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Sleep Apnea Linked to Behavioral, Learning Problems in Kids
Obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), occurs in about 2 percent of children who are otherwise healthy, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
The new study shows that “there are considerable behavioral risks associated with continued SDB,” said Michelle Perfect, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor at the University of Arizona. “[We] should also consider the possibility that SDB contributes to difficulties with hyperactivity, learning and behavioral and emotional dysregulation in the classroom.”
The five-year study, published in the journal SLEEP, used data from the Tucson Children’s Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA). That study examined Hispanic and Caucasian children between the ages of 6 and 11 to determine the prevalence of SDB and its effects on neurobehavioral functioning.
The new study involved 263 children who completed an overnight sleep study and a neurobehavioral battery of assessments, which included reports from both parents and the children.
The researchers found that 23 children had sleep apnea that developed during the study period, while 21 children had persistent sleep apnea throughout the study.
Another 41 children who initially had sleep apnea no longer had breathing problems during sleep at the five-year follow-up, researchers report.
Researchers found that the odds of having behavioral problems were four to five times higher in children who developed sleep apnea during the study period, and six times higher in children who had persistent sleep apnea.
Parents of children with sleep apnea were more likely to report problems in the areas of hyperactivity, attention, disruptive behaviors, communication, social competency and self-care, the researchers report.
Children with persistent sleep apnea were seven times more likely to have parent-reported learning problems and three times more likely to earn grades of C or lower, the researchers note.
“Even though SDB appears to decline into adolescence, taking a wait-and-see approach is risky, and families and clinicians alike should identify potential treatments,” concluded Perfect.
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, children with sleep apnea generally have larger tonsils and adenoids than other children. Effective treatment options include the surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids or the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy.
Wood, J. (2015). Sleep Apnea Linked to Behavioral, Learning Problems in Kids. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 24, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/30/sleep-apnea-linked-to-behavioral-learning-problems-in-kids/53204.html | <urn:uuid:64b24696-5f92-4c3e-9b21-9d01421641f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/30/sleep-apnea-linked-to-behavioral-learning-problems-in-kids/53204.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958451 | 570 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Sleep talking or somniloquy is a common problem that affects both children and adults. It can occur every night or just once in a while. It can occur at any point during the sleep cycle and may or may not be connected to dreams. It is usually not serious unless it is caused by an underlying medical condition. In most cases, the sleep talker has no knowledge of this symptom. In cases where there is no underlying disorder, it rarely requires treatment. However, if it is linked to another condition, a physician can examine sleep patterns and suggest remedies for sleep talking.
Establish Good Sleep Habits
The same lifestyle remedies that can be used for any sleep disorder can be used to manage sleep talking. The National Sleep Foundation states that these steps may not cure the sleep talking but they may help reduce the frequency. This includes going to bed and getting up at the same time every day, getting adequate amounts of sleep to avoid exhaustion, and staying away from alcohol, caffeine and heavy meals close to bedtime. Finding ways to manage stress and taking time to do a relaxing activity before going to sleep may help. Reading, taking a hot bath or practicing a gentle yoga or stretching routine in the evening can calm the body and mind and promote a restful night's sleep.
Treat Underlying Conditions
Sleep talking may keep others awake or may include offensive language. In some cases, it occurs with sleep walking and sleep eating. Since there are medications that can cause sleep disturbances as a side effect, it is important to review all medications being taken with a health-care professional. Treating underlying diseases, such as thyroid problems, head injuries, seizures, stroke and other sleep disorders, may help. A sleep therapist can teach coping techniques and sleep hygiene practices if stress or anxiety are contributing to the problem.
In rare cases where sleep talking is affecting the quality of sleep of the patient or family members, or when it occurs with sleep walking that becomes dangerous, medications may be required to promote a restful sleep. Although sleeping pills do not cure the problem, they can promote regular sleep patterns when nondrug approaches fail. They usually can not be taken for periods longer than two weeks and may cause a variety of side effects. There are many medications on the market, and the right one depends on your overall health, other medications you're taking, and whether you have any underlying disease that may be contributing to the sleep talking. | <urn:uuid:0dde40d4-c77e-41bc-8372-fafd6ca443a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/124982-remedies-sleep-talking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943293 | 490 | 3.296875 | 3 |
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Dr. Esperanza Lemos has come a long way to become the new head of a small Sunnyside women’s empowerment organization. She admittedly is a beacon for those women seeking to improve their lives through education.
Lemos comes from a family of farm workers. She is proud of her long history of work in public education. She has taught in the classroom and has worked her way up to being an assistant superintendent in the West Valley School District.
She also worked as a college professor, instructing master’s classes at Heritage University near Toppenish.
Originally from Mabton, Lemos was introduced to the Sunnyside Ministerial Association by Sister Mary Rita Rohde during the group’s monthly meeting held yesterday at the Sunnyside Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Lemos took over as executive director of Nuestra Casa on July 1, following the retirement of Rohde.
Lemos, who earned her PhD in education from the University of Seattle, has studied and taught in schools all over the United States.
Speaking to the community’s ministers and laypeople, Lemos told of her plans to increase the opportunities for Nuestra Casa to partner with other agencies within the community.
She said the center, located at 1007 S. Sixth St., currently offers nutrition, civic education and parenting classes for the program’s participants.
In addition, the center continues to work with such agencies as the Sunnyside Police Department to provide Nuestra Casa’s clientele with safety information, including driving education.
Lemos said she is happy to be working with the Nuestra Casa three-person staff and the immigrant women who come to the center for encouragement and education.
“I believe that listening to the women, as well as giving them access to the many resources we have available to us will give our families a wonderful, rich experience,” she said.
Among her future goals for the agency dedicated to support immigrant women is to increase community collaboration.
One of the new collaborations Nuestra Casa has embarked upon is working with Sunnyside Community Hospital to increase and improve culture competency between hospital medical staff and the community.
“We are excited to be a part of that project,” she said.
Currently, the center offers ESL classes in the evening and during the morning hours at the center.
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Poet Behbahani, 'lioness of Iran', dies at 87: state media
By Michelle Moghtader
DUBAI (Reuters) - Poet Simin Behbahani, a champion of women's rights and free speech whose lyrical verse captured the hopes and disappointments of Iranians since the 1979 revolution, died on Tuesday at the age of 87, official media reported.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, she earned the unofficial title of the "Lioness of Iran" for what admirers saw as her courage in the face of official censorship.
After nearly two weeks in the Tehran Pars hospital, she died of heart and respiratory complications, according to state news agency IRNA. She was nearly blind towards the end of her life.
"Until now, I've said what I've had to say, I've always said I'm against death, I'm against killing and I'm against imprisonment," she told the BBC's Persian service in 2012.
She voiced strong opposition to the practice of stoning, a rarely used form of capital punishment. Under Islamic law in force in Iran since the revolution, adultery may be punished by death by stoning, while crimes such as murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by hanging.
Behbahani added her voice to those of the demonstrators who rushed into the streets after a disputed presidential election in June 2009 to protest against alleged ballot rigging, by writing the poem "Stop Throwing My Country To The Wind".
She encapsulated the hopeful and later deflated moods of contemporary Iran after the revolution, using a 1,100-year lyrical form of poetry known as the ghazal.
"It's an amazing index of those yearnings, and aspirations and disappointments following the revolution," Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, a friend of the poet and director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, said of her work. Continued... | <urn:uuid:dbc74252-b805-42e4-abc3-223e200f4d9f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleNews/idCAKBN0GJ1LJ20140819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00538-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972306 | 411 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote this week on legislation aiming to punish China for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, a move sure to anger the government in Beijing and add to tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
Pelosi announced the schedule a short time after President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson said U.S. government officials will boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics in February because of human rights abuses in China.
“As one united international community, we have the opportunity and responsibility to hold Beijing to account and to stand up for human dignity and freedom in the region and around the world,” Pelosi said in a statement, in which she also praised the administration’s decision.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would require the U.S Department of Homeland Security to create a list of entities that collaborate with the Chinese government in the repression of the Uyghurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang, as well as other groups. It also contains a “rebuttable presumption” that assumes all goods were made with forced labor unless the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection gives an exception.
A similar bill already passed in the Senate with bipartisan support.
Speaking Friday at a briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called allegations that forced labor is used in Xinjiang “a lie.”
“The bill is pure political manipulation with the intention to undermine Xinjiang’s stability and development under the pretext of human rights,” he said, adding that the U.S. “should pay more attention to its own problems. Chinese people are living a good life, enjoying their life, which does not need any concern from the U.S. side.”
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A tax exemption for the sale of empty homes to housing associations is among a number of pre-budget submissions from the Peter McVerry Trust.
The homeless charity says this should be combined with the introduction of a tax on vacant properties.
But as a temporary measure, owners selling properties to Approved Housing Bodies should be exempt from Capital Gains Tax.
Peter Doyle, the charity’s CEO, said Government efforts to provide incentives such as the Repair and Lease scheme were not working.
Under this scheme local authorities renovate vacant properties and rent them out on behalf of the owner with the cost of works deducted from the rent.
But Mr Doyle said the take up for this scheme has been “very low”.
He said: “Peter McVerry Trust is calling for a balance of incentive and punitive measures to be implemented in order to bring much needed houses back into use. We are urging the Government to quickly bring forward an empty tax or levy based on a property’s value”.
He said the core demand of the charity’s 12 point submission is more social and affordable housing.
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The Department of Homeland Security released an instructional video after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that offers “Options for Consideration” in an active shooter situation. Some of the options put forth include evacuating, shutting off the lights in the room and hiding behind large items, or taking cover out of the line of fire. One scene, however, suggests, “If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available.” The video then proceeds to show an office worker grabbing a pair of scissors.
Homeland Security has operated an active-shooter preparedness-training program for years, and the “Options for Consideration” video was in production prior to the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown.
The video was released to coincide with President Obama’s sweeping proposals to curb gun violence in America, said the official. […]
Security consultant Andrew Scott called the information in the video “adequate.”
He conceded that Homeland Security was correct in recommending that people use scissors to attack a gunman but only in a “last, worst-case scenario.”
“Just the suggestion [to fight back] is a positive move,” said Scott, a former SWAT commander in North Miami Beach. “You don’t want to be sheep for the slaughter.”
But if you do arm yourself with shears, the narrator warns you to drop them when cops arrive.
“Put down any items. Immediately raise your hands,” is the closing advice.
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THE WASHING MACHINE IS the continuously beating heart of the modern home. It’s fed by the laundry basket and in turn feeds the airing cupboard. Actually wearing clothes is the shortest link in the washing cycle.
The wash can be divided into three parts: whites, darks and coloureds. Coloureds are what you get when you accidentally put one dark in with the whites. There are also things called delicates. Men don’t recognise the existence of this group in the wash. Which is why women don’t recognise their delicates after men have done the wash. Some items of clothing require hand washing. These items live at the bottom of the laundry basket and never come out.
Whatever the detergent manufacturers say, whites need to be done at 90°. That’s because whites generally include men’s underpants, which are the ultimate washing challenge. In an ideal world, men’s underpants should be taken out into the back yard and shot. This isn’t a cost effective option, so they have to be boiled several times to get them back to some sort of decency.
Soap now comes in powder, tablets, gel or liquid form, which can then go in the drawer, the wash, the bag or the ball. They all wash whiter than white which actually means off white. Similarly, they all make your wash smell great. Just press the washing to your nose and breathe in the summer flowers. But don’t try this with men’s underpants, even after seven consecutive washings.
You can dry your clothes in a dryer, but this leads to a lot of static electricity. Pulling your nightie on after tumble drying is like being in the middle of an electrical storm and leaves you with a Ken Dodd hairstyle (Google it!) Drying on the line outside is best unless you live in Greymouth, where you actually do the pre-soaking on the line outside. Urban people dry their clothes by draping them over things. That’s why you’ll notice that the t-shirt of your grungy urban male often has the residual shape of a balustrade or heater still in it.
Alternatively, you can use drying racks. These take 14 hours to load up and getting your smalls on the bottom rungs is equivalent to some of the black belt positions in yoga. You can clear the same rack in 14 seconds between the first and second ring of your sophisticated new girlfriend at the door.
In every house there is a sock orphanage where sad little unloved socks live until their partner can be found. Often their partner is never found. That’s because the washing machine demands a ritual sacrifice of one sock per wash to placate its inner workings.
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Seemingly phlegmatic basset hound during the walk likes to bush in the brush and at the same time demonstrate its independence to the owner. He is a talented hunting dog, although he is rarely used today.
Basset hound has a mild, good-natured character and a moderate temperament. Although at first glance it seems phlegmatic, in fact it is a cheerful dog, willing to play and surprisingly busy.
As a quadruped, he endures loneliness very badly, so he shouldn’t be isolated. If we want him to stay home alone for a few hours, we have to get used to it from the puppy. Otherwise, he may rebel and mourn the neighbors’ lives. The representative of this breed is attached to all household members. In his youth, he can be quite absorbing and obtrusive in showing feelings, which can irritate some owners.
Bassets get along well with children. They are patient and tolerant, but they do not like to be overly disturbed, so children need to learn to treat them properly.
These dogs like to live in a herd, so they are happiest when they have a kinsman. In general, they do not show aggression towards foreign quadrupeds, but they will not let you get hooked. They will accept a domestic cat or rabbit, but the neighbors’ pet may fall victim to the basset.
Basset hound values comfort and will be happy to spend most of the day on the couch. However, you cannot let him become too lazy. Movement is very important for him, because he prevents obesity and helps to keep fit. The excessive effort, however, can hurt him, so he should decide how much he wants to run. During walks, he likes to scrub in the thickets, and when he catches an interesting trail, he forgets about the whole world. Therefore, in busy places, it is better not to release him from the leash.
Basset can live both in a house with a garden and in a small apartment, as long as it is allowed to regularly move outside.
Basset hound is a talented hunting dog, although it is rarely used today. He has a sensitive sense of smell, is characterized by endurance, agility, slow gait and a tendency to preach animals. Works great in dense thickets and low groves. Tracks bunnies, rabbits and pheasants perfectly with the lower wind. It also works well as a big game hound on a fresh and cold trail.
Currently, it is mainly a companion dog, but it can also take part in field trials or track contests. FCI qualified the basset to breeds subject to work trials, which means that a diploma of utility is required to obtain the title of International Beauty Champion (CIB).
Basset hound. Training and education
Basset is intelligent but stubborn and independent. Obedience is not in his nature, so let’s not expect him to obey the order immediately. The representative of this breed is reluctant to give in to the rigors and restrictions. He reacts instinctively, so you should leave him the freedom to act, without forgetting about the principles of good manners. Basset will not work on an obedience course, but his passion for hunting can be used during applied training.
Puppies from the beginning require consistent upbringing and more patience than other breeds. Do not indulge them too much, because they will acquire bad habits, and getting an adult basset to change their habits is almost impossible. In turn, harsh treatment will make him a rebel and lose confidence in the owner.
The puppy needs to be properly socialized – he should be taken to new places, allow him to contact different people and other dogs. During the growth period, he should not be allowed to walk up the stairs (descending is particularly harmful).
Who is this race for?
Basset hound will disappoint those who find it difficult to accept stubbornness, independence and disobedience. The owner does not have to have a lot of experience in raising dogs, but should be patient, forgiving and consistent.
Basset hound. Advantages and disadvantages
stubborn and independent
not very obedient
several times a year it molts strongly
tends to swallow inedible items
attached to owner
gentle and good-natured
gets along well with children
feels great in a group of dogs
accepts other pets
easy to care for
Basset doesn’t mind rain, wind or cold. During severe frosts, however, he should not be allowed to stay outside for too long. The representative of this breed does not like hot weather, you should provide him with a cooler place to rest, and take him for long walks early in the morning or evening.
Juvenile lameness is the most common basset disease. They usually appear at the age of nine months and last until about the fifteenth month. They do not require surgical intervention, but it is recommended to give the dog preparations supporting the joints (jelly from crow’s feet also works) and veterinary anti-inflammatory and painkillers. It is also worth limiting movement and maintaining low body weight. A fairly serious problem is the basset’s tendency to swallow inedible objects (e.g. stones), which threatens their health and life.
Sometimes there are defects in eyelid alignment, inflammation of the third eyelid and prolapse of the third eyelid (so-called cherry eye). Ear infections and skin problems also occur. Gastrointestinal enlargement and torsion may occasionally occur, and spine diseases may occur in old age.
Most bassets have a tendency to gain weight, so do not overfeed them. The type of food must be adapted to the age, lifestyle and activity of your pets. Puppies up to about nine months of age need carefully balanced meals, so it’s best to use ready-made feeds from reputable companies.
Nutritional errors made during this period can adversely affect the entire adult life of the dog. The menu should include substances that support joint development (glucosamine and chondroitin). Adult bassets can be given dry foods or home-cooked food supplemented with calcium, vitamin and mineral supplements. The daily dose is better to divide into two smaller meals.
The basset’s short coat is easy to care for, but he loses it properly all the time. A typical coat replacement is carried out two or three times a year. The most intense molting occurs in spring, when both the undercoat and the coat hair fall out abundantly. Although there is a lot of hair, it is unlikely to stick to the ground and it is easy to clean.
If necessary, we comb the basset with a rubber glove or a brush. However, during the molting the furminator is checked. Finally, you can wipe your pet with a damp towel to remove dead hair, dust or exfoliated epidermis.
Long hanging ears are susceptible to inflammation, so check their condition regularly. However, we clean them only when necessary. Too frequent care treatments can destroy the natural protective barrier, which makes irritation easier. You also need to control your eyes, remove tartar and shorten claws that are too long.
Basset we bathe in shampoos for short-haired dogs. You can also use medicinal cosmetics (iodophore, biosulfur, tea tree or aloe vera extract) or hypoallergenic. Then we wipe the dog thoroughly and let it dry itself. If it’s cold outside, it’s best to take a bath after the last walk.
The representative of this breed does not require special preparation for the exhibition. He should be clean and taught how to behave in the ring. It’s best to present it in a clamping chain and on a thin leash.
Basset is best brought out in a clamping chain. A large amount of loose skin around the neck makes it easy to free from the collar. Braces are not recommended because they deform the chest and shoulder girdle.
Representatives of this breed will take care of cotton cords, balls, rubber toys (large enough not to swallow them). You can also give him natural chews – rumen, dried ears, beef tendons.
It is worth getting used to the cage, which will work both at home and during exhibitions or holiday trips.
Basset hound. History
Basset hound belongs to the group of hounds used for tracking and chasing animals. It is an English race, although it is undoubtedly of continental origin. Basset type quadrupeds supposedly existed long before breeders became interested in them. In the Egyptian pyramids, you can come across paintings depicting the favorites of the pharaohs – short-legged dogs with an elongated figure.
In the 16th century, William Shakespeare wrote about their long ears and loud voices. In turn, in the painting from 1793 by Agnes Berry a lady was immortalized in the company of a small dog reminiscent of modern representatives of the breed.
The short-legged artesian basset (basset d’artesien) or the artesian-norman basset (basset artesien normand) are considered the direct ancestor of the basset hound . They come – like most French hounds – from hunting dogs that came to France from Asia Minor with the Crusaders. They were bred in the monastery in the Ardennes by Saint. Hubert (655-727), patron of hunters. Because they were characterized by a unique sense of smell and hunting passion, they quickly spread to aristocratic courts.
Although officially the first French bassets appeared in Great Britain in 1866, many cynologists believe that this could have already happened in 1066 after the Norman invasion. The name basset comes from the French words ‘bass’, i.e. low, dwarf, and ‘set’ – embedded, which perfectly describes the appearance of this dog. The word “hound” in Great Britain means all hounds.
Sir Everett Millais – son of a well-known nineteenth-century painter – had the greatest contribution to basset breeding in the British Isles. He brought many excellent dogs from France, including Modela and Fino de Paris from the breeding of Count Le Couteulx de Canteleu, and enriched the breed with beagle and bloodhound blood. Basset lover was the wife of King Edward VII, Queen Alexander, the owner of Sandringham kennel. Her dogs took part in the shows, and one of them even won the Crufts award in 1909. In 1884, the Basset Hound Club was established in England.
At the first club exhibition in London organized in 1886, over a hundred representatives of this race were presented. In the 1930s, the bassets reached the United States, and in 1935 the Basset Club was founded. Two years later, the breed was recognized by AKC (American Kennel Club). An updated FCI template has been in force since 2011.
Basset hound – g rupa VI FCI, section 1.3, reference number 163
Country of origin: Great Britain
Size: 33-38 cm
Coat: short, dense, smooth fitting, not very thin; skin loose and elastic, but not exaggerated
Ointment: black and white with tan or white and lemon; any ointment found in hounds is allowed
Maturity: 2 years
Lifespan: 10-12 years
Weather resistance: quite high
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EDITORIAL: OK, New Jersey, it’s our time to help
New Jerseyans know a little bit about how many Texans feel today. When Superstorm Sandy slammed our state in 2012, it devastated homes and businesses, disrupted lives, and left behind a landscape so scarred it was difficult to believe our own eyes.
We needed help then. It’s time to help return the favor.
What’s happening in Houston and surrounding areas goes even beyond Sandy — and the worst be yet to come. Sandy came and went, like most hurricanes. By daybreak the next morning we could begin to see what Sandy had wrought, and start taking those first steps toward recovery.
But in southeast Texas and on into Louisiana this week, Harvey — once a hurricane, now a tropical something, but the names hardly matter — continues to churn away, dumping multiple feet of rain on a region already under water. Individual images can be mind-boggling; the water is so high in parts of Houston that rivers are running through interstate highways as high as overpasses across them. Officials say flood levels could reach second floors of buildings and may even submerge them entirely. Emergency responders are so overwhelmed that officials have requested volunteers with boats help with thousands of high-water rescues.
Such dire warnings come even before what’s expected to be several more days of heavy rains. The cresting of swollen rivers at record levels looms. The National Weather Service ran out of words to describe the conditions; “catastrophic” even seemed insufficient. Officials conceded we’ve never seen anything like this, not even Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Harvey has stalled between other weather systems keeping the storm in place, creating multiple landfalls and day after day of drenching rains in the same locations. The impacts are spreading east, threatening New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana. When the waters finally recede, we’ll all be feeling some effects of the carnage.
Gas prices are rising and will continue to be driven by the temporary shutdown of major Gulf Coast refineries riding out the storm. New Jerseyans in flood-prone areas who get their insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program will have reason to worry about Harvey’s effect on proposed reforms. Officials want to rein in the program’s debt, but with the immense Harvey damage added to the financial burdens, will property owners be squeezed even tighter?
For now, the only issue should be helping to get Harvey victims through this mess alive. Gov. Chris Christie has deployed a New Jersey task force of emergency responders to the region. Those looking to contribute to storm relief have many options, including the American Red Cross (redcross.org, call 1- 800-RED CROSS or text the word HARVEY to 90999 to make a $10 donation); The Salvation Army (helpsalvationarmy.org or call 1-800-725-2769); and the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund (checks and money orders can be sent to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, while online credit card donations can be made at www.ghcf.org).
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DIXON – In April, the Rita Crundwell scandal went public. Many called for change at City Hall. They decried the city’s commission form of government.
During the summer, Mayor Jim Burke promised to form a task force to look into changing the government structure.
So, how do the city’s commissioners feel?
Three of the four say things are going well, but they’re open to new ideas. Another declined to comment.
Dixon is one of 49 municipalities in Illinois with the commission form of government, which puts part-time commissioners in charge of areas of a municipal government.
Dixon, for instance, has commissioners for accounts and finance, public property, public health and safety, and streets and public improvements.
Opponents of this form of government say Dixon, with a population of 15,733, is too big to have part-timers running the city.
Most of the other towns with a commission form, including Oregon and Tampico, are far smaller than Dixon.
Only six of the cities are larger than Dixon – Zion, East Peoria, Marion, Mattoon, Pekin and Ottawa. Chicago Heights, population 31,373, gave up on the commission form years ago.
‘Things are operating very well’
State law allows five forms of government: aldermanic, commission, managerial, strong mayor, and trustee. Sterling has a managerial form of government.
Sterling’s manager runs the day-to-day operations of government, while the City Council has the legislative function of setting policy.
Dixon, on the other hand, has no full-time official to oversee the entire government, although some consider Shawn Ortgiesen, the public works director and city engineer, to be a de facto city manager.
Dixon’s former comptroller, Rita Crundwell, had no full-time supervisor. Some say that’s why she could get away with corruption. The federal government says she misappropriated $53 million in city funds over more than two decades.
Authorities arrested her in April. She has yet to be tried.
Dennis Considine, commissioner of public health and safety, said criticism of Dixon’s form of government is “Monday morning quarterbacking.”
“I certainly believe in the form of government we have,” said Considine, who was elected in 2011. “It works as well as any form of government. I’m positive about it.”
As for Crundwell, he said, “it wouldn’t have mattered what form of government we had.”
At the same time, he supports forming a task force, saying he is on a mission to study other forms.
Jeff Kuhn, commissioner of streets and public improvements, taught government in Dixon schools before he retired. He said he favors the task force, promising he would have no “preconceived notions.”
“I have some trouble with people believing that if we had a city manager, none of this would have happened,” said Kuhn, also elected last year. “It’s not the form of government that caused this to happen; it was the person.”
He said he liked that Dixon has three new commissioners.
“We had some in the past for a considerable amount of time. You need new blood,” Kuhn said. “New things are happening. I like the enthusiasm we’re bringing to the job. That was lacking. Complacency was setting in.”
Another new member, Colleen Brechon, commissioner of public property, said she likes the way things are going.
“The city of Dixon has the best of all worlds,” she said. “The council has very dedicated members. Shawn Ortgiesen is the city engineer, involved in all aspects of city business. He is very competent. I am very confident working with him and the city attorney.”
She also praised the City Council’s hiring of Paula Meyer, who is filling the new position of finance director.
“Things are operating very well,” she said. “I feel very confident in the people I’m working with. Not to say I wouldn’t be curious about what else we could come up with.”
David Blackburn, who has served on the City Council for more than 20 years, issued an emailed statement, saying he wouldn’t comment “at this time” on Dixon’s form of government.
Blackburn, the commissioner of finance and accounts, said he is focused on working with the new finance director and Wipfli, the city’s new auditing firm.
“I am certain the mayor will have a number of good people [for the task force] who he will propose to the council in the near future,” Blackburn said.
Burke plans to name the task force’s members in December, saying he seeks people with open minds. He wants the commission form of government to be among those considered.
The panel should interview officials from other towns, he said.
City needs ‘more professional hand’
James Dixon, mayor from 1983 to 1991, has long pushed to do away with the commission form of government. In 1990, he and others put a referendum on the ballot to adopt the city manager form of government. Only 25 percent of voters supported it.
In May, he wrote a letter to the editor asking whether others still had interest in reviving that effort. A couple of weeks later, though, he said he would hold off to see what the task force came up with.
The commission form, he said, would be best for a town far smaller than Dixon.
“I think they [city officials] are interested in looking for a better way to govern their community,” he said. “I hope that means they’ll be looking favorably on the managerial form.”
Marilyn Coffey, a commissioner from 1988 to 1991, supported the referendum.
“I saw how difficult it was to be thrown into a position where you are expected to be an executive,” she said. “You have executive and legislative responsibilities. A city of this size, especially today, needs a more professional hand.”
She said she was frustrated that the mayor didn’t make a priority of studying different forms of government.
Sterling City Manager Scott Shumard is a fan of managerial government. Having such a form, he said, allows more people to participate on the City Council.
“You don’t have to be retired or self-employed to make policy decisions for the city,” he said in emailed comments. “You don’t have to be an expert in local government or management to make a difference right away.”
City managers have access to a network for training, provide continuity, and serve as a central point for communication.
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Which Grocery Stores are Going High-Tech?
Metro Future Stores in Germany are rolling out self-service kiosks (already used in deli sections of many ShopRites); "smart shelves" that read RFID-tagged products, locate misplaced items and send real-time alerts when items need restocking; and real-time advertising via plasma screens. Certain Albertsons stores (a.k.a. Acme Markets in the Midatlantic region) are experimenting with handheld scanners that customers can use to total up orders and transmit to a self-checkout register, as well as with fingerprint payment systems.
Grocery stores are also rethinking the shopping process as well. Many stores now feature "express areas" where shoppers can grab one or two items (a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, or a pre-made sandwich) and pay via self-service checkout. Of course, as anyone familar with grocery stores knows, bad process is the real source of problems. Self-service checkouts generally work poorly when shoppers buy more than a few items, and nothing's more aggravating than a busy shopping day when only one or two checkout lanes are open.
Grocery stores tend to be conservative when it comes to technology, but once a good technical solution emerges (one that offers value to both grocer and shopper), it catches on like wildfire. It seems today as if grocers have been accepting debit cards forever, but we have to remind ourselves what a recent innovation that was. Now, shoppers can avoid the embarassment of being caught short of cash at checkout, and grocers don't lose sales. | <urn:uuid:84a15f1b-83a1-4635-b9e1-93f502694568> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://futurewire.blogspot.com/2005/03/which-grocery-stores-are-going-high.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00529-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944475 | 336 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Entry updated 9 October 2020. Tagged: Author.
(1876-1953) US banker, screenwriter and author, great-grandson of the American Founding Father Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), extremely prolific as an author of short fiction. Some of his work is sf and fantasy, beginning with the Prehistoric SF tale, The Pagan's Progress (1904), whose the hero begins to acquire spiritual values through a moment of Transcendence when he understands that life is eternal, though matter is not. The Voice in the Rice (1910) is a marginal Lost Race novel whose contemporary narrator discovers an Antebellum society in a swamp. Other titles of interest are The Footprint and Other Stories (coll 1908), It and Other Stories (coll 1912) – which includes "Back There in the Grass" (16 December 1911 Collier's Weekly), an enduring demonstration of the terrors of Biology in early sf – If You Touch Them They Vanish (1913), and The Incandescent Lily and Other Stories (coll 1914), whose title story is a Lost Race tale set in a hidden valley deep in the inner Asian frontiers of China.
The Goddess (1915) – with Charles W Goddard (1879-1951), author of the script for The Perils of Pauline (1914) – novelizes a Morris screenplay, and has been listed as fantastic, but the heavenly woman in a toga who helps folk is a victim of hypnosis. [JC]
see also: Origin of Man.
Gouverneur Morris IV
born New York: 7 February 1876
died Gallup, New Mexico: 14 August 1953
- The Pagan's Progress (New York: A S Barnes and Co, 1904) [illus/hb/John Rae]
- The Voice in the Rice (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1910) [hb/J C Leyendecker]
- If You Touch Them They Vanish (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913) [hb/]
- The Goddess (New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1915) with Charles W Goddard [tie: novelization of Morris screenplay: hb/]
- The Footprint and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908) [coll: hb/]
- It and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912) [coll: hb/]
- The Incandescent Lily and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914) [coll: hb/]
- Back There in the Grass (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2015) with Irvin S Cobb [coll: edited by S T Joshi: pb/Aeron Alfrey]
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A day dedicated to the cause of creating global awareness on diagnosis and prevention of Osteoporosis – a dangerous bone disorderthat can leave one crippled for life if ignored -World Osteoporosis Day is observed on the 20th of October, every year.
Osteoporosis, which means “porous bones”, is a disorder that weakens bones from within, making it thin, sponge-like and extremely susceptible to fractures. According to health experts, millions of people suffer from Osteoporosis and the numbers, unfortunately, are fast increasing. What’s really scary about this condition is that there are no visible symptoms and one might not be aware until a fracture happens.
Though Osteoporosis occurs in both men and women at any age, it is seen more in women – especially those who have hit menopause.
The reasons for Osteoporosis are many:
Osteoporosis is treatable, provided it is diagnosed at a treatable stage. Hence it is mandatory for every person above 40 to get their bone strength checked and also make some healthy changes in his/her lifestyle like adopting a Calcium & Vitamin D rich diet, regular exercising and controlled drinking and smokingto keep this serious health threat at bay. | <urn:uuid:4b324087-199c-4843-ab59-1110186120be> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://astermedcity.com/blog/Readmore/october-20-world-osteoporosis-day/861 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913144 | 332 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Describe Jamaica’s cultural atmosphere.
Our national motto is "Out of Many, One People." We are a mix of several races, the majority being of African descent. We have Chinese, East Indian, Middle Eastern, European, and so on. The majority of Jamaicans are Christian, but we have Jewish, Hindu, and most other communities in Jamaica.
We work hard, but we play hard. The Jamaican economy is a mixture of tourism – the number one industry – and agriculture, mining, manufacturing, finance, and insurance services. Kingston is the main hub, the cultural and business capital. And there are six distinct resort areas in Jamaica.
Government is the main employer. The telecoms sector is huge, as well as lighting and water companies. Outsourced call centers are also big. For instance, General Motors’ accounting department is in Montego Bay.
What’s the PR environment like?
There are comms agencies in Jamaica, but not as many as in the US. We have a few large and small PR and advertising operations. There are an abundance of single-person consultancies that work on ad hoc projects. And there are three or four large companies, such as CGR Communications.
At Jamaica Tourist Board, we plan strategic meetings over the year and have senior staff practitioners. We have a PR agency, Finn Partners, which covers Latin America, the US, and Canada. It’s critical to our success that we appoint senior PR practitioners to keep Jamaica top of mind. A lot of people may not think that PR is important, but it’s very important to us because it’s how you get the word out to tell the traveling public what we do on a daily basis.
Where do you find those PR practitioners?
We have several tertiary and technical institutes. Jamaica has the University of the West Indies. When we’re recruiting, we focus on the tertiary institutes because most of them have a tourism and communications section.
Do you recruit from the US, UK, or Canada?
No. At the tourist board, we focus on our graduates from our tertiary institutions within Jamaica or the Caribbean.
Is business affected on the island during slower tourist seasons?
Years ago, some hotels would close during the summer months. That doesn’t happen anymore. We have tourists year-round, and we’re happy about that. Yes, we have the [peak tourist season] in winter, which goes from December to April, but during summer months, we focus on families.
Once kids go back to school in late August/early September, we focus on business travelers or the wedding and honeymoon market, which is very strong in Jamaica. Business in Jamaica is no longer seasonal, so you have to think about who you are going to target in the winter, fall, summer, and shoulder periods.
What are your major marcomms challenges?
We have challenges just like anywhere else in the world, but we overcome them by focusing on opportunities. The landscape is very competitive, so we focus on new trends.
