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The pharmaceutical lobby refers to the representatives of large pharmaceutical and biomedicine companies who seek to influence governments, the media and other institutions in favour of the pharmaceutical industry and its products.
Political influence in the United States
The top twenty pharmaceutical companies and their two trade groups, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Biotechnology Industry Organization, lobbied on at least 1,600 pieces of legislation between 1998 and 2004. According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, pharmaceutical companies spent $900 million on lobbying between 1998 and 2005, more than any other industry. During the same period, they donated $89.9 million to federal candidates and political parties, giving approximately three times as much to Republicans as to Democrats. According to the Center for Public Integrity, from January 2005 through June 2006 alone, the pharmaceutical industry spent approximately $182 million on Federal lobbying. The industry has 1,274 registered lobbyists in Washington D.C.
Controversy in the U.S.
Prescription drug costs in the U.S.
Critics of the pharmaceutical lobby argue that the drug industry's influence allows it to promote legislation friendly to drug manufacturers at the expense of patients. The lobby's influence in securing the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 was considered a major and controversial victory for the industry, as it prevents the government from directly negotiating prices with drug companies who provide those prescription drugs covered by Medicare. Price negotiations are instead conducted between manufacturers and the pharmacy benefit managers providing Medicare Part D benefits under contract with Medicare. In 2010 the Congressional Budget Office estimated the average discount negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers at 14%.
The high price of U.S. prescription drugs has been a source of ongoing controversy. Corporations state that the high costs are the result of pricey research and development programs. Critics point to the development of drugs having only small incremental benefit. According to Marcia Angell, the former head of the New England Journal of Medicine, "The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear." In contrast, the RAND Corporation and authors from the National Bureau of Economic Research have argued that price controls stifle innovation and are economically counterproductive in the long term.
Pharmaceutical lobbying in Europe
According to the statistics of the EU Transparency Register, spending on lobbying activities in the pharmaceutical industry in the European Union exceeds EUR 40 million a year. Nearly half of this budget is spent on local lobbyists, whose goal is to influence key decision makers. The rest supports e.g. social campaigns, patients' organisations, or medical professional societies. At the same time, many pharmaceutical companies fail to declare their activities to the EU Transparency Register. It is estimated that, if recorded in total, the expenditures would amount to the level of approx. EUR 90 million. [unreliable source?]
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- "Drug Bill Demonstrates Lobby's Pull". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- Pushing Prescriptions - The Center for Public Integrity
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- Malcolm Gladwell (25 October 2004). "High Prices". The New Yorker. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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This city is simply a dreamland for any tourist in the world. I don’t think that there would be anyone who is not willing to take a tour of this great British city. One can find all types of attractions and so people of all ages can find something to keep them engaging. Now, without taking much of your time, let me just share with you the London tourist attractions that I visited on my first trip.
Among all the London tourist attractions, I first visited the most popular Tower Bridge that is more than 100 years old. I could really see its dual drawbridges that are already raised over half a million times. In just 90 seconds, these bascules are raised with the electric motors. You can view the HMS Belfast from here, which is a heavy cruiser that has a historic past related to the bombardment of the Normandy coast.
Who doesn’t know about the Buckingham Palace? Known as the Buck House, it is the residence of Queen Victoria and the largest private house in London. There are over 660 rooms within. Architecturally, the palace is back-to-front.
The Houses of Parliament was the next choice on my list of London tourist attractions. The Houses of Parliament is responsible for enacting the laws governing the British land and life. Today, what you see is not the original one, but the Gothic style edifice that was built in 1840. In the second week of November, the Queen comes in her State coach to Westminster to open the new Parliament session. During summer, this area is very congested with tourists, but the summer recess is the best time to tour the Parliament.
The Big Ben is also seen here, which is a 13-tom bell in an ornate clock tower striking on the quarter hour. A light in the tower indicates the running of the House of Commons is in session.
The London Eye on the bank of the River Thames next to the Waterloo Station is a great ride of thrill. It is the biggest observation wheel not to be seen anywhere else in the world. Taking 30 minutes to make one round, it is the best way to have a spectacular view of London. On a clear day, a 25-mile panoramic view is also possible. Close by are the highlights of Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, and the bridges over the Thames River.
Do visit the legendary Trafalgar Square where the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson stands 167 feet above who built the square to mark his naval victory in 1805. Since 1830, the splendid area is a site of political rallies. It was also once a home of thousands of pigeons. Even today, many tourists feed pigeons here. Check out the four majestic bronze lions at the base of Nelson’s column and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields with lunchtime concerts. On 31st December, people assemble to celebrate the New Year.
On the north of the square, do visit the famous National Gallery located besides the National Portrait Gallery. Founded in 1834, it boasts some greatest art collections by Titian, Monet, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, and much more. The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday – 10 am to 6 pm and on Sunday from 12 pm to 6pm.
Then, I headed towards the Tower of London at the eastern rim of the ancient city walls. It is popular as a site of imprisonment and death sentence, but it has also been a royal residence, an armory, a mint, a menagerie, an observatory, and a safe-deposit venue for the Crown Jewels. Among these Crown Jewels on display, the oldest one is the 12th century Anointing Spoon and the most popular is the Imperial State Crown holding a 317-carat Indian diamond – the ‘Kohinoor’ along with other emeralds, rubies, and pearls.
Meet the draw of the millions – the British Museum situated on the Great Russell Street.
It houses the collections of Egypt, Greek and Roman art, China, old Mesopotamia, antiques, coins and medals, prints and drawings, Renaissance and Anglo-Saxon Britain, and much more. Because of the size of the museum, wear good walking shoes and be ready to spend much of the day. It is really worth it. The museum is opened from Monday to Saturday (10 am – 5 pm) and on Sundays (12 pm – 6 pm).
Lastly, I explored the Neasden Temple nestled off the North Circular Road in Neasden.
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Volume 12 of The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (1858), edited by L. Forbes Winslow, contains an article entitled “Sussex Lunatic Asylum.” A subtitle offers a more specific outline of the article’s contents: “how the inmates will be lodged, fed, clothed, employed, and amused” (p. 463). The accommodations and activities presented in the article strongly contrast the living situation of Bertha Mason, Rochester’s violent, mentally insane wife from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). In about a decade, Victorian society made huge gains in terms of how it viewed and treated people with mental orders. Aware of this change, Winslow boasts of the civility and forward-thinking with which the asylum is operated and overseen.
Winslow precedes his discussion of the Brighton town asylum by juxtaposing it with a contrasting view of “lunatic accommodation in the olden times:
Such and such strength of dungeon, so much length of chain, such and such allowance of straw, of bread and of water; and there was an end of it. If the poor wretch raged, they tortured him;if he pined, he might if it pleased him, pine to death. The asylum was like that place of horror over the door of which the Italian poet wrote that those who entered were to abandon even Hope. [p. 463]
In the “olden times,” treatment of people with mental disabilities appealed to anger and ignorance. While Winslow may exaggerate the conditions and treatment of old, as suggested by his ornate language and reference to Dante and by his agenda in the article to promote the new asylum, some truth likely lies in his words. His description, though more extreme than Rochester’s treatment of Bertha, generally compares accurately with it. When Mr. Briggs and Mr. Mason reveal that Rochester already has a wife, the reader gets a glimpse of the life Bertha lives: “He lifted the hangings from the wall, uncovering the second door; this, too, he opened. In a room without a window, there burnt a fire, guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain” (p. 380). Rochester shuts Bertha up in a claustrophobic room in his house with no windows and nothing but a bed, a lamp, and a guarded fireplace. He applies the practice of “out of sight, out of mind,” leaving Bertha in the hands of Grace Poole when not simply locking her up. When the wedding guests to Rochester and Jane’s ruined wedding arrive in Bertha’s chamber, Bertha attempts to attack Rochester. His handing of the situation also lines up with Winslow’s description: “At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was as hand, he bound her to a chair” (p. 381). When Bertha struggles and lashes out against Rochester, her captor, he responds by restraining her, although not with “so much length of chain” as Winslow mentions. Still, the stories align, giving the reader an idea of the terrible treatment of the mentally ill before the mid-1800s and preparing him/her for the enlightened ways of the Brighton asylum.
Winslow structures his visit to the asylum around the order in which he saw each room during his tour. He first describes a day-room for the patients:
Here they will sit and read, or saw, and will take their meals—for no dining-hall has been provided, it being found better that the patients should dine in their own wards—not in solitude, but in families of greater or less magnitude, according to the stage, condition, or peculiarities of the malady of each.[p. 463]
Already we see that attempts are made to accommodate the patients and allow them to have social and active lives. Winslow continues: “These rooms are all roomy and cheerful, and all command a wide country view, not through gratings or loopholes, but from glazed windows, constructed so that the safety of the inmate is secured without the idea of confinement being conveyed” (p. 463).
Essentially, the asylum attempts to treat its patients like normal people and to help them lead normal lives. Unlike the room in which Rochester confines Bertha, the rooms of the asylum Winslow describes has many windows with a country view, but without gratings that give the impression of a prison. A direct comparison between Rochester and the asylum’s treatments of their ’patients’ arises over the subject of fire. While “a high and strong fender” guards the fireplace in Bertha’s chamber, Winslow is shocked and impressed to learn that the building’s heating consisted of “open grates, and chests of coals beside them ready for use.” The superintendent, Mr. Mortlock, replies upon questioningthat this system is “considered perfectly safe and is both more healthful and more cheerful than any system of heating by means of pipes” (p. 464). The trust that Mr. Mortlock places in the patients shows a significant change from the “olden times” depicted in Jane Eyre.
Winslow says that the wards so far inspected “will be occupied by those properly designated ’patients;’ but a large number will come under the category of ’convalescents,’ and . . . are quite capable of following the occupations to which they have been accustomed, or other which they may be taught” (p. 464). Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre handle the maturation of male and female characters differently, reflecting the differences in conceptions and attitudes of Victorian society towards men and women. These differences also surface in the division of responsibilities between male and female ’convalescents’ in the Sussex Asylum. Women that fall under this category engage mostly in doing laundry, for which the asylum installed a “wringing machine...by which some of the hardest work in connection with the washing is saved” (p. 464). Winslow claims the women have “every necessary for carrying on this branch of domestic economy in the most expeditious and satisfactory manner” (p. 464). The reader gets a glimpse of contemporary society by simultaneously seeing a conceived female responsibility and the influence of the Industrial Revolution in the form of increased productivity. At the opposite end of the building, in the east wing, “in the place of laundry, you find provisions made for pursuits adapted to the male convalescent patients” (p. 464), showing both Winslow and the asylum’s attitudes concerning appropriate gender roles. These provisions include “the tailors’ shop, the shoemakers’ shop, the upholsterers’ shop, the carpenters’ shop, a bakehouse with its oven, a brewhouse, stables, and so forth” (p. 464). The asylum places a much wider range of responsibilities on the male “convalescents,” in accord with the contemporary notion that pure, frail women belong indoors with few and light tasks.
Thus, the necessities of the asylum are carried out by the patients, “who but a few years since were deemed incapable of anything but violence and destruction!” (p. 464). Winslow recognizes the extent to which contemporary conceptions of the mentally ill have changed. This progress likely marks the beginnings of efforts, which continue through today, to house and treat those with mental disorders humanely.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Richard Nemesvari. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2004.
Winslow, Forbes, ed. “Sussex Asylum.” The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology. Vol. 12. London: Churchill, 1859.
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More questions from a student that I’m publishing as part of the FAQ section:
1. If News Corp starts charging for news stories, do you think readers would pay or they would just go to different newspapers?
Both, but mostly the latter. Previous experiments with paywalls saw audiences drop between 60 and 97%. And you also have to figure in that a paywall will likely make content invisible to search engines (either directly or indirectly, because no one will link to them which will drop their ranking). Search engines are responsible for a significant proportion of visits (even the Wall Street Journal receives a quarter of its traffic from Google). Still, some people will always pay – the question is: how many?
2. A newspaper website which introduces paid content is very likely to see a decline in number of visitors. How would this affect advertisers and the amount they agree to pay to that website/newspaper?
Advertisers will pay more per user, firstly. Both because they will know more about that user through registration details (and therefore advertising will be more targeted), and also because they know that that user has paid to see content, making them both more engaged and likely to be more affluent.
Of course, there will be fewer of those users, so the challenge is compensating for the loss of quantity through the increase in quality.
3. In your opinion, how could the concept of ‘charging for content’ affect the quality of journalism?
The interesting thing about the recent announcement by the editor of The Times is that he said they wouldn’t charge per article because that would influence their commitment to expensive journalism such as covering Sri Lanka.
An optimist would hope that charging for content would mean that a news organisation would focus more on unique journalism that doesn’t replicate what is available elsewhere for free. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll see that happen, at least in the near future.
It’s worth pointing out that many web operations churn out content because the advertising rates are so low they need to get as many views as possible.
On the flip side, if your paywall is preventing you from attracting enough readers to fund decent journalism, then you save the same problem.
More generally, putting up a paywall means that your journalism is seen – and criticised – by fewer people, which I would argue does present a quality issue. The future of journalism is collaborative, so if you’re putting up barriers you’re not enabling that opportunity to tap into the enormous knowledge in your former audience.
4. Do you think other newspaper publishers would follow News Corp and start charging for content or there would always be “free” places for news?
If News Corp makes it viable, then yes, others will surely follow. Until then I think almost all will sit back and see what happens with News Corp. But there will always be free places for news for a range of reasons: firstly, publicly funded organisations like the BBC and those with a social remit such as The Guardian; secondly, those funded by voluntary or foundation income such as The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and organisations like Amnesty; and finally, passionate citizens and those who simply like to chat.
5. Do you think that ‘charging for content’ is a vital business model which would last for long time?
I think it’s a business model that can work in some circumstances, if managed intelligently. The FT, for example, seems to be making it work, mainly because that content is financially valuable (I’d argue it’s information they’re charging for rather than content) but also because they’ve not cut it off entirely.
But broadly I think it’s the most difficult model because people never paid for ‘content’; they paid for a package and a service that included content. They bought a newspaper, not ‘the news’.
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A Very British Appeal
Gez Russell Website Editor
2nd Jul 2013
Recommended viewing this week is a fascinating documentary on the work of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which has just turned 50. This is an extraordinary organisation that brings together all the biggest UK aid agencies, including Oxfam, at times of extreme crisis, and we're very proud to be a member.
A Very British Appeal - 50 Years of the Disasters Emergency Committee, ITV, Tuesday 2 July, 10.35pm
50 years, 62 appeals, £1bn raised
Since 1963, the DEC has run 62 appeals to raise over £1bn from the famously generous UK public, to deliver aid to some of the world's most challenging places, many of which have left an indelible mark on our collective consciousness. The DEC was there to support people living through the tragic events of Biafra in 1967 and the Ethiopian famine of 1984; in the aftermath of the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides; and more recently to help rebuild lives and livelihoods following the Asian tsunami of Boxing Day 2004.
So what makes the DEC so special? When charities come together under the DEC umbrella, we can reach a vast audience. The major broadcasters give us free air time. Celebrity supporters step forward to front the campaign and capture the public imagination. And the major banks and Post Office support us by taking donations. All this raises the potential for fundraising to a new level.
This documentary provides a fascinating insight into the challenges of launching a DEC appeal (let alone the emergency response itself!) with fly-on-the-wall access to the boardroom in the weeks leading up to the current Syria Crisis Appeal.
Veteran aid workers, including several senior figures working on Oxfam's humanitarian responses over the last 30 years, talk about vital lessons learned dealing with some of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.
Haiti: £107m in action
And Journalist Rageh Omar takes a trip to Haiti (an earthquake here in 2010 killed 220,000 people in a matter of minutes, and left a million homeless) to see how some of the £107m raised by the DEC Haiti Appeal has been put to use.
He reports on the complex challenges that remain: "The trauma's still very, very deep and there are very many who feel they just can't move forward with their lives at all."
But he also comes across DEC money having profound, transformative effects. "I couldn't get over the headmaster's enthusiasm and the powerful impact that something we take for granted [a latrine] has had on the people in this small school."
In Haiti, the DEC has provided toilets and clean water for over 750,000 people, and amongst other things, cash grants for small businesses, paid employment, house-building projects, and disaster preparedness training if (perish the thought) anything like this ever happens again.
Tune in to ITV at 10.35pm tonight - not all of it makes for easy viewing, but if you've ever donated to a DEC Appeal, it should leave you feeling that your generosity has made a genuine difference to people's lives, and in so many cases, given them back their hope for the future.
Syria Crisis Appeal
DEC website (external link)
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Microsoft HPC Pack: Node Deployment
Updated: November 20, 2014
Applies To: Microsoft HPC Pack 2012, Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2
This section provides information about additional cluster deployment options and scenarios for adding nodes to the HPC Pack 2012 R2 or HPC Pack 2012 cluster.
For introductory information, see Getting Started Guide for Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2 and HPC Pack 2012.
The topics in this section provide basic procedures and options to add domain-joined compute nodes and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) broker nodes that are managed by your HPC cluster. You can deploy nodes from bare metal, add preconfigured nodes, or add nodes by importing a node XML file.
This guide contains information about adding on-premises Linux compute nodes to your HPC cluster.
This guide contains information about extending (“bursting”) your HPC cluster to include Azure Batch pools as compute resources.
This guide contains information about extending (“bursting”) your HPC cluster to include Azure worker role instances (Azure nodes) as compute resources.
This guide provides step-by-step procedures for adding computers to your HPC cluster that are running the Windows operating system but are not managed by your cluster. These computers are added as workstation nodes, and you can use them to run cluster jobs.
This topic summarizes the requirements and steps for adding servers for cycle harvesting that are running the Windows Server operating system to your HPC cluster.
This guide provides step-by-step procedures for deploying diskless compute nodes to your HPC cluster that boot over iSCSI.
This guide provides procedures and guidance for deploying HPC Pack where the head node (specifically, a set of head node services) is configured in a failover cluster.
This guide provides procedures and guidance for deploying HPC Pack in a configuration designed for high availability for applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). For this configuration, you configure the head node (specifically, a set of head node services) in a failover cluster. Then you can configure one or more WCF broker nodes (specifically, the HPCBroker service) in one or more separate failover clusters.
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Storm conditions, strong gale force winds and rough seas, coupled with a full moon Spring tide will cause dangerous coastal shoreline conditions over the next 5 to 6 days.
The SA Weather Service has posted alerts warning of rough seas, storm conditions, strong gale force winds and storm surges and they are monitoring weather data charts to adapt warnings accordingly.
The full moon Spring tide peaked yesterday, 20th July, and will add to the storm weather conditions
Spring tide conditions will last into the early part of next week.
Spring tide happens twice every month of the year, at full moon and at new moon, bringing higher than normal high tides, lower than normal low tides, and stronger than normal rip currents.
The NSRI has urged boaters, paddlers, bathers, sailors and anglers to be cautious around the coast during these storm conditions.
“We urge sea users to watch weather warnings, have the sea rescue emergency phone number 112 programmed into your phone and only go to sea if it is absolutely necessary.”
Anglers fishing along the shoreline, people hiking along coastal hiking routes, beach strollers, paddlers and boaters should be vigilant of the tides, breaking surf along the shoreline and rough sea conditions.
“Anyone launching any kind of craft to go to sea should let a responsible person know your launch time, your exact route and your return time. Stick to your intended plan and let the responsible person know of your safe return.
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Group Exibit at Timisoara
by Ileana Pintilie / IN-FORMAT Group Exhibition "Substrates"/ Tent Art Gallery, Timişoara, 2001
"Determined to confront the debut's difficulties together, the In-format Group was founded through the association of a couple of graduates of the Arts Faculty from Timisoara (Florin Avram, Liliana Mercioiu, Viorica Stănculescu, Valentina Ştefănescu), whose purpose was among others to animate the local artistic movement, to zest the quasi-inert atmosphere of the city. This group which included two painters and three decorative artists studies the issues of plastic arts language, seeking for common elements in diversity.
Carrying further the research related to painting begun a few years ago, Liliana Mercioiu proceeds by defining the term elipsă (ellipse), written on a canvas. This definition in which it is selected only the figurative meaning of the word is given in order to make reference to the listener's / viewer's memory who has to imagine what is not said or what it cannot be seen, and what is not reflected as a direct result of the term.
Surrounding the canvas, placed directly on the floor, approximately 80 rectangular wooden boxes containing inside-written verbs are being ellipse-shaped. These words-verbs, randomly chosen, are referring to the ones close nearby unifying facts that require the viewer's memory in order to "supplement what it is not said" (or is not revealed), within a semantic reference trial.
Less conceptual, taken away by the pure plastic poetry of architecture, the underground images assembly gathers a number of photographs of a couple of underground windows. This collection of facts gathers the images of all-shape windows both from downtown and uptown, each one of them being usually deserted, latched or dusted suggesting a personalized state.
Generalized trivial condition indicates a
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sensibilities by starting to assimilate and overpass the traditional plastic
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Cameron University student Mona Bevington has created a tree tour for the Museum of the Great Plains (MGP) as a class project. The tree tour will be unveiled by Bevington, a junior Biology Education major from Altus, and John Hernandez, MGP Director, on Saturday, April 30, at 2 p.m. The event is open to the public. The tour incorporates 20 different species of trees, each selected for their ethnobotanical, economic and/or aesthetic value.
“The Tree Tour will add another educational component and give our visitors a better understanding of the variety of Native trees that grow in the state of Oklahoma,” says John Hernandez, Director, Museum of the Great Plains. “The Tree Tour will also lead to new educational programs for Lawton and rural school children.”
Bevington proposed the tree tour to the museum earlier this year. Once museum personnel agreed to the project, she identified the trees on the museum’s property. Bevington also secured a $500 grant from the Lawton Enhancement Trust Authority to defray the cost of purchasing and planting six additional trees.
“I enjoyed learning about how each species of tree was originally used by the Native Americans and early settlers,” Bevington says. “There are a lot of stories about how the trees were incorporated into everyday life – including using bark or leaves for tea, using berries for soaps and medicinal purposes, and using fruit to repel insects. There are fascinating uses, and we need to be reminded of them.”
Bevington hopes the tree tour will be enjoyed by visitors to the Museum, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout the year.
Cameron University and the Museum of the Great Plains have partnered to make the tree tour possible. Cameron will provide brochures for the museum to distribute, and the museum is providing individual markers for each tree.
Bevington is a nurse who wants to become a schoolteacher.
“I’ve always had an interest in teaching,” she says. “I home-schooled my daughter for two years and was able to witness her ‘a-ha’ moments when she grasped the concepts of the lessons. That was exciting to me, and I want to continue that by teaching fulltime.”
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Diabetic retinopathy is becoming one of the most important causes of new blindness among the adult population of the United States. In 1930, it accounted for less than 1% of the cases of newly reported blindness. However, in 1960, more than 15% of reported cases of blindness were due to diabetic retinopathy, and there is every indication to believe that this percentage will become even higher in the years to come.1 Not only are diabetics becoming more prevalent in the population, but with improved care many are now living long enough to manifest the retinopathy. In short, the therapy of clinical diabetes has been more successful than that of the vascular complications, and when the blood vessels of the eye deteriorate more rapidly than those which are necessary to maintain life, blindness ensues.
Diabetic retinopathy can be divided into a nonproliferative and proliferative stage. Microaneurisms, hemorrhages, and exudates characterize
OKUN E, CIBIS PA. The Role of Photocoagulation in the Therapy of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. Arch Ophthalmol. 1966;75(3):337–352. doi:10.1001/archopht.1966.00970050339007
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The Red-tailed Boa, Boa constrictor, is a species of boa and the second largest member of the Boidae family, following the Anaconda. The name “red-tailed” boa actually refers to the only one subspecies of boa constrictor, the true red-tailed boa.
Adult Boas can reach from 5 to 12 feet in total length. However they can grow to more than 14 feet as one in captivity is proof. They have an attractive and interesting pattern of brown to reddish-brown or black “saddles” or dorsal blobs of color on a lighter background color which can range through white, golden, gray or brownish, pink, with reddish brown tail.
Female boas produce live offspring instead of laying eggs. Fertilization by the male is internal. During copulation, females can cling to the male via a small set of “spurs” that are generally hidden below scales on either side of the vent and are actually remnants of the hind legs. The gestation period of boas is 108 days after the post ovulation shed.
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CHOOSING AN INSURANCE
Buying your first car, moving to a new state, losing or changing your job or starting a small business – just a few of the life changes that should trigger a review of your insurance. Picking the right insurance coverage for you and your family isn’t just about understanding your insurance choices and selecting the right policy – it’s also about finding the right insurance agent. So, when life throws major changes at you, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) offers these tips to help you find the right agent for your insurance needs.
Independent Agent, Captive Agent, Insurance Broker – What’s the difference?
When you start your search for an agent, you’ll have a couple of different types to choose from. You can pick an independent agent or a captive (sometimes called direct) agent. An independent agent may have contracts with several different insurance companies. A captive agent writes exclusively with one company. Independent and captive agents represent the insurance company and receive a commission from the insurance company.
For more complicated insurance transactions, such as those involving insurance coverage for a small business, owners may choose to utilize an insurance broker. An insurance broker represents your company in a search of the local insurance market to find the maximum coverage for the best possible cost. Because the broker represents you, brokers generally charge a fee for their services.
How to Start
Developing your knowledge of insurance will help you make informed decisions about the coverages you and your family need. Understanding the terms and coverages used in the different types of insurance will help you work with an agent or broker selecting the most appropriate policy. Before searching for an agent, brush up on your insurance knowledge at the NAIC’s Insure U website (www.insureuonline.org).
Finding an Agent
So, how do you go about finding the right agent for your needs? Once you have a better understanding of your insurance needs, here are a few places to start:
Not all insurance companies use agents to sell their products. You can choose to do business directly with many companies. Purchasing coverage directly online from the company, for instance, could be cheaper because the company doesn’t have to pay an agent a commission. If you choose to buy directly from the company, be sure to check that it is licensed in your state and research the financial stability of the company and complaints filed against it.
Selecting an Agent
Whether you’re looking for your first agent or thinking about switching agents or companies, it’s a good idea to have several to choose from. When evaluating your list, consider these things:
What to Expect
Now that you have a short list of potential agents, what should you expect when you go to the office to purchase coverage?
Answers to Your Questions – If you have any questions
about the quote or coverages you need, this is the time to ask. If the
agent can’t answer the question, they should offer to find out the answer.
An agent should never leave a question unanswered prior to your
Insurance fraud can happen to anyone, anywhere. Protect yourself during the purchasing process.
The best way to protect yourself from insurance fraud is to research the agent and company you’re considering. Always: Stop before writing your check or signing the contract. Call your state insurance department. Confirm both the agent and company are licensed to write insurance in your state.
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I'm pretty keen on the marketing power of public transportation. Here in D.C. lately, brown-wrapped city buses have been turned into massive candy bars, thanks to an ad campaign by Snickers. I love it. I'm also a fan of Target's backlit animations in our subway tunnels. (Here's a video of how something similar works in Japan).
Still, I'm not quite sure what to make of this advertising news from San Francisco. Apparently, the people who brought us the Got Milk? ads are adding the artificial smell of just-baked chocolate chip cookies to their poster ads on the sides of bus shelters.
Yes, transit advertising is going olfactory on us.
I know how I'm supposed to feel about this. I'm supposed to mourn the passing of yet another of our five human senses into the advertising kingdom. Madison Avenue took sight (TV) and sound (radio) from us long ago. Taste as advertising is give and take -- I'm thinking free samples here. Now they're snatching smell from us, too. Only touch remains an ad-free zone, barring changes in law or social behavior.
But let's be honest: Bus shelters could do worse than smell like chocolate chip cookies. Much worse. As a teenager quoted in the Chronicle points out, "It's going to smell like cookies and bums."
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Davies, Nature, 1999. Hydrofrac Model. Temperature dependent rheology. Model with temperature dependent rheology, example here would ‘eat’ all the way to the surface.
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Davies, Nature, 1999
Model with temperature dependent rheology, example here would ‘eat’ all the way to the surface.
Possible to get freezing out –see Kincaid and Sacks. We know we get magmas therefore I prefer hot end-point => need means to stop eating all the way to surface. Possibly lithosphere in wedge corner is crust (i.e. buyoancy not rheology keeps things near surface)
Model a little time later – not steady-state
Water reacts with mantle – Davies (1994) Davies and Stevenson (1992)
Water reacts with largely dry peridotite
Path of water in hydrated mineral
Water enters wedge
Water flow as free phase
Mantle largely dry
Flow of mantle
Equilibrium, 130Ma, 6cm/yr
Equilibrium, 10Ma, 6cm/yr
Disequilibrium, 130Ma, 6cm/yr
Non-unique but a 3D constraint
Combine with 3D reflection seismics?
Tatsumi et al., 1983
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Being able to speak Spanish at a proficient level is a basic requirement for many callings, especially for teachers and those who wish to become certified as language teachers. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is the most universally recognized and their test results are accepted by virtually every major institute, university, academy and corporation of import, plus it has the broadest collection of languages that it tests. The exams are administered by Language Testing International (LTI).
Spanish being one of the most popular languages to learn in the world, it makes sense that LTI is especially strong in this field and the quality of their testing is superb. Most schools and universities require ACTFL for admission into certain language teaching programs, and/or students must pass the ACTFL Spanish test upon receiving the requisite training within the teaching or language department’s core curriculum.
LTI language testing questions
The test is divided into two parts, which can be taken independently. There is an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and a Written Proficiency Interview (WPI). What kind of questions are on the ACTFL written language test? To find out, you will want to keep reading because for proper ACTFL test preparation, it is necessary to get ready for both parts. On this page we guide you to resources on how to prepare for both the OPI and the WPI. The OPI takes the form of a conversation in Spanish, either in person or over the phone, which lasts as long as half an hour and as little as ten minutes. This is a listening and speaking spanish proficiency test. The nature of the oral ACTFL Spanish test is very open ended, as a natural conversation might tend to be, and the topics at hand are those that interest the person speaking. In this sense the only way to prepare for the Spanish OPI is simply to be able to talk fluently and answer questions and go into depth, orally, about the things that interest you. It’s that simple—and that hard. To prepare for the ACTFL oral exam questions in Spanish, practice real life conversation with native speakers, preferably from academia or the business sector, study sample oral proficiency test questions for the Spanish ACTFL, download copies online or order the prep books over the Internet at online sites where they sell ACTFL workbooks.
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ACTFL WPT preparation materials). There are questions provided that help
to queue the response, but the writing must take the form of complete
sentences amassed into whole paragraphs, and demonstrate an ability to
develop a thought in written Spanish in a coherent narrative style. The
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Many programs accept advanced low Spanish proficiency, although everybody
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By Linda Weiford, WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – The struggle to identify the origins of the E. coli outbreak, which has sickened people from Washington state to New Jersey, highlights the difficulty of tracking a pathogen through a complex food supply chain, said a produce safety expert at Washington State University.
Conducting a traceback investigation from farm to plate is far from a direct line, but more of a massive web that requires tedious detective work, said Faith Critzer, a produce safety specialist and associate professor of food sciences at WSU extension in Prosser.
“The exact source of contamination could remain a mystery for some time. There are many dots to connect — on the human side and the product side,” she said.
Since mid-March, 121 people have fallen ill from tainted romaine lettuce, with the first fatality reported in California last week. Idaho remains among the hardest hit, with 11 cases, behind Pennsylvania and California. Six people have been infected in Washington state.
Tracing product, patients
To unravel the mystery, investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — working with state and local health officials — must cover a vast geographic area to interview infected people about everything they ate. The Food and Drug Administration then traces the many channels the lettuce took from the field to point of sale, she said.
“Several weeks can pass from the time a person develops symptoms, goes to a doctor, gets the lab test results and is confirmed as part of the outbreak. By then, the lettuce that person ate at a restaurant or home may be long gone and can’t be traced or tested,” she explained.
Adding to the challenge is the product supply chain. Leafy greens such as romaine are grown, packed and shipped by different companies before reaching retails stores and restaurants, making it more difficult to pinpoint where the food became contaminated.
“Investigators must examine all the routes between where the lettuce was grown and where it was sold,” said Critzer, requiring them to collect and analyze hundreds of records to narrow the investigation’s focus, she said.
Though a farm in Yuma, Arizona, was identified as the general source of whole-head romaine that sickened eight inmates in Alaska, health officials are not certain whether the contamination occurred in the field or along the packaging and distribution chain, according to the FDA.
“Most of the illnesses in this outbreak are not linked to romaine lettuce from this farm and are associated with chopped romaine lettuce (not whole head lettuce),” the agency said in a statement, adding that other farms are being investigated as well.
Use bacteria’s DNA
In the meantime, the Yuma growing season has ended, and California is the growing region throughout summer. However, the CDC’s warning not to eat romaine unless it’s known not to be from Yuma remains in effect.
Ideally, investigators will be able to isolate the E. coli strain from the source and use DNA sequencing to match it with the people who got sick, said Critzer.
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Five Medals of Honor shown at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum
March 25, 2013 12:00 PM
Jennifer O'Shea, with her children, 8-month old Anna and Timmy, 6, admires for her grandfather's plaque after his induction into the Hall of Valor at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum in Oakland. Ms. O'Shea's grandfather, Donald Johnson, served in the Marine Corps in World War II.
The Medal of Honor awarded to John Minick, who was killed at age 36 while serving in the Army in Germany during World War II, is on display at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum in Oakland.
By David Templeton Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Few people ever have the opportunity to see an actual Medal of Honor.
The nation's top military honor for combat gallantry has been awarded 3,468 times since its creation 150 years ago during the Civil War.
Those who receive the medal often decline to show it off, and 18 percent are awarded posthumously. The medals also get passed down through the generations, sometimes getting lost or misplaced.
But the public now has the chance to see five actual Medals of Honor awarded to local recipients, three of them posthumously, for acts of valor beyond the call of duty.
On Sunday, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum in Oakland unveiled its Medal of Honor Exhibit prior to induction of 14 new members to its Joseph A. Dugan Jr. Hall of Valor, which includes Medal of Honor recipients but also Pennsylvanians cited for heroism and bravery with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Airmen's Medal or Soldier's Medal.
For several years Michael Kraus, Soldiers & Sailors curator, has sought Medals of Honor for the exhibit to honor local recipients and keep the stories alive about extraordinary courage during combat.
The five he accumulated were awarded to:
• Pvt. Charles Higby of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry who captured the Confederate battle flag during the Appomattox Campaign.
• Sgt. John Kirkwood of Allegheny and Company M, 3rd Cavalry Regiment during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, received the medal for valor after the Battle of Little Bighorn by tracking Sioux combatants and keeping them pinned down in a ravine, even though he had been shot in the side.
• During World War II, Staff Sgt. John W. Minick of Wall was in the 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, in Germany, where he led a squad through a minefield, silenced two enemy machine gun emplacements and engaged a larger force of German soldiers before being killed in a second minefield.
• Marine Staff Sgt. William E. Shuck Jr. of Ridgeley, W.Va., was squad leader of Company G in Korea. He led his machine gun squad and a rifle squad in a series of attacks despite his wounds, and kept the enemy at bay until all the dead and wounded were evacuated. He then was killed by a sniper bullet.
• Marine Lance Cpl. William Prom of Mount Troy led a machine gun squad in the Vietnam War and on his own engaged the enemy while his squad reunited to continue their march. Later he came to the aid of a soldier critically wounded and then mounted an attack in full view of the enemy, leading to his death while inspiring his squad to mount a successful counterattack.
"The one condition every family wanted was for people to be able to see the medals, and we wanted to do something special that was historic and dignified," Mr. Kraus said.
Ann Smith, 51, of Rochester, Beaver County, was cleaning the attic at the New Brighton home of her father, Dick Deluca, 77, when she found an envelope containing the medal.
It inspired her brother, Jay Deluca, 55, also of New Brighton, to do some family research that includes trying to find a photograph of Mr. Higby, his great-great-great uncle who died in 1904.
John Nemec, 66, of Kent, Ohio, inherited Sgt. Minick's medal after his mother died. She was Sgt. Minick's sister. But he said he grew nervous with the medal hidden under his bed, prompting his daughter Jaymee Nemec, 39, of Columbus to track down Mr. Kraus at Soldier's & Sailors Hall.
"I'm very proud of its significance and proud of my uncle, but I'm proud of all who have served, especially the ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice," Mr. Nemec said.
