together with the strategic guidance and approval of our Supervisory Board and our donors leads to a more detailed annual plan.See governance
The Foundation’s work is funded by different governments and foundations. An overview of those funding partners can be found here.
WBA’s annual reports offer both an overview of our activities and a detailed overview of our financial situation, including the management remuneration. The Foundation’s finances are audited annually by an independent external auditor and overseen by the Supervisory Board, which is independent from the Executive Board.
Fair use donation
We also operate with what we call the ‘fair-use donation’. We trust any for-profit or not-for-profit entity (regardless of whether or not they are an Ally), that benefits financially from using WBA’s work, to make a fair-use donation.Learn more | <urn:uuid:f473f552-23eb-4541-96e8-9c6d29aac28b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/finances/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.899769 | 348 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Are you being manipulated when you go shopping? The answer is yes, if the department stores are doing their job. When it comes to holiday shopping the stores are doing everything they can to hook us and reel us into the store.
It might be an enticing sales offer or could be the signs and sounds of the store that make us want to come in and spend our money.
Find more consumer news in our special section
"It's just good merchandising; it's good retailing," said Belch, "They're going to create a very festive atmosphere."
"The key is to recognize that when shoppers walk into a department store, they are on the store's turf. It's the department store's home field advantage," he said.
So how can you enjoy the shopping experience and not break the bank? Here are three tips:
1) Make a list before you go shopping. Stick with your list and you're less likely to fall for impulse buying.
2) Buy with cash. Using plastic, whether debit or credit, can make you feel like you're not actually paying anything at all. Instead put money in an envelope and bring it shopping. When you physically hand over cash at the register you see what items really cost you.
3) Finally, take your time. The stores will try to push you into buying now by telling you, "The deal won't last," or "Items are flying off the shelf." It's all a effort to get you to make an impulse decision. Don't fall for it, enjoy shopping more, compare prices, do your research and then come back later and spend your money. | <urn:uuid:724a8f78-83f1-4de0-a358-e8ee16851042> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nbcsandiego.com/the-scene/shopping/Winning-the-Shopping-Game-110015674.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00312-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975569 | 335 | 1.648438 | 2 |
TalkStory: Frances T. Gendrano
Frances T. Gendrano
Principal Broker, KFG Properties Inc. As Hawaii approaches August’s 50th anniversary of statehood, we have asked local leaders to reflect on the next 50 years for Hawaii.
This month: real estate executive Fran Gendrano.
Q: What will Hawaii look like 50 years from today?
A: With our desirable location, ideal climate, beautiful mountains and ocean scenery, Hawaii will always be a place of destination — whether for residing or tourism. Tourism will still be a main industry and the military will still have a presence.
People will always want to live here so prices will remain relatively higher than the rest of the country. I imagine it a little more densely populated and developed, but hopefully our lawmakers and the public dedicate some good discussion now to the controlled growth of both people and development.
Balance will be the greatest challenge. Too much of anything is not a good thing — too much tourism, too much military, too much development. And because of “too much” we will wreak havoc on our environment if we are not careful.
There may be a larger economic gap between the wealthy and poor than we see (and complain about) today. Land prices are so high. Who and where are the people who can afford it?
Another potential problem is our three-to-five-day food and fuel supply if we are cut off from the Mainland.
Q: What is Hawaii’s greatest opportunity over the next 50 years?
A: Our greatest opportunity is to be an example for other states, even countries, to follow. We can show them how we manage our natural resources respectfully and become a more sustainable place. Sustainability is our greatest challenge and opportunity. I believe that growth and development can coexist within sustainable means. This is no easy task and there will be difficult decisions, but awareness is the best way to make sustainability happen. The more people read about it and engage in meaningful discussion, the more people will make better day-to-day choices.
Q: In what way will Hawaii be most different in 50 years and in what ways will it stay the same?
A: There will be more of almost everything. People. Cars. Buildings. Developments. Pollution. Trash. Less of a few things. Sandy beaches. Privacy.
Hopefully Hawaii will still be beautiful — oceans and mountains and green. Perhaps the culture — this unique blend of East and West/modern and traditional — will continue to be unique to the Islands. The culture will no doubt evolve with a constant influx of different influences, but the distilled essence of Hawaiian culture and the virtues it promotes can remain. Malama. Aloha. Ohana. Kuleana. Pono.
Q: It can be argued that the biggest decision of the last 50 years was the decision to pursue statehood. What is the one big decision today that would reverberate 50 years into the future?
A: The Rail. I imagine that this will impact us immensely, more than we can imagine — our budget, skyline, even our attitudes toward getting around. The goal is to make efficient public transportation and encourage fewer cars on the road. We will be fast-tracking people from one side of the Island to another — communities will change to support this day-to-day whether they want to or not. The dense urban core of Honolulu may spread out to vaster regions.
Having a relatively young family, I am very worried about our future. Will the global economic climate stabilize? Will we be able to adjust to the effects of undeniable climate change? Will my children and my children’s children be able to afford to buy property? Will the economy still remain focused on one industry? Will we be able to find other revenue generating industries rooted locally? Will we revisit sustainable local agriculture? Will we be prepared to weather major catastrophes? Will we loosen our dependency to the continent? Can we figure it all out? | <urn:uuid:537ba3ca-6bf3-4afe-9b83-80a1dca45af2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/talkstory-frances-t-gendrano/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00214-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939609 | 824 | 1.507813 | 2 |
We mourn the death today of our fellow Filipino who was sentenced to death in China for being a drug mule. We mourn with his family and the Filipino workers and people. We are saddened by his loss and we are angered by the implications of his loss on the situation of our country today.
It is the intensifying hunger, poverty and unemployment in the country which cause Filipinos to leave their families, work abroad, and even work as drug mules for criminal syndicates. It is the threat of death by hunger and poverty in the country which forces them to risk their lives abroad.
It is the government’s fault that many Filipinos are forced to work as drug mules. Pres. Aquino and his predecessors all promised change, an end to poverty and decent employment for Filipinos – but they all ensured continuity, perpetrated poverty and promoted low-quality work.
The Aquino regime has refused to heed workers’ calls for an immediate relief from hunger and poverty. It has refused to significantly hike workers’ wages, junk contractualization, control the prices of basic services and goods especially oil, and stop the demolition of poor communities.
It has also used force against protestors calling for an immediate relief from worsening hunger and poverty. The government attacked the Filipino people’s response to the Occupy protests in the US using truncheons, water cannons and trumped-up charges against progressive leaders.
Given the severe global economic crisis, the country needs to generate decent employment that is not reliant on factors external to the country and that addresses the needs of the Filipino people. Such employment can only be provided by genuine land reform and national industrialization.
We are therefore calling on the Filipino workers and people to struggle for genuine social change, for national freedom and democracy. Only through radical social change can we prevent fellow Filipinos from becoming drug mules and build a future that we and our children really deserve. Elmer "Bong" Labog, KMU Chairperson | <urn:uuid:dc9328d1-82e9-4107-9c84-b7b9bb01f7b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lingkodbayandwad.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-execution-of-another-filipino-drug.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96779 | 403 | 1.75 | 2 |
Download various free and open source software offerings from RasPi.TV
RasPi.TV RPi.GPIO Quick Reference “cheat sheet”
There’s also a .txt version you can either download or wget straight onto your Pi.
Python Gertboard Suite New Release April 10 2013 Now with Support for TANDY Multiface :)
Download Gertboard Test Suite in Python 2.7
NEW Release of ALL Python Gertboard programs with support for the Multiface 10 April 2013
I’ve been through all the Gertboard Python programs (even found a bug in the ocol wiring instructions that nobody had told me about) and put in some wiring instructions for the new TANDY Multiface board.
Basically the experience won’t change at all for Gertboard users, but Multiface users will need to add an “m” to the end of the command to run the programs. This will identify the board as Multiface and ensure you get correct on-screen wiring instructions.
Other than that I have tidied up the code, but it won’t mess up any of what was written in the Python section of the Gertboard manual, so that is all still valid.
Walkthrough of all Python Gertboard programs is now in the official Gertboard Rev 2 manual 23/01/2013
This is applicable to Rev 1 Gertboards too as the programs are identical.
In November 2012 I decided to do Python versions of Gert and Myra’s Gertboard test programs. By end August 2013 we’ve had >6,766 downloads and very little feedback, which I’m assuming means that it just works OK for you all. :)
To download to a PC/Mac (or in the browser on your Pi), click the link here…
To download directly from your Pi’s command line, go to the directory where you want the .zip file and punch in the following…
then, have a look at the README.txt file
cd GB_Python (CTRL+X to exit)
To run one of the programs, type…
sudo python program_name.py (substituting the program’s name for program_name)
If you want to use the wiringPi versions, you’ll need to install WiringPi for Python.
Instructions for this are in the README file.
If you want to use the atod, dtoa or dad (analog < > digital converter) programs, you’ll need to ensure that spi is enabled and py-spidev is installed (instructions in README file).
Further Reading and Videos
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With all the discussion about teeth whitening on TV, on the internet, in your dentist’s office, and in magazines, people often forget there is more in your mouth to be concerned with besides the color of your teeth. You must not ignore your gums.
Did you know that there is a direct correlation between your heart health and your gums? The same bacteria that infect the gums and cause gingivitis and periodontitis also travel to blood vessels in other parts of the body, where they cause blood vessel inflammation and damage. This can cause tiny blood clots which then can lead to heart attack and stroke. Gum disease is painless, so most people have no idea that gingivitis has started.
What is gingivitis? Gingivitis is the earliest stage of gum disease, and according to the Centers for Disease Control, it is reversible. Gingivitis begins when plaque, a sticky, colorless, or pale yellow film filled with bacteria that is constantly forming on your teeth, causes infections in the gums and bones—leading to tooth decay.
Gingivitis causes your gums to become inflamed, tender, red, swollen, and prone to bleeding. If gingivitis is not treated, you can develop periodontitis—an advanced form of gum disease. Periodontitis impacts the bones that hold your teeth in place. Left untreated, it can ruin the gums, bones, and tissues connected to your teeth.
The final stage of gum disease is advanced periodontitis. This is when the fibers and bone supporting your teeth are destroyed. It can impact your bite, and teeth may need to be removed. According to the American Dental Association (ADA), signs that you might have gum disease include:
- consistently bad taste or breath
- Permanent teeth that are separating or loose
- gums that easily bleed
- gums that are swollen, red, or tender
- gums that have pulled away from your teeth
The good news is that gum disease is preventable. Here are a few ways you can help keep your gums healthy.
2. Brush 2x a day
3. Stop smoking
4. Get regular dental cleanings
5. Use a fluoride toothpaste
6. Use a mouthwash (make certain it has the American Dental Association Seal ADA)
There are also natural alternatives to improve oral health, like oil pulling. Oil pulling is an ancient Indian folk remedy often associated with Ayurveda, the traditional medicine system from India. Those who promote the practice claim that oil pulling freshens your breath, greatly improves your oral health, and even whitens your teeth. However, there is no scientific data to prove that oil pulling can whiten your teeth.
How do you perform oil pulling? Oil pulling involves swishing oil around the mouth, using it as a mouthwash. To oil pull, put a tablespoon of oil in your mouth, then swish it around for 15–20 minutes. Using coconut oil for oil pulling is becoming increasingly popular because of its sweet flavor, but you can use any oil in your kitchen.
No matter what method you choose to maintain your oral health at home, it is important to keep your regular dental appointments, along with your annual exam with your primary care doctor. Your health may depend on it. | <urn:uuid:35fa5569-d821-4200-887f-143835985632> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theroot.com/behind-the-smile-how-a-healthy-mouth-can-mean-a-health-1846797493 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.944672 | 690 | 3.28125 | 3 |
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Bangor 7-25-2005 by Ord. No. 05-239. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City of Bangor through the regulation of non-stormwater discharges to the municipality's storm drainage system as required by federal and state law. This chapter establishes methods for controlling the introduction of pollutants into the city's storm drainage system in order to comply with requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and state law.
Objectives. The objectives of this chapter are:
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms listed below are defined as follows:
- CLEAN WATER ACT
- The federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., also known as the "Clean Water Act"), and any subsequent amendments thereto.
- Any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emptying, dumping, disposing or other addition of pollutants to waters of the state. "Direct discharge" or "point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
- ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY
- The person(s) or department authorized under § 197-4 to administer and enforce this chapter.
- EXEMPT PERSON OR DISCHARGE
- Any person who is subject to a multi-sector general permit for industrial activities, a general permit for construction activity, a general permit for the discharge of stormwater from the Maine Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems, or a general permit for the discharge of stormwater from state or federally owned authority municipal separate storm sewer system facilities; and any non-stormwater discharge permitted under a NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge license or order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") or the Maine Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP").
- INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
- Activity or activities subject to NPDES Industrial Permits as defined in 40 CFR, § 122.26 (b)(14).
- The City of Bangor.
- MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM or MS4
- Conveyances for stormwater, including, but not limited to, roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, human-made channels or storm drains (other than publicly owned treatment works and combined sewers) owned or operated by any municipality, sewer or sewage district, fire district, state agency or federal agency or other public entity that discharges directly to surface waters of the state.
- NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) STORMWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
- A permit issued by the EPA or by the DEP that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group, or general area-wide basis.
- NON-STORMWATER DISCHARGE
- Any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of stormwater.
- Any individual, firm, corporation, municipality, quasi-municipal corporation, state agency or federal agency or other legal entity which creates, initiates, originates or maintains a discharge of stormwater or a non-stormwater discharge.
- Dredged spoil, solid waste, junk, incinerator residue, sewage, refuse, effluent, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemicals, biological or radiological materials, oil, petroleum products or by-products, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, dirt and industrial, municipal, domestic, commercial or agricultural wastes of any kind.
- Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips, located within the municipality from which discharges into the storm drainage system are or may be created, initiated, originated or maintained.
- REGULATED SMALL MS4
- Any small MS4 regulated by the State of Maine "General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems" dated June 3, 2003 ("General Permit"), including all those located partially or entirely within an urbanized area (UA) and those additional small MS4s located outside a UA that, as of the issuance of the general permit, have been designated by the DEP as regulated small MS4s.
- SMALL MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM or SMALL MS4
- Any MS4 that is not already covered by the Phase I MS4 stormwater program, including municipally owned or operated storm sewer systems, state or federally owned systems, such as colleges, universities, prisons, Maine Department of Transportation and Maine Turnpike Authority road systems and facilities, and military bases and facilities.
- STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM
- The municipality's regulated small MS4.
- Any stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage; "stormwater" has the same meaning as "storm water."
- URBANIZED AREA (UA)
- The areas of the State of Maine so defined by the latest decennial (2000) census by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
This chapter shall apply to all persons discharging stormwater and/or non-stormwater discharges from any premises into the storm drainage system.
The City Engineer, or his or her designee, is the enforcement authority who shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
General prohibition. Except as allowed or exempted herein, no person shall create, initiate, originate or maintain a non-stormwater discharge to the storm drainage system. Such non-stormwater discharges are prohibited notwithstanding the fact that the municipality may have approved the connections, drains or conveyances by which a person discharges unallowed non-stormwater discharges to the storm drainage system.
Allowed non-stormwater discharges. The creation, initiation, origination and maintenance of the following non-stormwater discharges to the storm drainage system are allowed:
Landscape irrigation; diverted stream flows; rising ground waters; uncontaminated groundwater infiltration [as defined at CFR 35.2005(20)]; uncontaminated pumped groundwater; uncontaminated flows from foundation drains; air conditioning and compressor condensate; irrigation water; flows from uncontaminated springs; uncontaminated water from crawl space pumps; uncontaminated flows from footing drains; lawn watering runoff; flows from riparian habitats and wetlands; residual street wash water (where spills/leaks of toxic or hazardous materials have not occurred, unless all spilled material has been removed and detergents are not used); hydrant flushing and fire-fighting activity runoff; water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources; and individual residential car washing;
Discharges specified in writing by the enforcement authority as being necessary to protect public health and safety; and
Dye testing, with verbal notification to the enforcement authority prior to the time of the test.
Exempt person or discharge. This chapter shall not apply to an exempt person or discharge, except that the enforcement authority may request from exempt persons and persons with exempt discharges copies of permits, notices of intent, licenses and orders from the EPA or DEP that authorize the discharge(s).
The enforcement authority may, without prior notice, physically suspend discharge access to the storm drainage system to a person when such suspension is necessary to stop an actual or threatened non-stormwater discharge to the storm drainage system which presents or may present imminent and substantial danger to the environment, or to the health or welfare of persons, or to the storm drainage system, or which may cause the municipality to violate the terms of its environmental permits. Such suspension may include, but is not limited to, blocking pipes, constructing dams or taking other measures, on public ways or public property, to physically block the discharge to prevent or minimize a non-stormwater discharge to the storm drainage system. If the person fails to comply with a suspension order issued in an emergency, the enforcement authority may take such steps as deemed necessary to prevent or minimize damage to the storm drainage system, or to minimize danger to persons; provided, however, that in taking such steps the enforcement authority may enter upon the premises that are the source of the actual or threatened non-stormwater discharge to the storm drainage system only with the consent of the premises' owner, occupant or agent.
In order to determine compliance with this chapter, the enforcement authority may enter upon and inspect premises subject to this chapter at reasonable hours with the consent of the premises' owner, occupant or agent; to inspect the premises and connections thereon to the storm drainage system; and to conduct monitoring, sampling and testing of the discharge to the storm drainage system.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this chapter. Whenever the enforcement authority believes that a person has violated this chapter, the enforcement authority may enforce this chapter in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. § 4452.
Notice of violation.
Whenever the enforcement authority believes that a person has violated this chapter, the enforcement authority may order compliance with this chapter by written notice of violation to that person indicating the nature of the violation and ordering the action necessary to correct it, including, without limitation:
At the person's expense, the abatement or remediation (in accordance with best management practices in DEP rules and regulations) of non-stormwater discharges to the storm drainage system and the restoration of any affected property; and/or
The payment of fines, of the municipality's remediation costs and of the municipality's reasonable administrative costs and attorneys' fees and costs.
If abatement of a violation and/or restoration of affected property is required, the notice shall set forth a deadline within which such abatement or restoration must be completed.
Penalties; fines; injunctive relief. Any person who violates this chapter shall be subject to fines, penalties and orders for injunctive relief and shall be responsible for the municipality's attorney's fees and costs, all in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. § 4452. Each day such violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. Moreover, any person who violates this chapter also shall be responsible for any and all fines, penalties, damages and costs, including, but not limited to, attorneys' fees and costs, incurred by the municipality for violation of federal and state environmental laws and regulations caused by or related to that person's violation of this chapter; this responsibility shall be in addition to any penalties, fines or injunctive relief imposed under this section.
Consent agreement. The enforcement authority may, with the approval of the City Council, enter into a written consent agreement with the violator to address timely abatement of the violation(s) of this chapter for the purposes of eliminating violations of this chapter and of recovering fines, costs and fees without court action.
Appeal of notice of violation. Any person receiving a notice of violation or suspension notice may appeal the determination of the enforcement authority to the Board of Appeals in accordance with the Chapter 23, Article 1. The notice of appeal must be received within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice of violation. The Board of Appeals shall hold a de novo hearing on the appeal within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal. The Board of Appeals may affirm, reverse or modify the decision of the enforcement authority. A suspension under § 197-6 remains in place unless or until lifted by the Board of Appeals or by a reviewing court. A party aggrieved by the decision of the Board of Appeals may appeal that decision to the Maine Superior Court within 45 days of the date of the Board of Appeals' decision pursuant to Rule 80B of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure.
Enforcement measures. If the violation has not been corrected pursuant to the requirements set forth in the notice of violation, or, in the event of an appeal to the Board of Appeals, within 45 days of a decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the enforcement authority's decision, then the enforcement authority may recommend to the City Council that the municipality's attorney file an enforcement action in a Maine court of competent jurisdiction under Rule 80K of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure.
Ultimate responsibility of discharger. The standards set forth herein are minimum standards; therefore this chapter does not intend nor imply that compliance by any person will ensure that there will be no contamination, pollution, nor unauthorized discharge of pollutants into waters of the U.S. caused by said person. This chapter shall not create liability on the part of the municipality, or any officer, agent or employee thereof for any damages that result from any person's reliance on this chapter or any administrative decision lawfully made hereunder.
The provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be severable. If any provision, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this chapter or the application thereof to any person, establishment, or circumstances shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs or application of this chapter.
The City of Bangor enacts this non-stormwater discharge code (the "code") pursuant to 30-A M.R.S.A. § 3001 (municipal home rule ordinance authority), 38 M.R.S.A. § 413 (the "Wastewater Discharge Law"), 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. (the "Clean Water Act"), and 40 CPR Part 122 [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations governing the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES)]. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, through its promulgation of the "General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems" dated June 3, 2003, has listed the City of Bangor as having a regulated small municipal separate storm sewer system ("small MS4"); under this general permit, listing as a regulated small MS4 necessitates enactment of this chapter as part of the municipality's stormwater management program. | <urn:uuid:c0c674b4-2a5a-4a4c-8aec-cb712155d4a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ecode360.com/6893278 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895612 | 3,029 | 2.09375 | 2 |
HCL Technologies has launched a 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) lab in India that will enable global telecom industry players to transition to a 5G network.
The company said this lab will help telecom service providers with multi-vendor options to move to a more open, intelligent, virtualised and fully interoperable 5G mobile network to provide an enhanced experience to end-users.
O-RAN architecture benefits include more market competition, customer choice, lower equipment costs and improved network performance. 5G O-RAN systems will help businesses transform their network capabilities and will bring in opportunities to create new, immersive user experiences and services.
“This lab will enable a broad community of O-RAN component suppliers, driven by innovation and open market competition to test the interoperability of products, which will enable smoother rollouts for 5G network providers,” said Vijay Anand Guntur, corporate vice president of engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies.
“As the O-RAN ecosystem opens, new players have a unique opportunity to provide open radio- and intelligence-focused solutions that will ensure reliable 5G network experience. This HCL lab will help both vendors and 5G network providers to accelerate their deployments and improve costs,” he added.
“As operators adopt O-RAN, they are increasingly looking for a player to provide interoperability, compliance and interface testing solutions,” said Ayon Banerjee,
managing director and partner, Boston Consulting Group. “Lab-as-a-Service offering from this O-RAN lab provides a comprehensive network testing solution.” | <urn:uuid:1280b0cd-1fac-4124-b289-4cf376cd8469> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iot.electronicsforu.com/headlines/hcl-tech-sets-up-5g-open-ran-lab-in-india/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.919519 | 343 | 1.617188 | 2 |
If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27th, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of Big Picture Science separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction.
In this second episode: a global viral pandemic … climate change … and the threat of assimilation by super-intelligent machines.
Presented as part of the Bay Area Science Festival.
Find out more about our guests and their work.
Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1: Global Pandemic
Part 2: Disease and Environment
Part 3: Recent Doomsday Scares
Part 4: Measuring Climate Change
Part 5: Impacts of Climate Change
Part 6: Doomsday Dinner
Part 7: Computer Takeover
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Telescope mount for 1874 transit of Venus
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The watch was found by a diver off the coast of Scotland in 1970, amidst a shipwreck that is thought to date from 1653. It has been in the National Museum of Scotland's collection since then, though historians had not been able to glean much about its condition from conventional X-rays. But when the museum's researchers read about a technique called X-ray computed tomography (CT) that had been used to image a similar artefact, and they thought it might do the trick:
CT involves taking a series of slices through an object at different angles, and combining them using a computer to produce a three-dimensional reconstruction of the object's internal structure. Andrew Ramsey and his colleagues at the company X-Tek Systems in Tring, Hertfordshire, UK, had developed an improved CT technique using small yet high-voltage X-ray sources, which enabled them to obtain very high-resolution images, even when penetrating dense metal..
Any parts made of steel, including the watch's single hand as well as the studs and pins that originally held the mechanism together, have corroded away. But most of the components are brass, and in excellent condition. "The results surpassed all of our expectations," says [Museum researcher Lore]Troalen. "We never thought that so much of the mechanism would have survived."
Those scans revealed a wealth of detail to researchers, including floral engravings, Roman numerals and even the clockmaker's signature: "Niccholas Higginson of Westminster". Historical records show that Higginson was indeed making watches in Westminster, London, circa 1650.
A watch that survived a shipwreck and 300 years underwater? Not bad Mr Higginson. [Nature] | <urn:uuid:a74bebb8-d9b6-4b2a-a2fe-860d74a3f8fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/10/x-rays-reveal-perfectly-preserved-300-year-old-pocket-watch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973502 | 353 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Yesterday was Sawyer’s last day of Kindergarten. One of my main goals this summer is to prevent him from losing any of that precious learning, especially his new reading skills. So we’re going to focus on literacy throughout the summer with lots of reading and writing time sprinkled into our outdoor summer fun. Here are six ideas for summer literacy activities that were linked up to last week’s Kids Co-Op.
6 Summer Reading Activities for Kids
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In New Zealand, unusually, Covid-19 has so far improved population mortality. But what does that mean for the future?
We are all aware of the illness and deaths brought by the Covid-19 pandemic across the world. The number of deaths attributable to the pandemic is difficult to count and compare across countries due to incomplete testing, definitional inconsistencies and the judgements required to attribute non-Covid deaths indirectly caused or avoided due to the pandemic or reactions to it (such as lockdowns).
The number of “excess deaths” has become a well-used indicator of Covid-related mortality. Excess deaths are tracked weekly in many countries. Excess deaths measure the actual deaths occurring compared to what would have been expected on pre-pandemic levels of mortality.
There are different ways of counting excess deaths. Two examples are:
- The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) of the UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries tracks the number of actual deaths registered in England & Wales in a week less the number that would have been expected if Standardised Mortality Rates (SMR) had been the same as in the corresponding week of 2019. SMRs adjust for changes in the size, age and gender distribution of the population over time so that the excess deaths calculation focuses on changes in death rates. The CMI estimated around 66,200 more deaths for England & Wales from the start of the pandemic to 1 January 2021 than if mortality rates were similar to those experienced in 2019.
- In a study of 29 high-income countries published in the BMJ, comparing observed deaths to the number expected from a model based on data from 2016-19, England & Wales was estimated to have 83,900 to 86,800 excess deaths in 2020.
Clearly, different methods of counting can lead to different results, but whichever method is used, there have been many lives lost prematurely.
Negative excess deaths in Aotearoa
Aotearoa New Zealand was one of only three countries in the BMJ study estimated to have negative excess deaths in 2020, that is, fewer deaths than expected. The mortality rate in New Zealand was significantly lower in 2020 than previous years, which resulted in around 2,500 fewer deaths than would have been expected by the estimate of this study. The other countries estimated to have negative excess deaths were Denmark (around 160 fewer deaths in a population 20% larger than New Zealand’s) and Norway (around 70 fewer deaths in a population 12% larger than New Zealand’s).
The actual number of deaths confirms the lower mortality experience in New Zealand in 2020. There were 32,613 deaths, which is slightly fewer than the average of the preceding five years, a period when the population was growing. Aotearoa had only 25 deaths attributed to Covid-19 in 2020, and has had 27 such deaths to date (September 2021). A Covid-19 dashboard is here.
