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Patisserie products are popular among all age groups and the sales are independent of occasions or seasons. Packaging plays an important role in patisserie products in increasing shelf life, marketing, prevention from mechanical damage, displaying food safety related warnings and nutrition value. Packaging vendors who provide innovative and creative packaging solutions are preferred by patisserie dealers, as it helps to strengthen sales by enhancing product visibility. Apart from protecting and containing the items, the packaging must be irresistible enough to appeal to a buyer and ultimately lead to a sale. Packaging supplies come in more sizes, shapes, textures, materials and printing options than ever before, hence containers that achieve a quality or feature that is extremely impressive can set any product apart from its competitors.
Sale of patisserie is most commonly noted at retail outlets. In order to create a longer shelf-life, retailers have demanded the packaging manufacturers to improve the process of wrapping up such food items.
Sales of patisserie have increased as urbanization has led the population to opt for food that is readily available. Increase in cases of stomach disorders are responsible for the dynamics of the global patisserie packaging market to go through unfavorable reforms. The key challenge restraining the fluent production of packaging products is the varying pack-sizes. Consumers prefer reusable plastic pouches as the ideal packaging product, which is in turn hampering the sales of traditional packaging products and declining the demand. The uneven culinary habits of the target population is also accounted as a major factor impeding the growth of the global patisserie market.
Based on type of material, the patisserie packaging market can be segmented as follows:
- Paper and cardboard boxes
- Corrugated boxes
- Flexible packaging
Small plastic patisserie packs, plastic cupcake boxes and plastic cake containers are widely used as they protect the contents from damage and leaking. Paper and cardboard boxes are used by the manufacturers in order to differentiate the product as well as to provide mechanical strength. Taken as a whole, corrugated boxes are considered to be an eco-friendly and sustainable form of packaging compared with other forms of packaging, including plastics. Huge investments are made to develop innovative solutions in corrugated box packaging. Overall, packaging manufacturers are expected to come up with resistant quality packaging materials in the coming years keeping prime focus on environmental protection and sustainability.
Based on type of product, the patisserie packaging market can be segmented as follows:
- Cream buns
Based on geography, the patisserie packaging market can be segmented into five major regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East and Africa. Overall, Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the fastest growing segment during the forecast period. In countries like China, India and Japan, growth comes from an increase in the demand for poly bags. North America is expected to substantially contribute towards market growth on the grounds of rising demand for digitally-printed packages which creates a hyper-personal buying experience. Significant growth in bakery and confectionary in China will have a positive impact on the patisserie packaging market. Furthermore, growing demand for packaged foods and consumer goods is expected to increase the growth. Europe is further anticipated to boost the market growth over the upcoming years with regards to the rising demand for home delivery of patisserie products. Increase in sedentary lifestyle and eating habits in Latin America and MEA are expected to propel patisserie packaging market demand in the region.
Some of the top players operating in the patisserie packaging market are Papiers Paviot, Amcor Limited, LINPAC Senior Holdings Limited, Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Coyne & Blanchard, Inc., Mahalaxmi Flexible Packaging, Berry Plastics Corporation, Sealed Air, WestRock Company, AR Packaging Group AB and others.
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Winter weather can be harsh on trees, shrubs and other plants. Ice, snow and wind can burden branches and harm delicate leaves left from fall. Sometimes, damage is too severe for a plant to survive. It's important to know when you should repair damage and when it's time to remove a tree or shrub. Here's how to take care of winter-damaged plants:
Prevention - Remove ice when it forms on branches by spraying it with hot water. This can relieve pressure from the plant, making it less likely to break from the added weight. You may want to consider covering vulnerable shrubs with a tarp before major storms hit.
Remove damage - Cut off any damaged branches, leaves or other parts of the plant.
- Pruning - Prune around the plant to revive the shape. Removing dead leaves can help conserve nutrients for the live ones.
Professional help - If you're not sure if the plant should be removed, call a professional arborist. For large trees, or instances when removal could be dangerous, call a professional.
- Wait - If you're not sure if a plant should be removed, cut the damaged parts away and wait a while. If the plant doesn't do well, you can remove it later. | <urn:uuid:ebe9de5d-d7ef-40a9-a29e-3fa6e1fcd8eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.troybilt.com/equipment/newsletter_10001_14102_-1_lgClub/newsletter/archives/2013/KnowledgeCenterArticleView?storeId=10001&catalogId=14102&langId=-1&pageName=en_US/lgClub/newsletter/repairingWinterDamageToTreesAndShrubs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00324-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931209 | 258 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Dental treatment can cause symptoms such as fear and anxiety. Audiovisual distraction (AD) is a simple and low-cost technique that does not interfere with the dental treatment.
The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of AD methods for children who experience anxiety during dental treatment.
Materials and Methods:
Two reviewers performed a database search of the studies published between January 1950 and November 2015. The inclusion criteria were papers published in the English language, child samples aged 4-10 years, and use of AD. All potentially relevant studies were identified by the title and the abstract. After the full-text analysis of the potentially relevant studies, the selected studies were included in the systematic review. A meta-analysis calculation was performed for the overall data and the subgroup data.
Thirty-seven nonduplicated studies were found. However, after reviewing the articles, only five were included. A high variability was observed among the papers. Tools and questionnaires used to measure the anxiety during dental treatment presented the most common variability. Meta-analysis demonstrated a lower anxiety level in AD method groups when Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale was used (P = 0.02) with a mean difference (confidence interval) of -8.72 (-16.7, -1.38).
The AD method is effective for controlling dental anxiety in children.
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The exemption from hallmarking of gold boxes whose 'Manufacture of Gold or Silver so richly engraved, carved, or chased, or set with jewels or other Stones, as not to admit of an Assay to be taken of, or a Mark to be Struck theron, without damaging, prejudicing, or defacing the same, or' by the Act for the better preventing Frauds and abuses in gold and silver wares, 1738-39, complicates the firm attribution of jewelled mid-eighteenth century snuff-boxes to English or German sources (K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1990, p. 259). Both German and English designs of the period reflect the continued influence of earlier French designs. The Rococo chasing on the present snuff-box bears close resemblance to Meissonnier's engravings for snuff-boxes of circa 1730, reproduced in Snowman, op. cit., p. 44, pl. 45-48 and p. 45, pl. 49, suggesting it may have been the work of a French Huguenot workshop. Meissonnier's designs were fashionable in England and Germany and the present lot can be compared in design and 'accent' to works from both countries.
For a similar George II cartouche-shaped box set with agate and diamonds, London, circa 1750, see Snowman, op. cit., pl. 542. Another diamond-set cartouche-shaped snuff-box with strongly chased rocaille of English origin, circa 1750, sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 May 1990, lot 49. For a cartouche-shaped gold box with bombé sides similarly chased with shell rocaille motifs, with later marks, London, circa 1740-50, in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (see S. Grandjean et al., Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1975, p. 25, no. 1). A cartouche-shaped snuff-box with a comparably chased diamond and ruby-set lid from Berlin, circa 1775, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (H. and S. Berry-Hill, Antique Gold Boxes: Their Lore and Their Lure, London, 1960, p. 140, Illustr. 124). A cartouche-shaped George II gold patch-box, of circa 1740, chased with similar rocaille scrolls sold Christie's, London, 28 November 2006, lot 8. Another example of a German Rococo snuff-box from Berlin, circa 1750, with a diamond and ruby-set lid sold Christie's, Geneva, 20 November 1974, lot 265. | <urn:uuid:66c4a7cf-b0a2-4ca0-9974-7f3a76d08f73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-very-fine-english-or-german-jewelled-5161128-details.aspx?intObjectID=5161128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87294 | 583 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The Graeae (Gree-ee)
The Graeae is also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (Daughter of Phorcys) in Greek mythology. They share one eye and one tooth among them. Their names were Deino, Enyo and Pemphredo. They took turns using their eye and their tooth. They appeared in the myth of Perseus, who was trying to find out where three magical objects were located, in order to kill Medusa.
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Alicante: Useful Information
Capital of the Costa Blanca
- VAT (IVA) is always included in the price of goods and refunds are unusual in Alicante and throughout Spain.
- Banks are normally open from 9am to 2pm on weekdays and from 9am to 1pm on Saturday.
- There are numerous internet cafes in the city with prices ranging from 1.7 € or 3.5 € per hour.
- The country code for Spain is 34, and the province code for Alicante is 96.
- In an emergency in Alicante, dial 091 for police (national) or 092 (local).
For fire emergencies in Alicante - dial 080 or 085 and for an ambulance dial 409 5530.
- To call from one city code to another in Alicante, first dial '0' followed by the Spanish city code and the main telephone number.
- For R.E.N.F.E (National Train Service) tickets, call 902 24 02 02.
- Tipping is not obligatory, but taxi drivers are pleased to receive a tip of around 5% of the total fare. A tip will also be expected in restaurants, but menu prices should always include service charges by law.
- The religion of Alicante and throughout Spain is Roman Catholic, although many other faiths and major religions are also represented in the city including Protestants and Muslims.
- In many buildings and on public transport in Alicante, rules now restrict smoking and this is strictly enforced, with harsh fines and penalties. No-smoking symbols are often clearly displayed.
- Although Spanish is the main language in Alicante, English, French and German are often understood at most attractions.
- Alicante’s tourist information centre is located on Rambla de Méndez Núnez 23, and is open from June to September (Monday to Friday between 10:00 to 20:00), and from October to May (Monday to Friday between 10:00 to 14:00 and between 15:00 to 19:30 on Saturday). | <urn:uuid:aed8166b-69b0-43e0-9c09-f6ac6405a852> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www2.okalpha.com/guide/Alicante/overview/Useful_Information?na | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.950272 | 428 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The manner of citing Traditional Knowledge or Oral Traditions (other terms are “Traditional Stories” and “Oral Histories”) of Indigenous Peoples varies depending on whether and how the information has been recorded—only certain cases use a variation of the personal communication citation.
- If the information has been recorded and is recoverable by readers (e.g., video, audio, interview transcript, book, article), cite it in the text and include a reference list entry in the correct format for that type of source (e.g., a recording on YouTube).
- Also maintain the integrity of Indigenous perspectives. Examine published works carefully (especially older works) to ensure that the information about Indigenous Peoples is accurate and appropriate to share before citing those works. For example, some stories are told only at certain times of year or by certain people and may not be appropriate to cite and share in a paper.
To describe Traditional Knowledge or Oral Traditions that are not recorded (and therefore are not recoverable by readers), provide as much detail in the in-text citation as is necessary to describe the content and to contextualize the origin of the information. For example, if you spoke with an Indigenous person directly to learn information (but they were not a research participant), use a variation of the personal communication citation.
- Provide the person’s full name and the nation or specific Indigenous group to which they belong, as well as their location or other details about them as relevant, followed by the words “personal communication,” and the date of the communication.
- Provide an exact date of correspondence if available; if correspondence took place over a period of time, provide a more general date or a range of dates. The date refers to when you consulted with the person, not to when the information originated.
- Ensure that the person agrees to have their name included in your paper and confirms the accuracy and appropriateness of the information you present.
- Because there is no recoverable source, a reference list entry is not used.
The following example illustrates how to incorporate these details into a variation of the personal communication citation. You might include more information or different information depending on the context of your work.
We spoke with Anna Grant (Haida Nation, lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, personal communication, April 2019) about traditional understandings of the world by First Nations Peoples in Canada. She described . . .
Also capitalize most terms related to Indigenous Peoples. These include names of specific groups (e.g., Cherokee, Cree, Ojibwe) and words related to Indigenous culture (e.g., Creation, the Creator, Elder, Oral Tradition, Traditional Knowledge, Vision Quest). The capitalization is intentional and demonstrates respect for Indigenous perspectives.
For more on citing information from Indigenous Peoples, including how to incorporate quotations from Indigenous research participants and how to share your own experiences if you are an Indigenous person, see Section 8.9 of the Publication Manual.
For more insights into creating works about Indigenous Peoples, also consult the following valuable resources by Indigenous writers and publishers. The APA Style team used these works as the foundation for the guidance in the Publication Manual.
Younging, G. (2018). Elements of Indigenous style: A guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. Brush Education. | <urn:uuid:f60d6afb-48cc-43b5-8adf-baa184cdfc48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hollyglasser.com/personal-communications.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.91617 | 679 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Presentation on theme: "'Inequality in Britain and the Pensioners’ Danny Dorling National Pensioners convention in the Yorkshire region Sheffield Town Hall, June 29 th 2010 Featuring."— Presentation transcript:
'Inequality in Britain and the Pensioners’ Danny Dorling National Pensioners convention in the Yorkshire region Sheffield Town Hall, June 29 th 2010 Featuring crossing outs and corrections, this piece sold for £776,500 ($1,202,500) Recently
A talk based around today’s news “I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure If he was from the House of Lords” A Day in the Life (Lennon/McCartney) 1 June 1967
BBC news 29 th /7/ Fixed retirement age to be axedFixed retirement age to be axed PEOPLE REACHING THE AGE OF 65 WILL NO LONGER BE FORCED TO RETIRE FROM OCTOBER NEXT YEAR, UNDER PLANS ANNOUNCED BY THE GOVERNMENT. “Rules allowing employers to force staff to retire at 65 are to be axed by October It is good news for those nearing state pension age who want to keep working, but too late for others. ” – or more redundancy pre-65 – and forced labour? “Suicide: the spatial and social components of despair in Britain 1980– Danny Dorling* and David Gunnell” publications/2003/dorling_a nd_gunnell_suicide.pdf
2 “Warning on local council pensions” “COUNCIL WORKERS ACROSS ENGLAND FACE HAVING TO RETIRE LATER OR PAY MORE INTO THEIR PENSION SCHEME, THE PUBLIC SPENDING WATCHDOG HAS WARNED. THE LIABILITIES OF THE £130BN LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSIONS SCHEME (LGPS) WERE RISING AND ACTION WAS NEEDED, AN AUDIT COMMISSION REPORT SAID” We could afford to retire in the 1940s but not now – make we become poorer – or just much more unequal?
3. “ The Independent Budget Review panel is poised to release its report on options for prioritising public spending in Scotland. ” Options are - pensions – free care support – tuition fees “Why are cuts necessary? Britain's debt is far from being the highest in Europe, at 68% of national income, but its deficit (the annual overspend that compiles over years to form the stock of debt) is higher than almost any other, also measured as a proportion of national income. For every £10 we make as a country, £1.11 is being borrowed by government. That annual overspend builds up into a big debt very quickly. Last year, British government had to borrow £156bn more than it spent. This year, the OBR says it will be around £155bn. Borrowing is healthy in moderation, but there's nothing moderate about the extent to which Britain is currently selling bonds to investors” Is this the BBC writing – or government writng through the BBC scared itself of being cut? Source: Douglas Fraser “BBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor”
4. Cameron in India (bringing in money to pay for our pensions?) “THE TWO GOVERNMENTS ALSO ANNOUNCED A £700M DEAL BETWEEN BAE SYSTEMS, ROLLS- ROYCE AND INDIA'S LEADING AEROSPACE COMPANY HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED, TO SUPPLY 57 HAWK TRAINER AIRCRAFT TO INDIA.” However: “The 57 jets will be built under licence in Bangalore by Indian state-run firm Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) rather than at BAE's plant at Brough in East Yorkshire, traditionally known as the Home of the Hawk”. misses-out-as-defence jp
The number of young people in long-term unemployment has almost doubled in the last two years. The number of 16-to-24-year- olds out of work for six months or more has increased from 222,000 in summer 2008 to 412,000 in summer This is an increase of 85 per cent. There has also been a significant increase in the number of young people out of work for more than a year, from 114,000 to 211,000. Meanwhile
And for pensions – never been as unequal – look at variation in LE From The Mirror Newspaper British health inequality gap is greater now than in the /07/2010 The health inequality gap in Britain is greater now than in the 1921, a study claimed yesterday. Researchers found people living in the most deprived areas are more likely to die younger than those in the wealthiest. They compared early death rates since 1921 and found by 2007, for every 100 deaths before the age of 65 in wealthy areas, 199 died in the poorest.
On wealth – BBC says “easing” House price inflation eases again UK HOUSE PRICES FELL 0.5% IN JULY, THE NATIONWIDE SAYS, CUTTING THE ANNUAL RATE OF HOUSE PRICE INFLATION TO 6.6% FROM 8.7%. Note all this and the housing benfit cuts effect pensioners
And all the time… “Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Britain's richest see wealth rise by one third” “The collective wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people has increased by almost a third in the past year despite the uncertain economy, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2010” “The multimillionaires are worth £335.5 billion, up £ billion (29.9 per cent) on last year, according to the latest edition of The Sunday Times’ Rich List The rise is easily the largest annual increase in the 22 years that the survey has been carried out.” Britains-richest-see-wealth-rise-by-one-third.html
Income share of best-off 1%
Inequality in mortality under age 65 NHS
The income distribution stretches up to the heavens Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose
Bringing people together requires the top to come down Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose
Allowing a few people to be rich is very expensive Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose
When incomes at the top last came down, incomes at the bottom came up – more to go around Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose
If you could see everyone’s income on the same page of a graph then society is more cohesive Social Stratification in the United States Stephen J. Rose
Social Stratification in the United States - transformed In the USA need any household live on less than $25,000 or more than $75,000? What about UK? | <urn:uuid:d4a08c27-0979-4cd3-8253-6aa5697b5f2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/3759885/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937393 | 1,488 | 1.703125 | 2 |
I’ve been avoiding China’s milk scandal because so many other blogs have done such a great job covering it. But today’s story in the NY Times simply must be read to be believed. It’s one of those detailed investigative pieces that remind us great newspapers are absolutely indispensable.
We all remember how the government knowingly suppressed the fact that SARS was a danger in Beijing in 2003 so as not to cast a negative light on their annual National People’s Congress, right? (If not, search through this blog archives from January – April 2003.) Well, as that crisis ended many of us said it heralded a new age of transparency, when the government would never again deliberately hide information from its citizens about health risks that could kill them.
Fast-forward to 2008, and we learn that the same script is replayed. This time its an event even more important than the NPC, it’s the Olympic Games, China’s launchpad, the dawn of a new day for the rising superpower. And so once more the government lied and covered up, and once again innocents were the victims. Just a sample of the intensity of this article:
Fu Jianfeng, an editor at one of China’s leading independent publications, Southern Weekend, recently used a personal blog to describe how his newsweekly discovered cases of sickened children in July — two months before the scandal became public — but could not publish articles so close to the Games.
“As a news editor, I was deeply concerned,” Mr. Fu wrote on Sept. 14. “I had realized that this was a large public health disaster, but I was not able to send reporters to do reporting.”
Even earlier, on June 30, a mother in Hunan Province had written a detailed letter pleading for help from the food quality agency, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The letter, posted on the agency’s Web site, described rising numbers of infants at a local children’s hospital who were suffering from kidney stones after drinking powdered formula made by Sanlu.
The mother said she had already complained in vain to Sanlu and local officials.
“Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!” she wrote. She called on Beijing authorities to order a product recall, release the news to the Chinese media and provide medical exams for babies who had consumed Sanlu formula. “Please investigate whether the formula does have problems,” she wrote, “or more babies will get sick.”
Reading the article will sicken you. It is apparently “an open secret that milk was adulterated….Some dairies routinely watered down milk to increase profits, then added other cheap ingredients so the milk could pass a protein test.” Sanlu knew, the government knew, the media knew – and still there was silence. Only when New Zealand started to voice concerns and it became a global issue did the government finally respond.
We all know of companies elsewhere selling products they know are harmful. Merck and its painkiller Viox is a classic example. It is rare, however, to have so many people in the know, including government and the media – the supposed watchdogs – while the public is kept in the dark, continuing to poison their own children. I wrote back then, in 2003, words that I regretted later. I don’t think I was right – it is far too simplistic and black/white; however, reading this Times article, I understand again exactly how I felt as I wrote those words:
As I prepare to leave this country, I worry less and less about telling the truth. To say that another way, I have always tried to tell the truth here, but often I felt I had to tone down my rancor, soften the blows. Right now, I just don’t care, and I want whoever happens to stop by this little site to know the truth about China, or at least what I perceive that truth to be: China is the Evil Empire, a tottering, power-drunk, paranoid nation of thugs dressing themselves up as saviors — a bad country. It was for the bastards we saw smiling and waving at the “People’s Congress” that my God made hell.
Knowing full well that this was dramatic in the extreme, with the potential to be misread, I immediately added an addendum. I couldn’t condemn all of China because there was so much here that I loved. (And I don’t apologize for being dramatic – the situation was dramatic, as is the present situation.)
Footnote: I refer only to the Chinese government here. The people I know here are gracious, kind and good. They know, to a large extent, what their “leaders” are all about. Luckily for these good people, the SARS fuck-up has been of such great magnitude that it could end up resulting in long-term change and improvement here. Maybe. It has certainly opened the eyes of the world as to what “the new China” is all about.
This article, like Philip Pan’s book, reaffirms my belief in the goodness of the Chinese people, and the badness of many who govern them. Read it and see. It’s just so terrible that those over-wrought words I wrote about the government then, in 2003, half a decade ago, apply with just as much power and accuracy today. And those men who allow this to happen and tell the media to lie to the people, knowing those lies can result in death – well, let’s just say it was for them that my God, if I believed in one, would have made hell.
China is changing? China is getting better? I see it all the time, I hear it all the time, I say it to myself. I say it so often I get narcotized by it, like a chant. And then I see the closing line of today’s great story:
This week, China Central Television, the government network, has been offering reassurances that the dairy products still on the shelves are safe
And I wonder. And I ask myself how far this country really can go, even if America’s economy disintegrates. Like America, China needs a stable-sweeping on a scale hitherto unimaginable. Can it happen? It has to, at least at some point, if China is to be a true superpower. As in America, the future of the nation depends on it. I see it (the stable-sweeping) coming to America, and it will be painful. I don’t know when it will come to China, but it can’t be a moment too soon. Catastrophes like this can make the whole house of cards fall down.
Nearly 1am. Hope all the different points I wanted to pull together formed a cohesive whole. I’m too tired to tell.
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The Dwarf Cassowary, Casuarius bennetti, also known as the Bennett's Cassowary, Little Cassowary, Mountain Cassowary, or Mooruk, is the smallest of the three species of cassowaries.
The scientific name commemorates the Australian naturalist George Bennett. He was the first scientist to examine these birds after a few were brought to Australia aboard a ship. Recognising them as representing a new species of cassowary, he sent specimens back to England where this was confirmed. On the west side of Greevink Bay, western Irian, there exist a distinctive form that may merit a split. C. papuanus is the tentative name. Finally there are no officially recognized sub-species, however, some authors believe there should be.
It is a large, at between 99 to 135 centimetres (3.2"?4.4 ft) tall and 18 kilograms (40 lb), flightless bird with hard and stiff black plumage, a low triangular casque, pink cheek and red patches of skin on its blue neck. The feet are large and powerful, equipped with dagger-like claws on the inner toe. Both sexes are similar. Females have longer casques, brighter bare skin color and are larger in size.
Range and habitat
The Dwarf Cassowary is distributed throughout mountain forests of New Guinea, New Britain and Yapen Island, at elevations up to 3,300 m (10,800 ft). In areas without other species of cassowaries, it will live in the lowlands also. Its diet consists mainly of fallen fruits and small animals, and insects. A solitary bird, it pairs only in breeding season.
Due to ongoing habitat loss, habitat degradation, being hunted for food, and often being kept in captivity, the Dwarf Cassowary is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with an occurrence range of 258,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi).
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2008)
- ^ a b c d e f Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
- ^ Gotch, A. F. (1995)
- ^ Avibase 2009
- ^ Brands, S. (2008)
- ^ Clements, J (2007)
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Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass
The essays in this book constitute a close reading of the later poetry of W. D. Snodgrass. Each writer has taken a work or theme that has led to the complexities of Snodgrass's dense layerings of content and technique. These essays also begin to define his relationship to the modern tradition. [Amazon.com]
University of Delaware Press
William De Witt Snodgrass (1926-2009), American literature, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry
Literature in English, North America | Poetry
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Three weeks after I arrived in my new hometown of Luang Prabang, Laos, with my newish husband, Mike, we traveled to the district of Viengkham to witness a handover ceremony for a gravity-fed water system in a remote village.
Mike hadn’t warned me how basic our guesthouse accommodations would be, and he smiled as he watched me take in the lack of hot water, dirty squat toilet and lumpy bed covered with one filthy blanket.
“Do you love me?” he asked.
“I should think that the answer to that question would be perfectly obvious,” I replied, “considering that I am here, with you. But just in case there’s any doubt, then, yes. I love you.”
This trip to Viengkham was my introduction to life outside the tourist mecca of Luang Prabang, and it didn’t take too long after leaving town before I started to see a little more of what the development statistics for Laos really mean when they make bland pronouncements, such as: 27 percent of the population here lives on less than $1 a day. Or, 67 percent of the population is rural. Or, more than 40 percent of the rural children under age 5 are undernourished.
It is five hours by land cruiser up to the community we are visiting, and the road twists through village after village of flimsy bamboo huts. Landslides block half the road in a couple of places, sections are unpaved, and we frequently have to slow to avoid flattening the chickens, ducks, pigs, water buffaloes, cows, dogs and little kids making use of the only paved surface nearby. The thick lace of trees covering the mountains is patched by slash-and-burn fields — rice, growing on the slopes at impossible angles. Everything looks fertile and fecund — the glowing rice fields, the coppery swamp of red dirt souped up by the rains, the greedy green clinging to the slopes.
But these months, while everything is busy growing so furiously, these are the hungry months.
In Laos the word for rice is the same as the word for food, and many here don’t have enough to eat during these months when the rice is growing. People often eat bamboo shoots instead, boiled up into a soup. Or they borrow from the village rice-bank, although many of these villages in the north don’t have rice banks — or electricity or running water.
It wasn’t food security that took us north this week; it was water. We were up in Viengkham so Mike could do the final inspection of a gravity-fed water system for a village of 117 households. The nongovernmental organization Mike works for had provided the material, the ever-vigilant Laos government had provided the “supervision” and the village had provided the labor. The end result of this partnership was a big cement water tank up on the hill, with small pipes leading down to 19 different taps scattered among the bamboo houses. Nineteen taps among 117 households may not sound like a lot, but when Mike asked the women whether they were happy with the outcome of the project we didn’t need the translator to explain their smiles.
They didn’t have to get water out of the river where they bathe and wash their clothes, they said. The water from the taps was cleaner, it was quicker, and it was safer for the children. They were happy. They were celebrating.
The whole village was in on this celebration. Men, women and children had gathered to watch Mike inspect the taps and listen to the speeches (although even without speaking the language, I could tell that the 40-minute speech given by one of our good friends from the government was beyond boring). Mike gave a much shorter speech about maintaining the system, drinking clean water, using toilets and washing hands. There was a bai-see blessing ceremony, and there was eating.
Boy, was there eating.
The hospitality culture here means it’s important to Laotians to share their best food, which usually means meat, especially when you are entertaining an honored guest. And being that honored guest in a village filled with people who are excited that they no longer have to fetch dirty water in plastic cans from the river brings with it some responsibilities.
It means that when you arrive in the village at 9:30 a.m. after you have already had a full breakfast of rice, bamboo and pork, and you are told that you are having breakfast here, too, you smile, sit down, and eat more sticky rice and buffalo and mushrooms. You wonder, as Mike did quietly to me, how many pregnant women there are in this village who are much more in need of this protein, but you eat some of the meat anyway because it would dishonor the village not to.
It means that two hours later, when you are presented first with the meat platter during the blessing ceremony, you take some. You realize pretty quickly that you have made a mistake in picking up a piece that is long, thin, dark and slimy. You eat half of it before you realize you cannot, simply cannot, eat the other half. So you discreetly pass it to your spouse, who whispers, “I really need to teach you the difference between meat and intestines before we do this again.”
You watch as he wraps it up in sticky rice and eats the rest of it on your behalf, gagging not at all, although you know he wants to. And you realize that he does, indeed, love you, too. This thought makes you smile even while you drink the shot of homemade whisky the village elders have handed you and feel it burn all the way down.
It means that an hour later, when it is time for lunch, you eat some unidentifiable paste you think is beef based — you wrap it up in betel nut leaves as everyone around you is doing, and you say it’s good. It is, too, compared to the soup and the chili paste and chunks of raw buffalo you cannot bring yourself to try. So you stick with your rice and leaves and beef paste and try not to think about how you can still taste whatever it was you ate during the blessing ceremony. You experience a sudden stab of longing for the barbecue ribs and sweet potato fries at one of your favorite restaurants back in Pasadena, and you pray that the bamboo and offal and whisky and buffalo and rice will not revolt in your stomach during the five-hour journey home.
Then you look around you and remember to be grateful to have a home to go to, that the word for rice is the same as the word for food, and that these are the hungry months.
Lisa McKay is a psychologist who specializes in trauma and resilience. Her award-nominated first novel, My Hands Came Away Red, was published in 2007. A memoir, Love at the Speed of Email, was released in 2012. She lives with her husband and son in Laos; her website is lisamckaywriting.com. | <urn:uuid:6656213d-3911-426d-95b9-d3f58a002273> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://magazine.nd.edu/news/38548-intestinal-fortitude/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980599 | 1,479 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The unicorn is a legendary animal from European folklore that resembles a white horse with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead, and sometimes a goat’s beard and cloven hooves. First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the Middle Ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin. In the encyclopedias its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness.
A centaur (from Greek: Κένταυρος, Kéntauros) or hippocentaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse.
In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings (see below), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse’s withers, where the horse’s neck would be.
This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths (their kin), or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.
The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele (inserting an additional generation) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
Centaurs were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. They continued to feature in literary forms of Roman mythology. A pair of them draw the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family in the Great Cameo of Constantine, which embodies wholly pagan imagery.
An elf (plural: elves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Early elves, whose description depends almost entirely on Norse mythology texts, were a race of beings with magical skills, ambivalent towards humans and capable of either helping or hindering them. But Christianized societies were viewing elves in increasingly sinister light. In Anglo-Saxon England as early as the 10th century, Old English medical books attest to elves afflicting humans andlivestock by “elf-shots”. The German elf or alp was seen as an “addler” of people in medical books, but already in the High Middle Ages there were prayers warding against it as the agent causing nightmares, and eventually for the alp its identity as nightmare spirits became predominant.
In English literature of the Elizabethan era, “elves” became conflated with the “fairies” of Romance culture, so that the two terms began to be used interchangeably. Romanticist writers were influenced by this (particularly Shakespearean) notion of the “elf,” and reimported the word Elf in that context into the German language.
A number of ballads in the British Isles and Scandinavia, perhaps stemming from the medieval period, describe human encounters with the elf, elven-king, elf-maid, etc. The same ballad type (cognate ballads) are often disseminated over several countries. Some common motifs, which may also be seen in British and Scandinavian folklore, are elves enticing men with their dance, and causing death, either by elf-shot or entirely unexplained. In Scandinavia, the elf are often conflated with the beings called the huldra or huldufólk.
The “Christmas elves” of contemporary popular culture are of relatively recent tradition, popularized during the late 19th century in the United States, in publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book. Elves entered the 20th-century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, for which, see Elf (Middle-earth).