Museum officials said the exhibit provides compelling information and honors some of the region's most gallant war heroes.
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Volume 11 begins with a timely assessment of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory, with original contributions by Carveth, Trop, and Powell, and a critical commentary by P. Ornstein. Clinical studies span the transferences, the complementarity of individual and group therapy, the termination phase, and multiple personality disorder.A special section of "dying and mourning" encompasses women professionals and suicide, the self psychology of the mourning process, and the selfobject function of religious experience with the dying patient.The volume concludes with theoretical and applied studies of personality testing in analysis, writer's block, "The Guilt of the Tragic Man," and the historical significance of self psychology.A testimony to the evolutionary growth of self-psychology, The Impact of New Ideas will be warmly welcomed by readers of the Progress in Self Psychology series.
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Here in the State of Mississippi there is a passage that is read when new Lodge Officers are installed each year. It reads:
If the labors of Freemasonry were confined to the Lodge room, and its influences did not extend beyond its confines; if it had no mission to perform in this world, except the perpetuation of itself by the mere making of Masons; if it did not enter into the daily life and conduct of its initiates and influence their actions for good in their relations to society, to their families and their country, then, indeed, might it be truthfully said to have outlived its usefulness, and the solemn ceremonies which we invite our presence for this occasion a mere waste of time, which could be better employed.
This is a valuable passage to ponder on when we announce that Longstreet Lodge #268 was honored at the 2015 Annual Communication of The Grand Lodge of Mississippi for having conferred the largest number of Master Mason Degrees for the Masonic Year of 2014.
You might wonder why the fraternity would recognize a lodge for having conferred the most Master Mason degrees if it knows that it cannot exist solely for the mere making of masons.
The answer is found within the rest of the passage above.
You see, it happens that when a lodge is filled with Brotherhood and a genuine concern for one another and the families of those Brethren who have traveled beyond that other men of good will are drawn to that behavior and desire to become a part of that Brotherhood.
As such, when a lodge does in fact enter into the daily life and conduct of its initiates it cannot help but, in the end, receive a plentiful amount of petitions for membership and of those petitions a good number of men determine themselves to be able to count themselves among the Master Masons who are their friends.
While it is our honor to receive this award we do so in acknowledgement not that it was the number of degrees that were conferred that mattered, but the friendships and Brotherhood that were established, and we are very happy to have established a good number of them in the Masonic Year of 2014.
It should be noted that Masters of Lodges work within a Calendar Year. However, the Grand Lodge operates in a Masonic Year, from September to August the following year. As such, the lodge achieved this honor under the leadership of 2 Worshipful Masters. Allan Dover and Jared Stanley. However, it truly is the honor of the lodge as a whole to receive this award as each and every member contributes to the fellowship and brotherhood found in a lodge. | <urn:uuid:7966eaf3-0746-47f0-acde-1d8a1b0f5098> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.longstreetlodge.org/fellowship-and-brotherhood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.977228 | 516 | 1.515625 | 2 |
7 Tips to Make Life Safer for Your Elderly Relatives
Feeling safe in your own environment is vital for everyone. For many of us, home security is a top priority and for the elderly this is even more essential – especially when they are living by themselves.
As relatives or friends, we strive to visit regularly or call to see how they are, but for a completely secure and safe environment more is needed. Here, we check out some tips to help make life safer and easier around the home for your elderly relatives.
Security fencing is the best ‘first line of defence’ around the home. It is another top-of-the-list investment and is an effective way to keep intruders out. A sturdy fence is a good way of saying “this is my house, my property,” and will often put intruders off just by being present.
Taller fences can prevent even the most determined would-be intruders from entering your property. These are ideal for high-threat neighbourhoods or homeowners wanting a stronger sense of security.
For elderly people who drive, staying safe coming in and out of their property is just as important as safety when they’re inside the home. Driveway gates add extra protection to the property and can be installed with remote access.
Having a secure gate access device promotes safety, prevents crime, keeps suspicious individuals out of the area and gives the homeowner privacy.
The most common methods can include anything from key access, magnetic strip card, pin code or remote control so you don’t have to get out of your vehicle until you’re behind the safety of closed and locked gates.
For added benefits, voice communication or an intercom and video system gate access can be advantageous for the elderly homeowner, so they have contact from inside the building before they let anyone into the property.
Doors and Windows
Doors and windows should be locked at all times and fitted with security screens. Elderly people should ensure that only close family or friends have a spare key to the home in order to check on them, if necessary.
Security film or Plexiglass can be placed on the inside of windows to make it more difficult for criminals to attempt break ins.
Windows and doors fitted with security screens will enable elderly people to still have fresh air come through the home on warmer days without sacrificing their safety.
These are especially useful in single-storey homes, or bungalows (a popular home choice for the elderly), as the ground floor windows throughout the home make it easier for intruders to gain access without the right security measures in place.
A valuable investment, installing a home security alarm will help to protect seniors from outside threats such as thieves.
An alarm can also act as an SOS device, with most good systems including a ‘silent alarm’ or ‘panic button’ beside the bed should anyone gain entry.
The features and capabilities of security systems should be carefully compared to ensure it best meets your needs. Many systems can also act as a monitoring device and detect fire, temperature and carbon monoxide levels and warn at the first sign of danger. To ensure the device is properly working at all times, it’s important that it be checked at least twice a year.
Security lighting should be installed around the home. A house that is well-lit often tells criminals that people are home and they will be less likely to attempt a break in, while automatic lighting will alert the elderly homeowner that someone is approaching the door. These can also be set to come on at intervals when no one is home to make it look as though someone is still there.
Adequate lighting both in and around your home will also help to prevent accidents and injuries – these normally result from dark and dim areas that make it difficult for the elderly to see.
High Prone Accident Areas
Rails should be installed in the shower, bath tub and near the toilet. If the home has stairs, make sure the area is cleared from anything that can be tripped over and handrails are installed up the entire length on both sides of the staircase. For required cases, a chair lift can be installed for the staircase.
If the home has rugs, use double sided tape to keep small rugs down and prevent tripping over hazards. Be sure that nothing wet is left on the floor and any broken or chipped tiles and flooring are fixed.
There is nothing more valuable than a regular visit from family or friends. It will also ensure there aren’t any emergencies so if you can’t always make it in; a phone call is a good idea too. | <urn:uuid:0fcc275a-dd0b-43c7-8867-64496a711379> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fencemakers.com/news/7-tips-to-make-life-safer-for-your-elderly-relatives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.955945 | 973 | 1.664063 | 2 |
July 29, 2009 4:50:00 PM
I never truly knew the color green until I moved to Mississippi.
I had known green from more northern summers, but never the profound green of Mississippi; a forest green so overwhelming I might imagine no other color could exist. The one other color that did finally register, however, served only to draw me to this green I had never experienced.
In passing a manicured holly tree (Ilex opaca), I noticed rich, scarlet berry clumps imbedded in the deep waxy green of the spiked leaves. The contrast attracted me as the surrounding leaf green so brightly and vividly set off the rich berry red. Can berries be that red, I thought? Yes, they can be when nestled in the overpowering green of this tree. Then I marveled at the green, not the red, and saw total green for the first time.
As sunlight descends through the multi-layer Mississippi forest canopy, it is soaked up by the thick leaves of the tall hardwoods, then by the evergreen pines and finally by green shrubs and smaller vegetation. As an ocean diver descends to the depths, the sea turns a darker green with each passing fathom until there is only darkness. Descending through the Mississippi forest canopy, the darker green finally turns not into utter darkness, but into a green so deep and pervasive other colors no longer seem to exist.
Certainly I have experienced deep (yet, somehow, relatively pallid) summer green in other states, including Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia and North Carolina, but there is a depth and richness in Mississippi green missing in more northern climes. Perhaps it is constant watering by moisture laden clouds from the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps the sub-tropical temperatures of much of the year that makes Mississippi a want-to-be jungle in northern hardwood liveries.
Whatever the combination of forces that has produced this deep green sensory overload, they are busy making Mississippi the definition of impossible summer green.
Jay Lacklen is a retired Air Force Reserve pilot, who flew missions in Vietnam and Iraq. Presently he is simulator instructor at CAFB and is writing a book about his experiences in the Air Force.
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On International Women’s Day, March 8, Turkish news outlets covered the tragic life and early death of a Syrian child bride.
Last August, in Aleppo, Mafe Zafur, 15, married her cousin Ibrahim Zafur in an Islamic marriage. The couple moved to Turkey, but the marriage ended after six months, when her husband abruptly threw out of their home. With nowhere to sleep, Mafe found shelter with her brother, 19, and another cousin, 14, in an abandoned truck.
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There is a mathematical card game known as Krypto. The rules are simple: Each card has a numeric value. Six cards are dealt face-up in the center of the table: One card is designated as the objective card. The object of the game is to combine the remaining five cards in any order using the basic four arithmetic functions so that the result equals the objective. A player who believes that he has found a solution, calls Krypto! and has thirty seconds to show the solution.
For example, if the objective is 6 and the other five cards are 1, 3, 7, 1, and 8, then you can achieve the result by using the expression 7 + 1 - (8 / (3 + 1)) = 6. Fractions and negative numbers are not allowed.
As a teenager, I wondered if I could write a computer program to solve Krypto hands, but I never got off the ground. Recently I discovered that, naturally, somebody else has already done it.
My brother went to the state tournament for this game, where we discovered that he played at a whole different level from everybody else. For you see, my brother could solve nearly any hand in thirty seconds or less. Therefore, his strategy was merely to call Krypto! as soon as the cards were dealt, and then spend the next thirty seconds solving the puzzle. Using this technique, he could run the table. The scoring system for the game is such that the reward for winning a hand is far greater than the penalty for losing one, so the strategy pays off well.
My brother didn't go the national tournament because we didn't want to pay for airfare and accommodations. I vaguely recall that the design flaw in the game was addressed at the national tournament by converting the head-to-head competition into a series of puzzles.
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By Avi Landau
Before 1872 and the adoption of the Western Gregorian Calendar, the Japanese kept track of the passage of the years in one way – the NENGO system, in which a new ERA (年号) was proclaimed with the accession of each new emperor, with each successive year of rule during that reign numbered, advancing by one on each (Lunar) New Year`s Day (which usually fell in February). In fact, this system is STILL used in everyday Japanese life, with this year being the 3rd year REIWA (零和) – the name of the current NENGO – in addition to it being 2021.
Besides being used for all official paperwork, registration forms, most invoices, etc. , you will often hear people use the NENGO to indicate the year something has happened (or will happen). For example you might hear someone say:` The Tokyo Olympics were held in Showa 39 (1964).″ Another thing I have noticed is that most Japanese remember their year of birth ONLY in NENGO, and have to do a conversion in their head before telling you what it is in Gregorian!
If you this sounds like it could get complicated, you are right! There are in fact 256 NENGO era names ( sometimes they were actually changed DURING the reign of a particular Emperor – usually because some disaster had occurred, but sometimes because of the appearance of an unusually auspicious omen).The oldest “official” and verifiable era name is Taika , and Taika 1 corresponds to the year 645 AD. The current Nengo, Reiwa began in 2019. Of course, before the war, many would memorize them all! Now, educated people are familiar with only a few of the more famous era`s of the past ( by that I mean the era`s in which great historical events occurred.). If we come upon a text in which only an obscure reign year is indicated, for example 寿永(Juei) 3 , we would have to check a conversion chart ( printed or online) to learn that that year corresponds with the Gregorian 1183.
At the time of implementation of the Western Calendar, which is a Christian Calendar in so far as it counts the years gone by since the birth of Jesus, the Japanese felt it necessary to continue emphasizing the continuity and great history of their own Imperial Family, by implementing another way of measuring the passage of years – the Imperial Year system, which counted the years gone by since the accession of the first (mythical) Emperor- Jimmu Tenno, an event which was said to have occurred in 660 BC. Thus the year 1872 was proclaimed as being the year 2,532.
In tandem with this, a special day to commemorate the foundation of the dynasty and thus the nation itself was conceived of and established. This national holiday would be called the Kigen Setsu ( 紀元節), and was first celebrated on January 29th 1872. In that year, that date represented New Year`s Day according to the old calendar, which had been recognized as New Year Day for more than 1000 years (in 1872 the Japanese Changed the traditional celebrations to January 1st).
Keeping the holiday on the day of the Lunar New Year was reconsidered , however, as officials feared that it would promote the continued celebration of the Lunar O-Shogatsu (New Year`s according to the old (Chinese) calendar), something they wanted very much to discourage. February 11th according to the Western Calendar, was decided upon as the date on which The Emperor Jimmu ascended the throne ( just how they came upon that date, no one is sure!), and the date upon which the Kigen Setsu would be celebrated each year.
Before WWII, the Kigen Setsu was a day of great importance, with grand parades and ceremonies being held to promote the Emperor as a living link with the past and as a unifier of the nation ( and a descendant of the Gods as well).
Under the US occupation, this holiday, so strongly connected to Japanese Nationalism ( and militarism) was abolished, only to be reborn ( in completely toned-down form) – as National Foundation Day, in 1966.
In recent years, besides the presence of families who raise the national flag ( or flags) outside their front doors ( and this is something these certain people do on EVERY National Holiday), there is really not anything very special to report about on Kenkoku Kinen Bi ( as the holiday is called in Japanese). Its really JUST A DAY OFF.
When it come to me though, whenever February 11th rolls around, I cant help but think about a strange, and some would say EMBARRASSING musical event that took place as part of the the extravagant Kigen Setsu celebration of 1940 – the 2,600th anniversary of the imperial line, and the nation`s foundation- a time in which nationalist fervor, and reverence for the Emperor were about to explode into world war ( the war on the continent had already been raging for seven years).
I first learned of these celebrations while reading a biography of one of my favorite composers – Benjamin Britten. It goes like this:
As tensions were building between Japan, the US and Great Britain, the young musician was living in the US. He had been struggling to get by there, when suddenly he was offered a commission to compose music for the 2,600th Anniversary of the Founding of the Japanese Empire celebrations.
Needing the money, Britten accepted, and submitted a piece that he had already finished, but that he thought would be appropriate for the occasion – his Sinfonia da Requiem.
The British government (and people) were already quite weary of the composer’s pacifistic (non-violent) stance when it came to Nazi Germany ( which was probably why HE was asked to compose for the event), and he was urged by his countrymen not to go to Japan for the celebrations at a time when war in Europe was already raging, and when Japan was forming deeper bonds with its new new allies Germany and Italy.
It turned out though, that he didn’t HAVE TO make the tough decision about whether to go to Japan or not – it was decided for him. Despite the fact that he had promptly received the payment promised him, his piece was rejected by the festival committee – because “it did not express the proper felicitations befitting the occasion”. The name of the piece, was also found to be offensive – as it was overtly Christian ( which Britten found ironic).
And that ended being a very lucky break for Britten, because if he HAD attended and if his music HAD been performed it would have forever been a stain on his reputation ( in fact, in that same year the Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Tokyo, were CANCELLED).
As part of the celebrations, the Japanese government commissioned musical works from other composers of various countries- the most famous of those who submitted works was the great Richard Strauss, who was urged by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels to do so. The other composers whose works were performed, were from the other axis partner, Italy – the now overlooked Ildebrando Pizzetti , and Jacques Ibert, (who at that time was living in Italy). A work by Sandor Veress of Hungary was also performed.
What made the event so politically incorrect was the fact that the German and Italian delegations heartily Heil Hitlered throughout the ceremonies, and a Jewish conductor was told he could not perform.
The works themselves, even the Strauss piece, were not very good either, it seems, and they have all pretty much been forgotten.
Britten’s work, while no masterpiece either, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York, and was finally played in Tokyo in 1956.
Britten also went on to compose three chamber operas highly influenced by Japanese Noh theater and its music. My favorite is Curlew River ( based on the Noh play Sumida River).
It just goes to show you that not much great culture comes out of ultra-nationalism ( though there are, of course, the films of Leni Riefenstahl)
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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed legislation on Thursday banning welfare recipients from spending their public assistance money on cruises, tattoo parlors, lingerie stores, movie theaters and a long list of other businesses. House Bill 2258, also known as the HOPE Act, will go into effect on Jul. 1, and contains other measures designed encourage “more responsibility” by toughening regulations on how families spend government assistance dollars.
“We know that the most charitable act is not handing someone a check but helping that person get a job that sustains them and their families for generations to come,” said Gov. Brownback on Thursday. “Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.”
Currently the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides recipients with EBT cards, which they can use as debit cards to make purchases. With imminent restrictions, some more controversial than others, TANF beneficiaries will soon be unable to withdraw more than $25 per day in cash. However, they will still able to obtain money orders to pay for necessities such as rent.
The bill has come under fire from numerous organizations and people who claim that it stigmatizes low-income people and places achieving self-sufficiency even more out of reach for them.
"By signing this bill into law, Gov. Brownback has added to the burden that the poorest Kansans already carry," said Kansas Action for Children in a statement. "It's always been hard to be poor in Kansas. Now, it's going to be a lot harder."
The bill has others simply scratching their heads.
“People on public assistance shouldn’t be spending what little money they have on things like cruises,” said Miriam Krehbiel, the chief executive of the United Way chapter, to KCUR. “But what I don’t get is how we think that someone on public assistance – as little as it is – would ever be able to save up enough money to be on a cruise ship?”
At least 23 other states have passed laws that restrict how public benefits such as TANF can be used, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In Alabama, recipients cannot use their cards on body piercings or psychics.
Kansans will also not be able to use their EBT cards for dog and horse racing facilities, spas, and alcohol, but will still be able to spend welfare dollars in gun stores, CNN noted.
The amount of Kansans receiving TANF benefits has declined from 38,900 per month in 2011 to 15,000 in 2015 under Brownback’s governance. However, the amount of food stamp recipients in Kansas increased by about 5,000 to 300,000 during the same time, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
While the number of TANF beneficiaries have gone down, many Democrats warn that legislators should not take this as a sign that the anti-poverty measures are working, just that more families are falling through the cracks. According to Annie McKay of the Kansas Center for Economic Growth, many former welfare recipients fill jobs that pay poverty wages and that 25 percent of working Kansans needing some sort of public assistance.
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Dhaka WASA starts cleaning two drainage canals using Dutch urban dredging equipment
Dhaka WASA Drainage (O&M) Circle, has launched the Urban Dredging Demonstration Project (UDDP) as part pf the Water Operators Partnership (WOP) between Dhaka WASA and Vitens Evides International (VEI), Netherlands on June 11, 2014.
The launch is part of a recently started 10 years dredging programme by Dhaka WASA to clean all canals in the capital of Bangladesh. The canals - the primary drainage system of the city - cannot handle the huge volumes of rain water that is generate during the monsoon and every year large part of the city go under water.
Present at the ceremony were minister Shahjahan of Shipping, senior secretary Monzur Hossain of the Ministery of Local Government (MoLGRDC), Ambassador Gerben de Jong of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and managing director Taqsem A Khan of Dhaka WASA.
Urban dredging technology
Dhaka WASA started two demonstration projects using Dutch urban dredging technologies such as a floating bulldozer, push tugboat, excavator and pontoon.
To make use of the full potential of the Dutch technology and knowledge two different type of drains where chosen: the Kallyanpur canal and the Segunbagicha box culvert .
The UDDP project is strongly focused on improving the operations of Dhaka WASA to be able to continue cleaning other culverts and canals in Dhaka in the coming 10 years.
For this reason UDDP will also introduce smart monitoring systems for operation and maintenance and will help Dhaka WASA in preparing and approving a long term Urban Dredging Maintenance Plan.
Improving the capacity of Dhaka WASA Drainage Circle is an important part of the project. An intensive training program is designed to train management, work planners, supervisors and operators in preparing, executing and maintaining the dredging activities.
All these activities will make sure that water clogging is reduced and inhabitants and businesses are less effected by the causes of heavy rainfalls.
Since the human factor is an important element in polluting storm water drains, UDDP will collaborate with people living near canals to motivate them not to throw their solid waste in the canals.
For the community participation activities, UDDP will work with RIC, a NGO of Bangladesh, to change mindsets and practices of the local communities related to solid waste management and to create a beautification area along the canal or the culvert. The UDDP project will run till September 2016.
Water operator partnership
UDDP is part of the Water Operators Partnership between Dhaka WASA and Vitens Evides International, which is a partnership between the two water operators that are working together to enhance the operational performance of Dhaka WASA in drinking water supply and sanitation.
Financial support for the UDDP is provided by DWASA, VEI and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangladesh.
Technical Assistance in the UDDP is provided by VEI, Witteveen+Bos, Tijhuis Ingenieurs, Nelen & Schuurmans, JP Schilder and Unie van Waterschappen from the Netherlands and AquA and DevConsultants Ltd. from Bangladesh.
Vitens Evides International
Utrecht, the Netherlands
+31 88 884 7991
Dutch embassy Bangladesh
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+880 8117 829 31
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Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the Story offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them. Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know.Now, how would I do this? ... Originally, the film was to be modeled after Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. ... ending. We know that John Smith and Pocahontas love each other and they will both survive, they just cana#39;t be together for theanbsp;...
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What constitutes “good” wine?
By Christian Eedes, 12 April 2017
What constitutes “good” wine? It was a question I confronted yet again while officiating at the recent Wine Judging Academy, the annual three-day course convened by commentator Michael Fridjhon designed to hone critical sensibilities of wine professionals.
As ever, those attending were all pretty good at forensic tasting, which is to say analysing what was in the glass before them, but less so at making a qualitative assessment.
Why is this? I think to a large degree it is because the wine world is riddled by a series of dichotomies and individuals feel compelled to take up a position on one side of the divide or the other. So, for instance, you have retro versus modern which might be seen to correspond to the Swartland versus Stellenbosch or beards and baggies versus button-down shirts and chinos.
Binary thinking is never that helpful and qualitative assessment becomes easier (although no walk in the park) when personal prejudices are put aside. Before this can be done, however, a carefully thought aesthetic is necessary.
What are the key aspects of wine aesthetics? For me, these would be purity, balance, complexity and length. Purity is an amalgam of fruit concentration, freshness of acidity and fineness of tannin; balance is a sense that the previously mentioned fundamentals are in equilibrium; complexity equates to detail and intricacy and length speaks for itself. The trick is to hold all these ideals of wine beauty in your head simultaneously when assessing a wine rather than applying a check-list mentality and I guess this comes with experience.
Now back to those dichotomies, perhaps the most fundamental of them all being power versus elegance. The point that needs to be made here is that neither pole of the division is illegitimate in principle. However, wines exist on a stylistic spectrum between the two and it is possible to go too far either way: wines that are too powerful can become overwhelming to drink, wines that strive too hard for elegance can become either slight or severe.
In any event, it is important to have a thorough understanding regarding the issues of the day. Pyrazines versus thiols in Sauvignon Blanc is a good example – the former are the chemical compounds that provide green flavours, the latter more tropical fruit flavours. Who’s to say which should predominate in the end wine? The best Sauvignon will be that which is pure, balanced, complex and long. You get where I’m going with this…
Another topical issue at the moment is whole-bunch fermentation or the use of stems in red winemaking. At best, it can contribute perfume, freshness and pleasantly grippy tannins but at worst, wines can appear rather rustic, the tannins becoming firm and astringent. It’s a technique that some of more innovative winemakers have been applying to Pinot Noir and Shiraz in particular with varying degrees of success. The point here is both producers and consumers need to take a view on how much of this character is appropriate.
Then, of course, there is the matter of “natural wines” defined broadly as “nothing added, nothing taken away” – organic or biodynamic practices in the vineyard and restricted additives in the cellar which is to say no cultured yeasts and absolutely minimal amounts of sulphur allowed. To some, it’s the one true way and all non-adherents are fundamentally misguided while for others these wines are irredeemably kooky. To engage with natural wines, some recalibration of your senses to accept smells and tastes with which you are not familiar is required but the best examples are delicious and to ignore this category on principle is to delimit what the world of wine has to offer unnecessarily.
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By Wachira Kigotho
Today fewer men in Kenya think it is right to beat their wives than it was a decade ago. Correspondingly, even less women are willing to gracefully accept their blows.
At the beginning of this Millennium, two thirds of Kenya men believed that wife battery was justified, even for flimsy reasons. A wife would be beaten if the food she was cooking slightly burned, or if the she answered her husband back.
Thirteen years on, this has changed significantly with only 45 per cent of men saying wife-beating is justified. With this development, it is now safer to be a wife, a girlfriend, or even a mistress in Kenya, especially when compared to Tanzania.
This year’s Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) notes that in the three traditional East African countries, the most violet place for a wife to live is Tanzania where seven in 10 husbands believe it is okay to beat their partners. According to a survey published in the current issue of the American Sociological Review, 45 per cent of Ugandan men see nothing wrong with a wife being punished now and then.
The study reviewed data from 26 countries. Fourteen of these countries were in sub-Saharan Africa and included Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali and Nigeria. Other surveys were conducted in Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
According to study leader Dr Rachael Pierotti of the University of Michigan, the situation is much worse in Nigeria where 81 per cent of married women report being verbally or physically abused by their husbands. Forty-six per cent reported being abused in the presence of their children.
But the situation has started to change with more men rejecting domestic violence, especially in Nigeria where 65 per cent of men recently said they were opposed to wife beating compared to 48 per cent in an earlier study conducted in 2008.
Dr Pierotti says there are significant changes in global attitudes towards domestic violence, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is only in Madagascar that most men thought it was necessary to unleash domestic violence on women on a regular basis.
Women are in most instances assaulted by their husbands or girls beaten by their boyfriends for very flimsy reasons such as if the woman went out without informing her male partner or if children were left unattended.
Dr Pierotti says women in sub-Saharan Africa are frequently beaten by their partners if they refuse to have sex with them, argue with them or even if they burn food.
For instance recently, a man in the town of Gweru in Zimbabwe bashed his wife and threatened to stab her with a knife for refusing to teach him how to open a Facebook account. He also demanded to know what she was posting on her Facebook page.
Dr Tom Ondicho, a research fellow at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Nairobi, says that in the past domestic violence was embedded in the culture of silence, but in recent decades, the issue has emerged as one of the most widespread and frightening problems in the region.
In this regard, Dr Ondicho seems to differ with Pierotti that wife beating in Kenya or elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa has subsided.
“There is an underlying consensus that the incidence of wife beating has increased substantially in the last few decades,” says Dr Ondicho in his study on battered women in Nairobi.
But there is general consensus that attitudes on wife beating in recent times has changed as a result of disintegration of traditional socio-cultural norms that “regulated” wife-beating.
But whereas Dr Pierotti views wife-beating in a sociological perspective, Dr Ondicho thinks this battery is motivated by a man’s urge to retain the traditional position of power and authority over women, even as modernity opens up opportunities for women folk.
But whatever the factors, the situation is fast changing from a scenario in traditional society where a man who did not beat his wife was considered a wimp.
Dr Ondicho observes that in modern society men might be still struggling to maintain their traditional image but a wage economy, education, and migration have altered the equation under which women were oppressed and ranked just a notch higher than children in the clan ranking order.
“Nevertheless, the improved status of women and the diminishing role of the extended family in resolving marital disharmony both empower women and render them vulnerable to gender violence,” says Dr Ondicho.
But even under such circumstances, the general attitude about the use of domestic violence has changed significantly among various age-groups in Kenya.
Whereas in rural areas, most men and women would agree that a husband should beat his wife if she burned food, in urban areas, the burning of food was not sufficient to merit a beating. However, the study notes that men and women in urban and rural areas were in agreement that married women should be beaten if they neglected children.
Basically, the change in attitudes towards rejecting wife-beating in sub-Saharan Africa is fronted by young people and, more so, the emerging middle-class. Dr Pierotti found that those who lived in cities and were better educated were more likely to reject wife-beating than those who lived in rural areas and had relatively less education.
There was also evidence that people with access to newspapers, radio and television were more likely to reject wife-beating. “The global spread of ideas about women’s rights and the increasing international attention to the problem of violence against women may be contributing to the striking change in attitudes about this issue,” says Dr Pierotti, a recipient of the Marshall Weinberg Research Fellowship award for her incisive studies on gender inequality.
Even though violence may be decreasing in certain pockets of society in Kenya, there is emerging evidence of increased domestic violence against women in difficult circumstances.
Carrie Hough, a researcher with Refuge Point, an advocacy group on refugee issues, says there is increased battery of women among refugees in Turkana County, North Eastern Province and Nairobi. During her investigation, Hough encountered serious cases of women battery but victims seemed almost helpless.
One told her: “We have to abide by the law, culture and tradition of our community, and according to our community, women are supposed to be beaten by men from time to time.”
She identified risk factors as harmful cultural practices that tend to oppress women even when both men and women are living in difficult circumstances.
All too often, the police are very unsympathetic to battered women. According to investigations carried out by Dr Ondicho, police officers in most cases did not take wife-beating seriously and in many situations, encouraged informal sanctions by persuading the two parties to reconcile, even though wife battery is a criminal offence.
Although some women are making inroads to protect themselves from domestic violence, the road is bumpy for those in urban slums.
A study conducted by Dr Ondicho in Kibera pinpoints legal fees as a major impediment to married women who may want to press charges against their abusive husbands. “Besides courts are often not on the side of victims as suspended sentences and warnings are the most common forms of punishment, resulting in repeat violations,” says Dr Ondicho.
But in spite of these circumstances, women in Kenya and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa have almost cracked the glass-ceiling of men domination wide open through ingenious legal campaigns, education and economic empowerment.
Notably, the 1995 Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women by the United Nations General Assembly opened the floodgates in which women aggressively fought against acts of gender-based violence that results in physical, sexual and psychological harm, threats, coercion and arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Locally, the new Constitution is a bulwark against violence against women and children. New legislations on inheritance, basic education and governance are providing women with more freedom and basic rights than any other time in Kenya’s history.
But no matter which way one looks at it, women have not acquired their current position on a silver platter but through hard work. Like their counterparts in Nigeria and Ghana where they have almost thrown out men from businesses in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Accra, women traders in Nairobi are becoming increasingly influential.
In Central Province, women are also edging men out in farming activities. These are signals that battle for gender supremacy is not about to come to an end but is bound to continue for a long time to come. With safeguards of international human rights and the constitutionally-guaranteed Bill of Rights for all, it seems new battle fronts will be opened. | <urn:uuid:2c284d1d-37b7-4c3a-91e5-d93f42b3acbe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000084585/decline-in-wife-battery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976747 | 1,793 | 2.03125 | 2 |
As Florida lawmakers far away in the state capital struggle to break their stalemate over Medicaid expansion, Cynthia Louis sees the bus bench advertising “Obamacare” near her Miami home as a reminder of a broken promise: that the Affordable Care Act would help her get the medical care she needs to return to work.
Louis, 57, has been unemployed since fall of 2013. Before then, the mother of three worked for Burger King for nearly 25 years, preparing and serving breakfast and lunch to Miami customers.
“Work is fun if you like the job,’’ Louis said, recalling years-long friendships with co-workers and customers. “And my job, I loved it.”
When she fell ill at the store on Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 91st Street in Miami Shores, vomiting and unable to stand from the pain in her legs, Louis could not return to work, losing her job — and her best chance at getting health insurance.
Since then, Louis has learned what it’s like to depend on the healthcare safety net in Miami-Dade County, the one that’s supposed to catch residents before they hit bottom.
Although at times in the past she had been covered by private insurance through her employer, she no longer had that option. And she discovered that while more than 1.5 million Floridians now have insurance through the Affordable Care Act, she falls into a category of healthcare have-nots called the coverage gap.
Too poor to qualify for financial aid to make insurance more affordable under the health law commonly known as Obamacare, Louis and some 850,000 Florida residents were supposed to have been covered under Medicaid — if the state had chosen to expand the program as provided under the ACA.
But legislators in Florida, like those in 21 other states, have chosen to keep Medicaid open only to strict categories: poor children, and adults who are disabled, pregnant or parents with dependents earning no more than $5,500 a year for a household of two.
For Louis, life in the gap means any healthcare she gets will be up to her. And that means the safety net: free clinics, community health centers and public hospitals.
In the year-and-a-half since she lost her job, Louis has found she can usually get in to see a family doctor within weeks of seeking an appointment. And she qualifies for discounts on doctor’s visits, medical tests and prescription drugs through a charity care program at Jackson Health System, Miami-Dade’s public hospital.
But with no income, discounted care often means deferred or neglected care.
In mid-March, Louis learned first-hand the value — and the problems — of the safety net.
A viral infection had settled in her lungs. She wanted to visit her family doctor at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center in Brownsville. But she didn’t have $25 for the co-payment, and instead turned to a free clinic run by Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as part of the NeighborhoodHELP program.
The program offers low-income Miami-Dade residents free visits with a family doctor aboard a mobile clinic, along with counseling from a psychiatrist and other social services in exchange for patients’ allowing students to work with them.
The mobile clinic, a blue bus with the FIU logo on it, stops every Tuesday in the parking lot of the Pentecostal Tabernacle Church in Miami Gardens, an area of Miami-Dade with a high rate of uninsured residents.
Inside one of the narrow clinic’s two exam rooms last month, Louis met with Fred Anderson, a family physician and FIU assistant professor who helps run the fleet of three mobile clinics.
Anderson, who has been seeing Louis for about a year, asked if she had yet to get the X-rays of her hips and hands ordered by doctors during previous visits.
“Not yet,’’ Louis said.
Her X-ray referral, she said, had been sent to an imaging center in Coral Gables that charged twice the amount it would cost at Jackson Memorial Hospital — $40 — with her charity care card.
Louis said she had been calling the imaging center every day to have her referral forwarded to Jackson, and she had yet to hear back.
But the referral wasn’t her only obstacle. Louis also did not have the money for the co-payment because, she said, she often must choose between paying for her healthcare and buying soap and deodorant.
Without the X-rays, Anderson was unable to work on Louis’ chronic pain. He prescribed her an antibiotic for the viral infection, telling her she can get a two-week supply for free at a local supermarket. He also has prescribed anti-inflammatories for her pain. But he wants her to see a specialist, a rheumatologist, which means another co-pay she probably can’t afford.
“I would love to have all the X-rays,’’ Anderson said. “That would probably shed a little more light on what’s going on with her diffuse muscle aches and joint pains. But those are also the reasons that we wanted her to be seen by a rheumatologist, to get a second opinion.’’
Anderson said he first wrote the referral for Louis to see the specialist at Jackson Memorial about a year ago. Confused, she went to an orthopedist instead.
Louis said the orthopedist told her to take Aleve for her pain. “But Aleve wasn’t doing me no good,’’ she said.
Since then, Louis has been waiting to see a rheumatologist whom she hopes can chart a course of treatment to get her back to where she wants to be: taking pride in her work.
She’s not giving up. But, she said, “This here is driving me crazy, sitting around the house.’’
Hospital charity care, even at a publicly-funded facility like Jackson, isn’t always the answer for people in the gap.
Louis is enrolled in Jackson’s program, which provides discounted medical care to all uninsured Miami-Dade residents with no other options for insurance. Coverage is on a sliding scale; those with the lowest incomes receive the greatest benefits.
Louis qualifies for the most generous classification at Jackson, the J02, which is for those living below the poverty level of $11,770 a year for an individual.
But it’s not free. For each service that Anderson recommended, Louis will have to cover a $40 co-payment.
Even though she’s sure she can borrow the money from one of her adult children or a friend, the co-pay is only the first hurdle. Then there’s actually getting the services.
The X-ray referral that went to the higher priced clinic in Coral Gables still hadn’t gotten her the procedure at Jackson, a month after doctors prescribed it. Her appointment is in June.
The rheumatologist is taking even longer. Louis said she booked that appointment in January, and was told she can see the doctor in July.
“The waiting is tearing me down,’’ Louis said. “If I can find out what’s going on … all of us can get together and see where we go from there. But when you don’t know, that’s a big problem.”
While she waits, Louis fights the fatigue that feels as though it comes as much from her illness as from her healthcare limbo. She dreads the moments when hopelessness creeps up.
“I pray,’’ she said, “and that helps. It helps a lot.’’
While Louis prays, her doctors wrestle with their own dissatisfaction over the pace of her care.
“I do not feel satisfied with how we’ve been able to really get her on her feet,’’ Anderson said. “She still has significant limitations, let alone medical uncertainty that she’d really like to have resolved so that she can start to really plan her treatment.
“If she had access to a full insurance program,’’ he said, “she would not have to wait six months or a year.’’
