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Associate Professor, History
My goal as a professor is to accompany students as they transition from directed learning environments cultivated in secondary school to the undirected learning environments they will meet in the future.
The faculty and staff at Huron work hard to build unique learning environments that introduce key ideas and thinkers, teach how to navigate institutional structures, and incorporate students into academic and professional networks. Essentially what this means is that a student will learn much from our individual classes, but beyond the classroom, their education will be formed by the relationships they’ve developed and we’ve helped to foster during their time with us at Huron.
Universities and Degrees awarded:
• PhD, York University (2011)
• MA, Saint Mary’s University (2004)
• BA(hon), Acadia University (2003)
Summary of Research:
- Active and Community-Engaged History
- Settler Colonialism and the History of Education in Canada
- Open Educational Resources
- Conquest and Canada’s Imperial Histories
- Social Network Analysis
- Public History and Museums
with Sean Kheraj, eds., The Open History Seminar: Canadian History, (in production)
with Greg Kennedy and Stephanie Pettigrew, “Social Networks across Chignecto: Applying Social Network Analysis to Acadie, Mi’kma’ki, and Nova Scotia, 1670-1751,” Acadiensis, vol. XLVII, no. 1 (winter/spring 2018): 8-40.
“Indigenous Intellectual Traditions & Biography in the Northeast: A Historiographical Reflection,” History Compass, (April 2018).
“Borderlands, Primary Sources, and the Longue Durée: Contextualizing Colonial Schooling at Odanak, Lorette, and Kahnawake, 1600-1850,” Historical Studies in Education 29, no. 1 (Spring 2017), 8 – 31.
“Maintaining Connections through a Period of Change: Lorette during the Eighteenth Century,” in Kathryn Labelle and Thomas Peace, eds., From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650-1900, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 74 – 111.
with John Reid, “Colonies of Settlement and Settler Colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-1850,” in Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, (New York: Routledge, 2016), 79-95.
with Judy Burns and Jim Clifford, “Maitland’s Moment: Turning Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade,” in Ben Bradley, Colin Coates, and Jason Young, eds., Environments of Mobility in Canadian History, (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016), 27-54.
“’Six Degrees to Phillip Buckner?’ An Accessible Introduction to Network Analysis and its Possibilities for Atlantic Canadian History,” Acadiensis 64, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2015), 123-144. | <urn:uuid:3ee46e70-aaee-486e-a209-10691a04fb1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huronuc.ca/profiles/faculty/tom-peace-phd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.858981 | 685 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Houston Methadone Clinics Reopen After Harvey's Flooding
Medical workers in Houston are dealing with a secondary problem after last week's floods: Clinics that offer methadone and other opioid addiction therapies are just getting back up and running, and many people don't have access to the treatments they need.
While the city flooded last week, Stormy Trout was going through opioid withdrawal at a detox center surrounded by water. "You know, cravings and anxiety, it's just treacherous, it really is," she said Tuesday while waiting for a ride outside an opioid treatment clinic in north Houston. "I'm like, I know I can do this, but I just need something to help with the cravings and the anxiety and stuff."
That something is methadone. But she had to wait until Tuesday to start taking that maintenance medication, which a patient has to take daily. Clinics all over the region that dispense methadone, buprenorphine and other drug treatments for people addicted to opioids were cut off or flooded themselves most of the week.
The one she went to, called Texas Clinic, was stranded by water for days. Director Farrukh Shamsi says he made sure someone was working there every day of the storm. And it's a good thing he did, because some people who rely on methadone to function did extraordinary things to get there.
"They were very creative," Shamsi says. "We had people who parked five miles away and walked. They started early in the morning, got here late, we medicated them, and then they walked all the way back to their cars so they could get back home."
He says Houston is a gateway for illicit drugs, including heroin. That all changed after Hurricane Harvey hit. "What the storm did is it caused the illegal drug supply to get shut off," Shamsi says. "So it's a good thing, actually, in a way, silver lining in a cloud." He's hoping it's encouraged people to opt for medication-assisted treatment instead of using illicit drugs.
His clinic is now trying to get back to its normal schedule while also helping people still living in shelters.
On Tuesday morning, the mental health team at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston arrived to find a line of about 20 people. "These are evacuees who are coming off of drugs for the first time or they've been in and out of recovery before, and they've been using this whole time and now are really, truly detoxing," says Crystal Collier, a psychologist with the Council on Recovery, who's been volunteering in the big shelters for days.
Public shelters generally don't prescribe opioid treatments on site. It's partly because people need to be screened relatively carefully to make sure they're getting the right therapy. So Collier and her colleagues are helping people get connected with treatment at a clinic. The first step is helping them get IDs.
"I mean, so many people showed up with just what they had in their hands because it happened so quickly," Collier says." So we're having to help people get their birth certificate or Social Security card before we can actually get them into a treatment system because we have to know who they are."
The next challenge, Collier says, will be helping people who are uprooted and traumatized find the stability they need to avoid relapsing.
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Understand Regulation Of Destination Prior To You Regret.
The Legislation of Destination is an extremely popular belief system which many individuals have signed up for throughout the years. It recommends that the power of your thoughts can alter the very universe around you-your body, your home, your auto and also everything in between. By believing positively, you can materialize more points into your life-more money, more good friends, more happiness, more whatever you long for. If this sounds like some large hocus pocus rubbish to you, think again.
The Regulation of Tourist attraction was first presented by: John Bach, Ph.D. in 1977. The concept is not new; actually, it is the subject of many ancient approaches. Nonetheless, the majority of researchers as well as celebs have actually placed their endorse behind the Regulation of Destination too. Probably this is due to the fact that all of us have concerned acknowledge the power of positive thinking.
The Regulation of Destination just specifies that “like draws in” concepts are absolutely nothing greater than “words.” It’s just that those words sound far better than the standard “booze-and-buzz words.” When you utilize the strategies of the Law of Tourist attraction in your daily life, you will notice changes practically promptly. Positive thoughts that create real materialized results are simple to use, however hard to draw right into being. This is where imaginative visualization enters play.
Imaginative visualization is the procedure of psychologically “seeing” yourself doing something you prefer. In order to apply the concepts of the Regulation of Attraction, you should be able to picture your desired result prior to it happens. Simply put, you should “desire” your way to symptom. One of the many ways to utilize the legislation of destination is to make use of particular request affirmations.
Many individuals know with the concept of visualization by heart and mind. It is easy to accomplish by just concentrating on an idea or expression over again. Think of a time when you were happy, or even if you are currently, mentally repeating favorable words such as “I am a true blessing,” “I am attractive,” and various other comparable declarations. Repeat these expressions over again until they become a regular thought pattern. It is essential to highlight words “en masse” when speaking these affirmations since this indicates in one go, you are “attaching” good ideas to your fact.
The most preferred indication technique utilized by those who practice the legislations of tourist attraction is referred to as the regulation of attraction video clip. Napoleon Hill created guide “The Scientific research of Getting Rich” back in 1924. He is taken into consideration to be among the most influential modern thinkers when it come to personal development. In his book, Hillside disclosed many methods that helped individuals around the world accomplish success in their lives.
The very first step in the direction of using the power of attraction effectively is to obtain concentrated and also picture what you desire. You can after that take a couple of minutes to relax your ideas as well as visualization your wanted end result. You can after that begin to talk with God in petition for this outcome. The Legislation of Tourist attraction video clip explains more concerning this procedure in terrific information.
Regulation of tourist attraction also works in vice versa from the means it is made use of by experts in the field of psychology. When it concerns drawing in cash, it is claimed that you are more likely to bring in the sort of cash you think about, really feel around, or imagine around. According to the Law of Destination, like attracts like. By considering as well as caring what you have already, you will certainly attract even more of the very same, which will help you reach your monetary goals.
The Regulation of Destination describes a belief system which recommends that “like unto itself” will certainly manifest and also profit the individual. In the New Idea theory, the Regulation of Attraction isn’t a Pseudo-science; it is an actual scientific research. The Scientific research of the Regulation of Destination was established by Richard Carlson as well as John Gray, and is presently used by over 16 million people throughout the globe. In this short article, we’ll take a quick look at exactly how this law of destination can help you do well in life.
The Legislation of Destination was developed to clarify the fact that “like unto itself” will draw in similar or the very same things to people. It has actually been clinically proven that ideas have an effect on physical reality. Positive ideas subsequently, will create those positive points to find to you, also. As a result, the Law of Destination states that you ought to “such as” your very own individual cosmos by assuming positively, as well as you need to continually be “attending” to your very own individual cosmos.