Models: Erik Bayn & Falbala Fairey
This so pretty pictures are taken by the wonderful Erik Bayn (Mister Virtual World 2013) who asked me to come on one of his pictures and that he wants to do a fantasy shoot. Ofc I had to say yes as I am always happy if I can do fantasy shoots in any ways possible and also as I think Erik comes with an already very good eye for the light and details of a picture I was glad and honored to do this with him together. I was flashed that Erik likes the classy fantasy way and I hope we will be possible to do some again in the near future as he is a very patient photographer with also a huge taste of creativity. Out of 5 pics I picked my 3 faves to share them with you.
Credits on Falbala:
~Gown: ***TWA***Sublime Spirit-Birthstone Gown Set-October
~Hair: .:EMO-tions.. *PARADISE*
~Makeup: [Gauze] Fire Fox – Artic
~Teeths: [label mode] Teeth in Hamby
~Ring: Donna Flora SEAHORSE set+HUD
~Bracelet: Chop Zuey – Colours – Bliss in Blu/Gold
~Wings: ::: B@R ::: Fae Wings
~Ears: *~*Illusions*~* Sylph Ears
~Hands: Slink Mesh Rigged Handsin Elegant1
~Nails: Orc Inc : – Glitter Blend
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The first book in our Superman Sundays series begins with the classic comics from May 9, 1943 and continues through August 4, 1946, filling another major gap in the Superman mythos.
In a partnership between IDW’s The Library of American Comics and DC Entertainment, this volume begins a comprehensive archival program to bring back into print every one of the Superman Sunday newspaper strips. The complete comics will be published in three sub-sets, The Golden Age (1940s), The Atomic Age (1950s), and The Silver Age (1960s). The color Sundays and black-and-white dailies contained distinct storylines and will be released in separate, concurrent, series.Â
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IVHQ’s Teach and Volunteer Abroad Scholarship recipient, Taylor Franks, will be documenting her journey as a volunteer Teacher in Bali. This week she shares how volunteering in Madagascar inspired her and why she thinks volunteering is such an important experience.
Last August, I found myself dismally watching the Malagasy island of Nosy Komba disappear into the horizon as I set forth on my long journey back home. It was on this island that I spent over four weeks researching various reptile, lemur and bird species while learning and living the Malagasy life. Prior to this experience, I had yet to live in a community that was far different than my own. Surrounded by natural beauty and tasked with a unique research job, I often found myself asking the question: How did I get myself here?
Our lives are made up of a series of choices. As if roads on a map, we are constantly forced to make decisions for ourselves, whether big or small, that ultimately lead us in another direction or down a different road. Although we may have our sights set in a particular direction, or a goal in mind, we will always come to intersections that require us to make a choice in which way to turn next. I see these choices, these possible detours - as opportunities, and believe that it is not the direction we choose to go but the choices we make in these moments that ultimately define our lives.
Traveling is a way in which I’ve found numerous outlets to test and learn about myself. It sometimes takes a breath of bravery to make the decision to leave a comfort zone; however, the knowledge that you will derive from these detours will be beyond anything you can imagine. Volunteering gave me, and continues to give me, a possibility to share connections with people and places around the world. It is a way to integrate into a community far different from your own, and to share and learn skills from those around you. It is a thirst for understanding, a desire to explore, and an ability to see through others eyes that make our footsteps just a little more meaningful.
My time as an IVHQ volunteer in Madagascar reinforced the importance of this lesson within me. I was able to connect and live with other volunteers from around the world whom shared a similar outlook, and learned the skills and qualities they brought. I’ve come to find the unique opportunities that arise in situations where there is collaboration and understanding, and I’ve learned to continue to share my own experiences with those I meet along my way. I feel very lucky to have found another enlightening opportunity to travel and volunteer, and eagerly await the experiences that follow.
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Easy German Dialogs is a very practical study tool for learning German; it gathers 660 pcs dialogs from about 15 common life scenes. Scenes such as traveling, shopping, making calls, greetings and so on.
The software presents the content of German dialogs and English dialogs showing on screen by the way of playing small slides, as well as reading German aloud to let you study German dialogs at your spare time. The shown screen volume only occupies a small place of computer screen,so you can still remember the dialogs at the time when you are reading news or Blogs.
What's more, the software also includes a delicate reading tool which you can use to read the German compositions compounded by you from different places. A mini English-German dictionary is prepared for use.
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a scaled replica on show for public viewing
singapore's marina bay sands (MBS) designed by architect moshe safdie opened its doors to the
public, at a feng shui approved time of 15:18pm on april 27th, 2010
marina bay sands
this first phase of MBS includes 963 hotel rooms, parts of a shopping mall
and convention centre along with the resort's casino, restaurant and bars.
the complex's official opening is set for june 23rd, when 2,560 more guest rooms will open
along with additional commercial spaces.
view of the pedestrian walk way
distant view of the marina bay sands
architect moshe safdie with the scaled model of the marina bay sands
as part of the project, safdie has introduced an art path within the resort.
over the course of six months and having looked at the work of about 30 aritsts,
he has selected seven installations by five international artists including sol lewitt,
antony gormley and zheng chongbin. the pieces selected are meant to play on
environmental influences including light, water and wind, integrating art with architecture.
the worth of the public art situated at MBS is around 40 - 50 million singaporean dollars.
'drift' by antony gormley
'drift' took UK-based artist antony gormley one and a half years from conceptualization
to completion. he wanted to create a matrix that would not only occupy the space within MBS,
but also activate it. the installation is a massive three dimensional stainless polyhedral matrix
comprised of more than 16, 000 steel rods and more than 8, 320 steel nodes.
view of 'drift'
'rising forest', zheng chongbin
photos: marina bay, asiaone, reuters, AFP, ST
'rising forest' by zheng chongbin is a ceramic sculpture which is composed of 83 large-scale
glazed stoneware ceramic vessels occupying approximately 4,000 square meters in MBS's
hotel atrium. each of the vessels weight approximately 1,200 kg and measure 3 meters tall.
each vessel holds a tree, creating a 'canopy' across the interior and exterior areas of the atrium
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(LA Trend) — Ten months into the pandemic, there isn’t one area of life that coronavirus hasn’t touched. One of the more unexpected consequences of social distancing is how it has impacted the dating scene. With the passing of Valentine’s Day, relationships, or lack thereof, are on many people’s minds.
“Valentine’s Day is one of our busiest times,” said Jeff Finegold, the Regional Manager of the dating service, It’s Just Lunch. “Pandemic or no people are still interested in connecting. The urgency is really the only thing that I would say increased. People definitely have realized that life is precious and they aren’t wanting to delay changing their single life.”
It’s no surprise that many singles turn to dating apps. According to the most recent data from Pew Research Center, 30 percent of U.S. adults have used a dating app and twelve percent have found a long-term partner through an app.
Still, others prefer a more curated experience and turn to matchmaking or dating services.
“Back in March, we weren’t sure how the pandemic was going to affect matchmaking and dating, but over the past year we’ve really seen so many incredible connections forming,” said Heather Noman, a Matchmaker at Three Day Rule Matchmaking. “We’ve been busier than ever. We had another engagement last weekend, they were introduced during the pandemic. So many couples quarantining together, getting married or an exclusive relationship and actually seeing a lot of really positive trends with dating during that time.”
Finegold says It’s Just Lunch has also seen a huge increase in business since March and that many clients who previously started the application process have now rekindled their desire in finding a match.
“I would definitely say the positive is that the excuse of ‘I’m too busy to date’ is gone. Most people are eager to meet somebody right now and have really thought about what they prioritize in life. And it’s actually a great time to connect with singles you normally wouldn’t meet in everyday life,” Finegold said. “People are putting in almost more effort out because there’s less to do. There’s more time on our hands.”
Noman says that the pace of life during the pandemic has allowed people to really examine their needs and think about what they value in a partner.
Still, some things never change. As expected, Angelenos are interested in matches who live a healthy, active life and are “growth-minded” or interested in personal development. In the last few years, political views have been dealbreakers for those on both sides of the aisle, according to Noman.
While most people are looking for singles on their side of the 405, Noman says more people seem to be more open to matches in different cities.
“I think long-distance relationships are becoming a little easier as well because people have the opportunity to work from a variety of places. I definitely do see a future trend of less location-dependence and more openness to matches in other areas.”
No matter the geographic location of a match, nearly all dating has gone virtual. In Los Angeles, meeting up in-person is off the table due to the unprecedented post-holiday surge in COVID cases but that doesn’t mean dates are impossible. Just as the workplace turned virtual, dating, at least at the early stages, has undergone a similar transformation.
Finegold recommends that people get creative with their online date ideas. Couples can safely share a meal by ordering each other dinner and dining over zoom, taking an online class together, watching a movie in real-time, or simply video calling. Many of these date ideas also work for couples in a long-distance relationship.
Nooman suggests that couples take turns planning fun, meaningful activities that can be done virtually. She points to the New York Times 36 questions that lead to love as a great conversation starter.
“Building connection personally is really about having shared experiences and being genuine and open and sharing and showcasing things that really help who you are and what your values are,” Noman said. “As the relationship progresses, I would actually suggest seeing your date in other settings. For example, doing a virtual game with friends or even a double-date over Zoom, can be really great to see how they interact with your friends and how they are in a different situation.”
Other tips for a successful video date sound a lot similar to a professional call; make sure you’re in a quiet place, don’t multitask, and check your internet connection.
“Make sure you’re dressed appropriately as if it was still an in-person date. Do make sure that you’re fully dressed,” Finegold said. “If you’re sitting in front of a plain wall, take a painting or a picture, put it back there, and give some life to your surroundings. Make that space for yourself. When it comes to a date, I think it’s even more important because those impressions make a significant difference.”
Noman adds that it’s important to create a separation between your zoom meeting person and your zoom date persona; show a little personality, drop the meeting agenda, and relax.
“We are all going to meetings all day long. When you’re switching to a date, it’s very important to switch mood and energy,” Nooman said. “I suggest maybe listening to the music, moving to a different, more cozy area of your home, light a candle, grab something special, and definitely do an outfit change.”
For those lucky enough to have met their match during the pandemic, Finegold says it’s important to get creative and stay connected until it becomes safer to meet in-person again. But, with L.A’s devastating positivity rate, it may be quite a few months before that can happen.
“Maintaining that connection face-to-face is most definitely ideal but that can absolutely be virtually. It can be a FaceTime or zoom or a Skype call,” Finegold said. Have fun with each other, share something you’re passionate about. It’s important to maintain those lines of communication.”
As for the longer-lasting effects on the pandemic, Noman predicts a return to a more courtly style of dating. This slower-paced relationship style is the complete opposite of the hookup culture that dating apps are so often blamed for perpetuating.
“It’s almost like dating slowed down a little bit, sort of like the old fashioned way of dating,” Noman said. “A lot of people really wanted to make dating a priority over the past year and they come into dating in a much more genuine and authentic way. I think that trend will really continue.” | <urn:uuid:c77f2047-3012-474b-8db1-4c0f422a10db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thelatrend.com/looking-for-love-in-a-time-of-corona/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966101 | 1,492 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
All mammals (including humans) carry a number of recessive disease genes, and disease-predisposing genes which can result in the development of inherited diseases. The recessive disease genes result in disease when they occur in homozygous combinations, and the disease-predisposing genes result in disease when they occur in inappropriate constellations, or when a given individual carries too many of them. In populations with limited genetic variation, the risk of developing homozygosity and/or accumulation of disease-predisposing genes is higher compared to the risk in populations with large genetic variation.
The genomes of the dog breeds that we maintain today have been 'shaped' by two bottlenecks, the last of which occurred approximately 200 years ago when the modern breeds were established through systematic breeding within closed populations. This has resulted in the establishment of around 400 distinct dog breeds, each with individual characteristics with respect to appearance, abilities, and behavioral predispositions. The systematic breeding within closed population, however, also implies that our dog breeds represent populations with limited genetic variation and this, in turn, requires that breeding schemes take into consideration that further reduction of genetic variation has to be avoided.
The great progress made within the area of molecular genetics during recent years has enabled researchers to study the molecular background for inherited diseases and a large number of genetic tests have been established. Genetic tests with high sensitivity and specificity can be used to circumvent loss of genetic variation; however, as discussed below, there are a number of pitfalls with genetic testing which need to be taken into consideration to avoid exclusion of perfectly healthy dogs from breeding.
Mendelian Inherited Diseases
According to the database Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA: http://omia.angis.org.au/home/), there are currently 225 traits/disorders for which the key mutation is known. Many of the identified key mutations are mutations underlying recessive diseases. Most of the genetic tests developed based on knowledge about the underlying mutation provide efficient tools both to prevent production of affected puppies and to prevent loss of genetic variation. This is accomplished by allowing breeding with carrier dogs to dogs tested free for the mutation. To exemplify this breeding strategy: In 2006 a mutation in choline O-acetyltransferase (CHAT) was shown to be the causative mutation for congenital myasthenic syndrome in old Danish pointing dogs.1 This dog breed is a numerically small breed with a production of only around 100 puppies per year, and limited genetic variation (it was reconstructed based on a limited number of founders around 1950). All dogs used for breeding have been genotyped for the mutation until recently and no affected puppies have been produced since the initiation of genotyping. Although the allele frequency of the disease allele was low in the population in 2006 when the mutation was detected, carrier dogs have been used for breeding. The last carrier dog was genotyped in 2011 and presently all dogs used for breeding are free due to the genotypes of parents. Thus, the mutation has been removed from the population over a 6-year period.
The large enthusiasm with respect to establishing and using genetic testing has, however, also let to introduction of tests that are insufficiently validated. One such example is the test established for genotyping of collie eye anomaly (CEA) in, among other breeds, collies and Shetland sheepdog.2 A study of the association between the clinical diagnosis and the genetic diagnosis in the Danish populations of the two breeds has shown that the test is only predictive in Shetland sheepdog.3 Thus, although the mutation originally presented by Parker and colleagues (2016) was assumed to be the causative mutation, the study in the Danish populations indicates that the target of the genetic test is a marker segregating with the disease in some populations.
Another example of an insufficiently validated test is the test developed for genotyping of ichthyosis (generalized excessive scaling and hyperpigmentation) in the golden retriever.4 A follow-up study conducted in 30 dogs, which had been genotyped to be homozygous for the mutation, showed that only few of the dogs had problems with dandruff.5 This could indicate either that the disease is influenced by other genes and/or that environmental factors play a large role in the development of the disease.
Quantitative diseases are, as mentioned, caused by accumulation of disease-predisposing genes. Since several genes are involved in the development of these diseases and since they are also often under the influence of environmental factors, it is more difficult to establish genetic testing for them. In spite of this, we will undoubtedly see more tests developed in the future. Recently, a test aimed at predicting the probability for developing hip dysplasia in Labrador retriever was established.6 The test has been validated in 126 Danish Labrador retrievers with radiographic hip scores and estimated breeding values registered in the Danish Kennel Club. No significant statistical correlation between phenotypic scores and genotypic predisposition was detected.7
Conclusions and Future Perspectives
Genetic testing is an extremely valuable tool to combat inherited diseases. However, three important aspects have to be taken into consideration before a specific test can be recommended to be included in a breeding scheme: (i) unless the test has unambiguously been proven to target the causative mutation, it has to be validated in the population at hand; (ii) the relative impact on welfare of the disease which is targeted has to be considered in the context of the general health status of the breed; (iii) considerations concerning selection intensity in order to avoid further reduction of genetic variation have to be made.
With the progress and decreasing costs in regard to full genome sequencing, there will be a still growing number of tests on the market. Since dog owners and breeders show great enthusiasm with regard to genetic testing, genetic counseling is of great importance. Hence, there will be a future demand for veterinarians specialized within the area of Clinical Genetics.
1. Proschowsky HF, Flagstad A, Cirera S, Joergensen CB, Fredholm M. Identification of a mutation in the CHAT gene of old Danish pointing dogs affected with congenital myasthenic syndrome. Journal of Heredity. 2007;98:539–543.
2. Parker HG, Kukekova AV, Akey DT, Goldstein O, Kirkness EF, Baysac KC, et al. Breed relationships facilitate gene-mapping studies: a 7.8-kb deletion cosegregates with Collie eye anomaly across multiple dog breeds. Genome Research. 2007;17(11):1562–1571.
3. Fredholm M, Larsen RC, Jönsson M, Söderlund MA, Hardon T, Proschowsky HF. Discrepancy in compliance between the clinical and genetic diagnosis of choroidal hypoplasia in Danish rough collies and Shetland sheepdogs. Animal Genetics. 2016, doi: 10.1111/age.12405.
4. Grall A, Guaguère E, Planchais S, Grond S, Bourrat E, Hausser I, et al. PNPLA1 mutations cause autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis in golden retriever dogs and humans. Nature Genetics. 2012;44(2):140–147.
5. Jensen CN. Ichthyosis in the golden retriever: variation of clinical manifestation and breeding aspects in golden retrievers that are homozygous for the PNPLA-1 mutation. Master thesis, 2014, University of Copenhagen.
6. Bartolomé N, Segarra S, Artieda M, Francino O, Sánchez E, Szczypiorska M, Casellas J, Tejedor D, Cerdeira J, Martinez A, Velasco A, Sánchez A. A genetic predictive model for canine hip dysplasia: integration of Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) and candidate gene approaches. PLoS One. 2015, doi: 10:e0122558.
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Five hundred years ago, a monk named Martin Luther issued The Ninety-five Theses, and in doing so, heralded in the great protestant awakening and began a movement of reformation in the churches of his time. He challenged many long-held beliefs and practices and brought Christ, the Saviour, to the forefront of Christendom. Luther set in motion a movement which has led many to the study of the Scriptures. Many Christians today have various opinions and discussions on Christ and His life on earth. While many are discussing what the righteousness of Christ is, God is looking today for a people who will show the world His righteousness by the way they live their lives each day.
“It is not enough to argue in defense of the truth. The most telling evidence of its worth is seen in a godly life; and without this the most conclusive statements will be lacking in weight and prevailing power; for our strength lies in being connected with God by His Holy Spirit.”—The Review and Herald, March 20, 1888.
“Abundant provision has been made that all who desire to live a godly life may have grace and strength through Jesus our divine Redeemer. . . . The servants of God are to draw peace and strength from the Source of their strength, and in so doing they will find life full of happiness and peace. . . . The whole being must be consecrated to God, for our precious Saviour never shares a divided heart. Our inclinations and desires must be under the control of the Spirit of God, and then we shall be strengthened to fight the good fight of faith.”—That I May Know Him, p. 92.
“[Christ] said by the mouth of the beloved disciple, ‘Behold, I come quickly,’ and John responds, ‘Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’ Jesus spoke these words as words of warning and encouragement to His people; and why should we not heed them? The Lord has said that it is the faithful who will be found watching and waiting for Him.”—Reflecting Christ, p. 258.
It is our earnest prayer to God that, as we study the lessons of this quarterly, we will follow the guidance of His Spirit and make the righteousness of Christ our own. As we surrender our lives fully to God’s leading, God will use us as His instruments to share the great message of Christ our living Saviour to those around us and thus hasten the coming of the Lord. May we all be led to a deeper experience, may we turn to the Lord wholeheartedly, confess our shortcomings, obtain the assurance of sins forgiven, and allow Him to cleanse us, so that His righteousness may become ours.
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A historic milestone has been reached in England’s educational system following the release of new data from the Department for Education last week showing that a majority of state funded secondary schools in England are now Academies. In response, the Accord Coalition has called for more safeguards to be introduced, to help ensure that state funded schools do not misuse their autonomy to act in narrow and exclusive ways to the detriment of pupils.
Under the flagship Government education policy, Academy status offers schools a range of freedoms not enjoyed by schools maintained by their local authority. This includes what schools teach, as Academies are free from any compulsory prescribed curricular and are free, for example, to determine the kind of Religious Education they provide.
Over the last two and half years several other major safeguards have been removed by Government. Schools rated as “outstanding” have been freed from automatic OFSTED inspection and have had any application to become an Academy school fast tracked, meaning that the frequency of inspection has been reduced at many of the same schools being given greater powers and freedom.
Meanwhile, the 2011 Education Act resulted in state funded schools in England no longer being inspected by OFSTED upon their effectiveness at promoting community cohesion. In addition, the Act has meant that local authorities no longer have to organise school admission forums, which among other functions, help ensure that admission policies in a local area are fair and adhere to the School Admissions Code. Schools within the Academy sector have also been accused of failing to abide by relevant laws with regard to permanent exclusions.
Chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain MBE said, ‘As the Government gives schools greater freedom, it follows that it should also ensure more oversight, not less, to help make certain that those new freedoms are not abused. Accord believes it unwise that many safeguards have been taken away, and advocates a range of reforms be made.
‘These include ensuring that all schools are again inspected upon how effectively they promote community cohesion; that there is greater oversight of local school admission arrangements to ensure they are fair and sound, and, crucially, that guidance is produced to ensure that all state funded schools, including Academies, teach Religious Education that it broad, balanced and objective.
‘It is vital that pupils receive an education that offers them a pathway to better citizenship and a proper understanding of one’s neighbour in today’s multi-belief Britain. Schools should be engines rooms of cohesiveness and mutual understanding, providing their pupils with a broad curriculum, where their horizons are widened, not blinkered. The is a real danger that Academy Schools, including Free Schools, are compounding the problem of social division – by giving the schools more power to do their own thing, but ignore the greater good, such as in admissions and the curriculum. We do not want schools that are inward-looking and self-serving.’
The latest analysis today (February 21st) of data from EduBase – a Government database of schools in England and Wales – shows that 50.61% of mainstream state funded secondary schools are now Academies. Of the current 3276 state funded mainstream secondary schools, 1658 are Academies, with 58 of this number being Free Schools, which in law are a type of Academy school. 1658 / 3276 x 100 = 50.61%.
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s report into school exclusions, ‘They never give up on you’, published in March 2012, recommended that:
‘The Secretary of State must fully investigate, as a matter of urgency, accusations made to the Inquiry regarding some Academies failing to abide by relevant law with regard to exclusions. If these allegations are proven, he should apply appropriate sanctions to the schools concerned. Separately, clarity is urgently needed about the role of the Education Funding Agency, the DfE and the Secretary of State in relation to Academy complaints and oversight. The Education Funding Agency must be resourced to handle, in a timely fashion, complaints raised by parents about the behaviour of Academies where that behaviour is alleged to be in breach of contracts and funding agreements between school and state.’ (P29) | <urn:uuid:462c21d4-5292-4a6a-900e-bc6643a6785f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://accordcoalition.org.uk/2013/02/21/accord-warns-against-abuse-of-freedoms-as-majority-of-secondary-schools-in-england-become-academies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971301 | 859 | 2.25 | 2 |
Here is a Windows 10 tutorial that explains how to schedule Quiet Hours. Earlier, Windows 10 came with a feature to turn on and off Quiet Hours manually but there was no option to set custom time to turn on and off Quiet Hours automatically. Thankfully, now it is possible to select start and end times for Quiet Hours. Windows 10 will automatically enable Quiet Hours and then stop it based on the time set by you. When Quiet Hours are active, you won’t receive desktop notifications for apps (depending on the settings set by you) while giving the presentation, playing games, or doing some other work in your Windows 10 PC.
To schedule Quiet Hours in Windows 10, you need to access System menu under Settings and go to Quiet Hours page. There you will see a new option to set start and end time for Quiet Hours. Before following the steps, do note the feature to schedule Quiet Hours has come with 17074 preview build. That simply means you can use this feature only when you are using preview build 17074 of Windows 10. Or else, if you want to get this feature without installing the preview build, then you need to wait for the next stable version of Windows 10.
Above you can see a notification in Action Center that Quiet Hours turned on automatically on schedule.
How To Schedule Quiet Hours In Windows 10?
Step 1: First of all, click the Start button and select Settings icon. It will open Settings for Windows 10. You can also press shortcut “Windows logo key + I” to open Settings.
Step 2: Settings window has “System” menu. Select that menu.
Step 3: In System menu, you will see a new “Quiet Hours” page. Press that option. If you are using Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or Anniversary Update, then you won’t see this option.
Step 4: In Quiet Hours page, you will see “Automatic rules” section. There is “During these times” option. Turn on this option and then click on it.
Step 5: Now you can set Start time and End time (in 24 hours format) for Quiet Hours. You can also set whether you want to repeat this timing daily, on weekends or weekdays. You can also set Quiet Hours to Priority only or Alarms only.
Adjust options and then close the Settings window.
The Quiet Hours will start on the time schedule by you and end automatically.
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Dr. Gillette developed this webpage to provide information for the pet owner who wants to better their pet’s life through exercise and other various activities.
For Information about developing a program to include your dog as a workout companion visit “The Canine Workout Companion”
An Active Dog is a Healthy Dog – Robert L. Gillette, DVM, MSE
Dogs enjoy participating in activities. This exercise benefits them both physically and mentally. It helps to maintain a healthy conditioned state as well as helping to maintain a healthy level of weight. Obesity is a common problem in the pet world. Many times this is associated with nutritional factors. It is important to understand that body condition is a balance of nutritional input and energy utilization. There is a lot of animal nutritional information available but there is minimal animal exercise information. In normal dogs, inactivity has detrimental affects of the body. Physical activity has structural, metabolic and psychological benefits to the overall health of the dogs. This results in healthier and happier dog.
Exercising with your dog is beneficial for both you and your dog.
Having your dog as a workout companion has been shown to have mutually beneficial effects to both the dog and the owner. The human-dog bond is strong to both participants. The domestication of the dog has created a dependency by the dog for human interaction. Tuber, et al. (1996) showed that dogs, when faced with a novel or new environment, had significantly lower glucocorticoid values in the presence of a familiar human than when alone or in the presence of a littermate. Bennet and Rohlf (2007) showed that strategies designed to increase participation in dog training activities and promote canine sociability may have significant benefits for both companion dog owners and their dogs. From the human aspect, Brown (1991) states that physical fitness is an important general component of well-being. This also seems to be true for the dog. This information indicates that having a canine workout companion benefits the human, the dog and the human-dog relationship.
Exercise benefits your Dog
Dogs were bred for herding, chasing, smelling, and protection to name a few of the functions. Outside of the toy breeds, most dogs were not selectively bred for a sedentary lifestyle. Inactivity or lack of activity has a negative affect on the body condition which commonly results in obesity or the dog being overweight. As a result, obesity has a negative affect on the health of the dog. In the human health field it is recognized that obesity is associated with a 36% increase in inpatient and outpatient spending and a 77% increase in medication costs. Obesity has been recognized as a growing problem in dogs and cats. Problems associated with obesity in the dog and cat include orthopedic diseases, diabetes mellitus, abnormal lipid profiles, cardiorespiratory disease and anesthesia complications. Obesity is defined as an accumulation of an excessive amount of adipose tissue in the body. In the normal dog, it is a result of more energy being taken in and stored in the body than being utilized by the body. There are two ways to address body weight, diet restriction or by increasing energy utilization. Diet restriction has shown to have a positive affect on the life span of the dog. Nutrition plays a very important role in body condition. Physical activity has shown to have a beneficial affect on health in people.
Activity and Body Condition
The body is in an ever-changing state. It continually monitors it status and maintains or corrects itself depending on the factors that influence its homeostasis. There are external factors and internal factors that affect the metabolism. Some examples of external factors include temperature, humidity, sunshine, altitude and the external forces of nature. Internal factors include sleep, hormonal fluctuations, feeding, presence of metabolic waste and nervous stimulation. The dog is continually exposed to these factors. Wolfe’s law states that every change in the form or function of a bone is followed by adaptive changes in its internal architecture and its external shape. This means that as varying forces are applied to the boney structure the structure will adapt according to these forces. Wolfe’s law is generally applied to bone structure, but the theory also has application to the body’s metabolism. As metabolic stresses are continually applied to the body, over time the body will adapt its metabolism to the point that they are no longer stressful. The body now recognizes this state as normal and the external influences are not stressful to the body. In other words the body has adapted itself to the handle the external influences. This application is the basis for most training and conditioning programs.
Inactivity has the same influence as exercise but in the reverse fashion. If the body is not presented with any stressors, the systems will balance out their activity to maintain the metabolism at this low activity level. If the body is introduced to any of the previously described factoral extremes the body is not prepared to handle it. The body will react to handle this stimulus and will either handle it or succumb to it. An example of this is the immune system. If the immune system is not exposed to any infectious stimulus or in a physically reduced state, its ability to respond to acute exposure is deficient. The immune system is enhanced by sleep and rest and is impaired by stress. A body that is conditioned and healthy is less likely to be stressed, so it is better able to respond to infectious stimuli.
A more active dog is a healthier dog and less affected by the normal stressors of life. It is then important to know what amount and type of activity is beneficial to the dog. There are many factors that influence how activity affects the dog. First we must address the genetic composition of the dog. The wild dogs of Africa were naturally bred over time to run long distances and work as a team. Large dogs similar to the Rottweiler were bred for their size and strength and were utilized by Roman soldiers on the front lines to attack their enemy. Foxhounds were selectively bred to run long distances to handle their hunting activity. Greyhounds were bred for the strength to produce a supramaximal effort over a shorter distance and period of time. Sled dogs were bred to have the strength and endurance to run long distances. Dogs have a phenomenal aerobic capacity when compared to the other species. Their bodies are designed to handle activities and work much better than the human body. Therefore we cannot transfer our concepts of human conditioning limits to the dog.
The dog’s genetic design helps us to select types of competitive activities for the dog. Greyhounds are best suited to compete in sprint races less than a mile in length. The hound breeds are best suited to compete in long distance activities. This is also true for the sled dogs. German Shepards, Belgian Malinois, and Rottweilers are better suited for detection and/or protection competitions and work.
This is not necessarily true for pleasure activities. Most all dogs can participate with their owner or handler in basic pleasure activities. These activities include walking, jogging, skiing and other activities in which people participate. The key to safely including the dog in the owner’s activity, is in proper conditioning. The dog should be introduced to the activity in a manner that does not force too much activity too soon. Proceeding in this manner the activity is beneficial to the dog and not detrimental.
There is also psychological benefits to activity participation. Dogs are very excited to perform the activity for which they were bred. Recent studies have shown that the dog benefits psychologically from activity participation. Sled dogs, Labrador Retrievers and Greyhounds were evaluated to determine the metabolic affects related to activity anticipation and exercise. These three population groups were analyzed using an established performance analysis protocol. Three typical highly bred groups trained to perform specific tasks were represented. Physiological parameters were taken at rest, away from the activity site to represent resting parameters. The dogs were taken to the activity site and introduced to the activity 24 hours after the resting values were taken. Pre-activity values were taken. The dogs then performed their activity and post-activity values were taken. Variances between the resting and pre-activity values were associated with activity anticipation. Variances between pre-activity values and post-activity values were associated with activity.
There are many types of dog sporting and working activities. Although there are many activities, there are three basic physiological definitions in which these activities can be grouped. The three basic groups are Sprint, Endurance and Strength.
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The Campus Portal
5 Best Practices
So much has changed since those early campus portal efforts! Heed these tips in five best practice areas, and get it right.
