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The future of the Vega program is called Vega E (Evolution). The new launcher vehicle is currently under development. The Vega E rocket will be the ideal product for small satellites at an affordable launch price. Its maiden flight is scheduled in 2026.
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Differently from Vega and Vega C Vega E will have a three stage configuration. The first two, P120 C and Zefiro 40 will be the same of Vega C. The upper stage will have a revolutionary engine which will burn liquid oxygen and methane. The rocket will be capable of releasing multiple satellites into different orbits during a single mission, maintaining the remarkable reliability and precision standards of the Vega family.
Its development goals are:
- Increased flexibility (performance compatible with over 90% of payload typologies) and enhanced operational versatility (performance compatible with over 70% of payload typologies in a multiple satellites launch) on the LEO market segment;
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Now that I’ve left Sebastians, I finally have time to visit the farm, and reconnect with (of course, Brett, Chris and Allesandra, but also) where our food comes from. I’ve been visiting the farm for as long as they’ve lived here – over 10 years – but it seems I am always learning and discovering something new.
The farm is “working” three seasons – harvesting the last of the winter crops, coaxing the spring crops and getting the summer crops in the ground. In terms of salable produce, the winter crops trickled down – mostly lettuces and braising green. The spring crops have not yet reached peak – the strawberries are only yielding a pint or two a day. Instead of gleaning the crops for maximum yield, Brett and his crew are working feverishly to get the summer crops in the ground.
Timing the planting of the summer crops is crucial. Last year, the farm experienced the worst drought on record, with less than 1” of rain from April 15 to October 1st. The effects were severe at best, but would have been tolerable if the crops had been in the ground long enough to establish their root systems. This year, Brett’s not taking any chances.
With a soaking rain forecast for Sunday, the mad dash begins to prepare the land. The clover that grew through the winter – 3 feet tall with red flowers -- will now be turned into the soil nourishing it with nitrogen and other critical compounds. When the rain stops, the soil will be tilled and is now ready for planting the next day. First crop in: Sweet Potatoes.
The other trick in timing is the temperature. In Southern Maryland, the last frost can be relatively early, in March or April. And every year, Brett experiments with getting a crop of tomatoes in the ground by mid-April so that he can be the first to market with ripe, field tomatoes in June. This week, the temperature may drop to 38F at night, which is cutting it close: the tomatoes seedling were just transplanted 5 days ago – but should still be fine for the tomatoes. A second round of seedlings in the green-house will put Brett at the market at the same time as other farmers… and these are his fail-safe.
End of the Season Cannellonis
With a twinkle of summer on the horizon, I’m less abashed using up my canned tomatoes from last summer.
12 Pasta Sheets cut into 4” squares
3 tablespoon olive oil
2 cups homemade ricotta
¼ cup parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons sliced garlic
1 pound braising greens
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon chopped shallots
¼ cup white wine
2 cups home-canned (preferably smoked) tomatoes
Salt, pepper and lemon juice, to taste
Cream and extra parmesan if desired.
1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook pasta sheets for 3 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water, and drain well. Toss with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Set aside.
2. Heat a large skillet over high heat. Add remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add sliced garlic. When the garlic starts to brown, add the green. Cook, stirring often, until the greens have wilted but are still bright green. Remove from pan to cool. Coarsely chop.
3. Make the filling by combining the ricotta, parmesan and braised greens. Season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
4. In a sauce pot – melt butter over medium heat. Add shallots and cook until translucent, about 4 minutes. Add wine, and cook until evaporated. Add tomatoes and simmer for 10 minutes. Puree. Season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice (and a touch of cream if desired).
5. Roll pasta sheets with about 2-3 tablespoons of the filling. Put sauce in the bottom of a 9” x 13” pyrex dish. Place rolled cannellonis top. Drizzle cream and/or parmesan on top if desired
Bake for 30 minutes at 350, or until bubbly delicious looking.
1 lb. semolina flour, plus extra for dusting
4-5 large eggs as needed
1 tbs. olive oil
1 tsp. salt
1. Make a well in the flour, and add 4 of the eggs, olive oil and the salt.
2. Beat the eggs with a fork, gradually bringing in the flour from the sides of the well, until the paste has thickened enough so the liquid will not run onto the counter. Switch from a fork to a pastry cutter. Bring all the flour into the already wet part and cut through the dough several times until it is evenly moistened. Start kneading with your hands until the dough forms a ball and looks homogenized, about 8 minutes.
3. If the dough becomes stiff, and refuses to bend, rub in a little of the remaining egg. If the dough becomes too moist, add a bit of the flour.
Work the dough by machine:
4. Divide the dough into 3 balls, and let rest under a damp towel for 20 minutes. Start working the dough through the pasta machine starting with the widest setting. After running it through the machine, fold it into thirds, and run it through again. When the dough is smooth, run the dough through the machine through successively smaller settings. The dough will stretch out, and be rolled very thin.
5. When you have achieved thin sheets, you can let the dough rest for a few minutes before filling or cutting
1 quart whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
4 lemons, juiced
1/2 teaspoon salt
In a non-reactive 2 quart saucepan heat milk and cream to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Add juice and salt, stir well and let sit for 20 minutes. Line a conical sieve with cheesecloth or coffee filters and pour through, allowing the whey to drain out. Let stand at room temperature for 2 hours. | <urn:uuid:81d64002-97a1-44b7-b401-3dd08cbab378> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.growcookeat.com/2008/05/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932036 | 1,274 | 1.71875 | 2 |
The Louvre is the world’s largest art museum and a focal point of any trip to Paris. If you’re going to base your stay in the City of Lights in the charming Montmartre district, an excursion to the Louvre only takes a hassle-free 20 minutes.
The metro line 12 runs straight through Montmartre, stopping at Jules Joffrin, Lamarck – Caulincourt, Abbessess and Pigalle. Whevever you are in Montmartre you are only a 5 minute walk away from a line 12 metro station.
The line 2 runs across the southern part of Montmartre, stopping at Place de Clichy, Blanche, Pigalle and Anvers. Pigalle connects the line 2 with the line 12 and can be reached within less then two minutes from any of these Montmartre stations.
To use the line 12 to get to the Louvre, you will need to take the train south. Heading in the direction of Mairie D’Issy, take the line 12 to the station Concorde. The cost of the trip is one single metro ticket, 1.90€. The journey from Abbesses to Concorde is only 15 minutes and leaves you outside the beautiful Tuileries Garden.
The gardens, which sit between the Louvre and Place Concorde, are a few hundred metres from the entrance of the museum.
If you’d prefer to not walk through the park, you can change at Concorde for the line 1. Take the train two more stops and alight at Palais Royal Musée du Louvre. From here you can enter the museum directly.
If you’d rather avoid public transport, you could take always take a taxi or Uber. The distance between Montmartre and the Louvre is around 5km (3.1 miles) in a car. Depending on traffic, the typical journey time is around 20 minutes. The cost will fluctuate depending on traffic and demand (for Uber).
Walking from Montmartre to the Louvre is a very simple southern route. At just over 3km (1.8 miles), it’s around a 40 minute walk through one of the world’s most walkable cities. Alternatively, renting a bicycle for the day will cut that time in half!
If you’re staying with us in Montmartre, Abbesses station is less than 5 minutes from our hostel.
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200th Birthday of the Union Chain Bridge: Celebrating the Bicentenary
Sunday the 26th July 2020 is the 200th anniversary of the official opening of the Union Chain Bridge. This engineering triumph over the River Tweed is loved by the local community and so, before the Coronavirus epidemic, it felt fitting that there should be an on-site celebration to mark the birthday of this important structure. However, since that is not currently possible, instead there will be a programme of digital events running throughout the day. Starting at 10am, the Berwick Museum and Art Gallery Facebook page will be hosting a series of activities, posts, and showing the première of a specially composed bicentenary film.
The full programme:
10 am – the official launch of the brand-new website www.unionchainbridge.com
11 am – a historical article to be published on the 1820 grand opening ceremony
12 pm – the première of the 200th birthday bicentenary film
1 pm – an invitation for Union Chain Bridge stories and memories from the public
2 pm – a craft activity during which you can make your own paper model of the Union Chain Bridge
3 pm – links to The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge’s bicentenary symposium publication
4 pm – STEM kit give-away: launch of a competition to get a free children’s k’nex bridge building kit
5 pm – links to the historical and engineering stories of the Union Chain Bridge on the new Bridge Stories section of the website
To follow all the action, turn on, and tune in to: www.facebook.com/berwickmuseum.The bicentenary celebrations, on 26th July, and wider 18-month conservation of the Union Chain Bridge, starting in August, is also a catalyst for further outreach. A programme of learning, research activities through archaeological digs and in the archives, and community engagement, will take place over the next two years. For all these activities, we will need the help of volunteers. To read more about the wider Union Chain Bridge project, please click here. | <urn:uuid:1e6dcb21-c3aa-4601-98dd-21b89926054e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://unionchainbridge.org/2020/07/23/200th-birthday-of-the-union-chain-bridge-celebrating-the-bicentenary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.913092 | 442 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Re "New look at male depression," Aug. 29
Thank you for publishing this article on the front page. It is a story that has been undervalued, not just in the media but by medical research in general.
As a psychologist, I find it sad that even within the community of physicians and mental health professionals, we often fail to recognize or treat men in ways that would identify and engage them in a therapeutic process. Our definitions of mental health or dysfunction have tended to reflect a gender-blind perspective that denies innate differences.
It's time we learn to understand and address men in the language that speaks to their minds and hearts, respecting their values and identities as men. Only then will they trust there is really any help to be gained in pursuing necessary and even lifesaving interventions.
One of the hazards of being male is our propensity to be afflicted with what can only be described as "male-pattern doctor" or "psychiatrist office avoidance syndrome."
This behavior seems to explain why so many of us declare one day to be feeling just fine, only to practically drop dead the next day or to commit some horrendous act.
The old exhortations to "be a man" and "take it like a man" have been replaced by "man up," all of which have caused great harm.
It would seem from this article that psychiatry has been gynocentric in describing depression. UCLA, for example, has a plethora of outpatient clinics that address a number of conditions, including a women's life clinic.
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Author: Vikram Yogi
In India agriculture is the main sector which has employed a major portion of its total workforce since a long time ago. But the structural changes in the national and state economies, large scale migration of labour from agriculture and operation of the rural development and poverty alleviation programmes have systematically reduced the relative importance of agriculture in labour allocation decisions of rural households. Consequently, there has been considerable reduction in labour supply to agriculture. On the contrary, the spread of advanced farm technology, increase in cropping intensity, growing importance of timely farming operations, and a remarkable shift in agriculture from a family-labour based way of life kind of activity to a business enterprise have significantly increased the demand for farm labour. In such view of things agriculture is facing acute labour shortage and the notions of surplus rural labour and zero marginal product and opportunity cost of labour have become misnomers. Its impact on agriculture can be seen in terms of reduction in crop yield, reduction in cropping intensity and changes in traditional cropping pattern. It has impacted the whole economy also by increasing the wage rates thereby high cost of cultivation which is directly reflected in higher output prices resulting in the food inflation.
In 2011-12 out of the total workforce of 467 million, agriculture sector has constituted 228.3 million (48.9%). In agriculture labour has remained very less productive as compared to other sectors. Worker’s productivity in agriculture is growing at only 2.9%, while in industry it is growing at comparatively higher growth rate of 6.7% and in services at 5.3% (Chand and Srivastava, 2014). Goldman Sachs (2014) has also calculated that labour is 4 times more productive in industry and 6 times more productive in services compared to agriculture in India.
Usually as an economy matures there is a movement of excess agricultural workers from low productivity agricultural sector to higher productivity sectors. Higher productivity implies higher wages in other sectors. So natural movement of workers take place away from agriculture. Such shift should be coupled with technological advancement in the primary sector means adoption of lower labour intensive or higher capital intensive technology; otherwise agriculture productivity will be affected.
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The junta that overthrew Guinea’s government more than a week ago began four days of meetings Tuesday that it says will result in the formation of a transitional government.
The junta that ousted President Alpha Conde said it would consult in the capital, Conakry, with political, business and religious leaders as it charts a new course for the West African country.
The junta hopes that during the talks, leaders will agree on who will lead the transition, a time frame to complete it, and the political and institutional reforms needed before the election.
The Economic Community of West African States, which has suspended Guinea’s decision-making authority, has appealed for a brief civilian-led transition.
Last week, Guinea’s special forces overthrew the government under the leadership of Mamady Doumbouya, a former French Foreign Legionnaire.
The coup was preceded by violent street demonstrations last year in opposition to Conde’s quest for a third term in office.
The coup has been welcomed by Conde’s longtime opponents, including
Cellou Dalein Diallo, the former prime minister who lost to Conde in the last three presidential elections.
Leaders of the country’s mining industry also participated in the coup after
Doumbouya tried to reassure them he would work to prevent the destabilization of its critical bauxite and gold exports.
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The best way to learn how to lead is to follow a compentent leader and observe their placements carefully as you remove them. After you follow a climb and clean it (without falling), then go right back and lead it as soon as you can. You will have confidence on lead knowing a) where the placements are, and b) that you already did the climb without falls. Good luck and be safe.
Or you could just lead the thing.... you gotta start sometime.
True though I don't think Kiddy Crack is a good first lead at the grade... The Chimney at Square Ledge, and West Face of Square, are far better 1st leads...
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Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed several police departments to use drones across the U.S. They are controlled from a remote location and use infrared sensors and high-resolution cameras.
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Dealing with the Tough Stuff: Practical Solutions for School Administrators
August 2012, Jossey-Bass
Fledgling school administrators are often ill-prepared for their new leadership role and are frequently left to their own devices to navigate the slippery terrain of school administration. Dealing with the Tough Stuff: Practical Solutions for School Administrators addresses some of the thornier aspects of being an assistant principal such as handling discipline, mediating student conflicts, working with parents, facilitating parent conferences, and working with staff members. This handy guide will teach the tricks of the trade in order to survive and thrive in the job.
- Filled with the information that is rarely taught but school leaders need to know to be effective administrators
- Written by John Gabriel and Paul Farmer, two veteran and award-winning school leaders
- Includes strategies and illustrative examples for dealing with the down-to-earth problems that confront school administrators
Practical and insightful, the book covers everything from working effectively with parents and staff to mediating conflicts.
Foreword by Douglas Reeves ix
About the Authors xv
PART ONE Working with Students 1
ONE Responding to Student Conflicts 3
Recognize Student Conflicts 4
Mediate Student Conflicts 6
Address Bullying 14
Resolve Student-Teacher Conflicts 23
TWO Understanding and Preventing Student Misbehavior 27
Discuss Discipline with Your Staff 29
Review Discipline Data 39
Make Connections 40
THREE Dealing with Student Discipline 45
Review Your Referrals 47
Engage Your Students 49
Work with Your Students 55
FOUR Conducting Investigations 61
Manage Your Investigation 62
Address Postdiscipline Concerns 72
PART TWO Working with Adults 79
F I V E Creating and Maintaining Parent Partnerships 81
Build a Foundation 82
Involve Parents 88
Keep the Focus on the Student 92
Go Above and Beyond 95
S I X Facilitating Parent Conferences 99
Before the Conference 100
During the Conference 103
After the Conference 108
SEVEN Navigating Staff Communication 111
Guide Conversations 112
Focus on Behaviors, Not Attitudes 124
Tend the Grapevine 126
EIGHT Building Capacity 129
Maintain a Focus on Deep Learning 130
Provide Support for Collaborative Teams 140
Develop Other Leaders 150
CONCLUSION: Beyond the Tough Stuff 153
John G. Gabriel is a nationally known presenter, best-selling author, and principal of John Champe High School in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Paul C. Farmer, a veteran educator and former school principal, is an educational consultant with Solution Tree, Inc., providing consulting services nationally for schools and districts.
Whether a leadership program focuses on being an assistant principal or a principal, the curriculum usually covers basic topics like instruction and curriculum, supervision and evaluation, finance, and school law, all of which are important parts of being a school leader. However, as any veteran can tell you, there’s much more to being a school administrator—and it’s often the things you aren’t taught in Ed school that are the toughest to handle. Fledgling administrators are often left to their own devices to navigate the slippery terrain inherent in the school administrator role.
From two veteran school leaders, Dealing with the Tough Stuff (July 2012, Jossey-Bass) offers practical advice and strategies for areas that are rarely covered in classes: handling discipline effectively, managing school crises, interfacing with parents, mediating conflicts (among both adults and students), framing staff conversations in a positive and productive manner, and more. The authors, John Gabriel and Paul Farmer teach current and aspiring school administrators the tricks of the trade in order to survive and thrive.
This handy guide will teach the tricks of the trade in order to survive and thrive in the job, and filled with the information that is rarely taught but that school leaders need to know to be effective administrators. It Includes strategies and illustrative examples for dealing with the down-to-earth problems that confront school administrators
Practical and insightful, Dealing With Tough Stuff covers everything from working effectively with parents and staff to mediating conflicts.
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Angina Pectoris with Normal Coronary Arteries: Syndrome X
ISBN/ASIN: 9781461361114,9781461525967 | 1994 | English | pdf | 289/293 pages | 8.76 Mb
Publisher: Springer US | Author: Juan Carlos Kaski (auth.), Juan Carlos Kaski (eds.) | Edition: 1
Angina pectoris with normal coronary arteriograms is a common entity which has puzzled cardiologists almost since the advent of coronary arteriography. Despite major advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of angina in recent years and a multitude of studies on the subject, the cause and mechanisms underlying the syndrome of angina with normal coronary arteries remain unknown. Indeed, results of investigations are controversial and speculation still prevails regarding the nature of the so called `Syndrome X'.
Almost every important aspect of Syndrome X has been tackled in the book and the reader is exposed not only to the cardiologists' opinion, but also to the authoritative views of the gastroenterologists, gynaecologists and psychiatrists, extremely well represented in this monograph. The book deals with `cardiologists' Syndrome X' and not the metabolic entity termed `Syndrome X'. The possible connection between the two, however, is discussed.
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The Birth of Our 2DNation
THE FIRST WORKS OF ANIMATION IN JAPAN
A researcher in Germany has identified one of the first works of animation shown in Japan, possibly offering clues to Japan’s first steps toward becoming a world-renowned producer of animation.
Frederick S. Litten, a Japanese animation history specialist at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, discovered a film under the English title “The Nipper’s Transformations” in a British film journal from 1912. Heretofore was known only that the film had been screened at a Tokyo theater in April 1912 under the title “Nipparu no henkei” (ニッパールの変形). Litten subsequently found that the contents completely matched that of a work created by cartoonist and animator Emile Cohl (1857-1938).
Litten’s paper on his research is available at :
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By Brittany Irvine on Sat, 07/28/2012
Don't you remember those shoes on the gameshow network where the person was giving the clues and the other contestant had to guess what they were getting at without saying a certain couple of other words? Why do I want to say it was called pyramid? Anyway! This application, Can't Say That, reminds me of it so much!
A cross between what I was just previously talking about, and Draw Something, this game is really cool! A lot of fun, the user and a player battle it out in a game of words. First, sign in with Facebook and find an opponent. There are a couple of different ways that an opponent can be chosen: Facebook, random and, E-mail.
When an opponent is chosen, the user also choses a word (out of three) that are of difficulties that range from 1-3. The difficulty that the person choses is the amount of points that you will get. After the word is selected, at the bottom of the screen will be a list of words the player cannot use when giving the clue to their opponent. After they see the list of words, they must write a clue and send it to their opponent for them to guess the word.
As you can I'm sure now figure, the game is called "Can't Say That," because there are certain words that you cannot say while you are giving clues to your opponent to guess the main word. This game is great fun so try it out in the app store, here, today! | <urn:uuid:63c0138e-8ced-44f7-a281-3fffdbb11c82> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/10442/what-cant-i-say | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00448-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978014 | 318 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Sheepskin effects in work behaviour
UNSPECIFIED. (2004) Sheepskin effects in work behaviour. APPLIED ECONOMICS, 36 (17). pp. 1959-1966. ISSN 0003-6846Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0003684042000236057
Numerous studies have documented disproportionate increases in wage rates from receiving educational credentials, as opposed to from just years of education. This study shows 'sheepskin effects' in hours of work that are similar to the sheepskin effects in wage rates. Systematic sheepskin effects are found in labour-force participation and conditional hours of work, as well as in wage rates. Moreover, the sheepskin effects in hours of work are apparently not simply endogenous responses to the sheepskin effects in wage rates. Thus, sheepskin effects in earnings are much larger than those previously shown for wage rates. The results suggest that education is sorted more by work intentions than innate ability.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions|
|Journal or Publication Title:||APPLIED ECONOMICS|
|Publisher:||ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD|
|Official Date:||20 September 2004|
|Number of Pages:||8|
|Page Range:||pp. 1959-1966|
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in a triangle ABC and R is the radius of the circle into which the triangle is inscribed(in other words it is the circum radius of the triangle)
then prove it is an equilateral triangle
So we know that . Multiply out the left side to get . Thus the equation becomes , which you can write as . That obviously only holds if . | <urn:uuid:a36fa7e3-4554-4118-b9c5-9db59c443dec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mathhelpforum.com/trigonometry/154935-triangle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00400-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962345 | 73 | 2.75 | 3 |
The image below shows the location of Kansas state in relation to the other states in the United States of America.