We make sure our product in the accommodation sector is competitive, and it’s more than hotels – we have villas and bed and breakfasts. Our transportation system and entertainment is fabulous. Jamaica is the home of reggae, so we take that to the marketplace. There is always something happening in Jamaica, and we get the word out in all of our markets. We have offices worldwide, including China, Japan, India, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, the US, Canada, Spain, and Latin America.
Our biggest opportunity is boots on the ground. We feel that face-to-face contact is the way to go. We have social media, but we take it to the marketplace mostly by sitting in front of clients and pitching Jamaica. We also do press releases constantly, so we are always in front of travelers, face to face or via PR activities.
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Over 3 billion people continue to rely on solid household fuels—biomass and coal—in developing countries, with serious impacts to health and the environment. The latest World Health Organization (WHO) studies indicate that over 4 million people—predominantly women and children—die prematurely due to exposure to indoor air pollution from cookstoves.
In recent years, the World Bank has begun to scale up its efforts to address these problems with clean cooking initiatives in developing countries. This renewed effort complements the decades-long work of the World Bank to expand electricity access. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) of the World Bank has played a catalytic role in the renewed focus on the clean cooking sector through financial and technical support to partner countries and global analytical work.
ESMAP’s strategic engagement in the clean cooking sector includes:
• helping to broaden the scope of energy sector reform and policy dialog to include household energy access issues;
• producing analytical work to inform dialogue and to support technical assistance and lending operations; and
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Nearly 50 years to the day after President John Kennedy delivered his historic speech to a city divided by the Cold War, President Obama spoke to the people of Berlin about the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Germany, and the values we share.
A symbol of the Germany’s progress since President Kennedy’s visit, President Obama spoke from the east side of Brandenburg Gate -- something that would have been impossible if not for the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“While I am not the first American President to come to this gate, I am proud to stand on its Eastern side to pay tribute to the past,” President Obama said.
"For throughout all this history, the fate of this city came down to a simple question: Will we live free or in chains? Under governments that uphold our universal rights, or regimes that suppress them? In open societies that respect the sanctity of the individual and our free will, or in closed societies that suffocate the soul?"
This is what was at stake here in Berlin, President Obama said.
"And because courageous crowds climbed atop that wall, because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies, because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say, here in Berlin, here in Europe -- our values won. Openness won. Tolerance won. And freedom won here in Berlin."
But two decades later, this work is not yet done, President Obama said. "Today’s threats are not as stark as they were half a century ago, but the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity -- that struggle goes on."
"I say all this here, in the heart of Europe, because our shared past shows that none of these challenges can be met unless we see ourselves as part of something bigger than our own experience. Our alliance is the foundation of global security. Our trade and our commerce is the engine of our global economy. Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
"When Europe and America lead with our hopes instead of our fears, we do things that no other nations can do, no other nations will do. So we have to lift up our eyes today and consider the day of peace with justice that our generation wants for this world."
Advancing the values our two nations believe in also means pursuing a world without nuclear weapons, which is why President Obama announced new steps today toreduce our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third.
While in Berlin, President Obama also held bilateral meetings with German President Joachim Gauck, and the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel held a joint press conference following their discussion.
For more information:
- Blog Entry: President Obama participates in the G-8 Summit in Lough Erne
- Fact Sheet: Nuclear Weapons Employment Strategy in the United States | <urn:uuid:4abf77f1-cd8d-4385-9aba-c580a19f0731> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://blogs.state.gov/stories/2013/06/19/president-obama-speaks-people-berlin-brandenburg-gate?page=0%252C1636%2C1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00283-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942915 | 595 | 2.6875 | 3 |
DEAR READERS: In yesterday's column, I responded to a reader's question about acute pharyngitis -- inflammation of the throat caused by infection with bacteria or viruses. I was taught that diagnosing and treating a patient with a sore throat was not complicated: The sore throat was caused either by Group A streptococcus ("strep," a kind of bacteria) or by a virus. If a throat culture showed strep, you treated it with penicillin. Simple. But in my view (some colleagues disagree), it's not that simple. The risk from an untreated infection with Group A strep is much lower today in the United States than it was 70 years ago. That means that the value of treatment is reduced. But the chance of side effects from the treatment -- antibiotics -- is not reduced.
Archive for June, 2015
DEAR DOCTOR K: I saw my doctor last week, who said I had acute pharyngitis but didn't say what that was. It sounds serious. What is it?
DEAR READER: Good news: It's rarely serious. I know the word "acute" in front of any medical term makes it sound serious. And I know that Latin-based words like "pharyngitis" sound alien. But acute pharyngitis simply means that your throat has become inflamed by something, usually an infection.
DEAR DOCTOR K: I have Peyronie's disease. Are there any effective treatments for this condition?
DEAR READER: Peyronie's disease is, fortunately, relatively uncommon. About 5 percent of men in the United States may have it. The condition affects the penis. It causes inflammation and then scar tissue to form in the area of inflammation. The scar tissue accumulates and hardens, causing the penis to bend when it becomes erect, and potentially keeping it from becoming fully erect. This can make sexual intercourse difficult and painful. (I've put an illustration, below, showing the effect of Peyronie's disease.)
DEAR DOCTOR K: I have Sjogren's syndrome. People tend to dismiss it as a problem with dry eyes, but it's so much more than that. Can you please describe this condition for your readers?
DEAR READER: Sjogren's (pronounced "show grins") syndrome is a lifelong condition. It does tend to be best known for causing dry eyes, but it can cause other problems as well. For example, Sjogren's syndrome can produce dry mouth and affect any of the body's glands, including those that secrete sweat, saliva and oil. About half of people with Sjogren's syndrome also have another connective-tissue disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. Named after Swedish eye doctor Dr. Henrik Sjogren, this syndrome affects people of all ages and races. However, 90 percent of all cases involve women, most commonly between the ages of 45 and 55.
DEAR DOCTOR K: My grandmother has Alzheimer's disease. Over the past few years I have watched the disease take a toll on her judgment, memory, even her personality. How does Alzheimer's wreak so much havoc in the brain?
DEAR READER: In the past 25 years, medical science has learned a great deal about what causes Alzheimer's disease. Before that, we basically knew just that the brains of people with this disease, viewed with a microscope, had some unusual features. We knew that the disease caused brain cells to die prematurely, but we didn't know why. Today, I think we are closing in on understanding some major causes (if not all of the causes) of brain cell death.
DEAR READERS: Yesterday, I answered a question about treatments for heart failure. It's a big topic, and so today I'm talking about the medicines that are typically used to treat heart failure. As we discussed, heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump efficiently enough to meet the body's need for blood. As a result, tissues and organs throughout the body don't get enough oxygen. Also, fluid builds up in the lungs and other body tissues. Taking heart failure medicines as prescribed is perhaps the single most important thing you can do to feel better and live longer. The medicines available today are dramatically more potent than the medicines that were available when I was in medical school.
DEAR DOCTOR K: I've been diagnosed with heart failure. Thankfully, it is still in the early stages. What can I do to keep it from getting worse?
DEAR READER: The function of the blood is to carry nutrition to every cell in the body and to carry away waste from the cell. The function of the heart is to keep pumping blood so that the blood reaches every cell in the body. Heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump efficiently enough to meet the body's need for blood. As a result, tissues and organs don't get enough nutrition, and fluid builds up in the lungs and tissues.
DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor advised me to take a vitamin D supplement. Why do I need vitamin D? Also, my pharmacy sells vitamin D in two forms: D2 and D3. What is the difference, and which one should I take?
DEAR READER: This is an area full of controversy because not enough research has been done. I typically recommend getting vitamins from food, but vitamin D is found naturally in only a few foods. Fatty fish is the main dietary source, and milk, many juices and breakfast cereals are fortified with it. We get most of our vitamin D from the sun: When sunlight strikes the skin, skin cells make vitamin D. But these days, people get a lot less sunlight than they used to.
DEAR DOCTOR K: I'm thinking of retiring, but I've always had a very busy and fulfilling career. How will I make the transition to retirement? Or should I continue working until I no longer can?
DEAR READER: This might seem like an unusual subject for a doctor writing a column about medical problems, but I get asked this question all the time. Indeed, the decision you make about it might well affect your future health. I'm assuming from your question that you have no financial need to continue working and that your health allows you to do so. Even if it does, there's no doubt that one's energy declines with age. If your work is intense and involves long hours, there will come a time when it's no longer possible to do that work well.
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Investing is more than just buying stocks, bonds, ETFs and the occasional cryptocurrency. At its core, investing is buying an asset with the expectation that it will increase in value over time. This applies to a huge number of asset classes beyond what you can buy at a discount brokerage. In fact, one of the most meaningful and impactful ways that you can garner both financial returns and social and environmental value is through investing locally.
If you’ve got money to put to work, you may want to consider circulating it in your local community or toward values that you care about. To invest locally involves financially helping your immediate neighborhood or a community you care about while also seeking to earn a return.
Even if you don’t have a particular cause in mind, you can still find plenty of local investment opportunities to bring tangible improvements to the circumstances of a group, organization, business or individual — while reaping benefits for yourself too.
The Short Version
- Local investing is an avenue of investing that directly brings funding to community programs, nonprofit organizations, small businesses and support groups while generating a return for the investor.
- When investors put money into a local business or group, they help boost the local economy. And this creates more jobs, keeps individuals in the community and helps the government generate more taxes to go into local infrastructure.
- There are many ways to locally invest. These include joining a credit union, investing equity in a business, regulation crowdfunding and investing in social impact bonds.
What Is Local Investing?
Local investing involves lending money to help a community organization or business accomplish a goal, with the expectation that they will pay you back with interest. You receive the interest as the return on your investment.
Many people lump local investing in with socially responsible investing (SRI). This makes sense as both aim to earn returns for investors while supporting causes that contribute to the social good.
However, an SRI strategy often means excluding companies that don’t align with an investor’s values. Local investing, meanwhile, is all about purposely including community projects that an investor believes in and wants to support.
Invest in Good: What’s the Difference Between Ethical and Sustainable Investing?
Why Should You Consider Local Investing?
Investing locally isn’t just about doing good. It has tangible benefits and should be a consideration when allocating your investment dollars. Investing locally includes the following options.
Helping the Local Economy
A key aspect of investing locally is that you, well, invest locally. It involves finding a community, organization, property or financial institution that you care about. Then you lend your dollars to help it achieve a goal. This could include providing seed money to a new business, buying property to rent to local tenants and lending money to a not-for-profit organization to hire new employees.
In each of these cases, you boost the overall local economy. And this creates jobs for those living nearby. In turn, those employees go on to purchase goods and services. And that adds even more dollars to the local economy. And the local government continues to collect income, sales and property taxes it uses to maintain and improve infrastructure.
Investing According to Your Values
Investing locally allows you to tailor your investments to help causes that you’re interested in supporting. Whatever your interest — whether it’s climate change, ethically-sourced goods, local farms or human rights — you should be able to find a local investing opportunity that complements your values. In this way, you can use your money to grow your net worth and do good.
Read More: How to Get Started With ESG Investing
Supporting Local Business
A common local investing strategy is to invest directly in a local business, such as financing an expansion for a small business. If you’re interested in investing in a local business but aren’t sure where to start, find a local business development organization. These organizations exist to support local businesses and will be able to help you find businesses that could use your support.
Helping Those in Need
Investing locally can also directly help needy individuals and families in your community. For example, a landlord who charges less than the market rate still profits from their investment while helping lower their tenants’ cost of living. Helping individuals has a ripple effect as the people can improve their living circumstances and contribute more to the local economy.
Risks of Investing Locally
Investing locally carries the same risk as other investments. Namely, you may not receive your principal back or earn interest. This risk exists for all investments. But investing locally presents a unique challenge for investors.
If you invest in a small business or an enterprise bond, you don’t get the benefit of extensive online analysis that larger investment opportunities carry.
You can find lots of discussion on the pros and cons of various ETFs or whether Bitcoin is a good investment. However, you won’t find that type of analysis for local investments. So you have to do your own research. And if you choose wrong, you could lose your potential interest and some or all of your investment.
Also, local businesses simply have fewer financial resources than large publicly-traded companies. This makes your local coffee shop more at risk of going out of business during hard times than Apple, PepsiCo, or Procter & Gamble.
Types of Local Investing
Investing locally is a broad term that can take many forms. Here are some common ways to invest locally.
Join a Credit Union
Many people see a credit union simply as an alternative to a bank. But in reality, credit unions have a mandate to work within a local community and invest your deposits into local businesses and individuals.
With a credit union, you’re a member, not a customer. The savings you deposit into an account with a credit union is pooled with other members’ savings. Then the credit union uses that money to fund local interests and organizations. And the credit union distributes profits to the members as dividends.
Despite the differences in how credit unions operate, many credit unions offer services and products similar to other banks. You earn interest on your deposits and take out loans and mortgages. Most credit unions also offer credit cards, including rewards cards.
Joining a credit union — just like starting a savings account with a big bank — does not require a big upfront investment. But unlike with many large banks, you don’t have to worry about your money going to controversial investments like fossil fuel companies or arms manufacturers.
Considering a Credit Union? Credit Unions vs. Banks — What’s the Difference?
Invest Equity in a Local Business
As we mentioned above, investing directly in a local business is a good way to invest locally. Small businesses often struggle to secure loans from banks or credit unions, so borrowing directly from private lenders may be a more viable option.
If you aren’t prepared to invest directly in a company, you can invest in a community development fund like Reinvestments Fund. These funds pool investor capital into larger interest-generating loans.
Municipal Bonds or Government-Sponsored Enterprise Bonds
Investing locally isn’t restricted to investing in businesses or buying real estate. You can also invest directly in local government or the projects they champion. You do this through municipal bonds issued by states, cities or other local governments.
These act as a loan that governments pay back with interest. The local government then uses that money to pay for infrastructure or fund their operating budgets. Since government agencies back these bonds, they tend to be a safe option and are a good choice for investors with lower risk tolerance.
Read more: How to Invest in Bonds
Crowdfunding has gained popularity in recent years as a financing method that involves smaller investment amounts from a big group of investors. “Regulation crowdfunding” lets companies offer to sell up to $1.07 million of their securities without having to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Regulation crowdfunding was established in 2017. Since then, it has emerged as a popular way for small local businesses to sell shares or bonds to investors — sometimes in increments as small as $10. These businesses may not be able to raise capital through a bank loan.
These types of capital raising initiatives help small business owners fund their business startup or expansion plans. And that keeps owners from having to solicit donations from friends and family or wealthy investors.
Crowdfunding platforms like Mainvest and Fundable connect individual investors with business owners looking to have their proposals funded. These platforms take care of vetting the business owners that want to join their marketplace which can save investors a lot of time.
Social Impact Bonds
A social impact bond (SIB) allows governments to pay for programs that deliver a desired result or social outcome. Known as a form of “pay for success” financing, SIBs let investors provide upfront funding to help a government achieve a measurable goal.
It works this way:
- The government sets up a social program with an explicit goal in mind that benefits the local population. These goals include boosting job growth, alleviating homelessness, making health care more accessible to vulnerable communities and reducing prison recidivism in a city, county or state.
- The government taps an external organization to help carry out the SIB project.
- The external organization taps funding from investors through various trusts, foundations, mutual funds, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and high-net worth individuals. And some major investment banks underwrite SIBs.
- The organization also enters into agreement with third-party service providers that help them turn their goal into reality. All shareholders lock into a contract that guarantees that if the goal is met, they receive their money back with interest.
- If the goal is reached (and this is usually determined by an independent evaluator), the government releases funds to the external organization, which then uses the money to pay back the investors.
SIBs are another relatively new financing tool. The first SIB program started in the UK in 2010 with a prisoner recidivism program. Since then, they’ve grown in popularity across the world and have proven to be successful in 18 states.
SIBs offer a tangential benefit to improving systems and disadvantaged populations that would otherwise not see funding. But they’ve attracted criticism for being available only to programs that can outline measurable goals.
Should You Invest Locally?
Investing locally can be a good complement to an existing portfolio and is an excellent way to give back to your community while still earning a reasonable rate of return. There’s a wide variety of options for investing locally. What you choose depends on your risk tolerance and available capital.
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Seven more faith and belief groups are to be permanently represented in the National Service of Remembrance.
This year’s service marks the centenary of the First World War, with the aim that the inclusion of new groups is reflective of the diverse faiths and beliefs that contributed to Britain’s war efforts.
Minister for Faith Lord Bourne said: “It’s absolutely right as a modern, multi-faith society that we step up our efforts to honour those of other faiths for their contribution.
“Because of their bravery and selflessness, we are afforded the privileges and luxuries we enjoy today.”
The groups to be newly represented are: The Zoroastrians, The Coptic Christians, The Jains, The Baha’ís, The Humanists, The Spiritualists and The Mormons.
At present there are 15 faith and belief groups included in the ceremony.
The service, held on the Sunday nearest to November 11 at 11am each year, commemorates British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who lost their lives in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
The Chair of Greater Manchester Humanists, Guy Otten, spoke to Mancunian Matters about the groups’ incorporation into the National Remembrance Service.
“We’re very pleased, we’ve arrived somewhere where we were once marginalised and ignored.”
Whilst Humanism doesn’t depend on a God or transcendental figure, they strongly believe in morality and benefitted the war effort by giving comfort to those who didn’t hold a particular belief or faith.
“Humanists UK have been pressing to be given the chance to contribute to the memorial service,” said Otten.
“Unbelief has grown in the last 50 years,” he added, making their addition reflective of modern Britain.
“We live in a diverse society and we all understand there shouldn’t be discrimination between different belief systems and religions.”
This year’s service will be held on Sunday at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London and will end with a march past of war veterans as a gesture of respect for their fallen comrades.
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Coronavirus is a virus that affects your lungs and airways. Find out about the symptoms of coronarvius and the steps to take to stop it spreading.
What is the latest advice from the Government?
The Government has asked everyone in the UK to stay at home. This means people who are not at very high risk should only leave the house for limited purposes.
- Shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible and online delivery used wherever available.
- One form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household.
- Any medical need, or to provide care and essential support to a vulnerable person.
- Travelling to and from work, but only where this absolutely cannot be done from home.
You should not otherwise leave your home
The Government has made clear that these four reasons are exceptions and you should not otherwise leave your home. For these activities you should continue to observe the advice to remain at least 2 metres apart from others (excluding members of your own household) and minimise time outside. The Government has also closed all non-essential shops and community spaces, as well as all gatherings of more than two people in public.
Everyone must comply
Everyone in the UK must comply with these new measures. The relevant authorities, including the police, will be given the powers to enforce them – including through fines and dispersing gatherings.
Those at 'high risk'
The Government has also issued guidance for a smaller number of people who are at very high risk. They have been advised to self-isolate at home, also known as ‘shielding’, for at least 12 weeks. This means avoiding all face-to-face social contact, remaining in your home and only allowing essential visitors, such as NHS staff or carers (including family carers) to enter your home. If you need to have something delivered or if family and friends are bringing shopping or other essentials, it must be left at the doorstep.
Protecting those at greatest risk
These measures are intended to protect people who are at the greatest risk of severe symptoms and having to go to hospital if they catch coronavirus. NHS England will write to you directly if this advice applies to you with specific guidance for you and the people you live with. In the meantime, if you are unsure you can check the Government guidance and see below for more information.
You need to self-isolate and not leave the house if or anyone you live with have symptoms of coronavirus.
There's more information the symptoms of coronavirus below.
What is Coronavirus?
Novel Coronavirus, formally called COVID-19, is part of a family of viruses that include the common cold and respiratory illnesses such as SARS.
It affects your lungs and airways. For many people, it causes mild symptoms while for others it can be much more serious and require hospital treatment.
Cases of coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan City in China in December last year and have quickly spread. There are now over 180 countries and provinces reporting hundreds of thousands of cases worldwide, including in the UK.
How does Coronavirus spread?
Coronavirus is very infectious, which means it spreads very easily.
It spreads in much the same way as the common cold or flu - through infected respiratory droplets like coughs and sneezes – and passes from person to person. This can happen when:
- an infectious person gets the virus on their hands (for example by coughing in their hand) and then touches a commonly used surface, such as a door handle, which someone else then touches.
- someone gets close to (less than 1-2 metres) someone who is infectious.
This is why we are being advised to avoid close contact with others, wash our hands thoroughly and frequently, and wipe down surfaces with disinfectant.
The average ‘incubation period’ – the time between coming into contact with the virus and experiencing symptoms – is 5 days, but it could be anything between 1 and 14 days. This is why the Government is asking everyone who has come into contact with the virus to self-isolate for 14 days.
People are most likely to spread the virus to other people when they are experiencing symptoms, so it’s important to stay at home for at least 7 days (or longer if your symptoms persist). However, don’t forget people can be infectious before they know they are ill.
What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
The most commons symptoms include:
- a persistant, dry cough
- a high temperature - 37.7°C or above
- shortness of breath.
If you have any of these symptoms, however mild, you must stay at home for at least 7 days.
If someone you live with has any of these symptoms, everyone in the household needs to stay at home for 14 days.
Other symptoms people are reporting include:
- a sore throat
- a blocked/runny nose
- stomach discomfort and diarrhoea.
Why is Coronavirus such a big problem?
Coronavirus has it been declared a ‘pandemic’ by the World Health Organisation. This means there is significant and ongoing spread of the disease across lots of countries.
The Government has called coronavirus a major public health emergency and the most ‘significant threat this country has faced for decades’.
So why is coronavirus such a significant problem? There are a few very simple reasons:
- The virus spreads very easily from person to person – on average people infect between 2 and 3 other people – so, without action, many more people will get infected.
- A large number of people experience few or mild symptoms. This means they may keep doing what they usuall do and spread the virus without realising.
- Although most people experience mild to moderate symptoms, a significant number (around 1 in 5) will need hospital care and some (around 1 in 20) will need critical care. If the virus spreads widely, the NHS will not have enough equipment, doctors or nurses to help everyone who needs it.
- Although most people will experience a mild illness and recover quickly, the fatality rate for coronavirus is much higher than seasonal flu, particularly among people at highest risk.
What is the Government doing about Coronavirus?
The Government, advised by the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser, are trying to stop the virus spreading and protect people who are most at risk. They're doing this by:
- introducing measures such as social distancing and self-isolation for people with symptoms
- asking people with particular health conditions, those aged over 70 and pregnant women to take extra precautions to avoid getting ill
- helping the NHS respond to the virus by increasing the amount of equipment, re-deploying healthcare workers and reducing the amount of non-urgent appointments and services.
This will have a big impact on all of us, and on businesses, so the Government is also taking steps to support the economy and people whose jobs have been affected.
What are the risks of catching Coronavirus?
Anyone can catch coronavirus. It spreads easily from person to person and, if we did nothing, would continue to do so until most people had been infected.
Most people (around 4 out of 5) who get coronavirus will experience mild to moderate symptoms. This might feel like anything from a run of the mill common cold to the flu. For most people this will mean they need to get plenty of rest, stay hydrated and take normal over-the-counter remedies, such as paracetamol.
Unfortunately, around 1 in 5 people who get coronavirus will become severely unwell and need hospital treatment.
Around 1 in 20 people will need critical (intensive) care in hospital.
Are some people more at risk from coronavirus?
Although most people of any age will only experience mild or moderate symptoms, we do know that some people are much more likely than others to become seriously unwell. This includes:
- people aged over the 70, even if you're otherwise fit and well
- people of any age living with long-term health conditions which mean you'd normally be offered the flu jab
There are also some conditions that put people at particularly high risk. The following people may be affected and should receive a letter from the NHS advising them what to do:
- People who've received solid organ transplants.
- People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe COPD.
- People with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as SCID, homozygous sickle cell).
- People on immunosuppression therapies which significantly increase the risk of infection.
- Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired.
- People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy or radical radiotherapy for lung cancer.
- People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment.
- People having immune therapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer.
- People having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors.
- People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs.
Pregnant women have also been advised to be extra careful.
How can I reduce my risk of catching or spreading coronavirus?
The Government has said everyone must practice what's called 'social distancing'. This means you should stay at home at all times. The only times when you may leave your home are:
- to go shopping for essentials, such as food and medicine
- to go out alone or with someone you live with to exercise once a day - this could be a run, a walk or a cycle
- if you have a medical need or are giving care or support to a vulnerable person (this includes volunteering to help people in your community with essential tasks)
- to travel to and from work, but only when you absolutely can't work from home.
You should try to leave your house as little as you possible can. When you do leave your house, you need to stay at least 2 metres away from other people (except members of your own household) and not be outside for very long.
How often should I wash my hands?
You should also make sure you wash your hands, frequently and thoroughly, with soap and hot water.
You should wash your hands:
- for at least 20 seconds or for two rounds of the song ‘Happy Birthday’
- when you get home after going out
- before eating or handling food
- after sneezing or blowing your nose.
Try to avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. You should also make sure you catch coughs or sneezes with a tissue or your sleeve – not your hands – and put used tissues in the bin.
Is there anything I else I can do to avoid getting ill?
The most important thing you can do to avoid getting ill is to make sure you're following the Government's guidance on social distancing and practising good hygiene.
You don't need to wear a face mask. During normal day-to-day activities face masks don’t protect people from viruses like coronavirus. Health and social care professionals will wear masks while delivering care to people who may have the virus, and people who are infected may be advised to wear one – however they are not otherwise recommended.
Although it won't definitely stop you getting coronavirus, it always helps to look after your health.
What should I do if I'm unwell?
Stay at home and for at least 7 days if you have a new, continuous cough or high temperature, even if you're feeling OK.
Stay at home for at least 14 days if you live with other people and you or they develop a new, continuous cough or high temperature. Everyone in the household needs to stay at home for at least 14 days or until they develop symptoms, after which time they must stay at home for a further 7 days (even if this is longer than 14 days in total).
You don’t need to tell the NHS you’re staying at home, and you won’t be tested for coronavirus. You only need to get in touch with the NHS if:
- you don’t feel better after 7 days
- your symptoms are getting worse
- you feel you can’t cope with your symptoms at home.
You should do this by calling 111 or using the NHS online coronavirus service. Do not go to your doctor’s surgery or to hospital.
There are some people who are deemed at particularly high risk if they get coronavirus.
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Science and Engineering Challenge
The Science and Engineering Challenge (the Challenge) is an outreach program aimed at changing student's perceptions of science and engineering.
Through the Challenge, students experience aspects of these disciplines which they would not usually see in their school environment.
By participating in the Challenge students see that science and engineering involves creativity, innovation, problem solving and team work. The Challenge aims to inspire students to consider a future career in science and engineering by choosing to study subjects such as maths, physics and chemistry in Years 11 and 12.
In Tasmania, the Challenge is coordinated by the University of Tasmania in collaboration with the University of Newcastle, and is supported by Rotary International Clubs (in Hobart, Launceston and North West Tasmania) with generous financial support from the Tasmanian Government, TasWater and the University of Tasmania.
How it works
The Science and Engineering Challenge is a set of fun and competitive hands-on activities involving principles of science, engineering and technology.
The concept is to immediately engage students in the activity with a minimum of introduction and theory.
Participating schools select their representative teams of between 24 and 32 students from Years 9 and 10. A total of eight different activities are set for each day, and each school allocates three or four students to each activity. The students are encouraged to explore scientific principles for themselves. Teams are divided into eight groups that compete in one full day or two half day activities.
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Protecting the contents of the profile - mail
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- This article was written for Thunderbird but also applies to Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey (though some menu sequences may differ).
Messages are stored in text files within your profile folder. Somebody else could read them using Thunderbird or by viewing the appropiate file with a text editor. If you want to prevent this the first thing you need to do is decide how much effort to protect your messages is appropiate. The easiest option is to password-protect the profile with an extension, but this is trivial to bypass.
Several methods to consider:
- The ProfilePassword extension requires a user to enter a password in order to use the profile. It is trivial to bypass by running in safe mode (to disable the extension) or by using a text editor such as Notepad to read the text files that Thunderbird stores the messages in. This method may be sufficient if other people accessing the same computer are not technical or if they are unlikely to deliberately snoop.
- The master password is meant to protect your stored passwords, not your profile. If you configure one it will prompt the user for a master password when they run Thunderbird. However, if you press the X control or the cancel button three times its replaced by a prompt for the accounts password , which you can cancel. This method is not recommended, but some users might find it sufficient for casual snoopers. Another solution would be to use a free password safe that can auto-type passwords such as Keepass.
- If you have multiple users on a machine, create a separate Windows user account for each person. Typically this will prevent anybody without admin privileges on that PC from accessing your profile. The easiest way for somebody to bypass that would be to boot another operating system using a bootable rescue CD or flash drive.
- Use operating system commands to restrict access to the files. For example, if you store your profile on a NTFS partition you can right-click on the folder in Windows Explorer, select Properties, the Security tab, and then specify who has access to that folder. That can be bypassed by somebody else with admin privileges, or by booting another operating system using a live CD such as Knoppix. In a business environment an admin might consider using group or system policy settings to restrict access or store it in a password-protected file share on a file server.
- The Professional version of Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows supports encrypting files and folders on NTFS volumes using EFS (encrypted file system). Right click on the profile folder in Windows Explorer, select Properties, Advanced, check "Encrypt contents to secure data" and then press the Apply button. One risk is that another user with admin privileges can decrypt a folder by modifying the Data Recovery Agent configuration and just wait for you to login again. Encrypting a folder doesn't prevent somebody from deleting it or listing its contents so you may want to set the NTFS permissions to prevent that (as described in the preceding paragraph).
- Store the profile on a password-protected encrypted disk partition. You want to use a encrypted disk partition to avoid being prompted to encrypt and decrypt each file. You don't necessarily have to use a real partition, typically this type of software also supports file containers, a way to make to make a file act like a partition. If the profile already exists, move it per these instructions.
- TrueCrypt used to be the most frequently recommended solution due to its good reputation and it supporting Windows, OS X and Linux. Its unclear why the original project suddenly shut down in a bizarre way May 28, 2014, replacing version 7.1a with a version 7.2 that only lets you decrypt existing disk partitions. Verified copies of 7.1a are available at a mirror provided by the OpenSource Audit Project. VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt that supposedly fixes “all the serious security issues and weaknesses found so far in the source code” by the Open Crypto Audit Project. There are a couple of other replacements such as TCnext and CipherShed but they are nowhere near as popular as VeraCrypt.
- Diskcryptor was originally compatible with TrueCrypt but now supports its own format. It supports many configuration options for booting an encrypted operating system , supports Windows LiveCD, and has full support for external storage devices. Its only available for XP and later versions of MS Windows.
- Symantec (they bought PGP) sells PGP whole disk encryption (encrypts entire disk) and PGP Desktop Email (encrypts just your mail). Thunderbird's built-in S/MIME support or the Enigmail (OpenPGP add-on) are free alternatives to PGP Desktop Email. The main problem with protecting your mail by sending and receiving encrypted messages is that you might be willing to deal with the hassles, but most people won't. You will typically have a mixture of encrypted and unprotected messages.
- There is nothing necessarily wrong with the following solutions, but they don't have the same reputation:
- The combination of Rohos Mini Drive and Rohos Disk Browser supports on the fly encryption of FAT32/NTFS partitions on USB flash drives without requiring admin privileges. It might be the best choice for a roaming Windows user. See and for more information.
If you're fanatical about privacy:
- Think about where your temporary files are stored. Thunderbird creates two temporary files when sending a message, and sometimes creates others in a MozillaMailnews subdirectory (in that directory). Opening an attachment will also typically create a temporary file. Under Windows you can set the TMP and TEMP environmental variables to point to where temporary files should be created. You might set it to a small RAM disk or a directory in an existing password-protected encrypted disk partition.
- If you delete a message stored in your POP account or Local Folders directory the original message is still in that folder (just hidden from view and marked for deletion). When you compact a folder it physically deletes the "deleted" messages. It creates a temporary "nstmp" file and then deletes it when it does this. You'd need to use a secure data removal tool to prevent somebody from using a disk editor to read the sectors used to store those messages. However, if you stored the profile on a password-protected encrypted disk partition the messages in the freed sectors should still be encrypted, not clear text.
- A IMAP account stores the headers for each folder in mail summary files on the hard disk. The *.msf files contain the subject and the email addresses for each message. One way to automatically remove those files would be to modify the Thunderbird shortcut to launch a batch file, and have it cleanup when you exit Thunderbird. The first line would launch Thunderbird. The second line could contain something like del accounts_pathname\*.msf /S to delete all of the *.msf files in the IMAP account directory in the profile. Doing this will force Thunderbird to fetch the headers for any remote folder you open (such as the inbox folder) the next time you run it.
- Don't forget about the optional disk cache (Cache directory), offline folders (OfflineCache directory), search index (globl-message-db.sqlite) and *.wdseml files (Windows Search Integration) in the profile. Deleting an account doesn't delete its messages, it just makes Thunderbird forget about that account
- There are products such as Passware Kit Forensic that can within an hour decrypt hard drives encrypted using BitLocker, FileVault and TrueCrypt. It can also recover passwords for PGP virtual disks and Mac keychain files. It doesn't 'break' the encryption, it does a memory dump to extract the keys while the user is logged in. This type of attack has been known for a long while and doesn't work if you power off rather than leave the computer in sleep mode, or dismount the volume. | <urn:uuid:cd4f44cc-ae0b-49ec-9109-e1c9a14c1c2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kb.mozillazine.org/Protect_the_profiles_contents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00256-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907936 | 1,657 | 2.171875 | 2 |
1. Course description.
This two-day course covers one of the most exciting and current topics within the R community. Although traditionally R has not been used for Big Data analytics due to its memory limitations, recent R packages have provided much-needed connectivity for out-of-memory processing with popular Big Data tools such as Hadoop, Spark, SQL and NoSQL databases etc. During this intense and skills-oriented course you will learn:
- to use third-party R packages, which support parallel computing in order to increase the speed and processing capabilities of R,
- to work on large data sets in the Cloud (Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2) through R deployed on the server,
- to implement MapReduce framework through Hadoop straight from R console,
- to manage Hadoop Distributed File System and HBase database through R,
- to connect to and extract, aggregate and manage the data in major relational SQL-based database management systems (RDBMSs) using a variety of R packages,
- to apply NoSQL queries to access, transform and manipulate large data sets in MongoDB using R packages,
- to improve the data flow and speed of processing of large data sets through R’s connectivity with Spark,
- to implement selected Big Data tools in the Big Data Product Cycle with R.
