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Year C- Easter Sunday
1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
Inspiration of the Holy Spirit - From the Sacred Heart of JesusMy Apostles were totally overwhelmed by my death; they were desolated, discouraged and very confused. Their faith was weakened.
Mary Magdalene was the sinful woman who repented and sinned no more, She accompanied my mother and John my dearest disciple all the way to Calvary. She was the first disciple rewarded with the knowledge about my Resurrection.
When Peter and John entered the tomb, John was the first one to remember my words and to believe that I would rise from the dead.
There are great spiritual rewards prepared for all those who repent and sin no more. When they accompany me to Calvary through their meditations; they accompany my mother and me in those painful moments when I surrendered my life to the Father for the Salvation of all mankind. They look at the one they have pierced for the forgiveness of sins. They join me in my sacrifice and take part in my work of redemption, therefore becoming co-redeemers, praying with me to the Father: “Father forgive them, they know not what they do.”
The Holy Mass is the summit of all Christian devotions, the most powerful prayer, because it is the re-enactment of my Passion and death. I truly become flesh and blood in the sacramental altar. Unless you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, there is not life in you. If you believe in me, if you give credit to my words, I will raise you up on the last day.
My resurrection is my great victory over Satan, Sin and Death. The day when Light overcame darkness, Grace overcame sin and Life overcame death. Divine Mercy opened its gates to the world to facilitate the Salvation of all those who believe in me; the Son of the Living God, the Saviour of the world.
On the day of the Resurrection I undid the curse given in Paradise, “You are dust, and to dust you will return”.
I am the resurrection and the Life. If you believe in me, even though you will die, you will live forever.
Author: Joseph of Jesus and Mary
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School Scope By Norman Scott
School Scope By Norman Scott
Students Are Not Just Numbers
Rockaway resident Norman Scott recently retired from the New York City Public Schools. He is the highly-respected editor of Ed Notes, which he has been publishing for many years.
I graduated from an elementary school in East New York in 1957. I would bet 75 percent of the kids in my class were fairly successful in school. We must have had great teachers, though I remember them spending a hell of a lot of time sitting at their desks and giving us tons of work to do while they marked papers and did their own work. I don’t remember spending much time learning how to read. Phonics was used minimally, if at all, as many of us came into school with the ability to read. Less than 10 years later those same teachers were facing children with enormous learning difficulties as the neighborhood went through one of the most drastic population changes ever seen in New York. Suddenly, they weren’t so successful.
Mark Twain Middle School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn may be the best middle school in New York according to many friends who send their children there from as far away as Rockaway. At one point Twain was one of the worst schools. I had a conversation with a teacher who was there before and after the school became a magnet attracting the brightest kids from all over South Brooklyn and beyond. "What happened," he said? "Overnight we became great teachers?" "Weren’t you retrained," I asked? "Yeah, for half a day" he said. It doesn’t take all that much training or coaching to become good teachers when you no longer have the hassles of difficult learners. The real art of teaching (we all know just what an art it is when we see a great teacher work) is figuring out ways to meet the individual needs of each child. The DOE automatons treat the school system as if there was only one type of child. Decisions made so far away from the actual teacher and learner seem like a joke to teachers.
The refusal to recognize there are innate differences in children who require a variety of teaching styles and techniques to be taught is just the leading edge of why a school system under centralized control, geared to a standardized one size fits all curriculum, is doomed to fail.
I entered teaching in 1967 at the very end of a centralized school system under Mayoral control. Ah! To return to those halcyon days before decentralization! NOT! I have news for all those dreamers of the past: The system didn’t work well for children who are difficult to teach (non-motivated kids with learning difficulties or children with emotional problems) while it worked fine for kids who didn’t have these difficulties. The difference today? There are a hell of a lot more of the former kids than the latter, a fact that no one seems to want to recognize in a system where the concepts of standards and standardization have run amuck while the children have become less standardized as they face a wider range of "issues" that schools must deal with. I started my career as the system went through the throes of decentralization in grades K-8. And we all certainly witnessed massive abuses at the district levels. But let’s not pretend that the high schools, which remained centralized, were paragons of educational virtue. We could point to as many, if not more, poorly run high schools as existed at the district level.
One could make the argument that true decentralization at the school level never really existed since the district offices functioned as a mini-centralized systems, dominated by local politics, that dictated to the schools. BloomKlein promised to change all that by giving local schools and their principals true control over their schools. But that has not happened and the attempt to micro-manage all schools in a standardized way has given principals less control than ever.
Because so many problems need to be analyzed and solved at the local level, control should exist at the school level. What we need is a truly decentralized system, with a variety of teaching and learning styles, governed in a variety of ways. Let’s take the entire budget for the NYC school system and divide it up among the schools and let them "buy" services they need from a centralized bureaucracy, which would exist solely for the purpose of monitoring the schools. Dictate policy from the bottom up instead of top down as we have had throughout history. Then we would truly begin to meet the needs of students, teachers and parents and would see political use of the system minimized. Whenever this idea is brought up people scream about the disastrous pre-mayoral control system of parent run School Councils in Chicago. I’m thinking more along the lines of the highly successful private school network that exists in NYC (I know the kids are rich and the parents are active but that system does work.) One factor that is common to that network is a high degree of teacher input and control with a major say in how the schools are run.
I used to meet a young teacher, who grew up in Rockaway, at a yearly party. Ten years ago he was accepted to grad school but decided to become an early childhood teacher in a private school instead. Every year he tells me he’s very interested in what goes on in public schools and maybe one day "I’ll make the leap." I asked him "What would it take to get you to teach in the public schools?" "Control and decision making," he answered, which he feels he has a lot of at his school but that his friends in public schools complain they have little of. Throughout my 35 years in the school system the one factor left out of the school governance debate has been power of teachers to use their talent and ability to make basic decisions about how their school is run and what should go on in their classroom. In New York whether we talk about the pre-decentralization era, the decentralization era, or the current top-down administration, teachers have had little or no say unless the principal was open to it. In other words, we were at their mercy. Nothing has changed, except now principals themselves are at the mercy of the new masters of the universe and they are not happy. (We know this from the glee with which so many supervisors read the send ups of the system in Ed. Notes.) It is interesting to find teachers and supervisors suddenly in the same boat. It is also interesting that in a system of over 1200 schools, not one is run by teachers.
Years ago, we advocated that the UFT sponsor charter schools run by teachers as a way to put the system in the hands of teachers and Randi Weingarten briefly flirted with the idea, even forming a committee to address the issue. It has always been our position that teachers have the most vested interest in well-run, well managed schools, even more than parents. You see, parents are mostly interested in their own children and naturally lose interest in the school when their children leave. Teachers, stuck facing life sentences, in their own self interest want to see their schools well run and face helpless frustration at seeing dumb decisions or seeing money wasted because they have so little say. Now we know that some teachers are perfectly happy to be told what to do and want no part of management. Fine. There are plenty of schools for them to work in.
But for those teachers with an entrepreneurial sense of adventure and a wish to create a different learning environment we propose that the DOE offer them an opportunity to run their own schools with the power to choose their principal.
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This is the fifth instalment in a series of posts about looking beyond the obvious records in order to bring a genealogical story to life. Part 1 of the search to find out more about the randomly chosen Ellen Shelley revealed basic facts through birth, marriage, and census; Part 2 delved into the world of undertakers, since Ellen’s father and her brothers held this job; Part 3 explored the General Lying-In Hospital in Lambeth, where Ellen gave birth in 1906 as a single mother; and Part 4 explored the lives of women in the early 1900s.
Ten years after she gave birth at the Lying-In Hospital, Ellen married a man named George Henry Smith. I’m curious about the connection between the Smith and Shelley families, since Ellen’s four-year-old daughter, Priscilla, was listed as a visitor with the Smiths when the 1911 census was taken. I would like to find out more about George as a way of finding out more about Ellen.
They married at St Mary at Lambeth parish church on Christmas Eve, 1916, when the Great War was more than two years old. It was one of five weddings that took place there that day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day being popular choices among the working classes. George, 30, was an electrician whose deceased father had been a stoker, and Ellen, 34, was a cook whose deceased father had been an undertaker. Two of Ellen’s brothers, both undertaker’s assistants, served as witnesses. There is no sign that George the husband had enlisted in the army at this point — often marriage records note rank and regiment, and this one does not. It does give us enough clues, though, to trace George from birth on, and to see that he lived his life in the same small impoverished area that Ellen did.
He was born in Lambeth in 1887, and baptized in the same church where he and Ellen would be married. By 1891 he and his parents and a younger brother named Ernest appear on Walnut Tree Walk, an address that comes up in a particularly dramatic aspect of our own family research around the same time — our great great aunt Ellen Roff lived here with her husband Fred, a potter at nearby Doulton’s, and their children, contemporaries of George Smith and Ellen Shelley, attended Walnut Tree Walk board school. Fred and Ellen Roff had serious domestic troubles and moved frequently, but for the most part stayed in the same general area as the Shelley and Smith families. I can’t help wondering if they knew each other.
By 1901, the Smiths have moved further south to Goding Street, near the Albert Embankment. In walking the streets of the city to investigate poverty levels, Charles Booth’s man George Duckworth described Goding this way:
George’s father is employed as a stoker for a stationary printer, and George himself, just 14, is working as an office boy, perhaps at the same establishment. He has three more siblings now, in addition to Ernest, so there are three sons and two daughters that we know of thus far in the Smith family.
Living just a couple of doors away is a widow named Sarah Rachel Woodman, who works as a military tailoress and has a young son named Charles Vere Woodman. The woman’s name rang a bell as one I’d come across when researching the Shelley family, and since Ellen Shelley’s aunt Elizabeth Muckell was also a military tailoress, I dug a little further and discovered that Sarah Rachel was also a Muckell: the other sister of Ellen’s mother. So now we know that Ellen’s future husband George and Ellen’s aunt Sarah were neighbours on Goding Street.
All this time, Ellen Shelley and her family have lived to the north of the Smith family addresses, on Westminster Bridge Road. In 1911, though, Ellen’s family appears at 13 Canterbury Place, a small crescent south of the longtime address, and just above Walnut Tree Walk, where George spent some of his childhood. The Shelleys’ neighbours at Canterbury Place include the two aunts, Sarah and Elizabeth Muckell, their brother Arthur George Muckell, a music hall waiter, and Sarah’s teenage son Charles Vere Woodman. The Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum is a little to their east, and further on from there is Temple Street, the Smith family residence. George’s father has died, and this time George is listed as a stationary engineer, so perhaps he’s moved into his father’s job. He’s living with his mother and siblings, the youngest just six years old, so that’s a clue as to when the father died. Little Priscilla Shelley is a “visitor,” but we know from skipping ahead in time that this address — 20 Temple Street — later becomes Pastor Street, where George, Ellen and Priscilla can all be found together in 1939.
When I track these census records through the years, I notice several boys who will be of fighting age when war comes. Though no record has turned up for George, there is little doubt that the war effected these families deeply. And with their years of experience as military seamstresses, Ellen’s aunts were likely in high demand. So far I have found:
Ernest Francis Smith, George’s brother, enlisted in June 1913, and on his September 1915 marriage record to a milliner named Daisy, he is a rifleman with the Queen’s Westminster Rifles. After the war was over, he complained of bronchitis, heart trouble, and defective vision. But he fared better than his brother Walter Alfred, who served with the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division — essentially sailors who fought on land — and died in France in April 1917. If I were writing Ellen Shelley’s story, I would order Walter’s service record to see what else it might tell me, especially given the fact that Ellen and George marry just a few months before Walter’s death.
Ellen, too, lost a brother. Arthur Charles Shelley, a private in the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade, was “killed accidentally” in July 1916, according the Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects. The record neatly lists each of his siblings as receiving a portion of the small amount of money he left behind. So far I have not found Arthur’s service record or a newspaper article, which might tell us more about how he died, or whether there was an inquest into the accident. There might also be a clue in the battalion’s war diary.
Ellen’s cousin, Charles Vere Woodman, son of one of her military-tailoress aunts, also served as a soldier. He survived the war, but his service record implies a horrific experience. Married, and the father of a baby boy, he was working as a hotel porter when he enlisted in June 1916, just a month before his cousin Arthur died. Early in 1917 he was sent to France, and by February of 1918, he was admitted to the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital in Doullens, and diagnosed with neurasthenia. His record gives some excellent detail: “On 10-2-18 there was a bombing raid … he was not physically affected by any explosion but lost control of himself and shook all over.”
Another entry states:
“On the night of the 16th-17th Feb there was an enemy air raid of some hours duration. … This man was in a very nervous condition and finally had a sort of fit & had to be held down. I understand he was a casualty in an air raid in London and was in Charing X Hospital for some time previous to joining the Labour Corps.”
From Ellen’s perspective, the story is especially interesting not just because Charles was her cousin and lived very close to her, but also because it reminds us that London suffered air raids during the war. How did Ellen and her wider family fare, and how did the raids impact her own neighbourhood? This map shows a number of bombs falling around the area where Ellen lived.
While researching The Cowkeeper’s Wish, we read that hundreds of thousands regularly sought shelter in the underground tube stations. At Liverpool Street Station, a woman was trampled to death in a stampede. Fights and arguments broke out; it was often crowded and smelly, with makeshift toilets. Anyone trying to use the trains found the platforms frequently impassable, every space having been taken up by people bedded down for the night. The Daily Mail reported on what it called “tube camps,” claiming that those who took refuge in the tunnels were “the happiest people in London.” There was some “crowding and crushing,” the writer admitted, but “the men calmed the fears of the women, and after a time stolid British silence was the prevailing note among the people.” Whole families gathered, the paper claimed, bringing rugs to sit on, and before long they were passing the time singing songs until “the stations were echoing to rollicking choruses,” oblivious to what might be going on above ground.
Elephant & Castle station, depicted above, was steps from Temple Street, where George Smith’s family lived, and where Ellen and her daughter Priscilla would eventually join George. It was also very near Brook Street, the address given on the service record for Ellen’s cousin Charles Vere Woodman. According to the Imperial War Museum, “Between May 1917 and May 1918 more than 300,000 people used the tube to shelter from German aeroplane attacks. That was double the amount of people that were regularly sheltering in the tube during the height of the London Blitz in September 1940.” A sad reminder that just a year after we find Ellen, George and Priscilla on the 1939 census, war was underway once more, and the stage of Ellen’s life story was heavily bombed. | <urn:uuid:8007de65-ddf1-4127-9dbb-dfc60740082c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecowkeeperswish.com/2019/07/05/part-5-ellen-shelley-george-smith-and-the-great-war/?like_comment=621&_wpnonce=4b41967297 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.98191 | 2,112 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The taste of time23 December 2021
From impossible meat to the rise of plant-based proteins, the demand for healthy and sustainable food shows no sign of abating. What is behind this trend, and does it have the legs to last? Nikki Peach speaks to Vinciane Patelou, director of The European Plant Based Foods Association (ENSA) and Carlotte Lucas, corporate engagement manager at The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI) to unearth the main drivers behind the trend, how plant-based eating is the key to a sustainable future, and why motivation doesn’t always matter.
There are few better ways to start a conversation about the rise of global health concerns than with someone who has just completed a full month of self-isolation; particularly when that person is Vinciane Patelou, director of The European Plant Based Food Association. After contracting Covid-19 herself, Patelou’s children caught the virus in domino effect, extending their homebound status for a full four weeks and providing plenty of time to ponder the importance of personal health, and with that, the rise of plant-based eating.
Whether the trend is recent depends on who you’re asking, but its acceleration in the past few years has undoubtedly been driven by a swelling pool of health-conscious consumers. According to ENSA, the drive towards plant-based food and ingredients is caused by three things: health, sustainability and ethics. And while vegans themselves might be the most enthusiastic consumers, according to Patelou, this surge in plant-based foods and ingredients is “not driven by veganism, but by flexitarianism”.
Another word to join our modern lexicon, “flexitarians” or “reducers” are a fast-growing consumer group opting to cut down on their meat and dairy consumption rather than change their diet completely. After all, in order for plant-based products to grow lasting roots in the industry, they must appeal to those interested in cutting down as well as those cutting out. “You can’t just replace a steak with pulses. It’s a whole different way of cooking and people want convenience,” Patelou explains. It’s easier to order a vegan burger in a restaurant than it is to learn the art of cooking mapo tofu.
What ENSA is hearing from its members and consumer research is that reducers currently make up the largest share of consumers in the plant-based market. Research conducted by ProVeg supports this, revealing that the most common reason consumers are buying new products is to try something new.
The lure of change
Beyond the novelty of trying something healthier, changing the culture of how we eat is a momentous challenge, and one that varies from place to place. As Carlotte Lucas, corporate engagement manager at GFI, notes, “We are so tradition-bound, food is so ingrained in our culture that giving something up is really hard.”
Patelou concurs, as a native Frenchwoman, she fully understands the reality of a reluctant market. “Different consumers have different motivations. People feel very strongly about their diets, it’s part of culture. I’m French, so you can’t imagine how hard it is for us. I’m sure Italians and Polish people feel the same about their food culture.”
Some countries are responding faster than others, but even places where cote de boeuf and crème brulée are intrinsic to the national cuisine, salad and chips no longer cut the mustard as the only vegetarian option. Consumer expectations are growing along with the trend, and those that don’t keep up will eventually stand to lose out.
While consumer curiosity and personal health is important, the sustainability drive is the obvious beneficiary here. Livestock agriculture accounts for 51% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Plant-based eating, at least for reducers, may soon become less of a whim and more of a necessity. Lucas notes that, “as the population grows in the future from eight billion people to ten billion, we need to be able to feed everyone and we need to do it in a healthy, sustainable way”.
The onus of saving the planet is one that must be shared between producers and consumers alike. When it comes to consumer demand, that can be – and is being – shaped by a new kind of thoughtful consumer; people who read the ingredients label and take interest in the origin story of their produce. This is particularly true among high-income and young consumers, as well as parents of young children.
With an awareness that habits need to change one way or another, Lucas suggests it’s these new consumers who are set to reshape the market. “People aren’t eating meat because of the way it’s made; they are eating it in spite of how it’s made. With plant-based food, people can have the same products, but they are just made in a better way.”
Invariably, it’s the younger cohort of principled Gen Z consumers who are going to shape how food is consumed and marketed in the future. “I think these types of people tend to buy with purpose and ethics in mind,” Lucas says. So how can major retailers and manufacturers in the F&B industry make use of this trend? By understanding two things: the mindful consumers of the future, and their own social responsibility as suppliers in making the industry more sustainable. The novelty of offering a ‘beet’ burger or seitan ‘ribs’ on an otherwise meat-based menu is going to attract vegans, mindful consumers and reducers alike, ultimately generating capital for the brand – reputational or otherwise.
Mindful consumers want to know that the brands they buy from align with their values – particularly those in mature markets in developed countries, such as the UK. As for the rest of the manufacturing process? Using sustainable packaging, Patelou observes, is “[another] part of the brand’s reputation” or rather another facet of a strategy to forge a conscientious brand identity. “I think they know that you can’t tell the consumer that you’re sustainable and then not follow through,” Patelou says.
The percentage of people who follow a plant-based diet because it makes them feel healthier.
Livestock agriculture accounts for more than half of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
“We are so tradition-bound, food is so ingrained in our culture that giving something up is really hard.”
Action in the shopping aisles
Is there a worry that companies are jumping on the trend for the wrong reasons, and might this compromise the long-term potential of the plant-based industry? Lucas doesn’t think it matters. “We have 20, max 30, years to meet our Paris Climate Agreement goals and we are not on track in the slightest. We need everyone to get involved regardless of motivation.” Instead, Lucas thinks meat corporations getting involved in the trend will serve as the boost “that’s really needed to scale up this industry”.
In order to reach net-zero by 2050, Patelou is also conscious that the meat and dairy industry needs to take a hit. “When you see the scientific consensus, it confirms that if we don’t change out diet and move to a more plant-based one, we are not going to be able to meet our climate targets.”
One solution, proposed by the UK government, is a tax on meat and dairy products. The measure would cost £242m but would also result in reduced climate emissions in the region of £100m per year. It sounds promising. But is penalising people for eating meat the best solution? Neither Patelou nor Lucas think so.
“At GFI we believe in making choices easier for people” Lucas says, “I think tax on meat in general should exist because there are lots of things that aren’t incorporated into the price we pay for meat. But making plant-based products affordable, delicious and available is such a great option because it won’t have the backlash.”
Patelou agrees. “As far as we’re concerned, the priority is equalisation. We don’t want the plant-based option to be more expensive than the animal-based option. Tax reduction on plant-based options would be better than making anything more expensive.”
“When you see the scientific consensus, it confirms that if we don’t change out diet and move to a more plant-based one, we are not going to be able to meet our climate targets.”
The percentage of meat consumption that could come from alternative proteins if governments invest in R&D.
The legs to last
It’s all well and good looking at the rapid progress of mature markets like the UK – ranked the number one country for veganism in 2020, with 39% of Britons planning to further reduce their meat consumption after the pandemic – but they are not the ones industry stakeholders are worried about.
When it comes to population growth, as Lucas points out, “it’s not going to be Europe or the US, it’s going to be in China and India”. In those markets, an entirely different and tailored approach is required to see plant-based eating take off in the same way.
One of the main obstacles is price. After all, less capital invariably means that plant-based products need to cost the same as or less than meat products. “The same burger that becomes famous in the US is not necessarily going to be what someone in China wants to eat,” Lucas says. “So adapting products to local consumers is going to be essential for this to work around the world.” Where you might now be able to visit the British coastline without being shocked to find vegan scampi and chips on the menu, other parts of the world are moving at a different pace.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
GFI works directly with product ecosystems to accelerate this change, operating a science and technology team, a business and corporate engagement team and a policy team to ensure there’s a fair and level playing field for all new products entering the market. “A lot of our funding goes on R&D,” Lucas admits.
As a corporate engagement manager, Lucas knows that for plant-based products to thrive in the market they need to compete with enticing meat-based options that are currently only a Deliveroo away. “We’re not talking about products that existed in the 80s or 90s, we’re talking about products where eventually consumers won’t be able to tell the difference”. The difference? The amount invested in research and development.
This, according to Lucas and Patelou, is the key ingredient for this trend to last. “I hope the companies with products that are still here in ten years are the ones who have developed sustainable strategies, which is the case for many of our members,” Patelou says. In France, for example, you can’t label any plant-based products with meat names, making it harder for reducers or reluctant consumers to make a change. “These things are slowing down progress – not stopping it – the consumer trends are there, but it will be slower.”
Only by creating sustainable and ethical products that look the same, taste as delicious and don’t break the bank will companies make an impact long-term. This is the reason brands such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are so successful. “They’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars on R&D investment before they launched products on the market. They put in the work,” Lucas adds.
This is also the responsibility of governments. “If [they] invest [in R&D] we could reach a scenario where 22% of all meat consumption is from alternative proteins. Governments play a really important role in driving engagement,” Lucas stresses. A fraction that sounds achievable, but only with critical engagement across the board and some real changes to how we consume and think about food.
As for an entirely plant-based future? Patelou doesn’t think it’s necessary, or even desirable. “One third of protein from animals, two thirds from plants,” she advises. Meat and two veg. If you think about it, it’s really not that different. | <urn:uuid:8278abd6-f7c7-414c-a4f6-1ebca0b1f10e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ingredients-insight.com/features/featurethe-taste-of-time-9336424/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.957949 | 2,663 | 2.265625 | 2 |
YouTube has announced that it is now committed to supporting the future of journalism. The announcement was made in YouTube’s “Supporting the news industry and next-generation journalists on YouTube” issue. Let’s learn more about it.
YouTube says that over the past few years it has “seen more and more people turn to YouTube every day to get their news.” which is why YouTube wants to connect its community to authoritative, trustworthy content. YouTube believes that it has “a responsibility to support innovation and a sustainable ecosystem.“
Following which it has been working alongside news organizations from around the world both through YouTube’s products that help news partners reach audiences and monetize their video content, as well as through “grants and training programs as part of the Google News Initiative.” In April, it opened applications for two new programs focused on supporting the next generation of reporters and newsrooms.
YouTube as part of their Creator Program for Independent Journalists, has officially announced selection of nearly 50 independent journalists and over 40 digital-first newsrooms across the programs.
In total there are 49 partners around the world who are currently working closely with YouTube as part of the Creator Program for Independent Journalists. Click here to see the full list.
As for the Sustainability Lab, it “supports news organizations as they build sustainable digital video business models across a variety of themes.” Click here to see the full list of the selected participants.
YouTube’s goal is to work together with the industry and help journalists and newsrooms thrive on the platform. YouTube says, “We also hope to learn from our first set of participants how we can further improve and iterate on these programs for future classes. Our goal is to work together with the industry and help journalists and newsrooms thrive on YouTube.“ | <urn:uuid:00e2930f-ebcf-41f6-8372-e1f53598a634> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.socialnationnow.com/inside-youtubes-creator-program-for-independent-journalists/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.968571 | 380 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Steam Technology with Significant Energy and Water Savings.
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Today, the need for high-quality clean electric steam also encompasses the requirements for zero emissions, high energy efficiency, and minimum spatial footprint configuration. The MightySteam® and OAB® steam generators produce non-condensing steam above the inversion temperature. Because there are no liquid droplets, the steam is of high quality. This improves steam performance both for pharmaceutical use, clean comfort uses as well as utility purposes.
With this modern energy and time-saving steam generator, there is no need for superheaters or boilers to 800°C+ for high-quality clean steam. No combustible fuel oils or gases, No intense magnetic fields. No heating of flow pipes by induction. The temperature measured is that of the steam, not of the line.
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MHI steam generators work hard for you. Depending on the model, they monitor the incoming electric phase variations, steam temperature, steam flow rate, display any developing faults, and a host of user input controls. They even monitor the quality of water.
Patented MHI nano-material treatment of boiler steel materials shows a significant lowering in the rate of oxidation and steam oxidation at high temperatures.
What is saturated steam? When water molecules exist in a gaseous state, at a temperature above the boiling temperature of the water, it is called the superheated steam state. The boiling temperature depends on the pressure (e.g., 100°C for 1 atmosphere, 134°C for 3 atmospheres, and so on). Steam only at the boiling temperature is called saturated steam.
What is the difference between saturated steam and superheated steam? Saturated steam is always steam at the boiling point, whereas superheated steam is at a higher temperature than the boiling point (at that pressure). The main difference between saturated and superheated steam is that the saturated steam is at a two-phase (liquid and gas) equilibrium temperature. So it could contain water droplets, whereas the higher-temperature superheated steam is a high enthalpy gas (called high-quality steam as there are no water droplets in it). Superheated steam has a higher work potential compared to saturated steam. Work-potential enables mechanical work and chemical reactions. On the other hand, Saturated steam is often classified as low-quality steam.
What is high-temperature superheated steam? Steam above the boiling point at any pressure is broadly classified as high-temperature superheated steam*. Practically the temperature should be at least a few degrees centigrade above the boiling point to be classified as superheated steam. However, for many modern steam applications, the steam temperature has to be much higher than the boiling temperature (well into the superheated steam temperature range).
How is highly superheated steam made? Superheated steam is made with modern rapid steam generators like the OAB® and HGA. Current steam generators avoid high pressures, unlike the older traditional-boiler technology for a high steam temperature. The temperature for most combinatoric-steam applications should be higher than the inversion temperature (typically above 200°C) for reaping the benefits of superheated-steam-enhanced processes like drying, bio-energy production, high-level microbial and viral cleaning, energy production, antimicrobial, bio-digestion, chemical reactions, fuel production, syn-gas, methane reduction, and many others. A new area of research is the combinatory steam area for energy reduction. * MHI definition is invoked. The temperature of good superheated steam is above any inversion temperature and much higher than the equilibrium saturation temperature. The equilibrium saturation temperature is the temperature (at a given pressure) where water or water droplets can coexist with steam-gas, i.e., the boiling point. Saturation temperatures depend on pressure, e.g., ~100°C at 1 Bar or 121°C at 2 Bar, etc. Instant high quality-clean steam with high temperatures ranging from 300°C to 1300°C is now readily available for steam applications. Such applications are multiplying. OAB® and 4DSintering® are registered MHI Trademarks.
In contrast to conventional pressure-boilers, steam generators produce steam quickly on start-up, produce high-quality steam, and have fewer restrictions for piping. Where is high-temperature steam typically used? Fuel Production, Antimicrobial Use, Comfort Humidity Addition, Oxidation and Erosion Studies, Food Industry, Packaging, Chemicals, Cleaning, Materials. Bio-processes, Energy, Hydrolysis, Process Heating, Flavors, Drying, Textiles, and even the Simulation of Martian Atmospheres (Nature, December 2017). Several more applications are listed here.
What is the inversion temperature of steam? The inversion temperature is most commonly known as the temperature at which the evaporation rates into pure superheated steam and completely dry air are equal. Typically ~200°C with some dependence on the surface. The inversion temperature is the temperature for rapid antimicrobial action and rapid drying of ceramics.
Multipliers to process efficiencies. High-grade, high-quality superheated steam offers a good multiplier to process efficiencies – i.e. it is SmartSteam™. The temperature of the MHI steam models reflects the actual steam temperature. The savings efficiencies reported are from an On to Off condition (in contrast, please note that several boiler efficiencies are reported only at a steady-state). No requirement to heat any tubes or nozzles to produce steam. Several US and International Patents protect MHI steam generators.
Sustainability: Superheated steam enhances sustainability by reducing climate risk, accelerating energy transitions, increasing food security, and advancing better health outcomes.
What superheated steam is not? It is not mist nor fog. Mist and fog have some water droplets in the gas, and thus the name fog. View the comparison pictures of the difference between mist/fog-steam and a high-temperature steam-gas even when produced such that the nozzle area has no mist. In the picture, please note that MHI steam generators produce mist-free gas.
Why are these devices only possible from MHI? MHI uses patented nano-structured surfaces and other novel materials which have only recently become available commercially for use with active steam. MHI engineers have combined decades of thermal know-how and recent patented technologies with well-accepted/reliable MHI control systems for high power and high-temperature steam delivery. It is a part of MHI’s overall development strategy for intelligent power in modern thermal applications. Substantial energy savings result from OAB® steam use compared to combustion heating of boilers.
For many facilities, steam is critical to keep processes and procedures operating within normal parameters and expectations. With this in mind, it’s essential to choose a steam generation system that offers high reliability and exceptional safety while reducing energy costs and maximizing operational efficiency.
No Pressure-Vessel Certifications are normally required for Atmospheric High-Temperature Steam (depending on location).
Very high-velocity exit steam flows. Unique Applications.
AlwaysStainless Steel. Unlimited capacity continuous steam generators. Heat up within seconds. Very Low to No moisture. High-quality SmartSteam™.
Very Low to No Moisture even during start-up in the OAB or GHGA. MHI BoilerFree™ Technology allows for a continuous superheated steam generation, unlike a boiler which has to fill up a steam chamber and then discharge the steam in a batch mode.
Energy efficiency is reported socket to output. Nearly 90-99% Outlet to Output Efficiency may be experienced.
Zero Combustion or No High-Frequency Processes. No High-Frequency Disruption, Zero Device NOX Emissions, and No Ventilation Needed for combustion gasses. Steam velocity at exit is greater than 50m/s. More Information.
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Industries where superheated steam is used: Energy, Cleaning, Textile Processing, Pulp and Paper, Cooking, Drying, Disinfection and Sterilization, Cleaning and Recycling, Drying Paint, Drying Machine Parts, Re-forming Surfaces. Food and storage products, Tobacco Products, Textile Mill Products, Apparel, and Other Textile Products, Lumber and Wood Products, Bio mass-energy, BioPharma, Oxidation studies (inorganic and organic), Paper and Allied Products, Steam spray in the hospital uses, greenhouse, soil, Printing and Publishing, Chemicals and Allied Products, Petroleum and Coal Products, Petroleum Refining, Rubber and polymers, steam injection, emulsification, Plastics Products, Steam Chest Molding, Leather and Leather Products, Stone, Clay and Glass Products, Cement, Grain, Canola, Alfa-alfa. How to specify an OAB tunnel. Antimicrobial use industries are Chemical, Hospitals, Paper/Corrugating, Power Generation, Tobacco, General Manufacturing, Animal Feed, Dairy, Hotels, Petroleum Production., Rubber, Wire and Cable, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Food Processing, Marine & Offshore, Pharmaceutical, Steel, Mining, Beverage and similar.