A significant factor in this reduced mortality in New Zealand was the near absence of influenza in 2020, as closed borders prevented flu getting into the country and lockdown stopped transmission.
Comparing the change in death rates in Aotearoa New Zealand with those in England & Wales since 2000-1 highlights the different experiences. The chart below shows the change in an all-ages mortality rate across the population, each standardised for changes in population size, age and gender distribution. Mortality rates, also called death rates, fluctuate each year as seasonal impacts and random variations occur. There are usually more years when age-standardised death rates reduce, rather than increase, consistent with gradually improving mortality.
The large values for 2019-20 for both countries indicate an extreme event. For England & Wales the value is a large positive, meaning a worsening mortality rate. For Aotearoa, the large negative mortality rate shows a large mortality improvement in 2020
Oldest ages fared well
The change in death rates in Aotearoa New Zealand for each year since 2000-1 is shown by age group, for ages 50 and over, in the chart below. The orange line of 2019-20 is at the centre of the spider’s web, indicating the large negative change in all age groups as mortality improved over the year.
While mortality improved significantly for all these age groups in 2019-20, the orange line is closest to the centre for the oldest age groups. Older people were well cared for through the pandemic and achieved some of the largest annual mortality improvements seen over the last 20 years.
Implications for life expectancy
Period life expectancy provides a snapshot summary indicator of population health at a point in time. It assumes that people will experience the population average death rates as they were in the period in question at each age for the rest of their life.
If the period is 2020, period life expectancy will be higher in New Zealand than in previous years, although national period life tables are calculated over a 3-year period to smooth statistical variations year on year. In countries with a high death toll from Covid-19 period life expectancy will be lower than in previous years. These calculations are already being made, for example:
Between 2018 and 2020, life expectancy in the US decreased by 1.87 years (to 76.87 years)
There is more uncertainty than there has been for a long time about the future trend of death rates. For example:
- The headline death rates directly attributable to Covid-19 in most countries are expected to decrease because of vaccinations, growing population immunity, and public health measures.
- However, the pandemic may leave a long tail of higher-than-expected mortality, because of weakened physical or mental health from the virus itself or from the effects of lockdown or associated economic stress, including if that impacts badly on healthcare provision.
- On the other hand, there may be some mortality improvements if the pandemic increases health awareness and healthcare providers are better funded.
The uncertainty of the effects of Covid-19 on future mortality makes predicting future trends in life expectancy difficult and complicated by varying impacts at different ages and over time. It is possible that reported period life expectancy temporarily reduces, or blips up and down, while cohort life expectancy continues increasing steadily. For example, say the pandemic affects death rates at each age for three calendar years:
- Calculations of period life expectancy at birth for those three calendar years will use each of those affected death rates, for each age.
- The calculation of cohort life expectancy at birth will only use three of those affected death rates, for the ages the cohort lived through in those three calendar years. For the other 100 years or so of the cohort’s lifespan, the death rates used will be the actuals, for the ‘lived’ ages, or estimated for later ages in future years. The pandemic effects will have less weight.
Interpreting headlines on “life expectancy” will require care. The pandemic could well provide a teachable moment to increase understanding of the distinction between period life expectancy as a useful snapshot of population health and cohort life expectancy as an indicator of likely lifespans for a birth cohort of people. | <urn:uuid:f34ae83b-e5d2-4300-b510-3add9153d711> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://longlifepensions.com/2021/08/06/effect-of-pandemic-on-life-expectancy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.955228 | 1,475 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Ayurveda is a branch of traditional medicine that has its origin in India and its history is almost 5000 years old. Being 100% natural Ayurvedic products, these supplements are based on the principle of self-healing. Ayurveda adopts a holistic approach that not only heals the body but relaxes the mind as well. Karela or bitter gourd, also known as Karavellaka is a bitter tasting fruit-vegetable that belongs to the melon family and has its origin in Asian countries. Health benefits of bitter gourd are numerous and have been used for ages as an ayurvedic remedy for blood sugar. It helps to maintain healthy glucose metabolism throughout the body. It is a natural ayurvedic product.
- Controls blood sugar levels.
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- Cures constipation.
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- Clears acne.
- Boosts immunity.
- Provides required Vitamin K.
- Improves eyesight.
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|Title:||An investigation into the prevalence of urinary symptoms, faecal incontinence and impact on stroke survivors and their carers|
|Authors:||Brittain, Katherine Rhian.|
|Abstract:||Aims: Little community based research investigates the prevalence of urinary incontinence and other urinary symptoms in stroke survivors. The impact on the lives of survivors and their carers has also received little attention. The aim of this thesis was to address these gaps in the literature. The objectives were to estimate the prevalence of urinary symptoms, faecal incontinence and their impact on the lives of stroke survivors and carers.;Methods: Postal questionnaires and home interviews and administered to assess the prevalence and impact of urinary symptoms, and faecal incontinence in a stroke population. Qualitative interviews explored the impact that urinary incontinence can have on carers.;Results: Thirty-three percent of stroke survivors reported urinary incontinence compared with 14% of the non-stroke population (p<0.0001). After age and sex were controlled for, the difference in prevalence remained significant. Twice as many stroke survivors felt that their urinary symptoms were a moderate to severe problem (p<0.0001). Stroke and urinary incontinence were independently associated with anxiety, depression and had a negative effect on quality of life. It was the severity of urinary symptoms that was associated with this impact. Faecal incontinence was reported in 7.4% of survivors compared with 2.9% of the non-stroke group (p<0.0001) and the prevalence of double incontinence (faecal and urinary) was more than four times higher amongst stroke survivors (p<0.001). Furthermore, incontinence for carers of survivors caused them sleep deprivation, feelings of isolation and a restriction on social activities.;Conclusions: There is a high prevalence of urinary incontinence, other urinary symptoms and faecal incontinence in stroke survivors. These symptoms cause considerable negative impact on the lives of survivors and their carers. Incontinence is a stigmatising condition for those who experience it and for their carers.|
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Definitions for unjustifiable
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word unjustifiable
indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted(adj)
incapable of being justified or explained
That cannot be justified, excused or pardoned
The numerical value of unjustifiable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
The numerical value of unjustifiable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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Far from changing course, Russia’s totally unjustifiable and illegal actions in eastern Ukraine have reached a new level with the separatists’ blatant breach of the ceasefire.
I don't see ISIS as Muslim. I see terrorists when I look at ISIS, to me, terror knows no religion. They are picking and choosing aspects of the religion and twisting and distorting them in order to justify their actions that are unjustifiable.
Given the harm caused to animals, the experiments’ limited relevance to humans, the substantial financial cost, and the existence of superior non-animal research methods, the continued use of animals in this work is scientifically and ethically unjustifiable.
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
President Widodo can demonstrate true leadership by ending capital punishment as unacceptable state brutality, president Widodo should recognize that the death penalty is not a crime deterrent but an unjustifiable and barbaric punishment. President Widodo should promote Indonesia as a rights-respecting democracy by joining the countries that have abolished capital punishment.
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Constrained Electrostatic Nonlinear Optimization, Problem-Based
Consider the electrostatics problem of placing 20 electrons in a conducting body. The electrons will arrange themselves in a way that minimizes their total potential energy, subject to the constraint of lying inside the body. All the electrons are on the boundary of the body at a minimum. The electrons are indistinguishable, so the problem has no unique minimum (permuting the electrons in one solution gives another valid solution). This example was inspired by Dolan, Moré, and Munson .
The objective and nonlinear constraint functions for this example are all Supported Operations for Optimization Variables and Expressions. Therefore,
solve uses automatic differentiation to calculate gradients. See Automatic Differentiation in Optimization Toolbox. Without automatic differentiation, this example stops early by reaching the
MaxFunctionEvaluations tolerance. For an equivalent solver-based example using Symbolic Math Toolbox™, see Calculate Gradients and Hessians Using Symbolic Math Toolbox.
This example involves a conducting body defined by the following inequalities. For each electron with coordinates ,
These constraints form a body that looks like a pyramid on a sphere. To view the body, enter the following code.
[X,Y] = meshgrid(-1:.01:1); Z1 = -abs(X) - abs(Y); Z2 = -1 - sqrt(1 - X.^2 - Y.^2); Z2 = real(Z2); W1 = Z1; W2 = Z2; W1(Z1 < Z2) = nan; % Only plot points where Z1 > Z2 W2(Z1 < Z2) = nan; % Only plot points where Z1 > Z2 hand = figure; % Handle to the figure, for later use set(gcf,'Color','w') % White background surf(X,Y,W1,'LineStyle','none'); hold on surf(X,Y,W2,'LineStyle','none'); view(-44,18)
A slight gap exists between the upper and lower surfaces of the figure. This gap is an artifact of the general plotting routine used to create the figure. The routine erases any rectangular patch on one surface that touches the other surface.
Define Problem Variables
The problem has twenty electrons. The constraints give bounds on each and value from –1 to 1, and the value from –2 to 0. Define the variables for the problem.
N = 20; x = optimvar('x',N,'LowerBound',-1,'UpperBound',1); y = optimvar('y',N,'LowerBound',-1,'UpperBound',1); z = optimvar('z',N,'LowerBound',-2,'UpperBound',0); elecprob = optimproblem;
The problem has two types of constraints. The first, a spherical constraint, is a simple polynomial inequality for each electron separately. Define this spherical constraint.
elecprob.Constraints.spherec = (x.^2 + y.^2 + (z+1).^2) <= 1;
The preceding constraint command creates a vector of ten constraints. View the constraint vector using
((x.^2 + y.^2) + (z + 1).^2) <= arg_RHS where: arg2 = 1; arg1 = arg2(ones(1,20)); arg_RHS = arg1(:);
The second type of constraint in the problem is linear. You can express the linear constraints in different ways. For example, you can use the
abs function to represent an absolute value constraint. To express the constraints this way, write a MATLAB function and convert it to an expression using
fcn2optimexpr. See Convert Nonlinear Function to Optimization Expression. For a preferable approach that uses only differentiable functions, write the absolute value constraint as four linear inequalities. Each constraint command returns a vector of 20 constraints.
elecprob.Constraints.plane1 = z <= -x-y; elecprob.Constraints.plane2 = z <= -x+y; elecprob.Constraints.plane3 = z <= x-y; elecprob.Constraints.plane4 = z <= x+y;
Define Objective Function
The objective function is the potential energy of the system, which is a sum over each electron pair of the inverse of their distances:
Define the objective function as an optimization expression. For good performance, write the objective function in a vectorized fashion. See Create Efficient Optimization Problems.
energy = optimexpr(1); for ii = 1:(N-1) jj = (ii+1):N; tempe = (x(ii) - x(jj)).^2 + (y(ii) - y(jj)).^2 + (z(ii) - z(jj)).^2; energy = energy + sum(tempe.^(-1/2)); end elecprob.Objective = energy;
Start the optimization with the electrons distributed randomly on a sphere of radius 1/2 centered at [0,0,–1].
rng default % For reproducibility x0 = randn(N,3); for ii=1:N x0(ii,:) = x0(ii,:)/norm(x0(ii,:))/2; x0(ii,3) = x0(ii,3) - 1; end init.x = x0(:,1); init.y = x0(:,2); init.z = x0(:,3);
Solve the problem by calling
[sol,fval,exitflag,output] = solve(elecprob,init)
Solving problem using fmincon. Local minimum found that satisfies the constraints. Optimization completed because the objective function is non-decreasing in feasible directions, to within the value of the optimality tolerance, and constraints are satisfied to within the value of the constraint tolerance.
sol = struct with fields: x: [20x1 double] y: [20x1 double] z: [20x1 double]
fval = 163.0099
exitflag = OptimalSolution
output = struct with fields: iterations: 94 funcCount: 150 constrviolation: 0 stepsize: 2.8395e-05 algorithm: 'interior-point' firstorderopt: 8.1308e-06 cgiterations: 0 message: 'Local minimum found that satisfies the constraints....' bestfeasible: [1x1 struct] objectivederivative: "reverse-AD" constraintderivative: "closed-form" solver: 'fmincon'
Plot the solution as points on the conducting body.
figure(hand) plot3(sol.x,sol.y,sol.z,'r.','MarkerSize',25) hold off
The electrons are distributed fairly evenly on the constraint boundary. Many electrons are on the edges and the pyramid point.
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Much of the inspiration for the FOX network's new show "Sleepy Hollow," a modern-day police drama twist on the classic short story by Washington Irving, was drawn from the Bible, specifically the Book of Revelation and end times, the show's producers said in a recent interview.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, executive producers of "Sleepy Hollow," said in a recent interview that they took the plot of the original "Sleepy Hollow" short story and added biblical themes to create their drama adaptation for the FOX network.
The original "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was written by American writer Washington Irving in 1820 and follows the protagonist Ichabod Crane, a Connecticut school master who is seeking the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer in rural New York, in marriage. Crane, who is in competition with Abraham Van Brunt for Van Tassel's hand, is eventually scared out of town by a headless horseman ghost riding in the night.
The "Sleepy Hollow" drama, premiering Monday evening on Fox, takes the character Crane and places him in the present day Sleepy Hollow, a suburb of Westchester County, New York, where he meets town sheriff Abbie Mills. After Crane tells Mills of his past life 250 years ago, the two strike a friendship, working together to find the modern day headless horseman haunting the small town.
As Orci and Kurtzman told TV Guide in a recent interview, the Headless Horseman is one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, and therefore Mills and Crane are working to both save the small town of Sleepy Hollow as well as all of mankind. The producers told TV Guide that their idea to use Four Horsemen characters originated from the Bible, specifically the Book of Revelation that tells about the apocalypse and the arrival of Four Horsemen.
"I think we gravitated toward the Bible as being really relevant to our storytelling once it became about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Kurtzman told TV Guide in a recent interview.
Orci goes on to say that the producers and writers of the show created several characters in "Sleepy Hollow," who are modeled after characters in the bible, but they are not trying to literally re-tell the bible through their new drama.
"There are a lot of details from the Bible, but we're not trying to do the Bible literally. But the Bible in a more general sense as a marker for American history; we're being inspired by American history and the legends of our cultures. The Bible is the starting point, but we want to visit various cultures' interpretations of religion and posit the idea of any bible in any culture is, in a way, a description and an impressionistic interpretation of the one true world religion that we must all be somehow apart of," Orci said.
Kurtzman went on to say that the bible's many stories about the human condition serve as an "endless well" when writing a drama.
"Everyone has different interpretations of the Bible and what it means. Ultimately, whether you believe the stories literally or you think they're allegory or metaphor, they are about how we live our lives and they are a search of meaning of why we're here on the planet and what our purpose is as a species. Each story raises a question about how we live our lives, so in that sense, it's the best and the first drama. It really is. It's an endless well that we can draw from," Kurtzman said.
Washington Irving's original "Sleepy Hollow" short story serves as one of the most memorable, and spooky, Halloween tales to date, with adaptations in film, television, and pop culture. After viewing a sneak peak of tonight's premiere episode, critics have contended that this rendition of the classic "Sleepy Hollow" tale is perhaps the most ghoulish and suspenseful yet.
"Clues from the past enlighten mysteries in the present, as each episode features a flashback to Ichabod's life in 1776," the show's official description reads on the FOX network website. "Ripe with untold stories from American history and cloaked in mythology, the divide between present and past becomes dangerously blurred."
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Here is a question that most of us would have wondered while preparing for an overseas trip. Should we change our foreign currency in Singapore or overseas? Which offers the better rate?
Before we look into it with greater detail, it is important to first point out that there is no right answer to this question. Foreign exchange rate changes all the time. Also, whether you get a good deal or a bad one depends as well on which moneychanger you use, and which country you are travelling to.
That being said, there are a few simple tips that we have observed about foreign exchange rates that could help you decide whether you should change your foreign currency in the country that you are visiting.
Tip 1: Rates Are Generally Better When There Is A Higher Demand In The Country
Generally speaking, foreign exchange rates would be better if there were a higher demand for a particular currency in that country. For example, the US Dollar would enjoy a good exchange rate in most countries since it is widely accepted.
Since foreign exchange is a two way thing, what that also means is that a Singaporean travelling to the US would be better off doing his exchange at home in Singapore, where the demand for Singapore Dollar would naturally be higher. US Dollar rates in Singapore would also be competitive, given that all moneychangers in Singapore would be competing with one another for your business.
Don’t be caught in a situation trying to exchange your Singapore Dollar in the US. For starters, some smaller moneychangers in the US may not even accept the Singapore Dollar for exchange.
It is likely that the bigger moneychangers you find in the US would not offer a good rate compared to what you can find in Singapore, given the lack of competition and demand for the Singapore Dollar.
Tip 2: The Singapore Dollar Should Do Well In ASEAN
By the same logic, the Singapore Dollar is likely to do well if you are travelling within ASEAN. The simple reason is because it is well accepted regionally as a strong currency.
A secondary reason would be due to the fact that rental space for moneychanger in most ASEAN countries are likely to be cheaper than what moneychangers in Singapore have to pay. With a much lower rental, profit margins can afford to be lower, given the same volume of currency being exchanged.
For example, you are likely to get a better rate for the Ringgit and the Rupiah if you do your exchange in Malaysia and Indonesia respectively. For these countries, do your foreign exchange there. Of course, Singaporean travellers should also take note that there might be moneychangers in these countries that could also try to “scam” you if you are not familiar with the rates. So be careful. There have been cases of moneychangers in some of these countries short changing tourists who are not familiar with the currency.
Tip 3: Other Places In Asia – Do The Exchange In Singapore
For the rest of Asia, it is more tricky to determine whether or not you will get a better exchange rate in Singapore or overseas. Here is some reasoning to help us through.
In the Forex world, major Asian currencies would include the Japanese Yen, Chinese Yuan and the Hong Kong Dollar. Demands for these currencies are generally strong in most countries, even outside of Asia.
Without going into the technicalities, the Singapore Dollar and the South Korean Won are pretty strong as well, though perhaps not as widely accepted outside of Asia compared to the other major currencies. For example, there are moneychangers in Singapore that do not provide Korean Won. Likewise, there are moneychangers in Korea that do not exchange for Singapore Dollar.
That being the case, for a Singaporean travelling to some of these other major Asian countries, it is better for us to do our exchange in Singapore, where we are more familiar with where to go for the most competitive rates (e.g. Arcade at Raffles Place), rather than risk thinking we can find a better rates in some of these Asian countries.
Do you agree with our approach to foreign exchange? Share with us any other comments that you may have on whether it is better to do the exchange in Singapore or overseas.
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December 01, 2004
Gulf Coast anglers are rewarded for the long run.
Red grouper's perpetual appetite makes it a common Middle Ground catch.
A grab bag that grabs back—often with astounding force. That pretty well sums up the fishery at the Florida Middle Ground.
With the thump of a lead weight hitting bottom, you feel like a gladiator standing before the coliseum's tunnel door. You don't know what's about to burst forth and you're not sure if you're ready for it.
Ready or not, anything edible is fair game for the next rod-bending behemoth. And that's the thrill of fishing here.
Chock full of bottomfish, mid-depth swimmers and pelagics, this angling oasis sits about 75 miles west of Tarpon Springs and attracts angling patrons throughout the Gulf Coast. It's a long run, but the rewards of big fish more than justify the travel.
How big? Consider some of the catches recorded on The Florida Fisherman, a headboat making regular Middle Ground trips out of Johns Pass:
- 107- and 93-pound black grouper (Both ate mangrove snapper that anglers were fighting.)
- 110-pound amberjack (with common catches of 80- and 90-pounders)
- 34-pound, 6-ounce yellowfin grouper
- 28-pound, 5-ounce mutton snapper, plus two muttons over 27 pounds on one trip
- 7-pound yellowtail snapper
Can you find the same fish elsewhere? Yep. How 'bout similar structure? You bet. But when it comes to density, the Middle Ground packs a whole bunch of fishing into its 348 square nautical miles.
The key element here is bottom structure. With depths ranging from about 85 to 150 feet, the 'Grounds abound with topographical diversity. Lined with a sand and sandshell substrate, this area features steep limestone peaks, live and hard coral formations and seemingly endless ledges dropping 15 feet or better.
“The appeal of the Middle Ground is the bottom—the amount and variety of structure over such a limited area,” said Capt. Mike Whiteman of Mega-Bite Sportfish Charters. “It's as diverse an area as I've seen.
“It's an area you can fish where you don't need numbers. If you have one number in the Middle Ground, you can start slowing down about a mile from the spot, and you'll have 10 numbers by the time you reach your primary number.”
So rich is the bottom bounty that a single waypoint proves a sufficient conduit into the Middle Grounds mania. As St. Petersburg skipper Randy Rochelle puts it: “If you don't have any private numbers, just grab a number off a chart and use it as a starting point. Look around and watch your bottom machine for those big shows of fish. You'll definitely find them.”
Strong ocean currents upwelling against Middle Ground structure deliver a constant supply of food. For predatory fish, this is a luxury condo with an endless buffet right in the living room.
“Those ledges and peaks hold bait, the fish eat the bait and they just congregate around the tops of those structures,” said Florida Fisherman Capt. Mark Hubbard. “They can just go in and out of the bottom and have at whatever they want to eat.”
Top Middle Ground targets include grouper (red, gag, black, scamp), snapper (mangrove, red, mutton, vermilion), hogfish, pink porgies and triggerfish. Amberjack, cobia and barracuda patrol several wrecks scattered throughout the 'Grounds, but bottom fishing is the big draw.
MAKING THE RUN
For Middle Ground trips, Rochelle gathers a well full of live baits a day prior and trailers his boat from St. Petersburg to the Tarpon Springs/Anclote area to reduce his seaward run. Anclote Gulf Park and Anclote River Park—both just north of the Anclote River—are popular public ramp options.
Capt. Angelo LoGrande, a frequent Middle Ground patron, favors overnight trips in which he targets snapper during dark hours and grouper the next morning. Leaving St. Petersburg at sundown, he leisurely makes his way offshore and sets up shop around midnight. For starters, he likes the cooler temperature and the snapper's accelerated after-hours appetite. Also, he said, the Gulf is typically more hospitable from dusk ‘til dawn.
“Ninety percent of why I do overnight trips is because of the weather,” LoGrande said. “By 9 or 10 a.m., I've got a bunch of worn out people and I'm working my way inshore. By around noon, I'm 40 miles offshore and that's a lot better than 80 or 90. Until noon, you're in great shape, but after that you better really be careful with thunderstorms. You can get into trouble quick.”
Noteworthy, he adds, is the fact that beachcombers often experience vastly different conditions than do offshore anglers. “The weather you have on the coast is not the same out there. I've left port when it's flat calm and gotten out to the Middle Ground and it's 4-foot seas.”
Favoring what he terms “hilltops”—-peaks in bottom contour—-LoGrande starts his night mission by hanging a long, green fluorescent light from his stern. The haunting glow attracts bait schools and lures mangrove snapper off the bottom. Staggering baits from the bottom through the water column is a good bet when the snapper venture from their fortress.
At night, LoGrande uses mostly frozen sardines, as low visibility makes the attraction of live bait less strategic than the snout-tempting aroma of a stinky dead bait. Rip the sardine's tail off to maximize the scent output and hook it through the eye sockets for a firm connection.
The Florida Middle Ground is famous for producing monster catches like Andy Sterling's 70-pound gag grouper.
If you're short on dead bait, cut each sardine into three or four chunks. You'll find cutting easier when the baits are still partially frozen. Chopping fully thawed sardines isn't quite as frustrating as trying to slice oatmeal, but it's close. In any condition, dead baits separate nicely with a pair of garden or kitchen shears.
Now, night fishing—especially on a full moon—can certainly prove to be an effective theater for live baits, but too much of a good thing can become a bad thing when Stage 2 of your game plan is at stake.
As LoGrande said, “If you get on the snapper good, you can go through 100 pieces of bait in a hurry. You want to save some for the grouper.”
Life could be worse if you're limiting out on tasty mangroves, but big grouper can turn silly for tender, terrified livies. And though dead baits catch plenty of grouper, greeting daybreak with an empty livewell tends to dampen optimism.
And don't disparage smaller catches like grunts, porgies, vermilion snapper and blue runners. Considering that little fish exist to feed big fish, most anything with fins is a good indigenous bait choice. Live presentations can work, but a hefty bait will often drag around even an 8-ounce sinker. Instead try a butterfly presentation where the bait's flanks are cut partially through, but left attached either along the backbone or at the tail end. The benefits are 1) lots of natural scent, and 2) enticing action as the flanks wave in the current.
TACKLE & RIGS
As with any bottom fishing scenario, Middle Ground missions require stout conventional outfits for easing big fish away from where they'd rather stay. For wary snapper, you'll want to go as light as possible to minimize their suspicion. Forty-pound main line with four feet of 40-pound fluorocarbon leader works well.
LoGrande likes a 4-ounce lead for snapper because it optimizes strike detection. Sticking a snapper as soon as it commits is paramount, so don't tarry. He typically uses 3/0 or 4/0 “J” hooks, but when sneaky snapper frustrate inexperienced anglers, he switches to circle hooks. Not only do circles take the guesswork out of when to set the hook, they also puncture the lip securely to ensure that a fish doesn't unbutton itself on the way up.
Grouper rigs, on the other hand, are more about livebait presentation. Six-foot leaders and slide sinkers of 6 or 8 ounces will afford your livie sufficient room to dance and flutter naturally, while keeping the little guy tethered to the target area. Gear up with 80-pound main line, 60-pound leader and 6/0 to 8/0 hooks.
For an artificial approach, 6- to 8-ounce jigs with hair skirts and white, pink or chartreuse swirl tails will often irritate a big grouper into vivid displays of aggression. Tipping a jig with cut squid or a sardine enhances its appeal, and leaving the rod in a gunnel holder lets the rocking boat apply jigging motion.
Over wrecks and reefs, you'll also do well with the time-honored AJ getter—the diamond jig. The elongated multi-faceted metal flash-maker resembles a wounded baitfish fluttering in the water column and brings AJs running to the dinner table. (Replace the standard J or treble hook with a 10/0 or 12/0 circle hook for better connections.)
In deep water, braided line will aid in strike detection and cutoff prevention. When using mono, remember that line stretch greatly diminishes hookset attempts. When you feel a bite, just reel down until you come tight and crank hard and fast to separate fish from bottom structure. Once your opponent rises in the water column, lift your rod tip to about 10 o'clock, reel down to the surface and repeat as needed.
Tip: If you're having trouble hooking fish, just drop the bait to the bottom and set the rod in a flush-mounted holder. You can't do much about little nibblers, but if a big Middle Ground monster decides to eat, he'll hook himself and there's no question when it's time to start reeling.
Rapidly rising from deep water causes distended stomachs and bulging eyes in most fish. Give undersized fish a fighting chance by properly ventilating before release. Insert a hypodermic needle or other thin, sharp ventilation tool about half an inch into the gastric chamber until you hear the air release and the fish's body will return to normal. Never puncture an extended stomach or attempt to force it back down the fish's throat. Proper ventilation requires maybe 30 seconds, so take time to keep that spot full of fish for next year.
THE RIGHT SPOT
Now, to say that “it's all good at the 'Grounds,” isn't far from true. Nevertheless, personal honeyholes and significant spikes and ledges merit close attention. When you locate a target area on the bottom machine, drop a weighted float to mark the spot and then line up for an anchor heading, which factors in wind and current.