During this course attendees will run R on a Hadoop/Spark cluster and will accomplish several simple parallel jobs.
The course will be presented by Simon Walkowiak - an author of "Big Data Analytics with R" and Mind Project's expert in Big Data architecture for predictive modelling. Simon has delivered numerous "Big Data Methods in R" training courses at various institutions, financial/business organisations, governmental departments and UK universities (including Big Data & Analytics Summer School organised by the Institute for Analytics and Data Science). He is also a former Data Curator at the UK Data Archive - the largest socio-economic digital data depository in Europe.
The course will run for two days from 9:30am until ~5:00pm and will consist of alternating lecture-style presentations and practical tutorials. The example datasets used during tutorial sessions will come from social sciences, economics and business fields, however the contents may vary depending on specific interests of participants (based on the Participant's Skills Inventory). There will be two 15-minute coffee/tea breaks and one 1-hour lunch break during each day.
3. What is included?
Apart from the contents of the course, Mind Project will provide the participants with the following:
- a digital (USB memory stick) Course Manual including all presentation slides, R course codes and a list of reference books and online resources,
- additional home exercises and all data sets available to download,
- Wi-Fi access,
- Central London location - at the Ironmongers' Hall, next to the Barbican station and the Museum of London,
- networking opportunity,
- Mind Project course attendance certificate.
4. Further instructions.
- In order to fully benefit from the Seminar, we recommend that attendees bring their personal laptops to the session with the most recent version of R and R Studio software installed and at least one of the following web browsers: Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox and/or Internet Explorer. As R is a free environment you can download it directly from www.r-project.org website and R Studio is available at https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/#Desktop. Please contact us should you have any questions or issues with the installation process. No specific R packages are required before the course (the course tutors will explain this during the training).
- This course is targeted at users with some R experience (preferably at Intermediate level) and interest in Big Data analytics. Our “Applied Data Science in R” training course is a good pre-requisite to participate in this course.
- Participants are encouraged to complete the online Participant's Skills Inventory available at http://mindproject.co.uk/skillsinventory.html to allow Mind Project and our course tutors to customise the contents of the course depending on the level of participants' knowledge and their areas of interest. The data obtained through the Participant's Skills Inventory will be held fully-confidential and will only be used to provide a quality data analysis training.
- By purchasing a place on one of our courses you agree to the Terms and Conditions available at http://mindproject.co.uk/trainingterms.html. Please read the Terms and Conditions before making a booking.
- The deadline for registrations on this training course is Tuesday, 11th of October 2016 at 16:00 London (UK) time. However, Mind Project reserves the right to end the registration process earlier if all places are booked before the deadline.
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According to the World Health Organization, one in three people, around three billion in total worldwide, suffer from some element of malnutrition — either not enough to eat, nothing to eat at all, the wrong kinds of calories, or too much to eat.
Malnutrition includes more than just not having enough food, notes Geeta Sethi, advisor and global lead for food systems at the World Bank. With obesity rates at all-time highs in many developed nations, coming to terms with the fact that a third of all people aren’t properly nourished is only the beginning in building a global food system for a future in which climate change and other challenges loom large.
“Without a doubt, our current food system has provided caloric efficiencies for billions of people over many decades. That said, we’ve reached a point where current food systems are really creating a bankrupt planet and unhealthy people,” says Sethi, who will speak at the upcoming World Agri-Trade Innovation Summit.
“The fact is we cannot talk about agriculture alone when we talk about building modern, resilient food systems. We cannot meet the future without food systems being transformed. That requires a very different kind of a lens in terms of how we are now thinking about feeding nine billion people by 2050.”
Sethi is lead architect of the World Bank’s Food System Transformation agenda, a food system that focuses on what it calls a triple bottom line — prosperity, sustainability and healthy people. She also manages the World Bank’s program on Food Loss and Waste Reduction.
She has more than 20 years’ experience working as an economist on fragile, low-, and middle-income countries. What she’s seeing at the moment is a world where the hidden costs of the current global food system amount to $12 trillion, according to the 2019 Food and Land Use Coalition report, Growing Better: 10 Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use. The World Bank is a partner in the coalition.
That’s not to mention supply chain difficulties caused by world events that we are woefully unprepared for. Bottom line, she says, is the current global food system is broken and has to be fixed.
Allocating Money Differently
But what needs to change in order to do that? A complete refinancing of food systems around the globe and the shift from large global food systems to many local ones designed to withstand challenges like climate change, poverty, and health crises like global pandemics.
“Close to $700 billion a year of public support is going into food systems, but it’s going to food systems in a way that’s creating these kinds of distortions in terms of people’s health and the planet’s health,” Sethi says.
The hidden costs of current global food and land use systems amount to $12 trillion compared to a market value of the global food system of $10 trillion, the Growing Better report notes.
“If a production system costs more than it the value of what it provides, that system is fundamentally broken and the way it is financed has to change,” she says.
That requires a repurposing of the $700 billion in public funding that goes into the global food system, which ultimately does not provide those one in three people with a proper diet.
“The international poverty line is $1.90. The cost of a healthy diet is close to $4 per capita. There is no way for three billion people to afford a healthy diet, yet those very people are paying billions into the food system that isn’t serving their needs,” Sethi says.
“Instead, could we not think about supporting them with very enhanced social protection programs that are actually coming out of public monies already allocated to agriculture?”
This, she says, would cause a domino effect.
“If more people can afford a healthy diet, food manufacturing itself will be transformed. When more people are demanding healthy food, that rewards the producers of healthy food, which in turns makes it more affordable for everyone, but especially lower-income households. At the same time, producers of unhealthy food are penalized.”
According to the Growing Better report, more people demanding healthy food would spur CEOs and company boards to recognize the risks of a business-as-usual strategy and commit their companies to science-based targets in line with initiatives like the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The private sector would put in place easily monitored plans for reshaping their supply chains, product development, and marketing strategies in line with healthier diets and nature-based solutions, expanding choice and inclusion.
Additionally, they would work more closely working with government, academia and civil society, which are the best determiners of what functional global food systems of the future look like, the report adds.
Plant Science Plays a Crucial Role
As consumers demand more healthy, fresh food regardless of where they live, a problem inevitably arises: how can the shelf life of said healthy food be improved to meet the demand?
“Anything that increases the shelf life of food without impacting nutrient content will be welcome. Perishables are prone to higher losses and waste. A major challenge for the developing world is that due to inadequate agro-logistics, fresh food can’t reach shelves. That’s where technology is needed to improve the shelf life of healthy food so that food has a chance to actually get to consumers,” Sethi says.
Breeding for climate change is also critical. She notes that crops which are in demand by consumers must be nutritious while also being resilient to drought and flood.
“Plant breeding will be a crucial part of a suite of technologies that will help us meet the demands of climate change and a rising global population. Plant varieties adapted to local conditions will be a necessity as the current global food system is replaced by a network of local supply chains that put a focus on human health, sustainability and economic prosperity.”
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BOTH THE GARDA Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and the Minister for Justice France Fitzgerald have commented in recent times about the possibility that Islamic State terrorists may attempt to enter Ireland.
Both have suggested that community policing and sections of the Special Detective Unit (SDU) will be providing the first line of defence for our national security. Community policing will be providing intelligence on potential terrorists through their relationships developed within the immigrant community.
I don’t claim to know much about the SDU or the sections that operate within it, but I do know that surveillance is hugely resource intensive. I very much doubt that this unit would be able to provide meaningful and sustained surveillance given the resources at their disposal.
Building relationships in the community
Community policing on the on the other hand is something I am very familiar with having spent the bones of twenty years involved in it. Given the current state of community policing in this country is it really capable of providing that first line of defence?
Probably not, given that community policing no longer exists. It has been deliberately and knowingly deconstructed by a combination of an incompetent leadership and political interference. Anyone who claims otherwise is either misinformed or is being economical with the truth.
Historically, An Garda Siochana was always enshrined in the community. There were always gardai who became involved in sports clubs, called into primary schools and became part of the social fabric of the community. During the late eighties there was a feeling that gardai were becoming disconnected from the general public and ‘Community Policing’ was introduced in an effort to reverse that trend.
Over the following twenty years, that’s exactly what it did. Initially, community gardai were tasked with developing Neighbourhood Watch, a crime prevention strategy, and the Garda Schools Programme. Beyond that there wasn’t much of a plan but, as time passed, community policing teams pushed the envelope and developed very successful methods of community engagement.
Some areas of the country were more successful than others, so in 2007 a decision was made to develop a National Model of Community Policing to standardise it across the jurisdiction.
The heart of Irish policing
Also in 2007, the Garda Inspectorate published a report, “Policing in Ireland – Looking Forward”. This report stated that, “Community policing should be at the heart of policing in Ireland. An Garda Siochana must strive continuously to maintain the confidence of the community. It must be the fundamental policing philosophy at the core of the organisation.
That can only be achieved with the commitment of the entire force from top to bottom”.
This was welcomed by those who were involved in community policing because it was the first sign of official recognition since its inception in the late eighties. Up until then, this aspect of policing was very much the poor relation.
Publicly, senior officers were supportive but privately, very few bought into the philosophy believing instead that if you weren’t chasing criminals in a patrol car then you weren’t doing anything worthwhile. If there was a shortage of resources, then community policing officers were first to be redeployed. This too has recently been acknowledged by the report of the Garda Inspectorate.
Cracks begin to appear
Any hope that the National Model of Community Policing was going to was going to ride in on a white steed and save the day was quickly dispelled. It was launched in 2009, but the ink wasn’t dry on the National Model when cracks began to appear.
The extra resources that had been recommended in the document were no longer available. The embargo on recruitment was putting a strain on already depleted numbers employed on regular duties. A new roster system was being developed for the purpose of creating a better work life balance. A fifth shift was being created and members of the community policing teams would be required to make up the numbers.
The consequences of this in simple language were that community policing officers were now operating in a shift pattern completely unsuited to community engagement. It meant ten hour shifts, the majority being afternoon and night shifts, working as part of a unit with four days off at a time.
Effectively, this put huge restraints on the amount of time they could commit to community engagement during daytime. There could only be one outcome. Community policing would fail and fail it did.
Dedicated units needed
The recent report of the Garda Inspectorate has confirmed this. Community policing is practically non-existent in Ireland as of December 2015, “..there are concerns about the resourcing levels currently deployed to community policing duties. The Inspectorate found significant reductions in the number of members assigned to community policing and some divisions have no dedicated community policing units”.
It also confirmed what we already knew, that the roster introduced to community policing was, and still is, unsuitable to community engagement.
“Before moving to a new roster, a police service should be certain that it provides the best possible match to policing demands”. This clearly didn’t happen. It further states that the ‘one fits all’ type roster system was never going to work and it calls for that to be revisited. But that’s too late for community policing.
Many of us argued against the imposition of a new roster. Once it became inevitable that change was coming I forcefully argued for an alternative roster for community policing. I personally had many discussions with senior officers arguing that community policing would not survive.
I warned that the relationships that had been developed over twenty five years would be lost within a very short period. The trust would be broken and this would be difficult to restore. The outcome was predictable and, having spent the guts of twenty years involved in community policing, it was very difficult to accept.
The envy of other countries
In 2009, I spoke to a gathering of police officers at a conference in Barcelona and I outlined the model of community engagement that we were using in Ireland. I explained the type of relationships we had with local authorities, voluntary and statutory organisations and the general public and the various fora we used to engage with all elements of the community.
During many subsequent conversations with other delegates, I came to realise that we had something that other jurisdictions were extremely envious of. They would have given their right arm to have what we had and we just discarded it.
The most infuriating aspect of this is that it was all so obvious to everyone except those ‘experts’ charged with designing and implementing the new roster system. Privately, during numerous discussions, many officers admitted to me that they were not in favour of the changes.
Privately, many expressed the opinion that these proposed rosters were a disaster. Now, after the damage has been done, the Inspectorate report recommends, “To develop multiple rosters that optimise the deployment of all garda resources and specific rosters for those responding to calls for service, those on national, regional and divisional units such as traffic and community policing”.
The emperor has no clothes
Which begs the question, if so many senior officers were against the changes, how did they come into force? Unfortunately, it’s not too difficult to understand. The simple answer is that no officer was prepared to stand up and be counted. None of them had the courage to point out that the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes. It was never an option to speak out because to have done so would have had the potential to impact negatively on their chances for promotion.
In my experience, officers generally don’t have any long term plans for their areas of responsibility.
They tend to operate on an annual target of getting to the next promotion interview without having made a mistake. Without having dropped the ball. The priority during their tenure is to maintain a steady course, follow orders, get to the next interview in the best possible shape and hope for the best.
Controversy is to be avoided at all costs and most importantly, always follow the party line.
As a result of this, the community gardaí that remain are now employed performing duties that have little to do with their job description. Some have asked to be reassigned while others continue to be frustrated by a system that denies them the opportunity to do what they know needs to be done. The remainder seem to have accepted their fate and they now concentrate their efforts on regular policing duties while enjoying their four days off.
What will the organisation learn?
So what of the decision makers who are responsible for creating this shambles, what is to become of them? What sanctions will they face for creating such a fiasco? What will the organisation learn from this and what will be the response to the recommendations contained in the report of the Garda Inspectorate? Don’t expect too much. They will probably keep their heads down, ignore any criticism, implement a few minor changes as a token gesture to the Inspectorate and carry on as before and wait for the next promotion interview.
Now this brings us back to the remarks of the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner who are both of the opinion that community policing will be providing the intelligence on potential IS terrorists who at some point in the future, may decide to live among us.
These gardaí will be providing the first line of defense, apparently.
Is it possible that the Minister and the Commissioner are not aware that their first line of defence has disappeared? Is it the case that the nodding donkeys have once again failed to break the news of the naked emperor?
It would appear that we are putting our protection against IS in the hands of people who don’t exist. They in turn are being controlled by people who don’t know that they don’t exist while all the time receiving encouragement from the nodding donkeys that everything is going according to plan.
Trevor has recently retired after 35 years service in An Garda Siochana. He previously worked with the United Nations in Cyprus as Sector Commander. He was involved in the design and implementation of the National Model of Community Policing which was designed to provide training and instruction on the introduction of community policing to all areas of the country. He was involved in a two year European project on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design which examined crime prevention initiatives across the EU and was responsible for writing the final report which he presented to the EU Commission in Brussels. He introduced an anti racism initiative in Cork City. He is currently on the board of the Chernobyl Children’s Trust.
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"Meditation is a simple way to balance states of mind through proper concentration and awareness". It is considered one of the higher practices of yoga to re-establish the mind in its pure nature. Several philosophies and techniques found meditation as a way of self realization and enlightenment. Meditation is all about the harmony of mind that brings a person into unity and tranquility. When mind is peaceful, calm and free from all obstacles, then meditation takes place.
According to yoga meditation is defined as "तत्र प्रत्ययैकतानता ध्यानम्" which means "Once concentration is transferred to the oneness to attain the contemplation is known as meditation". The term meditation refers to a variety of practices that involves various techniques to promote peace of mind, stillness and attaining a state of true consciousness. | <urn:uuid:4007747d-85bc-47e5-8b02-3ae40dc81007> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theyogshala.com/meditation.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947598 | 196 | 2.765625 | 3 |
For the first time, SpaceX has converted a flight-proven Falcon Heavy side core into a Falcon 9 booster and successfully launched the reborn rocket, carrying an Italian Earth observation satellite to orbit with one of the most visually spectacular Falcon launches in recent memory.
After a tortured campaign of four scrubbed or aborted launch attempts between January 27th and 30th, Falcon 9 finally lifted off from SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) LC-40 pad at 6:11 pm EST (23:11 UTC) on Monday, January 31st. The converted Falcon Heavy booster performed perfectly on its first solo mission, successfully carrying a Falcon upper stage and Italy’s CSG-2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite to an altitude of 70 km (~45 mi) and a velocity of ~1.7 km/s (Mach 5) – effectively the edge of space.
Thanks to near-perfect weather and the timing of the launch about 15 minutes after sunset, Falcon Heavy side core B1052’s first mission as a Falcon 9 booster wound up producing some of the best views of a SpaceX launch in the company’s history. As the rocket ascended, the sky continued to darken for local ground observers. It wasn’t long before Falcon 9’s shiny, white airframe ascended into direct sunlight, which created some extraordinary contrast against the darkening sky for tracking cameras near the launch site.
Thanks to the near-perfect conditions and the skill of one particular camera operator, webcast viewers were left with some of the best remote views of booster main engine cutoff (MECO), stage separation, and second stage startup ever recorded – let alone broadcast live. Additionally, the timing of the launch worked out such that the dusk Florida sky was still lit up when booster B1052 touched down at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Landing Zone (LZ-1) for the third time.
Almost exactly an hour after liftoff, Falcon 9’s upper stage successfully deployed CSG-2 into a polar sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) around 600 km (375 mi) above Earth’s surface, capping off SpaceX’s fourth launch this year.
Known as Starlink 4-7, SpaceX’s next launch could occur as early as 1:56 pm EST (18:56 UTC) on Tuesday, February 1st – potentially less than 20 hours after CSG-2. Just ~25 hours after that Another Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to attempt to launch the United States’ NROL-87 spy satellite(s) from SpaceX’s West Coast launch site around 12:18 pm PST (20:18 UTC), Wednesday, February 2nd. A third Falcon 9 mission – Starlink 4-7 – is also expected to launch sometime later this week. | <urn:uuid:c5f63207-61bc-4025-8415-6b94feca8a58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-converted-falcon-heavy-booster-launch-debut/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.927815 | 585 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Editor’s Note: This article is the second of two parts on the Sedalia School District 200’s five-year strategic plan.
The Sedalia School District 200 plans on making upgrades to technology and improve curriculum in its five-year strategic plan. Board of Education members heard from the district’s Director of Technology Jim Allain during Monday night’s work session on the district’s infrastructure. Allain said the district has completed the district-wide infrastructure with saturated wireless installations in the five elementary schools. He said in his report, “we have had some hiccups with filtering, but are getting it ironed out.”
The number of devices has also been increased in the past year with the major increase in mobile devices such as iPads and Chromebooks. The number of iPad tablets for the district stands at 387 and the number of Chromebooks is listed at 260. The district has 2,602 laptops. The district’s staff email has been changed over to Gmail and staff home directories are on GoogleDocs as of this month.
Allain said the district has replaced five old servers with two large-capacity servers that contain several virtual servers to cut down on space and cost and increase speed and capacity. In the next five years, the number of physical servers will be cut and larger servers containing multiple virtual servers will be added.
At Smith-Cotton High School, all old analog phones in the lower level have been replaced with newer IP phones like the rest of the district. Newer phones are planned for the upper level this summer.
In addition to the increase in mobile devices, the district has plans to increase its bandwidth from 200 to 500 megabits, which will increase download speeds.
In the next five years, several curriculum changes will be made at Sedalia 200.
Aligning the curriculum to current Missouri Learning Standards will take effect with English and math ready by the end of 2017-18. Science standards will be met by August 2018-19 and social studies will be ready in August 2019-20.
Sedalia 200 will also implement a school-wide STEM system by the end of 2018-29. STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications.
The Sedalia FIT program, which gives 120 seniors the chance to participate in real-world career internships, will be expanded to the entire junior and senior class.
As far as instruction, district goals are to integrate technology into the physical classroom, becoming a school system that goes beyond its walls and physical limitations. Professional development will shift the implementation of technology into the classroom, while maintaining a focus on cooperative learning.
The board will vote on this strategic plan at a later date.
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The real Unabomber cabin at the Newseum via Artnet.com and the replica cabin at the New Museum via the New Museum.Somewhere deep in Colorado's Supermax Prison—home to notorious criminals such as Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber; Ramzi Yousef, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing accomplice; and Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator—Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was leisurely reading the June 19 edition of the Washington Post when he noticed something familiar. There, featured prominently in a full-page ad for the Newseum in Washington, D.C., was Kaczynski's very own cabin, which is part of an exhibition about the F.B.I. Kaczynski fired off a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals complaining about the publicity surrounding the relocation of his shack.Little did Kaczynski realize that a museum by a similar name, the New Museum, which recently opened in New York City, has been displaying an identical replica to his cabin for the past month.
Considering that Kaczynski huts seem to be such hot property these days, and given that Kaczynski himself has such an affinity for putting pen to paper, perhaps we should ready ourselves for another Unabomber manifesto, this time about real estate and its future. Even though Kaczynski might not have a lot to say about mortgage-backed securities, he likely has quite a bit to say about, er, maximum security. | <urn:uuid:e8eaf388-3d47-45ce-ae8a-a6b3cdbfed2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/08/the-unabomber-and-his-cabin-duo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965369 | 311 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Governor to speak at Fort Stanton veterans cemetery ceremony
Fort Stanton is the first of four new state veterans cemeteries approved, the first to be funded
- Cemetery offers peaceful and historic setting for families of deceased
- More than 400 expected to attend the groundbreaking
On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Gov. Susana Martinez is set to fly into Capitan by helicopter and be escorted by high school students and faculty to Fort Stanton for the ground-breaking ceremony of New Mexico's new state veterans' cemetery.
Larry Holt, volunteer coordinator for the Merchant Marine and Military Cemetery at the historic fort, briefed Lincoln County commissioners Tuesday on the big celebration, the culmination of more than a decade of hard work and lobbying.
The aim of developing four new cemeteries in the state promoted by Martinez is to provide honorable and convenient resting places for the state's veterans and their dependants, he said. Veterans cemeteries will follow in Gallup next year and then Angel Fire and Carlsbad later.
"It's been a long struggle to get these veterans cemeteries into effect," he said. "I would like to thank the county, villages and veterans organizations and general population and businesses, who supported the initiative to bring a state's veterans cemetery to Fort Stanton."
Volunteers have been working since 2000 to bring the plan to fruition, he said.
"It will be known as the Fort Stanton State Veterans Cemetery," Holt said. "The location originally started 116 years ago as a United States Public Hospital cemetery and operated under federal jurisdiction until 1973. The U.S. Public Health Service gave the property to the state, and it has been open ever since for the burial of anyone eligible to be buried in the national (military) cemetery."
The current rate of burials is about 18 per year, he said. But with another six acres, he anticipates 100 per year. The project was awarded $5.7 million in federal dollars and $1 million from the state, he said.
A leaking water tank needs to be replaced for about $250,000, a road built from New Mexico Highway 220 for $500,000 and a water pipeline installed, Holt said.
The new cemetery lies east of the original burial area and will accomodate 510 crypts, 140 in-ground cremation plots and 480 niches within a structure. Each will hold two set of remains, creating the potential of 2,250 graves in phase one, which should last about 22 years, Holt said.
"When an extension is needed, there will be federal money available for that," he said. The site north of Ruidoso offers plenty of additional acreage.
Holt noted that the groundbreaking is set for the 11th month, the 11th day and the 11th hour, which is fitting for the anniversary of the Armistice for the "war to end all wars."
Construction on the cemetery should wind up in 12 months to 15 months, he said
"We. hope to have the contractor there (at the ceremony)," he said. "The bids all are in and cover water, electric and construction."
Besides the governor as keynote speaker, veterans officials from state and federal agencies are expected to attend, he said.
"We're looking for more than 400 people at the ground breaking," Holt said.
The National Guard will bring sun shelters and help set up for the event, he said.
Retire Army Col. Tom Stewart, a county commissioner who also advocated for the cemetery, will introduce Veterans Services State Cabinet Secretary Jack R. Fox.
"The cemetery will meet national cemetery standards" with full-time personnel, consistent maintenance and an administration building for families to gather, Holt said.
"It will be an honorable place for our nation's heroes to be buried," he said. "The fort (established in 1855 and now a state historic site) is lucky to be first in the state. We'll have as many or more veterans cemeteries than any other state, certainly the newest.
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--yes, it does still exist; it is just an online-only publication now--recently speculated about the possibility of military hostilities between NATO and Russia, in the article, Stopping Putin: The Military Option
So far, the West has deployed its economic and diplomatic might to punish and deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from those “additional plans” -- invading the rest of Ukraine.
Yet the West’s strongest option remains untouched: Military action.
While Russia rolled its forces into Crimea, the West clearly has kept its armies confined to barracks. So far the U.S. and its NATO allies have merely offered Ukraine limited military support and have flexed their military muscles in other ways. ...
An estimated 30,000 Russian troops are currently positioned near Ukraine’s eastern border. Russia’s defense minister assured his American counterpart last week that the Russian Army will not move further into Ukraine. But Ukrainians – and many observers elsewhere – fear a Russian invasion is possible. ...
If NATO wanted to wade into a battle with Russia, Moscow would meet a formidable foe. NATO could deploy its rapid response force to halt the Russian advance or provide air support to the beleaguered Ukrainian military.
But military strategists reject those options as profoundly unlikely.
No matter what Russia does in Ukraine – even in the case of a full-scale invasion – there is little chance NATO, or the U.S. acting independent of the alliance, will engage in a shooting war with Russian troops.
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Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 gives everyone a right of access to information held by Scottish Public authorities.
As of 11th November 2019, Cassiltoun Housing Association has been designated as a Scottish Public Authority under this Act and is therefore required to appoint a Data Protection Officer. We have engaged the services of RGDP LLP (www.rgdp.co.uk). To contact them please email email@example.com and copy us in at firstname.lastname@example.org.
In Scotland, the order is cited as the Freedom of Informaiton (Scotland) Act 2002 (Designation of Persons as Scottish Public Authorities) Order.
The aim of the Act is to increase openness and transparency by allowing people to access information about how decisions are taken and how public services are delivered | <urn:uuid:5feaaa53-3ba1-4f9b-8bfc-88f3edd803d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cassiltoun.org.uk/freedom-of-information-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.956292 | 173 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Quebec's New Code of Civil Procedure in Force Since January 1st
The Quebec Ministry of Justice website has posted material explaining the main highlights of the changes:
"The new Code of Civil Procedure is intended to make the civil justice system more accessible, while protecting the rights of all parties to state their claims before a court.
To reduce delays in the justice system, the new Code gives priority to amicable dispute resolution processes such as mediation, arbitration and conciliation, which are less confrontational, more accessible and more likely to ensure a quick outcome."
"Parties that opt for a traditional trial in court must ensure that all their applications, pleadings and evidence are proportionate to the nature and complexity of the case, in order to prevent abuses of procedure."
"Judges will have greater powers to manage cases, in particular to ensure compliance with the principles of proportionality and cooperation at the heart of the new Code of Civil Procedure. For example, they will be able to reduce the number of examinations and expert opinions required; both these elements have often been identified as causing significant costs or delays for citizens." | <urn:uuid:317595e5-a0c5-416d-bb12-24155e829311> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2016/01/quebecs-new-code-of-civil-procedure-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00551-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942129 | 225 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
Place of publication, production, or execution:
4.0 linear ft.
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Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
The papers of internationally renowned glass artist and sculptor, Mary Shaffer, measure four linear feet and date from 1969 to 2002. Through correspondence, subject files, printed material and photographs the collection provides an overview of many aspects of Shaffer's career, including commissions, exhibitions, her teaching appointments, and the day-to-day administration of her affairs.
Correspondence files cross-referenced with records organized by subject provide insight into Shaffer's artistic aspirations and techniques, and represent a good overview of Shaffer's important contribution to the American Studio Glass Movement. These two series document her interaction with galleries, museums, and individual clients, her work as an educator, and her participation in glass and sculpture-related conferences and programs both at home and abroad. The collection provides solid documentation of specific methods used by Shaffer in her work, particularly in Series 3: Center-Light Project, which details her choice and designs for glass notching tubes, plate glass, fiber optics, and other materials. Additional commissions and techniques are documented in Series 1 and 2.
Printed Material, Series 4, contains exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, magazines and other publications reproducing Shaffer's work, providing a good overview of the progress of Shaffer's career and an understanding of the significance of her work. Photographs include several of Shaffer's work, ca. 1970s-1980s, and of Shaffer attending various events, 1986-1990.
Mary Shaffer papers, 1969-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Mary Shaffer (1947-) is a sculptor and glass artist working in Rhode Island, New York, N.Y., and Maryland. Shaffer is recognized worldwide as one of the founding artists of the American Studio Glass Movement. In the 1970s and 1980s Shaffer taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wellesley College, and New York University where she was Director of the Crafts Program in the Department of Art and Art Education. She also managed the Art Center at the University of Maryland in the 1980s. From 1975 on, she exhibited her work at O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, and other glass-specific or craft venues.
Donated 2002 by Mary Shaffer as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
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http://betterbook.com/wine Expert sommelier and wine educator Marnie Old guides you through four premium varieties of red wine: Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Shiraz or Syrah. Learn the difference between each variety, as well as how to choose the best bottle of red for your tastes.
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Grape Trellis Basics
Vines cannot support themselves, so you need a trellis not only for support but also for making sure that your grapes grow healthy and properly. The trellis will also train them to grow upwards. In order to make sure the grape vine will produce quality grapes, you need to install the trellises at least eight by eight feet from each other.Vineyard Grapes – Pest Control Ideas
Vineyard grapes, much like other plants, can be prone to infestations of different kinds of pests, such as animals, diseases and insects. These problems can really affect not only your productivity, but also the quality of your produce. If you do not want to experience such problems, you should know the pest control ideas below.The Wine and the Italians
Three out of four Italians love wine, almost one in two makes it a daily use, making it a wife rather than a lover. A menage that is not always accompanied by a thorough knowledge, but that lasts over time, between the Italians and their national drink. The study reveals a study sponsored by the Center Veronafiere and announced at the opening day of the edition number 43 of Vinitaly, the largest event dedicated to the nectar of Bacchus and the world that revolves around, the party in the city yesterday availability.Determining the Right Wine Making Recipe
Creating your own wine is an incredibly rewarding experience and it will even amaze your family and friends when you serve wine that you have produced with the help of a proper wine making recipe. An excellent recipe will help you to really amaze your dinner guests when they enjoy wine you have produced yourself from your own vines.Fine Wine Requires Extra Effort and Care During the Vinification and Fermentation Processes
If anything can be said about the making of excellent wine, then vinification and the wine-makers work begins first and foremost always in vineyards. Is it worth all this extra effort and organization to produce a fine wine product? You be the judge at the end as you carefully taste your finished wine product.Secrets to White Wine Making
There are various interesting combinations when it comes to the white wine making process. For instance, cream sauced seafood matches very well with chardonnay, while other sauced seafood matches better with dry Riesling due to its very subtle taste. Similarly, Chenin Blanc matches well with various other combinations containing various other kinds of seafood such as crabs, lobsters and shellfish. All of these combinations can be done at home and used to accompany wine.Secrets to Wine Making at Home
You can begin wine making at home with some basic recipes that can aid you in improving your wine making skills, as well as give you more expertise in creating the ideal wine blend. In reality, all you really need is the correct ingredients paired with the knowledge on how to make wine of top quality.Strange Alcohol Trivia
The imbibing of alcoholic beverages is an integral part of many human societies. In fact some researchers believe that the first beverages that were produced by humans were alcoholic in nature, and these spirits may be the very catalyst for the development of civilization as we know it. The following are a series of unusual facts about concerning various spirits. These are obscure pieces of trivia that may come in handy the next time you are sitting at a bar, looking for something to talk about.Benefits of Drinking Wine
In May 1990, an article appeared in HEALTH Magazine that addressed the “French paradox.” Even more people heard about this issue on a 60 Minutes television segment based on the article. The basis of the paradox was that French people (who consume a lot of cheese, meat, butter, and red wine) have half the death rate from heart disease as that of Americans.Step by Step Home Winemaking, Bottling and Aging Your Wine
This article is about bottling and aging your home made wine. I touch on a few options you have when choosing a proper seal for your wine, as well as how long to age your wine before drinking. | <urn:uuid:b1f8c5eb-15e2-42e2-9f9e-ee764ff27771> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://giftmewine.com/pinot-noir-merlot-cabernet-sauvignon-shiraz-syrah-red-wine-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963963 | 987 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Hundreds of trees will grow at the World Trade Center site, formerly known as ground zero.
About 400 swamp white oak and sweetgum trees will stretch out above the 9/11 Memorial's plaza, creating a rustling canopy of leaves. The trees were harvested within a 500-mile radius of the WTC site, including Pennsylvania and near Washington D.C., areas that were targeted on 9/11.
Until the trees can be transplanted at the site in the coming months, the arboreal lot is receiving quality care at a Millstone Township, N.J., nursery.
While a tree famously grows in Brooklyn, hundreds will inch toward the sky in lower Manhattan.
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By Todd Richmond, Associated Press Writer
LA CROSSE, Wis. There is no serial killer, investigators insist, no boogeyman lurking in college-area bars, waiting to drown good-looking young men.
Since 1997, eight college-aged men have drunk heavily at local taverns, then turned up dead in one of the area's rivers.
Each death rekindled the killer talk, but FBI profilers and other investigators have all reached the same conclusion: The deaths were accidents.
With no murderous stalker to blame, people will have to take responsibility for what happens when they get drunk, said Paula Knutson, dean of students at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
"The report will help students," she said. "There was doubt in their mind, which removed a sense of accountability. ... This helps say 'OK, we've got a problem here when it comes to excessive drinking.'"
The city of 50,000 lies on the Mississippi River about two hours southeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. About 15,000 students attend its three colleges -- UW-La Crosse, Western Technical College and Viterbo University.
Wisconsin's love affair with beer and breweries is on full display here: A set of large storage tanks at City Brewery is advertised as the world's largest six-pack, and thousands attend the annual Oktoberfest.
Every weekend students jam the downtown bars, which border Riverside Park where the Black and La Crosse rivers join the Mississippi.
The series of mysterious deaths began in July 1997, when the body of 19-year-old Richard Hlavaty was found in the Mississippi. The rumors became near hysteria in 2004 when the body of UW-La Crosse wrestler Jared Dion, 21, was found in the Mississippi off Riverside Park.
Police were heckled when they held a community meeting to assure the public the drownings were accidents. People accused them of ignoring obvious connections between the deaths -- all men, all white, all disappeared downtown.
The rumors erupted again last September, when UW-La Crosse basketball player Luke Homan was found dead in the Mississippi after a night of drinking.
A month and a half later, Minneapolis police classified the drowning there of a University of Minnesota student who had vanished from a downtown bar as a murder. In December, a criminologist at Minnesota's St. Cloud State University said more than 20 college-aged men had drowned after disappearing from bars or parties since 1997 in an area from Minnesota to Ohio.