Industries where continuous steam is used: Hydraulic, Primary Metal Industries, Blast Furnace and Basic Steel Products, Fabricated Metal Products, Industrial Machinery and Equipment, Electronic and Other Electric Equipment, Transportation Equipment, Instruments and Related Products, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Electronics, Oil and Gas, Ethanol, pre-treatment of biomass, Pyrolysis, Oil, herbs, Steam Reforming, Complex Methane Ammonia Producing Reactions, Hydrogen reforming, Biodiesel fuels, Finishing, Food, Packaging, Printing, Paper, Pulp, Converting, Forest Products, Comfort Steam, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics, Rubber, Batteries, Electrode drying, Vinyl, Bio-solids, Sanitation, Disinfection, WGSR reactions, Low oxygen content H2O gas, so dry and could sometimes even be for sterilization, Soil re mediation, steam stripping of Volatile, industrial propane dehydrogenation processes, Pulp, hog/animal-fuel, clean or emulsify bark sludges, Reverse water gas-shift reactions and flavor reactions, Lumber and/or efficient Paper-drying, peat/jute drying, Gasification-reactor, Consider for vacuum production steam in ejector nozzles with steam or steam air mixes with over 50m/s steam exit velocity, Textile-drying, Drying. Swelling Starch, Starch Granules, Starch Gelatinization. Cleaning with MightySteam • Humidification for Dry and Humid Atmospheres in Ceramic, Paper Rolls and Comfort Processing, Work and Propulsion by Steam, Heating, and Sterilization, Vacuum, Oven-use. Atomization of Fluids, Motorization, and modification. Waste to Fuel Prototype and Simulation. Ask MHI for Sample Catalytic Surfaces Quasi R or for ceramic substrates that can take catalysts.
Steam Chambers up to 1300C for oxidation studies and food contact studies in a pure steam environment.
Steam for Packaging and Textiles
While several applications offer down-the-line energy efficiencies with high temperature superheated steam use, one typical application is to make hydrogen with steam reforming of methane or organic materials, here the higher temperatures give rise to considerably better efficiencies of reactions. Food Safety Use. Food Security. Vertical Farming. Dryer Configurations: Batch/Cabinet, Can/Drum, Continuous/Conveyor, Deck, Loop, Loft, Paddle, Ring, Roll/Cylinder, Rotary, Shelf/Tray/Truck, Skin (both artificial and inorganic), Tensionless, Frame, Tower, Tunnel, Warp, Web, Wicket. Dryer Types Possible: Centrifugal, Combination Infrared/Convection, Attenuate CFC and HCFC Conduction, Convection – Counterflow, Convection – Impingement, Convection -Flotation, Convection, -Through-Air, Dehumidifying, Flash, Fluid-Bed, Infrared – catalytic, Infrared – Longwave, Infrared – Medium-wave, Infrared – Short -wave, Microwave, Radio Frequency, Spray, Steam, Vacuum. Energy Source: Dual Fuel, Electricity, Steam. Materials Dried, Food, Paste/Mixes, Powders, Slurries, Solids, Solvent-based Materials, Water-based Materials. Manufacturing Process: Calcining, Curing, Dehydrating, Drying, Dry sand and investment molds, Finishing, Fusing, Granulating, Heat Setting, Acoustics, Research, Heat Shrinking, Laminating, Moisture Profiling, Pasteurizing, Pre-and Post-Drying. Industries Served: Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Electronics, Alternatives to Waste Heat Boilers Augmented, Oil and Gas, biotic and abiotic cleaning, Ethanol, Biodiesel Fuels, Hydrolysis, Finishing, Food, Packaging, Printing, Paper, Pulp, Converting, Forest Products, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics, Rubber, functionalize graphite, graphene, Boron nitride, Vinyl. Biosolids, include Sterilization, Soil remediation-steam stripping of volatile, pulp, hog-fuel, bark sludges, Paper Drying, Peat/Jute Drying gasification reactor, Textile drying, salt drying, and reclamation. Should you be using steam, steam, water, and steam air mixes in de-Superheaters, a better control could be direct with OAB® or HGA-M models. Steam Tunnels.
MHI systems are used for Fuel Production whether in Gasification, Pyrolysis, Combustion, Digestion or even Fermentation -kinetics enhancement.
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sIFR Update: More Enhancements on the Way
UPDATE: Version 2.0 is now available. See article here.
Three days and tens of thousands of hits later, sIFR has so far held its own as a solid, compatible way to replace browser text with custom typography. I’ve released a few new updates in response to minor glitches reported, but more importantly, a solid release is only days away. In the meantime, please feel to download version 1.1.4 which simply refines the replacement function a bit so that it should work on very complicated replacement rules and such. I’ve also updated the example page.
Here are some of the issues which I plan to address in version 1.2 (to be released hopefully in the next few days):
- Simple instructions your mom can follow. This thing can really be implemented across an entire site in under ten minutes if the instructions are clear enough.
- Support for international character sets. This is an issue I haven’t solved yet because I’m a snooty uncultured American whose foreign language acumen is largely limited to profanities.
- A more rock-solid replacement function that is perhaps even quicker than the current one.
- A built-in adjustment for Flash’s tendency to position text a tiny percentage away from its textbox origin.
- Ability to include a reduced character set, for extra bandwidth savings. Most people probably only need standard letters, numbers, and punctuation, so by eliminating all of the characters you’d never use (like a degree symbol maybe), the .swf filesize can be reduced by, in some cases, 50%. This will involve having an actual textbox on stage in the .fla instead of dynamically creating one. Not as pure as I’d like, but I don’t think there is a way to selectively embed character subsets using pure Actionscript.
- An adjustment for the box-model problem in IE 5.x (PC) whereby offsetHeight and offsetWidth are reported slightly differently if padding is included in the element.
- A change to the display method of the hidden browser text so that it is even more accessible.
- Lockability of .swf files by domain. This will prevent others from using your font .swf file.
I’m probably missing some stuff, but those are the biggies. I want to again thank everyone who has taken the time to put this thing through its paces over the last few days. sIFR is nice in that it is portable enough to pop into your site fairly quickly, and pop out of your site even quicker. The nice side-effect of this is that when I release updates, they should be fairly easy to apply. The upcoming 1.2 release will have its own dedicated page with release notes, but I’m a designer so don’t expect a full-on SourceForge repository or anything.
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After the city of Melbourne assigned its trees email addresses so residents could report any issues, people began emailing the trees a wide range of correspondence. And sometimes, the trees write back.
A lovely story in The Atlantic, “If You Give A Tree An Email Address”, documents Australia’s tree-emailing phenomenon. Melbourne officials probably weren’t expecting an avalanche of treemail when they gave their trees ID numbers and individual email addresses in 2013. The programme was intended to allow residents to send alerts about tree problems, like branches that threatened to fall.
But people started to message the trees with all sorts of emails, from paeans to their beauty to questions about international politics. Here’s an excerpt from an admiring letter sent an Algerian Oak:
To: Algerian Oak, Tree ID 1032705
2 February 2015
Dear Algerian oak,
Thank you for giving us oxygen.
Thank you for being so pretty.
I don’t know where I’d be without you to extract my carbon dioxide. (I would probably be in heaven) Stay strong, stand tall amongst the crowd.
Other emails were more personal in nature:
To: Green Leaf Elm, Tree ID 1022165
29 May 2015
Dear Green Leaf Elm,
I hope you like living at St. Mary’s. Most of the time I like it too. I have exams coming up and I should be busy studying. You do not have exams because you are a tree. I don’t think that there is much more to talk about as we don’t have a lot in common, you being a tree and such. But I’m glad we’re in this together.
There’s more at work than just a sense of whimsy. The Atlantic points out that “the move toward the Internet of Things only encourages the sense that our objects are not actually just things but acquaintances”. As cloud-based connectivity increases and more and more of our devices are wired up for contact, our perspective regarding what is “inanimate” is shifting:
Modern tools for communicating, publishing, and networking aren’t just for connecting to other humans, but end up establishing relationships between people and anthropomorphized non-human objects, too.
Of course, corresponding with a tree in Australia isn’t quite the same as receiving an alert from your smart home or bantering with an AI chat program. There’s someone on the other end of Melbourne’s tree addresses, likely a city employee charged with one of the stranger social media jobs in existence. But they deserve kudos for their thoughtful, educational answers. We might almost believe we’re hearing from a clever Willow Leaf Peppermint.
To: Willow Leaf Peppermint, Tree ID 1357982
29 January 2015
Willow Leaf Peppermint, Tree ID 1357982
Hello Mr Willow Leaf Peppermint, or should I say Mrs Willow Leaf Peppermint?
Do trees have genders?
I hope you’ve had some nice sun today.
30 January 2015
I am not a Mr or a Mrs, as I have what’s called perfect flowers that include both genders in my flower structure, the term for this is Monoicous. Some trees species have only male or female flowers on individual plants and therefore do have genders, the term for this is Dioecious. Some other trees have male flowers and female flowers on the same tree. It is all very confusing and quite amazing how diverse and complex trees can be.
Mr and Mrs Willow Leaf Peppermint (same Tree)
With the advances currently being made in AI, it’s possible to imagine a future where all sorts of everyday Things can be contacted and respond without human aid. Which means one day we might be able to hail a tree and have its corresponding robot brain, full of information, write back. I for one would welcome our perennial overlords. [The Atlantic]
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|Título:||Effects of prescribed fire on surface soil in a Pinus pinaster plantation, northern Portugal|
|Autor:||Meira Castro, A C|
Shakesby, R. A.
Espinha Marques, J.
Doerr, S. H.
Meixedo, J. P.
Chaminé, Helder I.
Pinus pinaster forest
|Relatório da Série N.º:||Environmental Earth Sciences;Vol. 73, Issue 6|
|Resumo:||In order to decrease the risk of severe wildfire, prescribed fire has recently been adopted in Portugal and elsewhere in the Mediterranean as a major tool for reducing the fuel load instead of manual or mechanical removal of vegetation. There has been some research into its impact on soils in shrublands and grasslands, but to date little research has been conducted in forested areas in the region. As a result, the impact of prescribed fire on the physico-chemical soil characteristics of forest soils has been assumed to be minimal, but this has not been demonstrated. In this study, we present the results of a monitoring campaign of a detailed pre- and post-prescribed fire assessment of soil properties in a long-unburnt P. pinaster plantation, NW Portugal. The soil characteristics examined were pH, total porosity, bulk density, moisture content, organic matter content and litter/ash quantity. The results show that there was no significant impact on the measured soil properties, the only effect being confined to minor changes in the upper 1 cm of soil. We conclude that provided the fire is carried out according to strict guidelines in P. pinaster forest, a minimal impact on soil properties can be expected.|
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Fig 1: Commercial lens holder
A device which securely holds glass lenses for optical physics applications.
Available from suppliers or made from a simple wooden block, the holder enables you to firmly hold a glass lens stationary for use with ray boxes etc. Using multiple holders enables you to create an optical path allowing beams of light to diverge and condense with appropriate lenses in configuration.
The holders can also be used effectively with coloured glass or theatre-type coloured gels to colour a beam. They can also house diffraction gratings and slides.
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Area is an international magazine of architecture and design culture. It is published by New Business Media in bilingual, Italian and English versions.
Each of the six annual issues deals with a theme of architectural interest that acts as a fil-rouge in the selection of international and Italian works that are presented and explored right down to the design detail. The theme is chosen from time to time, capturing the suggestions and world trends covering topics ranging from architectural typology to monographic issues dedicated to cities or architects.
In April the special issue “+” is published, dedicated to design and distributed on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile in Milan.
If the monographic theme changes in each issue, the Design Focus section is present on all issues and offers the analysis and review of materials, finishes and furnishing accessories.
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A record £516,000 for royal coin: Incredibly rare sovereign bearing head of Edward VIII and struck before abdication sold at auction
- Coin is one of two gold 'proofs' struck before planned 1937 coronation
- But it was never properly struck because Edward VIII stepped down in 1936
An incredibly rare coin bearing the head of Edward VIII has sold for a record £516,000, the highest sum ever paid for a British coin.
It is one of only two ‘proof’ gold coins that were struck ahead of the production of commemorative sovereign coins to mark the king’s coronation in 1937.
But in December 1936 Edward abdicated in order to marry US divorcee Wallis Simpson, before the sovereigns were made, making the coins redundant.
Today the coin collector who bought it said he would have bid another 50 per cent to secure the coin he called 'the greatest and most famous British coin of all.;
Record: This coin with the head of Edward VIII has sold at auction for £516,000
Happy buyer: Auctioneer Ian Goldbart, with Jordan Lott, right, of Regal Rare Coins, holding the sovereign
Jordan Lott, of Regal Rare Coins, based in Chester, told MailOnline: 'I was the first to place a bid and I was determined to be the last.
'In the world of coins, it's the coin's story that makes it important, and this coin has the most fantastic story.
'It's also beautiful and in mint condition - I would have paid another £50,000 to make sure I got it.'
Mr Lott, whose firm is part of the Regal Group which is featured in Pawn Stars UK, the British version of the hit TV series Pawn Stars, says he will hang on to the coin, which he believes will be a good investment.
He said: 'It last sold in Tokyo in 1984 for £40,000 and I wish I'd bought it then. British coins are seriously undervalued.'
Only six of the coins were ever made to show the King: four are in museums, one is in a complete set of rare sovereigns, and this is the sixth.
After some fierce bidding it eventually sold for £430,000, but with fees the total hit £516,000.
Abdicated: King Edward VIII stepped down from the throne in 1936 to marry a divorcée
The price represents a world record for a Royal mint coin produced in the UK.
Ever controversial, Edward refused to follow coinage tradition and have his head face the opposite direction to his predecessor, his father King George V, who had faced left.
This tradition started in the 17th century with King Charles II who wished to face the opposite way to Oliver Cromwell and has been followed ever since.
Edward sat for portraits and presentations of plaster models for the coin in February 1936, a month after he became King.
On the reverse of the gold coin is St George slaying a dragon with his sword and the year of 1937.
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Visitors to the Navarre-Anderson Trading Post on North Custer Road in Monroe last weekend had the opportunity to learn about life as a fur trader in the area in the 1790s. John Gibney, director of the Monroe County Historical Museum, explains the workings of a flintlock musket to Cameron Craig, 10, of Monroe.
Beth Kern of Maybee secures poles.
nbrn furtrade01p 4/26/2008 The Blade/Herral Long Joe Mazur Carltom Michigan looks at hides displayed by Ed Bundshuh of Ypsilanti mich get photos of re-enactors in 1790s era clothing and visitors at the Fur Trade Day at the trading post. It will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. there will be demonstrations on scraping and pressing animal skins and re-enactors cooking period food over open wood fires.
Joe Mazur of Carleton learns about hides as displayed by Ed Bundshuh of Ypsilanti.
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Back when I was a fresh faced besuited bank employee, I remember getting quite excited by the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – no really!
I remember the celebrated management consultant Peter Drucker writing about how crucial it was to turn social problems into economic opportunities and I remember that in 1989 the wonderful Ben & Jerry’s published the first ever social report. At the time, as a young employee and a bit of an idealist, it seemed very important to me that the company you worked for cared about stuff and wasn’t just about profit.
Just a few years later in 1995 Shell spent £20 million on its PR offensive to rebuild its reputation following accusations of complicity in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists in Nigeria. By pioneering the use of CSR reports, Shell managed to successfully rebuild the company’s reputation.
Now call me a cynic but it was at this point that I think the game changed! What had originally been about companies recognising that they had a responsibility to society became more about how companies can use the techniques of CSR to enhance their brand, divert attention from some massive faux pas or simply as a means of ticking a box for the annual report.
For me CSR should not be just an afterthought in the business plan, it should be driven by philanthropy as well as economic benefit.
The companies that support Forever Manchester do recognise that they have a real responsibility to care about the society we’re part of, the people that work for them and the communities and neighbourhoods they live in. These are organisations that we love working with.
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Read the January Economic Currents in PDF
The policy landscape in the U.S. has become much like the weather in Chicago; it can change dramatically in the course of a day. That is what happened on January 2. The escalation of tensions with Iran following the killing of a top Iranian general by the U.S. has introduced a whole new host of downside risks to the outlook. I spent the past few days reading and talking to geopolitical experts to get a better sense of what may occur. It was not relaxing (understatement).
The Iranians have stated that their beef is with the president, not the American people; their goal was to attack U.S. military bases, which they did on January 7. There were no casualties or major damages, which the White House and the rest of the world read as an attempt by Iran to de-escalate.
The president has called upon NATO for support in sanctions against Iran, which is a heavy lift given the deterioration in relations with our closest allies. Iran has been a serial aggressor in the region and has threatened to continue to up the ante. Iran has several options:
- Targeted attacks and blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, which would trigger a spike in oil prices. Much of the oil from the Middle East traverses those waters.
- Attacks on Saudi oil fields. Iran used drones to attack a field in September as an extension of its proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
- Fomenting a civil war in Iraq, disrupting oil exports.
- Cyber attacks.
- Terrorist attacks on American citizens.
The conflict has taken the focus off of ISIS, which is regaining momentum. During the Turkish invasion of Syria, hundreds of prisoners guarded by Kurds escaped.
The largest economic shocks from a conflict with Iran are likely to come from two sources: modestly higher oil prices and the blow to confidence associated with the uncertainty surrounding outcomes. There is really no road map to measure the impact a major cyber attack could have on the U.S. economy, except that it would feed fear and uncertainty about the future, which are already weighing on the economy.
The Federal Reserve is most concerned about the latter. Rising risks and the toll from uncertainty tied to trade wars were reasons that the Fed did a U-turn and cut rates in 2019. The boost to housing, mortgage refinancing and spending on big-ticket items is still visible today. However, the manufacturing sector remains weak.
Worse yet is the break between consumer confidence and CEO confidence, which remains in recessionary territory. (See Chart 1.) Even confidence in the service sector, which had largely escaped the weakness in manufacturing, plummeted in recent months. This begs the question, what do CEOs know that the rest of us are missing?
This edition of Economic Currents provides a deep dive into the economic outlook, paying special attention to downside risks. The economy is much better positioned to weather higher oil prices than it once was, while the Fed has proven its willingness to act quickly to hedge against downside risks. Those on the Fed would rather overstimulate an economy that is still undershooting on inflation than wait until the economy actually falters before taking action. We have adopted our slowdown scenario from last month as the base case for 2020, but a recession cannot be ruled out.
Real GDP is expected to slow from an average 2.4% in 2019 to 1.9% in 2020. The risk is that the economy slips into what economists call a “growth recession,” or worse. (See Chart 2.) A growth recession occurs when companies preserve profit margins with budget cuts. The pace of hiring slows below the pace of workers entering the labor market, causing the unemployment rate to rise.
The strongest argument for a slowdown in the pace of hiring in 2020 can again be found in the surveys of CEOs. The most recent survey of CEOs by the Business Roundtable, which actually asks about hiring plans, shows that 60% of participants plan to hold the line on hiring or cut workers over the next six months; that is up from 43% a year ago.
Consumer spending is expected to hold up best. Earlier rate cuts triggered a surge in mortgage refinancing and a pickup in home buying. Eventually, a slowdown in hiring and higher prices at the gas pump will drag on growth.
Consumers are more vulnerable to negative news shocks than they were in the past. Their expectations about the future have fallen well below their assessments of current economic conditions, which makes them more skittish during times of uncertainty. An extreme example of this phenomenon occurred when consumers and businesses came to a virtual standstill in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Home buying and building should start the year strong. We are still benefiting from low interest rates as pent-up demand for housing is ballooning and the backlog of home sales remains high. Construction on new homes continues to trail household formation, while the inventory of existing homes for sale continues to shrink.
Increasing concerns about job security, rising energy costs and slowing income growth are expected to take a toll on buying and construction later in the year. Affordability will remain a hurdle as tight inventories keep upward pressure on prices.
Business investment is expected to remain the Achilles heel of the outlook. A scheduled cut in production of the Boeing 737 Max will exacerbate losses at the start of the year. The collateral damage to suppliers is expected to be particularly large. Boeing still expects to bring the plane on line by mid-year, but even then there will be hurdles to overcome as pilots will need to be retrained and foreign governments will need to sign off on modifications before exports can resume.
More broadly, some short-term business investments that were delayed last year should move forward once a phase one agreement on trade with China is signed. Tariffs still place an ongoing uncertainty on the course of trade policy in an election year, which is expected to continue to hold back larger, long-term investments. It is hard to place a bet on where to invest your manufacturing capacity when you don’t know how your supply chain and sales could be further impacted by trade wars.
Higher oil prices are likely to add insult to injury as they will further squeeze profit margins. It is expected to take at least six months of higher oil prices for U.S. investment and production in the oil patch to pick up, while alternative energy sources remain limited. Production in the U.S. was still contracting at the end of 2019; the rig count dropped 30% from a year ago in December.
CEOs are even more susceptible to a negative news shock than consumers because their confidence in the economy is already low. The risk is that they start relying more on job cuts to boost margins in the year ahead.
Inventories are expected to drain, which will place a further drag on production and investment. Firms scrambled to load up on inventories ahead of tariffs and the GM strike last year; they are now liquidating inventories. The cut in production of the 737 Max will exacerbate the drawdown in inventories.
Government spending is expected to pick up now that the budget for fiscal year 2020 has been passed. There is also a boost in spending in the second quarter tied to the 2020 Census that reverses course again during the second half of the year as the Census winds down. State and local government spending is expected to slow slightly in response to a slowdown in both incomes and corporate tax revenues.
Trade is expected to place less of a drag on growth in 2020. The primary reason is the resumption of agricultural exports to China.
Separately, there are risks that the trade war with Europe could heat up. The European Union (EU) is expected to retaliate with tariffs tied to subsidies for Boeing after it was hit by tariffs for Airbus subsidies last fall. The administration has not ruled out vehicle and parts tariffs as a response to any additional tariffs from the EU. However, the deadline involving those tariffs for national security reasons expired last October; the Commerce Department may have to review the tariffs again before they can be implemented.
Downside Risks: The credible threat that tensions between the U.S. and Iran will worsen in the months to come means that risks are to the downside for economic growth. The toll associated with a massive cyber attack is particularly hard to quantify, but would no doubt hit consumer and business confidence.
Higher Overall PCE (personal consumption expenditures) inflation is expected to move up slightly in 2020, largely in response to higher energy prices. Most of the rise in oil prices was already baked into the cake. OPEC cut production at the same time that production in the U.S. was falling. Any additional increase in prices from a conflict with Iran is expected to be small.
The core PCE measure of inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, is expected to move up slightly but remain below the Fed’s 2% target. Health care and shelter costs are expected to remain drivers of core inflation. Ongoing restructuring in retail and aggressive discounting in the vehicle sector will provide a drag on overall inflation.
“The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to cut short-term interest rates at least once in 2020 as inflation continues to fall short of its target.”
The pace of tuition increases has moderated substantially, albeit from extremely high levels.
Risks: The risk is that inflation comes in hotter than expected, given the upside risks to oil prices and ongoing shortages in the housing market.
The Fed Cuts Rates
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to cut short-term interest rates at least once in 2020 as inflation continues to fall short of its target. Committee members want to avoid the disinflation and stagnation trap that Japan experienced in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Separately, the Fed is expected to continue to expand its balance sheet in the first half to provide more liquidity for overnight credit markets. This is one side effect from running much higher federal deficits. It is no coincidence that the yen overnight markets experienced acute liquidity problems at the very moment that Treasury issuances surged. The Fed has gone to great lengths to argue that the reversal of its balance sheet size is not quantitative easing but perception is reality in financial markets: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
Risks: The Fed has already proven its willingness to cut preemptively and will not hesitate to cut more aggressively should tensions with Iran pose a more direct threat to the stability of financial markets and growth.
The Fed hopes to stem the growth in its balance sheet in 2020 as long as the overnight market for credit stabilizes. Fears of a crunch on overnight funding were overblown; the overnight markets corrected. A surge in uncertainty tied to a conflict with Iran could sideline those plans.
10-Year Treasury Yields Remain Low
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is expected to dip to 1.6% by year-end. The Fed’s balance sheet operations and concern that growth will slow are expected to offset any upward pressure on rates associated with higher overall inflation. Much of the inflation tied to higher energy prices is expected to be transitory.
Risks: The yield curve could invert again (the 10-year yield could drop below the 3-month yield) if the Fed hesitates on cutting rates further. This is something that upped the risk of recession and prompted the Fed to cut more aggressively during the summer last year. (See Chart 3.)
Financial Markets Become More Turbulent
Uncertainty is the enemy of financial markets, which means we could be in for a rocky year. Geopolitical risks have supplanted trade wars for financial markets. Risks include Iran and North Korea.
China also ranks high on the list of downside risks given the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Military intervention by the Chinese could exacerbate capital flight and limit China’s access to global financial markets, which relies heavily on Hong Kong.
This is in addition to the volatility associated with a slowing economy and weaker profit growth. The broader stock indices are expected to end the year 5-8% higher, due largely to additional easing by the Fed.
It is important to note that the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are driven by the largest and most profitable companies. This helps to explain at least part of the break between financial market optimism and broader CEO optimism. The stock market is even less reflective of overall economic conditions than it was in the past.
Risks: Markets could correct if the economy slips into a growth recession or worse, given the downward pressure on profits associated with such a scenario.
Something has to give. Either CEOs need to regain their mojo and commit more to investing in the future or growth will slow in 2020. The economy is better positioned to weather higher energy prices than it was in the past. A major blow to confidence dealt by the storm brewing in the Middle East would be much harder to survive. There is no precedent for how firms and individuals would respond to the kind of cyber attack the Iranians are capable of launching.
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Sanjeeva Reddy`s msg on nation building still relevant: Prez
Anantapuram (AP): President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said former president Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy`s message that it was important for Indians to work together to build independent India into a modern nation was relevant even now as the society was faced with many challenges.
"Dr Reddy`s message continues to be of relevance today as we confront the challenges that our society is facing. They remind us of the important responsibility we have as citizens of India," Mukherjee said, addressing the valedictory ceremony of the birth centenary celebrations of Sanjeeva Reddy here.
He hailed Reddy as a role model in government and politics and one whom Indian history would always remember for the crucial role he played in important turning points in contemporary politics.
"Dr Reddy was a man with many records to his credit. He was the youngest President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. He was the only person to have been Chief Minister (of Andhra Pradesh), Speaker of Lok Sabha and President of India. He was also the main architect of modern day Andhra Pradesh," Mukherjee recalled.
"He devoted a major part of his life to party work and shifted seamlessly between party and government. He was greatly admired for his dignity in word and deed as well as his iron will in taking decisions and implementing them," the President noted.
He said that Dr Reddy`s tenure as President was a period of "unparallelled political turmoil" and saw him swear-in three governments led by Morarji Desai, Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi.
"He took historic decisions on a number of important issues. By virtue of his long years in public life and close association with leaders from all sections of opinion, Dr Reddy was able to be a steady hand at the wheel of the state. He lent distinction to the highest office of the land by his idealism and patriotism," the President said.
As the first Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh, Dr Reddy "applied himself with vigour" to the development and modernisation of the state and the progress of its people.
"He is credited with giving shape to plans for construction of Nagarjuna Sagar, Srisailam, Sriram Sagar and Vamsadhara irrigation projects that are among the most important milestones in the development of the region," the President added.
Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, and others were present.
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Transcript of Bucket Drumming
Ms. Wood!!!! What is Bucket Drumming? The art of creating music while using buckets
We will use 3 sizes of buckets to create a variety of different rhythms
The different sizes will create higher and lower pitches What Do I Call THAT Bucket? The largest bucket (that looks like a garbage can) is the BASS bucket
The middle sized bucket is called the ALTO bucket
The smallest bucket (most say RONA) are called the SOPRANO bucket Peter Rabbit The Bucket Drummer Peter Rabbit The Bucket Drummer in TORONTO? Why Bucket Drumming? Obviously, bucket drums can be used to explore and experiment with different sounds.
What element of music do you think we'll explore? We will mostly explore the Element of RHYTHM when using the bucket drums.
Remember rhythm is: the pattern of long and short sounds! How Do We Play a Bucket Drum? We will use either 1 or 2 drum sticks to strike the drums while playing.
We produce sounds by either striking the Centre, Rim, Side or Stick Click Where to Strike the Drum? Centre Side Rim(where the side and top meet each other) Where Do You Find Bucket Drumming? At Cheyne we practice bucket drumming in the classroom but we also have an extra curricular bucket drumming group if you are interested in joining.
Bucket drumming has a rich history of being used as a folk instrument. Remember, folk means "of the people", in street performances and as performance art pieces. What Do We Need To Know? Respect the buckets.
Drum sticks are to be used for hitting ONLY the drums and not people.
Drum sticks are for drumming and not sword fighting, I know its tempting.
Buckets are not to be worn on your head - carry them only!
Do not stand in or on any bucket. If a bucket has a hole in it, please let Ms. Wood know right away so that we can safely remove the bucket. Please don't try to put sticks in the damaged buckets, you may hurt yourself.
Accidents DO happen so please inform Ms. Wood IMMEDIATELY if a bucket or stick breaks because they could cause injuries to you or somebody else.
SAFETY FIRST! A few things to make the class go smoother Only select buckets when asked to.
Only play when asked to do so - the longer it takes you to stop, the less we will get done and I have some exciting things planned that you do not want to miss out on!
Failure to stop playing when asked will result in you only being able to participate by clapping. That's no fun! Stick Distribution Ms. Wood will pass out the sticks once everybody has a bucket. You may practice a bit until everybody has a set of stick but when I put my hands up - you must stop playing and put your sticks on your drum.
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Happy Halloween! One of the spooky compositions associated with this holiday is Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Originally written for organ, here is a remarkable version by Robert Tiso played on musical glasses! It has almost 2.6 million hits on YouTube.
The Toccata and Fugue was first recorded in an arrangement by Stokowski on his first 78rpm disc in 1927. It was used in the film Fantasia and even rock bands have embraced it. What adds to its spooky history is that now musicologists don’t think it was written by Bach! What better music for Halloween than a piece with a questionable past and sinister background? 🙂
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Materialism has simply got us handpicking the most glaring and eye-pleasing products from the market. But some things are best used for their traditional authenticity. And that one thing, this year, could be a vedic rakhi. Never heard of it, right? Well, this year you would; and maybe also use it for yourself.
During ancient times, when there were no shops, of course, the tradition was that sisters should tie rakhi made by ancient method on the brother’s wrist. The rakhi made by vedic method is called Rakshasutra.
So taking a toll back in time, we would relook at how one can make a vedic rakhi this year to finally celebrate the festival as it should be.
How to make a vedic rakhi
Interestingly, one doesn’t need to find any sort of jadibuti to make vedic rakhi at home. The process of making a vedic rakhi is pretty simple and the ingredients to make one could be found around the home.
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In total, one needs five ingredients to make rakhi at home. And these would be – Durva, i.e. Doob, which you can also call grass, Akshat, i.e. Rice, Sandalwood, Mustard and Saffron. Apart from these ingredients, you can also place turmeric, kodi and gomti chakra. Once the ingredients are ready, put them in a silk cloth, sew it, and thread it in the kalav. And that’s it. You have your vedic rakhi ready.