When you live in today moment, you are always in a state of wealth. You are always complete and have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. As a result of this, you are cost-free to approve possibilities that come your way as opposed to being disappointed, anxious, or scared. The Legislation of Destination likewise shows us that we should concentrate our energy, interest, and love on favorable things, such as our good friends, family, wellness, as well as prosperity, while overlooking unfavorable events, such as ailment, unemployment, divorce, as well as death. Fastest manifestation technique
This is since the Law of Destination enables you to attract just what you’re focusing your power vibrations towards. The legislation of attraction states that we should focus our focus, sensations, thoughts, and our power on what we prefer. If for instance, we desire more cash, then we ought to think about cash, feel concerning it, as well as know its presence all over. If we are successful in showing up cash, after that the cash will turn up – until we don’t focus our interest, sensations, ideas, as well as energy on it. | <urn:uuid:fc688327-bada-40bd-8679-210296c0fe0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.brandelectioneering.com/2021/07/18/understand-regulation-of-destination-prior-to-you-regret/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964171 | 1,244 | 1.921875 | 2 |
ROME—The only safe bet when the papal election begins Tuesday is that smoke signals after the first ballot will be black, the colour of political and religious deadlock.
After that, all bets are off. Most expect white smoke from a Vatican chimney to announce the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church before the end of the week. But who that might be is anyone’s guess.
“The most striking thing is that there’s no clear front-runner yet,” says Rev. Tom Reese, an informed Vatican observer and author of Inside the Vatican: The politics and organization of the Catholic Church. “There’s no one person that jumps out at you as the man who could be pope.”
LIVE:Vatican conclave to elect new pope
Short lists of possible popes — papabili — name as many as two dozen of the 115 cardinals who will vote in the stunning Sistine Chapel, with Michelangelo’s monumental fresco of the Last Judgment as stark reminder of the lasting consequences of choices.
The uncertainty stems largely from the lacklustre support of the two cardinals most often cited as leading the pack — Italy’s Angelo Scola and Brazil’s Odilo Scherer. According to numbers believed to have been leaked to the Italian media by a cardinal, both are a long way from the 77 votes needed to win.
That has resulted in a number of others being considered as compromise candidates, from Quebec’s Marc Ouellet to Austria’s Christoph Schoenborn and Hungary’s Peter Erdo.
The latest addition to that alternative list is U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the charismatic Archbishop of New York. Dolan, 63, is seen as heading a bloc of 11 U.S. cardinals who are under 80 and therefore eligible to vote. He has also attracted support from a faction of Italian cardinals determined to stop Scola widely seen as out of control.
The chances of a U.S. pope are low. Conclaves tend to stay clear of candidates from superpowers. Besides, says Reese, “A lot of people in the world would think the CIA fixed the election.” More realistic is a scenario where Dolan acts as pope maker after support for the front-runners stalls.
Propelling Dolan is a view among cardinals that after Pope Benedict XVI, who shocked the Catholic world by becoming the first pope to resign in 600 years, the Church could use a little more charisma and a lot more managerial skills.
Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Toronto priest and Vatican spokesperson during the transition period, said those qualities came out loud and clear in briefings he received about pre-conclave discussions held by cardinals. A total of 161 cardinals had their say during the conferences.
“The thing that came up over and over again was that this man who is going to be elected has to be a holy person,” Rosica said, “but not a holiness that removes him from the world, a holiness that immerses him in the world.”
Serial leaks of Benedict’s private documents during the last year of his rule linked the Vatican to blackmail, kidnapping and assassination plots to kill Benedict and his predecessor, John Paul II. The leaks were seen as the result of fierce Vatican infighting, although only the Pope’s butler was convicted of stealing the documents.
At the last pre-conclave gathering Monday, the cardinals received a briefing on the Vatican’s bank, which has long been suspected of links to gangsters and money laundering. Leaks continued to ooze out of the Vatican even as cardinals talked of the Church’s challenges during the past week.
“I’m very happy that the cardinals were here when these leaks happened again,” Rosica said in an interview. “Now all of them can see that the administration, the governance of the Church, has to be a very high priority.
“Unless this is addressed and is high on the agenda of the new pope, we cannot go forward properly,” he added. “We must go forward by looking at the governance of the church. That is a central issue.”
Heads in the Curia will have to roll, he added. The strength of North American cardinals is that they know how to run the equivalent of big corporations.
“They’re not only great leaders and holy people; they’re very good administrators,” Rosica said. “They run big operations. So, in a sense, you have to have saint/CEO for this kind of a project. And they have to go hand in hand. You cannot have one over the other.”
For Italian merchants around the Vatican, an American pope would mean something else — more tourists with cash to spread around.
“Rome lives from tourism,” said restaurant owner Antonello Fulvimari, 52. “With Pope Benedict, tourism stopped a little. Compared to Pope John Paul II, who every week made two or three saints, Benedict didn’t do much of that. Economically, he didn’t bring many people to Rome.”
Fulvimari’s restaurant, Da Roberto, is favoured by Catholic cardinals — so much so that it’s locally known as the “trattoria of cardinals.” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he became Pope Benedict, ate there regularly for 25 years. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, is Fulvimari’s favourite, and his pictures hang on the walls.
“I want an American cardinal,” Fulvimari said as the tail end of a lunchtime crowd kept his place buzzing. “They’re open and well-versed in all the world’s problems.
“They got a style that’s more of our time. They can bring people closer to the Church,” he added. “The Church has to be more open to divorced people and others. They have to come closer to what we need.”
The cardinals will begin Tuesday with morning mass. They then file into the Sistine Chapel for the conclave. After a meditation ceremony, the room is cleared of all who do not belong with the shout, “Everyone out.” Voting for the first ballot begins at 4:30 p.m. local time.
In April 2005, when Benedict was elected on the second day of voting, ballots from the first vote weren’t burned until about 8 p.m. that night. Looking for the smoke signal from a rooftop chimney this time will be 5,600 accredited journalists, thousands in St. Peter’s Square, and millions around the world.
“You can expect black smoke,” Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican’s spokesperson, told reporters Monday.
Rosica expects a new pope soon.
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Data Management CPT.
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Weight: 113 kg
Birthday: December Some of the top 50 NBA players include: Kobe Bryant Culminating Project. I focused only on the top 50 NBA players for 2012. I chose to use only the current top 50 for both because I wanted to use the most recent data and I wanted to have enough information. i was only going to use the top 10 at first until i realized it was not enough data to support my thesis. Dwyane Wade. Height: 1.93 m
Weight: 100 kg
Birthday: January Lebron James Height: 1.98m
Weight: 93 kg
Birthday: August I based my data off of 4 things specifically: Weight
Total career points This graph shows in which month all of the 50 athletes are born.
For example, you can see that 6 people out of 50 are born in january.
The graph could be misleading because it looks like there is such a big difference in the intervals of the Y axis when really it is only going up by 1, This is a graph i made showing the probability of becoming a top 50 nba player depending on which month you were born in.
For example if you were born in january, there would be a 12% chance you would become an nba player.
Looking at this table you can tell that the results i got were different than what i stated i thought would happen in my thesis. This graph shows the average of being a top 50 nba player wiith 3 month intervals. So from January to March, April to June, July to September, and October to December.
January, February, and March are the 3 months i tried to focus on the most because after doing some research it turns out that those born in those 3 months were generally better athletes and more common than being born in July, August, or September. I thought using the point scores would be a good idea because it would help show the correlation between height and weight, height and points, and weight and points. The point scores will make it clearer to see which athlete was better than the other. The taller the athlete is, the higher the chance that he will have more points Point Scores The total career points ranked from 2591 to 46872. The table i created did show that in most cases the taller the athlete was, the more points he had. ( in most cases) Correlations. The Correlation for Height vs. Weight was 0.038155152 which demonstrates that there was no correlation between the two.
Points vs. Height: 0.080730244
This shows that there is a weak correlation between the players’ total career points and his height.
Points vs. Weight: -0.107652507
There is a medium correlation between the players’ total career points and his weight. I conducted a survey which was handed out randomly to a mixed grade 12 fitness class. The survey had the following questions on them:
1) are you born in the summer? ( june 21st-september 23rd)
2) do you play any sports?
3) what is your height?
4) how many sports do you play?
5) what is your gender?
6) do you plan on becoming a professional athlese? (NBA,NFL,NHL,etc)
7) do you like the winter or summer better? Are you born in the summer? 9 answered no and 5 answered yes.Do you play any sports? 4 answered no, 10 answered yes.Those who were born in the summer AND played sports: 5.Those who were born in the summer and didn’t play sports: 1.Those who were not born in the summer and play sports: 5.Those who were not born in the summer and don’t play sports: 3. After looking over the survey i was able to link a couple questions together so that they could relate to my topic directly. I thought the answers to my survey would be different In that, there would be more kids born in the summer who ALSO played sports but they both tied. This was when I realized that maybe my theory wasn’t as right as I thought it would be.