Tired of the rumors, La Crosse police asked the FBI's National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime to review their investigations, and on Aug. 21 Police Chief Ed Kondracki announced that the FBI had found no evidence to support the serial killer theory.
The chief said the report noted that eight other people who survived falls into water in the area reported no contact with anyone else, and that there had been no reports of suspicious people approaching men in the areas where the victims were last seen.
The FBI also reported that student volunteers who began patrolling the park after Homan's death encountered about 40 drunk people along the water, Kondracki said.
Kondracki didn't release the report, saying it's FBI property. The FBI hasn't responded to an Associated Press request for a copy under the Freedom of Information Act.
Since Homan's death, city leaders have enacted a public intoxication ordinance and spent about $60,000 on fencing in Riverside Park. A consortium of local medical centers is studying ways to reduce alcohol-related injuries. Three colleges launched a safe drinking campaign.
However, signs at Coconut Joe's still invite students to "Get Goosed Up" on $2.50 back-to-school mixers.
Bars have to offer drink specials to compete, said Dave Parisey, owner of the downtown Popcorn Tavern and president of the La Crosse City and County Tavern League. The solution, he said, is teaching kids in high school and at home about alcohol abuse.
"(Parents) can't just send their kids up here and expect us to baby-sit them," Parisey said.
La Crosse Mayor Mark Johnsrud said he considered widespread drinking at house parties a greater problem than bars' drink specials, and said many students are drunk before they ever get downtown.
"You're always going to see cheap drinks in a college town," Johnsrud said.
And not everyone believes the FBI.
Viterbo junior Tina Kothbauer, 20, of Durand, said she thinks police are squelching the serial killer theory to avoid publicity, and she doesn't think the safe drinking campaign will do anything.
"College students aren't going to stop binge drinking," Kothbauer said.
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Amber Rudd has defended proposed cuts to solar PV subsidies while simultaneously subsidising rafts of small diesel generators in the capacity mechanism. The secretary of state for energy also dismissed criticism of the government’s concerted push to build new nuclear power plants.
Taking questions from MPs this morning alongside energy minister Andrea Leadsom, Rudd accepted that further policy intervention would be needed to meet carbon budgets. What these policies may be remains to be seen.
However, the energy secretary was adamant that the capacity mechanism had delivered increased energy security at best value. She said the policy lever, which awards availability contracts to plant via reverse auctions, was necessary because of years of under investment in new power stations under a Labour government.
Labour MP Lisa Nandy suggested that diesel generators had been given contracts worth £175 million during the capacity auction held last month, and were set to make 20% returns.
Rudd dismissed the criticism, stating that the market was “essential” to ensure security of supply, and would add “less than £10” to household bills.
“Diesel will form part of the future but only in very small amounts… occasionally… when needed,” said Rudd.
She also dismissed criticism from Green MP Caroline Lucas, who suggested that solar subsidies over 35 years (prior to tariff cuts) would be around “half the cost” of support for new nuclear at Hinckley Point.
Lucas, said Rudd, was “not dealing with fact”. She claimed that well-sited solar PV installations would still achieve a 5% rate of return and that the government was determined to achieve a subsidy-free industry.
“Nuclear provides important baseload when the sun isn’t shining or wind is not blowing,” said Rudd. “The honourable lady can have her own views but she can’t have her own facts”.
However, with the solar industry potentially facing further pressure due to the UK losing its court case with Brussels over VAT rates, energy minister Andrea Leadsom said Decc would “look at what more we can do” within the tariffs to support the industry should VAT rates be required to rise.
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RNP delivered a 60 Mbps circuit to the Exact Sciences and Technology Institute (Icet) of the Federal University of Amazonas (Ufam), which is located in the Itacoatiara campus, 270 km from Manaus. Thus, the unit is now connected in high speed to the RNP’s Point of Presence in Amazonas, allowing researchers, professors and students to be integrated to the national academic network and to collaborate with other institutions. The network capacity enables internet access ten times faster than the previous one.
The ICET director, Jorge Kanda, celebrated the faster internet during an interview to Ufam. “There was a very significant speed increase. More than that, we are not connected to the PoP-AM. This will benefit the institute as a whole since our students will have access to research and journals to prepare their academic work”, said the professor.
Over two years, RNP has worked with the Technology, Innovation and Communication Centre (CTIC) of the university and local providers to seek connectivity alternatives. “We remain in a joint surveillance process with the campuses and the Senior Management of the University in the presentation of possible alternatives to the RNP that may improve the connectivity offered to our units”, declared the CTIC director, Jorge Carlos Magno.
According to the PoP-AM administrative coordinator, Edson Nascimento, the new connection allows the performance of videoconferences, administrative meetings, defence of end of course papers, Master’s and Doctorate juries, which reduced travel expenses.
Before RNP delivered the circuits to increase the connectivity of education and research institutions in the state of Amazonas, all Ufam campuses were served by satellite connections at a 6 Mbps rate.
In addition to the Itacoatiara campus, which is now served by a hybrid circuit of fibre optics and radio at a 60 Mbps transmission rate, provided by the company ICOM Telecom, the Humaitá campus is served by fibre optics at 100 Mbps, and the Coari campus is served by 30 Mbps radio connection. “In the first half of 2018, we expect to increase the Coari campus connection to 100 Mbps, which will be served by fibre optics, as one of the deliveries of the Connected Amazon Program, led by the Brazilian Army”, said the PoP-AM administrative coordinator during an interview to Ufam.
Ufam Exact Sciences and Technology Institute currently offers nine graduation courses, such as the Software Engineering course intended to provide qualified workers for the development of electronic equipment, and the Sanitary Engineering and Agronomy. The institute also offers the Post-graduation Program of Science and Technology for Amazon Resources as a Master’s and multidisciplinary, with focus on the areas of bioenergy and handling, chemical and biological prospecting and development of bioactive substances, and theoretical and computational studies in physics and chemistry.
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Gophers win Rose Bowl 50 years ago
WORTHINGTON -- Showcased at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the New Era Pinstripe Bowl Game was played Friday between Rutgers and Iowa State.
The Scarlet Knights made more big plays and defeated the Cyclones, 28-13.
But, come on -- the Pinstripe Bowl?
Just how many college football bowl games are there as the calendar changes from 2011 to 2012?
Let's go back 50 years ago when 1961 became 1962 and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens was Billboard's No. 1 single, followed by Chubby Checker's "The Twist."
The Green Bay Packers had just claimed their first -- of five during the '60s -- NFL title with a stunning 37-0 triumph over the New York Giants and NASA was preparing John Glenn for his historic three-orbit mission aboard the Friendship 7, which would take place on Feb. 20 and become the third U.S. space flight of the Mercury project.
I was a fifth-grader at the Heron Lake Public School and was playing my first year of organized basketball for Coach Lyle Hornbacher, while my older brother, Dane -- a freshman -- was on Forrest "Butch" Meyeraan's Falcon B-squad.
There were just five schools -- Pipestone, Luverne, Worthington, Windom and Jackson -- in the Southwestern Conference and the big upcoming basketball game in the 10-member Southern Star Conference was being anticipated on Friday night, Jan. 5 at Granada when the undefeated Brewster Bulldogs were coming to town.
January 1st, 1962, was a Monday and there were four college football games played.
That's right, just four. Remember that?
Capping off the 1961 season, Texas defeated Mississippi (Ole Miss) in the Cotton Bowl, 12-7; Louisiana State University (LSU) crushed Colorado, 25-7, in the Orange Bowl and top-ranked Alabama remained No. 1 with a 10-3 victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
Sandy Stephens leads Minnesota at Pasadena
Meanwhile, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., the No. 6-ranked Minnesota Gophers redeemed themselves from the previous year's 17-7 loss to Washington by churning out 222 yards on the ground and impressively defeating UCLA, 21-3.
Coached by Murray Warmath, the Gophers were co-champions of the Big 10 in 1960 and were named the national champions -- prior to their 1961 Rose Bowl loss to the Washington Huskies, who had obliterated Wisconsin, 44-8, in the Rose Bowl following the 1959 season.
In 1961, Minnesota finished second -- behind Ohio State -- in the Big 10. But when the Buckeyes declined their Rose Bowl bid, the Gophers glady accepted and played for a second consecutive time in Pasadena.
Despite the crooning of recent coach Tim Brewster, it has also been the last time the Gophers played in the Rose Bowl.
Let's look back.
The banner headline on the sports' page of the Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1962 edition of the Daily Globe ran:
"Gopher Power Befuddles, Bruises Bruins, 21-3"
"Sandy Stephens Stages His Finest Grid Performance" read the sub-heading.
Yes, it was quite a day for the Gophers -- who scored 21 unanswered points after UCLA took an early 3-0 lead on a 28-yard field goal by Bobby Smith.
Stephens, a big quarterback at 212 pounds, was an effective option runner. But at Pasadena, Stephens mixed some accurate passing and hard running by backs Judge Dickson, Bill Munsey, Jerry Jones and Jim Cairnes, along with his own running.
Minnesota capitalized early on a fumble recovery -- at the UCLA six-yard line -- by Dickson to score its first touchdown, a one-yard plunge by Stephens on the Gophers' third play after the recovery.
Leading 7-3, Warmath's squad showed its dominance of the line-of-scrimmage on a 16-play, 75-yard scoring drive in the second quarter, capped by Munsey's three-yard cutback run for the second Gopher touchdown.
After controlling field position in the third quarter -- including a six-play, 43-yard drive and an eight-play, 47-yard drive -- Stephens engineered a time-consuming, 19-play, 83-yard touchdown march in the fourth quarter.
Stephens, who rushed 12 times for 46 yards and completed seven of 11 passes for 75 yards, scored the TD on a two-yard scamper.
Dickson gained 45 yards on 12 carries, while Munsey (10 carries, 41 yards), Cairnes (seven, 38) and Jones (nine, 31) also contributed to the well-balanced Gopher rushing attack.
UCLA head coach Bill Barnes summed it up by saying:
"Minnesota didn't surprise us with anything. They simply overpower you. They have a big strong line and can move anybody around."
Among those Gopher linemen were future NFL greats Bobby Bell -- who went on to star with the Kansas City Chiefs -- and Carl Eller, who became an All-Pro defensive end for the Vikings.
Was Tom Brown still playing for the Gophers in '61, or did he graduate after the 1960 season?
Minnesota's defense -- after holding the Bruins to a field goal on their first drive -- stymied UCLA's vaunted single-wing offense, limiting the Big Five Conference champions to a mere 55 yards rushing.
I watched that Rose Bowl game from our farm in Springfield Township (Cottonwood County) -- six miles north of Heron Lake, 11 miles south of Storden and 10 miles west and a mile north of Windom -- but I recall more about the pre-game show than I do about the contest itself.
After all, there were just four bowl games in those days -- and the Rose Bowl was a really big deal, with a detailed preview leading up to the grand event.
It was fun reading the story of that 48th Annual Rose Bowl and finding out how the Gophers really dominated the Bruins in that game half-a-century ago.
Luverne, Harris, St. Adrian, Currie enjoy basketball success
On the last weekend of 1961, prior to the Rose Bowl football game, Luverne had played well in a four-team basketball tournament in St. James.
The Cardinals rolled to a huge 75-47 victory over Big Nine Conference school Owatonna in the opening round, posting quarter leads of 18-9, 38-22 and 59-34.
Lynn Geving (19), Steve Rapp (15) and Wayne Emery (13) each scored in double figures for Luverne, which improved to 6-1 for the season with the win.
St. James claimed a 53-47 victory over Mankato in the other semifinal game and then won its own tournament, edging LHS by two points, 48-46, in the championship game.
Emery and Geving each scored 10 points for Luverne in the finals.
On Wednesday evening, Jan. 3, 1962, Harris (Iowa) hosted Sioux Valley in a cross-the-border boys' basketball game and rolled to an impressive 80-53 victory.
Harris, which earned leads of 17-10, 34-27 and 55-37 at the quarter breaks, had four players notch double figures, led by Dale Barringer's 24-points.
Don Lemker (17), Harlen Vogel (14) and Dale Wingate (10) also hit double digits, while Jim Wiese and Bob Untiedt each scored 13 points for the Warriors.
That first week of January in 1962, the Daily Globe had preview stories about a pair of four-team tournaments to jump start the new year.
Currie was hosting the Little Four Tournament, which featured the four smallest schools -- Lismore, Wilmont, Iona and Currie -- in the Loreto Conference.
In Adrian, St. Adrian Catholic was hosting a four-team tournament with Marshall Central, Bird Island St. Mary's and Southwest Christian of Edgerton as the other competing teams.
On Thursday evening, the 4th, St. Adrian's put eight players in the scoring column and earned a big 24-point win, 59-35, over Bird Island after leading 33-11 at halftime.
Bill Heitkamp (19), Les Homan (12) and Duayne Hohn (10) each scored in double figures for Adrian, which outscored St. Mary's by a 16-2 spread in the decisive second quarter.
Norm Prins and Leon Fey netted 19 and 15 points, respectively, to lead Southwest Christian to a hard-fought, 56-55, win over Marshall Central.
The next night, Friday, Jan. 5, Central easily won the third-place game over Bird Island, 68-37, before Southwest and St. Adrian battled in a classic championship clash.
Once again, it was a sharp second quarter which helped St. Adrian, turning a 15-14 deficit into a 32-23 lead.
Southwest closed the gap to 37-35 by the third quarter's end, but St. Adrian prevailed with a 51-48 victory in the 29th running of the prestigious private school tournament.
Hietkamp (15) and Homan (12) scored double digits for Adrian, while Prins (20) and Larry Van Essen (10) each tallied double figures for Southwest Christian.
Sheteks repeat as Little Four champs with 70-44 title win over Lismore
The same night that St. Adrian and SWC were tangling in Adrian for that tournament's title, the all-Catholic tournament opened at Currie.
Tall Dan Ruppert scored 24 points to lead Currie's Immaculate of St. Mary to a 64-48 Friday night win over Wilmont. Danny Kuhl netted 12 points for Wilmont.
Lismore, the pre-tournament favorite, improved to 6-1 on the season with an impressive 74-51 victory over Iona.
Marv Schissel scored 29 points to pace Lismore, while Harold Balster poured in 24 for Iona.
Then on Sunday afternoon, Kuhl and Balster had a scoring duel in the third-place game, as Wilmont rallied with a strong second half to earn a 63-53 victory over Iona.
Kuhl netted 32 points to lead Wilmont, while Balster -- who finished with 55 points in two games -- scored 31 to pace Iona.
Lismore had defeated Currie in December. But this time the host Sheteks were simply too good, as they defended their 1961 Little Four tournament championship with a convincing 70-44 victory over their rivals to the southwest.
Dan Ruppert scored 14 points in each half, finishing with 10 field goals and eight free throws for a game-high 28 points, giving him 52 for the tournament.
Perne Silvernale (16), Joe Donahue (13) and Doug Ruppert (11) also netted double figures for the Sheteks, who held leads of 17-12, 30-23 and 46-36 at the quarter breaks.
Schissel and Gene Dollander scored 12 and 11 points, respectively, to lead Lismore's balanced scoring.
Four small towns -- each with their own Catholic High School -- finishing up a boys' basketball tournament on a Sunday afternoon in early January of 1962.
McNab, Silver each score 21 as Brewster wins at Granada, 67-63
So what about that big Southern Star clash at Granada?
Well, Brewster -- despite a 33-point scoring performance by Granada's Dewey Zentner, who maintained his edge as the league's leading scorer -- had a hot-shooting third quarter, once opening up a 14-point lead on the Eagles.
Paced by the dual 21-point games of Gary McNab and John Silver, the Bulldogs prevailed, 67-63, to improve to 7-0 on the season.
Terry Everson contributed 13 points for BHS, which held a two-point lead at halftime.
Elsewhere in the Southern Star, East Chain rallied for a 47-43 win at Okabena.
Rich Lozana scored 19 points to lead the Chainers, while Howard Sievert (13), Byron Christoffer (11) and Jerry Schroeder (10) each netted double figures for the Bluehawks.
Playing at Worthington's Memorial Auditorium, Welcome claimed a 78-60 win over Round Lake, as the Eckman brothers -- Erv (31) and Bill (19) -- combined for 50 points to lead the Wildcats.
Bob Geertsema (15), Roger Geertsema (13) and Dave Morrison (13) led the scoring for the Wildcats.
Cardinals defeat Trojans in high-scoring game, 79-71, in Luverne
At Luverne, the Cardinals put four players in double figures and claimed a high-scoring, 79-71, victory.
Ronald Friestad (24), Emery (15), Loren Forrest (14) and Geving (13) all notched double digits for LHS in the evenly-played contest, which was close all the way.
The Cardinals held slim leads of 21-18, 40-36 and 61-52 at the quarter stops.
Vince DeBates paced the Trojans with a game-high 27 points, while Scott Johnson and John Huges added 15 and 10 points, respectively, for Worthington.
In the B-squad game, Luverne sophomore Bill Toms -- who two years later would be a top player for the Cardinals' state championship team -- scored 19 points to lead his team to a 52-46 win over the Trojans.
Tom Wing scored 18 points for the Worthington Bombers, whle Rich Mork and Ron Eshleman each netted 11.
Windom defeated arch-rival Mountain Lake, 63-51, in a non-conference game between the two perennial District 7 powers at Windom.
Dave Palm (21), Ed Maras (16) and Jim Silliman (15) -- Windom's strong front line -- each notched double figures for the Eagles, while Jerry Enns scored 20 points to lead the Lakers.
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Is Christian growth keeping pace with Islam?
Christian growth has stagnated globally while Islam's numbers have almost doubled, according to one researcher.
In a report by Dick Slikker, of the Christian mission consultancy group Project Care, information from the World Christian Database reveals that Christians made up 34.5 per cent of the world's population in 1900, while in 2010 they were 32.9 per cent.
This is contrasted with Islam's growth over the same period, at 12.3 per cent of the population in 1900, rising to 22.5 per cent by 2010. The data shows that the number of Muslims exceeded the number of Roman Catholics in the early 1980s.
Growth and decline in the Christian churches has been divided across various regions, but the general pattern has been that more 'western' industrialised countries have seen their Christian populations decline, while developing countries are seeing increased growth.
The most prominent growth can be seen in Africa where the Christian population increased by 37 per cent between 1900 and 2010. Islam grew only 10 per cent in the same period, making Africa the place where Christians have grown at a faster rate than Muslims.
Within Africa, the fastest growing Christian regions are Eastern Africa, and the Sub Saharan areas of the continent, which both saw 50 per cent Christian population increase between 1900 and 2010.
The most substantial decline for a single continent is in North America, with an 18 per cent drop in Christian affiliation between 1900 and 2010. Europe is in a similar situation with a drop of 16 per cent, while Oceania and Latin America both had declines of 3 per cent.
Focusing on specific regions within continents, the single greatest decline is found in Western Europe, with a drop from 99 per cent Christian in 1900 to 69 per cent in 2010. In the same region Islam's numbers have increased from almost zero per cent in 1900 to 6 per cent in 2010.
Mr Slikker speculates that the decline seen among Christians, especially Protestants, in North America and Western Europe is attributable to "increased materialism, secularism, rationalism, rejection of the notion of spiritual authority outside of oneself".
In the case of Oceania, Mr Slikker notes that while Christianity has declined by 3 per cent between 1900 and 2010, the data also reveals that Christian numbers were rising in that region until 1970.
"It would be of considerable interest to identify the factors behind such developments to learn if any distinct lessons might be apparent," he said.
Asia was the only continent apart from Africa to see Christian growth. The Christian population there grew by 6 per cent between 1900 and 2010. The Islamic population grew by 10 per cent.
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Diet fads come and go, but there is one diet that will always work: listen to your body. If you feel like you’ve had enough then stop eating, and if you feel like you should have more lettuce then go get some!
New research confirms old knowledge that people with a healthy weight do monitor what they eat. They just monitor their food intake by acting on what their body is telling them.
But here’s the surprising thing: Nearly half—48 percent—said they don’t diet. Three-quarters of them “rarely†diet. These people are thin, and have been thin their entire lives, yet they have never so much as perused the Jenny Craig website.
One explanation could be good genes. The healthy-weight registrants might never diet because, being naturally thin, they never need to. Still, that wouldn’t explain why they do all those other things—the exercising, the salad lunches, all that poultry. Clearly, they are putting some effort into their figures.
Instead, Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab, chalks it up to the fact that many of the registrants used “non-restrictive†strategies, like listening to hunger cues, cooking at home rather than eating out, and eating quality, non-processed foods.
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Dark shadows, Clay Shirky on politics of infographics and software interfaces. “The Washington Post has produced a white-people map of murder. Homicide Watch has produced a brown-people map.” Yes.
The Post’s default view is a map. Homicide Watch’s default view is a face. The Post’s view is aggregate and historical; Homicide Watch’s is personal and recent. The Post focuses on murders, Homicide Watch on victims. The Post gives you all the murders; you have to zoom in for the details. Homicide Watch starts with the most recent events; you have to zoom out for the bigger picture. The most recent murder the Post puts on its map was in December of 2011. As I write this, the most recent murder Homicide Watch put on its map was last night—Howard Venable Jr., stabbed to death at Fuller and 16th NW.
The Post’s map is about neighborhoods and patterns. (When I showed the Post’s map to my journalism students and asked whom they thought the ideal audience was, they said, “Realtors.”) Homicide Watch’s map is about people and events. The Post’s map tells you things like, “Stay the hell away from Anacostia.” HW tells you that Venable was 68 years old, and gives you a tip line for the cops, if you have any idea who killed him.
Not to put too fine a point on it, The Washington Post has produced a white-people map of murder, a map that assumes you couldn’t possibly know the victim. Homicide Watch has produced a brown-people map—a map that assumes you might, a map for a city where brown people are 30 times more likely to be murdered than white people. | <urn:uuid:5dfef4f7-4826-45e9-9abd-5c72b8728e69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bookmarks.pearlofcivilization.net/tag/infographics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.957273 | 384 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The eastern hill of Sankaram village is recognized as Bojjannakonda which hosts a Maha Stupa surrounded by a huge group of monolithic Stupas along its rock cut platform. The dome of the main Stupa is made of bricks whereas the surrounding Stupas are composed of bricks and rocks. At the foot of the hill, an idol of Goddess Hariti has been found by the archaeology department. Apart from this, the hill also houses six rock-cut caves, some of which have sculptured panels. Each of the panel has the images of seated Buddha and his attendants. Towards the north of the Maha Stupa, terraced Chaitya Grihas are present. These are believed to be the monasteries of the Buddhist monks. In ancient times, several Buddhist monks used to worship here for which it was known as 'Buddhuni konda' which refers to 'hill of the Buddha'. But later over time, the place came to be known as Bojjannakonda. The place is also an important centre for the huge celebration of Vaisakha Pournami.
Lingalakonda is the western hill of Sankaram village. It houses numerous rock cut small Stupas. Excavations in this region have also furnished several antiquities. The common artefacts that have been discovered from Lingalakonda include terracotta figures, terracotta beads, terracotta inscribed tablets, coins of gold, copper and lead, copper and lead seals and many more.
During the growth of Buddhism several learning centres were established in various regions of the country, some of which can be witnessed in Bojjannakonda and Lingalakonda too. With the revival of Hinduism the significance of these centres however started to fade out.
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 592485, 5 pages
Structural and Phase Transformations in Water-Vapour-Plasma-Treated Hydrophilic TiO2 Films
Physics Department, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos Street 8, 44404, Kaunas, Lithuania
Received 23 March 2012; Revised 2 July 2012; Accepted 7 July 2012
Academic Editor: Markku Leskela
Copyright © 2012 L. Pranevicius et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We have investigated structural and phase transformations in water-vapor-plasma-treated 200–300 nm thick Ti films, maintained at room temperature, by injecting water vapor into radio frequency (RF) plasma at different processing powers. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) combined with optical microscopy and surface nanotopography analysis were used to view tracks of adsorbed water layers and to detect bulges or blisters appeared on the surface of treated samples. Rough surfaces with different size of holes (5–20 μm) through the entire film thickness have been observed. X-ray diffraction results show that the oxidation rate of Ti film drastically increases in the presence of an adsorbed water on the hydrophilic layer. It is assumed that the defining factor which controls oxidation kinetics is the hydroxyl radicals formation.
Exposition of Ti surfaces in water vapor results in the formation of an adsorbed layer on the surface. Rapid diffusion on the surface maintains quasiequilibrium between the molecules bound to islands and isolated adsorbed water molecules. Water molecules oxidize Ti atoms ( + () H2O = TiO2 + () H2). These possible oxidation reactions are highly thermodynamically favorable and form nanostructured hydrated titanium oxide layer . It is known that the thermal oxidation of titanium by water vapor proceeds according to a linear-parabolic rate law resulting from a reaction-diffusion-mixed regime. The growth of TiO2 takes place by rapid diffusion of substitutional hydroxide ions generated at the gas-scale interface .
It is established that the titanium coating exposed to ultraviolet light has the extraordinary property of complete wettability for water. The ultraviolet light removes some of the oxygen atoms from the surface of the titania, resulting in a patchwork of nanoscale domains where hydroxyl groups became adsorbed, which produces the superhydrophilicity. It is proved that the Ti3+ ions are closely associated with the hydrophilicity of TiO2 [4, 5].
Titanium coatings immersed in plasma are exposed to ultraviolet radiation and ion bombardment [6, 7]. Due to radiation coming from the plasma, oxygen atoms are preferentially removed from the surface of titania and the formation of suboxides as well as an oxygen deficient surface in the steady state is registered . The water molecules arriving at the plasma activated surface due to hydrophilicity tend to spread out over the entire surface, as schematically shown in Figure 1.
Under plasma radiation the split of hydroxyl radicals, resulting from dissociation of water molecules and oxidation of Ti, into their atomic components: hydrogen and oxygen occurs . The hydrogenation of growing titanium oxide TiO2 takes place .
The present paper reports the study of the structural and phase transformations in thin Ti films treated by water vapor plasma in dependence to the surface coverage by hydrophilic layer at different levels of processing power.
2. Experimental Technique
The vacuum 80 L volume stainless steel chamber is equipped with a water inlet valve, which permits the introduction of water vapor from outside the chamber. The Ti samples to be treated are placed onto the water-cooled substrate holder. The reaction chamber is evacuated using a turbomolecular vacuum pump down to a pressure of about 10−3 Pa and then connected to the source of water vapor. Once the steady state of water vapor pressure of about 5 to 10 Pa in the chamber at ambient temperature is reached, the Ti sample is exposed to low-pressure RF plasma. The discharge characteristics have been controlled using a variable RF power supply by changing input power levels from 50 to 300 W. Without an applied axial magnetic field, plasma ionization degree increases linearly with plasma dissipated power. With an axial magnetic field, ionization degree jumps to a maximum value at about 300 W and then saturates. The positive ion density and electron density of the vapor plasma of around 5·1010 cm−3 and the electron temperature between 1.2 and 1.6 eV were measured by a Langmuir probe at processing power of 300 W. It is in close agreement with the experimental results presented in .
The microstructure of the samples was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) method using Bruker diffractometer (Bruker D8). The measurements were performed with 2θ angle in the range 20°–70° using Cu cathode K radiation in steps of 0.01°. All X-ray diffraction peaks were indexed using software together with Search-Match function and PDF-2 database from International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). The thickness and surface topography of Ti films were measured using the nanoprofilometer (AMBIOS XP 200). The spatial resolution was several nanometers. The surface views were investigated before and after plasma treatment by the scanning electron (SEM, JEOL JSM-5600) and optical (Nikon Eclipse Lv150) microscopes. The distribution profiles of oxygen in Ti films were measured by Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES, PHI 700XI). The distribution profiles of hydrogen in Ti films after hydrogenation were measured by Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy (GDOES, Spectruma Analytic GMBH).
3. Experimental Results
Water vapor condenses on the hydrophilic Ti surface in plasma surrounding to produce adsorbed water layer. The distribution and size of water island layers on the surface of thin hydrophilic Ti film surface were investigated by trace analysis of islands on the surface of plasma-treated samples using optical and scanning electron microscopes. It was found that water island layers were randomly distributed on the surface with an average size of about 8 μm.
Figure 2 includes SEM surface views of plasma-treated Ti films: (a) at 50 W for 60 min and (b) at 300 W for 5 min. We observed that Ti films treated upon lightly ionized water vapor plasma (at RF power equal to 50 W) are homogeneous and smooth (Figure 2(a)). After treatment by highly ionized water vapor plasma (at RF power equal to 300 W), holes throughout the entire film thickness were observed (Figure 2(b)). With an increase in the power dissipation in plasma, the density of holes increased while the mean size remained about the same. The SEM surface view also reveals the circular bumps distributed between the holes (Figure 2(b)).
Figure 3 includes surface height profiles of untreated Ti film (Figure 3(a), curve 1) and plasma treated at 50 W for 60 min (Figure 3(a), curve 2). It was registered that the surface topography, initially flat with a mean roughness of about 2 nm, becomes periodically bumpy with a height amplitude equal to 8 nm and a period equal to 15–18 μm after treatment at 50 W for 60 min. As the output power of the RF power amplifier increased, the surface was subjected to the development of various bumps and blisters. After exposition to the water vapor plasma at 300 W for 5 min, thin film that covered blisters was lifted and film contained randomly distributed small holes throughout the entire film thickness (Figure 3(b)), a process known as “plasma-cut”. The location of the cuts correlates well with the wetted areas on the surface and can be explained by damage-induced in-plane stress and the corresponding elastic out-of-plane strain. We suppose that a rapid uptake of oxygen and hydrogen through the surface areas covered by island layers of adsorbed water occurs and deduces that fast H transients because of their high mobility may be responsible for the high compressive stresses which lead to film surface plastic deformation (50 W, Figure 3(a), curve 2) and detachment in a form of buckling or debonding from the surface of the substrate (300 W, Figures 2(b) and 3(b)).
In all cases, the mean surface roughness increases after plasma treatment. It is in agreement with other observations . In the presented work, it was registered that the mean surface roughness of untreated samples is equal to 2–4 nm. It increases from 24 nm for samples treated at 200 W during 5 min and up to 180 nm for samples treated at 300 W during 5 min. It is established that the dominant technological parameter to the surface roughness is the RF power, while the plasma treatment time has significantly less effect.
Water-plasma-treated hydrophilic Ti films, which had been completely covered by water layer, were subsequently analyzed by XRD technique. Figure 4 includes XRD patterns of untreated (curve 1) and plasma-treated Ti films: curve 2 for 5 min at 200 W, curve 3 for 20 min at 200 W, and curve 4 for 5 min at 300 W. It is seen that phase and structural transformations in metallic Ti depend on the RF power dissipated in the plasma. SEM analysis showed that the Ti films entirely covered by hydrophobic layer were broken and lifted from the substrate after treatment at 300 W for 5 min. It is in agreement with observation of lifting, rupture, and formation of holes for a film covered by water island layers registered by SEM (Figures 2(b) and 3(b)).
Figure 5 includes the distribution profiles of O and H atoms (curves 1 and 2, resp.) in Ti film treated at 200 W for 5 min. The Auger oxygen depth profile (Figure 5, curve 1) shows a sharp decrease of oxygen concentration from 75 at. % at the surface followed by a gradual decrease through the entire film thickness in the bulk to the values around the maximum solubility of oxygen in titanium (34 at. %), while H atoms are homogeneously distributed over the estimated film thickness of about 500 nm (Figure 5, curve 2) except the sharp increase near the surface where the mobile H atoms are trapped at radiation defects in TiO2. Titanium film treated at 300 W for 5 min becomes completely oxidized, while the distribution profile of H atoms does not change significantly in the bulk, and H maximum appears at the film-substrate interface. As a result of H accommodation at the interface, the surface is subject to the development of various bumps and blisters.
Water molecules present in plasma are excited, ionized, and disassociated in dependence on the plasma processing power. In this surrounding, the oxygen atoms are preferentially removed from the oxidized titanium surface due to radiation coming from plasma. An oxygen-deficient surface with suboxides becomes highly reactive. Taking into account supperhydrophilic properties of titania, adsorbed water molecules and water drops converge to island layers rapidly. The adsorbed water molecules quickly hydrate the surface leading to increased hydroxyl group density on the surface and transformation of reduced oxides into TiO2. The concentration of hydroxyl groups on the surface depends on the oxidation state of titanium oxide. Irradiation of surface area covered by adsorbed water layer leads to the split of hydroxyl radicals into their atomic components hydrogen and oxygen [7, 10]. These factors contribute to the increase of oxidation rate of surfaces covered by water layers. This increase is predominantly determined by the plasma radiation intensity. Additionally, the outermost layer becomes highly defected and new pathways for the transport of water molecules and atoms become possible.
The splitted H atoms in the near-surface region of TiO2 are trapped at radiation defects while the mobile H atoms detrapped from trapping centers diffuse through the oxide layer into the bulk and, taking into account titanium’s high affinity for hydrogen, are absorbed by the titanium and consequently are stored in the bulk. Substantial excess of atomic hydrogen present may be accommodated in the crystal lattice, resulting in gas bubbles. Lifting in the form of “popping off” discrete blisters was observed. The size distribution of the holes correlates well with the topology of island water layers observed by SEM. One of the main issues concerning their mechanical performance is the type and magnitude of residual stresses around the crystalline TiO2 phase in the matrix of Ti. Residual stresses may or may not generate microcracks around the precipitates depending on their magnitude, crystal size, and film thickness.
In summary, it emerges from our results that the study of structural and phase transformations in water-vapor-plasma-treated Ti films in dependence on the processing parameters provides an information for an advancing knowledge of the behavior of adsorbed water molecules on the surface of titanium oxide under plasma radiation. Adsorbed water molecules on the hydrophilic surface converge to water island layers leading to increased hydroxyl group density on the oxidized Ti surface and its transformation into TiO2. The H atoms are trapped at radiation defects in the near-surface region of TiO2, while the mobile H atoms diffuse through the oxide layer and tend to form gas bubbles in the bulk and at the film-substrate interface.
This research was funded by a Grant (ATE-2011/2012) from the Research Council of Lithuania. The authors are grateful to the Science Council of The Lithuanian Energy Institute and Vytautas Magnus University for the support of this research.
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This website is all about a Finnish Academy funded research project concentrating on financial literacy and games.