Vedic rakhi mantra
You may also recite a vedic mantra as you make the rakhi to attract positive energies. This vedic mantra is:
येन बद्धो बली राजा दानवेन्द्रो महाबल:।
तेन त्वां अभिबद्धनामि रक्षे मा चल मा चल।।
The meaning of this mantra is – I am tying you with the same Rakshasutra with which Mahabali, Mahadani King Bali was tied. O defense thread, you should not be moving, but remain stable on it. This rakshasutra can be tied by the priest to the king, by the brahmin to the host, by the sister to the brother, by the mother to the son and by the wife to the husband.
Significance of vedic rakhi
Besides the spiritual benefits, this rakhi also has many health benefits. As per our astrologers, tying Rakshasutra on the wrist of an individual during the Sawan season develops immunity and helps them in fighting infectious diseases. Along with this, this Rakshasutra also transmits positive energies and makes us less prone to stress.
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Each and every item used to make this rakhi has some significance and denotes something. For example, Durva i.e. the Dob grows on its own. Thus using it ensures the progress and lineage of your brother. Saffron is bright and brings radiance of spirituality in life. Meanwhile, Sandalwood is a symbol of coolness and peace. And its use in Rakhi brings peace and comfort to an individual’s life.
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The Victorian Coroner’s Court has found a new class of drugs contributed to the 4551 fatal overdoses in the past decade.
New Synthetic Drugs Are Increasingly Found In Overdose Deaths In Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia — More people dying from drug overdose are using new synthetic drugs in the southeast Australian state of Victoria, as per a coronial analysis of such fatalities during the past decade.
4551 people were victims of fatal overdoses in the state between 2011 and 2020, the Victorian Overdose Deaths report found.
Men were twice as likely to die of an overdose than women, with 35-54-year-olds most at risk.
The report identified a new trend in lab-made narcotics called “New Psychoactive Substances,” which contributed to 33 fatal overdoses in 2020.
“The data highlights the urgent need for appropriate harm reduction interventions to mitigate the risks associated with New Psychoactive Substances use,” states the Coroner’s Court review.
Some of the drugs are so new they have only been on the market for a matter of weeks or months.
Given the rapid rise of New Psychoactive Substances, their effects have not been well studied, and there is some uncertainty about their impact in fatal overdose cases.
Synthetic drugs use, particularly New Psychoactive Substances, may have increased during the pandemic, the report suggests, or the higher number of New Psychoactive Substance-related deaths could be due to increased forensic detection.
Previous coronial inquests into deaths involving these new and emerging drugs have called for developing a drug early warning network and a drug checking service.
More broadly, pharmaceutical drugs such as benzodiazepines played a role in more than three-quarters of fatal overdoses in 2020, while illegal drugs were involved in half of all cases, and alcohol was a factor in 30 percent.
The anticonvulsant and anxiety drug Pregabalin has also emerged as a frequent contributor to deadly overdoses.
The report did have some good news, with a slight decline in overall deaths since 2018.
While drug experts had been concerned that the impacts of the pandemic might exacerbate drug-related harms, this has not been the case so far, with an increase of 10 overdose deaths (1.9 percent) between 2019 and 2020.
Deaths from heroin decreased by 12 percent to 187 between 2019 and 2020, while fatal overdoses involving methadone fell also.
However, deaths from cocaine, MDMA and GHB overdoses increased in 2020 to reach ten-year highs.
The State Coroner, Judge John Cain, said making fatal overdose trends public would give alcohol and drug workers access to critical information.
“Trends in drugs involved in overdose deaths are always changing, which highlights the need for timely data and policies that reduce harms,” he said.
The report is the first of a planned series of public releases by the Coroner’s Court to support drug harm reduction efforts.
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A clear, concise approach provides the anatomical information you need to excel in massage therapy! Know the Body: Muscle, Bone, and Palpation Essentials covers muscle identification plus attachments, actions, stabilization functions, nerve innervation, palpation, and treatment considerations for each of those muscles. Hundreds of full-color illustrations make it easier to learn muscle and bone identification, as well as bony landmarks. Written by expert massage therapy practitioner and educator Joseph E. Muscolino, Know the Body helps you learn — not simply memorize — the essentials of muscles, bones, and palpation.
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2. The Skeletal System
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4. Bone Palpation
5. Muscles of the Shoulder Girdle and Arm
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7. Muscles of the Spine and Rib Cage
8. Muscles of the Head
9. Muscles of the Pelvis and Thigh
10. Muscles of the Leg and Foot
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When Enver Hoxha, Albania's long-term Stalinist dictator, was buried with honour under the socialist-realist statue of Mother Albania in the martyrs' cemetery in Tirana, the date of his death - 11 April 1985 - was omitted from his tombstone. Ramiz Alia, who followed Hoxha as secretary of the ruling Albanian Party of Labour (ALP), was responsible for the omission; he argued (in a spirit that would find an echo today in Pyongyang) that such a man could never die.
It is arguably Albania’s misfortune that as the country marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hoxha's death - with debate and reflection rather than the enforced festivity of his era - that a plausible case can be made that Ramiz Alia was right.
True, the most brutal aspects of the Hoxha regime (and of the one-party regime that lasted until 1990-91) are long gone: including its state-of-siege isolation, its endless political murders, its prisons, its forced-labour camps, and the hardships of long internal exile. But some aspects of its authoritarian rule live on: the elite’s general disregard for the well-being of the people and for the best interests of the state, brutal and intolerant politics, and the lack of a rule of law. These have obstructed the path to Albania's self-declared goals of establishing a functioning democracy, a sustainable market economy, and Euro-Atlantic integration.
The great leader
The forty years of Enver Hoxha’s rule left a heavy legacy to post-communist Albania. There is a case in his favour: that in face of the grinding poverty of the country he inherited in 1944, he diversified the economy through a programme of Soviet-style industrialisation, raised the standard of living, reduced the influence of divisive factors (such as regional, clan and occasionally religious loyalties) on Albanian society, defended Albania's territorial integrity and independence; and made specific improvements in areas such as health, education, and women's rights.
It can sound impressive, as long as the description stays on the surface and not too many details are allowed to intrude. It also leaves out one of the notable features of Hoxha’s reign: that unlike some east-central European dictators who tended to be become less hardline with age, Hoxha became more extreme and suspicious, and intent on using his extensive security apparatus centred on the dreaded Sigurimi (secret police) to penetrate the minds as well as the homes of Albanians. The citizens survived (except in rare and heroic cases) mainly by retreating into conformism and apathy, taking something of the paranoia of their all-seeing ruler into themselves.
The Albanian Party of Labour and its members fared little better, for Hoxha periodically and ruthlessly eliminated many of his colleagues; no communist regime experienced such repeated purges and decimation. As the process developed, power was restricted to a small group bound together by traditional ties of family or clan loyalty and their shared complicity in the continuing murderous purges. The regime created what has been described as a collage of fantasies; the type of place that would make a surrealist weep with joy. But if it was a fantasy, it was a brutal one.
The last man standing
Enver Hoxha’s death left a vacuum that was filled by his protege Ramiz Alia. The new leader was immediately faced with increasingly serious economic and social problems, the product of a dangerous cocktail: over-centralisation compounded by inept and ideological decision-making, high birthrates, rural overpopulation, and widespread unemployment. These woes were further exacerbated by inefficient enterprises, rampant corruption and constant shortages.
Ramiz Alia, who aspired to be a reforming communist, gradually lightened the most repressive aspects of the regime, and as he did so the most alienated segments of society became bolder. Alia did little more than react, tinkering with the deep structures while fundamentally trying to preserve the Hoxha system. It was already too late. Albanians watched the intensifying change across the rest of eastern Europe; at home, deteriorating conditions led to the the development of an increasingly radical and confrontational street-culture of a random and anarchic character.
The final push towards transformational change came from Albania’s students, particularly those from the country’s only university, in Tirana. They, unlike the majority of intellectuals, were willing to risk showing open defiance of the system. Alia was concerned enough to send Sali Berisha, one of the first insiders to advocate political pluralism and thus assumed to possess some authority among the students, to act as mediator. Berisha skilfully used this role to commandeer and then direct the protests, which forced Alia to surrender Europe's last political monopoly. In many ways, Sali Berisha has dominated Albania ever since.
The new-old president
Sali Berisha, Albania's leading cardiologist, had been both a communist and a candidate-member of the party’s central committee. But by the time he became Albania’s president in 1992, he saw the anti-communist banner as the wave of the future and found revenge against former communists useful in distracting the population from his own record. But leaving Hoxha behind was more difficult than anyone had anticipated.
Berisha presided over profound economic and social change. He adopted the International Monetary Fund’s familiar economic "shock-therapy": rapid privatisations, ending import-restrictions, abandoning price-controls, phasing out subsidies to unprofitable or even marginal businesses. The resulted was mass unemployment and - for the tens of thousands who had become dependent on government subsidies and services - even deeper poverty. The social changes accompanying this upheaval were also profound. Albanians were, seemingly overnight, released from one of the most restrictive and isolated social structures in Europe into the promise (and sometimes the possession) of new-found personal freedoms and commodities. Among the most welcome, with all its attendant benefits and ills, was simple mobility: hundreds of thousands of Albanians fled abroad.
But in crucial areas, Hoxha's hold on his successors remained strong. Berisha and the rest of the Tirana elite shared an authoritarian and intolerant mindset that precluded the kind of compromise and negotiation Albania needed to move towards democracy. Berisha, his singular courage during the last stages of the old regime notwithstanding, seemed unable to distance himself from his inheritance.
Indeed, his Democratic Party became a personal vehicle for his own power as (like Hoxha) he refused to permit internal dissent and struck out against challengers with everything at his disposal (even violence), whatever the cost to Albania's fledgling democracy. His election campaigns recalled communist-era propaganda, with Berisha branding the opposition as “terrorists” and a “red front” subsidised by Albania's traditional enemies, the Serbs and the Greeks. His security forces and thugs were deployed to disrupt opposition rallies, and to harass and assault opposition supporters, candidates and even the press.
The old-new prime minister
The fatal combination of these policies and the inept handling of a scandal surrounding a pyramid investment-scheme, swept Sali Berisha away in 1997 - amid what could be considered Europe's first successful popular armed uprising since the 19th century.
The growing unrest spread into full-scale rebellion while the army disintegrated. Berisha's brutal secret police could not prevent people from raiding abandoned armouries and seizing close to a million Kalashnikov assault-weapons, along with tanks, artillery-pieces and even sophisticated Chinese surface-to-air missiles. The ensuing violence caused thousands of deaths, forcing Berisha to resign in disgrace and hold new elections. The opposition came to power in a process that was a democratic disgrace, but the international community had no choice but to endorse the outcome.
The new premier, Fatos Nano, had been the communist regime’s last prime minister. He too was a creature of the Hoxha era, and immured in Albania's political culture of revenge and authoritarianism. Indeed, in many ways he was the embodiment of that culture: a protege of Hoxha's wife Nexhmije, he had opposed real pluralism and a market economy until the very end of one-party rule.
Nano set his tone early; like Berisha's and indeed Hoxha's, it tended to be dogmatic, confrontational and (initially at least) focused on score-settling. He brought old hardliners into his inner circle, sidelined many dedicated reformers, and suppressed internal party discussion. Nano, again like Berisha, also undermined the idea of an independent civil service by purging the security apparatus, the judiciary and the state administration, and almost all ambassadors and generals.
Nano, after almost being toppled in a coup attempt engineered by Berisha, then settled into overseeing a regime of corruption that could enrich him and pay off his supporters. Once more, work essential to the good of the people was ignored. But when the neglected citizens had their chance to replace him, Berisha appeared the only available choice.
The final defeat
The "new" Sali Berisha, who returned to power in 2005 and has held it since, has abjured much of the violence and extremism that characterised his presidency. Some progress has been achieved, but much of the old Hoxha-ist ways linger. Too much of Berisha's energy is dedicated to enhancing his own rule through increased control of (for example) local government and ostensibly independent administrative institutions. Albania’s elections continue to be surrounded by invective and a degree of violence, often resulting in lengthy political standoffs which postpone work on much-needed reform.
True, the conduct of the parliamentary elections of 2009 was marginally better, but they were still marred by (some) pre-election violence, politicisation of technical aspects, reports of voter intimidation, and widespread counting irregularities. Many domestic and international observers continue to call for urgent action on electoral and judicial reform, increased attention to government corruption and government connections with organised crime, and the strengthening of the rule of law.
The Enver Hoxha years were a story of personal and elite survival, ruthless power, pitiless repression, regular purges, and ideological zealotry. A quarter-century after his death and nearly two decades after the fall of communism, Albania is still struggling to complete its democratic transition. Its fulfilment would be the old dictator’s last and most definitive defeat.
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Students enrolled in CYEN at LA Tech are members of exciting organizations and have already formed an organization especially for Cyber Engineers. You may be interested in the following relevant organizations at Louisiana Tech:
Association of Cyber Engineers
The Association of Cyber Engineers (ACE) focuses on learning outside of the classroom through competitions such as DC3 and Hack‑a‑thons. We use what we've learned in class and through ACE to further our knowledge of cyberspace in order to prepare ourselves for the future.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.
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In addition, many organizations support and assist CYEN at LA Tech. Find out more by checking them out:
Air Force Research Lab Information Directorate
The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL RI) is located in Rome, N.Y. The Information Directorate is focused on basic research and advanced development in the cyber domain. Its Senior Scientist for Information Assurance, Dr. Kamal T. Jabbour, planted the seed for CYEN at LA Tech and continues to provide invaluable feedback and support.
Cyber Innovation Center
The Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation located in Bossier City, Louisiana. The CIC is the anchor of a 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park and serves as catalyst for the development and expansion of a knowledge-based workforce throughout the region.
National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center
The mission of the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC) is to build a sustainable knowledge-based workforce that can support the needs of government, industry, and academia.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has evolved from the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, and extends its scope beyond the federal workplace to include civilians and students in kindergarten through post-graduate school. The goal of NICE is to establish an operational, sustainable, and continually improving cybersecurity education program for the nation to use sound cyber practices that will enhance the nation's security. | <urn:uuid:3fc84e8c-7af0-4f0d-acd9-249228597c31> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://coes.latech.edu/cyen/students.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918971 | 511 | 1.96875 | 2 |
|Reviews for The Burning of the Swastika|
| Historicalbookworm chapter 1 . 10/22/2012
Very good fanfic, but with a historical inaccuracy.
The conditions in Belsen didn't deteriorate until December 1944, when Josef Kramer from Auschwitz became Kommandant. Before, it was a fairly decent place. The inmates were allowed to keep their clothing, didn't always have to work, etc. If the story was set in December 1944, it would be spot-on. I enjoy your writing style and felt the pain of the Belsen inmates. I would enjoy reading more of your stories in the future.
PS Check out the British docudrama "The Relief of Belsen", on the liberation of Belsen. (it's on YouTube) those amazing Brits worked very hard to save as many people as they could..and for what they faced, I'd say they did a pretty amazing job. Biggest medical relief in history. | <urn:uuid:8706443e-4717-43c2-b3c7-2d4ec5621090> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.fictionpress.com/r/3047746/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978349 | 203 | 1.921875 | 2 |
(This article is part of the JMeter Series)
Upon starting JMeter you’ll see two branches: “Test Plan” and “WorkBench”.
“Test Plan” is the place where your tests will live.
What the purpose of “WorkBench” is, is not really clear. It seems to be meant to be a place to do your throw-away experimentation.
The really crucial “trap” of the “WorkBench” is however, that JMeter will throw away whatever you put into the “WorkBench” upon exit. JMeter will not save the contents of the “WorkBench” if you tell it to “Save” your work and you’ll loose whatever is in there. It will only save the contents of the “Test Plan” branch.
So be ware of putting anything in the “Work Bench”. You’re bound to get burned.
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A Ballycastle lifeguard has become the first person in 40 years to complete the swim from Rathlin Island to Ballycastle.
Rathlin Island was the starting point for Ciaran's swim
Ciaran McGinn, at just 23 years of age, overcame unpredictable tides, chilly waters and scores of jellyfish to complete the six-and-a-half mile swim in just over three hours.
More than 100 people gathered along the sea front to see him become the first man since legendary swimmer Jack McClelland to complete the feat.
"It was a great reception, there was a good crowd," Ciaran said.
"It was a bit surreal to be honest. I'd like to thank them all very much for their support."
Ciaran decided to attempt the swim after a workmate came up with the idea.
All funds raised from sponsorship of Ciaran's effort will go directly to the RNLI.
Ciaran McGinn completed the swim in three hours, 10 minutes
He had originally planned to set off from Church Bay on Rathlin before dawn but due to poor weather conditions he was forced to wait until later in the day.
Ciaran, a former triathlon competitor, spent hours in the sea and in the gym preparing for the challenge.
He said the most difficult part of the swim was in the area around Fairhead "because the tides kept pushing me back".
"I was swimming and not getting anywhere for about 20 minutes," he said.
"If I had left ten to 15 minutes later, I could have shaved about 30 minutes off my time, but I was too eager to get into the water.
"Thankfully, the tides turned as I headed into the harbour and it was
fairly straight-forward from then on."
Ciaran had estimated that it would take him between five and six hours to reach the shore, but managed to complete the stretch in three hours and 10 minutes.
"It wasn't as cold as I thought it was going to be and thankfully there
weren't too many jellyfish," he said.
Ciaran said that while he had no immediate plans to repeat the
crossing, he "would not completely rule it out in the future".
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Absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and kinetics of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2- (heptafluoropropoxy) proprionic acid ammonium salt following a single dose in rat, mouse, and cynomolgus monkey
Ammonium, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(heptafluoropropoxy)-propanoate has been developed as a processing aid used in the manufacture of fluoropolymers. The absorption, distribution, elimination, and distribution (ADME) and kinetic behavior of this substance has been evaluated in rats, mice, and cynomolgus monkeys by oral and intravenous routes of exposure and studied in both plasma and urine. The test substance is rapidly and completely absorbed in both rats and mice and both in vivo and in vitro experiments indicate that it is not metabolized. The test substance is rapidly eliminated exclusively in the urine in both rats and mice, with rats eliminating it more quickly than mice (approximately 5h elimination half-life in rats, 20 h half-life in mice). Pharmacokinetic analysis in monkeys, rats, and mice indicate rapid, biphasic elimination characterized by a very fast alpha phase and a slower beta phase. The beta phase does not contribute to potential accumulation after multiple dosing in rats or monkeys. Comparative pharmacokinetics in rats, mice, and monkeys indicates that the rat is more similar to the monkey and is therefore a more appropriate rodent model for pharmacokinetics in primates. | <urn:uuid:752ba3d7-c541-4811-810e-4dcdfc23e6ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.simulations-plus.com/resource/absorption-distribution-metabolism-excretion-kinetics-2333-tetrafluoro-2-heptafluoropropoxyproprionic-acid-ammonium-salt-following-single-dose-rat-mouse-cynomolgus-monkey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.911958 | 323 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Computer-Based Stop Smoking Program in Assisting Doctors in Helping Adults Stop Smoking
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.|
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00383461|
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 3, 2006
Last Update Posted : May 29, 2013
RATIONALE: Computer-based stop smoking programs may assist doctors in helping patients stop smoking.
PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well a computer-based stop smoking program works in assisting doctors in helping adults stop smoking.
|Condition or disease||Intervention/treatment||Phase|
|Tobacco Use Disorder||Behavioral: smoking cessation intervention Other: counseling intervention||Not Applicable|
- Develop an electronic medical record (EMR)-based strategy, the Computerized EMR-Assisted Smoking Cessation Effort (CEASCE), for assisting physicians in treating tobacco use in adults who are currently smokers.
- Assess the reach and effectiveness of CEASCE by conducting a randomized controlled trial in the Brigham and Women's Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network to determine its effectiveness in increasing the proportion of smokers who receive treatment.
- Assess the adoption, implementation, and short-term maintenance of CEASCE by measuring the proportion and characteristics of providers who use CEASCE, the consistency with which providers use the components of CEASCE, and changes in the use of CEASCE over time.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, controlled, multicenter study. Clinics are stratified according to socioeconomic mix of patients and clinic type (community health center vs hospital based vs community-based). Clinics are randomized to 1 of 2 intervention arms.
- Arm I (intervention): Primary care providers utilize the Computerized Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-Assisted Smoking Cessation Effort (CEASCE) decision support system comprising a 5-step algorithm (i.e., the "5 A's"). CEASCE provides reminders to primary care providers to document smoking status using the "5 A's" (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange). Primary care providers input information into the CEASCE, including asking the patient about their smoking status (Ask), the date they advised the patient to quit (Advise), an assessment of the patient's readiness to quit (Assess), and the action that was taken by the physician (Assist). When the primary care provider inputs information, CEASCE automatically presents actions that are tailored to the smoker's readiness to quit. Actions offered include setting a quit date, prescribing medications, referral to a smoking-cessation counselor, discussing barriers to quitting, counseling about the health risks of smoking, and an offer to help the smoker when she is ready to quit. CEASCE automatically prints educational materials and sends an e-mail to a smoking cessation counselor for patients who are agreeable to having a smoking cessation counselor contact them. The smoking cessation counselor makes 4 attempts to contact the patient by telephone within 30 days. If the patient is ready, the counselor facilitates enrollment into a smoking cessation program and documents the outcome of the referral. The referring primary care provider then receives an e-mail message regarding the outcome.
Primary care providers complete surveys after ≥ 6 months of experience with the intervention. Some patients participate in an exit interview immediately after their primary care visit.
- Arm II (control): Patients receive current standard of care, including documentation of smoking status and contact from a smoking-cessation counselor only after receiving a referral.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 4,314 participants (primary care providers and patients) will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :||Interventional (Clinical Trial)|
|Estimated Enrollment :||4314 participants|
|Masking:||None (Open Label)|
|Official Title:||Computerized EMR-Assisted Smoking Cessation (CEASCE)|
|Study Start Date :||April 2006|
|Actual Primary Completion Date :||September 2007|
|Actual Study Completion Date :||September 2007|
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00383461
|United States, Massachusetts|
|Massachusetts General Hospital|
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114|
|Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center|
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115|
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Today, the number of Americans who are able to financially survive without any reliance on the U.S. government whatsoever is declining at a staggering rate. Whether it is through direct handouts, entitlement programs, student loans, government bailouts, government contracts or direct employment, the truth is that now a solid majority of the American people are at least partially dependent on the federal government for their economic survival. The sad thing is that the majority of the American people say that there is too much government in their lives when opinion polls are taken, but if you try to take the government check that they are getting away from them those same people will scream bloody murder. But the truth is that it is getting to be really, really hard to be completely independent of the U.S. government economically. That is because the U.S. government has their hands in almost everything. The ideal of a “limited federal government” has long since faded away. Very few people seem to believe in it anymore. Instead, Americans today look to the federal government as the answer to all of our problems, as the provider of all of our needs, and as the regulator of every single detail of our lives.
The U.S. government has become the “Big Mother” that we all scramble to for a handout when we get into trouble.
When you sit down and really analyze it, you quickly realize that there is no way that the U.S. government can be extricated from the U.S. economy now. Instead of the free enterprise system that we once had in this country, today we have a situation where the U.S. government has become the very core of the economy. It is the hub around which everything else in the economy revolves.
You don’t believe this?
The following are 11 signs that the U.S. government has become an overgrown monstrosity that almost every American is dependent upon for economic survival….
#1) The Explosion Of Government Handouts
39.68 million Americans are now on food stamps. Millions of others are completely dependent on the extended unemployment benefits that they are receiving. Millions of other Americans are able to survive financially because of the dozens of other welfare programs that the U.S. government subsidizes. More Americans are receiving some form of welfare than ever before in history, and each month the numbers continue to go up. Could there come a day when we all receive government handouts every month?
#2) The Entitlements Programs That Threaten To Destroy U.S. Government Finances
Entitlements are the single biggest U.S. government expense. These programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social Ponzi schemes. Tens of millions of Americans receive government assistance through these programs. In fact, nearly 51 million Americans received $672 billion in Social Security benefits in 2009. We all have friends or family members who receive these kinds of payments. But cutting so many people a check year after year is slowly but surely destroying U.S. government finances. According to an official U.S. government report, rapidly growing interest costs on the national debt together with spending on major entitlement programs will absorb approximately 92 cents of every dollar of federal revenue by the year 2019. That is before a penny is spent on anything else. This is clearly not a sustainable financial situation by any definition, but who wants to tell tens of millions of Americans that their checks are going to be reduced?
#3) The U.S. Government Is Now Even Paying Mortgages
Yes, you read that right. As part of the “stimulus” package, the U.S. government is going to send money to some of the states that were hit the hardest by the real estate crisis. So what is that money going to be used for? Well, Florida, Michigan, California and Arizona have all announced that they plan to use $1.4 billion the Obama administration is sending their way to help the unemployed and the “underwater” pay their mortgages.
#4) Without The Student Loan Program A Huge Percentage Of College Students Would Not Get An Education
The federal student loan program (which was recently entirely nationalized) helps millions of college students pay for their education. Without this assistance by the government, a lot less students would be going to college. In fact, many of you that are reading this article directly benefited from the federal student loan program.
#5) The Bailout Of AIG
One of the biggest insurance companies in the world, AIG, would not be in existence today if not for direct federal government intervention. It kind of makes you wonder what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would think about a federal government that hands big bags of cash to a giant insurance company so that it can survive. Whether it was so they could pay off their debts to Goldman Sachs or whether it was so that they could keep paying out record-setting bonuses, the truth is that AIG would not have made it without the federal government stepping in.
#6) The “Too Big To Fail” Banks
But it wasn’t just AIG that got bailed out. A number of big banks may have gone under if not for the U.S. government. The U.S. government decided that they were “too big to fail”. Well, what about all the small banks that are going under? The truth is that they are “too small to bother with”. We now live in a nation where the U.S. government is the one who decides which banks live and which banks die like dogs. Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
#7) The Bailout Of General Motors
But not only does the federal government bail out financial institutions – it is also now in the car business. Yes, grand old General Motors may have ended up on the scrap heap of history if not for the U.S. government stepping in. So if you work for General Motors or if you work for any company that does business with General Motors, you can thank Uncle Sam for the fact that you still have a job.
#8) The Bailouts Of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
If the U.S. government had not bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we may not have much of a mortgage industry at this point at all. According to Inside Mortgage Finance, government-related entities backed 96.5% of all home loans during the first quarter of 2010, which was up from 90% in 2009. So if you borrowed money to buy a home over the past couple of years, there is a very strong likelihood that the U.S. government was involved.
#9) The U.S. Government – The Nation’s Biggest Employer
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 2 million civilians work for the federal government, excluding the Postal Service. When you add in all U.S. military personnel, that number goes much higher.
The truth is that as the government continues to expand (become more bloated), more Americans than ever are hopping aboard the gravy train. Today, the average federal worker now earns about twice as much as the average worker in the private sector. So if you want to do little work, produce little of real value and enjoy super cushy benefits, maybe you should apply for a job with the federal government too.
#10) Millions Of Americans Are Employed By Firms That Rely On Government Contracts
When considering the impact of the U.S. government on the economy, you can’t forget the hundreds of companies that would go out of business if their U.S. government contracts were taken away. There are literally millions of people who work for companies that do business with the government. If the government disappeared it would cause economic chaos for those firms. The truth is that a whole lot of people make a really good living plugging into the sweetest revenue source of them all – the U.S. government.
#11) The U.S. Government Takeover Of The Health Care System
The U.S. government takeover of the health care system is going to fundamentally change the economics of the health care industry. The U.S. government will now play a major role in deciding which hospitals get built and which do not. Approximately 17% of U.S. GDP is spent on health care, and now the U.S. government has unprecedented control over where that money goes. Over a dozen new taxes have been established by the new health care reform law, and the U.S. government is going to pour an unprecedented amount of money into the system. So will this result in all of us getting better health care? We’ll just have to wait and see.
The truth is that the Founding Fathers never envisioned a federal government that completely dominated that national economy. But that is what we have got. As of now, only a very small percentage of Americans are still able to say that they are completely financially independent of the U.S. government.
You see, in economic terms the U.S. government is not just the elephant in the room. It is the elephant that sat on the room and nearly suffocated everything else out of existence.
As Americans, we live in an economy that is so intertwined with the government that it is impossible to separate the two anymore.
But the really bad news is that the U.S. government is in massive financial trouble. According to one new report, the U.S. national debt will reach 100 percent of GDP by the year 2015. Many economists regard that as an incredibly dangerous threshold to cross.
If U.S. government finances collapse, it will mean the collapse of the entire U.S. economy as well. There is simply no separating the two. And considering the fact that the U.S. government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, things don’t look promising.
America is headed for an unprecedented economic collapse, and the U.S. government is leading the way. If you can get financially independent, now is the time to try to do that, but the reality is that we will all feel massive economic pain when this thing comes crashing down.
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Many cultural NGOs as well as professional associations of artists and cultural workers participate in numerous international projects, different types of professional cooperation and are members of international professional organisations and/or international cultural networks. The interest of cultural operators and artists in participating in various international networks continues to be ever growing and more visible. E.g. several Croatian theatres are members of the European Theatre Convention. Croatian artists participated in platforms and networks supported by the Culture and the Creative Europe programmes. Croatian cultural institutions, NGOs, experts and centres / sections (Croatian national committee of ICOM, Croatian sections of AICA, UNIMA, ASSITEJ, IDEA, DACI, C.I.O.F.F., Croatian centre for PEN, ITI etc.) are active participants of international NGOs in the field of culture and the arts.
Some important multilateral co-operation projects, coordinated or supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media, include:
- the Regional Programme for Cultural and Natural Heritage in South East Europe (RPSEE), a joint activity of the Council of Europe and Southeastern European governments;
- “Ljubljana Process II – Rehabilitating our Common Heritage”, supported by the European Commission and the Council of Europe.
- Vukovar-Vučedol-Ilok: Research, Reconstruction, Revitalisation (Ministry of Culture and Media / Council of Europe Development Bank);
- cooperation within the Adriatic Ionian Basin (Project on Cultural Routes);
- cooperation within the Alps-Adriatic Working Community;
- participation in the TRADUKI Network – European Network for the Promotion of Literature and Books; and
- participation in the Roberto Cimetta Fund dedicated to the mobility of artists and cultural managers.
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Laura Foster Nicholson: Scenes From The Carbon Border
March 4 @ 6:00 pm - April 18 @ 6:00 pmFree
From the hands of a young person in China, to a shipping container crossing the Suez Canal, to a semi-truck driver transporting containers cross country, to people at the big box or mom and pop who unload them, to everyone going to the stores to buy things. These are carbon borders we’ve created 一 our feet, our cars, trains, planes, streets, and sidewalks all in motion. These borders both connect and divide us.
Two years ago, driving from her home in New Harmony, Indiana to Chicago, artist Laura Foster Nicholson — a textile artist known for her handwoven tapestries — paused to notice the landscapes from our carbon borders. And the work she began creating then offers us — in this exhibition — a view of the path taken by the goods we purchase. This is often unseen and costs the world more than what’s listed on the price tag. And these carbon borders separate us from the people who made many of the items with which we live and adorn ourselves.
Nicholson noticed the cost to the environment and ultimately ourselves. She began incorporating these aspects in her works, calling attention to disasters and accidents along these borders, reminding us of the seen and unseen dangers of our way of life. “I watched the Wabash swell annually, frequently inundating the fields, sometimes filling basements, and once in a while warranting the efforts of the National Guard to sandbag around the New Harmony Inn. This past couple of weeks, texts have updated me regularly about extending the flash flood warning for the area,” says Nicholoson.
With this, we can pause to consider the invisible people and places behind items we consume and the inevitable disasters that result from the journeys. As each piece takes many hours to create, Nicholson’s work gives us access to our connectedness as humans instead of being based on consumerism and the whims of market research and algorithms. “As an artist, I am first visually inspired: the reflections in the water of these structures, foretelling the future, reflecting the past,” says Nicholoson.
This work reminds us that though we say the world has become smaller, we have become more distant from one another. No longer do we know all the hands that touched the objects we use to define ourselves. These tapestries are scenes from the carbon borders driven by our consumption and connecting us like the threads of her works.