Not that many years back, portals were nothing more than splash pagesfrom which users could click on links to navigate a school's web-based resources.Today, however, they are much more: single sign-on gateways that easily enable usersto do everything from pay tuition and view transcripts, to purchase parking permitsand sell used books.
Still, engineering portals isn't easy. Many schools embrace the challenge on their own, employing programmers who can write custom code in HTML, Java, XML, and other languages. Other schools pay for portal prowess, turning to vendors such as Jenzabar, Datatel, and open-source guru Unicon for their expertise. Yet, no matter how your school approaches (or plans to approach) portals, following these five steps can make portal projects more powerful.
1) Survey, Survey, Survey
Before you get going on your portal, it's a great idea to figure out what your users want. One way to do this is to guess. An infinitely better way is to ask them, via web-based surveys and special focus groups. This was precisely the strategy at Southern Adventist University (TN), where, earlier this year, representatives from the school's information processing department interviewed hundreds of student and faculty users before even thinking about planning myAccess, the school's most recent portal implementation.
At Southern Adventist University (TN), the portal teamsurveyed users and discovered that faculty wanted to usethe portal to access class rosters complete withstudent headshots for quick identification in class.Students wanted a portal destination where they couldreceive alerts about pending registration issues, overduelibrary books, and other logistical issues. Everyone wantedbetter navigation, a need the team hadn't even anticipated.
The process began in 2006, when, through a web-based survey linked to SAU's existing portal, technologists discovered that ease of navigation was more important to users than content itself. Inspired by this inside scoop, technologists created a navigation bar that appeared across the top of every page of the portal. They also created "navigation by topic" off the main menu, and provided additional navigation by constituency: separate menu bars for students, faculty, and staff members alike.
Ironically, "Navigation was on our list, but it wasn't even in the top five," says Herdy Moniyung, associate director of information processing. "Suddenly, we asked ourselves, 'What else are these people going to want from this technology, that we aren't thinking about?'"
To make sure they would stay on top of user need, when the new navigation went live in 2007, the IT department placed a big "Feedback" button on the portal, in an attempt to make it easier for users to provide unsolicited comments. Simultaneously, the school's Marketing department sponsored additional surveys, and the University Relations team got involved to pull students, faculty, and staff members into focus groups for face-to-face questioning. By the time the last focus group concluded in January 2008, the school had polled more than 1,000 users to find out what other navigational improvements users were looking for. The process revealed even more surprises.
TO MAKE SURE they would stay on top of user need, the Southern Adventist IT department placed a"Feedback" button on the university portal, to make it easier for users to provide comments.
Faculty members, for instance, said they wanted to use the portal to access class rosters complete with student headshots, so they could see which students were in class and which were not. Moniyung and his team responded to deliver an application programming interface (API) that provided this mix of data. Students, on the other hand, wanted a place on the portal where they could receive alerts about pending registration issues, overdue library books, and other logistical issues that pertained to them. Again, Moniyung and his team came through and delivered an API they call the Message Spot.
2) Make the Data Count
SAU technologists took to heart all of the feedback they received, and added the needed Web 2.0 technologies to myAccess, which went live this spring. From a technological standpoint, the portal now connects SharePoint technology from Microsoft and the ActiveCampus solution from Datatel with the school's learning management system (LMS) from Blackboard. From an organizational perspective, however, Moniyung says the portal incorporates far more.
"With all of these surveys and the feedback we received, we were able to get a sense of which additional technologies our users wanted, so we could give them exactly what they want," he notes, referring to technologies such as blogging, collaboration suites and, eventually, ePortfolios.
State of the (Portal) Union
From Unicon Senior Software Developer Andrew Petro, a look at portal trends from the market perspective.
THESE DAYS, THE HIGHER EDUCATION CUSTOMERS I see implementing portals are less interested in bells and whistles and more focused on delivering more effective user experiences.
Campus information technology landscapes are complex. Portals make it simpler to navigate this complexity: to sift it to relevance and be aware of it without being overwhelmed by available information. The portal efforts at The Johns Hopkins University (MD) for instance, are not about the gee-whiz factor but more about the sensible realization of an opportunity to use the portal to make mobile devices a more effective tool for coping with the complexity of the campus information technology landscape.
Schools are interested in adding social networking to their portals, as well. Both Duke University (NC) and the University of California-Irvine have developed Facebook integration portlets for use in portals (including uPortal "open" efforts). Schools also are moving to integrate blogging. And they are using portal capabilities to incorporate user attribute and group information, and utilize that information to personalize the content delivery and user experience.
Most of all, schools are using portals to make it easier for staff to access information in their ERP applications, to present announcements and alerts to portal users, leverage user-group information already stored in campus LDAP directories, and more.
In short, schools are now using portals to make the campus IT landscape less frustrating and more navigable, usable, and transparent. This works because the portal platform makes it feasible to ease access to applications through single sign-on, aggregation, and support for custom portlets for specific integrations. Announcement, notification, and alert features also are valuable because they play to a portal's strengths and leverage the power of a well-trafficked web platform.
Finally, portals improve communication. E-mail has become overwhelming; an out-of-context, unreliable way of communicating with university constituents. The portal platform can be one for more focused, connected, conditional, actionable intelligence. This leads to better compliance and better reliability of messaging and alerts around important university business processes.
At Grand View College (IA), another school that utilizes a blend of SharePoint and ActiveCampus, a similar battery of focus groups and questionnaires led to two up-to-the-minute features on a new campus portal dubbed myGVC.
The first of these features debuted earlier this year and is similar to the Message Spot feature at SAU-- a simple alert function that notifies student users upon login if, for instance, they have holds on their registration. These holds can be for any reason at all: an unsigned financial aid document, or perhaps an unpaid parking ticket. On each user's homepage, a special link leads to stepby- step instructions to eliminate the hold. The goal: to save users time.
Bud's List, a second new feature rolled out in beta tests this spring (and honoring the name of the school mascot), promises to make a much bigger splash. The feature is a homegrown, Craigslist-type message board where users can buy or sell books, tickets, office supplies, and other items. Users can set alerts for particular items going up for sale, and IT staff recently wrote an API that allows students to see the seven most recently added items to the list, every time they log in.
"We are anticipating a huge response to this," says Tim Wheeldon, director of information technology, acknowledging the school's commitment to moving the portal into a Web 2.0 world: "Anything to make the portal something students will embrace."
3) Tackle Governance
Once IT departments incorporate into the portal the technologies users want most, it's important to take the time to decide who's going to own it: In other words, who's going to oversee the technology, overall. According to Eric Dalquist, portal consultant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this is a step that many schools overlook-- an oversight that can cause big problems down the road.
At issue here is the notion of determining which department (or departments) on campus should be responsible for the portal. Even with implementations engineered by a third-party vendor, someone on campus must be held accountable. Should the effort originate in the IT group? Should it fall under the auspices of library services? Should it be administered by another department? These are all good questions to ask, says Dalquist.
Technically speaking, portals can reside in the domain of just about any department. But as the consultant notes, if a school does not decide which department is to take ownership, confusion can lead to inefficient management down the road.
Bud's List, a new portal feature at Grand View College, is ahomegrown, Craigslist-type message board where userscan buy or sell books, tickets, office supplies, andother items. Users can set alerts for particular items goingup for sale, and students can even see the seven mostrecently added items to the list every time they log in.Administrators are anticipating "a huge response."
"With the right kind of commitment from the people in charge, portals can work in any environment on campus," he says. "With the wrong kind of planning and leadership, one problem can lead to another, and the entire portal can end up costing two or three times what it should."
For governance to work efficiently, Dalquist recommends that schools designate one person or a team of people to manage the portal. In this vein, and in case something goes wrong, it's a good idea for the individual or team to be familiar with coding and programming. Dalquist notes that in his experience, however, the best implementations have been driven and supported by a school's academic technology group, working in cooperation with faculty and student groups on campus. Not surprisingly, myUWMadison, the school's implementation of the open source portal platform uPortal (see "Open Source Fanatics Embrace uPortal 3"), operates under this arrangement.
4) Manage Expectations
The individual or entity ultimately charged with overseeing the portal must make sure users are not disappointed with the end result. One way to do this is to ensure that the responsible department has enough people to write and monitor applications that increasingly facilitate integration with other campus systems. Another option-- particularly for those schools that have embraced open source portals-- is to outsource these services to a third-party vendor.
Today, a handful of portal vendors provide a smorgasbord of management flavors-- everything from writing workarounds to answering everyday e-mails about how features work. One of the largest of these vendors is Unicon, where CEO John Blakely says his company provides higher education institutions with appropriate expertise and support staff to manage user expectations over time. Through this process, Blakely says most of his customers request the latest and greatest Web 2.0 technologies: social networking capabilities, blogs, ePortfolios, and more.
"What makes a particular platform a portal is that it integrates with high-tech systems and some of these social networking capabilities," says Blakely. "Your ability to successfully integrate will be greater if you can dig down to whatever level of detail is necessary to succeed, and sometimes you just need help to do that."
A third option for managing expectations is to set up the portal so that users can manage the bulk of the content themselves. This is the strategy at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where technologists use a portal platform that operates on the Luminus system from SunGard SCT, and recently unveiled their new myFirstYear mini-portal. The miniportal is designed to provide first-year students with information about everything from coursework prerequisites to student activities on campus. As such, the site content changes regularly.
In the past, updating this kind of content was laborious: a handful of people in the school's IT department were responsible for the daunting task of keying in all updates. Under the new approach, however, through the school's OmniUpdate access-control API, technologists have empowered a small group of super-users to modify existing content themselves. Most of these super-users represent campus departments that include the Disability Resource Center and the Student Activities Office. Rachel Reuben, director of web communication and strategic projects, says the new approach enables these people to update calendar items and other items to communicate with students on a regular basis.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the open-source-platform myUWMadison portal implementation hasbeen driven and supported by the school's academictechnology group, working in cooperation with facultyand student groups on campus.
"Whether you're fixing a name or uploading a paragraph summary, offloading content management to users eases the burden on those of us making sure the portal is working the way it is supposed to," she says, noting that one of her staff members still keeps tabs on all updates to make sure none of the users are publishing objectionable material. "These kinds of luxuries enable us to better manage user expectations and keep the portal relevant."
Perhaps the most important step in the strategy for building better portals is to constantly innovate. This step-- this commitment to excellence-- extends and amplifies the portal's relevance. It also demonstrates to users that the school cares about how the portal works for them.
At Southern Adventist, for instance, that Feedback button isn't going anywhere; it provides users with ongoing opportunities to tell technologists how they feel about the portal. Moniyung says that recent suggestions have included everything from requests for more blogging capabilities to a change in background colors. Technologists keep and publish what they call a "change log," so users can read about specific changes other users have requested, then map those requests to actual changes that have occurred. "It's all about letting people see that we're taking their feedback seriously," Moniyung explains.
Other schools are innovating in different ways. At Grand View, technologists recently turned to SharePoint to add collaboration and team sites to the myGVC portal, enabling users in individual departments to use the platform to share information about time off, upcoming events, and documentation about programs of particular importance to the community as a whole. IT Director Wheeldon says these APIs provide services similar to those available through Google Apps Education Edition-- webbased collaboration technologies that epitomize Web 2.0. "Our users wanted new ways to collaborate, and this is what we came up with," he says. The technology is expected to be fully operational this month.
Open Source Fanatics Embrace uPortal 3
WHEN JA-SIG, the nonprofit organization devoted to the promotion of Java architectures, released uPortal 3.0 earlier this year, open source fanatics at colleges and universities across the country ballyhooed what they called a "revolutionary step" in the lifespan of open source portals.
Dalquist notes that with all of these features, the newest iteration brings the technology within easier reach of more potential uPortal adopters. "Our previous technology forced open source portal developers to adhere largely to the same basic look and feel," says Dalquist. "With this, portal deployers will have a much easier time making their portals fit whatever individual and customized look and feel they desire."
Specifically, the new platform offers:
- A new theme and skin to provide a fresh and attractive look out of the box. With these new features, it's now far easier for implementers to customize the look of uPortal. Skinning can be done entirely with CSS.
- Default content that has been changed to better demonstrate the portal's features.
- A comprehensive set of import/export scripts that makes it easier to upgrade to the latest version of uPortal.
- Portlet support using the Pluto 1.1 container, which will allow uPortal portals to more readily support portlet standard JSR 286, once it has been finalized.
- A standard Maven-based project structure and build process, which provide robust build, reporting, and packaging tools.
- Core components of the framework on the Spring Java Development Framework, making it simpler for developers to work with uPortal. The migration to Spring has also served to significantly reduce the amount of underlying code.
- CAS as the default authentication system.
- A unified caching framework that provides multiple cache implementation options, including clusterable and distributable caches.
- Remote management using JMX, which makes it easier to monitor performance and troubleshoot problems.
For a look at all of the features of uPortal 3.0, or to learn more about the new offering itself, visit here.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dalquist and colleague Jim Helwig are working with myUWMadison to increase both personalization and the ability for users to customize their own portal experiences. One byproduct of this effort will be a comprehensive course catalog for students. The catalog will contain detailed information about the courses, including information about instructors and course sections. While the system is still in development, Helwig, the portal project manager, says that eventually, students can use it to learn more about classes they might want to take. For example, he says, students who are interested in taking Biology 101 can log on to this catalog through the portal, look at all the different sections, and see how each instructor has been reviewed in the past.
"We anticipate students will want to create lists of courses that they're interested in," he says. "Down the road, when it comes time to register, we hope to have some sort of alert system that will tell them if there's space for them, and if they're eligible to enroll."
At other schools, innovation simply means expanding the audience. Take Hodges University (FL), where technologists recently rolled out a new portal platform for 2,000 users spread across two different campuses. The rollout went so well that Wendy Gehring, the school's director of information technology, says this year the school plans to expand portal credentials to more than 3,000 alumni-- essentially increasing the user base by 150 percent.
"Our original implementation goal was to meet our students' needs," she says. "Now that we've done that, we're expanding the portal and moving forward."
All Roads Lead to Portal. In the journeytoward ultimate campus portal evolution,there are any number of routes to takeand, sometimes, roads that should remainless traveled.
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What's new about New Cinema History?
In their introduction to a recent collection of essays by British film historians, James Chapman, Mark Glancy and Sue Harper (2007: pp. 1, 8) suggest that what differentiates film history from other types of historical investigation is that its primary source document, and simultaneously the central object of its enquiry, is Uthe film text". Their account is conventional in its medium-specificity: the film historian, they argue, needs to understand "that films are cultural artefacts with their own formal properties and aesthetics," and therefore has to acquire "skills of formal and visual analysis that are specific to the discipline". These are the methods that we have so far used for two purposes. The first has been to construct film history as a curatorial history of films and their production. Secondly. we have juxtaposed and contrasted film and history, in accounts of films as either representing or interpreting a set of extrafilmic phenomena identified as "history", or else as impacting on extra-cinematic conditions identified as "society". Film history of either stripe has compartmentalised accounts of particular types of films - national cinemas or genres, for example - in a way that is often historically sensitive to the time and place of their production, but detaches them from the equally specific circumstances of their consumption.
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4 ways to leverage the power of a smartphone in policing
Smartphones have various applications in policing – here’s how to use them to their full potential
“Child kidnapping in progress. All available units respond,” voiced an overly-calm dispatcher over the radio.
As I raced toward the kidnapping scene, a dilapidated two-story apartment complex known for its drug users and high crime, an on-scene sergeant hit his emergency button on his radio and yelled, “It was a 10-year old girl taken by a Hispanic male in a white car. Last seen westbound on Broadway.”
As all available officers frantically stopped all the white-colored vehicles in the area, they quickly realized that finding this little girl would be an almost impossible task: the color white is Arizona’s favorite color for cars.
A nearby officer arrived and pulled out his smartphone from his pant pocket. After listening to the vehicle description from several witnesses, the officer searched for a picture of what he thought was the suspect car – a 2003 BMW I series. “Yes! That’s the car!” yelled several witnesses who were hovering around the small screen. The officer quickly relayed the new description over the radio and to neighboring agencies who continued their search.
Only after a few minutes, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) stopped the vehicle matching the description on the freeway possibly heading south toward Mexico. The total time it took to find the suspect vehicle: less than 15 minutes.
The use of a smartphone was critical in finding the vehicle in this case. The officer was able to find a picture that matched the suspect's vehicle using a simple open-source picture search. More important, he was able to quickly show the picture to the witnesses for immediate verification.
Before the use of smartphones, station officers would have to listen to radio comments in hopes of patching together enough information for an online search. They would then search the image on a desktop computer, print out a possible match, then have another officer drive the picture to the scene to show witnesses for verification. This process took a lot of time, and time is not something you have in most cases.
Smartphones have important uses for police personnel. Here are just four of the ways smartphones can help police investigators and police personnel do their job.
1. Smartphones aid police investigations
Officers can access information immediately using smartphones. Just like in the kidnapping example, this immediacy is important because quick retrieval of information can save lives.
Detectives also benefit from the use of smartphones. There are hundreds of smartphone applications that allow detectives to communicate securely, transfer investigative photographs quickly, fax and receive search warrants promptly and monitor suspect movements covertly. There is even an application where officers can mask their smartphone number when calling suspects/victims/witnesses. When the suspect/victim/witness returns the officer’s phone call, the application can send a push notification directly to the detective alerting him of the contact. This can prevent unwanted late-night calls and help monitor phone traffic.
Smartphones can also be connected directly to police-only services to provide immediate, pertinent information like location alerts, suspect profiles and criminal history. Since many of these third-party services offer multi-level security encryption and general maintenance, it is cheaper to run and more secure than many traditional police technology services. The possible smartphone applications for law enforcement investigations are nearly endless.
2. Smartphones increase situational awareness for officers
What a blessing it is to have immediate access to crime bulletins and alerts. Instead of wondering, I think I saw this guy on the bulletin board in the briefing room, an officer can look it up on his smartphone to confirm. Furthermore, an officer can use smartphone technology to show citizens pictures of wanted suspects.
The ability to zoom in and backlighting option comes in handy while working in the dark.
Smartphones eliminate the need for paper and significantly reduce clutter inside an already full patrol car.
3. Smartphones allow officers to be more mobile
Many officers are limited to the use of in-vehicle computers. These computers, typically laptops, are mounted just off-center of the center console and are locked into a docking station that is attached to the vehicle’s computer monitoring systems. Most agencies, due to potential thefts, restrict the removal of in-vehicle computers making it difficult to use when interacting citizens. Essentially, in-vehicle computers serve the same function as desktop computers, except they are tied to a car, not a desk.
Smartphones, on the other hand, are inherently mobile. They can be placed in an officer’s pants pocket, in an outer-carrier pouch, or inside a pursuit bag. They are small, lightweight, highly functional and convenient.
4. Smartphones streamline administrative processes
Police administration and command staff can also benefit from smartphones.
There are many smartphone applications that are designed to electronically draft, sign and send documents. Electronic document services eliminate the need to print, sign, scan and mail. Police administration can also review search warrants, urgent legal documents and emails without having to find a desktop computer.
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The UN Security Council issued a presidential statement this week supporting the two-state solution as the foundation of a Middle East peace agreement.
American ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said the fact that the meeting was attended by council members' foreign ministers underscored the importance the international community attaches to a secure, lasting and comprehensive peace. The United States has revitalized its efforts to make that vision a reality, Rice added, and President Barack Obama is personally committed to these efforts and will lead them himself.
Rice noted that both the Palestinians and Israel have also committed to this goal, via the road map peace plan and the Annapolis declaration.
In the presidential statement read out by council president Sergey V. Lavrov of the Russian Federation, the council urged the parties "to fulfill their obligations under the road map, refraining from any steps that could undermine confidence or prejudice the outcome of negotiations on all core issues."
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Figure 10.6a (upper): Regional distribution of CH4 emissions from wastewater and human sewage in 1990 and 2020.
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"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own."
Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress.
This does not just apply to the methods used by the European Union, but also to the three main political parties in what is still, just, the United Kingdom.
"The European Union is a state under construction."
Elmar Brok, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs
"The time for individual nations [in Europe] having its own tax, employment and social policies if definitely over. We must finally bury the erroneous ideas of nations having sovereignty over foreign and defence policies. National sovereignty will soon prove itself to be a product of the imagination."
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany, January 1999.
"UKIP is sort of a bunch of ... fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, mostly."
David Cameron - radio phone-in - April 2006
"It is no part of Labour politics to try and win elections by saying things that aren't true."
Harriet Harman, speaking about Phil Woolas.
"Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people."
Nick Clegg, the Guardian, 15th October 2003
"Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations."
David Cameron MP, The Sun, 26th September 2007
"The Prime Minister tells the Commons that he wants to repeal the Human Rights Act, and I agree with him, although I do not think we need a new another one with just a different name. Magna Carta, the Common Law and the Bill of Rights worked perfectly well for centuries before the laws of Europe seeped into our judicial system..... Mr Vince Cable is the Secretary of State responsible for the Government’s policies on that. He says that the policy is good, sensible and fair. He recommends that Conservative (and for that matter Labour, Nationalist and other minor parties too) should vote for it. But he doesn’t know whether to vote for it himself. He is waiting to hear what other LibDem MPs are going to do. He might vote for it, against it, or abstain, but the merit of the matter will have nothing to do with his decision."
Norman Tebbit, Daily Telegraph, 3rd December 2010
Ever since 1972 the British public has been assured that the United Kingdom would suffer no loss of sovereignty, that the parliamentary rule remains supreme. Ever since their formation in the early 90s, Ukip have been dismissed as 'out of touch'. Ever since the formation of New Labour, that party has been guilty, as have both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Parties, of presenting manifestos - come general elections - and promptly breaking their word with the electorate. Harriet Harman, in particular should read her own quote and then read the Labour manifestos of 1997, 2001 and 2005. To what nadir has politics and democracy sunk if an electorate is unable to rely on a politician's promise (Cameron) or a politician who requests the views of the public, but on finding that those views are not 'liked', abandons the project (Clegg). To restate that politicians are people without principles is unnecessary when one considers the words of Norman Tebbit.
We the public are bombarded by 'social-improvement' groups, for example ASH, who cajole and hector the public to improve their lifestyles - but only in ways dictated by these social-improvement groups. Included in such groups are the 'environmental lobby', who, almost daily, preach about saving the planet, again at the behest of our government - who, in turn, are merely fulfilling their orders received from Brussels. Encapsulated with this 'environmentalism' are local authorities who then introduce stringent fines for failure to comply with their latest environmental edict - and energy companies who 'tax' consumers as a means of assisting the financing of a 'science' which still has to be proven.
We, the public, are treated like simple fools and told that we must act as politicians order. For example witness David Cameron stating that it is his belief our nation should remain a member of the European Union and that therefore no referendum will be granted - except under certain circumstances decided by him. We were led to believe that constituents would be given the right of recall for errant MPs, only to learn after the election that prior to our being able to recall an MP, Parliament will decide first if there is a case to answer. (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - who guards the guards?)
As we all know, to promote the nation state, its people, its way of life, is considered to be xenophobic - politicians tell us that that thinking is 'outmoded', that we must become a multi-national society and nation in order to achieve great things in a multi-national world. I am presently reading "Like the Roman", a biography of Enoch Powell, by Simon Heffer. Discussing Powell's disagreement with the decision to seek membership of what was then the European Economic Community (EEC), Heffer writes (pp584/585):
"Since 1968, when Powell had had time to concentrate on the issue, he had seen the economic emphasis receding and the political ones advancing, with the community viewed 'as an embryonic political unit' and that, as he had said before, seemed to be something he could not bear to see Britain join.
Accused of over-emotionalising his arguments against membership when he should have been more rational, Powell replied that 'a nation is not a rational thing. There is no rational basis for nationhood. What a nation is is what it feels itself to be instinctively and emotionally'. He denied he was an isolationist: One is not isolationist just because one does not want to be amalgamated with another country, or countries.....I am a free trader, I want the maximum intercourse between this nation and other nations; but I don't want to see this nation drowned by other nations."
Politicians preach democracy, yet impose on us a form of government that is most certainly not democratic as it does not contain that which true democracy is supposed to enshrine: freedom - the freedoms granted being only those the ruling elite have decided to allow. It is, unfortunately, true that by the time the public awake to what is being done to them it will be too late to protest or vote out these 'well-meaning' politicians.
Returning to the opening quotation, one must therefore ask how those well-meaning people are able to impose their ideas on a nation - because do not a nation's peoples have minds of their own? There is a problem in appointing any government, one that is best explained by James Madison:
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Federalist Papers (51)
So to lay the blame for totalitarian government - which some say we now have - on those governing is, perhaps, unfair. Unless a nation's peoples do exercise the minds that are theirs - and theirs alone - then:
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Nineteen well-known fair housing and fair lending advocates and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing activism generated by Occupy Wall Street protests and the many successes achieved in fair housing and fair lending over the years. The book reveals the limitations of advocacy efforts and the challenges that remain. Best directions for future action are brought to light by staff of fair housing organizations, fair housing attorneys, a banker, community and labor organizers, and scholars who have researched social justice organizing and advocacy movements. The book is written for general interest and academic audiences. Contributors address the foreclosure crisis, access to credit in a changing marketplace, and the immoral hazards of big banks. They examine opportunities in collective bargaining available to homeowners and how low-income and minority households were denied access to historically low home prices and interest rates. Authors question the effectiveness of litigation to uphold the Fair Housing Act's promise of nondiscriminatory home loans and ask how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is assuring fair lending. They also look at where immigrants stand, housing as a human right, and methods for building a movement. Chester Hartmanis an urban planner, academic, author of more than twenty books, and director of research for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Gregory Squiresis professor of sociology, public policy, and public administration at George Washington University and advisor to the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center. | <urn:uuid:7c482e5f-f23d-49ba-be0d-cce95580630a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biggerbooks.com/from-foreclosure-fair-lending-advocacy/bk/9781613320136 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939124 | 325 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Biographical material, speeches, correspondence, etc., of Tove Gertrud Mueller Gerson, teacher, physical therapist, YWCA administrator, and activist for peace and civil rights.
Correspondence, photographs, etc., of Ada Louise Comstock, Radcliffe College president, 1923-1943, and pioneer for women in higher education.
Constitutions, minutes, membership lists, etc., of the Mothers' Study Club of Cambridge (Mass.), established to promote discussion and socializing among its members.
Minutes, memos, reports, etc., of Seven Associated Colleges Alumna Clubs, which began in 1926 at Radcliffe, and held annual luncheon meetings in Boston, Mass. | <urn:uuid:a428ac94-c7a2-4a7e-a2ce-8d008a6fff60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/resources?q%5B%5D=%2A&op%5B%5D=&field%5B%5D=title&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&limit=resource&filter_fields%5B%5D=subjects&filter_values%5B%5D=Speeches&filter_fields%5B%5D=subjects&filter_values%5B%5D=Clubs--Massachusetts&sort=title_sort%20asc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.880517 | 154 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Objective The evidence for cardiac rehabilitation after valve surgery remains sparse. Current recommendations are therefore based on patients with ischaemic heart disease. The aim of this randomised clinical trial was to assess the effects of cardiac rehabilitation versus usual care after heart valve surgery.
Methods The trial was an investigator-initiated, randomised superiority trial (The CopenHeartVR trial, VR; valve replacement or repair). We randomised 147 patients after heart valve surgery 1:1 to 12 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation consisting of physical exercise and monthly psycho-educational consultations (intervention) versus usual care without structured physical exercise or psycho-educational consultations (control). Primary outcome was physical capacity measured by VO2 peak and secondary outcome was self-reported mental health measured by Short Form-36.
Results 76% were men, mean age 62 years, with aortic (62%), mitral (36%) or tricuspid/pulmonary valve surgery (2%). Cardiac rehabilitation compared with control had a beneficial effect on VO2 peak at 4 months (24.8 mL/kg/min vs 22.5 mL/kg/min, p=0.045) but did not affect Short Form-36 Mental Component Scale at 6 months (53.7 vs 55.2 points, p=0.40) or the exploratory physical and mental outcomes. Cardiac rehabilitation increased the occurrence of self-reported non-serious adverse events (11/72 vs 3/75, p=0.02).
Conclusions Cardiac rehabilitation after heart valve surgery significantly improves VO2 peak at 4 months but has no effect on mental health and other measures of exercise capacity and self-reported outcomes. Further research is needed to justify cardiac rehabilitation in this patient group.
Trial registration number NCT01558765, Results.
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Contributors A-DZ, SKB, KLS, LK, CH, CG, JL and JPS designed the trial and developed the protocol. KLS in collaboration with A-DZ and SKB drafted the manuscript. SSR and TBR contributed significantly during this process. LCT, RST and KLS designed and drafted the statistical analysis plan, LCT performed the statistical analyses for the primary and secondary outcomes, KLS performed all other statistical analyses. LT in collaboration wih A-DZ, SKB and KLS designed the physical exercise intervention. TBH and PPJ contributed significantly during data collection. KLS, SKB, TBH, TBR, SSR, LT, PPJ, CH, LK, CG, LCT, JL, JPS, RST and A-DZ all revised the manuscript critically. All authors have given their final approval of the version to be published.
Funding The Danish Strategic Research Foundation (10-092790); The Heart Centre Research Council, Rigshospitalet; Familien Hede Nielsen Foundation (2013-1226); The National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark; and Region Zealand Health Research Foundation, Denmark (12-000095/jun2014). The funders had no influence on the trial design, the execution of the trial or the interpretation of data.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval The Danish Ethics Committee (protocol no: H-1-2011-157) and The Danish Data Protection Agency (j. no 2007-58-0015).
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The Christmas season is a time for giving, spending time with loved ones, and reflecting on all that one should be thankful for. In Kenya, however, this holiday season is a time to spread fear and protect your thiefdom, according to the Kenyan central bank. Bitcoin has been attacked by the Central Bank of Kenya in an official release.
Simply marked December 2015, coming out of Nairobi, the central bank says they were tipped off about Bitcoin and its ownership in Kenya by “media reports.” In many countries, a notice by the central bank is as powerful as a release by the government itself, and they are one and the same in many nation-states. The central bank even alludes to this, putting itself on the same plane as the nation’s government. The common refrains–leaving out of many facts and misleading with inaccuracies–were a part of the release, titled “PUBLIC NOTICE – Caution to the Public on Virtual Currencies such as Bitcoin”:
“Transactions in virtual currencies such as bitcoin are largely untraceable and anonymous making them susceptible to abuse by criminals in money laundering and financing of terrorism.”
Anyone who has any understanding of Bitcoin knows it is neither anonymous and untraceable nor connected to terrorism in any known manner. These fallacies are clearly done to scare the populace away, but some legitimate warnings were included, such as unregulated exchanges worldwide and no recourse if funds are lost in its trading.
Of course, this would not be an issue worth addressing by the nation’s central bank if Bitcoin was not making significant inroads towards usurping incumbents like Western Union in remittances. Western Union has to kick back a portion of their profits to the nation’s government, if not the central bank, which accounts for the higher fees paid for such accepted transmissions versus those of Bitcoin.