Area: 81,815 square miles (USGS)
Highest Elevation: 4,039 ft (Mount Sunflower) (USGS)
Lowest Elevation: 679 ft (Verdigris River) (USGS)Blank Kansas State Outline Map
Explore the state of Kansas with the dynamic map below. You can zoom, pan and even get a satellite map view.
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Warning: This post contains satire. Satire may me harmful to your health.
Today for the first time in human history, hits from every drug ranging from ecstacy to crack cocaine can be downloaded and “I-Dosed” straight in to your brain with only a few taps of the keyboard and the click of a mouse. The only paraphenalia that is needed is a pair of headphones and a will for self destruction. Welcome to the brave new world of I-dosing.
I-dosing, Binaural Beats or Digital Drug-taking is a new scourge currently sweeping the internet by storm, it is is a grave and dangerous threat to the people of America, online dealers have sprung up everywhere to sell drugs to you and your children in the form of MP3 files.
Digital drugs can have the effects of ecstasy, heroin, crack cocaine and LSD but dealers claim they can also be used to treat insomnia, headaches, exhaustion, PMS and relieve pain. Either way, all your children have to do to obtain these drugs is type a few words in to google and hey presto they’ll be rolling around on the floor like this….
These shocking sites are even offering opportunities for your kids to work as runners, selling the drugs in a play ground near you….
So what action needs to be taken?
Due to the sudden onset and unknown effects of digital drugs we must immediately ban MP3 files containing i-doses, this action is currently being rushed through congress. This however is insufficient, due to the freedom the internet provides, idoses will remain in cirulation on file sharing networks. Further there is currently no way of telling innocent MP3 files from idoses, the only option available to the goverment is therefore to ban MP3 files. This raises the further issue that MP3 files can be converted to MP4 files or the larger WAV files, these file types must therefore also be made illegal.
Forecasters are predicting that no sooner than MP3 files, MP4 files and WAV files are, banned children will begin “zipping” idoses and sending them to each other via the internet and their mobile phones. This presents the gravest security threat to America since it was discovered that marijuana was not just a humble weed. The only solution to the problem of digital drugs is therefore to take the internet offline immediately and ban the distribution, production and appreciation of all forms of music as well as mobile phones and devices that can be used to listen to music.
…Okay okay, I’ll stop insulting your intelligence, though I hope you can see how this entire case is a fantastic metaphore for the futility of the “war on drugs”. Amazingly however, this week the media and even the authorities in parts of America are still taking this prank very seriously indeed. Schools have actually banned devices that can be used to listen to music as well as websites including youtube in response to this. Worse still, schools have used this as an excuse to enforce drugs tests on students and have written to children’s parents encouraging them to prevent children from having these devices and access to the internet.
You may wish to refrain from watching the following video from News Central, it’s pretty tedious, the droning stupidity of the correspondent and her epic failure to find anyone who has the faintest clue what they’re talking about is the stuff of legends…
Update 18/7/10 – And this story hits the big time, TIME magazine just covered the story with no analysis what so ever. Nothing can stop the crazy “soccer mums” banning their poor squealing kids from the internet now. Prepare for screaming scenes in super markets across America…. “mammmmmmmmmy I promise I won’t idose I promisseeeeeeeeeeeeee”
20/7/10 – The story reaches the Daily Mail.
Ok so what is it and how does it work?
“Binuaral beats” essentially work by playing two slightly different frequencies in each ear. The brain judges where a sound is coming from by analysing the difference betweenthe sounds in both ears. Upon hearing a binuaral beat through stereo headphones the brain is forced to conclude that the sound is emmitted from inside your own head. In theory this should be mildly confusing, in practice it sounds a bit like a vacum cleaner or a static ring depending on the variance in frequencies. FYI the first three praragraphs of the wikipedia page are generally accurate up until the word “hypothetical” at which part the bullshit meter starts to go haywire.)
What I find even more interesting however than the effect itself is that this is probably one of the most spectacular demonstrations of the placebo effect and mass hysteria ever recorded in such extraordinary detail. Binaural beats are very well understood and have been demonstrated to cause very small changes in brain activity which result in relatively negligible changes in the way we feel. However tell some kids that “this choon gonna make you trip balls” and a few of them will have the time of their lives rolling around the floor laughing their ass off.
Mass hysteria, though there have been many examples over the course of history (article coming soon) we know very little about the type of people that are affected and the mechanisms behind it. I for one would be fascinated to find out whether any of the videos on youtube are genuine hysteria or whether they are all intelligent kids ripping the piss out of their own Beaurau of Narcotics. If so this may go down as the greatest hoax since the US army fended of German troops with inflatable tanks.
If you have ever experienced binuaral beats in any way or have tricked anyone in to believeing they are high on binaural beats (with or without effect, prank or genuine, whether or not you believe this to be hysteria, placebo or the real thing) please email me a brief report in confidence at firstname.lastname@example.org with the subject “digital drugs”. (Any material recieved may be used for academic published works but your names and contact details will be removed)
For those of you who were pretty heart broken to discover this was all a hoax here’s a little gems especially for you. It is not a binaural beat, but whatever you do, don’t tell FRANK!Twitter, Facebook, Google+, RSS, or join the mailing list.
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- FLOWER SWEEP:
This is a transition from the guard to the
mount. This is an excellent sweep to learn. As your
opponent sits with proper posturing in your guard, begin to pull them
forward with your legs. Pull their right arm across with your
left arm, and begin to slip your right arm under their left leg.
Position your right leg to move over your opponent's back in the
direction of the sweep. Send your left leg out to increase some
energy for the sweep, and as you pull with your right arm, and right
leg, sweep with your left leg as well. Once you roll over your
opponent, you will be on the mount. This is a very good position
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Mentoring and coaching plays a vital role in:
- Developing and supporting doctors
- Nurturing medical leaders
- Helping a doctor achieve their full potential
As a psychiatrist, it can help you at any stage of your career.
In dealing with the ever changing NHS, mentoring is one of the tools used to build personal resilience.
Dr Janice Birtle, the Specialist Adviser for Mentoring is working to champion mentoring and coaching throughout the College, and to support the setting up of mentoring schemes and to develop mentor training.
A mentor is a person who will support you by providing advice and support at any stage of your career.
Your mentor will usually be more experienced and qualified than you. They are often a senior person in the organisation.
The mentor can pass on knowledge and experience, provide or recommend opportunities which you may not have considered, so you can develop skills and competencies to progress your career, and provide contacts that you wouldn’t normally access.
- A personal approach to a recommended mentor or known senior colleague often works well.
- Most mental health trusts have in-house mentoring schemes for consultants, or know how to access mentors. Contact your clinical or medical director.
- If you are a trainee or involved in training, contact your Deanery to find out about their mentoring schemes.
- The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management runs a mentoring scheme.
- Some College Divisions are developing mentoring schemes, with lists of volunteer mentors. This might help if you can’t find a mentor within your own organisation, or would prefer not to. Please contact us at email@example.com if you would like the details of your Division mentoring lead.
- The College has a small team centrally that oversees mentoring and takes the lead in managing the ‘Mentoring Network’.
- Nearly all the Divisions have their own mentoring leads which together make up the Mentoring Network. The leads are instrumental in promoting and supporting mentoring in their areas.
- Mentoring and coaching guide (unfortunately the training for new mentors mentioned in this guide is currently on hold, we are looking at ways to hold virtual training for mentors, please check this page regularly for updates)
- Guidance on setting up a mentoring scheme
- Guide to mentoring for psychiatric trainees
- Model mentoring agreement
- What is Mentoring? - Health Education England
Experiences of Mentoring
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O kwalifikowanych typach zabójstwa we francuskim prawie karnym
On types of aggravated homicide in French criminal law
The aim of the article is to present the types of aggravated homicide in French criminal law. The author focuses on the basic categories of premises affecting the possibilityof tightening criminal liability for homicide in the French Criminal Code. The factors constituting the basis for classification indicated in the article include the victim’s status on account of age, background, function preformed, the perpetrator’s motivation discrimination on ethnic, racial and religious grounds, the number of perpetrators participation in an organised criminal group and a particular form of intent premeditation. In addition, the author analyses the issue of sentencing modification in the given category of crimes. | <urn:uuid:119b1ac9-87f9-48c8-aef1-371886df4e7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wuwr.pl/nkp/article/view/7984 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.832451 | 166 | 2 | 2 |
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7 January 2013, 14:38 | Updated: 7 January 2013, 15:30
Linton Zoo is asking for donations of old Christmas trees, so its big cats can play with them.
According to the Cambridgeshire Zoo, its lions, tigers and snow leopards love using them as toys and curling up with them.
The trees will be used to decorate avaries and enclosures.
Once dried out, they can also be burned in the zoo's Bio-Burner to generate energy used for heating and hot water.
The zoo is asking for trees to be left at the front gate or on the main drive if it is closed.
The video below, posted by Linton Zoo on YouTube, shows some African Lions enjoying a donated tree.
A spokesperson for Linton Zoo said: " Greenery is very important to our animals, so live rooted and growing trees can be given a second chance at life by being planted in one of our animal enclosures.
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Water Safety Instructors
Instructors teach a variety of Red Cross certified classes ranging from Toddlers through Adult. An American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certificate is required for upper levels, preferred for all. School year lessons are once a week for eight weeks on Monday, Wednesday, or Thursdsay nights, or Saturday mornings. Summer lessons are four times a week (Mon-Thur) for two weeks (both morning and evening times).
These individuals assist the instructors in the water with children, as well as on the pool deck. Lifeguard certification preferred, but not required.
Lifeguards are needed for open recreation time as well as during our youth swim lesson program. Lifeguards must have a current Red Cross Lifeguard certification.
If you are interested in applying for any of these jobs, contact Recreational Services at 274-4636, email firstname.lastname@example.org, or stop by the desk in the Elmen center. | <urn:uuid:4907157a-c891-42f8-8159-a29952352d53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://augie.edu/campuslife/rec/learn-swim/job-opportunities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922231 | 193 | 1.640625 | 2 |
By Katie Kieffer
The way to end abortion is to show women that abortion strips them of freedom. Abortion does not preserve choice; abortion pollutes choice.
Not All Free Choices Are Beneficial
Killing in the name of freedom does not preserve one’s own freedom. Women nearly always have the freedom to kill; they do not always have the right to kill.
Pro-choice activists tell women that in order to preserve their freedom, they must defend their right to kill their children. But the question is not whether an act is committed freely, but whether it is an objectively good act. If you freely choose to do something that harms your own life or the life of another, you are perverting your freedom.
For example, we do not applaud a lonely woman for freely choosing to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and end her life. We applaud the woman who makes the harder choice to preserve her life by facing, treating and overcoming her isolation head-on. Nor do we applaud a destitute man for freely choosing to break into a wealthy family’s home. We applaud the man who burns the midnight oil until he can support himself.
Inconsistent Protection of Choice
We have a U.S. Supreme Court precedent (Roe v. Wade) which asserts that it is fine to kill babies when they are growing in their mother’s wombs. Many American women think that this precedent is ethical because it defends their freedom to choose.
However, this precedent does not defend female choice consistently. For, a woman cannot “choose” not to be a mother once the baby comes out and starts crying, pooping and peeing. Two women can make the same choice and the Supreme Court will applaud one woman for making the choice early and send another woman to jail for procrastinating.
American abortion precedent sends the mobster-like message: “You want to kill? Just make it quick and dirty and don’t tell nobody. Capisce?”
Choosing Life Expands a Woman’s Options
An unplanned pregnancy can be hard to face. For the woman, it can appear as though she should have the right to choose to end her baby’s life so that she does not need to deal with the expected inconvenience.
But how can we compare inconvenience to life? It seems like they can’t be weighed against each other in this way. How can the worth of a human being’s life be less than the (assumed) flexibility to be gained without the (assumed) burden of another life? If life itself is worth less than maneuverability, then life is not worth much at all—including the woman’s own life. And, using this logic, a single father could take his teenage daughter’s life if she became a “burden” to him.
In order to show women that choosing life can expand their field of choices, I think we should:
1.) Make adoption more attractive
More young women would say “yes” to life but “not yet” to motherhood if their doctors, friends and family members encouraged them to choose adoption over abortion.
2.) Tell women how their choice will hurt their minds and bodies
What woman would want to choose abortion if she knew the side effects of her choice, including permanent physical and psychological pain? Why don’t women’s magazines committed to “female health,” such as SELF, Glamour and Cosmopolitan tell women the truth about how abortion rips apart their bodies? After all, they devote most of their content to sex, and abortion is a choice women make after having unplanned sex.
3.) Admit babies in wombs are persons
When we tell women that babies in wombs are not persons (as Roe v. Wade does), we are not helping women to live “freely.” We are damaging their psyches by promoting a lie. This is because murder violates natural law, which comes from reason. And, if you believe in God, murder violates divine law (see the 5th Commandment), which comes from God.
As Judge Andrew Napolitano explains on FOX News, our culture needs to admit what science and reason tells us, that babies in wombs are persons.
I think the best way to convince women not to have abortions is to show them that abortion actually degrades their humanity and strips their free will rather than expanding their range of choices.
Elizabeth Neaton’s viewpoint
Here is the perspective of Elizabeth Neaton, a young mother and Vice President and Co-Founder of Minnesota Youth for Life:
“For so long we have viewed abortion as ‘women’s reproductive healthcare’ and it is the furthest thing from it. By using contraception and having abortions we are truly limiting our ability to be women. Contraception hormonally changes your body and also, studies have shown, changes your attraction to the opposite sex.
When looking at abortion over the past 40 years, science has truly shown us that a unique set of DNA is created at the time of conception, not only will that unique set of DNA never exist again, but it will remain in the mother’s body for the rest of her natural life, whether she has an abortion or not. Planned Parenthood and pro-choicers would have you believe that abortions are a “safe and effective” choice of birth control. The abortion pill, RU-486, is—medically speaking—more dangerous than a surgical abortion. Not to mention there is little to no follow-up with women after they have taken the abortion pill or had a surgical abortion.
Women who stood on the front lines fighting for women’s rights surely did not want women to be limited in their choices or physically and emotionally damaged by them. That’s not healthcare. Abortion and contraception are not only taking innocent lives so that we may “live as we please,” they are ultimately damaging the woman’s ability to be a woman and to fulfill the natural need and desire to reproduce. Being a woman is a wonderful and beautiful thing, having the ability not only create and grow a life inside you, but to be able to sustain that life once it is no longer in the womb is an amazing trait that only a woman has. We are not creating a better healthcare system by having on demand abortions, we are limiting a woman’s right to be a woman.” | <urn:uuid:d8972a04-4620-49a0-bc59-d211d4953be8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://katiekieffer.com/2013/01/stripping-womens-free-choice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956063 | 1,351 | 2.0625 | 2 |
As we work into the evening hours, there are lots of showers around to our west and there are a number of thunderstorms to our south. Rain and thunder are organizing in two or three distinct areas -- first, over Pennsylvania with the steadier batches of rain that have traveled through most of Central Pennsylvania during the course of the day. Second, with a line of thunderstorms in the Carolinas. Third, a more disorganized (for now) area of rain and thunder across the Appalachians with the upper level low. Computer modeling continues to focus on parts of this second area of rainfall for the brunt of activity this evening and tonight as the Carolina thunderstorm activity persists to our south this evening but then organizes farther north and northeast as the night progresses.
The splitting of hairs and parsing of details aside, it does appear that a round of heavy rain could lift through portions of the region after Midnight and continue into the morning rush hour. Depending on how quick this rain lifts through, we could get into a lull for a while (perhaps even some sun west of the city?) that could help get the atmosphere primed for more thunderstorm activity tomorrow evening, especially south and west of Philadelphia. | <urn:uuid:3ee14f52-36cb-42cc-9041-7697d99e7eb5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com/2012/05/updating-tonights-rains.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953658 | 239 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Bask in new-found space and freedom from ‘stuff’
Apart from a calm and clean home, decluttering has many life-enhancing advantages including more cash to spend on experiences rather than ‘stuff’ and a happier state of mind free of the compulsion to purchase more.
How should you declutter?
Tackle an area of one room at a time. Hold each item you find and ask yourself, ‘Do I love it or is it useful?’ If the answer is no then it should go. Tips on recycling and selling can be found in the Dairy Diary Live more with less article.
Sort items into different boxes, each labelled with its destination e.g. charity shop, car boot sale etc.
Don’t try to declutter the whole house at once. Plan it in your diary, allocating time to each room, and give yourself a break in-between; otherwise you may just become demotivated by the whole process.
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For The Unachievable Fragment - Poem by Melissa Hurst
There is a verse
missing from my unfinished song.
A melody is lacking
to complete the music.
There is a piece
that will never be permanently
lodged into my frame.
and inconsideration distorts
the picture, the sound, and the words.
My song and puzzle
will never attain perfect completion.
I will always be a border,
devoid of the one inner piece
that brings forth euphoria and beauty.
My soul shall tuck itself in the closet
where memories of my inspiration
dwell in a hallowed space.
My soul is surely to find
a little bliss there.
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Sweden regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Sweden's criminal law contains a general penalty enhancement provision. Sweden includes defamation, hate speech and discrimination crimes in its data. Hate crime data are collected by the National Council for Crime Prevention and are based on information from the police and the prosecution authority. Since 2012, the number of hate crime cases is estimated based on a statistical sample of police reports. Since 2016, hate crime reports are published only every second year. Three different victimization surveys, used to measure unreported hate crime, are conducted regularly at one, two and three-year intervals, respectively.
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Alexandra Harris's elegant re-evaluation of the arts in Britain between the wars, in which she argues that some of the key battles of modernism were fought in English tea shops and churchyards, was tonight named the winner of this year's Guardian first book award.
Harris was awarded the £10,000 prize for Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper at a ceremony at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
She follows in the footsteps of Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran Foer, two previous winners of the award. Harris, 29, is a lecturer in English at Liverpool University. Her book presents a radically new interpretation of the arts in the interwar period.
The Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, who chaired the judging panel, said she was excited by the judges' choice, which had been described as a "counterintuitive decision" by one of their number.
"Serious works of art history rarely win populist prizes, and often have trouble finding publishers at all," Armitstead said. "Yet the response from our Waterstone's reading groups, as well as from our central panel, showed that readers of all sorts are willing to engage with demanding books, if they are well written and beautifully produced."
Romantic Moderns interrogates the received notion that the interwar period was imbued with a simple nostalgia, looking only to a provincial world of tea shops and old churches while the key battles for modern art and modern literature were being fought in Paris and Spain. Instead, Harris argues, English culture of the time was eclectic and urgent, pursuing its own often pastoral slant on modernism.
Whether in the work of novelists Evelyn Waugh or EM Forster, artist Graham Sutherland or photographer Cecil Beaton, food writer Florence White or garden designer Christopher Tunnard, Harris argues, a modern English renaissance was at work, with the nostalgic and the modern living side by side.
"I wanted to get over this divide that we get in some books between the international and the insular," Harris said. "John Piper and Graham Sutherland have been written about in the past as the most insular, inward-looking artists, and yet they're not. Part of what's so special is their understanding of European tradition and their great love for it all, their way of creating a dialogue between home and abroad."
Armitstead said that "at a time when universities are threatened as never before", Harris's book was a reminder of how important higher education is to literature and to culture as a whole, "and how crucial it is that the finest young thinkers have the time and space to develop."
The Guardian first book award is unique in including reading groups from five branches of the bookshop chain in its judging process.
Novelist and poet Adam Foulds, biographer Richard Holmes and actor Diana Quick were also among the judges for this year's prize, along with former ICA director Ekow Eshun and Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian.
Foulds called Harris's book, published by Thames and Hudson, his personal "top choice", describing it as "a brilliant piece of work that manages to be both comprehensive and coherent as it tells a compelling story about 20th century English art". He predicted a long life for Romantic Moderns, calling it "a significant contribution to the history of English culture".
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Web positioning or SEO positioning refers to the set of techniques used to position a web page organically in the first results of Google search.
Web positioning, or SEO positioning, could be defined as a process focused on placing a certain page in the first positions of search results before a specific search. It is a constant work that takes months of strategy to show results, but it will undoubtedly give you very good results if you start implementing it.
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As well mentioned Inboundcycle, “if they don't see you on the first page of Google results you are losing more than 90% of clicks" Among the first results in a Google search, the first position accumulates on average 59,59% of user clicks. Having a good SEO will make your website more useful, both for users and for search engines, thus helping you to scale positions until appearing in the first results. SEO is the best way for your users to find you through internet searches.
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If you ad vice are you more guilty.
Mis judgement leaves a gap in rational thinking.
Why are pennies still around when people throw them away?
Why does one round up or down. Can one square this idea with rational thinking?
Is blood really thicker than water? What about heavy water? What about water filled with minerals?
How is Superman’s powers affected with age. Does he lose the power in his vision if he gets a cataract in his eye? Does smog affect his flight patterns? Does he get wrinkles, and will he become bald with age?
Should not Pennies change their name with inflation to Nichols or Dimes?
Girls can be named Raven or Lark or Robin, even Oriole. But what about Kookaburra or Emu?
If girls are sugar and spice how can they become so bitter and nasty if you cross them?
Why are patients in a waiting room not exhibiting patience?
Why are people named Joy depressed?
Why are commercials that annoy us considered winners? I did not like the cavemen of Geico? I thought it was silly. It did not make me buy or not buy Geico. Where are they now? Back in the caves?
If people are so smart why do they do things that are so dumb?