Laura Foster Nicholson’s artwork is in several museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. With a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, she has lectured, taught, and exhibited in the US, Canada and Italy. She has been awarded an NEA fellowship, the Leone di Pietra prize at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, three Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Research in the Fine Arts. Most recently she was awarded the Dehaan Artist of Distinction grant.
Part of our Social Alchemy Project in partnership with University of Southern Indiana & The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art- this exhibit was made possible by Indiana Humanities, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, The Arts Council of Indianapolis, The City of Indianapolis, The Efroymson Family Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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[box type=”shadow” ]“Right from purchasing its own Morbe dam, six state-of-theart sewage treatment plants, scientific landfill, mechanical sweepers to installing e-toilets…..Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has taken a series of steps to ensure clean living in the City,” said Dr Sanjay Pattiwar, Additional Municipal Commissioner during an interaction with Suprita Anupam.[/box]
Navi Mumbai is a planned City. In 1971, around 600kms of land was given to CIDCO to develop this new City. On January I, 1992, the then government created Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation to manage the entire City which consists of Airoli, Ghansoli, KoparKharane, Vashi, Turbe, Nerul, Belapur.
Swachh Bharat Rankings are out now. The surplus water supply, clean roads and better sanitation facilities have put Navi Mumbai at third place countrywide. Your comments…
This is how the Corporation came into existence.
Majorly planned and developed by CIDCO, the City has its own advantages. The clean City ranking was not only based on cleanliness but on broad parameters like: sewage management, water management, solid waste management, heath & hygiene, environment, storm water drainage, wastewater treatment, air and wind quality monitoring and so on. We have been working on all of these, based on the capital work done by CIDCO. We, at NMMC are not directly involved in any of these process, but are outsourcing each and every task. This gives room to monitor and control.
What are the solid waste practices at NMMC?
Navi Mumbai generates around 700 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. We have a central scientific landfill in an area of 70 acres at Turbhe, the heart of the City. This reduces the transportation cost and also helps meet the timely disposal of solid waste. Many other cities don’t have this luxury.
The landfill is divided into four cells that will continue to work for the next 30 years. Approved by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, the scientific landfill has got no air pollution and no soil pollution, and has been appreciated by many organizations.
Around 400-500 tonnes of garbage is processed for bio-compost and reproduced as refuse-derived fuel (RDF). RDF or solid recovered fuel/ specified recovered fuel (SRF) is a produced by shredding and dehydrating solid waste (MSW) with a waste converter technology which involves bag shredding, size screening, magnetic separation and coarse shredding and refining separation. After processing, RDF is recovered in the form of 100 – 200kg compressed pallets or bricks that are used in various furnaces.
Any plan to go for waste-to-energy?
No plan for waste-to-energy as the existing technology is working very well. The entire process is nonpolluting. The fertilizers produced are used by the farmers, and we have an agreement with the agency for the next 15-20yrs. | <urn:uuid:d73b5287-6201-47c6-9508-bdc18fc744a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cleanindiajournal.com/better-living-comes-with-better-planning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.944231 | 633 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Adobe InDesign is a powerful software program that lets you integrate text and images into a multi-page document, such as a magazine or book layout. By default, InDesign will use CMYK colour (Cyan Magenta Yellow black) which allows for many more shades of colour than RGB (Red Green Blue). However, if you create an RGB colour swatch, or import an RGB image into the document, InDesign will keep the colour mode for those items, even if other items are in CMYK.
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Open your document in InDesign. Click the "Selection Tool" in the Toolbox if it is not already selected.
Click the "Window" menu and make sure there is a check mark beside "Color." If there is not, click "Color" and the Color Panel will open.
Look at the Color panel. The attributes will tell you if the colour is in CMYK, such as "C=100 Y=90 M=10 K=0," for example. If the attributes look something like this: "R=57 G=46 B=122," then the document is in RGB, not CMYK.
Place only CMYK images into the document, and use only CMYK colour swatches when working on the document to keep it in CMYK mode. For images or colours already placed into the document, follow the instructions in the following Section to verify that each one is in CMYK mode.
Checking for CMYK Settings
Click the "Selection Tool" in the Toolbox if it is not already selected. Click on the "Window" menu, then click "Swatches" if there is not a check mark beside it.
Look at the list of swatches in the Swatches panel. Double-click any colour that is not in CMYK.
Select "Process" in the "Color Type" menu. Select "CMYK" in the "Color Mode" menu. Click "OK."
Click on every text box or shape that you have made in the document. Look at the Swatches panel. If the swatch is not in CMYK, repeat Step 3.
Click on every image you have "placed" in the document from an external source. Look at the Color panel. If it is not in CMYK format, right-click the image. Click "Graphics," then "Edit Original." The image will open in your default graphics software. Change the image to CMYK and save the image. The new settings will be applied to the image in InDesign.
Changing the Colors to CMYK
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Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. 14: Isaiah, Part II, tr. by John King, [1847-50], at sacred-texts.com
In preparing the First Volume of the Commentary On Isaiah, many attempts were made, but without success, to procure the French Translation. After much fruitless labor, and some expense, a copy of that rare work, which happens to be in the possession of the Parker Society, has been kindly lent to the Translator, who takes this opportunity of conveying his warmest thanks for this favor. The references in the foot-notes of the present and future Volumes will give some idea of the assistance derived from that source. But it has also supplied materials for a history, more complete than we could formerly give, of this Commentary, and of the forms in which it was successively brought before the public.
Various scribes, on some occasions, united their efforts to obtain a perfect record of what had been uttered by the Reformer in his private Lessons, as they were called, which he delivered to students of theology. But, in the present instance, we are indebted almost exclusively to the earnest, judicious, and unwearied labors of one man, Mr. Nicolas Des Gallars, a minister of Geneva, from whose notes, after having been revised by the Author, the first Latin edition was printed in 1550. He appears to have executed, under the Author’s eye, a French Translation, which came forth almost simultaneously with the Latin copy, and enjoyed the advantage of being known to be well authenticated. After the lapse of several years, Calvin availed himself of a season of leisure for re-writing this Commentary, added more than a third to its original size, 1 and made such extensive alterations, that he ventured to call it “a new work.” 2 It bears the date of 15th January 1559. The third edition, which is dated 1583, lays claim to still greater accuracy; for it professes to have received corrections from the Author’s Manuscript.
While the Commentary was thus extensively circulated, 3 the benefits of it were chiefly confined to those who were acquainted with the Latin language; for even the French reader was left to struggle with all the imperfections which belonged to the first edition. At least, it was only eleven years before the last mentioned date, and eight years after the Author’s death, that a new French translation appeared, which was printed at Geneva by Francois Perrin, in 1572. There is reason to believe that the first French translation would be treated by the second translator with great deference, and that he would scarcely consider himself to be at liberty to depart from it, except for the purpose of introducing the extensive alterations and additions which had been made to the original work. Let us hope that some future editor, having obtained access to copies now slumbering in the shelves of our continental neighbors, or perhaps of our own countrymen, will enjoy the satisfaction of collating the earlier and later editions in both languages, and will be enabled to reveal the steps by which this valuable Commentary passed from the first rough notes of the labourious scribe to the form which was imparted to it by the fastidious corrections of the Author.
This Volume contains an “Address to the Readers” by Nicolas des Gallars, Latinized Gallasius, (which appears to have been prefixed to his French translation of the Commentary,) his Epistolary Dedication of the Latin edition of 1583 to a learned author and eminent printer, John Crispin, and a short “Address to the Readers” by the latest French translator, all of which, it is hoped, will be perused with deep interest. The relation in which Gallars stood to Calvin, and to his published writings, has thrown around him many pleasing associations; and his style, both Latin and French, displays such judgment, and taste, and scholarship, as justifies the marked preference given to him by the Reformer, and assures the reader that the responsible office which he held could not have been committed to abler hands.
The Notes added to these Volumes shew that it is the aim of the Calvin Society not only to give exact Translations, but to aid the investigation of dark passages by the labors of modern critics. Among the works which have been consulted with greatest advantage may be named “The Prophecies of Isaiah, Earlier and Later, by Joseph Addison Alexander, Professor in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey,” an exceedingly valuable addition to the stores of exegetical theology, and not a little enhanced by the care with which the learned editor, Dr. Eadie, has superintended the British edition. Yet we are again and again constrained to remark the extent to which the critical researches of our own age have been anticipated by the sagacity of the Reformer, to whom our greatest men delight in acknowledging their obligations. “Calvin,” says Professor Alexander, “still towers above all interpreters in large commanding views of revelation, in its whole connection, with extraordinary insight into the logical relations of a passage, even where its individual expressions were not fully understood. These qualities, together with his fixed belief of fundamental doctrines, his eminent soundness of judgment, and his freedom from all tendency to paradox, pedantic affectation, or fanciful conceit, place him more completely on a level with the very best interpreters of our day than almost any intervening writer.”
Auchterarder, 3d September, 1851.
See page 17.
See Com. On Isaiah, vol. 1, p. 16.
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Why are Western Companies Investing in China? There are a few different reasons that the Western Companies are doing this. First, it is a market that is much more open to foreign investment than say Latin America or India. It would not be surprising if a Western company would start an Office in China and make lots of money from doing business there.
Second, they like the country for its great economic growth and it has shown that it can do so. China’s economy is growing at about 7% a year. That is faster than all the other major economies combined. So China has a very important edge over the U.S. and other major economies when it comes to being able to sell products on the world market.
Third, they see opportunity in the growing consumer market in China. China has been one of the fastest growing markets for all types of goods and services. That means that consumers around the world can find just about anything they want to buy at a lower price than back home. This has been a boon to companies like Wal-Mart and other brands that have been looking for new markets to sell their products in.
Lastly, they are coming because China has an enormous internal market that can provide a huge advantage over any other market. The Chinese people are extremely competitive and they will eat up any opportunity to take what is available to them. No matter what Western Company thinks, the Chinese people are always going to be buying more. There is no escaping the fact that.
There are reasons that all companies should be investing in China right now. If you really think about this for a moment you will realize that it is so logical and makes so much sense. Just look at the simple economic principle that we were talking about earlier. How could a market have an economy where everyone gets what they want? That just does not make sense.
So yes, Western companies should be investing in China right now. If you disagree with that, then I would like to point something out to you. Would it not be better if all companies followed the strategy of driving up the price of something so they could make more money? That would be the exact same thing as what the Chinese are doing and it is working out very nicely for them. | <urn:uuid:a638f2d3-a5a3-4e63-b68d-7097f44a6da4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voiceofthehill.com/why-western-companies-invest-in-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.981997 | 452 | 1.585938 | 2 |
For example, is you were to plant an orange tree today you make expect to get $50 worth of oranges in the future. Since you have to wait for the oranges (and their $50 value), the value in today's dollars will be less. If someone is patient and the time they have to wait for the oranges is small, then their willingness to accept amount (the present value) may be $45 or $40. If the person is impatient or has to wait a long period of time, then the willingness to accept amount (the present value) may be much lower approaching $5 or so.
The present value of a future payoff should never be larger than the face value of the payoff. This is a result of the idea of "discounting" which means that people tend to prefer having resources now rather than in the future. For example, imagine you were given the choice between:
A) $1,000 today
B) $1,000 one year from today
Everyone will probably choose A because they would rather have the money now. This tendency to prefer having things in the present is a result of people's time preference for resources. In economics, we can test someone's time preference by slightly altering the previous choice. We could ask someone to choose from:
A) $1,000 today
B) $1,100 one year from today
In this set up, people who choose option A have a strong time preference towards the present. Those who choose option B seem to take a longer view towards obtaining assets. For those people who are indifferent between the two choices, we could accurately say that the present value of $1,100 one year from today is $1,000 (because the person is indifferent between the two choices).
The present value is calculated using the discount rate. The discount quantifies the time preference that individuals have. For example, is someone is indifferent between having $1,000 today or $1,100 on year from today, we would say that their discount rate is equal to 10% because they require a minimum return of 10% in order to delay their decision.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended an algorithm for identifying children with potential developmental delays. It includes a recommendation that positive screening should result in referral for additional evaluation or intervention. Yet, it is not known whether positive screens do, in fact, influence physician referrals. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate whether positive screens from an Ages and Stages Questionnaire would prompt physicians to refer for additional evaluation or intervention as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics algorithm. A sample of 207 physicians read one of three hypothetical clinical vignettes describing an 18-month-old child with ambiguous language development. Vignettes differed on the presence or absence of an Ages and Stages Questionnaire score and, if a score was present, on whether the Ages and Stages Questionnaire score was positive or negative. Physicians indicated what actions they would take including whether they would refer for evaluation or intervention. Multinomial regression analyses showed physicians referred more often for further evaluation or intervention if the hypothetical Ages and Stages Questionnaire score was positive. Likewise, physicians referred less often if the Ages and Stages Questionnaire score was negative. Physicians without the Ages and Stages Questionnaire scores did not choose one action more frequently over another. In this initial investigation, the data show that physicians do refer, as recommended, when presented with positive Ages and Stages Questionnaire screens. This is important because it lends support to one critical component of the American Academy of Pediatrics developmental screening algorithm. Given the use of hypothetical vignettes in this study, it will be important to investigate whether positive Ages and Stages Questionnaire screens impact actual referrals in clinical practice.
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI; Sleep for Science Research Laboratory of Brown University, East Providence, RI (Dr Roane); and Department of Psychology, Munroe-Meyer Institute, (Drs Valleley and Allen), Omaha, NE.
Correspondence: Rachel J. Valleley, PhD, Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68131 (firstname.lastname@example.org).
This research was supported in part by project #8188 from the Maternal and Child Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and by grant 90dd0533 from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD), Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Service.
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The impact on adolescents of a Transtheoretical Model-based programme on fruit and vegetable consumption
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Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of a Transtheoretical Model-based programme titled 'Fruit & Vegetable-Friendly' on the fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption of adolescents. Design: A quasi-experimental study. The 'Fruit & Vegetable-Friendly', a multicomponent intervention based on the Transtheoretical Model, was completed in eight weeks. The data were collected one week before the intervention, one week after the completion of the intervention and six months after the post-test with an F&V intake questionnaire and the stages of change, processes of change (? = 0·91), situational self-efficacy (? = 0·91) and decisional balance (? = 0·90 for pros, ? = 0·87 for cons) scales. Data were analysed with the Friedman, Wilcoxon and marginal homogeneity tests. Setting: A public secondary school in Istanbul, Turkey. Participants: Seven hundred and two adolescents. Results: The mean (sd) F&V intake of adolescents in the passive stages rose from the daily average at the time of the pre-test of 3·40 (1·79) portions to 5·45 (2·54) portions on the post-test and to 5·75 (2·70) portions on the follow-up test (P < 0·01). While the students in the passive stages represented 41·6 % of the participants prior to the programme, this rate fell to 23·7 % at the post-test and to 22·7 % at the follow-up. Students in the active stages first represented 58·5 % of the participants; this rate rose to 76·4 % at the post-test and to 77·2 % at the follow-up test. Conclusions: The programme was effective in increasing the amount of F&V the adolescents consumed on a daily basis. © The Authors 2019. | <urn:uuid:bd602bf8-3e6b-42f4-a371-a61aeab2cbbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openaccess.izu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.12436/1914?locale-attribute=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.891815 | 450 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Seeking validation on the science behind Omegawave? Look no further. The Literature Review presents an in-depth explanation of each measurement method that is employed, from its early history to its widespread research in sports.
The White Paper seeks to answer the age-old question asked by coaches and other sports professionals – “how can I prepare the athlete to achieve maximal performance results with minimal time and physiological cost, reduce the risk of injury and prolong their competitive career?”
This manual is designed to answer the following questions for users of the Omegawave Team solution: What foundation did modern training theory evolve from? What is the science behind Omegawave? What do all of these numbers actually mean? How do I use this information to help guide the training process?
Coach’s Handbook 2014 The Handbook provides the dedicated reader with a comprehensive account of the innovative approach to preparing athletes – Windows of Trainability™. The handbook explains the scientific foundation of the approach and provides practical recommendations on how to develop the physical qualities of an athlete using the Omegawave Coach product.
The new update comes with a few changes to the Omegawave application user interface and one major change to the DC Potential algorithm that will naturally also impact the overall Omegawave Readiness conclusion. We will discuss this algorithm change in more detail later in this document.
The Sport Innovation Summit in Calgary marked the first scientific venue where the concept of Readiness was presented. This concept was implemented into a non-invasive technological solution to allow for optimal management of an athlete’s preparation. | <urn:uuid:3b7642d7-1276-4286-93e9-81760dec2fe4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.omegawave.com/white-papers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.927852 | 328 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Hokonui Todd is a portrait of African statesman Sir Garfield Todd (1908 - 2002). Todd was an outspoken supporter of black right to self determination in Rhodesia (which became Zimbabwe in 1980, after a bloody civil war). Here Todd and wife Gracie reflect on their lives: from their "egalitarian" New Zealand upbringing; their arrival in Rhodesia as missionary farmers; Todd's time as Prime Minister; being imprisoned by Ian Smith's racist white regime (along with daughter Judith); to emerging as a "conscience of the country" burdened with postcolonial troubles.
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Ex-DEA Agent: Consequences of Marsha Blackburn’s Opioid Law Not ‘Unintended’ | Opinion
In 2017, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn called for immediately addressing any “unintended consequences” of an opioid law she co-sponsored a year earlier, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act.
The so-called unintended consequences that Blackburn mentioned amounted to a diminished capacity of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to quickly stop companies from distributing opioids and other controlled substances in violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
Blackburn’s comments are disingenuous and motivated by political ambition.
The fact is: Blackburn’s law basically prohibited DEA from using an important legal tool, known as an immediate suspension order, against companies that manufacture and distribute opioids and other controlled substances.
This measure, which had been part of federal law for 40 years, allowed DEA to stop companies from continuing to do business with controlled substances if the agency determined their conduct posed an “imminent danger to the public health and safety.”
They were afforded due process under the law, but could not conduct business with controlled substances until a hearing was completed and a final order and decision were issued by the DEA Administrator. Both the immediate suspension order — reserved only for the most egregious violations — and any subsequent DEA decisions were always subject to review by federal courts.
But Blackburn’s law changed all that — and, in doing so, protected pharmaceutical companies, not the public. In effect, her law was written to shield manufacturers and distributors operating illegally.
Pharmaceutical companies win 'get-of-out-of-jail-free' card
Now, if these corporations fuel the opioid epidemic by violating the controlled substances act, immediate shutdown by government regulators is virtually impossible. It is inconceivable that this law was implemented during the worst opioid epidemic in our country’s history.
It did not stop there. Blackburn’s law also contained what amounts to a get-out-jail-free card — a provision allowing drug companies to stonewall DEA by submitting so-called corrective action plans that require time-consuming reviews by the DEA Administrator.
Regardless of the violations, companies can challenge the determination of the Administrator in order to drag out the process. This was a gift to the pharmaceutical industry, and an affront to the public that Blackburn is supposed to be serving. It happened while thousands of our relatives, friends and neighbors were dying.
Now, back to Blackburn’s “unintended consequences” — specifically, DEA’s diminished enforcement abilities.
In July 2014, before Blackburn’s bill became law, I was asked to explain to the bill sponsors and House oversight committees why DEA opposed the legislation.
I told them it would unnecessarily protect businesses that distribute controlled substances in violation of federal law and virtually eliminate DEA’s ability to protect the public from harm caused by these violations. They obviously did not like my analysis.
Two months later, Blackburn co-signed a letter to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General accusing me of attempting to intimidate Congress by simply offering my professional opinion and judgment, as requested.
Four years later, my predictions have proven to be true. The consequences were not “unintended,” as suggested by Blackburn. Meanwhile, our country continues to suffer the unabated loss of life and the destruction of families while large corporations and Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical industry are shielded from accountability.
The whole sordid saga has been fully documented by an investigation by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and the Washington Post. I have since retired from DEA, but will continue to speak out against Blackburn’s law that helped fuel the opioid epidemic in Tennessee and America. | <urn:uuid:448e1655-4641-426f-819f-5e1284a9fb94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tnoverdoseprevention.org/single-post/2018/11/04/ex-dea-agent-consequences-of-marsha-blackburn-s-opioid-law-not-unintended-opinion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.964527 | 788 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Tools
of an Exhibition
by kavak nimer
Published on February 26, 2013, Modified on March 17, 2013
Visit Date: January, 2013
Visitors can get up close and personal to fluorescent leech bacteria, an extinct rodent’s dental record, and a dilapidated taxidermy elephant’s ear at the American Museum of Natural History’s, “Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Tools.” The exhibition takes us to the frontiers of the Museum’s scientific research and how scientists’ use advanced imaging technologies to piece together the mysteries in a range of fields including anthropology, arachnology, and astrophysics.
Curator, Dr. Mark Siddall, a leech specialist in the Museum’s invertebrate zoology division, worked with the designers in the exhibits department to mount and display about 125 of the Museum’s best of images grouped into 20 printed collections.
Also included is a large wall panel that explains how the various imaging tools used in the exhibition work. With simple illustrations, we learn computed tomography machines rotate a sample and expose it to X-rays to build the image data into 3-D models.
One cannot help but be awe-struck by the details the scientists captured. One print details the corpse of a dyed cichlid fish. Blue and red biological dyes the cartilage. Then, digestive enzymes, called trypsin, with a horde of other chemicals, break down the proteins and muscles. What’s left is a striking look at the mechanisms inside an underwater creature.
The prints are visually attractive and the scientific studies behind them are all the more fascinating, but the exhibition feels heavy and static because of the stagnant, illustrated, descriptive panels. It’s the presentation that doesn’t live up to the images’ visually arresting character and the academically sound scientific research. Moreover, there are no resources on where to find more information, which leave visitors feeling unsatisfied.
For example, one wall panel explains how X-ray scans of an Ancient Egyptian blade stuck inside a leather sheath was safer than trying to pry the blade out of the sheath. With X-rays, the anthropologist can read the elaborate writing on the blade. But what does the writing say? Is the blade on display elsewhere in the museum? Is there another exhibition that offers more background information on Ancient Egyptians? None of these questions are answered.
There are no resources, both in the exhibition and online, that direct visitors to find more about the photographs on display. All of the above is interesting, but as a whole it felt static and doesn’t guide visitors through an in-depth analysis of the science or the use of imaging technology.
It’s a shame, because the exhibition offers up a lot of interesting material. The exhibition could have included short video clips that feature interviews with the Museum’s scientists explaining their research or how they use the imaging tools. Or, each print’s wall panel could note which Museum Hall corresponds to the research on display. Better yet, the exhibition could have created educational material to their online website.Some may say the focus of “Picturing Science” are the intricate pictures that spark interest. If the exhibition is to stay true to the AMNH’s mission, “To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and education—knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe,” sparking interest is not enough (AMNH website).
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Let X have a Binomial distribution with the number of trials n = 15 and with probability of “success” p. We wish to test H_0 : p = 0.30 vs. H_1 : p ≠ 0.30.
Likelihood Ratio Test: Reject H_0 if lambda(x)≤c.
Let c=0.15. Find the significance level and the power when p=0.20.
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Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has dramatically altered everyday life, including the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD) research. This perspective article explores some of the ways in which COVID-19 has already impacted the field, anticipates some of the long-lasting effects, and explores strategies for addressing current and future needs. Areas of impact include study integrity, regulatory and industry issues, and participant engagement. Proposed strategies for addressing these challenges include analytic methods to deal with large degrees of missing data and development of patient-centered, user-friendly, remote data collection tools and assessments. We also highlight the importance of maintaining participant well-being as a first and constant priority.
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Bardach, Shoshana H.; Gibson, Allison K.; Rhodus, Elizabeth K.; and Jicha, Gregory A., "Will "Social Distancing" Lead to Future "Research Distancing": A Reflection on COVID-19 Impacts on Alzheimer's Disease Research" (2020). Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications. 145. | <urn:uuid:2197f548-1ca3-4b3a-8503-41cc7f1ee96c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uknowledge.uky.edu/sbcoa_facpub/145/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.852794 | 301 | 2.078125 | 2 |
How To Develop The Chest
In my capacity as editor-in-chief of Strength and Health magazine a great many articles concerning the chest are brought to my attention. Many of these advocates of lung culture profess to believe that the development of the lungs is the only way in which a man can hope to become strong, and that practicing inhaling a much air as possible is the only way to enlarge the size of the lungs and ultimately the rib box. With these methods a great many men and boys have attained the ability to inhale from 350 to 400 cubic inches of air and to expand their chests from two to five inches by this internal pressure.
Upon being put to a series of tests the abnormal lung capacity they had developed did not help them in any physical tests. In running a brisk quarter mile it did not prevent them from becoming completely winded and it did not aid them to life more weight than the average untrained man, who had not spent so much time at expanding his chest. Undoubtedly the practice of constant deep breathing had made them feel better, had given them clearer heads and purer blood, but it had not built power in the muscles, of wind and endurance, as could be proven by running or swimming for distance.
Many well-known athletes who are stars at their chosen sport were unable to come within a hundred pounds in cubic inch lung capacity of these specialists in deep breathing, but they could lift, run, row or swim for considerable distances. They possessed an effectiveness in performing their normal duty of purifying the blood under enforced pressure which was not possessed by the men who had built increased lung capacity simply through enforced breathing.
This is in line with the fact I offered in a previous chapter that the strongest men have very little actual chest expansion. They do have large-sized, efficient lungs and powerful heart action – ready, able and willing to perform any task asked of them. Their chests are so near perfection that they are normally held at near their limit of expansion. The chest expansion some tell us about is the result of the ability to greatly expand the muscles which are placed upon the outside of the chest. Muscle control results in much of the phenomenal chest expansion about which we hear. As you can determine by trying it for a moment, it is possible to lift the chest, distend the ribs and pull the diaphragm upwards without inhaling, and a man can also take a really tremendous breath by depressing the diaphragm and without distending the ribs appreciably.
With these thoughts in mind, it would be natural for the uninitiated young man to wonder just what he can do to build his chest. I have mentioned several times that breathing alone, such as by standing in front of an open window in the morning, so favored by physical trainers of another and older day which is unaccompanied by exercise, has not proven itself to be of much value as a chest developer. When the lungs are not forced to work at an increased tempo as the result of vigorous physical exercise at a rate well above normal, they cannot be expected to increase in power or endurance.
There are two ways to develop the chest: the first, the size of the rib box, the direct result of exercises heavy enough to cause enforced breathing; and the second, the development of the muscles of the chest. Of these the muscles of the upper back will provide the greatest gain in chest measurement. It’s surprising how few bodybuilders even consider the muscles of the upper back or the sides when they are striving for increased chest girth. It they think of the muscles at all in relation to greater chest size they think only of the chest, or breast muscles which are scientifically termed pectorals. They spend a large part of their time developing these muscles, but very little of their time or effort in developing the much larger muscles of the upper back.
Here we have the same condition that is experienced in arm development, as explained in another of my books, “Big Arms.” Most men and boys think of just one muscle of the body – that is, the biceps of the arm. The biceps is only about 1/100 of the muscular bulk or the body, yet this muscle receives more attention than any other. The triceps or muscles of the back of the arm are more than twice as large as the biceps, and there are other deep-lying muscles of the arm upon which the ultimate size depends. These seldom seen muscles – the brachialis anticus and the coracobrachialis – account for a large part of the bulk of the well-developed arm. To attain the maximum of arm size and strength it is necessary to develop all of these muscles to the fullest extent, yet so many stand in front of the mirror constantly trying to improve their biceps. And with the chest, the easiest-to-see muscles – the pectorals – receive a lion’s share of the training time. In the chapter which follows this one I’ll offer specific instructions for developing the muscles of the upper back, which will result in the greatest possible increase in chest girth.
It’s really surprising that most body culturists think of the chest as only the front part of the body between the armpits. They thus confuse the breast with the chest, while the chest is so much more than just the breast, as it comprises the whole of the torso or trunk of the body from the lowest of floating ribs to well up under the armpits and the clavicles or collarbones. The chest, in other words, is the entire part of the body which is adjacent to the rib box.
In spite of the fact that so many men believe that the chest is just the upper and front part of the body, nevertheless when measuring the chest they pass the tape entirely around them, including within it the sides and back as well as the front of breast. While the measurement they obtain includes the actual size of the rib box, it is greatly amplified by the muscles on the outside of the ribs.
For some reason the usual bodybuilder gives little or no thought to the fact that the muscles of the upper back are included in his chest measurements and that increasing the strength and depth of these muscles will greatly increase the entire chest girth. The accepted method of measuring the chest is to pass the tape entirely around the body with the tape passing across the nipples and around the body under the armpits. Care should be exercised to see that the tape is not held in a slanting position for it is the slanting of the tape which accounts for a good share of the phenomenal measurement of some strength stars.
As the muscles of the upper back are so much larger than those of the front of the chest, being easily twice as large and as deep as the muscles usually termed the chest muscles, when these huge and powerful muscles are developed to an extent that they become an inch thicker, they account for a full three inches in increased chest girth, according to the geometrical rule that the circumference of a circle is 3 1/7 times the diameter.
Lest you come to the conclusion that your primary training object should be the development of the muscles on the outside of the chest, I want to repeat that increased size of the rib box, with more room of living space for the heart, lungs and other organs, is the most-desired end to strive for. And it’s so much easier to obtain a really impressive chest like the greats of the past – Hackenschmidt, Sandow,
Arthur Saxon, Louis Cyr, Joe and Adolph Nordquist, Rigoulot or the modern men who are famed for their chest development – Grimek, Stanko, Deutch, Stepenek, Podolak, Peters, Thaler and many others – if you do not first of all have a big rib box to pack the muscles upon.
We must never lose sight of the fact that the chest and lungs are actually the storehouses of your physical power. Plenty of room for the lungs requires a big rib box, and as we have been constantly stating, big lungs are of tremendous value to any strong man, or to any man for that matter. Big, efficiently-operating lungs enable their owner to continue at intensive work for many minutes, exertion so great that it would exhaust the ordinary individual in a few seconds. This ability may not only come in very handy but be a means of saving one’s life under adverse circumstances. I think of one case contained in a story or three fellows who took a vacation in the north woods as spring was approaching. One young man experienced a mishap – broke through the ice – and was carried by the swift current well under the solid ice. There he lay for several minutes, first looking through the ice to see his companions trying to cut through the space between him and safety – a good foot of thick hard ice. He finally lapsed into unconsciousness but it was possible for one of his companions, Tommy Pedder, former
Although in the subsequent chapters I am going to launch out in describing the means of developing the muscles on the outside of the rib box, front, back and sides, I don’t want you to lose track of what other chapters have contained and to remember that your first aim should be to develop the size of the rib box. And the chief exercises which develop the size of the rib box will not be those which develop the muscles of the upper body. Rather heavy leg and back exercise, coupled with deep breathing, will result in the desired gains in rib box size. Whether you are striving to greatly increase your strength and development, or whether you are just one of the keep-fit enthusiasts, I want to earnestly recommend that you include in your training program many of the exercises which build the chest inside and out.
The practice of these movements for a few months will result in a gain of several inches in your chest girth. It is quite ordinary to gain an inch a month for four of five months, for there are many who have gained as much as three or four inches in a single month’ time by the practice of exercises this book contains. And when the rib box grows, you grow all over. There is more space to pack on the muscles of the chest and back, which add to the body weight and the strength; when the rib box is bigger the shoulders will keep pace with it and adjust themselves so that they too will be bigger; but best of all you will find that you feel much better and have far greater endurance with the increased chest size. If you were to practice no additional arm exercises, using the arms little more than as connection links to hold the weights employed in each exercise – as they are a part of the whole of your body – they increase in size too as your chest grows. Naturally your legs will have grown for they provide much of the effort in the best chest-enlarging exercises.
Some men take up the practice of progressive training with apparatus such as bar bells, dumbells or cables and gain at a phenomenal rate. Invariably these men will possess better-than-average depth of chest to begin. Their organs are in such a position at the beginning that they can do their work well and splendid gains are registered. If the beginner has a smaller chest he will not make real gains until his training efforts have resulted in gains of chest size and capacity, so that his internal organs can grow and be in a better position to perform their normal functions. It is so much easier for the man, young or old, who has good chest size, to pack muscles on his body or limbs and thus gain in weight, strength and size.