The aim of this research project is to develop game-based financial education interventions in schools and evaluate their effectiveness. The research project builds on an existing collaborative network that shares long-standing experience in developing game-based interventions for educational settings, and expands this network in significant ways getting end-users more involved in the project. Together the research team with partners will build tools to evaluate the impact of such interventions on students’ financial knowledge and behavior. The study also includes comparisons between different game-based approaches and their combinations. Further, the group will develop innovative ways to measure the behavioral outcomes of students by utilizing games, game platforms, and gameplay analytics.
Stay tuned for news about our progress! | <urn:uuid:1b62022f-dde4-4946-8167-3336b14c350a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.financialliteracy.games/uncategorized/hello-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.938337 | 158 | 2.125 | 2 |
Somalia Rainfall Forecast – Issued 13 July 2022
The western parts of Somaliland (Wajaale and Gebilley) and southern coastal regions, including Mogadishu, Kismayo, and Jamame, continued to receive light Karan lights over the last week. The rest of the country remained dry, which is expected at this time of the year. The cumulative rainfall forecast for the coming week calls for light to moderate rains in Wooqoyi Galbeed and Awdal in Somaliland and the coastal areas of the Shabelle and Juba regions. Light showers are also expected in the inland areas of the Bay region during the same period. The Ethiopian highlands, whose rainfall is mainly responsible for the river flow along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers inside Somalia, will receive light to moderate rains in the coming week.
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I do remember i've seen a topic discussing about how to locate the two frequency in the two-tone method for IIP3 testing. but i cannot find it now, anybody can help explain it again? e.g. choose f1=flo-100M, f2=flo-195M, and the IM3 tone 8M after the mixer. i really want to know why and how we choose the frequency apart of the two tone. | <urn:uuid:c94130e8-182d-4347-be78-a18e3f0301f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edaboard.com/threads/frequency-location-of-the-two-tone-testing.58212/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.939931 | 96 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Dale Carnegie’s Principle #2
A Carnegie Master is a Dale Carnegie trainer who has gone through every conceivable facilitation development prescribed, has thousands of hours of experience with the Dale Carnegie principles and usually over two decades of corporate training experience. A Carnegie Master once told me, “What would a 2-year-old do with a bag of diamonds?” I answered honestly, I thought it was a trick question, and I said “they might throw them on the ground or maybe eat them.”
“Exactly,” he said. “And that is exactly what we do when we give people our Golden Book of principles. We give away a bag of diamonds and yet they haven’t had any instruction about their value.”
This brings us to Principle No. 2 from How to Win Friends and Influence People – “Give Honest, Sincere Appreciation”
William James, the father of American psychology said, “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” James could have used the word “need,” but he used “craving.” Appreciation builds our image more quickly than any other action. The success of any project depends on cooperation and effort from the people we surround ourselves with. Humans contribute to our success to the extent that we contribute to theirs.
Below is the most effective way to give appreciation. It is a formula that creates a powerful recognition statement. We use the acronym T.A.P.E.
Things: refers to items that people own or possess. People are usually proud of what they have.
Achievements: areas of study, research, projects, or anything that takes focused, concerted effort. People are generally proud of their achievements and appreciate receiving recognition for them.
Personal traits: these are positive characteristics people possess and make them valuable. Personal traits and characteristics form the basis for the most powerful feedback we can give.
Evidence: this gives our statement credibility so people know your observations about them are sincere.
Now that we have the framework, we must use it correctly.
A passing “Thank you” or “Great job” means nothing. In fact, Dale Carnegie’s research has uncovered some of the largest blind spots in senior leadership and the number- one blind spot was employees did not feel appreciated or recognized by their leaders.
We are not human beings but rather human doings, so let’s make a commitment to “give honest, sincere appreciation.” This week commit to using the T.A.P.E method. The results will be worth it!
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I have just published a jQuery plugin that I've used with great success on many of my last projects - jQuery hijack. What hijacking is and why is it of any importance?
The amazing world of widgets
When loading a widget on a page, say tab or dialog, we are often loading its content from another URL via AJAX. This is a common technique and nothing new - we may e.g. use
jQuery.tabs() from Jquery UI to achieve this. Let's say we are loading a table containing a product list to a tab. In this table we have some columns so we can sort it by clicking on a column header and page the results by using the pager links we developed.
What happens when we click on any link used to e.g. sort or go to next page in our loaded content? It replaces the whole page. The same thing happens when we have e.g. a search form within our tab content and we submit it. Although completely understandable (and there are many ways to avoid it), it's not exactly the best behavior. What can help you - is hijacking. jQuery hijack plugin was designed exactly to come to your rescue.
Hijacking to the rescue
Hijacking or hijaxing is a term used by Chris Thatcher a long time ago in a jQuery UI thread, where he proposed a way of capturing all the links within a widget content and making them reload only that widget. And this is exactly the core functionality of jQuery hijack plugin.
By using the plugin, we can call a simple one function
jQuery.hijack() and voila - from now on, all links and forms are hijacked - so paging links in the tab will simply display another page of results in this tab, search form will also display results inline - everything requires only one line of code (usually).
- skip hijacking some forms/links
- use click() handlers for links to skip following them at all
- skip submitting forms (validation)
- always run a particular function after reloading content (e.g. to init some objects)
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The Brazilian National Social Development Bank (BNDES), which is the federal financial institution operated by the Ministry of Development, Brazil, has plans to release their own Ethereum-backed crypto token in 2019.
The bank will be using an Ethereum-backed Stablecoin, 1:1 on par with the Brazilian real. Test and trial versions of the stablecoin have already been operational since mid 2018, with a full-fledged pilot project to be implemented in January 2019.
ConsenSys, the Ethereum powerhouse studio is one of the top companies consulting with the bank during the creation and implementation of the stablecoin. Though no official announcement has been made from either party, previous releases by the ConsenSys co-founder Joe Lubin have indicated the firm's involvement.
The pilot will use the National Film Agency (called Ancine, for short) as a transaction method to fund and distribute movie scripts and films in Brazil.
Ethereum Foundation developer Alex Van De Sande assisted in the development of this pilot project, allowing Brazillian filmmakers and movie industry workers associated with the not-for-profit Ancine to collect and transact their funds in real time using this stablecoin. The transactional data collected from this pilot will be utilized to correct and gradually implement further features as per the customer's feedback.
The National Registry of Taxpayers’ (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica, or CNPJ) will be issuing the identification certificates for this trial. The CNPJ is the national authority currently used by Brazilian companies and organizations as official registration and identification documents.
A development manager for BNDES, Vanessa Almeida stated that:
“We can enforce rules using smart contracts. The company that receives the money can only spend it with companies that are working within the [film] sector. We have a kind of ID in Brazil that has a certificate to send a token to the company, the company has to sign with this certificate…we will know in advance to which address you can send the tokens.”
Using the Transparency of Ethereum to forge ahead:
The Bank has been instrumental in funding large scale financial backing to the infrastructure and businesses in Brazil throughout its controversial history. It has previously been accused of illegal lobbying efforts as well as accusations of corruption in order to procure and sustain transactions.
Since Ethereum transactions are open source, developer friendly and fundamentally transparent, the move will hopefully bolster faith in the state owned bank.
Rosine Kadami, founder of the local Blockchain academy noted that this move could spearhead a transparency based era in financial and government transactions in Brazil:
"Because unfortunately, Brazil is very well-known for corruption, there’s a lot of questioning about the use of public funds. They start with a stablecoin that is basically an accounting control, because everything goes back to the bank. But in the future, if it works well, there are other implications.” | <urn:uuid:9d67a8b1-daa6-4ed3-8782-dce3939da244> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cryptoground.com/a/brazilian-bank-to-implement-their-own-ethereum-backed-stablecoin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945866 | 602 | 1.625 | 2 |
Factors that cause pH to drop
Ok so the pH out of my tap is 7.4 The pH in my tank is 8.4 All the decorations that I have in my tank are some plastic plants and about 15 flat river rocks take from a local stream. My substrate is a natural gravel made for aquariums purchased at walmart. The river rocks are what has to be raising my pH right. It cant be the gravel that is made for aquariums??
Do you have a pH drop or hike? If your pH is dropping (i.e. becoming more acidic) then the rocks from the river may have some sort of trace pyrite or other metal that is oxidizing and creating acid. If the pH is rising then the rocks may contain calcium or other soluble mineral that produces hydroxide ion…
You could always test the rocks by washing them under the tap and then placing them in demonized (distilled) water with a bubbler and monitoring the pH closely. If it changes either way you will know that the rocks are to blame!
Best of luck!
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Sorry its a pH rise, making the water basic.
Re: Factors that cause pH to drop
Ill pull some gravel out of my tank as well as one of the rocks and vinegar test them.
As far as I can tell no fizzing for the gravel and just a small amount for the rocks. Nothing really apparent on either of them though. Ill get rid of all the river rocks asap just in case.
Before going too far, test yur tap water AFTER you have let it sit out for 24 hours. Agitating it once in a while will help also. It could be no more than your tap water is actually closer to 8.4 and dissolved gases are making it appear lower. Having a different pH in your tanks than your tap water is normal although I would think that 0.2-0.4 is a normal range of difference. My tap water is almost always 7.2 but my tanks range from 6.8 to 7.6
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The fading fortunes of American tennis may be the result of a paradox: The players train too much and spend too little time enjoying themselves.
That's the opinion of coaches and top players from foreign countries who have witnessed a drastic American decline at the 2006 French Open. Of seven U.S. men who qualified for the main singles draw, only one, James Blake, got as far as the third round. Of 11 U.S. women, only two, Venus Williams and Shenay Perry, got past the second round.
Joyless Regimen Hampers Matches
While Williams remained a contender on the red clay of Roland-Garros Stadium, Americans are not a dominant factor in a sport now populated by scores of better conditioned players from elsewhere in the world.
"I think they (Americans) train too hard," said Barbora Strycova, a 20-year-old Czech competitor on the women's tour. "I spent a month in Bradenton (Florida) and saw the training," she said. "It's different but not as effective."
The reason sounds paradoxical. Within the global culture of sport, hard work is always believed to be rewarded, but not in this instance.
"They overtrain. It's crazy," said Martina Navratilova, the Czech émigré to the United States who has won 341 singles and doubles titles and nearly $21.5 million in a career that continues at age 49. "There's no joy in it," said Navratilova of the American training regimen.
Navratilova has written a book, Shape Your Self, which emphasizes the importance of cross-training in many athletic skills, including basketball and non-contact ice hockey. Most coaches order lengthy stroke drills on the court and rigorous strength conditioning off the court. Navratilova says kids at 10, 11, and 12 years old don't do other sports in America for fear of losing their tennis skills. "They don't do enough other sports...it's stupid. [The other sports] make you a better athlete."
Shenay Perry, born in Washington, DC, was one of the last two Americans in the women's singles field here. She suffered a knee problem, lost four months of competition and was advised to cut back on conditioning. "I probably did overtrain," she told ABC News. "Anything running-wise, I don't do." She credits her strong showing in Paris to her decision to ease off physical conditioning and "just wait for (her knee) to heal."
Red Tide Rising
If Americans don't know how to train, who does? The answer appears to be: 1) the Russians, 2) the Czechs, and 3) the Chinese. "It's a Red Tide," says Josef Brabenec, a transplanted Czech player and strategist who coached the Canadian Davis Cup team and served as Canada's national tennis coach. He says American efforts to develop top players are "pathetic." From a population of nearly 300 million, "I don't know how the U.S. generates so few."
One problem, Brabenec says, is the failure of many American coaches to develop a team atmosphere in which four or five top competitors train together. Today, many of the best American players train alone with a single coach, fitness trainer, and a hitting partner or two.
Another missing ingredient of training camps, Brabenec adds, is a "match environment," in which players must perform or suffer consequences.
Example: Brabenec orders players to make at least 9 out of 10 consecutive serves in order to hit a single spot on the court. "If you don't do it," he tells them, "the whole group will have to do pushups." The tactic has the intended effect of sharpening the players' focus.
Today, despite a relatively small population of 10 million, the Czech Republic's players are among the best trained and conditioned athletes on the men's and women's tours.
At 23, Iveta Benesova of Prague is lean and fit. She has played five years as a professional, earned $824,517, and ranked as high as 26 in the world in doubles and 33 in singles.
"When you are weak, you must get stronger," she said. Benesova began her physical training at age 10 and has worked for the last 18 months with Peter Pech, who also trains Barbora Strycova, Benesova's doubles partner. Strycova has already earned more than $377,000 in nearly four years as a professional.
The players toss heavy balls, run sprints and then longer distances, up to one mile. "If your heart rate is too high," Benesova said, they stop running and relax.
Strycova and Benesova were happy with their play at the French Open. They reached the third round by defeating Americans Amy Frazier and Vania King, 4-6,7-5, 6-2, and upsetting the 14-seeded Chinese Ting Li and Tiantian Sun, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4. The duo were finally beaten by another Chinese pair, the fourth seeds, Zi Yan and Jie Zheng, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. They earned $21,800 for little more than a week's work.
Was it superior conditioning?
"We are more talented, maybe," said Strycova with a smile, but then quickly admitted: "If you are not working off the court, it shows in the match." Americans, take note: Working, not slaving, is the key difference, according to coaches and players who have watched them train. | <urn:uuid:d6b3c675-6fce-4d8b-ae41-8a52483bd1bd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=2044309&page=1 | 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 | 0.976443 | 1,186 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Textiles and Kimono
Kimonos are in less demand as many people have switched to western clothes, although they are still seen worn in formal occasions and settings such as weddings, funerals, and at formal restaurants by proprieters and staff.
The labor-intensive process of making a kimono involves many highly skilled artisans as each finished item is passed from hand to hand.
Kyoto's original yuzen technique of dyeing kimono uses brightly colored dyes that are hand-painted onto the kimono.
Kyoto is also known for kyo-komon stencil dyeing, and kyo-kanko shibori, tie dyeing.
In Kyoto, the ceramics are very important and are revered, as it plays a fundamental role in the presentation of Kyoto's kaiseki ryori, which places much emphasis on table-ware to compliment the food itself.
Therefore, Japanese ceramics come in every conceivable shape, color, and size. Kyoto's Kiyomizu yaki originated and developed in the Kiyomizu district, and is recognizable by its colorful, decorative features.
Pottery that is fired in this style can be seen lining the shops along Ninnenzaka and Sannenzaka, although they are made and fired in nearby Yamashina in accordance with city's pollution standards.
In the summer around the end of July, Kyoto hosts toki-matsuri, pottery market where stalls line Gojo street from Kamogawa to Higashi-yama selling all types of ceramics and pottery.
Incense arrived in Japan along with Buddhism from China, and continues to play an important role at temples both as offerings to ancestors and as instruments to aid in meditation and chanting of sutras.
Japanese incense is subtler in frangrance to its Indian counterpart.
Kyoto has many incense shops carrying both the every-day variety for the family altar, as well as a more expensive type for personal use.
Flea markets are a great place to find interesting and unique bargains on traditional items and sample local food and snacks, all on marvelous temple grounds.
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Calculus of the Elastic Properties of a Beam Cross SectionA. Genoese, A. Genoese, and G. Garcea
Dipartimento di Modellistica per l'Ingegneria, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, CS, Italy
Saint-Venant general rod theory is used to calculate the elastic factors of a section through the numerical solution of a system of partial differential equations. The elastic properties so evaluated are used in a geometric nonlinear analysis of 3D beam structures with general cross-section to calculate some important quantities such as the stiffness matrix. Linear solutions, such as the Saint-Venant one, can be exploited in this context too due to corotational strategies that allow the generation of objective nonlinear structural models reusing the information gained from the linear ones by applying a corotational reference frame that follows the rigid body motion of the element or, as in a new approach called implicit corotational, of the continuum point or of the beam section. | <urn:uuid:4d129160-e1e5-4685-bc48-8cffb4ba413c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.comsol.com/paper/calculus-of-the-elastic-properties-of-a-beam-cross-section-6996 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00523-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.81907 | 217 | 1.703125 | 2 |
A Generation of Conflict
For more than 30 years, insurgency and depraved cross-border support have been the biggest challenges for the progress of Kashmir and its people. The governance, land, women’s rights or employment- everything has suffered terribly in the shadows of paralyzing fear.
2. Political volatility between India and Pakistan has further made the situation in Kashmir fragile. Pakistan has innumerable times used this hostility for its own benefit. It is evident that Kashmir issue always holds the top place in Pakistani agenda for electoral campaigning. Young Kashmiris are often targeted and brain washed to support terror groups in the name of religion. A large number of parents have lost their sons to mindless violence over a misleading idea of territoriality. All this has led to a whole generation to be called as ’children of conflict’.
A Landmark Event
3. Ever since the Instrument of Accession was executed by Maharaja Hari Singh on 26 Oct 1947, India has considered Kashmir as an integral and unified part of the country. Various development plans and schemes had been introduced to aid the growth and prosperity of this region which has been a traditional victim of conflict. Constant efforts had been made to ensure a terror free environment for the locals, where the society could thrive and achieve its true potential. But all these efforts were marred by the nefarious designs of India’s western adversary.
4. It has been more than 2 years since the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35A of Indian constitution. This landmark event on 5th August 2019 has brought hopes of holistic development to an erstwhile militarized pseudo-autonomy. Removal of the special status given to this state and ensuring the central government laws become applicable by downgrading Jammu and Kashmir into a union territory has finally brought Kashmir on the right side of history. Today, Kashmir is experiencing unprecedented benefits of development enjoyed by Indians elsewhere.
Sustained Efforts for Development
5. After the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35A, union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed decrease in terror activities as well as a stable progress in the spheres of human resource, infrastructure and education. During last two years, the government has undertaken a holistic approach for all-round development. Some major headway projects include Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla railway project, establishment of prestigious AIIMS campus and gas-pipeline project. These development projects in the region call for numerous employment opportunities for the locals. There is also a renewed focus on the agriculture and horticulture sectors, which employ the largest segment of Kashmiri population.
6. Efforts have been made to create digital infrastructure, expanding usage and making government processes as transparent as possible. IT sector and telecom services are reaching new heights with latest government schemes. New investors are showing more and more interest in ever growing industrial sector. People in Kashmir are connected more than ever and there is a paradigm shift in people’s mindset towards the country. Budding entrepreneurs and several self sustained businesses are gaining popularity among Kashmiris.
A New, Progressive Kashmir
7. Kashmiri society has always had a rich cultural heritage. There is no dearth of talented artists, scholars and sportspersons. While in earlier times the popular trend was to move out and settle in other parts of the country, more and more people have embraced the Kashmir post Aug 2019 wherein talent and hardwork is respected, and there is an inherent sense of peace and prosperity. Here are a few glimpses of stalwarts of a new, progressive Kashmir:
(a) TahirahRehman. The first woman from Jammu and Kashmir’s tribal Gujjar community and from a remote village in Rajouri who has been selected for training in Indian Air force.
(b) Adnan Manzoor. This young Rabab artist from Kashmir has taken valley’s traditional music to a global platform through social media and has become an inspiration for youth of the valley.
(c) HoorainZulfikar. The 19 year old from Srinagar is spreading magic through her art, currently working as a director for Centre of Art, Youth Parliament, J&K- a non-profit organization registered with the United Nations.
(d) Umran Malik. This cricketer from Srinagar is playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad team in IPL in Dubai and has set the record for the fastest ball bowled in IPL 2021.
(e) HinaJaan. She is an extremely talented 8th standard student from Handwara, and has become the youngest writer to release her book ‘To Infinity and More…’.
Role of Army
8. Indian Army has been the frontrunner in promoting peace and safety in Kashmir. Through its Operation Sadbhavna, the army has helped Kashmiri society overcome the sense of despair and lost hope. Recognizing young talent and extending a helping hand for those in need has become the second nature of armed forces in valley.
9. People are sick of ongoing terrorist activities and are longing for peace and peaceful right to life and liberty. Terrorist activities have declined sharply in recent years indicating that the young Kashmiris no longer seek to be a part of the never-ending pit of militancy. Increased feeling of acceptance and harmony can be seen amongst the Awaam and army, moving together towards a peaceful and progressive Kashmir
The Way Ahead
10. Dreams and aspirations of the society can be seen rising through positive social and economic changes in the valley. Under the assuring watch of Indian army as sentinels of the valley, youth of Kashmir is hopeful and keen to shape a better tomorrow. | <urn:uuid:c71b3709-487f-4cf9-9b46-d60bcaad7b84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kashmirrightsforum.in/kashmiris-on-path-of-progress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.957722 | 1,160 | 2.90625 | 3 |
In Soviet times, there were those who "mowed down" from the army. However, in percentage terms, there have always been few such young people. In a society that was brought up on the ideas of collectivism, public duty and survived the Second World War, those who did not serve were most often looked askance. In those days, many young people were not looking for easy service and wanted to get a "real job". However, if someone was lucky enough to be in one of the places mentioned below, he definitely would not complain
1. In the kitchen
Almost everyone got into the kitchen in the Soviet army from time to time. As dressy. And the outfit for the kitchen in the soldier's environment was considered one of the most unpleasant and difficult. Especially the soldiers "loved" washing dishes. However, it is a completely different matter when the Motherland determined a conscript to the kitchen on an ongoing basis, as a cook. Of course, one should not think that the cooks from the soldiers were picking their noses throughout their service. Their work was in its own way difficult and extremely responsible. But they lost many of the "charms" that other conscripts faced every day. Of course, only people with the right skills, and even better, education, got into the chefs.
2. In the ensemble
If a person had cultural gifts or even studied for something creative, then with a high degree of probability he could end up in cultural work in the army. The fact is that cultural life (for the purpose of propaganda work) in the Soviet army was in full swing. There it was constantly necessary to draw posters, stand-newspapers, play music, sing songs, and also organize cultural events. Of course, since such a service was more of an “intellectual” nature, the rest of the fighters always ironically joked about the lucky ones from the “ensembles”.
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3. in the treasury
Like any other army in the world, the Soviet army had its own bureaucracy. Before the advent of personal computers, already in the 1990s, writing (and primarily writing) and typing on typewriters was a lot. Therefore, some soldiers were lucky to be in the position of a "clerk" - a person who was freed from part daily duties and training sessions, but had to help officers in filling out numerous papers. As you might guess, the rest of the soldiers always made fun of such legally shirking from “normal” service.
4. To the medical unit
If a person with an appropriate education turned out to be in the troops, even with basic medical training, then he had every chance of being in the service of a medical unit. Usually, 2-3 lucky people were needed to help military doctors in a unit. Of course, service in the medical unit had its “charms”, but in most cases it was definitely not more difficult than the service of the rest of the team.
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Hermann Probst came from a merchant family and had inherited money that meant he did not have to work. He was sent to progressive and liberal boarding schools and to a high school in Munich, where he met Alexander Schmorell. (1)
When he was seventeen, his father, who suffered from depression, committed suicide. This caused problems for his stepmother as she was Jewish and no longer had the protection of a wealthy husband.
Probst and Schmorrel both studied medicine at the University of Munich. According to his biographer, "Probst was gentle, almost shy, a quality that can seem incongruous, if not slightly absurd, in a big man but that inspires admiration and love when it proves to be genuine." (2)
In 1940 Probst married Herta Dohrn. At first they lived with Christoph's stepmother. Over the next couple of years the couple had three children. "he was completely paternal; he adored his children. Through them he had found a haven, a place of warmth and laughter and predictability - one that seemed to have been lacking all his life." (3)
Christoph Probst became friends with a group of students who had an interest in poetry. This included Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Willi Graf. At meetings they took it in turns reading poems and the others had to guess the name of the poet. One evening, on 21st May, 1942, Hans read a poem about a tyrant that contained the passage: "Mounting the rubbish heap around him/He spews his message on the world." The people living under this tyrant accepted his rule: "The masses lived in utter shame/For foulest deeds they felt no blame." At the end, the poem predicts that this nightmare period will pass with the overthrow of the tyrant, and one day his reign will be looked back upon, and talked about, like the Black Plague.
No one at the meeting could identify the poet. Probst suggested that it had been written in Germany recently. "Anyway, those verses couldn't be more timely. They might have been written yesterday." Schmorell agreed and suggested that the poem should be mimeographed and dropped over Germany from an airplane "with a dedication to Adolf Hitler". Graf added that it should be printed in the Völkischer Beobachter. Scholl then told the group the name of the poet was Gottfried Keller. "Actually, the verses were written in 1878, and they don't refer to events in Germany at all, but to a political situation in Switzerland. The author is Gottfried Keller". (4)
After this the meetings tended to be more political and the members discussed ways they could show their disapproval of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. However, it remained a discussion group. As Anton Gill, the author of An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler (1994) has pointed out: "The group had no wish to throw bombs, or to cause any injury to human life. They wanted to influence people's minds against Nazism and militarism." (5)
The friends became known as the White Rose group. Hans Scholl soon emerged as the group's leader: "The role was tacitly bestowed on him by virtue of that quality in his personality that, in any group, made him the focus of attention. Alex Schmorell was usually at his side, his close collaborator. Between them, they arranged for meetings and meeting places.... Sometimes they met in Hans' room for impromptu talk and discussion. For larger meetings, they gathered at the Eickemeyer studio or the villa of Dr. Schmorell, an indulgent father who shared many of his son's views." (6)
Christoph Probst was promoted to the rank of sergeant in the medical service and posted to Innsbruck. (7) While he was away the group began publishing leaflets. They were typed single-spaced on both sides of a sheet of paper, duplicated, folded into envelopes with neatly typed names and addresses, and mailed as printed matter to people all over Munich. At least a couple of hundred were handed into the Gestapo. It soon became clear that most of the leaflets were received by academics, civil servants, restaurateurs and publicans. A small number were scattered around the University of Munich campus. As a result the authorities immediately suspected that students had produced the leaflets. (8)
According to the historian of the resistance, Joachim Fest, this was a new development in the struggle against Adolf Hitler. "A small group of Munich students were the only protesters who managed to break out of the vicious circle of tactical considerations and other inhibitions. They spoke out vehemently, not only against the regime but also against the moral indolence and numbness of the German people." (9) Peter Hoffmann, the author of The History of German Resistance (1977) claimed they must have been aware that they could do any significant damage to the regime but they "were prepared to sacrifice themselves" in order to register their disapproval of the Nazi government. (10)
Christoph Probst remained in close contact with the White Rose group and in January 1943, Hans Scholl asked him if he would write down his ideas on the current political situation. (11) The following month Probst arrived in Munich to deliver an article he had written about the subject. On his arrival he was told by Hans that he and Alexander Schmorell had been going out at night painting slogans such as "Freedom" and "Down with Hitler!" on the walls in Munich. He told his friends that "these nocturnal forays were dangerous and foolish." (12)
Probst discovered that the White Rose had grown and that Jugen Wittenstein, Traute Lafrenz and Gisela Schertling were now very active members. Inge Scholl, Hans and Sophie's sister, who lived in Ulm, also attended meetings whenever she was in Munich. "There was no set criterion for entry into the group that crystallized around Hans and Sophie Scholl... It was not an organization with rules and a membership list. Yet the group had a distinct identity, a definite personality, and it adhered to standards no less rigid for being undefined and unspoken. These standards involved intelligence, character, and especially political attitude." (13)
Probst had written the article requested by Hans Scholl. It talked about "an honorable end to the war" and proposed that after the war a new international order, under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (14) Later he claimed that he did not know that Scholl intended to use the material in the article for a leaflet, but he did admit that he was aware "that it might be used for illegal propaganda". (15)
On 18th February, 1943, Sophie and Hans Scholl went to the University of Munich with a suitcase packed with leaflets. According to Inge Scholl: "They arrived at the university, and since the lecture rooms were to open in a few minutes, they quickly decided to deposit the leaflets in the corridors. Then they disposed of the remainder by letting the sheets fall from the top level of the staircase down into the entrance hall. Relieved, they were about to go, but a pair of eyes had spotted them. It was as if these eyes (they belonged to the building superintendent) had been detached from the being of their owner and turned into automatic spyglasses of the dictatorship. The doors of the building were immediately locked, and the fate of brother and sister was sealed." (16)
Jakob Schmid, a member of the Nazi Party, saw them at the University of Munich, throwing leaflets from a window of the third floor into the courtyard below. He immediately told the Gestapo and they were both arrested. They were searched and the police found a handwritten draft of another leaflet. This they matched to a letter in Scholl's flat that had been signed by Christoph Probst. He was arrested on 20th February. Following interrogation, they were all charged with treason. (17) Christoph, Sophie and Hans were not allowed to select a defence lawyer. Inge Scholl claimed that the lawyer assigned by the authorities "was little more than a helpless puppet". (18)
The trial took place on 22nd February, 1943. The indictment stated: "Early in 1943 the accused Hans Scholl requested that his friend, the accused Probst (with whom he had for a long time exchanged ideas about the political situation), write down his ideas on current political developments. Probst then sent him a draft, which without doubt was to be duplicated and distributed, though there was no time for such action. This draft was found in Scholl's pocket at the time of his arrest." (19)
Judge Roland Freisler argued in court that Probst was guilty of producing "in cowardly defeatism" a leaflet "which takes the heroic struggle in Stalingrad as the occasion for defaming the Führer as a military swindler and which then, progressing to a hortatory tone, calls for opposition to National Socialism and for action which would lead, as he pretends, to an honorable capitulation. He supports the promises in this leaflet by citing-Roosevelt! And his knowledge about these matters he derived from listening to British broadcasts!."
Freisler added that Probst's defence was that he had not intended the material to be used as a leaflet was not convincing or acceptable: "Whoever acts in this way - and particularly at this time, when we must close our ranks - is attempting to cause the first rift in the unity of the battle front. And German students, whose traditional honor has always called for self-sacrifice for Volk and fatherland, were the ones who acted thus!" (20)
Christoph Probst was beheaded on the evening of 22nd February, 1943.
Early in 1943 the accused Hans Scholl requested that his friend, the accused Probst (with whom he had for a long time exchanged ideas about the political situation), write down his ideas on current political developments. Probst then sent him a draft, which without doubt was to be duplicated and distributed, though there was no time for such action. This draft was found in Scholl's pocket at the time of his arrest.
Probst likewise began his medical studies in the spring of 1939 and is now in his eighth semester, a soldier on student duty. He is married and has three children aged two and a half, one and one fourth years, and four weeks. He is a "non-political man" - hence no man at all! Neither the solicitude of the National Socialist Reich for his professional training nor the fact that it was only the National Socialist demographic policy which made it possible for him to have a family prevented him from writing at the behest of Scholl - in cowardly defeatism - a "manuscript" which takes the heroic struggle in Stalingrad as the occasion for defaming the Führer as a military swindler and which then, progressing to a hortatory tone, calls for opposition to National Socialism and for action which would lead, as he pretends, to an honorable capitulation. He supports the promises in this leaflet by citing - Roosevelt! And his knowledge about these matters he derived from listening to British broadcasts!
All the accused have admitted the facts stated above. Probst offers as excuse his "extreme depression" of the time he drafted the leaflet, a depression which he claims arises from Stalingrad and the childbed illness of his wife. But such explanations do not excuse a reaction of this scope.
Whoever has, like the three accused, committed the acts of high treason, weakening the home front and thereby in time of war the security of the nation, and by the same token has aided the enemy, raises the dagger for a stab in the back of the Front! That applies also to Probst, though he claims that his manuscript was not intended for use as a leaflet - since its tone and style proves the opposite. Whoever acts in this way - and particularly at this time, when we must close our ranks - is attempting to cause the first rift in the unity of the battle front. And German students, whose traditional honor has always called for self-sacrifice for Volk and fatherland, were the ones who acted thus!
If a deed of this sort were to be punished otherwise than by death, we would be forging the first links of a chain whose end-in an earlier time-was 1918. Therefore, for the protection of the Volk and the Reich at war, the People's Court has found but one just punishment: death. The People's Court knows that it is at one with our soldiers in this decision.
Through their treason to our Volk, the accused have forever forfeited their citizenship. As criminals who have been found guilty, the accused will pay the court costs.
On February 22, 1943, the People's Court, convened in the Court of Assizes Chamber of the Palace of Justice, sentenced to death the following persons: Hans Scholl, aged 24, and Sophia Scholl, aged 21, both of Munich, and Chrstoph Probst, aged 23, of Innsbruck, for their preparations to commit treason and their aid to the enemy. The sentence was carried out on the same day.
Typical outsiders, the condemned persons shamelessly committed offences against the armed security of the nation and the will to fight of the German people by defacing houses with slogans attacking the state and by distributing treasonous leaflets. At this time of heroic struggle on the part of the German people, these despicable criminals deserve a speedy and dishonorable death.
The People's Court of the German Reich, in session in Munich, dealt with a number of accused persons who were involved in the high treason of the brother and sister School sentenced on February 22, 1943.
At the time of the arduous struggle of our people in the years 1942-43, Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber, and William Graf of Munich collaborated with the Scholls in calling for sabotage of our war plants and spreading defeatist ideas. They aided the enemy of the Reich and attempted to weaken our armed security. These accused, having through their violent attacks against the community of the German people voluntarily excluded themselves from that community, were punished by death. They have forfeited their rights as citizens forever. | <urn:uuid:20b9f508-9ed4-4f03-b8d8-a17192e9fa48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spartacus-educational.com/GERprobst.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.986005 | 2,990 | 3.25 | 3 |
Breast-Milk: The Only Food That Baby Needs
Women become mothers every day of the year. And the most common debate (other than a name for the baby) is whether to breast-feed or bottle-feed the baby. While some cultures do not have that option due to lack of money, and they are forced to breast-feed, millions of women have to make this decision. Breast-feeding is more beneficial than bottle-feeding, not only for the baby, but for the mother as well. And there are many reasons to promote breast-feeding.
One reason to promote breast-feeding is the fact that the protein in the breast milk is easier for the baby to digest than commercialized formulas. This allows the breast milk to be more easily digested than cow's milk. "Human milk contains just the right amount of fatty acids, lactose, water, and amino acids for human digestion, brain development, and growth." (Breast Feeding or Formula?) Breast milk can also prevent against dehydration due to lower levels of calcium, phosphorous, protein, sodium, and potassium than cow's milk.
The fatty acids in breast milk help brain development and vision as well.