Even though most Middle Ground structure produces fish, LoGrande doesn't waste time with shorts when a truckload of keepers is probably just a peak or two away. A 50- to 100-foot move is usually all you'll need to find the big'ns.
Of course, repositioning in deep water necessitates an arduous amount of anchor pulling duty. However, LoGrande saves his mate a trip to the chiropractor by dragging his anchor from spot to peak to peak using a small buoy. This enables him to line up on a new heading and reset the anchor on a hilltop with minimal effort.
Complementing its bread-and-butter bottom action, the Middle Ground often offers bonus shots at ocean roamers such as tuna, wahoo, dolphin and king mackerel. Proving this area's pelagic potential, accomplished kingfish tournament angler Marcus Kennedy traveled from Mobile, Alabama to fish a high-dollar event out of Clearwater in April, 2001. Surmising that the Middle Ground offered habitat similar to his Northern Gulf stomping grounds, he plowed the long run and snared a 46.78-pound tournament winner.
For kingfish pursuits, dripping a trail of menhaden oil and dropping a few chunks of cut sardines every few minutes will attract the big macks, while slow trolling big baits like jumbo blue runners, Spanish sardines, mullet and ladyfish usually draws a strike. At the moment of truth, you'll need stout wire leaders tipped with stinger rigs to put the brakes on a Middle Ground smoker.
When targeting tuna, dolphin and wahoo, step up the trolling speed and deploy a mixture of jethead lures, diving plugs and dead ballyhoo dressed with nylon skirts or Sea Witches. Stagger your spread by rigging one of your ballyhoo with a 2-ounce egg sinker under its chin and dropping another on a downrigger.
When positioning on his spot, LoGrande demands accuracy. “You want the fish on top of the structure, not to the sides. It's harder to anchor on the sides of the structures because the current is so tough. You can lose your anchor that way.”While bottom fishing, always keep a live baitfish freelined off the stern for passing pelagics. Such opportunistic fishing often yields a reel-screaming interlude between grouper and snapper bites. Seven- to 7 1/ 2-foot conventional outfits with at least 300 yards of 30- to 50-pound line will handle most pelagic action.
If boat or budget limitations put the Middle Ground out of your reach, consider an overnighter on a local partyboat (a.k.a. headboat). Most offer sleeping quarters, shower facilities, packaged and prepared food options and all the bait, tackle and ice you'll need. Deck mates help with rigging and gaffing fish. With trip costs spread among 40 or more anglers, headboat options make for an affordable deal.
So, whether you take a private Middle Ground trip, or visit via the tour bus, don't miss a chance to browse these aqueous aisles. The doors never close, so you can shop till you drop in the Gulf of Mexico's bottom fishing Super Center.
Where is the Middle Ground?
Cedar Key actually has the closest boat ramp to the central Middle Ground. However, Tarpon Springs, a close second, launches far more boats because the Tampa fleet is based nearby. The Middle Ground is within reach of boats from a great many ports along Florida's Big Bend and down south, from Steinhatchee to Tampa. For many, it's a run of about 100 miles offshore, a mission that calls for very seaworthy boats.This large area of natural, productive bottom is roughly bracketed by the following GPS coordinates. If you have “lat-long” numbers inside of this box, chances are they're Middle Ground numbers. The north corners of the box are 28-45.00'N by 84-13.00'W and 28-45.00'N by 84-30.00'W. The south corners are 28-15.00'N by 83-57.00'W and 28-15.00'N by 84-16.00'W.
Live bait is the American Express of offshore fishing: Don't leave the coast without it. Dead bait has its place, but livies make big things happen.Most Middle Ground captains stock up on pilchards, threadfin herring or pinfish in nearshore waters, but never pass up the opportunity to supplement your supply when deepwater opportunities arise. Offshore pods of Spanish sardines are worth a few minutes of gold-hook jiggling, while nearshore and mid-range reefs can add larger baits such as blue runners, grunts, spottails and small vermilion snapper.
Cut squid fished on 1/0 or 2/0 hooks with two ounces of lead usually tricks the reef rats. Boost your productivity by tying two or more hooks in a row with dropper loops and rigging your weight at the terminal end.
Also try gold hooking with heavier sabiki rigs (for instance, No. 8 hooks, 20-pound main line and 16-pound branch line) on deeper reefs, but tip the bottom two hooks with squid to attract hefty baitfish. You'll catch smaller baits on the bare gold hooks at the rig's top end, but the extra scent appeals to those with larger appetites, especially in low light conditions. Use at least a 4-ounce weight to quickly reach bottom and avoid tangling in the current. | <urn:uuid:f6a66534-20a9-4696-ae52-ea6b7b1db83d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.floridasportsman.com/editorial/fishing_florida_middle_ground/397090 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.932228 | 3,616 | 1.515625 | 2 |
How To Identify And Develop Employee Strengths?
How To Identify And Develop Employee Strengths?
What does it take to be an effective manager or business leader? Empathy’s key, of course. As are fairness and the ability to delegate. Strong communication skills are always essential, and an upbeat attitude (coupled with a dose of emotional resilience) never goes amiss.
Yet these crucial attributes can only take you so far. To truly succeed in a leadership position, you must also be able to identify and develop employee strengths. Doing so allows you to allocate assignments in line with employee strong points, review each team member’s performance more effectively, and deliver relevant training and support to help them succeed.
Ultimately, this indispensable skill enables you to unlock your team’s true potential. In this article, we’re going to teach you how to do it.
How to Define Employee Strengths
When business leaders talk about employee strengths, they’re referring to the specific insights, expertise, skills, personality traits, and talents that enable the employee in question to perform in a role.
Think of it as their most useful skills and personal qualities. If you can identify them, then you can leverage them. If you hone them, then you can maximize the individual’s potential impact within the organisation.
Identifying Employee Strengths
Data from Gallup reveals that employees who learn their strengths are 7.8% more productive. Unfortunately, identifying staff strengths is easier said than done. The following ideas should help:
Engaging in an open and honest conversation with your employees about their strengths and weaknesses is often the most effective place to start. Whether the dialogue takes place in a formal performance review or on a quick trip to the water cooler, this direct approach can elicit swift results.
Having said that, the answers you receive – especially in a more formal scenario – won’t always be dependable. Some employees may issue clichéd responses (e.g. “a self-motivated team-player”) or embellish attributes in a bid to get a raise. Others may be shy or self-deprecating.
Everything from cultivating an open company culture to revealing your own personal strengths first can help combat that potentiality. You’re also more likely to get honest answers by being real and keeping the conversation relaxed.
If a direct approach fails to provide the answers you need, then try to be a fly on the wall as well. The act of listening and watching your team in action can be equally as (and often even more) revealing! The trick is to be objective; to observe employees as if you’d never met them before.
Ask yourself: where does this individual excel? What character traits shine through? And, more importantly, how might these be put to use in the organisation?
Just be careful not to jump to conclusions – especially if you notice problematic or questionable workplace behaviour. They might be having a bad day! Taking notes over time will help you recognize behavioural patterns and make more accurate judgments of employee strengths and weaknesses.
The internet’s another powerful avenue for determining employee strong points. For example, it’s now common practice for employers to research their team on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
With self-curated profiles full of information about their likes, experiences, and interests, they can plug gaps in your current understanding of each individual.
Your company’s digital communication channels and intranet are worth looking at for similar reasons. Look at their recent activity, for instance. Whether they’re answering peoples’ questions, leaving supportive messages, or simply more vocal online than in person, it can contain a goldmine of information about who they are.
Developing Employee Strengths
Having identified your employees’ strengths, the next step is to work hard to develop them. Here’s how to do it:
Many managers and business leaders assume their employees already know where their strengths lie. Don’t make the same mistake! You’d be surprised how many people take their abilities for granted and never stop to acknowledge them.
Whether it’s in a one-to-one meeting or a quick compliment during a coffee break, naming those talents out loud is the first step to helping your employees double down on their core competencies. They’ll be able to set appropriate goals in performance reviews, volunteer for particular roles in each project, and more.
Assign Relevant Roles
Because practice makes perfect, it makes sense to assign projects, tasks, and roles within your workforce based on each employee’s strengths.
If someone’s known to be in a perpetual positive mood, you could team them up with an employee who’s harder to work with. Natural diplomats might be well-suited to negotiating with new clients. Brilliant problem-solvers could be perfect for handling customer complaints. And so on.
One obvious way to hone someone’s skills is to enrol them on training courses focused on the topic. Common examples include things like teamwork, business leadership, finance, and communication. They may take place within the organization or be delivered externally by a third party.
Offering these types of opportunities for career growth is a powerful way to improve the employee experience too. You end up with a more capable and satisfied workforce – both of which are good for business.
Key Employee Strengths Managers Should Look For
Not all employee strengths are made equal. Here’s a quick-fire list of the most beneficial ones to look out for and develop in your team:
• Strong Communication Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Problem-Solving Skills
While it might not be the first quality that comes to mind, the ability to identify employee strengths is a crucial part of being an effective leader. Done right, it enables you to assign tasks more effectively, reduce conflict in the office, limit mistakes, and, ultimately, enjoy better business outcomes.
With any luck, the insights in this article will prove useful in this regard. Keep the tips and strategies in mind and it shouldn’t be long before you have a solid understanding of your staff strengths and help each team member develop their talents further.
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NEW YORK CITY: Hearing the distant rumble of government horses, Microsoft and Netscape have (gasp) joined forces to protect Web users' online privacy. Users are bristling about the use of a technology called "cookies" that tracks surfing habits to create a demographic profile prized by advertisers. Recent FTC online privacy hearings have put the fear of Big Government into industry leaders. "Despite their rivalry, Microsoft and Netscape share the desire to grow the market," says TIME's David Jackson, "and it makes sense for them to join together to assuage people's concerns early on. If they don't, people just aren't going to use some of these technologies." A new software the two companies will jointly produce should allow users to choose which information websites can learn about them. But since both Netscape and Microsoft are counting on advertising revenue to fuel their growth, putting them in charge of your privacy could be a Faustian bargain indeed. | <urn:uuid:50b083c5-7e9c-4622-80f3-fe1a2634e11b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,8286,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00003-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955451 | 190 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Creating a Simple Chat BotJuly 24, 2013
Chat bots are web applications which use artificial intelligence to carry out believable conversations with human users. I have always found chat bots interesting, and decided to create my own using Java. The chat bot I created was very simple and did not work terribly well, but gave reasonable responses to common conversations. While it could in some sense learn, the bot I made had no understanding of the English language and was effectively hardwired to give certain responses. In this article I will briefly outline how it worked. It is interesting how simple it can be and still give sensible responses. Below is a conversation I had with the chat bot. The percentages correspond to how certain the bot is that his replies make sense.
A chat bot is not directly programmed to talk in and understand English. It would be almost impossible to do that. Instead, the bot is created in a way where it can learn to converse with humans. Therefore it begins not really being able to do anything until it learns from examples. The set of examples that the bot is given to learn from is called the training set. The training set for a chat bot would probably be a set of conversations that demonstrate sensible responses to questions the chat bot is likely to be asked.
My chat bot stored a set of pieces of dialog in a file on the computer. Specifically it stored a set of statements and responses to the statements. For example, a statement might be "How are you?" and the response might be "Good." I called each such pair of sentences a dialog fragment. A set of dialog fragments can tell the computer what to say in many situations. For example, if someone says "What is your name?" to the bot, it can look up the dialog fragment that contains "What is your name?" and will know that "My name is ChatBot" is an appropriate response. The bot can learn how to respond to different phrases by being told appropriate responses, and can save them as dialog fragments. The bot could even learn new dialog fragments on the fly.
There are a few small optimizations that can make this simple technique work reasonably well. I will outline exactly how the bot I created works. After having saved a large sample of dialog fragments that are reflective of common conversation, the chat bot is ready to talk to an actual user. The user says some statement to the bot. The bot reads the statement and breaks it up into separate words. The bot then searches all of the dialog fragments it has saved with similar initial statements. It determines which fragment contains an initial statement that is most similar to the one the user entered (has most words in common). Finally, the bot prints the response it has associated with this statement out.
It is also worth noting that the percent similarity between the initial statement in the fragment and the user's statement can be used to gauge how confident the bot is that it has a sensible answer. The confidence is less than 50% or so the bot probably does not know what to say, and can say something else like "I don't know what you mean."
Using the technique I described the chat bot can produce reasonable responses for very common statements like "How are you?" I hope you found it interesting to know how you can do it! Chat bots can of course be much more sophisticated than this and demonstrate a much deeper understanding of the conversation. My chat bot did not do any "natural language processing", so was not very well equipped to understand statements. I did find it fun to make though. I have not trained my chat bot to respond to many different things. It also does not format it's output properly, and seems to have a few bugs. It certainly isn't finished. However, if you are interested you can download the source code here and try talking to it. It is just a console application. Maybe in the future I will improve the bot more, give it a GUI, and train it to respond to more things. If and when the program is more capable I will put it under the projects section of my website.
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July 4, 1804—To mark our first Fourth west of the Mississippi, Lewis directed me to powder the keelboat's cannon so he could fire it. I would have liked to shoot it too, but that's OK. Lewis is so much fun, and such a leader too.
August 1804—Today I learned that it is better to own a rifle than to major in debate at Harvard. At a fork in the river, Lewis and I agreed that the southerly route was better, while the men insisted on heading north. "Anyone who doesn't follow me will be shot," Lewis said, with admirable firmness. Though I wish he'd said, "Follow us."
October 1804—Lots of Indians. Lewis told me to find a "safe place" for a fort. We were outnumbered 90 to one; for my next trick, I will walk on water. Anyway, you don't need a presidential commission to figure out that we need to build on the other side of the river.
Tonight I asked Lewis if he would consider hyphenating our mission, so that it will be known as the Lewis-Clark Expedition. But he was already asleep. I think.
December 1804—Sacagawea, an Indian woman who joined our corps last month with her husband, asked me, "How come you're always second? C comes before L."
I complimented her on her knowledge of our alphabet but said no more.
February 1, 1805—I asked my slave, York, whether he thought our mission should be called the Clark and Lewis Expedition. "Ask me again when I'm allowed to vote," he answered.
April 1805—As we sent off some more artifacts to Washington, it was impossible not to notice that I contributed more of them than Lewis, and better ones too. After dinner I asked that he consider using an ampersand in our mission's name. He said that would make us look like a dance-hall team.
An observation: There is no I in "team." There is an I in "Lewis." LewIs. LewIs. LewIs.
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Q: Why do my sunflowers not follow the sun? They all seem to face east.
A: Sunflowers follow the sun when they are young. But by the time the flowers start forming, the stem is too stiff to let the flowers swivel through the sky each day.
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According to Wikipedia: Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, was the first breeder of Doberman Pinscher. He started the creation of this dog breed in the town of Apolda, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach around 1890, following the Franco-Prussian War.
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Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (Paperback)
Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. The chronicle of a household, a family, and a journey of religious faithan elegy for a vanishing worldWaugh's masterwork was a tribute and testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric, and fascinating as their fictional Brideshead counterparts, their story just as compelling, filled with secrets and betrayals, scandals and unwavering love.
Mad World is Paula Byrne's innovative and engrossing biography of Evelyn Waugh, recalling the loves and obsessions that shaped his world and his writing, capturing Waugh through the friendships that mattered most to him, and exploring how he encoded the defining experiences of his adult life in his greatest literary work.
“An utterly captivating and generous book with all the intimacy of a diary and the scholarly soundness of a fine biography…A singular accomplishment.”
“An engaging book…remarkably thorough…Deftly interweaving biographical details and textual analysis, Byrne makes the connections between Waugh’s art, Roman Catholic faith, and life dance.”
-Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor
“Altogether excellent and wickedly entertaining…Scandalous detail enlivens every page of this delicious biography…Over the years I’ve read all the major biographies of Evelyn Waugh, and Byrne’s is…the fastest moving and the most fun.”
-Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“Well-researched and absorbing.”
“Remarkable…not only a meticulously researched biography but also an enjoyable read.”
“A considerable contribution to literary history…includes enough gossipy asides to intrigue readers.”
“A splendid new book…While displaying the research values of a scholar Byrne also manages to write with the panache and timing of a popular novelist.”
-Alexander Waugh, Daily Beast
“A sharp, entertaining literary biography…A perceptive study of how Evelyn Waugh emerged from middle-class beginnings to inhabit the tony corridors described in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.”
“’Mad World’ is the perfect title for this sparkling book, a hybrid of family romance, incisive literary criticism, and deliciously hot gossip.”
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Objective Fetal cardiac surgery may enhance the prognosis of certain complex congenital heart defects that have significant associated mortality and morbidity or after birth. (LV) and right ventricles (RV) measured myocardial function. Cardiac contractile and calcium cycling proteins along with calpain were analyzed by immunoblot. Results Preload recruitable stroke work (slope of the regression collection) was reduced at 120 min after bypass (RV – baseline vs. 120 min after bypass 38.6 vs. 20.4±4.8 (or shortly after birth often at great cost.1 This is in part due to fetal end-organ injury that has occurred before birth because of altered intra-cardiac blood flow patterns.2 Fetal cardiac surgery alongside other evolving fetal cardiac interventions has PD 0332991 HCl the potential to alter these outcomes. Early studies examining fetal cardiac surgery KMT2C focused on developing tools and techniques for extracorporeal blood circulation or fetal cardiac “bypass” and then overcoming the detrimental response of the placenta to bypass.3 4 Several technical challenges have already been studied with least partially overcome 5 but effective clinical translation has yet to be performed. The capability to perform intra-cardiac techniques is dependent upon understanding the systems resulting in cardiac dysfunction and finally developing solutions to secure the fetal myocardium. Unlike the postnatal center the fetal best (RV) and still left ventricles (LV) pump in parallel and pressure distinctions between your chambers is generally minimal.6 Fetal RV may be the main pumping chamber and output is higher weighed against LV which provides coronary and chest muscles flow. Fetal hearts likewise have limited reserves to improve cardiac result as the ventricle is certainly operating close PD 0332991 HCl to the best of its PD 0332991 HCl function curve.7 Improves in blood quantity induce only a little upsurge in fetal cardiac output 7 8 while improves in heartrate and contractility are more essential in maintaining fetal cardiac output. The initial requirements of immature flow and myocardium need directed security and understanding the myocardial dysfunction is essential to build up regimens for cardiac medical procedures. Our analysis group previously confirmed that cardiopulmonary bypass can lead to myocardial dysfunction and changed calcium bicycling in neonates.9 However immature cardiomyocytes vary in morphology and function from adult as well as neonatal cardiomyocytes. A couple of specie-specific distinctions in the pre- and post-natal advancement of excitation/contraction coupling and discord about the maturation and need for Ca2+-induced Ca2+ discharge as well as the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in mediating fetal contraction.10 Cardiopulmonary bypass in neonates network marketing leads to degradation of contractile proteins possibly adding to the cardiac dysfunction.11 Structural proteolysis of troponin I (TnI) the inhibitory subunit of troponin is associated with myocardial stunning and reduced cardiac contractility.12 Troponin I is systematically degraded by the calcium-activated cysteine protease calpain after cardiopulmonary bypass in adults and neonates.11 13 In addition inhibition of calpain activation has been shown to be protective for ischemic and hypoxic hearts.14 In the current study the hypothesis was that fetal cardiac bypass results in post-surgical myocardial dysfunction for the fetus. We statement reduced fetal cardiac function associated with cardiac bypass procedures and present potential mechanisms for the detected dysfunction. Materials and Methods Animal Model All animals received humane care in compliance with the “Principles of Laboratory Animal Care” formulated by the National Society for Medical Research and the “Guideline for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” prepared by the Institute of Laboratory Animals (NIH Publication No. 85-23 revised 1996). The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation also approved the protocol. Singleton pregnant ewes from 100 to 114 days of gestation were analyzed (term was approximately 148 days). Six fetuses (2.4 ± 0.4 kg) underwent sternotomy with 30 minutes of cardiac bypass and six fetuses were euthanized immediately after sternotomy for collection of PD 0332991 HCl baseline tissue samples. 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New car registrations fell 9.3% in July from a year earlier, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The trade body said the market was falling - for the fourth month in a row - amid "growing uncertainty" over plans for Brexit.
About 162,000 vehicles were sold last month.
So far this year, 1.56 million cars have been sold, down 2.2% from a year earlier.
Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: "The fall in consumer and business confidence is having a knock on effect on demand in the new car market and government must act quickly to provide concrete plans regarding Brexit.
"While it's encouraging to see record achievements for alternatively fuelled vehicles, consumers considering other fuel types will have undoubtedly been affected by the uncertainty surrounding the government's clean air plans."
The government said last month it was to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide threaten public health.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics said the continuing fall in sales showed consumers were now holding back on "big-ticket purchases" because of a lack of confidence rather than just a shift in the timing of purchases.
Earlier this year, many customers had brought forward car purchases ahead of changes to Vehicle Excise Duty in April.
Mr Tombs warned that financial deals to buy cars may become more expensive, and the price of cars could rise by about 3% in both 2018 and 2019 because of the weaker pound.
"Car sales tend to lag consumer confidence by about six months - many of the cars registered in July will have been ordered several months ago - so the recent post-election slump in sentiment indicates that the downturn has further to run," he added.
Analysis: business correspondent, Theo Leggett
There are two key points to be drawn from these figures.
First of all, the SMMT is now explicitly linking the fall in registrations to uncertainty over Brexit. That wasn't the case earlier in the year, when the figures were all too clearly distorted by the effects of a big change in the Vehicle Excise Duty regime.
And it is notable that the biggest fall in demand has come from business buyers - particularly those looking to buy 25 cars or fewer, although larger fleet purchasers also seem to be growing more cautious.
Secondly, the political backlash against diesel cars, driven by concerns about urban air quality, is having a significant effect. Registrations of new diesels were down 20% compared with the same period last year. Their market share has fallen considerably
Meanwhile sales of electric and hybrid cars are growing. A year ago they had a market share of just 3%. Now it's 5.5% - still fairly small, but gathering momentum rapidly.
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There's something for all
Vacation. Summer picnics. Warmer weather. All good things to look forward to in the summer – but do you have plans for your children?
Let them dream big and take on huge opportunities over the summer. Here are just a few options Lehigh Carbon Community College has in store to make this summer a memorable one for your children.
At LCCC's Camp Central, they can build robots, design 3D video games, shadow a vet and everything in between. For the older children – let them learn how to be an entrepreneur or explore every aspect of being a performer. And for the youngsters – have them discover wildlife and science through partnerships with the Lehigh Valley Zoo and the DaVinci Discovery Center.
LCCC's Camp Central program has everyone in the family covered – from toddlers through high school and with just about every activity in mind. The comprehensive camp schedule is jam-packed with camps that are focused on academics, sports, and specialty interests camps for your child.
The camps provide a stimulating and invigorating environment for children and teenagers who want to maximize their summer experience.
Our experienced instructors bring great passion and years of knowledge to the camps, and many return year after year to run our summer programs. They are all accomplished professionals in their respective fields.
Whether you are looking for an opportunity to enhance your child's academic skills, provide an energizing sports-related workout—or an exploration into your child's emerging interests, Lehigh Carbon Community College is the answer to a fulfilling and rewarding summer break.
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CDC advisory panel says virtually everyone should get a seasonal flu shot
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended Wednesday that all Americans over the age of 6 months -- with the exception of those who are allergic to eggs -- should receive a seasonal flu shot every year, beginning this fall. The advice must be accepted by the CDC director and the Department of Health and Human Services before it becomes official, but that ratification is usually pro forma.
The CDC has been slowly broadening the recommendations for flu shots over the last few years to the point where about 85% of the population is now covered. The primary exception now is adults ages 19 to 49 who do not have underlying medical conditions. But the committee noted that many such adults do not realize they are at risk because of diabetes, hypertension or other hidden problems and do not seek the shots.
Normally, only about a third of Americans are immunized against the flu and many doses of the vaccine are left over. This year, because of heightened fears about the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, 114 million people were immunized. The CDC said new production facilities are coming online and there should be plenty of vaccine available in the fall.
The CDC has recommended that the swine flu virus be included as one of the three components in next year's seasonal flu vaccine.
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Obama took a stand for net neutrality today by issuing a statement urging the Federal Communication Commission to protect an open internet. Labeling the internet as an essential utility, Obama asserted that American consumers should control the content they access, not specious deals between internet service providers and larger companies. In a show of solidarity with net neutrality supporters, Obama said he would fight with the people for net neutrality.
President Obama stated that the World Wide Web was built around three guiding principles, “openness, fairness, and freedom.” There should be no gatekeepers restricting content, he claims. Rather, the consumer should choose what websites to view and where they obtain information. Obama released a video outlining his views on net neutrality the same day that protestors congregated outside FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s house to demand the FCC rewrite its policy.
Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, internet service providers were classified as information services. Common information services are Google and Facebook. Net neutrality supporters, and now President Obama, are asking the FCC to reclassify providers as utilities, or telecommunications services, such as phone and cable companies. This seems like common sense to some supporters of net neutrality now. However, way back in 1996 policymakers were unsure of what exactly the internet was or how it should be regulated. Classifying service providers as information services worked because the Web was smaller. The FCC asserted strict control over how the internet providers operated. It regulated broadband companies the same way it regulated telephone companies.
However, in January a federal court ruled that the FCC had overstepped its regulating mandate. The court told the FCC it could not maintain strict control over service providers unless it changed their designation. The court basically told the FCC to reclassify them as telecommunications providers.
The FCC held back due to the influence of the internet companies. Broadband providers, such as Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner, saw the court’s ruling as the opportunity to make profits and the freedom to make their own rules. With their encouragement, Tom Wheeler developed a proposal that would give telecommunication companies more direct control over content on the internet. The internet providers argue that regulation impedes innovation and investment in new technology. Like any business, say industry experts, the internet is a compromise between businesses seeking profit and consumers seeking service. Already, mergers and buyouts have consolidated internet providers into a handful of giant companies. Perhaps fewer providers with more control over their product can streamline and improve service, but perhaps they would have more leeway to take advantage of the consumer, some commentators fear.
Supporters of net neutrality are concerned about the latter. Already a lack of investment in service has caused the United States to lag behind many nations in terms of internet speed and access. People do not want the information superhighway to become a network of fast lanes, slow lanes and toll roads. They say they want the internet to work the way it does now. Any person in the world can create a website and be assured that consumers have the same access to it as they do to Google. Whether anyone reads the website is a matter of consumer sovereignty. Proponents of net neutrality fear that the internet could change for the worse with degraded service, higher costs, uneven service and a greater divide between those who can afford access and those who cannot.
President Obama stated, “Internet providers have a legal obligation not to block or limit your access to a website.” The word legal has a strong implication. It may be a legal obligation today, but it will not be tomorrow if the FCC enacts Wheelers plan. Only reclassification as utilities under the Telecommunications Act will preserve the FCC’s power to protect the consumer. Otherwise, say net neutrality proponents, internet service providers will have even less oversight and more freedom to fleece users. Can they be trusted to operate in the best interests of consumers?
Supporters of net neutrality gained an important ally on Monday. If President Obama is on a mission to be a president for the people, they state, an open internet is a good place to start. A free nation is built on abundant information. A duty of the government is to ensure the means of information remain accessible. Obama took a stand for net neutrality today, and many supporters hope the FCC is listening.