It was also only a class of 20 people and all guys for the exception of 2, so it could be bias in that sense. Analysis Outline For the green analysis I chose to show a couple graphs to make it easier to understand the data instead of simply using a table or a chart. I also showed the averages and a line graph to show whether or not it had a normal distribution. For the blue analysis I found the mode, median, mean, and the standard deviation using the formula bar on excel. It made the process faster and more precise. For the red analysis I added a points column to the table so that I could find the correlation and the variance between height and weight, height and points, and weight and points. For the yellow analysis I made a total points graph to show the different skills between the athletes and an average weight/height graph. For the white analysis I used my survey. I thought a survey would be a good source of information instead of simply relying on data found online. When I first started this project, I thought it would make sense that people who were born in the summer were better athletes because it meant they were older than the rest and usually, older means bigger and taller. Once I started my research, I found out that drafting (for the NBA anyways) was in June. Which meant that people born in the summer did not have as much practice and experience as others born in the winter. Final Analysis. The athletes born in the winter had from 5-6 months more of practicing and training. 5-6 months that athletes born in the winter never got. Also, the systems set up to determine who gets ahead in sports aren’t particularly efficient. Starting all star leagues etc, as early as possible is not fair to everyone because for example, if there were no players born in July, October, November, or December and only a few in august and September, those born in the last half of the year would’ve all been overlooked. After doing all my research and collecting all of my data, I realized that people born in the winter (December, January, February) had a bigger chance of becoming greater athletes and got training experience others wouldn’t. In the current top 50 NBA players, 28% of them were born in the first 3 months. Which is a higher percentage than any other months. "Dwyane Wade." Yahoo! Sports. STATS LLC, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2013."NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Points." Basketball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2013."NBA - CBSSports.com News, Scores, Stats, Fantasy Advice." CBSSports.com. Cbs Sports, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2013."NBA.com, Official Site of the National Basketball Association." NBA.com. NBA Media Venture, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2013. Bibliography. | <urn:uuid:208e9cb5-e085-4cb5-9fa2-4092b057275b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://prezi.com/4tgyttvacyjl/data-management-cpt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978988 | 1,636 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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materials that can persist in soils.
We love our economy, our "democracy," our comforts, and we don't see that we're poisoning ourselves into a serious corner.
When potable water is no longer at our fingertips from faucets, what will we do? What are we doing not to arrive at such a state?
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Don't let science take your wings away
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November 13, 2012 | Issue Brief on National Security and Defense
This summer, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA) failed to pass the Senate, with Democrats and Republicans alike voting against the bill. The overriding concern was that the regulatory approach of the bill would be ineffective at best and harmful at worst.
Following the failure of the CSA, the Obama Administration began drafting a cybersecurity executive order that is based on regulations, similar to the CSA. While the CSA and the executive order see government-designed standards and regulations as the way to encourage cybersecurity, the performance of the federal government in securing its own computer systems calls such an approach into question.
Many government agencies are known to have flawed cybersecurity practices, yet despite the best efforts of those creating the standards for these agencies, these organizations often remain vulnerable. Instead of relying on a static, top-down government approach to cybersecurity, the U.S. should have a dynamic solution that leverages the strengths of both the government and the private sector.
What follows is list of federal government cybersecurity breaches and failures since May 2012. The compilation of this list (or any list, for that matter) necessarily requires judgment in determining whether an incident qualifies for the list. This list is by no means complete: Some hacks might not be reported, and others have not even been realized yet. Additionally, the list does not include the large number of private-sector failures. Nevertheless, the seriousness and amount of U.S. government cybersecurity failures undercut the argument for a government-led regulatory approach to cybersecurity. The list is alphabetical by agency.
U.S. Army Chief of Public Affairs
1. Awards Database—September 2012. A contractor erroneously uploaded an Army awards database to a public server. This breach made the personal records of over 500 Army personnel available, including some Social Security numbers.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
2. E-mail System—June 2012. An employee of the CFTC was fooled by a phishing e-mail and gave away sensitive information to unknown hackers. The hacker was able to use this information to access the employee’s e-mails and attachments, which contained sensitive information, including Social Security numbers for up to 700 employees of the CFTC.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
3. National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center—June 2012. James Miller of Devon, Pennsylvania, broke into a DOE supercomputer and was able to use it for his own purposes. He was noticed only because he tried to sell access to an undercover FBI agent.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
4. Databases at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)—September 2009–December 2011. CMS was breached 13 times by unknown hackers, affecting over 300 records. The CMS did not notify the affected parties in a timely manner for seven of these breaches. Additionally, the CMS notification did not provide critical information regarding the type of information exposed or when the breach occurred.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
5. DHS website—June 2012. A hacker group calling itself “digital-corruption” hacked a DHS website and stole personal data including usernames, passwords, and security questions and answers.
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
6. DOJ websites—May 2012. The hacker group Anonymous hacked the Bureau of Justice Statistics and stole 1.7 gigabytes of data, which it proceeded to publish online. The hacked data included internal e-mails that likely contained personal or sensitive information related to crimes, criminals, or crime victims.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
7. EPA Superfund servers—March 2012. The EPA was breached by an unknown hacker and lost personal and financial information including Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and addresses belonging to almost 8,000 users. The breach is thought to have come through a virus on a contractor’s computer, but that has not been confirmed.
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
8. Thrift Savings Plan Database—May 2012. An unknown hacker stole personal and financial information including Social Security numbers, addresses, and account numbers from thousands of individuals, likely through a contractor’s computer.
National Weather Service (NWS)
9. NWS website and servers—October 2012. A hacker group known as “Kosova Hacker’s Security” breached the NWS’s website and posted lists of files, vulnerability information, and administrators’ account names. The hackers claim to be motivated by U.S. action against Muslim nations, specifically the Stuxnet and Flame malware.
10. Navy website—June 2012. A hacker known as “.c0mrad” broke into the U.S. Navy’s public website and downloaded over 170 military e-mails and passwords.
11. Navy website—June 2012. A hacker group calling itself “digital-corruption” hacked the Navy website and stole personal data including usernames, passwords, and security questions and answers.
12. Navy Smart Web Move Database—September 2012. An unknown hacker or hackers breached a database containing the sensitive data of over 200,000 people. It is unknown exactly how much was stolen, but many usernames and security questions and answers were taken.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
13. OPM Database—May 2012. An unknown hacker broke into the OPM database and posted the stolen information online. Thirty-seven user IDs and passwords were compromised.
—Paul Rosenzweig is a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation. David Inserra, a Research Assistant in the Allison Center, contributed to this report.
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Approved January 5, 2015
A primary principle of this nation is that the public welfare demands an educated and informed citizenry. The power to provide for public education is a state function vested in the state legislature and delegated to local school districts. The purpose of this administrative procedure is to clarify the legal status of the school district.
II. GENERAL STATEMENT OF POLICY
A. The school district is a public corporation subject to the control of the legislature, limited only by constitutional restrictions. The school district has been created for educational purposes.
B. The legislature has authority to prescribe the school district’s powers and privileges, its boundaries and territorial jurisdictions.
C. The school district has only the powers conferred on it by the legislature; however, the school board’s authority to govern, manage, and control the school district, to carry out its duties and responsibilities, and to conduct the business of the school district includes implied powers in addition to any specific powers granted by the legislature.
III. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER ENTITIES
A. The school district is a separate legal entity.
B. The school district is coordinate with and not subordinate to the county(ies) in which it is situated.
C. The school district is not subservient to municipalities within its territory.
IV. POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
1. The school district, through its school board, has authority to raise funds for the operation and maintenance of its schools and authority to manage and expend such funds, subject to applicable law.
2. The school district has wide discretion over the expenditure of funds under its control for public purposes, subject to the limitations provided by law.
3. School district officials occupy a fiduciary position in the management and expenditure of funds entrusted to them.
B. Raising Funds
1. The school district shall, within the limitations specified by law, provide by levy of tax necessary funds for the conduct of schools, payment of indebtedness, and all proper expenses.
2. The school district may issue bonds in accordance with the provisions of Minn. Stat. Ch. 475, or other applicable law.
3. The school district has authority to accept gifts and donations for school purposes, subject to applicable law.
1. The school district may acquire property for school purposes. It may sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of property which is no longer needed for school purposes, subject to applicable law.
2. The school district shall manage its property in a manner consistent with the educational functions of the district.
3. The school district may permit the use of its facilities for community purposes which are not inconsistent with, nor disruptive of, its educational mission.
4. School district officials hold school property as trustees for the use and benefit of students, taxpayers, and the community.
1. The school district is empowered to enter into contracts in the manner provided by law.
2. The school district has authority to enter into installment purchases and leases with an option to purchase, pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 465.71 or other applicable law.
3. The school district has authority to make contracts with other governmental agencies and units for the purchase, lease or other acquisition of equipment, supplies, materials, or other property, including real property.
4. The school district has authority to enter into employment contracts. As a public employer, the school district, through its designated representatives, shall meet and negotiate with public employees in an appropriate bargaining unit and enter into written collective bargaining agreements with such employees, subject to applicable law.
E. Actions and Suits
The school district has authority to sue and to be sued.