Another benefit to the baby is that breast milk helps to prevent against things such as gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, otitis media, some cancers, juvenile diabetes, and allergic reactions. Breast milk also helps prevent against allergies. This is, in part, due to the presence of colostrum in the mother's breast milk for the first few days after birth. Colostrum contains antibodies that help prevent infection and disease, as well as allergies. It is also richer in vitamins and minerals, such as protein than mature milk. It is also slightly lower in fat, yet is richer in fatty acids. "About 80% of cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses." (Breast... | <urn:uuid:b85ded74-a973-49f4-ad11-f63c9c1bc713> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.writework.com/essay/breast-milk-only-food-baby-needs-paper-describes-why-breas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00097-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962463 | 392 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Taking IBD to School
ATTENDING ELEMENTARY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
For students below college age, the most important factor is ensuring that their teachers and school administrators have adequate information about their disease.
“It can be difficult to communicate effectively with all of your child’s teachers in middle school or high school,” says Diane Ketlak, M.A. School Psychologist, W.S. Parker Middle School, Reading, MA. “First, contact the school nurse, guidance counselor, school psychologist, special education coordinator, or principal. These people can play a significant role in coordinating information to all staff who have contact with your child.”
Every faculty person doesn’t have to know every detail, but every individual the students will come in contact with does need to know what the students should be allowed to do to accommodate their disease. “You never know if there will be a substitute teacher or classes will be combined. In those cases, IBD students won’t necessarily want to go up and describe their symptoms,” explained Karen Herlihy, a pre-K/elementary school teacher at Rosary Academy Learning Center in Watertown, MA, who has Crohn’s disease herself.
Jane and David Wolfman from Lexington, MA, whose 12-year-old daughter, Julie, has Crohn’s disease, told her teachers in advance that she’d be absent from school at times and asked how to handle the situation. “It worked out fine. I always knew what they needed me to do and they always knew what we needed them to do. And Julie knew she wouldn’t fall behind,” Jane reports. Don’t be afraid to ask for a team meeting so you can speak directly to all of your child’s teachers and support staff. They will often have prior experiences with chronically ill children and may offer advice that can be very helpful and reassuring.
You can also distribute literature about your child’s illness and treatment at a team conference. “When Julie was first diagnosed, we found the printed materials from CCFA to be outstanding, especially the brochure on explaining Crohn’s to your teacher. We downloaded it, copied it and gave it to every teacher. And the teachers were so appreciative,” says David. “There’s a huge difference between reading a note from the principal saying a child is sick and reading CCFA guides and really understanding the disease,” Karen adds.
Parents may sometimes need to work behind the scenes to moderate the amount of stress their children take on without defeating their will. “Students with chronic illness often work extremely hard to over- compensate for their illness and try to maintain an unusual amount of control,” Ms. Ketlak explains. “It can be very helpful for a teacher to know that a youngster is having a tough day or feeling particularly stressed. The teacher can then extend the deadline on a project or allow a makeup test in a natural manner without drawing attention to the situation.” Teachers and school staff are acutely aware when situations should be kept confidential and will honor such requests.
Students should communicate with their teachers, too. “It really helps you through the school time if you find just one teacher that you can really trust. If you keep it to yourself when you’re not feeling well, it’s going to take you much longer to recover,” says Karen. “When you go to your teachers, you’ll see a different side of them, the personal side,” adds Alison Rosenfeld, a 17-year-old high school student from Newton, MA who has Crohn’s disease. “They can be very compassionate. And they see the other side of you, too.”
This happens more easily when the students are open and well-informed about their disease. “The best way to relieve their stress levels is to ensure their self-esteem is high and that they’re comfortable with being an IBD patient,” David Wolfman says.
David’s daughter, Julie, and Ali Rosenfeld are very open with their classmates as well as their teachers. Both have given class presentations about their disease. “It helped me to tell people what I was going through, because if you keep it inside and don’t give other students and adults that chance to possibly give you the support you need, you never know if you’re going to get it,” explains Ali.
Adolescents can be reluctant to share information about their medical condition. They may need to be reminded that facts about their illness are less frightening to their classmates than rumors. The more the other students know, the less likely they will be to alienate or tease them.
If they are teased or harassed, Ms. Ketlak suggests role-playing at home or using humor to disarm the teaser. “While some cases may require intervention by a parent, this can sometimes backfire, reinforcing a child into becoming a victim.”
If your child’s needs are not being met despite your and his/her best efforts, remember that Federal law requires public schools to provide chronically ill students with a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. “Schools should evaluate a child’s special needs and develop a plan, which is known as an individualized educational plan (IEP), for satisfying any medical requirements. Parents may rightfully expect these plans to be developed and enacted. If they believe that their child’s rights are not being protected, they may appeal to the courts,” says Ms. Ketlak.
GOING OFF TO COLLEGE
Danielle Karr, a senior at Brown University who’s majoring in computer science economics, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when she was a senior in high school. Since she had already completed her college applications, it was too late to investigate how the schools could accommodate her disease. “I just sort of showed up and went with it,” she says. To spare other students from having to learn things the hard way, she offers the following advice: “Find a school that’s right for you and then worry about the details of your health care. There are ways to fix just about any problem with a little effort on your part.”
Danielle cautions that if you’re unhappy with your choice of school, your health and studies will suffer. IBD doesn’t necessarily preclude study abroad programs either. Most developed countries have gastroenterologists that can consult with your doctor at home if the need arises. In addition, many of these countries have patient organizations, such as the European Federation of Crohn’s and Colitis Associations (EFCCA). To locate an association in a particular country, check out “International Organizations/Information in Other Languages” at: www.ccfa.org/research/links.
“As soon as you pick your school, file with Disability Support Services (or your school’s equivalent) to make sure your housing comes with a closely located bathroom. Deadlines are really early,” she warns.
“If you’re too far away from home to commute for check-ups, work with your regular gastroenterologist to find another doctor near school. Talk about what you should do in the event of a flare-up while you’re at college: Should you first call your doctor, make a doctor’s appointment or go to Health Services? Be sure to give your doctor the phone and fax numbers for Health Services in case he or she needs to speak with the staff or order a test for you.”
Before heading off to college, Danielle also recommends finding out what services (lab, pharmacy, X-ray facilities, etc.) the clinic at school provides and telling your doctor about them when you’re developing your contingency plans. “If these services aren't available on campus, see how far you have to go to get them at a hospital or clinic.”
“If you take maintenance medications, determine ahead of time where you can fill your prescriptions,” she says. Bring at least a month’s supply of pills with you, along with the name and number of your old pharmacy, so that you can easily transfer your remaining refills.
Once you arrive on campus, familiarize the school physicians and health personnel with your case. The health clinic should also be apprised of any changes in your health during your time at school. And while you’re learning your way around campus, note the locations of bathroom facilities and find out when they’re open.
Schedule an initial appointment with the gastroenterologist in your college town as soon as possible. This doctor should know your complete history with IBD, your medications, and the results of your most recent tests. He or she should not make any major decisions, such as changing your medication or restricting your diet, without consulting with your primary doctor back home. That physician is more familiar with your individual situation and can make the best decisions regarding your health.
If you have many diet triggers that limit what you can eat, Danielle suggests talking to both your doctor and the dining services nutritionist. “The nutritionist can fill you in on the type of menus at dining halls and the other options available all the time, like grilled chicken, salad bars, and pasta, that often don't even make it on the menu.”
Students receiving nutritional supplements may find a nutritional support service in town or at a local hospital with the help of their doctors. The doctor can suggest a routine that will allow the necessary caloric intake while interfering as little as possible with academic and social life.
Ingesting other substances is a temptation that students with IBD had best avoid. “We face not only the normal risks of hangovers and alcohol poisoning, but also have to think about how alcohol will mix with medications and whether it could trip a flare,” Danielle explains. She recommends talking to your doctor (without your parents around, if that’s more comfortable) about the potential repercussions. “Keep in mind that in recent studies, 72 percent of college students characterized themselves as occasional or light drinkers or abstain entirely. So if you determine that you don’t feel the need to drink, you won’t be alone.” Of course, the same caution applies to drugs, but the potential damages are even greater.
Who else do you need to discuss your medical condition with? Only who you want to. “I tell the people who can help me or that I live with or who I’m really close to,” says Danielle. “If you want to be an advocate or let a lot of people know about your situation to raise awareness, that’s fine. But when you go away to college, chances are, you don't know that many people. You have an opportunity to make a brand new you. You are as you are for whatever reason, and there's no need to explain that to anybody.”
Danielle will be happy to answer questions from and about college students with IBD. Her email address is Danielle_Karr@brown.edu
Suzanne R. Undy – Suzanne R. Undy is a freelance writer in New York City whose work has appeared in Fitness, Fit,and Natural Living Today magazines.
For further information, call CCFA at our IBD Help Center: 888.MY.GUT.PAIN (888.694.8872).
The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America provides information for educational purposes only. We encourage you to review this educational material with your health care professional. The Foundation does not provide medical or other health care opinions or services. The inclusion of another organization's resources or referral to another organization does not represent an endorsement of a particular individual, group, company or product.
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Future News : Pfizer heads to Cicero to test new life extension drug
Dateline 10/3/2018 – Cicero, Illinois, United States: Pfizer announced the winner of the opportunity challenged city where it will be testing its new life extension drug, Extenda™. Extenda, which promises to eradicate between 2-5 years of cellular damage from sources such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, will be widely available for free in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago. “We feel that of all the cities who applied to win the trial, Cicero was the most representative of the key ethnographic we were looking for” said a Pfizer spokesperson. Maude Adams, 53, a resident of Cicero, was overjoyed. “I knew that if I could just hold out a bit longer, a miracle would happen” Maude, who suffers from lung cancer from years of smoking and diabetes from obesity, couldn’t be happier. “I’ve always wanted a few more years with my family, and this will help” Cicero beat out 9 other cities for the Extenda trial, which will be distributed for free, as long as the recipients provide test results, blood samples, and complete symptoms reports.
About 6 years ago, I wrote a set of predictive stories about what life would be like 10 years out. Really interesting to go back to that time and see how much of that is on the way to actually happening: some of it – like 3d printers, are definitely moving along at a rapid clip. Others, not so much. I thought that you might find some of these interesting, so I’ll send them out in addition to my regular scheduled programming. Hope you enjoyed, and that it spurs some new thinking!
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
March 15, 1957
TRENT MARITIME COMPANY, Ltd. and Steamship THE DUKE OF ATHENS
The opinion of the court was delivered by: GRIM
Libellant, a longshoreman residing in this District, brought this action March 5, 1956, against the respondent shipowner, a British corporation, for personal injuries suffered in 1953 while working on the unloading of cargo from respondent's ship Duke of Athens at a pier in Philadelphia. The ship left this District on the day of the alleged injury and has not since returned.
Libellant attempted to get the respondent into this court by having process served on Lavino Shipping Company as agent. Respondent entered a special appearance and moved both to set aside the service and to dismiss the libel, contending that Lavino Shipping Company was not and is not its agent.
Answers to interrogatories failed to produce evidence sufficient to establish that at the time of service Lavino was respondent's agent, and I find, therefore, that Lavino was not. The service, consequently, was not valid service on the respondent. Because of this finding the only question is whether the libel should be dismissed or whether the service merely should be set aside.
Respondent contends that because there was no service upon it there is no jurisdiction and hence the libel should be dismissed. It says libellant will not be prejudiced because the applicable Pennsylvania statute of limitations
will not begin to run against him until the vessel returns to the Commonwealth. Respondent says that it will be burdened with the work of keeping track of this case on the docket if the libel be not dismissed.
My research has not disclosed any case in which respondent's point was clearly raised and squarely decided. Cases such as Johnson v. Black Diamond Lines, D.C.E.D.Pa.1941, 36 F.Supp. 721; Andrade v. American Mail Lines, Ltd., D.C.R.I.1947, 71 F.Supp. 201, and Spreckels Sugar Co. v. South Atlantic S.S. Line, D.C.S.D.Ga.1944, 55 F.Supp. 670, discloses variances in the relief granted without any apparent distinction in principle.
The rule in admiralty is that an action may be brought in any District within which process can be served on the defendant or in which his property or credits can be attached.
The effect of this rule is to confer what might be called a qualified jurisdiction over the subject matter upon any court in which the libellant brings his action, and this ripens into full jurisdiction when jurisdiction is obtained over the person of the defendant by service of process upon him.
In civil actions in both federal and state courts the failure of the marshal or sheriff to serve original process does not ipso facto terminate the action. Rule 4(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C., for example, provides for the issuance of additional summons, and Rule 1010 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, 12 P.S.Appendix provides for the reissuance of writs of summons and the reinstatement of complaints. These are modern versions of the common law practice of issuing alias writs, which is followed in admiralty.
It follows that the present action does not die upon failure of the first attempt at service.
There can be no doubt that there is ground for asserting jurisdiction here. Libellant's inchoate right to bring this respondent into this court can materialize if and when valid service is made upon it.
I am not impressed by the argument that there will be an undue burden on respondent to keep track of this case on the docket. This burden is certainly a great deal lighter than the burden which faces the libellant to bring an action where respondent can be served properly.
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Mitral valve prolapse
What is it?
- The heart has four rooms or chambers in it that hold blood. The upper chambers are called atria (A-tre-ah) and the lower chambers are called ventricles (VEN-tri-kls). Between the chambers are valves. These valves act as one-way doors to direct the flow of blood through the heart. The mitral (MI-tral) valve is made up of two leaflets (flaps) that open and close to control blood flow to the left ventricle. Mitral valve prolapse (PRO-laps) happens when the leaflets of the mitral valve in your heart do not close properly.
- MVP may also be called click-murmur syndrome or floppy-valve syndrome. With MVP, the leaflets may not work right because they are too big or floppy. MVP can also happen if the chords that hold the leaflets in place become stretched or swollen. When listening to your heart, your caregiver may hear a clicking sound because of the floppy leaflets. Some of the blood from the ventricle may come backward into the atrium because the leaflets do not work right. This causes a leaking or "whooshing" sound, which is called a murmur.
What causes MVP? MVP is common, even in healthy people. You can be born with MVP or may develop it later in life. MVP may be genetic (runs in the family). Your MVP may have been caused by a childhood illness, such as rheumatic fever. Having certain other health conditions may increase your chance of having MVP. Many times the cause of MVP is not known.
Signs and Symptoms:
You may not know you have MVP until caregivers listen to your heart. Most people with MVP never have any symptoms. Symptoms that sometimes occur with MVP include:
- Chest pain or tightness.
- Feeling faint, dizzy, or lightheaded.
- Feeling unusually tired.
- Heart palpitations (you feel like your heart is pounding).
- Skipped heart beats or an irregular or fast heart rate.
- Shortness of breath.
Avoid caffeine, decongestants, medicine that decreases your appetite, or other stimulants. This may decrease MVP symptoms.
No treatment is usually needed for MVP. You may lead a normal active life. An echocardiogram (ECHO) may be done. This is a test that takes a picture of your heart valves. Before having dental care, you may need to take antibiotic medicine. Sometimes surgery or medicine may be needed to treat MVP. See your caregiver every year to check your heart.
Herbs and Supplements:
Before taking any herbs or supplements, ask your caregiver if it is OK. Talk to your caregiver about how much you should take. If you are using this medicine without instructions from your caregiver, follow the directions on the label. Do not take more medicine or take it more often than the directions tell you to. The herbs and supplements listed may or may not help treat your condition.
- Coenzyme Q10 has been used, but has not been studied in people who have MVP.
- Magnesium may be helpful for MVP and has been studied in people.
- Biofeedback may decrease MVP symptoms.
Other ways of treating your symptoms:
Other ways to treat your symptoms are available to you.
Talk to your caregiver if:
- You would like medicine to treat mitral valve prolapse.
- Your symptoms have not gone away or improved by these self-help measures.
- Any of your symptoms are getting worse.
- You have questions about what you have read in this document.
SEEK CARE IMMEDIATELY IF:
- Call 911 or O (operator) if you have any of the following signs or symptoms that may mean you are having a heart attack. Do not drive yourself!
- Crushing chest pressure or pain in the center of the chest that spreads to your shoulders, arms, jaw, neck, or back. The pain may be like a burning feeling that feels like heartburn. Chest pain may last more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back.
- Cold sweats or sweating.
- Short of breath.
- Too dizzy to stand up.
You have the right to help plan your care. To help with this plan, you must learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. You can then discuss treatment options with your caregivers. Work with them to decide what care may be used to treat you. You always have the right to refuse treatment.
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2. Lichodziejewska B, Klos J, Rezler J et al: Clinical symptoms of mitral valve prolapse are related to hypomagnesemia and attenuated by magnesium supplementation. Am J Cardiol 1997; 79(6):768-772.
3. Smith MS, Doroshow C, Womack WM et al: Symptomatic mitral valve prolapse in children and adolescents: catecholamines, anxiety, and biofeedback. Pediatrics 1989; 84(2):290-295.
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mental interests and abilities
Goldie Hawn possesses vision and foresight, and her mind is often occupied with big ideas, plans and goals for the future. She is interested in what is possible and what is on the horizon, rather than what has already been done. Hawn is attracted to the study of philosophy, religion, politics or education and she is more concerned with theories and concepts than with specific applications. She is not inclined to focus on any specific, concrete area; It irks Goldie to deal with details and particulars. Goldie Hawn has a gambling instinct and enjoys speculative enterprises and new ventures. Business, advertising and promotion would also be ideally suited to her.
Goldie does not speak up readily, even when she has a lot to say! Also, her mind tends to drift and Hawn finds it difficult to study very factual material that does not have much color or imaginative appeal. Her intuition and first impressions are likely to be quite accurate, however, and Goldie Hawn tends to depend upon this faculty in making decisions.
She is mentally restless, intellectually thirsty, and immensely curious. Goldie Hawn may study and travel widely in order to satisfy these urges and she is even happier if she shares her journeys with companions. Goldie's gifts lie in her capacity for learning about the beliefs of a broad spectrum of people, making long-distance connections, opening up channels of communication and understanding, bringing people together from foreign lands, and promoting social and cultural exchange.
Goldie Hawn has a brilliant, inventive mind, and Hawn's sudden flashes of insight and clear perception enable her to grasp concepts very quickly. At times Hawn's mind flits from one subject to the next so rapidly that Goldie Hawn cannot thoroughly digest any of them. Goldie gets bored and restless, and intellectually rebels against too much tedium. She may be abrupt and impatient with people who plan and plod along, because Goldie Hawn likes to be open to inspiration and spontaneous. Hawn could invent or discover something truly original, unique or unheard of.
She is mentally active and always seeking new and different avenues of self-expression. Restless, touchy and impulsive, Hawn will probably have to learn compromise in her dealings with others. Goldie Hawn tends to have an unusual domestic life.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Mercury in Sagittarius
Mercury in 12th house
Mercury Sextile Jupiter
Mercury Opposition Uranus
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Exhibition Themes > Theology & Religion > 130. Gospel lectionary
130. Gospel lectionary. Manuscript on parchment, 99 leaves. Spain, second half of the 16th century. RBML, Western MS 29
This book containing the gospel readings for the mass is an example of the influence of printed books on manuscripts during the 16th century. According to the prefatory statement on folio ii verso, the text of this manuscript was corrected on the basis of comparison with a Roman missal printed in Venice in 1577 and then compared to another missal printed in Salamanca in 1588. The style of illumination shows Flemish influence in the naturalistic fruits and flowers on a gold ground. The text appears as if in a frame hung against a tapestry of lush vegetation. On the right is the gospel for the first Sunday of Advent, Luke 21. The binding is in contemporary calf over wooden boards, gilt stamped, with gilt edges.
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Leadership and management practices are useful to individual's success and that of our organisation. For the benefit of this training programme which is to improve leadership and management in the organisation, this material will equip us on ways to obtain professional information on leadership and management and serve as a self-study exercise for us to have knowledge of basic management and leadership skills which can be applied at various departments in our organisation. It will also make us understand the theories of leadership and management, how to improve motivation and performance through the application of relevant leadership skills and the development and effectiveness of teams. At the end of the training programme, I expect us to see leadership and management skills and practices as a tool of driving the organisation to further development and success.
1.1 Analysis of the concepts of leadership and management
Leadership can be defined as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organisation in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders are developing through a never ending process of self-study, education, training and experience. While leadership is learned, the skills and knowledge possess by the leaders can be influenced by his or hers attributes or traits such as beliefs, values, ethics and characters.
To inspire someone working under us into higher ground of teamwork, there are certain things we must be, know and do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work practices. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve the leadership skills in them.
Directors of banks do set-up sales target for each of the branches at the beginning of financial year and new products are normally added to the services of the organisation. This shows that goals and objectives have been put in place for followers to work towards. Through this, the sales will be improved and new customers will join the service of the bank considering the new products introduced by the leadership teams.
Managers are important group involved in business activity. We normally believe that managers are responsible for 'getting things done' usually through other people. When job roles are giving to us, our respective line managers normally help us in achieving this either through supervision or working together with us. The term manager may refer to a number of different people within a business. Some job titles include the word manager, such as personal manager. Other job holders may also be managers even though their titles do not say it. Managers act on behalf of the owners of a company which is leader. They are accountable for the activities of the company either to the director or shareholders, set objectives for the organisation; make sure the business achieves its objectives, by managing others and ensure that corporate values are maintained in dealing with other business, customers, employees and the general public. It is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively.
As a manager in one of the branches, a lot of means will be laid down to achieve the target that has been put in place by the leader such as help (conference/lecture or training) to make other staffs see the big picture of how they are fitted into the plan and achieving it.
Management texts contain leadership. Actually, leadership is an important function of management and it is mentioned as one of the five functions of management (Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Leading or Directing and Control). Both roles are very much tied to human interactions and thus personalities and traits are essential requirements. Also, leadership and management exists at every level of management, however, the amount of each varies according to the management hierarchy.
For example, the board of this organisation has more of a leadership task which is to provide vision to the company and plan to achieve it, while the head of any department rarely goes beyond determining what the next task should be. Leadership and management task within the organisation depends upon 'how much it allows for leadership in a particular role?'
As we all know, our organisation was established to provide effective, efficient and affordable health care delivery services to the people in this locality and beyond. The location also positioned it to become a notable centre for the treatment of accident victims. Also, our objectives include making provision for: A full range of hospital and specialist services to the community; clinical facilities for the education of medical and other students; facilities for medical research etc.
For, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital to grow and remain healthy, we have to know some elementary skills of management and leadership-skills that will assist us to avoid the crisis situation where we need to do whatsoever that will make us excel in all our services. These elementary skills of management and leadership consist problem solving and decision making, planning, meeting management, delegation, communications and managing ourselves.
These basic skills are also fundamental from which to develop more advanced practices in management and leadership. Whenever organisation's leaders struggle, it's often because they do not know the basics – not because they aren't doing what they supposed to do in implementing basic practices in management and leadership.
Knowledge and skills contributes directly to the process of leadership and management while other attributes give the leader and manager certain qualities that make them different. Skills, knowledge and attributes make the leader or manager, which is one of the factors of leadership and management. The leadership and management process of an organisation involves-developing a vision for the organisation; aligning people with that vision through communication; and motivating people to action through empowerment and through basic need fulfilment. The leadership process creates uncertainty and change in the organisation. In contrast, the management process involves-planning and budgeting; organizing and staffing; and controlling and problem solving. The management process reduces uncertainty and stabilizes the organisation.
Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard give better explanation of the difference between leadership and management. Leadership is not a concept exclusive to or within management. It is a broader concept on its own. Management is thought of as a special kind of leadership in which the accomplishment of organisational goals is paramount. Leadership is influencing the behaviour of someone. Management is planning an objective and achieving that objective. Leadership requires a follower and a leader has to figure out how to influence the follower. Manager has to figure out an objective and theoretically, he may do the job himself and manage the objective. Managers have large number of people under them and they have to lead them to do the work assigned them as part of the organisations plan to achieve the objectives while one can accept leadership as a concept which has utility as a concept separate from management.
1.2 Evaluation of the key management and leadership theories
Management and leadership theories focus on what qualities distinguish between leaders and followers in an organisation. For instance, development of the plan for our organisation started with a leadership and management retreat. The aims were to engender a harmonious industrial climate through inter-union, inter-association, inter-staff, and staff association-management interaction and to provide a forum for the leaders and managers to deliberate and proffer advice on pertinent issues of management to enable us move the institution forward. Participants were the Chairman, Board of Management, the Chief Medical Director and other members of staffs. There were lecture, workshop and group activities. The objectives were with the full realization because the staffs are not ignorant and fully participated. This practice looked at variables such as situational factor and skill levels. The participative style of leadership explained by Rensis Likart theories of leadership which encourages decision making by subordinates and their leadership style that involves employee-centred leader were employed. Our organisation also used Blake and Mouton theories of leadership that explained the degree to which a leader considers the needs of team members, their interest, and area of personal development, emphasises objectives, organisational work output and great productivity when deciding the best ways to accomplish a task. This plan would have been carried out without considering various union/staffs relations by our leaders/managers thereby having different management and leadership styles/theories differs from that stated above.
1.3 Assessment of the challenges of leadership and management practices
We are usually faced by some challenges such as low level of funding; recruitment exercise; opening of new hospital offices/complex; social policy directives; and developments in ICT. Our leaders and managers have the ability to sense change and respond to it effectively. They have been able to predict a decline of health care delivery services due lack of a new technique being available in other hospitals; anticipate possible solutions to changes that may affect the organisation; have a clear vision of the main objectives of the organisation during periods of change and be able to guide the organisation to achieve these; organise and motivate employees to accept challenges and ensure stability and minimise or prevent disruption.
For example, there were challenges of delivering adequate health care services to the people of the community some years back, the leaders and the managers quickly identified the symptoms that have caused these challenges. Among these were low productivity and high labour turnover. As soon as these challenges were identified, managers and leaders found the cause of the trouble and developed a strategy for better status of the organisation. Strategies they employed for good status of the organisation include changing people-through hiring and firing, reassignments of duties, training, pay increases or counselling. They also carried out restructure work through job redesign, job enrichment and redefinition of roles. Systems were also improved. These include communication systems, reward systems, information and reporting systems, budgets and stock control.
2.1 Analysis of the key motivational theories and how they influence organisational success
It is important for any organisation to motivate its employees. The motivational theories of Maslow, McGregor, McClelland and Herzberg explain content theories of motivation. They simply explained the specific factors that motivate people. They answer the question 'what drives behaviour? Also, Vroom, Porter and Lawler, and Adams explain process theories of motivation. They are concerned with the thought processes that influence behaviour. If employees are watched closely, fear of wage cuts or redundancy may force them to maintain their effort even though they are not motivated. This is negative motivation. A lack of motivation may lead to reduced effort and lack of commitment. In the long run, a lack of motivation may result in high levels of absenteeism, industrial disputes and falling productivity and profit for the organisation. Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital management has been acting according to Fredrick Herzberg's theory of motivation by being giving recognition for effort of its staff. We are normally taking into consideration in everything the management of this organisation embark upon! This is a kind of motivation that simply gives us job satisfaction and thereby makes the workers more productive. Herzberg's ideas are linked with job enrichment. This is where workers have their jobs 'expanded', so that they can experience more of their job process. Improved maintenance factors such as pay or conditions also remove dissatisfaction of staffs. For example, better canteen facilities within our organization make workers less dissatisfied about the environment. All these allow the workers to be more involved and motivated.
2.2 Evaluation of the role of leadership and management in employee motivation
It is important for leaders and managers to find out what satisfies the needs of its employees? Organisations have found out that even if employees are satisfied with pay and condition of work, they still complain that their employer does not do a good job in motivating them.
Motivation is vital because even at the most fundamental level, it is expensive to get another set of staff than that to keep existing one. Employees want to be involved and regarded and making them happy means they will be at service of the organisation for longer period. Have it in mind that at most not convenient time, leader and manager need to motivate staff.
If our employees are doing well and assisting to drive the organisation forward, In this case, we do let them know how much we cherish them on regular basis. Whenever we offer them any gifts or passed any information that is of their advantage across both works equally well. This shows, we put them in mind. If our staffs enjoy socializing with us like they do working with us, then we are doing something good and right.
It is important that you lead by good characters when there is an issue with staff, if you expect your employees to work late, then you should stay at work too for such period. At the same time, if you don't want staff coming in at 10am on first working day of the week, then make sure you're at work very early. It's not always about hours of working; show your staff respect and you will hopefully get it back. They will observe you on the way you discus with people around and act in same circumstances, so it is important to behave in the way you will like them to behave as well.
Investing in employee is paramount, not only will it mean we are getting the best and latest in the organisation but they will appreciate us for being able to develop under our cares. We make sure we fully research courses to send our employee on to acquire the full training. It is equally good to get feedback from employee on how the course has improved their standard individually.
Communicating with our employee is high on our list of priorities. Most of them like a leader or manager they can easily reach whenever there are problems. We do hold frequent job discussion with our employee to make sure they are most happy, doing on good and aren't confused about anything. Apart from this, we do communicate with our employee everyday. Exchanging greetings are simple motivational techniques but can make a world of difference.
The figure below explains how our leaders and managers make decisions for employees' motivation, having first identified the employee's needs.
Identify the need/ motivation motivation
Satisfaction If need is not satisfied
Identify the need/motivation – our organisation try as much as possible for employee to be involved in decisions so that they can feel wanted and recognised as important to the company
Incentive – Set up discussion with employees about goals and working practices of the organisation
Satisfaction – This is a situation where the employee feels their opinion and contribution is valuable
Result and Outcome – By meeting above condition, the employee are willing to take more responsibility
2.3 Analysis of the contribution of performance management techniques as organisational processes
Managers use performance management techniques to test employee's working status on a regular basis. By examining each employee's performance, our organisation also measures the overall effectiveness of its workforce and how well the company achieves its objectives.
Assigning roles to workers that improve their strengths is a difficult job. Workforce optimisation is a plan to put the right people in the best job roles to maximize their work output. By doing regular appraisals, our leaders and managers easily track employees' performance and suggest if they need more training or if they could be more productive with different responsibilities.
Another performance management technique we usually employ is compensation package. Overall morale always increase most especially when the employee sees the process to be fair. A happy worker is a hard worker.
Incentive-based programs that permit the employee in using less paper or being energy efficient both save on our expenses and the employees are rewarded for putting forth the extra energy needed. The fewer costs our organisation has, the more profit it realizes.
3.1 Analysis of the development of teams
Organisations often try to improve the productivity and motivation of people working in groups/teams. The 'planned, systematic process designed to improve the efforts of people who work together to achieve goals' is referred to as development of teams. Team can be described as an internally organized set of people with specific roles for different members to achieve a specific goal while group can be referred to as a collection of people with something in common, such as being in the same place or having their individual's interest.
Meredith Belbin (1981) found that successful teams consisted of a mix of individuals, each of whom performed a different role. For instance, monitoring and evaluation team that was set up under the chief medical director's office is a kind of team of different calibers and positions within our organisation. They work on projects with specific term of reference and present biannual and annual reports with veritable indices to the leadership of this organisation. This is not like working in a group; working in a team entails accountability rather than individual accountability and results in a joint work products. The characteristic and goals of the individual members of the team helped to determine the team's characteristics and goals. .According to Belbin, each person has a preferred role and for a team to be effective, all the roles need to be filled. Our organisation selects people that are capable to fill one or more of the roles. Individual member of the team was influenced more strongly because of their role. This is unlike group with large number of people where very few people take part in the project while others are not and unable to participate effectively in team decisions. Effectiveness of team depend s on the blend of the individual skills and abilities of its members. Team development is based on the idea that before organisations can improve performance, team members must be able to work together effectively.
This exercise is used to help team members develop trust, open up communication channels, make sure everyone understood the goals of the team, help individuals make decisions with the commitment of all members, prevent the leader from dominating the team, openly examine and resolve conflicts and to review work activities.
3.2 Analysis of the roles and models of team leadership
Leadership of teams must get members of team to work with each other. This is one method that involves low levels of risk among members. The role of team leader include to be able able to organise joint projects or some form of exchange between members of the team. The leaders of the team work together or exchange roles with members for this approach to be effective. This is one method that involves low levels of risk among members. The working spirit was further developed by communication and swapping of team members. This technique was used when our organisation took over the challenges of training medical students from another medical institution and there is a need to avoid conflict. These ideas develop social interaction among the employees.
Keeping every single activity connected to the others help team leaders and organisation to achieve what they actually planed. Members are enjoying while performing their roles and are also discovering something new about themselves, their co-workers, and the organisation as a whole.
Researching and learning about the team current issues definitely help team leaders in creating the actual activities that the members can participate-in. This affords lapses of any kind for members not to participate in the activities of the team.
3.3 Evaluation of the role and usefulness of teams within the organisation
The leader of any team of an organisation aims to create team/group that is effective and efficient. If the team leader or organisation can motivate the team members to work harder in order to achieve goals, the sense of pride in the team's own competence will create job satisfaction for the leadership of the team/team members and employees in general.
Looking at the opportunities given to the employees of our organisation and most especially in most units or teams that has so far set- up, the participants are willing to carry out responsibilities for the betterment of the organisation. In some instance, membership of units or teams can be made up of top officials of an organisation which may not interest ordinary employees of the organisation.
The introduction of different units or teams in our organisation has contributed immensely for the achievement of our goals and objectives. In term of motivation, employees in team situations are more satisfied and motivated than when we are working under more traditional regimes and have a positive influence on employee commitment and identification. The team work also serves to gain competitive advantage over other organisations.
Our organisations provide leaders and managers with legitimate authority to lead. There is need for individuals to imbibe this strong leadership and management trait for optimal effectiveness. In nowadays changing work environment, we need leaders that can challenge the status quo and inspire and persuade organisation members. We also need team leaders to assist in changing and improving a smoothly running place of work. | <urn:uuid:497e7462-b68c-480b-8d66-74bdffa96f53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ukessays.com/essays/management/analysis-of-the-concepts-of-leadership-and-management.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965384 | 4,108 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Determine the demand for shipping services in ports using stated and revealed preference techniques. The case of the major Greek ports
This master thesis evaluated the factors which determine the demand in the major Greek ports, in the liquid and dry bulk sectors using Stated and Revealed preference techniques. Ports all over the world and especially in the demanding area of Eastern Mediterranean are improving their quality measures day by day. A study which will reveal which are the main determinants of demand for shipping services in ports, will assist the major Greek ports of Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Kavala, Volos and Patra to develop their terminals in order to meet the expectations of their customers. This thesis is focusing on answering two main research questions: Which of the two techniques, the Stated Preference or the Revealed Preference one, can best determine the demand for shipping services in the major ports of Greece? Which are the basic characteristics that determine the best quality shipping services in the major Greek ports in the liquid bulk and dry bulk sectors? A qualitative methodology was used in order to answer the main research questions. We prepared and conducted surveys to various shipping companies all over the Greek territory and close to the major Greek ports. The analysis of the surveys’ extracted data was conducted with the use of a polynomial model called Logit. The results of this master thesis were the following: 1. Stated Preference Technique can best describe and determine the demand for shipping services in the major Greek ports. 2. Three main attributes of the shipping services were selected to best determinate the demand in the major Greek ports and in the liquid and dry bulk sectors; Frequency of voyage, Total voyage costs and duration of voyage. These shipping service’s characteristics play an important role in the determination of the demand in the Greek ports. Through the results of the conducted surveys, this master thesis came upon the conclusion that a Greek shipping company is willing to pay the extra amount of money in their total voyage costs of their vessels if the frequency of the trips is increased and the duration of the voyages is decreased. It is up to the Greek port authorities to take this under consideration and seek for a continuous improvement in their services.