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If Agrobacterium is able to successfully transform parts of a leaf, what it’s doing is transforming individual cells in those leaves. These cells will divide and grow and they become a sort of undifferentiated clump of cells growing.
But plants have this amazing ability to effectively recreate themselves – it’s called totipotency – and they can create a whole plant from just one cell.
So what we get is these undifferentiated cells, they start to differentiate, and they start to resemble early leaves and even early stem, and we can help them do that by introducing various hormones. Cytokinin helps the plant grow, the shoot elongate, and auxin will help the roots grow. So we can create a whole plantlet in the lab.
Once we have these little plantlets in the laboratory, we can graft those, for example, with apple, onto an apple rootstock, and from there, they will grow into a tree.
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Russia is a vast country with immeasurable mineral and gemstone reserves. Russia has become s significant diamond miner and manufacturer. In fact, Russia is the next leading diamond producing country all over the world after Botswana. Russia is having around 22% for the world’s diamond production.
Russia has vast areas of rich mineral deposits with the most famous area being the Ural mountains in Siberia. Russian gemstones include Diamonds, Jade,Alexanderite, Charolite, Agate, Amber, Serphinite, Rhodonite, Diopside, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Topaz, Citrine, Emerald, Garnet,Opal, Malachite and many areas are yet to be discovered.
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Moreover, mining of diamond in Russia is conceded out mostly in the Sakha (Republic of Northeastern Russia), next to the Arctic Circle. It has also some significant deposits of several colored stones. The country is well-known for exceptional and unusual stones such as Demantoid Garnet and Alexandrite.
Russian Emeralds are also famous for their exceptional shade and crystal lucidity. Emerald is usually mined near Ekaterinburg near Russia’s Ural Mountains. Anybody thinking of Russian stones is more than probably thinking of these delightfully ornamented Faberge Eggs that are so precious and hunted year after year.
Moreover, Russia is also believed to be the significant source of sapphire, ruby, and emeralds, which finds their way to the world market. It is also ground-breaking work by the Russian Academy of Sciences to create man-made crystals for laser weapons and instruments that are creating in this industry.
Types of Gemstones Mined in Russia
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There are so several stones that arrive in different colors and distinctions that it would be unbreakable not to get one to go with your exact taste. Learning quite a bit about every stone and its basic aspects will assist you in your exploration for the perfect gemstone.
Alexandrite is a variety of chrysoberyl and it was named after Czar Alexander II. It is a colored transform gemstone that is green in daytime and in red color during non-natural light. It is usually mined in Russia, USA, Brazil, Burma, and Tasmania. It is also relatively unusual and is just ever used for the design of modern jewelry.
What is the most eminent about this gemstone is that it has the capability to modify color. This exclusive attributes makes the Alexandrite one of the most precious stones of all time. It is also considered as a classy stone. Based on Moh’s’’ Scale of Hardness, Alexandrite range from 8.5.
Amethyst is the most extremely treasured and identifiable stone from the quartz family. Its reasonable cost makes it a perennially popular option. It is available in different colors from purple to light red-violet. Its main sources include Madagascar, Brazil Russia, India, Canada, Zambia, and Uruguay. Amethyst ranges from 7 based on Moh’s Scale of Hardness.
Aquamarine is a component of the beryl family and varies in color from an almost neutral light blue to blue-green. The most valuable color is a deep-blue aqua tone. It ranges from 7.5-8 based on the Moh’s scale of solidity and obtained it from Latin words, which means sea and water. They are usually mined in Russia, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka.
Topaz arrives in an extensive variety of colors such as peach, pink, red, orange, brown, gold, yellow, that is usually found in Sri Lanka, Russia, Brazil, and Pakistan. It is naturally light to medium blue topaz, which is improved by irradiation to create a more strong blue color. It is considered also as solid stone ranging from 8 based on the Moh’s scale of resistance. In fact, it can be divided with a particular blow and must be protected from solid knocks.
Citrine is a quartz gemstone. While its term refers to a lemon yellow tone, it can be found in a variety of yellows from light to shady yellow as well as, golden brown. Based on the Moh’s Scale of rigidity, it is approximately measured 7. Significant sources include USA Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Scotland, Namibia, and Russia. Citrines are attractive stones, which, are trying to create a retort in the world of jewelry.
Emerald is the most valuable element of the beryl family. They have a powerful, loaded and bright green color. The term Emerald is usually originated from the French term “esmeraude” and the Greek word “smaragdos” which literally means “green stone”. In emeralds, inclusions are accepted since they are definitely a precious stone.
In fact, a high quality emerald has the prospective to be valuable compare with a diamond. It has an incomparable shine and its significant sources include Russia, Zimbabwe, USA, South Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Australia, India, Tanzania, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Malawi.
Based on Moh’s scale of resistance, emerald approximately ranges from 7.5-8. The affluent glow of the emerald makes this stone a unique one; though, looking for an emerald with a high-quality is quite difficult because inclusions can an affect to its color. In fact, it can be more precious than an almost perfect emerald because its color has the probability to be deeper than the light color of an unblemished emerald.
Garnets are typically approach in an unfathomable red variant that is lovely to the eye. Garnets typically refer to more than ten unusual stones that have a comparable chemical structure. Though red is the tone most frequently that garnets come in, there are also another variations of orange, green, yellow, and other earthy colors.
The shade of a garnet has the tendency to change when perceive during daytime or non-natural light, so causing them even more hunted after. Based on Moh’s scale of hardness, it has 6.5-7.5. They have excellent wearing capabilities as a result of their solidity. They are mostly from Russia, South America, India, and Central America, as well
Russia built the famous Malachite church St Isaacs Cathedral out of Malachite and eight huge columns to support 101 meter high structure. The Gemstone was mined in the Ural mountains in the 19th century and has The malachite room
Cacholong Opal is an exclusive stone with an attractive play-of-color flaunt. Opal its chemically same as quartz and some refer to Russian opal as Quartz Cacholong Opals.It displays a complete range of colors from the color wheel place aligned with a bright or shady setting. Based on Moh’s scale, opal has the hardness of 5.5-6.5. Some significant sources include Russia, Mexico, Australia, Nevada, Guatemala, and Honduras.
In fact, 95% of opals are originated from Australia. The collection of opals compromises a quantity of special stones, which hold one attribute; they all stand out and shine in a ceaselessly varying play of colors. While there are several different classes of opal, three of the most famous are Fire, White, and Black opals.
In addition to, black opal is the rarest, most exclusive and measured by several gem collectors as the most stunning pieces. Since opals are not too solid, they require a shielding setting and must be worn as frequently as feasible because moisture and air to make the stone last.
Topaz is solid and beautiful stone that has been recognized and treasured both in earliest and contemporary period. Topaz physically comes in red, pink, brown, yellow, and neutral varieties, but it is also accessible in contemporary times in numerous color of blue by means of treatment with irradiation.
This stone can be mined in Russia, Pakistan, Brazil, and Sri Lanka. Topaz is a solid stone, and has a hardness of 8 based on the Moh’s scale of rigidity. Topaz has turn out to be a fairly striking mineral and it is sometimes puzzled with the quartz topaz, but its structure is quite attractive and unusual, as well.
Famous History of Russian Stones
The well-known history of jewellery in Russia has started to stretch back and begun from the establishment of the Vladimir-Suzdal Princedom and the Kievan Russia during the ninth and twelfth century. Most of the Russian cities are St. Petersburg, Ustyug, Novgorod, and many more.
In Russia, silver and gold settings were extensively used for gemstones, and expensive stones were measured to be representation of the highest power. In fact, a tsar’s tiara, scepter, and orb were splendidly inlaid with stones. Majestic pantries were persistently refilled with semi-precious gemstones, which were brought from all over the nation.
During 17th century, semi-precious gemstones begun to take away from Russia and then, minerals ofmalachitewere found in the Ural Mountains, while Cornelian, Agate, and Jasper were took out from Siberia. During the sovereignty ofPeter Ithe Ural, gemstones obtained all-inclusive fame.
Milling and lapidary factories were produced in Russia. The era of Catherine II created a mark as a peak of success for Russian jeweler art. Manufacturing of jeweler factories of that period was illustrated with a creative combination of latest forms and at the same time, conventional Russian estheticism.
In fact, the development of Russian jewelry period has a favorable grouping of gemstone palette. Then, during the 17th century, most of the products generated by the Russian jeweler factories were remarkable, especially the rubies and sapphires in one piece of jewelry.
In addition to, they are often combined with massive enamels, but during the 18th century, dazzling and faceted diamonds became one of the most preferred stones of the nobles. In the middle of the 19th century, other valuable gemstones such as topaz, emeralds, diamonds and rubies were reduced from Russia.
Also, the ability of creating jewelries reached out a high-level at those times. Semi-precious gemstones were not only utilized for jewelry, but also for different objects such as table-tops, candle sticks, vases, figurines, which were in high-demand, especially for all valued clients.
On that time also, Charles Faberge’s jewelry house was established along the 2nd half of 19th centuries. It rapidly won fame and begun executing orders from the royal family. Some of these jewels are Jasper, Nephrite, Rock Crystal, Lazurite, and other different classes of quartz were being used here.
This famous jewelry house supplied various types of jewelries to almost all royal houses and noble people from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Their products are truly appreciated by gem collectors and experts of jewelry masterpieces and their excellent jewelry usually perceived to all jewelry art.
On the Orthodox ritual, the patron of jewelers and smith are Damian and Sts. Cosmas. A festival in their tribute is also referred as “Kuzminki”, which is remembered twice a year on 14th of November and July in Gregorian calendar. There are also local holidays for the tribute of this festival.
For millions of years, individualshave been astonished and captivated by highlighted stones. The unusual colors of stones characterize different features of the world for our predecessors. In fact, blue sapphires signified the heaven and sky, as well, while red rubies represent for love and fire.
Gemstones were used mostly as talismans as well as, useful to forecast the future and shield the wearer. Based on the Chinese zodiac, it was usually represented by animals and precious stones; meanwhile Hindu myth controlled powers with different stones and set them into different zodiac signs.
The bible also stated that these stones were named under the new and old testaments. From Victorian times, there has been a compromised language of stones where different stones provide special emotions like “true love”, “faithfulness”, “eternal affection”, and many more.
Nowadays, most individuals identify their birthstone and we must aware that there are different types of gemstones, which depends in different aspects of our lives such as state of the nation, anniversaries, and many more. These stones are mostly used for their exquisiteness as well as, for their personal satisfaction.
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UNAIDS, Non-Profit Groups to Legally Challenge Malawi's Anti-Gay Laws
January 22, 2014
Reuters: UN to launch legal challenge against Malawi anti-gay laws
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Nevada County History
This county was named after the mining town of Nevada City, a name derived from the term "Sierra Nevada." The word "Nevada" in Spanish means "snowy" or "snow covered."
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING OF NEVADA COUNTY
The following is based on an article by Edwin Tyson, Decd., Curator of the Searls Library
which was published in the Nevada County Historical Society BULLETIN,Vol. 60, #2, April 2006:
In 1848 an adobe structure was built in then Yuba County between Anthony House (now Lake Wildwood) and Bridgeport. It was called Rose's Corral. From that small settlement the future Nevada County grew.
In September 1849 prospectors found placer gold deposits where Gold Run enters Deer Creek. Dr. A.B. Caldwell established stores along Deer Creek to serve the growing number of gold seekers. At that time the first permanent log cabin was erected in what would become "Nevada" or "Nevada City." Dr. Caldwell built "Caldwell's Upper Store" in October 1849. The miners prospered and more and more cabins and shanties were built through the Spring of 1850. The name "Nevada" was applied to the settlement in March 1850.
The U.S. Census of 1850 reported the population Nevada [City] at 1,067. California entered the Union September 9, 1850 and a U.S. Post Office name "Nevada City" opened in December 1850. Nevada County was created by the California Legislature from Yuba County May 18, 1851.
According to Kirkham's A Genealogical and Historical Atlas of the United States of America (Everton Pub, Inc., 1976), in 1880, known "places" in Nevada County (and their populations) included:
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Preventing well water from damaging your fence is easy with the help of these four steps on how to prevent fence from well water damage. Minimize the repair period of your borders by applying preventive measures for well water and other water sources.
Fences are what keeps our houses safe. It is the first line of defense you have on your property. Ensuring that these structures are safe and sound and for them to last longer is something that you would need to pay attention to.
There are a couple of types of fences out there, but the steps we would present will primarily focus on wooden kinds of fences. As wood fences are one of the widely used fences and are easily damaged with prolonged exposure to water sources such as well water, there are quite a couple of ways to protect and preserve these wood fences.
Steps For Keeping Your Fence Off Well Water
Does the runoff well water keep on making your fence weak and structurally unsound? Worry no more, for here are the steps you need to take to prevent well water from damaging your fence.
Step #1. Identification and material selection
If you want a wooden fence that can last long and is almost damage resistant, then it’s better to take the time to inform yourself about the various types of wood to use. Different locations and applications will affect the weathering of the wood. Selecting an appropriate material is one of your primary concerns.
Step #2. Proper construction and placement
Water runoff and stagnant water can easily damage the wood by absorbing water more quickly than wire and iron fences. Proper construction and placement would be a significant contributor to preserving your wooden fences.
When creating the post and frames of your fence, try to elevate the level of the boundaries a little bit higher and not touching the ground. The ground retains moisture, and it’s where the well water would come from. Make it that there is space for the water to flow and free from obstruction of the wood fence.
When creating the post, try to make solid support underneath first. Poured concrete would be a good choice for support and elevation for your wooden post. Try your best not to plant the fence post directly to the soil as it would quickly decay the wooden base in no time.
Step #3. Apply your protective coatings
Applying a couple of protective coatings to your fences will always be beneficial. These coatings, such as primer, water repellent sealant, and paints, would help a lot in preserving your fences. These may also wear off after some time, so you must try to monitor your fence status from time to time.
When selecting your coatings, keep in mind the treatment your wood fence has undergone. Pick a suitable coat of sealant to apply to your wood that would complement the treatment it had undergone.
The same is true with iron and wire fences. Proper application and selection of waterproofing sealants will help a lot in the long run.
Step #4. Proper monitoring and maintenance
Monitoring the condition of your fence and doing maintenance isn’t that hard. You must try to look for possible damages or potential sources of damages and deal with them as early as possible.
Well water can remain on the surface for a long time if not dealt with as early as possible, especially during rainy seasons. Installing and clearing drainage systems can help you prevent prolonged exposure to your fence with stagnant well water.
What are the common fence problems and their causes?
Common fence problems include corrosion, especially for metal-based fences primarily due to sunlight and water moisture. Aside from rust, corrosion can also come in the form of mold, which can be seen in wood-type fences.
Another common problem is the deformation of the post and sagging. These kinds of damage usually come from the weathering of the bar and frames. This can also be caused by soil erosion, causing tilting of the post.
Stains are also a common problem for fences, especially on painted ones. Stains can easily wash off metal and can also be permanent damage on wooden fences.
The last one would include gaps and holes. This can be attributed to animals, such as insects, for example. Poor selection of materials can also be one of the contributing factors.
What are the best treatments for fences?
The best treatments would ultimately depend on the type of fence you are planning to use and construct. Most of the time, the treatment you would like to seek is for waterproofing purposes, which is basically a need for all types of fence. However, if you use a wooden type of fence, prevention of mold growth and insect infestation would also be a good choice.
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Titel: Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in...
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The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. Codes of Finance takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at one of the world's leading investment banks before the crisis, providing a detailed firsthand account of the creation, marketing, selling, accounting, and management of these financial instruments--and of how they ultimately created havoc inside and outside the bank.
Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former employee of the bank, investigates the journey of a derivative through the bank's front, middle, and back offices. In the process, he provides a rare look at the strange world of quants, traders, salespeople, accountants, and others involved in a self-annihilating form of life in which securities designed by the bank eventually threaten its infrastructure. Throughout, he tries to understand the baffling languages of engineered financial products and the often-conflicting bodies of expertise that are mobilized to create them.
Codes of Finance highlights the massive costs of investment banking's hubristic dream of manufacturing global financial services that derive their value from multiple economies across the world. Yet the book challenges simplistic condemnations of financial engineering by showing that derivation is the central operator of economic life--stretching far beyond the phenomenon of financial derivatives themselves.
Essential reading for economic sociologists and financial economists, as well as for readers curious to decipher modern finance, this is the first serious study of the intellectual and organizational puzzles raised by the controversial products of contemporary financial engineering.
The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives business at the bank before the crisis, providing a detailed firsthand account of the creation, marketing, selling, accounting, and management of these financial instruments--and of how they ultimately created havoc inside and outside the bank.
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Scylla replicates data according to eventual consistency. This means that, in Scylla, when considering the CAP Theorem, availability and partition tolerance are considered a higher priority over consistency. Although Scylla’s tunable consistency allows users to make a tradeoff between availability and consistency, Scylla’s consistency level is tunable per query.
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To mitigate entropy, or data inconsistency, Scylla uses a few different processes. The goal of Scylla anti-entropy - based on that of Apache Cassandra - is to compare data on all replicas, synchronize data between all replicas, and, finally, ensure each replica has the most recent data.
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When bank lending slows down, as it did during the 2007-08 financial crisis, people start to have more trouble accessing the credit markets. But that doesn't mean they stop looking for ways to borrow. They just need to look a little harder to find available loans at lower rates. Similarly, in a credit crunch environment, individual investors are desperate to find higher returns than those offered by stingy bank certificates of deposit (CD).
For borrowers and investors alike, the solution a growing number of them are turning to is ... each other. In fact, a time-tested method is gaining ground with the growing popularity of websites that make it possible to bypass the banks altogether. They're called peer-to-peer lenders, and according to TechCrunch, peer-to-peer loans have recently passed the $1 billion per month mark, and that number is expected to keep growing too.
Who Are These "Peers"?
If you're looking for a cheaper way to pay off credit cards or consolidate debt, this might be an option for you. First, perform a quick Internet search for a website that compares the different peer-to-peer sites available; a key-word search of "peer-to-peer lending" (P2P) should provide plenty of results. Most companies work in a similar fashion, so it's important to choose a peer-to-peer lending service that is well established and has a large active membership of borrowers and lenders. The basic process, according to Peer Lending Network, an affiliate of peer lender Prosper.com, goes like this:
1. A person seeking a loan posts a listing with the amount of money they hope to borrow and the rate they can afford to pay for the loan.
2. Lenders bid on the listings, submitting the amount and rate they are willing to offer. The more competing bids there are, the lower the borrower's interest rate will be.
3. When the listing is complete, the qualified bids are combined into a single loan for the borrower.
4. After the loan is fully funded, the loan amount is deposited directly into the borrower's bank account.
5. Fixed monthly amounts are then automatically withdrawn from the borrower's bank account each month and sent to the lenders until the loan is repaid.
For at least one P2P website we examined, lenders purchase notes from the company. With these payments, the company funds the loans to the borrowers. The borrowers then pay their monthly fee to the company, which in turn makes the payments to the lender. As such, the P2P company is not responsible for making the payments to the lender if the borrower does not pay, so the lender's risk is still tied to the borrower. It does, however, allow the P2P company to deduct a 1% service charge on the loan. Lenders should keep this in mind while calculating their expected rate of return.
Examine the Details
P2P websites tout their great interest rates and easy loan process for both borrowers and lenders. In theory, risk is reduced because lenders can spread their investments over thousands of borrowers to reduce risk.
Nothing, however, is ever as good as it seems. We already mentioned the service charge for the lender. One thing borrowers need to look out for is the fees associated with closing the loans on these P2P websites. The initial interest rates look attractive, but you have to account for everything. We found that on average, a one-time 3% transaction fee is charged any time a loan is closed. That's how these P2P companies make their money. If you lend money at an 8% rate, then your real rate will be 11%. In addition, fees are assessed to the borrower when he or she misses payments.
You should be very careful if you're looking to consolidate loans and lower your interest rate because you could wind up paying a higher aggregate rate. That's not to say that these loans aren't a great way to access credit and find lower rates. They can be - especially considering credit card rates - but only if you approach them responsibly.
A quick note to remember as a borrower is that these loans are usually based on a three-year repayment plan. You do have the option to prepay the loan, but you won't be able to reduce your overall interest payment because you paid the loan early.
Who's Doing the Due Diligence?
If you're a lender, you're going to be worried about credit worthiness. How are you supposed to know whether the borrowers on P2P networks are reliable? Well, the P2P websites work with the credit agencies to determine borrowers' credit quality. Each of the top lending P2P websites requires a credit score of at least 660 or more just to participate. As a lender, you'll be able to see the quality of each loan being requested, so you can further tweak the riskiness of your portfolio based on your tolerance.
Below are a few more examples of borrower criteria, although these can vary between networks:
- A debt-to-income ratio (excluding mortgage) below 25%
- A credit report with no current delinquencies, recent bankruptcies, tax liens or non-medical related collections opened within the last 12 months and reflecting:
- At least four accounts ever opened
- At least three accounts currently open
- No more than 10 credit inquiries in the past six months
- Use of available credit not exceeding 100%
- A minimum credit history of 36 months
- U.S. citizen with a valid Social Security number
- An account at a financial institution with a routing number
When the Standard Route Fails
A P2P lending service can be a great way for people to cheaply access the credit markets during times when banks are restricting lending. Even people with excellent credit quality have been turned down by banks for personal loans based on other metrics, or just a sheer unwillingness to part with their taxpayer-supplied cash cushion. However, if you aren't quite comfortable with this process yet, try another comparable service, such as that offered by Lending Tree, which allows banks to compete with each other for the right to service your loan. | <urn:uuid:4cd9491d-bc61-4d40-b1e4-0a719d5d84a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/09/peer-to-peer-loans.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00091-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9663 | 1,264 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Getting back on your feet after a brush with the law isn’t easy. But that’s exactly what the RESTORE Project is all about.