According to the World Bank’s report for the third quarter of 2015 on the rates of international remittances, a common money transfer to Kenya was rated to cost anywhere from $14.04 USD to $19.54 USD for $200 USD sent. This translates to anywhere from 7.02% to 9.77% per transaction. When you contrast this to the fractions of a percent when using Bitcoin directly, the regulated establishment has reason to worry. Local Kenyan Bitcoin services like BitPesa have made inroads in proliferating the use of Bitcoin and seen massive gains, year-to-year. | <urn:uuid:d6725f14-dff1-45d2-a4c9-47af80bd5d41> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thebitcoinnews.com/kenyan-central-bank-puts-out-alert-against-using-bitcoin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00365-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969248 | 510 | 2.140625 | 2 |
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.
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Before anything else, I want to wish everyone good luck or congratulations on their end of semester work–which ever option best fits your own situation. After having done my best to diagram the historical craft in my previous post and postulate what such observations might mean for the study of Mormon history, I have decided today to tackle the role of theory in historical inquiry. Once again, I am treating an extremely complex topic, but I hope to present my ideas in a clear and concise manner. As such, I will probably oversimplify some concepts for which I profoundly apologize-this topic has proven much more difficult than I initially thought.
To begin this discussion, I would like to define “theory” as a set of ideas or a concepts that influence and guide the ways that historians make assumptions either about the forces that drive history or how to piece together the past. Historians employ theory to stock their analytical toolboxes and to reflect critically upon the stories they tell. Thus, they have generally drawn their theoretical suppositions from the traditions of both social and critical theory. Social theorists seek to create understanding about the ways that a society functions. This theory often comes to historians via other disciplines such as Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Psychology. Historians draw on such social theory to help them understand what historical factors have caused change over time in the societies they study. Critical theory, on the other hand and in a very narrow sense, focuses more inwardly on the craft itself. Critical theorists focus on the nature of truth and objectivity; they focus on the process of historical inquiry and the assumptions and biases embedded in these academic pursuits. Some historical traditions, such as post-colonialism and post-structuralism seek to influence both veins of theory. The following paragraphs offer a small taste of how both theoretical approaches have been debated and utilized by historians as well as their tensions with devotional history.
Social theories often help historians identify what will be the object of their historical analyses. For many years, historians focused primarily on what have been termed “great men.” This was probably the predominant approach to history at the turn of the twentieth century and still remained influential in the academy until the 1960s. It focuses on politicians, intellectuals, and artists as the principle movers and shakers throughout history and plays little attention to the common man. This approach has been challenged over the years by Progressive historians that touted the importance of economic motivations and technology as principle factors driving social change over time. Marxist historians, in their many iterations, have claimed that the most important factor along the path of history has been some variation of class conflict. More recently, in correlation with identity politics, historians have employed the constructs of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and empire as important intellectual tools for discovering the secrets of the past. While I don’t have time or space to outline how each of these approaches works, I will offer two rather simplistic observations about how social theory has affected the historical craft. Over time, historians have generally moved theoretically from a perception of history as teleology (the linear progression or digression of the human race) to a conception of history as contingency (life is full of chance and chaos). They have also left examinations that speculate about single causative factors to favor more complex and layered causal analyses.
Critical theory has also played an earth-shattering role in the historical profession-especially over the last twenty or thirty years. I would argue that the idea of scientific objectivity was one of the first theoretical approaches in the modern historical profession. The American students of Germany’s preeminent historian Leopold van Ranke tried to import his ideas about scientific objectivity in the study of the past into their quest for professionalization in the late 19th century-ignoring the fact that the construction of narrative always involves the subjective interpretation of the historian. The roots of this wedding between science and history emerged when Enlightenment thinkers began to push and exploit the depths of human reason and understanding to comprehend the ways that the world and its peoples function.
Nevertheless, theorists have devastatingly critiqued the idea of scientific objectivity by pointing out the imaginative and performative components of narrative creation. Scholars like Michel Foucault and Edward Said have ably demonstrated scholars’ inability to escape the prevailing discourses (ways of thinking/dominating societal assumptions) entrenched in the societies in which they live. Jacques Derrida has shown how all scholarly writing holds examples of societal assumptions especially binary relationships, and how omissions to the historical record often reveal more than they unveil. Post-colonial scholars have argued that studying the margins of empires is essential for understanding centers of power. They also have questioned the inclusiveness of archival records which favor the rich and powerful. Transnational scholars have critiqued the role of historians in the creation of nationalism, and have looked to write histories that transcend the artificial boundaries of the nation. All of these theorists profoundly question the possibility of historical objectivity and the ability to capture historical “Truth” for a variety of different reasons. Some even go so far as to claim that the search for truth itself is futile.
Now, having outlined what theory is and some of the questions with which it is concerned, I would like to give some reasons why theory is important and necessary in the creation of history. First, evidence can lend itself to a variety of interpretations. Theory often helps the historians bring coherence to the chaos of the archive. Second, there are always gaps in the historical record. Theory gives historians analytical tools for filling in those gaps in an intelligent manner. Third, theory helps us create authority through community. The existence of theoretical communities limits the usefulness of ad hominem attacks and allows historians to build their own analyses based on the credibility of more than just their individual understanding. Theory also offers historians a bridge between their politics and their craft. By utilizing theory to identify what went wrong and what went right in the past, historians hope to influence political choices in the future. Finally, theory helps historians understand and acknowledge the consciously constructed nature of their craft.
Most of the theory that historians use emerged from the rational traditions of modernity based in the Enlightenment or are reactions to this modernity. Although the thinkers of the Enlightenment did not categorically reject organized religion, it seems that this intellectual movement, in part, was a reaction to the religiously inspired violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. Men like Locke, Diderot, and Rousseau hoped to introduce reason over faith as the primary lens for understanding the world. Such were the roots of secular history.
There are several aspects of secular historical theory that make many church members uncomfortable. First devotional history, especially Mormon devotional history, is almost always envisioned as teleological. We want to see the hand of God guiding the Church and the affairs of men toward the end of the world. This represents a historical tradition that hearkens, in many ways, more towards vision of history demonstrated by the scriptures and St. Augustine. We are uncomfortable depending strictly on reason-we are told to study things out in our minds and in our hearts. We learn to trust feelings, visions, dreams, and blessings which in many ways are both unquantifiable and unverifiable. Whereas, modern critics would admonish us that the Truth is unknowable, members of the church routinely testify that they know that the church is “True,” that Jesus Christ is “real,” and that they have a Heavenly Father that loves them. Religious “truth” and historical “truth” are really talking about two very different things-though the tension between devotional history and modernity often rises out of assumed parallels and contradictions between the two endeavors.
Sorry that this post is so long. I think this is a weighty subject, and I still probably haven’t done it justice. I would really like to know what theoretical approaches invigorate your pursuit of Mormon history. Do you agree with my analyses? Is it so overly simplistic that it misunderstands the role of theory in historical inquiry? Do you feel the same tension between social and critical theory and devotional history that I do? Am I too skeptical about objectivity and “Truth”? Bushman seems to think that there is room for faithful history in a post-modern world, what do you think? | <urn:uuid:0f831d33-f94f-4dbc-a186-db59a9aac264> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://juvenileinstructor.org/theoretically-speaking-about-mormon-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00050-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959799 | 1,702 | 3.015625 | 3 |
One of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, Houston is home to many different cultures, languages, and stories. Notorious for its contributions to space, science, and sports, the city is home to about 2 million people and is the 4th largest city in the US and the largest city in Texas.
Historically, the city has been a strategic site for workers and businesspeople.
Established in 1836 shortly after Texas won independence from Mexico, the city started off as - and continues to be - mainly an oil-rich city and has since grown to be vital to the finance and information technology sectors.
Today, Houston hosts many different industries, such as health care, manufacturing, media and more.
Finding small plates and tapas like pintxos, having a deep dish dining experience, or winemaking with an executive chef are all possible in a city notorious for its delicious food. Why spend time on a waitlist of a restaurant when you can get advice for home cooks from professionals?
From which culinary learning center is best for career cooks to summer cooking camps or classes for cooking with kids – this guide will walk you through everything you’ll need to know when choosing the best class for your goals and budget.
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Cooking School for Culinary Arts
Houston is home to people from all walks of life and, because of this, is home to many different cooking skills and methods of food preparation. From wine tasting events to Creole tapas weeknights, the only thing standing in the way of tasting amazing food from all over the world is simply to reserve a spot in a workshop or class.
Sometimes, however, cooking with a professional chef in private classes isn’t satisfying enough. If you’re a young chef with aspirations of turning your creative outlet into your career, you may want to consider completing culinary classes or certifications.
Culinary programs can be beneficial for many different cooks, from those looking to be a sous chef working with seasonal ingredients to those that are passionate about crafting fresh pasta.
There is a multitude of factors to take into account when considering a career path involving food – the first of which is what specialization best suits you.
You can choose from a vast array of career paths involving pastry baking, sommelier skills and more. While you will have to make the ultimate decision on important factors such as tuition and employment opportunities, you can start here with some of the best schools for culinary education in the Houston area.
Culinary Institute Lenotre
Offering three different specialty areas and cooking programs for children, the CIL is one of the best places to learn culinary arts in Houston. The school’s programs offer associate degrees and diplomas as well as regular classes for adults. If you’re curious about the staff and facilities, try attending an open house or taking a course first!
Houston Community College
The community college program in Houston awards three different types of degrees in three areas of study: an Associate of Applied Science in culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, prep cooking and more. Check out their website for more information!
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Find a Community Cooking Class
If you’re looking to spice up your weeknight dinner routine, cooking parties and more – taking a cooking class from a local can be a rewarding solution to your dilemma.
Watching Master Chef can definitely make for a fun date night at home, however, why not take it to the next level by actually cooking the food you so often see prepared on late night television?
If you’re not convinced of cooking for fun, all you’ll need to do is look at the multicultural dynamic of Houston to know that understanding how to make delicious food can also be a way of getting to know your local community.
Whether you want to learn some knife skills, how to prepare a farm-to-table meal or need an original idea for a team-building event, private cooking classes can be the way to go.
Engaging with local cooks can also be an opportunity to have fun with the family as well. Kids cooking classes or cooking camps is a great creative outlet for children who love food.
Whether it be a three-day workshop on street food in Thailand or a class on all the various ways to make chocolate, make sure to check out the class calendar of some of these community cooking courses in Houston. Always verify whether or not reservations are necessary and, if so, what the cancellation policy is like.
Eventbrite is an online platform listing local events across the US that range from free festivals to paid sushi workshops. If you’re interested in learning more about food without the time commitment, browse from their selection of wine, food and drink festivals, workshops and more.
Love using fresh ingredients and learning from expert cooking staff? There’s no better way to engage in your community than to take a class at Central Market. Offering about 10 classes per month in the Houston area alone, you can learn everything from Catalonian dishes to Czech specialties.
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Private Cooking Lessons
Private cooking classes can seem out of reach for most people. Whether it be accessing where classes are held or the idea of replacing your home cooking routine. However, private events and classes for cooking can be a great way to turn your standard birthday or dinner party into an unforgettable experience.
Even for cooking encumbered folks, private classes can be an easy way to learn everything from French cuisine to bakers’ skills.
Food, wine, and tastings - through a family-style cooking lesson, you can get the best out of the farm to kitchen food preparation and meals. Private cooking classes or events are great for groups of up to 20 people, where each person can take an active role in preparing the meal - whether it be Mexican or Italian cuisine.
Private cooking classes are also great as a gift certificate and for kids cooking classes. From Tuscan Ribollita to Tarte Tatin pie, preparing a diverse menu with friends and family can be an unforgettable experience. Here are some of the best places in Houston to have a great cooking class in an intimate and professional setting.
Main Course Cooking School
This cooking school hosts private events, team building courses and classes for individuals as well. Looking at their class schedule you’ll be able to choose from about five classes per month for cuisine ranging from Crescent City to the Big Easy.
Holding about two classes per month, Urban Chef is one of the best places to find classes for date nights, beginners and for kids! With the option of also having private parties, the cooking school offers courses in cookie making, Southwest comfort food and more! Kids' classes tend to be about 50 dollars while couples' courses are about 180 dollars.
Cooking With a Twist
From kids' courses to adult birthday parties, Cooking with a Twist offers a variety of different dishes for a range of different events in their private cooking studio. The minimum guests required for private cooking classes are 18 people.
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Learn New Cooking Techniques Online
From the Italian cooking found at chains like Eataly to the wine pairings and Paella found at your local supermarket - food can be a great way to experience cultures from around the world.
However, for many, a class schedule at private companies or local community events are simply out of reach. Whether that be for reasons related to work or scheduling conflicts, taking cooking classes doesn’t have to be limited to learning in a classroom.
If you’re interested in upcoming classes, getting gift certificates for the aspiring chefs in your life or making dishes from around the world - taking cooking classes online may be the best way to go.
Online cooking classes include tutorials and recipes that can help you advance your knowledge of cooking methods, pairings, pastry skills and more.
If you’re interested in learning how to cook and want to go at your own pace, taking a class online can also help you manage your progress on your own terms. Here are some of the best online cooking classes on the market today.
Discover different cooking class on Superprof.
An online platform, Cozymeal lists cooking classes in over 40 cities across the US dealing with everything from Vietnamese to Sous Vide cooking. There are almost 50 classes listed for the Houston area and prices can run from anywhere between 70 to 125 dollars.
While Udemy is an online platform hosting tutorials of all different subjects, they have a wide selection of cooking classes covering everything from Tuscany wine pairings to making sushi.
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Ninety per cent of Sacred Heart students have secured places at their first or second choice of university.
According to the Camberwell school’s headteacher, just under 70 per cent are heading to top British and American universities.
Many students will also be embarking on competitive degree apprenticeship schemes with companies such as PWC.
100% of students achieved A*- C Grades in Art, Business Studies, Economics, French, Further Maths, History, Psychology, Textiles. All Health and Social Care students gained the highest grades possible.
But despite many successes, Mr Cefai said some students’ results had been downgraded in ‘unfathomable’ ways.
“I am so happy that the vast majority of our students have secured the university course of their choice,” he told the News.
“Our Year Thirteen students have suffered greatly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Their learning was disrupted, they were unable to prove themselves in exams and have then had an anxious summer waiting to discover what results a clearly faulty system would give them.
“Some of our students have had their grades pulled down in a way that utterly unfair and unfathomable.
“We will be appealing many of our results to make sure that our students’ life chances won’t be damaged because of a clearly faulty system.”
He added: “All of our students should be very proud of their achievements.
“They have worked diligently and persistently in extraordinary difficult circumstances and I look forward to them keeping in touch and hearing about their progress as they start their lives as confident, independent adults.”
Among the top performers are:
- Lucia Ruiz who achieved A*AA and will be studying Economics at Kings College, London
- Hillary Ah-Hing who achieved A*AA a and will be undertaking an Accounting and Business Degree Apprenticeship at PWC
- Italo Trombino who achieved A*A*A and will be studying Economics and International Economics at Nottingham University
- Silvy Fernandes who achieved A*A*A– and is off to study Art and Design at University of the Arts London
- Precious Ogunlowo who achieved AAA and will be studying History and Politics at the London School of Economics.
- Timi Disu who achieved AAB and has a place to study Computer Science at Kings College, London.
- Bailey Fairbrass who achieved AAA and will be studying Accounting and Finance and Management at Nottingham University
Silvy said: “My time at Sacred Heart ended in a way I didn’t expect but I’m grateful to all the teachers.
“For any future students, I would say to use all the resources that the school offers and good luck in the future.”
Hillary, who off to said: “If you work hard, you will get the grades you deserve.
“You need to know what you want and aim for it. Your teachers know what you need to succeed, so it is so important to work and communicate with them.
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Last Updated on October 25, 2021 by Marco C.
Dogs are just like humans and they have their needs. Including the need to relieve themselves. And just like us, they need to do it a few times a day. The difference between canines and their human counterparts is that they can’t just choose when to go. They have to wait for the pet parent to take them outside. If it is not done in a timely matter, it can lead to all sorts of health problems. A lot of them are irreversible, therefore it is best to exercise preventative measures to make sure it doesn’t happen. So, how long can a dog hold its bladder during the day? Let’s take a look at a pup’s potty needs in various life stages.
How Long Can A Dog Hold Its Bladder During The Day? Each Life Stage Needs
A puppy’s bladder is taking time to develop, just like any other organ in its body. Hence, it is imperative to take it potty often, preferably every few hours. One month of puppy’s age equals one hour of wait-time to empty their bladder. So, if your pooch is four months old, for example, they can wait up to four hours to go potty, no more than that. And how long can a dog hold its bladder overnight? Pups can wait for up to eight hours from the time they went to bed till the time they wake up in the morning to go do number one.
If a pet owner cannot take his/her hound out this often, it would be a good idea to have a designated enclosed space in the house where it is safe for the pup to roam around while waiting for you. And it works the other way around-a house can benefit from not getting destroyed just because a puppy is extremely bored being alone all day. Consider buying baby gates and installing them in an area that has an easy-to-clean surface (like tiles, for instance).
If a puppy is not taken out regularly and is forced to wait until it can go potty, it can develop UTI (urinary tract infection), kidney stones, incontinence in adulthood, and, in worse cases, urinary cancer.
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Are you wondering how long can an adult dog hold its urine? Well, a one-year-old pooch can wait for up to 6 hours to go to the bathroom. Still, it is better not to experiment with your mutt’s bladder capabilities to avoid problems with the urinary tract. If you are absent for hours on end and there’s nobody home to take care of a precious little fella, it might be a good idea to see if any of your family/friends can drop by to check on the lonely pooch. Or, as an alternative, a dog sitter can come by and take care of a furry creature.
Have you heard the expression “oldies are just like kids?” It is not too far from the truth, actually. Senior canines, just like human retirees, are prone to various ailments, including incontinence, or another words uncontrollable urination. Therefore, an “oldie” dog needs to be taken out more often: at least every two hours to eliminate a chance of an accident.
While a healthy adult dog can easily go by with three potty walks per day, a senior canine citizen has to relieve himself at least 5-6 times a day. Consider scattering pee-pee pads on the floor for your mutt to go on should the need arise.
Tips On How To Prevent Pee Accidents In The House
1. Work From Home: if possible, of course. Unless your job involves doing something physical, you can always request to work from home fully or at least partially. Most jobs involving doing work on a computer can be fully remote. Your pup will be one happy camper once its mommy/daddy is home. So, it won’t feel lonely, even if it has to play by itself most of the day.
2. Come Home for Lunch: in case you can’t make your job fully remote, there’s an option to come home for lunch taken you don’t live far. This way you can at least take your precious fella out to go potty as well as get a much-needed exercise. Are you in the job search process currently? Look into remote work and jobs that give you more control over your schedule.
Some jobs will allow you to bring your pooch to work, that is really the best-case scenario! Talk to your management to see whether or not they have such a dog-friendly practice.
3. Hire a Dog Sitter/Walker: don’t have anybody in mind to take care of a furry companion? No problem, services like Rover.com or Wagwalking.com offer a wide range of caring dog sitters near you. You can relax knowing that a professional dog caregiver is there to hang out with a fluffy client: feeding, walking, playing with him, and just cuddling together on a couch. A pet parent can request pictures, videos, and written reports to keep him/her updated on their pup’s whereabouts during the day.
4. Doggy Door: an owner should train his/her pooch on how to use a special doggy door. Therefore it can come and go as it pleases and not have any accidents in the house. If you don’t have one in your house, consider making one to give your pet the freedom it craves while you are away.
5. Doggy Day Care: this is probably one of the easiest solutions for a very active, sociable pet. All pet care facilities have trained staff to supervise hounds at play and correct any unwanted behaviors. The little “house terrorist” (and believe me, I know a thing or two about those), will have a chance to fully socialize with familiar canine friends. Also, establish new friendships, get a lot of exercise while also being mentally stimulated.
My girl Ariel is a different dog when she comes home: she’s more relaxed, happy, tired (yes, that’s what we are aiming for here), and is fully “pottied out” so to speak. She gets all her bathroom breaks throughout the day, therefore my husband and I don’t even have to worry much about taking her out. Daycare is a Godsend for all you pet parents out there! It might not be the cheapest out of all the above-described options, but it is one of the best for sure!
So here we’ve just answered a question “How Long Can a Dog Hold Its Bladder During the Day?” for all the pet parents’ awareness. Now you know exactly how long can dogs hold their pee at various life stages as well as what the best tips to prevent the unwanted occasional accidents are.
Don’t leave your mutt home alone for long especially at puppy and senior stage. That’s when their bladders are most sensitive, as well as weak, and they don’t have full control over the bladder movements. You wouldn’t like it if you had to wait forever to pee, would you? I bet not.
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Are you fond of eating jaggery? Do you love it as a sweetener? Or do you enjoy it as a healthy ingredient? Whatever the reasons, jaggery is quite an important ingredient. Joynagarer Moa Online is commonly used in households. But do you know about types of jaggery? Yes, you would be astonished to know of various types of jaggery. The benefits of jaggery are worthy enough for health. So, this blog will tell you the perfect range of jaggery. Let us sweeten your mind with the alluring advantages of jaggery as well.
Distinct Types of Jaggery
The traditional sweetener is prepared by evaporating the water from the sugarcane juice. Gur is found in three forms. Solid, Liquid, and granular forms of jaggeries are useful for various purposes. There are different types of jaggeries. Continue with this blog to find a taste of the same.
Date Palm Jaggery
Date palm jaggery is prepared with a simple process. With proper boiling of the sap of the date plant, the jaggery is a winter sweetener. It is famous in West Bengal. The soft melting texture of the date palm jaggery is palatable. The fragrance of dark chocolate is extremely awesome.
Sugarcane jaggery is a common one. The sweetness of this jaggery is great. It is available at an affordable price. A common type of jaggery is found in each household. The quality of sugarcane makes it a perfect sweetener. The boiling of sugarcane is the secret of its preparation.
Boiling the sap of the Palmyra plant, this jaggery is prepared. Palmyra is a fruit that resembles a coconut. Palmyra fruit is darker than the color of coconut.
Toddy Palm Jaggery
The moa sweet online shopping, Online Khejur Gur is prepared by boiling the sap of Toddy’s palm plant. The specialty of Myanmar is golden brown.
Some Benefits of Jaggery
Jaggery has multiple benefits, some of them are as follows:
- Jaggery recipe is helpful at the time of constipation.
- A perfect blood purifier, the cleansing of blood is possible with regular use of jaggery.
- Detoxification of the liver
- Jaggery has immunity boosting capacity
- Cold and flu are better treated with the help of jaggery
- Anemia can be cured with jaggery. You can reach the right hemoglobin with the regular intake of jaggery after meals.
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You could jeopardize your overall health if you don’t pay attention to the foods you eat. Consuming too much junk food, for example, can lead to chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, clogged arteries and more.
Making the decision to improve your lifestyle by following a primarily raw, plant-based diet is a health-conscious decision that improves your metabolism, boosts your immune system and promotes overall wellness and longevity while reducing your risk for chronic conditions like the ones listed above. Some of the most important healthy diet staples consist of vegetables, and that’s because they’re so high in nutrients and provide a multitude of benefits.
“The amount of fruits and vegetables we eat every day depends on age, gender and more.”
According to Choose My Plate, an initiative by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the amount of fruits and vegetables we eat every day depends on age, gender and level of physical activity. The daily recommendations, based on these factors, range anywhere from 1 to 2 cups of fruit, and 1 to 3 cups of vegetables. They recommend filling half of your plate with fruits and vegetables at every meal. We say that is a good start, but adults should strive for at least 10 servings a day for optimal health.
But just how favorable are veggies when it comes to overall wellness? Here are five of the top benefits of eating vegetables:
1. They’re an Important Source of Nutrients
When your diet consists of eating a plethora of vegetables, you’re fueling your body with many of the vital nutrients it needs to thrive. According to Choose My Plate, a healthy eating initiative by the United States Department of Agriculture, vegetables are rich in potassium, fiber, folic acid, vitamins A and C and more.
2. They’re Low in Calories
Vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories. This means you can fill up on a lunch of veggies without worrying about going over your suggested daily caloric intake. This makes it easier to eat hearty meals without worrying about counting calories, and can also aid weight loss and maintenance.
3. They Promote Optimal Gut Function
Fiber is beneficial to the body in the sense that it can reduce the occurrence of bowel problems, such as constipation. Due to the water and fiber content in most vegetables, these healthy foods nourish beneficial bacteria in the gut, which keeps it healthy and regular.
4. They’re a Natural Mood Booster
You know that following a diet rich in vegetables is great for your physical health, but have you considered how beneficial it is for your mental well-being? According to Mental Health America, following a diet that relies on nuts, whole grains, fruits, unsaturated fats and vegetables is better for mental wellness than one that consists of meat and dairy products. Additionally, MHA said that those who follow a primarily raw, plant-based diet are 30 percent less likely to develop depression.
5. They’re Great for Immunity
Since vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, they have a great reputation for optimizing the immune system. Specifically, leafy green vegetables activate T-bet, a gene that produces immune cells in the gut, according to Dr. Mercola. Those immune cells maintain immunity and inflammation, protect the body from pathogenic bacteria, improve intestinal balance and prevent food allergies.
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This was an incredibly important talk, because historically women have not fared very well in religious terms. There are many religions that believe that women are inferior to men and really only find their identity in men. There are certain religions, even popular ones among us, that teach that cannot enter into heaven other than under the approval and authority of a man.
It really is a shame how women have been treated and how religious bullies have twisted the truth in order to make women feel inferior. It certainly has to have some expression in our modern culture where women basically are viewed as things. This is not so with God.
The message today was broken down into two different sections: How it’s Been, and How it Is. How it’s been begins with a lie that says women are spiritually inferior and must bow to the authority of men. So under the influence of religion women have been viewed as inferior to men, and in some cases, actually the property of men. Women are only good for having children and staying home and serving their men.
Now I would never discount the importance of children. And I certainly applaud women who make the choice to stay home to raise their children. What a great calling and a great task! But I also know there are many women who don’t have that privilege, either the financial where-with-all, or the support it would take.
So which is more important for a woman to do? Have children, stay home, and raise them? Or have children and push ahead in their career? Or not have children? To get married? Stay single? All these issues call for balance and right interpretation. And that is exactly what has not happened when it comes to religion and women.
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Boating After Dark and Fourth of July 2017 Events
With July 4th just around the corner many boaters are going to be out on the water after dark. This can be great fun for the family; watching fireworks, swimming, playing games, without being involved in dangerous crowds. However boating at night has dangers all its own. In fact the biggest dangers from boating at night come from reduced visibility due to low light. Here are a few things to do while you’re on the water after dark.
Be a Pro and GO SLOW. This is a great phrase for night boating, because at night when visibility is low the best thing to do is slow down. Slowing down gives you the opportunity to identify potential dangers, such as rocks and branches, and avoid them. How slow you need to go depends on the visibility, but if your unsure slow down. Also keep the rest of the crew on look out; you can never have too many eyes. And having everybody searching and chatting helps keep you awake for those really late night excursions.
Also increase your visibility with a combination of natural and artificial means. By reducing the light onboard, such as cell phones, your eyes keep their acquired night vision allowing you to see clearly. It takes about 30 minutes to achieve full night vision and any bright flash or shining light will ruin this instantly. Always keep your night lights however because this allows other boats to see you. If you do have to have light onboard use red light, it allows you to maintain night vision while still illuminating.Some companies also make GPS units that overlay charts and radar info onto one screen making it an useful tool to get around at night and avoid getting lost. However don’t be fooled this is no substitute for using your eyes.
As a last resort always keep a spotlight for emergency use available to you while out on the boat. That way you can look for navigational aids or signal for help. These are just a few things you can do to stay safe for the holidays. Remember “Stay pro, go SLOW”, use your eyes, and use the tools modern technology has made available to you.
2017 Fourth of July Lake Events
Saturday, July 1: Boom At Boone – Fireworks show at Boone Lake Marina. Live music and a cornhole tournament starts at 4 p.m. Join by land or water.
South Holston Lake
Monday, July 3: Lake View Dock in Bristol will be hosting a fireworks display.
Saturday, July 1: Fireworks at Cove Ridge Marina starting at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday July 1: Fireworks at Mallard Cove Marina starting at 9:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 2: The Watauga Lake Boat Parade will be held from 2 – 4 p.m. Have your boat decorated in a patriotic style and be at the Watauga Dam by 1:30 p.m. to be included in judging. The four categories are: Best Decorated Houseboat, Best Decorated Cruiser, Best Decorated Pontoon, and Best Decorated Runabout. Call (423) 725-2201 ex. 307 to register.
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Imported flowers for Vaishno Devi temple during Navratri festivalMarch 30th, 2009 - 8:25 pm ICT by ANI
By Tahir Nadeem Khan
Katra, March 30 (ANI): On the occasion of Navratri festival, the famous Vaishno Devi temple near Jammu has been decorated with special flowers brought from Norway, Sweden, Russia, and other foreign countries.
Officials related to Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board say that this is for the first time that flowers that the temple has been decorated with imported flowers.
The countries from where the flowers have been imported also include Austria, United Kingdom and Australia.
“Flowers from different parts of the country have been brought herelike gladiolus, carnations and also like Lilium, anthurium orchids have been brought to beautify the temple,” said Rajesh Goyal, a temple official.
Hundreds of thousands of devotees from across the country and abroad visit this world famous Vaishno Devi shrine during the nine-day Navratri festival.
The special decoration with imported flowers have doubled up devotees joy and enthusiasm, as most of them find it a special visual delight after taking a sojourn of 12 kilometres up the hills.
“Navratri is a special occasion for everyone and when devotees find the temple beautified with such flowers, the charm and devotion increases. The decoration is really very appealing for all of us, “said Aashima Gupta, one of the devotees at the temple.
Nestled in Trikuta hills in the Himalayas, the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine and the base camp, the temple town of Katra in the foothills, present a festive look these days.
Goddess Vaishnavi is believed to have spent some time while observing various spiritual disciplines and penances.
The culmination of this journey is at the holy cave where She merged Her Human form with the astral form of Her creators, the three supreme energies.
Over 20,000 devotees have paid obeisance at the holy cave shrine during the first day of the Navratra, which commenced on Friday (March 27). (ANI)
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Witteveen+Bos to investigate feasibility of hydro power in Sierra Leone
Riverblade Holding B.V. has commissioned Dutch engineering and consultancy firm Witteveen+Bos to conduct a feasibility study for the small-scale generation of hydro power in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.
In this project they will investigate if it is possible to use the hydro power potential of rivers to generate electricity and supply it to the grid.
The feasibility study began in July 2016, and two starting sites will be selected in February 2017. The aim of the project is to scale up to a large number of sites, and make a significant contribution towards meeting the electricity needs of Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is faced with massive electricity shortages. Only 10 % of the country's population has access to a reliable energy supply, even though such access is very important for a healthy home environment and economic development.
Riverblade was founded by Dutch entrepreneurs Donald Keus and Wouter Kreuwel, who awarded the contract to Witteveen+Bos because of the proposed phased approach to the feasibility study. Witteveen+Bos will initially prepare a longlist with approximately twelve potential sites across the country. These sites will be selected using a hydrological GIS model, based on factors including environmental impact.
Witteveen+Bos developed this model in order to perform 'quick scans' of hydro power potential worldwide, and will customise it for the specific situation in Sierra Leone. The potential sites will then be visited, whereupon Witteveen+Bos will prepare a shortlist of the most suitable initial locations to install small hydro power.