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An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that the first mobile phone virus is almost 2 years old. F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hyppönen claims that although there are now over 200 mobile phone viruses the problem is unlikely to get as bad as it has with PCs. 'The difference is that PC viruses were first found in 1986 and mobile phone viruses were found in 2004... So we are living in the equivalent of 1988 but in 1988 Microsoft or hardware manufacturers were not doing anything about viruses ... In the mobile phone world, all the mobile phone manufacturers are working on the problem as are the phone operating system manufacturers, like Symbian, Microsoft and Palm. Operators are on top of this.'" | <urn:uuid:db1d2a65-d629-4309-a8f6-54d94517bb4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://slashdot.org/story/06/05/30/1235210/first-mobile-phone-virus-nears-2nd-birthday?sdsrc=nextbtmnext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983091 | 144 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Register a death within 5 days
All deaths must be registered at the Register Office for the area where death occurred within 5 days unless a Coroner is involved.
The person who registers the death is known as the informant.
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How to register a death
To register a death in Wokingham borough call 0118 974 6554. Appointments are available Monday to Friday and take about 45 minutes.
For registrations to meet a 24 hour burial call out of hours / emergencies on 0800 212 111.
Who can register a death
In order of preference the following people who can register a death:
- Relative of the deceased
- Any person present at the death
- Occupier of the house / home where the death happened - if in an establishment the occupier could be the establishment's manager or senior administrator
- The person who found the body
- The person arranging the burial or cremation
It's essential that you supply us with the Medical Cause of Death Certificate. This is not required if there has been a post mortem.
We will also need to know:
- Full name of deceased, maiden name if applicable, and any other previous names
- Date and place of birth of deceased
- Normal place of residence including postcode
- Date and place of death including postcode
- Occupation during working life
- Marital status
- Full name, date of birth and occupation of spouse if applicable
- Medical card and / or NHS number of the deceased (if found but not essential)
- Reference numbers for any government issued pensions e.g. civil service, military pensions
If possible, to make sure of accurate information, we recommend you bring the deceased's:
- Marriage / Civil Partnership certificates
- Birth certificates
- Deed polls
You'll receive the following documents at the registration appointment:
- Green Form for the funeral director - may not be necessary if the Coroner has been involved
- White Form to be completed and sent to the Department for Work and Pensions
- Required number of certified copy death certificates
- A booklet called 'What to do after a death in England and Wales' - also available from the Gov.uk what to do after death website
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A death must be registered in the country that the death occurred.
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The Sarpy County Medical Indigent Program provides medical assistance to those persons residing in Sarpy County who are considered to be medically destitute. The program’s purpose is to assist eligible persons who have been hospitalized for a life threatening or life trauma situation. Person applying for this program must have their physician and/or the medical facility contact the Sarpy County Human Service Office within 24 hours of the medical emergency or the next working day if it occurs on a weekend or holiday. Eligible persons must reside in Sarpy County and are not receiving any other governmental health care benefits such as Medicare, Medicaid, and/or Veterans Health Care. Eligibility is based on income and resources and follows current Federal Poverty Guidelines.
The Sarpy County Medical Indigent Program also assists with the cost of generic prescribed medications depending on income and resources.
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I agree with Fuchka; this seems like largely a semantic distinction.
As I read it, you don't like thinking of "the relationship" because to you it implies a duty or a mandated outcome, and for me it doesn't automatically have that association.
If I have a friend or love whose presence in my life I value and want to maintain, but I am having difficulty understanding or communicating with this person, I will put effort into into improving the situation. To me, that would be working (obligation free, out of choice) on our relationship. Maybe you'd rephrase it as each person working on him/herself at the same time together, or working on communication rather than on the relationship, but to me it's not that important of a distinction.
Anyway, thanks for explaining how you see it. I like a bunch of what you write, but this point, which seems particularly important to you, had been puzzling me. | <urn:uuid:94fdba43-cfc5-49b3-89a3-de6020dc4dec> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.polyamory.com/forum/showpost.php?p=219136&postcount=32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981453 | 196 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Don't you just hate when everything blurs together? When your stories run together, and memories fuzz up? The other day I read that something has changed in the basic vibrational level of Earth. It's vibrating much faster than it did even twenty years ago, and the fact that time seems to pass faster than ever is not a figment of our imagination. Time actually is passing faster. The source that I was reading was not one I'm inclined to rely on, so who knows, but most people report feeling this is so.
Blurring definitely happens with stories. Earlier last week I sent an e-mail to my daughter with a story about something that happened sixteen years ago. The story involved a person I was working with at the time. We started discussing the story and the circumstances around it, and the people in that group. Although she was in college at the time and we spent little time together, her memory of my thoughts on matters back then was surprisingly sharp and a bit different from my own. As I think about it, I suspect that hers is the more accurate.
This brings up two points you can use in writing your stories. First, if you start keeping a journal, you'll have that to refer back to later for more accurate recall about feelings, opinions, and such things. Second, it's fine to ask others what they remember about the situation, but it will be your call what to accept and what to leave on the sidelines.
In this case, total accuracy is not important in telling the story, but in assessing my own feelings and digesting some quirks in the story, her slant pops things into sharper focus. If you are writing for self-discovery and healing, these other points of view may be especially valuable.
Write now: about a fuzzy memory you have that you shared with someone else at the time who is currently available for consultation. Relax and try to recall enough to flesh the memory out as well as you can. Then share your story with the other person and note any discrepancies. How were they different? Did you learn anything that prompted you to change your story?
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- Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 54.95
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- Chicago Review Press 2005; US$ 17.99
The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, "The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle... more...
- Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 110.00
This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. more...
- HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.24
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris... more...
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Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the new literatures in English. Rather, Jewish literary production in English has conventionally been classified as ?hyphenated? and has therefore not yet been subjected as such to the scrutiny of scholars of literary or cultural history. The collection of essays addresses this lack... more...
- Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99
The fascinating autobiography of one of the Victorian eras greatest authors. Anthony Trollope is loved by many around the world, and many celebrities have cited him as one of their favourite authors, including former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, and legendary thespian Sir Alec Guinness, who never travelled without a Trollope novel. more...
- Wiley 2008; US$ 60.95 US$ 52.82
This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works... more...
- Palgrave Macmillan 1990; US$ 53.00
This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so... more...
- De Gruyter 2013; US$ 148.69
The earliest translations from English into French have rarely been the object of careful study. This volume provides detailed empirical analyses of the strategies employed by French translators of early English travel reports on North America. It offers new insights into the history of translation and into aspects of the history of the... more... | <urn:uuid:d6bdd23a-e742-47a7-beaf-14ece498d464> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ebooks.com/subjects/english-literature-women-authors-ebooks/2360/?sortBy=SortTitle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00539-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924656 | 949 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Edwin M. Basye
To achieve solutions to societies current problems, I believe that reliance on individual responsibility and action is more effective than reliance on government policies and programs. Information is the key. When people are aware of possible solutions, they can take action to implement them in their daily lives and occupations.
Once new ideas spread, and in some cases new technologies are implemented, the solutions largely take care of themselves by self-interested people taking action.
Transportation and energy are perhaps the easiest problems to solve. There is really no need to use oil or coal for energy or transportation; far better choices exist. Three clear, practical choices exist, and an additional possibility is worth further exploration.
The most obvious but most often overlooked solution is energy conservation. Homes can be retrofitted to be better insulated and use passive solar for space heating, and solar hot water. Usually these improvements pay for themselves fairly quickly. After space heating and cooling, refrigeration is usually the biggest consumption of electricity. More efficient refrigerators are now available, and can substantially reduce electrical consumption.
Alcohol has been around for a very long time, and was the primary fuel for the first cars. Before Rockefeller destroyed this option, many farmers produced alcohol for their own farm equipment and transportation vehicles. Alcohol can be a locally-produced fuel, and is a renewable resource when the carbohydrates used to make the fuel are produced sustainably. It is sun energy stored by living plants, and processed by simple human technology. It has a carbon-neutral footprint, having zero impact on the CO2 levels of the atmosphere. As carbohydrates used to make alcohol absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, and then the carbon is re-released as CO2 when the fuel is burned.
The biggest complaint with alcohol fuel is that it takes away from food production. This is a false argument for at least the following reasons:
- Corn has been used as the primary source for alcohol fuel because there has historically been a surplus of corn in the US. Growing more corn has kept the farmers profitable and has avoided paying farmers NOT to grow, a counterproductive program.
- Corn is a very inefficient source for alcohol fuel. Sugar beets are a much better option, but cattails offer the biggest promise. Cattails can be grown from sewage waste, cleaning up our water supplies while producing the carbohydrates needed to produce alcohol. If every sewage treatment plant in the US were converted to use cattails, a large portion of our fuel needs could be produced essentially for free.
- There are also many other crops that can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops, that can be successfully used to produce alcohol. Permaculture methods can be applied to grow compatible “plant guilds” to increase yields. An example is the use of mesquite, prickly pear cactus, and buffalo gourds in combination to produce multiple carbohydrate-rich crops in desert areas.
As the demand for oil goes to zero, wars to protect oil fields in foreign lands would no longer have any economic justification. Fighting for our freedom to burn as much gasoline as we like to would be a thing of the past. The cost of alcohol production, when done properly, would be significantly less than the cost of gasoline.
Many cars produced today are flex fuel, meaning they can burn any ratio of alcohol/gasoline. Those that are not flex fuel can be retrofitted for a few hundred dollars.
When alcohol becomes the fuel of choice, flex fuel cars would become the de-facto standard.
Evacuated Tube Transportation Technology
Evacuated Tube Transportation (ETT) is a new transportation technology which can be implemented mostly with off-the shelf components. It promises a 98% reduction in energy usage compared to current transportation methods. The 2% of energy it does use could come from wind, solar, and/or alcohol fuel using fuel cells. But it gets better: the evacuated tube system will be the fastest and the safest transportation system ever implemented.
What is ETT?
ETT consists of a tube, 5 or 6 feet in diameter, emptied of all air, with computer-controlled individual capsules suspended by magnetic levitation (maglev), and accelerated electrically using linear motors. Deceleration will use recapturing technology which will recycle most of the energy used by the acceleration. Regional travel, analogous to current metro mass-transit systems will achieve 300MPH. Since the system uses individual capsules and not trains, it is an on-demand system which would not require pre-scheduling or significant wait time. Longer distance travel will achieve 4000MPH, making commuting between LA and New York feasible, with a one-way trip time of approximately 45 minutes. The high speeds are achievable by totally frictionless travel. Air resistance and rolling resistance has been totally eliminated, creating a contained environment similar to outer space.
The capsules will also be designed to accommodate pallets of freight and will revolutionize shipping of most commodities, being enormously cheaper and faster than any current form of transportation.
ETT has the potential to obsolete air travel, rail, and most automobiles and trucks, and provide inexpensive, fast transportation to the entire planet. It also has the potential to revitalize our economy, providing jobs in manufacturing and construction of the system, and reducing the cost of doing business both in transportation of people and commodities. Some of the manufacturing base left in the country could be re-purposed to build the capsules, vacuum pumps, and other components of the system.
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors
I’ll be honest: nuclear power scares me, and especially after the Japan incident I want nothing to do with existing nuclear power plants. However, looking a little into thorium reactors has changed my perspective. We must keep an open, but skeptical mind when exploring new technologies.
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) promise the possibility of much cleaner nuclear power plants that have nearly zero risk of containment problems. One of the main reasons thorium reactors have not been used is that they don’t produce weapons-grade radioactive byproducts. In fact, they have the potential to “burn up” all the radioactive waste from existing power plants, which would essentially become a free source of fuel until it is used up. Of the radioactive waste left, most is safe within 10 years, and the remainder is safe after 300 years, compared to 10,000 years or more from existing nuclear waste. LFTR promises to be a peace-friendly and environmentally friendly solution.
Because of the design of a LFTR, any malfunction would automatically shut the system down safely. More research needs to be done to prove these claims, especially the closed-system turbines in the proposed power plant designs, but they are definitely worth pursuing, as the payoff could be enormous.
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Arizona Bank Lets Sun Shine Through Skylights, Saves $74K in Electricity
3M Renewable Energy Division installed its 3M Sun Control Window Film at the National Bank of Arizona in Phoenix on the full-roof skylights of its 144,000-sq-foot headquarters to help the bank save in electricity costs. The 18,000 square feet of skylights allowed natural light to flood the premises. But with daily average high temperature in mid-summer of 102 degrees, and monthly rainfall averages under one inch, the skylights increased cooling costs.
The bank decided to take advantage of a comprehensive energy-efficiency rebate program being offered by its local electric utility, Salt River Project. With a grant, the bank installed 3M Window Film. The bank’s energy-efficiency makeover also included the installation of a new 250-ton chiller to supplement the old one, together with the addition of lighting sensors and new lighting technology. However, the full advantages of these upgrades would not be realized unless something was done to address the heat transmitted through the skylights.
The 3M Sun Control Window Film Prestige Exterior 40 was applied to the exterior of the glass. It reflects up to 97 percent of the sun’s heat-producing infrared light, and 99.9 percent of ultraviolet rays. The film is estimated to be saving the bank 249,000 kWh per year, and the total program is saving about 747,000 kWh per year, translating to more than $74,000 in electricity cost savings in the first year.
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In the early years of school, we want students to learn to look beyond what they see and to rework their experiences using language. One way to help children to this is to teach them to describe the information they see by reference to key attributes – the qualities or features regarded as characteristic or as inherent parts – of the things around them.
Semantic feature analysis – describing objects by key attributes – is an evidence-based strategy to learn new vocabulary and word meanings. It can deepen students’ understanding of words they already know. The strategy can also help children with word-finding or other language or learning difficulties, e.g. by giving them a way of describing what they mean when they can’t find the word.
This no-preparation pack is designed to help students of all abilities to learn the strategy of semantic feature analysis. To make it accessible to all students, we have chosen easily pictured objects from Odgen’s high frequency, functional Basic English Word List.
We have selected attributes that we have found clinically to be of the greatest use in describing, defining and understanding common objects, namely:
- function (what you do with it, or what it does);
- location (where you find it);
- object parts (to help students to look closely at objects);
- size; and
- category/group (to stimulate semantic knowledge and associations between objects).
With a scripted introduction, a colourful scaffold, and 30 examples, this 43-page pack is designed to give students plenty of structured practice describing common objects. Once completed, students can use the scaffold to describe any object, including curriculum specific nouns.
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This 500-page addition to the Library of America invites readers into America's post-World War II bohemianism with a deliciously diverse mix tape of fiction, memoirs, poems, letters essays, song lyrics, and satirical riffs. The contributors include, but are not limited to, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Henry Miller, Annie Ross, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, Lord Buckley and Norman Mailer. Literary history has never been so raucous or fun.
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Undergroundby Glenn O'Brien (Editor)
Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O’Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America—the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks.
Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O’Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America—the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever.
To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O’Brien creates an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor: transgressive, raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious.
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Glenn O’Brien is the author of Soapbox, Human Nature: Dubbed Version, and How To Be A Man. A former editor at Interview, Rolling Stone, Spin, and High Times, he writes frequently on contemporary art, supplied the lead catalog essay to the Whitney Museum exhibition “Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-65,” and is a contributing editor at Ten, L’Officiel Homme, and GQ, where he writes the “Style Guy” column.
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Georgia Performance Standards
The Georgia Performance Standards are designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills for proficiency in science. The Project 2061’s Benchmarks for Science Literacy is used as the core of the curriculum to determine appropriate content and process skills for students. The GPS is also aligned to the National Research Council’s National Science Education Standards. Technology is infused into the curriculum.
The Performance Standards guide instruction. They are written to include four major components:
To become literate in science, students need to acquire understandings of both the Characteristics of Science and its Content. The Georgia Performance Standards for Science require that instruction be organized so that these are treated together. Therefore, A CONTENT STANDARD IS NOT MET UNLESS APPLICABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENCE ARE ALSO ADDRESSED AT THE SAME TIME. For this reason they are presented as co-requisites incorporating hands-on, student-centered, and inquiry-based approaches.
- The Standards for Georgia Science Courses. The Characteristics of Science co-requisite standards are listed first followed by the Content co-requisite standards. Each Standard is followed by elements that indicate the specific learning goals associated with it.
- Tasks that students should be able to perform during or by the end of the course. These tasks are keyed to the relevant Standards. Some of these can serve as activities that will help students achieve the learning goals of the Standard while others can be used to assess student learning. Many of these tasks can serve both purposes.
- Samples of student work. As a way of indicating what it takes to meet a Standard, examples of successful student work are provided. Many of these illustrate how student work can bridge the Content and Characteristics of Science Standards. The Georgia DOE Standards web site will continue to add samples as they are identified and teachers are encouraged to submit examples from their own classroom experiences.
- Teacher Commentary. Teacher commentary is meant to open the pathways of communication between students and the classroom teacher. Showing students why they did or did not meet a standard enables them to take ownership of their own learning.
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1. What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations by Katherine Milkman (University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School) and Modupe Akinola (Columbia University – Columbia Business School) and Dolly Chugh (New York University (NYU) – Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
Our personal experiences guided this work as we each regularly receive emails from prospective doctoral students and often wonder whether or not to respond. The three of us attended graduate school together and shared an amazing mentor/advisor, Professor Max Bazerman. Working with him highlighted the importance of great mentors and we were very cognizant of the fact that many prospective doctoral students write faculty before applying to a doctoral program, as we did, in hopes of mentorship while on this informal “pathway” leading up to the official “gateway” of the admissions process. We are a racially diverse, all-female research team that cares deeply about diversity in organizations, including our own, and we often hear our colleagues explicitly express similar egalitarian views. Still, we are acutely aware of the robust body of research documenting the prevalence of implicit (unintentional) bias in most of us. So, we were curious to see if we, as academics, collectively apply the same decision making criteria across all prospective students, regardless of their race and gender, or if some form of bias (either intentional or unintentional) might be influencing our decisions.
We were pleasantly surprised that 67% of our colleagues responded to an email from someone they did not know. We have also been pleasantly surprised by the large number of downloads of our paper which makes it clear that this topic of bias in academia is one of general interest to a broad audience. Additionally, so many current and former academics have written us emails, some with their own stories of bias, others grappling with what our data means, and still others with sharp critiques. We have appreciated each of these emails and their quantity and intensity suggests that we have struck a chord. Increasing diversity, promoting equity, and reducing bias are all topics that are important to us, so to know that our research has furthered and even spurred dialogue on these topics is incredibly rewarding. Most important, we hope this research will result in more research, awareness, interventions, policies, and programs designed to level the playing field for women and minorities in academia and beyond.
-Katherine Milkman, Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh
2. Fact, Fiction and Momentum Investing by Clifford Asness (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Andrea Frazzini (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Ronen Israel (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Tobias Moskowitz (University of Chicago – Booth School of Business)
3. On the Biases and Variability in the Estimation of Concentration Using Bracketed Quantile Contributions by Nassim Taleb (New York University-Poly School of Engineering) and Raphael Douady (Riskdata)
Sports analytics is a hot and growing area. There are several new and exciting conferences appearing each year, including the wildly popular Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Teams in all sports now recognize the value of analytics and technology and invest in it more than ever before. New sources of high quality and high frequency data are emerging. Worldwide competitions offer fame or money to whoever can do better at predicting sports outcomes.My own background has been in applying algorithmic approaches to study social behavior and risk in economics, finance, and sports. See http://algorithmicfinance.org for our Algorithmic Finance journal, with archives available on SSRN as well. The algorithmic analyses and technology in sports and finance are similar in using state-of-the-art tools and techniques from computer science and statistics applied to big data to improve human decision making, risk taking, and valuation. The algorithmic approach allows one to specify and generalize and backtest, and as a result, empower what people do.As an example, this working paper uses a machine learning approach to evaluate how each NBA team should have drafted over the past ten years or so. It turns out teams are on average missing out on almost ten million dollars per year in lost productivity, and there is a wide disparity. One team, for example, in aggregate missed out on nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of productivity. Just as today’s leading financial firms were the ones who committed to quants and an algorithmic approach a few decades ago, it will be interesting to see if a similar phenomenon will now happen in sports.
5. Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance by Giada Di Stefano (HEC Paris – Strategy & Business Policy) and Francesca Gino (Harvard Business School) and Gary Pisano (Harvard Business School) and Bradley Staats (University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School)
Productivity and time efficiency are significant concerns in modern Western societies, with time being perceived as a precious resource to guard and protect. In our daily battle against the clock, taking time to reflect on one’s work may seem to be a luxurious pursuit. Though reflection entails the high opportunity cost of one’s time, in this paper we argue and show that deliberate reflection is no wasteful pursuit: it can powerfully enhance the learning process. Learning, we find, can be augmented if one deliberately focuses on thinking about what one has been doing. Results from our analyses show that employees who spent the last 15 minutes of each day in their training period writing and reflecting on the lessons they had learned that day did 23% better in the final training test than employees who didn’t take time to consider how they had approached the task. This improvement, we find, is explained by greater self-efficacy, i.e. confidence in one’s ability to complete tasks competently and effectively. | <urn:uuid:9b66bff8-a9dd-499b-81a6-9100a77cecaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ssrnblog.com/2014/05/15/weekly-top-5-papers-may-16-2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00168-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94733 | 1,216 | 2.09375 | 2 |
John Jacobson - Hal Leonard Corporation
Imagine you're a tiny seed in the ground. What would it be like to ride a kooky kangaroo or a ducky dinosaur? Packed full of songs, ideas, games, movement and extension activities ImagiBOP will help children to explore their creative selves. Reproducible songsheets can be projected from PDFs on the enhanced CD. Songs include: ImagiBOP; A Big Parade; Four Seasons; Germs; Going on a Trip; How I'm Put Together; I Dreamt I Was; I'm Gonna Ride; Let's All Move and There's a Storm Coming. | <urn:uuid:80c879c0-790a-4b01-bb50-8d5e0ec7cfdc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jwpepper.com/Imagibop/10284000.item | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904899 | 131 | 1.867188 | 2 |
So how do you know if a flexible spending account can save you money? First, you need to understand how using pre-tax income can help you. The amount you put into your FSA is deducted from your gross income before taxes. So instead of paying income taxes on your full gross income, you pay based on your gross income minus the money you put into the FSA. For example, if you earn $40,000 this year and put $4,000 into your FSA, your gross income is $36,000 instead of $40,000. So using the FSA can help you pay your medical expenses and save on your taxes at the same time.
You can determine how much you want to save with a flex fund each year. There's only one open enrollment period (unless you have a life-changing event, such as divorce, marriage or the birth of a baby), so it's important to think carefully about the amount of money you should contribute. Remember, you forfeit any money you put in but don't use. Currently, the limit is $5,000 per year for Health Care FSAs, and $5,000 for Dependent Care FSAs. So your goal is to determine as closely as possible how much of that money you'll be able to use for eligible expenses. Later on, we'll explore eligible and non-eligible expenses; you may also want to check out an online tax savings calculator.
After determining how much money you want to put in an FSA, you need to contact your employer. Employers should be able to provide information on the different types of flexible spending accounts they offer, the dollar limits and the rules for using the funds, but, here's a list of the most general rules you should understand:
- Usually, to use money in your flex fund, you have to turn in a claim form and receipts to show the expense. (Some FSAs have dedicated debit cards, but they're exceptions.) You'll be reimbursed for all eligible expenses, up to the amount you contribute for the year.
- You may use the entire year's amount early in the year, but you must continue contributing until you have put in the full amount.
- There are different types of flex fund accounts. We'll explore those later, but you must be sure to sign up for the right account, since each has a different list of eligible expenses.
- The new closing time for using expenses is 10 weeks after the last day of the year, so you can actually use the year's funds up until March of the next year.
- Any funds you do not file a claim for by March are considered forfeited, and are non-refundable. Be sure you check in toward the end of the year to find the balance on your account; you don't want to lose any of the money you contributed.
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First up on Reddit: NASA’s administrator Jim Bridenstine says he really wants Canada to contribute on artificial intelligence and robotics. He added that this could include a next-generation Canadarm on the Lunar Gateway and that would include more Canadian technology. Bridenstine said that NASA wants to see more Canadians walking on the moon and this is one step for that possibility to happen. Bridenstine said: “We think it would be fantastic for the world to see people on the surface of the moon that are not just wearing the American flag, but wearing the flags of other nations.”
Also trending on Reddit: The Transport Security Administration will do whatever it takes to make facial recognition a regular part of the airport experience and it has finally announced a plan to make that happen. It plans to first team up with Customs and Border Protection on biometric security for international travel, and that will follow with putting in technology that the TSA can then use to speed up a passengers’ boarding process. It then plans to have an “opt-in” biometric system for domestic passengers. This type of technology will include fingerprint readers, which already exist, but the TSA hopes that facial recognition will be the primary way of verifying identities.
Finally trending on LinkedIn: the ride-sharing company Uber has decided to roll out a frequent-flyer reward program in nine U.S. cities. The rewards program will allow riders to accumulate perks like fare discounts, and priority airport pickups. Points are given to riders on a scale depending on the service tier selected. For example, Uber Black service riders would get three points per dollar spent, while Uber Pool riders will only get one point per dollar. There is no word of when Canada will get this service. | <urn:uuid:5cd06655-bb80-4660-a000-c0530a03e8f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://channeldailynews.com/news/hashtag-trending-nasa-asks-canada-to-continue-with-ai-help-tsa-plans-for-facial-recognition-uber-unveils-rewards-program/62782 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.944621 | 358 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Ship Signals - Long Island Children's Museum
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Issue No. 05 - May (2013 vol. 46)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2013.159
Charles Severance , University of Michigan
It's pretty much impossible today to find computing technology that doesn't support Ethernet or that didn't evolve from it, such as Wi-Fi. We simply assume that everything from our phones to our laptops to our printers and backup systems come ready to plug into a high-speed wired or wireless network. In fact, many homes now have both a wired and wireless local area network.
But 40 years ago, LANs didn't exist. The typical approach to distributed computing was to connect terminals in offices throughout a building with serial cables that ran from the back of the terminal to the mainframe. Sometimes, this connection was done through phone lines and a dial-up modem.
I recently spoke with Bob Metcalfe, who described how the Ethernet local area network was "invented" 40 years ago at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on 22 May 1973. Visit computer.org/computingconversations to watch the full interview. Metcalfe is quick to point out that many brilliant engineers contributed to Ethernet and other popular forms of high-speed local area networking over the years. Although it's an oversimplification to give him sole credit for inventing it, Metcalfe was definitely on the front lines all those years ago.
In the quest to build the "office of the future" during the early 1970s, the creative people at PARC decided that instead of having terminals connected to a single central computer, they would give every person a "personal" computer and connect those computers together. According to Metcalfe,
I happened to be at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center when a problem evolved that had never before occurred—the problem of having a building full of personal computers. I was the networking guy, so they turned to me and said, "Network these puppies." We had just finished starting the ARPANET, which was packet switching, and it was pretty clear that we wanted this [personal computer] network to connect to the [not yet called the Internet] thing.