Minn. Const. art. 13, § 1
Minn. Stat. Ch. 123B (School Districts, Powers and Duties)
Minn. Stat. Ch. 179A (Public Employment Labor Relations)
Minn. Stat. § 465.035 (Conveyance or Lease of Land)
Minn. Stat. §§ 465.71; 471.345; 471.6161; 471.6175; 471.64 (Rights, Powers, Duties of Political Subdivisions)
Minnesota Association of Public Schools v. Hanson, 287 Minn. 415, 178 N.W.2d 846 (1970)
Independent School District No. 581 v. Mattheis, 275 Minn. 383, 147 N.W.2d 374 (1966)
Village of Blaine v. Independent School District No. 12, 272 Minn. 343, 138 N.W.2d 32 (1965)
Huffman v. School Board, 230 Minn. 289, 41 N.W.2d 455 (1950)
State v. Lakeside Land Co., 71 Minn. 283, 73 N.W.970 (1898)
Administrative Procedure 705AP (Investments)
Administrative Procedure 706AP (Acceptance of Gifts)
Administrative Procedure 801AP (Equal Access to School Facilities)
MSBA Service Manual, Chapter 3, Employee Negotiations
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Dear New Frugal You,
It's been over two years since I graduated from college, and I've been living with my parents since then. I've put aside money from a part-time job, but I'm not sure it's enough. How much should I have saved to get to the point where I can rent my own first apartment? -- LaDonna
Good question! And, one that a lot of young adults are asking in this tough job market. The result is that a lot of 20-somethings can't find the high paying full-time jobs they expected. And they end up back living with their parents.
According to Pew Research, more than 20 percent of 25-34 year olds live in a multigenerational household -- aka staying with mom and dad. That's the highest percentage since 1950. But the fact that you have a lot of company doesn't make living with your parents any easier. Let's see if we can figure out what it would take to move out and what it will take to stay in the apartment so you don't boomerang back.
It sounds as if you might have enough saved up for the initial outlay. I can't give you exact dollar amounts because rents vary. But I can tell you that you'll most likely be expected to come up with first and last month's rent plus a security deposit to defray the cost of damages you might do.
Now is a good time to check your credit score. Many landlords will do a credit check before offering you a lease. If your score is too low, they might not want you as a tenant. Some may ask for a higher damage deposit if your score is low. You might also find an error in your credit report you'll want to correct. About 5 percent of credit reports contain errors serious enough to affect credit scores. You can get a free copy of your credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com, and for about $20 you can pull one of your FICO scores from myFICO.com.
Beyond the initial rent and deposit, you'll also need enough cash to set up the apartment, including the cost of any utility deposits.
Don't forget any items that you'll need to buy. Do you have cookware? Basic cleaning supplies? Furniture? Some things you can live without temporarily. But total up the stuff that you'll need to buy when you move in.
Once you're convinced that you have enough to cover the initial expense, the next challenge is whether you'll have enough for the ongoing, month-to-month bills.
As a general rule, you don't want your housing expense (including utlities, insurance and maintenance) to be greater than 35 percent of your take-home pay. If you're still paying on student or auto loans, you're better off trying to stay under 30 percent.
You'll be tempted to ignore this and stretch it to 40 percent or more, particularly if you're in an area where rental costs are high. You might even juggle some budget numbers to make it all seem OK. But it won't be. Sooner or later you'll have an unexpected bill or shortfall in income.
If you're working part-time, you'll probably have trouble finding a place that fits within your income. One solution would be sharing a place with friends.
It's also unlikely that rent will be your only monthly expense. You may need to pay for utilities or renters' insurance.
And are you currently contributing to the groceries in your parents' home? Just because Mom is willing to feed you now, don't assume that she'll stock the fridge in your new apartment. You'll probably have to do that yourself -- and pay for it as well.
Finally, take a moment to consider how secure your paycheck is. Even if you could find a new job in a few weeks, could you handle the gap between checks?
Don't cut your finances too close. If you should find that you're in over your head, you'll not only feel bad about it, but if you end up defaulting on your lease obligations you could damage your credit score.
One way to see how ready you are is to do a test run: Take the amount you'd pay for rent and set it aside, then try to live on the remaining amount. Doing that for a few months would simulate what rent would do to your finances.
LaDonna, I don't know if you're financially ready for that apartment now. But whenever you are ready I hope that you find the perfect place!
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I started the incubation process at home during April vacation and brought to school on the April 28th. Duck eggs take about 28 days to hatch. It currently is Wednesday, May 7th and the eggs have been incubating for 21 days now. The count is 7 more days to go.
There are 3 eggs incubating. The incubator keeps them at a temperature of 37 degrees Celsius which is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This the same as our body temperature. You may possibly hear a beep or beeping sound occasionally. This beeping sound indicates that the eggs will be turning. You should be able to see them turn. Each egg has a blue dot on one side and a number on the other. This is to help us see and be sure the eggs are turning. Normally the mother duck would sit on her eggs to keep them safe and warm and she would also move them around several times a day. The incubator must take the mom's place. It must keep the eggs warm, maintain the proper humidity level and rotate the eggs.
PLEASE keep in mind, just like a pregnancy things could go wrong. We could lose a baby at anytime during the incubation process as well as during the hatching time. Ducklings have also for one reason or another died after birth. We must be prepared for anything. So let's keep our fingers crossed that nothing bad happens.
Please join in the excitement and watch the event take place. Pass the word so others may also enjoy watching the ducklings hatch.
Our expected delivery date is May 14th so stay tuned.
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The U.S. Climate Prediction Center raised the prospect that El Niño conditions could return after the Northern Hemisphere summer, causing adverse weather that could potentially disrupt the harvest of vital crops such as cotton, corn and soybeans.
A return in the fall of La Niña's more infamous counterpart could increase rainfall, although farmers typically prefer it to the La Niña phenomenon. La Niña has been blamed for a bad dry spell in South America.
In its monthly climate forecast, the CPC said there is still considerable uncertainty for the remainder of the year, but it "slightly favors (La Niña) neutral or developing El Niño conditions over a return to La Niña conditions."
To the relief of U.S. farmers, La Niña has been fading since February and its impact is expected to disappear by the summer, CPC said on Thursday reiterating its previous forecast.
With it dissipating between now and June, there is an increased chance of above-average temperatures in the south-central United States and below-average temperatures in the Northwest, the CPC, an office under the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said.
El Niño has in the past caused drought in Southeast Asia and flooding in South America and Australia.
La Niña is an abnormal cooling of waters in the equatorial Pacific, which can last for years and wreak havoc over weather conditions in Asia and the Americas. El Niño is the abnormal warming of those waters, which can also affect weather.
"Any undue moisture can hamper harvest," said Sterling Smith, an analyst at Country Hedging Inc in Minnesota.
But he said it is far too early to cause alarm among farmers, whose planting season has started.
Modern technology means that farmers can harvest in a matter of days rather than weeks and as a result can act quickly if adverse weather, which could wreak havoc, was predicted.
"It's a concern but not a concern of years past," Smith said.
It would have the biggest impact on corn. U.S. farmers are expected to plant the most corn in 75 years to ease extremely tight supplies that have kept prices near historic highs.
While La Niña fades, drier-than-average conditions are more likely across Utah and Colorado and along the western Gulf of Mexico.
Those conditions would not necessarily affect key U.S. farming regions in the Midwest and the south, with the exception of eastern Colorado, which has some corn farming but is well irrigated, Smith said.
But La Niña was blamed for last year's drought in Texas, the biggest cotton growing state in the country, which was the worst drought in a century.
Its dissolution would coincide with the start of the annual Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. The U.S. crude oil industry is particularly worried about storms in the Gulf of Mexico threatening to topple platforms and rigs in the area.
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Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a nervous system disorder which makes the person to want to keep moving their legs. The disorder does not let the person suffering sleep, so it is also included in sleep disorders. Legs throb, creep and gives many other feelings to the person with the disorder.
Miscarriage is the discharge of an under developed or lifeless infant which usually takes place in the first 12 weeks of Pregnancy. It is also known as 'Pregnancy Loss' or sometimes 'Spontaneous Abortion'. For a successful Pregnancy, the mother must be very much careful about the baby. She must pass on adequate amount of nutrients to her unborn child. If she is not careful enough, it might lead her to Miscarriage.
Blood Cancer is related with the growth of malignant cells in the bone marrow or blood, plasma and lymphatic system, which is popular as Leukemia, Myeloma, and Lymphoma respectively. Leukemia nurtures in the bone marrow which lessens the power of bone marrow to make blood cells - red blood cells, white blood cells, as well as platelets.
A bizarre phobia that exists in people is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. As long as the word is, the phobia is also associated with the fear of long words. Mankind can be afraid of almost anything, and this is one such phobia.
One of the common, yet strangest kinds of phobia seen in people is xenophobia. Whenever we meet people from a new land, it is difficult to open up to them easily. It’s completely normal to feel a little conscious around them. However, for many others, the anxiety associated with meeting a stranger can cause them great distress, a condition called xenophobia.
Cleanliness and hygiene are obviously major essentials in our daily life. Any normal person would be a little more alert while visiting a hospital or a hospice. However, for those having mysophobia, these feelings are all over their mind and body constantly.
A newborn baby's skin is very soft and delicate. Unlike an adult's skin that is fully developed and ready to handle harsh environments, it needs extra care and attention.
Do people tell you that you speak at night but you don’t remember it? Does anyone at your home has a habit of mumbling, whispering or shouting in their sleep? It is a disorder but you don’t have to worry unless it is frequent and disturbing as it is not a medical problem. But it can be very embarrassing and should be handled with care.