In collaboration with local partners in Sierra Leone, the researchers will conduct an environmental and social impact assessment to help select these two initial sites. The results of the initial project will be used to set up other projects for generating energy from river flows, both in Sierra Leone and elsewhere.
Small-scale energy generation
The decision to focus on small-scale energy generation from flow-based hydropower is a conscious one. These power stations are relatively easy to install with assistance from local contractors. Larger scale projects, like a dam combined with a reservoir, often have major drawbacks: they are more difficult to realise and require land to be flooded, which can have a significant impact on the human and natural environment.
Witteveen+Bos will apply its six sustainable design principles in performing this feasibility study. Engaging local stakeholders, collaborating with local companies, and translating the results of the environmental and social impact assessment into criteria for location selection are good examples of this approach.
This hydropower pilot project is being financed by the Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF).
This news item was originally published on the website of Witteveen+Bos.
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Achieving carbon pollution reduction and a switch to clean energy with carbon pollution pricing, limits and supporting policies : discussion paper /Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. Climate Institute 2011Description: PDFSubject(s): Climatic Changes Economic Aspects | Carbon Taxes | Environmental Policy Economic Aspects | Environmental Impact Charges | Pollution Economic Aspects | Environment | Economics | Climate Institute | Garnaut Climate Change Review | Climate ChangeOnline Resources: Electronic copy
This discussion paper focuses on pollution pricing mechanisms and an approach to setting scheme caps and targets. It comes on the back of recent proposals from Professor Garnaut, ill informed comments from the Coalition on robust governance structures and the release of an economists letter calling for effective pollution pricing.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In a case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit ruled Monday in favor of Susman Godfrey client Maria Antonieta Martinez-Aguero, holding that, under the Fourth Amendment, "aliens stopped at the border have a constitutional right to be free from false imprisonment and the use of excessive force by law enforcement personnel." The decision, Martinez-Aguero v. Gonzalez, authored by Judge Jerry E. Smith, is the first federal Court of Appeals decision expressly to address the question of whether a 1990 Supreme Court decision, United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, prohibits non-resident aliens at a U.S. port of entry from asserting rights under the U.S. Constitution when they allege they have been treated inhumanely by law enforcement personnel.
Ms. Martinez-Aguero is a forty-nine-year-old Mexican national who visited the United States once a month to accompany her aunt to the El Paso Social Security Office. She used to enter the United States with a federally issued border-crossing card, which expired when the INS decided to issue biometric, machine-readable cards. According to her complaint, when she and her aunt attempted to enter the U.S. at the El Paso border on October 4, 2001, she was stopped by Officer Humberto Gonzales on the U.S. side of the international bridge but before she had cleared the port of entry. Officer Gonzalez told Ms. Martinez-Aguero and her aunt that their visas had expired, but when Ms. Martinez-Aguero asked for more information, Officer Gonzalez became agitated and began using foul language. When she and her aunt began walking back toward Mexico, Ms. Martinez-Aguero contends that Officer Gonzalez grabbed her arms, twisted them behind her back, pushed her into a concrete barrier, which hit her stomach, and then started kicking her with his knees in her lower back. Ms. Martinez-Aguero was taken into an office and handcuffed to a chair. | <urn:uuid:ae11fd0d-8070-432e-bfb4-60ae9dc89c5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chron.com/news/article/PRN-Susman-Godfrey-Wins-Fifth-Circuit-Appeal-1899983.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.963399 | 428 | 1.5625 | 2 |
On one of our NetBeans mailing lists, a new programmer asked a question, how should they build their application that needs to run on ten client machines talking to a MySQL database.
The quick answer was "build a web app."
I just don't understand this. The web app architecture is - c'mon, admit it - ugly for applications that need to have dynamic behavior (e.g. almost every app out there). It was never built for that. HTTP/HTML is a static, document-oriented protocol and markup. HTML came from SGML, which is all about documents and publishing, not dynamic database-driven OLTP applications.
But it wasn't always that way. When I was fresh out of school, the browser didn't exist, and we built simple client/server applications. The client talked directly to the database using a database-oriented protocol.
There were issues, of course, the primary one being how to manage versioning and upgrades across thousands of machines, each with their own operating system and versions, some of them sporadically connected (e.g. on laptops). One of the key advantages of the web is that you install it in one place, and everybody automatically gets the upgrade. And it runs on everybody's machine. It's so cool.
Having a middle tier also allows you to disintermediate between the clients and the database, which can give you a chance to improve performance and scale through things like caching, pooling, clustering, replication and so on. But none of that is needed when you have a small number of users, so why create complexity when it's not required?
Now, if you're building an application to be accessible over the Internet, or if you need to scale, it's a different story. You need a middle tier, and one that speaks HTTP if you're going over the Internet.
But even then you can use Java and Java Web Start, and your client application can talk to the middle/web tier using a service API. There is no reason why the server should be responsible for composing the UI for your application. It can be a server, not a UIer.
If you have Java antibodies, you can use Flex or Silverlight. Or take a look at Cappucino.
There are reasons why these RIA architectures are popular - they are meant for dynamic applications and dynamic behavior, unlike HTML, which really was never intended to be anything more than a way to display static documents. With these RIA environments, finally we're getting back to building apps with tools and an underlying architecture that match the dynamic application paradigm.
But just because it works for Google doesn't mean it works for you or your users, or that it's the best architecture. It's just the architecture we've had to work with for the past fifteen years.
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Enter Blockchain Technologies Corp, a company that hopes to replace existing proprietary machines with secure, open-source voting machines that use the blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin.
A blockchain is a distributed ledger. Instead of one company being in charge of a central database, everyone who sets up a node on the network has a copy of it. Imagine a bank with a database of deposits and withdrawals. As a customer, you have to trust that the bank is tracking your funds correctly. Now imagine instead that a large network of customers is tracking all withdrawals and deposits, constantly verifying against each other's records in order to maintain the integrity of the ledger. This is how the digital currency Bitcoin works.
Now, imagine that instead of withdrawals and deposits, it's votes.
Advocates say blockchain-based elections are transparent and secure. They've been tested by the Liberal Alliance in Denmark and the European Pirate Party. And now, Blockchain Technologies Corp. is developing an actual voting machine that will record votes using a blockchain.
"We're going to embarrass Diebold"
Here's how it works. Voters register as they normally do. Come election day, they fill out a ballot that looks roughly like a traditional election ballot. This ballot, however, features three small QR codes sit at the bottom: one representing a blockchain address, which is like a unique cryptographic number; one representing the ballot ID; and one for the election ID.
As the votes are scanned into the machine, each "vote unit" is transferred to the appropriate candidate. Each candidate has a unique address, also called a wallet, which is how the machine knows where to send the votes.
You can look up the candidate's address to see how many votes each candidate has, using a tool called a blockchain explorer that pulls up the information about each section of the ledger.
The Blockchain Technologies Corp. team showed me a prototype; it looks like a fax machine connected to a screen. The machine stays disconnected from the internet to keep malicious actors from manipulating the votes as they are coming in, and burns the ballots to a DVD before it’s connected to the internet. It will also be encased in a chassis and “impervious to electromagnetic funny business," one developer told me.
The specifics of how to configure the blockchain will be up to whoever is putting on the election. It's possible to use the same blockchain Bitcoin uses. Blockchain Technologies Corp. has developed a new blockchain called VoteUnit that works much the same way, but without requiring transaction fees for each transfer the way Bitcoin does.
However, there’s only so much that blockchain technology can do. “Blockchain technology can provide untamperable audit trails, but it doesn’t solve the hard problem that erroneous or malicious software in the voting machine may cast votes other than how the voter intended, and the voter will never be able to know,” explains Jeremy Epstein, senior computer scientist at SRI International who actively warned about the security of Virginia’s machines.
Young admitted as much. “There is no such thing as an unhackable system,” he said. But his team does implement several safeguards.
A prototype of the blockchain voting machine. Photo: Blockchain Technologies Corp.
“The open source code combined with the paper, DVD, and blockchain audit trails may not completely eliminate fraud in the voting process, but it will be a step in the right direction. Especially compared to the 10-15 year old, buggy electronic voting machines we use today,” Young said.
There is more than one problem with current voting machines—Steve Borelli, software developer at the company, pointed to those manufactured by the banking and security company Diebold. One is that they use proprietary software that outsiders can’t inspect. Blockchain Technologies Corp plans to open source its voting machine software. “Anyone who knows Python can look at every nook and cranny of the code,” Borelli explained. “Diebold can’t do that.”
The machines will also use widely-available commodity hardware, so that broken parts can be replaced easily. The hardware for some voting machines is notoriously difficult to replace when the machines have been discontinued.
One especially important voting machine design decision, according to the developers, is to include a paper trail. Hacking may go undetected if there isn’t a paper trail for voters to look at and verify that the votes counted in the voting machine database are correct, and haven’t been manipulated, as was one significant problem with voting machines that were finally pulled from Virginia’s elections over the summer. Say if the blockchain data doesn’t match up to the data on the DVD, whether because of error or outside manipulation, the paper ballots can be used for a recount.
Furthermore, if you enter a vote into an electronic touch screen first, and then it spits out a result, then it’s vulnerable to manipulation before it reaches physical paper form, Borelli explained.
The team expects to complete the machine before the 2016 election, although they’re not sure whether states will pick up the machine. Until then, they are in talks with unions. They recently merged with GAHC, a company with a subsidiary Global Election Services, which holds more than 4,000 labor union elections a year. Young expects it to be a “great test bed.”
Considering the depressingly icky state of voting machines in the US today, the team at Blockchain Technologies Corp. believes that the machine is an improved machine for states that are strapped for cash, even if it’s still an imperfect alternative.
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Occasions and sources of sins...
I went through a period where I thought that by hanging out with all the brothas would be a good way to evangelize... I thought since I went to daily Mass and prayed every day, I was good to go. I could be chaste and sober and... So what was the occasion? This isn't Oprah, so never mind. Nevertheless, I think it is easy for many of us to believe an occasion of sin does not represent a danger to our solidly stable, immutable, spirituality. So maybe the follow points are not applicable to many - if any - of my readers; but just skim through the following, and give it some thought. That way, the next time you find yourself doing what you don't want to do, you might be able to figure out that the devil didn't make you do it - you did it all by yourself... because you weren't careful about those damn occasions of sin.
What is the difference between an occasion of sin and a near occasion of sin? Official answer here:
It is important to remember that there is a wide difference between the cause and the occasion of sin. The cause of sin in the last analysis is the perverse human will and is intrinsic to the human composite. The occasion is something extrinsic and, given the freedom of the will, cannot, properly speaking, stand in causal relation to the act or vicious habit which we call sin. There can be no doubt that in general the same obligation which binds us to refrain from sin requires us to shun its occasion. Qui tenetur ad finem, tenetur ad media (he who is bound to reach a certain end is bound to employ the means to attain it).Now there can be exceptions regarding the proximate occasion of sin, although these warrant a very good spiritual director's help to discern the situation. For instance: "The difficulty is to determine when a proximate occasion is to be regarded as not physically (that is plain enough) but morally necessary. Much has been written by theologians in the attempt to find a rule for the measurement of this moral necessity and a formula for its expression, but not successfully. It seems to be quite clear that a proximate occasion may be deemed necessary when it cannot be given up without grave scandal or loss of good name or without notable temporal or spiritual damage." Discretion is key.
Theologians distinguish between the proximate and the remote occasion. They are not altogether at one as to the precise value to be attributed to the terms. De Lugo defines proximate occasion (De poenit. disp. 14, n. 149) as one in which men of like calibre for the most part fall into mortal sin, or one in which experience points to the same result from the special weakness of a particular person. The remote occasion lacks these elements. All theologians are agreed that there is no obligation to avoid the remote occasions of sin both because this would, practically speaking, be impossible and because they do not involve serious danger of sin. - Catholic Encyclopedia
Elsewhere, I came across a few helpful examples of what common occasions to sin are:
Bad companions. One who provokes or leads us into sin is not a real friend. Which is exactly why I stopped linking to some of you.Very seriously, I think from time to time many of us disregard the very idea of the occasion of sin, or worse, we no longer recognize the dangers, or that it is even present. Similarly, I think other venial sins are overlooked and thought to be equally as harmless or insignificant. The trouble is, aside from offending the love of God, our laxity in these matters dulls the conscience, removing even the sense of sin, leading to apathy and tepidity in the service of God. Such infidelity in 'small' matters portends a failure in 'greater' matters. Thus we become more vulnerable and disposed to mortal sin. Even the good we thought we had may be taken away.
Dance halls. (I know!) Not every dance is sinful. But many dances are occasions of sin: and public dances without the presence of respectable adults...
- Okay, okay, there are no dance halls anymore - it's an old book, but I really think night-clubbing can be a very real occasion of sin for some people...
Bars and Liquor saloons: These are very proximate occasions of sin, leading to intemperance and worse evils. Need I say more?
Obscene literature. Porn. Internet porn.
Bad books. Including anything by Ann Rice or Steven King - I mean, who reads that crap? What?
Indecent pictures and shows. Primetime TV.
Dangerous parks and recreation centers.
Been there, done that. Lord have mercy!
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University Library collaborated with the Indiana Medical History Museum to make this scrapbook, which Dr. William Niles Wishard was heavily involved in the creation of, available in digital format. This treasure, like many of the artifacts on display at the Indiana Medical History Museum, is a window into the history of medicine in Indiana and an introduction to some of the past prominent figures in the Indianapolis Medical Society. Here is a quote from Dr. Wishard's son, William Niles Wishard, Jr., M.D., emphasizing the importance of this resource.
"There also is the book of portraits of all the past presidents of the Indianapolis Medical Society, together with biographical sketches of each, a work compiled by the Portrait Committee of the Indianapolis Medical Society of which father was chairman. He took an intense interest in this work and regarded it as his last contribution to Medicine. The report of this committee took the form of an illustrated address which he gave to the Society in May, 1940, covering the work of the committee."
Using the yellow navigation box at the top of the page, you may search a particular name (or other relevant keyword), or you may view the scrapbook directly and browse it page by page.
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It’s been a tough few weeks for Fb after The Wall Road Journal printed a sequence of stories on the corporate dubbed The Facebook Files. The reporting surrounding the Fb Recordsdata is predicated on a sequence of inner Fb paperwork the Journal has obtained. Thus far probably the most damning paperwork present that Fb is effectively conscious of the destructive psychological well being results its platforms (together with Fb and Instagram) have on kids. The Wall Road Journal’s reporting has been strongly condemned by Facebook, however that hasn’t stopped the reporting main to Senate hearings on the matter, which occur immediately.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will maintain a hearing immediately on Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. ET titled “Defending Youngsters On-line: Fb, Instagram, and Psychological Well being Harms.” The hearing might be led by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Chair of the Subcommittee on Client Safety, Product Security, and Knowledge Safety and will look at the “immense peer stress and social expectations” kids and teenagers really feel to broadcast their lives on-line – particular to Facebook’s platforms.
“Current Wall Road Journal investigations have revealed troubling insights relating to what Fb is aware of about how Instagram impacts younger customers, together with their psychological well being,” the hearing’s description reads. “This hearing will cowl Facebook’s analysis into the impression of its apps on younger audiences, its actions to handle threats to these customers, and coverage concerns to safeguard youngsters on-line.”
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When you stop and think about it, we have pretty low expectations from democracy. For many of us, casting a vote in a general election is our most important role as citizens, and in local elections if one finds the time. But a core principle of democracy is that people have a say in the decisions that affect them. That could be economics, healthcare, education, or the workplace – and one of the most important areas of democracy is planning.
New developments, changes to street layouts or traffic flow, changes of land use – all these sorts of things can impact a place and its sense of identity. Even though Britain has an rigorous and fairly transparent planning system, it can often feel like development is something that is done to the community, rather than with or for the community. A couple of bad experiences and people can become cynical about development, even in areas desperate for regeneration. This is something I see regularly in Luton, a town that has suffered more than most from bad planning.
There is another way of course, and 20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Placemaking describes it. Called a ‘charette’, it’s an intensive process of dialogue and co-working between professionals and local residents, creating a vision together for how a new development should come about.
Charles Campion is an architect who has taken part in dozens of such processes, and the first half of his short book lays out the principles for effective collaborative planning. The second half introduces 20 case studies from around the world, including disaster re-construction, contested land, and regeneration. There are smaller projects and whole villages, parks and a hospital. Stories come from the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, China and more. There’s even a local example in the new village being built in Caddington, on an old Vauxhall test track not far from us.
At a typical charette, residents and experts carry out site visits and walkarounds, familiarising themselves with the lay of the land. They hold open meetings where anyone can contribute ideas. Artists and designers begin to draw concepts live, so that everyone can visualise what is being discussed. Sometimes projects are built in Minecraft so that participants can take a virtual tour and build things themselves. (The Swedish government has built the whole of Sweden in Minecraft to encourage young people to play a role in urban planning) Local knowledge adds value to the development, while the community gains new skills in urban planning. Often land trusts or Town Teams are formed that go on to play a role in the ongoing management of the project. A charette brings people together, builds community and local identity, and gives people a role in shaping the geography of their local area.
As far as Campion is concerned, this is a win-win way of planning, and yet “Charettes remain a surprisingly non-mainstream way of working” he notes. “Perhaps this is because they have never received the mainstream political and media attention they deserve. Maybe there are not enough skilled professionals to facilitate processes. Or perhaps planners are threatened by a process that challenges the status quo.”
Whatever the reason, I’d love to see more collaborative planning and placemaking happening in Luton. I’d also love to see it championed by politicians, incorporated into council plans, and rolled out much more often. It’s an active form of democracy that all ages can take part in, and a rewarding process for everyone involved. In short, it’s time it went mainstream, and perhaps Charles Campion’s book will help push it in that direction.
- For more, see Charles Campion’s JTP Architects
- Look up Civic Voice, a charity that advocates collaborative planning
- In the US, where the collaborative process was first pioneered in the 1960s, it is often called an R/UDAT
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The internal control structure is very simple but effective. Transaction processing at Accounts department is the first level of control where all aspects of validating a transaction from budget provision, adequacy of requisition, supporting documentation, authorization and approval, vendor account history etc. are checked before entering a transaction in the Accounting system.
Second level of control is a system of quarterly audit. An independent auditor team thoroughly audits each and every payment and the supporting documentation. The auditor checks each aspect of control from adequacy of requisition, documentation, and authorization and approval perspective at each stage of transaction to ensure propriety of the payments.
Observations / queries raised by the auditor are given back to Accounts Department. Accounts department follows up with the concerned section to properly address auditor’s queries by providing the requisite additional supporting documentation, authorization or corroborating evidence.
Finance Officer monitors the correction of deviations, if any, to update the Finance Committee and Sponsors through Board of Governors.
Finance Officer randomly checks and queries on the payment before payments are prepared for final sign off from the authorized signatories. Such segregation of duties acts as a strong control over financial transactions. Apart from this, there is also a system of random testing of transactions / expenses as and when a need is realized to review the expense pattern in a particular segment of cost. Such reviews are done internally and informally to initiate necessary action, wherever required.
Once a year External Auditors critically review the books of accounts and analyse the receipts and payments as per the applicable auditing standards and statues to ensure proper and timely compliance of applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. External auditors discuss observations and findings with the Accounts team on a regular basis to seek additional information and explanations to satisfy themselves on the financial statements. The Auditors periodically discuss the audit progress with the Finance Officer to address bottlenecks, if any, for the completion of audit as per the plan. Audit adjustments, as advised by the auditors are passed in the books of accounts to the satisfaction of the auditors. External audit is closed with a final debriefing meeting wherein all necessary explanations and justifications are provided to the auditors. Based on auditor’s and Sponsor’s satisfaction, audited accounts are signed off by auditor and the Sponsors. | <urn:uuid:c5f4801a-9387-47d0-a823-72e1f8d2223a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iqac.ustm.ac.in/financial-audit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920467 | 469 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Lesson Ninety Nine: The Zealous
The Holy Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him and his progeny) said:
إنَّ اللّهَ تَعالَى يُحِبُّ مِنْ عِبادِهِ الْغَيُورَ
God likes his zealous servants.1
Zeal in this context refers to resolute determination , earnest dedication, fervent striving to protect divine bounties including everything from religion and chastity to water and land and well being of Islamic countries.
A zealous person is one who is fully committed and takes responsibility for protecting these things and becomes very disturbed by any aggression and encroachment against them.
Zeal is one of the prominent attributes of the prophets and men of God. We read about Abraham (a.s.), the idol- breaker hero, ‘surely Abraham was zealous’. Zeal is a powerful barrier against the advance of alien forces and ideologies.
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Harry Campbell, executive director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA issued this statement after his testimony before a joint hearing of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy, and Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees Tuesday--.
“Pennsylvania’s plan to clean up its waterways contains all components necessary to establish the framework for success. But any plan is only as good as its implementation. If the reboot strategy has a weakness, it is in identifying sustainable funding sources to assure that the Commonwealth’s Clean Water Blueprint is implemented.
“Without the necessary prioritized resources to administer, track, and implement the Blueprint, the plan will falter. Adequate resources for outreach and education, inspections, and financial and technical assistance are also key to the success of this plan.
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“We must prioritize our limited resources and new funding, to those places, practices, and engaging the right people and communities in order to achieve results-oriented and cost-effective solutions.
“The strategy and Blueprint must be implemented in way that stacks the benefits of clean water, productive soils, healthy livestock, reduced flooding, thriving communities, and others. Doing so could result in $6.2 billion in natural benefits to Pennsylvanians every year.
“There is no magic bullet, no simple solution. We must avoid the temptation to believe that a single technology, practice, or approach will solve the challenges of achieving Pennsylvania’s Blueprint and restoring the 19,000 miles of rivers and streams in the Commonwealth that have been damaged by pollution. We must focus on the practices demonstrated by scientists, policy makers, and practitioners to not only work, but to have the most benefit at the least cost.”
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And thanks to the semi-permanent weather feature known as the “Iceland Low,” mostly sunny days during summer are rare.
But when NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the island at midday on July 21, 2010, it was possible to see from space just how changed the country has become since the depth of winter.
Several glaciers are still evident in the image, but many other areas show the tell-tale hues of green that reveal summertime plant growth.
Absent in the south of the island is the billowing cloud of volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajokull, which disrupted air travel for weeks across the North Atlantic and parts of Europe during May.
But on Wednesday, July 21, the sun was shining across the Republic of Iceland, undoubtedly encouraging some residents of the northern city of Akureyri to tee off at the world’s northernmost 18-hole golf course, located just to the southwest of the city.
Temperatures on the green reached a balmy 67 degrees Fahrenheit with calm winds that afteroon, while Reykjavik only warmed to 59 degrees.
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Why Are People Buying NFTs?
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are digital data that are encrypted and kept on the blockchain. They are tokenized versions of digital objects like photos, videos, works of art, graphics etc. What is tokenization, then? The idea is complicated, but in essence, it refers to converting a physical object into a digital token that can be transferred between computers and recorded on a blockchain, like Ethereum or Solana, for instance.
Before diving in and showing why people are buying NFTs and how to buy an NFT on OpenSea, you might want to check an explanatory article on what NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are.
Why Are People Buying NFTs?
People buy NFTs for a variety of reasons. They desire to invest in a brand-new, speculative, and extremely volatile asset, which is the most fundamental reason among them. In 2021, the NFT market boomed, and several collections, like the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the Crypto Punks, saw their values soar.
But other investors opt to buy NFTs as a sort of digital art instead of gambling on their potential value. Many individuals desire to acquire rare, verifiably authentic digital art as the world advances more and more toward a digital future in which most of our interactions and time are spent online and as the idea of a metaverse continues to gain momentum.
Another option is to purchase an NFT as a present for someone you know would value it, and so on. Although there are several reasons, it cannot be denied that the market has grown significantly. I’ll highlight some key reasons below why people are buying NFTs:
1. To protect digital rights and ownership
A safe technique to confirm digital ownership is using NFTs. Since each individual NFT is monitored and validated on a decentralised blockchain, forging or stealing is very impossible. They are therefore perfect for protecting digital rights, particularly for protecting physical assets like real estate, precious metals, physical artworks etc.
The most significant factor cited as the primary driver of NFT purchases is scarcity. It is regarded as the main cause of the rising acceptance of NFTs. In reality, a few creators have included this characteristic in their NFT works. For instance, each of the 10,000 individual pieces that make up the CryptoPunks and Bored Apes initiatives. Each piece’s unique quality adds to its scarcity, which raises its worth.
3. To Make Money
Because of their distinctive qualities, NFTs are frequently viewed as an investment potential. Each NFT is worth more than any of the cryptocurrencies used to purchase it since they cannot be split. Since their value is greatly influenced by demand and how much someone is prepared to pay for them, this makes them an appealing investment for those trying to earn a profit.
4. To get special benefits
The primary advantage of NFTs is that they grant their holders exclusive ownership. Users will be able to possess unique access to specific benefits, such as membership in exclusive online forums and early access to new NFT collections, by becoming the owners of digital assets that are not accessible to anyone else.
5. To preserve value
Due to their capacity to maintain value, NFTs may be thought of as a digital store of capital. Certain NFTs provide an investment alternative that is secure and stable since they are not prone to inflation like conventional currencies. This isn’t always the case, though; according to some analysts, the value of the majority of the existing NFT offers might decline by up to 90% in the years to come.
Although some people think those who purchase NFTs are silly, it really depends on why they do so. Some individuals invest in them because they think they will retain value over time and provide a secure investment alternative. Others make investments in NFTs to gain access to premium benefits as well as digital ownership of physical items.
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Medical Machining in Richmond, VA | Medical Device Contract Manufacturers Richmond
Medical machining in Richmond, VA. When it comes to medical device manufacturing, having components that meet exact specifications can be a matter of life and death which means you have to utilize the most precise machining available. People in the medical field choose Roberson Machine Company for our strict quality control, impeccable machining processes, and wide variety of materials specially-suited for bio-safe and biocompatible applications.
Medical Manufacturing in Richmond, VA
CNC machined parts can be found throughout the world of healthcare, such as in medical instruments used for research and development, surgical implants, orthotic devices, and minor parts that make up large complex machines like MRIs and more. Whatever the application, Roberson Machine Company produces a variety of medical-grade parts in a strictly-controlled and hygienic environment.
CNC machining is utilized for these medical devices:
- Research equipment
- Orthotic devices
- Customized packaging to maintain sterility
- Medical implants like hip implants, ankle implants, knee implants, etc.
- Surgical instruments like handles, saws, cutters, forceps, holders, spacers, clamps, etc.
- Complex internal parts for electronic medical equipment including ultrasounds, MRI scanners, CT scanners, diagnostic equipment, etc.
Medical Device Requirements | Precision CNC Machining in Richmond, VA
With medical parts manufacturing becoming increasingly stringent, there is no room for inaccuracies or error. After all, human lives are on the line, which depends upon the success or failure of properly machinined parts.
As a top medical device manufacturer in Richmond, our technicians guarantee that all parts will be meticulously inspected, ensuring that it meets governmental and international guidelines. Our process can lead to not just valuable time savings but also peace of mind that your product will perform as it should when it matters most.
We are able to meet the most stringent requirements with these CNC machining services and capabilities:
- Engraving, deburring, tumbling, welding, etc.
- High-level surface finishing capabilities
- High-level cleanliness
Plus, we also have a large variety of versatile, lightweight materials specially suited for the medical industry, including:
- Medical-grade plastics
- Biocompatible options
Medical Device Micromachining in Richmond, VA
Parts that are often used in the medical field are usually extremely complex and small— sometimes coming in under 50 microns. Micromachining of these small, complicated parts is the only way to rapidly make each one identical.
Some of the most common parts that we handle with our micromachining services include:
- Pacemaker parts
- Drug delivery systems
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Many consider that the screw thread was invented in about 400BC by Archytas of Tarentum, a contemporary of Plato. They were then famously put to good use by Archimedes proving a ‘turning point’ in mechanics (apologies for the pun).
We don’t know much about ancient history at ASDO but we do know our threads, particularly large diameter Metric threads on steel tie rods.
6 weeks ago we were contacted by a customer to see if we could urgently supply anchor connections for a diaphragm wall within 5 weeks for a major project in Morocco.
5 weeks later we have loaded the first lorries bound for site!
Built with ASDO wind bracing rods and turnbuckles, the gigantic Cargolifter-hall in Brand near Berlin was originally planned as an airship yard.
Jürgen Schroeder gladly accepted the invitation of the Turkish President to the inauguration of the II Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, for which Anker Schroeder supplied 600 pieces of 20 m long round steel anchors with M 120 threads.
After patiently waiting, it was finally possible for many employees and also some relatives to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at Anker Schroeder.
Castings are a good way of producing aesthetic shapes for tie rod terminations enabling loads to be transferred safely to the host structure.
Buy this decade, even without “globalization”, Anker Schroeder were communicating with customers all over the world via telephone and telex machines (remember them!), there were no fax machines and affordable desktop computers were not yet available, so email was a distance dream and punched tapes were the equivalent memory sticks!
But ASDO tie rods were successfully exported to all countries of the world...
The sixties saw a huge boom in the export of tie rod anchors to the oil states for the 100's of port facilities built for the export of petroleum.
Anker Schroeder supplied many of these projects ...
A special Irish project for St Patricks day
The images below show some recent full tests on tie rods as part of our ongoing quality testing and development by our Technical Director Axel Hagemann.
10 Years at Anker Schroeder
Congratulations to Alexander Tschersich for being with us for 10 years!
Alex successfully completed his metal workers apprenticeship with Anker Schroeder and then progressed to complete his Master Craftsman certificate at IHK Nord Westfalen in Dortmund.
He is now one of our Level 2 NDT welding inspectors certified to EN 473 and deputy foreman of the welding shop.
Thanks Alex and keep up the good work!
This is Reimund Schroeder - our forge master for more than 45 years - and his new shackle buddy.
It needs experience, passion and a dedicated team to forge a bow from 200mm diameter steel.
A shackle larger than his master! Nice work Reimund!
"Shipping with e-mobile already in the fifties"
After the Deutsche Mark reform of 1948, the economy improved and in 1950 construction of the Dortmund exhibition arena "Westfalenhalle" began. Local steel companies Klönne, JUCHO, Dörnen & Union Brückenbau formed a JV to build the huge arena with column free design allowing all 14,000 spectators the best view.
Eight of our colleagues celebrated their 10th anniversary at Anker Schroeder!
Well done to all and we look forward to many more years working together.
This is Karl-Heinz Bolte our recently retired Senior Welder at ASDO. Today Daniel & Dirk Schroeder expressed their gratitude for 40 years of reliable and valued effort by presenting Karl-Heinz with a small gift.
Karl-Heinz joined the ASDO team in 1980 as a young welder and continued to improve his technique and skills gaining certification in different steel grades & thicknesses, becoming one of most experienced welders at ASDO.
During WW2 the production of anchor bolts was able to continue at Anker Schroeder thanks to the talented and stoic women of Dortmund. From 1945 onwards, the partly destroyed factory was rebuilt with initial production consisting of urgently needed household items such as candle holders and oil mills.