There was also a desire to connect the personal computers of the future with the printers of the future:
Our first printer—whose name was EARS, and that is a whole other story—could do a page per second at 500 dots per inch. If you do the math, that's about 20 Mbits per second. Existing methods of interconnection had a lot of problems. First, they were all "home run," so all these wires, one from every desk, would come to this one place in the building. Second, the existing interconnects ran at 300 bits per second, 14,400 bits per second if you really revved them up, which wasn't even close to 20 Mbits per second. We wanted to keep the printer busy by sending documents to it from all these PCs that hadn't been built yet. We were literally building the printer and the PCs at the same time.
Charles Simonyi designed an earlier effort to network personal computers, called SIGNET (Simonyi's Infinitely Glorious Network), but Metcalfe felt it was too complex and wanted something simpler. He came across a wireless network in use at the University of Hawaii:
In the course of investigating how to organize Ethernet, I ran into a packet radio network at the University of Hawaii called AlohaNet. What was beautiful about AlohaNet is that it solved a distributed problem. How could we share a radio channel back to the mainframe at the University of Hawaii if we're just a bunch of terminals scattered around the Hawaiian islands and can't easily talk to each other and get coordinated around the sharing of an inbound radio channel?
Norm Abramson at the University of Hawaii devised a randomized retransmission procedure in which a person would type a card image 80 columns wide. After typing in your card image, you would hit "Send," and then your terminal would send it to the mainframe and wait a short time to see if it returned an acknowledgement on the outbound channel. If so, everything was fine, but if there was no acknowledgement, it probably meant that two terminals had sent at the same time.
If the stations detected that the data wasn't successfully sent, they would calculate a random time to wait before retransmitting in the hope that they wouldn't overlap when they retransmitted the data. This allowed multiple computers to share the same media—a radio frequency—by using randomized retransmission. This approach appealed to Metcalfe because he wanted to have multiple personal computers share a single Ethernet cable:
I was trying to avoid this big rat's nest of wires—I only wanted one wire, not 16 or 32, and I wanted a distributed solution for how to share this single cable.
If Ethernet was going to be a single, long, shared cable, it was important to see how data could be transmitted at high speeds over long distances:
One of the first things I did was to buy a mile of cable. Then I hooked up a pulse generator to one end, hooked an oscilloscope to the other end, and started launching square waves down the cable to see what came out the other end. I figured this would be good preparation for building a network. But what came out the other side wasn't a square wave: it had a lazy rise time and lazy fall time. If you put a digital gate on the receiving end, you could recover the square wave. I had some confidence that if we could get the stations connected to the cable, they could inject their square waves, and the other stations could recover them.
Once Metcalfe was convinced that he could reliably send high-speed data over long distances using coax cable, it was time to define the details and build the hardware. He was joined by David Boggs, who had some experience working in a television studio. Boggs helped with both the hardware and software design.
The team decided to use Manchester encoding to send the bits over the cable. In Manchester encoding, the first half of the bit time is the opposite of the bit's value, and the second half of the bit time is the bit's actual value, guaranteeing a voltage transition in the middle of every bit:
The beauty of Manchester encoding is that while you were sending a packet, you could tell whether it was going by so you didn't have to listen for it for long—usually, 340 nanoseconds.
One of the first differences between the Ethernet and AlohaNet was this carrier sense. In AlohaNet, you couldn't tell if someone else was transmitting at the same time as you, but on the Ethernet, you could. By waiting, you avoided destroying each other's packets.
The Ethernet rule was that before sending, a station would listen first to avoid stepping on ongoing packet transmissions. This meant that once you had been sending a packet for a short while, you would have "acquired" the Ether and could continue without interference. The maximum packet length was limited to ensure shared access to the Ether.
Another advantage of Manchester encoding was detecting collisions after you had started transmitting a packet:
PARC's Ethernet could pull the cable up to a voltage or leave it open with no voltage. If you are leaving the cable open (half the time under Manchester encoding) and if you detect the cable pulled up anyway, then you have detected a collision.
In addition to carrier sense and collision detection, each packet had a source and destination address so that each workstation or printer could identify the traffic being sent to it:
The addresses were 8 bits, so on the backplane of these little personal computers, we would wire wrap in a code between zero and 255, and that would be the machine's serial number. You would read the address off the backplane and put it in the packet. Having two addresses was different from AlohaNet, which had one address because it had two one-way channels.
We also added cyclic redundancy checksum (CRC) on the end of the packet, which we implemented in hardware so that you could tell if a packet had been damaged. If there was a collision, and the contending stations backed off, there would be a hunk of garbage on the cable. When it was received, the checksum wouldn't match, so you would throw the packet away.
In addition to designing the protocol to put the bits onto the wire, the team also looked for a device to allow adding new workstations to the network without taking the network down:
We didn't have to run a cable through the building and back to the rat's nest every time we installed a new PC. We wanted to put one cable down the middle of the corridor, and every time you wanted to add a PC, you just ran the cable and tapped into the coax. We didn't want the network to go down while tapping into it because we wanted 24/7 access to the network.
This requirement led to a device we found in the cable television industry called the Gerald tap. David Liddle did cable television installations when he was in grad school in Toledo, and he suggested that we use the Gerald tap because it was already being made in volume and worked just fine. You would drill a little hole in the outer casing of the coax, screw in this tap, and it would puncture the insulation and go right to the copper and tap in.
Other computing companies became interested in using Ethernet-like approaches and started working with Metcalfe, who decided that the best way to ensure interoperability among the various implementations was to develop a standard, which led to the formation of the IEEE 802 working group. Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox, and Intel submitted the "Blue Book" Ethernet specification in 1980.
But once word got out that the IEEE 802 working group would be developing a LAN standard, several Ethernet alternatives were quickly put forward. IBM claimed its token ring approach was superior, and General Motors championed a token bus as the best approach. The early efforts of the IEEE 802 working group were fraught with politics as the three solutions fought for supremacy. Ultimately, after a long battle, the working group standardized all three approaches as IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet), IEEE 802.4 (token bus), and IEEE 802.5 (token ring) and let the market work out which technology it would adopt.
Given the slow process, DEC, Intel, Xerox, and 3Com (Metcalfe's newly formed company) decided not to wait and simply started building and shipping interoperable Ethernet hardware to an eager marketplace. One of the keys to 3Com's rapid success was that personal computer vendors didn't want to build network hardware onto the motherboards until the IEEE process had reached a conclusion. This meant that for many years, the only way to get Ethernet support for a personal computer was to purchase and install an expansion card. For a while, 3Com was selling well over a million Ethernet expansion cards per month.
While 10 Mbits seemed fast enough for personal computers in the mid to late 1980s, the Ethernet community always felt the need to go faster. According to Metcalfe:
In 1992, I was involved in Grand Junction Networks, a company that would introduce the 100-Mbit Ethernet. I remember a group of us at my home trying to think of how we would make a faster Ethernet. Efficiency depends on the diameter of the network in bit times, and as you go faster and faster, the efficiency goes down. We realized that since the market had switched to using hubs, we could assume a maximum cable length of 100 meters instead of 1,000. And that was the factor of 10 that we needed! By changing the collision interval, you can maintain the same theoretical efficiencies by assuming that you're going 100 meters instead of a kilometer. That got us to 100 Mbits per second.
Later, the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standard implemented an Ethernet-like protocol using wireless transmission. Over the years, there have been improved versions of IEEE 802.11 with increased speeds. But even 100 Mbits wasn't fast enough for the Ethernet community:
Then we went to gigabits, followed by 10 Gbit, which is the mainstream now. You can't be a computer scientist and build that kind of hardware now—you need to be a real hardware engineer. But after 100 Gbits, we'll want terabits, and I've already begun giving talks about terabit Ethernet.
Ethernet used AlohaNet as a starting point and built on the concept of a shared transmission medium and randomized retransmission when data was lost. But a few design innovations from Bob Metcalfe, David Boggs, and others who built that first Ethernet at PARC form the foundation of nearly all modern LAN technologies: adding source and destination addresses to every packet, carrier sense, collision detection, and CRCs. These patterns led to relatively simple LAN hardware solutions that are inexpensive to make and scale to very high levels of performance, while making efficient use of the medium's available bandwidth. These patterns have served us well over the past 40 years.
Ethernet's 40th birthday will be celebrated in style on 22-23 May 2013 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It will be a gala event with industry briefings and all the many Ethernet inventors invited to come and share in the festivities and tell their stories.
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Again Trump has it backwards. According to NATO’s internal logic, the US should pay the members — not the other way around — for providing services to the empire and a tripwire for war. The empire doesn’t protect, it provokes and endangers. Who would willingly pay for that?
NATO was a particular problem. By the nineties, it had become integral to America’s imperial project, but with the Warsaw Pact gone, and the Cold War over, it was hard to make a case that would appeal to anyone outside the war machine’s ambit for needing it at all.
However, the empire’s stewards did need NATO because they couldn’t or didn’t want to police the empire on their own, and because the UN could not be counted on to bend to America’s will – not with all those pesky little countries with different ideas in the General Assembly, and not with Russia and China having veto rights in the Security Council.
NATO, on the other hand, was a serviceable international organization that the United States could dominate and also, not incidentally, use to keep European powers under its thumb – in the unlikely event that any of them might decide to get uppity.
On Bacevich’s telling, this is what American machinations in the former Yugoslavia were about – once it became clear that the US could not remain aloof from the disintegration of that formerly socialist and multi-cultural country without ceding power to the Germans and other European upstarts.
For [Bill] Clinton – or, rather, for the Clintons and their co-thinkers — dropping bombs on Serbians was a way to make NATO relevant, and also to insure that the United States would continue to call the shots in the so-called Free World.
NATO is America’s tool. The member states don’t need it. America’s ruling elite does. That elite got rather upset in 1966 when French President Charles de Gaulle, resenting US overbearance, withdrew his country from NATO’s military structure and asked for the removal of NATO troops from France. (France again became a full military member in 2009.) America has always taken the position voiced by George H. W. Bush as he prepared to send his military to war against Iraq in 1990-91: “What we say goes.”
Trump consistently shows an inability to close the deal — ironic, no? Time and time again he’s picked up on a piece of a legitimate issue, seemed uninterested in facts and arguments that would develop the point into a decent campaign issue, then botched it. I think I know why: Trump’s shtick is that the US is the aggrieved nation: because of weak and stupid leaders it has been taken advantage of every which way. That’s great fodder for a populist demagogue whipping up ignorant voters. Hence, he certainly can’t say anything to suggest that rather than being the victim, the US is the victimizer. When was the last time a demagogue harangued, “Our nation has bullied the world long enough! I intend to put a stop to this outrage!”?
Of course, the US should not really pay NATO’s members. Rather, the alliance ought to be disbanded. It was never just a defensive alliance, and the defensive mask fell away entirely when the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union disbanded. Since that time it has been openly aggressive, as it incorporated former Russian allies and Soviet satellites and moved right up to the Soviet border, violating the promise Bush 41 made to Gorbachev in 1990. Moreover, for years the US has talked about bringing former Soviet Republics Ukraine (where the Obama administration facilitated a coup) and Georgia into NATO, as though that would not be seen as provocative by any sober Russian leader.
Trump, as bad as he is in so many ways, might have performed a valuable service by seriously putting the NATO question before the public. Too bad his demagoguery takes precedence over all. He can’t let himself acknowledge that America’s — and the world’s — problem is not American weakness but American strength. | <urn:uuid:5f0f4d5a-9df2-4b17-8a4a-e80f72f6ef51> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://c4ss.org/content/45852 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974837 | 873 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Auto enthusiasts know that reliability is built into each Lexus, and know that only top quality repair GS400 parts will suffice when repairs are needed. It's not a regular occurrence that you realize that you have to buy a replacement Blower Motor to repair your car or truck. Lexus car, truck, or SUV drivers have grown accustomed to a certain level of sporty handling when driving their GS400 around town. When your Lexus GS400 left the factory, it was destined for a person with discerning taste who prioritizes appealing looks in their automobile.
The technology to heat the passenger compartment of an automobile came long before one was invented. The heater blower motor in your Lexus GS400 will be located on or near the firewall, and can usually be accessed through the glove box or engine compartment (depending on the vehicle). The job of your Lexus GS400 heater blower motor is to blast a constant stream of air through the fins on your heater core into the cab. If your heater blower fails to turn, then you can be sure cold days are ahead inside your car or truck.
When your Lexus needs the best replacement Blower Motor, there's no need to trust any store other than the authority, Car Parts Discount. At Car Parts Discount, we have live customer service members available with enough expertise to help you purchase the appropriate Lexus GS400 part for your needs. Bring your GS400 back to life with the highest quality repair parts from the experts at Car Parts Discount. Lexus GS400 Blower Motor parts for 2000, 1999, 1998 vehicles are available here... just click your year to find them. | <urn:uuid:12d317bc-1b09-4162-abe7-6ba8c7cad914> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.carpartsdiscount.com/blower-motor/lexus~gs400.html?3594=1976 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00254-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947786 | 332 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Clara Laughlin (Mrs. N.C.) Hamilton was born in Belle Center, Ohio, in 1872. She studied at the Cleveland School of Art with Frederick Gottwald (1858-1941) and in Indiana with William Forsyth (1854 - 1935) and Randolph Lasalle Coats (1891-1957), himself a student of Forsyth.
Hamilton lived in Kokomo, Indiana with her husband, a noted medical doctor in town. "Dr. Hamilton maintains a beautiful home in Kokomo and is the head of an interesting family circle consisting of an intelligent and refined wife and three bright children ... Mrs. Hamilton, formerly Clara Laughlin ... is a lady of gracious presence and varied culture, being not only a graduate of the schools in the place of her birth, but also an alumni
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Brits said to bin gadgets worth £762m each year
Post by Kelly Swift
on 08 February 2012 in Family & Finance
People in the UK are throwing away old electrical items worth an estimated £762m every year, according to new research.
Despite the fact that the incomes of households across the country are being squeezed, an estimated 17 million broken or unwanted electrical products are ending up in the bin, even though they are still worth an average of more than £40 each.
Telecoms operator O2 has said that mobile phones, music players, satellite navigation devices, games consoles and digital cameras all find their way into landfill.
A report by The Independent newspaper however said projects such as mobile phone recycling schemes are springing up as consumers become more environmentally and financially aware.
Susanne Baker, senior policy advisor on climate change at EEF, the association representing British manufacturers, said there is growing demand from businesses for some of the material contained within these products.
She said: "Electronic equipment in particular is rich with materials which are in high demand but scarce supply. We know many manufacturers are worried about securing stable supplies of these materials at the right price," she said. | <urn:uuid:f71ef20e-204c-48e8-9761-1536c51cbed3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.co-operative.coop/magazine/in-the-news/family-finance/brits-said-to-bin-gadgets-worth-762m-each-year/?articleid=005132& | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00221-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969287 | 241 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Mobile devices are extremely interesting for attackers because they hold a digital representation of our lives.
Every application that resides on our devices contains information on some aspect of our lives. What games we play, who we talk to, where we work, what utilities make our lives easier are all captured in our mobile devices. Anyone armed with this information can mimic our digital lives to friends, family, colleagues and corporate systems.
The ability to mimic your life is valuable to a variety of people. A marketing department that can mimic your life will get better at selling you things. A corporate spy that can mimic your life will get a better sense of how your company operates, where the process weaknesses are, and potentially use your digital life to penetrate deeper into enterprise systems.
The steps we must take to protect who we are and what we know, however, often get in the way of living our digital lives. For example, we may put up with complex passcodes for corporate email. However, no one wants to key in a long passcode to text someone or get directions or check how many miles they ran.
Surveys conducted by Apple and others indicate that between 30 and 50% of people do not use any type of passcode on their mobile devices. This means that most people choose convenience over security. That choice has to change if we want to protect our digital lives if our devices are stolen.
So from Veracode’s perspective mobile security has to become more convenient and we applaud Apple for doing its part to make device security more convenient with Touch ID, the new fingerprint reader for the iPhone 5s. Any new mobile security software raises questions about whether it makes us safer. So we’re launching a three-part series of audio blogs where Darren Meyer and Jared Carlson, senior security researchers at Veracode, discuss:
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NEW YORK – December 7 marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Over the years, “the day of infamy” has become a classic reference point for galvanizing patriotic sentiment in America. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, for example, analogies to Pearl Harbor were made frequently. But despite its central place in America’s collective memory, Pearl Harbor remains little understood. Why did Japan initiate such a seemingly self-destructive war in the first place? Aside from lessons that Japan must learn from its momentous decision, is there something to be learned by the United States as well?
The decision to attack Pearl Harbor was reached after five months of deliberations that included numerous official conferences. It was a gradual process in which more sympathetic, albeit firm, US engagement might have helped sway Japan in a different direction. In fact, Japanese government opinion was so divided that it is surprising that it was able to unite in the end.
Many in the Japanese Army initially regarded the Soviet Union as the main threat facing the country. Others saw the US as the primary enemy. Some were concerned with more abstract, ideological enemies, such as Communism and “Americanism,” while there were also voices highlighting the menace of the “white race” (including Japan’s allies, Germany and Italy) against the “yellow race.”
Then there were those who preferred not to fight any enemy at all, particularly the US, whose long-term war-making power, the government knew, far surpassed Japan’s own. The tactical mastermind of the Pearl Harbor operation, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was one of them. | <urn:uuid:43f6974f-1887-4f9c-b242-f3f7cba55eef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-remember-pearl-harbor?barrier=accessreg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978941 | 346 | 3.390625 | 3 |
These cards are 24-bit parallel, digital input/output cards designed for use in PCI-Bus computers. The difference between the models is that I/O connections to PCI-DIO24D are via a standard 37-pin D-sub connector while I/O connections to PCI-DIO24H are via a 50-pin connector. The cards are 4.80 inches long (122 mm) and may be installed in any 5V PCI-bus slot in IBM and compatible personal computers.
These cards contain a type 8255-5 Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) chip. They can be programmed to accept inputs or to provide outputs on three 8-bit ports: designated Ports A, B, and C. Port C can be further divided into two 4-bit nibbles.
Each I/O line is buffered by a type 74ABT245B tristate buffer transceiver capable of sourcing 32 mA or sinking 64mA. The buffers are configured under program control for input or output use according to direction control signals from the control register inside the PPI. Pull-ups (to +5 VDC) on the card assure that there are no erroneous outputs at power-up until the card is initialized by system software. Further, jumpers on the card provide a choice to either permanently enable the buffers or to tri-state them under program control.
Input/Output wiring connections for the PCI-DIO24D are via a 37-pin D-sub connector on the card mounting bracket. Either a 37-pin D-sub solder cup mating connector or an insulation-displacement ribbon cable can be used for I/O connections. Fused +5 VDC power is available at the I/O connector. A resettable on-board fuse is rated at 0.5A and can be reset by cycling computer power.
Input/Output wiring connections for PCI-DIO24H are via a 50-pin connector on the card mounting bracket. Insulation displacement ribbon cables can be used for I/O connections to termination panels such as ACCES’ model STA-50 Screw Terminal card. The pin connections are also compatible with ACCES A24A , Grayhill, OPTO22, Western Reserve Controls, Potter& Brumfield, etc opto-isolated module mounting racks. If needed for external circuits, fused +5VDC power is available at the I/O connector. The resettable 0.5A fuse can be reset by cycling computer power.
Optionally you can have one, two, or three 48-bit down counters configured as Event Counters (see the Block Diagram which shows one 48-bit counter) and can also be used as a Frequency source. To designate that you wish these counters, add -S01, -S02, and -S03 respectively to the model number. For example, a 24-bit digital input/output card with a 50-pin connector and one 48-bit counter is model PCI-DIO24H-S01.
The fused +5V output is available on all versions of the PCI-DIO-24D and H with the exception of the PCI-DIO-24D-S03. The -S03 on this card does not have +5V on the connector due to the limited number of pins on the DB37. | <urn:uuid:c8ccbcfe-04a3-4eb4-a104-b7af031998a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accesio.com/product/pci-dio-24d/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.89278 | 704 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Shingles Treatment Specialist Q&A
If you or someone you know is suffering from shingles, come to Columbia Clinic Urgent Care for comprehensive treatment. Call our team or visit us online to book an appointment. We have Convenient Locations To Serve You at 82nd Ave, Mall 205, Division St, Tigard and Clackamas. Hours Vary By Location.
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Welcome to Columbia Clinic Urgent Care! We are an urgent care and walk-in clinic conveniently located with multiple locations in Portland, Oregon. Our team of friendly, efficient, medical professionals treats a wide range of conditions including acute injuries, chronic conditions, infections, illnesses, and more. We are dedicated to giving our patients affordable, patient-focused, and evidence-based healthcare. One of the many conditions our specialists treat is shingles. For your convenience, we have provided all the information on shingles you may want to know.
Early signs of a shingle outbreak include:
● Upset stomach
● Skin pain prior to the rash
● Burning sensations on the skin
● Skin sensitivity
● A red rash
● Light sensitivity
Your rash may last for up to 5 days after initially seeing them develop and any blisters will scab over within 1 to 2 weeks.
Shingle is a viral infection triggered by the same virus responsible for causing chickenpox. If you’ve ever had chickenpox before, the inactive varicella-zoster virus stays in the nerve tissue around your spinal cord and brain. This can cause a shingles outbreak months, years, or even decades later. It is most common in patients over the age of 50 and in people with weakened immune systems.
Shingles are not considered to be a highly contagious condition. When the rash is in the blister phase, you can spread it to others. The risk of spreading the infection is fairly low if you cover your rashes. First, place calamine lotion on your blisters and then cover them with loose sterile bandages. Shingles can only spread to people who have had chickenpox before. It is possible for people who have never had chickenpox before to contract chickenpox from people with shingles.
To prevent the spread of shingles, cover your rashes, avoid touching your blisters, and avoid skin-to-skin contact with others. Additionally, we recommend you talk with your healthcare provider about possible immunizations. It is advised that you get two doses of recombinant zoster vaccines. This is especially important for people in later adulthood who have weak immune systems.
Shingles usually goes away after a couple of weeks. To lessen symptoms and pain, shingles can be treated with the following:
● Antiviral medications
● Cream, lotions, and ointments
● Cool compresses
● Wet compress
● Colloidal oatmeal baths
Seek treatment for shingles right away for prescription antiviral medications such as acyclovir and famciclovir. This can greatly lessen symptoms and shorten both the length and severity of your infection. Signs you need to seek professional medical care for shingles include:
● If you’re 50 or older
● You have a preexisting condition
● The rash is on your face or near your eye
● You’re under severe distress and pain
● The rash is covering a large surface area of your body
● If you have a weak immune system or are immunocompromised
Without the correct treatment from an urgent care center or primary care physician, shingles have the potential of turning into postherpetic neuralgia, pneumonia, vision loss, hearing problems, and brain inflammation. Typically, these complications only occur in very severe shingle infections.
If you or a loved one is presenting symptoms of shingles, call our clinic to book a same-day appointment or walk-in anytime during our business hours. Columbia Clinic Urgent Care is committed to giving our wonderful patients the best care possible. We greatly value each one of our patients and can’t wait to see you healthy and happy. For further information on shingles treatment specialists in Portland Oregon, call us and we’ll happily answer your inquiries. We serve patients from Portland OR, PDX, Happy Valley OR, Tigard OR, Milwaukie OR, Cedar Hills OR, Cedar Mill OR, Lake Oswego OR, Oak Grove OR, Vancouver WA, Aloha OR, Minnehaha WA, Gladstone OR, Tualatin OR, West Linn OR, Fairview OR, Oregon City OR. | <urn:uuid:9c14a586-9873-47ba-9fac-f30fffd25211> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.columbiaclinic.com/shingles-treatment-specialist | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.919516 | 1,005 | 1.59375 | 2 |
In previous articles I have discussed the numerous problems I have with political correctness. In, I’m not judgmental, I pointed out the difficulties of navigating the PC system without offending others.
Each day I am reminded of how out of date I am with the new PC era. In fact, I was just informed that even dates have changed. At least how we write them.
It is no longer 2016 AD
BC has now become BCE and AD has changed to CE. I thought 400 BC was set in stone, so to speak, but it too has changed.
Calendar years have been expressed as BC, before Christ and AD, Anno Domini in Latin, meaning the year of our Lord. Some think this may be offensive to non-Christians. Therefore, they have made BCE, before the Common Era, and CE, Common Era.
I didn’t know the calendar was offensive
I’m a Christian, but I have not thought about AD being offensive to non-Christians before these recent changes in educational material. If it is offensive, does changing the name make a difference, if the dates stay the same?
If the actual recorded dates in history stay the same, i.e. 1960 AD becomes 1960 CE, how does this help? The dates are still based on the general time of Christ’s birth. If Christ being involved in the dating process is offensive, then why not renumber all the dates through history based on something else?
If you are a non-Christian and your child wants to know what CE stands for you can say Common Era. If he asks what event happened to make the calendar change from BCE to CE what would you say? If you say that was when Christ was born, you’re back to square one.
Maybe they should change BC to CB and AD to CF. That could stand for counting backwards and counting forwards. When your kids ask why it changed, you could say people got down to zero and didn’t know what to do so they started counting forward to avoid the same thing in the future.
PC translator app
These are reasons I need a live speaking translator on my phone. I could speak normally without worry knowing my PC translator would automatically convert all my offensive language into politically correct comments. When I say illegal immigrants, it would say non-citizens.
I could freely speak my mind to others. I may not understand the translation, but the easily offended people would get it.
If you get one of these translator apps, you can leave it off when talking to me because I don’t get offended at what you say. | <urn:uuid:a1c5d220-e915-4c37-bc59-a211ffec4d0c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2016/04/politically-correct-translator-apps-for-smartphones-00872513.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969664 | 542 | 2.296875 | 2 |
April 25 2012
Forget raising taxes on the very rich. What about me?
A sobering piece in today’s Wall Street Journal argues that, if President Obama is to maintain his current level of spending, it’s going to mean an 11 percent tax increase even for those earning less than the magic $200,000.
Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, gives an alarming account of the increase in federal spending since 2008. The president’s stated plan of dealing with this massive spending is by raising taxes on the rich. Problem: soaking the rich won’t bring in nearly enough money.
Maintaining the president's higher spending will require raising taxes for all Americans. Assuming the president favors raising marginal tax rates over broadening the tax base (consistent with his failure to consider the tax proposals from Bowles-Simpson), an across-the-board tax increase of 11% for taxpayers with incomes under $200,000 would be required to raise the money the president proposes to spend.
And the entitlement problem? Failing to slow the growth of Social Security and Medicare spending would require a large, across-the-board increase in the payroll tax for both programs.
Yes, President Obama and Mitt Romney have budgets with competing visions. But Gov. Romney's budget makes tough choices—tax reform that will require broadening the tax base, spending restraint to return federal spending to 20% of GDP by 2016, and reform of Social Security and Medicare to slow the rate of spending growth for more-affluent individuals.
President Obama's budget fails to identify the choices he will ask us to make. But the arithmetic is clear: His path means large tax increases for all Americans.
We need a debate over what we want government's role in society to be. Voters also must have a menu with prices—showing the true cost of the special on offer.
The presidential debates would be a good place to do this. In a vacuum, most Americans probably assume government should be providing all sorts of services the Founding Fathers could not have seen as appropriate. But if they get the costs, not just the supposedly delicious items in the menu, they might be willing to rethink this.