Ed O’Dell, a spokesman for Jackson Health System, couldn’t directly address Louis’ case because of privacy concerns. But he said the wait to see a specialist at Jackson can run five to six months or as little as two weeks.
“It depends on the specialties,’’ he said. Urology, pulmonary and ear, nose and throat specialties have the longest waits, he said, because the clinics are only available four hours once a week since they are used for teaching or academics.
Jackson’s charity care program is the largest in Miami-Dade, offering discounted care to an estimated 40,000 uninsured county residents in 2014, O’Dell said.
That’s not only people in the coverage gap. Jackson officials estimate about 6,200 of those charity care patients in 2014 were undocumented immigrants, who do not qualify for any benefits under Obamacare.
Resources to care for the uninsured are scarce, even for Jackson, which this year will receive about $370 million in local sales and property taxes to help fund its mission to care for all county residents regardless of their ability to pay.
Still, some patient advocates say Jackson’s charity care program is not enough to meet the medical needs of an estimated 140,000 low-income residents who fall into the coverage gap in Miami-Dade.
With co-payments for the poorest qualified patients at $6.50 for prescription drugs, $40 for an emergency room visit or $100 a day for outpatient procedures, Jackson’s program is not a replacement for Medicaid, said Miriam Harmatz, an attorney for Florida Legal Services, a nonprofit that provides legal aid to low-income residents.
“It’s not real coverage,’’ Harmatz said. “That is very different from having an insurance card, a Medicaid card, where you would get those services with very minimal co-pays.’’
For eligible beneficiaries who earn less than poverty level, Medicaid charges a maximum co-payment of $4 for outpatient services, and a flat fee of $75 for hospitalization. Preferred drugs are capped at $4.
Harmatz added that Medicaid expansion also would mean hospitals and doctors would be paid for services now provided for free or at low cost to patients in the coverage gap — perhaps allowing those healthcare providers to hire more doctors and improve care.
It’s not just patients like Louis who are frustrated by long waits in the safety net. Doctors are, too, especially knowing that their patients might qualify for Medicaid under expansion.
“People are losing out. Their health is being affected,’’ said Katherine Chung-Bridges, a family doctor who counts Louis among her patients at the Jessie Trice center, a community health center with federal funding where patients pay on a sliding scale.
“You’re trying to get studies done. You’re ordering labs. You’re trying to get tests done, and the patient has to pay out-of-pocket for those tests,’’ she said. “And then the patient might have to decide, am I going to be able to eat dinner today or am I going to get this test done? Those are decisions that people shouldn’t have to make.”
Despite the barriers to her healthcare, Louis is more fortunate that many in the coverage gap.
Even with the long waits and co-payments she often can’t afford, Louis said she feels fortunate to have the safety net. But she also knows that she would qualify for a far superior form of coverage — Medicaid — if Florida legislators were to open the program to nearly all of the state’s low-income adults.
That’s why the Obamacare ad on the bus bench near her home leaves Louis feeling cheated.
“I look at it all the time,’’ Louis said, on a drive to visit her mother in Miami. “ ‘Obamacare. You can get Obamacare. You ain’t gotta be working.’ That’s what it was all at first. Then you get there, and people say, ‘You’ve got to have some kind of income.’ That’s not what you all said in the beginning.”
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Posted on January 22, 2001 in Washington Watch
I say, give the man his due. In recent weeks, Arab disappointment with President Clinton’s last ditch peace making effort has prompted a loud chorus of bitter attacks. In the process, Clinton and his presidency have been demonized, while his successor is now awaited with unrealistically high expectations.
I do not suggest that the Palestinians should have accepted the Clinton proposal. I have read and been impressed by the Palestinians critique of the U.S. offering.
In fact, it is fair to say that both Clinton and his advisors have frequently come up short in understanding the Palestinian experience and appreciating the depth of Palestinian aspirations. I have, on many occasions, personally challenged the President on these points.
The U.S. peace effort has been marred by other shortcomings as well. For example, Clinton was wrong to have maintained his 1992 campaign commitment to refrain from publicly criticizing Israel. And the Administration was wrong to have continued to adhere to the Bush Administration’s “hands off” approach to peace making in the years after Oslo.
While the U.S. peace team was always sensitive to the requirements of Israel’s volatile public opinion, they did not appear to fully appreciate the importance of what was derisively termed “the Arab street.”
All of this meant that too little was done to address critical issues like Israeli impediments to Palestinian economic development, violations of Palestinian human rights, the impact of Israeli land confiscations and settlement construction and Israel’s illegal use of U.S. supplied weapons.
Having said all of this, however, I still insist that Clinton must also be given his due. During the past eight years significant developments did occur, especially in advancing the U.S. political discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And in most instances, these positive developments can be directly attributed to Clinton’s personal efforts.
1) There has been a progressive ratcheting up of the official language used to describe Palestinian national rights. From Carter through Bush, these rights were limited to the “legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people.” Clinton went well beyond that formula, first using the far more descriptive “right to live as a free people on their own land” and then the “right to determine their future on their own land.” In his most recent remarks before a U.S.-based pro-Israel organization Clinton spoke clearly of a Palestinian state and made reference to two capitals in Jerusalem.
The uproar caused by Mrs. Clinton’s 1998 statement about a Palestinian state has now subsided. Despite angry words from U.S. right-wing columnists, a Palestinian state is an accepted fact in U.S. political discourse and President Clinton helped to move forward that discussion.
2) While the Palestinian leadership continues to be viewed as a pariah movement by many in Congress, they have developed a near state to state relationship with the White House. There is now a U.S.-Palestinian bilateral commission which the President has accepted and legitimated.
In the process of advancing this relationship, Clinton resisted bitter attacks from Congress and the pro-Israel lobby that repeatedly pressed the Administration to stop aid and end cooperation with the Palestinian authority.
3) On another, yet related, level, Clinton’s personal efforts to recognize Arab Americans and American Muslims helped both to end their isolation from the political mainstream and to enhance their involvement in policy discussions. Despite fierce resistance from pro-Israel groups, the President welcomed and gave legitimacy to both groups, formally recognizing them as full partners in U.S. political life.
The list of initiatives undertaken by Clinton and his Vice-President to accomplish this goal of inclusion is too long to note. It suffices to say that the impact of their efforts are irreversible and was clearly in evidence in the last election as both parties actively competed in an unprecedented efforts to win Arab American support and votes.
When all is said and done, Clinton is a master politician for whom politics is the “art of accomplishing what is possible” and progress is measured by expanding the reach of what is possible.
When confronted by overwhelming opposition in his efforts to pass his domestic agenda, Clinton sought to co-opt his opponents’ needs to meld them with his own to create a new formula that both sides could embrace. Seeking to accomplish what was possible, he often avoided fatal zero-sum confrontations, seeking to create instead, less than perfect compromises which could later be improved and built upon.
In the process, Clinton was sometimes denounced by liberals in his own party who accused him of “selling-out.” He was attacked even more bitterly by conservatives who were confounded by the President’s success.
Clinton’s record of success speaks for itself. Even his sharpest critics acknowledge that during his presidency “all of the indicators that should be up are up, and all of the indicators that should be down are down.”
It was this same approach that Clinton sought to bring to the Middle East peace effort. Rejecting a zero-sum formula, while attempting to recognize the limits imposed by “real politics,” in Israel and the U.S. Congress he made a determined effort to balance the needs of both Israelis and Palestinians. The results were not always promising. Palestinians correctly noted that more attention was given to the “real politics” requirements of an Israel caught up in a critical election. They also noted that given their lack of trust with Israel’s record of implementing earlier agreements, Clinton’s new formula was too vague in some areas and too limited in others to be the basis of a final agreement. Clinton’s critics in Israel and the United States, on the other hand, have largely attacked the President accusing him of betraying Israel and destroying Jerusalem.
With Clinton now leaving the Presidency, his formula is formally “off the table.” What remains, however, is still an impressive record: taboos have been shattered, concepts have been legitimated and the U.S. political discourse has been dramatically altered. Even Clinton’s strongest Arab critics should recognize this.
Reject what you must, but do not throw out the good with the bad. Clinton’s efforts can be criticized, but should not be demonized. They should be evaluated, recognized and built upon.
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The Sport and Movement Programme for your 6 Year Old and Above
The Programme for Six Year Olds and Above
The Play Sport programme refines the more demanding ball skills for the sports that are covered in schools and clubs.
The Play Sport sessions use structured teaching that deals with the refinement of sport and movement skills, including the development of team work skills needed in a basic game situation.
Development of skills needed in a game situation.
The refinement of when, where and how to move.
The development of skills related to direction, distance and space.
Introduction to teamwork and partner work.
Development of decision making in a game situation.
Playing small-sided sports games in a competitive environment.
Fully Fledged Sport Programme
In this programme the children show a rapid increase in strength and ability. This makes it possible to implement a fully-fledged sport programme, with its main aim being to create a love and interest in a variety of sports.
This is the time for implementing skills that have been taught throughout all of the previous Playball programmes.
What Your Child Will Achieve
In this programme your child gains a great deal of personal satisfaction from mastering their environment, and will respond well to physical challenges set by the Playball coach. Their ability to play complex games makes it possible to implement sport skills and apply them in competitive mini-matches.
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Okay, by "low-order bit position" do you mean the "least significant digit"? As in, if you have 1001 then the right-most one (1001) would be the low-order bit position? If so, you could describe that as being in the "one's place" (as opposed to "ten's place" and "hundred's place" in decimal or the "two's place" and "four's place" etc. in binary). Because in the decimal number 823, the "3" means "3" but the "8" really means "800", you would say the 3 is "less significant" or "lower order" than the 8.
And for "single-value parameter", can you just rephrase it as "a parameter that only has one value in it" or "a parameter that is only one value"? Please help me to understand what you are asking for, by letting me ask you what exactly you mean using these examples:
int some_function(x, y, z); <-- has 3 parameters
void function_one(some_array); <-- If it is an array, does that mean it is one parameter, but not a single-value parameter?
void function_two(n); <-- has 1 parameter, assume n is passed by value not reference...
Is the last example what they mean by a "single-value parameter"?
And I would assume the same is true for "one-element object", that it would be "an object that has only one element in it", as opposed to a large object with data and methods? I think for the last two you can just rephrase them as I did and it will make sense. Am I right?
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This research was commissioned by the Federation of nine Councils on the Ageing (COTA) across Australia – including all eight COTA state and territory organisations and COTA Australia – in order to understand the views, life experiences and needs of Australians aged 50+.
This landmark report on the experiences and views of Older Australians is the second of the COTA Federation’s State Of The Older Nation (SOTON) reports. It tells a story of an older generation often experiencing ageism, who less often perceive themselves as happy, healthy, financially secure or connected to community than the previous report.
The views of Older Australians are also presenting significant challenges to policy makers. Overwhelmingly we support Voluntary Assisted Dying, a number of us never want to retire, and too many are experiencing elder abuse or workplace discrimination. COTA intends to continue campaigning on these issues.
The information presented in this report, and this series is intended to inform policy debates now, and into the future.
Emeritus Professor Anne Edwards AO
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Why the Nazis?
That won't stop the heinous folks at the Coral Ridge Ministries from spending a million bucks promoting the absurd link, but it's worth remembering why it's false. We can turn, as Nick Matzke has, to professional historians like Robert Richards, who recently wrote: "It can only be a tendentious and dogmatically driven assessment that would condemn Darwin for the crimes of the Nazis."
Or, like RSR, we could show how the particular linkages offered between Darwin and Hitler are tendentious, dogmatically driven, and plain wrong.
But there is a simpler way. The problem with these analyses is that there's nothing Darwin said that could have inspired a normative political philosophy. He observed how the world works, how A follows B. Whether it ought to in a given situation is entirely different, and Darwin didn't address those sorts of normative questions.
Hitler's horrific acts did not come from the idea that certain unfavorable traits could be removed from a population by selective breeding; that realization stretches back through thousands of years of human civilization. Darwin may have formalized the logic of it, but he did so by considering the accumulated wisdom of pigeon-fanciers, dog breeders and livestock producers. There was no secret in that regard which Darwin elucidated. Hitler's flaw lay not in recognizing an obvious truth about the world, but in identifying ethnic origin as an unfavorable trait, and in seeking to use the force of government to effect selection on that and other traits. The idea that natural selection ought to be government policy simply doesn't originate in Darwin. Darwin identified a natural process, a process that works all on its own.
Darwin did not produce a normative philosophy, he provided a descriptive and predictive theory. Newton did the same, as did Einstein. We cannot then claim that the normative philosophy of Nazism derived from Darwin's scientific work.
Some will claim that the normative portion, the part where certain groups were deemed lesser, comes not from the science, but from Darwin's rhetoric. Darwin does occasionally refer to racial groups in a way that suggests that some are superior to others. But in this regard, he was not innovating. He was a reflection of the biases of his day, biases which he was able to overcome. Indeed, if anything, a philosophy derived from Darwin is fundamentally egalitarian. As I said before:
Humans have evolved as long as fruit flies and bacteria. While apes are in decline worldwide, insects are ever more diverse and numerous. A phylogeny doesn't let you call one branch better than another. That's a radical egalitarianism, and it applies at all levels. You respect all people, and all life, because every being is a result of an incredible process, extended in time and space – a struggle against oblivion.That egalitarianism, the idea that all people, and all races, and all species, share some essential element, is fundamentally Darwinian, and is a powerful counterforce against genocide, as it was for Darwin against slavery. | <urn:uuid:a35f8183-fc13-43e7-b95d-3e1de4fa74e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jgrr.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-nazis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00185-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970201 | 613 | 2.28125 | 2 |
How much cheaper is it to prepare meals at home? The answer may scare you.
In my last post I noted that using a restaurant as a kitchen is one sure way to go broke. Many middle-class people do this, convinced they are "too tired" after work to cook (so they order a Pizza) and "too much in a hurry" to leave for work , so they waste 20 minutes at the drive-through at McDonald's. They put this all on a credit card and wonder why, a few years later, they have thousands of dollars of intractable credit card debt.
If you took any aspect of your life budget and multiplied it by a factor of four you would end up in trouble, whether it is clothes, automobiles, or housing, or food. When you take something that is cheap and make it really expensive, well, you create trouble for yourself.
We were in the grocery store the other day and buying breakfast supplies, and I marveled at how cheap it was to buy these basic foodstuffs - which constitute the cheapest meal of the day. For the cost of one restaurant meal, you can make four or more at home!
Let's take as a simple example, the morning breakfast meal. A simple egg sandwich on an English Muffin is easy to prepare and inexpensive. It is also easy to compare with a similar meal from a fast-food restaurant:
Egg Sandwich with hash browns made at home:Walmart English Muffins: $2.28 for package of 12 or 19 cents each.WalMart brick of Cheddar/Swiss Cheese: $19.98 per package of 120 or 16.65 cents each.WalMart Eggs, average $1.25 per dozen, or 12 cents each.Hash Brown Pattie, frozen, $2 for package of 10, or 20 cents each.TOTAL COST: 92 cents.Egg McMuffin: $2.79Hash Browns: $1.00Coffee: $1.00Total: $4.79
Egg McMuffin "Meal" : $3.99 (a savings of 80 cents!)
For the cost of one McDonald's meal, you can make four of the same meal at home, perhaps more.
I did not calculate sales taxes as they vary from State to State. Some States, such as New York and Georgia, do not tax groceries. Other States tax restaurant meals more highly than other sales. In Georgia, restaurant meals are taxed at 4% at the State rate, and there may be local taxes as well. The McDonald's meal would likely cost $4.25 with State and Local sales taxes, enough to buy 1/4 of another meal. The government here is encouraging us to buy basic foodstuffs and discouraging eating in restaurants. Interesting, eh?
Overall, you can make four breakfast sandwiches with a side of hash browns and coffee for the cost of one meal at a fast-food place.
In other words, one meal at McDonald's costs nearly as much as an entire workweek of eating at home.
In other words, when you eat at a restaurant, even a "fast food" restaurant (which people claim are a bargain) you are multiplying your food budget by a factor of at least four.
Note that the source for the pricing data was online. Local prices can vary. For some reason, I have never gotten away from a McDonald's for $4.25, at least in recent times. I suspect costs would be higher, particularly if you opted for a bagel sandwich or the like.
So, let's assume two people live side by side. Fred wakes up every morning, makes his coffee (or tea, for additional savings) and while waiting for the pot to boil, fries an egg and makes toast. He spends about a buck a day on breakfast, or about $365 a year.
Sam lives next door and is "too much in a hurry" to make his own breakfast, so he stops at the fast-food place, wastes 20 minutes in line at the drive-through, and spends $4.25 on the same meal Fred has. Fred's tastes better, of course, as the English Muffin is actually toasted, not soggy and limp. Let's also assume that on the weekends, Sam has more time and makes his own breakfast. Sam spends $23.25 a week or $1209 a year on breakfast alone.
Now, we're talking just breakfast here. Just one meal. The cheapest meal in the day. And the savings are $844 a year.
Now, some might say, "Well, I make a hundred grand a year! I can afford a measly $844!"
And as I noted in an earlier post, you really can't. If you make the vaunted six-figure salary, perhaps 10% of that is disposable income. And you're going to spend over 8% of that on fast-food breakfast?
Now add in the cost of other meals. If you "go out to lunch" as a cubicle dweller, and spend $10 on a sandwich, chips, and soft drink (not hard to do in the city) you are spending $7.50 more than the guy who brown-bags it with a sandwich. Here, Fred spends $912.50 a year on lunch, while Sam spends $55 a week, or $2860 a year - or $1947.50 more than Fred dies. We're up to nearly three grand now, and we haven't even touched dinner.
Assuming Dinner is $20 at a restaurant versus $5 at home and, well, Fred spends $1825 a year while Sam spends $110 a week or $5720 a year - $3895 more than Fred. Dinner is the most costly meal of the day, particularly at a restaurant. The savings really add up here.
Overall, Sam spends $6686.50 a year by eating out in restaurants five days a week. Invested over 30 years at 7% interest, that comes to $675,824.89 in your 401(k). In case you were not listening, that is a shitload of money.
Now, you might argue with some of my assumptions here. Say you "only" buy lunch at work and only go out two nights a week. OK, let's say that. Do the math again, and you will still see thousands of dollars in savings and hundreds of thousands missing from your 401(k). And of course, Fred is going to go out to eat once in while, so you have to factor that in. The point is, do the math and understand where all your money is going.
Today, many people in the middle class are falling behind and they cannot understand why. They think the reason is that the "1%'ers" took all their money away. The real reason is, they gave all their money away to the 1%'ers, who own the banks and credit card companies. You see, in addition to money missing from retirement accounts, squandering money in restaurants is also how many people end up with a personal credit card crises at least once in their lives.
This is not to say one should never eat in a restaurant. But if you are going out to eat on a weeknight, or ordering $20 worth of pizza, because you are "too beat to cook" - maybe you need to ask yourself where this is all going. If you want to get ahead in life, you have to work hard and things and make sacrifices. No one ever got ahead in the world by constantly indulging themselves. | <urn:uuid:2086e901-da45-4dc4-af2c-56350b68ce77> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2014/10/cost-of-making-food-at-home-versus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975068 | 1,581 | 1.976563 | 2 |
News about Meir Kahane, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
ARTICLES ABOUT MEIR KAHANE
Many of the West Bank’s most violent extremists have roots in the U.S.
September 6, 2015, Sunday
It was unclear whether the grandson, Meir Ettinger, was suspected of a connection to the fire that killed a toddler and ravaged two homes in the West Bank last week.
August 5, 2015, Wednesday
Ten members of Lehava, a far-right Jewish group, were arrested on suspicion of incitement and calls for acts of violence motivated by racism, a day after three were arrested in an arson case.
December 17, 2014, Wednesday
El-Sayyid A. Nosair had been found guilty in 1995 of conspiring to blow up New York landmarks and of the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane.
January 14, 2012, Saturday
The group, Kahane Chai, advocates the restoration of the Biblical state of Israel and the expulsion of Arabs from Israel.
October 18, 2006, Wednesday
Israel's internal security agency, which usually searches for Palestinians deemed to be terrorists, now says it has uncovered a suspected Jewish network that apparently planned to bomb two or more Palestinian schools. The tale, which has emerged...
May 19, 2002, Sunday
The arrests in Los Angeles last week of two members of the Jewish Defense League charged in a bombing plot came as federal authorities pursued a separate terrorism-related investigation into the activities of some followers of the late Rabbi Meir...
December 16, 2001, Sunday
A Web site run by militant Hindus in Queens and Long Island was recently shut down by its service provider because of complaints that it advocated hatred and violence toward Muslims. But a few days later, the site was back on the Internet. The...
June 2, 2001, Saturday
The authorities raided a Brooklyn community center yesterday run by followers of Rabbi Meir David Kahane, the Israeli politician assassinated in 1990, whose movements are designated as foreign terrorist groups by the State Department. Agents from...
January 5, 2001, Friday
Binyamin Kahane, a radical right-wing settler and son of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, was killed today along with his wife in an ambush shooting in the West Bank. Hours after the attack, which came a decade after the Brooklyn-born Meir Kahane was... | <urn:uuid:7812fc56-0749-4d31-941d-40bbce06357a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/meir_kahane/index.html?offset=30&s=newest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00467-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965456 | 495 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Posted 5 years ago
bought a lot of WWII paper items and this was in it. WWII Photo.
The United States Navy grew rapidly in World War II (1941-45), and played the central role in the war against Japan, and a major role in the wars against Germany and Italy.
The U.S. Navy grew into a formidable force in the years prior to World War II, with battleship production being restarted in 1937, commencing with the USS North Carolina (BB-55). Though ultimately unsuccessful, Japan attempted to allay this strategic threat with the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Following American entry into the war, the U.S. Navy grew tremendously as the United States was faced with a two-front war on the seas. It achieved notable acclaim in the Pacific Theater, where it was instrumental to the Allies' successful "island hopping" campaign. The U.S. Navy fought six great battles with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN): the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Battle of Okinawa. | <urn:uuid:0a931dbf-8567-45f5-aa87-8392c3b2493f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/31356-wwii-sailor-photo?in=1202 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00470-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947548 | 239 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Spinning medical gold
The fibre aiming to treat illnesses without drugs
In just two years, University of Wollongong researchers have developed a ground-breaking fibre which could mean a future without drugs.
The fibre offers an unprecedented chance to listen to never-before-heard conversations between our vital organs and the possibility of huge changes to the way epilepsy, diabetes and many other conditions are treated. So, what could be achieved in another 12 months?
Majority of the time when we get sick, we take medications to feel better. Most of us have visited the chemist at one time or another to pick up a prescription or some over-the-counter relief when we're feeling lousy. From winter colds and migraines that simply won't go away, through to more chronic conditions, such as epilepsy, heart disease and diabetes, pharmaceutical drugs play a significant role in our ability to tackle illness and promote wellbeing.
Modern pharmaceuticals are a part of our society in a big way. In 2015-2016, Australia spent $20.8 Billion on medicines. But have you ever considered a world where chronic illnesses can be treated without a reliance on drugs?
A world without drugs?
For University of Wollongong Distinguished Professor Gordon Wallace, it's questions like these that fuel his determination to contribute to improved health and wellbeing outcomes through his research.
Distinguished Professor Wallace is the Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), a key research strength at UOW, and he is internationally recognised as a leader in electromaterials research. IPRI is filled with biologists, clinicians, chemists, physicists and engineers, working together designing, discovering and developing new materials.
IPRI is also the headquarters of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), which Distinguished Professor Wallace is also the Director of. The Centre is charged with translating fundamental discoveries in materials science into the next generation of devices to improve people's lives, particularly in the health space.
"While pharmaceutical drugs have revolutionised the treatment of a multitude of conditions, we also know that there are definite side effects, as we can't control or limit the delivery of the drug to a specific area - we flood the body," Distinguished Professor Wallace says.
"Over the past five years, we have taken our research into the world of electroceuticals with the plan to utilise our new material developments and additive fabrication techniques to develop implantable structures that can monitor, maintain and restore function in neural tissues."
Distinguished Professor Gordon Wallace, Kezhong Wang and Doctor Mario Romero Ortega with the sutrode.
Electroceuticals has become a hot topic of research in recent years. It focuses on creating treatments with minimal invasion and side effects. Researchers are working towards the ability to administer electroceuticals (electrical impulses) that target specific neural circuits in body tissues and organs affected by an illness to improve performance.
Two birds, one stone
One of the main limitations in electroceutical research to date has been the fabrication of suitable implantable electrodes. Currently, electrodes are created using everyday materials, such as metal, making them inflexible, potentially damaging to the nervous system and limiting the effectiveness of electrical communication with the nerve and overall mapping of the body's neural circuitry.
"With our collaborators we often embark on audacious approaches to tackle big challenges," Distinguished Professor Wallace says.
"We come up against roadblocks every day in research - if we stopped, turned around and walked away, we could be in a world where the cochlear implant was little more than a dream, polio may still affect our children, and we could be extracting infections with leeches."
With a never say die attitude and a multi-disciplinary team of experts, UOW researchers use a traditional wet spinning fabrication method to manufacture a new, novel fibre to overcome the current limitations in electroceutical research. In wet spinning, a dispersion/solution is converted into a continuous solidified state - the fibre. Picture your favourite clothing factory, laid out with knitting equipment and large spools of fibres and yarns, but rather than cotton and polyester, the IPRI team use carbons and solvents to spin a ground-breaking fibre they have named the 'sutrode'.
The sutrode combines the electrical properties of an electrode with the mechanical properties of the suture to produce a fibre that is ultrathin (half the diameter of a human hair), strong, flexible and maintains electrical properties. The fibres have demonstrated significantly improved electrochemical activity within nerves, and are stiff enough to penetrate soft nerve tissue, yet flexible enough to accommodate for micro-movements once implanted, giving surgeons the ability to communicate with the nervous system in an unprecedented way.
Researchers use fibre spinning fabrication methods to manufacture the sutrode.
"The not-so-secret ingredient in the sutrode is graphene," Distinguished Professor Wallace says.
"We know graphene has remarkable properties, and we've been working to develop chemistries to enable the creation of useful structures that retain its amazing mechanical, electrical and biological properties.
"We've long held a vision that graphene could be used to enable better electrical communication within the body, and the sutrode has shown that this is possible. We've developed something that is truly ground-breaking and offers opportunities that may not be possible within pharmaceutical treatments."
So just how big a deal is the sutrode?
"It's a pretty big deal," says Prof Mario Romero-Ortega, a Neurosurgeon from the University of Texas, Dallas, who is collaborating with UOW on this project.
"Researchers in Wollongong have created an advancement never before seen in electroceuticals. The sutrode provides unprecedented spatial control in the electrical stimulation of nerves, which is crucial in effectively stimulating specific nerves, as well as unprecedented sensitivity in recording these signals."
"Just as computer hackers sneak into our networks, we have the chance to listen to never-before-heard conversations between our vital organs, meaning we can better map the neural circuitry of the body. The sutrode is our microphone that will help us better understand the language of our organs."
For researchers and clinicians, being able to listen in to how vital organs talk to one another creates opportunities to compare signals of a healthy organ with one that is suffering from a pathological condition, and then adjust the neural signals of the diseased organ to behave like the healthy subject using electroceuticals (that is, without drugs).
The future looks (and sounds) bright
When you sit in a room with Gordon and Mario, you can feel the energy, the buzz, as they remark on the exciting possibilities the sutrode offers for electroceuticals and beyond. Cardiac activity, hypertension, obesity, epilepsy - the list goes on.
Already Mario has tied the sutrode around fine bundles of nerves in the spleen that have never been accessed before to gather intelligence for the treatment of diabetes.
"We're now talking to clinicians about applications for the sutrode," Distinguished Professor Wallace says.
"Can it be used to help damaged nerves reconnect, or help nerves and muscles better communicate? Imagine being able to compare nerve communications in a healthy body with those in a body that experiences epileptic seizures, and then use electrical stimulation via the sutrode to treat the condition.
"We need to keep exploring the unknown, take risks and be brave. The sutrode did not exist two years ago - if we can come this far in 24 months, imagine what can be achieved in another year's time, and another year after that." | <urn:uuid:719b6399-966e-4880-8f1a-d66cd2a6e85b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/2019/spinning-medical-gold.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.935824 | 1,598 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Re: Microcontroller Vs Microprocessor for RTOS
From: Neil Kurzman (nsk_at_mail.asb.com)
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:07:24 GMT
> Dear all,
> I am just curious to know why almost all commercial popular RTOS like
> RTLINUX,Vxworks work mainly on Micro processor instead of
> AFAIK,I have seen Vxworks work on Boards like Intel x86,powerpc,ARM and
> all mentioned processor boards instead of real microcontrollers like
> 8051,68HC series from motorola and so.
> Why do RTOS prefer microprocessors as compared to microcontrollers?
> Though I know few RTOS like RTX-51 which runs exclusively only on 8051
> microcontrollers,still such things are not so common in embedded world.
> I would like to hear some real facts behind this decision instead of
> starting a religious war of using microcontrollers or microprocessors
> with RTOS...
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Our first annual children's blog-book festival started as an abstract idea with a driving urge to host an online festival to foster the love of reading. As it gathered shape and form, our collective thoughts settled on the need for a theme.
The love for travel and connecting with the world was compelling enough that by end of summer 2009 the small group of nine contributors had settled on the theme, eager to hand-pick books to review and present at the festival. CROCUS was planted and harvested together as a team.
View all the CROCUS 2009 posts...
Culture can be viewed in terms of its constituent elements - food, dress, language, customs, lifestyles, music, dance, art forms,legends and so on.
It is these diverse forms of expressions that we attempted to understand as part of our CROCUS festival of 2010.
The colourful threads of diverse cultural forms woven into the beautiful fabric of humanity highlight the fact that despite all our differences we are still one. This universal truth can be explained through these wonderful books to our budding little citizens of the world.
View all the CROCUS 2010 posts...
As Saffron Tree turns a glorious 5 years, it seems fitting to pay tribute to the 5 elements that we all have in common.
Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Space
Chi, Ka, Fu, Sui, Ku
Prithvi, Agni, Vayu, Jal, Akasha
It has different names, but a connected thread of resonance for all of us. Because these very elements are within us as well, forming the cradle of our life force.
To acknowledge and understand these 5 universal elements, and the roles they play in our lives, was the motivation for CROCUS 2011.
View all the CROCUS 2011 posts...
The word ‘Mathematics’ evokes a range of reactions - from awe-inspiring worship to pure terror, sublime beauty to couldn't-care-less callousness. This year, we decided to explore Mathematics with the hope of sharing books that might inspire and entertain the little ones, removing any stigma attached to Math-learning...
And, to find a balance and put things in perspective, we dedicated part of the festival to celebrating our earth via Eco-science books to pass on the awareness to our children.
View all CROCUS 2012 posts...
CROCUS 2013: Migration & Exploration
Migration, exploration, moving in search of a better life, across histories, geographies, cultures, setting down roots in a new habitat - it is a all way of all life. Why not, then, look at stories of these migrations?
Humans have migrated for all sorts of reasons. Moving just that much more ahead to find food and shelter. Getting away from an area that has been affected by natural or man-made disasters. Finding new land to settle in when population exploded as an indirect result of the discovery of cultivation and establishment of agriculture. Exploration of new territories - either for conquest, expanding kingdoms, in the name of religion, in search of different cultures, for adventure, for trade, or just to plunder.
We looked at animal and human migration and our boundless energy for exploration that led to the moon landing and Mars rovers - things that only we, humans, continue to do because we are not happy staying put.
[Excerpted from the Welcome To CROCUS posts by our contributors]
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CROCUS 2014: Prehistoric Life and Ancient History
Civilizations are works in progress. If we don’t know what happened in the past, how can we move towards the future? We need knowledge of history in every aspect of our lives – science, sports, fashion, communications, engineering...
We stand before the Taj Mahal listening to a tourist guide tell us the story of Shahjahan’s love for Mumtaz Mahal and how the marble from Makrana in Rajasthan was transported to Agra in carts drawn by camels. That is history. When your mother puts green chillies in the potato curry we remember that we only began to use chillies and potatoes after the Portuguese introduced them into India. These gifts from their colonies in Mexico and South America included chillies, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, peanuts, cashew nuts... that is our culinary history. When Anushka Ravi Shankar plays Rag Mian ki Malhar on her sitar, she is playing a raga created by Mian Tansen who was the court singer of Emperor Akbar. That is our musical history.
Our kids have many resources at hand that show them the lively past, so they can draw parallels and contrasts, analyze and examine the civilizations and personas that shaped their present self. With this kind of exposure, there is now room for curiosity to flourish, and respect to blossom.
In that spirit, we bring you a week dedicated to books that embrace this philosophy and showcase History in full glory. We start at the very beginning, opening the curtains to when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Neanderthal man carved a life for himself in the wild. We leap into tantalizing Mesopotamia and surrounding region where we'll be wowed by the Pyramids and Grecian architecture. Not far away lies Rome and a hop across continents will bring us to ancient civilizations. Every day, we will be talking to authors and publishers who have brought these stories alive for us. And, with the lessons from the past, we will look to a bright future, where history is no longer mindless or impersonal.
Come, read our reviews, earmark the ones your family will enjoy and bring them home to read together. History's many stories are waiting to be explored, one story at a time.
[Excerpted from Subhadra Sen Gupta's and Sandhya's posts on CROCUS 2014]
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Did asteroids really do in the dinosaurs?
Two new studies challenge the current theory.
Sixty-five million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The impact, 2 million times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, gouged out a 112-mile-wide crater and sent mega-tsunamis thousands of feet high in all directions.
Plumes of superheated, incandescent dust broiled the earth’s surface, igniting forest fires around the globe. Lingering, the dust probably blocked the sun for years – maybe decades – hindering photosynthesis and causing the food chain to collapse. Sixty-five percent of all living things disappeared.
For about 30 years, that’s been the story of how the dinosaurs’ 160-million-year reign came to an end. Now, two new controversial studies attempt to revise parts of this narrative.
The first, which appeared in the April 27 issue of Journal of the Geological Society, claims that, in fact, mass extinctions didn’t occur until perhaps 300,000 years after the asteroid impact.
The evidence: Marine sediments from around Mexico seem to show that 52 species present before the asteroid strike, a layer identified by blobs or spherules of melted glass, remained for quite some time after.
Princeton University’s Gerta Keller, a paleontologist who was lead author on the study, doesn’t dispute that the asteroid hit and that it hurt. “I’m sure the day after, they had a headache,” she says. But “we vastly overestimate the damage to the environment and to life that this Chicxulub impact had.”
Critics of Dr. Keller’s hypothesis – the majority of scientists in the field – remain unconvinced.
Most say that, given the physical upheaval caused by the cataclysm, geologic evidence from the immediate vicinity can’t be trusted. Tsunamis probably moved huge amounts of material, mixing it up. (Keller counters that the layered sediment she studied was clearly laid down over a long period.)
What’s more, says Brian Huber at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, studies on sediments from farther afield show a direct correlation between mass extinction and impact. “Be careful of interpreting, particularly at ground zero,” he says.
Another study in the journal Paleontologia Electronica finds evidence that pockets of dinosaurs may have lived on after the asteroid strike. In the San Juan Basin – an area shared by Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah – Jim Fassett, a scientist emeritus with the US Geological Survey in Santa Fe, N.M., has unearthed dinosaur bones that date to perhaps a half a million years after the impact.
They probably didn’t survive the asteroid strike there. “The San Juan Basin was pretty much devastated,” he says. Rather, he thinks they recolonized from areas farther away, like Alaska.
However they got there, chemical analysis indicates that dinosaurs were there after the end of the Cretaceous Period. Pollen from sandstone where Mr. Fassett unearthed the dinosaur bones is from plant species that belong to the Paleocene Epoch, which followed the Cretaceous Period.
The magnetic signature of the sandstone – a record of Earth’s magnetic field, which switches from time to time – also indicates that it was deposited later.
Could the bones themselves have come from elsewhere? Fassett measured trace elements in the bones. They, too, have a signature that’s distinct from the older layers below. “That would have been impossible to rework,” he says. | <urn:uuid:c3f9f4dd-14db-4029-bc4a-2c1ed0ce7028> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2009/0520/did-asteroids-really-do-in-the-dinosaurs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942812 | 796 | 4.09375 | 4 |
The island of Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese group, after the islands of Rhodes and Karpathos. It is located south of Kalymnos and north of Nisyros, very close to the coasts of Turkey and about 200 nautical miles from Piraeus. This geographical location is strongly connected with local history. Kos has a total area of 290 sq km, a coastline of 112 km and a population of about 25,000 inhabitants. The island is mostly flat and has two low mountains.