From 1949 crankshafts for looms were also produced and it was only after this that Maschinenfabrik Julius Schroeder again specialised in heavy anchoring with extra-long round steel anchors for coke ovens becoming the main product.
In 1948 Ernst Schroeder was joined by his younger brother Jürgen, who had now completed his engineering study, and the brothers set about re-building the company that their father had started.
Jürgen Schroeder proved to be an inventive engineer designing several bespoke machines which greatly improved production possibilities and efficiency, allowing the company once again to lead with the motto of "taming tensile forces".
The two brothers worked tirelessly to establish a dedicated team of skilled employees enabling Anker Schroeder to meet the challenges of the next decade and playing a small part in the rebuilding of a united Europe.
These difficult Covid19 times have required us to adjust our operations in order to continue servicing our customers while keeping our colleagues safe.
Julius Schroeder continued to expand Gebrüder Schroeder producing anchors, tie rods, heavy screws and 'Verbesserte Spannschlösser' (improved turnbuckles). Investment was made into forging methods and plant allowing customer and market requirements to be met.
The supply of anchors and accessories for the hydraulic steel structure market became increasingly important and the company was successful in supplying to the port of Helgoland and boat lifts in Rothensee and Niederfinow.
Tragedy struck in the autumn of 1938 when the charismatic Julius died suddenly at the young age of 51. Shortly before his death Julius had stipulated that the company be sold immediately in the event of his death as he believed that, without his management, the company may not survive and he wished for his family to be supported by the proceeds.
However, his eldest son Ernst Schroeder had recently completed his apprenticeship showing promise as a manager so the Schroeder family council decided that the company should be continued under his leadership. The 19-year-old Ernst accepted the challenge and became the general manager of the now 32 employee "Maschinenfabrik Julius Schroeder früher Gebrüder Schroeder".
Congratulations to Stephan Lerche for obtaining his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering awarded by Hochschule Bochum University of Applied Sciences in conjunction with FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Essen.
Stephan joined Anker Schroeder ASDO GmbH in 2010 as an apprentice welder completing a technical baccalaureate. His grades and commitment allowed him to progress further to study part time for a degree in mechanical engineering whilst continuing his in-house training at ASDO, during which time he became capable in all aspects of production at ASDO.
But not content with 'just' a BSc Stephan embarked on the challenge of a MSc with the dissertation project of devising CAD/CAM modelling techniques for the stamping of brand images onto large forgings allowing Anker Schroeder to further develop products with minimal tooling and sample costs.
Stephan's hard work has paid off and he was awarded a level '1' for his MSc, the highest band possible.
Well done Stephan and we look forward to much more development!
The first decade of the first century:
In 1920 a young engineer called Julius Schroeder formed a new company in Dortmund called "Maschinenfabrik
Julius Schroeder G.m.b.H."supported by his brother Paul, a successful steel merchant. Julius Schroeder had previously worked at the Dortmunder Union steel mill and had helped develop the innovative Larssen steel sheet pile profiles (the first steel sheet piles rolled in one piece with an interlock). With the knowledge gained he set about his dream of running his own manufacturing company and in 1921, acquired the production plant for the manufacture of glass blowing machines from the company "Klempt" in Dortmund-Brackel. Julius quickly adapted the machines to the production and repair of buffers and springs for the Reichsbahn (German State Railway) and then expanded to supplying picking irons for the mining industry. From 1924, the factory then specialized in the manufacture of heavy turnbuckles for 'ankers' which became the beginnings of Anker Schroeder as we know it today.
in 1930 the global economic crisis proved tough for Julius and Paul and Paul Schroeder decided to resign and pursue other activities. Julius Schroeder persevered and in order to save the company from bankruptcy converted the limited company into a partnership therefore becoming personally liable for any debts. Over the next decade the company was gradually turned around with the dedication of Julius Schroeder.
Mr. Jean-François Garcia joined the team, and now works in the French-speaking market.
Jean Francois has over 20 years of experience in the marine sector working with construction products in many countries and will focus his efforts with Anker Schroeder in the French Territories.
To offer fast detailing and modelling the ASDO tie-rod-system has been integrated in the BIM (building information modeling) software AVEVA bocad and Tekla (including Stru). The free Add-ons allows simple configuration and insertion of ASDO tie-rod-systems and compression-rod systems directly into your model. The required ASDO connection plates can also be configured via corresponding forms.
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x-runner installs affordable dry toilets users can put wherever they want in their home.
EGADE Business School Tecnologico de Monterrey
Lima is the world's second most water-deprived capital city – but waterless toilet startup x-runner is trying to change it.
x-runner believes that the dry toilet is the future of sanitation for the entire world, where water scarcity is increasing rapidly. x-runner operates in a country that lacks public investment, has an abundance of informal properties, geographical challenges, water scarcity and inadequate sanitation design.
These toilets separates urine from feces. The feces fall into a separate container and the client pours a handful of sawdust over it, to dehydrate the feces eliminating bad smell, insects (flies and cockroaches) and diseases. It includes a service to collect the waste every week, then it is recycled into high quality compost that is used to enrich soil.
This organization helps to the following SDGs:
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages: It helps increasing access to sanitation reducing many infections and viruses.
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all: It has a direct impact on the goal 6.2: By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable: It provides basic services that are not offered by the government.
It all started when both founders Jessica Altenburger and Isabel Medem wanted to start this innovation business in India, but it didn't work due to cultural barriers, so they decided to try in another country.
Once in Lima-Peru, they decided to try with a small group of people in one of the poorest districts of the capital. Once this little project was finished, none of the customers wanted to leave the service.
Peru has one of the poorest sanitation indexes in Latin-America: almost 10 million people, 30% of the total population, lack access to an adequate solution.
In Lima, a city challenged by the deficient and unplanned population growth and physical water scarcity, more than 850,000 people living in marginalized areas lack access to a proper sanitation facility. They have to use pit latrines or even practice open defecation as alternatives.
The complexity of the problem in Lima required a socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable approach.
In the first years, the main benefit was the experience acquired, the feel of doing the right thing to the society, and the worldwide recognition of the members of the organization. x-runner was the first to implement a domestic dry toilet service with a system based on urine diversion technology in South America which led to winning more than 10 national and international awards and recognition.
x-runner is a team of 24 Peruvian professionals with four years of experience working in the sector. The majority has been working in x-runner since the beginning, having had the chance to grow within the organization professionally.
Nowadays, it is expected to generate profit and to expand to other communities in the country. The charge for the toilet and the pickup service is around US$13 monthly, which allows the organization to keep its operations. They have more than 4,500 beneficiaries, 150 intervened communities and 93% satisfaction rate.
Another source of income is the selling of compost collected from the communities. This is a field not exploded yet but it will be another significant source of income.
With this innovative waterless sanitation system, there is an instant improvement in familie's health, their general living conditions and hygiene.
Due to inadequate sanitation, households are exposed to fecal pollution which causes diarrhea, urinary infections, and other related diseases.
On the other hand, the environment is compromised as soil and nearby water sources are contaminated.
This situation perpetuates a vicious cycle of poverty and disease.
Raul Briceño, CEO
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I live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California, an area fabled in story and song. I keep looking for songs that tell the story of my home, but I've found very few that really interest me. John A. Stone ("Old Put") published his popular songsters in the 1850's, but very few of Stone's songs give me satisfaction. I suppose the three Gold Rush songs I've known all my life are "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Stone), "Clementine" (but is it really from the Gold Rush?), and "Banks of the Sacramento," which is more a sea shanty than a mining song.
Here's what the Traditional Ballad Index has to say about "Banks of the Sacramento":
Ho for California (Banks of Sacramento)DESCRIPTION: The "plot" of the song varies widely, according to its use by pioneers, sailors, or gold-diggers. The chorus is fixed: "(Then) Ho! (boys), Ho! To California go! There's plenty of gold in the world, we're told, on the banks of the Sacramento"
EARLIEST DATE: 1849 (Journal of William F. Morgan of the La Grange)
KEYWORDS: gold shanty travel
1849 - California gold rush
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Australia Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (18 citations):
Eddy 125, "California" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner 70, "Ho, Boys, Ho" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doerflinger, pp. 68-70, "Sacramento" (3 texts, 2 tunes, though the last of these derives its verses from "Rolling in the Dew (The Milkmaid)")
Colcord, pp. 105-106, "Sacramento" (1 text, 1 tune)
Walton/Grimm/Murdock, pp. 39-40, "Banks of Sacramento" (1 composite text, 1 tune)
Harlow, pp. 109-110, "Banks of Sacramento" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill, pp. 106-114, "California," "Sacramento" (7 texts-1 in German, 3 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 95-100]
Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 82-83, "The Banks of Sacramento" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg, pp. 110-111, "California"; 111, "The Banks of Sacramento" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Smith/Hatt, p. 37, "On the Banks of the Sacramento" (1 text)
Lomax-FSUSA 42, "Sacramento" (1 text, 1 tune)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, p. 91, "Banks of the Sacramento" (1 fragmentary text, in which the singer seeks girls rather than gold; 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 174-176, "The California Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AFS2, pp. 655-656, "Ho! For California!" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 88, "Sacramento" (1 text)
Fuld-WFM, pp. 158-159, "(De) Camptown Races--(Sacramento)"
DT, SACRMNTO* SACRMNT2*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Sacramento" is in Part 2, 7/21/1917.
Logan English, "Sacramento" (on LEnglish02)
cf. "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (tune)
cf. "A Capital Ship" (tune)
Blow, Boys, Blow for Californi-O
Der Hamborger Veermaster
Der Hamborger Vullrigger
NOTES: Possibly created and certainly popularized by the Hutchinson Family (who published a text in their 1855 songbook), versions of this song are found throughout the U.S., and are well-known among sailors.
The texts are diverse (Hugill, for instance, has a version in which a sailor courts a girl and winds up with a venereal disease), but most seem to be related to the California gold rush. The tune is a variation on "Camptown Races," perhaps in turn based on "A Capital Ship." - RBW
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Accession Number : AD0634736
Title : EFFECT OF FOREBODY MODIFICATIONS ON THE AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SIMULATED AIRCRAFT STORE AT MACH NUMBERS FROM ).%) TO +.+&.
Descriptive Note : Research and development rept.
Corporate Author : DAVID TAYLOR MODEL BASIN WASHINGTON D C AERODYNAMICS LAB
Personal Author(s) : West,F. E. , Jr. ; Davidson,H. Dulany , Jr
Report Date : MAR 1966
Pagination or Media Count : 58
Abstract : An exploratory investigation was made of the effects of various forebody modifications on the logitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a simulated low-drag aircraft store. Results were obtained at Mach numbers from 0.50 to 1.17 and angles of attack up to about 21 degrees. Specifically, the effects of progressively sliding a cylindrical sleeve forward over the store forebody, eliminating the store forebody for various sleeve projections, and of disk spoilers on the forbody were explored. The results show that the static stability characteristics of the store were improved by modifications which induced flow separation at some position on the store forebody. The extent of the Mach number and angle-of-attack ranges where improvements occurred was a function of both the modification and store center-of-gravity position (Which may shift with changes in the forebody). (Author)
Descriptors : (*AERODYNAMICS, *EXTERNAL STORES), (*BLUNT BODIES, AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS), AIRCRAFT PROTUBERANCES, GUIDED MISSILE LAUNCHERS, JETTISONABLE EQUIPMENT, WIND TUNNEL MODELS, SUBSONIC CHARACTERISTICS, SUPERSONIC CHARACTERISTICS
Subject Categories : Aerodynamics
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I have three news items which have one thing in common, they concern nanomaterials and safety. Two of these of items are fairly recent; the one about Japan has been sitting in my drafts folder for months and I’m including it here because if I don’t do it now, I never will.
First, there’s an April 7, 2014 news item on Nanowerk (h/t) about European non-governmental agencies (CIEL; the Center for International Environmental Law and its partners) and their recommendations regarding nanomaterials and safety. From the CIEL April 2014 news release,
CIEL and European partners* publish position paper on the regulation of nanomaterials at a meeting of EU competent authorities
*ClientEarth, The European Environmental Bureau, European citizen’s Organization for Standardisation, The European consumer voice in Standardisation –ANEC, and Health Care Without Harm, Bureau of European Consumers
… Current EU legislation does not guarantee that all nanomaterials on the market are safe by being assessed separately from the bulk form of the substance. Therefore, we ask the European Commission to come forward with concrete proposals for a comprehensive revision of the existing legal framework addressing the potential risks of nanomaterials.
1. Nanomaterials are different from other substances.
We are concerned that EU law does not take account of the fact that nano forms of a substance are different and have different intrinsic properties from their bulk counterpart. Therefore, we call for this principle to be explicitly established in the REACH, and Classification Labeling and Packaging (CLP) regulations, as well as in all other relevant legislation. To ensure adequate consideration, the submission of comprehensive substance identity and characterization data for all nanomaterials on the market, as defined by the Commission’s proposal for a nanomaterial definition, should be required.
Similarly, we call on the European Commission and EU Member States to ensure that nanomaterials do not benefit from the delays granted under REACH to phase-in substances, on the basis of information collected on their bulk form.
Further, nanomaterials, due to their properties, are generally much more reactive than their bulk counterpart, thereby increasing the risk of harmful impact of nanomaterials compared to an equivalent mass of bulk material. Therefore, the present REACH thresholds for the registration of nanomaterials should be lowered.
Before 2018, all nanomaterials on the market produced in amounts of over 10kg/year must be registered with ECHA on the basis of a full registration dossier specific to the nanoform.
2. Risk from nanomaterials must be assessed
Six years after the entry into force of the REACH registration requirements, only nine substances have been registered as nanomaterials despite the much wider number of substances already on the EU market, as demonstrated by existing inventories. Furthermore, the poor quality of those few nano registration dossiers does not enable their risks to be properly assessed. To confirm the conclusions of the Commission’s nano regulatory review assuming that not all nanomaterials are toxic, relevant EU legislation should be amended to ensure that all nanomaterials are adequately assessed for their hazardous properties.
Given the concerns about novel properties of nanomaterials, under REACH, all registration dossiers of nanomaterials must include a chemical safety assessment and must comply with the same information submission requirements currently required for substances classified as Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Reprotoxic (CMRs).
3. Nanomaterials should be thoroughly evaluated
Pending the thorough risk assessment of nanomaterials demonstrated by comprehensive and up-to-date registration dossiers for all nanoforms on the market, we call on ECHA to systematically check compliance for all nanoforms, as well as check the compliance of all dossiers which, due to uncertainties in the description of their identity and characterization, are suspected of including substances in the nanoform. Further, the Community Roling Action Plan (CoRAP) list should include all identified substances in the nanoform and evaluation should be carried out without delay.
4. Information on nanomaterials must be collected and disseminated
All EU citizens have the right to know which products contain nanomaterials as well as the right to know about their risks to health and environment and overall level of exposure. Given the uncertainties surrounding nanomaterials, the Commission must guarantee that members of the public are in a position to exercise their right to know and to make informed choices pending thorough risk assessments of nanomaterials on the market.
Therefore, a publicly accessible inventory of nanomaterials and consumer products containing nanomaterials must be established at European level. Moreover, specific nano-labelling or declaration requirements must be established for all nano-containing products (detergents, aerosols, sprays, paints, medical devices, etc.) in addition to those applicable to food, cosmetics and biocides which are required under existing obligations.
5. REACH enforcement activities should tackle nanomaterials
REACH’s fundamental principle of “no data, no market” should be thoroughly implemented. Therefore, nanomaterials that are on the market without a meaningful minimum set of data to allow the assessment of their hazards and risks should be denied market access through enforcement activities. In the meantime, we ask the EU Member States and manufacturers to use a precautionary approach in the assessment, production, use and disposal of nanomaterials
This comes on the heels of CIEL’s March 2014 news release announcing a new three-year joint project concerning nanomaterials and safety and responsible development,
Supported by the VELUX foundations, CIEL and ECOS (the European Citizen’s Organization for Standardization) are launching a three-year project aiming to ensure that risk assessment methodologies and risk management tools help guide regulators towards the adoption of a precaution-based regulatory framework for the responsible development of nanomaterials in the EU and beyond.
Together with our project partner the German Öko-Institut, CIEL and ECOS will participate in the work of the standardization organizations Comité Européen de Normalisation and International Standards Organization, and this work of the OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development], especially related to health, environmental and safety aspects of nanomaterials and exposure and risk assessment. We will translate progress into understandable information and issue policy recommendations to guide regulators and support environmental NGOs in their campaigns for the safe and sustainable production and use of nanomaterials.
The VILLUM FOUNDATION and the VELUX FOUNDATION are non-profit foundations created by Villum Kann Rasmussen, the founder of the VELUX Group and other entities in the VKR Group, whose mission it is to bring daylight, fresh air and a better environment into people’s everyday lives.
Meanwhile in the US, an April 6, 2014 news item on Nanowerk announces a new research network, based at Arizona State University (ASU), devoted to studying health and environmental risks of nanomaterials,
Arizona State University researchers will lead a multi-university project to aid industry in understanding and predicting the potential health and environmental risks from nanomaterials.
Nanoparticles, which are approximately 1 to 100 nanometers in size, are used in an increasing number of consumer products to provide texture, resiliency and, in some cases, antibacterial protection.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a grant of $5 million over the next four years to support the LCnano Network as part of the Life Cycle of Nanomaterials project, which will focus on helping to ensure the safety of nanomaterials throughout their life cycles – from the manufacture to the use and disposal of the products that contain these engineered materials.
An April 1, 2014 ASU news release, which originated the news item, provides more details and includes information about project partners which I’m happy to note include nanoHUB and the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISENet) in addition to the other universities,
Paul Westerhoff is the LCnano Network director, as well as the associate dean of research for ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.
The project will team engineers, chemists, toxicologists and social scientists from ASU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Yale, Oregon’s state universities, the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Engineered nanomaterials of silver, titanium, silica and carbon are among the most commonly used. They are dispersed in common liquids and food products, embedded in the polymers from which many products are made and attached to textiles, including clothing.
Nanomaterials provide clear benefits for many products, Westerhoff says, but there remains “a big knowledge gap” about how, or if, nanomaterials are released from consumer products into the environment as they move through their life cycles, eventually ending up in soils and water systems.
“We hope to help industry make sure that the kinds of products that engineered nanomaterials enable them to create are safe for the environment,” Westerhoff says.
“We will develop molecular-level fundamental theories to ensure the manufacturing processes for these products is safer,” he explains, “and provide databases of measurements of the properties and behavior of nanomaterials before, during and after their use in consumer products.”
Among the bigger questions the LCnano Network will investigate are whether nanomaterials can become toxic through exposure to other materials or the biological environs they come in contact with over the course of their life cycles, Westerhoff says.
The researchers will collaborate with industry – both large and small companies – and government laboratories to find ways of reducing such uncertainties.
Among the objectives is to provide a framework for product design and manufacturing that preserves the commercial value of the products using nanomaterials, but minimizes potentially adverse environmental and health hazards.
In pursuing that goal, the network team will also be developing technologies to better detect and predict potential nanomaterial impacts.
Beyond that, the LCnano Network also plans to increase awareness about efforts to protect public safety as engineered nanomaterials in products become more prevalent.
The grant will enable the project team to develop educational programs, including a museum exhibit about nanomaterials based on the LCnano Network project. The exhibit will be deployed through a partnership with the Arizona Science Center and researchers who have worked with the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network.
The team also plans to make information about its research progress available on the nanotechnology industry website Nanohub.org.
“We hope to use Nanohub both as an internal virtual networking tool for the research team, and as a portal to post the outcomes and products of our research for public access,” Westerhoff says.
The grant will also support the participation of graduate students in the Science Outside the Lab program, which educates students on how science and engineering research can help shape public policy.
Other ASU faculty members involved in the LCnano Network project are:
• Pierre Herckes, associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Kiril Hristovski, assistant professor, Department of Engineering, College of Technology and Innovation
• Thomas Seager, associate professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
• David Guston, professor and director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
• Ira Bennett, assistant research professor, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
• Jameson Wetmore, associate professor, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, and School of Human Evolution and Social Change
I hope to hear more about the LCnano Network as it progresses.
Finally, there was this Nov. 12, 2013 news item on Nanowerk about instituting voluntary safety protocols for carbon nanotubes in Japan,
Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (TASC)—a consortium of nine companies and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) — is developing voluntary safety management techniques for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) under the project (no. P10024) “Innovative carbon nanotubes composite materials project toward achieving a low-carbon society,” which is sponsored by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
Lynn Bergeson’s Nov. 15, 2013 posting on nanotech.lawbc.com provides a few more details abut the TASC/AIST carbon nanotube project (Note: A link has been removed),
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced in October 2013 a voluntary guidance document on measuring airborne carbon nanotubes (CNT) in workplaces. … The guidance summarizes the available practical methods for measuring airborne CNTs: (1) on-line aerosol measurement; (2) off-line quantitative analysis (e.g., thermal carbon analysis); and (3) sample collection for electron microscope observation. …
You can download two protocol documents (Guide to measuring airborne carbon nanotubes in workplaces and/or The protocols of preparation, characterization and in vitro cell based assays for safety testing of carbon nanotubes), another has been published since Nov. 2013, from the AIST’s Developing voluntary safety management techniques for carbon nanotubes (CNTs): Protocol and Guide webpage., Both documents are also available in Japanese and you can link to the Japanese language version of the site from the webpage. | <urn:uuid:5585dde6-0eb4-4963-bd77-c7abd8f1629a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.frogheart.ca/?tag=yale-university | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921248 | 2,866 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Stumpf maintained in his exhaustive criticism of this theory, first, that there are cases where all of the elements which Bain requires for the perception of space are present, and yet we have no presentation of space. Secondly, there are cases where not all of these elements are present, and where we have nevertheless space presentation. It is the first objection that concerns me here. Stumpf gives as an example, under his first objection, the singing of a series of tones, C, G, E, F. We have here the muscle sensations from the larynx, and the series of the tone-sensations which are, Stumpf claims, reversed when the muscle-sensations are reversed, etc. According to Stumpf, these are all the elements that are required by Bain, and yet we have no perception of space thereby. Henri has pointed out two objections to Stumpf’s criticism of Bain’s theory. He says that Bain assumes, what Stumpf does not recognize, that the muscle sensations must contain three elements—resistance, time, and velocity—before they can lead to space perceptions. These three elements are not to be found in the muscle sensations of the larynx as we find them in the sensations that come from the eye or arm muscles. In addition to this, Henri claims that Bain’s theory demands a still further condition. If we wish to touch two objects, A and B, with the same member, we can get a spatial experience from the process only if we insert between the touching of A and the touching of B a continual series of tactual sensations. In Stumpf’s instance of the singing of tones, this has been overlooked. We can go from the tone C to the tone F without inserting between the two a continuous series of musical sensations. | <urn:uuid:99194fde-4e8b-4411-b019-366ab4bc975a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/16266/71.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936489 | 452 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The term “farm to preschool” encompasses efforts to serve local or regionally produced foods in early child care and education settings; provide hands-on learning activities such as gardening, farm visits, and culinary activities; and integrate food-related education into the curriculum. Here, USDA Undersecretary of Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon participates in a hands-on lesson about local foods at a YMCA preschool in West Seattle, WA.
“May I have more kale chips, please?” asked a four-year old preschooler during one of my first site visits as farm to school lead for the Food and Nutrition Service’s Western Region. The preschoolers I was visiting grew and harvested the kale themselves a few feet beyond their classroom door and were enjoying the crisp treat as a snack. At the time, the USDA Farm to School Program was just beginning to expand their support to K-12 schools. Since then, I have worked with school districts in bringing the farm to their cafeterias and classrooms.
Our reasons for supporting farm to preschool are numerous. While the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 authorized the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to establish the Farm to School Program, the legislation also expanded the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to not only aid child care institutions in serving nutritious foods, but to contribute to their wellness, healthy growth and development. Farm to preschool meets that requirement, and is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a strategy to increase access to healthy environments. As evidenced by the eager kale chip request, farm to preschool efforts can set the stage for a lifetime of healthy eating. Read more »
Many of the quantity food service recipes found in the What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl have been taste-tested and student-approved!
This is the third installment of the What’s Cooking? Blog Series. In honor of the Let’s Move 5th Anniversary, and the commitment USDA shares with Let’s Move to promote healthy eating and access to healthy foods, this month-long series will highlight the various features of the What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl recipe website.
USDA Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services is excited to have an interactive website that can help Child Nutrition professionals expand their portfolio of recipes. The newly released What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl Web site is a searchable database of recipes that can be used by school nutrition and child care center professionals in their foodservice operations.
The What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl includes more than 1,000 mouth-watering recipes that are scaled for large quantity foodservice. Most recipes for school nutrition yield 50 or 100 portions per recipe, while most recipes for child care centers yield 25 or 50 portions per recipe. So that these popular dishes can be shared with parents and prepared at home, many of these recipes are available in the household search with fewer portions per recipe. Read more »
Sarah Adler, Nevada USDA Rural Development State Director, facilitates discussion between Federal, State, food bank, and Tribal partners. Photo credit to Jenny Taylor, Nevada USDA Rural Development.
Today in Nevada more than one in four children (28 percent) live in households that cannot reliably provide nutritious meals every day. This dubious distinction makes it the state with the nation’s fourth highest rate of child hunger. And for children living on Indian reservations, the incidence of hunger may be even higher.
What does food insecurity look like on Nevada reservations? With few places to shop, reservation residents have very limited access to fresh produce. Food insecurity not only equates to a lack of nutritious foods available, but also means families must drive great distances to a grocery store. To cope, families choose more canned and frozen foods that will last until the next weekly or monthly shopping trip, which often means less consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. Read more »
Recent studies indicate that obesity rates among young children are finally starting to decline.
USDA believes in giving children a foundation for life-long health through access to healthy food and quality nutrition education. So, that’s why we are encouraged by a couple of recent studies that indicate that the rates of obesity among young children are declining. One study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that rates of obesity among young children ages 2-5 years have declined in the last decade, while another found that obesity is declining in low-income preschoolers in 19 states. These results suggest that we are making progress in our efforts to improve the health of our next generation! These findings were noted by Dr. Bill Dietz, former Director of CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity during his presentation at the 3rd meeting of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on March 14, 2014.
Efforts to turn the tide of obesity, both within the Federal government and in communities across the country, are having an impact in the preschool population. The USDA’s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services programs are an important part of these efforts. Through the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, USDA is making critical changes to the foods available to children – even the picky eaters. Read more »
CDC Study finds Obesity rates among low-income preschoolers declining in many states. Credit: CDC
Here at USDA, we’re on a mission to help all of our nation’s children have the best possible chance at a healthy life. So, we’re very encouraged by some recent news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): the rate of obesity among low-income pre-school children appears to be declining for the first time in decades.
The declining rates show that our collective efforts are helping to gain ground on childhood obesity, particularly among some of the more vulnerable populations in our country. Low-income children are often at a disadvantage when it comes to getting the food they need to grow up healthy, which is why USDA’s nutrition programs and resources are so vital. Read more »
You may have heard this year’s back to school season is a little different than in past years. There is a new, healthier look for the school lunch menu. These updates represent the first major changes to school meals in 15 years, and we know that these changes come with questions. We’ve promised to keep the dialogue open, and we are working to ensure that we answer them all.
The vast majority of students, parents, teachers and school service professionals have had great positive feedback on the new, healthier lunches. However, a few parents have expressed concerns that kids will come home from school hungry or not get enough to eat during the day because their kids have higher caloric needs – in particular, kids who are athletes. Schools and families have – and have always had – multiple options for addressing their needs. Read more » | <urn:uuid:b12f64c8-0e90-4c97-ada3-9a8078d80240> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/cacfp/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965193 | 1,412 | 2.484375 | 2 |
E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Petty Cury (Cambridge)
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(No.3, Vol.9, Jun-Jul 2019 Vietnam Heritage Magazine)
Photos by Nguyen Vu Hau
Today’s Phu Tho Province was the land chosen by Hung Kings, the first rulers of Vietnam, to be their capital. Considered the cradle of the Viet people, this area still preserves the temples of Hung Kings and many other historical relics such as pagodas and shrines.
A midland area lying between mountains and lowland planes, the Phu Tho landscape is imposing, commanding, and poetic at the same time. The lush rolling tea hills are a perfect example of that.
Phu Tho is currently one of the provinces with the largest tea plantation areas in the country. The tea trees not only benefit thousands of households but also create enchanting beauty for the land of Phu Tho.
The tea hill of Long Coc, Tan Son District is one of the most typical, most beautiful tea hills of Phu Tho. From this vantage point, one can see a countless number of green tea hills teeming all around, each looking like a coiled dragon.
Mother Nature has blessed this land with the soil and weather best suitable for growing tea, and tea has been growing here for ages. The all-green beauty of these winding hills inevitably fascinates all who have ever been to these 600ha tea plantations. Rows of tea plants soften the form of the hills. The typical dark green color of tea leaves, shining and lush, which remains the same all year round, makes it feel so calm, so peaceful, yet so endearing.
It is best to view the Long Coc tea hill early in the morning, when one can feel the harmony between nature and humans, when timid rays of the sun try to penetrate silky layers of the morning mist. That’s when ladies and young girls start to come up these hills and their hands begin the magic dance among the tea buds still heavy with dewdrops.
The scenic charm of the tea hills, the happy hard-working life, full of positive optimism and the tea culture of the people of Phu Tho makes it an interesting and attractive destination for many genres of tourism. | <urn:uuid:dd012a16-ff85-47c1-a7b6-2cb6f3673fd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vietnamheritage.com.vn/the-fabulous-phu-tho-tea-hills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.932983 | 449 | 2.3125 | 2 |
On Jan. 16, 2014, the musician and producer Masahide Sakuma died after losing his battle with cancer. He was 61.
I only had the pleasure of meeting Sakuma on a couple of occasions, but I was lucky enough on one of them to see him work. He was a kind, generous man and a consummate professional whose career charts many of Japanese pop music’s ups and downs over the past few decades.
Emerging into the music scene of the late 1970s, Sakuma was part of a generation of artists who looked abroad for inspiration even as they reshaped and redefined Japanese music. He came to prominence as a member of the Plastics, one of the defining acts of the Japanese new wave movement that sprung up alongside punk rock and one of the pioneers of electronic pop.
Smart, silly, satirical, irreverent and innovative, the Plastics remain one of the best-loved bands of their era and a symbol of the vibrancy and garish outrageousness of early ’80s Japanese art and pop culture. They were part of a generation that included people such as Rei Kawakubo of fashion label Comme des Garçons, who knowingly or not challenged postwar notions of the nature of value in Japanese consumer society that remain relevant today. Taking cues from the British punk scene, as well as American new wave bands such as Devo, The B-52’s and Talking Heads, they created their own sense of style using secondhand clothes, something that would have shamed the postwar generation that their parents were part of. They promoted the idea of value as something contained in an idea, not just in a physical product; they pioneered the idea of music and fashion as mutually reinforcing expressions of a particular personal philosophy. They only completed two original albums, but their legacy is clear in the new wave revivalism of bands like Polysics, the punkish pop silliness of a lot of idol music, and in the attitude and philosophy of the 1990s Shibuya-kei movement.