Also writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Andrew Biggs has a plan that might help us with the looming insolvency of Social Security: a payroll tax cut. And he doesn’t mean the phony payroll tax cut that Congress enacted last year:
The annual Social Security Trustees Report, released on Monday, confirms that the program is significantly underfunded. After decades of delay, Congress and the next president will need to take steps to restore Social Security's finances and improve Americans' retirement income security. Although it might seem counterintuitive, one positive step toward achieving both goals is to cut the 12.4% payroll tax for workers nearing retirement, say, at age 62.
Biggs explains that the current system encourages many to retire early, thereby putting more pressure on Social Security. But, if they were earning more money, they might decide to work longer.
[T]he gains to individuals and the economy could be substantial. Working one additional year would boost average private pension income by almost 5%. And all Americans would benefit from the extra goods and services that older workers could provide.
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Edward Gibbon(1737-1794), Historian; author of 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Sitter in 14 portraits
Historian. His famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written mainly in London, 1776-88. Lived in Lausanne 1753-8 and 1783-93. Elected Professor in Ancient History to the Royal Academy in succession to Goldsmith. A member of the Club.
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Body Tuners Beginner's Set
The Body Tuners are the ideal beginner's set. The most powerful tuning fork combination, the C and G tuners create a "perfect fifth" and open the gateway for healing and higher consciousness. Listening to these two different tones, your body makes one tone, bringing your whole nervous system to balance and integrating your mind and body. Within 30 seconds (the same amount of time it takes to stretch a muscle), you can achieve a state of unification and deep relaxation, which might take you 45 minutes to reach through meditation.
* Instantaneous deep relaxation
* A state of unification
* Altered state of consciousness
* Re-proportions your body
The Body Tuners consist of two tuning forks, the C and the G, they create a ratio of 3/2. Body Tuners are a special interval known in music as a perfect fifth. Lao Tzu referred to this interval as the sound of universal harmony between the forces of Yin and Yang. In India, the fifth is believed to create a sound through which Shiva calls Shakti to the dance of life. Apollo, the Greek Sun God of Music and Healing plucked the fifth on his Sacred lyre to call dolphin messengers to Delphi. These are some of the reasons it has been called "perfect". The Body Tuners are a wonderful way to begin your sonic exploration. You can enhance your experience of the Body Tuners by adding the intervals of the Solar Harmonic Spectrum. | <urn:uuid:d5946d41-46cb-4440-8a8f-cfbc26e15392> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.sunreed.com/tuning-forks/body-tuners | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00023-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925235 | 304 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The lanes around Boconnoc House, near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, were buzzing last weekend as 10,000 visitors descended on the 100th Cornwall Spring Flower Show. It’s a perfect place for a flower show because spring arrives much earlier here than anywhere else on the British mainland.
The large Cornish estate gardens, including Trewithen, Heligan, Mount Edgcumbe, Caerhays Castle, Tremeer and Trewidden – evocative names with a Celtic lilt – all attend. Many were present at the first show in 1897, instigated by John Boscawen of Tregothnan, to display daffodils. Narcissi still feature, but it’s the magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias that visitors drool and sigh over most today.
In 1897 these aristocratic beauties were still waiting to be plucked from the wilds of China and the Himalayas by the great plant hunters, principally Ernest “Chinese” Wilson (1876-1930) and George Forrest (1873-1932). These intrepid explorers were driven on by their patrons, wealthy estate and nursery owners vying to be first to acquire new Chinese and Himalayan flora. Those in the south-west of England had first shout due to their favourable climate. The rain-laden south westerlies and sea mists off the Cornish coast mimic the damp, cool humidity of Asian uplands.
The maritime position usually keeps spring frosts at bay, although not always. In 1971 it is recorded that “the magnolias unwisely removed their overcoats too early”. The light bounces off the sea in Cornwall too, creating radiant conditions enjoyed by artists and plants alike, but the trump card is acid soil. It’s a necessity for most Asian plants and the reason for Cornwall’s unique native flora.
It all means that the Cornish can grow plants most British gardeners can only dream of. The sight of a voluptuous, thickly petalled magnolia bloom held in a large vase, swooning against black baize, is quite something.
A hundred years ago, JC Williams of Caerhays Castle was prominent in the race to acquire new flora. President at the first show, he was already hybridising daffodils before turning his hand to camellias. He raised the very famous C. x williamsii in 1923. Today Caerhays, awarded World Heritage status in 1992, is considered the best place in the world to see magnolias. Its Plant Heritage Collection boasts 80 species, 360 named and 230 unnamed magnolias. They thrive on this estate, warmed on three sides by the benign presence of the Atlantic Ocean.
At the show, Caerhays Castle scooped the Treve Holman Memorial Cup for its exhibit of 'Caerhays Surprise’, a raspberry pink hybrid produced by crossing M. mollicomata and M. lilliflora 'Nigra’. This readily available smaller magnolia flowered for the first time at Caerhays in 1968, having been bred by head gardener Philip Tregunna, who died last year aged 80.
Head gardeners play a great part in Cornish horticulture. Peter Borlase, the retired head gardener of Lanhydrock near Bodmin, transformed the garden and spent 27 years making it one of the most popular National Trust gardens. His wife Gwen established the first café in a National Trust property, selling cream teas. Now in his eighties, Peter still works for Lanhydrock as a volunteer. This year he judged trees and shrubs at the show.
Gary Long has only been at Trewithen for eight years, but he’s only the third head gardener on this secluded estate in a century. Recently he visited China to see camellias in the wild and to collect a coveted award – Trewithen is now an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, one of only four in Britain.
The aristocratic estate gardens don’t have it all their own way, however. Mrs Pat Bucknell of Botallack, the secretary of the RHS Rhododendron Group, scooped the trophy for the most points for magnolias and rhododendrons. She was exhibiting for the fifth time, and was also awarded trophies for the best 12 camellias and the best single camellia, picked from hundreds.
The expert judge, Jennifer Trehane, thought it “the best display in the world”. Pat and Peter Bucknell, whose reaction hovered between delight and amazement, have a 17-acre private garden which they manage almost entirely by themselves. They also scooped the RHS Banksian Medal for the most points, but it’s taken 20 years for these keen amateurs to raise their plant material at Botallack. Their garden opens now and again for horticultural groups by appointment only.
Keen amateurs and members of the Cornwall Garden Society keep this show going, making it affordable for all. Families stroll through the gardens with dogs on leads, children have their faces painted. The Cornish pasty queue, the longest of all, snakes down the long marquee. I ate mine hot despite the recent tax controversy.
The second largest queue surrounds a Cornish legend, the daffodil breeder Ron Scamp (01326 317959; qualitydaffodils.com). He won this year’s Bickford-Smith Trophy for the Best Trade Exhibit and the Cornwall Garden Society’s Plantsman Award given for recent introductions of special merit. He had nine new introductions for 2012 on his stand, including one named 'Boconnoc’.
Order forms were being filled in left and right, because this show concentrates on plants. Everyone had a question for Ron about one daffodil or another. He has been breeding for 37 years, but his fascination began as a lad after helping his uncle pick daffodils for the cut flower trade. Part of his collection conserves heritage varieties from more than 50 years ago, including 'White Lady’. Ron has 14 acres of daffodil fields near Falmouth, and his next exhibits will be at RHS Vincent Square on April 10 and 11 and at Cardiff on April 21 and 22. I can almost feel my bank balance shrinking as I thumb through the pictures in his extensive catalogue.
One area of the Old Stables at Boconnoc is devoted to daffodils, many bred by Scamp. They’re displayed in small vases bought by the show committee in years past. Terry Westwood, fresh from the Falmouth Spring Show where he won Best Daffodil, gained most points overall. The Miniature Class was won by Mrs George Lim, who also gained most points in the herbaceous class and the award for best alpine. “Nutty” Lim, as she is affectionately called, sent her daughter Peony to fetch the show results. Anxiety was etched into her face while she waited. The day before had been spent staging and, in her sixth year of exhibiting, the pressure was definitely on.
If magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons fail to rock your boat, there are a lot of West Country nurseries selling plants we can all grow. My first stop was Julian Sutton’s Desirable Plants (01803 864489; desirableplants.com), a nursery full of treasures but sadly not open to the public. I was also lured to the Hidden Valley Nursery (01769 560567) where I had a long discussion about spring-flowering primulas with owner Peter Lindley. Kelways (01458 250521; kelways.co.uk) had a good selection of peonies, too, and all the nurserymen and women were smiling. This is a show the professionals love as much as the visitors.
Meanwhile, there’s still plenty of time to visit Cornish gardens this year. A show like this makes me determined to rush off and see the real thing in situ. Pink boughs set against a duck-egg blue sky that fades into the sea; that’s a Cornish speciality.
Or you can read about them in Katherine Lambert’s new book Gardens of Cornwall (Frances Lincoln; £16.99). No other area of Britain contains as many great gardens close to each other.
Was it the 100th show?
There is some debate about whether this was the 100th anniversary show – and the event certainly has had a lively history.
When the First World War intervened, the show wasn’t resumed again until 1924. It returned with a vengeance, though, with top-notch horticulturists like E A Bowles, F C Stern and Lady Beatrix Stanley doing the judging in the latter half of the Twenties. By 1929, Cornish people could travel to the Regent Theatre at Truro, the show’s home until 1939, from all over the county by steam trains.
The event returned to Truro straight after the Second World War, averaging 600 exhibits, although the cold winter of 1947 and petrol rationing in 1957 led to cancellation. The show continued to thrive, and in 1960 it was being dubbed the Little Chelsea of the West, something it’s still called today.
Cups began to replace money. The Constance Spry Memorial Cup for Floral Art was hotly contested in 1960 (the year of her death) because Spry had been a popular judge at the show in previous years. Averil Lashbrook won this year.
The late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visited in 1962 and 1981. The Queen came here in 2001, when the show was held under canvas at Trelissick.
The show moved from venue to venue, under canvas, but not without disaster.
The main marquee blew over at Burncoose in 1991 and there was a mud bath at The Lost Gardens of Heligan in 1998, which stranded the few motorists who braved the elements.
Finally, the show moved to its present home at Boconnoc in 2003, using the grounds, stables and outbuildings with the support of the owners, Mr and Mrs Anthony Fortescue. Now it attracts 10,000 visitors a year, and it’s the most highly regarded spring show in the country.
Caerhays Castle (01872 501310; caerhays.co.uk)
Lanhydrock (01208 265950; nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock)
Trewithen (01726 883647; trewithengardens.co.uk)
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
Large algae growing in the sea or on rocks below the high-water mark.
- ‘Every winter the bays and beaches around Bermuda empty of tourists and start to fill with… seaweed.’
- ‘It was Dr Drew who came to the rescue when she analysed the life cycle of the edible seaweed known as Nori.’
- ‘They move slowly along and pick up moving prey from the crevices and seaweed among the rocks.’
- ‘The chicken spring rolls wrapped in seaweed and duck with oyster mushrooms are especially recommended.’
- ‘The most valued of the cultivated seaweeds is the red alga Porphyra, or Nori.’
- ‘The roads and arches of the futuristic city was set with only minor seaweed and rock debris.’
- ‘However, the seaweeds or the algae and in particularly the microscopic plankton can fix a lot more carbon than a forest can.’
- ‘This involved making a frame which was decorated in the main with seaweed.’
- ‘There are hundreds of varieties of seaweed in Breton waters, though only about seven are used for edible purposes.’
- ‘There is also growing interest in culturing seaweed to produce feed for aquaculture.’
- ‘I drove home slightly damp and smelling of seaweed, but feeling great.’
- ‘To be on the Okinawa Program is not to be restricted to eating seaweed and warm bricks of tofu.’
- ‘In the late 1700s, the abundant seaweed or kelp provided an important source of income.’
- ‘Compounds of iodine are also present in sea water and in sea kelp, a form of seaweed.’
- ‘Cover with a thick layer of seaweed, and a piece of old canvas, blanket, carpet, or dry leaves, to keep in the steam.’
- ‘The seaweed itself was balanced on top of a bed of regular salad leaves giving the impression the salad was much larger than it really was.’
- ‘Eelgrass is not closely related to the true seaweeds, which are algae.’
- ‘Catching brown trout among seaweed is a strange experience for someone used to freshwater fishing on the mainland.’
- ‘It swam near the bottom with a very graceful and rapid movement and tried to conceal itself in the tufts of seaweed.’
- ‘Locals explained that the strength of the wind and the high waves had scattered seaweed all over the islands.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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In this second of a two part article on the NDIS, El Gibbs explores how the NDIS was meant to put an end to the “lottery” approach to support for people with disability, and challenges government and its administrators to live up to the promises of the legislation that governs it.
Don’t miss the first part on recent developments in the NDIS that are creating major concern.
It is published as part of Gibbs’ crowdfunded #CripCroakey series.
El Gibbs writes:
The NDIS was the end of a long process that clearly showed that the disability support system was fundamentally broken. People with disability confronted a lottery that determined the type, cost and adequacy of the support they could get that depended on where they lived, what kind of disability they had, and the level of advocacy they could access. The system was profoundly unfair, and left many disabled people without the essential supports they needed.
This support system was not about fancy things, but about the absolute basics – the right kind of equipment, such as wheelchairs and mobility aids; the right kind of support to make sure people could get out of bed, shower and have something to eat; the right kind of individualised support so that each person could get exactly what they needed.
Throughout 2008 and 2009, the National People with Disability and Carers Council asked people about their experiences of life with a disability and published the results in the Shut Out report as part of the development of the National Disability Strategy. Through this process, a devastating picture of the existing disability support system was revealed:
“The disability service system was characterised as broken and broke, chronically under-funded and under-resourced, crisis driven, struggling against a vast tide of unmet need.”
“Many people described their lives as a constant struggle—for support, for resources, for basic necessities, for recognition. Over and over participants made the comment that it should not require such extraordinary effort to live an ordinary life.“
There was also hope that the actual service delivery model would change. The old support system was based on governments funding services directly, in block amounts of funding, to provide different kinds of support. This support was rarely designed by disabled people themselves, nor was there ever enough to meet the need for services which were rationed, and only available to those who needed it most, and had the advocacy to fight for it.
There was no room in this system for a person to find the supports that suited them. No room to argue for the specific tailored supports that would fit with what they wanted but also actually go towards progressing the different dreams the individual had about being a part of the world.
The support systems were also different in every state and territory and for different disabilities and ages. This is what is meant when a lottery is talked about – if you had a disability from a traffic accident in some states, lifetime support would be provided; if you fell off a ladder and got the same disability in another state, no support would be provided.
Asked to imagine and enabled to realise the lives we want
The NDIS was imagined as a way to fix all this – to provide a national, universal system for supports that put the person with the disability, and their individual needs at the centre of both its design and delivery. To make sure that Australians with a disability would not face this kind of inequity in support and be able to be part of the community. Where getting support to go some way towards addressing the barriers people with disability face in accessing the world was normal and without effort. Where the rights of people with disability were seen to be as important as every other Australian.
The NDIS was intended to break this old disability support model, and allow people with disability to access services that everyone in the community accessed, such as gardening and cleaning. In theory, this was to allow choice, but also to reduce the costs of disability support. People with disability would get a package that they controlled, spending money to find the supports that suited them best.
Services would no longer be rationed or limited. They would not be a ‘one size fits all’ model that suited no one. They would be available everywhere, meaning that people with disability would get the same level of service wherever they lived.
In this 2013 RampUp post, lawyer and Disability Council of NSW member Y’ael Finch summed up the many hopes that people with disability had about the NDIS and its potential to revolutionise their lives.
“People with disability are being freed from fitting into stereotyped service models; instead of being asked what specialised services they desperately need, they are being asked to imagine, and enabled to realise, the lives they want. For too many, this will create an independence they have never known.”
These very rights were baked into the formulation of the NDIS; they are part of the enabling legislation and were intended to guide the development of every part of the Scheme. Reading back over the principles set out in the legislation is sobering.
“People with disability have the same right as other members of Australian society to realise their potential for physical, social, emotional and intellectual development.”
The legislation goes on to say:
“Reasonable and necessary supports for people with disability should:
(a) support people with disability to pursue their goals and maximise their independence; and
(b) support people with disability to live independently and to be included in the community as fully participating citizens; and
(c) develop and support the capacity of people with disability to undertake activities that enable them to participate in the mainstream community and in employment.”
What went wrong with the NDIS?
What happened to these ideas about centring the rights of disabled people at the heart of the NDIS?
Is there a danger in the NDIS becoming no more than a duplication of the old system, with political and economic pressures once more coming down on people with disability, to say ‘no, you don’t get to be part of the community at all’? People are being presented with rushed plans that are not individual or tailored to the person’s needs. Plans are based on what supports people had been able to get in the past, and are also not reaching out to other non-disability services.
The recent problems with the IT system the NDIS uses are symptomatic of the growing gap between the initial rhetoric about choice and control and the reality of a Scheme that is expanding in a way that is far removed from the lofty goals of the legislation.
Advocacy for Inclusion CEO Christina Ryan has outlined clearly the mounting challenges for those who wish to self-manage their NDIS funds and her concerns about what this means for the future of the NDIS. She said:
“Three years in, some systemic failings are becoming clear. Most notable of these is that the central tenet of control and choice is seriously under threat. Some would argue that it is being deliberately undermined by vested interests and by government interference. Others would cynically suggest that the Scheme was always designed to act as it now is, and that control and choice was simply rhetoric used to silence the disability movement.”
She compares the Government’s response to the portal complexity and IT issues to those raised by small business to concerns around the GST.
“Within a short timeframe government got the message and completely redesigned how payments were made and today there is a quarterly reconciliation process used to submit GST payments to the Tax Office. Small business are trusted to be doing this correctly and are subject to auditing in the same way as all other taxpayers. Accounting software is now built to manage this. No such respect for people with disabilities.
“When we raise concerns about the complexity of the NDIS payment and self-management system their answer has been to remove self-management pillars, like advance release of funds, and force people into relying on go-betweens and standard services. Control and choice has taken a body blow.”
Again, this says that there is a fundamental disconnect between the initial NDIS legislation that was intended to build on the rights of people with disability and this attitude that disabled people are bludgers and a drain on the budget. This broken link between rights and the supports need to make them possible, does not bode well for the development of a new system of disability supports that actually delivers on all that was promised and fought for.
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Ammunition design specifically for Gravity Guns. They are usually referred to as IMMs.
While most gravity guns use rocks or shrapnel for ammunition, an Infinite Mass Missile was designed to be used by a gravity gun. The missile carries a standard Space Age Warhead, but the Artificial mass block makes it shoot out the barrel at the speed of a bullet. These missiles can do devastating damage to a ship, not only do they explode like a normal missile, but the shrapnel is also moving through the ship, tearing through light armor plating and interior walls like butter due to the high velocity they are moving at.
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Coursera Project Network による Create an FPS Weapon in Unity (Part 2 - Firing Effects) の受講者のレビューおよびフィードバック
In this one-hour, project-based course, you'll learn how to add realism to weapons-fire by creating a recoil animation and muzzle-flash and smoke effects. You'll also learn how to add bullet holes and a knock-back effect to shot objects.
The guided project will introduce you to the following Unity concepts:
- Particle Effects
- Coding techniques such as Interfaces
This is Part 2 of a four-part series on creating a weapon for your FPS game. In Part 1, we covered equipping your FPS player with a gun. Part 3 will show you how to set up the weapon's properties and damage effects to the destroyable GameObjects. Lastly, Part 4 will walk you through the steps for adding ammunition, reloading the weapon and creating magazines and other weapons.
This is a stand-alone guided project, but because this is a continuation of previous parts in the "FPS Weapon" series, it is recommended that you complete the first parts before commencing this guided project.
This series also makes use of the western-themed Unity project created in Control physics with C# in Unity and the VM-compatible FPS Player script written in Create a VM Compatible First Person Camera. These compliment this guided project and, although not prerequisites, are recommended for a more well-rounded understanding of the concepts presented herein.... | <urn:uuid:86abec3d-7699-44f5-865c-98cb8bbec887> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ja.coursera.org/projects/create-fps-weapon-unity-firing-effects/reviews?authMode=signup | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.884678 | 346 | 3 | 3 |
According to Euromonitor’s latest research on alcoholic drinks, the UK is showing a clear trend towards domestic products with a distinctive, modern heritage and premium cachet. Anna Ward explores this burgeoning trend, and asks how sustainable it is, given the cost of living crisis and rising inflation.
Natural attachment to familiar names and places is never more evident than in times of crisis. “Local” drinks resonate on both practical and psychological levels, as illustrated by patterns in the historic performance of cachaça in Brazil or baijiu in China.
Other factors are also at play in the rise of domestic offers. The near global relevance of the craft movement has been achieved through geographic variations in ingredients, stories, and recipes, in efforts to target demand for invention and alternative choices. Community associations and ties to recognisable locations strengthen connections with consumers.
Emerging domestic drinks categories – such as Scottish rum, Welsh and English whisky, and wine from Kent and Sussex – are rapidly gaining popularity in the UK. However, challenges are stacking up for small producers. Price is a growing cause for concern. The extreme rises in input costs affecting the whole industry will have a particularly severe impact on companies equipped with limited resources for adaptation. In the UK specifically, definitional disparities, border complications, and staff shortages following Brexit present persistent obstacles.
Escaping the constrains of tradition
Gin remains ubiquitous among craft spirit offers, benefiting from clear opportunities for origin stories and an absence of aging requirements, but category diversification is underway as UK gin performance deteriorates. English and Scottish rum brands, for example, are attracting attention.
The rise of world whiskies is well-documented. Younger consumers in particular are now less concerned with established geographic or production rules. Freedom from the strict regulations governing traditional whisk(e)y production allows flexibility in innovation, but can also hinder the reputation-building process, with the risk of poor-quality offers dragging down still fragile perceptions.
English and Welsh whisky are gradually becoming recognised, respected segments in their own right. Producers in England applied for protected geographical indication status in the UK in early 2022, aiming to ensure quality, consistency, and transparency to encourage faith in the English whisky label.
English wine remains dynamic and is moving beyond its initial emphasis on sparkling styles. The relative lack of wine tradition in the UK compared to say, France or Italy, means that consumption rituals are not as closely embedded. Globally, wine has struggled to generate as much of a buzz as many other categories in recent years, and boosting appeal among younger legal drinking age groups is a strategic priority. Without the pressure of extensive cultural associations, UK consumers are especially open to modern formats, positioning, and branding.
Premium focus to remain…for now
In the short-to mid-term, international trade complications may encourage some small players to shift their emphasis further towards their domestic UK market, although international acknowledgment is, of course, a major objective for emerging categories. Reflecting patterns seen at the global level, broad product coverage and collaborative efforts are becoming ever more important.
Whether or not premiumisation can be sustained in the current inflationary environment is a key question for the industry, given the severity of the expected strain on disposable incomes. The examples discussed here currently concentrate on high-end offers – single malts in English and Welsh whisky, and pricing for English sparkling wine that tends to fall closer to Champagne than Prosecco.
This is understandable given the usually artisanal nature of production, combined with the need to establish a strong standing from the outset. At the moment, the only logical approach is to underline the existing premium positioning and seek to realise the ongoing potential for ‘affordable’ indulgence. Yet, considering these categories holistically, longer term significance will hinge on coverage of a wider price spectrum. While fashionable craft offers may have led the way, the gin renaissance of the last decade would never have achieved the same mainstream relevance through super-premium variants alone.
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Many thousands of Darfuri refugees still live in camps - many in Chad
African leaders have agreed to establish a new court to bring justice to the Sudanese region of Darfur.
The hybrid court would consist of Sudanese and foreign judges appointed by the African Union in consultation with the Khartoum government.
US-based Human Rights Watch told the BBC the new court should not replace the International Criminal Court.
The ICC is seeking to prosecute Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for committing war crimes in Darfur, which he denies.
A rebel leader is currently on trial in The Hague and the court has also issued arrest warrants for a Sudanese minister and pro-government militia leader.
Violence flared in Darfur in 2003 when black African rebel groups took up arms against the government in Khartoum, complaining of discrimination and neglect.
Pro-government Arab militias then started a campaign of violence, targeting the black African population.
The UN says some 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur's six-year conflict. Khartoum says about 10,000 died.
The African leaders, meeting in the Nigerian capital Abuja, agreed to the proposals in a report put forward by South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki.
BBC Africa analyst
The African Union will now have to establish a special unit to implement the recommendations contained in the report.
Thabo Mbeki himself is asked to head a new implementation panel. This will have an enormous remit, not only helping bring into force the former South African president's own proposals, but also helping Sudan's troubled north-south peace process.
Elections are planned for April next year, to be followed by a referendum on independence the year after. The timetable is tight and much needs to be done.
To strengthen Mr Mbeki's hand there are now suggestions that he will in due course take over as the joint African Union-United Nations mediator in Darfur and the north-south process. This would be an enormous task, but Mr Mbeki is a man of keen intelligence and great patience - skills he will need if he is to succeed.
Mr Bashir was invited to the meeting, but after an angry reaction from human rights groups, he stayed away.
The BBC's Africa analyst Martin Plaut says Mr Mbeki's 148-page report is written in diplomatic language, but makes clear that previous attempts to dispense justice in Darfur have made little progress.
Neither the special courts established by the Sudanese government nor the ICC warrant are considered to have contributed to peace.
Human Rights Watch's Georgette Gaignon told the BBC's Network Africa the organisation welcomed the proposal.
"It's part of the whole package of providing justice to victims in Darfur," she said.
"There are many who have suffered in Darfur and there are many alleged criminals.
"These people should be tried in a domestic system that conforms to fair trial standards, but the most serious cases are now before the International Criminal Court and those should be dealt with there."
She added that it was important that the court was set up as quickly and efficiently as possible.
But the response from the Sudanese participants in the Darfur civil war has been less than enthusiastic.
Sudan's Vice-President Ali Osman Taha, who was at the Abuja meeting, said the proposals needed closer scrutiny to see whether they were in line with the constitution.
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In previous blogs we’ve discussed the pros and cons for large enterprises considering a move to the cloud. But what about data migration, what factors need to be considered when migrating Microsoft Office Files to the cloud?
Lately, there has been an increased level of attention given to this topic. The concerns range from how you integrate your data with the cloud, to the security of the migration, and best practices in performing the migration. Perhaps the most common example of data migration is implementing the Office 365 suite.
The fact that people still do not trust the cloud, that they do not know where the data is stored, makes it crucial for tools that allow for the easy transfer of the data in and out of the cloud.
For example, what if your organization has already moved to the cloud and now has decided to switch cloud providers? You might discover that the files are hosted on a system that does not support migration tools/efforts. Careful consideration of how you select your cloud provider and how much control you have over your own data, even hosted on someone else’s servers, becomes critically important.
Furthermore, in terms of location, there are laws limiting mobility of data. You should always consider the implication of legal issues. For example, in the EU, there are limitations to where and what type of data can be moved.
Also, you must consider exactly what types of files that you want stored on the cloud provider’s servers. Companies must be especially attentive in terms of type of files you prepare for migration and where the data is hosted. ConverterTechnology’s DiscoverIT tool can help you identify the types and number of files you have enabling you to make informed decisions based on business logic and file content.