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Now it kind of looks like the messenger cable is also the neutral conductor.
And look at the differences in cable ODs between what goes into the house and what comes from the utility pole. The pole wires must be 1/3rd the diameter of the larger cables on the left. I'd guess the nominal 240 volts must drop quite a bit when all the 240v house appliances are on.
Here's pics of bolt to bolt fasteners.
Use a threaded rod going into the house because the length required is probably unknown. The rod should go through roof structural members, not like how they appear to have done it in your photo. | <urn:uuid:3c2d6782-e0b3-4b2b-8456-84c9b15e459d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.houserepairtalk.com/showthread.php?t=15013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00559-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916216 | 130 | 1.734375 | 2 |
LNC Announces The End Of Its Ten Year Obeminale® Program
6/25/2014 9:11:21 AM
This novel program demonstrated the safety and efficacy of Stablor(R) for pre-diabetic and obese patients living with abdominal obesity and co-morbidities
Bordeaux, France, June 25, 2014, - LNC (Laboratoires Nutrition et Cardiometabolisme), a research and development company specialized in the treatment of chronic metabolic diseases, today announces the end of its ten-year Obeminale program.
The Obeminale program began in 2004 and incorporated fundamental research, clinical and behavioral trials. It also compiled real life data from 5,000 patients with abdominal obesity and co-morbidities who used Stablor.
Obesity has become a major global health challenge, according to the Lancet (1). No national success stories in the fight against obesity have been reported in the past 33 years. Health authorities and big pharma are looking for ways to address this complex issue by incorporating physiopathology and behavioral changes.
LNC is a pioneer in the characterization of bioactive peptides that affect diabetes and obesity. LNC targets the root cause of these chronic diseases by directly attacking the adipocyte dysfunction and adipose tissue inflammation. Because these patients have multiple issues (adipocyte dysfunction, nutritional imbalance, inadequate lifestyle), it is important to address all of the issues to effectively manage the disease. To that end, LNC developed ‘The Chronic Patient Initiative’, a support program that operates in tandem with patient care.
Stablor is a multi-patented medical nutrition product dedicated to all patients with abdominal obesity (overweight and obese) and co-morbidities (high triglycerides, pre-diabetes and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or ‘good cholesterol’). The results arising from the Obeminale program have all confirmed that Stablor has a key role to play against abdominal obesity.
The Obeminale program had three main objectives:
• To understand the physiopathological mechanisms connected to abdominal obesity (inflammation, IR, microbiota, etc.) in order to identify bioactive molecules of therapeutic interest
• To demonstrate the added value of Stablor (primarily its efficiency and safety) for every patient with abdominal obesity and disturbed biomarkers
• To validate how Stablor will meet the needs of prescribers, medical practices and patients themselves
The most interesting aspect of the Obeminale program was an ambitious clinical study launched in 2012 with the ICAN (Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, France). This institute is among the most renowned research centers on the metabolic syndrome. The study involved 118 patients for 12 weeks. The results for this international (INAF, Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Canada), controlled, randomized, double blind, multi-centric Obeminale study are still in ongoing analysis. Final results should be published in H1 2015.
The preliminary results of the Obeminale study have already confirmed the specific action of Stablor on fat mass and its metabolic impact on the biomarkers of adipocyte dysfunction, inflammation and insulin resistance. The safety and compliance are also excellent.
Earlier in the Obeminale program, LNC achieved a proof of concept study with Stablor. The main objective was to obtain a ten per cent waist loss. 92 patients took part for a duration of 21 weeks and 58 per cent of these had normalized their waist with a mean reduction of 9.2 cm, with an impact on insulin resistance (Homa IR: minus 35 per cent). The maintenance of the effect (waist circumference reduction) is also demonstrated in another publication with a 22 month follow-up (n equals 43). Full results were published in 2013. (2)(3)
"Obesity is complex to manage because physiopathology, nutritional and motivational aspects are interconnected. This is why we decided to collect clinical and real life data from patients and prescribers. We are delighted to have completed this major milestone in our development plan,” said Jean-Luc Treillou, CEO of LNC. “Following the success of this program, we will soon announce the launch of our next new therapeutic area related to abdominal obesity. In parallel, an identification and characterization study of the bioactive peptides in Stablor is ongoing, to validate the clinical outcomes.”
“The preliminary Obeminale study results are interesting at the clinical level and regarding the adipocyte dysfunction,” said Claude Vincent, president of LNC. “Some data on microbiota are under analysis. It is exciting because such global analysis is rarely performed.”
Stablor is now ready to be prescribed to any patient living with abdominal obesity and co-morbidities. As a product, Stablor could strengthen the portfolio of any major pharmaceutical company with a cardiometabolic focus.
"A number of options are now open to us. The most likely is an acquisition by a major pharmaceutical company to accelerate the market launch of our current portfolio, making it available to larger numbers of users, while reinforcing the scientific perspectives on LNC clinical research plans," said Jean-Luc Treillou.
LNC (Laboratoires Nutrition et Cardiometabolisme) is a research and development company specialized in the treatment of chronic metabolic diseases such as pre-diabetes and obesity. Using bioactive peptides, LNC targets the cause of these chronic diseases by directly attacking the adipocyte dysfunction and adipose tissue inflammation.
LNC’s portfolio comprises two ranges of medical nutrition product, both at the marketing stage. Stablor(R) is for individuals presenting with abdominal obesity and biomarker abnormalities (pre-diabetics and the obese). Bariamed(R) is for obese patients about to undergo surgery for obesity (known as bariatric surgery).
The company also has a diversified pipeline of medical nutrition products and candidate drugs spanning from initial research to phase III trials and covering the full extent of cardiometabolism. The products at the most advanced stage have been through clinical trials to demonstrate their efficacy and tolerance. LNC has filed 11 patents since it was founded in 2010.
The nature of chronic diseases requires an all-encompassing program of care involving patients and professionals. In response, LNC has devised the Chronic Patient Initiative, a supportive approach that aims to educate and provide guidance and encouragement for the patient and their family.
LNC is based in Bordeaux, France and has ten members of staff. The management team has extensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry (with experience at GSK, Aventis, Sanofi and Pfizer). Since it was founded, the company has raised EUR 9 million from equity investors and public funding.
Further information is online: http://l-n-c.fr
About pre-diabetes and obesity
Pre-diabetes is a borderline state that precedes the emergence of diabetes. There are currently 320 million pre-diabetics worldwide, 70 per cent of whom will develop diabetes within the next ten years without appropriate care (figures from The Lancet, 2012). The number of diabetics is set to increase by 55 per cent, taking the total number of sufferers to 592 million within the next 20 years (International Diabetes Federation, 2013).
Obesity is a disease that is acknowledged to have reached pandemic proportions. In fact, around 2 billion people worldwide over the age of 20 currently suffer from obesity or are overweight. By 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and over 700 million individuals will be obese (WHO, 2010). Patients suffering from obesity are characterized by an elevated body mass index. The condition often causes numerous health problems and obese patients are particularly prone to develop type II diabetes.
(2) Dr. Bruno Ranson, M.D "Impact of a Nutritional Intervention on Waist Circumference Reduction" Science Journal of Medicine & Clinical Trials, 2013. http://www.sjpub.org/sjmct/sjmct-263.pdf
(3) Dr. Bruno Ranson, M.D ,”Maintenance of waist circumference reduction after a nutritional intervention : A 22-month follow-up” Science Journal of Medicine & Clinical Trials, 2014. http://www.sjpub.org/sjmct/sjmct-206.pdf
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Many slaves escaped from the farm.
|The next day, many slaves tried to escape.
One incapable of punishing corrupt slaves is nothing but a coward and cannot win the struggle for existence.
"I will kill them all!"
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by Frank Angelone | copyblogger.com
Holy fruit salad, Batman!
Do you know the reference?
If you ever watched the old-school Batman TV show, you’ll get it. Each episode of the show featured Robin uttering a different version of the catch phrase, with an increasingly unlikely noun taking its place in the middle.
But it’s not Robin who made those off-the-wall catch phrases memorable.
It’s the nostalgia that a show of this nature still wells up in their audience to this day.
It’s been written to death that content is king. I don’t think we’ve beaten this to death enough! Anyway, what really needs to be put into context here is that any type of content, whether it be television, video, articles, or anything else needs to contain some element of nostalgia.
Let me ask you this. Do you want people to talk about your work 10, 20 years from now? I know I do.
Now vs. tomorrow
If you create great content for “what’s hot now,” it doesn’t mean it’s still going to be “hot” down the line.
Just take a look at how many bloggers are arguing what the best platform is for social networking. They’re all looking to push their favorite social network, whether it be Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
10 or 20 years from now, how relevant will that content be? How relevant will it be a year from now?
Most sites are missing out on what really connects with readers and fans — nostalgia. If my Batman reference didn’t resonate with you, that’s ok, because here’s another quick example …
I’m taking a class called “The History of Video Games.” The title of the class alone suggests that certain video games create a nostalgic feeling in the teacher and prospective students. Games likeSuper Mario or Donkey Kong are still surprisingly popular because the creators thought long and hard about how to keep them compelling throughout the years.
So how does this relate to your blogging?
When you write a post, create a video, or distribute anything on the internet, have you ever stopped to think about whether what you’re saying actually means anything to your audience? Just because “content is king” doesn’t mean your content is anything more than that of a Court Jester.
What do I mean by that?
Don’t be a court jester
A Court Jester exists for the King needs to be amused in that precise moment. It might attract attention, but it doesn’t keep it for the long run.
Is your latest article or podcast relevant only for this precise moment, or “what’s hot now?”
I hope not, because then all you’ll become is another content “John Doe.” The work that you spent so much time on is quickly lost in the vast vortex of the internet.
Do something that you feel can be looked upon in the years to come and still be relevant. You want people to read your articles down the line and say, “This is great. I wish people still created things like this.”
To this day, I enjoy looking at archived articles or older books. I just read a reprint of the first ever issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Talk about nostalgia! It’s that type of writing that you want to seek out. Writing that survives to become an enduring classic.
So what should you do to keep your content memorable for the future?
4 ways to create nostalgic content
- Read or watch something that has some age to it, but is still relevant today. This will allow you to view things in a different light and not get influenced by the same echo chamber everyone else is stuck in. By looking to the past, you’ll notice what elements stand the test of time, what still captivates and commands attention.
- Stop reading what others are doing or telling you to do. I’m not saying you can’t listen to opinions, but don’t be a blind follower and continue do what feels safe (like blogging about how to make money with a blog). Be a leader and think for yourself.
- Be a free spirit. It worked for the Batman TV show, which was quirky and often over-the-top outrageous. I still have friends from college texting me the dumb catch phrases I used to say. Your work won’t stand the test of time if you’re exactly like everyone else.
- Be an entertainer. Everyone likes to say be yourself when you write. I don’t think that’s always a good thing. Do you think P.T. Barnum stayed safely inside his comfort zone? No. He was constantly thinking creatively, like, well … a circus performer. Barnum & Bailey are still in business and going strong.
Over to you …
Nostalgia isn’t something you can create on a piece of paper in a moment. It’s something thatdevelops over the course of time.
Write for the future. Write for what will still be relevant when all the hype becomes old news, and you might be remembered when you’re gone.
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Pulse crops under downy mildew disease pressure
Bean growers are being warned that downy mildew is highly prevalent in crops this season. The disease is even hitting winter bean plants at levels that would warrant treatment, according to the PGRO.
Infection has been triggered by recent weather events - exacerbated by cool, overcast conditions and recent rains. High humidity and low seasonal temperatures could now encourage outbreaks of secondary infection on leaves, with more serious yield effects.
PGRO R&D Manager, Becky Howard, reported: “Although it is generally spring beans that suffer more damage from downy mildew, winter beans have been displaying high levels of infection that may warrant treatment.
“Where plants are already showing signs of infection, growers should be looking to prevent spread onto new growth,” she advised.
An EAMU is available for the fungicide SL567A, containing the highly systemic metalaxyl-M to control infection in emerging leaves.
PGRO also warns downy mildew is also creating a threat to establishing pea crops. For vining pea crops Revus is approved for control of the disease, however no foliar fungicides are available for use in the combing pea crop.
Syngenta Technical Manager, Andy Cunningham, pointed out that continued cool, wet conditions would also be conducive to chocolate spot developing in beans as the season progresses.
“If the weather turns hotter and drier that would be good to reduce pressure from downy mildew and chocolate spot,” he advised.
“However, it would mean that rust is more likely to occur, with early infections the most damaging in terms of yield effects.”
This season bean growers have the new option to use Elatus Era in beans, which has proven highly effective in the programme to control both chocolate spot and rust – whatever the weather conditions. | <urn:uuid:22bc37f0-e0af-4bab-9728-c01109519dae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.syngenta.co.uk/news/agronomy-issues/pulse-crops-under-downy-mildew-disease-pressure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.959623 | 389 | 2.328125 | 2 |
For Immediate Release
Maine Becomes the Fifth State to Grant the Freedom to Marry to Same-Sex Couples
WASHINGTON - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund issued the
following statement after Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation
today making Maine the fifth state to grant the freedom to marry to
Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund
"We are thrilled with Gov. John Baldacci's thoughtful and
well-reasoned decision to sign this critical legislation. This is a
great day for Maine, and a great day for this country. With recent
marriage victories in Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont, this action
affirms the national momentum building for marriage equality. From
coast to coast, people are recognizing that the fundamental protections
provided through civil marriage are a critical part of fairness and
full equality. Through debate, dialogue and careful consideration,
states are concluding that denying this basic right doesn't protect
anyone; it simply places more families in harm's way and makes them
more vulnerable to hardship.
"We thank Gov. John Baldacci and the Maine Legislature for doing the
right thing by supporting this legislation, and we congratulate our
state partner, EqualityMaine, for this hard-fought victory. Because of
EqualityMaine's leadership, same-sex couples have won the freedom to
marry in Maine. The Task Force is proud of its 5-year partnership with
EqualityMaine to achieve today's victory. We will be with them every
step of the way to ensure marriage equality is protected."
More about the Task Force's investment in Maine
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation and the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund have invested significantly in
the work of EqualityMaine to build greater political power for the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community:
The Task Force Foundation has:
- Given $82,000 to launch and grow EqualityMaine's first-ever voter
identification project. The grant enabled EqualityMaine to hire its
first statewide organizer to recruit and train hundreds of volunteers
to talk with voters face to face about marriage equality and identify
voters supportive of the issue. As a result, EqualityMaine has built a
list of more than 50,000 identified supporters of the freedom to marry,
one of the largest such state lists in the country.
- Organized the Maine LGBT Power Summit in late April, which brought
together 140 leaders from across the country, including more than 70
Mainers, for training in campaign fundamentals. At the summit,
participants walked door to door and spoke with more than 1,100 voters
about marriage equality.
- Trained more than 30 additional Maine leaders at Task Force Power
Summits in 2004-2005 to support EqualityMaine's voter identification
The Task Force Action Fund has:
- Sent organizers to work on the ground in Maine in February 2009
to launch EqualityMaine's marriage equality field program. Following
the April Power Summit, several Task Force organizers remained in Maine
to provide additional field support in the final days leading up to the
- Provided $20,000 to EqualityMaine in seed money in January 2009 to hire nine field organizers.
- Dedicated a Task Force organizer to work full time for one month in
the No on 1 campaign in 2005, which successfully defeated a referendum
that would have repealed its statewide nondiscrimination law.
- Contributed $93,000 to the No on 1 campaign.
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The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to pull the popular weight loss drug Meridia from the market.
The group says the drug needs to be yanked immediately because of heart-related risks.
Public Citizen claims 84 heart-related deaths have been reported to the FDA in patients who took Meridia. Thirty of the people who've died were reportedly 50 or younger, and 11 were 30 or younger.
"We would hope that the science behind the results seen in this study would mandate the only appropriate FDA action to protect the public health: immediate removal of Meridia from the market," urges Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who directs the group's Health Research Group.
Drug maker Abbott Laboratories said Thursday that it had not reviewed the Public Citizen petition, but noted that Meridia is only approved for patients with no previous history of cardiovascular disease.
Last month, the FDA said it was "making no conclusions about the preliminary findings" of the 10,000-patient study that showed a slightly higher risk of heart-related problems in patients taking Meridia.
According to a Reuters report, "Meridia's use has decreased in the United States over the past eight years... Still, 294,000 U.S. prescriptions were filled for the drug in the last 12 months..."
Meridia side effects
According to www.drugs.com:
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction to Meridia: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop using Meridia and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
--fast or pounding heartbeats
--dangerously high blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision, buzzing in your ears, chest pain, uneven heartbeats)
--new or worsening shortness of breath
--easy bruising or bleeding (nosebleeds, bleeding gums, or any bleeding that will not stop)
--blood in your urine or stool
--weakness, restless feeling, confusion, anxiety, agitation, fever, overactive reflexes, joint pain, sweating, vomiting, tremors
--very stiff (rigid) muscles, high fever, sweating, confusion, fast or uneven heartbeats, feeling like you might pass out
Less serious Meridia side effects
--dry mouth, upset stomach
--loss of appetite
--runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, cough
--headache, back pain
--trouble sleeping (insomnia)
--mild skin rash
--changes in your menstrual period
For more information, check out this Associated Press feature http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hzl0dnRHdMTO6wFTe1D4kG2G-dKQD9CC3S5O0
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E-Week ’16: Design Build Fly model on display in Latrobe Hall
JHU’s Design Build Fly team is hosting a display in the lobby of Latrobe Hall during National Engineers Week. The display, which will include a model, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Feb. 22 through 26.
Design, Build, Fly (DBF) is an inter-university competition where students design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled (RC) airplane. DBF is sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Raytheon Missile Systems, and Cessna Aircraft. | <urn:uuid:94f753eb-1544-47fe-98bd-f675499cf79e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://engineering.jhu.edu/events/e-week-16-design-build-fly-display/?id=65 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00544-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90881 | 155 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Information technology -- Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) -- Part 2: Digital Item Declaration
(Not available in French)
This standard has been revised by: ISO/IEC 21000-2:2005
ISO/IEC 21000 (MPEG-21) defines an open framework for multimedia delivery and consumption, with both the content creator and content consumer as focal points. The vision for MPEG-21 is to define a multimedia framework to enable transparent and augmented use of multimedia resources across a wide range of networks and devices used by different communities.
The basic architectural concept in MPEG-21 is the Digital Item. Digital Items are structured digital objects, including a standard representation, identification and metadata. They are the basic unit of transaction in the MPEG-21 framework. More concretely, a Digital Item is a combination of resources (such as videos, audio tracks, images, etc), metadata (such as descriptors, identifiers, etc), and structure (describing the relationships between resources).
This second part of MPEG-21 (ISO/IEC 21000-2:2003) specifies a uniform and flexible abstraction and interoperable schema for declaring the structure and makeup of Digital Items. Digital Items are declared using the Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL) and declaring a Digital Item involves specifying its resources, metadata and their interrelationships.
Within ISO/IEC 21000-2:2003 this Digital Item Declaration (DID) technology is described in four main sections:
- Model: The Digital Item Declaration Model describes a set of abstract terms and concepts to form a useful model for defining Digital Items.
- Representation: The Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL) is based upon the terms and concepts defined in the above model. It contains the normative description of the syntax and semantics of each of the DIDL elements, as represented in XML. This section also contains some short non-normative examples for illustrative purposes.
- Schema: The complete normative XML schema for DIDL comprising the entire grammar of the DID representation.
- Detailed Examples: Illustrative (non-normative) examples of DIDL documents are provided to aid in understanding the use of the specification and its potential applications.
Document published on: 2003-03 Edition: 1 (Monolingual) ICS: 35.040.40 Status: Withdrawn Stage: 95.99 (2005-10-06) TC/SC: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Number of Pages:
Revised by: ISO/IEC 21000-2:2005
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The Washington Post verifies ‘the pause’ in global warming .
To be sure, both sets of data points show an overall rise in temperature of +0.01C during the 2000s. But, if current trends continue for just a few more years, then the mean change for the 2000s will shift to negative; in other words, the warming would really stop. The current +.01C increase in temperatures is insufficient to verify the climate change projections for major warming (even the low end +1-2C) by mid-to-late century. A peer reviewed study in Nature Climate Change published in 2013 drew the same conclusion: “Recent observed global warming is significantly less than that simulated by climate models,” it says. | <urn:uuid:99c468e8-d2c8-43b8-adc6-ac02fd7e5e73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mukilteobeacon.villagesoup.com/p/the-washington-post-verifies-the-pause-in-global-warming/1201829 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937332 | 154 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Zayd, the caravan guide, already riding swift as the wind, strained and goaded his steed for every last ounce of effort. The safety of the annual Mecca-to-Damascus caravan, worth nearly a million dollars, was at stake.
Assigned to scout the territory along the highway, Zayd had just found unmistakable evidence that a band of desert brigands was planning to halt and plunder the rich cargoes as the caravan neared the el-Dakar oasis in the late afternoon. Within minutes he reached a rise in the road where he could see the advance guard riding two miles in front of the plodding caravan, which stretched along the vulnerable trail for over three miles.
Who were these desert travelers Zayd sought to warn, and why was it so urgent that he not fail in his mission?
Since the introduction of the camel to Arabia about 1000 B.C., the Arab economy had increasingly emphasized commerce with distant nations and cities. Located at the crossroads of routes between Syria and Yemen, Abyssinia and Mesopotamia, Mecca became the most important Arab city as the demands of the Hellenistic and Roman world expanded. In spite of the rise and fall of many empires, Mecca's overland caravan trade continued to thrive with few exceptions until modern times.
Trade between Mecca and Europe entered one of its most prosperous periods after Emperor Justinian restored order to the Byzantine Empire with his famous legal code of 534 A.D. So eagerly, in fact, did the European traders seek the gold, silver, ivory, spices, perfumes, dates, and Chinese silk offered by the Arab merchants that by 600 A.D. the annual caravan to Byzantine Damascus was Mecca's biggest business. The economic well-being of the entire Meccan community hinged directly on the accuracy and timeliness of Zayd's warning.
Everyone in Mecca, rich and poor alike, invested in the lucrative caravan trade. All the merchants formed themselves into an association, pooled their capital to equip the caravans, and then shared proportionately in the returns. A 50 per cent return was guaranteed on all investments, since the caravan profits normally ranged between that figure and 100 per cent.
A single prominent family acted as bankers for the association, receiving deposits from interested parties, and then administering the funds as economically as possible. Even the poorest families from the small-tenant and shop-keeping classes saved every available dinar in order to have a share in the venture.
These ancient desert caravans were not small affairs with forty or fifty, or even a hundred camels. Major caravans from Mecca generally required from 2,000 to 3,000 camels, and called for a capital investment in the neighborhood of $450,000. Accompanied by several hundred armed guards, a caravan of this great size afforded maximum security and minimized the individual expenses of each merchant.
Two of these large caravans were launched each year: one went to Abyssinia during the summer, and the other carried goods from Mecca to Damascus during the winter, when rainfall was more frequent in the Syrian interior.
In spite of the guards and the size of the convoy, how could a merchant be sure his goods would not be stolen or destroyed by brigands operating in the remote desert? An ingenious insurance system placed a single leader from a well-to-do and highly respected family in charge of the shipment. This family was required to repay merchants for any property lost, damaged, or stolen en route.
For this reason, the caravan leader had absolute control over the conduct of the voyage and sole responsibility for its safety. He was usually a man of great personal integrity who was feared and respected by everyone. Naturally, he delegated many responsibilities to lesser officials.
Next to the leader in importance was the caravan's official guide (the daleel, a word still used today). Zayd's intense watch for robbers illustrates the guide's principal concern. But he also acted as interpreter and arranged the details of the itinerary, including the length of each day's march and the nightly encampments. It was particularly important to keep the caravan within three or four days' travel of a sizable watering place. During periods of political or military unrest, the guides acted as spies.
Such intimate knowledge of desert landmarks was required that the position of guide took on the status of a highly regarded profession. As soon as he was old enough, the guide's son began making the trip from Mecca with his father as an apprentice so that the information could be passed on directly from generation to generation.
The couriers were called basheers when they carried good news, nadeers when the news was bad. The nadeer raced to the nearest town for aid when the caravan was in danger. He could be recognized from afar by his reversed saddle and torn garments.
The basheer, on the other hand, heralded the safe arrival of the caravan in the few towns along the route. Greeting the caravan was a public event which generated holiday excitement as large crowds gathered in the market place.
Many of the camel drivers owned their own camels (like some American truck drivers), and contracted directly with the merchants.
Once beyond the friendly regions surrounding Mecca, the caravan settled into a time-honored routine. The leader and his immediate staff rode ahead of the convoy as a sort, of advance guard. A large banner carried in front indicated all was well as long as it remained furled.
After a normal day's journey of 30 to 40 miles, a carefully arranged encampment was made for the night. The camp was grouped in a circle or square around the tents of the leader and his staff. The boxes of merchandise were unloaded and stacked around the edge to make a low wall in case of attack. After supper, the leader held a court session, if necessary, to deal with matters of justice that had arisen during the day. Since the safety of all depended on strict discipline, the orders of the caravan court were carried out with dispatch.
To help insure the safety of the Meccan cargo in each part of the trip, the leader negotiated protection contracts with local Bedouin tribes. Large subsidies were paid for guarantees of immunity from all kinds of disturbance and attack. Not only were transit tolls collected at many points, but the use of a fine well or pasture carried a worthy price.
The nomads, in return, desired to spend part of their income on the caravan's goods. Each year some of the camels were laden in Mecca with goods to be sold along the route. These goods were opened and displayed wherever the caravan stopped to encourage safe and legitimate business with the nomads.
But Zayd's caravan faces armed nomads intent on plundering. How can the three-mile-long convoy defend itself on the open desert?
Zayd's warning to the caravan leader causes immediate mobilization for the pitched battle which is only an hour or two away. The caravan shifts into a close march and increases its normal rate of 2.5 miles per hour in hopes of reaching the oasis before stopping.
When the battle becomes inevitable, the caravan quickly turns itself into a formidable, armed fortress. The camels crouch down behind a stout rampart four to five feet high, formed from the bales of cargo. Not only the armed guards but everyone in the caravan fights valiantly for the common defense. Whatever their individual differences, the men of a desert caravan stand united in a fierce loyalty and brotherhood that is binding unto death. When the attackers are repulsed and sent reeling back into the desert, the caravan marches on.
In time, the skill and swiftness of such guards as Zayd made it extremely unprofitable to attempt any thievery from the annual caravans from Mecca. One can almost visualize the serene yet cautious look on the face of the guide as he rides the crest of a hill overlooking the oasis, satisfied in the knowledge that the men and goods in his care are, at least for the moment, safe to continue their journey to the market place of Damascus. | <urn:uuid:022721b3-8f45-48f1-b3b0-a7d75e21fd8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/196401/mecca.winter.caravan.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972374 | 1,666 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Pediatric CHILL Lab members often present their research products at local and national conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals (below).
Graduate student and undergraduate student contributions noted.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
Bieniak, K., Koven, M. L., Bedree, H., Tinkle, B. T., & Tran, S. T. (In Press). Parent-child concordance regarding youth’s experience of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology.
Tran, S. T., Grotkowski, K., Miller, S. A., Reed, B., Koven, M., Buscemi, J., & Greenley, R. N. (In Press). Hassles predict physical health complaints in undergraduate students: A dynamic structural equation model analysis of daily diary data. Psychology & Health. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1800010
Jagpal, A., Hainsworth, K. R., Salamon, K. S., Anderson Khan, A., & Tran, S. T. (2021). The relationship between stressors and pain-related clinical outcomes in pediatric chronic pain patients. Children, 8(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8010021
Gamwell, K. L., Gibler, R. C., Kollin, S. R., Bedree, H., Bieniak, K. H., Jagpal, A., Tran, S. T., Hommel, K. A., & Ramsey, R. R. (2021). Systematic evaluation of commercially available pain management apps examining behavior change techniques. PAIN 162(3), 856-865. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002090
Tran, S. T., Jagpal, A., Koven, M. L., Turek, C. E., Golden, J. S., & Tinkle, B. T. (2020). Symptom complaints and impact on functioning in youth with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Journal of Child Health Care, 24(3), 444-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493519867174
Tran, S. T., Koven, M. L., Castro, A. S., Goya Arce, A. B., & Carter, J. S. (2020). Sociodemographic and environmental factors are associated with adolescents’ pain and longitudinal health outcomes. The Journal of Pain, 21(1-2), 170-181. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2019.06.007
Tran, S. T., Goya Arce, A. B., & Jagpal, A. (2020). Recognizing the psychiatric burden of anxiety and depression in children with headache, chest, and abdominal pain. In Incayawar, M., Maldonado-Bouchard, S., & Clark, M. (Eds.) Overlapping pain and psychiatric syndromes – Global perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Essner, B., Tran, S. T., & Koven, M. L. (2020). Biopsychosocial approaches to pediatric chronic pain management. In Shah, R. & Suresh, S. (Eds.) Opioid therapy in children and adolescents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36287-4_16 | <urn:uuid:1dac5dca-2b19-4812-b238-3fa1dbc8b5c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pediatricchilllab.com/publications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.650285 | 754 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The NCTE Annual Convention gives you the opportunity to:
- Select from hundreds of sessions presented by classroom teachers, administrators, and researchers.
- Connect with educators from across the country and around the world to discuss mutual interests, concerns, and experiences.
- Share ideas, strategies, and successes as you expand your own professional learning community.
- Examine ways to advance student learning by gathering solid educational theories, models, and ideas that you can take back to your school.
- Interact with well-known authors, illustrators, and educators as they share their ideas, experiences, and knowledge.
- Investigate a single topic in depth by attending a preconvention workshop.
- Discover the latest publications, products, and services for English language arts education in the Exhibit Hall.
Convention Sessions Offer Professional Learning for Everyone
Choose from more than 700 sessions ranging from general sessions featuring nationally known speakers and special presentations by well-known authors to sessions by classroom educators on topics critical to your daily teaching and learning. Session topics include:
Equity and Social Justice
Writing and Composition
Content Area Literacies
College and Career Read Standards
Digital and Media Literacies
The convention schedule provides a quick overview and timeline of the events taking place in Minneapolis. For more in-depth planning, visit the online searchable program, where you can browse individual sessions and create your own customized convention schedule.
More than 6,000 elementary, middle, high school, and college educators from across America and around the world. Attendees also include:
- Teachers (English language arts, science, mathematics, social studies, and more)
- Principals and other administrators
- Curriculum Coordinators
- State-wide curriculum coordinators
- Teacher educators
- College Instructors
- Literacy Coaches/Reading Specialists
- Writing Program and Writing Project participants
Continuing Education Credits
Applications for certificates of attendance will be available for all attendees at the NCTE Registration Desk. Be sure to check your state requirements to see if attendance certificates will qualify for continuing education credits.
Interested in Bringing a Team to Atlanta?
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A rope attached to a 18.0kg wood sled pulls the sled up a 22.0 degree snow-covered hill. A 9.00kg wood box rides on top of the sled.
Mass of Sled: 18kg
Mass of Box: 9kg
Angle of Incline: 22 Deg
If the tension in the rope steadily increases, at what value of the tension does the box slip?
The Attempt at a Solution
So I tried getting the overall tension that keeps the sled and box in equilibrium. So the tension is equal to the weight component down the slope which would be (27)(9.8)(sin 22). That gives that the tension is ~99N. So anything over that would make it slip but nope... apparently it's wrong. | <urn:uuid:7a1f3439-d684-4675-b696-a6258dc74f62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/sled-on-an-snow-covered-hill.472027/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.887262 | 184 | 2.625 | 3 |
It’s happened to anyone who’s ever been looking online for how-to help… you click on a likely-sounding YouTube video, only to be greeted by an ad you can’t skip, a whole lot of introductory chit-chat, and three minutes of build-up before you finally see exactly what you need to do to handle your would-be DIY hack.
But what if you could get your answer in 60 seconds or less? It’s the concept behind Tangi, a newly released Google app created in the company’s Area 120 incubator by developer Coco Mao.
Variously described as short-form YouTube, video Pinterest, or TikTok for makers, Tangi was inspired by Mao discovering that her “smartphone challenged” parents were using their devices to watch photography and painting tutorials—and developing new hobbies as a result.
She came back to Google and worked with her team to develop Tangi as a place where such how-to inspiration could be more easily found and taken advantage of. “The name is inspired by the words TeAch aNd Give,” she explained as she introduced the app at the end of January. “’Tangible’—things you can make.”
The philosophy behind Tangi means this is hands-on how-to for the crafty club. The time-lapse heavy videos “could quickly get a point across,” Mao said, “something that used to take a long time to learn with just text and images.”
Videos fall into categories of art, cooking, DIY, fashion and beauty, and lifestyle, and are often accompanied by links to recipes or the maker’s blog or Instagram for more information. Some makers don’t quite have the format down pat yet, but most manage to provide a good balance of visual inspiration and a little more information.
And like Pinterest, Tangi can turn into a time-lapsing rabbit hole of its own. I started with a mere 10-second clip on propagating succulents (I’ve been doing it wrong), which led to a minute on “when succulents stretch” (“etiolation” — new vocabulary word!), which led to a succulent cake which led to a conversation heart cake and before I knew it, 20 minutes had gone by and I was watching an exploding heart science Valentine and had washed up at “Yoda one for me.”