A blackhead also known as open comedo is an opening topped with a black cap of dirt on the skin. A comedo is an expanded hair follicle (pore) filled with skin dirt, sebum (oil) and bacteria. According to US Library of Medicine, blackheads are small dark spots on the skin that appears because of a small lump in the root of the follicle. | <urn:uuid:77e7ce67-8a8c-4585-ba09-06d2d754de00> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.healthtopia.net/node?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00073-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970883 | 609 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Starting a blog post with a definition of the topic to be discussed makes me feel rather like the captain of a school debating society. However, I've struggled to find a better introduction to the question of "What is information architecture?" than the definition provided by the Information Architecture Institute.
We define information architecture as the art and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability.
Or as someone once put it to me: "You just draw boxes, don't you?".
Information architecture isn't just about drawing boxes. However, making wireframes, the blueprints of a digital design, are a large part of it. An IA might also produce a taxonomy of how content and products on a site should be classified, or a prototype illustrating how the information should change on screen as a user progresses through a task.
These solutions will be arrived at by research. This can take the form of competitor analysis, reading academic papers on human/computer interaction, or testing ideas on real users. At The Guardian, for example, we invited some users into our office to try out our iPhone app at an early stage of development. We filmed them using the application for the first time, and tested whether they could understand and make use of the functionality that was on offer.
A classic way to sum up information architecture is an image that appeared in 'the polar bear book' - "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. Their Venn diagram placed IA at the intersection of content, users and context of use.
In the end, however you try and define it, information architecture boils down to consciously organising the content and flow of a website, based on some principles that can be articulated, that have been derived through evidence gathering.
At a micro level this can mean deciding that products on a search page should be ordered by price rather than by name. On a larger scale it could be reorganising the content on a site to support some clear tasks that users want to perform. On a strategic level, an information architect might get involved in determining the way that articles and metadata are placed into a content management system.
Information architecture is just one component in an emerging field known as user experience design. This recognises that a good digital service isn't just about functionality. It is about how people feel as they use a digital service, and about the way it does things, not just what it does.
Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting a look at what information architecture means specifically in the context of a news website like guardian.co.uk, and giving a more detailed view of the wireframes and research process that went into the design of the World Government Data section of the Data Store.
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I have used droid draw tool inorder to create a layout & executed the corresponding application in eclipse & observe the output in android emulator.
The application to be developed is a media player application. A playlist screen is to be designed. First a list containing the list items is to placed, later the description about each of the list item & finally three buttons for the left soft key, right key & centre push key.
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“Funded Scholarships without IELTS” Don’t forget to share this read-worthy article with your friends, and follow Tarek Floyd official accounts on social media 😍
Many educational institutions require you to demonstrate a certain level of English language proficiency, and an English language test is a way to show your language ability.
Many fully-funded scholarships or partial scholarships that include all levels of study (Bachelor, Master, PhD) do not require an English language certificate, we have compiled these scholarships in this article.
Sweden Government Scholarships:
The Government of Sweden will award 300 scholarships to international students to study full-time master’s degree programs from Swedish institutes.
Deadline: February 10, 2022
Singapore Government Scholarships:
The Singapore Government Scholarship is a fully funded Masters or Masters study program leading to PhD or direct PhD after a 4-year Bachelor’s degree program.
Russia Government Scholarship:
This scholarship is funded by the Russian Federation. All foreign students will study master’s and doctoral degree programs at Russian universities. You can study any program at any university in Russia.
French Government Eiffel Scholarship in France:
The Eiffel Scholarship Program is a fully funded scholarship by the Government of France to pursue Masters, PhD and PhD programs from French universities. According to 2020, they have been awarded 500 scholarships.
Deadline: January 8, 2022
Austrian Government Scholarships:
The Austrian Government Scholarship is applicable to Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degree program to study in Austrian universities. Austria is one of the countries of the European Union. The scholarship is funded by the Austrian Development Corporation.
Deadline: March 1, 2022
Canada Government Scholarships:
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships offers up to 166 scholarships annually. The scholarship is open to Canadian citizens, international citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
Hong Kong Government Scholarship:
The Hong Kong Scholarship is a fully funded scholarship for international students. The Hong Kong Fellowship Program will offer 300 scholarships this year.
Ireland Government Scholarships:
The Irish Government Scholarship is a fully funded scholarship for all international students and European students to study full-time masters and PhD degree programs at Irish universities. Ireland is ranked among the top 10 for high quality education.
Malta Government Scholarships:
The Malta Government Scholarship for the academic year 2021-2022 is now open. International students can apply for undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs under the Malta Government Scholarship. The education system in Malta has a very high rating.
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship:
The Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for International Students is a masters and doctoral degree scholarship to study at different European universities in different countries of Europe. All expenses will be covered under this scholarship. There are no GRE requirements, no need to contact the professor. The result that students are waiting for can also apply.
Portuguese Government Scholarships:
Apply for the Portugal Government Scholarship 2021-2022. Portugal government offers fully funded scholarships for international students. The scholarship is available to students who wish to study for Bachelor’s, Master’s, Ph.D., Business major, and Master’s degrees.
Colombia Government Scholarship:
Columbia Government Scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The scholarship is open to international students from all over the world. This scholarship in Colombia is available to undertake Masters and PhD degree program.
Georgia Government Scholarships:
Georgia State Scholarships 2021-2022 is open to both local and international students. Multiple scholarships have been announced to study in Georgia. The scholarship is open to pursuing Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree programs.
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Drought stricken north-west Queensland graziers have been given hay and hope from the charity Aussie Helpers' Buy a Bale campaign.
Aussie Helpers have spent the last seven weeks in the Julia Creek, Richmond and Hughenden areas distributing hay, lick, pellets and pet feed as well as grocery and pamper packs to 150 families on 125 stations.
Hughenden graziers Andrew and Juanita Holden hosted a hay bale distribution on their property Ballindolloch this week and were joined by 18 other families.
"It just felt right," says Juanita, adding the couple wanted to give back to the charity after receiving assistance themselves.
"It is not how long it is going to last, it was very heart-warming and it just made you feel someone cares," she said.
Juanita says they are lucky in that they have only lost one animal in the drought so far, but there's little feed in the shire and hay is scarce and expensive.
McKinlay Shire 'the worst'
Founder of Aussie Helpers and former grazier Brian Egan says the McKinlay Shire is one of the worst drought affected areas he has ever seen.
"It is just bulldust, there's just nothing.
"Everything is dead or dying and everything is looking for something to eat, the kangaroos will come up and just about try and eat the signwriting off your car if they could," he said.
Brian says the hay they give out is probably only enough to keep breeding stock alive or feed a few weaners, but he hopes it is enough to keep graziers going.
"We have come in a bit earlier than normally what we would have this time and the main reason for that was to prevent the depressive side of it coming in... before it gets too bad," he said.
Paying it forward
The Holden family were so appreciative of the assistance given to them by Aussie Helpers they have offered to volunteer for the charity.
Brian says they will prepare a car that Andrew (who is in a wheelchair) can use to drive around the shire and offer counsel to other farmers.
"Here's a man at 38 years old and in a wheelchair and he is prepared to stick his hand up to go out and help us do what we do... and it leaves me struggling for words to describe this man he is incredibly brave. "
Hear more of the story by clicking on the audio links on the right.
Find out more about the Buy a Bale campaign on their website.
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With the rest of the world, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute has been horrified by the death of George Floyd and the deep-seated social injustices that it represents.
The institute is hopeful of the conversations that now unfold and the worldwide calls for more just societies where the human dignity and rights of all are protected.
Most states are reluctant to accept that structural racism is an everyday reality for many in their societies: in the class room, at work, when going to the bar, renting an apartment or in the encounter with the police.
What we have seen in the US clearly shows that some of the defenses have to come down and a more open and unprejudiced conversation about racism in our societies has to be initiated, says Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, and former member of the UN Committee on Eliminiation of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
In European countries, including Sweden, the most discriminated group is people of African descent.
The RWI held a round table on racial discrimination at the Swedish labor market in 2019 that we hope to follow up later this year. | <urn:uuid:2211e98b-54e7-42ac-ab67-455328d2af96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rwi.lu.se/blog/structural-racism-is-a-reality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.960226 | 230 | 2.578125 | 3 |
cloning a large insert
Posted 17 February 2011 - 08:01 PM
i am trying to clone a 7kb gene into a 6.2kb vector. I have tried different competent cell strains with no success. I also ran the ligation mix in an agarose gel and saw that ligation is working. How do i proceed with transforming this?
plss help. I am at my wit's end.
Posted 19 February 2011 - 08:55 AM
Posted 15 March 2011 - 02:35 AM
Posted 15 March 2011 - 02:45 AM
And if so: you kept that in mind making the calculations?
If you don't know it, then ask it! Better to ask and look foolish to some than not ask and stay stupid.
Posted 18 March 2011 - 08:12 PM
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Online video games are games that are played via the Internet or some other computer network around the world. There are many different types of online video games and all of them have varying degrees of complexity. The most popular online games in the world include the following:
One of the most common types of online video games are in-game purchases, or in-app purchases. These are purchases for things like items in a game such as weapons or armor. Sometimes these are referred to as crates. For example, in Fortnite you can purchase special weapons and armor through crates. Most of the time, however, you will not be able to equip your character with the items from these crates until you gain access to the class house, which is usually done by completing one of the main quests in the game.