The young man who starts out using only dumbells or cables for the upper body will find it quite easy to build muscles on the chest, sides and back, and thus improve his appearance, and while this increased muscular growth will greatly add to the appearance, this man will not be as strong, or as superhealthy, as the man who employs his dumbells and cables so that the big muscles of the legs and back are constantly brought into play, or better still adds a bar bell to his training equipment so that he can make the most of himself physically.
When a man strives not only for muscle building, but most of all for increased rib box size, then things really happen in a physical way. As you will read in the anatomical chapters, the ribs are flexible enough, and so connected to the breast and backbone with cartilages, that they can increase in size even after the age of maturity; remember my own gain of sixteen inches in chest size more than twenty-five years after I reached my present height. And so many others have had similar experiences. A never-ending number of success letters attest to the fact that rib box size can be increased at the age of twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five or even more. And when the rib box increases in size, we’ll say as much as five to eight inches, there will be changes in the adjustment of the other bones. The shoulder blades in some mysterious manner will become set much farther apart, and this great widening of the upper back is not only nice to look at but gives a much greater surface to develop muscles; and of course the muscles add so greatly to the strength. Starting with a very slender physique, it’s most encouraging to see how my own shoulders have widened, and particularly the upper back, about which I will write in the next chapter, has increased.
When the rib box has enlarged and the shoulder blades or scapula have become set farther apart, there is an improvement in leverage, which greatly adds to the power in the upper body. Another statement about my own physical self (kindly pardon so many references to myself, but it seems to me that they are of importance; for when the author of a book using the methods he offers you has obtained the results you want, it’s the best proof that he offers you proven methods, don’t you think? And lest you think that he might be the exception rather than the rule it is necessary for me to offer you many other concrete examples also) – my shoulders and relative length of arm bones was such that I had a just claim to the not very proud title, “World’s Worst Presser.” Narrow shoulders, short upper arm and long lower arm gave me an almost impossible-to-overcome handicap that caused me to be such a poor two hands presser that I am the only man in the world to my knowledge who two hands clean and jerked double or more than he could press. Six years ago I pressed 145 and clean and jerked 295. Constant training throughout the years strengthened my body and bettered my physique, broadened my shoulders and set the back muscles farther apart so that I pressed 190 pounds in perfect style, and in almost perfect style 200. Not so much for a big fellow like myself but very encouraging for a man who trained for an entire year before he could press 115 pounds.
Most weight lifters believe that unfavorable leverage in the two hands press also results in poor leverage in the one hand press commonly known as the bent press method. Yet in this style I have been able to continuously improve until my present best of 275 is a modern world’s record. Certainly the enlarging of my own chest, the result of the exercises which I am offering with this book, and the adjustments which resulted in much wider shoulders and finally greater strength through more favorable leverage, have resulted in these gains in strength and pressing ability.
It has been my observation, and I am sure that others of experience will agree with me, that a wide-shouldered man with only an average development is stronger than a man with more development and narrower shoulders. Throughout my career I found this to be true to my constant sorrow. It was discouraging to have a sixteen-inch arm years ago and to find men with arms two inches smaller who were stronger than I due to their more favorable leverage. All any of us can do is to make the most of our natural advantages or disadvantages. I did the best I could with mine and would have accomplished much more if I had had more favorable physical features to begin with.
Part of the gain in strength which results from increased chest size is the extra lung capacity, the bigger storehouses of power possessed by the bigger-chested man and part of it is the more favorable leverage which results from the adjustment of other parts caused by this growth of chest. As I go on with the chapters on muscle building, I will include some exercises for the arms and the shoulders which aid in developing the muscles of the chest. This may seem odd at first thought, but not when it is remembered that the deltoids or muscles of the shoulders are involved in all pectoral and most upper back movements. In the majority of big-chested men, the muscles of the shoulders are very well developed and quite strong. From this you can understand that in order to develop the size of the rib box and the muscles which enclose it, exercises which include the deltoids in their action must be a part of the training program. | <urn:uuid:afc2e25f-6b2b-4f36-bbdf-3ec9f8175bef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972369 | 3,524 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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April 9, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced parents' hands on data collection and privacy issues
With the return to remote learning during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and students are agreeing to risky data collection practices and privacy-invasive technologies. This unprecedented collection of data includes video recordings of student's interactions with their teachers, collection of health information such as whether an absence is related to COVID-19 symptoms, system log-in time and student chat history.
The 2018 Auditor General's report on cybersecurity raised many concerns about technology in schools. Many—if not most—Ontario school boards struggle to grasp the basic concepts of cybersecurity and privacy, let alone ensure that teachers are properly educated to protect student information. The report reveals that a surprising 74 percent of respondents indicated that they do not provide formal security or privacy training to staff who use technology at boards and schools.
Fifty percent of school boards inspected lacked "sufficient oversight of their classroom IT assets, such as laptops and tablets, to keep track of them. In some cases, board staff were unable to verify whether any equipment was missing."
If keeping track of physical assets is such a challenge, even less likely is the due care and protection of the vast amounts of gathered information collected and shared with tech firms and their partners.
Student data is no longer limited to a name and a student number. It now includes precise location information, sensitive communications, classroom photos, contact information and details of health conditions. Many other facets of children's identities are collected and tracked across the student's academic life and shared with anyone who has access to the technologies adopted by school administrators.
Many of these technologies are the brainchild of opportunistic entrepreneurs, developed by interface designers with little to no understanding of privacy and security. Worse yet, they have been adopted by untrained school board administrators using procurement processes that not only predate the pandemic, but also the internet itself.
Most students have already been enrolled in online classes, registered with videoconferencing tools and continue to be tracked using invasive data collection methods. Indeed, student information systems or student management systems often aggregate all identity and academic information and store it outside the traditional confines of school board servers. This cloud-based data processing allows providers to partner with unnamed parties to analyze collected data.
Sometimes, this information is even shared back with the school boards themselves, ostensibly with an eye towards improving education.
Many of the companies that built their models on data collection are still around, now valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
This situation has proved to be a different beast, with regulations and privacy legislation tightening around rapacious edtech firms. Publicly funded boards of education that have enjoyed no regulatory oversight have now started to examine their practices.
Here, the expansion of school board authority is presented under the guise of privacy and safety. Rhetoric such as "synchronous learning tools," "digital tools" and "communication tools for student and family engagement."
Fearing that their information collection and sharing practices might expose them to liability, school board administrators are abruptly putting their foot down. But requests for parental consent do not include an option to decline, or the presentation of a viable alternative. This coercion includes disciplinary implications for students whose parents opt out.
School boards refer to the Education Act, which pre-dates the internet, for the authority to share student data as they see fit and without seeking additional consent.
Parents should take a stand and protect their families by requiring school boards to supply sufficient information to be comfortable with relinquishing the digital identities of their children to a variety of strangers. Parents can also request urgent investigation into the veiled threats of discipline and marginalization made by school boards towards students.
Claudiu Popa, Author and Lecturer in Fintech Cybersecurity, Information Risk and Enterprise Privacy Management, University of Toronto
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Why, Roberts, WHY?!? An Explanation for Roberts’ Obamacare Vote
It’s important to note that Roberts, knowing that Kennedy was going to go over to the dark side, switched his vote for tactical purposes.
This is because the Chief Justice has prerogative to write the majority opinion, so he writes it. This is commonly done so that the more liberal members cannot use the majority opinion to write in new powers, etc.
Essentially Roberts did this to reign in any possible abuses, so he basically, from what I can see, just said this was a tax, but that the government didn’t have authority to force you to do things, [only] to tax. He limited the government’s reach, whereas if Kennedy or *GASP* Kagan had written the majority opinion, they might have given the government almost plenipotentiary powers.
Ok. That calms me down a bit. Addendum: By “dark side”, the writer meant our side, as a joke. A lot of people are confusing this. Apologies.
Addendum: Roberts would have written the majority opinion if he had voted against the law too. So, the explanation only works if he thought it would have passed without his vote, or if it was going to go down by more than one vote.
From my pirate-ninja homie.
And another good point:
“if its a tax, its easier to repeal, because we dont need to face a filibuster…” – from the Coffee and Markets live-podcasting
— el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) June 28, 2012
…the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn’t comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.
Again, very important… this takes away some of the blackmailing power of the government…
Essentially, a majority of the Court has accepted the Administration’s backup argument that, as Roberts put it, “the mandate can be regarded as establishing a condition — not owning health insurance — that triggers a tax — the required payment to IRS.” Actually, this was the Administration’s second backup argument: first argument was Commerce Clause, second was Necessary and Proper Clause, and third was as a tax. The third argument won.
More from SCOTUSBLOG:
Lyle: The rejection of the Commerce Clause and Nec. and Proper Clause should be understood as a major blow to Congress’s authority to pass social welfare laws. Using the tax code — especially in the current political environment — to promote social welfare is going to be a very chancy proposition.Amy Howe: By the way, the opinions collectively are a monster. The Chief’s opinion is 59 pages, Justice Ginsburg’s opinion is 61 pages, the four dissenters are 65 pages, followed by a short two-pager from Justice Thomas.
From the beginning of the Chief’s opinion: “We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders. We ask only whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to enact the challenged provisions.”
Here is the money quote on the fifth vote to hold that the mandate is not justified under the Commerce Clause (recognizing that doesn’t matter because there were five votes under the Tax Power): “The power to regulate commerce presupposes the existence of commercial activity to be regulated.” That will not affect a lot of statutes going forward.
Salvaging the idea that Congress did have the power to try to expand health care to virtually all Americans, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of the crucial – and most controversial — feature of the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 5-4, however, the Court did not sustain it as a command for Americans to buy insurance, but as a tax if they don’t. That is the way Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., was willing to vote for it, and his view prevailed. The other Justices split 4-4, with four wanting to uphold it as a mandate, and four opposed to it in any form. | <urn:uuid:5d374cb8-7b58-45be-b797-068c24c5bb29> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://soopermexican.com/2012/06/28/why-roberts-why-an-explanation-for-roberts-obamacare-vote/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00230-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962243 | 886 | 1.8125 | 2 |
IP cameras are available in different types. For indoor or outdoor, wireless or wired. It can therefore be difficult to determine which camera is the best option.
Outside or inside camera?
The first choice that must be made when choosing an IP camera is whether it is placed inside or outside. Indoor cameras often have a compact or beautiful design, while the outdoor cameras are waterproof and dust-proof.
IP cameras for outdoor use are always waterproof and dust-proof. The camera is attached to a wall, fence or a pole. This way you can keep an eye on the environment of your home, shop or office.
Cameras are placed in a room or an office. You place these cameras on a cupboard or table, so that you do not have to drill into the wall to assemble the camera. However it is also possible to attach it to a wall or ceiling.
What kind of space will the IP camera monitor?
The dimensions of the room you want to monitor are important for the ideal IP camera. Pay particular attention to the viewing angle, which indicates the size of the field of view of the camera and the resolution that determines the sharpness of the image. Cameras with pan-tilt zoom can rotate to the position you want to see, but with this you can keep an eye on a part of the room.
Day and night camera?
If you need to record images at night, one will need the option for a camera with night vision. These cameras are equipped with infrared lighting or work in very low light, so you get a picture of unwanted visitors even in the dark. Chances are you want to monitor your home or office with an IP camera when you are there.
View the images from the camera everywhere?
Do you want to view the live images from your camera if you are not present? Then choose a camera with an app for your tablet or smartphone. With such an app you can view the live images of your camera anywhere in the world.
Save the images from your camera?
Storing your camera images is useful when you cannot keep track of everything live. If something happens, it should be possible to look back at the images afterwards. Saving the images can be done in different ways.
If you have a PC that is constantly on, it is possible to use it for saving images. A better way is to store images on a NAS or DVR. You connect these storage devices to the network, so that you do not have to have a PC constantly on. The number of hours you can record depends on the number of cameras and the storage capacity of the device.
There are also cameras available in which an SD card can be placed. As a result, no additional device is needed to store the images. However, the recording capacity is limited.
Images can also be stored in the cloud. This allows you to log in to your cloud server from anywhere in the world and view the images again. A monthly subscription is required for this.
How is the camera connected?
IP cameras are connected via a network cable or WiFi to your network. Wifi cameras are ideal for places where no fixed connection is required. The connection via a network cable is much more stable than wireless. There are also cameras with support for PoE, so the camera is also powered by the network cable. Special equipment is required for this.
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To determine if the rate of appropriate antibiotic use in the treatment of children with bronchitis, viral upper respiratory tract infections, sinusitis, otitis media, and pharyngitis has changed in recent years and to identify factors that are associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotic therapy.
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey was used to examine the antimicrobial prescribing habits of physicians who provide primary care for children. Data were analyzed from 1995-1998.
Office-based physician practices.
Pediatricians, family physicians, and generalists completing survey forms for patients younger than 18 years.
Main Outcome Measure
The appropriate use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections.
Multivariate analyses were used to examine factors associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotics to treat either upper respiratory tract infections or bronchitis. Patients seen in 1998 and diagnosed as having upper respiratory tract infections were 0.69 (95% confidence interval, 0.59-0.81) times less likely to be treated with antibiotics compared with patients seen in 1995. Multivariate analyses were also used to assess factors associated with the use of antibiotics with a suboptimal therapeutic profile for the treatment of either sinusitis or otitis media. Children diagnosed as having either sinusitis or otitis media were 0.3 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.16-0.48) times less likely to receive antibiotics with a suboptimal therapeutic effect in 1998 compared with 1995.
Physicians are slowly improving their antibiotic prescribing patterns but the use of inappropriate antibiotics is still common. Almost half of patients with upper respiratory tract infections receive antibiotics.
THE EMERGENCE of bacterial species that are increasingly resistant to antimicrobial agents is a growing concern. These resistant strains are, in part, due to frequent and inappropriate antibiotic therapy for children with upper respiratory tract illnesses. Approximately three fourths of all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions given to children are for upper respiratory tract conditions, such as viral upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), bronchitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, and otitis media.1 To address this growing problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics published "The Principles of Judicious Use of Antimicrobial Agents for Pediatric Upper Respiratory Tract Infections."1 This document focuses on decreasing the use of antibiotics for conditions unlikely to respond to them (URTI and bronchitis) and encouraging the use of narrow rather than broad-spectrum antibiotics.
There are no published studies, to our knowledge, that have examined the effectiveness of the recent efforts of the CDC and other organizations to promote the judicious use of antibiotics. Studies of antibiotic use patterns before the CDC initiative found high rates of use of inappropriate antibiotics in 44% to 66% of patients with URTIs.2,3 Several investigators have focused on whether medical specialty influences antibiotic prescribing practices.2- 5 These studies have demonstrated that nonpediatricians are more likely to prescribe antibiotics than pediatricians. Although there has been significant discussion regarding the meaningfulness of the differences among medical specialists,6,7 the data clearly show that many physicians from all specialties prescribe antibiotics inappropriately.
In contrast with treatment for URTI and bronchitis, it is generally accepted practice in the United States to treat acute otitis media and sinusitis with antibiotics. However, there are no recent data examining the appropriateness of antibiotic selection with regard to spectrum of coverage. One study that examined data from 1980 to 1992 showed increasing use of broad-spectrum antibiotics.8 In an effort to increase the use of appropriate antibiotic therapy for these conditions, professional societies, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the CDC have suggested the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics as first-line therapy for sinusitis and otitis media.
This study was undertaken to determine if the rate of appropriate antibiotic use has changed in recent years and to identify factors that are associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotic therapy. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) was used to examine the antimicrobial prescribing habits of physicians who provide primary care for children. The NAMCS is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md) on a periodic basis. It is composed of a nationally representative sample of all office visits, from all geographic regions and a variety of medical specialties, and reports both system (insurance status, practice type, etc) and patient (age, symptoms, etc) factors that may influence prescribing practices.9,10
We analyzed data from the 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 NAMCS. The database excludes visits to physicians in certain specialties (anesthesiology, pathology, and radiology) and encounters made by telephone, outside of the physician's office, and in hospital and other institutional settings. The sample of visits was chosen using a 3-stage sampling design, selecting primary sampling units (PSUs), physician practices within PSUs, and patient visits within practices. Physicians were asked to record information on visits made during a randomly selected 1-week period each year. Depending on the size of the practice, the proportion of visits sampled during the 1-week period ranged from 20% to 100%.
The NAMCS samples included 36 875 visits in 1995, 29 805 visits in 1996, 24 715 visits in 1997, and 23 339 visits in 1998. Only visits by children aged 0 to 18 years to pediatricians and family/general practice physicians were included in our analyses. To increase power, data from all 4 years were combined. There were a total of 13 078 visits by children to pediatricians and family/general practice physicians in the 4 years of combined data. For each office visit, the survey provided information on physician specialty, up to 3 diagnoses, and up to 6 medications prescribed during the visit. The characteristics of the sample used in this analysis are presented in Table 1.
Visits in which an antibiotic was prescribed, supplied, administered, ordered, or continued were identified. Antibiotics were classified as either appropriate or inappropriate for the treatment of sinusitis and otitis media. Antibiotics were considered appropriate if (1) they were recommended by national guidelines for use in either sinusitis or otitis media; (2) they possessed good antimicrobial activity against the common pathogens of sinusitis and otitis media; and (3) they were an alternative for patients who are allergic to penicillins. The list of appropriate antibiotics includes amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cefuroxime axetil, cefpodoxime, cefprozil, clindamycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, clarithromycin, azithromycin, and erythromycin plus sulfisoxazole. Antibiotics were considered inappropriate if (1) they lacked antimicrobial activity against any of the common pathogens of sinusitis and otitis media; (2) similar antibiotics with superior antimicrobial activity against relevant pathogens were available; and (3) they were not approved for use in children. The list of inappropriate antibiotics for either sinusitis or otitis media includes cefaclor, cefadroxil, cefixime, ceftibutin, cephalexin, ciprofloxacin, dicloxacillin sodium, doxycycline, erythromycin, erythromycin ethyl succinate, erythromycin estolate, loracarbef, nafcillin, and penicillin. Any antibiotic prescription for either URTI or bronchitis was considered inappropriate.
Identification of visits by patients with sinusitis, otitis media, bronchitis, URTIs, and pharyngitis was based on International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)11 diagnoses assigned by physicians during the visit. The NAMCS database was assessed for primary, secondary, and tertiary diagnoses of sinusitis, acute otitis media, bronchitis, pharyngitis, and URTI. Patients with a primary, secondary, or tertiary diagnosis of either sinusitis or otitis media were assessed to determine if inappropriate antibiotics were used to treat these patients. Patients with a primary, secondary, or tertiary diagnosis of either URTI or bronchitis and no diagnosis of either sinusitis or otitis media were assessed to determine if any antibiotics were used to treat these patients. Sinusitis visits were identified as visits coded as ICD-9-CM 473.9, 461.x, and 473.x; otitis media, 381.x and 382.x; bronchitis, 490 and 466.0; URTI, 460 and 465.x; and pharyngitis, 034.0, 074.0, 077.2, 462, and 487.1.
The patient's age was recorded by the physician at the time of the visit. Age was categorized into 3 groups: ages 0 to 4 years, 5 to 9 years, and 10 to 18 years. Visits were classified into urban or rural categories depending on the location where services were provided using the definition of Metropolitan Statistical Areas as defined by the Bureau of the Census and the US Office of Management and Budget.
The NAMCS data include information on type of insurance. Visits were classified into 3 groups by type of insurance identified: Medicaid, private insurance, and all other types of insurance (eg, workman's compensation, self-pay, Medicare).
The National Center for Health Statistics includes weights in the NAMCS that enable the sample to represent all office visits in the United States. To determine the significance of factors associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotics, multivariate logistic analyses were performed that used the sample weights provided by the National Center for Health Statistics but reduced them by the proportion needed to downweight the sample to the size of a simple random sample with the same variance.12 Although this method does not address problems caused by clustering within strata, it produces results that tend to overcompensate rather than undercompensate for artifacts produced from stratification.13 The reduced sample size was determined by adjusting the weight with a constant factor equal to the sum of the poststratification weights provided by the National Center for Health Statistics, divided by the sum of the squared weights.
Each visit weight was then multiplied by the weight adjustment. This downweighting procedure effectively reduced the size of the sample, on average, by one half. Significant differences were identified using χ2 statistics with a 2-tailed cutoff of P = .05. The analyses controlled for patient age, type of insurance, physician specialty, urban vs rural, year, and whether the patient had a fever. The analyses used all 4 years of data combined but included dummy variables for each year so that year to year differences in prescribing patterns could be assessed.
We analyzed the NAMCS from 1995-1998 to determine the prevalence of and treatment patterns for URTIs in children. Table 2 presents the proportion of office visits with a diagnosis of a URTI made by pediatricians and family physicians. Although there was a statistically significant difference between physician types in the proportion of patients diagnosed as having URTIs, bronchitis, or otitis media, the actual difference between the physicians was very small.
As presented in Table 3, the proportion of patients with bronchitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media who were treated with antibiotics was very similar for pediatricians and family physicians. However, bivariate analysis showed that pediatricians were slightly less likely than family physicians to use antibiotics in patients with URTIs (37.8% vs 47.4% [P<.05]). Table 4 presents the proportion of patients who either received antibiotics with an inappropriate spectrum of coverage for otitis media or sinusitis or any antibiotic prescription for a diagnosis of bronchitis or URTI.
Multivariate analyses were used to examine factors that might be associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotics to treat either URTI or bronchitis (Table 5). After controlling for physician type, insurance status, age, primary symptom, urban or rural location of practice, and year of visit, significant independent associations remained for year of visit and physician type. An effect for the year of study was observed for the use of antibiotics in children with URTIs or bronchitis. In the last year of the study period (1998), patients diagnosed as having either URTIs or bronchitis were 0.69 (CI, 0.59-0.81) times less likely to receive antibiotics compared with patients seen in 1995, and were 0.73 (CI, 0.46-0.91) times less likely compared with those in 1997 (data not shown). The decrease in antibiotic prescribing for URTI and bronchitis was seen only in 1998. Physician type also affected the likelihood of antibiotic prescriptions for children with either URTIs or bronchitis. Pediatricians were 0.81 (CI, 0.73-0.90) times less likely to prescribe antibiotics than family/general practice physicians during the 4-year study period.
Multivariate analyses were also used to assess factors associated with the use of inappropriate antibiotics for either sinusitis or otitis media (Table 6). After controlling for physician type, insurance status, age, primary symptom, urban or rural location of practice, and year of visit, significant independent associations remained for year of visit. No differences were observed in the use of inappropriate antibiotics according to physician type or any other factor. The use of inappropriate antibiotics for either sinusitis or otitis media decreased significantly during the last year of the study. Patients were 0.3 (CI, 0.16-0.48) times less likely to have an inappropriate antibiotic prescribed for either sinusitis or otitis media in 1998 compared with 1995 and 0.35 (CI, 0.18-0.56) times less likely compared with 1997.
The use of inappropriate antibiotic therapy has gained considerable attention in the medical and lay literature during the last 5 years. The NAMCS data from 1995-1998 showed a decrease in the rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions. Patients with either bronchitis or URTIs were less likely to be treated, and those with either sinusitis or otitis were more likely to receive an appropriate antibiotic during the 4-year study period. These results are encouraging and suggest that recent national efforts to influence the antibiotic prescribing practices of physicians may be effective.
Classifying any antibiotic use to treat either URTI or bronchitis as inappropriate can be justified in the medical literature.1,14- 17 The diagnosis of URTI is widely used to describe URTIs that are of viral origin, and consequently, treatment with antibiotics is not necessary. Acute bronchitis is an ill-defined diagnosis that lacks any confirmatory diagnostic test, specific physical finding, or definitive clinical history. While the use of antibiotics in adults with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis is variably acceptable among physicians, the role of antibiotics in the treatment of acute bronchitis is not supported by published studies, pediatric textbooks, or national guideines.1,16,17
It was not possible to use the NAMCS database to evaluate whether antibiotics were used appropriately to treat pharyngitis. The NAMCS database only included a very small number (data not shown) of patients diagnosed as having pharyngitis due to group A β-hemolytic streptococcus (ICD-9-CM 0.034). The surprisingly small number of patients diagnosed as having streptococcal pharyngitis precluded evaluating whether appropriate antibiotics were used to treat this condition. It also was not possible to evaluate whether the other causes of pharyngitis (presumed to be of viral origin) were treated with antibiotics inappropriately, since some of these diagnostic codes may have included children with bacterial pharyngitis.
The categorization of antibiotics as either appropriate or inappropriate in the treatment of both sinusitis and otitis media is supported by: (1) guidelines from professional societies; (2) technical reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (3) recommendations from the CDC; and (4) the in vitro antimicrobial activity of different antibiotics for common pathogens of both sinusitis and otitis media.18- 21 Several of the antibiotics considered to be inappropriate are widely used and indicated by the Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md) for the treatment of either otitis media or sinusitis. These were classified as inappropriate because their activity against the common pathogens was either incomplete or inferior to other antibiotics of the same class. Many of these changes have to do with the ongoing emergence of antibiotic resistance among common pathogens. Despite our consideration of some commonly used antibiotics as inappropriate for treating either sinusitis or otitis media, only 13% of patients with these conditions received an inappropriate antibiotic. In contrast, 39.2% of patients with either URTIs or bronchitis received an inappropriate antibiotic. The data suggest that efforts to improve antibiotic prescribing practices should focus on eliminating the use of antibiotics in conditions known to be of viral origin.
As in previous studies,2 URTIs and bronchitis were identified as the diagnoses most frequently associated with inappropriate antibiotic use. In 1998 compared with 1995, patients with either bronchitis or URTIs were 0.69 (CI, 0.59-0.81) times less likely to be treated with antibiotics. Most of this improvement occurred during the final year of analysis. The use of inappropriate antibiotics to treat sinusitis or otitis media is much less common than to treat bronchitis or URTI; nonetheless, there was a significant decline in the use of inappropriate antibiotics for these conditions. Inappropriate antibiotics were 0.3 (CI, 0.16-0.48) times less likely to be prescribed for either sinusitis or otitis media in 1998 compared with 1995; again, most of the improvement occurred in 1998. The last year of the study corresponded to the first year of intense efforts by the CDC to promote the judicious use of antibiotics.
Even though prescribing practices have improved, a high rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing continues. Previous studies have focused on physician type as an important factor in the use of inappropriate antibiotics in patients with URTIs. Although our data confirm this observation, the magnitude of the difference between pediatricians and nonpediatricians has decreased. In 1992, pediatricians were 0.57 (95% CI, 0.35-0.92) times less likely to prescribe antibiotics for URTIs compared with nonpediatricians.2 The NAMCS data from 1995-1998 shows that pediatricians are 0.81 (95% CI, 0.73-0.90) times less likely to prescribe antibiotics than family physicians. The decrease in the difference between the medical specialties could be due to at least 2 different factors: (1) the 1992 data compared pediatricians with all nonpediatricians (family physicians, generalists, internists, and subspecialists) while the 1995-1998 data compared pediatricians with family physicians and generalists; (2) family physicians may have been quicker to adopt the recommendations of the CDC. The specialty of the physician had no effect on the rate (13%) of inappropriate prescriptions for patients with either sinusitis or otitis media.
The NAMCS data show that pediatricians and family/general practice physicians are much more alike than they are different. Although the difference in antibiotic prescribing between pediatricians and family physicians for URTIs reached statistical significance, the use of antibiotics was very similar for all other conditions. As seen in the study by Nyquist et al22 and contrary to studies of antibiotic use in adults, there was no significant difference in antibiotic prescribing between physicians practicing in urban compared with rural communities.22
The limitations of our study relate to the use of secondary databases. It is possible that the methods used to collect data led to reporting diagnoses in a manner that would justify antibiotic use. Inconsistencies in the diagnosis of these conditions could also bias the results. Each of these infections has a similar clinical presentation and there are no uniform diagnostic criteria to ensure that these conditions are diagnosed in a consistent manner. Furthermore, the database does not allow us to assess the health beliefs of either physicians or patients, which may have a larger effect on prescribing practices than any of the variables that were examined in this study.
Despite modest improvements demonstrated by a review of the NAMCS data, inappropriate antibiotic use is still common. Almost half of patients with URTIs received antibiotics even though these conditions are known to be of viral origin. Even in conditions like sinusitis and otitis media, for which antibiotic therapy is appropriate, an inappropriate antibiotic is used more than 10% of the time. Our results suggest that interventions to improve the prescribing of antibiotics should focus on changing treatment patterns for both URTIs and bronchitis. The interventions should be aimed at all types of physicians and also directed toward parents and patients to dampen their enthusiasm for antibiotics.
Accepted for publication June 20, 2002.
Corresponding author and reprints: David R. Nash, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org).
Studies throughout the 1990s demonstrated the high rate of inappropriate antibiotic use in adults and children with URTIs. Extensive efforts have been made by the CDC and other organizations to improve the use of antibiotics for the treatment of URTIs. It is essential to determine (1) if these efforts have been successful; and (2) what factors continue to lead to the use of inappropriate antibiotics. Our data demonstrate a decrease in the use of inappropriate antibiotics for the treatment of URTIs.
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The SWEETTANK concept has been developed to stop odors in yacht and RV holding tanks without the use of chemicals or filters. SWEETTANK is standard equipment on THERMOPURE-2 Type-I MSD, in GROCO Type-III MSD, and is offered in several retrofit kits to fit existing holding tanks.
HOW IT WORKS
Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria coexist naturally in raw sewage, but it is the anaerobic bacteria that produce undesirable odors. By inducing a constant flow of air into the holding tank through a submerged aeration tube, SWEETTANK produces an oxygen-rich environment in which the anaerobic bacteria cannot thrive, thus eliminating unpleasant odors. The heart of the SWEETTANK system is a compact module that operates continuously to deliver air to the holding tank using less than 3-watts of DC power. For yachts where AC power is always available, an AC powered SWEETTANK module is offered. | <urn:uuid:f5c9dd2d-28b9-476c-a96e-3e084f5aa1df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.groco.net/stk-18-24v | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.90554 | 223 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Air source heat pumps/Air to water heat pumps
There are 2 main types of heat pumps that we install.
1. Low temperature split systems.
– producing water until a maximum flow temperature of 55C. The system is new suited to new build highly insulated buildings.
2. High temperature split systems.
– Producing water with a maximum flow temperature of 80C. The system is the ideal selection for older, less well insulated buildings that have no under floor heating and rely on small surface area radiators, typically heated with an oil boiler. | <urn:uuid:d567f63d-96c5-4f56-b761-07ffb07bb60a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cambridgeenergycentre.co.uk/category/heat-pumps/air-to-water-heat-pumps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.934573 | 113 | 2.5 | 2 |
金属有机涂层耐丝状锈蚀的试验用标准指南 是关于《金属有机涂层耐丝状锈蚀的试验用标准指南 》，最新标准版本复审于2015年。
1.1 This guide covers three procedures for determining the susceptibility of organic-coated metal substrates to formation of filiform corrosion.
1.2 This guide is limited to the determination of whether filiform corrosion will occur between the organic coating and substrate.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
Note 1: Procedure B of this standard is equivalent to ISO 4623.