Some cloud companies offer their own tools to allow clients to migrate files from other providers to their own servers. This is obviously advantageous for the client, but even more so for the company which came up with the tool!
It can seem like a complicated process, but it doesn’t have to be. In our next article we will discuss migrating files to the cloud and strategies that can help simplify the process. | <urn:uuid:4f7d2711-1eee-48e5-a8f7-01d89ced6bbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://convertertechnology.com/blog/migrating-microsoft-office-files-to-the-cloud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.951797 | 438 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Calgarians will vote Nov. 13 on whether their city should host the 2026 Olympic Games. U of G’s Prof. Norm O’Reilly has commented on the bid process in national media.
O’Reilly participated in an expert panel hosted by Mary Moran, president and CEO of Calgary Economic Development, that was live-streamed on CTV News and picked up by the Calgary Herald, the National Post and CBC.
O’Reilly, assistant dean of executive programs and professor in U of G’s College of Business and Economics, discussed factors for citizens to consider beyond economics, such as developing volunteerism, community, sports and city branding. He said these factors may be quantified but not necessarily economically. He said voting to host the Olympics on economic factors alone is difficult for citizens, and that it comes down to voting on what makes most sense for the individual.
A leading scholar in the business of sports, he studies analytics, marketing, sponsorship, social media, sport finance, social marketing, tourism management and management education. | <urn:uuid:3e8fa39c-a9a3-4132-9856-7c8c74bc343d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/11/sports-business-expert-available-to-discuss-calgarys-olympic-bid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.950903 | 236 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Is your vision blurry, especially at night or in very bright light? It could be an early symptom of cataracts.
A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye that interferes with clear vision. Unlike a healthy, transparent lens, which focuses light rays precisely onto the retina, a lens clouded by a cataract loses its ability to focus light rays. The light that reaches the retina is scattered and diffuse, causing blurry vision. The amount of vision impairment depends on the size and density of the cataract and where it is located in the lens: the nucleus, cortex, or posterior lens capsule. A cataract in the periphery of the cortex, for example, has little effect on vision because it does not impede the passage of light through the center of the lens. On the other hand, a dense nuclear cataract causes severe blurring, interfering primarily with distant vision (at first). A cataract that develops in the posterior capsule has a greater effect on near vision and also causes sensitivity to glare.
Cataracts form painlessly. The most common symptom of a cataract is cloudy or blurry vision. Everything becomes dimmer, as if seen through glasses that need cleaning. Most often, both eyes are affected, though vision is usually worse in one eye than in the other. Other cataract symptoms include glare, halos, poor night vision, a perception that colors are faded or that objects are yellowish, and the need for brighter light when reading. In some cases, double vision occurs. This is caused by the passage of light through a lens that has irregular areas of opacity, which can split the rays of light from a single object and focus them on different parts of the retina.
Another symptom of cataracts is the need for frequent changes in eyeglass and contact lens prescriptions. These cataract symptoms can develop rapidly (in a matter of months) or almost imperceptibly, over many years. In the early stages of a nuclear cataract, some people may temporarily have an improvement in vision. For example, a person who previously needed reading glasses for presbyopia is able to read without them. This change, which is referred to as second sight, occurs because the cataract alters the shape of the lens, making it better able to focus on nearby objects. Over time, however, this improvement in vision is lost, and progression of the cataract impairs vision.
Individuals with cortical or posterior subcapsular cataracts often have worse vision in bright light; for example, they may have problems with night driving because of the brightness of oncoming headlights. Bright light causes the pupils to contract and restricts the passage of light to the center of the lens (the part that may be most severely affected by the cataract).
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As a species whales compose around 90 different animals within the cetacean family.
The cetacean family is made up of three types of marine mammals known as whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Although the term whale can be used to describe dolphins and porpoises it is rarely used when describing these animals in order to prevent confusion among the different species.
Among the cetacean family whales compose around half of the cetaceans while dolphins make up the other half.
Porpoises only make up around 6 of the 90 or so species of marine mammals within the cetacean family.
All dolphins and porpoises belong to the toothed whale family along with whales that possess teeth while the baleen whale suborder is composed exclusively of large whales that possess baleen plates.
In addition to either possessing teeth or baleen plates there are several characteristics that differentiate the two types of whales including their size, social structure, breathing (number of blowholes), dentition (teeth or baleen plates) and echolocation.
The next part of this article will explore in more detail the differences between the two suborders.
Toothed whales as you probably guessed it have teeth which they use for grabbing, biting and/or chewing their prey.
Both the number of teeth these marine mammals possess and the way they use their teeth varies from one species to the next.
Some of the whales/cetaceans that belong to the toothed whale suborder include the killer whale (this species is part of the dolphins family), sperm whale, bottlenose whale and beluga whale among others.
These type of whales have a single blowhole as compared to the two blowholes found in baleen whales.
The majority of toothed whales (with the exception of the sperm whale) are smaller than their baleen whale relatives, but are known for eating larger prey such as fish, squid, octopus and crustaceans.
A few species such as the killer whale and false killer whale are also known to consume various marine mammals and large animals such as seals, sea lions, walruses, marine birds, whales, dolphins and porpoises among other large animals.
Sperm whales are unique to the toothed whale species as they are known to hunt giant squid that can measure in excess of 30 ft. long.
Due to fact that some toothed whales are fairly small when compared to other cetaceans they stand a greater chance of being hunted and attacked by predators such as sharks and killer whales.
Toothed whales tends to have a much larger and more sophisticated social structure when compared to baleen whale species.
Part of the reason these marine mammals form large groups is to protect themselves from potential predators.
Another reason for the groups has to do with the simple fact that many of the toothed whale species are very social.
These marine mammals make sounds using their blowholes and create high pitched clicking and whistling sounds in order to communicate with one another.
Unlike humans however whales are not born with vocal cords and do not need to inhale or exhale to create sound.
They simply squeeze and flex their muscles to create sounds and communicate with one another.
In addition to using sound for communication they also have highly developed echolocation abilities that use sound and echos to help these marine mammals locate food, avoid predators, navigate in the dark and find other objects in the ocean.
Note: Unlike Male baleen whales which tend to be smaller than their female counterparts male toothed whales tend to be larger than the female within their species.
Baleen whales aka the great or true whales are the larger of the two suborders and have a number of characteristics that differentiate them from toothed whales.
For starters baleen whales have baleen plates with bristles (which resemble the bristles of a comb) instead of teeth and use their baleen to filter their food in the water.
The method they use to capture their food is known as filter feeding.
Filter feeding works by swimming forward with their mouth open and scooping up prey such as krill, fish and squid into their mouth which get caught and stuck in their baleen bristles.
Just like a fence the bristles are spaced far enough apart to allow water to pass through while being packed close enough together to prevent their prey from escaping.
Once they’ve caught enough prey in their baleen bristles the whale pushes the excess water out of its mouth with its tongue and swallows the food whole.
Due to the fact that they do not possess teeth baleen whales typically eat small prey such as fish, krill and plankton which are easy to swallow and digest.
As stated earlier baleen whales for the most part are larger than their toothed whale relatives.
In fact the blue whale is the largest living animal in the world.
Unlike toothed whales that possess one blowhole baleen whales have two blowholes to help them breathe.
When it comes to their social structure baleen whales tend to prefer traveling along or in small groups known as pods.
In some cases these pods may gather together and form larger groups during hunting, mating or other social activities and then disperse once they are done.
Communication for baleen whales involves producing loud, deep, low pitched moans and whines that can be heard from miles away.
These loud moans are believed to help baleen whales communicate over long distances and can even be heard deep underwater.
Baleen whales use these sounds to locate other whales or pod members, look for a mating partner and express themselves when they are feeling sad among other things.
Although it was once believed that baleen whales didn’t use echolocation new research suggest that at least some baleen whales may also possess this ability.
While the baleen whale species is loved and adored today by millions of people they used to be hunted extensively during the 17th – 20th centuries.
In the past the humpback, bowhead and right whale (among others) were hunted largely for their oil, blubber and other body parts, which was considered useful for making oil, candle, transmission fluid and many other chemical products.
Here is a list describing some of the things that were made using the parts of whales:
- Oil – Lamp oil, soap, perfume, candles and cosmetics
- Food – Cooking oil, margarine and whale meat
- Clothing – corsets and umbrellas
- and various other products including tools such as fishing hooks
Due to extensive hunting some whale species have become endangered causing a number of organizations to focus on recovering diminishing whale populations.
Over time the combination of alternative products that do not require the use of whale oil or blubber and growing concerns from animal healthcare organizations led to new laws and policies aimed at monitoring the condition of commercial whaling activities and eventually the act of hunting whales became banned in order to allow certain whale populations time to recover their numbers and begin reproducing new offspring.
Today hunting whales is considered illegal in many countries and hunting them could lead to steep fines and prison time.
Since the end of the whaling era people have found a new way to enjoy whales in a much more appreciative way.
This new activity is known as whale watching.
In some ways whale watching is similar to bird watching with the exception that people go out on boats and travel to locations where they can observe these amazing marine mammals in their own natural habitat.
Thanks to whale watching and organizations aimed at protect the marine mammal species more and more people are becoming aware of their situation and are rallying together to protect the whale populations in the hope that these endangered animals can recover from decades of previous whaling activities.
Whether or not some of these endangered animals will fully recover from their depleted stocks is unknown at this time.
Only time can tell whether or not they will thrive and prosper again.
Note: The blue whale is considered the largest known animal on the planet.
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The Hawaii House has just approved its civil unions bill by a vote of 31-19!
The bill now goes back to the Senate, which passed a similar version of the measure last month. If the Senate agrees to changes in the bill made by the House, the measure would go to Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who supports civil unions legislation. Senate Bill 232 would grant same-sex and heterosexual couples the ability to enter into a civil union with all of the rights, protections, benefits and responsibilities of traditional marriage.
The House changes — recommended by the state Attorney General’s Office — clarify that because civil unions will not be recognized under federal law, certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that apply to husbands and wives in Hawaii would apply with the same force and effect to partners in civil unions. Family Court will also have jurisdiction in matters of annulment, divorce and separation in civil unions, as the court does over marriages.
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Court's use of foreign law
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren has a post regarding Justice Ginsburg's references to foreign law, linking to an interesting study on use of foreign law by the Supremes. The gist of the study is that:
1. References to foreign law by the Court go far back into the early republic;
2. The references in constitutional cases have, however, recently escalated.
3. The practice may be justifiable when a constitutional provision refers to reasonableness or its like (cruel and unusual punishment springs to mind) but is hard to justify when construing an express American right or power that lacks such wording. That is, in the great majority of constitutional law cases.
4. In those cases, reference to international standards is suggestive that members of the Court are reaching out to justify illegitimate policy-making, making law and policy rather than construing it.
[Update: Haven't had time to read the study, so I don't know if it counts British common law decisions. The summary refers to an 1820 decision on the definition of piracy. I can readily see use of foreign law in that context, since piracy is an international crime defined largely by international tradition -- that is, a sort of international common law.] | <urn:uuid:c80e0f18-16bb-417f-9133-e9f68ca08ac1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2006/03/courts_use_of_f.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00086-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934495 | 263 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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|Also Known As:||Karlheinz Bohm,Karlheinz Boehm,Carl Boehm||Died:||May 29, 2014|
|Born:||March 16, 1928||Cause of Death:||Complications from Alzheimer's Disease|
|Birth Place:||Germany||Profession:||Cast ... actor|
Raised in Germany, Austrian actor Karlheinz Böhm grew up in the cities of Darmstadt, Hamburg, and Dresden. The son of German soprano Thea Linhard and acclaimed Austrian-born conductor Karl Böhm, Karlheinz Böhm moved to Switzerland at age 11 to attend school. Due to the heavy presence of classical music in his home, Böhm intended to pursue classical piano after completing high school, but performed poorly during auditions. After meandering through studies in literature and art history, Böhm relocated to Vienna and studied acting under Professor Helmut Krauss. He proved a far more gifted actor than pianist, and soon was appearing onstage in theatrical productions across Europe. His film breakthrough came when Böhm was cast opposite Austrian actress Romy Schneider in "Sissi" (1955), the first installment in a successful film trilogy about Elisabeth, Empress of Austria. After several years making his name in German-langauge film, Böhm made his English-language debut in Michael Powell's controversial psychosexual thriller "Peeping Tom" (1960), in which he played the lead role of Mark Lewis, a psychopathic murderer who films his victims. Although the film was shocking enough that it all but ended the estimable Powell's career in the British film industry, Böhm was able to move temporarily to America to expand his career following its release. During the early years of the 1960s, Böhm appeared in a number of American films, including "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" (1962) and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1962). He also guest starred on a variety of American TV shows, including a two-part episode of the anthology hit "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (ABC 1961-69), in which he starred as Ludwig Van Beethoven. (For most of his American work, Böhm anglicized his name to Carl Boehm.) In the mid-70s, Böhm appeared in four films helmed by the formidable German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder: "Martha" (1974), "Effi Briest" (1974), "Fox and His Friends" (1975), and "Mother Küsters' Trip To Heaven" (1975). During the 1980s, Böhm became deeply involved in charity work in Ethiopia, founding the organization "Humans for Humans." In 2007, he was honored for his work with the charity, receiving the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples. Though he had largely retired from acting in the early 1980s as his humanitarian work took precedence, he returned to the screen for a final voiceover role in 2009, dubbing the German-language voice of Carl Fredericksen in Pixar's animated hit "Up." Böhm died in Salzburg Austria in May 2014, reportedly from complications related to Alzheimer⿿s disease.
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- Besnoin, E. and Cerutti, S. and Knio, O. M. and Weihs, T. P., Effect of reactant and product melting on self-propagating reactions in multilayer foils,
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 92 no. 9
pp. 5474--5481 [doi] .
(last updated on 2011/07/05)
The evolution of self-propagating reactions along nanostructured multilayer foils is analyzed computationally. A simplified physical model is used that combines a two-dimensional diffusion equation for the atomic concentration with a quasi-one-dimensional form of the energy equation which accounts for the melting of the reactants and products. The model thus generalizes previous formulations which have ignored melting effects. The computations are used to predict the evolution of self-propagating fronts in Ni/Al foils, and analyze the dependence of these fronts on the foil parameters. In particular, the results indicate that melting substantially affects the properties of the unsteady reactions, and generally results in an appreciable reduction of the average front speed. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics. | <urn:uuid:e6c9a8c7-830a-498d-9b1c-fae2c8f910c2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/mems/faculty/omk/publications/192512 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.866613 | 250 | 1.945313 | 2 |
You will learn to. . .
• Understand what is meant by cardiovascular disease and its risk
• Explore individual risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease
• Advise on effective lifestyle interventions to reduce risk
• Understand the principles of behaviour change
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War is Boring
The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan's mountains. Long patrols on the sandy wastes of southern Iraq. For four years, war was life for David Axe. He was alternately bored out of his mind and completely terrified. It was strangely addictive. As a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN and BBC Radio, Axe flew from conflict to conflict, reveling in death, danger, and destruction abroad while, back in D. C. , his apartment gathered dust, his plants died, and his relationships withered. War reporting was physically, emotionally, and financially draining-and disillusioning. Loosely based on the web comic of the same name, with extensive new material, War Is Boring takes us to Lebanon and Somalia; to arms bazaars across the United States; to Detroit, as David tries to reconnect with his family-and to Chad, as David attempts to bring attention to the Darfur genocide.
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- 2010 David Axe and Matt Bors, 2
Choosing a Book Format
EPUB is the standard publishing format used by many e-book readers including iBooks, Easy Reader, VoiceDream Reader, etc. This is the most popular and widely used format.
DAISY format is used by GoRead, Read2Go and most Kurzweil devices.
Audio (MP3) format is used by audio only devices, such as iPod.
Braille format is used by Braille output devices.
DAISY Audio format works on DAISY compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream.
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Representatives from Savera UK Youth were invited to speak at the National FGM Centre conference in Stoke-on-Trent on 12th March 2020. The event was called One Year On: Bringing about Change in Response to FGM in Stafford and was chaired by Sue Arnold, Deputy Staffordshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner. The event reviewed the partnership between the National FGM Centre and the PCC and celebrated the successes of the services, as well as discussing the lessons learned.
Speakers at the event included midwives, paediatricians, community workers and the police who all shared their response to female genital mutilation in their professions. One of the highlights of the event was a presentation by FGM survivor Sarian Karim Kamara. Hearing from survivors always puts into perspective why more must be done to eradicate the practice. Speaking about her experience, Sarian said: “The night before, it was a big celebration. On the day, I was blindfolded, thrown on the floor, a woman sat on me and I felt a sharp cut between my legs. I didn’t even know what they were cutting—I just knew it was painful.” Sarian’s powerful story brought home the effects of the practice and made clear that although every survivor’s story is different, it is vital to speak out.
Savera UK Youth representative, Malcolm Thwala, concluded the event. As well as reading his hard-hitting poem Who Are You?, he also spoke very honestly about how his own mother taught him to speak out about what was right. Malcolm talked about the importance of young people breaking the silence on these issues amongst their peers, in order to raise awareness and end the practice for good.
Malcolm said about the event: “It was important for me as a young person to be there to learn and share how we are looking to make a change. I was inspired by hearing moving stories where women’s freedom has been taken away and they have had to risk their lives. Change has to happen for a better future.”
Watch Malcolm read his poem.
Savera UK Youth would like to thank the National FGM Centre for giving them a platform to speak out against harmful practices.
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To enter a formula in a cell, follow these steps:
When you're finished entering a formula, you no longer see the formula within the cell; instead, you see the results of the formula. For example, if you entered the formula =1+2, you now see the number 3 in the cell. To view the formula itself, just select the cell, and then look in the reference area in the lower-right corner of the spreadsheet window (shown in Figure 32).
Figure 32. Viewing the formula within a cellvia the spreadsheet reference area.
Creating Formulas with Your Mouse
Instead of typing in each cell reference (in the form of A1, A2, and so on), you can simply use the mouse to point to the cell you want to refer to in your formula. For example, if you want to add the contents of cells A1 and B1, you can enter the following formula with your keyboard:
Or you can use your mouse. In this instance, you'd start by moving the cursor to the cell where you want to put the answer. Use your keyboard to enter the = sign, then use your mouse to click on cell A1. Use the keyboard again to enter the + sign, then use your mouse again to click on cell B1. Press Enter on your keyboard to finish the formula.
You can also use your mouse to enter a range of cells. Let's say that you want to total all the numbers in the range of cells from A1 to A5. In this instance, you use the SUM function (which we'll discuss in due course), followed by the range; the formula looks like this:
To enter this formula, start by entering the =sum( with your keyboard. Next, use your mouse to select the cells from A1 to A5. (Click the first cell, hold down the mouse button, and then drag to include all the cells in the range.) Finally, finish things up by entering the final ) with your keyboard, and press Enter.
After you've entered a formula, you can edit it by selecting the cell in question and pressing the F2 key. As you can see in Figure 33, this shows the formula within the cell, as opposed to the result of the formula (which is what normally appears). Use your keyboard to make whatever edits are appropriate, then press the Enter key to register your changes.
Figure 33. Editing a formula within a cell.
Section 12. Using Functions
A function is a type of formula built in to Google Spreadsheets. You can use Google's built-in functions instead of writing complex formulas in your spreadsheets; you can also include functions as part of your formulas.
Functions simplify the creation of complex formulas. For example, if you want to total the values of cells B4 through B7, you could enter the following formula:
Or you could use the SUM function, which is built in to Google Spreadsheets. The SUM function lets you total (sum) a column or row of numbers without having to type every cell into the formula. In this instance, the formula to total the cells B4 through B7 could be written using the SUM function, like this:
A lot easier, don't you think?
Google Spreadsheets uses most of the same functions as those used in Microsoft Excel. All Google functions use the following format:
Replace function with the name of the function, and replace argument with a range reference. The argument always appears in parentheses.
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Ok. We get it CES…wearable technology is what all the cool kids are going to be doing in 2014. At least that’s what you guys are betting on.
Personally, I’m super-excited about this. I’d love to have a watch that can grab my heart rate throughout the day and just “knows” when I’m working out and can even tell if I’m running or biking. Even better, give me all the analytic tools I need to sit for hours (while on the trainer) and pour over this data.
I’d even be happy with some kind of little gadget I could swallow that would attach itself to the lining of my stomach and analyze the composition everything I eat.
I get it.
I think there are some other people out there who get it too. I just don’t think there are that many of them. Don’t get me wrong–I think there are lots of people who would be curious about all these metrics initially, but I’m not sure how many people really want to use them long term.
I suspect people have an idea that once they can finally collect all this data, they’ll be able to improve their health. And, without a doubt, this data can help people do that. But the problem with all these personal metrics will be the same problem with all the other data out there…
If you aren’t using it to change something, the data isn’t going to change.
You can find out by looking at Mint that you spend more money on beer than you save every month, but that won’t matter unless you stop spending so much on beer and start saving more.
You can analyze your Twitter feed and realize that people aren’t engaging with you there, but that doesn’t really help you unless you do something to be more engaging.
You can find out by looking at your tomato garden that your plants are drying out, but if you don’t water them you still aren’t going to get any tomatoes.
Measurement for the sake of measurement is just academic.
Changing the measurement of something usually involves pain.
Saving money is harder than drinking beer.
Being engaging on Twitter takes effort. Ok, maybe not…you can just insult people and half of them will answer back.
Watering a garden is harder than not watering it. Wow. How lazy are you?
I hope we see a revolution of people who start trying to lower their resting heart rates, getting high scores for the number of steps they take daily, and all that. I also hope the prices on this stuff starts dropping soon, because I can’t wait to increase my own level of self-quantification.
Putting on a heart rate strap and “locating satellites” every time you step out of the house is for the birds!
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Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:19 - Updated Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:12
Malaysia plane MH370: Pinger locator deployed in search
Search teams have begun using a towed pinger locator to hunt for the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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Two ships with locator capabilities are searching a 240km (150 mile) underwater path, in the hope of recovering the plane's data recorder.
Up to 14 planes and nine ships were due to take part in Friday's search.
The plane disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 239 people.
It is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, although no confirmed debris has been found from the plane.
The search is being co-ordinated from the city of Perth in Western Australia.
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13 Dec 2011
Security expert believes we could be entering age of 'cyber war'
Although internet security is becoming stronger, so too are those trying to break downfirewalls and antivirus programs. Roger Thompson, a security expert recently hired by ICSA Labs, said smartphones, social media and an increase in online activitiy could lead to "dire implications" for national security.
"But I think we are poised to enter a new age, an age of cyber war. I'm fairly confident," Thomspon told Network World. "For example, look at the Stuxnet worm. No one knows who really did it and no one knows who the target really was, although we can all speculate. But what we may be confident of after discovering Stuxnet is that any country not thinking along the lines of cyber war before, now is."
He said software now can be used to damage hardware and it will take more than programs to stop this. He believes things need to be done on the federal and testing level and internet security needs to take an overall step up.
When asked about the Stuxnet worm, Joseph Weiss, an expert on industrial control systems used in power plants, told NPR that "nothing like this" has occurred before. He said this was the first instance of a nation-state looking to destroy infrastructure via a cyber attack. Internet security must step up to quell these attacks. | <urn:uuid:5eb3c0f6-5486-4021-8562-0e369a2413fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bitdefender.com/security/security-expert-believes-we-could-be-entering-age-of--cyber-war-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00460-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957387 | 290 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Pharmacies—and the pharmacists they employ—play a critical role in the American health care system. This has never been more apparent than the efforts taken to administer vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, for which your continued partnership has been crucial.1 As our nation faces another significant health care crisis, this guidance is to remind the roughly 60,000 retail pharmacies in the United States2 of the unique role pharmacies play in ensuring access to comprehensive reproductive health care services. This guidance covers the nondiscrimination obligations of pharmacies under federal civil rights laws.
Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557), 42 U.S.C. § 18116, and its implementing regulation, 45 C.F.R. part 92, recipients of federal financial assistance are prohibited from excluding an individual from participation in, denying them the benefits of, or otherwise subjecting them to discrimination on the basis of sex and disability, among other bases, in their health programs and activities.3 Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), 29 U.S.C. 794, recipients of federal financial assistance are prohibited from discriminating in all programs and activities, on the basis of disability. Pharmacies, therefore, may not discriminate against pharmacy customers on the bases prohibited by Section 1557and Section 504—including with regard to supplying medications; making determinations regarding the suitability of a prescribed medication for a patient; or advising patients about medications and how to take them.
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations; though most maternal deaths in the United States are preventable, they have been rising over the last two decades.4 Maternal deaths are especially high among Black women and Native American women—regardless of their income or education levels. 5 The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 2022 WL 2276808 (U.S. June 24, 2022), will exacerbate these inequities and disparities for women across the country. Further, the early loss of pregnancy (before 13 completed weeks) is extremely common, experienced by about 10 percent of those who know they are pregnant.6 The Department is committed to improving maternal health—including for individuals who experience miscarriages—and vigorous enforcement of our civil rights laws is one way in which we plan to do so.
Pharmacies are often the most accessible health care provider for millions of Americans, with most Americans living within five miles of a pharmacy.7 It is estimated that more than 131 million people (66 percent of adults) in the United States use prescription medication,8 and therefore come into contact with pharmacies. Of the 7.6 billion retail prescription drugs filled by pharmacies in 2019, 44 percent were paid for either by Medicare or Medicaid health coverage.9 As recipients of federal financial assistance, including Medicare and Medicaid payments, pharmacies are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in their programs and activities under a range of federal civil rights laws.
Among its civil rights enforcement responsibilities, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS or Department) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for protecting the rights of women and pregnant people in their ability to access care that is free from discrimination. This includes their ability to access reproductive health care, including prescription medication from their pharmacy, free from discrimination. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that nearly 25 percent of women aged 15–49 in the United States who use contraception use some form of prescribed method (e.g., oral contraception pill, contraceptive ring).10
Furthermore, discrimination against pregnant people on the basis of their pregnancy or related conditions (examples below) is a form of sex discrimination. Such discrimination can have significant health consequences from denial of medication or treatment which can have negative health impacts on a patient. Under federal civil rights law, pregnancy discrimination includes discrimination based on current pregnancy, past pregnancy, potential or intended pregnancy, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth.11
- An individual experiences an early pregnancy loss (first-trimester miscarriage) and their health care provider prescribes pretreatment with mifepristone followed by treatment with misoprostol to assist with the passing of the miscarriage.12 If a pharmacy refuses to fill the individual's prescription—including medications needed to manage a miscarriage or complications from pregnancy loss, because these medications can also be used to terminate a pregnancy—the pharmacy may be discriminating on the basis of sex.
- An individual experiences severe and chronic stomach ulcers, such that their condition meets the definition of a disability under civil rights laws. Their gastroenterologist prescribes misoprostol to decrease risk of serious complications associated with ulcers. If the pharmacy refuses to fill the individual's prescription or does not stock misoprostol because of its alternate uses, it may be discriminating on the basis of disability.
- An individual presents to a hospital emergency department with chills, fever, and vaginal bleeding. The treating physician diagnoses a miscarriage complicated by a uterine infection (known medically as a septic abortion) and orders an antibiotic. If the hospital pharmacy refuses to provide the antibiotic required for treatment because of concern that subsequent care may include uterine evacuation (via medical or surgical abortion), the pharmacy may be discriminating on the basis of sex.