Its long name is Reentry Enhanced Services & Training Optimizing Restorative Experiences, and its purpose is to restore positive opportunities and get kids who have been in the juvenile justice system back on track.
To learn how effective the program can be, just ask Robert Fleming, 22, who started with RESTORE in January 2013. “I joined the RESTORE Project to help get myself to a better place,” he said. “Before joining, I did not have much going. I was unemployed and engaging in activities that were not getting me anywhere. I was seeking something to stimulate my mind and restart my engine.”
Robert took advantage of program services such as leadership development and job readiness. He soon landed a part time job at a food truck, which led to an internship with the City of Atlanta’s Summer Food Program, located at the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. Robert’s hard work and dedication in that position helped him secure a full-time position as a Constituent Specialist with the City of Atlanta. In this role, he deals with citizen complaints.
“In retrospect, I am completely floored by the progress I have made, my change in attitude, and overall perspective on life,” said Robert. “From filling out numerous amounts of online apps with no call backs and being arrested, you could not have told me that the opportunities that have been afforded to me were on the horizon. I would not have believed it. In all I have been extremely blessed to have met a phenomenal group of individuals who believed in me when I did not. I am forever indebted to you all in aiding me to turn my life in the right direction. Revealing to me what is possible and what I’m capable of.”
Asked what wisdom he would pass on to his peers and those coming up behind him, Robert didn’t hesitate. “Do not be afraid to be you,” he said. “Stand out in a crowd because everything you are not makes you who you are; be proud of it. Additionally, keep the faith, live with integrity and optimism, and most important, be patient.
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The patricians of Venice and the lecturers of Padua made Averroism synonymous with doubt and criticism in theology, and with sarcasm against the hierarchy.
His immense energy and versatility, his adroit and unhesitating flattery when he chose to flatter, his ruthless sarcasm when he chose to be sarcastic, his rather unscrupulous business faculty, his more than rather unscrupulous resolve to double and twist in any fashion so as to escape his enemies, - all these things appear throughout the whole mass of letters.
He didn't catch the sarcasm in her voice; his gaze was trained on a woman clad only in a towel and trailed by steam, emerging from a door along one wall.
His powers of sarcasm were a cause of terror to his adversaries, and his presence in debate was much dreaded.
He was a charming talker, with a gay humour and a quiet sarcasm and a telling use of anecdote for argument.
Contain a violent attack on the heathen mythology, in which he narrates with powerful sarcasm the scandalous chronicles of the gods, and contrasts with their grossness and immorality the pure and holy worship of the Christian.
It was hard to tell whether the sarcasm had gone over his head or he simply wasn't amused.
Swift he resembled in the occasional broadness of his humour, in his brilliantly successful use of sarcasm and irony, 2 and in his mastery of the hoax.
They had a forerunner in Luiz Antonio Verney, who poured sarcasm on the prevailing methods of education, and exposed to good effect the extraordinary literary and scientific decadence of Portugal in an epoch-making work, the Verdadeiro methodo de estudar.
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Brightwell, Graham R., Dowker, Fay, Garciá, Raquel S., Henson, Joe and Sorkin, Rafael D. (2003) "Observables" in causal set cosmology. Physical Review D, 67 (8). Art. no. 084031. ISSN 1550-7998
For the theories known as classical sequential growth (CSG) models, it has been conjectured that, up to sets of measure zero, the “stem sets” generate the full σ-algebra of label-invariant measurable sets of causal sets. We prove this for a generic family of CSG models (the “generalized percolation models”). In consequence, we are able not only to identify the “observables” of these theories, but, more importantly, to provide them with an accessible physical interpretation. We suggest that the stem sets will play the same role of fundamental observable in the quantum analog of these theories, i.e. for quantum gravity.
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To better understand Jharkhand’s challenges in achieving financial inclusion and economic growth, this case study gathers a wide range of perspectives on the status and future potential of expanding the outreach of financial services in the state’s banking and non-banking sectors. The perspectives include apex institutions, public and private banks, microfinance institutions and NGOs; it aims to, in aggregate, provide an overview of who is working towards poverty alleviation in the state and the challenges they face.
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IFMR LEAD systematically collected district-wise data on number of active borrowers and loans outstanding for several of India’s largest MFIs over three years as part of its Map of Microfinance project sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development. In this note, we analyze the data collected as a part of this exercise to paint a picture of the geographic distribution of microfinance services in India and to describe geographic trends in the growth of microfinance services across the
Minakshi Ramji, Yusuke Taishi | January 7, 2008
On 20th March 2007, the Union Government introduced the Micro Financial Sector Development and Regulation Bill 2007 in the Lok Sabha – the lower house in the parliament of India. If passed, this bill may change the way in which microfinance is practiced in this country – and possibly in a way that will not be beneficial to the microfinance sector. This note is an attempt to provide an overview of the bill and point out potential perplexities that would
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This paper discusses the potential of providing housing finance to the poor through microfinance institutions (MFIs) and issues that are likely to arise in doing so. Using a demand assessment conducted at Ankuram Sangamam Porum (ASP) in Andhra Pradesh, the paper demonstrates how an MFI can develop a housing microfinance product based on their clients’ socio-economic status and demand for the product.
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The expansion of DNA databases in the United States, Europe and a few other countries to include not just convicted felons but arrestees, who might be innocent, raises a number of civil rights concerns. Sujatha Byravan explores how the use of DNA typing in forensics and immigration, given the current climate of fear, in the quest for a safer world, could legitimize discrimination and give rise to a new apartheid.
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This case study aims to identify innovative practices among MFIs operating in the urban space, particularly strategies for broad basing their clients, financial services offered, and community involvement. With the above goals in mind, this study details the strategies Satin Creditcare uses to overcome operational challenges in the urban space.
IFMR LEAD | January 7, 2006
This study combines several independent CMF studies with six prominent microfinance institutions that operate in urban areas. These case studies identify innovative practices among these institutions, including strategies used for broad basing their clients, examining the array of financial services offered to the urban poor, and discussing the challenges and opportunities that remain in urban microfinance. Six institutions are analyzed in this study, specifically: Ujjivan, SEWA Bank, Working Women’s Forum (WWF), Indian Bank’s Microsate Branch, Village Welfare Society (VWS), and
Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir Chella Rajan, Rajesh Rangarajan | March 22, 2005
This report concentrates on the impacts of sea level rise on coastal infrastructure, ecosystem and land in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It aims to highlight the financial implications of sea level rise on existing and proposed infrastructure along the Tamil Nadu coast and to provide thereby an “early warning” of the implications of indiscriminate development close to the shoreline. | <urn:uuid:338fbb49-c86e-4960-971f-69f2f6c34e59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ifmrlead.org/category/publications/page/24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.916103 | 1,025 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Working memory in rats involves neural projections from the hippocampus (HP) to the prefrontal cortex (PFC), based on delayed task experiments in a radial-arm maze, in which the time span of working memory is longer than seconds. To determine whether the HP–PFC pathway is involved in short-term (on the order of seconds) working memory function, we lesioned the PFC and/or HP, and measured performance in an operant delayed alternation task. The posterior dorsal (pdHP) and ventral HP (vHP) were assessed separately. The bilateral PFC and bilateral pdHP ibotenate lesions produced significant working memory deficits, but the vHP lesion did not. Unilateral pdHP lesions combined with a PFC lesion in the opposite hemisphere reproduced the effects of bilaterally symmetrical lesions. By contrast, unilateral lesions of the pdHP combined with a PFC lesion in the same hemisphere had no effect on delayed alternation. These results indicate that the pdHP–PFC pathway is essential for working memory on the order of seconds in rats, and suggest that the pdHP and vHP pathways to the PFC play different behavioral roles. | <urn:uuid:76e58c18-6b5a-4f5a-89d9-45c1bd24b561> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06284.x/full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930897 | 244 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The CompTIA Network+ Deluxe Study Guide is your CompTIA Authorized resource for preparing for the Network+ exam N10-006. Bestselling author and networking Guru Todd Lammle guides you through 100% of all exam objectives.. Coverage includes network technologies, installation and configuration, media and topologies, security, and much more, plus practical examples drawn from real-world situations. This Deluxe edition is packed with bonus study aids, including an online interactive learning environment with practice exams, flashcards, and e-book files in multiple formats. Practice without buying expensive equipment, and review exam material on the go.
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As you prepare to adopt a child internationally you will soon need to prepare your dossier paperwork. Below is a guide to help make the process easier. Your dossier is a representation of you as adoptive parents to a foreign country, getting it right is important.
Where should I start?
- Contact your Primary Provider to ask for instructions on preparing your dossier.
- Carefully review how each document should be prepared, there are different requirements and paying careful attention to detail will help save time and money.
- Make a checklist to keep track of what is done and what needs to be completed.
- Read all instructions carefully and ask questions to prevent mistakes.
- Keep things organized in folders and binders to prevent lost paperwork.
- There are many different people (doctors, law officials, employers, accountants, banks) you will have to contact for your dossier paperwork, be sure they clearly understand what is required.
What does that mean?
- Notarization – Having a document notarized by a notary who is witnessing your signature and acknowledging you are who you say you are.
- Certification – Having the notary’s signature authenticated at the county level to show that they are authorized in the county to notarize documents.
- State Authentication (Apostille or Great Seal) – Having a document that has been notarized and certified, authenticated at the state level where they will acknowledge the authority of the county to certify a notarization.
- Country Consulate Seal - The consulate of the country from which you are adopting authenticates the United States seal or the state seals. Your Primary Provider will provide you with detailed instructions regarding obtaining the needed seals. The costs of the foreign country seals vary; your Primary Provider will provide you with the authentication fee. To expedite the authentication process, you may be able to hire a courier service to hand carry the documents to the Consulate to be authenticated.
**Check each document to be sure that all items are worded and spelled correctly, all names, addresses, dates of birth and passport numbers are correct. This is an important step and being careful here can save you a lot of time and effort. Each step in this process can cost you a fee and having to re-do paperwork can be expensive.
What is the next step?
- Make a copy of your documents each step along the way. If they are leaving your hands they may get lost and keeping a copy can be a lifesaver.
- You have all your paperwork prepared and checked. If you are sending it off to be authenticated be sure to mail it using a shipping service that you can track. Losing the documents at this point will cost you precious time and money.
- Once all of your documents have been authenticated you will need to send them to your Primary Provider for them to check the documents and approve your dossier. They will let you know if a document needs to be redone and why. Again, track that package!
- Your dossier will be submitted to the officials of the country from which you are adopting for approval of the dossier.
- Wait - Waiting to hear if your dossier has been approved can be hard, focusing on the outcome makes it easier. You are now one step closer to adopting your child internationally.
- Stay With It - One of the most important things you can do to make this adoption process go smoothly is to stay engaged with your Primary Provider and home study agency. Check in regularly to make sure you are on time with paperwork and documents.
- Get Ready - Prepare for the arrival of your child, with the completion of your dossier you are one step closer.
Make it fun, keep the goal in mind. Reward yourself when you reach certain goals along the way. This will take the anxiety out of your adoption dossier preparation.
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Adjective by David Katz One of the most effective rhetorical devices Donald Trump has used in primaries and in combating Hillary Clinton is to preface every mention of an adversary’s name with an unflattering adjective: Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, Little Mario, etc.). It’s a good technique, and Democrats should adopt it. What adjective to place before Donald would be most appropriate, and most effective?
I suggest “poor Donald”. It’s easy to say, easy to remember, and has implications on two levels. I think it will drive Trump nuts.
One of the implications is that Donald is to be pitied. Only losers are to be pitied (if not scorned) in Trump’s world view. The assertion that he is a loser is something, I suspect, that he has been battling his entire life.
The other implication is that he is not as rich as he claims to be. There is some evidence for this: his reluctance to release his tax returns; his many bankruptcies; and most tellingly, his meager funding of his own campaign after boasting that he has no need to be obligated to wealthy donors, since he is rich enough to fund himself.
Having alienated more and more segments of the electorate, poor Donald is having a harder and harder time connecting with enough voters to maintain the pretense of a viable candidacy. Poor Donald will soon become even poorer if the RNC decides to withdraw funding from his presidential race in order to stave off disaster at the House and Senate levels.
Poor Donald may be on track to becoming a loser on the scale of McGovern and Goldwater. He is unlikely to carry even his home state. His campaign manager has a track record of advising oligarchic losers, like Yanukovych in the Ukraine. Poor Donald can’t even pick winners as his advisors.
Thanks, Donald by Gerry Krownstein As scary as the thought of a Trump presidency may be, he nonetheless deserves a vote of thanks for two services rendered to the American public.
First, after decades of disguised appeals to the electorate to disregard its own economic welfare by the use of racist and xenophobic euphemisms, Trump has torn the mask off the Republican Party by saying out loud what the party’s leaders have long said covertly: fear anyone who is different and regard them as not really Americans. His promise top make America great again is really a promise to restore white privilege, and he has not been shy about making that explicit.
Second, he has shown that the Republican base does not really believe in core Republican policies, especially those of trickle down economics, unrestricted free trade, and small government (“keep your government hands off my medicare and social security”, as one of his followers said). The racist and xenophobic appeals are no longer covering the fact that core Republican economic and governmental philosophies are not attractive to the Trumpian base. The genie of rebellion is loose in the Republican Party. Even if Trump has a disasterous showing in the 2016 election, and even if the party elite manages to reach out to Hispanics, women and non-Christians to try to rebuild popular support, the myth of the viability of those long-standing tenets of Republicanism (and “conservatism”) has been punctured, perhaps permanently.
It is unlikely that the wealthy, the corporate interests, and the think-tank elites will admit that they have been so wrong for so long. Trump has shown, however, that this is the case. The party can continue to live in its alternate reality, or can choose to change dramatically to align itself more closely with reality. The latter position is unlikely to prevail.
All of which raises the question, “is there such a thing as Conservatism”, and if so, how is it defined? Certainly not as the Republican party has been defining it for the past four decades.
Again, thank you Mr. Trump
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All Trump issue. Donald Trump has been monopolizing the news since the presidential primaries started. This issue of New York Stringer Magazine contains five short articles exploring several different aspects of the Trump phenomenon (and Trump psyche). These articles are: Adjective; Thanks, Donald; New York Values; Not a Liar; and Alibis. | <urn:uuid:805a1514-ecab-4cfb-9b43-499c432a5caa> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nystringer.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00549-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969445 | 894 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Defence Savings Certificates, Special Savings Certificates (Regd), Savings
Account and Special Savings Account. In case of Defence Savings Certificates,
the Zakat is collected @ 2.50% on the accumulated value of the certificate(s)
(i.e. principal + profit) as on the Zakat valuation date preceding the date of
encashment. Whereas, in case of Special Savings Certificates (Regd), Savings
Account and Special Savings Account the Zakat is collected @ 2.50% of the
principal of that particular maturity.
Q.17 Is there any time constraint for submitting
a Zakat Declaration seeking exemption from collection of Zakat?
Ans: Yes, there is definitely a time limit. The
said declaration can easily be submitted at the time of investment or after
that, but it should be furnished before 1st Shabban so as to make it
effective for the coming Ramadan. Any declaration submitted after the 1st
Shabban will be applicable for the next year and not for the current Islamic
Q.18 I am a non-resident Pakistani and want to
make some investment in National Savings Schemes (NSS), whether, the said
investment will be exempt from Zakat or not?
Ans: Any assets acquired against payment in
foreign currency or maintained in foreign currency are to be treated as exempt
from compulsory collection of Zakat. An account, which is opened with foreign
currency and out of which an account can be withdrawn in foreign currency or
local currency does not change the nature of the account.
there any Zakat collection in case of reinvestment of existing Certificates?
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Obama: U.S. owes police a debt
Obama praised the recipients of 2014 National Association of Police Organizations TOP COPS
WASHINGTON — The United States owes a debt to the police officers who put themselves in danger to protect the nation, President Barack Obama said Monday as he honored the nation's top police officers at the White House.
In a ceremony in the East Room, Obama praised the recipients of 2014 National Association of Police Organizations TOP COPS. Obama said when the moment came, the officers didn't hesitate to take action, but instead ran toward danger.
"The 53 officers, detectives, patrolmen, special agents, and troopers that we celebrate today are America's finest, the best of the best," Obama said.
Some of the officers honored helped respond to the Boston Marathon bombing or the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. Obama said some sustained injuries or lost friends and partners in the call of duty. All of the officers honored this year were men.
Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and other top officials joined Obama for the ceremony. Biden said the families of the officers also make sacrifices for the nations' security, but they often go without recognition.
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Washington (CNN) - On Tuesday night Republican Rep. Paul Ryan took issue with President Barack Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage arguing it will hurt, not help, the working poor.
"The goal ought to be to get people out of entry level jobs and into better jobs, better paying jobs. That's better education, that's a growing economy," the chair of the House Budget Committee said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, "I don't think raising the minimum wage, and history's very clear about this, doesn't actually accomplish those goals."
Ryan, last year's GOP vice presidential nominee, can face off on that question with a well informed opponent inside the White House. Alan Krueger, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors and the president's top economist, is something of an expert on the matter. He became nationally known in 1992 for his work on this topic.
In a paper written with David Card, he studied fast food restaurants in which the minimum wage went up and found the higher wage did not lead to job losses. In some cases, he found, it actually increased employment because the higher wage reduced turnover. Obama administration officials argue that can have a ripple effect on the economy because better paid employees spend more money in their community.
Other economists have taken issue with Krueger's findings and renewed their objections after the president's speech. In a blog post former top Bush White House economist, Keith Hennesey wrote "proponents of raising the minimum wage argue that it wouldn't reduce the number of available jobs that much....or they argue that when the minimum wage has been increased in the past they couldn't find evidence that employment declined".
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He dismissed both as "absurd" arguments and called on Congress to reject what he deems a job-hurting proposal saying, "Congress can't outlaw economics any more than they can outlaw gravity."
No doubt Krueger and the president will have more to say on the matter as well. In his State of the Union address the president proposed gradually raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 by the year 2015, and indexing the future figure to the cost of living index. The president first backed an increased in the minimum wage in his 2008 run for the White House. According to the National Women's Law Center two thirds of the people on the minimum wage are women. | <urn:uuid:55db3b79-2a77-4117-83c9-40f0b89c1516> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/13/the-fight-over-1-75/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973854 | 504 | 2 | 2 |
Lab-grown meat to offer sustainable protein option
The February 2015 FutureFood 2050 series explores alternatives to standard meat proteins, such as lab-grown meat and protein from bugs, which may play an important role in global efforts to sustainably feed a growing population. FutureFood 2050 is an initiative supported by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) that addresses how to feed the world’s expected population of 9+ billion by 2050.
One of this month’s articles highlights the work of Mark Post, physiologist professor at the Netherlands’ Maastricht University, who sees lab-grown products as the ultimate solution to feeding the world’s appetite for healthier, sustainable “real” meat. In the summer of 2013, Post served the first-ever in vitro burger during a media event. While the cultured beef patty was pronounced as a tad dry but not bad, its cost—at more than $330,000—made it evident that this was just a first step towards providing an affordable, sustainable meat option.
It took Post and his co-workers three months to grow the 85 grams of meat required for the patty. First, through biopsy, they obtained myosatellite cells—a type of stem cells responsible for muscle regeneration after injury—from a piece of Belgian beef. Then the cells were placed in a nutrient medium in petri dishes. For seven to eight weeks, the cells proliferated, growing and self-organizing into donut-shaped muscle fibers, each barely 1 mm in diameter. Next, the muscles matured and started producing abundant protein. Three weeks later they were ready for harvest.
Before cultured meat can become easily accessible, however, Post says several challenges will need to be overcome. For starters, he has to find a much cheaper growth medium, one that wouldn’t be made of fetal bovine serum (from unborn cows). He is also working on the fat tissue and the protein composition of cultured meat—myoglobin in particular, which is important for the iron content and the red color of beef. And last but not least, Post is trying to scale up production by developing special tanks for growing the cells.
Even with the challenges, Post believes that by 2050 cultured meat production will have already cut in half the amount of resources needed for producing beef. “It’s ambitious, but achievable,” he says. “After all, it [only] took us about three years to get the technology from zero to something that you can eat.” IFT Weekly Newsletter. 18 Feb. 2015.
Scientists and consumers differ on their views of science in food
A new Pew Research Center survey of citizens and a representative sample of scientists connected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) reveals crosscurrents that both recognize the achievements of scientists and expose stark fissures between scientists and citizens. There are large differences in their views across a host of issues.
One key example is the topic of genetically modified (GM) foods. A majority of the general public (57%) says that GM foods are generally unsafe to eat, while 37% says such foods are safe; by contrast, 88% of AAAS scientists say GM foods are generally safe. The gap between citizens and scientists in seeing GM foods as safe is 51 percentage points. This is the largest opinion difference between the public and scientists. In addition, there is a 40-percentage point gap on the question of whether it is safe to eat foods grown with pesticides—68% of scientists say that it is, compared with 28% of citizens.