B117 Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus
D609 Practice for Preparation of Cold-Rolled Steel Panels for Testing Paint, Varnish, Conversion Coatings, and Related Coating Products
D823 Practices for Producing Films of Uniform Thickness of Paint, Varnish, and Related Products on Test Panels
D1005 Test Method for Measurement of Dry-Film Thickness of Organic Coatings Using Micrometers
D1654 Test Method for Evaluation of Painted or Coated Specimens Subjected to Corrosive Environments
D1730 Practices for Preparation of Aluminum and Aluminum-Alloy Surfaces for Painting
D7091 Practice for Nondestructive Measurement of Dry Film Thickness of Nonmagnetic Coatings Applied to Ferrous Metals and Nonmagnetic, Nonconductive Coatings Applied to Non-Ferrous Metals
E104 Practice for Maintaining Constant Relative Humidity by Means of Aqueous Solutions
ISO 4623–1 Paints and Varnishes--Determination of resistance to filiform corrosion-Part 1: On steel
ISO 4623–2 Paints and Varnishes--Determination of resistance to filiform corrosion-Part 2: On aluminum
ISO 4628–10 Paints and Varnishes--Evaluation of degradation of coatings--Designation of quantity and size of defects and of intensity of changes-Part 10: Assessment of filiform corrosion
Q-fog盐雾试验箱用于ASTM D2803 - 09(2015)的测试步骤
温馨提醒：本ASTM D2803 - 09(2015)可能存在更新的版本，建议寻找ASTM D2803 - 09(2015)的发行商确认。
Q-FOG CRH1100是一款的具有相对湿度控制功能和溶液喷淋功能的盐雾试验箱.Q-FOG CRH1100 马上询价
Q-FOG CRH600比起SSP/CCT盐雾试验箱增加了一个可调湿度控制功能，这意味着CRH盐雾试验箱具备更广泛的标准适用范围。Q-FOG CRH600 马上询价
CRH交变盐雾试验箱可提供对自然大气腐蚀极佳的实验室模拟，可满足ASTM B117，ASTM B368，ASTM D1654，ASTM D1735等标准的测试要求。CRH-600 马上询价 | <urn:uuid:58d360ac-f642-4bbc-aa5d-e36b7a1009ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.laohuashiyanxiang.com/bz270.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.676296 | 1,085 | 2.296875 | 2 |
IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) --An Orange County surf instructor who has given lessons to celebrities and homeless people alike, is heading to North Korea to continue sharing his message.
Lamberto Lo developed a passion for teaching people how to surf while living in Hawaii and it quickly grew as he found himself in the water next to some big names.
"Steve Jobs and his family, Bill Murray was one of my favorite, David Robinson, Jason Kidd," Lo recalled.
But the Irvine resident doesn't teach to name drop. ABC7 spoke to him during a lesson with Shannon Carder, a homeless man, who's never been on a surfboard.
"When we get in the water, it washes away, we're all the same," said Lo. "And you see that smile? There's nothing like it."
"It's pretty heartwarming, the ocean is a level playing field," added Carder.
Now Lo wants to take his positive message and his talents to a place that's rarely seen surfing: North Korea.
"Where is the final frontier of surfing? Where has no board ever gone before?" Lo asked.
Lo said he and a friend, a surf instructor in China, have been approved by the North Korean government to give surf lessons for 10 days in the country. He was scheduled to leave on Thursday.
"I'm nervous, but I'm hopeful. That's what keeps me going," said Lo.
Though surfing may be a strange new concept for North Koreans, Lo said he expects the same results from his other lessons.
"I know it! I know that when these North Koreans catch their first wave, they're going to smile and then I know that there's hope for people," Lo exclaimed.
Lo said many of his friends have told him he's crazy to take the trip. He responded by saying this wasn't about politics, it was about bridging a gap, and catching some waves.
"It's not about what I believe, what they believe, it's all about love, just giving them an experience that they would have never had before," said Lo. | <urn:uuid:7f1c8385-5556-402c-b0f2-237080376717> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abc7.com/news/1331254/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00226-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988275 | 438 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Size: 12 ounces
Crown Maple Syrup is crafted exclusively from the sap produced by 25,000 majestic sugar and red maple trees on a 800-acre sustainably managed farm. These varieties produce the sweetest sap on the planet and, combined with the perfect climate of the Hudson River Valley, make it possible for Crown Maple to produce their regal syrup.
There are typically only about 20 prime sap days in a season and they generally begin in mid-February when temperatures in the Hudson Valley climb into the 40s during the day and dip to below freezing at night. This temperature fluctuation creates pressure inside the maples that naturally forces out the sap.
Crown uses a unique Reverse Osmosis unit – the only one of its kind in the US – that quickly and efficiently removes 90 percent of the water and produces a concentrate with the precise sugar content required for the next stage of their process. Using reverse osmosis to remove most of the water is far superior because it protects the delicate sap from prolonged exposure to heat which causes burning and excess carmelization. | <urn:uuid:f3192e3c-9cc9-4acc-b048-c88ac3cef4f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.igourmet.com/shoppe/snapshot.aspx?prod=9607&cf=usp_ListProducts_Sel&cprod= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00422-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927647 | 217 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Are you searching for a free solution that can allow you to repair corrupt Outlook.ost files or view inner items of OST? Then this time is to stop your search because here are the best solutions for your question. Through this blog post, we are going to describe the best techniques that will repair corrupt OST files.
Microsoft Outlook is one of the email clients that are available by every user to make the task of sending/receiving emails in a much reliable manner. Outlook offers various different options to configure an email account in it including- POP/IMAP/Exchange. In case of the account configuration with Exchange settings and IMAP create OST file. The OST saves all mailbox items of the Exchange Server as a local copy in this OST file. The benefit of using OST is users can access the server-based emails through these OST files in Offline mode. But sometimes users can face problems of corruption in OST files. There are various reasons why users face corruption errors in Outlook OST files and it is necessary to repair them immediately.
Get Free eSoftTools OST PST Converter and Recovery Software to easily repair corrupt Outlook data files. The software allows to Open OST files and Convert OST files into numerous format like- Outlook PST, EML, EMLX, MSG, vCard, CSV, HTML, ICS, Zimbra, Office 365, Gmail, and Gmail like Cloud platforms.
Reason of Corruption in Outlook.OST
There can be multiple reasons for corruption in Outlook OST files, many hardware and software issues can oblations corruption errors in Outlook.OST file:-
- Hardware Issues
- Power Failure:-
- Data Storage Failure:-
- Network/Internet Failure:-
- Software Issues
- Problem in Outlook:-
- Virus or Malware attack:-
- Accidental Outlook termination:-
Any one of the above-mentioned problems can be a reason for Outlook OST file corruption in your case. And you have to fix this problem immediately to fix this OST file corruption error. In the section, we will talk about some easiest solutions to make the process of repairing corrupt OST to read OST file data.
How To Repair Corrupt Outlook.ost File? Easy Solutions
Here in our list, we have 3 free methods which can be used to repair corrupt OST files:-
Also Read:- How to Open OST File Without Exchange Server?
Method 1:- Repair Outlook.OST File Using SCANOST.EXE
ScanOST.exe is an inbuilt utility of Outlook. It comes with Outlook 2007 and below versions for fixing some minor corruption problems from Outlook OST files. OST Integrity Checker is another name of this tool, it scans the OST files and them starts to repair corruption errors of OST. Before using this tool first you should connect to Exchange server then apply the steps given below:-
- Visit the location to find ScanOST.exe tool in your machine.
Location of ScanOST.exe:- Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office version\
- When to found the tool, right-click on it and start this program as an administrator.
- Then choose the profile of corrupt OST file.
- Next, select the radio button scan all folders then click on the repair errors check box and Begin Scan button.
- The scanOST tool will now scan the process of repairing OST file.
Method 2:- Repair Outlook OST 2010/2013/2016/2019 With SCANPST.EXE
With a newer version of Outlook users will the scanpst.exe tool to scan and repair corruption errors from Outlook data files. Also, it is known as Outlook Inbox Repair Tool because users can repair both OST and PST files of Outlook with this utility. The default location of scanpst.exe is MS Office installation folder. You can easily find this by visiting on this path:- Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office version.
- After finding ScanPST.exe, launch it in your machine by double-clicking on it.
- Click on Browse button and select the corrupt OST file for repairing then click on Start.
- Now the Inbox Repair Tool will begin the scanning and repairing process of OST file once it completes simply click on OK.
Method 3:- Best Free Method to Repair Corrupt OST
In most cases, the user faces problems while using scanpst or scanost tool and never gets the expected results. After seeing this problem, eSoftTools has created a free utility known as Outlook OST Recovery Tool. With the assistance of this instant solution, any Outlook user can Repair Corrupt Outlook.ost File. In addition, users can also open OST file to view its inner folders and items by using this free utility. Also, there is no requirement for any additional software installation and also it works without Exchange Server and Outlook environment. Get a free trial of this software.
Steps to Open and repair corrupt Outlook.OST with eSoftTools OST Recovery tool:-
- After downloading OST Recovery tool, start this application in your machine.
- Add OST files In the software (User can add multiple OST file and can them in a single time).
- The software will automatically scan the OST file to repair corruption errors.
- And after this, it will show you all OST mailbox folders and items.
- Select the required folders from OST mailbox and click on Save OST button from the toolbar for saving OST file items to a new file format.
- Choose required conversion option like-PST and choose destination path then start the conversion task.
In this article, we have mentioned all the possible methods that will allow repairing corrupt OST. You can utilize ScanOST or ScanPST like a manual method to repair corrupt OSt files, but it not provides the expected results. So, to repair corrupt OST files it is necessary to go with a third-party solution like eSoftTools OST Recovery tool. You can try this tool Repair Corrupt Outlook.ost File and view its inner data with ease. Get Free demo. | <urn:uuid:bbd2c575-2114-45d3-8e3b-11537ff508cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.esofttools.com/blog/how-to-repair-corrupt-outlook-ost-file/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.843669 | 1,279 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The world is rapidly urbanizing and the majority of the global population will experience the effects of climate change in cities. Yet while cities are vulnerable, they are also uniquely positioned to lead efforts in mitigating and adapting to climate change. But how do we ensure that our cities remain attractive places for people and businesses against a backdrop of increasing climate risk?
Join TriplePundit live on Google’s hangout platform to discuss “Creating Resilient Cities”.
Michael Stevns, Project Manager of the Toolkit for Resilient Cities, Siemens
Stephen Cook, Associate Director, Energy and Climate Change Consulting, Arup
We will discuss:
+ How to ensure that our cities will remain attractive places for people and businesses against a backdrop of increasing climate risk.
+ How to future-proof our cities
+ Resilience in the fields of technology, finance, and risk management.
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(CNN) - Five more states - Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona - on Wednesday joined 13 others in a lawsuit against the historic overhaul of the U.S. health care system signed into law last month by President Barack Obama, the Texas attorney general announced.
The lawsuit initially filed by Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Idaho, South Dakota and Washington argues that the legislation's requirement that individuals buy health insurance violates the Constitution.
It calls the health care bill an "unprecedented encroachment on the sovereignty of the states" and asks a judge to block its enforcement.
"The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage," the lawsuit states.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said last month that the Obama administration expected to win any legal challenge to the health care bill.
Legal experts say the lawsuit is unlikely to succeed.
Renee Landers, a law professor at Suffolk University in Massachusetts, said the Constitution gives Congress broad power to regulate commerce and promote the general welfare of Americans.
"If the federal courts follow existing precedents of the United States Supreme Court, I don't think that the claims will be successful," Landers told CNN last month.
Separately, legislatures in three dozen states are considering proposed measures aimed at blocking elements of the health care bill. But Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Texas, said the Constitution says laws passed by Congress trump state laws. | <urn:uuid:4fcc498e-33a9-41a9-a038-ecd7e8eaa149> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/07/five-states-join-lawsuit-against-health-care-bill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930674 | 328 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The 11th of May is Mother’s Day in India. We celebrate Mother’s Day in India for two reasons, the first because we love our mums and the second because the Americans do it.
Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days in different countries but the most common date is on the second Sunday of May which makes remembering Mother’s Day an extremely difficult process that only the worthiest of us can overcome. It’s necessary to remember Mother’s Day for the same reason it’s necessary to remember any event involving a female, if you don’t she’ll make you regret it one way or another. Here’s a to-do list for Mother’s Day:
1) Know when Mother’s Day is: This is an extremely trick procedure as it requires you to use a calendar, or worse the internet to find out the exact date. The second Sunday of May has been chosen especially to confuse the humble users of the Gregorian Calendar. The date keeps changing so you have to be on your toes.
2) Remember Mother’s day: Knowing when it’s Mother’s day is all well and good but what’s far more important is remembering the day at least three days in advance (that’s today by the way) so you can make ample preparations, or sub standard preparations for all we care.
3) Procure Present- This is the most difficult of all the steps because it involves leaving the house. Only the most dedicated children (or offspring rather) can do this. It helps to buy a ridiculously overpriced object of no practical use from a pseudo- American store with an odd name, women love them.
4) If you’re too cheap to buy a present you could always write a card.
5) Don’t make your present too fancy because you’ll make the rest of us look bad, and you’ll also be expected to maintain that level of fanciness next year making it even more stressful. | <urn:uuid:81577907-97fa-4ba9-bbbe-dd889c29f556> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.india.com/buzz/mothers-day-5-ways-to-show-your-mum-that-you-love-her-and-always-will-53124/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00200-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911993 | 431 | 1.96875 | 2 |
PHOENIX (May 30, 2013) – American Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter volunteer Kelly Ausbun is deploying Friday to Oklahoma City to help provide relief to people affected by the recent tornadoes.
A Phoenix resident, Ausbun will spend as long as three weeks as a health services supervisor. She has volunteered for the Grand Canyon Chapter since 2010, having accumulated more than 2,000 hours. She deployed for Hurricane Isaac, traveling to Louisiana in September, and she twice deployed for Hurricane Sandy, going to New York in October and to New Jersey in January.
More than 300 people spent Wednesday night in Red Cross and community shelters in Oklahoma. The Red Cross has served more than 160,000 meals and snacks, distributed more than 32,000 relief items and made nearly 7,000 health services and mental health contacts. It also has utilized more than 1,000 disaster relief workers and 45 emergency response vehicles.
About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. It’s a nonprofit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. The Grand Canyon Chapter, established in 1916, re-chartered in 1999 and expanded in 2003, ranks as the fifth-largest chapter nationally, serving the more than 5.1 million people in Apache, Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai and Yuma counties. For more information on the Grand Canyon Chapter, please visit www.redcross.org/gcc, like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/redcrossgcc or follow us on Twitter under the handle @RedCrossGCC. | <urn:uuid:99bfe6c9-151c-4090-803b-caa84d8a83eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.redcross.org/news/article/Grand-Canyon-Chapter-Deploying-Another-Volunteer-to-Oklahoma | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00270-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94155 | 386 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Author's Note: This is a poem written for Pearl Harbor dedicated the soldiers who died that day.
Truth About Surprise:
At 7:55 a.m. we were hit from behind unexpectedly,
Yet I guess that is the way it always go,
You never suspect a surprise,
Until it hits you from behind,
Until it brings you a living hell,
Yes you never suspect a surprise,
Until it hits you, from behind.
It only took an hour,
Then 3,000 were gone,
Left to the mercy of God,
Within minutes too many lives were lost,
Too many families were torn apart,
Too many hopes and dreams were never acted upon,
Yet, the battle raged on.
Just like it had come,
It was gone,
Yet the damage was done,
We had been deceived,
There was no turning back now,
The sleeping giant was awoken,
And it wasn't going to back down,
Until there was vengeance for everyone.
That's why they call it a surprise,
Because it hits you from behind,
Leaving you wondering,
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AMIDST ALL THE NOISE about the proposed federal human rights law, presently under consideration by Frank Brennan’s committee, there’s been relatively little said about Victoria’s Human Rights Charter. That’s because, for both sides of the debate, it’s been a frustrating sixteen months since the Charter came into operation.
Supporters of human rights laws have had to look on uncomfortably while a line of criminals, suspected criminals and opportunists have raised their Charter rights before Victoria’s courts and tribunals. Charter opponents, who denounce the new law as a massive transfer of political power to unelected judges, must have found those same judges’ tendency to turn down (or dodge) claim after claim quite frustrating. So, hooray for the first likeable human to actually win a rights claim in Victoria.
Gary Kracke hasn’t committed any crimes. He isn’t after anyone’s money or reputation. He isn’t rich or famous. He doesn’t have a political agenda, liberal or conservative, broadsheet or tabloid. Best of all, he has a valid complaint. Since 2005, because he has a mental illness, he’s been forced to endure medical treatment against his will under Victoria’s mental health laws. But the government agency that’s responsible for ensuring compliance with those laws has breached them itself. Not just once, but repeatedly over many years and, indeed, in multiple cases.
The agency at fault, Victoria’s Mental Health Review Board, admits all this. Some readers may wonder what else there is to litigate. But one of the hardest questions in the law is the consequences of breaking it. Kracke says that the board’s mistakes mean that he can’t be forced to endure further treatment (at least until the involuntary treatment process is restarted). The board says that its mistakes don’t matter at all, legally at least. Victoria’s mental health law doesn’t say. And the general law of Australia doesn’t help much either. Enter Victoria’s human rights Charter.
KEVIN BELL, a part-time viticulture student at Charles Sturt University, runs a winery business with his wife on the Mornington Peninsula. In his other job, he was once a lawyer, representing a variety of community legal claimants. The same year that Kracke was first forced to take medicine for his mental illness, Bell was appointed to the bench of Victoria’s Supreme Court.
The balance of Bell’s siblings on the bench have reacted to Charter claims by the like of sex offenders with barely concealed contempt and a bevy of technical objections. Recently, two judges barred an unrepresented litigant, who claimed that he had received threats from Victoria police, from raising human rights arguments on appeal. In any event, they declared, claims of state death threats “are simply not engaged by the Charter.”
Bell, by contrast, raised the human rights law himself on behalf of litigants before him. A notable example was the brothers Mirik, who faced a compensation claim for a hideous and degrading assault. Bell called for submissions on whether or not the Miriks’ human rights were being breached because they had no lawyer. At the next hearing, they had a government-funded lawyer, courtesy of a change of heart by Victoria Legal Aid.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Bell has since moved away from the Supreme Court to take up the presidency of its much less glamorous counterpart, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, or VCAT. A major part of his task is a root-and-branch review of the legal body that Victorians are most likely to deal with. The VCAT presidency also carries the perk of allowing Bell to “call in” the tribunal’s most interesting cases.
Kracke’s human rights complaint is one of several Charter claims presently in Bell’s hands. Such cases have an importance that extends beyond the lives of individual litigants or even their immediate subject matter: mental health or tenancy law or freedom of information and the other stars of VCAT’s low key docket. Instead, given the tepid treatment of the Charter by senior courts to date, they represent an opportunity for Bell to show how to apply the Charter properly.
While the text of human rights laws, actual and proposed, are endlessly debated, the true test of such laws comes from their application. Many laud the plain language of human rights, in comparison to other statutes. But they are really only talking about individual words. “Right” and “privacy” are simple enough, but a “right to privacy” isn’t and “A person has a right not to have his or her privacy arbitrarily or unlawfully interfered with” is fiendish. Bundle fifty such sentences together with no apparent links between them and mix in some feel goodness, party politics and gobbledegook and you have the Charter.
In the hands of judges born or made mean or timid, the Charter can easily be strained into a thin gruel. It’s certainly a lot of work to take such basic ingredients and boil up a rich soup. Bell’s reasons for judgment in Kracke’s case, which considered only a fraction of the Charter, were a thesis-length 75,000 words, or well over ten times the length of the Charter itself.
Much of the judgment was directed to Bell’s own present and past colleagues on the bench. Victoria’s courts and tribunals are exempt from the Human Rights Charter, except when interpreting statutes and in their administrative functions, courtesy of a wholly speculative constitutional concern backed by Victoria’s solicitor-general. Bell’s response was to give the words “interpretation” and “administrative” their widest possible reading, ensuring that much of his own tribunal’s behaviour would be governed by the Charter.
And he went further, taking advantage of an embarrassing typo in the Charter’s application clause, which purports to give courts and tribunals other undefined “functions.” Courts must be bound by some of the Charter in all their functions, Bell ruled, lest that clause’s “powerful opening words” be ignored. Those powerful words? “This Charter applies to: …” It’s not exactly “We the People,” is it? So, it’s not surprising that, in the end, words were all that Victoria’s Charter could offer to Kracke.
EVERY DAY SINCE 2005, Gary Kracke has swallowed a tablet of sodium valporate. Every fortnight, he attends a nurse for an intramuscular depot injection of slow-release risperidone. He doesn’t want to take either drug, because they have unpleasant side effects and change his mood and thoughts. But his psychiatrists want him to and, because of his illness, their orders are law.
In 2007, Kracke was listed as AWOL by staff at Victoria’s Mental Health Review Board. Being AWOL would have had enormous consequences, permitting him to be involuntarily detained. In fact, he was still diligently taking his tablet and reporting to the Mid West Area Health Service. It was the board that was AWOL.
The MHRB is the only barrier to stop the good intentions of psychiatrists from paving a road to hell for their patients. Its job is to check the doctors’ orders on a strict timetable. While it rarely disagrees with the doctors – it does so in fewer than one in twenty cases – it’s common for the doctors to change their orders before the hearing. As the board observes in its annual report, a looming review of your work always makes you think again.
Hence, the tragedy that the board was completely unable to perform its review function. In Kracke’s case, his request for an adjournment back in 2006 to seek a second opinion – a common occurrence – caused his compulsory eight-week review to disappear into a two-year administrative black hole. Thousands of other cases similarly slipped behind, well into 2008, until the board (citing the Charter) got its act together.
SINCE 2007, Kracke, like every other Victorian, has had a right not to have medical treatment without his consent. But, when President Bell’s attention turned from the courts to Kracke, his generous reading of the Charter suddenly narrowed. The statute had no legal effect on law before 2008, he ruled. And, anyway, no one was in the wrong so long as Kracke’s rights were being limited “reasonably.” Which they were, Bell found, because his doctors were applying “strict criteria” and reviewing them (themselves of course) periodically.
The apparent reason for Bell’s mid-judgment transformation from grand jurist to Yes Minister bureaucrat is his repeated concern that Kracke’s arguments would cause chaos for the mental health system. Given that so many other cases had slipped past their deadline, that’s quite a problem. But equally worrying is that anything from one in twenty of those cases to many more could have involved orders that ought to have been overturned.
While the government may be displeased at some of Bell’s adventurism in Kracke’s case, they’ll be well satisfied with his willingness to factor in the interests of the state – which caused the problem through shoddy legislation and administration, and would otherwise have had to pay in hurried new laws, more resources and some hefty political capital – when determining the rights of individuals like Kracke.
Bell did find, though, that one of Kracke’s rights was unreasonably breached. That was his right to a fair hearing, which included a right to a timely hearing. The government, which has opposed each and every Charter claim to date, argued that only court litigants had a right to a fair hearing. But Bell refused to treat Kracke’s compulsory medical treatment order as if it was a fishing licence. And he also rejected another argument that would have required Kracke to go to the Supreme Court to get a remedy.
On the other hand, his earlier rulings meant that the only available remedy was a pyrrhic one. And that’s why Kracke is now the first Victorian to be given a piece of paper that records the solemn fact that his human rights have been breached. As he takes his medicine and struggles to hold onto his personality, he is surely one of the last Victorians to need such a reminder. • | <urn:uuid:c03eaab6-1888-4d8e-8ae5-da399530d86c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://insidestory.org.au/this-charter-applies-too/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00354-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974197 | 2,240 | 1.75 | 2 |
What is Medical Insurance?
Medical costs world over are sharply increasing. The working class, cannot pay their exorbitant medical bills. They need an instrument which they can bear the economic brunt of their medical emergencies. They do this through a medical insurance policy. This is an instrument through which an individual insures his medical well-being in return for a nominal premium.
The Mentality of People who invest money
People investing money anywhere, seek a tangible return for it. For example, an individual invests in equity shares with an expectation that he will make a good profit after a short period. However, in a medical insurance policy, one does not get tangible returns. Under this policy, returns are only obtained on the occurrence of a medical emergency. This is to say that if the emergency does not occur; all the money paid by the individual will go down the drain. Therefore, people avoid taking this insurance.
New Trends in Medical Insurance
However, all this is bound to change with the numerous innovations brought out by insurance companies to better their business. One prominent insurer provides a Doctor-on-Call facility for its members which can be used for seeking doctor consultation on the phone. A toll-free number is given to the member, on which if he calls, he can seek the advice of a medical practitioner based on his choices. Another insurance company has tied up with a vacation ownership company to offer medicinal tours to its members. Here the network of the vacation ownership company is used to provide accommodation and the services of the doctors on the insurers’ panel are used to provide medical-related services to its members. With such innovative ideas being introduced, it will not be long before people will start viewing medical insurance as an asset rather than a liability. It will reduce their burden as then they will be getting their health checked regularly through the facilities provided by the medical insurer.
Moving ahead, it will not be wrong to say that medical insurance will become a necessity in the times to come. Just like food, shelter and housing, medical insurance will become a basic necessity. But in order for this to happen insurers should take more steps to propagate the benefits they provide through their services. Numerous claim rejections by insurance companies are a deterrent for individuals to go for this insurance. However, if insurance companies can propagate the benefits a medical cover provides to them, it will not be long before their business will improve. The human body is a machine which needs maintenance and therefore it needs medical insurance. | <urn:uuid:ae80495d-9c71-458f-9a7f-06b8391cad7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wallport.ml/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00374-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970314 | 500 | 2.40625 | 2 |
We have all heard the saying, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” but that doesn’t mean you should omit regular reviews of your home equity line of credit (HELOC) program — even when trying to balance daily tasks, the pandemic and compliance regulations changes.
The status quo may currently appear to be working until a regulator or external reviewer identifies systemic gaps.
Here are the common errors often uncovered:
Application disclosure timing
Many financial institutions interpret Regulation Z to mean that if the HELOC application disclosure and the “When Your Home is on the Line” brochure are provided within three business days of application, the compliance requirements are met. When the application is received via telephone, the disclosure and the brochure may be delivered or placed in the mail not later than three business days following receipt of the consumer’s application.
However, this is not the case for in-person or online applications. Regulation Z 1026.40(b) specifies the disclosures must be provided at the time of application.
Put simply, if a consumer applies in person, they must receive the disclosures before they leave the office of the lender they are applying with. In addition, if the application is provided via the website or online application software, the disclosure and brochure must be available on or with the blank application.
Only if the application was taken over the phone do you have three business days to provide the required disclosures.
The HELOC application disclosure required to be provided at the time of application is often a template that is reviewed by management annually to update the current interest rate payment examples and historical table required to be disclosed.
Regulation Z 1026.40(d) requires the HELOC application disclosure to include, among other things, an itemization of fees imposed by the financial institution to open, use or maintain the plan, as well as a good-faith estimate of third-party fees that may be assessed to open the plan.
If a financial institution has added an annual fee to its HELOC program or adjusted its origination/application fee, the fees assessed by the creditor must be itemized on the disclosure.
In addition, when is the last time you reviewed your disclosed third-party fees to verify they are being disclosed in good faith? For example, a review of recently closed HELOCs may identify that the total third-party fees assessed at closing are significantly higher than the fees listed or the range of third-party fees disclosed on the HELOC application disclosure. It may be determined that the HELOC application disclosure is no longer providing a good-faith estimate of third-party fees and that updates to the disclosure are necessary.
Initial periodic statement
Providing consumers their initial periodic statement when originating a HELOC has proven to be a challenge.
Regulation Z requires fees paid out of the initial advance to be disclosed using one of two formatting options detailed under Regulation Z. A financial institution requiring the consumer to pay all closing costs at closing relieves itself from the fee disclosures on the initial periodic statement because the fees are not advanced against the line.
However, if you are allowing fees assessed with the HELOC to be advanced through the line of credit with the first draw, those fees must be disclosed consistent with Regulation Z 1026.7(a) or 1026.7(b).
Option 1 for your initial periodic statement requires the fees advanced to be itemized on the first statement. Fees that are finance charges must also be identified as finance charges when itemizing.
Option 2 for your initial periodic statement requires the fees to be grouped together under the heading “Fees.” It is important to note this method can be used only when your periodic statement uses the terms “interest charge” and “total interest” to describe the finance charges assessed as a result of the interest rate.
The periodic statement disclosure option utilized by your organization is likely driven by your vendor; however, financial institutions must ensure fees financed as part of the initial advance are being disclosed as required under Regulation Z.
Have you ever compared the language in your HELOC agreement with the language in your HELOC periodic statement?
Your HELOC agreement is required to disclose how finance charges are calculated. This means your agreement needs to include a clear description of whether unpaid fees and finance charges are subtracted from or included with the daily balance when calculating the finance charges.
For example, if your HELOC agreement states unpaid fees and finance charges will be subtracted from the daily balance, but the daily balance calculation on your periodic statements is including unpaid fees, and finance charges are part of the balance, the interest charge to the consumer is inaccurate.
In addition, this may result in consumer harm because the consumer is being assessed more in interest charges than they should be according to the terms of their agreement. If you advance funds from the first draw to pay loan fees that are considered finance charges, such as the flood determination fee or loan origination fee, these finance charges would also have to be excluded from your interest calculation. There may be a system limitation on how this occurs.
Testing your HELOC agreement and monthly statements periodically is important to confirm your borrowers are being treated as you disclosed. A system conversion, software upgrade or vendor change may result in unintended and unknown changes without proper controls in place to identify discrepancies.
Including the areas identified here as part of your HELOC monitoring program may identify some links that previously weren’t identified as broken.
How Wipfli can help
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Poncho Art Project
I began a unit on Mexico this week, celebrating the vibrancy of the Mexican Culture. For first grade, we made ponchos, a variation of a Painted Paper project that created Mexican blankets.
- Starting with a 12″ x 18″ piece of colored paper, first grade students cut a 5″ slit down the center of the paper. Then, they cut a triangle from both sides of the slit. This creates the neck opening. Next, cut another skinny triangle from each corner of the paper to form shoulders. The fringe was next. The students snipped the paper to create a fringe. If you have more time and want to elaborate on this project, a fringe made from snipped yarn would also be cool.
- Using oil pastels, kids drew lines across the poncho, making some plain and others decorative. Then they cut strips of old painted “placemats” and glued them to the collars.
- Time for the paints. I keep pre-mixed tempera paint in pint sized plastic containers (with lids). I set 4-5 various colors on the table. For many kids, painting the poncho with the actual poncho in mind was rare. Most kids experimented with mixing, spreading and reveled in the joys of painting. For first grade, this is exactly what is expected. Although some kids indeed painted stripes and decorations with serious consideration. For the kids who finished the painting, we stapled yarn at the neckline for a tie.
When I see these kids next week, I might have them outline the stripes with a black oil pastel and give them an opportunity to add a string closure. But if we don’t have time, I won’t worry about it. The process was so much fun and the art room was awash in color!
This lesson took forty minutes.
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You drive up toward your house on a snowy Calgary night, hit the button on your garage door remote and the garage door opener dutifully swings into action lifting the door out of your way so you can glide into the garage safe and sound. Once inside the opener once again goes to work lowering the door back into place so that you’re nice and warm and dry when you get out of the car. Sound about right? Well, actually it’s not. Because, contrary to popular belief, the garage door opener is not really what opens the door at all. In fact a better name for that device would be the “garage door starter and regulator”. Because that’s what it does. It gets the door started and then regulates the movement so that it’s nice and smooth and neither too fast nor too slow. But if the “opener” doesn’t actually open the door, then what does? The answer is: the springs.
Table Of Contents
- The Much Ignored Garage Door Spring: Credit Where Credit is Due
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Garage Door Springs
- Extension Springs
- Torsion Springs
- General Questions Related to Garage Door Springs
- The Different Types of Garage Doors
The Much Ignored Garage Door Spring: Credit Where Credit is Due
The development of the first overhead door is typically attributed to one C. G. Johnson who invented a folding door that could be lifted upward. This method of opening was much more convenient than carriage house doors, especially for those in urban areas who didn’t have room for doors that swung open on hinges or even slid to one side or another. A central component of the new overhead design was the inclusion of the extension spring, which Johnson knew was capable of storing enormous amounts of energy that could be used to actually lift the door. The rest, as they say, is history. Today your automatic overhead door (even your manually operated overhead door if you have one) would not work without its springs.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Garage Door Springs
There are 2 types of garage door springs used on overhead doors today: the extension spring and the torsion spring. We’re going to take a close look at both types and answer as many questions about each as we can think of. Let’s get started.