- An individual who has been undergoing fertility treatments receives a positive pregnancy test. After the individual expresses concern with symptoms associated with an ectopic pregnancy,13 their medical provider performs an ultrasound to determine where the pregnancy is developing. The ultrasound indicates the fertilized egg is growing in a fallopian tube. The medical provider orders methotrexate to halt the pregnancy. If a pharmacy refuses to fill the prescription because it will halt the growing of cells and end the pregnancy, it may be discriminating on the basis of sex.
- An individual with rheumatoid arthritis, such that their condition meets the definition of a disability under civil rights laws, is prescribed methotrexate by their physician's assistant as a standard immunosuppressive treatment. If the pharmacy refuses to fill the individual's prescription or does not stock methotrexate because of its alternate uses, it may be discriminating on the basis of disability.
- An individual presents a prescription for an emergency contraceptive at their local pharmacy after a sexual assault to prevent pregnancy. If the pharmacy otherwise provides contraceptives (e.g., external and internal condoms) but refuses to fill the emergency contraceptive prescription because it can prevent ovulation or block fertilization, the pharmacy may be discriminating of the basis of sex.
- An individual's health care provider sends the individual's prescription for hormonal contraception (e.g., oral contraceptive pill, emergency contraception, a patch placed on the skin, a contraceptive ring, or any other FDA-approved contraceptive product) to a pharmacy. If the pharmacy otherwise provides contraceptives (e.g., external and internal condoms) but refuses to fill a certain type of contraceptive because it may prevent a pregnancy, the pharmacy may be discriminating on the basis of sex.
In addition to the aforementioned civil rights laws, OCR also enforces the Church Amendments, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 300a-7, which protect health care personnel from discrimination related to their employment because they refused to perform or assist in the performance of abortion or sterilization because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions. It also protects health care personnel from discrimination related to their employment because they performed or assisted in the performance of abortion or sterilization. This guidance does not address how the Church Amendments would apply in a given case. OCR will evaluate and apply the Church Amendments on a case-by-case basis. To learn more about OCR's enforcement of this statutory protection, see HHS's Guidance on Nondiscrimination Protections under the Church Amendments.
For additional information, contact the Office for Civil Rights at (800) 368-1019 or firstname.lastname@example.org. If you believe that your or another person's civil rights, conscience rights, or health information privacy rights have been violated, visit the OCR complaint portal to file a complaint online at: https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.
To obtain this information in an alternate format, contact the HHS Office for Civil Rights at (800) 368-1019, TDD toll-free: (800) 537-7697, or by emailing email@example.com. Language assistance services for OCR matters are available and provided free of charge.
DISCLAIMER: The contents of this document do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way. This document is intended only to provide clarity to the
public regarding existing requirements under the law or the Departments' policies.
- 1. See, e.g., The Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination, U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., Ctrs. for Disease Control & Prevention (last updated June 24, 2022), https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/retail-pharmacy-program/index.html.
- 2. IQVIA, U.S. National Pharmacy Market Summary 2021: Market Insights Report (2021), https://www.onekeydata.com/downloads/reports/2021_US_Pharmacy_Market_Report.pdf.
- 3. Covered entities should also note that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities of recipients of federal financial assistance. Pharmacies that are affiliated with a covered education program or activity are also subject to Title IX nondiscrimination requirements. See also 45 C.F.R. part 86 (HHS Title IX implementing regulations).
- 4. Roosa Tikkanen et al., Issue Brief: Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 10 Other Developed Countries, Commonwealth Fund (Nov. 18, 2020), https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries.
- 5. Emily Petersen et al., Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016, 68 Morbidity & Mortality Wkly. Rep. 762 (2019), https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/pdfs/mm6835a3-H.pdf.
- 6. FAQs: Early Pregnancy Loss, Am. Coll. of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (last updated Jan. 2022), https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/early-pregnancy-loss.
- 7. Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., Ctrs. for Disease Control & Prevention (last updated June 24, 2022), https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/retail-pharmacy-program/index.html.
- 8. Prescription Drugs, Georgetown Univ., Health Pol'y Inst., https://hpi.georgetown.edu/rxdrugs (last visited June 29, 2022).
- 9. Number of Retail Prescription Drugs Filled at Pharmacies by Payer, Kaiser Fam. Found., https://www.kff.org/health-costs/state-indicator/total-retail-rx-drugs/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D (last visited June 29, 2022).
- 10. Kimberly Daniels & Joyce C. Abma, U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., Ctrs. for Disease Control & Prevention, Nat'l Ctr. for Health Stats., Data Brief: Current Contraceptive Status Among Women Aged 15-49: United States, 2015-2017 (2018), https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db327-h.pdf.
- 11. Covered entities should also note that, while pregnancy itself is not a disability, medical issues resulting from pregnancy can qualify as a disability under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), 29 U.S.C. § 794, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities of recipients of federal financial assistance. Webster v. U.S. Dep't of Energy, 267 F. Supp. 3d 246, 267 (D.D.C. 2017).
- 12. Am. Coll. of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Practice Bulletin: Pregnancy Loss (2018), https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-bulletin/articles/2018/11/early-pregnancy-loss.
- 13. An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that occurs when fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus. FAQs: Ectopic Pregnancy, Am. Coll. of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (last updated Feb. 2018), https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/ectopic-pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:482a8303-2fbf-40b0-9651-d254f0f2e694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/special-topics/reproductive-healthcare/pharmacies-guidance/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.90393 | 2,826 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Examination of balloons
Do you have problems at the receipt of diagnostic map or raising (removal) can’t be carried out on an account?
Does your car have gas balloon equipment?
Are balloons refused to fill on priming?
Does the term of examination of balloons end?
Is there no place officially to pressurize balloons in Moscow?
We will work out your problems!
Many users of gas balloon equipment know that balloons of LPG (propane and butane) installed in their cars, must be examined every two years. But many of them don’t know what it is and think this is just a formality. It is a big mistake because a tested balloon guarantees safety in the use of gas balloon equipment and eliminates the problems described above.
JSC MGPZ provides services for examination and hydraulic test of balloons as well as engages in service of gas balloon equipment.
In contrast to other companies, we have the certificate of RTN and the personal stamp giving the right to provide such services.
Also, we provide services of examination for filling balloons of propane, methane, oxygen, helium, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, argon, welding mixtures.
Technical examination of balloons without a stamp is not actual.
• certification of automobile balloons for filling LPG (propane and butane) is held 1 time in 2 years;
• certification of automobile balloons made of alloyed steel for filling CNG -1 time in 5 years;
• certification of automobile balloons made of carbon steel for filling CNG - 1 time in 3 years;
• certification for balloons made of carbon steel should be carried out 1 time in 5 years;
• certification of balloons installed permanently, filled with inert gases – 1 time in 10 years;
• certification of monoblock – 1 time in 10 years.
The procedure for examination of balloons
1. Preparation of balloons
First of all, balloons surfaces, admitted for examination, are cleaned up from dirt, are washed with water. Then balloons are released from the gas and its non-evaporable residues, the block of armature is dismantled and, if it's necessary, the degassing of balloons is carried out with steam under pressure not less than 0.04 MPa. The internal surface of the balloon is cleaned up from dirt, corrosion products, fatty and oily stains, is washed with water.
2. Inspection of the outward and internal surfaces of balloons
The inspection of surface is performed in order to identify defects such as chip, crack, blight, shabbiness, dent that reduce durability of balloons. All the outward and internal surfaces, welded joints, necks are exposed to inspection (except for balloons up to 55 liters for LPG).
The balloon is unfit for use if:
• there are cracks, corrosion and other damages to the depth of 10% of the nominal wall thickness on the surface;
• welded joints of balloons have cracks;
• there are dents or other deformation of the frame.
3. Hydraulic testing
The hydraulic testing of steel balloons is conducted in order to verify the durability of balloons. The balloon is filled with room temperature water (in order to avoid condensation on the walls of the balloon). The balloon is loaded with water under pressure a half times greater of the working and maintained at this pressure for 2 minutes (if another time is not envisaged in the passport of balloons). Then, pressure is reduced to the working and hold an inspection of balloons surfaces and welded joints. If deformations of the frame, leaks, cracks, and other are detected, this balloon is excluded. The internal surface of the balloon is dried up after the hydraulic testing .
The stamp of organization is putted on the neck of balloon after all tests and the date of current and next examination is beaten out. Then the balloon is painted in the color of the filled gas, marked, dries.
JSC MGPZ possesses all necessary equipment and qualification of employees to provide high exactness and quality of examination.
After realization of the technical examination of balloons, installed in cars, our client is given:
• the certificate " To realization of periodic tests of gas balloon equipment installed in cars ";
• the evidence confirming the right to provide this service.
Remember that your life and the lives of people around you depend on it.
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It's time to get out of the way of transformation
Gen. George S. Patton once said, "Lead me, follow me or get out of the way." More than 50 years later, that famous quote takes on new meaning as we transform the way that modern workers both lead and follow.If we look at the world of business today, we need to ask if it's time for a new way of thinking about how we manage. It's not a question of whether or not we are managing or leading. It's a question of whether or not we are being transformational in a transformational time.In 1985, Bernard Bass set forth a new language of leading that went beyond traditional thinking about managing in a contemporary time. His model of leadership was more about moving people beyond their own needs, and elevated followers through ideals, personal achievement and well-being. It was about leading through the cooperation of different people with different ideas.Many of our leaders today, however, are still stuck in competing through divisive ideology and focusing on the bottom line at all costs when people are craving a different approach.Our well-educated, talented workforce embraces continuous learning, job empowerment and a sense of professionalism at all levels.Surprisingly enough, General Patton would be happy to know that the best example I can give involves our armed services.While many may think of our military as a pyramid of policy, in fact each soldier is a well-trained, empowered professional. They may work in a larger system, but they also work exceptionally well in small teams and as individuals.Why does this work? It works because what binds them is what Bass called "inspirational appeal" and fulfillment. They are motivated by their mission, but more importantly, by an intense sense of pride, commitment and honor. These concepts are the glue to do extraordinary things in extraordinary circumstances.These concepts link people together to do something together.The Future of Everything panel agreed that contemporary transformational management practices work. Management today is about people being linked to a larger purpose combined with a balance of community and personal well-being. However, they were quick to point out that it is also about productivity and results.Balance needs to be maintained between the competing values of production, community and employee fulfillment. If we sacrifice people for the sake of production, and vice versa, we fail in the long run.The many and the oneWhen I teach graduate students, I make them write a paper about their leadership trajectory.They don't want to just follow, they want to be part of the solution, but fail to see where they fit in. They are trained to think and collaborate, but don't conceptualize they will have the chance to do that.As our students graduate and, similarly, as our troops come home from the war, they will fold into our organizations as the most contemporary workers available. They know how to work in teams, they are conceptual and they believe in a cause.They will be seeking organizations that provide structure, while at the same time the opportunity to work in teams and to lead.But if we don't balance the needs of our organization to produce with the needs of workers to be fulfilled, we will miss the next opportunity to realize political, economic and business growth.Perhaps it is time we lead, follow or get out of the way.Dr. Russ Ouellette, managing partner of Sojourn Partners, a Bedford-based executive leadership coaching firm, is project manager of the Future of Everything. Core project participants on this topic included Rick Gallin, human resources director at Veeco Solar; Morgan Smith, director of organizational development at Catholic Medical Center; and Fran Allain, employee retention manager for the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development. For more information, contact 603-472-8103 or email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:5174c9a6-26d6-45fa-a5cd-0e11daf5d808> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nhbr.com/November-19-2010/Its-time-to-get-out-of-the-way-of-transformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963659 | 773 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Organizational Learning and Project Portfolio Success : An Empirical Study in a Multinational Oil and Gas Company
Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
This study aims to understand the impact of organizational learning on project portfolio success in a multinational Oil and Gas company operated in Indonesia. The Organizational Learning and Project Portfolio Success have been proven to have contribution to business performance and they might possess a relationship where enhancing one of them will strengthen the other. Exploring on this relationship might give beneficial input to the organization in order to maximize their success. Thus, our research question is formulated as:
To what extent does Organizational Learning impact the Project Portfolio Success?
We developed the study’s conceptual model based on the relevant previous literature. The conceptual model depicted the aim of the study to test the potential positive impact of each Learning Stocks (Individual, Group, and Organizational) on Project Portfolio Success, as well as the aim to test the potential negative impact of the misalignment between Learning Stocks and Learning Flows on Project Portfolio Success in the studied company.
We adopted quantitative research method due to the nature of research question and the ontological and epistemological assumptions we hold toward the studied phenomena. Accordingly, we used a questionnaire as an instrument to collect the required data to test the hypotheses. The questionnaire was subject to a pilot test to ensure the clarity of statements before it was distributed to the targeted respondents which are the managers and the Project Management Office personnel in the studied company. The research hypotheses were tested by applying single and multi-regression analyses using SPSS software.
Our findings showed that, independently, each learning stock type (Individual, Group and organizational) has a significant positive impact to project portfolio success. When we looked for the best model that gives the highest explanatory power, the result showed that the combination of all three learning stocks in one model can explain project portfolio success construct the most. Lastly, the study proved that the misalignment between learning stocks and flows gives negative impact to the project portfolio success.
We concluded the study by stating the theoretical contribution and practical recommendations based on the results such as the need to have a balanced investment in the individual, group and organizational learning stocks; ensure the alignment between the organizational units’ strategies and goals; develop an “Internal Strategy Awareness Index”; and conduct a revision of the alignment between the company’s strategy and the project portfolio.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. , 97 p.
Learning Flows, Learning Misalignment, Learning Stocks, Organizational Learning, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Success
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Every project is unique, therefore a good thought is required when selecting application architecture model.
n-tier or 3-tier architecture are well known names to many enterprises, but they question we always ask our client is;
- what is the scope of the project?
- is your product for internal business processes or www public?
- are you focusing on flashy/rich client application or a lightweight back-end system for internal business staff/operations?
- how much traffic you are planning drive to your app?
- are you planning to create mobile applications for the app?
- are you planning to make your platform available to other companies for pull/push data?
WaqarTech has an excellent skills in capturing the application scope when capturing application requirements or from MRD (marketing requirement definition).
Below are some of the known application architecture models and architecture styles that WaqarTech can use to build solutions for you.
- Web Application: This type of application can be access from different web browsers. This model uses the storage and processing of the server.
- Mobile Apps: Can be developed as a Web application or a rich client application. Runs on devices with limited hardware resources.
- Rich Client: This type of application can be developed as standalone. This model uses the storage and processing power of the local computer. Example of this can be Java Applet, Macromedia Flash or Microsoft Silverlight application.
- Service Application: This model connects distributed components (computers) through defined protocols and resources (data, content) can be accessed from the local machine or remotely, depending on the business needs.
- MVC Architecture
- 3-tier Architecture (tightly coupled)
- 3-tier Architecture (distributed)
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“Like everyone else within reach of global media on the week January 12, 2010, the members of the Burnt Sugar collective were horrified and saddened by news of the massive earthquake which catastrophically struck the island of Haiti. In its disastrous wake came the loss of 250,000 lives and the ongoing terror, displacement, hunger and grief for those of Haiti’s people left to fend for themselves in the continuous aftermath. While many of us immediately made individual contributions to relief efforts, we have also now been guided by the conscience and imagination of our good friend (and graphic design maven) Amy Gail to present this compilation of music by Burnt Sugar and its members to Haiti’s survival and rebirth. A pivotal mecca for Black Atlantic culture in this hemisphere, especially in the realms of mysticism, music and visual art, Haiti has also, since the 18th century, been an inspiration for all struggling worldwide for justice and self-determination against those with anti-democratic imperialistic designs on their people and land. Those seeking evidence of how much damage a ‘small axe’ can do to a ‘big tree’ need look no further than the San Domingo revolution which gave Haiti its independence in 1804.
Saxophonist Albert Ayler long recognized music as the ‘healing force of the universe’. It is our hope that Burnt Sugar’s humble offering– whose profits will gained solely through donations to the Haitian-based medical aid organization Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health)–will build on Ayler’s idea artistically and spiritually to lend energy, inspiration and even greater global empathy to the resurrection of Haiti’s people and their nation’s infrastructure, social institutions and civil society.”
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
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English v. Commonwealth - Subject: Bounty hunters and the impersonation of police.
A bounty hunter may have the power to stop a car, ask about weapons, and identify the occupants. However, he cannot identify himself as an officer thru his words or a misleading badge and he cannot ask the driver to exit the car and inquire whether she has been drinking.
Smith v. Virginia - Subject: What must be done in order to preserve a trial judge's decision to allow the prosecutor to allow rebuttal testimony as to character.
The trial judge ruled that he would allow the prosecution to introduce rebuttal evidence if the Defense introduced evidence as to truthfulness and honesty. Because of this the Defense did not introduce the character evidence. Because the Defense did not introduce the character evidence the prosecution did not introduce the anti-character evidence. Without the prosecution's introduction of the evidence at trial there is nothing to appeal.
Comment: It makes a nice little circle doesn't it?
In all fairness, the prosecution probably should be allowed to enter evidence in rebuttal of any point which the Defense offers evidence. What is frustrating here is that the Curt of Appeals could have easily said that (in an even shorter opinion). Instead it ducks the question by not deciding whether the judge's decision was an error and placing an evidentiary introduction burden on the Defense if it wants to argue the judge's potential legal error. | <urn:uuid:2db3d459-f54b-4bfa-b09a-8f60ba5e9a15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crimlaw.blogspot.com/2004/06/va-court-of-appeals-0625_27.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.966952 | 281 | 1.6875 | 2 |
documentary-log.com asked nicely, and it’s a free service with no registration — so here’s a plug for a website with over 700 docos to download and view.
The Canadian-based venture’s heavy on the science and technology end of docos, which is why presumably a Lydia Bloomfield got hold of me to see if sticK would like to give them a mention.
Think anthropology, biology/environment, cosmology/physics, psychology as well as what’s labelled science & technology, and you’ll get a feel for what’s available.
But there’s also politics, conspiracy/ mystery and biography (among many) to round out the softer end of the spectrum.
There’s a star rating system too so that viewers can comment favourably….or otherwise.
Bloomfield says the site’s free because of ad-sponsorship, with Google’s adsense delivering a sidebar of topics/sites it reckons you might be interested in.
Many of the documentaries appear to be about an hour long, and the site suggests downloading them to a computer first, before then viewing at your leisure.
sticK didn’t know about the site till Bloomfield suggested a plug — and you’d have to suspect that YouTube wouldn’t come up with the same density of high quality material as this specialist provider.
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eSolutions: December 2013
Feature article: The Gifts Peer Providers Bring
Grantee Feature: Peer Wellness Coaches: Wellspring
Quick Tips: Promoting Successful Peer Support Services
Featured resource: Peer Providers Page
In the United States, peer support traces back to as early as 1772 when Native Americans joined in mutual support groups to self-manage recovery from alcohol abuse problems.¹
Peer support happens whenever people who have similar lived experiences with mental illness and/or addiction share their hope, strengths, and experiences to promote recovery and resiliency. Peer support can be done anytime and anywhere when two or more peers share a mutual supportive relationship. It can be provided in clinical settings and the community, in groups and one-to-one, and on treatment teams that include non-peers. In primary care, peer support links people living with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in sharing knowledge and experiences.
In an integrated primary and behavioral health system, peer support services focus on the shift from stabilization and maintenance to recovery and resiliency, from what’s wrong to what’s strong, from mental illness and addiction to whole health, and from social segregation to social inclusion.
A peer provider (e.g., certified peer specialist, peer support specialist, recovery coach) is a person who uses his or her lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or addiction, plus skills learned in formal training, to deliver services in behavioral health settings to promote mind-body recovery and resiliency.
Peer providers are often hired because of their recovery experience, rather than their clinical education. This puts peer providers in the unique position of being service providers who have lived experience in successfully addressing the impact of the illness rather than just the symptoms of the illness.
The perspective and unique abilities of peer support providers strengthen the integrated care team in many ways. There are six key gifts peer providers bring to the integrated care team:
The Gift of Insight. Internalized shame shatters a person’s sense of self-worth. For many, the impact on their daily lives and interactions can be harder to overcome than the symptoms of their illness. Peer providers have insight on how internalized shame results from discrimination, social exclusion, poverty, homelessness, and hopelessness.
The Gift of “Been There, Done That.” Peer providers eliminate the “you do not know what it’s like” excuse. Peer providers can make others living with mental illnesses or addictions feel comfort in the fact that they are not alone; they have a person on their side that has been through similar experiences and has gotten through them.
The Gift of Compassion. Because of their lived experience, peer support providers understand and are inherently grateful for the very services they are now providing to others. This gratitude often manifests itself in deep compassion for their peers.
The Gift of Hope. Working with someone who has moved from hopelessness to hope is extremely empowering. People can often see themselves in the peer providers, which gives them hope over their whole health.
The Gift of Trust. Peer providers are in a unique position to develop a relationship of trust. Peers are often more willing to share their real issues, concerns, hopes, and dreams with a peer provider rather than non-peer, clinical staff.
- The Gift of Whole- Health Self-Management. Peer providers have developed the gift of self-managing their lives holistically, including both mind and body. This experience with self-managing their whole health is one of the most powerful gifts peer providers can give. They have learned to recognize triggers and early warning signs, counteract the negative impact of stress, and create plans for taking care of themselves.
Integrated primary and behavioral healthcare centers who build a strong peer workforce benefit from these gifts, along with their clients. Peer providers are an essential element to a strong, comprehensive integrated care team. When more integrated care teams include peers as service providers, we will discover even more gifts that they bring.
What gifts and talents do you see that peer providers bring? Share your experiences with us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
White WL. Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery, Lighthouse Institute Publications, 1998.
WellSpring Resources, a PBHCI grantee in Alton, IL, attributes much of its health integration project’s success to its peer coaches.
WellSpring Resources’ peer wellness coaches are people who have lived behavioral health experiences and who are stable in their recovery. People are assigned a peer wellness coach when they enter the integration program. At their initial interview, they meet their peer wellness coach. Work with a peer wellness coach means that individuals commit to increasing their understanding of how physical health and wellness affects overall mood and mental health. The coaches serve as a daily example for the people they work with.
Participants are so interested and engaged that the very popular peer wellness coach concept has quickly grown to meet demand. WellSpring’s integration program started with four part-time coaches and expanded to two additional full-time coaches and one additional part-time coach.
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Behavioral Health and Wellness Center
The wellness coaches now run groups on stress management, walking, meditation, women's issues, and WRAP for individuals in the integrated care program. One innovative group, Scribbles, helps to improve health literacy using journaling and dialogue. There are also groups on the dimensions of wellness (including social, emotional, physical and environmental wellness), and a specialty group on diabetes education.
One individual lost more than 50 pounds since joining the integrated health program. He developed a weekly menu with healthy options for his week, based on what he had in his kitchen cabinets. By sharing his menu and shopping experiences with others, he became the go-to person for shopping and menu preparation for others who want to lose weight and eat sensibly, leading to their shared success in achieving wellness goals.
Isaac Sandidge, team leader for the peer wellness coaches, says, “Seeing somebody succeed, overcome major obstacles and live a healthy life helps create a support group. Clients learn that they can do it; they can change.” He adds that he is always looking for new leaders among people in the integrated care program because he needs more coaches to continue to motivate and inspire progress. For WellSpring, having peer support staff means increased outcomes for their integration program.
“It works; it really has an impact on people’s lives,” notes Sandidge.
Maintaining a peer workforce can bring many benefits to your organization, your staff, and to the people you serve. Here are seven steps you can take to build and maintain a strong peer workforce:
Train all staff on the role of peer providers and how to promote an agency culture of strength-based, holistic self-management.
Foster financial sustainability by ensuring peer services meet criteria for reimbursement like Medicaid billing (when approved for direct billing by the specific state) and have clear guidelines on how to bill for these services.
Address boundary issues such as if peer providers need to receive mental health or substance use services outside of the agency they work for. If peer providers choose to continue receiving these services where they work, ensure their files are kept confidential to only approved staff.
Require peer providers to complete formal training that teaches them implementation of holistic self-management skills.
Write job descriptions for peer providers to ensure they have meaningful, defined roles within the care team.
Train supervisors on the role of peer providers and how to support them.
- Implement personal self-management tools like a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for peer providers to promote their ongoing recovery and whole health.
Learn more about peer providers on our new Peer Providers web page. The page includes billing resources, sample job descriptions, the Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) training and participant guide (now available in Spanish , and the latest research on the effectiveness of peer providers.
Divided into six sessions, CIHS’ Telebehavioral Health Training and Technical Assistance Series guides safety net providers through the crucial steps to implement a telebehavioral health program. Each recorded session is led by subject matter experts, can be watched at your own pace, and lasts approximately one hour. In addition to the primary recorded training, each session includes recorded Q&A discussions and additional resources for further exploration into each subject.
HRSA announced the availability of up to $1.275 million for the Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program. The purpose of the program is to help develop an integrated healthcare network, if the network participants do not have a history of formal collaboration. Deadline to apply is Jan. 16.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it plans to issue a $50 million funding opportunity to help community health centers establish or expand behavioral health services for people living with mental illness and drug and alcohol problems. Community health centers will be able to use these new funds, made available through the Affordable Care Act, for efforts such as hiring new mental health and substance use disorder professionals, adding mental health and substance use disorder services, and employing team-based models of care.
The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and The Obesity Society jointly released clinical practice guidelines for overweight and obesity management. The first official obesity guidelines to be released in 15 years, the guidelines update the 1998 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. Highlights include the Treatment Algorithm – The Chronic Disease Management Model for Primary Care of Patients with Overweight and Obesity.
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative has a new, free online database that identifies innovative primary care workforce training programs across the U.S. The database, Strengthening the Primary Care Workforce: A Collection of Interprofessional Health Professional Training Programs, includes 100 programs from a wide range of institutions, including academic medical centers, community health centers, integrated health systems, and universities, that focus on interdisciplinary, comprehensive, care team models.
To those of you who had a chance to respond, thank you for taking our webinar survey to let us know what topics you’d like to explore with integration experts in 2014. We’re preparing our 2014 webinar lineup based on your votes.
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Folding Screen with the Siege of Belgrade (front) and Hunting Scene (reverse)
Circle of González Family
This biombo enconchado is the only known work to combine the two elite Mexican genres of biombos (folding screens) and tableros de concha nácar y pintura (shell-inlay paintings later known as enconchados). Commissioned in Mexico City by the viceroy of New Spain, it was most likely displayed in Mexico’s viceregal palace, where it would have divided a ceremonial state room from a more intimate sitting room. The work originally included six additional panels, which are now in Mexico.
Oil on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
90 1/2 x 108 5/8 in., 183.5 lb. (229.9 x 275.8 cm, 83.24kg)
each panel: 90 1/2 x 18 1/8 in. (229.9 x 46 cm) (show scale)
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Circle of González Family (Mexican). Folding Screen with the Siege of Belgrade (front) and Hunting Scene (reverse), ca.1697-1701. Oil on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, 90 1/2 x 108 5/8 in., 183.5 lb. (229.9 x 275.8 cm, 83.24kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband, John W. Brown, by exchange, 2012.21. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2012.21_side1_PS6.jpg)
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