The highest is Mount Dikaion, rising at an altitude of 875 meters, and the other is Mount Simpatro, which runs along the southern coast of Kos. The capital and main harbor of Kos, Kos Town, is located on a verdant district. The town is overlooking a natural harbor (on an open bay), on the northeastern part of the island. Close to the town, there are open thermal springs, known as thermes, with hot volcanic water.
The geography of Kos distinguishes for the huge coastline which is full of golden beaches and many beautiful islets right opposite, such as Kastri islet opposite Kefalos beach. The mainland of Kos is verdant and incredibly fertile, blessed with rich soil and abundant groundwater.
Discover the Map of Kos
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What is the applet class loader, and what does it provide ?
When an applet is loaded over the internet, the applet is loaded by the applet classloader. The class loader enforces the Java name space hierarchy. Also, the class loader guarantees that a unique namespace exists for classes that come from the local file system, and that a unique namespace exists for each network source. When a browser loads an applet over the net, that applet’s classes are placed in a private namespace associated with the applet’s origin. Then, those classes loaded by the class loader are passed through the verifier.The verifier checks that the class file conforms to the Java language specification . Among other things, the verifier ensures that there are no stack overflows or underflows and that the parameters to all bytecode instructions are correct.View
What is the difference between applets loaded over the internet and applets loaded via the file system ?
Regarding the case where an applet is loaded over the internet, the applet is loaded by the applet classloader and is subject to the restrictions enforced by the applet security manager. Regarding the case where an applet is loaded from the client’s local disk, the applet is loaded by the file system loader. Applets loaded via the file system are allowed to read files, write files and to load libraries on the client. Also, applets loaded via the file system are allowed to execute processes and finally, applets loaded via the file system are not passed through the byte code verifier.View
What are untrusted applets ?
Untrusted applets are those Java applets that cannot access or execute local system files. By default, all downloaded applets are considered as untrusted.View
What are the restrictions imposed on Java applets ?
Mostly due to security reasons, the following restrictions are imposed on Java applets:
What is the difference between an Applet and a Java Application ?
Applets are executed within a java enabled browser, but a Java application is a standalone Java program that can be executed outside of a browser. However, they both require the existence of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Furthermore, a Java application requires a main method with a specific signature, in order to start its execution. Java applets don’t need such a method to start their execution. Finally, Java applets typically use a restrictive security policy, while Java applications usually use more relaxed security policies.View
What happens when an applet is loaded ?
First of all, an instance of the applet’s controlling class is created. Then, the applet initializes itself and finally, it starts running.View
Explain the life cycle of an Applet.
An applet may undergo the following states:
Init: An applet is initialized each time is loaded.
Start: Begin the execution of an applet.
Stop: Stop the execution of an applet.
Destroy: Perform a final cleanup, before unloading the applet.
What is an Applet ?
A java applet is program that can be included in a HTML page and be executed in a java enabled client browser. Applets are used for creating dynamic and interactive web applications.View
How does finally block differ from finalize() method ?
A finally block will be executed whether or not an exception is thrown and is used to release those resources held by the application. Finalize is a protected method of the Object class, which is called by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) just before an object is garbage collected.View
What will happen to the Exception object after exception handling ?
Exception object will be garbage collected in the next garbage collection.
What is the importance of finally block in exception handling ?
A finally block will always be executed, whether or not an exception is actually thrown. Even in the case where the catch statement is missing and an exception is thrown, the finally block will still be executed. Last thing to mention is that the finally block is used to release resources like I/O buffers, database connections, etc.View
What is the difference between throw and throws ?
The throw keyword is used to explicitly raise a exception within the program. On the contrary, the throws clause is used to indicate those exceptions that are not handled by a method. Each method must explicitly specify which exceptions does not handle, so the callers of that method can guard against possible exceptions. Finally, multiple exceptions are separated by a comma.View
What is the difference between Exception and Error in java ?
Error classes are both subclasses of the
Throwable class. The
Exception class is used for exceptional conditions that a user’s program should catch. The
Error class defines exceptions that are not excepted to be caught by the user program.
What are the two types of Exceptions in Java ? Which are the differences between them ?
Java has two types of exceptions: checked exceptions and unchecked exceptions. Unchecked exceptions do not need to be declared in a method or a constructor’s throws clause, if they can be thrown by the execution of the method or the constructor, and propagate outside the method or constructor boundary. On the other hand, checked exceptions must be declared in a method or a constructor’s throws clause. See here for tips on Java exception handling.View
Does Garbage collection occur in permanent generation space in JVM ?
Garbage Collection does occur in PermGen space and if PermGen space is full or cross a threshold, it can trigger a full garbage collection. If you look carefully at the output of the garbage collector, you will find that PermGen space is also garbage collected. This is the reason why correct sizing of PermGen space is important to avoid frequent full garbage collections. Also check our article Java 8: PermGen to Metaspace.View
When does an Object becomes eligible for Garbage collection in Java ?
A Java object is subject to garbage collection when it becomes unreachable to the program in which it is currently used.View
What is the difference between Serial and Throughput Garbage collector ?
The throughput garbage collector uses a parallel version of the young generation collector and is meant to be used with applications that have medium to large data sets. On the other hand, the serial collector is usually adequate for most small applications (those requiring heaps of up to approximately 100MB on modern processors).View
What is structure of Java Heap ? What is Perm Gen space in Heap ?
The JVM has a heap that is the runtime data area from which memory for all class instances and arrays is allocated. It is created at the JVM start-up. Heap memory for objects is reclaimed by an automatic memory management system which is known as a garbage collector. Heap memory consists of live and dead objects. Live objects are accessible by the application and will not be a subject of garbage collection. Dead objects are those which will never be accessible by the application, but have not been collected by the garbage collector yet. Such objects occupy the heap memory space until they are eventually collected by the garbage collector.View
If an object reference is set to null, will the Garbage Collector immediately free the memory held by that object ?
No, the object will be available for garbage collection in the next cycle of the garbage collector.View
When is the finalize() called ? What is the purpose of finalization ?
The finalize method is called by the garbage collector, just before releasing the object’s memory. It is normally advised to release resources held by the object inside the finalize method.View
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With a tight margin in Wisconsin, attention turns to a potential recount
MADISON - Wisconsin might get recount deja vu.
Unofficial tallies showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by the thinnest of margins four years after Republican Donald Trump narrowly won it. The lead of some 20,000 votes prompted Trump's team to say the president would demand a recount.
That brought flashbacks of 2016's recount.
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If Trump remains behind by less than 1 percentage point once the official tally is completed, he can force a recount. If the margin is larger than that, there's no chance for one.
Before any decision could be made on a recount, the official results need to be finalized over the coming weeks.
The recount in 2016 resulted in few changes to the final tally in Wisconsin. That year, Trump won the state by fewer than 23,000 votes out of about 3 million cast.
Under the recount rules at the time, Green Party candidate Jill Stein was able to make the recount happen, even though she had received only about 31,000 votes, a tiny sliver of the vote total. Stein's campaign had to pay about $3.5 million for that recount.
In response to the 2016 recount, Republicans who controlled the state at the time changed the law to tighten the recount rules. That put in place the requirement that a losing candidate can demand a recount only when the margin is 1 point or less.
For now, attention will turn to establishing Wisconsin's official results through a canvass of votes.
Local election officials spent Tuesday night and Wednesday morning determining their vote totals. They faced a deadline of 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Next, the counties will perform their canvasses. They are required to start that process by 9 a.m. on Nov. 10 at the latest and must be done with it by Nov. 17. They then send their results to the state Elections Commission, which plans to certify the results on Dec. 1.
If the small margin holds, Trump can demand a recount — either of the whole state or of specific counties — once counties complete their canvasses. He has to make the demand within three days of the last county sending its official results to the state, according to the Elections Commission.
If the official results show the race being decided by a quarter of a percentage point or less, the state will pay for the recount. If the margin is between a quarter of a percentage point and a point, Trump's campaign will have to pay for it.
In that case, the state would give the Trump campaign an estimate that must be paid before the recount can begin.
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Both machine learning and deep learning, in its most basic forms, attempt to simulate how the human brain acquires knowledge. The primary distinction between them is therefore the kinds of algorithms that are utilized in each scenario, however deep learning is more analogous to the way humans learn because it operates with neurons.
What is the difference between deep learning and machine learning?
A) The difference between machine learning and deep learning is negligible. B) In contrast to traditional machine learning, deep learning makes use of statistical data. C) Deep learning does not make use of neural networks, but machine learning does. D) None of the above.
Does machine learning depend on a large amount of data?
Machine learning is only effective with a large quantity of data, although it can function with a much lower amount of data if necessary. Since the success of Deep Learning algorithms is heavily dependent on the input of a substantial quantity of data, we need to feed in a substantial number of data in order to get desirable results.
What is deep learning in simple words?
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that builds algorithms in layers to construct a ″artificial neural network″ that is capable of learning and making intelligent judgments on its own. Deep learning is also known as ″neural networks.″ How does deep learning work?
What is machine learning and Ai?
Learning by Machine: Learning by machine is a subset and application of artificial intelligence (AI) that gives the system the capacity to learn and grow from experience without being programmed to that level. Machine learning is also known as deep learning. Training and finding correct results in machine learning are both accomplished through the utilization of data.
What is the difference between machine learning and deep learning?
Machine learning, which is a subfield of artificial intelligence, includes deep learning as one of its subfields. Deep learning refers to the process by which computers learn to think utilizing structures that are patterned on the human brain. Machine learning refers to the process by which computers learn to think and behave with less involvement from humans.
How does deep learning differ from conventional machine learning quizlet?
Machine learning is the process of using algorithms to analyze data, draw conclusions from that analysis, and then make decisions based on those conclusions. Deep learning organizes algorithms into layers so as to produce what is known as a ″artificial neural network.″ This network is capable of learning on its own and coming to intelligent conclusions.
What is the difference between deep learning and?
Training and finding correct results in machine learning are both accomplished through the utilization of data. The construction of a computer software that can access the data and make use of it to learn from itself is the primary emphasis of machine learning. Deep Learning Vs. Machine Learning: What’s the Difference?
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What is the difference between machine learning?
- AI is a larger concept that aims to create intelligent machines that can simulate human thinking capability and behavior.
- On the other hand, machine learning is an application or subset of AI that enables machines to learn from data without being explicitly programmed.
- Both AI and ML can be differentiated on a broad level in the following ways: AI aims to create intelligent machines that can mimic human thinking capability and behavior.
What are the differences between machine learning and deep learning Javatpoint?
The majority of machine learning models call for data to be provided in a structured format. Due to the fact that they are dependent on the layers of an artificial neural network, Deep Learning models are able to function with both organized and unstructured input. Models of machine learning are useful for tackling issues that range from straightforward to moderately complicated.
What is machine learning?
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science known as machine learning is focused on the use of data and algorithms to simulate the method in which people learn, with the goal of continuously improving the accuracy of the simulation. Machine learning has a long and illustrious history at IBM.
What is the main difference between deep learning algorithms and machine learning algorithms?
- The term ″machine learning″ refers to the process by which computers learn from the data and methods provided to them in order to complete a task without being explicitly programmed.
- The human brain is used as a model for the intricate algorithmic structure that is used in deep learning.
- The processing of unstructured data, such as documents, photos, and text, is made possible as a result of this.
Why is deep learning better than machine learning?
Deep learning approaches are superior to others in situations when there is a dearth of domain awareness for feature introspection because they need far less attention about feature engineering. When it comes to solving difficult issues, such as those involving picture classification, natural language processing, and speech recognition, Deep Learning truly shines.
What’s the difference between machine learning and AI?
- The concept of artificial intelligence refers to the development of software that enables machines to mimic human behavior.
- A subfield of artificial intelligence known as machine learning enables computers to automatically learn from experience without being specifically programmed to do so.
- The purpose of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop a clever computer system that can solve complicated problems in the same way that people do.
What is the difference between machine learning and deep learning Quora?
Machine learning, or ML for short, is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on learning algorithms that develop models depending on the data and objective that are provided. While deep learning (DL) is a subset of machine learning (ML), in which models are taught abstract hierarchical ideas in a layer-by-layer fashion, it is still a kind of ML.
What is machine learning examples?
Image recognition One well-known and often used application of machine learning in the real world is image recognition. It is able to recognize an item as a digital picture by analyzing the intensity of the pixels in the image, regardless of whether the image is black and white or colored.
What is an example of deep learning?
For the purpose of training, deep learning makes use of both organized and unstructured data. Deep learning has been put to use in a variety of real-world applications, including virtual assistants, the vision system for autonomous cars, the detection of money laundering and facial recognition, and many others.
Can I learn deep learning without machine learning?
1 Answer. Yes, it is possible to start studying deep learning without first becoming familiar with machine learning; however, having some background in machine learning can make the process of understanding deep learning much simpler and provide you an advantage while working in the field of deep learning.
What is deep learning used for?
At this time, deep learning is utilized in the majority of image identification tools, natural language processing (NLP) software, and speech recognition programs. These technologies are beginning to make an appearance in a wide variety of applications, ranging from self-driving cars to language translation services.
What is the difference between deep learning and neural networks?
Neural Networks make use of neurons to transmit data in the form of input in order to get output with the help of the various connections, whereas Deep Learning is associated with the transformation and extraction of features that attempt to establish a relationship between stimuli and associated neural responses present in the brain. Deep Learning is a subfield of machine learning. | <urn:uuid:cee65788-cffa-40eb-bf62-24a30215de6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://croydonearlylearning.com.au/education/what-is-the-difference-between-machine-learning-and-deep-learning-quizlet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.948474 | 1,530 | 3.421875 | 3 |
US Department of Agriculture | 12 September 2018
Indonesia concludes negotiations on FTA with Australia
After more than seven years of intermittent talks, Indonesia has concluded negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement with Australia. The Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) provides preferential access for a number of Australian agricultural products. Importantly, IA-CEPA also provides a framework for addressing non-tariff measures and allows for automatic issuance of import permits for Australian live cattle, frozen beef, sheep meat, feed grains, citrus products, carrots, and potatoes.
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Steenweg op Wortel 1 , 2330, Merksplas, Belgium
Status of Establishment
The penitentiary institution of Merksplas was built in 1825 as a colony for the accommodation of beggars and tramps. After WW II, this institution evolved to a half-open prison with communal regime. Today, this institution is a closed penitentiary institution for sentenced persons and a secure institution for social defence for confined persons.In June 2009, De Haven, a ward for the secure care for confined persons with a mental disability, was first occupied. The ward is located in a new building, built especially for that target group. In collaboration with the Flemish government, the penitentiary institution of Merksplas is a trend-setter for the accommodation and treatment of mentally disabled confined persons in an institution for social defence. The penitentiary institution has been a protected monument since 1999 and is located in a classified landscape. | <urn:uuid:7f3c9ba6-8566-48a5-b2b6-16b30cd3d741> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.europris.org/establishment/merksplas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945947 | 226 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The modern world encourages us to “buy to impress.” We are taught to consume products at an ever faster rate, and a key part of this message is that it will make us better liked as people. We’ll have better friends, or we’ll have better connections and better relationships. It’s worth it to think about this though.
Discuss: Does impressing other people lead to healthy relationships?
Discuss: Has purchasing a new “thing” ever helped you get friends?
Discuss: Do your friends care about the clothing you wear?
Discuss: What really makes a relationship with another person work?
Discuss: Do you ever worry about what other people think of what you have, rather than who you are?
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Trauma and First Aid FAQs
Reviewed by John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP on March 23, 2018
Test your Knowledge!
- What is the difference between physical and emotional trauma?
- What term describes the physical or emotional aftermath following a traumatic or distressing event?
- What is the medical term for assistance given to a person in need of urgent medical intervention?
- What is the best way to clean a wound?
- What is the name for the emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults?
- What is the complete medical terminology for CPR?
- What is the medical term for injury to a muscle or tendon?
- What happens when a traumatic impact breaks blood vessels below the skin and blood seeps into tissues?
- What is medical term for a short-lived loss of brain function that is due to head trauma?
- What degree of burn is sunburn (without blisters)?
- What are three things that every first-aid kit should contain?
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Q:What is the difference between physical and emotional trauma?
A:The term "trauma" can be used in several different ways when referring to medical cases.
Physical trauma occurs as the result of an outside force against your body (car accident, fall, gunshot wound, etc.). Emotional or psychiatric trauma can be the result of physical trauma or the consequence of witnessing or experiencing a severely distressing event.
Q:What term describes the physical or emotional aftermath following a traumatic or distressing event?
The term "shock" can be used to describe the emotional and physical reaction to a stressful or traumatic event. People who witness a very stressful or life-threatening situation can become "dazed," "at a loss for words," or temporarily incapacitated.
Medically speaking, however, "shock" means the physiological result of the body tissues not receiving enough oxygen for them to function on the cellular level. Shock is an emergency medical condition that can rapidly lead to death. Infections, trauma, massive bleeding, and heart attacks are some of the common medical problems leading to "shock."
Q:What is the medical term for assistance given to a person in need of urgent medical intervention?
A:First aid is the term used to describe the assistance given to a sick or injured person before professional medical assistance arrives.
It consists of evaluation of the patient's injury or severity of illness, immediate treatment of life-threatening problems (if possible), and activation of the local emergency services system (whether calling 911 or going to a doctor) if necessary.
Q:What is the best way to clean a wound?
A:The best way to clean a wound is with simple soap and water.
Rinse wounds thoroughly with clean water (tap water is fine) and remove any dirt or debris. A medical professional should evaluate wounds that are deep, large, or very dirty.
Q:What is the name for the emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults?
A:The Heimlich maneuver.
Abdominal thrusts, also called the Heimlich maneuver, are one of the main first aid treatments for airway obstructions in adults. An abdominal thrust is better at removing objects that cause choking than giving sharp blows to the back.
Q:What is the complete medical terminology for CPR?
CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, refers to the chest compressions and rescue breathing done for an unresponsive and pulseless person who has recently collapsed. The chest compressions are used to keep the blood circulating in the case of cardiac arrest (where the heart stops beating). CPR done correctly and early in the setting of a cardiac arrest situation can be life-saving.
Q:What is the medical term for injury to a muscle or tendon?
Strains occur when there is injury to a muscle or a tendon. Tendons are tissues that hold muscles to bones and help in the movement of joints. A sprain occurs when there is damage to a ligament. Ligaments are the fibrous bands of tissue that hold bones together.
Q:What happens when a traumatic impact breaks blood vessels below the skin and blood seeps into tissues?
A:A bruise happens when a traumatic impact causes injury to the small blood vessels in your skin, causing blood to leak into the area.
The purple/red color is from the bleeding in the area of the trauma. Applying ice/cold to the area as soon as possible after the injury can decrease the size of the bruising.
Q:What is medical term for a short-lived loss of brain function that is due to head trauma?
A concussion is a traumatic injury to the brain that alters its normal function. Concussions can result from blows to the head especially from sports injuries, car accidents, and falls. The symptoms of a concussion can include: headaches, dizziness, blurry vision, short-term memory loss, nausea, ringing in the ears, feeling unstable, and sleep disturbances. These symptoms are usually temporary but can become chronic, especially with repeated concussions.
Q:What degree of burn is sunburn (without blisters)?
A:First degree burn.
Burns are categorized by the depth of the damage left behind.
First-degree burns are superficial, causing inflammation, swelling, and redness (such as a sunburn).
Second-degree burns are deeper and result in redness, swelling, and blistering of the top layers of the skin (this can occur in very severe sunburns but occur more commonly from an acute exposure to a source of heat).
Third-degree burns are deep into the subcutaneous tissue and can include tendons, ligaments, and bones. The skin (if still intact) can appear scorched, blackened, white, or pale. These burns require a large amount of heat energy and leave behind a large amount of tissue damage.
Q:What are three things that every first-aid kit should contain?
A:Every first-aid kit should contain at least tweezers, hydrocortisone cream, and painkillers.
A good first aid kit will contain the basic things you need to attend to all sorts of minor injuries and illnesses. Your first aid kit should include the following items:
- Gauze pads
- Hand sanitizer
- Rubber/latex gloves
- Wound cleaning wipes
- Topical antibiotics
- Over-the-counter pain relievers
- Allergy pills such as diphenhydramine
- Medical tape
Other items can be included depending on your personal needs and comfort level of using them such as: tourniquets, topical skin glue, eye drops, and/or an epinephrine pen (for allergies).
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For Ruby on Rails Developers and others using Bundler.
This plugin takes the hassle off when trying to read the code of gems you are using in a Rails (or ruby with bundler) project. Gem Browser provides a simple command called 'List Gems', which will list all the gems that have been installed via bundle for the project folder (via the bundle list command), and will open any gem that you choose in a new window with the code ready for inspection and EVEN modification in real time (via the bundle show command and a call to the sublime text 2 command line utility)
Gem Browser has been tested in OS X with RVM, Linux with rbenv and Windows with RubyInstaller.
You can install it via the Package Control and get the code from https://github.com/NaN1488/sublime-gem-browser
Contact us via twitter @bbonamin or @nan1488
Doesn't work with projects that use rvm gemsets (yet)
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Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:47 PM
rachel1 (538 posts)
'Right to Work' Law Kill Unions in Michigan
"Over the chants of thousands of angry protesters, Republican lawmakers made Michigan a right-to-work state on Tuesday, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a place that has been a bastion of the movement for generations.
The GOP-dominated House ignored Democrats' pleas to delay the final passage and instead approved two bills with the same ruthless efficiency that the Senate showed last week. One measure dealt with private-sector workers, the other with government employees. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed them both within hours, calling them "pro-worker and pro-Michigan."*
The "Right to Work" bill is not as helpful to workers as it sounds; it, and the people behind it, will kill unions in Michigan. People thought Governor Rick Snyder would help workers, but he and a group of wealthy supporters including David Koch, Paul Singer, and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce were against that cause all the way. Cenk Uygur explains how corporate interests took all of the financial advantages and are leaving little for workers.
*Read more from John Flesher and Jeff Karoub/AP via Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/michigan-right-to-work-bill-passes-house_n_2278021.html
I suppose we'll know how the voters really feel when the repukes are voted out of office in 2014.
They messed with the wrong people but it'll take two years for them to be defeated.
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Nine Impressive Lessons—Pictures and Summaries to Come!
This has been an amazing week. Teachers have told us that they feel much more comfortable talking about works of art, and that they are less intimidated by both the art they see and the art they create. Today we heard from nine groups of teachers who managed to create arts-integrated language art lessons that were full of kinesthetic activities, meaningful connections to students’ lives, and opportunities for play. We will post pictures and lesson overviews on Monday, so stay tuned! | <urn:uuid:41c51869-aff3-469a-a910-0a884a0b48d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.getty.edu/artlanguagearts/2011/07/29/nine-impressive-lessonspictures-and-summaries-to-come/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00495-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97571 | 111 | 2.03125 | 2 |
(Juba) – The government of South Sudan should increase efforts to protect girls from child marriage, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, on the eve of International Women’s Day. The country’s widespread child marriage exacerbates South Sudan’s pronounced gender gaps in school enrollment, contributes to soaring maternal mortality rates, and violates the right of girls to be free from violence, and to marry only when they are able and willing to give their free consent.
According to government statistics, close to half (48 percent) of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 are married, with some marrying as young as age 12.
The 95-page report, “‘This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him:’ Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan,” documents the consequences of child marriage, the near total lack of protection for victims who try to resist marriage or leave abusive marriages, and the many obstacles they face in accessing mechanisms of redress. It is based on interviews with 87 girls and women in Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, and Jonglei states, as well as with government officials, traditional leaders, health care workers, legal and women’s rights experts, teachers, prison officials, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor organizations.
“Girls who have the courage to refuse early marriages are in dire need of protection, support, and education,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “The South Sudan government must make sure that there is a coordinated government response to cases of child marriage and more training for police and prosecutors on the right of girls to protection.”
Girls told Human Rights Watch of being pressured to marry by family members anxious to receive dowry payments, or because they were suspected of pre-marital sex. One girl, Ageer M. told Human Rights Watch, “I refused him but they beat me badly and took me by force to him. The man forced me to have sex with him so I had to stay there.” Few girls in South Sudan know they have the right to seek help, while girls who try to resist early and forced marriages suffer brutal consequences at the hands of their families – including verbal abuse and physical assault, and sometimes even murder.
The Human Rights Watch report tells the story of a 17-year-old girl studying in Lakes State whose father tried to force her to marry an old man who had offered a dowry of 200 cows to her family. The girl refused and said, “I don’t know this man. I have never spoken to him, and he is not my age.” The girl was taken to a nearby forest, tied to a tree and beaten until she died.
The report recommends that the government clearly set 18 as the minimum age for marriage; ratify the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (CRC), and other human rights treaties; and pass comprehensive family legislation on marriage, separation, and divorce.
Child marriage disrupts or ends a girl’s education, increases her risk of violence and abuse, and jeopardizes her health. Failure to combat child marriage is also likely to have serious implications for the future development of South Sudan, Human Rights Watch said. It constrains the education, health, security, and economic progress of women and girls, their families, and their communities.
“Child marriage frequently interrupts girls’ education – or deprives them of it altogether,” Gerntholtz said.
Girls and women interviewed said that dreams of continuing school to become accountants, teachers, or doctors were cut short when they married. Those who dropped out of school found it difficult to continue after marriage or becoming pregnant.
Government statistics for 2011 show that only 39 percent of primary school students and 30 percent of secondary students are female.
Child marriage also puts girls at greater risk of death or ill-health because of early pregnancy and childbirth. Reproductive health studies show that young women face greater risks in pregnancy and child birth than older women, including life-threatening obstructed labour due to their smaller pelvises and immature bodies – problems accentuated by South Sudan’s limited prenatal and postnatal healthcare services. Human Rights Watch called on the South Sudanese government, with the support of its development partners, to:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive national action plan to prevent and address the consequences of child marriage;
- Developand implement guidelines on how national and state level government ministries and agencies should handle child marriage cases;
- Conduct training for relevant government and law enforcement officials about the legal rights of girls under the Child Act, particularly their right to be protected from child marriage;
- Carry out a nationwide awareness-raising campaign to inform the public about the harms caused by child marriage;
- Work toward comprehensive reform of South Sudan’s laws on marriage, separation, divorce, and related matters; and
- Take programmatic and policy measures to ensure that girls and women who seek help to fight forced marriages can receive it.
Worldwide, some 14 million girls are married before their 18thbirthday every year. A 2012 report by UNICEF shows that around one in three women aged 20-24 years were married before they reached 18 years of age, and around 11 percent entered into marriage before 15 years of age. Child marriage occurs in practically every region of the world but occurs at higher rates in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
“The global problem of child marriage strips women and girls of their livelihoods and creates a high risk of violence,” Gerntholtz said. “South Sudan’s government must make good on its pledges of gender equality by putting human rights of women and girls at the heart of its development agenda.”
“This man went to my uncles and paid a dowry of 80 cows. I resisted the marriage. They threatened me. They said, ‘If you want your siblings to be taken care of, you will marry this man.’ I said he is too old for me. They said, ‘You will marry this old man whether you like it or not because he has given us something to eat.’ They beat me so badly. They also beat my mother because she was against the marriage.”
—Aguet N., Bor County, March 15, 2012. Aguet, who married in 2003 at the age of 15, told Human Rights Watch that she was in school in class five and wanted to finish her education, but her uncles beat her and her mother to force her to marry a 75-year-old man.
“My father refused me to go to school. He said it is a waste of money to educate a girl. He said marriage will bring me respect in the community. Now I have grown up and I know that this is not true. I cannot get work to support my children and I see girls who have some education can get jobs.”
—Mary K., Yambio County, March 7, 2012
“The man I loved did not have cows and my uncles rejected him. My husband paid 120 cows…. I refused him but they beat me badly and took me by force to him. The man forced me to have sex with him so I had to stay there.”
—Ageer M., Bor County, March 15, 2012
“If you decide to delay your daughter’s marriage, she may get pregnant. The man may not pay many cows. That is why we marry them early. There is a big fear of girls getting pregnant out of wedlock.”
—Yar B., Bor County, March 15, 2012
“I did not know him before. I did not love him. I told my family, ‘I don’t want this man.’ My people said, ‘This old man can feed us, you will marry him.’”
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The next application deadline for the BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – Team BCP is Friday, September 16, 2022.
In support of the BRAIN Initiative’s goal of a mechanistic understanding of behavior, the NIH offers a family of funding opportunities focused on “Integrated and Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Circuits.” These opportunities share an overall goal of investigating behavior in terms of dynamic circuits. This set of funding opportunities is designed to allow for tackling scientific questions at different scales and at various complexities, and to balance support for individual lab science and team science approaches.
Two recently reissued funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) are the Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs: BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – TeamBCP (U19 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) [RFA-NS-22-039] and BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – Team BCP (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) [RFA-NS-22-040]. These FOAs will support research programs in a team science approach with a multi-Principal Investigator (PI) structure; and 3-5 research projects focused on a high-impact topic and cutting-edge technologies in large-scale recording and manipulation of circuits in vivo in the context of measurable behaviors. The scope of work should include multiple disciplines, approaches, scales, species, etc. that require necessary synergies to be fully successful.
What do I need to know to apply?
Applications are expected to:
Focus on overarching principles of circuit function in the context of specific neural systems underlying sensation, perception, emotion, motivation, cognition, decision-making, motor control, communication, or homeostasis.
Understand these circuits of the central nervous system by systematically controlling stimuli and/or behavior while actively recording and/or manipulating relevant dynamic patterns of neural activity and by measuring the resulting behaviors and/or perceptions.
Employ approaches and experimental design guided by specified theoretical constructs, and are encouraged to employ quantitative, mechanistic, and predictive models where appropriate. Model systems, including the possibility of multiple species ranging from invertebrates to humans, can be employed and should be appropriately justified.
Employ multi-component teams of research expertise—including neurobiologists, statisticians, physicists, mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists, and data scientists, as appropriate—that seek to cross boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Manage their data and analysis methods in a framework that will be developed and used in the proposed U19 program and exchanged with other U19 awardees for further refinement and development.
Additionally, applications submitted to this reissue require a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). Applications without this new component will be withdrawn prior to review. The team’s PEDP will be evaluated during peer review as part of scorable criteria and used to inform funding decisions. More information on the PEDP can be found here.
If you are proposing a human research component, please apply to RFA-NS-22-039. This FOA will accept basic experimental studies in which human participants are prospectively assigned to experimental conditions and receive an intervention or experimental manipulation where the effect will be assessed for the purpose of understanding fundamental aspects of phenomena. Human studies with invasive (intra-cortical) recording and/or stimulation must include neuroethical considerations, such as consent of patients recruited into studies with the possibility of risk beyond therapeutic standards of care without expectation of personal therapeutic benefit. Additional risks should be identified and justified as minor and manageable. Consent methodology should avoid patient coercion or therapeutic misconception. | <urn:uuid:e277b232-fd7d-4c31-8272-6efa5d923e7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brainblog.nih.gov/brain-blog/funding-opportunity-team-research-brain-circuit-programs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.905734 | 758 | 1.617188 | 2 |
It is important to purchase with a purpose and know where your products come from because the products you buy may very well have been made in sweatshops, by people who are enslaved or even made by child labor. I am always looking to support social good companies that have fair trade products, participate in the “Buy One Give One” movement or donate a portion of their proceeds to worthwhile causes. I could never find a great list of all of these companies in one place so I decided to make one. Here are 150+ social good companies. Support them and share them and spread the word to buy with a purpose!
If you know of any other social good companies, please leave them in the comments below. I will update this list as I research and find more! This list contains some affiliate links and I receive compensation for any purchases.
Master List of Social Good Companies
Article 22 – Ethical jewelry made from bombs by artisans in Laos, one of the most heavily bombed countries in the world. With each Peacebomb sold, ARTICLE 22 and the artisans of Ban Naphia support their families, community, and country, helping make land safe.1 bracelet helps clear bombs from 3m2 of farmland.
Amazig Leathers – Leather goods handmade by artisans in North Africa. 10% of profits go in to a community development fund that is available to support educational and economic development initiatives in the Imazighen communities and artisans have access to business loans in order to further develop their businesses.
Akola – Jewelry handcrafted by artisans in Uganda who receive vocational training, dependable employment and savings and loans associations.
Alter Eco – Socially just and environmentally responsible truffles, chocolate, quinoa and sugar from small-scale farmers. Alter Eco products are Fair Trade certified and they work on development programs in the areas their farmers work. Buy On Amazon
Alaffia – A certified fair trade, handmade shea butter and skincare line. Alaffia was created to help West African communities become sustainable through the fair trade of indigenous resources. One key to sustainability is empowerment of individuals within the communities. Buy On Amazon
Aloha for People – Our mission is to provide clean water and jobs to people in need around the world and in our home of California. With every product sold, we provide a person in need with access to clean water for 2 years minimum.
BeeLove – Our natural, high quality products are produced by men and women returning from incarceration. At Sweet Beginnings, these talented men and women develop a stable work history, learn marketable skills and gain the confidence they need to re-enter the workforce.
Beza Threads – Scarves handmade by former slaves in Ethiopia. 100% of the funds go back to help remove children from slavery and to then educate and empower them.
Badala – A collection of jewelry, accessories and home items made by single mothers in the Kenya and Rwanda. Their microeconomic program seeks to empower single mothers in impoverished communities by training and hiring them to make fair trade items.
Bombas – Socks that are engineered and designed to look better, feel better and with a mission to help those in need. For every pair purchased, Bombas donates a pair to someone in need. Find on Amazon!
Bought Beautifully – An online marketplace of accessories, art and clothing with vendors who know their supply chain, pay fair wages, prioritize safe working conditions.
Bottle Bright – Unique all natural cleaners for drinking containers with an environmentally friendly focus and a socially conscious mission. With every purchase, they give the same amount to people in need of clean water containers. Buy on Amazon
Bright Endeavors – Bright Endeavors is an innovative social enterprise that transforms the lives of young moms by teaching them to craft premium soy candles in a supportive, professional environment.
Brilliant Earth – Conflict-free diamonds. Brilliant Earth provides the highest quality jewelry originating from pure sources and harvested using socially responsible practices.
Boot Campaign – Boots. Proceeds from all Boot Campaign combat boot sales, events, direct donations and corporate sponsorships fund the campaign’s five Assistance initiatives for past and present military personnel: Jobs, Housing, Wellness, Urgent Assistance, and Family Support.
(c)3 – Napa Valley Wine. We believe charities are invaluable & that their role should be enhanced. They create opportunity, give hope, & transform lives, ending the cycle of poverty through education, employment, & empowerment.
Causegear – Every purchase supports a day of freedom for your crafter from human trafficking + slavery + poverty through a self-sustaining job.
Central City Coffee – Providing comprehensive solutions to ending homelessness and achieving self sufficiency.
Clothe Your Neighbor As Yourself – A non-profit clothing brand that lets you decide how 100% of the profit is given. All of the clothing is made from organic cotton and exceeds labor standards.
Comunity Shoes – We make premium shoes, handcrafted locally that give back locally, to fuel our mission. For every pair of shoes we sell, we give $10 back to a local community effort to support the Arts, Education and Ending Homelessness as directed by YOU at the point of purchase
Conscious Step – Socks that fight poverty. Conscious Step was created to bring more awareness to the problems faced by the world today and the organizations fighting these problems.
Charity:water – 100% of the profits from the goods directly fund clean water projects.
Cure Your World – We believe that everyone deserves to eat healthy everyday. Therefore it is our responsibility to ensure that people in poverty stricken areas are provided with organic, sustainable options. This is made possible by giving a percentage of our profits to charitable projects that do just that!
DivvyUp – Every time they sell a pair of our awesome socks, they will donate a brand new pair of plain white or black socks to the local homeless shelter.
Denik – Notebooks, journals and sketchbooks designed by global artists with a portion of each book being used to build schools.
Della – Computer cases and purses made in Ghana, West Africa by artisans who receive jobs, education and skills training.
Deux Mains – Whether online, or in person every purchase at deux mains makes a real difference. For every product sold we are able to grow and expand our outreach efforts and employment opportunities.
Dignata – Dignata empowers victims of human trafficking and exploitation into freedom by giving them a dignified means of financial sustainability. We offer them employment in Dignata Jewelry creating the avenue to leave exploitation.