Unlike in-game purchases, online video games that require in-app purchases to be able to complete are usually free to play. Most of the time, the only thing that you have to pay for is a monthly fee to play video games online. Sometimes you can even play free versions of the paid games without having to pay anything extra. So, if you find a free Fortnite map, you do not have to spend an additional cent to play it; in fact, you can literally get access to the entire game for free. Learn more about daftarkiu.net their other services by visiting their official sites.
Another type of online video games available to children, teenagers, and adults alike are social games. Social games are a lot of fun for kids because they teach kids social skills, including how to work together in a team. A great example of a social game is Dance Revolution. This game allows kids to learn how to play along with others; this helps them develop real life social skills that they can use in school and play video games throughout their daily lives.
There are also many other types of social skills that kids can learn while playing multiplayer online video games. For instance, most kids will learn how to work with various computer controls such as clicking, holding down keys, and dragging. They will also learn how to play various games with a variety of people from around the world. These social and team building skills will benefit kids in many areas of their life including their relationships in school and society at large.
Finally, another major benefit of playing these video games is that kids get a chance to observe how other people play and learn from them. In addition to learning how to apply the social rules of the game, they are also able to observe how other players make decisions and play the game accordingly. As they continue to play, kids can build better strategies that they can use when they play real life games with real people in real life. | <urn:uuid:90d72e31-533a-436b-b7f1-628bc9f9ca40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://r-f-e.net/the-social-benefits-of-online-video-games-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.974767 | 557 | 2.4375 | 2 |
A special exhibit on Empire, Wyoming will be on display at the Campbell County Rockpile Museum during the month of October. The the exhibit, a collection of standing banners, is on loan to the Rockpile Museum by the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne.
Empire, Wyoming itself is no longer a town you can find on the map, but from 1908 until about the mid-1920s, Empire was a thriving agricultural community of African-American homesteaders in eastern Wyoming, near the present-day city of Torrington.
In many parts of the Great Plains, African-American settlers, like so many others, found opportunity in the Homestead Act of 1862: A tremendously impactful land law that gave away more than 270 million acres of land across the United States from 1863 to 1986. Some of these settlements experienced strong partnerships with their neighbors, such as the amicable relationship between DeWitty—Nebraska’s most successful African-American homesteading town—and neighboring, mostly white Brownlee. In Empire, however, the black residents experienced hardship and discrimination.
This special exhibit is one part of several events happening in Gillette this month that will be sponsored by the Campbell County Rockpile Museum and the Rockpile Museum Association. A new exhibit: “The Black Cowboys of Campbell County” is also on display featuring highlights of some of the early pioneers of Campbell County. Additionally, on Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13 the Campbell County Rockpile Museum and the Rockpile Museum Association will be presenting “A Tribute to Black Cowboys” there will be a special edition of “Black & Yellow Theatre: Voices of the Powder River Basin” at 11am and 2pm at the museum in the Campbell County Room Saddle Exhibit on Saturday, October 12, followed by a special screening of the award-winning documentary “Fire on the Hill: The Cowboys of South Central L.A.” at 7pm at the Rockpile Museum that evening. Then on Sunday, October 13 at 6pm at the Campbell County High School Auditorium, the Rockpile Museum Association is pleased to present Grammy Award Winner and Two-Time Emmy Nominee, The American Songster, Dom Flemons in concert as he presents his Smithsonian Folkways album, “Dom Flemons presents Black Cowboys”
Admission to all events are free to the public.
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Our teeth are meant to last a lifetime. Sometimes, however, damage occurs to a tooth (often from a deep cavity or an injury that causes a tooth to crack) and the inside of the tooth becomes infected. This infection damages the pulp of the tooth – the network of blood vessels and nerves inside.
Left untreated, the damaged pulp can cause infection that will damage the bone around the tooth and cause swelling and pain. If the damaged tooth becomes infected, your dentist, or a dental specialist called an Endodontist, may have to perform an endodontic treatment (often called Root Canal Therapy) to save it.
Endodontic treatment involves opening the tooth, removing the damaged pulp, cleaning, shaping, filling and sealing the tooth. Depending upon how much infection there is in the injured tooth, your may be put on medicine before your dentist or Endodontist can begin to work. | <urn:uuid:e877ab61-ba26-47d2-bcc3-ac0758fba37e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.creeksidedentalinc.com/endodontics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951002 | 184 | 3.359375 | 3 |
A little-known group of amphibians — the Southeast Asian newts — are in high demand as pets, a new study has found. Large numbers of these semi-aquatic salamanders are being collected from the wild and sold in the United States and the European Union, researchers say.
To understand the scale of trade in these animals, Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum Research Institute and her colleagues scanned through shipment and import records, and found that more than 7,500 Southeast Asian newts were imported into the U.S. — usually via Hong Kong — between 2005 and 2014.
Most of these newts were caught from the wild, the team notes in study published in Biological Conservation.
According to official records, all newts imported into the U.S. during this period belonged to four species — the Laos warty newt (Laotriton laoensis), Tam Daonewt (Paramesotriton deloustali), the emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing) and the Himalayan newt (T. verrucosus). The Laos warty newt is currently listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List.
The researchers found that imports into the U.S. had been considerably high in 2005, 2007 and 2011 with more than half of the individuals—about 4,240—being imported in 2007 alone. Records also showed that about 720 Southeast Asian newts had been imported live into the European Union between 2011 and 2013.
However, the team found no clear trend of an increasing demand for pet newts. This is due to a lack of records, Rowley told Mongabay.
“We were most surprised by how little information there was on the trade — we could only get a glimpse of how many animals were being exported from the wild, from what species,” Rowley said.
The lack of information, the authors write, is because the trade in Southeast Asian newts is largely unregulated and unrecorded. However, local reports and internet searches indicate that Southeast Asian newts are being harvested in far greater numbers than what trade statistics suggest, they add.
In Laos, for example, local residents reported selling hundreds of endemic Lao newts to visiting European, Chinese or Japanese collectors for about $0.60 to $3.50. Similarly, internet searches revealed advertisements of newts for sale that didn’t show up in official records, suggesting that official records only partially reveal the scale of the trade.
For example, the team found listings of the black-knobby newt in the U.S., but saw no official records of its import into the U.S. through the end of 2014. Similarly, the Tiannan crocodile newt was advertised for sale online in Italy, but there were no official records of its import into the EU.
While online sale of newts seems to be highest in the U.S. and U.K., the team found listings of Southeast Asian newts for sale in several other countries including Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Vietnam. However, some of these countries that do trade in newts online — such as Japan —do not have any official data available on the import or export of newts, the authors write.
“The lack of data on the nature and scale of the trade in Southeast Asian newts is largely because it’s not a requirement of import that every country records all the wildlife that is imported,” Rowley and co-author Timothy Cutajar write in a blog post. “So many don’t, making it impossible to monitor and accurately assess the threat of the trade.”
Habitat loss is the biggest threat to Southeast Asian newts, Rowley said. But over-collection of news from the wild for international trade is also emerging as a major threat to the newts, she added.
To help monitor the trade in newts more effectively, the authors recommend listing all Southeast Asian newts in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) so that “their trade can be monitored, and the data can be used to inform conservation decisions and safeguard these species from over-harvesting.”
“Without this measure, we may push some of these amazing amphibians further along the path towards extinction,” Rowley said.
- Rowley JJL, et al (2016) – Estimating the global trade in Southeast Asian newts. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.001
This article was first published by Mongabay.com on 26 May 2016.
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Using reflexology and acupuncture techniques have helped women cope with pain without the need for medication. These techniques can reduce pain, stress and symptoms of pregnancy, they can also help induce labor in the case of rapid and concurrent contractions.
Women have used these methods as relaxation techniques and curb vomiting. The ancient Chinese acupuncture and reflexology techniques that can be administered yourself only requires applying pressure at different points of your body during regular intervals.
Here are 8 acupressure points you can use as labor inducting techniques and maternity acupressure:
1. Palm and Wrist
a. P6 (Percadium):
Place three fingers on the wrist crease and feel the area between the tendons with the finger that is furthest from the index finger (furthest from the wrist crease). Massaging this point for 1-2 minutes can aide in the reduction of vomiting.
b. P8 (Pericardium):
Place the thumb of one hand on the centre of the opposite palm. Massaging this area while applying pressure will also help induce labor. You can bend your middle finger and land it on your palm to find this point.
2. Ankle Region:
a. Bladder And Kidney Points Around The Ankle:
Continuously apply pressure with the fingertips on the most tender points around your ankle, this can help induce labor. Stop when you feel the contraction begin and resume once it has completed its cycle.
b. SP6 (Spleen):
Place four fingers just above the ankle bone, the finger that is furthest from the ankle is the pressure point. Massaging the point Spleen 6 for a couple of minutes can help induce labor.
a. LV3 (Liver):
Comfortably place your finger and apply pressure during 15 minute intervals at the sensitive point that is a width away from your big and second toes. Do so until the contraction begins and then stop once you feel it coming on.
b. K1 (Kidney):
Place a finger in the middle of the sole, just behind the ball of the foot to locate K1. Apply pressure pushing the big toe and massage this area during any point of the pregnancy is beneficial in alleviating emotional stress and nausea.
a. BL32 (Bladder):
Use your thumb and massage just above the crease of the buttocks, the depression at the bottom end of the spine. The point helps induce labor when massaged in a circular motion.
b. GB21 (Gall Bladder):
Place a finger at the centre of the muscle between the edge of the shoulder and the base of the neck. Massaging this point will aide in pain relief and stress reduction during labor. GB21 or ‘Shiva’s Well’ can be stimulated to treat coughs and breast abscess.