IFT Weekly Newsletter: February 4, 2015
EFSA finds no consumer health risk from BPA exposure
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released its re-evaluation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and toxicity and has concluded that BPA poses no health risk to consumers of any age group at current exposure levels. Exposure from the diet or from a combination of sources (diet, dust, cosmetics, and thermal paper) is considerably under the safe level (the “tolerable daily intake” or TDI).
Although new data and refined methodologies have led EFSA’s experts to considerably reduce the safe level of BPA from 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day (µg/kg of bw/day) to 4 µg/kg of bw/day, the highest estimates for dietary exposure and for exposure from a combination of sources (called “aggregated exposure” in EFSA’s opinion) are three to five times lower than the new TDI.
Uncertainties surrounding potential health effects of BPA on the mammary gland, reproductive, metabolic, neurobehavioral and immune systems have been quantified and factored in to the calculation of the TDI. In addition, the TDI is temporary pending the outcome of a long-term study in rats, which will help to reduce these uncertainties.
IFT Weekly Newsletter: February 4, 2015
Mycotoxins: A Food Safety Crisis
While about a billion people in this world are starving, unimaginable amounts of food are unsuitable for consumption because of moulds that produce toxins, such as aflatoxin. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that about a quarter of the world’s agricultural produce is contaminated with mycotoxins, and, in the last 10 years, mycotoxins have accounted for 30–60% of food and feed rejections at European Union borders.
There are ways to reduce the growth of moulds in staple foods, particularly during storage, but also in the field, such as using curved mirrors to direct sunlight to too-moist areas. In India and other countries where the food is grown on small patches of land, solar energy is used on a small scale to reduce losses. Although not perfect, largely because of extraordinary rainfall or monsoons during harvest, these approaches help reduce mould growth, and some companies are developing tailor-made installations for this purpose. Food that is not needed by the grower can be sold to companies that use solar technology for drying. In parallel, however, this problem has also stimulated use (not genetically modified) of varieties that are more resistant to mould and, thus, less risk of mycotoxin contamination. FSM EDIGEST Feb. 3. 2015.
Report Identifies Research Priorities to Sustainably Meet Expected Increase in Global Demand for Animal Protein
WASHINGTON -- Meeting the expected growth in global demand for animal protein in a way that is economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable will require a greater investment in animal science research, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report identifies research priorities and recommends that governments and the private sector increase their support for this research.
Dramatic increases in global demand for food from animal agriculture -- meat, fish, eggs, and dairy – are projected to occur by 2050, due to a predicted increase in world population to between 9 billion and 10 billion and to an expected growth in demand for animal protein as developing countries urbanize and see increases in individual incomes. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that by 2050 there will be a 73 percent increase in meat and egg consumption and a 58 percent increase in dairy consumption over 2011 levels. While models indicate that North America and Europe will see little growth in per capita animal protein consumption, per capita consumption in Asia and Africa will more than double, and it will rise significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean. News from the National Acadamies 7 January 2015.
Indigenous Crops – A market ripe for the picking
Maize, wheat, rice potatoes. The globalisation of the agri-food sector has made us dangerously over-reliant on a handful of food resources. Growing and preserving our knowledge of traditional South African crops is an important step towards preserving food crop biodiversity while enhancing food security and reducing malnutrition. In partnership with institutions such as the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), the Water Research Comission (WRC) has led the way in terms of enhancing knowledge about the agricultural production of indigenous crops. Several studies have been published in the last few years focusing specifically on the water use and nutritional value of indigenous crops, while the Commission also published the country’s first production guide for African leafy vegetables. The Water Wheel. 13. 5. Pg 44. 2014.
Nutrition and Safety - Key to Consumer Acceptance of GM Foods
A new research study conducted by North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the University of Minnesota (UM) shows that a majority of consumers will accept nanotechnology and/or genetic modification (GM) in foods if the technology enhances the nutrition and/or improves its safety.
The research was conducted in a nationally representative survey of 1,117 U.S. consumers. Participants answered questions that explored their willingness to purchase foods that contained GM and foods that contained nanotech. The questions also explored the price of the various foods and whether participants would buy foods that contained nanotech or GM tech if the foods had enhanced nutrition, improved taste, improved food safety, or if the production of the food had environmental benefits.
The researchers found that the participants could be broken into four groups:
- 18% belonged to a group labeled the "new technology rejecters," which would not buy GM or nanotech foods under any circumstances.
- 19% of participants belonged to a group labeled the "technology averse," which would buy GM or nanotech foods only if those products conveyed food safety benefits.
- 23% of participants were "price oriented," basing their shopping decisions primarily on the cost of the food – regardless of the presence of GM or nanotech.
- 40% of participants were "benefit oriented," meaning they would buy GM or nanotech foods if the foods had enhanced nutrition or food safety.
For more information, read the NCSU news release at: http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/12/kuzma-tech-food-2014/.
Crop Biotech Update 3 Dec. 2014
Body weight heavily influenced by gut microbes: Genes shape body weight by affecting gut microbes
Our genetic makeup influences whether we are fat or thin by shaping which types of microbes thrive in our body, according to a study by researchers at King's College London and Cornell University.
By studying pairs of twins at King's Department of Twin Research, researchers identified a specific, little known bacterial family that is highly heritable and more common in individuals with low body weight. This microbe also protected against weight gain when transplanted into mice.
The type of bacteria whose abundance was most heavily influenced by host genetics was a recently identified family called 'Christensenellaceae'. Members of this health-promoting bacterial family were more abundant in individuals with a low body weight than in obese individuals. Moreover, mice that were treated with this microbe gained less weight than untreated mice, suggesting that increasing the amounts of this microbe may help to prevent or reduce obesity.
Professor Tim Spector, Head of the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London, said: 'Our findings show that specific groups of microbes living in our gut could be protective against obesity -- and that their abundance is influenced by our genes. The human microbiome represents an exciting new target for dietary changes and treatments aimed at combating obesity.
Ruth Ley, Associate Professor at Cornell University in the United States, said: 'Up until now, variation in the abundances of gut microbes has been explained by diet, the environment, lifestyle, and health. This is the first study to firmly establish that certain types of gut microbes are heritable -- that their variation across a population is in part due to host genotype variation, not just environmental influences. These results will also help us find new predictors of disease and aid prevention.' Science Daily 6 Nov. 2014.
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Have we understood what living is, for us to discuss death? After all, we spend most of our life trying to avoid death as much as we can. We may or may not be completely aware of it but all our activities, the ‘circus’ and the drama of life — this whole, gigantic ‘thing’ we call society which we’ve built to sustain, and distract ourselves — all of it simply serves this very purpose of avoiding death, or at least escaping it as much as we can.
What is it that we fear so strongly about death? Are we even aware of this fear? Physical death is obviously a fact, we cannot deny it but — didn’t we give it much more credit than it actually deserves?
The interesting part of this ‘puzzle’ we’re trying to solve here is that its solution might be right under our nose, but to see it clearly for ourselves — we must first question some things we’ve taken for granted for millions of years.
Most of us live from a very superficial place; we’re caught by everything we experience in our daily lives, we always have something to do, someone always needs us, we wired ourselves to remain busy — in fewer words, we’ve equated ‘being’ to ‘doing’. And this is where our quest begins.
It’s true that our current society demands a lot from each one of us, we have responsibilities, we have people to take care of, we have to follow our dreams, we have to try something, live some experiences, because maybe some day we’ll regret not doing any of it. Those are all reasonable and practical things. There is no need to deny these facts. But what we’re trying to point out here is that, we’ve come to associate practicality with ‘survival’— we’ve come to ‘inject’ our sense of self in all these little things and that is why they seem so ‘vital’ to our lives when in fact, they might not be. How did we bridge the gap between practicality and survival? Through urgency.
Urgency, in simple words is a sense of having to do something no matter what. There is urgency whenever our survival is involved. Some examples. There is urgency when we’re told by the doctor that if we don’t stop a ‘bad’ habits, we may die. There is urgency when we realize that we may lose a loved one for whatever reason. There is urgency when we realize that our behavior may destroy this planet. And so on.
Urgency is a survival mechanism; it’s a black and white, life or death situation. In fewer words, urgency is what keeps us alive as long as it functions optimally, in its right place, which is assisting the body in its survival dynamics.
Unfortunately, our sense of urgency got ‘misplaced’ from serving the body in its physical necessities to serving the mind in its phobias. If we used urgency to run away from a lion in the past, we now use it because we fear our boss. If urgency served us well in surviving against actual dangers, it now serves our mind’s hypotheses/speculations such as ‘what might happen’ if I’m forced to get a covid vaccine, or ‘what if’ the world ends tomorrow, or ‘what if’ we get fired and can’t get a job because of the world’s current situation, or ‘what if’ our loved one cheats on us. And so on.
Urgency, which once served the body for its survival mechanisms now serves the mind. And this fight between the “mind’s theories” and “what actually is”, creates a confusion between ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’, which we all experience from time to time in our daily lives.
An analogy would be. If reality is what’s in front of us, the mind is the pair of glasses through which we see it, and we are our eyes — caught in the belief that all there is to life is our glasses with the shaded imagery we get to see from it.
1.Eyes, 2. Glasses, 3. Reality.
1.Us, 2. Mind, 3. Reality.
(This example is a bit silly, but it should do the job.)
Believing therefore that everything in our mind is so crucially important — thanks to a misplaced sense of urgency — we confine ourselves to a very little space, unable to see the bigger picture. This process ‘locks’ our ‘movements’ in a very limited and defined circuit, which ‘blocks’ us from truly exploring ourselves and therefore growing and learning.
And this lack of self awareness turns us into strangers to ourselves. We don’t know what drives us, we don’t know why we react in certain ways, we don’t know why we fear some things while craving others, and more than everything — we don’t know what the hell we’re doing here and what is it that we’re running after (or escaping from) all the time.
We just assume it’s all based on our ‘genes’ or on some divine caprice. We never have ‘enough’ time to get to the root of the problem. We don’t have the energy to do so anyway because we’re so dissipated by the excessive demands of society. We become like a pendulum, trapped in its own momentum. So we give our power to others by being dependent on therapists, on fortune tellers, on ‘experts’ or ‘authorities’, on religions, on the government and so on — which are always more than happy to take it from us because they too, don’t know why they’re in this ‘race’ in the first place.
Because of what we have chosen to believe in, as being of utmost importance in our lives, mainly this little superficial world of ours, we have closed our eyes to everything else. We’ve attached ourselves so strongly and blatantly to this little, superficial creation of ours that we’ve clearly expressed how deeply insecure we are.
What could make us hold on to something so strongly that we could kill for it? What else, if not something that’s worth our lives to us? And what could be worth our lives — if not something we deeply depend on, something on which our survival depends on?
Let’s go deeper.
What is it that wants to survive in us? Against what exactly, do we want to survive? What is it that we resist to so strongly that we become blind to it? And isn’t this act of blinding ourselves, of forcefully closing our eyes — denial? What is it that we deny so strongly? And even better, why do we deny at all in the first place? Have we chosen our fearful and preconceived over something that looked much more bigger? Was it because we couldn’t accept being worthy of it?
In the face of our immensity, we chose to remain in our comfort zone, to attach ourselves to something infinitesimal. We chose safety over growth. We preferred the lies over the truth. We gave more and more credit to this illusion and built ourselves on it — and in this act of denial, the ‘original sin’— hell was created. Our fears and insecurities about losing our little world of lies were born, our greed, our lust, our cravings, our desires to strengthen and expand it all took form.
Have we therefore closed our eyes to something much more significant, much more fulfilling, much more vaster than our illusion could ever be? And are we just too scared to open our eyes, by letting go of this little world of ours — even for an instant, to see what we’ve been so terrified of for what it is truly?
Is this act of opening our eyes, the end of our denial? And is this ending of our denial, acceptance? And lastly, is acceptance — death?
Deep within each one of us exists the craving for life, freshness, vitality. We express it nonchalantly in the ways through which we seek the ‘new’ by traveling, meeting people, climbing mountains, surmounting unimaginable obstacles, expressing ourselves artistically, being amazed at the beauty of Nature, loving someone, growing up, and so on.
This life is everyone’s right. And although the external world can give some beautiful experiences that revitalize us — only in pure and absolute acceptance can we learn to die for the new to emerge, once again.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes (original title)
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne.
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Almost–fourth-grader Cricket and her friends have a second adventure learning about, and helping, wildlife in Waterton (Ospreys in Danger, 2014).
From the start, readers are immersed in Cricket’s life as the daughter of a Canadian wildlife ranger: Dad lets Cricket ride with him to the scene of a “bear jam,” a traffic snarl caused by tourists gaping at a bear. It is close to the migration time of two-toed salamanders, and Cricket learns from a scientist that the creature’s population has been shrinking. Can Cricket and her friends help? The text’s simplicity is on target for beginning readers. Throughout the 10 short chapters—each headed by a sketch of an endearing-looking salamander—didactic conversations and experiences provide facts about bears, cats, deer, orcas, and especially Alberta’s two salamander species. The information is sound, but contrasting attempts at realistic conversation and especially at humor feel forced. The black-and-white pencil art is detailed and attractive, but it confirms the characters’ lack of diversity—faces are white, even in crowd scenes. The fact that the scientist studying the two-toed salamanders is a woman is almost a blow to feminism, since it is Cricket’s brother who figures out an invention to help the struggling creatures and then Cricket and her friends who manage to raise funds for the endeavor. Still, simple, accurate descriptions of specific research methods and of salamander features shine.
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Researchers have begun enrolling participants in a multicenter international clinical trial to test whether statin administration can reduce the risk for major adverse cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, strokes, and heart disease, in people with HIV infection. The trial is supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Known as the Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV, or REPRIEVE, the randomized clinical trial is the largest to date focused on HIV-related cardiovascular disease. Researchers hypothesize that statins should reduce plaque development and improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with HIV. The ultimate objective of the trial is to inform the best clinical approach to preventing cardiovascular disease in people infected with HIV.
Research suggests that people with HIV are up to twice as likely as people without HIV infection to have heart attacks and other forms of cardiovascular disease, even after controlling for traditional risk factors such as elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, and smoking. However, there are no evidence-based therapies to lower the increased cardiovascular disease risk in people who have HIV. Statins are a class of drugs that have been previously demonstrated to be safe and effective in lowering cholesterol levels as well as the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in non-HIV populations. Study investigators plan to examine gender differences, among other factors, in the effects of statins once the data have been collected.
Because HIV-infected men and women are now living much longer lives due to successful antiretroviral therapy, it is increasingly important to help them prevent cardiovascular disease to improve both their quality of life and their longevity. Thirty years ago, a 20-year-old diagnosed with HIV had only months to live, but today, a newly diagnosed 20-year-old who promptly starts antiretroviral therapy can expect to live another 50 years.
“I am delighted that NHLBI and NIAID have joined forces to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration between cardiovascular and HIV researchers so that we can improve the lives of millions of people world-wide living with HIV and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease,” said NHLBI Director Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
A number of factors combine to put people with HIV at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. First, HIV causes inflammation that results in activated immune cells, both of which contribute to plaque buildup in the arteries (also known as atherosclerosis). This in turn leads to cardiovascular disease. Second, a well-documented consequence of antiretroviral therapy is higher cholesterol levels, which may contribute to cardiovascular disease risk. And third, the rates of some conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as smoking, are also higher in the HIV-infected population.
“Research suggests that cholesterol-lowering statins may inhibit immune cell activation and inflammation and shrink arterial plaque,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “Therefore, these medications provide an intriguing possibility for improving cardiovascular outcomes in people with HIV.”
Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Steven Grinspoon, M.D. and Udo Hoffmann, M.D., M.P.H.), Harvard School of Public Health (Heather Ribaudo, M.D.) and Duke University (Pamela Douglas, M.D.) will conduct the trial in collaboration with the NIH-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). Roughly 100 sites in Canada, Puerto Rico, Thailand and the United States will participate. Investigators plan to randomize 6,500 HIV-infected participants, between the ages of 40 to 75 years, who would not meet current national guidelines for statin therapy to either a daily dose of pitavastatin, which is a statin, or a placebo while continuing with antiretroviral therapy. Pitavastatin was selected for this trial because, unlike most other statins, only minimal interactions occur between pitavastatin and drugs for treating HIV.
Investigators will follow the participants for up to six years, assessing them for the development of major adverse cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes. The researchers will also evaluate the safety of statin therapy as well as other known effects of statins on cholesterol levels, immunologic parameters, and serious non-cardiovascular disease events, such as new-onset diabetes. Additionally, investigators will conduct a sub-study involving 800 participants to examine the effects of pitavastatin on coronary artery disease and inflammatory biomarkers in HIV-infected individuals.
Although REPRIEVE is focused on people living with HIV, the study will provide general insights on the role of inflammation in the development of atherosclerosis and thus may provide knowledge that may benefit all patients with cardiovascular disease.
REPRIEVE is primarily funded by the NHLBI. The study will be conducted in partnership with NIAID, which supports the ACTG. Kowa Pharmaceuticals America Inc., is donating the study drug and placebo and providing a monetary donation for the study. Researchers will conduct the study at a number of domestic and international sites, including most ACTG sites in the United States.
The NHLBI is supporting this study through U01 grants HL123336, which supports the Clinical Coordinating Center, and HL123339, which funds the Data Coordinating Center. NIAID is supporting this study through grants UM1 AI068636, which supports the ACTG Leadership and Operations Center; UM1 AI068634, which supports the ACTG Statistical and Data Management Center; and UM1 AI106701 which supports the ACTG Laboratory Center.
For a list of the REPRIEVE trial sites and their contact information, please see http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/daids/research/Pages/reprieveTrial.aspx
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases, and sleep disorders. More information about NHLBI is available at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
NIAID conducts and supports research — at NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwide — to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID website at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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What On Earth
BeyondZero is a free open submission exhibition inspired by climate change, curated by Teresa Paiva (of Project Oroom & Artery Arts) and Sarah Wang (Creative Intelligence Agency)
All six of the What On Earth film series have been selected for screening. The six films, by Lucy Cash, Curious, Robin Deacon, Graeme Miller, Matthew Robins and Ackroyd & Harvey, will be screened together alongside other works by Amy Sharrocks, Leo Murray, BBKP, Fred L'Epee and more.
BeyondZero will also involve an exhibition of works by artists including Clinton de Menezes, Charli Clark and Eva Rudlinger and a sound installation by Shambolica.
What On Earth is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Date and time
11 March 2012
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Scientists at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have discovered a new variant of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, officials announced early Wednesday morning.
“The new variant carries a mutation identical to the U.K. strain, but it likely arose in a virus strain already present in the United States,” officials noted in a press release. “The researchers also report the evolution of another U.S. strain that acquired three other gene mutations not previously seen together in SARS-Cov-2.”
Health officials say the new variant was found in a patient from Ohio, but researchers do not yet know the prevalence of the strain within the population. In contrast, officials say, the evolving strain with the three new mutations has become the dominant virus in Columbus during a three-week period in late December 2020 and January.
“This new Columbus strain has the same genetic backbone as earlier cases we’ve studied, but these three mutations represent a significant evolution,” said study leader Dr. Dan Jones, vice chair of the division of molecular pathology. “We know this shift didn’t come from the U.K. or South African branches of the virus.”
Like the U.K. strain, mutations detected in both viruses affect the spikes that stud the surface of SARS-Cov-2. The spikes enable the virus to attach to and enter human cells. Also like the U.K. strain, officials say the mutations in the Columbus strain are likely to make the virus more infectious, making it easier for the virus to pass from person to person.
“The big question is whether these mutations will render vaccines and current therapeutic approaches less effective,” said Peter Mohler, a co-author of the study and chief scientific officer at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and vice dean for research at the College of Medicine. “At this point, we have no data to believe that these mutations will have any impact on the effectiveness of vaccines now in use.”
Mohler stressed it’s important not to overreact to the new variant until additional data is obtained.
“We need to understand the impact of mutations on transmission of the virus, the prevalence of the strain in the population and whether it has a more significant impact on human health. Further, it is critical that we continue to monitor the evolution of the virus so we can understand the impact of the mutant forms on the design of both diagnostics and therapeutics. It is critical that we make decisions based on the best science.”
The scientists said that discovery of the Columbus variant, COH.20G/501Y, suggests that the same mutation may be occurring independently in multiple parts of the world during the past few months.
“Viruses naturally mutate and evolve over time, but the changes seen in the last two months have been more prominent than in the first months of the pandemic,” Jones said. His team has been conducting Ohio State’s genetic sequencing on environmental and patient SARS-CoV2 samples, and he’ll continue to monitor for changes as vaccination occurs. | <urn:uuid:70c5e4bd-9604-4f16-9b32-90317cca35fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-19-variant-ohio/95-5880d9b5-7fa8-45f7-9952-1d7e38948869 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.943084 | 676 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Any question about influences on Hamlet probably have to start with Ur-Hamlet, a lost play which was written mere decades before William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and has a very similar plot. Other principal sources available to Shakespeare were Saxo Grammaticus’s Historiae Danicae (circa 1200), which features a popular legend with a plot similar to Hamlet, and François de Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques, which provides an expanded account of the story recorded in the Historiae Danicae.
I influenced Shakespeare to write the play
A lot of people say that it was the death of his son hamnet that lead to a tragedy mainly due to the similarity in names, but there is a gap of 4-5 years between the two events, so no definite basis. Tragedy was the most profitable form and he was good in it and of course the source material was available "the danish story of amneth".