Divine Chocolate – Divine Chocolate is co-owned by the 85,000 farmer members of Kuapa Kokoo, the cooperative in Ghana that supplies the cocoa for each bar of Divine. As owners, they get a share in the profits, a say in the company, and a voice in the global marketplace. Buy on Amazon!
Divona – Crafted to be delightful and purposeful: $2 of each perfume purchase provides care packages for women surviving abuse and trafficking.
Edge of Ember Ltd: A collection of Jewelry with a positive production story. Edge of Ember Ltd. collaborates with a network of skilled artisans from India, Nepal, Indonesia and Thailand. No child labour – ever. Safe and healthy working conditions. Fair and advanced payments that exceed the local living wage. Sustainable raw materials wherever possible.
Ethletic – Fair trade produced shoes that made from sustainable resources, 100% vegan and come from a certified Fair Trade supply chain.
Ethnotek – At Ethnotek, our mission is to keep culture alive by creating high quality laptop and travel bags that feature ethically sourced handmade textiles. Your purchase sustains employment for the art of hand printing, weaving and embroidery with our partnering artisan villages in Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Elegantees – Sex trafficking is a form of slavery where people are coerced into prostitution. The overall root of this evil in countries like Nepal are poverty, lack of opportunity, and a desperation for acceptance. The motivation behind Elegantees is our desire to see an end to it.
Elephant Landing – Handmade pillows, throws and scarfs made by women in India who are able to work from their homes and earn a fair wage. 100% of the profits are used to continue providing employment and expanding education programs for women in new villages throughout India.
Everly Hydration – No calorie, all natural drink mixes that come in flavors pomegranate maqui berry, peach mango and green tea passion fruit. For every packet of Everly sold, they provide ORS (live-saving powder packets that rapidly rehydrate victims of waterborne diseases) to communities that lack access to the life-saving medicine. Buy on Amazon!
Everything Happy – Children’s clothing, blankies, bibs and more. For every Happy product purchased, another one is given to a child in need.
Fair Anita – a social enterprise that strives to build a more inclusive economy for women by providing economic opportunity and dignified jobs through beautiful fair trade jewelry and accessories.
Fair Spirits – A spirits brand dedicated to high quality products that are sourced ethically and sustainably. FAIR is the world’s first and unique Fair Trade Certified spirits brand.
Faithbox: A Christian subscription box that includes a daily devotional, enriching content, and amazing products from companies that do good.
FEED Projects – Bags, accessories and apparel made from natural products and artisan-made materials, along with fair-labor production. Each purchased product has a set donation through the World Food Programme and Feeding America.
Fortuned Culture – A jewelry line designed to shed light on the realities of a dire phenomenon, condition or cause. Proceeds from the purchase help charity partners who are focused on creating long-lasting advancements for people in need.
Fortress of Inca – Shoes handmade in Peru from premium materials by artisans who receive fair wages.
fashionABLE – Scarves and other accessories made by women in Ethiopia. FashionABLE works with women to help them start small business cooperatives, and partners with and require manufacturers to also employ women with fair wages & fair hiring practices.
Globein – We empower remarkable artisans in remote areas with the tools to build sustainable businesses. Providing connection and guidance, we help our partners feel stronger, more confident and in control of their lives through the expansion of their craft. $10 OFF GlobeIn Artisan Box (WELCOME)
Glorify Apparel – Religious Apparel that donates 25% of each purchase to the charity of your choice.
gravy + grace – Each time you purchase something from our store, we make a donation to help someone get meals they would not otherwise have.
Ground Up – Ground Up is a not-just-for-profit business that makes healthy + delicious nut butters, using them as a means to provide employment opportunity to women overcoming adversity. Through part-time employment, we provide mentorship and job skills training in everything from sales and marketing to working in a commercial kitchen space. Buy on Amazon!
Hand in Hand Soaps – social mission to provide soap and clean water to children in the developing world through our buy a bar, give a bar & clean water programs.
Hands Producing Hope – Unique handcrafted jewelry created by marginalized women in Costa Rica. Through the program, the artisans are provided with training, a consistent income, life skills classes and spiritual guidance.
Headbands of Hope – For every headband sold one is given to a child with cancer
Hiptipico – Authentic artisan-made backpacks, accessories and home goods. Hiptico pays fair wages, works to provide more local jobs and the products are socially and environmentally conscious.
Haiti Baby – Baby hats and blankets made by moms in Haiti empowering them to earn living wages to care for their families and keep their children out of orphanages.
Half United – Jewelry made from bullet casings. Half United donates half of it’s profits from ever product sold to fighting the global hunger epidemic in the USA, Fiji, Cambodia and Madagascar.
Indego Africa – Handmade baskets, accessories and jewelry made by women in Rwanda. 100% of profits from sales, donations and grants goes to fund job skills training programs for the artisan partners in business management, technology, entrepreneurship, and English & Kinyarwanda literacy.
Indosole – Repurposing tires into shoes! Their footwear is crafted by artisans in Indonesia featuring repurposed and natural materials.
Imagine Goods – Clothing handmade by artisans in Cambodia.
JC Denim Co. – Handcrafted jeans made by young women who have been rescued out of sexual exploitation in Cambodia.
JOYN – Handbags, clutches and accessories made by artisans in India. JOYN has partnered with a nonprofit called JoyCorps to provide employees with not only steady jobs and a good work environment, but a daily meal plan, education for their children, English and vocational training, and medical care.
Jonas Umbrellas – Every umbrella you purchase helps fund a clean-water well at a school in Uganda.
Junita’s Jar – A portion of Junita’s Jar profits is donated to support education and awareness initiatives dedicated to ending relationship violence. So, when you buy these deliciously wholesome cookies, you become a part of our mission to help women live their best lives.
Kurandza – Jewelry handmade by artisans in Mozambique who receive fair wages and other opportunities.
Krochet Kids intl. – Hats, apparel and accessories made by over 150 people in Uganda and Peru who are working, receiving education, and being mentored toward a brighter future in creating gifts that give back. Buy on Amazon!
KidKnits – Craft kits to make your own wool hat with yarn from Rwanda or Chile.
Kind Karma Co – We spread kindness through our commitment to ethical fashion that gives back, creates opportunity and positivity. By employing at-risk and homeless youth to make beautiful, custom handcrafted jewelry, all Kind Karma pieces have a positive social impact on our community in the Toronto area.
Lamon Luther – Reclaimed wood handcrafted furniture created by homeless carpenters in the US who are transitioning out of recovery programs.
Land of A Thousand Hills Coffee Co. – Quality, fair trade coffee made in Rwanda. Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. partners with farmers and local community leaders to develop the coffee into a sustainable income, pay a just Living Wage, and strive to further meet the needs of the people.
Lubanzi Wines – We’ve pledged 50% of our profits to back the Pebbles Project, an NGO that works with the low-income families who live and work on South Africa’s wine farms. They focus on growing families by providing resources and improving access to health & high-quality education, allowing families to realize a horizon for success in life that extends far beyond their current view.
LUSH – Handmade cosmetics and bath and body products. Since starting their program Charity Pot in 2007, they’ve donated more than $5,800,000 to over 600 grassroots charities in 35 countries. All products are made with fresh, ethically sourced and made ingredients. Buy on Amazon!
Lifestraw – Portable filters and water bottles. For each LifeStraw product you purchase, one school child in a developing country is provided with safe drinking water for an entire school year. Buy on Amazon
Love Justly – Discounted ethical fashion.
Love Your Melon – For every hat purchased, Love Your Melon Foundation provides therapeutic entertainment and comfy hats to children battling cancer during the difficult cancer treatment process. Buy on Amazon!
Little Sun – A high-quality, solar-powered LED lamp. Little Sun doesn’t just donate lights, they train young entrepreneurs to start their own Little Sun businesses in developing communities to create jobs and generate local profits. Buy on Amazon
Mujus – Jewelry made with high quality, organic and sustainable raw materials by artisans in Peru who receive health benefits, fair-trade wages and flexible family-friendly schedules.
Musana Jewelry – Handcrafted jewelry made by artisans in Uganda. Artisans benefit from stable employment as well as classes in English, business, and health. Through Musana’s programs, artisans are able to provide for their families, pay for their childrens’ schooling, and ensure themselves a brighter future.
Mata Traders – Fair trade apparel, accessories and home decor made by artisans in India and Nepal.
Manos Zapotecas – High quality, handcrafted fair trade rugs, tapestries, and bags made by artisans in Mexico.
Mile High Workshop – The Mile High WorkShop is a nonprofit employment and job training program for those facing barriers to work through the manufacturing, production and fulfillment of goods.
Maya Mueble – Furniture textiles made in El Salvador and Guatemala.
Mitscoots – American made socks. Mitscoots employs the homeless to help them get back on their feet. Plus, for every sock purchased, another is donated to someone in need.
My Infinite Agenda – A portion of the sales from each colored agenda will be given to support 4 powerful charities that are having an infinite impact around the globe. My Infinite Agenda aims to support clean and safe drinking water for people worldwide, access to the arts in under-served communities, to alleviate women from homelessness through employment opportunities, and quality sustainable hygiene & health education for all women and girls.
Naja – Meticulously crafted and fairly priced lingerie. Through their partnership with the Golondrinas Foundation and our Underwear for Hope program, Naja helps educate single mothers so that they can learn marketable skills. They then employ them so that they can help themselves and their children.
Noonday Collection – Jewelry and accessories handcrafted by artisans around the world who receive a fair wage. Noonday offers no interest loans, scholarship programs, emergency assistance and long term trade.
Knotty Gal – Handmade knotted jewelry to raise money for the Bhandari Girls’ School in Bogra, Bangladesh.
Kuli Kuli – The superfood Moringa. They partner directly with small family farmers and women’s cooperatives around the world to help them scale up their businesses and be able to access the international market. Buy on Amazon!
Nisolo – Responsibly sourced and beautifully designed shoes made in Peru. Artisans receive above fair trade wages, safe working conditions and skills training.
Nena and Co. – Accessories and bags made in Guatemala by artisans who receive fair wages.
Oliberte – The world’s first fair trade certified shoe brand. The sustainable shoes are handmade in Sub-Saharan Africa. 1% of proceeds also go towards non-profits dedicated to sustainability and the environment. Buy on Amazon
ONE – Apparel, bags and accessories. An international campaigning and advocacy organization focusing to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases. ONE’s products are from companies that are engaged in lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing. A portion of proceeds go to the ONE campaign or other social good companies.
One World Futbol – An ultra-durable soccer ball that never goes flat. For every ball you buy, a second is donated to organizations working with youth in disadvantaged communities worldwide. Buy on Amazon!
One Hope Wine – With every wine purchased, up to half of the proceeds go to their partner charities fighting childhood hunger, diseases, and other causes.
Pacha Soap – Sustainable soaps. With every bar purchased they donate one to someone in need. They have also started their first soap making factory in Burundi which employs local people and uses local ingredients. Buy on Amazon!
Parker Clay – Parker Clay was born as a luxury lifestyle brand that hand selects the highest quality leather to make timeless products by way of age-old traditional craftsmanship – all while creating opportunities for vulnerable women to become economically independent.
Purpose Jewelry – Ethical jewelry handcrafted by survivors of modern-day slavery. 100% of the proceeds benefit International Sanctuary, a non profit that provides holistic care for young women rescued from sex trafficking.
Patagonia – Apparel, shoes and bags. Patagonia engages in a range of due diligence activities to promote fair labor practices and ensure good working conditions in their factories. The products are made from high-quality materials while focusing on reducing their environmental and social impact. Buy on Amazon
Pitaya Plus – These yummy smoothie packs include the Pitaya aka Dragon Fruit that is commonly found in Nicaragua and other countries. Pitaya Plus hires single mothers to process the fruit, paying them above minimum wage, with the notion that supporting mothers is one of the most effective ways to have a direct, positive impact on a community. Buy on Amazon!
Pura Vida Bracelets – Bracelets made by artisans in Costa Rica. In addition to full time jobs with fair wages, Pura Vida donates hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to partner organizations and is a member of 1% for the Planet.
Purse & Clutch – Handbags and clutches all under $100. A Fair Trade Handbag Boutique that partners with artisans around the world who create their products with an emphasis on craft & quality. These artisans are treated with respect and are paid a living wage for their region.
Passion Lilie – A fair trade clothing and accessory line made in India by artisans who receive a fair wage, training, education and medical assistance.
Prosperity Candle – Every candle purchased helps provide a living wage for the women artisans who have recently resettled from refugee camps and are working to build a brighter future for themselves and their families in the United States.
Q for Quinn – Certified Organic kids socks. A meal is donated for every pair of socks.
Raven & Lily – Jewelry, apparel and accessories made by artisans in India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cambodia, Pakistan, and the USA at fair trade wages to give them access to a safe job, sustainable income, health care and education.
Rebel Nell – Rebel Nell jewelry began in 2013 with the mission to employ women facing barriers to employment in Detroit, educate them on financial management, life wellness and entrepreneurship, and empower them to transition to a life of independence.
RefuSHE – Scarves – RefuSHE specializes in identifying and protecting unaccompanied and separated refugee children and youth, especially girls, young women, and their children living in Kenya. Our shelter, education, and community outreach services, coupled with local resources and the refugee community, empower this population to live healthy lives.
The Joyful Project – Ethically sourced products. All clothing made by Freeset is a fair-trade business offering employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. We make quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but our business is freedom! We would like to see the 10,000 sex workers in our neighborhood empowered with the choice of leaving a profession they never chose in the first place
The Root Collective: Artisan-made women’s boots, shoes and sandals made in Central America.
Rethreaded – Rethreaded is a social entrepreneurship that is breaking the cycle of the sex trade by offering viable and creative work to those affected by the sex trade.
Runjanji – Athletic running apparel. A portion of proceeds funds organizations that are alleviating the worst problems related to water.
Sage Harvest Gourmet Jerky: Gourmet Jerky (MSG and Nitrate free) started by a military family who added to their family x4 through adoption! Each month, 10% of profits are donated to adoptive families and orphan care.
Solo Hope – Jewelry and bags handcrafted of pine straw and thread in rural Honduras. Besides a fair, steady income, ten percent of all sales goes into an education fund for students in Honduras.
Slate + Salt – Our mission is to bring you a curated collection of luxe, one of a kind pieces while preserving traditional techniques and supporting the Fair Trade movement. We work closely with small social enterprises to facilitate dignified working opportunities in areas of extreme poverty. We encourage you to explore other cultures and traditions in a socially conscious way.
SmartyPants Vitamins – These adult and child gummy vitamins are non-gmo, eco-friendly, made in the USA, no artificial sweeteners, colors flavors or preservatives, no HFCS, gluten, tree nuts, peanuts or dairy. They are a 1:1 company who for every bottle purchased, Smarty Pants donates a nutrient grant to Vitamin Angels to help children in need get the necessary nutrients. Buy on Amazon
Solve Sunglasses – With every pair of sunglasses you purchase, SOLVE will give someone in need clean water for life through Water Missions International.
Sseko Designs – Footwear, Accessories and leather bags. Sseko Designs provides employment during the 9 month gap between high school and university where high potential young women are able to earn and save enough money to pay for college tuition.
Starfish Project – A socially responsible jewelry business in order to provide women with alternative employment and a range of holistic care services. Starfish Project provides opportunities for women to heal and grow through counseling, vocational training, language acquisition, family education grants and health care access, as well as providing housing in our women’s shelter.
SutiSana – Bags and purses made with the purpose of providing dignified employment and a new life for women attempting to leave prostitution in El Alto, Bolivia.
Shawl Wallah – Ethically produced Pashmina products from artisans in Kashmir. With each shawl purchased, 20% is being reinvested to nonprofits that work in Kashmir.
Sole Rebels – Shoes and sandals handcrafted by artisans in Ethiopia, started by an Ethiopian woman to bring job opportunities in the nation with cool footwear.
SOL Organics: Sheets, duvets and bedding sets. With every bedsheet you purchase, SOL Organics donates $7.50 to a charity in need. They are comitted to Fairness; Sustainability; Transparency; Equality; Responsibility.
Sevenly – A clothing and accessory line designed for specific charities. Sevenly exists to bring funding and awareness to the world’s greatest causes. Every item purchased on Sevenly.org gives $7 to the designated charity.
Slum Love – Handmade sweaters by artisans in Kiberia, Kenya who receive jobs and education.
Sackcloth & Ashes – High quality blankets. For every blanket purchased, they will donate one to your local homeless shelter.
STATE Bags – A collection of backpacks For every STATE bag purchased, STATE hand-delivers a backpack – packed with essential tools for success – to an American child in need.
Stela 9 – committed to starting a brand with a few artisans I had met over that time. Stela 9 was officially established in 2010. With a background in Anthropology, it was a natural transition to focus on cultural preservation through creating modern, wearable handbags and clothing.
Tenfed – Tenfed is a clothing company based in Toronto that offers unique yet meaningful, everyday apparel. Tenfed launched in August 2015 with a mission to help feed as many hungry children as possible. For every Tenfed item that is sold, TEN meals are provided to feed hungry children around the globe.
Ten Thousand Villages: Ethically sourced handmade artisan gifts such as bath and body, home decor, candles, baskets and storage and much more.
Trades of Hope – Jewelry and accessories handmade by artisans in the USA and around the world.
Tree Tribe – Tree Tribe is an outdoor lifestyle brand that plants 10 trees on every sale.
The Brave Collection – Jewelry handmade in Cambodia where artisans work in a fair and free work environment, paid above average work wages and receive other benefits such as healthcare and stipends for their children’s education.
The Shine Project – Jewelry handmade by inner city youth helping them pay for college.
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Yellow Leaf Hammocks – Hand-woven hammocks made by artisans in Thailand who receive a fair wage and a flexible, sustainable and safe job.
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Apart from the sheer mass of the Clintons’ earnings, perhaps the most intriguing revelation contained in the release of the Clinton tax data last week was that Bill Clinton received a whopping $15 million advance in 2001 for what would become his autobiography, My Life. As even the New York Times noticed, this was significantly “larger than previously thought” — or, more exactly, than previously reported. For example, an August 7, 2001 article in the Times puts the figure vaguely at “over $10 million.” A Wall Street Journal report from the following day cites a more concrete figure of “close to $12 million.” The New York Times does not bother to ask why Clinton or his publisher would have misled the public about the true size of the advance when the book deal was signed. The most obvious explanation, however, is the appearance of impropriety that such a mammoth payout could create, especially so soon after the then financially-strapped former president left office. Indeed, the originally reported $10-12 million figure would already have represented the largest advance for a non-fiction book in the history of publishing. In the Wall Street Journal article, industry insider Roger Strauss was quoted as saying that he did not “see how [the book] could make money.” Strauss added that the size of the advance was “particularly strange,” since no competitive auction had been held.
Who would pay such an enormous sum to Bill Clinton — thus, in effect, erasing in one fell swoop the well-known financial burden of his outstanding legal fees? The answer is that Germany’s Bertelsmann Corporation would. The identity of Clinton’s financial benefactor was in fact largely obscured in the American coverage of the book deal, which as a rule only named the reassuringly familiar and prestigious American publisher Alfred A. Knopf as the purchaser of the book rights. And Alfred A. Knopf is indeed the publisher of the Clinton volume. But Knopf is in fact nowadays just a division of Random House, and Random House in turn was acquired by the German media giant Bertelsmann in 1998.
And there is the rub. For when Bertelsmann put in its bid for Random House, it already owned the American publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell. The combined assets of Bantam Doubleday Dell and Random House would give Bertelsmann control over dozens of American book imprints, including — in addition to those brand names already mentioned — such other well-known names as Vintage, Anchor, Ballantine, and Pantheon. According to the estimate of the Authors Guild, the merged companies would account for some 36% of the general adult trade book market in the US. Such an unprecedented situation of market dominance would clearly seem to have required intervention from American anti-trust authorities. Despite the warnings and complaints of authors, however, the Clinton White House permitted the deal to go ahead unhindered.
Some two and a half years later, on January 31, 2001, Joel Klein, the former head of the anti-trust division in the Clinton justice department, was named chairman and chief executive officer of Bertelsmann’s American operations. Klein — in the meanwhile schools chancellor of the city of New York — had no previous experience in media. The appointment was made barely one week after Klein’s ex-boss left office. (Klein himself resigned his anti-trust post a few months earlier; this presumably in order to diminish the obvious appearance of impropriety.) Some six months later, Clinton received his big check from Bertelsmann.
A privately owned company, Bertelsmann is fully controlled by a single family: the Mohn family from the small town of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia. Roughly a quarter of the company’s total capital is held directly by family members, and the remaining three-quarters has been attributed to the family-run non-profit organization, the Bertelsmann Foundation. In the aftermath of the Random House deal, the American media of reference dutifully repeated the standard talking points of the firm’s own official history, according to which, family patriarch Heinrich Mohn was supposed to have built up Bertelsmann as a publisher of pious Christian books before being forced to cease operations by the Nazi regime. Thanks to the dogged efforts of German researcher Hersch Fischler, however, it quickly emerged that this official history was a brazen misrepresentation of the far less innocent reality.
In fact, Bertelsmann had massively profited from a close collaboration with the Nazi regime, serving notably as the principal supplier of so-called “front literature” for the Wehrmacht. Heinrich Mohn, it turned out, had himself been an honorary member of the SS — an “honor” obtained by virtue of his generous financial donations to the Nazis’ elite paramilitary force. More damningly still, as Fischler and co-author Franck Böckelmann discuss in their 2004 book-length exposé of Bertelsmann, the current family patriarch, Reinhard Mohn, helped to cover up his father’s ties to the Nazi regime from the Allied occupation authorities, thus permitting the company to resume publishing after the War. Reinhard Mohn’s role in this latter connection makes the company’s subsequent pleadings of ignorance about its Nazi-era history appear particularly disingenuous.
When confronted by the results of Fischler’s research, Bertelsmann went into damage-control and announced that it would undertake a reinvestigation of the company’s history in light of the “new information.” Revealingly, however, the Mohns proposed to assign the task to none other than Dirk Bavendamm. Bavendamm is a German revisionist historian, who — in keeping with his thesis that it was the USA and not Germany that was responsible for the Second World War — has described WWII as “Roosevelt’s War.” (For more information on Bertelsmann and Bavendamm, see here and here.)
As so happens, large swathes of Bertelsmann’s American book catalogue seem to be imbued with a similarly revisionist, even revanchist, spirit. President George W. Bush, needless to say, replaces Franklin D. Roosevelt as favorite whipping boy in the more recent crop of denunciations of American “war guilt,” “war crimes,” etc. Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint, a novelistic meditation on assassinating President Bush, is a case in point. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the very midst of the 2004 presidential campaign and only months after Knopf’s celebratory launch of the Clinton memoirs. In light of Bertelsmann’s own corporate history, it is at least ironic to discover Edwin Black’s IBM and the Holocaust — subtitled “The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation” — among Bertelsmann’s offerings.
It should be noted that Bertelsmann/Random House also publishes a generous sampling of high-profile “pro-American” and/or “conservative” authors, including Republican presidential candidate John McCain. But by giving prominent exposure to writings that would previously have been confined to left-wing fringe publishers or university presses, Bertelsmann has undoubtedly made a substantial contribution to the recent sea-change in American political culture, which has seen European-style anti-Americanism, in effect, move into the mainstream in America itself.
Bertelsmann is nowadays not just any private German firm, but without question the most politically influential corporation in Germany. Via the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Foundation-financed Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP), the company plays a role of unparalleled importance in defining the political agenda not only in Germany, but in Europe as a whole. In the eyes of many critical German observers, the company has taken on the dimensions of a veritable “state within the state.”
In this connection, it is worth noting that the last years of the Clinton presidency were marked by a series of major concessions to German policy priorities. The most important of these was undoubtedly American backing for the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Serbia. By bombing Serbia, NATO served as air support for the ethnic separatist guerilla of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a paramilitary formation that Clinton’s own Balkan envoy, Robert Gelbard, described as a terrorist group only one year earlier. Reflecting the importance attached by the German government to the Kosovo intervention, then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder would go so far as to call it [German link] the “founding act” of a new Europe. Equally significant in this connection was President Clinton’s decision to place his signature on two pet German treaty projects — the Rome Statute for the creation of an International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Kyoto Protocol — even though neither had any prospect of ratification in the US Senate. (For the German role in promoting the ICC, see my discussion here.) Indeed, given what he himself called “significant flaws” in the Rome Statute, Clinton — after signing the treaty on the last day it was open for signature — declined even to submit it to the Senate. Such bizarrely inconsistent behavior served to put his successor immediately on the defensive vis-à-vis Germany and the EU in the matters of so-called international criminal justice and “climate change.”
In light of all the above, the $15 million from Bertelsmann could be viewed as payment for services rendered.
The Clinton campaign’s summary of the Clintons’ 2000-2007 income data indicates that the former president has been paid a total of over $23 million for My Life. This figure suggests that despite the initial skepticism of publishing industry experts, Bertelsmann did in fact eventually earn back its massive advance and then some. There is no obvious way of verifying this, however. For the moment, we have only the global income figures cited by the Clintons; we do not have any detailed disclosure from Bertelsmann. Moreover, even though My Life appears indeed to have sold well, most Americans will remember the ubiquitous hype that accompanied its release in 2004. Any realistic assessment of whether sales have been sufficient to make money for the publisher would also have to take into account the costs incurred by Bertelsmann in going to such extraordinary lengths to move the book.
Bill Clinton is reported to have earned $6.3 million from his 2007 volume Giving, which is likewise published by Knopf. This would bring Clinton’s total income from Bertelsmann to nearly $30 million. Just how or why Bertelsmann would pay Bill Clinton $6.3 million for Giving constitutes perhaps an even greater mystery than its $15 million advance for My Life. As of this writing, just over six months after its release, the book is languishing at #1,953 on the Amazon.com sales chart.
Incidentally, a large chunk of Barack Obama’s income — far outstripping his Senate salary — is also reported to come from a book deal. In late 2004, shortly before joining the Senate, he signed a deal for three books that promised him a healthy $1.9 million in advances. This included $850,000 for what would become The Audacity of Hope. Obama’s publisher is the Crown Publishing Group, yet another division of Random House. Or in other words, Bertelsmann.
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Paperback The bird's nest / Shirley Jackson.
Publication year: 2014
Publisher: London : Penguin Classics,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780141391946 (pbk.) :
Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. 'The Bird's Nest' is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness.
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“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl.
“Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?”
“I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I have been to a few presentations over the past weeks where “accuracy” and “RMSE” have been used, with little insight into the utility of an algorithm. In one case there was a meeting were two teams went at it, arguing on their approach to a problem and comparing accuracy results, while I noticed that neither approach actual did anything useful. Or consider the case of the vendor that sold a friend of mine a defect detection solution that was 95% accurate to detect faults, but the faults only occur 1 in 1000 times from their sampling. It was 95% accurate, and utterly useless to my friend’s company.
So, in the service of increasing the effective communications between data scientists and consumers of their analysis, I thought I would discuss utility of an algorithm in terms of measures that are not always brought up in presentation or reviews.
Accuracy is rarely useful
When it comes to classification problems, it may be true there are data sets in the wild that are nicely balanced, but I never seem to run into them. In a 2-class classification problem, I normally see 1-5% of the data in one class and the rest in the other class (e.g. churners versus non-churners subscribers from a telecommunication network). In the case of unbalanced datasets, accuracy (I.e. number classified correctly / total number of records) is rarely useful. Here is an example as to why.
Consider a classifier that predicts if a mobile network subscriber will churn or not, with a known set of data 1000 subscribers that have 1% churners. I have included the definitions and values of some different classifier measures
In the example above, the accuracy is 98.5% which sounds good as a headline. But let’s dig a little deeper
From a non-technical perspective, I would offer the following interpretations of these other measures:
- “TP Rate” or “Sensitivity” or “Recall“: This is how many actual positive cases were found by the algorithm. In this example it is 50%, meaning that half the real churners were found and the other half were missed.
- “Precision“: This is how many actual positive cases were found from all the positive cases predicted. In this example it is 33.3%, meaning that there is a 1/3 chance that what the algorithm predicts is a churner is really a churner.
The high accuracy value in the example seems a little less relevant in the light of these other measures. While the accuracy is high, the algorithm does not seem to actually be good at finding churners (“recall”) and potentially worse 2/3 of the churners it predicts are not churners (“precision”). This could be a significant problem if a company takes expensive actions to retain subscribers, since only 1/3 of the amounts will be focused on actual churners.
The good news here is that algorithms can be tuned to focus on different measures, to provide insights more in line with the client’s circumstances. Maybe the rate of successful predictions is important, and false positives or negatives less of an issue. Or too many false positives are a bigger issue than missing a few true positives. This is something that should be discussed between the client and the data scientist, to ensure that the best algorithm for the client is developed – not just the most accurate one. | <urn:uuid:dfc933e3-b5c1-460a-911b-2ac0f56c331b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beyondthetechhype.blog/2018/03/12/forty-two-is-rarely-a-good-answer/?like_comment=9&_wpnonce=cfe4812622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.965685 | 831 | 2.328125 | 2 |
It was absurd, he added that American classrooms were still based on teachers standing at a board and using textbooks. All books, learning materials, and assessments should be digital and interactive, tailored to each student and providing feedback in real time.
A panel of four Dutch educators and politicians is proposing to fulfill Steve Jobs' vision and create a school where students are taught with iPads. The proposal will be presented on Monday [Google Translate] in Amsterdam. The plan, called Education for a New Era, is designed to help students learn "21st century skills" and push the limits of what can be done in a classroom.
It is just a proposal for the time being, but the promoters wish to test existing educational apps and encourage more to be developed. The so-called "Steve Jobs schools" would open their doors in August 2013.
[snip] Apple presumably wants to expand the project to include all grade levels, and eventually fulfill Jobs' vision of a digital classroom.
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The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) recently praised the bipartisan Renewable Fuels Reinvestment Act (RFRA) introduced by Reps. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and John Shimkus (R-IL). The bill, HR 4940, would extend the 45¢ Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), commonly called the blenders’ credit, and the secondary tariff on imported ethanol until Dec. 31, 2015. It would also extend the Small Producers Tax Credit and the Cellulosic Ethanol Production Tax Credit to Jan. 1, 2016.
“Allowing the tax incentives for ethanol to expire is simply not an option,” says RFA President Bob Dinneen. “Failure to extend these incentives would force 112,000 Americans out of their jobs and shutter nearly two out of every five ethanol plants operating today. Long-term extensions of these important incentives are good policy that encourages investment in current and next generation ethanol technologies."
Congressman Pomeroy adds: “At a time when our economy is struggling, we cannot afford to let these tax incentives expire and stymie the growth we have seen in our ethanol industry. This is a bipartisan bill that will promote not only economic growth, but also the transformation of our energy industry from one that is reliant on foreign oil to one that is based on energy that's grown in farm fields in the heartland of America,” he says.
“I have been a long-time supporter of renewable fuels,” Congressman Shimkus says. “Extending the ethanol and cellulosic tax credits helps give much needed certainty to the industry and will continue to help our nation’s energy security.”
Adds Dinneen, “Representatives Pomeroy, Shimkus and their fellow cosponsors are showing tremendous leadership and foresight. I urge all members of Congress to take this opportunity to learn the real facts about American ethanol production and, ultimately, pass this bill as soon as possible.”
Extending the tax incentives for all ethanol is the top legislative priority of RFA members. Specifically, the RFRA would:
- Extend the 45¢/gal. tax credit available to oil and gasoline refiners for each gallon of ethanol they blend through Dec, 31, 2015. VEETC is set to expire at the end of 2010.
- Extend the corresponding secondary tariff on ethanol through Dec. 31, 2015. The secondary tariff exists to offset the benefit of the VEETC, which is available to all sources of ethanol, regardless of its country of origin. The tariff sunsets at the end of 2010.
- Extend the Small Producers Tax Credit until Jan. 1, 2016. This 10¢/gal. tax credit is available on the first 15 million gallons of ethanol produced by ethanol companies producing no more than 60 million gallons/year. This tax credit expires at the end of 2010.
- Extend the Cellulosic Ethanol Producer Tax Credit until Jan. 1, 2016. Currently, cellulosic ethanol is eligible for both the 45¢/gal. VEETC as well as an additional 56¢/gal. production tax credit. This tax credit expires at the end of 2012.
Last week, the RFA released a study detailing the damaged that would be inflicted upon the domestic ethanol industry if the tax credits were allowed to expire. Specifically, the report noted that the expiration of the tax incentive would have the following results:
- Loss of more than 112,000 jobs in all sectors of the economy.
- Reduction of domestic ethanol production by 38%.
- Increased reliance on imported motor fuels.
- Loss of investment in and support for second-generation biofuels.
- Reduction of household income by $4.2 billion (2009 dollars).
Noting that the tax incentives and the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) requiring the use of ethanol are complimentary policies necessary to encourage a domestic industry, RFA’s Dinneen says:
“The question is not whether ethanol will be used – the RFA requires it. The question is, from where will the ethanol come? Extending the tax incentives ensures that both the grain-based as well as cellulosic sources of ethanol needed to meet the RFS are produced domestically. Without tax incentives to support domestic production, the RFS by itself will simply allow increased US dependence on imported biofuels – a result that will undermine the US ethanol industry and contribute to additional job losses.”
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Alan Greenspan might have blown it. Evidence is accumulating that the Federal Reserve should have taken modest steps last year to slow the market advance, and the economy, soon after his "irrational exuberance" speech.
Since that speech, stock prices have advanced more than 40%.
While Mr. Greenspan has held off because of an absence of evidence of inflation as measured either by the consumer price index or the gross domestic product deflator, he has ignored the raging inflation in the prices of financial assets -- especially stocks.
The culprit seems to be excessive money growth. M3, for example, has grown at a 9.8% annual rate through the first quarter of this year. As economists Ed Hyman and Nancy Lazar of the ISI Group noted in the firm's May 4 newsletter, 10% money growth didn't lead to a "bubble" economy in the 1970s because economic conditions directed the excess liquidity into consumer spending.
Now, the rapid money growth is occurring in an environment of price disinflation, allowing the excess liquidity to flow into stocks and other investment vehicles. The real estate market is showing signs of becoming overheated, and so, too, are the private debt and equity markets.
The longer a bubble is allowed to grow, the more dangerous it is to prick it. Mr. Hyman and Ms. Lazar believe the United States is early in the bubble-building process. Others are not so sure.
It might already be too late for Mr. Greenspan and his colleagues to prick the bubble without causing a major correction in the stock market, and hence a significant slowing in the economy, perhaps even a recession.
But the longer they wait, the worse any implosion is likely to be when the bubble does burst. Mr. Greenspan and his colleagues may be in a no-win situation. Their choices appear to be a relatively mild correction now, or a worse one later. A smooth landing appears to be unlikely.
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The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was initially enacted to prevent wealthy individuals from avoiding tax liability by strategies and investments that were generally out of reach for the average wage earner. However, the AMT was enacted with a set exemption amount that was not indexed for inflation and was not tied to changes in other tax provisions.
The causes the AMT exemption levels to lag far behind inflation and other tax rate adjustments. As a result, AMT liability began to affect middle-income taxpayers, not the super-rich for which it was originally intended. This meant that many taxpayers were required to compute their income tax liability twice: once under the regular method and once again under the AMT method.
Rather than fixing the system properly, Congress embarked on annual ritual of temporary patches. In late 2010, Congress extended a temporary "patch" relating to the AMT that had been put in place in 2008 in an effort to insulate middle-income taxpayer from the AMT. This spared an estimated 21 million taxpayers from having to pay AMT through 2011. Finally, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "fiscal cliff" legislation) enacted a permanent fix to at least some of the issues bedeviling the AMT provisions.
Determining AMT liability
The AMT provides a formula for computing tax that ignores certain preferential tax treatments and deductions that taxpayers would otherwise be entitled to claim and imposes a tax on this "alternative minimum taxable income."
The AMT is owed in addition to all other tax liability the taxpayer owes. Thus, if the AMT liability is higher than regular tax liability, then the individual will be subject to the AMT: the amount of AMT tax owed is added to the regular tax owed.
An individual's tentative AMT is generally equal to the sum of:
- 26 percent of the first $175,000 of the taxpayer's alternative minimum taxable income (AMTI) ($87,500 for a married taxpayer filing a separate return); and
- 28 percent of the taxpayer's remaining AMTI. AMTI is the individual's regular taxable income recomputed with certain adjustments and increased by certain tax preferences.