Extension springs have remained the standard when it comes to overhead garage doors since they were first used by C. G. Johnson way back in the day. Here are some questions specific to extension springs.
How does an extension spring work?
When the door closes the extension spring absorbs most of the weight of the door and stores it as energy. When the door is opened the extension spring releases its energy to lift the door; which can often weigh several hundred pounds and would have been impossible for the garage door opener to lift by itself. Most of the time garage doors will use 2 extension springs with one being located above each track perpendicular to the door itself. Some garage door setups will use a single extension spring. Although that type of setup is not common and is almost exclusively found on the lightest, cheapest doors.
Why Use Extension Springs?
The primary reason many garage door manufacturers use extension springs is because they’re cheaper than torsion springs. That’s also the reason they’re so popular with homeowners. They save money on a garage door with extension springs as compared to a door with a torsion spring or springs. Another advantage which doesn’t come into play all that often is that some smaller garages are configured in a way that doesn’t leave enough room in the space over the door to install a torsion spring. In that case extension springs are the only practical option. Mostly though, it’s a matter of cost/price.
Should I Have 1 or 2 Extension Springs on my Door?
Extension springs aren’t usually capable of storing as much energy as torsion springs, which is one reason you’ll most often find 2 extension springs on a given door. But it’s not the only reason. Another reason is safety. If you have 1 extension spring and it breaks the safety measures built into the door might catch it before it falls on you, your car or your loved one. Or it they may not. With 2 extension springs one can break and the other will catch the door and prevent it from crashing to the ground. Note that using the garage door opener if 1 extension spring is broken will likely result in the door raising unevenly and putting undue stress and strain on the other garage door parts.
What are Some Tips for Maintaining Extension Springs?
There’s no secret formula for maintaining extension springs. The best thing to do is to enlist the garage door experts at B&W Garage Doors to conduct regular checks of the entire door, including the extension springs, to make sure everything is in optimal condition. This will ensure you get the most out of your garage door and will prevent small problems from blossoming into big ones.
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How Long Do Extension Springs Last?
The expected lifespan of a garage door spring is measured in cycles, with 1 cycle equalling 1 complete opening and closing of the door. You can see that, when measured in this fashion, it’s difficult to say that the spring will last for X number of years. A little math though will show that if the door is subjected to 2 cycles per day it should last on average about 13 years. If the door is subjected to 4 cycles per day you can expect to have to replace the extension springs every 6 1/2 years or so. If you only leave and return home through the garage door an average of 3 times a week however, you can expect to get some 30 years out of your extension springs (if they don’t rust through first).
It’s not known exactly when torsion springs were first used on garage doors but their use became fairly commonplace after World War II. Since then they’ve grown in popularity until today, when they’re used on nearly as many garage doors as extension springs. Torsion springs are situated parallel to the garage door on the wall above the door. They have some advantages over extension springs with the most obvious advantage being that they’re more powerful. They’re also more durable and some say quieter as well. On the downside they’re more expensive than extension springs and they’re extremely dangerous to work around. You should never try to affect garage door repair on a torsion spring yourself. Here are some common torsion spring related questions.
What type of garage door uses torsion springs?
Torsion springs are found on every type of garage door (although it’s rare to find them on single panel doors). Their use is not determined so much by the style of the door as by price. While there are exceptions to every rule in general less expensive garage doors use extension springs while more expensive garage doors use torsion springs.
Do some doors use more than 1 torsion spring?
For years the typical torsion spring driven garage door used a single large spring. In recent years however that has begun to change and it’s not uncommon to find garage doors now using 2 smaller torsion springs rather than a single large spring. This has the same effect as it does with extension springs. That is, if one of the springs breaks the other will prevent the door from crashing to the ground. However, just as with extension springs it is not recommended that you use the garage door if 1 of the 2 torsion springs has broken. It will result in uneven force being applied to the tracks, rollers, cables and other garage door parts. And this could cause extensive damage.
How do I maintain the torsion springs on my garage door?
As with extension springs the best way is to have the pros from B&W Garage Doors Calgary conduct regular maintenance checks of your door. They’ll make sure the torsion springs are clean and clear of debris and that they are properly lubricated so they’ll perform the way they’re intended to.
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What is the lifespan of the torsion spring?
Most torsion springs are rated to last for up to 15,000 cycles. A cycle, as we mentioned above, is one complete opening and closing of the door. If the springs are subjected to 2 cycles per day then they can be expected to last around 20 years if properly maintained. However more durable, longer lasting torsion springs are available today that will last for up to 30,000 cycles or an incredible 40 years if used twice a day. In reality these types of springs are intended to be used on doors that see a higher than average volume of openings and closings and not necessarily designed to last for 40 years or more.
Should I get a right or left wind spring?
Not many people are aware that torsion springs are either right wind or left wind. When 2 torsion springs are in play the one on the left is typically right wind and the one on the right is left wind. So which “wind” you get (that’s “wind” as in “find”) for your replacement spring will depend on whether you need to replace the left or right spring. The wind standard we just described also applies if there’s only a single spring: left/right, right/left.
General Questions Related to Garage Door Springs
So now that we’ve taken a closer look at the different types of springs and questions specifically related to them let’s handle some more general garage door spring questions that could basically apply to either type.
Can I Replace Springs Myself?
Here’s one we hear every day and every day the answer is the same. You can but you shouldn’t. Garage springs store massive amounts of energy. Enough to lift a door that often weighs hundreds of pounds. If a spring snaps while you’re working on it the result could be catastrophic. People have died working on and around springs. As such you should always call for professional help when it comes to replacing the garage door springs no matter how much DIY experience you have or how simple it looks to you. Professional garage door technicians like those at B&W go through lengthy training and have extensive hands on experience regarding the proper way to handle garage door springs. Leave this type of garage door repair to them.
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Can any spring be used on any garage door?
No. Springs come in different sizes and strengths to accommodate different sizes and weights of garage doors. Trying to lift a heavy door with short, light gauge springs isn’t going to work for long. Your garage door installation and repair specialists at B&W will be able to fix you up with exactly the right spring to match your door, regardless of make, model and age.
Do I always need to replace a rusty spring?
Not always. It really depends on the extent of the rust. If you have a good history of having your springs oiled on a regular basis and the rust is a new phenomenon – perhaps caused by a recent spell of extremely wet weather – chances are all you need to do is have the pros from B&W have a look. They’ll likely clean off any surface rust and give the spring plenty of lube. If, however, the corrosion has been there for a while and gained a substantial footing it may have undermined the integrity of the spring enough to warrant replacement.
If my door is lifting unevenly is it because of my springs?
Possibly. Especially if you have 2 springs on your door. It could indicate that one has snapped and you weren’t aware of it. Or it could be that one of the springs was simply defective. On the other hand it may indicate a problem with the track. Perhaps one of the tracks has come loose or there’s an obstruction in the track that’s causing one side of the door to drag behind the other. Also, there’s a chance it’s an issue with the rollers. If a roller has popped out of the track that could cause one side of the door to lag. Of if a roller is stuck and unable to turn it could also cause one side of the door to drag. Call B&W in Calgary for this type of garage door repair.
The Different Types of Garage Doors
Single Panel Doors
A single panel door is, like its name implies on monolithic panel of wood or aluminum or whatever material you choose. It doesn’t have any hinges in it that allow it to turn the corner from vertical to horizontal. Instead the bottom swings out as the top pulls back and the whole thing rises as a single piece. The single panel garage door requires a fair amount of clearance in front of the door because, as we said, the bottom of the door swings out as it raises. While most single panel doors use extension springs there are a few, more esoteric designs that utilize the torsion spring.
Sectional Garage Doors
There is no doubt that the most popular type of garage door in the world today is the sectional garage door. Sectional doors bend along horizontal lines as they transition from their vertical start to their horizontal position up parallel to the ceiling of the garage. Sectional garage doors come in a wide array of styles and in a half dozen and more materials including wood, steel and fiberglass. Sectional doors use either extension springs or torsion springs and, as mentioned earlier, which one you choose is often a matter of how much you want to spend, with torsion springs being the more expensive option.
Sectional garage doors have grown up from their prosaic beginnings when white wooden doors were pretty much your only choice. Today they can be designed to practically disappear into the exterior of your home or make a bold architectural statement in keeping with your custom designed house. From glass panel doors to fully insulated steel doors that will make a significant difference in the temperature inside your garage, today’s sectional garage doors can do it all.
Carriage House Doors
Carriage house doors are the original garage doors going all the way back to the days of the horse and carriage. Today they’re a relative rarity, reserved almost exclusively for high end or historic properties where tradition rules and saving space isn’t such a huge concern. Carriage house doors are manually powered most of the time, although you can get them with hydraulic or other opening systems. Since they swing open they don’t use either extension or torsion springs.
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Commenting on the release of the Labour manifesto for the General Election, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
“This manifesto shows that Labour understands the serious problems facing education and facing children. Their promises include credible plans to relieve the heavy pressures on staff and to lift children out of poverty. Children only get one chance at education. The National Education Union welcomes Labour’s fresh vision for an education system that puts children first and foremost.
“The NEU asked each party to value education and make pledges on funding and the Labour party has met our tests on funding. We think the promise to stop the cuts and instead to invest in education will command voter support because parents want qualified and specialist teachers, value teaching assistants, worry about increasing class size, and expect high quality support if their child has special educational needs and disabilities.
“Teachers will be relieved to hear that the education funding pledges in the Labour manifesto match the demands of the School Cuts coalition. Our analysis of the Labour announcement shows that Labour will reverse the cuts but also, importantly, deal with the historic underfunding in many areas of this country. This is evidence-based funding which will mean more children reach their potential. Labour are in touch with real families’ daily concerns and the ways in which education cuts have harmed children. We welcome the £900 million for free school meals in primary which would address child hunger and support children to eat healthy food for lunch.
“The NEU is excited to see the value placed on child wellbeing, through the commitments on much more child mental health support and measures to tackle poverty and improve families’ living standards.
“Labour’s proposals can make the job of teaching more manageable and fulfilling by removing the discredited and divisive inspection system. These plans signal a different approach – one that promises to give teachers the conditions they need to be able to help every child meet their potential. The NEU welcomes the break with the misguided political mantra of competition and academisation. A national education service based on inclusion, co-operation and integrated services will improve outcomes for children and reduce the inequality gaps.
“Labour are showing courage in challenging the takeover of community schools by unaccountable academy providers. The break-up of the education service has produced record numbers of children and young people suffering from stress and with unmet mental health needs.
“Teachers will welcome the forward-thinking proposals to replace Ofsted with an intelligent accountability system, one which offers support to schools instead of labels.
“Education for England’s primary children is among the most test-dominated in the world and brings with it unacceptable levels of stress and unhappiness. Ending primary national testing will boost engagement for young children, help teachers address individual needs flexibly and ensure primary children acquire a love of learning and the skills to thrive in secondary.
“Labour’s manifesto demonstrates an understanding that schools alone cannot counter the drastic and long-lasting impacts of poverty and class inequality in wider society. We welcome Labour’s proposals to end child poverty, tackle the housing crisis, create good, well-paid and sustainable jobs, and kick-start the economy. The exciting announcement to boost support for school uniform costs would immediately help children escape the shame caused by poverty. The £175 million for arts pupil premium would help use the power of creative subjects to change children’s lives and provide a wider range of cultural opportunities to more children.
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Every year, Forbes magazine releases its list of the richest people on the planet. Out of the 1,226 people who made this year’s “Forbes Billionaires List”, only six are black — and just one is American: Oprah Winfrey.
With a net worth of $2.7 billion, media mogul Winfrey remains the sole black, female billionaire in the world, despite a tough first year for her cable channel the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
OWN is a joint venture between her Harpo Productions and Discovery, and has been marked by disappointing ratings and turnover at the top. The channel’s chief executive, Christina Norman, for instance, left just months after the channel launched.
“A new programming line-up, including a nightly talk show with performer Rosie O’Donnell and an interview show featuring Winfrey with high-profile guests, has given the channel a recent boost, but its future remains uncertain,” according to Forbes.
Others in the billionaire’s club include Nigerian self-made business magnet Aliko Dangote. He is, however, no longer the richest black person in the world.
He’s been ousted by Mohammed Al Amoudi, of Saudi and Ethiopian descent, who is worth an estimated $12.5 billion. That’s $1.3 billion richer than Dangote.
Al-Amoudi, 67, is the 61st richest person in the world. His most prominent assets include oil companies like Svenska Petroleum Exploration, which produces crude oil in Africa, and refinery operator Preem.
Based in Nigeria, Aliko Dangote, worth $11.2 billion, is the owner of the Dangote Group, with interests in everything from sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing to cement plants in his homeland and several other countries in Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa and Zambia.
Fellow Nigerian Mike Adenuga, worth $4.3 billion, has interests in Telecoms, banking and oil. His Conoil Producing Company is Nigeria’s largest indigenous oil exploration company, and his mobile phone operator, Globacom, has over 15 million subscribers in Nigeria.
Mining magnate Patrice Motsepe is South Africa’s first and only black billionaire. His company, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum. Motsepe, worth $2.7 billion, owns 41 percent of the company.
Dr. Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim is the final black billionaire to make it on the authoritative Forbes billionaire list. The Sudanese mobile communications entrepreneur is worth an estimated $1.1 billion.
He worked for several telecommunications companies before founding Celtel, which he sold in 2005 for $3.4 billion, and pocketed $1.4 billion.
He has also set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Mo Ibrahim Index to evaluate nations’ performances.
In 2001, Robert Johnson became the first African-American to appear on the annual Forbes billionaire list. Johnson secured his billionaire status in the years 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008, but the dropped off the list again in 2009.
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|Title:||Ultrastructure and Differentiation of Ascidian Muscle I. Caudal Musculature of the Larva of Diplosoma Macdonaldi|
|Authors:||Cavey, Michael J.|
Cloney, Richard A.
|Citation:||Michael J. Cavey and Richard A. Cloney "Ultrastructure and Differentiation of Ascidian Muscle" Cell Tiss. Res. 174, 289-313 (1976)|
|Abstract:||The larval caudal musculature of the compound ascidian Diplosoma macdonaldi consists of two longitudinal bands of somatic striated muscle. Approximately 800 mononucleate cells, lying in rows between the epidermis and the notochord, constitute each muscle band. Unlike the caudal muscle cells of most other ascidian larvae, the myofibrils and apposed sarcoplasmic reticulum occupy both the cortical and the medullary sarcoplasm. The cross-striated myofibrils converge near the tapered ends of the caudal muscle cell and integrate into a field of myofilaments. The field originates and terminates at intermediate junctions at the transverse cellular boundaries. Close junctions and longitudinal and transverse segments of nonjunctional sarcolemmata flank the intermediate junctions, creating a transverse myomuscular (TMM) complex which superficially resembles the intercalated disk of the vertebrate heart. A perforated sheet of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) invests each myofibril. The sheet of SR spans between sarcomeres and is locally undifferentiated in relation to the cross-striations. Two to four saccular cisternae of SR near each sarcomeric Z-line establish interior (dyadic) couplings with an axial analogue of the vertebrate transverse tubular system. The axial tubules are invaginations of the sarcolemma within and adjacent to the intermediate junctions of the TMM complex. The caudal muscle cells of larval ascidians and the somatic striated muscle fibers of lower vertebrates bear similar relationships to the skeletal organs and share similar locomotor functions. At the cellular level, however, the larval ascidian caudal musculature more closely resembles the vertebrate myocardium.|
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Eric Arthur Blair, better known under his pen name was a British writer and journalist. He was born on June 25, 2903 in Motihari, India and died on January 21, 1950 in London. When he was 1 year he was taken in England. He attended Eton, served in colonial police in Burma and later he lived in Great Britain and in other European countries. During that time he started to write. He took part in the Spanish civil war and wrote a book about it. However the book was not published. During the Second World War he had his own anti-fascist program on the BBC radio. Orwell is known for his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-four” and satirical novella “Animal Farm”. These books are the best-selling novels of the 20th century. You can download Animal Farm by George Orwell in mp3 from our site. | <urn:uuid:c1ace5d7-f79d-441d-b1cb-ad7d00ccc61b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mp3fiesta.com/orwell_george_artist67866/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996108 | 183 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Did you know that this year the number of Wi-Fi connected devices will exceed the world’s population? With the growing number of Wi-Fi connected devices, there have been more and more public Wi-Fi networks created. Nowadays, whether you are in a coffee shop or train station, there is probably a public Wi-Fi in your general area.
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As such, drivers are now able to leave their physical driving licences at home when using their vehicle, provided they have a device with them which can display the digital version.
A new driving licence app, launched on Tuesday, can be downloaded on to smart phones with either Android or iOS operating systems.
The digital licence can be used as a valid form of ID, as well as a driving licence, making it completely equivalent to the physical version, the Ministry of Housing and Transport said in a statement.
The app, ‘Kørekort’, must be downloaded and the user is required to login using NemID, Denmark’s secure digital signature system.
The digital driving licence is activated by scanning one’s own passport into the app, which uses the passport photo for the digital ID while allowing it to remain stored remotely via the user’s device.
Foreign passports are not compatible with the app, even if the holder has a Danish driving licence. That appears to be because the app uses Danish personal registry information which is only included in Danish passports.
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- 1 Is it easy to start a carpentry business?
- 2 Is carpentry in high demand?
- 3 How do you price a carpentry job?
- 4 How do I become a successful carpenter?
- 5 Can Carpenters be self employed?
- 6 How do carpenters get clients?
- 7 Is carpentry a dying job?
- 8 Can carpenters make good money?
- 9 Are carpenters well paid?
- 10 How much should a carpenter charge per day?
- 11 What is a master carpenter?
- 12 Is learning carpentry hard?
- 13 Is carpentry a good career?
- 14 What skills are needed for carpentry?
Is it easy to start a carpentry business?
One of the early expenditures of launching this sort of business is the cost of obtaining a license and a bond. If you already have a few basic tools and a few hundred dollars, it is feasible to establish a modest carpentry business with as little as a few hundred dollars.
Is carpentry in high demand?
Prospects for Employment Carpenters’ employment is expected to expand by 2 percent between 2020 and 2030, which is less than the average growth rate for all occupations. Despite slow employment growth, an average of 89,300 new carpenter jobs are expected to be created each year over the next ten years, according to projections.
How do you price a carpentry job?
Create a rough estimate of the number of hours it will take to finish the task, then multiply that figure by the price you want to charge per hour (for example, $30 per hour). Add the cost of the supplies to the total and multiply the result by 15 percent to get the final figure. Adding up the cost of goods and the amount you are charging for labor will give you the total price.
How do I become a successful carpenter?
What it takes to become a carpenter
- Obtain a high school diploma or equivalent. Entry into an apprenticeship program is often contingent on having completed some type of basic schooling. Complete an apprenticeship program.
- Consider extra carpentry education opportunities.
- Develop abilities that are marketable.
Can Carpenters be self employed?
Carpenters who are self-employed account for around 27% of the workforce. This is regarded to be above average in comparison to the rest of the industry.
How do carpenters get clients?
Now, let’s talk about some suggestions.
- Make a website for your business. In the carpentry industry, a website is not absolutely necessary, but it may be really beneficial. • Establish a social media presence. • Create company listings. • Print business cards. • Think about investing in branded cars and clothing. Make sure your Instagram account is up to date. Improve the definition of your services. Make contact with previous clients.
Is carpentry a dying job?
Make a website to showcase your products and services. In the carpentry industry, having a website is not absolutely necessary, but it might be beneficial. • Establish a social media presence. • Create company listings. • Print business cards. • Think about purchasing branded cars and clothes. It is time to update your Instagram profile. Improve your service definitions. Former clientele should be recontacted.
Can carpenters make good money?
Carpenters Earnings Carpenters earned an annual income of $46,600 on average in the United States. Based on a 40-hour work week, this equates to a gross hourly wage of $22 per hour. Earnings were distributed as follows: the lowest 10% made less than $28,900, while the wealthiest 10% earned more than $82,800
Are carpenters well paid?
Carpenters earn an average wage of $42,090 (£32,998) per year. Based on the best paid cities in America, it looks that the plumber earns the most money in the country, earning an annual income of $101,810 (£80,228), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
How much should a carpenter charge per day?
“A carpenter’s day fee is typically between 120 and 170 dollars.”
What is a master carpenter?
A master carpenter is a skilled woodworker who possesses the knowledge and abilities necessary to do any task involving carpentry. Cutting, shaping, and installing building materials are just a few of the responsibilities of a construction worker. A master carpenter should be a true expert in his or her field.
Is learning carpentry hard?
Woodworking is not difficult to learn, but it takes dedication and perseverance to become a master. If you have a strong desire to complete construction tasks, you will overcome any obstacles that stand in your way.
Is carpentry a good career?
Yes, being a carpenter can be a very wonderful and extremely satisfying career that may provide you with several opportunities for advancement. In the field of carpentry, there are several specializations that you might choose from. Depending on your specialty, you may be a frame or truss specialist, a flooring specialist, a cabinetry expert, a trim expert, and so on.
What skills are needed for carpentry?
Most carpenters require a variety of talents in order to be successful in their jobs, including the following:
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Florida has not had the best history when it comes to the rights of same-sex couples. For the longest time, the state had a law on the books that gay men and women were forbidden from adopting a child. Florida not only enacted a so-called Defense of Marriage Act statute but enshrined its opposition to same-sex marriage in the state’s constitution. Further, even once Florida courts ruled that the state must recognize marriage between people of the same sex, it was unclear whether the state would permit same-sex divorce.
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PEACE (People’s Educational Action and Communal Evocation) is a 18 year-old non-government, non-profit organization, established in 1993 that has been working for inclusive growth and sustainable development of deprived and marginalised people in the Gajapati district of Orissa. With a broad vision of facilitating and structuring a society where communities are capable of making their own choices, meeting their survival needs and leading a self-reliant and sustainable life with dignity, PEACE aims to reach out as an enabling institution to improve quality of life of deprived tribal communities.
Since inception the organisation has worked in partnership with communities and govt. departments for overall development of the backward villages. It has come up with appropriate mechanisms of strengthening women’s self-help saving groups; introducing sustainable agricultural practices; increasing people’s participation in local self-governance; improving enrolment, retention and the quality of teaching in primary schools. As an organisation, it focuses on Primary Education, Sustainable Livelihood, village sanitation and hygiene education and community health. It also addresses issues such as participatory irrigation, child rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention, while focusing on women and children in particular.
The present president and executive director of PEACE Mr. Bhikari Charana Behera had been participating in different social activities like cleaning of medical campuses, village streets, planting trees along village roads during his schooling period in remote tribal pocket Mohana under undivided Ganjam district of Orissa. The college period also witnessed his participation and leadership in the social and cultural activities. He was elected the President of a registered social institution namely Maharaj Krushnachandra Gajapati Yubak Sangha, Mohana during 1984-86 and then secretary of Neelachala Sanskrutik Sangha, Mohana during 1987-90. The knowledge and experience gained during this period inspired him to start a state-wide network organization namely PEACE to take-up development work in an organized way involving a group of dedicated and committed band of hard working and spirited people during 1993-94.The activities of PEACE started just after the registration during 1993-94 in Ganjam and Gajapati district. | <urn:uuid:bc386f83-c0ac-4812-ba77-038089436d82> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://peaceodisha.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962066 | 455 | 1.945313 | 2 |
SAN DIEGO — Drinking just one to two cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests.
Researchers examined coffee consumption among nearly 8,500 people in Israel, including about 5,000 who had colorectal cancer and 3,500 who did not have cancer. On average, the people in the study drank just less than two cups of coffee per day.
Overall, the odds of having colorectal cancer were about 30 percent lower for coffee drinkers than for those who did not drink coffee, the study found. [ 9 Snack Foods: Healthy or Not? ]
And the more coffee people drank, the lower their likelihood was of developing the disease, the researchers said.
While it's still too soon to recommend drinking coffee as a way to lower colorectal-cancer risk, "I think, certainly, the level of evidence is building towards that," said study researcher Stephanie Stenzel, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California's Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Stenzel presented the findings here at the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Compared with the risk for people who drank less than one cup of coffee per day, the odds of developing colorectal cancer were 22 percent lower for people who drank one to two cups a day, 44 percent lower for those who drank two to two-and-a-half cups a day and 59 percent lower for those who drank more than two-and-a-half cups per day.
The findings held even after the researchers took into account factors that might affect the risk of colorectal cancer, such as age, gender, the amount of vegetables people consumed and whether they took a daily aspirin. (Some studies have suggested that taking aspirin may lower people's risk of colon cancer.)
Some previous studies had found that coffee consumption reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, but other studies have found no such link. The new study is one of the largest in terms of the number of people with colorectal cancer included, the researchers said.
It's been hypothesized that drinking coffee may lower colorectal-cancer risk by speeding up the passage of substances through the colon, meaning the tissue has less time to be exposed to potential cancer-causing agents. It's also possible that drinking coffee affects the composition of microbes in the gut, or that compounds in coffee have cancer-preventing properties.
Future studies are needed to examine the effect of coffee consumption on colorectal-cancer risk in other populations, and to see whether the link is affected by genetics, Stenzel said.
In the new study, the researchers asked the participants about the number of "servings" they drank, which is somewhat open to interpretation, so it's still not clear exactly how much coffee is linked with a lower risk of colorectal cancer, Stenzel noted.
Other studies have linked coffee consumption with a lower risk of certain types of skin and breast cancers, as well as a lower risk of prostate cancer.
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1. Use traps instead of poison to control mice and rats.
These in effect wind up poisoning your local owl food supply. Some owls eat mice, some eat rats, some eat insects...and dying animals will always be easier to catch than healthy prey. Even if you don't poison these species directly, pesticides are still likely to work their way into the food chain. Recent studies have found that 60-80% of all Great Horned Owls have rodent poisons in their bodies! Click here to see abstracts of some of this research. Check out this video from Raptors Are The Solution (RATS).
2. Leave dead trees standing when they aren't dangerous. Dead trees provide essential nesting and roosting sites for many species of owls (as well as other critters.)
3. Use less paper and buy recycled paper. Paper is made from trees, and guess where most owl species nest? In old trees! Reuse paper that's only been used on one side, then recycle it when you've used the other side. Buy recycled paper to keep up the demand for it. Another way you can save paper is to stop getting junk mail, which most of us want to do anyway! This website has information about simple things you can do to get less junk mail.
4. Keep your cat indoors. House cats occasionally kill or injure small owls, and also compete with owls for small animals to eat. This makes it harder for owls, especially smaller species, to survive where there are a lot of cats. Keep in mind that it's healthier for your cat to stay indoors for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons is that Great Horned Owls are known to eat cats. For more information about keeping cats indoors, go to Cats Indoors! Or visit our webpage about owls and pets.
5. Don't throw your garbage, including food, into ditches. This garbage attracts all kinds of little rodents, which in turn attract things that eat little rodents--like owls. Owls are often hit by cars when they hunt along roadways, killing or injuring them. Of the roughtly 4,000 Great Gray Owls that came into Minnesota during the winter of 2004-2004, about 1,000 were hit by cars.
6. Don't let your dog chase birds. When an owl kills a large prey animal it sometimes spends several minutes on the ground eating. During this time it can easily be killed or badly injured by a dog. Young owls just learning to fly are especially vulnerable to dogs.
7. Remove any unused barbed wire on your property. All too often owls get hung up in barbed wire fences. They either die a lingering death, are killed by another animal, or, if rescued, often need to be euthanized due to the extent of their injuries.
8. Only pick up a fuzzy owl on the ground if you know that it is sick, injured, or both parents are dead. Fledgling owls normally spend a week or more on the ground before they can fly. At this stage they have fully developed wing feathers and short tails, but the rest of their body is still fuzzy. Their parents are usually somewhere nearby taking care of them. If an owl does need help, contact a local wildlife rehabilitator immediately. Do not feed it. Click here to find a rehabilitator in your area.
9. Put up owl nest boxes (or make artificial burrows) if you're in the right location. The type of nesting structure and location are very important choices to make. Check out our page on owl nesting stuctures or click here to find out more about providing owl housing.
10. Habitat, habitat, habitat! If you own land, consider the needs of the owls who might be living there. Consider a permanent conservation easement to protect the land after you're gone. If you don't own land, support organizations that support habitat conservation
11. Support an owl rehabilitation/research/education center near you. Go to our Links Page for a list of some organizations that help owls. Some of these facilities give you the option of "adopting" an owl. Your adoption fee goes to help an individual owl, and in return you get a certificate and the satisfaction of knowing you helped make a difference in the life of an owl. A wonderful gift idea for owl lovers! The Global Owl Project is a worldwide effort to bring together and standardize research on all of the world's owl species. Financial contributions will help make a difference for owls on a global level.
12. Leave the responsibility of taking care of owls to trained experts. Many people think it would be fun to have an owl as a pet. This is illegal in the United States and many other countries because there is SO much to know to give the owl a good life. Owls require large cages, whole dead animals in their diet, cannot be housebroken, can be very noisy at night, throw up pellets, and most veterinarians do not know how to care for them. If you are interested in working with owls, consider volunteering for a rehabilitator or educator near you. See the Owls As Pets page on this site.
13. Consider becoming an owl researcher. There is so much that isn't known about owls yet, especially owls in tropical regions. For some species, virtually nothing is known even about their basic biology. Science doesn't have all the answers, but we need interested and dedicated individuals to help find the answers! Click here to see recent owl research presented at the 2nd International Northern Forest Owl Symposium.
14. Mow less of your lawn. Short grass is not good wildlife habitat, which means there will be less owl food there. Consider planting prairie or other native plants or allowing parts of your yard to be wild. This will attract more wildlife which serves as food for hunting owls.
15. Take down soccer nets when not in use. It is not uncommon for owls to get tangled in soccer nets when hunting at night. Sometimes they are found and released, sometimes rehabilitation is needed, and sometimes they hang there until they die.
16. For Halloween, only use fake cobwebs indoors. Small owls can and do get hopelessly tangled in fake cobwebs used outdoors. Sometimes they are injured in the process and need rehabilitation.
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PERSPECTIVE OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
McGregor sees all communication as a major factor in influencing others
Communication may possibly be described as an approach of getting information across with understanding existing between the sender and the receiver. On the other hand it could be a means by which behaviour is tailored, change is affected, and information is made productive in order to achieve objectives and goals of organizations (Monday, 2008).
The expression communication has a well-off and multifaceted history. Initially, it come into view in English language as of fourteen century, originated from the Latin word communication which means to impact, share or make common. In more convincing, Bateman (2002), defined communication as the transmission of information and meaning from one party to another through the use of shared symbol. It is accepted that communication plays a coordinal and integrating role in the administration of the affairs of any organization whether in the purpose of planning, organizing, staffing, leading or controlling. Communication is one of the chief parts for understanding human behavior, Rami (2000). Communication is an indispensable instrument for management, which is used to carry the whole organization as a single being.
Communication undoubtedly is applied to all stage of managing. It is specifically important in the function of leading. Communication is serious for all echelon of human behavior man’s ability to think and pass on the thought through the communication process, provides the requisite element for social interaction. The relation success or breakdown of human effort depend to a immense extent upon the effectiveness of communication.
Communication involves different forms which includes the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, public, mass communication etc all these are different ways/means through which we interact, associate, communicate, relate, share ideas, views, opinion, information, norms and values with ourselves and others. Communication is regarded as the life blood of human existence which rapidly enhances unity that leads to the development of our society at large.
Communication both modern and Traditional means has promoted peaceful co-existence, understanding and self-awareness among human beings. Both modern and traditional means of communication have certain common elements that together help define the communication process. These elements includes the following people. In communication there must be individuals who are involved in the dissemination of the message and at the same time receiving the message inorder to make it lively and effective. In communication things are done simultaneously (sending and receiving] if we were just receivers, we would be no more than receptacles for signals from others, never having an opportunity to let anyone know how we were being affected, if we were just senders, we would simply emit signals without ever stopping to consider whom, if anyone is being affected. But, if we were able to achieve our goals of communicating it simply signifies that there is an effective communication between the sender and the receiver at the same level.