While the app has only been out for about a week … and is only available on iOS and the web … it’s already well populated with content from makers and lifestyle bloggers who partnered with Mao’s team during the development process. And though it’s still in closed-beta mode for content creators, users can apply to be on a waitlist to be invited to upload their own work.
There are a few question marks still. No word on when it will be available on Google’s own Android platform, for one thing. While a couple of intrepid contributors are reviewing education apps and dispensing startup advice, its philosophy as stated by team lead Mao may not extend much more beyond the maker and creative fields to include technology and workplace input. And Google doesn’t always support its apps for long.
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Hey everyone, from today I'll be following the android tutorials, I'm a intermediate in programming and a noob in java.
I decided to create an android application for my senior project in uni, I have around two months.
Do you think should I go for it or make something I already learned (website, c# app...) ?
The idea of the app is:
1) Login to the uni website.
2) Check your remaining payments, remaining courses, grades.
3) Let the administration send a notification via a webserver to the students.
Thanks for the advice.
How much time will it take ?
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· June 16, 2014
That depends on yourself and your own experience. Estimation is difficult, and we can't give you any straight answer and anyone who gives you an estimate might be right for them, but wrong for you.
Also keep this in mind;
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
· June 16, 2014
well what I know is that's impossible to master it in 2 months but for the tasks that I'm thinking about I need some opinions. But thanks for the reply anyway.
· June 17, 2014
Thanks brano that's what I'm talking about.
Actually I was searching today, I found that I can do it as webview since the website is for the uni and not mine I can't access their DB.
I was wondering if it's possible to let my app interact with the website ?
Ex : In my app there's a login form, when the user enter his credentials the app will send parameters to website and check if it's valid and then enter my created forms showing fetched data from the website and not the DB.
If this possible to do, It will be much better than a webview. And if there's any advice, terms, ideas I'll be thankfull.
Java / Android Development
Very popular language used to create desktop applications, website applets, and Android apps.
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Answer. The Office for Treatment Improvement will begin implementation of the State Systems Development Program this year. The program will encompass:
Voluntary State Plans 25 States participating this year. Technical Reviews 20 States enrolled per year, developmental phase this year; field work and assessments next fiscal year. Developmental Technical Assistance 20 States enrolled per year; implementation this fiscal year with field work starting in the fourth quarter. State Epidemiology Surveys 20 States enrolled per year; phased in this and next fiscal year.
STATE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Question. In order to help States establish coordinated mental health systems for children and adolescents, the Committee has supported the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP). There seems to be a trend on the part of NIMH, however, to divert CASSP funds to research rather than the services they are intended for. Under your proposed budget, what funds would be available for basic State CASSP grants?
Answer. The service system improvement grants for children and adolescents have been awarded to all 50 States. NIMH'S FY 1991 estimate for these CASSP grants is $4.9 million. Based on the same proportion of available funds, the FY 1992 budget proposal includes an estimated $5.2 million for the service improvement component of CASSP.
Question. What is the difference between the research demonstrations funded through this account and other services research?
Answer. In the area of mental health services for children and adolescents, both research demonstration grants and research project grants focus on finding ways to improve the organization and financing of care, including access to appropriate care, and to improve the quality of care, including effectiveness of services being offered.
One fundamental difference is that research demonstrations offer the applicant an opportunity to receive funding for both the intervention and the research component used to study how well it works. By contrast, research project grants support only services directly related to the research component. This distinction makes research demonstrations much more expensive, on average, but it also gives them the power to study innovative programs that in many cases could never be offered and studied in any other way. The research demonstration model provides the opportunity for testing interventions in real-world situations.
Another distinction from research project grants is that CASSP research demonstrations are only available to state mental health authorities. This restriction guarantees that high-priority policy issues will be addressed, and that such areas as development of community-based services as envisioned in the State Mental Health Plan can be linked to the demonstration project.
NATIONAL PLAN FOR RESEARCH ON
Question. In the FY 1991 report, this Committee urged NIMH to increase its commitment to children's mental health research significantly, and directed NIMH to fund at least three children's mental health services research centers. Please detail the funds
dedicated to the National Plan for Research on Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders, and the specific allocation of funds for children's mental health services research.
Answer. In FY 1991, the NIMH has dedicated approximately $136.2 million to the National Plan for Research on Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders, an increase of 22.8 percent. of this total, the NIMH has allocated $10 million for children's mental health services research?
Question. The plan for children's mental health research says that $202 million is necessary to implement the second year objectives. How much funding' is proposed in your FY 1992 budget for child mental health research.
Answer. The President's Budget proposes approximately $146.6 million for child mental health research for FY 1992.
Question. This Subcommittee directed NIMH to contract with the Institute of Medicine for a report on current prevention research, and provided $1 million for that study. What is the status of that report?
Answer. A contract with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will be awarded for a two-year Prevention Study within the next two months. Individuals from IOM, NIMH, the National Prevention Coalition, and Senate committee staff all have agreed it would be best to broaden this study to include all aspects of prevention in the mental health
Therefore, discussions with key staff at the IOM and pertinent federal agencies (National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Human Development Services, Centers for Disease Control, Family Support Administration, and Departments of Justice and Education) with strong interests in prevention have taken place in the last few weeks. A meeting involving representatives from these agencies is planned with an expectation that they will be involved in this endeavor.
TREATMENT IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Question. What is the extent of substance abuse among the criminal justice population, and what is the availability of treatment?
Answer. Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) data and sample surveys in a number of jails and prisons around the country show, on average, a 70 percent rate of substance abuse among the criminal justice population. Cocaine use appears to be stabilizing and there appears to be a modest decline in marijuana use. of the three million probationers and parolees, most experts agree that 70-75 percent have moderate to severe substance abuse problems. In general, drug use appears to be stabilizing among the criminal justice population, but the vast majority of criminal offenders are substance abusers. Surveys and studies over the past two years reveal the following about the availability of treatment for criminal justice populations:
Juvenile Offenders Most juvenile justice agencies conduct substance abuse assessments and basic education and most support self-help groups (AA/NA). The majority of States make referrals to community treatment agencies. However, an American Correctional Association survey notes that only 12 States have self-contained juvenile justice treatment programs within their institutions.
Jails - The American Jail Association survey of 1988-89 showed that 28 percent (468) of responding jails had a substance abuse treatment program other than detoxification; 18 percent of jails had
funded treatment activities, and the remainder were volunteer programs (AA/NA). It is estimated that of the inmates who need treatment, 10 percent are receiving some level of treatment. of the jails providing comprehensive treatment, average costs were $8/day per inmate.
State prisons - A recent survey shows approximately 75 percent of 800,000 inmates in State and federal institutions are in need of drug treatment services; the Association of State Correctional Administrators reports only 22 percent of the prisoner population.is currently receiving any level of treatment services (as of mid1990). The Association estimates, at an average cost of $10/day for intensive treatment, it would take nearly $1 billion per year for treatment for 500,000 inmates.
Probation/parole clients There is no data on the number of treatment slots available, but waiting periods to community treatment agencies of 30 days up to six months are common. During the waiting periods, most offenders receive regular supervision plus urine analysis. In some ştates very high percentages of probationers and parolees are revoked back to prison or jail, often for substance abuse.
Question. What kind of activities are being supported by OTI's grants for model treatment programs for the criminal justice population, both in and outside correctional settings i
Answer. OTI is supporting three programs dealing with criminal justice populations.
1. Demonstration treatment programs for prison and jail populations are funded under the Treatment in Correctional Settings program. In FY 1990 six prison programs were funded, ranging from conversion of an entire prison to a treatment facility (Alabama), to a specialized female treatment program including a mother/infant unit (New York). A seventh prison program for co-morbid populations (mental illness and drug addiction) will be funded in the near future. In addition, three model metropolitan jail treatment projects were funded in Seattle, Chicago, and Montgomery County, Maryland.
2. In FY 1990, demonstration treatment programs for NonIncarcerated Criminal Justice Populations were funded in 10 jurisdictions. Four projects involved diversion from the court to mandatory treatment, and six projects involved intensive treatment for high risk probationers and parolees. An additional eight projects will be funded in the near future.
3. A new Adolescent/Juvenile Justice Treatment Program will be announced shortly. This program will fund drug treatment for two juvenile populations: (a) juveniles held in State institutions, based on a comprehensive treatment plan prepared by the State Juvenile Services Agency; and (b) adolescents and juvenile justice populations that will receive treatment as part of a community treatment network. OTI expects to fund 12 adolescent/juvenile justice demonstrations this fiscal year.
In summary, OTI expects to fund about 40 demonstration projects ranging from diversion to treatment models through institutional and community-based treatment services over two fiscal years. The projects cover both adult and juvenile justice populations. Treatment modalities range from outpatient drug free through intensive day treatment and methadone maintenance for nonincarcerated persons, through a range of residential and modified therapeutic communities for incarcerated persons.
Question. How many States are using Block Grant and related funds for services focused on this population?
Answer. There is currently no systematic data collection on use of ADMS Block Grant funds for criminal justice populations. The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors is now collecting this data for the annual State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs Report (NIDA-funded).
We do know that significant percentages of clients in publicly : funded community-based treatment programs are directly or indirectly referred from criminal justice agencies, or are under some form of correctional supervision (individual agencies report percentages ranging from 20 to 60 percent). The major portion of institutional (prison/jail) treatment resources are derived from the operating budgets of corrections agencies. The Criminal Justice Block Grant is also a significant source of funding in some States.
We also know that there is a growing number of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agencies which are funding or negotiating Block Grant projects with criminal justice agencies. Examples from a range of States include:
Wisconsin $1.5 million is earmarked for juvenile justice treatment and $1.9 million is earmarked for adult institutional treatment services this fiscal year; treatment programs include institutions, residential facilities, and TASC case management.
Illinois $2.7 million is earmarked for criminal justice activities; the largest element represents TASC ($2.4 million), with other treatment for work release and other institutional treatment.
Colorado - $1.7 million of ADMS Block Grant funds is earmarked for 6,700 criminal justice clients per year --$530,000 for support services to adult institutions (Department of Corrections) and TASC case management; $534,000 for DUI treatment; and $618,000 for community based outpatient and residential treatment (probationers and parolees).
Pennsylvania - $1.6 million is earmarked for adult institutions (Department of Corrections); $1.8 million for treatment of high risk probationers, including TASC case management; and $2.7 million for juvenile justice populations, including residential treatment, intensive supervision, and identification, assessment and consultation for high risk youths.
Washington State - $50,000 of ADMS Block Grant funds support juvenile justice treatment; negotiations are currently under way for à jointly funded project to convert an adult institution into a treatment center; about 25 percent of community treatment slots are filled by offenders (equivalent to $4 million of Block Grant activities).
QUESTIONS SUBMITTTED BY SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER
SUCCESSFUL DRUG TREATMENT AND PREVENTION
Question. Dr. Goodwin, since fiscal year 1989 the Congress has appropriated over $5,000,000,000 to your agency for drug abu research, demonstrations and services. What have we learned from this investment concerning successful drug treatment and prevention strategies?
Answer. The vast majority of these studies represent incremental advances in our attempt to more fully understand, treat, and prevent drug abuse. The value of a drug abuse research program is not whether there is a "breakthrough" every year but whether, over a
period of time, the gradual development of a base of knowledge allows for improvement in preventing and treating the disease.
The investment in research over the past twenty years is producing returns in terns of new, more effective treatments and our ability to respond to the problems presented by new drugs of abuse. This is especially true when we consider the significant possibilities now before us to develop medications to prevent and treat drug addiction and to integrate these techniques into comprehensive therapeutic programs. When these new medications are approved it will be the culmination of the efforts of hundreds of researchers extending back in time and concept to the Addiction Research Center (ARC) in the 1930s.
While you asked about recent accomplishments, these should be put into the context of NIDA's long term research program. Since NIDA has traditionally supported the vast majority of drug abuse research in the U.S., and relatively little research into drug abuse goes on elsewhere in the world, it is a fair statement that almost all that is known about drug abuse and addiction has been derived from NIDA-funded research. The following deserve special mention:
Discovery of opiate receptors and endogenous opiate-like peptides that revolutionized the field of neuroscience and that are leading to new medications to treat heroin addiction.
Development of improved technologies and standards to detect illicit drug use that has made possible the Federal drug-free workplace initiative.
Discovery of the brain mechanisms involved in drug seeking behavior and addiction that provide the scientific basis for developing treatments for cocaine addiction.
Demonstration of the addictive nature of nicotine that has played a key role in the development of smoking prevention programs.
Development of naltrexone, a medication designed to block the effects of narcotics such as heroin, and development of procedures involving clonidine and clonidine combined with naltrexone for rapid and effective detoxification from opiates. Demonstration of the value of treating the depression suffered by many drug abusers as a means to improving treatment outcome.
Development and evaluation of pharmacologic treatment for newborns withdrawing from exposure to narcotics. These medical regimens have been published and are available to pediatricians and neonatologists.
Among NIDA's recent most significant accomplishments are the following:
The Treatment Outcome Prospective Study demonstrated: (1) no differences in outcomes between methadone maintenance, therapeutic community, drug-free outpatient, and detoxification only, for those who stayed in treatment for less than 90 days; (2) a significant, linear relationship between positive posttreatment outcomes and retention in treatment, between 90 days and 2 years; and (3) among those in treatment at least 90 days, | <urn:uuid:c5d0b44f-cb1b-498e-893b-d1c8bd040739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=9f9LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571&focus=viewport&vq=disabilities&dq=related:ISBN0857490168&lr=&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.936693 | 2,991 | 1.632813 | 2 |
|Author: James Thurber
Setting: 1915- the author's childhood home
Availability: Read The Night the Ghost Got In on line, free
Story: Told in the first person, a boy hears someone walking around the dining room table. He is upstairs, just getting out of the bath. Realizing that no one should be downstairs, he wakes his brother, who refuses to go down with him to check it out. The boys accidentally wake their mother, who of course, assumes that the walker is a burglar, not a ghost.
What ensues is a hilarious comedy of errors. But "none of us ever heard the ghost again."
Commentary: Thurber is one of my all time favorite authors. Most of his short stories are humorous, and they range from tongue-in-cheek to tales that will make you laugh out loud. "The Night the Ghost Got In" is very short, but it succeeds in its goal of being funny.
The point of this story is, of course, not whether there really was a ghost, but the crazy reactions that occurred as a result of hearing sounds that could not be accounted for. In fact, Thurber tells us in the second sentence exactly what is going to happen. He says "Its advent caused my mother to throw a shoe through a window of the house next door, and ended up with my grandfather shooting a patrolman." The beauty of the story is that, even though he's just told you the entire plot, you have to keep reading to find out how a ghost could have caused those bizarre events.
The stories Thurber tells of his childhood are at least partially fictionalized, but this story is based on definite facts. Thurber did hear this "ghost" walking around the table in the dining room, the year he was a junior in college (1912). He researched the house, and discovered that other owners had also heard the same sounds (choosing to move rather than live with it), and that there had been a man, 45 years previous, who had paced around the table in nervous frustration before running up the stairs to shoot himself.
If anyone wants to write humor, they would do well to study James Thurber's writing. He is a master of timing and of tweaking a story so as to make it funny rather than just exposition.
His stories are self-illustrated. Thurber's cartoon style is sketchy but unique, and anyone who is familiar with it will instantly recognize a Thurber cartoon.
|Author info: James Thurber, 1894-1861, grew up in Columbus, Ohio. His father was often out of work, and his mother was a great practical joker. It is believed that many of his story ideas came from observing his parents. Playing William Tell with his brothers, as a child, James lost one eye. This forced him into more mental pursuits, rather than sports, and he turned to writing as a creative outlet. His collections of short stories are still well-read. Thurber is one of the classic American humorists.|
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With more than 16 million low-income U.S. children on Medicaid not receiving dental care -- or even a routine exam -- in 2009, according to the Pew Center on the States, dentists and ERs say they are treating very young patients with teeth blackened from decay and bacteria and multiple cavities.
"I see it in their eyes before they tell me it's that way," Dr. Gregory Folse told ABC News. "We are able to intervene and take the pain away from their teeth and it brings the spark back. And that's my goal."
For more on the "Hidden America" series, watch "World News with Diane Sawyer" Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Folse's Outreach Dentistry mobile clinic travels to schools around Louisiana, filling cavities and teaching children and parents about the importance of oral hygiene.
In 2007, Congress held a hearing on the issue of children's dental health after Deamonte Driver, a 12-year-old Maryland boy, died when a tooth infection spread to his brain. His mother, Alyce Driver, had been unable to find a dentist to treat him on Medicaid and could not afford to pay out of pocket.
At the time, Leslie Norwalk, then-acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called his death "a failure on many levels."
And although she said that these types of dental services were covered, many dentists said that Medicaid reimbursement rates are too low.
A study published in May 2011 demonstrated that despite efforts to boost the number of patients and providers in the Medicaid system, low-income families still had limited access to dental care -- except when they were able to pay cash.
The state of Florida got an F in children's dental health in a 2011 report from the Pew Center on the States. In 2009, according to Pew, only 25.7 percent of Florida children on Medicaid saw a dentist.
"The Medicaid rates are so low that dentists are not willing to participate in the Medicaid program," said Dr. Frank Catalanotto of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Community Dentistry. "You can't blame the dentists, really, because the cost of delivering the service is more than the reimbursement they receive."
Florida has some of the lowest rates. Ten pediatric dentists in four counties said they would not accept Medicaid -- even for a child whose face hurt. And more than half of Florida's counties -- 36 -- do not have one pediatric dentist who takes Medicaid, according to Pew.
Dentists say that ignoring teeth can mean life or death. An infection can kill or promote heart disease, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis. Children who do not receive dental care can suffer root canals and extractions before they reach 10 years old.
At the Caridad Center in Boynton Beach, Fla., Falguni Patel, a first-year resident in pediatric dentistry, said it made her sad that there were certain groups of children who suffered more than others.
"People think just because you have insurance that you're going to have access to care -- which is not the whole story," she said. "They're very few pediatric dentists that accept Medicaid in this area, so these children have nowhere to go even if they do have insurance. ... It's a big problem."
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Stamping on Ceramics
Voted “Most innovative” at the 2011 Contemporary Ceramic Studios Convention, Rubber Stamp Tapestry offers a large selection of 224 individual peg stamps and 54 peg stamp sets designed for use on ceramic bisque (and fabric) with outstanding results!
With our component stamping process, it’s easy to create beautiful and functional items that will be cherished by generations to come.
Did you know that custom dinnerware, mugs, vases and other ceramics can be decorated with rubber stamps? Yes, there’s a vast world of possibilities just waiting for you when you peg stamp on ceramic bisque!
Special Instructions for Stamping on Ceramic Bisque
1. Choose Your Location
If you don’t have your own kiln, take our peg stamps to your local Paint-Your-Own-Pottery-Studio (PYOP) studio, where you can choose your bisqueware, decorate it with their underglazes and they will take care of the entire firing process for you!
2. Choose the Stamps
Use our Bitty Stamps™ for small areas that are hard to reach or that have sharper curves. Larger stamps are best for flat surfaces and smoother curves.
3. Prepare the Stamps
If the outer edge of a stamp has a overhanging lip, remove it using a pair of small scissors. Removing this lip will prevent the stamp from leaving a circular pattern when stamping. To remove any oily residue that might prevent the underglaze from adhering to new stamps, clean the end of the stamp with a cleaning solution or very gently wipe the rubber across a section of clean ceramic bisque.
4. Adjust Underglaze Consistency
Place a small piece of foam in an underglaze cup, pour in 1 teaspoon (4.93 mL) of glaze, and smooth it out with a mixing paddle until absorbed. Gently press the stamp onto the foam and stamp onto a piece of paper. If the image is not clear, add more underglaze. If the image is too wet, use another piece of foam to absorb the excess. While stamping, occasionally use a fine mist sprayer to gently remoisten the underglaze in the cup to make the image clearer.
5. Stamp the Bisque
Using a ruler, templates, or free-hand, draw with a pencil where you want to stamp. There is no need to erase the pencil marks before glazing because they will fire off the bisqueware in the kiln. Use the StampRight™ placement line on the end of the peg stamp to determine the position of the image. Sometimes you will need to rock and/or roll the stamp to get the best impression. This takes a little practice, but once you learn the technique, you will be amazed at how fast and easy it is.
6. Clean Between Colors
Thoroughly clean your stamps between underglaze colors with a microfiber cloth and cleaning solution like the one we have listed below. Use a toothbrush to clean recessed areas of the stamp.
Our DIY Stamp Cleaning Recipe
- 2 Tablespoons glycerine
- 1 tsp environmentally friendly dishwashing liquid
- 7 fl. oz. distilled water
- Pour ingredients into a spray bottle, shake and use.
7. OOPS! What About Mistakes?
Mistakes do occur and they can be fixed. If the underglaze is still wet, simply wipe the mistake away with a cotton swab or clean sponge. If the underglaze has partially dried, you may scratch if off with a stylus or cleanup tool. Use a toothpick for small mistakes.
8. Apply Clear Glaze and Fire
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The fact is that when you want food, your body wants nutrients that will help it function throughout your waking hours.
Therefor the body asks for “Real Food” … on the other hand your brain asks for JUNK FOOD!!! Why is that? Because you have trained your brain to get excited over chemically processed food and excessive sugar. That causes a chain reaction where you use the “Junk Food” to get energy and quickly crush so you need more junk food to keep you up or alert.
Why can´t I Say “No” To Junk Food?
So why does this phenomenon happen? Because the manufacturers of food use chemicals and sugars to get YOUR BRAIN addicted to their foods. So, how strong are you? How powerful is your will power? Can you do what you ask heroin, crack, amphetamines and cocaine addicts to do??? Just say no!???
If you want to be successful on losing weight and have more energy as well as keeping away from illnesses, work on your brain and the body will follow.
The body… and how it communicates
- The body is constant and predictable.
- The body asks for nutrients only, not for food by name.
- The body has no knowledge of taste, smell, or flavor of a particular meal or food.
The body only asks
for nutrients to balance a particular deficiency in your system.
- The body “never lies”
- The body has a need to be nutritionally balanced.
- The body deals with the “possible’ while the mind handles the “impossible”.
- The body will accept any and all commands by the mind, regardless of its apparent damage.
There is no possible way to be successful in a nutritional program unless the mind has been influenced to accept it.
The mind… and how it communicates
- The mind cheats.
- The mind manipulates.
- The mind tricks you.
- The mind will deceive you.
- The mind will control you.
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by Rafiq Kathwari
Dapaan, Rama saw Sita bathing nude in Sitaharan, a spring near the Line of Control in Kashmir. It was lust at first sight. Dapaan, the demon king Ravana abducted Sita to Sri Lanka to avenge a previous wrong. Rama flew in anger south to Sri Lanka in his glitzy winged chariot. Dapaan, the chariot was Made in Prehistoric India, using indigenous materials. Dapaan, Hanuman, the son of Vayu, god of the wind, steered the chariot. Dapaan, clouds cloaked the chariot to foil discovery by enemy radar. Dapaan, Rama shot a divine arrow which pierced Ravana in the heart and killed him. Dapaan, Rama flew Sita back to Sitaharan where they lived happily until India partitioned herself, tearing apart 15 million souls, the largest migration of people in modern history.
Dapaan, Hindutva has been weaponized to impose mythology upon history to create Greater India — Akhund Baharat, united and undivided Hindu Rashtra from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Dapaan, Kashmir strikes at the heart of this nirvana because of its Muslim majority.
Dapaan, every Summer the army shields thousands of Hindu pilgrims who spread the legs of a virgin glacier in Kashmir to worship Shiva’s icy lingam thawing in a cave — daring an ecological disaster. Dapaan, Hindutva is a pandemic.
Dapaan, Neanderthals of Nagpur are marching in Kashmir to the drumbeat of Hindutva supremythology: gharwapsi, zaminjihad, lovejihad to herald acche din. Dapaan, fascists clasp opposite concepts to serve their own puffery. Dapaan, Kashmiris will be told to hold the scalpel for their own execution to chill the blood of Neanderthals.
Dapaan, prepare for the moment when history throws up a rainbow over the Zabarvan. Rainbows are ephemeral. Preparedness is everything. When they ask, Azadi ka matlab kya? Shout out loud — Jamhooriya, Jamhooriya. Dapaan, poets will be caged because poetry is the fuel of Azadi.
- gharwapsi: return home — (to Kashmir of Hindu myths)
- zaminjihad: The East India Company sold Kashmir to the Rajput Dogras who enslaved Kashmiris for over 100 years. Sheikh Abdullah, with a swirl of his fountain pen, deemed tillers owners of land they till, freed Kashmiris from serfdom, made peasants landowners, zamindars, earned the honorific, ‘Lion of Kashmir.’ This scared India’s suave socialist prime minister, Pandit Nehru, and his inner circle of prominent and privileged Kashmiri pandits. They exiled the Sheikh for nearly 20 years.
- Zabarvan: Foothills of the Himalayas that ring the Vale of Kashmir
- lovejihad: Hindutva drive to wage war at love between young Muslims and Hindus
- acche din: Good days
- Azadi: Liberty
- Azadi ka matlab kya: What does liberty mean?
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Surety insurance is a popular but inaccurate term used to refer to surety bonds. A surety bond is a sum of money one party puts up as a guarantor of good faith. Surety bonds often involve considerable sums, and people needing surety bonds rely on bonding agencies that put up the money on their behalf. If the bond is forfeited, the person or business then owes the full value of the bond to the bonding agency.
A surety bond is a contract among three parties. The first party, called the surety, agrees to pay a stated sum on behalf of another party (the principal) to a third party called the obligee if the principal should fail to meet the terms of an agreement or contract between the principal and the obligee. Usually the surety is a division or subsidiary of an insurance company. In the event the surety must forfeit the bond, it may take legal action to recover the funds from the principal.
The use of surety bonds is especially important in the construction industry. Called contract bonds, construction surety bonds come in three types. Bid bonds are sometimes required by governments to ensure bids are made in good faith. Performance bonds guarantee that work agreed to will be completed. Payment bonds provide protection to subcontractors and others who provide services and materials to a construction company.
The use of surety is not limited to the construction industry. Banks and other financial institutions who entrust large sums of money to individuals often require surety insurance to safeguard against possible losses. Governments often require notaries and others in a position of public trust to post surety bonds. A “bail bond” is a special form of surety bond a court may require of an accused person to ensure that person shows up for trial.
To get contract surety insurance, a business has to have good credit and be of good reputation. The business must also show it has the equipment, experience and financial resources to complete work agreed to. Surety insurers often want contractors to show they have an established relationship with a bank, including lines of credit or the equivalent. Requirements for other types of surety bonds are similar but may be more or less stringent.
The cost of surety bonds varies but is usually between 0.5 percent and 2 percent of the amount of the bond. Rates are determined by the credit rating of the principal and the likelihood circumstances may require the surety to forfeit all or part of the bond. However, programs such as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Surety Guarantee Program are available, primarily to assist businesses just starting out secure and pay for surety insurance. Bail bond costs work differently since trust is not the issue. Typically, a bail bonding company requires 10 percent or more of the bond amount to offset the high risk inherent in posting bail.
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What features does a shed need to be secure?
What makes a shed secure?
In our previous Shed Security post we looked at the reasons why your shed needs to be secure.
Whether you already have a shed or garden storage unit or are thinking of buying one, here are some tips on what to look for in a shed to ensure you have secure and safe storage:
- Make sure all your garden equipment is secured in a strong unit with an adequate locking mechanism.
- Bicycle storage is becoming very important. A metal bike shed is by far the best option. If you have a particularly expensive bike, or a lot of bikes, you should consider a dedicated metal bike shed. If you already have or want to have a wooden shed then keep your tools in this and your bike in a metal shed.
- Look for units that offer at least three-point locking systems (five-point locks are even better)
- Look for approved locking systems such as LPCB approved locks
- Locks with hasp and staples are too weak. Try for a drill-proof cylinder lock, choose pick-resistant locks for the best quality.
- For real security choose units that are made from a strong material such as brick or metal, not wood, which is much weaker.
- Be wary of lightweight units which are often made from corrugated iron, and have either no base at all or one made of or a PVC material, which offers little protection from theft or from the elements.
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Sweet potatoes are the part of day to day diet of many due to their sweet taste and high nutritional value.
Sweet potatoes are the part of day to day diet of many due to their sweet taste and high nutritional value. They are the storehouse of vitamins, minerals, fiber, potassium and carbohydrates. These nutritious elements not only fulfill the health requirements of our body but also assist in making a perfect shield for the body against the onslaught of number of diseases. They are good to eat after baking and should not be fried or cooked lest they lose their nutritional value then.
They contain the following nutritional elements within them which in turn help to improve various physical body parts and prevent diseases.
- Immune system
- Sperm production and male reproductive health
- kidney stones
- coronary heart disease
- Some forms of cancer.
- Free radicals removal from the body
- Protecting cells from damage
- Repairing damaged cells.
Carotenoids are associated with stabilizing blood sugar and lowering insulin resistance.
- Beta carotene
- Prevention of cancer
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- Rheumatoid arthritis.
Potassium is a crucial electrolyte contained in sweet potatoes that contributes to smooth muscle function. Potassium maintains your body’s water balance and helps ward off heart disease. A University of Maryland Medical Center report notes that maintaining adequate levels of potassium can reduce your risk of a stroke and claims that some studies connect high potassium levels with a reduction in blood pressure.
The average sweet potato contains 22g of complex carbohydrates. Your body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which subsequently provides you with the energy you need to go about your daily tasks. As opposed to the simple carbohydrates contained in sugary snacks, however, complex carbohydrates take longer to digest–staving off hunger pangs until your next meal.
It Lower cholesterol and keep blood sugar stable and help prevent blockages in the arteries.
It improves digestive health by adding bulk and weight to the stool, thus increasing regularity and reducing the likelihood of constipation.
The saturated fat content in the sweet potato is very low and therefore the cholesterol level is also very less making it one of the healthiest snacks to eat.
- Bake sweet potatoes in a preheated oven at 400 degree on a baking sheet for a span of 40 to 60 minutes.
- The sugars in the sweet potatoes drip out.
- Drizzle them with olive oil and roast them with onions for 40 minutes.
- Boil or steam peeled sweet potatoes for couple of minutes ranging from 5 to 30 minutes until they are warm.
- Wrap the sweet potatoes in aplastic bag and microwave them for a span of 15-20 minutes
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As women we spend so much time and money on our appearance. We care a great deal for our skin from the outside with creams, serums and treatments. But remember the old adage: you are what you eat? It turns out that your diet has a huge impact on your complexion. Poor nutrition can cause acne, puffiness and inflammation, damage your skin and cause premature aging! Scary. Here’s a list of some food nasties to stay away from to keep your skin looking great.
Sugar and Processed or Refined Foods
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Simple carbohydrates and high glycemic foods (found in packaged and processed foods) wreak havoc on blood sugar levels. This results in more sebum production (causing acne and rough skin) and inflammation (which dulls the skin and causes premature aging). So, to keep a youthful, smooth and dewy complexion, try to minimize your intake of sugar, in all forms. Try to consume more complex carbohydrates, whole grain products, and avoid packaged goods like cereals, chips, cookies, crackers, etc.
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Caffeine is the fuel on which many of us depend but it can have harmful effects on our bodies and our complexions. Only 2 or 3 8 oz cups of coffee a day will cause your body to produce more cortisol – aka “the stress hormone”. This causes premature aging, sagging and thin skin. Boo.
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The hormones in dairy products can cause breakouts and many yogurts are full of sugar. The hormones are more bioavailable in low fat dairy, so go for the full fat, hormone free options. Plain yogurt is actually good for your skin if it is full fat.
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When the beer goggles come off, your face is less than a pretty site. Alcohol is dehydrating which makes fine lines and wrinkles pronounced. It also makes your blood vessels dilate turning your face red, puffy and saggy.
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Salt causes the body to retain water which makes you puffy especially around your eyes. It also causes inflammation which ultimately slows down your skin’s ability to regenerate itself. This leads to aging skin.
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Morning breath is something that perhaps all people have had at one point or another in their lives. It is that distinct smell that your mouth has in the morning, the opposite of the minty fresh coolness you get after brushing with your favorite toothpaste. For most people, morning breath can be irritating, especially if you are spending the night with someone and do not want to wake up with him or her with your less than savory breath. Fortunately, there are some steps to prevent bad breath at night so you can still wake up with fresh breath in the morning.
Reasons for Morning Breath
Before treating bad breath, you should understand why you have it. Morning breath occurs in all people, but the intensity of the malodor differs from one person to anther due to various factors. These include hygiene, the presence of tooth or gum problems, and sleeping on an empty stomach, to name a few. Normally, morning breath occurs because our mouths are closed during the night, preventing the entry of oxygen. We also produce lesser amounts of saliva during the night when we sleep, and a dry mouth also contributes to morning breath.
Brush Your Teeth and Use a Mouthwash Before Going to Bed
So, how do you prevent bad cases of morning breath? A good start to solving the problem of morning breath is brushing with a good tooth paste, especially a tooth paste. Brushing should be followed by using a good quality mouthwash to flush away any food particles that remain after brushing. This step in your mouth care means a reduction of bacteria since they are attracted to food particles. One effective method of obtaining fresh smelling teeth is to use toothpaste that has cinnamon as one of its ingredients. While cinnamon is primarily known as a spice, it has antibacterial properties and can effectively lower the number of bad bacteria―a source of odor in your mouth―thus leaving you with fresher breath. Another effective means of keeping morning breath at bay is to brush your teeth thoroughly and use a good mouthwash for the time recommended on the bottle right before sleeping.
Drink Water Immediately After Waking Up
Drinking water promotes the flow of saliva into the mouth. It also provides much-needed moisture. Water can also help flush out the film of bacteria which usually form on the inner surfaces of the mouth as you sleep.
Eating breakfast is also helpful in flushing bad bacteria from your mouth, especially the film of bacteria located at the back of the tongue. As you swallow, you are also removing the bad bacteria along with the food. Some people also exhibit bad breath in the morning because of gastric gases escaping from an empty stomach. Eating as soon as you wake up can help prevent these gases from forming.
Have Tooth and Gum Problems Checked Out
Tooth and gum problems are present because of bacteria. Have dental caries and gingivitis treated as soon as you can. The presence of bacterial infections in your mouth can aggravate an otherwise normal case of morning breath.
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