Exemption amount now indexed for inflation
A specified amount of AMTI is exempt from AMT. The amount of the exemption varies based on the taxpayer’s filing status and the tax year involved. Beginning in 2013, these exemption amounts will be indexed for inflation — thus avoiding the mismatch between exemption amount, income and inflation that had caused so many problems with the AMT system.
For 2013, the exemption amounts are:
- $80,800 for married taxpayers filing jointly and surviving spouses
- $51,900 for unmarried individuals
- $40,400 for married taxpayers filing separately
For 2014, the exemption amounts are:
- $82,100 for married taxpayers filing jointly and surviving spouses
- $52,800 for unmarried individuals
- $41,050 for married taxpayers filing separately
AMT Exemption Phases Out at Higher Income Levels
In keeping with the Congressional purpose to extract tax from high-income individuals, the AMT exclusion amount is phased out as one's income increases. Although the AMT exemption amounts for individuals were increased and will be indexed, the threshold levels for calculating the exemption phaseout remain unchanged.
Thus, the exemption amount is reduced by 25 percent for each $1 of alternative minimum taxable income (AMTI) in excess of:
- $112,500 in the case of unmarried individuals,
- $150,000 in the case of married individuals filing a joint return and surviving spouses, or
- $75,000 in the case of married individuals filing separate returns.
However, because the calculation of the phaseout amount is affected by the amount of AMTI exempted, an increase in the exemption amount will also increase the maximum amount of AMTI a person can have before the exemption amount is phased out.
The phase-out threshold is also adjusted for inflation beginning in 2013. Thus for 2013, the AMT exemption amount is reduced by 25 percent for each $1 of AMTI in excess of:
- $115,400 for unmarried individuals
- $153,900 for married individuals filing a joint return and surviving spouses
- $76,950 for married individuals, filing separate returns.
For 2014, the AMT exemption amount is reduced by 25 percent for each $1 of AMTI in excess of:
- $117,300 for unmarried individuals
- $156,500 for married individuals filing a joint return and surviving spouses
- $78,250 for married individuals, filing separate returns.
Be aware of AMT preferences and income computation
The most common items (preferences) that can cause you to become subject to the AMT are listed below. These items must be added back to your taxable income in order to compute your AMT:
- all personal exemptions
- the standard deduction, if you claimed it
- certain itemized deductions
- itemized deductions for state and local income taxes, and real estate taxes
- itemized deductions for home equity loan interest (this does not include interest on a loan to buy, build, or improve your home)
- itemized deductions for miscellaneous deductions
- itemized deductions for any portion of medical expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of AGI but not 10 percent of AGI
- deductions you claimed for accelerated depreciation that exceed what you could have claimed under straight-line depreciation (for property put into service in 1999 or later, this item will not apply to depreciable real estate, and it will generally apply only to 3, 5, 7, and 10-year property on which you claimed the ordinary MACRS depreciation)
- differences between gain or loss on the sale of property for AMT purposes and for regular tax purposes; these differences most commonly occur as a result of the different depreciation methods required under AMT, as described above
- changes in income from installment sales, since the installment sale method generally can't be used for AMT purposes
- changes in certain passive activity loss deductions
- deductions relating to oil and gas investments, or drilling or mining operations
- interest on certain private activity bonds that would otherwise be tax-exempt
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Frequent emails, phone call interruptions affecting worker productivity
PEORIA, Jan 25, 2013 (Journal Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Technology is keeping us all connected these days, but there are concerns that all that incoming data may be cutting into productivity.
Recent research indicates that workers are interrupted, usually by an email or phone call, about 11 times an hour.
There are also study results that show workers spend as much as 23 percent of office time on emails alone.
Those kinds of facts are leading companies to set up online policies, said Donna Greer, director of information systems technology at Midstate College.
"Different businesses already have rules on what you can and cannot do that might affect cellphone use or checking Facebook pages," she said.
"We've heard reports that when companies hold staff meetings, younger staffers bring their smartphones to the meeting. That can lead to distraction problems," said Greer.
Time management has been a concern of business for a long time, predating computer use, she said. "Now you have technology put on top of everything else," said Greer.
While multitasking has become the buzzword of the day, Greer questions how many jobs are really undertaken at once. "You're really only doing one thing at a time," she said.
To avoid being distracted, a worker must judge the importance of the job at hand, said Greer. "It comes down to focusing and prioritizing. Whatever the technology, a company still needs to get tasks done," she said.
Gloria Mark, a professor in the department of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, has made a study of how technology is used, specifically looking at work interruptions.
"What we found is that the average amount of time that people spent on any single event before being interrupted or before switching was about three minutes. Actually, three minutes and five seconds, on average," Mark stated in an interview with the Gallup Business Journal.
Not all interruptions are the same, she said. "People interrupted themselves as much as they were interrupted by external sources -- about 44 percent of the time. The rest of the interruptions were from external sources," noted Mark.
As to getting back on track after being interrupted, Mark said research indicated there was good news and bad news.
"The good news is that most interrupted work was resumed on the same day -- 81.9 percent of the time -- and it was resumed, on average, in 23 minutes and 15 seconds, which I guess is not so long," she said.
"The bad news is, when you're interrupted, you don't immediately go back to the task you were doing before you were interrupted," stated Mark.
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To nurture a collaborative culture, and to catalyse interdisciplinary innovation, the Business School of the University of Auckland and S23M are hosting a quarterly unconference event that brings together academic researchers and practitioners from the private sector to tackle wicked problems that don’t have an obvious solution.
In order to be successful on the world stage, and to address the social, economic, and environmental challenges that lie ahead, New Zealand researchers and innovators must develop a culture that encourages diversification, and that bridges organisational boundaries and traditional research silos.
The primary industries, the healthcare sector, and related technological innovators are key pillars of the New Zealand economy.
In most cases, breakthrough innovation is the result of intensive interdisciplinary research and development, often drawing on insights from disciplines that lie beyond the focus of attention and the capabilities of a particular organisation, faculty, or government initiative.
Who: The target audience of CIIC includes academic researchers and industry R&D practitioners who are facing concrete challenges, or who may have know how that may assist others in tackling wicked problems.
Where: University of Auckland Business School, Decima Glenn Room, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland. A link to Google Maps is provided on the CIIC Web site.
Requirements: Participants must submit a short problem statement, or a short description of domain specific expertise that may assist others in tackling problems in their organisation or discipline.
Facilitators: Jorn Bettin, Tava Olsen, Andrew Shewring
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Turns out the wrenching story Governor Charlie Baker told during his inaugural address about an Easton teen who fell victim to the scourge of opiate addiction wasn’t quite right.
Evan Greene did die last January after consuming a fatal overdose of heroin. But the 19-year-old did not become addicted to the street drug after abusing opiates prescribed by a doctor, as the governor relayed in a speech that identified narcotics abuse as a public health crisis and a priority for his administration.
The route to Greene’s addiction was through a friend who introduced him to prescription painkillers after he started smoking marijuana, his parents say.
The blunder, which was reported by the Brockton Enterprise on Friday, is reminiscent of a high-profile moment during last fall’s race for governor when Baker tearfully recalled an encounter with a New Bedford fisherman that did not prove to be fully accurate.
“The governor regrets the mistake of incorrectly telling the Greene family’s story,” Baker’s spokesman Tim Buckley said in a statement on Saturday. “The addiction crisis’s impact on families across the Commonwealth matters deeply to the governor, and he is committed to addressing the multitude of ways in which sons, daughters, moms, dads, brothers, and sisters from all walks of life fall victim to the epidemic.”
Evan Greene’s father, John, said it matters less to him that Baker flubbed the details of his son’s death than the importance of having the story told and of raising awareness of the problem.
“It’s going up to like 300 people who overdosed this year. It’s an epidemic. That’s the bottom line in this,” he said in a telephone interview Saturday evening. “My story is just one story, you know.”
In one of the more stirring moments of Thursday’s address, Baker stood at the rostrum in the packed House chambers at the State House and told “an agonizing, yet all too familiar story” of addiction, loss, and a family’s struggle to help a loved one.
“Several months ago I met John and Stephanie Greene of Easton,” he said during the speech. “After a routine medical procedure their 19-year-old son, Evan, was prescribed opiates for pain. Slowly and unknowingly, he became addicted to them. When the prescription ended, he turned to heroin.”
“As a parent,” he continued, “my heart goes out to John and Stephanie for their devastating loss. As governor, I intend to tackle this problem head on, because too many families have gone through the grief and pain that John and Stephanie have.”
Evan Greene overdosed on Jan. 11, 2014, while out with a friend. Five days later, doctors took him off life support.
John Greene said he was introduced to Baker last summer, and he believes the mix-up in his son’s story came from Baker inadvertently merging details from a conversation with the Greenes and a separate one with a cousin, Catherine Long.
Long’s son was prescribed opiates after a surgery, John Greene said, but recognized their potential for addiction and declined to take them.
The tale of the mysterious New Bedford fisherman was an incident from the campaign trail, when the then-candidate choked up while recounting the gut-wrenching story during a live televised debate in the fall.
The fisherman, Baker said, did not let his sons go to college on athletic scholarships so they could join him in the family operation. With the collapse of the industry, it was a decision that the fisherman said had “ruined” his sons’ lives, Baker said.
The story left many wondering about the identity of the man Baker described. After reporters could not find the fisherman, the candidate admitted that he got some details wrong but maintained that the essence of the story was true.
In the wake of his misstatement last week, the governor was emphatic with staff members Saturday that mistakes like this “are intolerable,” according to his office.
John Greene, who was in the House chamber when Baker gave his inaugural address, said Saturday that listening to the state’s chief executive give voice to hundreds of families like his was simply overwhelming.
“I just couldn’t stop crying,” he said. “He vowed to do something about our pain. It’s amazing how he was able to use our family.”
After his son took his first shot of heroin, John Greene recalled, the teen told his mother “it was like the most perfect dream.”
While teens might think that “you do a shot and that’s the best the thing you’ll ever get in your life,” John Greene said, they do not have a lot of life experiences to compare that first high against. That’s why he hopes to continue working with Baker, as well as other state and local officials, on the “No First Time” awareness campaign for young people, he said.
Addiction comes with a stigma, Greene said, that can be eased with the governor highlighting its problems.
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|MRI sagittal and axial T1w images of brain show faint T1 hyperintensity in left basal ganglia.|
Fasting blood sugar 142 mg/dl (N 70-110 mg /dl)
Postprandial 276 mg/dl (80-150mg/dl)
Fasting urine sugar Nill.
Postprandial urine sugar 0.5%
Considering above clinical details and report of abnormal blood sugar level,
Imaging wise diagnosis: Hyperglycaemic Hemichorea – Hemiballismus.
Syn: HCHB, Hemiballismus-hemichorea, Chorea-ballismus with nonketotic hyperglycemia, Nonketotic hyperglycemia,
Triple H of Hyperglycemic Hemichorea-Hemiballismus are 1. Unilateral basal ganglionic T1 Hyper intensity, 2. Hyper glycemia / Hyper glycemic coma and 3. Hemi chorea / Hemi ballismus.
It is a syndrome associated with nonketotic hyperglycemia in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, characterized by sudden onset hemiballismus or hemichorea.
The most common cause of hemichoreahemiballism in adults is a vascular lesion in the basal ganglia. Rarely, it can also be the first clinical manifestation of non-ketotic hyperglycemia, associated with unique radiological features.
Imaging findings of Hyperglycemic Hemichorea-Hemiballismus:
CT may be normal. May show faint unilateral basal ganglionic hyperdensity.
MRI is most sensitive. May show typical unilateral T1 hyperintensity in basal ganglia.
Elderly diabetic patients with non-ketotic hyperglycemia presenting with hemichorea-hemiballism, hyperdensity in contralateral basal ganglia on CT scan and high signal intensity in corresponding areas on T1 weighted MRI have been already reported.
But there was much controversy regarding the cause of these imaging changes.
Initially it was thought to be due to calcification.
Chang and colleagues postulated petechial haemorrhage to be the cause.
Stereotactic biopsy and histopathology from the striatum revealed gliotic brain tissue with abundant gemistocytes suggesting that the hyperintensities in T1 could be due to the protein hydration layer inside the cytoplasm of the swollen gemistocytes.
These gemistocytes abundantly present in the basal ganglia and cause excessive neuronal activity especially in the GABA-ergic projections and thus may be responsible for generating hemichorea-hemiballism.
The basal ganglia hyperintensity generally resolves within a few months rarely reported to remain for several years.
So it may be concluded that hemichorea -hemiballism occurring in diabetes mellitus owing to non-ketotic hyperglycemia is a rather benign condition with a good prognostic outcome provided the syndrome is recognized early and corrected.
Other causes of basal ganglioinic T1 hyperintensity:
There are many causes of basal ganglionic T1 hyperintensity, majority are related to deposition of T1 intense elements within the basal ganglia.
Methaemoglobin in intracranial hemorrhage or hemorrhagic transformation of infarct.
Hamartoma in neurofibromatosis type 1.
Hyperalimentation or long term parenteral nutrition, manganese toxicity.
Wilson's disease (copper), acquired non-Wilson's hepatocerebral degeneration
Hyperglycemia associated chorea-ballism / non ketotic hyperglycaemic hemichorea,
Causes of unilateral basal ganglioinic T1 hyperintensity are very uncommon than bilateral and are unique. Unilateral basal ganglionic / putaminal CT or MR signal abnormality of nonketotic hyperglycemia to be recognized and distinguished from acute ischemic stroke in patients with acute neurologic symptoms. Although nonketotic hyperglycemia may mimic stroke in clinical presentation and imaging findings, the pathophysiologic mechanisms of this entity are not clearly ischemic, so recognisation of this syndrome is important as it can affect the treatment options. Physicians and radiologists needs to be aware of non-ketotic hyperglycemia and its imaging findings as a cause for a potentially reversible hemichoreahemiballism syndrome.
Similar case : hemichorea-hemiballismus : Unilateral basal ganglionic hyperdensity CT Brain
Neurology Asia 2010; 15(1) : 89 – 91, Diabetic non-ketotic hyperglycemia and the hemichorea-hemiballism syndrome: B Shalini , W Salmah.
Lai PH, Chen C, Liang HL et-al. Hyperintense basal ganglia on T1-weighted MR imaging. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1999;172 (4): 1109-15. AJR Am J Roentgenol (citation)
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VD: What forms does it take and what are the major causes? Some of the bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics, and yet early treatment is essential if the disease is to be completely cured. A man is shown attending a clinic, a girl describes her distress at learning that she has been infected. A doctor explains some of the facts. Made for 15 year olds in 1973 and therefore the treatments are not going to be up-to-date. Please note that HIV/AIDS were not known and are not mentioned.
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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has headed out to sea after nearly two months in Guam, where almost a quarter of the 4,800 sailors aboard the ship were infected with the novel coronavirus, the Navy said in a statement.
The ship will remain in the waters off the coast of Guam so that its pilots and air crews can be recertified for flight operations. The nearly 1,800 sailors who remained on Guam to complete their self-quarantine will reboard the ship when it returns.
The carrier's departure comes seven weeks after the carrier first arrived in Guam following the first positive tests of COVID-19 among the ship's crew of 4,865 sailors.
The Navy soon began a process to quarantine and test the ship's crew in Navy facilities and hotels on Guam but ultimately more than 1,110 sailors, or close to a quarter of the ship's crew, contracted the virus. There was one sailor who died.
Eventually, 4,000 sailors were quarantined for 14 days on Guam as the remaining 800 continued to carry out essential functions and disinfect the entire ship. The idea was that as sailors cleared quarantine and tested negative for COVID-19, they would swap places with the sailors who were still aboard the ship.
To ensure that there would not be any new outbreaks aboard the carrier, all returning sailors had to test negative twice after completing their quarantine. Social distancing and rigorous cleaning and disinfecting procedures were also put in place aboard the ship.
That process appeared to be going smoothly until last week when it was discovered that 14 sailors who had previously tested positive for the virus were once again testing positive.
A defense official says the tests may be detecting remnants of the virus still in the sailors' system because they do not appear to be contagious.
Officials said the Navy decided that the ship could head out to sea without waiting for the entire ship's crew to clear the quarantine and the two rounds of tests. The focus was on having an appropriate number of sailors responsible for the jobs essential to keep the ship running and maintain its flight operations.
After carrying out the re-certification of its air wing the ship will return to Guam to pick up the rest of the ship's crew. It is likely that the ship will then continue with its deployment in the western Pacific.
The carrier and its crew became embroiled in controversy as Capt. Brett Crozier, the ship's commanding officer requested in a letter that the Navy do more to stem the spread of the coronavirus among the crew. The letter was later published by a newspaper.
Then-acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Crozier as commanding officer, but later resigned himself following his controversial comments to the ship's crew in Guam, where he blasted Crozier as being "naive" or "too stupid" not to have known that his letter would become public.
After an initial review Adm. Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations, recommended the unprecedented move to reinstate Crozier to his command.
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Nepal’s Department of Tourism is considering moving Everest Base Camp.
Environmental concerns are the reason for the move as Base Camp’s location faces the risk of being damaged due to the nearby Khumbu glacier. The glacier is melting much faster than the natural rate.
Nepal Tourism’s Director-General Taranath Adhikari told CNN Travel that the decision is something the country take very seriously.
“We have received recommendations from numerous stakeholders to relocate the base camp. While no decisions have been made yet, we are taking these suggestions very seriously”.
In light of the seriousness of the decision and the weather, the decision will not be made soon.
That’s because research activities can only be done during spring. Some studies have already taken place during this year’s spring climbing season in May, but authorities foresee the decision only being made in two to three years.
Those included in the research activities include local residents, mountaineers and environmental experts. Once the research has been concluded, the stakeholders will have to present their proposal to the Nepali government.
The final say in the matter will lie with Nepal’s Cabinet.
Paul Mayewski, the expedition leader and the director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, said the findings showed “a complete change from what has been experienced in that area, throughout probably all of the period of occupation by humans in the mountains,” reports CNN.
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Episode 01 – Gen Z In Their Own Words – Part 1
We hear a lot about Gen Z, but what do they have to say for themselves? In this podcast, we will hear students from Gen Z as they discuss some of their stresses as well as how they are coping with everything. They have some great insight and words of wisdom and hope for us. If you are a parent, grandparent, relative, or youth worker, you will want to listen in to get a better understanding. I also encourage you to listen to this with someone from Gen Z. | <urn:uuid:91e2bf71-9916-4c94-9300-5b9c7c943126> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://be2live.org/episode-01-gen-z-in-their-own-words-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.984442 | 114 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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"It seems strange that being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis could be a good thing, a positive thing, that Multiple Sclerosis could make someone a better person."
Back in 1991 Anna Healey was told that MS was devastating, that it would destroy her body and undermine her self worth. The overwhelming response from people she met back then was negative. She recalls "no-one ever discussed how empowering something like this could be ... my disease has taught me to accept my faults, my strengths, my weaknesses, my talents - my self ... it has also taught me to enjoy life in all its guises, the small pleasures as well as the big ones".
Anna Healey's world was turned upside down, when at 28 years of age she found out she had multiple sclerosis. The reality of her diagnosis initially seemed to be a life sentence, and coming to terms with the effects of MS left her feeling depressed and dependent.
The severity and onset of MS varies from one person to another, but for Anna it meant she lost the effective use of her legs and had difficulty walking and maintaining her balance due to paralysis and spasms. Suddenly the simplest of tasks became near impossible due to the pain and limited mobility, as she tried to care for a small baby, and look after her health. Hiring a wheelchair and finding the courage to use it, was one of many physical and emotional hurdles along the way, a tough decision for such a self-sufficient and fun-loving person.
These days Anna has rediscovered her independence, she drives (a white convertible no less, with modified hand controls), works part-time as a drama teacher and helps run a surf shop. She has a wicked sense of humour, and enjoys zipping into the disabled spot in her convertible and challenging the conventional wisdom and stereotypes of people with disabilities, who apparently should only be seen driving a sensible car!
Not an athletic person in her youth (in fact someone who actively avoided all sport and had an excuse for every occasion) Anna has become an accomplished solo sailor, competing in the national and world championships, as well as being the only women to participate in the 2000 Paralympic trials. She is also an ambassador and role model for people with disabilities, and through her public speaking and media activities raises awareness about MS in schools and amongst the general public. Her successes, enthusiasm, optimism and determination to enjoy life, continue to inspire others to achieve their best.
Anna's book is a very personal and honest account of living with multiple sclerosis. She talks openly about the effect MS has on her life, and that of her family and close friends. The difficulties and despair she felt initially and the incredible new highs she has found. After seeking to find a reason and answer the question "Why me?" she came to the realisation "Why Not Me?" and decided to "live life to the max" from that point on. This change in attitude marked the beginning of many new adventures and was a turning point. That's not to say life suddenly became easy, but she says she has learnt to get on with it, and found there is plenty to enjoy.
Question - From your own experience, what words of encouragement would you give to someone who has recently learnt they have MS?
Question - What are your thoughts on accessibility? Is this still as big a problem as it was earlier on, when you had difficulty finding a doctor whose rooms were wheelchair accessible?
Question - It must have been a buzz to compete with such success at top levels of Australian sailing, and to be the only woman amongst 20 men competing at the Paralympic Trails. How did you get started in sailing and are you still aiming for the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens?
Question - Your work as an MS Ambassador and now author has done much to raise awareness about Multiple Sclerosis and change people's attitudes towards people with disabilities. Is your passion for "breaking rules and doing the unexpected" part of this message?
Question - There have been many advances over the last decade that have enhanced the quality of life for people with a range of medical conditions. What are some of the positive developments and research initiatives you are aware of concerning multiple sclerosis?
In April this year the Victorian Government provided a funding grant for the development of the Multiple Sclerosis Society's $7.5 million National Neurological Centre research and service facility. The "Nerve Centre" has shifted the focus from disease and disability to health, wellness, empowerment, confidence and hope. It is designed to offer individuals, carers and families from across Victoria assistance, assessment and advice. In addition it will provide leading edge physical and emotional support which focuses on enhancing overall wellness rather than relying on high cost medical treatment. These services have already enabled many people with MS to lead better and more fulfilling lives.
Spokesperson for people with MS, Ms Anna Healey said "the support by the government and the community dramatically reduces the impact of isolation so often experienced by people with MS and other neurological conditions. It's good to know that the Government embraces this vital project. It impresses me enormously that so many people care."
Anna Healey lives in Melbourne with her husband and daughter. Her busy life includes being a mother and wife, working part time as a drama teacher, helping run the family business, competitive sailing and public speaking. The opportunity to publish her story presented itself unexpectedly at a fundraising luncheon, her first response being "It's not over yet and whose got the time?". Then quietly, the lady on her left, Krista Bell, leaned forward and said "You may not have the time, but I may". This partnership resulted in the recently published book "Why Not Me?". Although hesitant at first, Anna hopes that her story will make others believe that the impossible is possible. Also, that it will give people a positive story to read about MS that may help make that initial struggle not so lonely.
Why Not Me?, My Journey with MS by Anna Healey is published as a paperback edition by Macmillan Australia and is available in bookshops. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the MS Society. Anna is also an MS Ambassador and a motivational speaker, for those who need that extra "push" in life. If you would like Anna to speak at your club, organisation, business or group she can be contacted via the MS Society of Victoria.
Book reviewed by e-bility.
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Curriculum project: Introducing an inquiry-based project on farmsGormley, Melissa A. (State University of New York at Fredonia, 2018-12-20)This Master’s curriculum project focused on creating a developmentally appropriate curriculum for a toddler classroom. The findings from the literature review suggested that a curriculum should include meaningful experiences for children to explore with all senses. Findings further find the curriculum should be child-centered, interactive and age appropriate. This resulted in a professional development inquiry project for toddlers to experience farm life through picture books and interactive learning segments throughout play. | <urn:uuid:16ccb4dd-ce4a-4e4d-9d40-ce68999c7e53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/16/browse?type=author&value=Gormley%2C+Melissa+A. | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.918665 | 141 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The almost daily toll of deaths and injuries in US coal mines continued this week with the loss of two young miners in Kentucky and West Virginia, just days after five coal miners were killed in a mine explosion in eastern Kentucky. The latest deaths bring the number of coal industry fatalities in the first five months of the year to 33, well over the 22 miners killed in all of 2005.
On Tuesday, Steven T. Bryant, 23, of Louisa, Kentucky, was killed when his water truck went over an embankment and crashed at an open-pit mine in Breathitt County. Bryant had only been on the job for about a month at the Risner Branch No. 2 Mine and was normally employed as a rock truck driver, according to Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher.
The death of the young worker—the sixth fatality in a Kentucky mine in four days and the eleventh in the state so far this year—took place as relatives and co-workers were burying the five miners killed May 20 at the Darby Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The following day Todd Lewis Upton, 34, an underground scoop operator, was killed at the Sycamore No. 2 Mine in Harrison County, West Virginia, when he was apparently hit in the head by a wooden board while operating equipment underground. Like the miner killed on the previous day, Upton had only recently been hired and had worked at the mine less than eight months.
The West Virginia mine is owned by Wolf Run Mining Co., a subsidiary of International Coal Group. ICG is a growing player in the US coal industry, and also operates the Sago Mine, where 12 coal miners were killed January 2. ICG owner Wilbur Ross—a billionaire New York financier— has made a fortune in buying and selling bankrupt steel mills, auto parts factories, coal mines and other industrial assets. His Ashland, Kentucky-based company, which was formed in 2004 after the acquisition of Horizon Natural Resources, once the nation’s fourth largest coal company, controls 916 million tons of coal reserves and has 11 mining complexes in Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and Illinois.
After the fatal blast at Sago forced the temporary shutdown of the mine, some of its employees were transferred to Sycamore, located 56 miles away. Like the Sago Mine, Sycamore has been repeatedly cited for gross violations of federal safety and health regulations, even though it just began operating during the second quarter of 2005. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has cited the mine 49 times since January, for violations ranging from not having the proper guards on machinery to failing to control explosive coal dust. According to MSHA records the mine has a non-fatal injury rate that is nearly a third higher than the national average for similar operations.
Last month MSHA inspectors cited Sycamore five times for “unwarrantable failure,” a citation that means mine managers have “engaged in aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence.” According to the Charleston Gazette, two of the five orders concerned alleged failure to conduct proper pre-shift safety examinations, a violation that was also cited repeatedly at the Sago Mine and prompted the criminal prosecution of one former Sago foreman. The other three Sycamore violations concerned alleged failure to control the accumulation of combustible materials underground, according to MSHA records.
These miserable working conditions—which have already caused the death of a miner—have promoted no more than a slap on the wrist from state and federal mine inspectors, who under the Bush administration have been ordered to “partner” with the coal bosses. For its egregious safety violations at the Sycamore Mine, ICG has been assessed $4,494 in federal penalties since 2005 and has paid $1,250.
With rising coal prices and profits, coal operators have rushed to hire new younger, workers and send them into the mines with little, if any, training. In many cases more experienced laid-off miners have stayed away from these jobs because of the low pay, lack of safety, and nonunion conditions. After more than two decades of high unemployment, mine owners are counting on the economic desperation in Appalachia to fill their demand for labor. At the same time some operators have called for relaxing restrictions on immigration in order to lure low-wage workers from Mexico and elsewhere to the coalfields.
After more than two decades of betrayed strikes and complicity with the mine bosses and Democratic Party to cut labor costs, there is little more than a shell left of the United Mine Workers union in its former strongholds of West Virginia and Kentucky. Having driven down wages and decimated working conditions—fought for by coal miners for decades—the coal operators are sharply driving up production while only marginally increasing employment in the industry. This factor, along with years of safety deregulation by both big-business parties, has made these tragedies inevitable.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Thursday that federal mining officials in 1999 were so concerned about the coal miners’ inability to use complicated emergency oxygen respirators that they proposed increasing training sessions to four times a year, instead of once a year—a mandate that is also generally ignored. A 130-page draft of the proposed safety standard obtained by the Post described multiple mine disasters or near-disasters where the lack of training rendered the oxygen packs practically useless, including a 1984 fire at a Utah mine where 27 miners died. The device in question was the CSE SR-100 “Self-Contained, Self-Rescuer,” a 20-year-old technology that was used by miners at Sago and Darby Mine No. 1 in Kentucky, where five miners died last weekend.
In addition to the fact that the respirators only provide, at best, one hour of clean air, surviving miners at Sago and Darby complained that the oxygen packs have failed operate in many cases.
Although the questionable reliability of the respirators and the lack of training was well understood to have caused the deaths of dozens of miners, the proposal to increase inspections of the respirators and training for the miners, as well as mandating mine owners to store additional supplies of oxygen in the mines, was not made by then-head of MSHA David McAteer until near the end of the Clinton administration, in 1999. The proposed change was then not acted upon, and once the Bush administration took over in 2001 the proposed standard was scrapped because of “resource constraints and changing safety and health regulatory priorities.” | <urn:uuid:2ba7c35d-cc26-46ef-846b-da4734c6098d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/05/mine-m26.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.974963 | 1,339 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Some basic CLI commands for configuring the network, vSwitches and portgroups from command line..
This is not an exhausted list of commands, just few of them. While working through putty session you need to know them. At first the root access to your esx host is disabled by default. You can (thus it’s not really recommended) activate the root access to your ESX Server by modifying one configuration file.
If you don’t want to activate the SSH access for a root account, you must connect to your ESX Server via another account (previously created) and do a command switch like that (su stays for switch user):
Then you’ll be able to enter the root password for your root account. Let’s move and see other commands you can use and they’re usefull.
To see the list of NICs attached to your esx host:
For example your output will look like that:
VMware ESX CLI networking commands
I have four NICs configured on my ESX server, which is running for testing as a VM inside of VMware Workstation 7 which is a real flexible choice for my testing and learning. If you prepare for your VCP exam, some of those commands might be in the questions.
Ok Let’s moove on. Then, you might want to list to see number of vSwitches configured on your ESX host. For that you’ll be using command:
And the output will look like that:
If you want to check with the VI client, the network configuration will looks like this:
There is a huge amount of commands to remember. Or not. For now I’m putting on just those to remember. But I’ll be back with some more.
- Basic VMware ESX CLI networking commands – this post
- VMware ESX – Configuration of Service console via CLI
- Adding second service console via CLI
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The Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is a small marine (saltwater) fish in the Labridae family of wrasse.
The Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse is a rectangular fish with a wide, long, black stripe on its side, from its eye to its tail. Its body is white. Its white body can change to bright electric blue.
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The Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse (Coris festiva or Coris julis) is a small marine (saltwater) fish in the Labridae family of wrasse.
The Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse has a colourful, thin, elongated body. The male is green, blue, or brown with a white belly, a dark-blue spot near its tail fin, and a bright orange band along its side. The female is brown with yellowish sides and a white belly.
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The Checkerboard Wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) is a marine (saltwater) fish in the wrasse family. It is also known as the Marble Wrasse.
The Checkerboard Wrasse has a thin and elongated body. It is white to green in colour with blue to black on the ede of its scales, which looks like a checkerboard. Its head is greenish with pink lines and dots behind its eyes to the base of its dorsal (back) fin. It has a bright yellow spot near its dorsal fin. Both its sex and appearance change during its life.
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The Spotfin Hogfish (Bodianus pulchellus) is a marine (salwater) fish in the Wrasse family. It is also known as the Cuban Hogfish.
The Spotfin Hogfish has a red body with a yellow ray-finned tail.
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The Pearl Wrasse (Anampses cuvier) is a small tropical saltwater (marine) ray-finned fish. It is in the Labridae family.
The male Pearl Wrasse is blue with red eyes and white spots. The female Pearl Wrasse is reddish-brown with white spots and red eyes. It has red fins. It has a black spot on its tail and often black spots on the fin near the tail (anal fin). Its red dorsal fin (back fin) has 8-21 spines and 6-21 soft rays along most of its back. It has a thick lip, with folds inside the lip.
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The Bird Wrasse (Gomphosus varius) is a medium-sized ray-finned marine fish.
The Bird Wrasse has an elongated body with a truncated tail and a long nose (snout). The end of its snout is similar to a bird’s beak. It is blue-green, with a darker blue-green head, yellow-green dorsal fins and yellow-green tail fins. Females are duller in colour.
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Marketing Management and Analysis Marketing essay
- Length: 8 pages
- Sources: 5
- Subject: Education - Computers
- Type: essay
- Paper: #5657377
Excerpt from essay :
Business users will be charged $45 a month for data. By giving back the revenue to the carriers, which they may use for subsidies, Apple is hoping to dramatically increase its volume, as well as sell more Macintosh computers to iPhone users" (Markoff 2008).
This tradeoff illustrates an important aspect of marketing any new technology -- not only must the product be affordable, but so must the service itself. Apple is striving to convince consumers that using as well as buying the iPhone is financially feasible and also hopes its attractive pricing strategy for the iPhone will convert more consumers to the use of its other product, like Macs, because of the satisfaction they derive from the iPhone. Additionally, while business users are charged more per month because they use more data services, Apple also has tried to still make the iPhones attractive to businesses, by selling them the phone at a subsidized cost (Holson, 2008).
Distribution -- how distributed, what channels, why Apple's effective use of its Apple stores, with highly trained staff members who can help consumers with problems stemming from Macs to MP3 technology is one of its many innovations. This encourages consumers to become full 'Apple' users in every facet of their technological lives. It enables pro-Apple sales staff to talk directly to consumers in a persuasive format. Apple markets its products directly to consumers as well as through retail outlets and targets ordinary consumers, and also business consumers (Holson 2008).
Promotion -- means of communicating to the target or other audience -- rationale, analysis, effectiveness
Apple also uses the web, commercials disseminated on YouTube, and even capitalizes upon the media's fascination with the company, as it delighted in the nightly news broadcast sights of individuals camping outside of Apple stores, to be the first in line to get the new iPhone. Apple uses technology to market technology as well as markets directly to businesses, appealing to business' unique needs and services.
Analysis of the selected product/service/company life cycle -- implications for the company
Apple would seem to be heading into its maturity phase as a company in the United States, but internationally it is still growing. Also if it introduces new, desirable technology, demand will spike and reduce any potential 'saturation effect,' especially if the new technology has global potential. This is why expanding into new nations and capitalizing upon increased demand, especially in areas with booming populations and technological literacy like India, is so essential.
Overall review of each competitor's marketing efforts
Nokia's current domination and financial success may seem testimony to the idea that 'if it isn't broke, don't fix it.' However, Nokia cannot afford to discount all of Apple's future plans for international expansion in the luxury mobile phone market, especially if Apple enables its phones to become more affordable in the future with subsidy agreements with providers. Apple is a larger company, and offers more services and products to consumers. This enables Apple to take an initial loss financially to create a loyal consumer base through offering deep discounts, although Nokia currently has the stronger foothold in the wireless market internationally.
If one could sum up in a word what Nokia lacks in relation to Apple it is this -- 'sexiness.' Apple's name instantly calls to mind a particular style and approach, a youthful, technologically-forward image. Nokia, for all of its ubiquity abroad does not have an image. It has a variety of options, of course for its branding -- it could market itself as the 'anti-Apple' in terms of its affordability, but this might prove problematic, given that Apple's large size as a company and its ability to subsidize carriers could make a price war dangerous. Its main advantage is in terms of the high quality of its cell phone service, in comparison to almost all other providers abroad.
Clearly, Nokia wants to establish itself as a media and entertainment company, as well as a wireless Internet provider: Recently, it purchased a media-sharing website called Twango and has been pursuing new research and development ventures, but it still lags behind Apple as a media source (Balan 2007). Tailoring its services, cost, or other aspects of service to local needs to take advantage of its greater knowledge of international markets in comparison to Apple might be one way to capitalize upon its current strong international consumer base. Nokia dominates India and other major developing world markets, and to provide services that are of particular interest to that region would give it a competitive advantage in the developing world. Of course, it would be ideal if Nokia could offer a similar device as the iPhone, only with better capabilities, speed, and at a lower cost. Then customers would likely question their loyalty to Apple even in America and current Nokia users would continue to champion Nokia abroad -- but until then Nokia's future, although currently strong cannot be described as 'music to one's (iPod-wearing) ears.'