1.2 Statement of the problem
The background of communication also include the statement of the communication problem i.e communication is a two way traffic that is information is not only from the sender. It also emanates from sender to leaders in a society. Communication does not only between community but information could also be passed horizontally, for instance within institution from one unity in the community to another. From the foregoing, it could be discovered that poor communication be a community may lead to conflict. | <urn:uuid:5cf7be60-b9b6-4bae-83d8-2731c93df30d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.projectplus.com.ng/2019/04/15/perspective-indigenous-communication-sustainable-rural-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953282 | 744 | 3.375 | 3 |
Robotics/Components/Actuation Devices/Shape Memory Alloys
Here is a good introduction about what Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are.
The main use of SMA in robotics is to imitate human muscles. One of the better known SMAs is Nitinol wire. It contracts about 5 to 7% of its length and consumes a lot of power.
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Benefits of Connecting to NCREN
What does it mean to be connected to NCREN?
Connecting the Education Community
First and foremost, being connected to the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) means your school system or research institution is connected to a state-of-the-art, high-speed statewide network that is optimized for connecting the K-20 community to each other, state government, the Internet, and national research networks like Internet2. Members of the NCREN community include all 115 public school systems, 16 of North Carolina's public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees and most of the state's private universities and colleges including Duke University and Wake Forest University. Other members include community colleges, the NC School of Science and Math, UNC-TV, state government, regional community networking initiatives such as WinstonNet and ERC Broadband, and many of the state's medical and research institutions.
Examples of instructional and administrative educational resources currently accessible through NCREN include the following:
- Learn & Earn Online - online college credit courses offered by UNCG iSchool and the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) Online Learning
- North Carolina Virtual Public Schools (NCVPS) - online high schools course credit to middle and high schools students
- ClassScape - online formative assessment system
- NCTest - North Carolina online End-of-Course tests
- NCDesk - North Carolina online test of computer skills
- NCWise - student information management system
- LearnNC - lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students from the UNC School of Education
- NCREN Video Conferencing Services - H.323 video conferencing, satellite uplinking and downlinking, and live and stored video streaming services for the K-20 community
- Internet2 K20 Educational Resources
NCREN employs advanced networking technologies and systems to continuously improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina's K-20 education community. NCREN provides the platform for developing and delivering advanced services. Potential future services accessible by connecting to NCREN may include next generation collaborative services, virtual computing, and data replication/disaster recovery.
Network-related Infrastructure Services
In support of our connectivity services, NCREN offers performance measurement tools and Domain Name Service (DNS).
To learn more about NCREN performance measurement tools, please go to: http://www.mcnc.org/tools.
To learn more about Domain Name Service (DNS), please see the knowledge base article on Domain Name Services.
Client Network Engineering
Client Network Engineering personnel are available to work with the LEAs and Community Colleges to design, implement and support the LEA network and security infrastructure required to fully leverage their NCREN connectivity. The CNE group provides network design services, general technical guidance and advice, product assessment and recommendations, guidelines and best practices, and assistance resolving complex LEA network problems. In addition, a network assessment service is available which will measure and
document the network functionality and performance of the LEA network.
MCNC is in a unique position with our endowment. We have committed to leveraging the endowment to facilitate 21st Century Educational Outcomes. We are investing in the future of North Carolina in a number of ways. Following are three examples of how we (MCNC) are investing in you: (1) We invested 8M to fund the most recent upgrade of the core of our network. We recently increased the capacity of our core network to 10 Gigabit speeds, (2) Over 1M annually to discover the best collaborative services for MCNC to offer the K20 Education Enterprise in North Carolina. Many of these services are services that are best served/offered in a centralized manner, (3) We contributed 4M in matching funds for round one of the Broadband Technology and Opportunities Program (BTOP), which has resulted in a $40 million investment in North Carolina’s broadband infrastructure.
Here at MCNC, we have a team of highly skilled professionals dedicated to providing the highest quality of service to the members of the NCREN community. This commitment to quality is evident in our network availability and the consistently positive annual customer satisfaction survey results. Click here to view our current performance summary report.
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Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book
It’s vital that we support young children’s reading in ways that nurture healthy reading identities, that foster an attraction to books and a love of reading, and that teach them how make meaning in any text they choose, whether or not they can read the words.
—Kathy Collins and Matt Glover
What do we see when young children interact with books before they can read the words?
Kathy Collins and Matt Glover see real reading, characterized by purposeful meaning-making and opportunities for reading growth and language development.
“One of our biggest hopes,” write Kathy and Matt, “is to help you see and value all of the powerful work young children do as readers.” With I Am Reading you’ll see that fostering what little ones do before they can read the words is important early instruction.
Kathy and Matt show how to nurture, nudge, and instruct young readers to make meaning in any text, whether or not they are reading the words. They share:
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- specific descriptions of language and independence development
- sample reading conferences and whole-class minilessons
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- 25 online video clips of children making meaning and teachers supporting them.
I Am Reading pairs two important voices in early literacy to remind us that we’re teaching children, not reading levels. “In the rush toward ever higher reading levels in the early years,” write Kathy and Matt, “we may fail to value the strategy use and high-level thinking children do before they are reading conventionally.” Join Kathy and Matt and look anew at your young readers so you can provide the kind of support that gets them off to a great start. | <urn:uuid:e79deff4-633a-4872-877c-b1c057ab7883> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/i-am-reading-nurturing-young/9780325050928-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931766 | 399 | 3.375 | 3 |
Here's something to gnaw on.
Regardless of politics, we're intrigued with the way food is handled in this country--we think there's plenty of room for improvement in the way our food system is set up, for health reasons and more importantly for sustainability reasons. Well, that's exactly what NYT columnist Nicholas Kristoff thinks... He goes so far to say that President-Elect Obama should drop the agriculture secretary (seeing as how we're now a nation of only 2% farmers) and appoint a secretary of food. The argument? That government should stop promoting unhealthy stuff like high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated soybean oil, and give the public the tools they need to produce, well, good clean produce in the food sense of the word.
Sounds like a Slow Food Nation idea, doesn't it?
In Kristoff's piece, he says,
The need for change is increasingly obvious, for health, climate and even humanitarian reasons. California voters last month passed a landmark referendum (over the farm lobby's furious protests) that will require factory farms to give minimum amounts of space to poultry and livestock. Society is becoming concerned not only with little boys who abuse cats but also with tycoons whose business model is abusing farm animals.
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Building a sustainable less-cash society will require more than the shove of demonetisation
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Removing it after it has dried is more difficult--but not impossible. Thoughts? I tried this method on some black plastic plant pots in order to remove the lettering so that they could be re-used at a plant sale. Even dried paint can be removed from rubber surfaces with the right approach. It may take a little … Log In Sign Up. Alcohol is a famous cleaning agent that you can use to remove dry latex paint. Hey Crew, would like advice before trying to remove spray paint from plastic tank shrouds, was thinking straight up paint stripper but thought it may eat into plastic as it’s a caustic product. This is to avoid scratching or damaging the surface while you are trying to remove the paint. For this purpose, a plastic putty knife or razor blade can be suitable. Take the time to prep the paint the right way to make the removal process that much easier, and be patient as you work on cleaning up the windows. Share this post. Make sure not to scratch the surface hard, it will cause the risk of damage to the plastic. How can I remove dried latex paint from my plastic wood deck? Remove Paint from Metal and Plastic Models with Dettol. Paint splatters on glass can be difficult to remove without scratching the surface. William. PVC is used for pipes, windows and many other household objects. Step 3 If it is softened; use available pin or knife to brush the paint. Step 2 Take a piece of coarse sandpaper and gently sand the area that is painted. Use it only as a last resort or when you are stuck with thick and dried up paint. So let’s dive into each method into further detail. Relevance. Continue adding more solutions as you rub. PVC is used for vinyl siding, window frames and plumbing. I poured some stripper into a glass bowl, and soaked the brush in the stripper for about one minute on each side. Often times before I move on to chemical-based paint removal, I like trying to remove it with scraping or sanding. With either scraper, however, make sure not to apply too much pressure or you run the risk of scratching up the surface while trying to get rid of the paint. It is used mainly on interior walls and ceilings. It effectively and quickly removes the toughest dried latex and oil-based paint mistakes. 884. I prefer dust to fumes. Yes, it does work, but too expensive. Once the paint begins to soften, use the plastic ice scraper to try to remove the splatter. 884. 5.4m members in the oddlysatisfying community. 7 Answers. Latex paint removers contain various types of solvents, but you can utilize the rubbing, denatured, or isopropyl alcohol for effective removal. Removing Paint From Smooth Wood, Metal, and Concrete . Some of it goes away with Lacquer thinner and Acetone, but most of the paint remains. This article has been viewed 23,499 times. 1 Answer Active; Voted; Newest; Oldest; 0. Mineral Spirits on a towel and use a putty knife. Posted by 5 years ago. To create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. on Apr 10, 2019. Removing the dried paint from a bucket. If so, repeat the WD-40 application process on the remaining paint. Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, is a type of plastic that is widely used in construction. I've removed paint from carpet before, dried and everything. Removing the dried paint from a bucket. Co-authors: 5. Common problems faced . Or perhaps the painters before you did and now the paint has been dried on there for 10, 15, even 20 years? Advertisement. Removing this paint when it is still wet is very easy--just use soap and water. To use, aim and directly apply Goof Off to the dried paint, then simply wipe away with a cloth. This method should remove the paint stain, but if it remains you can do this again until the stain has been completely removed Using Vinegar and Ammonia to take off Acrylic Paint If your garment contains triacetate or acetate, or if you do not have any Isopropyl Alcohol, you can use a mixture of vinegar and ammonia with a pinch of salt instead. Vegetable oil can be used to loosen the paint from the surface of the plastic. Over time, a milky looking film may appear on the surface of the bucket. Remove the electrical outlet plate using a screwdriver. 0 Comments Add a Comment. Reply. This is the zinc coating leaching to the surface. Removing dried paint requires more challenging tasks like usage of effective cleaning products in order to preserve the integrity of the surface. Sink or bucket. So, how to remove spray paint from plastic with a litle bit of vegetable oil? You may be able to scrape off the top layer or a portion of the paint stain. 2 Graco commerical pneumatic airless sprayers. There are several ways to remove paint from a rubber surface, whether you splattered paint on it by accident, or want to remove paint you applied intentionally. 3 answers Kim Copeland Seastrom. Dried white paint on it. When removing paint from terracotta, you will need to focus on sanding and scraping as a removal method, as regular paint strippers will just be absorbed into the clay. wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. 0. Top Tips to Remove Dried Latex Paint Use Solvents. Plastic putty scraper and 409. Dish soap and a safety razor blade can remove even old, dried-on paint. So let me show you how I remove dried paint from a paint brush in about five minutes. Re: Removing dried latex paint from plastic? Steps on how to eliminate stains from latex paint. See the video below to find out which one you need: 2. Step 1 Clean the terra cotta thoroughly to remove any dirt or grime. Archived. Use paint thinners like acetone to remove any stubborn dried paint; Scrap off any remaining dry paint; Depending on your palette and the state of your paint, there are different cleaning techniques you can use to get both wet and dry acrylics off your palette. Peels good, man. And it's expensive for a small spray bottle, and you'd need huge bottles worth to do the job. Turn the screws in a counterclockwise direction to remove. Using Vegetable Oil . The zinc coating is applied to the bucket to prevent rust from affecting the steel beneath. I used a hard plastic taper bowl as a mold for my concrete creation,and now i cannot remove the finished concrete item from the bowl.I dont want to break it.Any tips? However, it is arguably the least effective option in removing paint from plastics. GarynSharon Daniels. Posted How Do You Remove Dried Latex Paint From Plastic Buckets? While it can work safely for items like plastic furniture, it’s not a viable option if you want to remove dried paint from old plastic bucket. Tap the end of the screwdriver with a small hammer if the paint has covered them and stuck them to the surface of the plate. Answered. Answer. Scrape off the paint gently and avoid putting too much pressure on it. User account menu. 18.7k votes, 301 comments. A place to share in the unique joy that is peeling the plastic off of new … Press J to jump to the feed. on Apr 11, 2019. When removing a thick dried paint coat, it is recommendable to use razor blade otherwise avoid it. You can remove dried polyvinyl acetate (PVAc)--a rubber-like synthetic polymer used in adhesives--from a variety of surfaces, such as plastic (wood-effect) doors, wood and laminate flooring, using white spirit, vinegar or paint thinner. Using a scraper may remove the paint from a plastic product but not all the time. Step 4 If the paint is hard; consider using steamer while you are removing the paint on your carpet. The primer started becoming gooey after about 15 seconds, and I scraped off the majority of it with a small metal putty knife. Bucket. Instead of replacing the hardware so it looks clean, how about cleaning off the old paint instead? Afterwards I noticed that I stained a couple spots of the bathtub. Sometimes a paint scraper can be used to remove the paint from plastic, but this may not be the condition every time. Scrape off what you can with a plastic putty knife. Came from a metal fab plant . Dry it completely with a clean rag. Emulsion paint, also known as latex or acrylic paint, is a water-based, interior paint with acrylic polymers. 20 votes - 100%. Answer Save. Strike plates? Helpful. (x-post /r/oddlysatisfying) Close. Sit for a couple of minutes to ease the dried paint. Removal methods depend on the type of paint used. How to Remove Acrylic Paint. If the paint is flush with the surface and cannot be removed with a scraper, spray it well with WD-40. Use a paint scraper or a putty knife to remove the existing paint from the plastic item. There are several methods to remove dried paint from a rubber surface. Reply #1 – Wednesday, May 03, 2006, 04:39 PM Goof off should cut latex fast but it will also cut most plastics. About This Article. Whether you accidentally got some paint on the window pane during your latest painting session or are looking to refinish old windows, knowing how to remove paint will come in handy as you work on home improvement projects. A random orbital sander hooked up to a shop vac is great at keeping the dust to an absolute minimum while aggressively removing paint. Hinges? April 26, 2017 Decor design dried garden Home latex paint plastic remove wallpaper. on Apr 11, 2019. 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As Macy's continues the gradual process of shedding The Bon Marché name from its department stores, the time has come to pay respects...
As Macy’s continues the gradual process of shedding The Bon Marché name from its department stores, the time has come to pay respects to a local shopping institution that began modestly in 1890 and has been fighting for respect ever since.
For all the button-down style of Nordstrom, for all the trunk-show couture of Frederick & Nelson (R.I.P.), The Bon Marché was the store for the common people. Its young fashion departments, the Cube and Tiger Shop, set trends for groovy teens and college kids all over the Pacific Northwest.
The Bon also set the standard for one-stop shopping convenience long before the era of the big-box retailer. The downtown Seattle flagship had a large drugstore and sold guns, fly rods, record albums and books, with budget items in the basement.
On March 6, Bon-Macy’s officially becomes just Macy’s as part of a new corporate branding strategy. Between now and then, new credit cards bearing only the Macy’s name will be sent to all Bon-Macy’s cardholders. Exterior and interior signs referring to the Bon will be removed.
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Brass vertical signs that stretch down the flat corner facades of the downtown Seattle store started coming down yesterday, soon to be replaced with brass Macy’s signs. Bon Marché plaques flanking the entrances will come down later this month. Small brass horizontal exterior signs over three window canopies that say “The Bon Marché” in script will remain, as required by the building’s landmark status.
The Bon Marché: 115 years of retail history
1890: Edward and Josephine Nordhoff open The Bon Marché, a small store selling dry goods and sundries at First Avenue and Cedar Street.
1929: The Bon is sold to Hahn Department Stores, a retail chain that reorganizes as Allied Stores in 1933.
1950: The Bon’s Northgate store opens as the nucleus of the 80-store Northgate Shopping Center, America’s first modern shopping mall.
1986: Canadian entrepreneur Robert Campeau purchases Allied Stores.
1988: Campeau purchases Federated Department Stores.
1990: Federated and Allied file for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11.
1992: The new Federated Department Stores emerges from Chapter 11.
1994: Federated acquires R.H. Macy & Co.
2003: Federated rebrands its regional department stores with the Macy’s nameplate, and The Bon Marché becomes Bon-Macy’s.
March 6, 2005: Bon-Macy’s becomes Macy’s and almost all references to the Bon are removed from the stores.
Those signs, though, could use some work. At the Fourth Avenue and Stewart Street corner, the “T” in The, the “n” in Bon and the “h” in Marché are missing. The “a” in Marché is hanging perilously on a fastener, slightly askew.
Sad. But it kind of fits.
It always has been fashionable in these parts to dismiss The Bon Marché as a no-frills destination for a “good buy,” as the French translation suggests.
The Bon name never carried the same cachet as Nordy’s or Frederick’s. While Frederick’s sold Frango chocolates, the Bon sold “ala Bons” mints, a cheaper knockoff. Even the Bon’s previous color scheme was less than thrilling: brown.
The store’s reputation for bargains goes back to Edward Nordhoff, who opened The Bon Marché 115 years ago as a small store north of downtown selling only dry goods and sundries.
John Buller, The Bon’s director of marketing from 1985 to 1996, said Nordhoff once obtained a huge supply of pennies in order to give his customers a one-cent discount for every purchase.
“That set the foundation for the Bon,” said Buller, who began working at the Bon in 1971 and is now executive director of the University of Washington Alumni Association.
In 1929, Nordhoff sold the store to Hahn Department Stores, a national retail chain.
“The Bon was, and still is, part of a large corporation but its executives always had free rein to run the business as they saw fit for the Pacific Northwest,” said Robert Spector, a West Seattle retail historian and author.
Bon-Macy’s is owned by Federated Department Stores of Cincinnati, which acquired R.H. Macy & Co. in 1994. All department stores in the Federated chain are adopting the lone name of Macy’s this year. There are 50 Bon-Macy’s stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, including home stores.
The Northgate store began ridding itself of any Bon references last week. Bellevue Square, Alderwood Mall and Southcenter are next.
Each store is having an employee party to retire the Bon name. Workers are signing a 25-foot-long timeline that tracks the company history from 1890 to present day. At the downtown store, workers have added historical facts to the timeline, such as the year the electronics department closed (punctuated by a sad face), and personal indulgences, such as their hire date. The company is collecting Bon Marché memorabilia that will be displayed on the third floor.
A customer celebration of the name change is March 12. Much about Macy’s still will seem like the Bon. The Christmas star at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street will go up this holiday season, and the popular one-day sales will continue — although the calypso “Day-O!” advertising jingles are being phased out.
The Bon Marché name carries 115 years of capital, but Federated officials believe the Macy’s name boasts a prestige that loyal Bon customers will learn to appreciate.
“We’ll still be locally managed and responsive to the needs and lifestyles of the Northwest,” said Daniel Edelman, Bon-Macy’s chairman and CEO.
In some ways, the Bon helped establish those Northwest lifestyles. The Cube and Tiger Shop, the young women’s and young men’s departments, positioned the Bon as the trendy pop alternative to its more elegant and proper competitors. Separated by one block of Pine Street, the Bon and Frederick & Nelson inevitably got compared.
“The city had much more of an emotional attachment to Frederick & Nelson than it ever had with the Bon,” said Spector, who wrote the definitive history of Frederick’s. “Whereas Frederick’s was the place young men would buy their first suit and young ladies would learn to be ladies by having lunch at the Tea Room, the Bon was a good place to get good bargains.”
The Bon also had staying power. In part, that was because its owner, Allied Stores Corp., developed Northgate, Southcenter and Tacoma Mall with the Bon as the anchor tenant and, therefore, at the forefront of the new shopping trend. As the malls flourished, so did the Bon.
As signs come down and the memories come back, current and former executives will be bidding on the bronze plaques outside the entrances of the downtown store. The proceeds will be donated to charities — a tradition of benevolence that Macy’s promises to continue. Other signs are being donated to the Museum of History & Industry.
The Bon Marché won’t be easily forgotten, said Sam Qureshi, a selling specialist at the Bellevue Square store.
“Customers are saying, ‘We know the name is changing, but it’s always going to be the Bon to us.’ “
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Few Filipinos believe there is democracy in the Philippines and the level of public expectations in the country is at its lowest since July 2002, a June 24-July 8 survey of Pulse Asia shows.
The survey, which had 1,200 respondents, showed that 41 percent of Filipinos believe that the nation is run by a powerful few and that ordinary citizens cannot do anything about it. An equal number (41 percent) are undecided about the character of the country’s political regime.
Belief that the country is run only by a powerful few is highest in Metro Manila (55 percent), Mindanao (44 percent), Luzon (37 percent), and Visayas (35 percent). Most of the elite Class ABC (48 percent), followed by Classes D and E (40 percent each) also agree.
Only 17 percent disagree that the country is controlled by a powerful few. Forty-one percent are also undecided over the test statement that there is a big possibility that Filipinos will completely lose faith in peaceful means of promoting democracy. Thirty percent disagree and 29 percent disagree.
Despite the country’s problems, 50 percent of Filipinos still reject martial law as a way to resolve crises.
However, public disagreement on the use of martial law to solve the country’s woes dropped from 67 percent last year to 50 percent this year.
The Philippines attained its lowest level of public hopefulness since 2002, with only 49 percent saying that they are still hopeful about the Philippines. Thirty percent are undecided as to whether the country is indeed hopeless.
In July 2005, the level of hopefulness was at 69 percent. Between March and July 2006, the percentage of Filipinos expressing optimism about the Philippines declined by 10 percentage points.
"Longer-term year-on-year comparisons suggest some weakening of public optimism, with those agreeing with perceptions of national hopelessness and those expressing indecision on the state of the nation increasing by 10 percentage points," Pulse Asia said.
Three in10 Filipinos (30 percent) said they would migrate and live permanently in another country if they had the chance. This translates to about 14 million adult Filipinos.
A slightly bigger number (37 percent) would rather stay in the country while 32 percent are undecided but not ruling out the possibility of migration. Year-on- year, the percentage of Filipinos who don’t want to migrate dropped from 52 percent to 37 percent, the lowest since July 2002.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said many Filipinos who have been to other countries, including the US, are realizing that there is still nothing like the Philippines. He said the sentiment is felt mostly by Filipino and Asian retirees.
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Our ‘Local Offer’ for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
At Polperro School we embrace the fact that every child is different and, therefore, the educational needs of every child are different. For some children this may mean that they have Special Educational Needs. In terms of what we offer children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, it is important to emphasise that, as much as possible, this provision is designed by the relevant staff members working alongside the child, the child’s family and, where necessary, outside agencies* (e.g. a Speech and Language Therapist or an Educational Psychologist). All children are set targets and encouraged to set their own personal goals. Pupils' targets will be connected to learning and will often be specifically to do with English and maths. For other children, they may be to do with social interaction, communicating with children and adults, emotional difficulties, overcoming physical issues (for example problems to do with fine motor control) … the list is endless! The most important point is this: the targets depend on the needs of the child.
The school offers many different forms of additional provision. This can include: additional in-class support; additional out-of-class support; one-to-one support; flexible groupings (including small group work); access to specific resources; and access to a wide range of outside agencies*. Additional provision and intervention programmes are monitored and discussed regularly to ensure that the pupil is making expected or better than expected progress and whether the provision is successful or needs changing. The staff in Polperro School are kept up to date with training and the latest developments in SEN education and how to ensure excellent rates of progress for the pupils.
We ensure that all our extra-curricular activities, including residential trips, are adapted for children’s specific needs.
We are delighted that our pupils with Special Educational Needs are confident and happy to participate fully in school trips, residentials, extra-curricular clubs, creative and performance events, sports teams and school committees.
If you have any queries about our local offer please contact the school. Our Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator is Tina Wright and our SEND Governor is Helen Casson.
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Dr. Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Botswana, is the candidate from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the chair of the African Union. Her expertise lies in Public Service Management and Administrative Systems Analysis and Design.
There are five candidates for this top African civil servant position. The other candidates are Dr. Moussa Faki Mahamat of Chad; Agapito Mba Mokuy of Equatorial Guinea; Dr. Amina Mohammed of Kenya; and Dr. Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal.
“I am confident that this is a challenge I am qualified and ready to meet. I believe that I will bring to the role of AUC Chair the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to serve as a catalyst for change and help catapult Africa’s transformation process” Dr Venson-Moitoi said in a statement she released to support her candidature.
“The African Union Vision of “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the international arena” is one that is very much within reach in championing a sustainable future for Africa, unlocking her every potential” she stated.
The 28th Ordinary Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government is set for 30 to 31 January in Addis Ababa. At this meeting, the full assembly will have to chose a new leader and a new secretariat.
The new chair will steer the process to reform the African Union.
The idea to reform the AU follows a decision made during the 12th AU summit held in Ethiopia in 2009 where it was agreed to set up a committee to look into the modalities of turning the AU secretariat into an authority.
Much of the progress will be anchored in the role and function of the new AU Commission, to systematically transform into a governing body for the continent as a whole.
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One Injection A Week For Diabetes Patients?
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Long–suffering diabetics can find daily insulin jabs painful and cumbersome, so a new, once–a–week shot may soon revolutionize treatment for thousands suffering from the dreaded disease.
Researchers have found that a long–acting medication, exenatide, if injected once a week, improves blood sugar control and induces weight loss in type 2 diabetics. The study, conducted at VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, has been reported in the latest issue of the medical journal ‘Lancet’, and will be discussed at the ongoing American Diabetes Association’s session at Orlando.
A cross–section of doctors that TOI spoke to pointed out that newer treatments are constantly needed for curing diabetes as first–line drugs fail to have the desired impact over a period of time, or may have serious side–effects. New drugs that are convenient to administer, provide effective glycaemic control and do not cause weight gain are constantly needed.
Exenatide is good news for diabetics who have uncontrolled sugars despite maximum doses of conventional anti–diabetic drugs. Those who are obese or prone to recurrent low sugars (hypoglycemia) may be particularly benefited, doctors pointed out. The study says that the new formulation of exenatide may be better for patients than the once–a–day insulin shot (glargine), as the latter leads to weight gain.
In this 26–week randomized study, results were compared of exenatide and insulin glargine in adults with type 2 diabetes who had inadequate blood sugar control despite the use of first–line anti–diabetic drugs for three months or longer (these first–line drugs were either metformin or metformin plus sulphonylurea). In the study, professor Michaela Diamant and colleagues tested the new formulation of exenatide on 456 patients (233 with once–a–week exenatide and 223 insulin glargine).
Two doctors — Dr Anoop Misra (Fortis Hospital, Delhi) and Dr Shashank Joshi (Lilavati and Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai) — who reviewed the study say that exenatide for type 2 diabetes is more convenient and induces better blood sugar control, and more weight loss than second–line treatment of the daily insulin glargine. (Insulin glargine, which has to be injected daily, led to weight gain of 1.4kg per patient.)
Dr Misra and Dr Joshi agree that exenatide could be used in patients ‘‘with obesity and those in whom hypoglycaemia is a clinical concern’’, adding: ‘‘Currently, there is more promise, few disadvantages, and some unknowns about treatment with long–acting exenatide for diabetes. While exenatide has been found to improve blood glucose control and induce weight loss in other studies, those studies had used the twice–daily formulation (exenatide).’’
The study consisted of mostly white participants, and would be strengthened by replication in other populations, experts noted.
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Juan Booth is just six credits away from earning associate degrees in biology and art from Scottsdale Community College.
A 2020 graduate of Coronado High School, Booth, 20, intends to continue studying at SCC to earn credits toward a bachelor’s degree in biology from Northern Arizona University through an outreach program between the two schools and ultimately hopes to help the plight of endangered animal species.
None of that would have been possible without financial aid and Booth got to talk about its importance last week, extolling the Coronado Foundation.
“I looked at multiple scholarships but the Coronado Foundation for the Future Promise Scholarship really stood out to me,” Booth said Wednesday, fighting back tears.
“The team showed great consideration from the very beginning. They made the application process smooth and very straightforward,” he said. “Not only does the scholarship provide students with financial aid but it introduces the students to an entire team dedicated to those participating.”
Now, even more students will get a chance at a similar debt-free education as it was announced Wednesday that the “Coronado Promise” scholarship is expanding to help 20 students per year up to $5,000 over a two-year period to attend a Maricopa County community college or certificate granting, accredited Arizona technical or trade school for two years.
“I can tell you when I was on the selection committee for the Foundation for the Future Scholarship, it was very difficult for me because we had four or five worthy applicants and we could only choose one or maybe even two,” Scottsdale Mayor David Ortega said.
The deadline to apply for the scholarship is 3 p.m. March 21 at the Coronado High School GEAR UP office and winners will be selected April 18.
“This promise is near and dear to my heart not only because the students of Coronado benefit from this program, but also because growing up in Pittsburgh, I saw the positive impact the Pittsburgh Promise had on the community,” Coronado High School Principal Amy Palatucci said.
“Coronado students are the future leaders of tomorrow and deserve every opportunity to succeed,” she continued. “Our Coronado students and community are most deserving of the support this promise scholarship will provide. With this commitment and promise, we are investing in our students, our future.”
The scholarship is a collaboration of the Coronado Foundation for the Future, Scottsdale Charros, Scottsdale Community College, Coronado High School, the City of Scottsdale and the Flick Family Foundation. Flick committed to $50,000 per year for the 10 years in scholarship funds and will match additional funds raised for the program up to another $50,000 per year for 10 years.
A 1971 Coronado grad, Rob Flick said he would not have been able to attend college himself without a full scholarship to the U.S. Naval Academy.
“My parents couldn’t afford to send me so I know what benefit it is when people that people have opportunities ahead of them but don’t have the finances to help fund them,” Flick said.
And his fundraising efforts aren’t done yet. Flick explained:
“My goal, if I can, over the next five years or so is to not have 20 or 25 scholarships – like I think we’re going to do this year – but to have 100 scholarships a year coming right here out of Coronado and maybe we can get some other schools to start following along.”
Dennis Robbins, executive director of the Scottsdale Charros, said, “The students of Coronado High School are working hard, often carrying the weight of their family’s expectations to become the first person to attend college or other advanced education. We support and encourage that ambition and want to help ease their path, removing as many obstacles inhibiting their success as we can.”
Kim Hartmann, a SUSD governing board member from 2014 to 2018, said she spotted a troubling trend coming out of Coronado when she served.
SUSD had a near 90 percent rate of students going on to some form of post-secondary education, but that number was much lower for Coronado, which serves a predominantly lower-income students,Hartmann recalled.
“It’s not so much a matter of getting in, it’s about not applying,” Hartmann said. “College requires resources, money.
Once they’re in, students from Coronado tend to finish their degree programs, she said, adding,
“That’s what the Coronado Promise is about, eliminating the financial barriers,” she said.
In addition to the Coronado Promise Scholarship, the program includes the Promise Pathway, which will support the additional needs of K-12 students in the Coronado Learning Community. To be prepared for higher learning, students may need additional academic and social-emotional support along with college and career readiness skills throughout elementary, middle, and high school.
“There’s another part of the promise that we’re also committing to and it’s one that doesn’t happen in every other community,” SUSD Superintendent Dr. Scott Menzel said.
“That is that we recognize there is a pipeline from pre-school all the way through post-secondary (education) and recently the Scottsdale Unified School Board made the decision to invest in the Coronado learning community by establishing a standalone middle school with three feeder elementary schools so we have a viable pipeline of students coming into Coronado High School who ensure our students are prepared to be successful in whatever they choose to do.”
SUSD Governing Board Member Patty Beckman said she is dedicated to fund raising for the scholarship.
“I am filled with gratitude witnessing so many of our community partners coming together to help change the lives of our deserving Coronado students,” she said. “We are ready to start fund raising because all of our students deserve an opportunity to move on post-secondary without financial barriers. It is our hope that Coronado Promise will become the model for similar scholarship programs in each of our five learning communities.”
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