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InventHelp Office Locations – https://shaneburkett.tumblr.com/post/183425093174/creating-and-patenting-an-invention. Not long ago, I talked to a brilliant young lady who gets a new invention that she’d like to market to the world. Of course, she already has a day job, but she would like to use this as her ticket out of the 9-to-5 world, and help launch her career as the successful venture, innovator, and entrepreneur. I so applaud such desire to realize your aspirations in the free-market. I believe that’s what makes America great, as there is opportunity for people who wants to go for it, consequently are willing to take worries. Now then let’s talk about this for second shall we?
Can someone actually bring a new invention to advertise if they still possess a day job? Yes, I believe they can, and there are numerous InventHelp Success Stories stories of those who have. No, it’s not going to be easy, but even a person’s only spend a several hours a night you can put together a pretty decent business plan, work your prototype, do the patent searches, and do market studies to learn if what you in order to produce, if your original thought and concept might actually make it in the real world. You may discover that is fantastic is your idea, but no one is really going to buy it, and you’re not getting rich selling it.
That’s okay, because this research you do in advance and the business planning that you work hard to learn, well, these are the initial stesp, regardless of what the invention is. Even in case of invention doesn’t makes sense, that doesn’t mean shielding your car idea won’t. What you need to do is keep you going, focused, and not let your grandiose ideas of optimism run away with it. You need to be systematic in your reach. Of course, this is my advice for the young gal who actually has a great invention, but I can’t tell you what it is, it is a secret for now.
There are a number of steps you need to get information through, those steps take time, and require patience, if you have per day job, then you all have the time in entire world don’t you? Thus, you should start right away, do your research, your business planning, and see if is actually very something people will actually purchase. If so, start designing your prototype, and view if people like it, if they do go file a provisional patent, patent pending, and a little bit of test sales on eBay, Craigslist, and/or Amazon.
Try some social networking with your friends and family to see if you’re able to get some buzz going, if things take off, then you can quit your job. If not, keep thinking, and working on your next project, because now you have more experience in product launching. Please consider human body . and think on who’s. | <urn:uuid:c30f1b3d-df19-4fb2-8e4e-282c77760a3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kinslow.distributorbajubola.com/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.953285 | 648 | 2.109375 | 2 |
First sentence: Wouldn't it be great if you could wear your favorite clothes ALL the time? But you need different clothes for different weather and for doing different things.
Premise/plot: A nonfiction book written for children to answer two questions: 1) What are your clothes made of? 2) Where did they come from? Readers learn about what jeans, sweaters, silk/satin dresses, soccer uniforms, fleece jackets, and rain boots. Several pages tell the story of each item. (Think "Bert's Blanket" but without the singing. Actually the comparison isn't exactly fair, the subject is treated seriously and factually.)
My thoughts: I enjoyed this one. I did. I found it interesting. I had no idea, for example, that fleece jackets are made from recycled plastic bottles. "It takes about 12 bottles to make your fleece jacket." The information is presented well: clearly, step by step. I definitely appreciated that. This one is easy to recommend.
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Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT)
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Program is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Technicians who pass the (ExCPT) Pharmacy Exam are granted the title of Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT). Our program was established by the Institute for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ICPT) which is now a part of NHA. All content previously found on NationalTechExam.org is now available right here on nhanow.com.
Individuals with Pharmacy Technician Certifications will typically perform work delegated by licensed pharmacists in accordance with state rules and regulations. As a CPhT, you may perform some or all of the following tasks:
- Receive written prescription
requests from patients, and prescriptions sent electronically from doctors’ offices
- In some states, you may process physicians’ orders by phone
- Read the prescription, retrieve, count, pour, weigh, measure, and may mix or compound medications
- Establish and maintain patient profiles
- Prepare insurance claim forms and manage inventory
Questions requiring clinical knowledge, such as prescription and health questions, are always referred to a licensed pharmacist.
Benefits to obtaining a Pharmacy Technician Certification may include: more job opportunities
Sign up for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam for $105 today!
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Fitch Ratings placed the United States’ ‘AAA’ credit rating on negative watch late Tuesday following intense back-and-forth negotiations among policymakers about how to raise the nation’s borrowing limit before Thursday’s deadline.
In a statement, the ratings company said the ratings of all outstanding U.S. debt securities are also on negative watch.
“Fitch expects to resolve the (ratings watch negative) by the end of the (first quarter of 2014) at the latest, although timing would necessarily reflect developments and events, including the duration of any agreement to raise the debt ceiling,” the ratings service said in its statement Tuesday.
Fitch said the decision to put the U.S. credit rating on negative watch was driven by a number of key factors including the inability of Congress to come to an agreement on how to deal with runaway spending and mounting debt in a “timely manner” before the U.S. Treasury Department exhausts its extraordinary measures by October 17.
“Although Fitch continues to believe that the debt ceiling will be raised soon, the political brinkmanship and reduced financing flexibility could increase the risk of a U.S. default,” Fitch said.
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The Treasury Department said in a statement the decision by Fitch, "reflects the urgency with which Congress should act to remove the threat of default hanging over the economy.”
The ratings service noted though Treasury could use its cash reserves to make payments after Thursday, but it would be “exposed to volatile revenue and expenditure flows.” Further, it said it’s unclear whether the department could even have the legal authority to prioritize debt payments and the risk of delayed payments would damage the U.S. economic reputation and creditworthiness.
Fitch said it still believes the U.S. to be “more dynamic and resilient to shocks than its high-grade rating peers,” and affirms the credit rate at a platinum ‘AAA.’ Further, it forecasts the economy will grow 1.6% this year and 2.6% in 2014.
“Nevertheless, public debt stabilization at such elevated levels still render the US economy and public finances vulnerable to adverse shocks and in the absence of additional spending reform and revenue measures, deficits and debt will begin to rise again at the end of the decade,” Fitch said in a statement. | <urn:uuid:ef7fa931-ebf0-4adb-9dcb-5596454d8b67> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2013/10/15/fitch-puts-us-aaa-credit-rating-on-watch-negative-1423618185.html?intcmp=related | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00478-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957703 | 499 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Linked Data is developing towards a large, global repository for structured, interlinked descriptions of real-world entities. An emerging problem in many Web applications making use of data like Linked Data is how a lengthy description can be tailored to the task of quickly identifying the underlying entity. As a solution to this novel problem of entity summarization, we propose RELIN, a variant of the random surfer model that leverages the relatedness and informativeness of description elements for ranking. We present an implementation of this conceptual model, which captures the semantics of description elements based on linguistic and information theory concepts. In experiments involving real-world data sets and users, our approach outperforms the baselines, producing summaries that better match handcrafted ones and further, shown to be useful in a concrete task.
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A Brief Guide to Good Posture in the Workplace
This entry was posted on November 30, 2014.
Posture – it’s one of those things that we’ve all heard about, but a surprising many know little of. However, for all that it can be difficult to define without heading to your nearest dictionary, it’s an incredibly important consideration in the workplace, particularly for office workers. Good posture helps prevent the development of serious musculoskeletal disorders, prevents muscle strain and more. What should you know about correct posture, though? Read on to learn more.
One of the most important elements of good posture is spine support. When sitting down, your natural inclination is probably to lean forward and rest your weight on the arms of the chair. That’s wrong, and it will lead to serious lower back pain, as well as strain on the muscles and tendons in the arms (especially if you do that while trying to type).
The right type of spinal support is important. The best option is to invest in a quality office chair with a good back (featuring plenty of lumbar support) that follows the natural curvature of the spine. Make sure your feet sit flat on the floor and don’t hang. You should also have maximum contact between your back and the back of the chair without it affecting your ability to type. If your chair has armrests, they should be positioned so that your arms are even with the top of the desk and there’s no shoulder strain present.
Even if your chair has a built-in headrest, chances are good it’s not going to be used unless you’re leaning back (you’re inactive). That means it’s important you practice good neck posture. Ideally, your neck will be in a neutral position (not forcing it forward, back or to the side). The computer monitor should be just below eye level, so you can look at it while maintaining the right position. Your monitor should also be at least 20 inches from your face (a maximum of about 36 inches).
Position everything in your work area so that you can reach it or see it without having to turn your head. This will help you keep your neck in the proper position and avoid straining muscles.
The Importance of a Quality Office Chair
Part of good posture is having the right support for your body throughout the day. In an office environment, that means having a quality office chair. While good chairs do come with a cost, they’re actually more affordable than what you might think, and they’re certainly cheaper than trying to deal with the consequences of carpal tunnel syndrome or chronic lower back pain. A good chair will help support you throughout the day, and should be a “no-brainer” for any office worker (or office manager buying furniture).
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Known best for her short writing and poems, Sylvia Plath quotes can touch and heal the deepest blues in your hearts. She grabs the most attention with her deep and touching works of writing. She has even received famous recognition as a poet and writer.
So if you are looking for some meaningful and touching quotes, you would probably love her writing. Take a look at our collection for the best Sylvia Plath quotes | Quotes by Sylvia Plath | Best Sylvia Plath quotes |
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1. The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.
2. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
3. Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming?
4. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
5. I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
6. I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
7. And there’s the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
8. I too want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
9. I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.
10. Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
11. You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
12. Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
13. The artist’s life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.
14. There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
15. The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.
16. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.
17. There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
18. And by the way, everything in life is writeable if you have the outgoing guts to do it. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
19. Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
20. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
21. I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.
22. Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
23. I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.
24. If they substituted “Lust” for “Love” in the popular songs it would come nearer to the truth.
25. Why are we conditioned to the smooth, strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world… only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
26. I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
27. Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
28. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
29. I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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MPLS/BGP Virtual Private Networks
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MPLS is a protocol designed to streamline the Internet and other large networks. Typically, MPLS only resides in Service Provider and carrier networks; it does not have much use within enterprise, academic, government or other private networks. MPLS provides tools to simplify, optimize and add services to the current Internet infrastructure. Each of these three benefits is briefly discussed below. This brief overview of MPLS provides a baseline from which VPNs can be effectively discussed. Note: The primary focus of this paper will be MPLS VPNs; this is not an MPLS tutorial.
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New evidence alleges that the Jared Fogle’s nonprofit organization was a sham.
Jared Fogle — the former Subway spokesperson who recently pled guilty to counts of child pornography — launched an Indiana-based nonprofit called The Jared Foundation in 2008, pledging to provide grants to schools and community organizations for initiatives meant to combat childhood obesity.
Reports show that The Jared Foundation did not ever issue a grant, according to USA Today. From 2009 to 2013, the organization spent $73,000 a year on average, 60 percent of which went to the executive director’s salary. Twenty-six percent is unaccounted for in the foundation’s tax records.
“If Jared was really interested in helping children through his foundation, he could have gotten more money,” Daniel Borochoff, president of CharityWatch, which analyzes and rates charities, told USA Today. “As with a lot of celebrities, the charity appears to be more about image-enhancement than charitable deeds.”
The Jared Foundation has also neglected to pay the $5 annual registration fee to the State of Indiana since 2008. The Indiana Secretary of State dissolved the foundation in 2012, though it is still recognized by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service).
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Durand Town Hall is located at N5986 Brunner Road, Durand, WI 54736; phone: 608-317-8695.
The Town of Durand was created at the same time Pepin County was established by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature in February, 1858. It was, however, known at that time as the Town of Bear Creek. The first meeting of the Town of Bear Creek occurred April 7, 1857.
In 1830, the white population in what would be Wisconsin was estimated at 3,000; mostly located around Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. In 1840, white population of Wisconsin Territory (which did include part of eastern Minnesota) was estimated at 13,600; while the Native American population was estimated at 27,000.
By 1836, logging and sawmill operations had begun to open along the Chippewa River Valley. The French Canadians were the first to arrive and came by the hundreds to work in the pinery. Many of them settled along the banks of the Chippewa and its tributaries, and today that French heritage is evident in names like, Supri, Hei, LaPean, Patnode, and Claire.
Within a few years, immigrants from Europe had begun to arrive to work in the pineries of the Chippewa Valley. They came up the Mississippi to Lake Pepin, where the men would travel by keel boat or along a rugged wild path that followed the Chippewa to the mills and logging operations up river.
In 1846, Perry Curtiss settled near Eau Galle and opened the first farm in the area. Over the next few years, Curtiss watched the flow of men traveling between Lake Pepin and Chippewa Falls increase and saw the need for a convenient stopping place somewhere between. It seemed to Curtiss the mouth of the Bear Creek was an ideal location and in 1855 he started a village there called Chippewa. The first school in Pepin County opened in 1857 in Chippewa and was taught by Emma Eide.
Alexander Babatz in 1850 was the first settler at the site of Durand and was soon followed by Charles Billings, Leon Kralewski and Henry Pattison...and of course, Miles Durand Prindle, who arrived in 1856. Prindle and Billings soon laid out a village, which would eventually become the City of Durand. Early immigrants to settle in and around Durand came from a variety of European countries as reflected in their names, Gerber, Nicolai, Burgess, Smith, Weatherbee and Lieffring. In 1857, Prindle, George Ellsworth and W. E. Hayes built a sawmill to supply the needs of the immediate area. The year before Prindle had built a keel boat to carry freight to and from Read's Landing, Durand and Eau Claire. Businesses and houses were built and Durand prospered.
Meanwhile, upriver Perry Curtiss and the settlers who built houses and businesses in Chippewa had been deceived by several low-water seasons and did not at first realize they had developed their village in the flood plain. As many as thirty buildings were located in Chippewa at one time, including a hotel, a post office, several stores, and numerous residences. Most were eventually abandoned. Some buildings, including the hotel, were moved to Durand. In 1858, according to a first hand account, the little flood-prone village of Chippewa still had the ferry and the post office, and "... you can't have another within three miles." Durand, with leadership of A.W. Grippen, appealed to and received approval of the federal government to move the post office to Durand with D. C. Topping to be the new Postmaster.
About 1859, V.W. Dorwin built the first grist mill on this side of the Chippewa four miles upstream from Durand along the Bear Creek. Dorwin and his descendents were among the Town of Durand's leading entrepreneurs during its first half of existence. He made additions and improvements to his mill, which operated well into the 20th century. He also owned and operated a cheese plant and a carding mill.
The Irish Potato Famine of 1846 caused many Irish citizens to immigrate to America. By the early 1850s, many of them had found their way to the Bear Creek Valley. As evidence of just how many Irish Catholics (with names like Harmon, McDonough, Powers, Gleason, Kelly, Kane, Callahan, Egan, Fitspatrick, Conley & Riley) had settled in this area, in 1865 the first Catholic Mission Church in the area was sited in the Bear Creek Valley and named St. Patrick's.
Most immigrants from Germany and Austria came to this area during the 1860s and 70s. Prior to that the only Austrian settler had been Lorenz Schlosser, and only a few Germans with names like Lieffring, Kralewski, and Nussberger. And, the Norwegians came soon after. Among these diverse nationalities, many who came here were Catholic. It apparently was not uncommon during those early years of the church that the gospel during Mass would be read in three different languages, French, German and English.
Durand was formally incorporated into a village by an act of the Legislature in 1871. The Town and Village may have been governed by a single body for some time after that...the Pepin County History has a notation that on April 28, 1887, the town and the village agreed to separate governments.
Construction of the Chippewa Valley and Superior Railroad began in 1882; one local contractor was Miles Prindle. That same year the CV&S was bought out by the Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul Railroad. Here's a note that appeared in one of the local newspapers of the time: "... the railroad workers at Bear Creek went on strike. They were paid $1.75 for a ten hour day and contractors cut them back to a nine hour day for $1.57." Despite the strike, the first train arrived in Durand in May of 1882. Trains served Durand for nearly a century, before being finally shut down in 1981. | <urn:uuid:c8988be1-c74b-4c29-9491-8824dba2e49b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livingplaces.com/WI/Pepin_County/Durand_Town.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985831 | 1,307 | 2.703125 | 3 |
It is the intent of this section to suggest how the field worker can integrate testing with the design process. Testing is; important because it permits comparison of the effects of various design features on technical objectives such as reduced fuel consumption or shortened cooking time. The results of testing indicate to what extent design modifications improve (or fail to improve), stove performance.
While providing quantitative data, testing also helps to:
- Develop an understanding of how stoves and fires work. This is
especially important to people for whom cooking with fire is not a lifelong
- Stimulate design ideas. Observations of the characteristics of air flow, heat loss, etc. in testing may suggest improvements in design.
Testing methods must take into account three factors that affect cookstove performance:
1. Behavior of the cook: The way the cooking fire is built and
tended strongly influences stove performance.
2. The variety of cooking tasks: Frying, boiling, and roasting involve different heat requirements. Meals may be cooked either simultaneously or in sequence.
3. Variations in fuel: Fuelwood may be of various species and moisture contents, shapes and sizes. Alternative fuels such as dung and agricultural wastes are sometimes used seasonally, with fluctuating availability.
Testing should represent local conditions. The simultaneous influence of these three variables can be studied in trials with users. These consist of cooking observations, to determine how people use stoves (remember that people don't actually "use stoves", they cook), and fuel use measurements, to compare fuel consumption of traditional cooking arrangements with that of improved stoves.
For specific technical analysis of stove performance tests of isolated variables are more easily controlled as they are conducted independently of the users. They are of two kinds: in standard meal tests, measured amounts of food are cooked while fuel consumption is measured; cooking simulation tests use simulated cooking conditions to study more precisely the effects that stove design and operation have on performance. Both of these tests are used in the development process to answer technical questions.
So appropriate testing starts with cooking observations as a basis of design and to establish performance standards for isolated variable tests. Isolated variable tests are then used for feedback on design performance. When improved stoves are sufficiently developed for trial introduction, performance of stoves in normal use is monitored to further refine designs, and so on, as illustrated in Figure 6-1.
Trials in users' kitchens
Consider how difficult you yourself might find it to precisely describe something as routine (but complicated) as daily cooking habits. You can talk to people, and ask a lot of questions, but it would be best to obtain this information by actually watching people cook at home. Try to do this in as many situations as possible, so as to fairly represent the local range of variation in family size, economic status, etc. You will need to find the answers to such questions as:
- What are typical meals? - type of food and quantity.
- How does the cook control the fire?
- techniques of heat regulation, cooking sequence .
- How long do various cooking processes take?
- How often is the stove use; in a day?
- Does this change seasonally?
- How much fuel is consumed during each stove use?
- What other uses do fires have?
- special foods, social uses, heating.
- What kinds of pots are used?
- size, shape, material.
- What kind of fuel is used? - size, shape, species of wood - green or dry wood?
Get specific information, useful for comparison with improved stoves. Measure pot sizes, weigh fuel, and record the time involved in various cooking processes.
These variables of operation affect not only how well a stove performs, but also how different stoves or traditional cooking fires compare in performance when used under differing cooking conditions. For example: The amount of fuel an enclosed stove saves as against an open fire depends on the size of fire that is customarily built. A large open fire under a single pot loses large amounts of heat by radiation and convection, particularly in windy conditions. A lesser proportion of heat is lost from a smaller fire carefully maintained under the cookpot; a smaller open fire is more efficient (Fig. 6-2)
On the other hand, in an enclosed stove, much of the heat that would be lost from a large open fire is retained; efficiency is greater with a large fire (fig. 6:3).
In an actual test comparing an open fire and a simple enclosed stove (the Louga stove), the proportion of heat transferred to the cookpot (efficiency) was measured for different fire sizes. As can be seen in the graph in figure 6-4, the Louga stove would be only a small improvement over an open fire where traditional cookfires are built conservatively, but a great improvement where fires are large. This test indicates that varying factors such as the customary fire size affect the relative advantage of a given stove. Thus observations of cooking behavior are necessary to later design representative tests.
Watching people cook may provide insights to how a stove might affect traditional cooking techniques. For example:
New stoves may radically change the customary methods of building fires. A "three rock" open fire is easily controlled by adding or removing firewood from three directions, and the progress of the fire is visible to the cook. The techniques for control of a fire in an enclosed stove are quite different. The fire is controlled through the use of dampers, and the fire can be seen and tended only through the entrance door.
By observing these differences from the cook's point of view, design can be modified to incorporate some of the advantages of the open fire, for instance, by adding a second firebox door to the enclosed stove, or making the fire visible by raising the stove.
An understanding of cooking behavior may also suggest how design might be modified to deliberately change traditional practices. For example, even if people traditionally build larger fires than seem necessary (perhaps simply for convenience), they may accept an introduced stove with a small firebox to limit the size of the fire.
Fuel use measurements
Fuel use measurements made on stoves in use by local people are an integral part of follow-up work; they are the real measure of success for improved stove designs.
Tests should be administered by workers who have a good rapport with the families chosen for the tests, and fluency in the local language. They should also understand the local culture - how people measure time, the size of standard wood measurements, times of year when other fuels are used, etc. Equivalent tests should be made both before and after the introduction of an improved stove, over a period of several weeks of normal use. Compare changes in fuel consumption for the same family, using the same kind of firewood.
Concurrently with fuel use measurements, observations of stoves in use might be made, to assess what changes may have occurred in daily cooking routines, and how on-going design might be made more responsive to local conditions.
Simple tests should be designed for users to monitor their own fuel savings. These might be based on how long it takes to use a given quantity of fuel, or how much fuel is consumed in a given time. These tests could then be facilitated by a local representative, so that users could trade experience in a formal way.