Apple iPhone." (2008). CNET. Retrieved 6 Aug 2008 at http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/apple-iPhone-8gb-at/4505-6452_7-32309245.html
Balan, Elena. (30 Jul 2007). Nokia to make iPhone competition with new music download service." So ftpedia.com.Retrieved 6 Aug 2008 at http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nokia-to-Make-iPhone-Competition-with-New-Music-Download-Service-61324.shtml
Holson, Laura M, (2008)."AT&T targets business customers with iPhone." The New York Times. Retrieved 6 Aug 2008 at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/att-targets-business-customers-with-iPhone/index.html?ref=technology
Markoff, John. (10 Jun 2008). "Apple aims for the masses with a cheaper iPhone." The New York
Times. Retrieved 6 Aug 2008 at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/technology/10apple.html?_r=1&sq=Apple&st=cse&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=2&adxnnlx=1218049392-5CLn2Z9oIVEtj52vanzSQw
Nokia. (2008). Official Website. http://www.nokia.com/
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If you had recently bought the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet, you will probably want to see what it is really capable of. But, in order to test and also improve its performances, you will have to make some changes into its system first and the perfect way to start doing this is by learning how to root and install a custom recovery image (we will use ClockworkMod Recovery) on your Galaxy Tab 2 GT P3110 device. This is exactly what we will be checking during the following lines, so for the proper procedure check the step by step guide from below.
I know that the Tab 2 is a powerful tablet that comes with high end specs, but, as you might know, there are many apps and tools that require root access before being able to install and use the same. Furthermore, if you will want to customize, optimize or power up the Android based system than you will also have to root your gadget. Of course, if you want to complete more complex operations, like applying beta firmware, or custom ROMs, gaining root access is really not an option for you; and, as we will bring a how to guide in which you will be able to learn how to flash such a custom ROM on your Tab 2, then you must read and perform the steps included in this tutorial.
There is one more thing to consider though. In order to be able to apply the up mentioned operations, you will have to get and install the ClockworkMod Recovery custom recovery image on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. A recovery image is used when you want to flash a firmware, or an update form the SD card, or for making ROM backups, or maintenance and restorations procedures. You must install CWM if you want to have full access to your tablet’s internal system. But, don’t worry as I will show you how to complete both tasks by following just one guide, the one that you are reading right now.
Anyway, you must be careful, because you are about to unchain the system which is running on your Tab 2. This means that by gaining root access, you will also void the Samsung warranty. So, don’t try to mess things up as you can brick your tablet and there’s no one to help you. That’s why you must follow and apply the present tutorial only for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, model version GT P3110 devices; if you perform the same on similar gadgets, than you will risk in wrecking them out. Take note, that the warranty can be restored only by updating the Tab with the official Android OS, or by relocking its bootloader.
Another thing that you must take care of is referring to your personal data stored on your tablet. For avoiding bad things for happening you should back up all of your info first. You can make it in different ways, it doesn’t matter how; but if you want a helping hand, you have some tips here: backup the contacts by syncing with Google, save the text messages, or emails by downloading backup and restore apps for Android, use a computer for saving other files like videos or images, backup internet settings by following this guide. As soon as you are done with the backup, you should begin in resolving the next pre requisites:
- Install the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 P3110 drivers (download link: 32 bit; 64bit) to your computer.
- Charge the battery of your tablet as it might turn off in the middle of the process and we don’t want that to happen.
- Deactivate the security programs installed on your PC and on your tablet.
We are about to get started, so read all carefully and try to follow my directions. Don’t do things by yourselves.
How to Root and Install ClockworkMod Recovery on Galaxy Tab 2 GT P3110
- Download the CWM file from here.
- Download the rooting package from here.
- Download Odin.
- Place these files on your computer.
- Then, connect the tablet with the PC.
- Copy the CWM – root file you just downloaded from the PC to the tablet’s internal memory.
- Disconnect the Tab 2 by removing the USB cord.
- Turn it off.
- Then reboot and enter in download mode.
- For download mode: press the Volume Down Key and Power button and then when you see the Yellow triangle, press the Volume Down key to enter the Tab 2 P3110 in the download mode.
- On the PC extract and then open Odin.
- Connect the device again with the PC.
- On Odin the ID:COM section should now be yellow.
- Click on “PDA” and select the files copied before.
- Click on “Start”.
- In the end the tablet should reboot.
- Disconnect it from the computer and turn it off.
- Reboot and enter in recovery mode: press the Volume down rocker key and power button.
- In recovery mode, choose to perform a full wipe of the system: select “Wipe data factory reset” and “Wipe cache partition”.
- Then “+++go back+++” and “reboot system now”.
- Remember to download the Super user app from Google Play.
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Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Health & Healing
An antacid or an aspirin may soothe your pain, but it doesn’t cure the cause of your symptoms. Headaches, indigestion, fatigue, allergies, anxiety, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are clues to a deeper imbalance in your body, and learning to read those clues is a key step in maintaining optimal health. Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body’s signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You’ll learn how each of your major body systems — respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more — optimally functions, and you’ll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems. Groves includes in-depth instructions, with step-by-step photographs, for making your own herbal remedies, as well as expert guidance on buying and effectively using commercial preparations. | <urn:uuid:dc5f587b-ddcb-451d-b8b6-0f80754272f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.penguinbookshop.com/ebook/9781612125367 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.900509 | 226 | 2.171875 | 2 |
|Publication number||US6673036 B1|
|Application number||US 09/687,452|
|Publication date||Jan 6, 2004|
|Filing date||Oct 13, 2000|
|Priority date||Oct 13, 1999|
|Also published as||US6840918|
|Publication number||09687452, 687452, US 6673036 B1, US 6673036B1, US-B1-6673036, US6673036 B1, US6673036B1|
|Inventors||James Joseph Britto|
|Original Assignee||The First Years Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (12), Referenced by (76), Classifications (10), Legal Events (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims priority from Provisional application Ser. No. 60,159,344, filed Oct. 13, 1999.
This invention relates generally to devices and methods for drawing milk from a human breast.
Many mothers rely on pumps to extract their breast milk. The more such pumps are automated and simulate the natural sucking rhythms of an infant, the easier it can be for a mother to relax and allow her milk to “let down” and flow. Pumps in common use include manually operated mechanical pumps, which require the user to repeatedly manipulate a lever or pedal to produce suction, and electrical pumps, which run on either DC battery or AC line voltage.
With portable pumps, especially ones with electric vacuum sources, it is preferred that the milk only enters the easily washed storage bottle connected to the breast hood. Particularly, milk should be kept from inaccessible vacuum passages and pumping hardware which is not easily cleaned. Many electric pumps, for instance, come with instructions that caution against allowing the pump to tip over or lie on its side with milk in the bottle, as the milk may flow through the vacuum port and into the pumping chamber.
According to one aspect of the invention, a receptacle bulkhead for a portable pumping device for drawing milk from a human breast is provided. The pumping device has a milk receptacle and a vacuum source for applying suction to a hood configured to receive the breast, and the receptacle bulkhead is configured to separately connect the vacuum source and the hood to the milk receptacle. The bulkhead has a housing defining an internal chamber, a milk inlet conduit, a milk outlet conduit and a vacuum port. The milk inlet conduit provides communication between the hood and the internal chamber and extends from one side of the internal chamber with the portable pumping device in an upright position for normal use, such that entering milk tends to flow along a lower side of the conduit. The milk outlet provides communication between the internal chamber and the milk receptacle, and is disposed at a lower end of the internal chamber with the portable pumping device in its upright position. The vacuum port provides communication between the vacuum source and the internal chamber through a vacuum inlet passage within the receptacle bulkhead. The vacuum inlet passage extends a distance along the milk inlet conduit and is separated from the lower side of the conduit, such that with the pumping device in its upright position milk entering from the hood will tend to avoid the vacuum inlet passage and, with the pumping device in a sideways position with the milk inlet conduit extending upward, milk from the receptacle will be inhibited from entering the vacuum inlet passage.
In a presently preferred construction, the internal chamber has a domed upper surface and the vacuum port is disposed at an upper apex of the domed upper surface.
The housing may be of a unitary molded piece of transparent plastic, for example, and may form a top for the milk receptacle, with the milk outlet making a threaded connection between the milk receptacle and the bulkhead housing.
Preferably, the vacuum inlet passage extends beyond the milk outlet toward the hood.
According to another aspect of the invention, a breast pump for drawing milk from a human breast includes a hood configured to receive the breast, a milk receptacle in communication with the hood for storing milk from the breast, a vacuum source for applying suction to the hood, and a one-way valve disposed between the hood and the milk receptacle. The valve includes a cup-shaped valve body with a hole through its bottom, and a flexible membrane flap. The flap is arranged to cover the hole through the valve body when suction is applied to the hood, inhibiting flow between the hood and the milk receptacle, such that milk from the hood is collected in the cup on top of the membrane flap, and to flex, under weight of the collected milk, to expose the hole when hood suction is released, allowing the collected milk to flow from the valve body into the milk receptacle.
In one preferred embodiment, the valve cup is retained in a bulkhead constructed to provide communication between the hood, the milk receptacle, and the vacuum source, with the valve cup engaging the bulkhead at an interface constructed to provide a predetermined amount of air leakage around the valve, between the bulkhead and the milk receptacle, when suction is applied to the hood.
According to another aspect of the invention, a breast pump for drawing milk from a human breast includes a hood configured to receive the breast, a milk receptacle in communication with the hood for storing milk from the breast, a vacuum source for applying suction to the hood, a bulkhead constructed to provide communication between the hood, the milk receptacle, and the vacuum source, and a one-way valve disposed between the hood and the milk receptacle and engaging the bulkhead at an interface. The valve is constructed to close when suction is applied to the hood, and to open when suction is released to let collected milk flow into the milk receptacle. The interface between the valve and the bulkhead is constructed to provide a predetermined amount of air leakage around the valve, between the bulkhead and the milk receptacle, when suction is applied to the hood, for transferring vacuum to the milk receptacle during suction for pulling collected milk into the milk receptacle when suction is released.
Other aspects of the invention include methods of using the above-described pumping devices to extract milk from a human breast. For example, the method of using the pumping device of the first aspect of the invention includes holding the hood of the pumping device against the breast, and activating the pumping device to begin applying repeating pressure cycles to the breast to extract milk. The controller of the pumping device regulates the frequency and intervals of the pressure cycles to be effectively independent of suction, flow rates and power levels.
The improved bulkhead design of the invention can help to avoid milk entering the main body of the pump and pumping chamber, facilitating cleaning. Other features and advantages will be apparent from the following embodiment description.
FIG. 1 illustrates the use of a portable breast pump.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the breast pump.
FIG. 3 is an expanded view of the major components of the pump.
FIG. 3A is an enlarged view of area 3A in FIG. 3.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the lower end of the valve cup, showing the flapper membrane.
FIG. 5 is a top view of the main body of the breast pump.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the main body, taken along line 6—6 in FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a top view of the bulkhead of the breast pump.
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the bulkhead, taken along line 8—8 in FIG. 7.
Referring first to FIG. 1, electric breast pump 10 is operated by holding the hood 12 of the pump against the breast and turning the pump on. Once turned on, pump 10 automatically cycles vacuum pressure applied to the breast to simulate the natural sucking rhythms of an infant. Milk extracted from the breast flows from hood 12 into a removable storage bottle or receptacle 14. When turned off, the pump automatically releases hood vacuum for easy removal from the breast.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the main body 16 of pump 10 forms a graspable handle 18 for holding the pump with one hand during operation. Bottle 14 is connected to body 16 and hood 12 by a 3-way adaptor or vacuum bulkhead 20, through which milk flows from hood 12 to bottle 14 through a valve cup 40. The bottle and hood are suspended from pump body 16 by bulkhead 20, which is released from body 16 by depressing a release plunger 22. The only two user operation controls provided on the pump are an on/off button 24 and a vacuum level adjustment dial 26, which is located on handle 18 for convenient manipulation during operation. Pump 10 is battery-operated, and a power jack 28 at the base of the pump is provided for connecting the pump to household current through a typical AC/DC converter (not shown).
A light-emitting diode (LED) 30 at the top of the pump helps to identify various operation modes. A blinking light during battery operation indicates that the batteries are running low on power. If battery use is continued past a predetermined low voltage level, the pump will automatically cease pumping and will release hood vacuum and turn off LED 30. A fast blinking LED 30 while the pump is plugged into an AC power outlet indicates that the batteries are being controllably drained to a very low voltage (or “refreshed”) to improve recharge-ability. A slow blinking light while plugged in means that the batteries are being recharged. When fully recharged, LED 30 will be turned off.
Hood 12 is a flexible breast shield that is provided with inner bumps 32 that are designed to stimulate milk let down by creating a massaging effect during pumping pressure cycles.
Referring to FIG. 3, a nipple adaptor 34 is designed to be placed within hood 12 to accommodate smaller breasts or nipples, and is provided with additional massaging bumps 32. The nose of hood 12 is releasably pressed over an inlet conduit 36 of bulkhead 20 to form a vacuum-tight connection. Bulkhead 20 is molded of clear plastic and has a lower skirt 38 that makes a threaded connection with the top of bottle 14. A typical gasket (not shown) between bulkhead 20 and the upper edge of the top of bottle 14 makes the connection between bulkhead 20 and bottle 14 vacuum-tight.
Before bulkhead 20 is threaded onto bottle 14, a valve cup 40 is releasably pressed into an inner bore of bulkhead 20 just above skirt 38. A small molded bead 42 about the periphery of the circular top of valve cup 40 provides a seal between the bulkhead 20 and cup 40 about most of the periphery of the cup. A larger bead 44 farther down on cup 40 limits the distance cup 40 is pressed into bulkhead 20 and helps to keep the cup from becoming cocked within the bulkhead. As shown in FIG. 3A, an arched, molded protrusion 46 extends axially across sealing bead 42 at one location about the cup perimeter, and projects radially outward from the side wall of the cup at its midpoint slightly farther than bead 42, creating two small air leak paths across the connection between bulkhead 20 (FIG. 3) and valve cup 40. A corresponding groove 48 through stop bead 44 ensures that bead 44 will not form a controlling seal between the bulkhead and valve cup. In effect, a fixed and small vacuum leak is created around the valve cup, the benefits of which are discussed below. Alternative air leak path constructions may be employed, such as a slit through bead 42 or a fixed orifice molded or pierced through the side of the valve cup body, for instance. Also, instead of providing air leak features on the valve cup, appropriate features may be provided on the inner surface of bulkhead 20 where the valve cup engages the bulkhead.
Referring back to FIG. 3, when assembled valve cup 40 extends from bulkhead 20 down into bottle 14 and forms a one-way valve between the bulkhead and the bottle. When vacuum is applied to the interior of bulkhead 20 and valve cup 40, a flexible flapper membrane 50 is drawn up to cover two slots 52 through the bottom of valve cup 40, thereby enabling the vacuum source of the pump to more quickly produce the desired level of vacuum at the breast by not evacuating the volume of bottle 14 below valve cup 40. During suction, milk flowing from hood 12 is collected in the valve cup. Upon release of vacuum pressure, the weight of collected milk in cup 40 helps to lower membrane 50 to let the collected milk drop into bottle 14. At the start of the next vacuum cycle, membrane 50 is again drawn against the lower surface of cup 40 to cover slotted holes 52 and enable rapid increase in hood vacuum.
The lower end of valve cup 40 is illustrated in FIG. 4. The primary structure of cup 40 is molded of semi-rigid polypropylene with a bottom surface forming a gentle arc such that milk is directed toward a slot 52 formed through the lower surface of the cup near each of two opposite sides. Membrane 50 is formed of a resilient, flexible material and staked, snapped or otherwise fastened to the primary structure of the cup at its midpoint, such that it forms two freely cantilevered flaps corresponding to the two holes 52 in the bottom of the cup. In the illustrated embodiment, the membrane is of molded silicone rubber having a nominal thickness of about 0.025 inch (0.6 millimeter) and an extent of about ¾ inch by ¾ inch (20 millimeters per side). A molded projection from the upper surface of the membrane (not shown) is snapped into a corresponding hole in the bottom of the valve cup body. Raised bumps 54 opposite slots 52 help to add rigidity to the membrane flaps and help to avoid sucking the membrane too far into slots 52.
Referring back to FIGS. 3 and 3A, release of collected milk from valve cup 40 is aided by the fixed, small amount of leakage built into the seal between the valve cup and bulkhead 20 (described above with reference to the intersection of seal bead 42 and projection 46 of the valve cup). During the suction portion of the pumping cycle, during which the interior of bulkhead 20, valve cup 40 and hood 12 are evacuated, the fixed leakage about valve cup 40 enables a slow, progressive evacuation of air from the interior of bottle 14, creating by the end of the suction cycle a low level of vacuum within the bottle. When the vacuum in the bulkhead is rapidly released at the end of the suction cycle, the low level of vacuum in bottle 14, below valve cup 40, helps to pull membrane 50 away from slots 52 and to pull collected milk through the bottom of the valve cup and into bottle 14, such that valve cup 40 is quickly emptied before the next suction cycle. The amount of leakage designed into the seal between valve cup 40 and bulkhead 20 must be small enough to not inhibit a sufficiently rapid increase in vacuum (i.e., reduction in absolute pressure) in bulkhead 20 and at the breast at the beginning of the suction cycle, but large enough to form enough vacuum in the bottle to deflect membrane 50 away from the bottom of the valve cup and pull the collected milk from the valve cup during the release cycle. In this sense, the controlled leakage acts as a low-pass pressure filter between breast and bottle. The transparent bulkhead 20 and valve cup 40 enable the mother to watch the cyclic filling of the valve cup to monitor the rate and progress of milk extraction.
Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, the main body 16 of the breast pump 10 has a housing comprising left and right halves 54 and 56, an upper button plate 58 and a base plate 60. The handle of the unit accommodates five 1.5-volt rechargeable batteries 62 (shown also in FIG. 3), which are held in place by a removable battery cover 64 and threaded fastener 66. Other major internal components illustrated in FIG. 6 include the pump controller 68 in the form of a printed circuit board with discrete mounted components, an electric pump motor 70, a diaphragm pump 72, a needle valve 74 for adjusting pump vacuum level, and a solenoid 76 for releasing pump pressure.
When the unit is turned on, by pushing power button 24 to activate a power switch 78 mounted on the controller circuit board, motor 70 is energized to continuously run pump 72 until turned off, either by again pushing power button 24 or automatically by controller 68. An eccentric cam 80 translates rotary motion of the motor rotor into reciprocating motion of the push rod of diaphragm pump 72. Diaphragm pump 72 operates as a typical diaphragm pump, sucking air from valve manifold 82 through a flexible hose 84 during one half of each stroke cycle, and pushing air out of an outlet 86 during the other half of each stroke cycle. With the pump fully assembled, valve manifold 82 provides open parallel pneumatic communication between diaphragm pump 72, the bulkhead 20 (shown in FIG. 2, for instance), and needle valve 74. Connection to needle valve 74 is made by flexible tube 88. A release hole (not shown) in the side of manifold 82 is normally covered by the spring-loaded plunger 90 of solenoid 76, enabling diaphragm pump 72 to build vacuum pressure. When solenoid 76 is energized, plunger 90 retracts against its spring, exposing the manifold release hole to quickly release vacuum pressure at the breast. When solenoid 76 is again de-energized, its plunger reseals the release hole and the continuously running diaphragm pump again builds a suction pressure. Alternatively, the solenoid may be configured to cover the release hole of the manifold when energized, and automatically retract to release vacuum when de-energized.
Needle valve 74 is adjusted by turning dial 26, thereby adjusting the extension of screw 92 and the corresponding depression of the plunger of the needle valve, thereby adjusting the controlled vacuum leakage through the needle valve from manifold 82. Alternatively an adjustable pressure relief valve may be employed, which would permit vacuum leakage only when an adjustable vacuum level is exceeded.
Bulkhead release button 22 operates a bulkhead attachment/release mechanism similar to that of the “1068 Breast Pump” marketed by The First Years Inc. in Avon, Mass. The attachment/release mechanism allows the bulkhead to be quickly and sealingly attached to the pumping system by simply pushing the bulkhead upward until it snaps into place. Releasing the attached bulkhead requires depressing release button 22.
Controller 68 contains a timer circuit for controlling the frequency and interval durations of the repeating vacuum pressure cycles based on time. In the illustrated embodiment, the timer circuit hardware is included in an EPROM integrated circuit chip NT66P20 that is programmed to provide the desired control functions. Other devices and methods of monitoring time, such as with various sorts of oscillators, are also known to those of skill in the art of circuit design. Preferably, the method of monitoring (i.e., measuring or tracking) time is essentially independent of pump pressures, flow rates, motor or pump temperatures, and expected variations in physical component characteristics and conditions, such that the desired sucking rhythm is accurately maintained, even as battery voltages begin to drop.
Controller 68 has four primary functions. First, it provides constant power to motor 70 while the unit is turned on. Second, it controls the timing of solenoid 76 to establish and maintain the alternating suction/release rhythm. Third, it operates indicator 30 to communicate information about the operational status of the unit. Fourth, it monitors battery voltage and initiates controlled discharge and recharge as appropriate. Fifth, it initiates a controlled automatic shut-down when necessary.
The first three controller functions have already been discussed. When the unit is turned off but plugged into an AC outlet, controller 68 monitors battery voltage to determine whether or not to recharge, or controllably discharge and then recharge, the batteries. In addition, the controller 68 monitors battery voltage every 3 seconds during motor operation. When battery voltage is below a first threshold but above a lower, second threshold, the controller causes the illuminated LED 30 to blink. To avoid premature LED blinking from transient low voltage conditions, controller 68 must identify a low voltage condition at least 30 times before causing LED 30 to blink. When voltage drops below the second threshold for at least 4 to 6 consecutive voltage measurements, controller 68 determines that battery voltage has fallen too low to permit safe, continued operation of the unit within desirable performance specifications and initiates an automatic shutdown. Before shutting down completely, controller 68 first energizes solenoid 76 for 2 seconds to release any residual vacuum at the breast to facilitate removal of the breast hood.
Referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, bulkhead 20 is unitarily molded of clear polycarbonate and provides a sealed hydraulic connection between the pump vacuum source (through an upper vacuum port 94), the breast hood (through a milk inlet 96) and the bottle (threadably connected to lower bulkhead skirt 38). Bulkhead 20 defines an internal chamber 98 that is evacuated during the suction portion of the pressure cycle. The milk inlet conduit 100 has a molded groove 102 for receiving an internal rib of the breast hood (not shown) and a stop shoulder 104. The milk inlet extends from one side of internal chamber 98 when the bulkhead is mounted on the pump in an upright position for normal use (skirt down), such that entering milk tends to flow along lower side 106 of inlet conduit 100. Notably, communication between chamber 98 and vacuum port 94 is through a vacuum inlet passage 108 that extends a distance toward and along milk inlet conduit 100. Vacuum inlet passage 108 is well above the lower side of the conduit, such that with the pumping device in its upright position milk entering from the hood will tend to avoid the vacuum inlet passage. With the pump in a sideways position with milk inlet conduit 100 extending upward, such as if the unit falls onto its side opposite the breast hood, the open end of inlet passage 108 is high enough to prevent milk from the bottle from flowing into the vacuum inlet passage 108 and contaminating or wetting components of the pump vacuum source. Additionally, inner baffle 110 helps to protect the vacuum source from milk spray or splash, such as if the unit is inadvertently shaken or dropped. Bulkhead 20 may be employed to advantage with many types of electric or manual breast pumps, and is particularly useful with portable units that are prone to being dropped, tilted or shaken.
Other embodiments are within the scope of the invention, as defined by the appended claims. For example, rhythm adjustment means may be added, such as in the form of dials or screws, for adjusting the timing of the suction and release portions of the cycle as controlled by the controller.
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As the Omicron variant sweeps the country — pressing many hospitals into crisis mode — data from New York is offering a glimmer of hope.
The state is “turning the corner on the winter surge,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.
After a peak positivity rate of 23% on January 3, it’s now 16.3% and Covid-19 hospitalizations have also started to decline, she said at a news conference.
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She reported 49,027 new Covid-19 cases, adding that this “is a very positive trend” as the state reported over 90,000 cases just a week ago.
Nearly two weeks ago, as New Yorkers returned to work after the New Year’s holiday, Hochul’s message was far grimmer, warning the state was “not in a good place” due to the rapid spread of the virus.
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On Friday, she added that residents needed to remain vigilant.
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Also, two years into the pandemic, more than 1 in 5 eligible Americans have not received any dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On Friday, the CDC updated its mask guidance, including clarifying that certain types of masks and respirators offer more protection from the coronavirus than others.
“Masking is a critical public health tool to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and it is important to remember that any mask is better than no mask,” the CDC said in a statement.
The updated information recommends that Americans wear the most protective mask or respirator they can find that fits well.
At least one expert wishes the guidance had come sooner.
“We have known for a year that Covid is airborne, and mask quality matters,” said CNN medical analyst and former City of Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen.
“At least wear a surgical mask with a cloth mask on top of that. Just a single layer of cloth mask is just not enough. If the guidelines had been changed months ago, we may not be where we are with Omicron,” she said.
Study: Omicron is ‘inherently milder’ than Delta among children under 5
Although the current Covid-19 wave is impacting children across the US with record high infections and school closures, a new study says that the Omicron variant is “inherently milder” among children under 5, with infection leading to “significantly less severe outcomes” than the Delta variant.
The preprint study found about a 70% reduction in hospitalizations, ICU admissions and mechanical ventilation among children infected with Omicron compared with those infected with Delta.
It also found a 29% reduction in visits to the emergency room.
About 1% of children infected with Omicron were hospitalized, compared with about 3% of children with Delta.
“Despite this encouraging result, further studies are needed to monitor the longer-term acute consequences from Omicron infection, the propensity for development of ‘long COVID,’ the rapidity of spread, potential for mutation, and how prior infections alter clinical responses,” researchers of the study wrote.
The study included about 7,000 children infected during a time when the Omicron variant was predominant and about 63,000 children infected when the Delta variant was predominant.
Data on deaths was not included, as there were few reported.
Overall, Covid-19 deaths nationally have lagged from the worst of last winter’s surge, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The US averaged 1,659 Covid-19 deaths a day over the past week, compared with a peak daily average of 3,402 on January 13, 2021.
Child hospitalizations at a record level in Alabama
In Alabama, which has one of the lowest child vaccination rates in the country, pediatric hospitalizations are at a record high.
“In the crisis of higher virus transmission with the Omicron variant, immediate measures are critical,” Alabama Department of Health District Medical Officer Dr. Wes Stubblefield said in a statement.
The department, along with the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is urging parents to minimize children’s exposure to the virus in schools and public places, wear well-fitting masks and get vaccinated if eligible.
The state’s largest school system will go virtual next week to address the uptick in Covid-19 cases.
The number of positive cases have made it “difficult to staff many of our schools,” said Mobile County Public Schools Superintendent Chresal Threadgill.
Although students are expected to return to class on January 24, that decision will be made taking into account current Covid-19 numbers.
There were 16,035 cases of Covid-19 in Alabama schools this week with all but four of the 143 districts reporting.
Child vaccination rates are also low in Alabama. About 10.5% of children in the 5-11 age group and 35.5% in the 12-17 age group are reported to have initiated vaccinations. The rate for at least one dose nationally is 27% in the 5-11 age group and 64% in the 12-17 range, according to the American Association of Pediatrics.
Nationally, many school districts that had started remote learning due to high Covid-19 cases among students and staff are planning to return to in-person classes in the next few weeks.
In Philadelphia and New Jersey most schools will reopen on Tuesday.
Clark County School District, the largest in Nevada and the fourth largest in the US, is taking a pause to deal with staffing shortages but hopes to resume in-person classes mid next week.
And Cincinnati Public Schools will be back in class on January 24 if staffing levels are sufficient to safely reopen schools, officials said.
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Environmental degradation resulting from long-term drought and land use change has affected terrestrial carbon (C) stocks within Africa's Sahel. We estimated Senegal's terrestrial carbon stocks in 1965, 1985, and 2000 using an inventory procedure involving satellite images revealing historical land use change, and recent field measurements of standing carbon stocks occurring in soil and plants. Senegal was divided into eight ecological zones containing 11 land uses. In 2000, savannas, cultivated lands, forests, and steppes were the four largest land uses in Senegal, occupying 70, 22, 2.7, and 2.3 percent of Senegal's 199,823km2. System C stocks ranged from 9tCha-1 in degraded savannas in the north, to 113tCha-1 in the remnant forests of the Senegal River Valley. This approach resulted in estimated total C stocks of 1019 and 727MTC between 1965 and 2000, respectively, indicating a loss of 292MTC over 35 years. The proportion of C residing in biomass decreased with time, from 55 percent in 1965 to 38 percent in 2000. Calculated terrestrial C flux for 1993 was -7.5MTCyear-1 and had declined by 17 percent over the previous 18 years. Most of the terrestrial C flux in 1993 was attributed to biomass C reduction. Human disturbance accounted for only 22 percent of biomass C loss in 1993, suggesting that the effects of long-term Sahelian drought continue to play an overriding role in ecosystem change. Some carbon mitigation strategies for Senegal were investigated, including potential C sequestration levels. Opportunities for C mitigation exist but are constrained by available knowledge and access to resources. ?? 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Read our guide to performing hands-only CPR on someone who is in cardiac arrest. It means they have collapsed, are not breathing normally and are unresponsive.
First call 999 and push hard and fast in the centre of their chest to the beat of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees until an ambulance arrives.
Watch the Vinnie Jones advert below for tips on how to do this:
Here's some more advice on performing CPR:
- It's been shown that chest compressions are often carried out at the wrong depth and speed so ‘hard and fast’ is a very simple message that lots of people will hopefully remember. ‘Hard’ means pushing on the chest to a depth of 5cm to 6cm, and ‘fast’ means 100-120 compressions a minute, roughly the same speed as Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees.
- If someone has collapsed, is not breathing normally and is not responsive to shaking and shouting then Hands-only CPR can increase their chances of survival prior to a defibrillator and professional help arriving.In the first few minutes after cardiac arrest, the casualty may be barely breathing, or taking infrequent noisy gasps. This is called agonal breathing and must not be confused with normal breathing. If someone is unresponsive and their breathing is noisy, infrequent or doesn’t seem normal, start hands-only CPR.
- If someone carries out early CPR, it may double a casualty’s chances of survival. Hands-only CPR should increase the number of bystander interventions and save lives.
- Children's ribs are flexible so you’re very unlikely to cause damage through hands-only CPR. Use two fingers for an infant under a year and one or two hands for a child over a year to make sure you compress the chest by about one third of its depth. If you’ve been taught how to give rescue breaths then these should be used to help children; give five rescue breaths before you start chest compressions, then give two rescue breaths after every 30 chest compressions.
- Rescuers should continue to deliver hands-only CPR until professional help arrives and takes over, or they become exhausted. You can also stop chest compressions if the casualty shows signs of regaining consciousness, such as coughing, opening their eyes, speaking, moving purposefully, as well as breathing normally. Ideally, if there is more than one rescuer they should swap over every two minutes until a defibrillator arrives to prevent tiredness.
- Cardiac arrest takes priority over anything else, so yes. If you don’t give hands-only CPR then you are reducing the chance of the casualty surviving. It may seem a difficult decision but saving someone’s life takes priority over other injuries.
- Rescuers should always listen to the ambulance operator as they will be best placed to tell you how to help properly. If you’re trained, the operator will probably talk you through CPR with rescue breaths but if not, they’ll probably guide you through hands-only CPR.
- Chest compressions alone will only very rarely be able bring someone out of a cardiac arrest. Most of the time a defibrillator is needed to ‘shock’ the heart to allow a normal heart rhythm to return. Hands-only CPR will help keep some oxygenated blood going to the brain before a defibrillator arrives and is an important link in the chain of survival.
- Hands-only CPR works best when an ambulance arrives within a few minutes. But even when help takes longer to arrive, hands-only CPR is better than no CPR, so carry on until an ambulance arrives.
- Removing someone’s clothing on the upper chest will help make hands-only CPR even more effective, so it’s preferable. But rescuers can still carry out chest compressions through thin clothing, like a woman’s blouse.
Sharon Shankster, Lettings Manager at Northfields estate agent, talks about performing CPR on someone who collapsed in front of her:
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In many parts of the country, spring is busting out all over. Temperatures are warming up, and we’re spending more time outdoors. This combination means: ticks. So for pet lovers, it’s time to double-check your safety steps to keep your pets—and you—free of ticks.
Dogs and cats can both get ticks and bring them into your home. Dogs are at special risk for tick bites and the diseases they carry. The Centers for Disease control warns that vaccines can’t keep dogs safe from these diseases, and little can keep your pets from bringing the ticks into your home.
So prevention is the best option:
- Talk to your vet about the most common diseases that ticks in your area carry, signs and symptoms, and how to prevent them.
- On your dogs, use a tick prevention product or chemical that repels them. But don’t’ be tempted to treat your cat this way. These chemicals can be dangerous to Fluffy. Talk to your vet before you treat your cat with any tick prevention product.
- Check your pets every day to see if they have ticks. Remove any right away. (See how, below.)
- If you can, clear out high grasses and shrubs where your pets roam.
- Check mainly on the head, shoulders and chest of your pet. Ticks have trouble crawling through dense fur. So they often end up staying right where they first arrive on your pet.
To remove a tick—on you or your pets:
- Use fine tweezers, and grab the tick as close to the skin as you can.
- Don’t twist or jerk the tick. Instead, pull it upward. Use even and steady pressure.
- If the tick’s mouth is still in the skin and you can’t remove it easily, leave it alone. Clean the area and let it heal.
- Kill the tick. Put it in alcohol, in a sealed bag or wrapped in tape, or flush it down the toilet. Mark your calendar with any dates a tick has bitten you or a pet. If you later see signs of a tick-borne disease, this information might be helpful.
- Don’t use nail polish, petroleum jelly or heat on the tick. Your goal is to remove it as quickly as possible, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.
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ASTM International - ASTM C787-03e1
Standard Specification for Uranium Hexafluoride for Enrichment
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1.1 This specification covers uranium hexafluoride (UF6) intended for feeding to an enrichment plant. Included are specifications for UF6 derived from unirradiated natural uranium and UF6 derived from irradiated uranium that has been reprocessed and converted to UF6 for enrichment and subsequent reuse. The objectives of this specification are twofold: (1) To define the impurity and uranium isotope limits for Commercial Natural UF6 feedstock so that the corresponding enriched uranium is essentially equivalent to enriched uranium made entirely from virgin natural UF6; and (2) To define additional limits for Reprocessed UF 6 (or any mixture of Reprocessed UF6 and Commercial Natural UF6). For such UF6, special provisions may be needed to ensure that no extra hazard arises to the work force, process equipment, or the environment.
1.2 The scope of this specification does not comprehensively cover all provisions for preventing criticality accidents or requirements for health and safety or for shipping. Observance of this specification does not relieve the user of the obligation to conform to all international, federal, state, and local regulations for processing, shipping, or in any other way using UF6 (see, for example, TID-7016, DP-532, ORNL-NUREG-CSD-6, and DOE O 474.1).
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Framework for the Management of Compliance
1. Effective Date
1.1 This Framework takes effect on April 1, 2009.
2.1 This Framework for the Management of Compliance:
2.1.2 Assists in ensuring that responses to non-compliance are managed appropriately and consistently;
2.1.3 Facilitates the identification and sharing of approaches to managing compliance;
2.1.4 Connects learning and development to the management of compliance; and,
2.1.5 Encourages innovation and informed risk-taking to achieve results.
3.1 Excellence in public service management, as summarized in Treasury Board's Management Accountability Framework and applicable codes of conduct, is achieved through innovative, ethical and integrated management practices that are primarily, but not exclusively set in policies. Public servants understand the importance of public service management excellence, and strive to comply with the policies, rules and standards that define and distinguish their decisions and actions. Public servants reflect the highest values and ethics in their work to serve Canadians.
3.2 Managing compliance encompasses making appropriate rules that are known, understood and followed, and for which the consequences of non-compliance are clear and commensurate with risk and context. Managing compliance is an area of shared responsibility where Treasury Board and government decision-makers have an obligation to ensure that rules are clear and coherent, and public servants have an obligation to know and understand the rules and abide by them.
3.3 A tenet of public sector management holds that the means by which an objective is achieved is as important as the objective itself. Legal and Treasury Board policy requirements, including applicable codes of conduct, underpin a minimum standard of behaviour and conduct that, in the opinion of legislators and Ministers, is necessary to safeguard the public trust.