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- "This is my one hope - that he smiles upon the choices I've made."
- ―Stephane to Connor over whether or not his father is proud of his choices.[src]
Stephane Chapheau (1743 – unknown) was a French-Canadian chef in Boston during the American Revolutionary War. He was aided by the Assassin Connor when the British forces attempted to collect taxes from him, and was later recruited by Connor as an apprentice.
Chapheau was born in Canada. His father served as a cook for the French Army during the French and Indian War, serving for the officers. However, he was one of the many untrained soldiers conscripted to join the battlements and later as a result died fighting in the Plains of Abraham. After his death, Stephane took on work as a chef and moved to Boston in 1764.
Rebellion against the BritishEdit
- "We are not English! We are not the King's men! We are free! But the King sends these REDCOATS to push us around! They are not our masters! This is our city! Let us show who owns this! It's time to fight!"
- ―Stephane starting a riot, 1773.[src]
While residing in Boston, Stephane was one of the dissenters among the populace with strong grievances against British Parliament policies for the colonies. As a result, he became a strong supporter of the Patriots' cause for independence from the British, leading to the American Revolutionary War.
In 1765, he was part of a mob that protested against the British Parliament Stamp Act, which imposed direct taxation, and took part in the ransacking of governor Thomas Hutchinson's mansion. In 1770, Stephane was present in another protest which led to the Boston Massacre. Furthermore, Stephane was arrested and fined on several occasions for drunken behavior and brawling.
In 1773, while working for William Molineux, a tax collector came to Stephane's house demanding he pay his tax. Stephane angrily called him a thief and threw the contents of his chamber pot at him. Stephane brawled against the taxman and guards, during which, Connor came to his aid. In gratitude, Stephane offered to, one day, buy Connor a drink. Connor continued assisting the district by attacking tax enforcers and tea smugglers.
After his home was robbed and his footlocker stolen by British soldiers, Stephane angrily led another mob in protest of the taxation. Stephane and Connor discovered a taxman in a market, prompting Stephane to attack him, plunging his butcher knife into his shoulder. The taxman, however, revealed that he actually worked for William Johnson. Stephane finished him off quickly to end his suffering, at the advice of Connor.
Part of the BrotherhoodEdit
- "I said I'd buy you an ale when you first helped me. In place of drink I offer you my allegiance, for what it's worth."
- ―Stephane to Connor, 1773.[src]
Connor, soon after, explained the truth about the Templar Order and the Assassins. Stephane offered to join in Connor's battles to fight against injustice and for freedom. Stephane assisted Connor in the Boston Tea Party, fending off the guards and dumping crates of tea into the harbor. After completing several missions assigned by Connor, Chapeau rose through the ranks and eventually became a fully fledged Assassin.
In 1776, Stephane traveled to New York with the Mentor Achilles Davenport to stop Connor from being executed on false charges of plotting to murder George Washington. He helped Duncan Little and Clipper Wilkinson fight off Templar mercenaries as Connor escaped the hangman's noose and assassinated Thomas Hickey.
In 1781, Chapheau, alongside Duncan, Deborah Carter and Jacob Zenger, helped the Marquis de Lafayette clear the tunnels to New York's militarized district, as part of Connor's plot to infiltrate Fort George and assassinate Charles Lee.
Stephane and Lafayette discussed how having a King as a ruler would result in tyranny and hypocrisy, hence they argued that the people should have the right to elect their leaders. Chapheau jokingly suggested avoiding monarchy by having the country's ruler castrated.
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If stars are primarily made of hydrogen, which is then burned to helium, and then on and on and on down the chain until you either reach iron, or in extreme cases much heavier metals, this then implies that as time goes on, more and more heavy elements will disperse into the universe.
Now, the universe is huge, and there's still a lot of hydrogen left to make stars out of. That being said, in denser star-forming regions, much of this gas is available for recycling as the remnants of old stars get turned into new ones.
Doesn't this all this imply that as time goes on, more and more heavy metals will be included within young stars from the start?
It may be a very small percentile, sure, but it I assume it would increase slowly as the generations go by.
Furthermore, I assume many rocks get swallowed up by a star during the formation of the planetary disc, which likely adds to the impurity.
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Anyone who ever read Archie comics as a child (could I be the only one?) will remember the sweet soft lawns, the peaceful streets of Riverdale, home to Archie and Reggie, Betty and Veronica and the rest of the gang. I wanted to live there myself. Riverdale embodied my earliest concept of community.
I wanted to live there chiefly because its communication was primitive and almost instantaneous. If Archie wanted to speak to Veronica, for example, he walked down to Pop Tate's Sweet Shoppe. Sometimes he would run into her on the way; the reader would see them approaching the same leafy corner from adjacent streets and be the first to know. If they didn't meet up, Veronica was likely to be at Pop's -- everyone went there after school. If not, Archie would leave a message with one of their friends. The grapevine was speedy and reliable. The telephone was a last resort.
The morning seven years ago when I bought a just-off-the-press copy of the Village Voice and turned right to the classifieds, I had long forgotten Riverdale. Afraid of being as lonely as I was, I still wanted to live in New York, a city full of writers and artists and their work. Under Apartments for Rentm I found an ad that said "VILL VIC, N. Moore St." I checked a map of Manhattan and couldn't believe it: N. Moore St. looked like a wharf. It was practically in the Hudson. Doubtfully, I got on the subway and emerged on a cobblestone street lined with old brick warehouses. It was filled with trucks backed up to loading docks and men unloading cargo with conveyor belts and forklifts. The landlord had stretched the truth in putting VILL VIC; the heart of the Village was many blocks to the north and this neighborhood bore no resemblance to its winding little streets of cafes and boutiques.No doubt he had wanted to make N. Moore St. seem attractive.He might have said that it smelled of cinnamon and horses, but it didn't matter. I had found it nevertheless.
Today the same ad would simply say "Tribeca," the name the neighborhood has come to be called by whoever names such places.Tribeca denotes the triangle below Canal Street, a neighborhood just south of SoHo (which is south of Houston Street).They are artists' neighborhoods, former commercial districts whose warehouses have largely been converted to residential lofts. SoHo underwent the transformation first; when it filled up, artists ventured down across Canal and found more lofts being vacated by furriers, textile merchants, tool-and-diemakers. The rents at the time were the lowest in town, and the highceilinged, many-windowed lofts made perfect studios. After 5, when the trucks pull out, no place in New York is quieter.
But the best thing about Tribeca is the light. The buildings are low so there's a lot of sky. At 8 on a spring morning as you walk east along Canal, the people you pass are silhouettes edged in white light. Late afternoons in summer there's a Hopper show of hot red brick, black fire escapes, pools of filmy light in the streets leading west to the Hudson. The river is blue in summer, green in winter, silver at sunset.
The neighborhood diner turned out to be a classic of the chrome and steel glorifiedbus genre. There was grocery; it was small but it carried peach-pear nectar and many different kinds of bread. The cafe around the corner seemed a friendly place. Faces began to be familiar; first we nodded, then we smiled, then, in time, we spoke. We come from Roanoke, from Waco, from small towns in Oklahoma. We grew up as neighbors to neighbors, and we haven't had to change.
The cafe's owner, Tommy, lets us pay monthly, even sporadically. Sometimes he accepts a painting or photograph or sculpture in place of money, and part of his collection covers the walls. Any evening I stop by there I can sit down with friends. I can leave a message for someone I've been trying to reach; it will be delivered. I can talk to an artist whose show I've just seen, or talk about it with others.I can get support, when I'm stuck in my work, from people who've been through that themselves.
Across the street from me is a warehouse full of spices. The Precinct 1 police stable their horses around the corner. They exercise them at dawn, when the street is very quiet, and often I wake to the echo of hooves on cobblestones. No wakening has ever brought me out of sleep so generously -- an appreciative gift, I like to think, from a city I had faith in.
One day my first week in town I was carrying home a full-length mirror from the Cut-Rate Store. At a corner I met a woman carrying a long, narrow pane of glass; we looked like extras in the same movie. We walked the rest of the way together, talking for the first time, a writer and a sculptor, two of the gang in Riverdale where the sidewalks lead us all to one another in the slanting light of any afternoon. A small town, a nice town, where the counterman knows what you want for breakfast, where the storekeeper cashes your checks, where you m ight bump into a friend at any corner. | <urn:uuid:fa8da5c0-8ca0-4e34-b76b-787b92044ce3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0430/043010.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976166 | 1,132 | 1.507813 | 2 |
If you find the field of human resources to be interesting and want to learn more about its scientific elements, human resources analytics could be the career choice for you.