Tests of isolated variables
Cooking efficiency: Analyzing variables
Tests of isolated variables measure the specific effects on stove performance of any one variable of stove design or operating conditions. Because they eliminate the varying circumstances of weather, cooking habits, etc., isolated variable tests yield more precise quantitative information than field trials.
Efficiency is a term used to express the proportion of the heat potentially available in cooking fuel that is actually captured by the contents of a cooking vessel. Efficiency decreases with heat losses due to incomplete combustion, incomplete heat transfer to the pot, and heat losses from the cooking pots (see Chapter 5).
Isolated variable tests can be used to assess where heat loss can be minimized by watching the effect on efficiency when one variable at a time is changed.
A simple example: heat loss was measured for a cast iron pot containing 1 liter of water at 100 °C, both with and without a lid. The graph in Figure 6-7 illustrates quantitatively the extent of heat loss from the uncovered pot. Clearly, the use of a lid greatly improves efficiency. Further tests might look at pot design as a variable.
In a second experiment, a smaller covered pot (having less exposed surface area), also containing 1 lifer of water at 100 °C, lost heat much more slowly than the pot in the first experiment, as seen in Figure 6-8.
Fig. 6-7; Fig. 6-8
These tests could be used in demonstrations with local people to show the influence of pot design on efficiency and the importance of covering the cookpot.
To assure that differences in stove performance are a function of only the one variable in question, other variables should be standardized within each test. The following is a list of some variables that have major effects on stove performance. Also listed are some variations that might be studied in subsequent tests.
- start with typical local pots:
- different types locally used
- metal vs. terra cotta
- improved types
- lids vs. no lids
Fuel type - wood used in comparative tests should be of consistent species, size, and moisture content:
- green vs. seasoned wood
- various sizes
- other fuels used seasonally
Ambient conditions - constant air temperature and windless
- inside vs. outside
- simulated wind from an electric fan
Combustion air control - use the same chimney, same damper
- experiment with air flow pattern (e.g. secondary air inlet)
- dampers vs. no dampers
- change draft by using damper control or varying chimney size
Fuel feed rate
- should represent typical pattern:
- examine how changes in fuel feed rate affect heat transfer; how they affect heat distribution on multi-pot stoves
Cooking time - should represent typical pattern:
- study fuel feed rate vs. cooking time vs. fuel consumption
- vary the relative positions of pots on multi-pot stoves to find the best use of heat
Cooking sequence - start with local pattern:
- different designs
- compare to traditional cooking arrangements
- modify baffles
- vary internal geometry, e.g. firebox depth and shape
Stove - use one stove design in study of non-design
- test different typical foods
- could use heat input to water to simulate cooking
Food - different foods have different heat and time
requirements; be consistent:
- on multi-pot stoves, study the effect on performance of uncovered pot holes
Test operator - comparative tests should be conducted by the
- observe how other people control tests and influence stove performance
Standard meal tests
Standard meal tests determine how well stoves operate under standardized local conditions; whether they actually save fuel when cooking, and if they are well adapted to local foods.
In a comparative test, if identical foods are cooked in the same way, performance can be assessed simply by measuring differences in fuel consumption.
Use what you know about local cooking practices to determine stove performance objectives. You might start with a cooking timeline (Fig. 6-9).
Using this, cook a few meals in traditional fashion, assuming the perspective of a local cook. When you have been 'trained' in local cooking techniques' measure the fuel used in preparing a typical regional meal. In comparison of improved designs, you need only prepare the same meal and measure fuel consumption.
If water is substituted for food in the cookpots, heat input to the water can be used as a measure of stove performance. The primary advantage of these "boiling water" tests lies in the uniform thermal properties of water.
The transfer of heat energy to water is easily quantified by measuring both its rise in temperature, and heat loss by evaporation:
Temperature increase (°C) x weight of water (kg) + weight of water evaporated (kg) x latent heat constant* ($40 Kcal/kg) = heat input (Kcal)
A figure for theoretical efficiency could then be calculated if the heat input to the water is divided by the chemical energy content of the fuel: efficiency (%) = 100 x heat input (Kcal)/(weight of fuel (kg) x energy content (Kcal/kg))
However, the efficiency of a stove in heating and evaporating water may be unrelated to cooking efficiency for several important reasons:
1. Consider the relationship between heating rate and useful heat when, for instance, cooking a grain in boiling water. As heat is put into the bottom of the pot, it is simultaneously lost from the top and sides. Ideally, the pot would be heated to the boiling point instantaneously, to minimize this loss. This would require a high power input for a short time. Then, the power input would be lowered to equal the heat loss, and the pot would simmer at 100 °C. If the heating rate exceeded the loss from the pot, the water would not increase in temperature, but would merely boil faster, increasing the rate of evaporation. In the case of constant high heat input, the efficiency calculated from a cooking simulation test would not represent actual cooking efficiency because the high heat input rate does not cook the food any faster, but consumes more fuel.
2. If a pot has a lid, some of the water evaporating from it will be recovered as it condenses on the inside of the lid, and thus evaporative loss is not measurable. Therefore in a boiling water test conducted with lids on the pots, efficiency would appear artificially low.
3. The thermal properties of water and many foods are different. Some of the heat utilized in cooking food is consumed in chemical changes and is thus not easily accounted for in a simulation test using boiling water.
For these reasons, boiling water tests do not directly measure cooking efficiency; they should not be used to project fuel savings that will occur under normal use conditions.
Nevertheless, boiling water tests have certain specific uses. Because heat input to water is precisely quantified, simulation tests may be more easily replicated than standard meal tests; the effects of some variables on stove performance might be easier to compare.
For example, heat distribution was studied in the following test. Comparing two multi-pot stoves, the relative amount of heat available to the first cookpot was measured. Using two kilograms of firewood, the fire was regulated so as to heat one lifer of water in the first pot quickly to a boil, and then maintain a simmer for as long as possible. One lifer of water was also placed in each subsequent pot to absorb the potentially useful heat available downstream from the first pot. The temperature profiles of the first pot, and of subsequent pots, for both stoves are graphed in Figures 6-10a and 6-10b. From this it appears that the # 1 stove (the Singer, see Chapter 7) might be better suited to efficient cooking where only one dish is to be prepared. The # 2 stove (the Lorena, see Chapter 7) appears to distribute the heat of. the fire more uniformly to all pots.
Evaporative loss of water was measured in this test only as a means of determining that the heat delivery rate to the first pot was approximately the same in each test.
The relative performance of these stoves might be quite different under normal cooking conditions, e.g. if the thermal mass of the pot contents were different, if lids were on the pots, etc. Thus the results of this kind of test indicate the relative performance under conditions that were simplified for expediency. The conclusions should be regarded as tentative.
Hints on testing
During each test note anything that might influence stove performance, as it is hard to know what might be significant later.
You don't need expensive equipment to conduct these tests. Fuel can be weighed on a produce scale or an improvised balance could be built from a wooden rod and paint cans (see Fig. 6-11). A milk bottle, or any container calibrated against a known standard (such as a canning jar) could be used to measure water and food volumes.
It might be useful to devise your own system of measurement, for some important variables. For example, you could describe a pot of water as boiling at a "light", "medium", or "furious" rate; or as a means of judging combustion efficiency, the opacity of smoke from the chimney of a stove could be rated as a percentage, no smoke at all being 0%, totally opaque smoke, 100%. | <urn:uuid:2e46443f-85b1-4aaf-b0f6-a21f51efd968> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/APPRTECH/G14FUE/EN/B774_10.HTM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00051-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940561 | 3,438 | 3.53125 | 4 |
The leaders of the central branch of the Orthodox church in Ukraine have made a formal break with the hierarchy in Moscow, widening the schism in a church that was already divided before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said that it disagreed with the position that Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, had taken on the war, according to a statement posted on the council’s Facebook page on Friday.
Patriarch Kirill has repeatedly blessed the Russian military forces invading Ukraine. Because he is the church’s spiritual leader in both countries, many of the Ukrainians dying under the onslaught are his followers. He has also avoided condemning attacks on civilians.
Until now, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had formally maintained its allegiance to Moscow.
The church has been under the wing of the Moscow Patriarchate for centuries, and its departure will markedly decrease the size of the patriarch’s flock because Ukrainians attend church in greater numbers than Russians.
But it is unclear how many of the bishops and parishes in Ukraine will follow the lead of the council, or how many might try to stick with Moscow, Sergei Chapnin, a Russian religious scholar who has been in the United States since the invasion, wrote on Facebook.
Vladimir Legoyda, the spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, declined to comment on the rupture, writing on his Telegram channel that the church had not received any formal notification from the Ukrainian church. He accused “external forces” of trying to destroy the church’s unity.
Before the announcement on Friday, about half the 45 dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had already stopped mentioning Patriarch Kirill in their prayer services, the first step toward a formal rupture. Hundreds of Orthodox priests in Ukraine recently signed an open letter demanding that Patriarch Kirill face a religious tribunal over the war.
Disputes within the church, which can last for centuries, revolve around complicated questions of doctrine and authority. The church in Ukraine has been wrestling with an internal split since 2014, the year that Russia annexed Crimea and sparked a separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
Each of the 15 branches of the Orthodox church enjoys significant sovereignty, with the main spiritual guide for Eastern Orthodoxy, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, holding much less authority than the pope, for example.
In 2019, however, Patriarch Bartholomew, the worldwide leader for Eastern Orthodoxy, granted independence, called “autocephaly,” to a previously unsanctioned church in Ukraine. More than half of Ukraine’s parishes rejected the decision and stayed under Moscow’s jurisdiction.
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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Komsomol'sk-na-Amure is 32.0°F (0°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 69.0°F (20.6°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of -10.0°F (-23.3°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Komsomol'sk-na-Amure is 97.0°F (36.1°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Komsomol'sk-na-Amure is -53.0°F (-47.2°C), which was recorded in January.
There are an average of 169.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in November with 16.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in February with 12.0 days.
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|Authors||K. Schubert, A. Greslebin, J.Z. Groenewald, P.W. Crous|
|Title||New foliicolous species of Cladosporium from South America|
|Journal||Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi|
|Keywords||Argentina; Cladosporium; Colombia; Davidiellaceae; foliar diseases; Pinus|
|Abstract||Two new species of Cladosporium found on necrotic needles of Pinus ponderosa trees in Patagonia, Argentina, are described as C. chubutense and C. pini-ponderosae. An additional isolate from dead leaves of Cortaderia collected in Colombia, which is a sister taxon to the species occurring on Pinus, is described as Cladosporium colombiae. These species are phylogenetically closely related, but differ from each other and other known species by multilocus sequence data, phenetic characters and culture characteristics|
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Here at Hope n' Change, we realize that it's daunting to be faced with terrible news day after day. Just this week, we've had to deal with disastrous economic reports, escalating wars, and Weiner's weiner. But surely there must be good news out there that proves the world isn't crazy, right?
Wrong. The world is crazy...and as proof we offer up the fact that those whacky Chinese have used genetic modification to create a herd of cows that give human breast milk. The milk will be offered to consumers as a more nutritious, and somewhat kinkier, alternative to standard moo juice.
"It's good!" according to a worker named Jiang Yao who has tasted the sweeter, stronger milk. And as he enthusiastically points out, "It's better for you because it's genetically modified!" Which is as catchy a slogan for the endtimes as any.
But this whole cross-breeding of cows and human breasts raises troubling ethical questions - especially considering that China is a country with a huge population of hormonally active young men and a severe shortage of women.
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|Visitors browse the collection at the book fair in Ranchi
on Saturday. Picture by Hardeep Singh
The capital went ethnic in april. the first bengali book fair was a sell-out. plus, indo-fusion sizzlers scorched
What’s it: Bengali Book Fair, a first for Ranchi
Where: Mahendra Mahila College old campus on Circular Road
When: April 25-27
Hosts: Jharkhand Bengali Association (Ranchi chapter)
Mixed racks: Only one-fourth stall space had books, rest had saris and snacks!
Best-sellers: Books, by a long shot. The Publishers and Booksellers’ Guild that organises Calcutta Book Fair sourced a rich storehouse of books from various publishers. From all-time greats by Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to anytime reads like Satyajit Ray’s Feluda to contemporary fiction by Sunil Gangopadhyay, Samaresh Majumdar and
Suchitra Bhattacharya, there
was everything a Bengali
bookworm could want!
Pages ahead: Tagore and Satyajit Ray were in such demand that stocks sold out. Many visitors on Day 2 returned home empty handed
Words apart: Apparels, food, competitions for children and musical programmes on all three evenings
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Imagine waving goodbye to your nine-to-five job—that world of expectation and routine—and setting off after dreams that thrill and fulfill you. In 1986, Andrew Hoffman did all this and more. He left behind a promising career in chemical engineering, rejected acceptances into graduate programs at Harvard and Berkeley, and jumped headfirst into a carpentry job in Nantucket. His memoir, Builder’s Apprentice, is both a record of his foray into the world of high-end custom home building and a refreshingly honest reflection on the complexities of realizing one’s dreams.
Structuring his narrative into four sections that symbolize the levels of a monastic order, Hoffman guides readers through a spiritual progression. As an “Aspirant,” Hoffman leaves his life in Boston and joins a construction crew in Nantucket, eagerly acquiring a solid set of carpentry skills. While in “Discernment,” Hoffman returns to the “real” world of office jobs and paperwork only to realize that his hunger to create something real and lasting is far from satiated. With his happiness awaiting him among hammers and nails in Nantucket, Hoffman leads us through the levels of “Novice” and “Senior,” where he struggles with the overwhelming responsibility of constructing two colossal estates for a set of demanding owners.
The author of seven previous nonfiction books and a professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, this memoir is Hoffman’s first creative effort. This book offers up a rich buffet of literary material: a gritty account of the lives of blue-collar workers, an exhilarating glimpse into an elite world in which forty thousand dollars buys top-of-the-line mahogany doors, the tension-wrought management of confusing new relationships, and most compelling of all—a coming-of-age story in which a young man is brave enough to do what we all desire: he summons the courage to leave behind the comfort of stability to face an uncertain but exciting future.
Although detailed passages dedicated to the technical aspects of construction can distance the reader, honest moments of realization delivered in a fluid narrative style compel the reader’s interest in Hoffman’s story. At the outset, Hoffman expresses a deeply held, very relatable fear: “I was afraid to do what I wanted to do and was doing instead what I was expected to do.” Hoffman’s ability to pinpoint universal issues in an authorial voice that is both earnest and genuine makes for a book that is accessible and intriguing. This will be a welcome read for anyone eager to discover their true calling.
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The formula is simple. The WVS asks a series of questions on the justifiability of several different actions and behaviors. Taking the mean responses to the queries on homosexuality, prostitution, abortion, divorce, euthanasia, suicide, and wife beating (inverted)--all on a 10-point scale--and then averaging those, we get a liberalism index score for each country. The higher the score, the more permissive* the inhabitants of the country are. All countries that participated in the fifth wave of the survey, conducted between 2005-2008, for which data on all seven actions and behaviors are available are included with the exception of poor, corrupted Slovenia:
|10. Great Britain||5.5|
|16. United States||4.8|
|24. South Korea||4.1|
|35. South Africa||3.5|
|38. Trinidad and Tobago||3.1|
|42. Burkina Faso||2.9|
The Occident occupies all the top spots, especially its Northwestern European contingent. The US is a bit more conservative than Northwestern Europe is, but more permissive than some places on the Old Continent are and way more so than most of the rest of the world is. Catholic Italy and Poland are more in line with the more open places in Central Europe and South America. South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East populate the socially conservative bottom of the list. The East Asian progression, with Japan as the most liberalized, with South Korea following several notches below and China quite a bit farther down than that, meshes well with the idea that as a country becomes more industrialized and developed, it becomes less patriarchal.
Speaking of the patriarchy, let's revisit a subject dealt with by Steve Sailer in his famous article The Return of Patriarchy? and add another data point suggesting that the kinds of conservative Steve prefers aren't the ones who are doing their best to inherit the earth. The correlation between the liberalism index and total fertility rate is an inverse .41 (p = 0)--a moderate relationship, but perhaps a deceptively modest one on account of old Soviet countries getting on board with the free world when it comes to staying out of the birthing ward, but not when it comes to accepting buggery or refraining from hitting one's wife.
WVS variables used: V202, V203, V204, V205, V206, V207, V208
* Dan H. made a good point regarding the slate of actions and behaviors being examined, namely that they are Eurocentric (because societies of European descent are really the only ones with both the interest and wherewithal to carry these sorts of surveys out):
These are softball questions for the Muslim societies. The real questions that show how illiberal many Muslims really are, are not even asked in the World Values Survey.
Questions such as: should someone face death for leaving the faith (Islam or Christianity, respectively)?
Results you get are 76% in Pakistan, 84% in Egypt and 86% in Jordan, three illiberal countries.
In America I have lived 33 years and interacted with tens of thousands in my lifetime and never known of anyone who believed in death as punishment for leaving the faith.
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There are times when cattle producers need to come to the aid of a downed animal. The longer cattle are down, the more likely their weight and inactivity will damage circulation and nerve function to their underside muscles, which leads to a poor prognosis for recovery.
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Midwestern states better buckle up because a new bad guy’s in town. I’m not talking about any gun-toting cowboys, though. I’m talking about corn.
A study published Monday in Nature Sustainability shows how deadly this crop can be. And eating it isn’t the killer; growing it is. Turns out that the air pollution from growing corn is behind an estimated 4,300 premature deaths a year.
Growing corn results in emissions of particulate matter, a dangerous pollutant that is so small it winds up in your lungs when inhaled and can even affect your heart. This forms from the ammonia, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds released during fertilizer and manure application, the use of farm machinery (like tractors), and dust from ploughing and planting. The fertilizer and manure are the real culprits here, though: They account for 71 percent of the researchers’ corn-attributed deaths.
“It’s important for farmers to have this information so that they can implement practices that reduce the environmental impact of the crops they grow,” said lead author Jason Hill, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, in a statement. “Farmers can greatly improve the environmental profile of their corn by using precision agriculture tools and switching to fertilizers that have lower ammonia emissions.”
The University of Minnesota team calculated all this by running pollution inventory models in each of the top 2,000 corn-growing counties with each county’s agricultural data between 2010 and 2014. The authors also looked at county-level data on the amount of fertilizer used per metric ton of corn and coupled it all with air quality models to determine an estimated number of deaths. The study included not only the emissions directly from the farms themselves, but also their upstream emissions from the fuel and machines they need, their electricity source, and production of agrichemicals.
Different parts of the U.S. are definitely feeling these impacts differently, as the study points out. States like Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Indiana make up a little over half the study’s mortalities. Illinois really has it bad with nearly 800 premature deaths a year thanks to its beloved corn. Cities like Chicago and Minneapolis feel the effects too because of how close the corn production is in the central corn belt.
The study is clear that it doesn’t paint a full picture, either. The researchers didn’t account for the pollution that results from where the corn goes after it grows. Like producing ethanol biofuel or animal feed. And this is a tiny piece of our nation’s—and world’s—air pollution problem. The World Health Organization estimates some 7 million people die prematurely around the world every year because bad air. In the U.S., blacks and Hispanics deal with air pollution the most—air pollution that white people disproportionately create, according to a separate study out earlier this year.
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When I was a young child growing up, my mother would throw me a big birthday bash. We’d have balloons, birthday cake, games, etc. It was always a fun party…except that she would never tell the guests it was my birthday. They would all think they’re coming to our house for a party and would only clue in once the birthday cake came out. As a child, I hated it. I longed to rip open colorful wrapping paper to find a surprise (anything but clothes) waiting for me inside. What I didn’t think about at the time was that I was still getting a birthday present from my parents, often an elaborate and expensive one.
My mother just didn’t see the benefit of me getting 30 birthday presents to take for granted a week later. I assumed this was a cultural practice based on her South Asian roots because none of the other kids at school threw surprise birthday parties for their guests.
Now that I am a parent, I completely understand where she was coming from. We live in a society of over consumption, and I’m worried that my two young boys will learn to want more than they need.
I’ve found a way to continue this methodology from my mother as a parent. Every year, my husband and I throw each of my sons a birthday party. As our two year old and newly turned four year old grow older, they are realizing the significance of birthdays and are learning what happens at a birthday party based on the ones they attend.
However, there is one thing my husband and I agree on; no gifts. We kindly inform every guest that is invited that we do not want them to bring a present. In lieu of a gift, we ask our guests to bring one canned good instead. This is the best present at this age we can think of to give our sons. We explain to each birthday boy that no one will be bringing presents. They’ll have friends, family and lots of fun…but no presents. When the protests begin, we give them something to think about by telling them about all the kids in the world who have no toys. They’ve been to India; they’ve seen the poverty and the homeless children. I see the understanding in their eyes, as begrudging as it may be.
As the canned goods accumulate through the course of the party, we explain that we are going to drop all of the food off at a food bank where people who can’t afford to buy their own food go. This is a tradition we started at our eldest son’s first birthday and something we hope will last into their adult lives.
I feel like the best gift I can give my kids is to teach them the importance of giving.
It’s not like our boys don’t get anything. We always make sure to give them a nice birthday present from mommy and daddy. Of course, there are certain people we know won’t adhere to our rule and we are okay with that. Grandparents ignore our rule every year, and we understand that at their age, spoiling their grandkids is what they live for and we respect that.
I know that not everyone thinks like this and I enjoy the process of picking out birthday presents for my friends’ children’s birthdays. I just don’t want the same in return.