3.4 The Framework for the Management of Compliance, along with the "Foundation Framework for Treasury Board Policies" and the "Risk Management Framework", is one of the key architectural elements of the Treasury Board suite of policies. It establishes principles for managing compliance that apply to all instruments in the Treasury Board policy suite. These principles are reflected in a suggested set of considerations that deputy heads and the Treasury Board Portfolio are expected to normally take into account when deciding on the response to non-compliance with legal and Treasury Board policy requirements and when advising the Treasury Board.
3.5 Examples of consequences to non-compliance are also included in the Framework (Appendices C and D), recognizing that decisions on the appropriate response to non-compliance can be both complex and sensitive and therefore must be examined on a case by case basis. These examples supplement and provide further specificity to consequences outlined in individual Treasury Board policy instruments.
3.6 The size and complexity of government, and the number and scope of legal and policy requirements, means that immediate, full compliance is sometimes a challenge. Treasury Board expects and accepts that institutions and employees will be compliant with new Treasury Board policy requirements within reasonable time frames, and that a transition period is necessary for new Treasury Board policy requirements.
3.7 Where it occurs, non-compliance can result from a variety of factors, including: lack of knowledge and training, gaps in oversight, inaccurate and incomplete interpretation and application of policies and, in some circumstances, culpable misconduct.
3.8 The management of compliance in government differentiates between non-culpable and culpable behaviour. Honest mistakes should be redressed by means intended to realign behaviour and improve performance within expected norms and objectives while culpable behaviour is not tolerated and corrective measures, including disciplinary actions where merited, will be taken.
3.9 A robust compliance management approach identifies the best methods (including training and education) to align behaviour with expectations. It supports innovation and creativity, and provides feedback for continuing reassessment, refinement and development of legal and Treasury Board policy requirements.
4.1 Definitions used in the interpretation of this framework are provided in Appendix A.
5. Relationship to Other Treasury Board Frameworks
5.1 The Framework for the Management of Compliance supports the Management Accountability Framework and complements the "Foundation Framework for Treasury Board Policies", specifically sub-section 5.4 focusing on oversight and consequences, and provides the basis for managing compliance to which other Treasury Board frameworks and mandatory policy instruments align.
6.1 The Framework for the Management of Compliance is systemic in scope and applies to legal and Treasury Board policy requirements.
6.2 While not designed to alter or add particular consequences to specific situations of non-compliance, the Framework serves as a statement of intent that implicates institutions and the individuals who represent them. The Framework assumes that all individuals to whom legal or Treasury Board policy requirements apply, are collectively responsible for compliance with those requirements.
6.3 In their capacity as Accounting Officers, deputy heads need to be cognizant of all applicable legal and policy requirements incumbent upon their institutions above and beyond those requirements falling within the ambit of this Framework.
7.1 The effective management of compliance hinges upon having informed management and employees throughout the various levels of an institution. It is also dependent on the ability of management to integrate the spirit and intent of policies within management culture and its overall plan to achieve management excellence against expectations set out in the Management Accountability Framework. In particular, the Framework is based on the following principles or prerequisites which seek to maximize compliance:
7.1.1 Legal and Treasury Board policy requirements are clear, coherent and reflective of a risk-based approach to managing compliance;
7.1.2 Legal and Treasury Board policy requirements are integrated into the approval processes, procedures and control systems of institutions;
7.1.3 All individuals in the institution are informed of legal and Treasury Board policy requirements that relate to their areas of decision-making. They are knowledgeable and have access to relevant information in order to make decisions that are reflective of legal and Treasury Board policy requirements. They understand these requirements thus facilitating or enabling consensus and consent on the need for compliance;
7.1.4 Compliance with legal requirements and Treasury Board policy is monitored, with the focus of monitoring determined on the basis of risk;
7.1.5 Potential situations of non-compliance are examined; and,
7.1.6 Actual situations of non-compliance are met with appropriate responses.
8. Core Responsibilities in Managing Compliance
8.1 Deputy heads are responsible for, amongst other things:
8.1.1 Embodying public service values and ethics and fostering an organizational culture reflective of the values contained in Treasury Board's applicable codes of conduct;
8.1.2 Ensuring compliance with legal and Treasury Board policy requirements within their institutions while fostering an organizational environment conducive to innovation and informed risk-taking to deliver better value to Canadians;
8.1.3 Ensuring fair, consistent, and transparent application of labour relations practices within their institutions;
8.1.4 Ensuring that employees are properly trained and have access to learning opportunities and relevant information to increase their awareness and knowledge of applicable legal and Treasury Board policy requirements;
8.1.5 As part of good people management, ensuring that performance management is aligned with government priorities and business plans including compliance considerations. Deputy heads should refer to the performance management policies and associated directives and guidelines for the tools that are available to them to address performance management issues;
8.1.6 Establishing a robust environment of internal controls and sound management practices that are transparent, understood and supported in the institution;
8.1.7 Monitoring internal management practices and, where issues arise, taking action to maintain a robust environment of internal control;
8.1.8 Taking appropriate corrective action necessary to restore compliance; and,
8.1.9 Advising the Secretary of the Treasury Board of any knowledge or reason to believe that significant non-compliance with a legal or Treasury Board policy requirement has occurred that could undermine or negatively impact the institution or the government.
8.2 The Treasury Board Portfolio is responsible for:
8.2.1 Appraising the state of compliance with legal and Treasury Board policy requirements across government and taking appropriate action as necessary to align behaviour with these requirements. In doing so the Treasury Board Portfolio will use information derived from various sources listed in section 10.1;
8.2.2 Ensuring that Treasury Board policy instruments are clear, coherent and reflective of due considerations of risk;
8.2.3 Developing approaches to training and education that are intended to increase awareness and knowledge of legal and Treasury Board policy requirements;
8.2.4 Identifying and sharing examples of effective practices to promote improvements and consistency in compliance management across government; and,
8.2.5 Formulating advice to Treasury Board in respect of any additional follow-up that may be necessary in order to ensure a comprehensive response to situations involving non-compliance.
8.3 Managers and employees are responsible for taking the necessary steps to keep themselves informed of legal and Treasury Board policy requirements that relate to their areas of decision-making and availing themselves of training and educational opportunities.
9. Responding to Non-Compliance
9.1 Deputy heads, when responding to non-compliance, need to ensure that the nature of the consequences and their severity are commensurate with the nature of the non-compliance. The full response may be composed of several different consequences that could include elements of learning and development, performance, discipline, reporting of suspected offences to the responsible law-enforcement agency, institutional actions, and specific consequences that may be outlined in legal requirements, applicable codes of conduct, and individual Treasury Board policy instruments.
9.2 In considering the possible mix of consequences, a deputy head needs to balance various considerations including the following:
9.2.1 What is the impact? This includes consideration of the seriousness of harm or potential harm, such as the impact on resources, the workforce,reputation of government, and assets including loss, waste and misallocation of funds, or whether there was personal gain;
9.2.2 Is there a history of non-compliance? The compliance history should be considered including previous cases and seriousness of non-compliance, as well as whether the non-compliance is isolated to one individual or organizational unit within the institution or reflective of a systemic problem;
9.2.3 Was there intent? Was the behaviour culpable or non-culpable? Consideration should be given as to whether there was knowing and deliberate contravention of legal or policy requirements; and,
9.2.4 Are there other circumstances? Consideration should be given to whether, in instances of non-compliance, the public good, including the interest of taxpayers, was ultimately served or harmed.
9.3 For specific requirements and guidance on:
9.3.1 Learning and Development: Deputy heads should refer to the "Policy on Learning Development and Training" and associated directives and guidelines, with particular focus on knowledge standards and required training;
9.3.2 Institutional actions: To address matters internal to the institution, such as management structures and control systems, deputy heads should refer to the relevant Treasury Board policies when developing a response. In addition, deputy heads may wish to consult with the Treasury Board Portfolio in formulating options;
9.3.3 Discipline, the taking of administrative action, or in situations where the presence of the employee or employees at work could undermine or impede the investigation: Deputy heads should refer to the Policy on Labour Relations and associated guidelines (e.g., Guidelines for Discipline, Guidelines for Demotion/Termination of Employment for other reasons). These instruments set out a range of possible administrative and disciplinary measures that are reflective of a graduated, progressive scale to allow for the tailoring of an action appropriate to a given situation; and,
9.3.4 The actions to be taken if criminal activity is suspected: Deputy heads should refer to the Government Security Policy and associated directives.
9.4 In addition to determining the level and type of consequence that may be warranted, deputy heads should also examine how the non-compliance came to light in order to assess the adequacy of internal control systems and whether there are any management performance issues that need to be addressed within the institution.
Treasury Board Portfolio
9.5 The Treasury Board Portfolio, when responding to situations of significant non-compliance, should use the series of questions set out in section 9.2 of this Framework, along with the following additional questions, to assess the adequacy of the deputy head's response and to determine whether any consequences should be considered by the Treasury Board:
9.5.1 Has compliance been restored? Consideration should be given to the actions taken to restore compliance and if compliance has not been restored that the risks to the government are properly mitigated;
9.5.2 What steps has the deputy head taken to mitigate the risks of a recurrence? Is the likelihood of a recurrence high and, if so, what are the risks to the government in the event of a recurrence; and,
9.5.3 What is the institution's general level of management performance? Consideration should be given to whether there is evidence of a potential systemic problem within the institution or whether the non-compliance is an isolated incident. Consideration will also be given as to whether, as a whole, the institution either has a positive record in the performance of its management functions or it has made satisfactory progress in improving its management functions.
9.6 The consequences applied by the Treasury Board and its Portfolio are undertaken with a view to supporting the deputy head in restoring compliance within the institution or to mitigate the risks and associated costs of control failure, mismanagement or wrongdoing until controls and compliance are restored.
9.7 If insufficient information is available to answer these questions, the Treasury Board Portfolio may require that the deputy head commence a review process, such as by way of an audit, in accordance with the scope determined by the Portfolio or the Portfolio may commence its own review process of the matter, refer the matter to the Office of the Auditor General, or if criminal behaviour is suspected, refer the matter to the appropriate body for criminal investigation.
Deputy heads and Treasury Board Portfolio
9.8 Additional criteria that may be taken into consideration by a deputy head or the Treasury Board Portfolio are listed at Appendix B, including, where practicable, consideration of any underlying causes. While not exhaustive, deputy heads and the Treasury Board Portfolio may also refer to Appendix C for examples of institutional consequences and to Appendix D for examples of administrative and disciplinary action with regard to individuals.
9.9 These criteria will help deputy heads and the Treasury Board and its Portfolio to determine the most appropriate response to restore compliance, what consequences if any should be applied, and how to mitigate the risks of a recurrence.
9.10 In order to foster knowledge, acceptance, ability and effective compliance with legal and Treasury Board policy requirements, consequences, that are clear and commensurate with risk and context of a given situation, should be employed.
9.11 Possible consequences range from suasion (e.g. maintaining a dialogue) to restraint (e.g. reorganization of an institution or termination of employment). Consequences can be applied internally or externally, and involve officials, deputy heads and, in more significant cases, the Treasury Board and responsible Ministers.
9.12 The following sets out the range of consequences to which deputy heads and the Treasury Board Portfolio should refer in determining or recommending responses to address non-compliance.
Engaging in discussions aimed at aligning or realigning behaviour with legal and policy requirements in response to potential or actual low impact situations of non-compliance. Discussions can take place at a variety of levels amongst officials. This process is largely informal although there may be a need for increased monitoring through vehicles such as the Management Accountability Framework.
Occurs where suasion has resulted in an agreed-to course of action that needs to be made transparent, requires formal commitment and documentation of follow-up and resolution.
The level of commitment may be detailed in letters at the officials' level that could include the deputy head. In some cases, Treasury Board consideration of the proposed measures may be sought.
Suasion and consent differ in terms of the level of formality of the process but both are characterized by cooperation between parties.
Recourse is needed to impose remedial or corrective actions when more collaborative approaches have failed and when consequences of non-compliance need to be demonstrated. Consequences encompass a range of interventions - imposing or denying certain actions or privileges - that would compel the undertaking of prescribed activities.
Implicit in this approach is the absence of demonstrated responsibility for ensuring policy compliance, or persistent failures in control functions.
Restraining institutions or individuals involves the curtailment or removal of authority or responsibility to such an extent that they are unable to perform certain actions. Institutions can be restrained from continuing in their current state, for example, where Treasury Board suspends operations pending corrective reorganization.
10. Monitoring and Reporting
10.1 The Treasury Board Portfolio will use information gathered through a range of sources that include: reporting on compliance under this Framework and renewed Treasury Board policies, Management Accountability Framework assessments, internal and horizontal audits, Auditor General reports, evaluations, Treasury Board submissions, and other reports to Parliament to gauge the state of compliance management in the government.
The Treasury Board of Canada Portfolio is responsible for the policy instruments to which this Framework applies.
Please direct any enquiries related to this framework to:
Priorities and Planning Sector Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Telephone: 613-957-2400
Ottawa ON K1A 0R5 Facsimile: 613-952-1010
Appendix A: Definitions
- Deputy Head (Administrateur général)
- Means the deputy head or chief executive officer of any portion of the federal public administration, or the person who occupies any other similar position, however called, in the federal public administration.
- Legal Requirement (Prescription juridique)
- The powers, duties or functions emanating from a source of law related to the management of the federal public administration.
- Treasury Board Policy Requirement (Exigence stratégique du Conseil du Trésor)
- Mandatory requirements issued by the Treasury Board, the President of the Treasury Board, or by other properly authorized officials, through decisions, codes of conduct, policies, directives and standards.
- Treasury Board Portfolio (Portefeuille du Conseil du Trésor)
- The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Canada School of Public Service comprise the Treasury Board Portfolio.
Appendix B: Considerations for Managing Compliance
The following list provides examples of criteria that may be taken into consideration by a deputy head or the Treasury Board Portfolio to help determine the most appropriate consequences to restore compliance.
When considering the institution:
- Is an internal control framework in place?
- Were the internal controls working effectively?
- What was internal audit's involvement?
- Does the institution have sufficient capacity?
- Has the institution responded?
- Was the response timely?
- Is this a new institution or recently reorganized?
- Is the policy or regulation new?
- Was adequate training available?
- Were roles and responsibilities clear?
When considering the individual(s):
- What was the intent i.e., was the behaviour culpable or non-culpable?
- Did the individual(s) try to ensure he/she/they were trained, knowledgeable and understood the responsibilities?
When considering the event(s):
- What was breached?
- Is this a complex area?
- Was it in an accepted high risk area?
- Was the behaviour or decision well informed by risk?
- Is this a critical function (Criticality)?
- Where practicable, are the underlying causes understood?
- Are there extenuating circumstances?
- What is the frequency of occurrence?
- Is this evidence of broader failure?
- How was the non-compliance discovered?
When considering the outcomes:
- What was the impact (includes reputation of institution or government)?
- Was additional legal risk created?
- Was the safety and well-being of employees or Canadians at risk?
- To the extent possible, would the proposed response also address any existing underlying causes?
- Was some form of public benefit derived?
- Is there evidence of personal gain?
- What was the value of financial loss or misuse (i.e., materiality)?
Appendix C: Consequences for Institutions
The following provides examples of consequences.
- Work collaboratively
- Ensuring control systems are effective
- Affirm Senior Financial Officer responsibilities
- Include observations in Management Accountability Framework
- Commit to training and education
- Internal re-organization
- Increase reporting requirements
More Severe Consequences
- Impose redress measures
- Impose conditions on funding
- Direct Cabinet discussion
Most Severe Consequences
- Freeze allotments
- Constrain high value transactions
- Constrain authorities
- Recommend reorganization of the institution
- Place institution in "receivership"
Appendix D: Consequences for Individuals
The following provides examples of consequences.
- Training and education
- Transfer or deployment
- Observations in performance appraisal
More Severe Consequences
- Disciplinary Reprimand (oral or written)
- Financial penalties
- No performance pay
- Removal of security classification
- Changes in delegated authority
- Unsatisfactory performance rating
Most Severe Consequences
- Termination of employment
- Prohibit from contracting
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Law is a set of rules that are designed to maintain order and protect people from harm. But some laws do nothing other than fooling the people around. Below is a list of ten such ridiculous laws.
1. Death in the House of Parliament
Law: It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament, London
Too late to take any legal action against the criminal in this case. Easily the most stupid law ever to be passed.
2. Flushing in Switzerland
Law: Flushing the toilet after 10 pm where the person lives in an apartment is illegal in Switzerland
Instead of doing something about the plumbing the government took an easy way out by inventing this law that restricts people living in apartments from flushing their toilets after 10 pm. So whether you relieve yourself and leave the house stinking or you just wait till morning, the choice is completely yours.
3. Freedom to urinate
Law: In United Kingdom, a pregnant woman can legally urinate anywhere she wants, including if she requests, in a policeman’s hat
Such a thing would be a definite treat for the tourists who come all over the world to see the Royal Guards. Being pregnant isn’t such a bad thing after all.
4. Blindfolded driving
Law: In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle
The stupid thing about this law is the fact that it even exists, I mean isn’t it obvious that you have to keep your eyes open while you drive, or the people of Alabama are so dumb that the state actually had to pass such a law.
5. Matrimonial false teeth
Law: Women in Vermont, USA must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth
Unbelievable, but true, women living in Vermont will be breaking the law if they get false teeth without a proper written permission from their husbands. Where did this law originate from is still a mystery, but I’m assuming that a group of middle aged men invented it to torture their wives. I wonder where all the women’s rights workers were when this law was being legalized.
6. Medical piety in Bahrain
Law: A male doctor in Bahrain can only examine the genital of a woman in the reflection of a mirror
This law was probably passed for religious purposes, but this is plain stupid, because whether looking directly, or through a mirror, you are, in any case peeking into a woman’s private organs. A law that prohibited male doctors to examine female genital organs in any way would have been a more sensible one.
7. Internet access not allowed
Law: It was illegal to get internet access in Burma
Even though the ban on this infamous law has been partly lifted, I had to include it in my list because this is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever come across. In 2001, the Burmese government allowed limited internet access of some website, but the internet traffic still has to pass through government servers. The Burmese sure do take their internet censorship seriously.
8. Chewing gum in Singapore
Law: Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore
Ever thought that chewing a gum could land you in jail? Well in Singapore it can! This law was passed in 1992 because people used to stick gum under places like chairs and tables instead of disposing them off properly. An irritating habit no doubt, but this is too harsh a punishment. This law was revised in 2004, allowing gum to only those who need help in quitting their smoking habits. Hence gum is available at pharmacies only and you can’t purchase it without a proper medical prescription.
9. Visitors’ toilet
Law: In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
Although this law must have been passed to benefit those who need to use the loo and can’t find any public toilets, but still it is very dangerous. What if a crook entered your house with the excuse of using the toilet and then robs you off. Installing more public toilets in the country would be a better solution if you ask me, I would rather break the law by refusing a stranger to use my toilet than getting robbed!
10. Single parachuting
Law: Single women can’t parachute on Sundays in Florida
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Well, maybe funny isn't the right word. And to be fair, Microsoft is writing about something completely different.
With Windows Update, we invested heavily in building not just a software delivery service, but a commitment to delivering high quality updates in a timely manner," Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky writes in an introduction to a blog post called Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update. "And we're using Windows 8 development as a chance to improve the experience of product updates too."
The word "minimizing" worries me. Because when I think of devices--iPads and so on--I never think about these things silently rebooting in the middle of the night like Windows does, when there's a critical monthly security update. Surely in the coming era of "Windows devices," as Microsoft calls them, this won't be happening.
Nope, it's still gonna happen.
"The automatic updating experience needs to be able to handle cases where restarts are required," Microsoft group program manager Farzana Rahman writes. "We know this architectural challenge is one that frustrates administrators and end-users alike, but it does represent the state of the art for Windows."
As with most Building Windows 8 posts, the discussion then turns into a lengthy look at the past, and how this worked in previous Windows versions, etc. etc. But the important bit, to me, concerns what this will be like in Windows 8 and why this new OS still requires these overly-frequently reboots.
With this in mind, Windows 8 will include the following enhancements, according to Microsoft:
Your PC will only restart when security updates are installed and require a restart. That is, restarts will wait until the next iteration of Microsoft's regularly schedule Patch Tuesday. "Since security updates are released in a single batch on the second Tuesday of every month, you are then getting essentially one restart a month. This simplification helps in three ways: it keeps the system secure in a timely manner, reduces restarts, and makes restarts more predictable." Put another way, Microsoft is guaranteeing that your Windows 8 PC will restart at least one a month.
Automatic restart notification. Rahman says that once updates are installed that require a reboot, Windows Update will notify you of an upcoming automatic restart through a message on the login screen that will persist for three days. After three days, Windows Update will automatically restart your PC for you if you ignore the notification. But there is one important exception to this rule: If there are apps or applications running in the background, or if there is any potentially unsaved work, Windows Update will delay the automatic restart until the next time you come back to your machine and log in.
Notifications won't interrupt you. If you are in "presentation mode," playing a game, or watching a movie full-screen, Windows Update will not alert you about a pending restart. Instead, it will wait until the next opportune time.
Policies for businesses. As you might expect, businesses can control this behavior with Group Policies.
Put simply, Windows 8 will offer a better experience with regards to unwanted reboots due to software updates. But it will not end this behavior. Until it does so, I'm not sure how Microsoft can call PCs "Windows devices." They're not devices. They're PCs. And that suggests a certain level of frailty and uncertainty that, frankly, needs to be ended and not just mitigated. | <urn:uuid:5505a41f-622b-432f-9c91-59e05e86531f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/microsoft-windows-8-will-minimize-not-end-windows-update-restarts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924964 | 708 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I’ve been struggling with a section of my book that maintains that science is a form of publishing. It’s a useful lens, I think, for understanding some of the ways the Net is changing science.
This morning, I went for a book to read on the bus and came across Richard Rorty‘s Consequences of Pragmatism, a collection of essays that I had read half of and put aside about six months ago. And what’s the very next essay I was up to in it? “Philosophy as a Kind of Writing.” Here are the opening paragraphs:
Here is one way to look at physics: there are some invisible things which are parts of everything else and whose behavior determines the way everything else works. Physics is the search for an accurate description of those invisible things, and it proceeds by finding better and better explanations of the visible. …
Here is another way of looking at physics: the physicists are men looking for new interpretations of the Book of Nature. After each pedestrian period of normal science, they dream up a new model …. and then they announce that the true meaning of the Book has been discovered. But, of course, it never is, any more than is the true meaning of Coriolanus or the Dunciad or the Phenomenology of Spirit or the Philosophical Investigations. What makes them physicists is that their writings are commentaries on the writings of earlier interpreters of Nature, not that they all are someow “talking about the same thing,” the same invisibilia Dei sive naturae toward which their inquiries steadily converge.
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We learnt about tints and shades last week and made some fun popsicle art projects.
Kiddos LOVE learning the skill of gradually adding white (or black) to achieve different levels of the one color.
I've combined all my instructions and templates in a printable packet for my TpT resource collection.
Find it HERE
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Greeley meat packing outbreak isn't a Colorado issue, 'it's a national phenomenon.'
A Greeley beef plant’s coronavirus outbreak has resulted in 102 COVID-19 cases among its employees, four deaths and one county public health order as of Thursday afternoon.
But the plant — one of nine JBS beef production facilities across the U.S. and Canada — is not alone.
“This isn’t a Colorado issue, it’s a national phenomenon and it’s occurring across the food industry,” said Keith Belk, head of Colorado State University’s animal sciences department and the former director of its Center for Meat Safety and Quality.
“There’s plants shutting down as a consequence of exposure to (coronavirus), from the West Coast to the East Coast,” Belk said.
Following positive COVID-19 tests among workers, companies like Tyson, Cargill and Smithfield Foods have temporarily shut down operations at a handful of their respective meat production plants across the country. Smithfield's Sioux Falls, South Dakota plant is now the source of the nation largest outbreak, according to tracking by the New York Times.
Other plants are running fewer shifts or have slowed production, while some haven’t seen any impact, according to the Northern American Meat Institute, a meat packing and processing trade association of which JBS is a member.
JBS partially shut down operations at its beef production plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, late last month over workers displaying “flu-like symptoms.”
On April 10, just more than two weeks after the first reported COVID-19 cases among the company’s Greeley plant employees, Weld County issued a public health order to JBS.
The order required the Greeley plant to close immediately through April 15 — giving it time to clean the facility, set up testing protocol for its employees and get a handle on the deadly outbreak. On April 13, JBS announced the facility would not reopen until April 24.
“The most important thing is that all the companies experiencing this situation are doing a good job of putting employee health first,” Belk said.
“What we’re doing in Colorado is extremely important because it could serve as a model for how it’s being handling in other locations,” he added.
JBS did not answer the Coloradoan’s questions over email this week. Instead, a representative directed the Coloradoan to an April 13 press release announcing the plant’s temporary closure.
On Wednesday, a funeral was held for Saul Sanchez, the first of four JBS Greeley plant workers to die of complications from COVID-19. The great-grandfather, 78, had just celebrated 30 years at JBS, according to his obituary in the Greeley Tribune.
Days after Sanchez’s death, 60-year-old Eduardo Conchas de la Cruz became the facility’s second employee to die from complications of COVID-19.
Following Conchas de la Cruz’s death, Kim Cordova of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 — the union that represents about 3,000 of JBS’ Greeley employees — urged the plant to shut down for at least a week to handle the outbreak, outlined in a letter sent to Gov. Jared Polis, the Weld County health department and JBS.
At the time, just more than 50 JBS workers had tested positive for COVID-19, according to Cordova’s letter. On Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released data that showed 102 JBS employees in Greeley had tested positive for COVID-19 and four had died.
Calling the situation at the Greeley facility “intolerable,” Cordova said its union members and workers also wanted proper masks, face shields, gloves and regular deep cleanings throughout the plant, among other demands.
“We fully understand the seriousness of a plant closure and its economic impact,” Cordova wrote. “However, safety must take precedence over profits.”
JBS is one of the largest employers in Weld County. Though a company press release lists 6,000 employees throughout the county, its website says that more than 4,000 are split throughout its Greeley production plant, its Greeley corporate headquarters and its Greeley transportation arm.
The JBS Greeley beef plant processes brands like Certified Angus Beef, Swift Angus Beef and more, with its products sent across the U.S. and to more than 20 different countries, the website states.
The Spanish flu in Fort Collins:Before coronavirus, Colorado battled the 'mother of all pandemics'
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says there’s currently no evidence of food or food packaging being associated with the transmission of COVID-19 — assuaging concerns over food safety — plants shutting down across the country could cause an interruption in the supply chain and potential retail shortages.
“Secondly, you’d have agricultural products backing up in the system,” Belk said, referencing perishable, biological agricultural products that might not get processed if plants close or reduce production.
“Once that begins to back up, you encounter all sorts of unintended consequences,” he added.
Colorado has “a lot of inventory already” and is in good shape from a supply chain perspective, Berlik said.
“Any plant that shuts down nationwide for a couple weeks — if it’s to deep clean and address the health of employees before reopening — I don’t see that causing huge shocks to the system,” Berlik added.
“If we were to get into a scenario where the facilities have to be closed longer than that and you have a number around the country closed simultaneously, that could lead to a problem.”
The North American Meat Institute, or NAMI, said the current situation facing the meat packing and processing industry “is changing daily.”
“During this pandemic we have overcome challenges to the supply chain, including a run on retail stores as consumers stocked up. Our members ramped up production and met this challenge,” according to a NAMI statement sent to the Coloradoan on Tuesday.
“When we needed to change production away from food service production to meet retail demand, we did it,” the statement continued. “Our members are tackling COVID 19 one day at a time, relying on science and CDC guidelines to protect employees and continue producing food.”
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New research from Discovery Networks has revealed a growth of multi-screening, catch-up services, social TV and content snacking viewer behaviours that the leading broadcaster sees as fundamental to the development of TV Everywhere.
The Discovery Networks report The Rise of the Television Everywhere Audience, in cooperation with The Future Foundation, surveyed 5,000 TV viewers across 10 CEEMEA markets: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine and UAE in addition to in-depth interviews with an expert, industry panel.
It found that television is adapting, evolving and growing to accommodate entirely new viewing behaviours in an increasingly connected, time-precious, fragmented world. Discovery added that multiscreen living across technology platforms is becoming increasingly commonplace, whilst there is a growing appetite for off-schedule viewing via catch-up TV services. At the same time, Discovery said that there is a rising demand for short-form content that allows viewers to ‘snack between bigger TV meals’.
Across CEEMEA, 52% have watched live television online in the last six months and nearly three quarters (72%) would prefer to watch TV when they want rather than when the schedule dictates. Cementing the idea that new viewer typologies are emerging due to the second screen, the survey found that just over half (51%) are interested in a service that recommends TV shows based on preferences and viewing history and over two thirds (68%) looking up information online about a programme while watching it. Just over a third (34%) talk about programmes they are watching online via social networking sites.
“It’s an incredibly exciting time for the TV industry and viewers who are relishing the greater freedom they have to access and interact with content across multi-screens and social media. This study shows people are watching more linear TV than ever before and how traditional TV viewing is being supplemented and enriched with new audience behaviours across CEEMEA markets,” said Caleb Weinstein, SVP & GM Distribution, Discovery Networks EMEA. | <urn:uuid:b9ef60b2-f4ce-45e7-a163-31c5ac2840fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rapidtvnews.com/2013022726558/next-gen-multiscreen-ushers-in-new-era-of-tv-consumption.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00474-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943684 | 419 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Dedham, Iowa facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Location of Dedham, Iowa
|• Total||0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)|
|• Land||0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2)|
|• Water||0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)|
|Elevation||1,332 ft (406 m)|
|• Density||405.80/sq mi (156.55/km2)|
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Dedham got its start in the year 1881, following construction of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway through that territory. It was named for Dedham, Massachusetts.
St. Joseph Parish was founded in 1891 by German and English Catholics. They built the first church in 1892 with a new, larger church coming in 1904. The present church was dedicated on October 1, 1940, by Bishop Edmond Heelan.
Dedham is located at(41.908650, -94.822832) at the junction of Brushy and Dedham Creeks.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.58 square miles (1.50 km2), all land.
Government and politics
Dedham operates under a mayor-council government. Along with the mayor is the five person city council. City elections are held every two odd numbered years. The mayor serves a two-year term, while the members of the council serve four-year terms.
|Source: and Iowa Data Center
As of the census of 2010, there were 266 people, 101 households, and 65 families residing in the city. The population density was 458.6 inhabitants per square mile (177.1/km2). There were 107 housing units at an average density of 184.5 per square mile (71.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 100.0% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.4% of the population.
There were 101 households, of which 36.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 5.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.6% were non-families. 30.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.32.
The median age in the city was 32.3 years. 29.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.4% were from 25 to 44; 21.4% were from 45 to 64; and 15.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.
The public school district is the Carroll Community School District.
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This two-part collection starts with the new 2016 $8 Tiger and Dragon Yin and Yang fine silver coin issued by the Royal Canadian Mint, which is based on the historic "cash" coins of China introduced over 2000 years ago. These coins had a square hole in the centre (like the new Yin and Yang coin), that allowed quantities to be strung together for payments of large amounts. The second part of the collection is a spectacular award-winning "Gates of China" collector book issued by Canada Post and filled with Chinese themed collector stamps. Also included in the book is a set of two original genuine Chinese bronze cash coins. One of these dates back about 1,000 years to the era of the Song Dynasty, while the second "newer" coin dates back about 200 years to the era of the Qing Dynasty. Enjoy both together as an amazing themed collection!
$8 Fine Silver Tiger and Dragon - Yin and Yang:
The front design, by Canadian artist Charles Vinh, features a tiger and a dragon locked in their ancient battle positions, as they struggle for dominance—equal and opposing forces, yin and yang. Above the square hole in the coin is a stylized yin yang symbol, surrounded by flames. To the left of the image is the tiger with its back to the viewer. Its head is turned toward the dragon as it crawls in typical defensive stance. To the right is a dragon, presented in profile, facing the tiger to its left. Its scale-covered body coils, ready to attack with its claws raised.
The back design, also by Canadian artist Charles Vinh, features two phoenixes that flank each side of the square hole. Above and in the centre is the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susan Blunt. On each side of the effigy is stylized scroll work, which also continues on the bottom half of the coin.
Gates of China Limited Edition Collector Set:
This set highlights eight gates of Chinatown across Canada, where traditionally wood or stone gates, known as paifang in Mandarin, were originally used to separate subdivisions in Chinese cities. Eventually, these gates lost that role and their doors, but remained as monuments. This collection includes a numbered and imperforated pane of eight stamps, a regular pane of eight stamps, die cut in the shape of early Chinese coins, complete with a centre hole, a 200-year-old Qing Dynasty coin and a 1,000-year-old Song Dynasty coin, like the ancient coins embedded in many of the gates. A 16-page full-colour booklet with a history of the origins of these gates and a description of each Canadian gate in three languages is included.
• $8 2016 Fine Silver Tiger & Dragon - Yin & Yang
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Washington, October 14 : While migratory moths are known to hitch rides on the wind, a new study suggests that it would be wrong to brand them drifters.
Studies conducted in the past had shown that Silver Y moths rely on a sophisticated internal compass, sailing on favourable winds to reach their southerly winter destination within a matter of days.
The latest study has shown that the moths get back north, where they started from, in the spring by throwing that whole system in reverse.
"In our first paper, we demonstrated how the moths manage to make return migrations of hundreds of kilometers in just a few nights to their more southerly over-wintering ranges, using a compass and an inherited preferred direction," said Jason Chapman of Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom.
"The obvious question arising from that study was: do the migrants also have specialized behaviors to enable them to carry out the spring northwards migrations, or do they just drift with the wind?" the researcher added.
During the study, the researchers examined the high-altitude spring migrations of the Silver Y moths into southern U.K. by using vertical-looking radars.
Over three years, in June, when the moth migrations are most frequent, they identified 83 high-altitude mass migration "events" 200 to 1,200 meters into the sky.
The team observed that the migrant Silver Y moths in spring limited their high-altitude travel to nights with favourable, northward winds, just as they did with the southward winds as winter approaches.
The researchers carefully selected their altitude to travel in the fastest winds, and align themselves such that their own flight speed adds to the wind speed.
The moths also reverse their preferred direction, using their internal compass to make up for any wind drift that sends them off their course north.
Chapman said that it was yet to be discovered exactly how the moths do so, but the team suspected that the seasonal compass switch is controlled by changes in day length over the course of the year.
He calls the two studies a "big advance in the field of insect migration," noting that there had been no conclusive evidence for a compass sense in nocturnal moths used to guide their migrations.
He highlighted the fact that a similar mechanism had been discovered in butterflies that fly low to the ground during the day, but "it is much harder to envisage how these insects are able to carry out these feats of orientation while traveling hundreds of meters above the ground at speeds up to 100 kilometers per hour in almost total darkness." | <urn:uuid:57d78743-030a-487f-9c43-925968f07af2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oneindia.com/2008/10/14/migratory-moths-hitch-rides-wind-drifters-1223982360.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00310-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969279 | 535 | 3.484375 | 3 |
The Department of Paleontology houses collections of fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants collected primarily from Mesozoic- through Cenozoic-aged sites in southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico.
Presently the collections include over 108,000 numbered species lots. The specimens have been recovered from a total of 2,890 recorded collecting localities, primarily from southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. There are 578 primary and 537 secondary types. Search the online Collection Database.
The collection is under the care of Tom Deméré, Ph.D., curator of the Paleontology Department and director of PaleoServices. The curatorship of the Paleontology Department is endowed as the Joshua L. Baily, Jr., Chair of Paleontology.
Read articles about our local finds.
PaleoServices is a consulting arm of the Museum specializing in the collection, salvage, preparation, and curation of paleontological resources (fossils) from development-slated acreage. Services also include paleontological resource assessment of property (residential, commercial, municipal), relevant to environmental impact studies. Contact Dr. Tom Deméré at 619.255.0232. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Specimen preparation and other routine collections management tasks are carried out by carefully selected, skilled volunteers. See our Volunteer pages to learn more.
If you want to learn more about the paleontology and geology of our region, see our Resources page. You'll find a wide range of essays from the geologic history visible in the excavation for our museum expansion, to Dinosaurs of San Diego County, and How to Cast a T. rex.
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