As the artists of the new wave and punk generation began to grow up and seek greater maturity as musicians and professionals, they formed the vanguard of the phase shift in Japanese pop that would eventually become known as J-pop.
Sakuma made the transition with aplomb. He had his first experience as a producer working with one of the Plastics’ new wave/technopop contemporaries, P-Model, on its classic debut “In a Model Room” and, entering the ’90s, Sakuma established himself as a producer working with ’80s punk legends The Blue Hearts, post-visual-kei rockers L’Arc-en-Ciel, J-pop megastars Glay and the mighty Judy And Mary, with whom he worked throughout their career. As J-pop flourished and boomed in the 1990s, Sakuma was at the heart of it.
Throughout this time, Sakuma maintained a friendship with his British contemporary Mick Karn, bassist of the new wave band Japan. The two worked together with Kate Pierson of The B-52’s and Yuki Kuramochi from Judy And Mary in the band NiNa, and with the model/singer Vivian Hsu and Masami Tsuchiya of Japanese new wave/new romantic act Ippu-Do in the band The d.e.p. When Karn was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, Sakuma joined up once more with Hsu and Tsuchiya to record a song for their bandmate.
He remained involved with contemporary music, working with Kyoto indie rock band Quruli in its early days. He was also fascinated by new developments in music technology, in particular the Vocaloid voice synthesizer software, but the increasingly bleak times for musicians in Japan that the 2000s represented took their toll on Sakuma. With profits dropping and labels’ cost-cutting measures falling disproportionately heavily on studio and production budgets, he felt that quality was being neglected and producers sidelined. It was in frustration at this state of affairs that in a much publicized 2012 blog post he announced his retirement from the music industry.
His death, only a few days after the anniversary of Karn’s passing, had long been expected. Sakuma announced details of his condition in summer last year and kept in contact with his fans throughout his treatment via his blog.
Speaking personally, his work with the Plastics, P-Model and Judy And Mary in particular provided an important impetus to my own discovery, interest and involvement in Japanese music. More than that, however, he leaves behind him a musical legacy that has left an indelible mark on Japanese pop cultural history and provided inspiration to millions. | <urn:uuid:7a0c40aa-57ce-4405-9d86-bd7ed59a197b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/01/28/music/music-scene-loses-a-legend-after-plastics-member-masahide-sakuma-dies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981977 | 976 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Hancock, Massachusetts, USA - 1895 - Hancock
Hancock, a post-village of Berkshire co, Mass, in Hancock township, on Kinderhook Creek, 8 miles N.N.W., of Pittsfield. The township has 2 churches, a tannery, and 3 woollen-factories. It is bounded W. by the New York line, and contains a Shaker village. Here the Taconic Mountains afford fine views of the Berkshire and Hudson valleys. Pop. of the township, 506.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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SODELPA: Land Is ‘NOT’ Safe
SODELPA, general secretary
This is in response to Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s statement in the Fiji Sun (Friday 6 June), saying once again that iTaukei land is safe – Part 1
To the iTaukei, land is not just an economic commodity. It is part of culture, kinship and group identity. That is why the iTaukei cling so fiercely to their land ownership. The 2013 Constitution does not reflect this indigenous attachment to their land.
Their claim that Fijian land has greater protection than before is a lie. Its protection has been weakened. In fact there was no reference at all to native land in the first draft of the Constitution.
It was left out completely. This caused great fear and uncertainty among landowners. It was only when supporters of SODELPA began to speak out that Bainimarama-Sayed Khaiyum decided to include specific reference to native land in their constitution. Without the SODELPA protests they would likely have enacted their supreme law with no special reference to native land.
SODELPA’s view that Bainimarama-Sayed Khaiyum have seriously weakened native land ownership is shared by others, including legal analysts. Lawyers for the Citizens Constitutional Forum concluded there is no real protection for Fijian landowners in the 2013 Constitution. This view was also shared by Professor Yash Ghai.
In previous constitutions there were special entrenched provisions, providing extremely strong safeguards for Fijian land ownership and ownership by the Banaban and Rotuman communities.
The 1997 Constitution laid down a very detailed and entrenched procedure for altering the following: Fijian Affairs Act, Fijian Development Fund Act, Native Lands Act, Rotuma Act, Rotuma Lands Act, Banaban Lands Act, Banaban Settlement Act and the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act.
To change these land laws required a two thirds vote in Parliament and a nine votes of the GCC nominees in the Senate. This was to provide extra safeguard in protecting these laws.
Sayed-Khaiyum and Bainimarama have scrapped this provision which means there just a need to have a simple majority in Parliament to change land laws. This is the crux of the issue which Sayed-Khaiyum is avoiding.
He is lying deliberately to the indigenous people by skirting around this missing “entrenched legislation” as contained in the 1997 Constitution.
The people’s draft constitution by the Yash Ghai Commission, that was scrapped by the Bainimarama-Sayed-Khaiyum regime, also included a listing of protected laws: iTaukei Lands Act (Cap 133), iTaukei Land Trust Act (Cap 134), Rotuma Lands Act (Cap 138), Banaban Lands Act (Cap 124) and Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act (Cap 270).
All these safeguards were thrown out by Bainimarama-Sayed-Khaiyum.
Why? There has never been a proper explanation.
Instead they simply placed Fijian land ownership among a long list of provisions in the Bill of Rights.
However section 6 of the Bill of Rights (5) (a) (b) (c) permits rights to be limited and therefore changed. At least 55 of the rights listed can be subject to limitations.
Clause (c) of section 6 is particularly broad in its application. It allows parliament to pass “necessary” laws limiting rights and freedoms. This could obviously be applied to Fijian land. In our view there would be nothing to stop enactment of a change to Fijian land ownership provisions by a simple majority in Parliament.
Any such changes could further weaken or undermine Fijian land ownership. Even provisions relating to compulsory acquisition of property might be changed by a new law.
We note that the 1997 Constitution also permits limitations of rights. But these have to be “reasonable and justifiable in a free and democratic society”. This important protective condition is missing completely from the 2013 Constitution. Why?
Fijian land does not belong to individuals. It is owned by groups of people. This was clearly recognised in the 1997 Constitution. A full chapter of the document was dedicated to group rights. Much of this focused on Fijian land and protective provisions for it. Group rights are recognised as human rights. But there is no mention at all in the 2013 Constitution of iTaukei group ownership of land. This integral aspect of iTaukei culture has simply been removed. (Continued next week)
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Why and How: Creating Impactful Narrative Photos
In this article, I will give you the keys to succeed in your narrative photos. This technique will allow you to make your photos more interesting and more creative.
I will share four great reasons to help you choose this creative direction. I will also share four tips for success when taking those first steps in narrative photography.
This is one of the most powerful techniques I know. I have practiced it many times when I want to attract the attention of people who look at my photos.
This article will help you understand how to implement a new tool in your photography toolbox. By implementing it, you will make your photos even more interesting and instill in them true meaning.
Table of Contents
- The Story Behind This Article
- The Two Ways To Make a Figurative Photo
- The Difference Between a Story, a Narrative, and a Narration
- Definition of the Word "Narrative"
- Application to Photography
- Photographic Storytelling Is Difficult
- Photographic Storytelling Can Make Your Photos Extraordinary
- The Isolation Photo Is Not a Narrative Photo
- An Example of a Narrative Photo and an Isolation Photo
- Reason #1 For Creating Narrative Photos: Interpreting the World Around You
- Reason #2 For Creating Narrative Photos: Express Yourself
- Reason #3 For Creating Narrative Photos: Be Unique
- Reason #4 For Creating Narrative Photos: Having an Impact
- Tip #1 for Creating Narrative Photos: Place the Photographic Elements Correctly
- Tip #2 for Creating Narrative Photos: Prepare Your Story Well
- Tip #3 for Creating Narrative Photos: Get to Know Your Audience
- Tip #4 for Making Interesting Photos: Use Secondary Photographic Elements
- Tip #5 for Creating Narrative Photos: Keep It Simple
This article of the photographic approach applies mainly to nature photography.
On the one hand, it is my specialty. First and foremost, I am a wildlife, landscape, and underwater photographer.
On the other hand, narrative photography is difficult to build in the studio. All the concepts I am going to talk about are suitable if you practice outdoor photography or in places where you cannot set up or control your environment.
The Story Behind This Article
A few years ago, I went on a trip to La Dombes in France for a photo project about that region. My goal was to propose to the community an exhibition that would increase awareness about unknown aspects or "hidden treasures" of that region.
The final goal was to show that La Dombes was not only about fishing in ponds. I wanted to reveal hidden treasures that were worth discovering.
To conduct this project, I chose wildlife photography and landscape photography. I had 3 weeks. Depending on the weather conditions, I could alternate the two types of photography.
The first week was entirely dedicated to wildlife photography. I photographed birds on the ponds and mammals in the woods and meadows.
The second week, I decided to start capturing the landscape pictures, mainly because the clouds had appeared. I had already done some scouting. I knew exactly where to position myself. However, for 3 days, I photographed the landscapes of La Dombes in vain.
The landscapes were beautiful and interesting. I had beautiful lights. But all my pictures were useless. They had no impact. They were not well constructed.
I was depressed. I had had 3 days of gorgeous conditions, and yet, I had not known how to take advantage of it. I returned to the cabin I had rented and began to spend time editing my project. This is also part of the work. A first assessment is always necessary.
After an hour of organizing, sorting, and selecting photos, I encountered an epiphany. It was all there in front of me. I understood the problem. I was photographing landscapes as well as animals.
Of course, I am not talking here about the settings of the speed, the aperture, or the sensitivity. I am talking about how to show and interpret what I see. I was just putting words and concrete examples to the concepts of narrative and isolating photography.
This day was one of the most important in my life as a professional photographer.
If these concepts are important to me, they may certainly be important to you. Therefore, I decided to share them with you today.
The Two Ways To Make a Figurative Photo
To take a figurative photo, and by "figurative," I mean a real representation of a scene, you have two ways:
- A Narrative.
To construct a photo in isolation is to arrange yourself so that you can isolate the subject in your scene.
Constructing a photo in a narrative way means telling a story by assembling additional different photographic elements.
In this article I will only discuss narrative photography. I will come back to the concept of isolating within a photo in another article.
The Difference Between a Story, a Narrative, and a Narration
I think it is important to clarify the definition of certain words before going any further.
When you want to express yourself, you want to tell something. You will use text, photo, video, audio, etc. This process always follows the same construction:
- You first define the story. You should set a plot, events. You have disparate elements.
- To make connections between these elements in the story, you will use a narrative. A narrative can be text, oral, written, or a visual form such as a photo or video.
- For the story to be interesting and captivate your audience, regardless of its form, you must use means to establish links between the different elements. This is the narration.
Definition of the Word "Narrative"
The definition of the word "narrative" is:
the action of telling and/or of exposing a sequence of events, to describe a situation
Application to Photography
If you want to apply this system of using storytelling or a narrative to photography, the solution is quite simple:
- The story is composed of the different photographic elements that you will assemble in your composition and framing.
- The story is the photographic medium. You can also extrapolate by saying that several photos will constitute a story.
- The narrative is the way in which you will use the language of photography to make your photo interesting.
The photographic narration will allow you to express your emotions, to transmit messages in your photo.
The photographic narrative is made up of all the means and influences that you will use in your photos to convey your messages.
Photographic storytelling is the act of telling a story in a photograph.
If you want to go further, you can obviously apply this principle to a set of photos in a series or collection.
Photographic Storytelling Is Difficult
In a previous blog post dedicated to a two-step method to make your photos interesting and creative, I had explained that from my point of view, photography can be divided into two models:
- the unique photo suitable for contests and social media or the public eye.
- the expressive photo suitable for distinguished, specific, collections and/or series.
The purpose of this second model is to tell a fairly long story. In both models, the photographic narrative is a way to make your photos interesting by giving them meaning.
In my opinion, the use of photographic narrative is the most difficult thing to use. A good photographic narrative is the essential element to define a good photograph. But how difficult it is to achieve success!
Photographic storytelling requires a solid basis of technical knowledge, a mastery of the photographic language, a lot of experience, some empathy to understand the soul of humankind, imagination and audacity to explore new creative songs, and a thirst to be different and to be unique. In short, it is the quest for the holy grail.
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English School, (16th century). Medium: woodcut. Date: 1581. Stephen Bateman or Batman (d.1584) English author. Book's full title, 'The Doome warning all men to the Judgement: Wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge Prodigies hapned in the Worlde, with divers secrete figures of Revelations tending to mannes stayed conversion towardes God: In maner of a generall Chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approved authors' Provenance: Private Collection. | <urn:uuid:4f48464d-a1e8-4311-82b0-5dbc80ea21f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/xjf618922eng/dancing-with-a-drummer-from-the-doome-warning-all-men-to-the-judgement-by-stephen-bateman-1581-xjf618922-eng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863854 | 117 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Obama administration fully committed to implementing N-deal: ClintonJune 18th, 2009 - 1:26 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, June 17 (IANS) The Obama administration is fully committed to implementing the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared noting that it had “removed the final barrier to broader cooperation between us.”
The deal provided a framework for economic and technical cooperation between the two countries and allowed them to move beyond concerns about the status of India’s nuclear programme, she said at the US-India Business Council’s (USI BC) Synergies Summit here Wednesday.
Noting that the status of India’s nuclear programme had “dominated our relationship for much of the last decade”, Clinton said the completion of the deal marked the culmination of the “second stage” in the history of India-US relations.
“This landmark accord, which the Obama administration is fully committed to implementing, provides a framework for economic and technical cooperation, between our two countries, and allows us to move beyond our concerns about the status of India’s nuclear program, an issue that dominated our relationship for much of the last decade.”
“The nuclear deal, which was completed through the efforts of former President (George) Bush, removed the final barrier to broader cooperation between us,” she said.
“And that brings us to today, she said giving the first exposition of the new administration’s agenda for India. “We find ourselves at the beginning of a third era. I’ll call it U.S.-India 3.0.”
“The new governments in Washington and New Delhi will build this future together,” she said. The details of the new partnership would be discussed during her visit to India next month.
“But today, I can tell you, my hope and President Obama’s hope, that the next stage in our countries’ relationship will see a dramatic expansion in our common agenda and a greater role for India, in solving global challenges,” Clinton said.
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Adjusted net savings and other approaches to sustaibability: some theoretical backgroud
The Stiglitz report on the measurement of economic performance and social progress has been recently released. Part of this report is devoted to the issue of measuring sustainability. One of the sustainability indexes it considers is the concept of adjusted net savings (ANS). Compared to other indexes, it has the advantage of being truly concentrated on measuring sustainability stricto sensu, avoiding a frequent confusion between the measurement of sustainability and the measurement of current well-being. It also relies on an explicit accounting framework, and it includes all potential dimensions of global sustainability: physical and human capital accumulation, as well as changes in quantities or quality of environmental assets. But the major stumbling block is the definition of prices that are needed for valuing these different groups of assets. In a context of notoriously imperfect markets, these prices cannot be observed. They have to be imputed. This paper recalls what are the theoretical requirements for this imputation, and that they are quite strong: what is needed is no less than a full model projecting long term interactions between the economy and the environment. We use this observation as a point of departure for explaining why consensus on sustainability measurement is so difficult to reach, and how this argues in favor of more eclectic approaches mixing the ANS with some complementary indicators focusing on environmental issues.
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Thanks to modern technology and smart eldercare, maintaining a high quality of life while aging in place is an increasingly accessible option for many.Aging in place refers to senior citizens who continue to live in their own residences as they age without compromising their safety or quality of life. They have access to all of the assistance and medical services they need in the residence of their own choosing, whether that’s a family home or a more recently downsized apartment or condo. The important part is independent living: though some tasks such as driving, cleaning or medical attention may require assistance, living on one’s own remains an important factor in an older adult’s mental health and self-esteem. Living in one’s own residence can also be extremely beneficial in easing serious illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, as familiar environments can delay cognitive disruptions.
What Do Caregivers Do?
Basic home health care often includes light housekeeping like meal preparation and laundry, as well as companionship. Caregivers take the time to play games and go on escorted outings, whether it’s to go shopping, make an appointment or just to go out for a walk. Providers may also be equipped to handle patients with serious illnesses like cancer, arthritis, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s through specialized treatment.
Living with Illnesses
Older adults who are living alone can still enjoy happy, productive and meaningful lives. While there may be many tips to help seniors live alone and comfortably, mobility issues and illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, cancer, or visual impairment may complicate things.
Specialized treatments may include things like music therapy for patients with dementia. Music therapy is a cooperative treatment plan that stimulates memory and cognition. By working with family members, therapists identify music that would have strong positive connotations and intersperse it with unfamiliar and connotatively neutral music to stimulate memories or sedate agitation. These services are aimed at those who do not want to leave the comforts of their own home or their community.
In some cases, nursing care may be necessary, especially after an injury and release from the hospital. IV therapy, mobility training, and pain and symptom management are often available as well. After a release from the hospital, a plan is essential. According to home healthcare provider Mavencare, hospital discharge planning should include medical evaluation, a transfer plan, a schedule of follow-up appointments and a thorough referral network.
Live Mobile Updates
Not many assistance coordinators have adapted to make good use of today’s mobile technology. However, those that have, like Mavencare home healthcare services, have begun using mobile apps to give families more control. Technology also ensures that distant or busy families stay constantly updated. Connected home health care provides loved ones with live monitoring, photo updates, and mobile updates that check off a To-Do list of essential tasks. Family members can rest easy knowing that caregivers are treating their loved ones as they would themselves. Mobile apps can be used to seamlessly keep families updated. With an app such as Mavencare’s, families can set up task lists for each booked visit, manage future bookings, track a caregiver’s location and receive live updates on task completion. Technology makes aging in place a viable option; book a consultation with a care provider to learn about your options.
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Trakia University, Department of Biology and Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture Students campus 4, 6014 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
GEOR GIEVA , K., 2018. Effect of dietary phytoextracts supplementation on growth performance and production efficiency of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.), cultivated in recirculation system. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 24 (Suppl. 1): 132–139
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of dietary phytoextract supplementation on growth performance and production efficiency of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.), cultivated in a recirculaiton system. The following spices were tested: curcuma, pepper, thyme, oregano and garlic. The fish were divided into six groups: one control (C) and five experimental groups whose feed was supplemented with curcuma (EC), pepper (EP), thyme (ET), oregano (EO) and garlic (EG). The highest values of the final live weight were established in fish, fed with extruded pellets, supplemented with curcuma (EC) which exceeded control and other experimental groups’ performance by 3.37% (C), 5.73% (EP), 2.06% (ET) 1.60% (EO) and 5.83% (EG). The differences were insignificant both among the groups and between replications within groups (P>0.05). The weight gain of common carp from experimental groups EC and EO was statistically significantly higher than C (Р<0.05). The analysis of results confirmed the better growth performance in fish from EC, EP, ET and EO compared to common carp from control group. Relatively lower growth was demonstrated in fish from the EG. Consumption data showed that feed conversion ratio (FCR) of carps, fed with extruded pellets, supplemented with oregano extract (EO) was 1.47. It is lower than respective FCR of other groups by 19.72 % (C), 4.08 % (EC), 14.97 % (EP), 8.16 % (ET) and 38.10 % (EG). Statistically significantly lower feed consumption per unit weight gain was established for carps from a group EO than C (Р<0.05). The survival rate of all fish from control and experimental groups was 100%. Economic conversion ratio of phytoextracts supplementation to the feed of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.), was lower in EO. It was lower than ECR values of fish from control and other groups. | <urn:uuid:65b46d6a-2f60-4bc7-abfb-d0f1dd64af90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agrojournal.org/24/01s-19.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.939146 | 546 | 2 | 2 |
Cosmopolitan Istanbul, a century apart
Written by Tristan Rutherford
Istanbul was as globalised a century ago as it is today. On a stroll between the city’s most historic hotels, it’s easy to map out 100 years of multicultural cool.
The creaking elevator inside the Pera Palace Hotel has witnessed celebrity from all angles. At the turn of the 20th century, princes and powerbrokers would peel back its gilded cage doors, before lounging on its red leather banquette. For this elevator wasn’t just the first in Istanbul. It was the first in the vast Ottoman Empire ruled by the Caliph at Constantinople. Just over 100 years ago, those lands stretched from the Adriatic to the Arabian Gulf and from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
After pressing the elevator button for the Pera Palace’s sumptuous fourth floor, the likes of King Zog of Albania and dancer-spy Mata Hari would alight at their Bosphorus-view suites. Their bodyguards – something no self-respecting potentate would travel without – would take a tiny courtyard room across the corridor. Agatha Christie penned Murder On The Orient Express in room 411. The English crime writer had great material to work with, as luxurious trains from Baghdad and Paris funnelled elegant passengers into the lobby below.
Then the city slowly closed. Like an Agatha Christie mystery, a veil of intrigue was pulled over the cosmopolitan capital of an increasingly tired empire. Politics, ideology, dictatorship, and decline slowly dimmed the lights inside the Pera Palace until its eventual demise. When I visited in the late 1990s, its carpets were threadbare, its ballroom forlorn.
Until now. I ride that same elevator down to a chorus of guests from Russia and the USA, from Brazil and China, and from across the Middle East. The Pera Palace emerged from a breathtaking renovation in 2010, and has been managed by Dubai-based Jumeirah since 2012. Through the revolving doors lies Istiklal Caddesi, the city’s principal shopping boulevard. Twenty years ago it was said that ghosts roamed the rococo mansions on either side of the street. Now Zara and Mango occupy the ground floors. Diners from east, west, north, and south peek out from the middle. And rooftop cafés command a panorama over this city of 15 million from the top.
As proof of Istanbul’s worldly back story, a sprinkle of splendid embassies mingles with the shops on Istiklal Caddesi. The grandest are the Swedish, the British, and the Russian. Turks once queued at these consulates for a visa out of the country. Now my foreign colleagues – journalists, chefs, and bankers among them – queue to get in.
A case in point is the Dutch Embassy at no. 197. This Italian-designed palace is a remnant of Istanbul’s previous Golden Age. A diplomat friend once explained how the embassy previously employed a dragoman to liaise with the world outside the iron gates. Now they employ Turkish-Dutch staff who cut deals in English, then hit the sushi bar up the street. Cosmopolitanism is back on the menu.
After lunch the Istiklal Caddesi crowds thicken. For respite I turn into the street’s timeless pasajı. These boutique arcades once sold silks and spices to Istanbul’s elite. Recently renovated, they now sell Ottoman objets d’art (Avrupa Pasajı), hipster clothing (Hazzopulo Pasajı), and harbour-fresh seafood (Çiçek Pasajı) to a global audience.
Ambling downhill towards the Bosphorus, I wander past the fin-de-siècle townhouses of Çukurcuma. Built for the city’s privileged in the 1890s, many of them are trimmed with Parisian balconies and frescoed ceilings. Local antique stores now cater for their current free-spending residents. Favourites include A La Turca (Faik Paşa Cadessi 4) for Ottoman vintage, Nostalji Antik (Turnacıbaşı Caddesi 32) for dusty silverware, and Hall (Kazanci Yokuşu 30) for furniture once owned by Istanbul’s historic elite. Turkish author Orhan Pamuk’s new Museum of Innocence (Çukurcuma Caddesi) hosts more ephemera from the city’s past.
I finally arrive at the Kabataş Bosphorus Ferry Terminal along with scores of visitors. Istanbul’s latest belle époque has been part-fuelled by the wildfire success of its homegrown soap operas. According to the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, three out of four residents in the 16 Middle East nations surveyed had seen a Turkish TV drama. The likes of Gümüş (known as Noor in the Middle East), a story of love and deceit on the Bosphorus banks, and Aşk-ı Memnu (The Forbidden Love), also set in a ritzy waterside villa, have brought in tens of thousands of visitors keen to ogle their idols’ palatial homes on a Bosphorus Ferry Tour.
The Golden Ages of last century and this reach their apogee at Beşiktaş, a short walk north from Kabataş. Here the endless splendour of the Dolmabahçe Palace, where the final Ottoman sultans lived the highlife, occupies a full kilometre of Bosphorus shore. The palace’s once-deserted stables have been transformed into the W Hotel, which pairs rainforest showers with Bose sound systems. The adjoining street, Süleyman Seba Caddesi, now throngs with moneyed visitors who peruse hip Turkish brands Vakko and Haremlique. Hopefully that renewed elegance will rub off on my adopted football club, Beşiktaş J.K., whose stadium is currently being rebuilt around the corner.
But the most glamorous chapter of my Istanbul trail is a short stroll further on. Along the bustling waterfront sits the Çırağan Palace. No other building better symbolises the city’s rise, decline, and subsequent rebirth.
Like the Dolmabahçe, the Çırağan Palace was once a royal home until Mehmed V (the last sultan to die in Istanbul) designated it as the Ottoman Parliament in 1910. Alas, his democratic experiment quite literally went up in flames two months later. The palace burnt to the ground as the Ottomans tottered into the First World War, and the empire’s demise with it.
But don’t shed a tear. For in line with Istanbul’s renaissance, the Çırağan was reborn as a 5-star Kempinski hotel. It is famous for its US$40,000-per-night Sultan Suite, a 458m2 masterpiece that combines a private hammam
with more silk brocade than a Buckingham Palace wedding. Deals between the global elite are still cut on the palace’s marble floors. On my previous visit I saw German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting patiently for Turkish President Abdullah
Gül, who rolled up in a Mercedes bearing the license plate 001.
The Bosphorus Strait
The Bosphorus Strait has divided Europe from the Middle East since time immemorial. Those who attempted to bridge it once did so at their peril. Take King Xerxes, who built a wooden pontoon between the two continents in 484 BC, only to see it swept away in a furious storm. (The egocentric ‘King of Kings’ had the waterway whipped in punishment.) That’s why the Istanbul authorities took no chances when building their sub-sea intercontinental Metro tunnel, which opened in late 2013. Earthquake-proof concrete tubes were sunk 60m below sea level. Today visitors may glide between Asia and Europe in a matter of minutes. Cosmopolitan city dwellers dreamed up a similar scheme a century ago. Their unfulfilled plan was for horse-drawn carts to trot underneath the Bosphorus, connecting passengers arriving on the Baghdad train with the Orient Express to Paris. However, the new Metro service, which will be able to carry 75,000 people per hour, seems much more workable.
Armaggan Bosphorus Suites
In late 2013 this wooden waterside villa scooped the award for the most sumptuous new accommodation in Istanbul. Little wonder, as it was built by the doyen of late Ottoman architecture, Sarkis Balyan, as his own private residence. With robes, toiletries, silks, and cushions from Armaggan’s homeware emporium these 18 suites aren’t for everyone (prices start from around US$2,450 per night). The establishment’s two female concierges, Banu Yegul and Nihan Yuceil, can arrange after-hours shopping trips to Armaggan, as well as private jets to Cappadocia and personalised art tours.
Bosphorus Fish Restaurants
Come spring, dozens of simple seafood restaurants pop up along both banks of the Bosphorus’s 30km-long shores. My favourites reside behind the fish market of Karaköy, midway between the Galata Tower and the Topkapı Palace. Simply select your bream (çupra), turbot (kalkan), or sea bass (levrek), which will be scaled, cleaned, and seared on the grill before your very eyes. Platters of melon, feta, and octopus salad serve as humble sides.
Heaven is an idle hour spent browsing the 30 bookstalls of Aslihan Pasajı, one of the ancient passage arcades just north of Istiklal Caddesi. Granted, there’s a lot of tat. But in between the well-thumbed Agatha Christies and Ian Flemings are vintage copies of Turkish glossy Hayat, and back- editions of Cornucopia, the much-coveted magazine for the modern Turkish aesthete.
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There are two species of congea,the velotina and the tomentosa.
The Tomentosa is more vegorous and has larger leaves and flowers.
The bracts around the groups of flowers are white or silverly white.
When in full flower it is very striking and is specially so if
allowed to grow in a tree.
This specie also can be kept to a bush form by pruning,but the stems
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Propagation is easely from woody cuttings and young plants need
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Tooth decay affects many local young children, and most tap water in Lenoir County does not have fluoride. The waterBEST study will help us find out if fluoride in bottled water can prevent tooth decay.
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I have lived in Delhi for just over two years, and it’s incredible how the conversation about air pollution has changed since I first arrived in January 2014.
I remember very distinctly stepping off the plane at IGI into what looked and felt like the lingering smoke of some kind of explosion or fire, or other natural or unnatural disaster.
I’d only ever been to Delhi in May (the previous year) when the air seemed perfectly fine, so this was pretty alarming. My husband, who’d arrived a few months earlier, told me not to worry - “it’s the Delhi fog. It’s normal for this time of year”. But it didn’t look normal, and it didn’t smell normal either. I tried to relax, determined not to be an annoying, paranoid ex-pat.
But the ‘fog’ lingered well into February, as did my concern. I started asking questions about why the air was like this. The most frequent answer I got was ‘dust’ – dust from Rajasthan, dust from construction, dust from unpaved roads. And at the time, that was reasonably re-assuring - ‘dust’ didn’t sound so bad. It certainly didn’t sound toxic. I tried to ignore my own sore throat, and my kids’ night-time coughing.
Two years have passed and now I know it’s not just dust, and it’s not just fog, and it is toxic. I feel like every conversation I have these days, is about PM2.5, vehicle emissions, the burning of biomass and fuel standards - I am not alone in my journey
And what’s happened between now and 2014? Is the air really so much worse now? I decided to take a look at the historical data on the US Embassy website (http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/airqualitydata.html), and count the number of days that the PM 2.5 ug/m3 level went over 300. I looked at the month of January 2014 and then at January 2016. I wanted to get a general sense of whether there had been any big changes. The comparison doesn’t take into account the time of day the levels were over 300, or how long the levels stayed over 300, or how much over 300 they went, or the weather, or any other environmental factors. So, yes, it’s a flawed comparison. But still, bear with me and take a look at the numbers: January 2016 had 25 days during which (at some point) the PM2.5 levels went over 300ug/m3, and January 2014 had 23 - only two days less.
So, what happened? Why did no one mention this to me when I specifically asked both expats and Indians in May 2013, what it was like to live in Delhi? (They told me about the traffic and the heat.) How did the conversation change so dramatically?
Looking back, there was the whole Delhi vs Beijing debate that was covered in local and international press around May 2014. That was a game changer. It’s not that everyone suddenly agreed we had a health emergency on our hands, but for the first time we had data that enabled us to link our own experience with global baselines.
Over the course of the year that followed, air quality made its way into conversations across Delhi, onto social media platforms, and into the courts. And then came odd-even (which may not have been very effective in the actual lowering of pollution levels), but by January 2016 it was impossible not to talk about air.
So in 2016 we find ourselves sharply more aware of the public health crisis in our city, and the government has moved from denial to promising solutions. It is still not clear that anyone is ready to face up to hard choices that are really needed to clean Delhi’s air, choices that will require action far beyond the capital. What we do know is that living in a toxic cloud is no choice at all, and now that we have the numbers, there can be no return to the ignorance of years past or to an acceptance that every citizen’s right to a clean air can be so severely curtailed.