There are always a few couples who think we are crazy and bring a big present to our parties anyway. I politely take the gift and put it away. But I really wish they wouldn’t.
It is very exciting for me to see my sons walking into the food bank near our home and donating all the canned goods they proudly collected at their birthday parties. Especially when they know the food is going to less fortunate families. They are now beginning to understand the importance of giving, and realize that they are blessed little boys to have as much as they do.
I only hope this sense of giving can stay with them into their teen years and adult lives. I know it did with me and it’s the least I can hope to pass on. After all, it really IS better to give than to receive.
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Food is a necessary part of the basic requirements humans want to survive. But who is honestly interested in merely survive? Cooking something that tastes amazing can be even more rewarding than eating a good meal. Here are some things you can use to bump your cooking prowess.
Do all the prep work ahead of time. Be prepared in advance to make your cooking go smoothly. Cooking with a deadline to meet can become stressful. If all of the prep work is completed well before the actual cooking begins, this will help alleviate some stress later.
If using skewers made of steel or metal, the square or twisted kind are much better than round ones for holding food in place.
If you are working on creating more home-cooked meals, try the library for cookbooks that offer a variety of easy recipes that will be fun to prepare. Cooking might take a while to master, as it requires perfecting certain techniques.
Prepare in advance as much as you can ahead of time.It is essential to have all prep work finished before you start cooking.You can spare yourself a great deal of hassle by getting all your prep work done early.
A pie crust should be baked a little bit longer than you would think. Judge their color, not the time in the oven to determine if they are done. They will be golden brown when cooked. This is because the golden color lets you know that the sugar from the crust has caramelized, which give it that sweet, yet crisp taste.
Cut meat very thin and with the grain when you are stir-frying. This can take up much time consuming and somewhat difficult procedure.
When making a stir-fry meal, meat should always be thinly sliced, and cut on the bias. This can sometimes be a tricky undertaking and very time-consuming. Remove meat when firm but no longer frozen, and slice it 45 degrees across the grain.
This will give your food the flavor of the dish when it is finished cooking.
Try adding oil to foods from the sides of a pot or pan in able to jump-start the heating process. The flavor will be greatly enhanced when it has completed cooking.
If you have made sauce, put the leftovers into an ice cube tray and freeze. When you do this, making a quick meal can be accomplished by simply reheating by using a saute pan. Have no fear, for the sauce will taste great even after being frozen in the trays!
Quickly cooking vegetables allows them crispier and more nutrient-filled. Vegetables that are cooked slowly can lose their taste and nutrition.These cooking techniques usually produce vegetables in general. Cooking vegetables for only a short amount of time possible.
Saute vegetables with chicken broth to cook them in a healthy way. Not only does it lessen the amount of cooking oil needed as per a traditional saute, the broth adds an extra dimension of flavor to the vegetables. This method produces healthy and tasty vegetables.
Use fresh foods any time you can, as they bring out the flavor in a dish, and can be real money-savers too.
To cook a whole pumpkin, cut an upright pumpkin in half vertically. Put each half with the cut side facing down on their own baking sheet. Sprinkle some water onto the baking sheets, and proceed to bake the pumpkin at 350 degrees for about 60 minutes.
Garlic can leave a strong smell on your hands and utensils. Try rubbing your hands on stainless steel sink after you work with the garlic or other potent ingredients. This will help get rid of the smells from transferring to the food you handle.
Many liquids are interchangeable within a recipe; try replacing the water or milk with something new. For example, you might try chicken broth or beef broth instead of water in a meat dish. You might even try fruit juice when cooking certain veggies. You can try out buttermilk, yogurt or sour cream instead of milk. You can increase the nutritional and wow factors of any dish, simply by trying different substitutions for liquids that recipes call for.
Do you know the right amount of grilling times for different cuts of meat? Use a good meat thermometer to tell when it is cooked correctly.
After you have eaten a turkey dinner, keep any leftovers of the meat. It is smarter to divide up the meat and seal it in airtight containers that you freeze. This will keep the turkey fresh for a month or more, and can be easily thawed to use in sandwiches, soups, and salads.
Learning to cook, and having fun with it at the same time, is as satisfying as eating. Use these tips as part of your cooking routine, personalizing as you see fit. Your friends and family will enjoy your new hobby as much as you do.
Think about making your own stock for more flavor. Make a large batch, and then store it in your freezer. By freezing stock, you ensure that you have tasty homemade stock ready to add to any dish. Creating your own stock allows you to avoid preservatives. | <urn:uuid:cdb8845d-42b1-4b31-a073-b5c3505fe876> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cookingblogs.info/burnt-toast-ways-to-avoid-ruining-your-food/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.950971 | 1,028 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Amatuximab for High Mesothelin Cancers
- Amatuximab is a cancer treatment drug that targets mesothelin. High levels of this substance are found on some kinds of tumor cells. Lab studies have shown that amatuximab helps the immune system to kill cells that have high levels of mesothelin. However, more research is needed to determine how safe and effective amatuximab is for treating tumors with high levels of mesothelin.
- To assess the safety and effectiveness of amatuximab in treating tumors with high levels of mesothelin.
- Individuals at least 18 years of age who have a type of cancer that overexpresses mesothelin.
- Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam. They will also have blood tests and tumor assessment studies.
- Participants will have two intravenous doses of amatuximab several hours apart. Researchers will monitor them closely and do frequent blood draws. On the same day and also within 48 hours of the second dose, participants will have imaging studies. These studies will measure how well the amatuximab is working against the cancer.
- Participants will have a third imaging study of the cancer about 1 week after the infusions.
- Participants will have a followup visit 2 weeks after receiving amatuximab. This visit will require blood samples. Four weeks after receiving the drug, researchers will review patients symptoms or side effects. This interview can be done in person or by phone....
Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Drug: Amatuximab (MORab-009)
|Study Design:||Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: No masking
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:||A Single-Dose Pilot Study of Radiolabeled Amatuximab (MORAb-009) in Mesothelin Over Expressing Cancers|
- Biodistribution of radiolabelled amatuximab in tumor and nontumor tissues.
- Background ratio of maximum counts
- CTCAE V.4 events
- Observation of HACA
- Antibody uptake vs. IHC mesothelin expression
|Study Start Date:||July 12, 2011|
|Study Completion Date:||November 15, 2013|
|Primary Completion Date:||November 15, 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
- Amatuximab is a high-affinity monoclonal IgG antibody raised against human mesothelin.
- Mesothelin is a glycosyl-phosphatidyl inositol-linked membrane glycoprotein thought to be involved in tumor metastasis
- Mesothelin is over-expressed in many cancers
-The primary objective is to determine the biodistribution of radiolabeled amatuximab in tumor and nontumor tissues in subjects with mesothelin over-expressing cancers including mesothelioma, pancreatic, ovarian, and non small cell lung cancer.
- Female or male subjects greater than or equal to 18 years of age;
- Histologically confirmed mesothelin-expressing cancer;
- Transaminases less than or equal to 3 times ULN for mesothelioma, non small cell lung and ovarian cancer;
- Transaminases less than or equal to 5 times ULN for pancreatic cancer with known liver metastasis.
- This is a single-center, single-dose, open-label, pilot study of MORAb-009 in approximately 20 subjects with mesothelin expressing tumors.
- Indium-radiolabeled MORAb-009 (5mCi) will be administered.
- Serial single photon emission-computerized tomography imaging will be performed to determine binding to tumor and nontumor tissue.
- Subjects will be observed closely for safety and possible development of anti-MORAb-009 antibodies.
- Pharmacokinetics of radiolabeled antibody will be determined with imaging over time.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01413451
|United States, Maryland|
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike|
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892|
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Are you referring to the play, Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare (which, by the way, is historical)?
Caesar was killed by eight conspirators and political opponents from the Roman Senate. The conspiracy was led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, known simply as Cassius in the play. Caesar's opponents feared he was becoming too powerful due to his many victories and popularity with the people. In the play, Caesar was said to have been offered the crown three times and refused. Nevertheless, his enemies feared that he would accept the crown and then Rome would be a dictatorship, not a republic. They also feared that becoming the king would corrupt Caesar.
Above all things, Rome should remain a republic. Caesar's friend, Brutus, let his love for Rome outweigh his friendship with Caesar and in spite of much soul searching, decided to join the conspirators. When Caesar entered the Roman Senate on the Ides of March (March 15), the conspirators surrounded him and killed him with daggers.
In the play, Caesar looks at his friend, Brutus, and says the famous "Et tu, Brute?" which means, "And you, too, Brutus?" History scholars disagree over whether Caesar actually said anything like this. In the play, however, Caesar then tells Brutus that Brutus' stabbing "is the unkindest cut of all."
Read the play at the link below. See the analysis on eNotes.
Ceasar was killed by Brutus along with other conspirators like Cassuis and Casca. Cassuis lure Brutus to the conspiracy. For, Brutus Loves and honors Rome over everything else ! By Cassuis`s persuasive tone , Brutus joined this conspiracy. At the beginning of Act II, We can see that Brutus Rejected three things which are : the oath , killing Antony , and joining Cinna to the conspiracy. From this we cas see that Brutus is now leading this conspiracy.
Brutus murdered Caesar along with other conspirators
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SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Global Warming & Sizzling Summers in the Southeast
SACE and the Southeast Coastal Climate Network co-hosted this presentation to examine research by Climate Central’s “States at Risk Project,” a recent analysis on historic and projected summer climate data around the nation. Researchers found that global warming has already significantly increased the number of scorching Danger Days, especially in Florida, with many more yet to come.
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Sotomayor hearings: On religious freedom and choosing Supreme Court cases
Judge Sonia Sotomayor had to dash the hopes of Democratic Sen. Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, who asked her how she would decide what sort of cases the Supreme Court should take up: “One of the standards I would hope you would use,” said Cardin, “is deciding this case for the impact it has on the broader nation.”
“As I indicated earlier,” said the nominee, “we don’t make policy choices. That means that I would think it inappropriate for a court to choose a case, or for a judge to chose a case, based on some sense of ‘I want this result on society.’ A judge takes a case to decide a legal issue....”
Cardin, still in the extolling mode adopted by Sotomayor’s Democratic fans on the Judiciary Committee, lauded her decision in a federal appeals court case. She had written the opinion upholding the religious rights of a Muslim inmate, who had been denied access to his meals marking the end of Ramadan.
“Freedom of religion truly is an American right,” Cardin said. “Please share with us the importance of that provision in the Constitution and how you would go about dealing with cases that could affect that fundamental right.”
Now here is where we got lost, probably because we are spending half our time writing and half our time listening. Did we miss something?
“I don’t mean to be funny,” said Sotomayor, smiling, “but the court has held that it’s fundamental in the sense of incorporation against the state.”
Lots of lawyers seemed to be chuckling, but we felt the whoosh of air over our heads.
She couldn’t elaborate too much, she said, but the main issue in that case was whether the court erred “in considering whether or not the religious beliefs that this prisoner had was consistent with the established traditional interpretation of the meal at issue, OK? What I was doing was applying the very important Supreme Court precedent that said, it’s the subjective belief of the individual.... We are not asking the court to say whether this is orthodox, but look at the sincerity of the individual’s belief.”
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In an effort to increase involvement by the small business community in developing U.S. accounting standards, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has established a Small Business Advisory Committee. Committee members will be a resource to the FASB in providing additional and ongoing input on accounting issues before the Board.
While the FASB has met with members of small business in the past as part of its due process procedures, establishment of a formal committee that provides the perspectives of this group will offer greater opportunity to share ideas, knowledge and experience with the Board as well as with the other group members.
"The FASB has always recognized small businesses as an important constituency," commented FASB Chairman Robert H. Herz. "Formation of the Small Business Advisory Committee should be a win-win for everyone involved, and the Board looks forward to working with the group."
The Committee, whose members represent diverse perspectives and experiences, comprises 24 lenders, investors and analysts, preparers of financial statements from a broad range of businesses, including controllers and chief financial officers, and auditors from the small business community.
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Current Affairs Czech firm aims to improve life for fliers with new liquid detector
If you ever had to dump a bottle of your favourite drink before boarding your plane, or plead for a plastic bag at one of the airport’s stores to put your nose drops in, you will appreciate an invention that might soon do away with all this. A company in Prague has developed a portable detector of dangerous liquids that will tell the airport security people that your drink is harmless. The director of the company RS Dynamics Jiří Bláha explains more about the detector, known as Explonics.
“Explonics, as the name indicates, is a device which enables fast and reliable detection of any explosive contraband, together with background detection of any radiological contraband. For next year, we are working on a special add-on which will make it possible to detect any dangerous liquid. In this concept, the instrument will be able to effectively guard check-in gates at airports or any mass transport facilities against the entry of any dangerous materials, making air-traffic much safer and check-in much more comfortable.”
I imagine it’s rather complicated to analyze a bottle’s contents without actually opening it. How does your detector work?
“The detector is based on the electromagnetic properties of liquids; it measures their electromagnetic and dynamic-magnetic properties. It can determine if the liquid is water or a drink, or if it’s an energized material which could be dangerous.”
Are there for instance any bottles or cans that are more difficult to analyze than others?
“There are of course a lot of problems which prevent this new technology from being immediately applied at airports. We mainly have to focus on glass containers, plastic bottles, but no such detector on the world market is, unfortunately, capable of detecting what is in metal cans.”
“The current product which combines effective and fast detection of explosive traces together with radiological contraband has been developed for seven years. For a year and a half we have been working on the programme for the detection of dangerous liquids, and we would like to complete it in 2009.”
“We suppose so, because this year we have won a tender for the delivery of more detectors to Prague Airport. Those people are anxious to test and apply the new, very reliable detector of dangerous liquids. Taking away liquids from any passenger is still a nightmare in flight preparation, because people are very unhappy with this procedure; it’s not comfortable, it’s boring and even frustrating for some people, so the demand for a reliable and good detector of dangerous liquid is still there.” | <urn:uuid:3200e0e3-4fb1-4520-9bc8-da8b0852c987> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-firm-aims-to-improve-life-for-fliers-with-new-liquid-detector | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00105-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95163 | 549 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Otway truck gift
UNIOPOLIS — The small village of Otway in southwestern Ohio was fortunate to not have any deaths in its community during the March 2 tornado outbreak that ravaged the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys as well as much of the south. However, fate wasn’t as kind to much of the equipment at the volunteer Otway Fire Department.
An EF-0 tornado was confirmed in the Otway area, with a department that serves the small community and the other residents of Brush Creek Township totaling approximately 90 residents. Among the damage, the building used to house the fire department was destroyed, causing damage to its already outdated equipment.
In one a twist of fate, an otherwise ominous event bore some fruit. The Uniopolis Fire Department, which had been trying to sell its 1981 Chevrolet fire truck in anticipation of the arrival of a new truck in a month, heard about the need of the Otway Fire Department from Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Troy Anderson. Uniopolis Fire Chief Kelly Knutzen was quickly put in touch with Otway Fire Chief Rich Gambill. A deal was struck to donate the truck to the city of Otway for their fire department.
The donation was a Godsend to Otway, whose entire fire department had been pushed out of service due to the storm.
“This will really help us a lot,” Otway volunteer foreman Brandon Shirey said. “It is really appreciated by our department.”
Shirey said while no one lost their lives in their area, the storm did cause a lot of damage that has put the community into a rebuilding mode.
“There are two homes right across from the department that had their roofs tore off,” Shirey said. “The roof on the former Otway School, which is now a community center, was tore off.”
The donation not only provided the Otway with a truck, it provided them with a substantial improvement. The Otway Fire Department had currently been using a 1987 converted milk truck that pumped 1,500 gallons but had a damaged pump. The truck donated by the village of Uniopolis provides them with the ability to pump 2,000 gallons and move the truck with a fire as opposed to having to sit in one place.
“This is really appreciated,” Shirey said. “We can’t thank these guys enough.”
Shirey and Gambill traveled to Uniopolis Wednesday morning to pick up the truck in Uniopolis.
Knutzen said it was great to help a small community that was truly thankful.
“They have been truly grateful,” Knutzen said.
The truck had been put up for sale on Craig’s List and in several fire trader magazines, but they had not received any offers for more than a month. While the donation leaves the department without a truck until the new one arrives, Knutzen said the residents should not see any reduction in services.
“We have good communication in Auglaize County and mutual aid is close,” Knutzen said. “There will not be a problem with fire protection.” | <urn:uuid:f23d86c9-86f9-4eaa-98a5-6be9cac97dc0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wapakdailynews.com/content/otway-truck-gift?quicktabs_2=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982885 | 667 | 1.5625 | 2 |
RANDOLPH TWP. Some might call Morton Hahn the unvarnished real life version of Indiana Jones.
For 28 years, Hahn, 64, of Bedminster Road has been traveling around the globe collecting treasures and trinkets for his nature products business.
Now Hahn can add one more treasure to his collection. Taking residence at the 20,000-square-foot warehouse of Morton Hahn Inc. in Rockaway, is a 65 million- year-old majungatholus dinosaur skull.
Affectionately called "Randy" after Hahn's hometown of Randolph, the dinosaur skull was discovered two years ago on the island of Madagascar off the coast of Africa. A road crew was clearing jungle land and a bulldozer unearthed the dinosaur skull. Hahn then traveled to Madagascar and purchased it.
"It was not in perfect condition when it was bought it. If it had been it easily would of sold for at least $l million," said Hahn.
According to Hahn, discovering a majungatholus dinosaur skull is a rare find. There have only been three such dinosaur skulls ever found and none were in perfect condition.
The discovery of the skull also offers valuable clues about what the massive dinosaur was like when it roamed the earth. The majungatholus was a meat-eating dinosaur. It was up to 30 feet long, weighed about five tons and was at the top of the food chain in it locale. Its diet probably consisted of sauropods, which were long-necked plant-eaters and other large dinosaurs, Hahn said.
In fact, "Randy" was found with his last meal, the thighbone of a sauropod, still captured in his jaw. In appearance, "Randy" resembles the tyrannosaur and his large teeth, which used to rip flesh from the bones of other dinosaurs nearly 65 million years later.
It took two long years of filing out paperwork from various countries in order to bring "Randy" from Madagascar to the United States, so Hahn is in no hurry to sell his find to a host of very interested buyers from various universities and museums.
"This is my pet and I really don't want to sell "Randy" just yet," said Hahn.
Hahn said he wants to loan "Randy" to the Randolph school system so the children can see and study the relic.
"I have traveled around the world and it bothers me that students in the United States are falling behind in science and math. If having "Randy" on display in the schools gets students more interested in the natural sciences, then that would be terrific," Hahn said. "It just may plant a seed of interest in a young student."
Details, such as which school to display "Randy" and for how long still have to be ironed out. But it is certain that "Randy" will have to be kept in a glass display case.
"In order to preserve this rare 65 million-year-old dinosaur specimen, it is important that human hands do not touch the skull," said Hahn.
While Hahn is truly enjoying his latest adventure with "Randy," adventurous journeys have always been a trademark in Hahn's life. As a freshman at the University of Miami, Hahn killed a six-foot shark and has 41 stitches to show for it.
To earn money during college, he ventured into the Everglades in Florida at night to hunt for cottonmouth and water moccasin snakes and collect their venom.
"I was paid twenty-five cents a foot for the snakes and sometimes I would make $300 in a week, which was a lot of money back then," he said.
Hahn has seen his fair share of danger on the job front as he traveled around the world seeking out many unique nature products for his company. He said his worst moment was 20 years ago when he was being shot at in the Philippines by Muslim Communist terrorists. His life was spared when he hid under a bed for protection against the flying bullets.
Hahn has also survived a very large anaconda snake falling on him in the Amazon, tornadoes, earthquakes and plenty of other natural disasters Mother Nature has thrown his way. But he said he has no intentions of retiring just yet.
"I love my job and as long as God lets me, I will keep working. Life really is too short and you have to enjoy it," said Hahn.
Reflecting over Hahn's many adventures, he said he also identifies with the main character in the adventure movies "Indiana Jones." Like the character, Hahn can be seen sporting an "Indiana Jones" style hat, but Hahn sees one clear difference between himself and the movie character played by actor Harrison Ford.
"Indiana Jones is fiction," Hahn said. "I am the real thing."
By nature, Hahn just isn't the type of person to shy away from an adventure. So it was only fitting that he decided to throw his hat into the political ring recently for a run for a Township Council seat in Randolph.
Although he lost the election, he said it was a good experience as he learned first hand what it takes to be a political animal.
"To be in politics you have to be willing to give up a good part of your life and have thick alligator skin to survive," said Hahn.
But Hahn won't be totally leaving politics for good. He will continue to serve as a member of the Randolph Zoning Board of Adjustment.
He said the one downside to the months of campaigning was that he had no time to work out at the gym.
"I really missed going to the gym," said the former college track and field star at Adelphi College in Garden City, N.Y.
Hahn has continued to excel at track and field throughout his adult life. Over the years, he has competed in the Pan American Masters Games, won l2 gold medals in one day in the Garden State Games and is a skilled competitor in the javelin, shot-put, high jump, triple jump and weight throw.
To stay in shape for the Masters Track and Field Events, Hahn puts himself through the paces at the gym. His typical workout schedule is to run a couple of miles and lift weights at least three times a week.
And while Hahn's life has been an adventure filled with millions of treasures, trinkets and rich memories, he admits that there is only one other thing he would love to acquire in his life that has eluded him so far.
"The only thing I would love to have right now is a grandchild," Hahn said.
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