Aurelia Driver is a South African writer and filmmaker living in Delhi. It was a search for ways to protect the health of her two young children that first sparked Aurelia’s interest in issues of air quality, and led her to a broader investigation of Delhi’s pollution crisis and its possible solutions. She is excited about being able to use her experience in the visual media in working towards broad-based community awareness.
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How to Convert MOV Files to MP4 for Mac and Windows
If you're planning to convert AVCHD to Mp4 on a Mac, you'll need a proper converter to assure your video quality and make the procedure easy. Our guide shows you how.
3 proven ways to convert AVCHD to MP4 on a Mac:
Want to convert AVCHD files to MP4 on a Mac? Maybe you recorded a few videos with AVCHD format with your Panasonic camcorder during a social event, and try to edit and share them with friends and family from your Mac. As AVCHD can't be played and edited on many platforms, some powerful converters recommended will allow you to convert your AVCHD videos to MP4 for Mac so that you can play or share them on QuickTime or iTunes with your Apple device, such as Mac, iMac, MacBook, even Mac Mini.
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Despite the fact that AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is the default video format for camcorders such as Sony and Panasonic, the majority of portable devices and video editors on Mac do not support it. For example, for Mac users, you must first convert AVCHD to MP4, M4V, or MOV to edit it with iMovie or QuickTime. Further, until AVCHD files are converted to MP4, they cannot be played on iPhone, iPad, or other digital devices.
MP4, however, as the most widely utilized video recording format, could be played on most media types for Mac. Compared with the high standard and quality of AVCHD, MP4 is quite portable due to its small size.
Here we will offer the AVCHD to MP4 converts for Mac and Windows users, either beginners or experts. All of these converters allow conversion but with somewhat different features.
Appgeeker's Video Converter allows both Mac and Windows users to convert AVCHD videos, as well as other popular formats at high speed even with package files. The finest thing is that it not only has numerous presets for not knowing how to set parameters, but also allows experienced users to customize files while converting AVCHD files to MP4 on Mac.
This Mac desktop converter is especially handy when you want to edit large-sized video files without sacrificing quality without an online connection.
The videos can be converted from AVCHD to MP4 on Mac or PC by following three easy steps.
Step 1: Add the AVCHD videos into the tool
Launch the installed app on your Mac. Double-click the AVCHD file you want to convert in the pop-up window after clicking the "Add File" button in the top toolbar.
Tip: It also supports file dragging and dropping numerous AVCHD videos or the whole folder and converts them at once for your convenience.
Step 2: Choose the output file format
Click the "Profile" drop-down menu in the lower-left corner of the screen to open the output format selection panel, where you can find HD Video in the lelt side, then go to click the HD H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4) option.
After you've chosen an output file format, click "Destination" under the "Profile" and select a folder to use as the output directory on your Mac.
Tip: In case you want to alter the video and audio properties of the specified MP4 format at your discretion, click the "Settings" button on the next "Profile" menu to update the codec, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, or others.
Step 3: Convert AVCHD to MP4 on Mac
Finally, in the bottom right corner, click the "Convert" button to begin converting AVCHD to MP4 on Mac. You'll see the status of the video conversion in a pop-up window as soon as you press the convert button.
With this Mac video converter, you could edit and simply merge the clips in one file, read the Mac user guide to know more.
If you have a Mac and there is a media player VLC has installed for playing videos, you can convert your AVCHD video to MP4 on your Mac via it. Just open your VLC media player, click File in the menu bar on Mac and select Convert/Stream or use the Command + S Keyboard shortcut to open the Convert/Stream dialogue.
Here, you can import your AVCHD video by clicking Open media, or just drag the AVCHD video you wish to convert and drop it here.
Navigate to the Profile in the main interface and click the drop bar. Several formats appear in the box for converting AVCHD videos, choose the MP4 format.
Then click Customize to adjust the Video and Audio codec as you desired.
After you have set all the parameters, you can click the Browse button to choose the folder to save the converted MP4 videos on your Mac. Then tap on the Save button. Your videos will be stored here as an MP4 file, which can then be played anywhere you like.
When converting tiny video files on the move that do not require high quality or custom conversion settings, an online AVCHD to MP4 converter is often used.
Online Converter is a simple yet effective tool for converting AVCHD to MP4 for Mac users. There is no fancy interface to make Online Converter feel modern and high-tech, but it is nonetheless appropriate for the task by opting for a plain text browser-based user interface.
It is not, however, clever enough to transcode large-format AVCHD to MP4 for Mac. It also requires an internet connection, and the converted file is only stored temporarily on the server.
Please follow the below steps to convert AVCHD to MP4.
1. To upload AVCHD movies, click "Choose File."
2. If necessary, select "Options" to trim the video clip or frame size.
3. To convert AVCHD to MP4 for free online, click "Convert."
What is AVCHD?
AVCHD stands for Advanced Video Coding High Definition. AVCHD is a file-based format for digitally recording high-definition video developed by Sony and Panasonic. An AVCHD file is really a hierarchical file structure built from the file structure found on a Blu-ray disc, comprising several video clips, rather than a single video file. The AVCHD video file usually has the extensions such as ".mts" or ".m2ts".
Is AVCHD better quality than MP4?
The video quality of AVCHD is greater, but the file size is larger and the format support is restricted. MP4 has a higher compression rate, a smaller file size, and is supported by nearly all devices. Is AVCHD compatible with Mac? AVCHD is not supported by Mac. When you try to play AVCHD on a Mac, an error message will appear.
How do I open AVCHD videos on my Mac?
VLC is one of the most popular QuickTime alternatives for the Mac OS. It's compatible with practically all video and audio formats. VLC makes playing AVCHD files on a Mac a breeze. Simply download it and run it on your Mac. Drag and drag your AVCHD file from its folder onto it; you'll see that it now plays perfectly.
How do I extract AVCHD files from Mac?
When you connect your video camera to your Mac via USB, or plug your SD Card into your Mac, you will see some but not all of the files. Instead of a folder, you'll see a file called PRIVATE/AVCHD.
The AVCHD folder is seen as a package by default on OSX. If you're unfamiliar with OSX packages, they're a type of file system folder that appears in the Finder as a single file. Hundreds of different folders, files, and other items can be found within a package. A package is something like an iPhoto Library.
Right-click on "Private" and click "Show package contents". It will show the BDMV folder as a package. Right-click on "BDMV" and click "Show package contents". All of the files on the SD card or USB will be shown as a result of this. Go to 'Stream' and save the files you require. | <urn:uuid:03b5dfcf-5f88-486d-9d40-54e903588096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.appgeeker.com/formats/how-to-convert-avchd-to-mp4-mac.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.901785 | 1,745 | 1.546875 | 2 |
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah native Kate Kendell said her Latter-day Saint mother showed her the importance of civility.
The executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a University of Utah law school graduate, she said her mother loved both her church and her daughter.
"She held those two realities effortlessly," she said to those gathered in the Sutherland Moot Courtroom in the S.J. Quinney College of Law building at the University of Utah on Tuesday afternoon.
Kendell was invited to speak by the college’s LGBT-focused student group, OutLaws, sponsors of the presentation. She encouraged those in attendance to be civil to those with whom they disagree:
"Your part of seeing to it that this ends the way we know it's going to sooner rather than later is that you engage them. You have a conversation — no matter how threatening it is."
In response to Kendell's speech and request for civility in the gay marriage debate, Gov. Gary R. Herbert reaffirmed his earlier statements on civility.
"I recognize that this is a highly emotional issue with people of good will on both sides of the debate. I encourage everyone to remain respectful of one another and the legal process," he said in a statement.
There are some opposed to gay marriage who feel civility has not been extended to them.
"Of course the discussion about the nature of marriage should be civil. In that regard, gay and lesbian activists should cease referring to traditional marriage supporters as being bigots and haters simply for believing in the historic understanding of marriage," said Frank Schubert, the National Organization for Marriage's national political director, in response to the speech.
In an interview following the speech, Kendell said she did not have "any qualms with supporting" people whose doctrinal views prohibit religiously sanctioned same-sex marriages. But she and others seek the shared vocabulary and rights that marriage brings and the security of housing and employment rights for same-sex couples, she said.
She told speech attendees that it is only a matter of time before the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide. She said legal experts in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights are being strategic in filing suits on the state level; she said there are currently 42 lawsuits in different states, filed in an effort to "create this greater climate of just, of both receptivity and inevitability."
Traditional marriage supporters disagree with Kendell.
"There is nothing inevitable about same-sex marriage. This is an issue that is hotly contested and is going to be debated and discussed for a good long while," Schubert said.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states have the right to define marriage, and the vast majority of states, including Utah, believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman," Schubert said.
Herbert on Tuesday reaffirmed his stance on gay marriage in Utah.
"I want all Utahns to understand I am committed to advancing this issue through the judicial system as we work toward a clear and understandable resolution," he said, reiterating a previous statement.
Kendell's appearance came on the same day that the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Herbert and the state of Utah seeking recognition for all same-sex marriages completed from Dec. 20 to Jan. 6.
There is currently a stay, issued by the United States Supreme Court, putting a hold on any same-sex marriage in the state. This is pending the resolution of the case to determine whether the state's Amendment 3, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, is constitutional.
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||Understanding the mass-energy circulation between the chromosphere, transition region, and corona requires a detailed knowledge of the physical parameters of the plasma such as the non-thermal velocity, temperature, and density. Transition region and chromospheric emission line profiles were found to have two Gaussian components: a main core and a smaller broad component covering 25% of the line total intensity (Peter et al., 2000, A&A, 360, 761). Using data from the IRIS EUV spectrometer we investigated the line profiles of the Si IV 1394 and 1403 A lines in the chromospheric network. Based on the intensity, the network area is divided into three regions. Region 1 has intensities larger than 120 DN, region 2 - between 120 and 80 DN, and in the region 3 intensities are smaller than 40 DN (with average backgrounds less than 5 DN). The results show that there is no correlation between the intensities and the Doppler shifts in all three regions. However, the intensities and non-thermal velocities show correlations of 44%, 54%, and 46% for regions 1, 2, and 3 of the Si IV 1394 A emission line, respectively. The Intensities and non-thermal velocities of the Si IV 1403 A line have correlations of 35%, 44%, and 39% in the regions 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Region 2 in both lines has the highest correlation. This might be due to the presence of non-thermal horizontal flows in these regions. The results suggest that the dominant thermal mechanism in the chromospheric network might be via propagation of Alfven waves. | <urn:uuid:69cb4eb7-2de9-4b35-b6b8-62074c862433> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iiap.res.in/iris10/?q=abstract_details&qwsd=MTI1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.919949 | 349 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> email@example.com writes:
> > How many thousands is the real question. I suspect you're looking at 100's of
> > thousands. Sure, once you achieve the proper transistor density, the next
> > challenge is actually hooking them up in such a way as to accurately
> > emulate the entire spectrum of neurochemical activity! :-)
> Talk is cheap. Can you gives us numbers?
Well, I'm no neurophsyiologist, but lets give it a shot. First of all, how many 'and/or' gates would it take to model a seratonin molecule interacting with a phosphate molecule? This is outside of my expertise, but I suspect this would require several dozen 'and/or' gates to model even the simplest of interactions. The next challenge is coming up with a complex enough circuit design to model *all* of the possible interactions of seratonin along a single neuron connection. And of course this only describes seratonin! So the next challenge is moving up the scale of complexity to design a software/hardware system general enough to accommodate *all* neurotransmitter activity. You would think with today's supercomputers, somebody somewhere has designed a program that can emulate every conceivable molecular state of a single neuron. If not, then my point is well taken in how complex each neuron in fact is.
Assuming someone has designed a program that's capable of this; conceptually then, one must then have this program run simultaneously and in parallel with thousands of others to match the average neuronal connectivity. The program would have to do a complete run through an average of 10 times/sec. Since it would be a waste for a simultaneous program running for every neuron (10 billion?) it would be easier to have each neuron be stored as rapidly-accessed data until used. How much data would be required to store accurately the state of each neuron? I don't know, but I suspect it's easily on the order of a megabyte at least - as it would have to store the entire array of unique molecular states the neuron is in.
At this point it's all guess work, but my point is that even if when we achieve
scale transistor densities, the real challenge will be organizing those transistors to
emulate the entire brain, which is itself a molecular switching computer.
**The challenge is not the speed or density, which will eventually give us the
to run a human brain 1000's of times faster than our own. No, the real challenge is creating something complex and coherent enough to emulate the brain itself. I suspect
the hardware and software bottlenecks in actually doing so will be difficult enough to close the gap between brain augmentation (IA) and human-level AI considerably.
> > Therefore, my primary position is that the gap between uploading
> > and human-level AI is much narrower than is often argued.
> Gap in which context? Brute-force uploading (aka neuroemulation)
> requires many orders of magnitude more power than straight bred
> AI. And the translation procedure to the more compact target encoding
> is nonobvious (i.e. I do have hints, but can't be sure it's going to
That is also completely non-obvious. I have yet to hear a single convincing argument
that sufficient *speed* and density automatically yields human-level AI. You will
complexity, and where by chance will you be getting it? Until this can be convincingly
answered, all human-level AI claims should be kept in every Skeptics top 5.
**Since no one has actually built or designed a theoretical human-level AI, how can
anyone possibly claim what it takes to build one? This seems completely absurd
to the point of self-contradiction! As so many are fond of saying around here -
extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. To re-iterate the obvious, until
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2 edition of Evaluation of the GOES I-M normalization technique with the visible images of GOES-7 found in the catalog.
Evaluation of the GOES I-M normalization technique with the visible images of GOES-7
James H. Lienesch
by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Technical Information Service, [distributor in Washington, D.C, Springfield, VA
Written in English
|Statement||J.H. Lienesch, R. Xie, W.Y. Ramsey.|
|Series||NOAA technical memorandum NESDIS -- 31.|
|Contributions||Xie, R., Ramsey, W. Y., United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||iii, 19 p. :|
|Number of Pages||19|
Using the normalization term you have obtained during training or re-calculating the norm over the training examples + the new examples. Certainly the second one will eventually make the classifier fail. The first one will not guarantee that your normalization sums up to one anymore. Evaluation of normalization based on empirical statistics. MSE is a comparison criterion that is widely used to measure statistical models, such as the alternative normalization methods in this study and others (Xiong et al. ).MSE can be decomposed into .
How to apply standardization and normalization to improve the performance of a Multilayer Perceptron model on a regression predictive modeling problem. Kick-start your project with my new book Better Deep Learning, including step-by-step tutorials and the Python source code files for all examples. Let’s get started. It is true that Database normalization is a formal process of designing onedatabase to eliminate redundant data, utilize space efficiently and reduceupdate errors. Anyone who has ever taken a database class has it drummedinto their heads that a normalized database is the only way to go. This is true forthe most part.
In programming language semantics, normalisation by evaluation (NBE) is a style of obtaining the normal form of terms in the λ calculus by appealing to their denotational semantics.A term is first interpreted into a denotational model of the λ-term structure, and then a canonical (β-normal and η-long) representative is extracted by reifying the denotation. I wants to use image normalization during evaluation mode. For this, I have subtracted channel-wise mean from the original image. Then feed the image to the model. I am not getting expected mean IoU outcome. I think model is not aware fr.
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Get this from a library. Evaluation of the GOES I-M normalization technique with the visible images of GOES [James H Lienesch; R Xie; W Y Ramsey; United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service,]. Removing stripes in GOES images by matching empirical distribution functions.
Published Date: Evaluation of the GOES I-M normalization technique with the visible images of GOES Personal Author: Lienesch, James H.; Xie, R.; Ramsey, W. Y. EVALUATION OF THE GOES I-M NORMALIZATION TECHNIQUE WITH THE VISIBLE IMAGES OF GOES-7 J.H.
Lienesch, R. XieI, W.Y. Ramsey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Washington, D.C. ABSTRACT. The visible images of the earth from the current and future NOAA geostationary.
In the multiplicative normalization method, instead of performing this multiplication at the end, it is possible to initialize q = x and obtain Q instead of R. In floating-point units, the quotient has to be correctly rounded. The most prevalent method to do this rounding (see Chapter 8) computes the remainder produced by the approximation and performs a correction step.
In image processing, normalization is a process that changes the range of pixel intensity values. Applications include photographs with poor contrast due to glare, for example. Normalization is sometimes called contrast stretching or histogram stretching.
In more general fields of data processing, such as digital signal processing, it is referred to as dynamic range expansion. and all the images were geometrically normalized before preprocessing. While for the AT&T database, the images were 8 bit gray-scale images containing hair and ear regions.
All the images in the databases were resized to x pixels. For the testing, analysis and evaluation of the proposed. Normalization techniques. Normalization techniques remove systematic bias incorporated into abundances of peptides observed in the samples that can result from protein degradation, variation in sample loaded, measurement errors, etc.
Before normalization, data was transformed into the log scale. algorithms are applied to the component channel images of a color palm leaf image. We also propose two local adaptive normalization algorithms for extracting enhanced gray scale images from color palm leaf images.
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Due to its countless application possibilities, it has attracted. Normalization of an image I basically find two definition of normalization. The first one is to "cut" values too high or too low. i.e. if the image matrix has negative values one set them to zero and if the image matrix has values higher than max value one set them to max values.
Consider a T1-weighted structural MR image, Y ij (v).The proposed normalization techniques are shown in a flow diagram in Fig. use NAWM as a reference tissue, since it is the most contiguous brain tissue and therefore least confounded by partial volume averaging and is, by definition, not obviously affected by pathology (leading to conformity to SPIN 5).
I have to normalize data which has values for (numeric values). I read some material regarding normalization techniques e.g. min-max normalization, cosine normalization, non-monotonic. I'm trying to fine-tune the ResNet CNN for the UC Merced dataset.
I'm training the new weights with SGD optimizer and initializing them from the Imagenet weights (i.e., pre-trained CNN). In normalized cross correlation, one subtracts the mean and divides by the standard deviation to achieve what you have in 1) and 2).
The mean subtraction mitigates brightness variations and the division by the standard deviation mitigates variations in the spread of the data about the mean so that the two images have similar means and standard deviations.
Dropout Regularization For Neural Networks. Dropout is a regularization technique for neural network models proposed by Srivastava, et al.
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Now, when we talk about normalization as a therapeutic tool we don’t mean the legitimization of destructive ways of being in the world. We do mean building a foundation for positive change by helping clients see, where it’s applicable, that those uncomfortable thoughts and motivations don’t make them freaks of nature but human beings.
Face Normalization and Recognition The eyes, the nose and the mouth were identified using direct image processing techniques. Assume for now that the nose's horizontal position was also determined and an exact locus for the nose tip is available.
The detection of the loci of these feature points (eyes, nose and mouth) gives an estimate of. Database System Concepts - 7th Edition ©Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan Functional Dependencies There are usually a variety of constraints (rules) on the data in the real world.
For example, some of the constraints that are expected to hold in a university database are: • Students and instructors are uniquely identified by their ID. • Each student and instructor has only one name.
DATA NORMALIZATION is used more as a check on database structures produced from E-R diagrams, than as a database design technique. Data normalization organizes attributes into tables so that redundancy among the non-key attributes is eliminated.IHC images and for the first time shows that the normalization can improve comparisons between the two staining protocols.
In Sec.2, we discuss related work and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of previous methods. In Sec.3, we describe our proposal and the methods used for further comparison.
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Welcome to Orton-Gillingham Phonics (Level 2)! In this ongoing class, learners will review blends, digraphs, vowel teams, and other endings and use them to read and write a variety of words. This class takes an Orton-Gillingham (OG) approach to teaching reading and I have attended Orton-Gillingham training! Though OG was created to support students with reading difficulties and dyslexia, it's a great system to use with all learners! Though we will work with a variety of letters, blends,...
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The ancient Chinese believed that the face is the mirror of your inner spirit, while in Europe the medieval beauty was considered synonymous with goodness and ugliness was a sign of malice.
Such data is now regarded as old fashioned, but many continue to believe that there is a relationship between the shape of the human face and features. Nowadays it all comes down to scientific research.
Individuals with round face are emotional, sensitive and attentive to their relatives and others. Men have strong sexual fantasies and enjoy stable and long relationships.
Square face is often associated with fire and this is why these people are aggressive, ambitious and want to dominate. Have sharp analytical mind and are very determined.
People with oblong are very practical, methodical and do not find it difficult to continuously work. These people are commonly muscular and athletic, but due to excessive confidence have problems in relationships.
Individuals with such a face are very thin and with seductive body, but also have intellectual abilities. This type of face is associated with creativity and sensitivity, but also with a fiery character. | <urn:uuid:5e96a966-38c2-48cb-b589-c84c10075418> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.naturalhealthcareforyou.com/round-or-elongated-what-your-face-says-about-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977087 | 217 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Launchpad – the company that created Telestory and Toontastic joined Google (how awesome!) and both apps are now free! Great news for us little ol’ edtechers.
3rd Graders are working on summarizing the main idea of a text. What better way to summarize a text than from SPACE? Or as a ROCKER IN A BAND? Or as a NEWS REPORTER?
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This is from Ryan Read – an instructional technology teacher with a great idea to give choices to students when using technology – especially for our 1-1 environment. Check out #appdice on Twitter or Pinterest.
Here is the link to his write up on how to create, use and implement App Dice with the SAMR model.
Check them out, they look like a great classroom idea.
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Try this one after Read to Self time with Daily 5.
These are hilarious! Try the app Chatterpix Kids. Take a picture of something, draw a line with your finger on the iPad where your photo will talk, and record yourself speaking for up to 30 seconds. Export to camera roll to share. That’s it!
Here’s an example of a first grader using the app during Daily 5. She is finding inferences.
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Posted on 01 Sep 2011
Attorneys are expecting disputes over insurance coverage to flood in, as the water recedes from Hurricane Irene, with the biggest fights stemming from arguments over property damage and whether it resulted from wind or water. Similar questions arose in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina six years ago.
Disputes over the extent of coverage and the reimbursement amounts are also likely as property owners face soggy basements, shattered windows and tree-beaten roofs.
Battles over who pays for what will start funneling into state and federal courts and arbitration forums in the coming months, lawyers and scholars said.
State Farm, Allstate and Liberty Mutual are some of the bigger insurers in the affected areas. Liberty Mutual and State Farm said through spokesmen that their focus right now was efficiently handling claims from people in those regions. Allstate was not immediately available for comment.
The first step in the process will be for policyholders to make their claims.
"A flood of claims may lead to a river of litigation," said University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Tom Baker.
Homeowners insurance policies usually cover damage from wind, but not flooding. And while mortgage providers usually require homeowners in flood-prone areas to buy separate policies through the National Flood Insurance Program, property owners in other areas, including upstate New York, Connecticut and Vermont, often do not have such insurance.
Because of the widespread and costly destruction from floods, insurers historically have not provided coverage for them.
Those who do have flood insurance may find it hard to get reimbursement from the government program, which is overburdened from Hurricane Katrina. For a Special Report on the U.S. flood insurance program, click link.reuters.com/wyf53s
DIFFERENT LAWS IN DIFFERENT STATES
Insurance policies can be hyper-detailed and laws vary from state to state, so it is difficult to predict exactly when any litigation will begin.
The outcome of most cases will hinge on experts and eyewitnesses, said Wayne Lee, a partner in New Orleans-based Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann who represented insurers defending class actions after Hurricane Katrina.
One "extensively litigated" issue, he said, was whether flood insurance covered wind-driven flooding, including storm surges. Generally speaking, it didn't.
"Courts, at least in Louisiana, said a flood is a flood," Lee said.
More difficult questions arise when a home has been swept away. Determining the cause of the destruction is tough when nothing is left, Lee said.
Another factor that will affect the volume of litigation is whether a jurisdiction allows policyholders to recover legal fees, said Amy Bach, executive director of the consumer advocacy group United Policyholders.
Laws vary widely, however, based on factors such as the dollar amount of claims. New York, Vermont and North Carolina, for example, usually allow successful litigants to recover costs and fees, but the standards are different in each state.
"If I can't recover my attorney's fees, I'm probably not going to bring the case," Bach said.
Individuals with separate policies for homeowners and flood insurance could find themselves in both state and federal courts, Lee said.
Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program. A fight over a claim made against an insurer based in the same state as the policyholder could end up in state court.
States could also consolidate lawsuits with a particular judge or establish arbitration forums, University of Pennsylvania professor Baker said.
What differentiates Irene from other hurricanes is that it struck densely populated regions of the upper East Coast, said Michael Troisi, a partner in Rivkin Radler in Uniondale, New York, who focuses on insurance defense.
With more claims being made, more disputes will arise, he said, but residents had a lot of preparation time, which may have reduced damage.
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VATICAN CITY, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- World scientists have both the right and a moral duty to genetically modify crops to help the world's poor, scientific advisers to the Vatican say.
A group of scientists, including leading members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, released a statement this week condemning opposition to genetically modified crops by rich countries as unjustified. They demand a relaxation of "excessive, unscientific regulations" they say prevent development of crops for the "public good," NewsScientist.com reported Tuesday.
The statement by 40 international scientists came after a week-long meeting convened by Ingo Potrykus.
Potrykus is a member of the Pontifical Academy based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he developed "golden rice," a variety engineered with extra vitamin A to prevent childhood blindness.
The academy expressed provisional support for modified crops in 2000, but its scientists say that it can now back the technology with more confidence.
Potrykus and the co-authors argue for relaxation of what they call draconian regulations preventing development of crops for the poor.
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That’s Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens Yet!
Extraterrestrial life refers to life forms that did not originate and are not indigenous to our planet. So this term covers all possible types of life outside the Earth: These can be viruses, but also plant-like life forms. Some go even further: they are looking for creatures that are very similar to humans in their complexity or even surpass them, popularly known as aliens. But if there is extraterrestrial life, why hasn’t anyone heard about it until now? Do so-called aliens even exist? The Fermi Paradox addresses this very question. What approaches there are to this you can find out here!
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Bennet Omalu, MD
• Poor executive function • Paranoid ideation • Exaggerated response to life stresses • Rampart fluctuation in mood • Breakdown of intimate and family relations • Insomnia, violent, alcohol/drug abuse • Major depression • Increase religiosity.
We define Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as, a progressive neurodegenerative syndrome caused by single, episodic or repetitive blunt force impacts to the head and transfer of acceleration-deceleration forces to the brain.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a form of neurodegeneration believed to result from repeated head injuries. Originally termed dementia pugilistica because of its association with boxing. The neuropathology of CTE was first described by Corsellis, in 1973, in a case series of 15 retired boxers. CTE has recently been found to occur after other causes of repeated head trauma. This suggests that any repeated blow to the head, such as those that occur in American football, hockey, soccer, professional wrestling, and physical abuse, can also lead to neurodegenerative changes. These changes often include cerebral atrophy, cavum septi pellucidi with fenestrations, shrinkage of the mammillary bodies, dense tau immunoreactive inclusions (neurofibrillary tangles, glial tangles, and neuropil neurites), and, in some cases, a TDP-43 proteinopathy. In association with these pathologic changes, disordered memory and executive functioning, behavioral and personality disturbances (eg, apathy, depression, irritability, impulsiveness, suicidality), parkinsonism and, occasionally, motor neuron disease are seen in affected individuals. No formal clinical or pathologic diagnostic criteria for CTE currently exist. But the distinctive neuropathologic profile of the disorder lends promise for future research into its prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Pee-Wee, middle school, and high school football is the major cause of head trauma in children. Football is the most popular and promoted community based sport in Texas. There is even a series on television touting the “awesomeness” of football in Texas. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Texas is one of the strongest, oldest, and most constant of the Republican states in the United States. The support of the Republicans for waterboarding, proven to be totally useless, shows just how mean-hearted, ignorant, and sadistic these individuals are.
Being mean-hearted, ignorant, and sadistic with poor executive functioning, and behavioral and personality disturbances are not qualities needed in our political leaders. These have been the “qualities” the Republicans have shown to be most consistent at. As a result of the neurodegenerative syndrome pathology the Republicans have essentially disqualified themselves from any leadership political position. These people must be purged from the political process before their neuropathology ends up destroying the nation.
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Perspectives on Efficiency in Transportation
This paper considers the engineer's, economist's, manager's, and planner's perspectives on effectiveness for transportation respectively. This paper examines both the measures used in each perspective, weighs their advantages and disadvantages for various purposes. The first section summarizes various measures of mobility that are used to assess transportation. This is followed by an exposition of transportation consumer surplus and its limitations. Similar treatment of accessibility and productivity are provided. The conclusions call for consideration of equity and for taking the subjective point of view of the traveler rather than the "objective" point of view of the omniscient planner/engineer/economist/manager.
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PART 2: Does Your Board Need to Downsize Before it Implements Policy Governance®?
- Posted by Rose Mercier
- On June 3, 2020
- Board Structure
You’re adopting Policy Governance – why would you consider downsizing? What are the possible benefits of a “smaller board”?
One possible benefit is that with fewer members, you are more likely to hear everyone’s voice when talking about the values that should be the basis of your policies. As a result, your board can benefit from members’ range of expertise. And with fewer voices, your board might have more time to explore issues in fuller detail. As a consequence, your policies will be well thought out.
Another possible benefit is that your board’s members will come to know each other better and develop productive working relationships. Members are comfortable speaking directly to one another, so there is less chance of a dominant member swaying the group. Groupthink is less likely to be a problem because the board values making the ‘right’ decision over false group harmony. As a result, it is easier to reach consensus, even when faced with tough decisions.
A third benefit is not having to deal with situations that often arise in larger boards. You have probably seen the negative impact on a group of a ‘clique’. I know I have, and it wasn’t just back in high school when the popular kids made everyone else’s life less comfortable. Once your board numbers move into double digits it is more likely ‘sub-groups’ or cliques will develop, or that your board will experience the depressing effects of internal politics. It is hard enough when there is a productive working relationship for your board to speak with one voice, never mind having to deal with sub-groups having fixed positions.
Finally, on a practical level, it can be easier to schedule meetings with fewer people. Meetings may run more efficiently because there are fewer things to manage, coordinate and facilitate.
You need to remember that the benefits of a smaller board do not come about automatically. You will need to pay attention to the development of relationships and board dynamics. Policy Governance will enable you to intentionally ensure your values about these important elements of board effectiveness are recorded in your policies.
So…the benefits available to your board through implementation of Policy Governance can be multiplied by the benefits of an optimally sized board for your organization. It is not just a matter of picking a number out of the air. You will need to consider board size that fits the context in which your organization exists as well as the degree and types of diversity valued by your owners.
However, if by regulation or some other reason, your board is still “large,” you can take heart.
One benefit of Policy Governance is that can be tailored to fit a board of any size. In its policies, your board can define its job results, practices, delegation style and discipline. These policies give a larger board tools to mitigate some of the problems that larger boards can experience.
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Celebrating Health Centers Across America
August 12th kicks off National Health Center Week!
The special week aims to celebrate the accomplishments of the community health movement that began five decades ago and now serves some 27 million Americans.
This year, the National Association of Community Health centers, alongside the Health Center Advocacy Network, is inviting communities throughout the nation to celebrate their healthcare heroes–individuals who exceed the mission of delivering affordable and quality care to all.
To learn more about the journey of health centers and what they mean for underserved populations in today’s world, watch the following video:
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