Although broadly defined, human resources analytics is basically a sector within the broader field of analytics that involves the application of analytic processes within a human resource department for the purpose of improving employee performance. When this process is actualized, businesses benefit by attaining a greater ROI (return on investment).
While some people reduce the field of human resources analytics to the accumulation and review of data regarding employee efficacy, its scope is much broader. Specifically, human resources analytics involves providing insight regarding the process of gathering data and making advantageous, relevant decisions about how these processes can be improved upon.
What Human Resources Analytics Does
In short, HR analytics demonstrates the causal relationship between the activities exacted by an HR department and the business outcomes that result from this activity.
While the aforementioned definition of human resources analytics provides you with a basic knowledge of what this field consists of, gaining a more holistic understanding of the term necessitates understanding what transpires in this sector. As many human resources experts know, what human resources analytics actually does is demonstrate the impact that an HR department has on the organization in which it is embedded. In short, HR analytics demonstrates the causal relationship between the activities exacted by an HR department and the business outcomes that result from this activity. Once this causal relationship is discovered, HR analytics professionals will devise and implement a strategic plan to assist the business in attaining better outcomes.
Although the realm of human resources analytics can involve a wide range of activities, there are generally four core functions that manifest within the field. Those core functions are the acquisition, optimization, development, and paying of the employees within a business or organization. To optimize each of these core functions, human resources analytics representatives will work with managers by gaining information from them regarding the issues and problems that pertain to their unique workforce.
Careers In Human Resources Analytics
One of the most common careers within the field of human resources analytics is that of a human resource analyst. This position involves the completion of human resources administrative work such as:
• Administers assigned functions, including but not limited, to compensation studies, recruitment, benefits administration, and employment analysis
• Collects and analyzes information
• Tracks developments and trends in specific functional areas
• Performs research, conducts studies, and prepares reports
• Recommends, reviews, and interprets policies
• Participates in working councils, committees, and groups
• Ensures compliance with established regulations and policies
According to Indeed.com, the average annual salary for a human resources analyst is $60,000.
Individuals who are interested in pursuing the field of human resources vocationally should note that human resources analytics plays an integral role in facilitating the smooth functioning of HR processes. Now that you have an answer to the question “What is human resources analytics?,” you can make an informed decision regarding whether pursuing a career in this sector would be appropriate and advantageous for you.
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In Part 1, we discussed the connection between not knowing your dharma, or failing to live your life in accordance with it, and ill health. In this column, we’ll cover in more detail how to help your students figure out their life’s purpose and bring that vision into reality.
One caveat in trying to help your students access their inner intuition about their dharma is that a state of imbalance, viewed from an Ayurvedic perspective (see Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy), can lead them to inaccurately assess what’s good for them. Someone who is stressed-out and vata-deranged, for example, may be drawn to things that tend to put their vata further out of balance, whether that’s the food they eat, the style of yoga they practice, or the work they do. Get yourself in balance, however, and choices that tend to keep you in balance, and which better reflect your true nature, become more attractive.
A basic understanding of Ayurveda can help yoga therapists design practices that can move their students toward greater balance. If it’s vata that’s out of whack, the practice might include Sun Salutations to burn off nervous energy, standing poses to increase grounding, and twists and forward bends to calm the nervous system, followed by a long Savasana (Corpse Pose). In addition to cultivating calmness via yoga practice, Ayurveda would suggest various lifestyle choices involving diet and other habits to foster balance. Imbalances in kapha or pitta would similarly call for specific yogic and lifestyle recommendations. If you don’t have this expertise yourself, you may be able to refer your student to a colleague who does.
Dharma in the Real World
Keep in mind that at the present moment, your student may not have enough information or pertinent life experience to accurately ascertain their dharma. Finding your dharma can be an ongoing process, and sometimes what’s right at one phase of life is not appropriate at another. You often can’t know what you’re supposed to do until you try a few things. Especially if you’re thinking about entering a field that requires years of study, it’s advisable to talk to people who are already doing it, and perhaps arrange to spend some time with them on the job, to see if your ideas match reality. You’d hate to invest years and tens of thousands of dollars in education only to find out when you finally arrive that the field wasn’t what you were looking for at all.
Once your students have a better idea of what they are here to do, it may still take a while to bring that vision into reality. If they’ve got family responsibilities or jobs that are paying the bills, it may not be prudent, ethical, or even possible to drop it all to follow their dreams. If so, the question becomes how they can, in a step-by-step fashion, start changing their lives to align them better with their vision. For someone who wants to be a painter, it might mean taking a night-school class or setting aside some time on the weekends to pursue art. At this stage the yogic tool of sankalpa, or intention, can prove useful.
A sankalpa is a promise you make to yourself about what you intend to do. It is positive and stated in the present tense, and it speaks of the reality you hope to bring into being. It might be as basic as, “I am living my life in accordance with my dharma,” but the more specificity you can bring to it the better. For the woman who hopes to paint, it might be something like, “I am moving toward becoming a painter by taking an art class two nights per week.” As time and circumstances change, you can guide your students to modify their sankalpas. Repeating this sankalpa regularly—saying it out loud a few times every day with feeling and even visualizing yourself living it—can help plant it more deeply in your subconscious, and, yoga would say, make it more likely to happen.
The Role of Instinct
As your students move more deeply into their yoga practices, they will learn with greater and greater facility to access—and trust—their gut instincts. While your mind can help formulate the proper questions and research possible avenues for your skills, figuring out what is right for you is ultimately not a matter of thinking and analysis. In fact, thinking too much can actually interfere with making the proper decision (think back to multiple choice exams!), as you are likely to weigh into the equation such factors as what seems practical, what’s safer, or what other people expect of you.
If you have laid the foundation with your yoga practice, all you need to do is to ask yourself the question, then learn to go inside for the answer. What yoga is doing is lessening the interference, so that you can tune in and more accurately hear that inner wisdom. Better yet, yoga provides tools that can help your students bring their vision into reality. And doing that—or even just taking a step or two in that direction—will very likely benefit not just their health, but perhaps the world, too. | <urn:uuid:f17c235c-9d4a-4680-bc80-6fe30cd73ff5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.yogajournal.com/article/teach/finding-your-dharma-as-a-path-to-yogic-healing-part-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968743 | 1,092 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Archive of Workplace Writing Experiences
Research Partner: Brian Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
This project is an online audio archive of interviews from working professionals across industries. Grounded in transfer research from writing studies as well as business, the project asks interviewees to discuss how and what they write in their specific workplaces, how they translated college writing skills into that field, what “successful” writing looks like where they are, and what students across disciplines need to develop in their writing as they look towards the future. The archive, which is available to students, professors, and the public, serves as a learning tool and as an ongoing repository, but perhaps most importantly it is as a crucial link between the university and the “working world,” as students hear the voices of those creating real workplace writing. Resources on the site are available for use in college classrooms ranging from first-year writing to WID or WAC courses. To learn more about the project, visit the archive or read this Double Helix article about the project.
Writing Transfer During Career Change
This book-length project is a qualitative study that will examine writing transfer as professionals transition between careers.
Below is a small sample of scholarly and professional publications. For a more detailed publication list, please see my CV.
The Rhetoric of Online Exclusive Pumping Communities: Tactical Technical Communication as Eschewing Judgement.
Technical Communication Quarterly (2021)
Freelancers as a Growing Workplace Norm: Demonstrating Expertise Across Multiple Literacy Events in Unfamiliar Communities of Practice
with Brian Fitzpatrick, in Rewriting Work. WAC Clearinghouse/CSU Press TPC Foundations and Innovations book series (2021).
Hidden Arguments: Rhetoric and Persuasion in Diverse Forms of Technical Communication
with Brian Fitzpatrick, in Effective Teaching of Technical Communication: Theory, Practice and Application. WAC Clearinghouse/CSU Press TPC Foundations and Innovations book series (accepted, forthcoming).
Good Questions for Better Essay Prompts (and Papers)
Faculty Focus (2020)
Authenticity and the Rhetoric of ‘Selling’ on Social Media: A Role-writing Assignment Set
Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments. Vol. 2(2) (2018)
What I Learned from My International Students: How Teaching English as a Foreign Language Made Me a Better Teacher of Everything
Diplomacy, Tone, and Emphasis in Business Writing
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Pretillage, postincorporation mulch deterioration measured in broccoli growing experiments
Scientists evaluated three potentially biodegradable plastic mulch products over two growing seasons of broccoli to determine deterioration before and after soil incorporation. Pretillage mulch deterioration was evaluated in both growing seasons by rating the percent visual deterioration. Postincorporation mulch deterioration was measured for 13 months at the end of the first growing season. Results showed that two of the mulches could be suitable alternatives to polyethylene mulch for broccoli production in the Pacific Northwest. | <urn:uuid:cb339a9d-7cb3-470b-a7b7-dd13501c293f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pressrelease.ashs.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93933 | 111 | 1.914063 | 2 |
U.S. The prospect of summer drivers filling up on the highway is gaining ground in the price of gasoline, a sign of economic recovery and an epidemic devastation is a boon for the energy industry.
Considering oil recovery and growing consumer demand, gasoline prices at U.S. pumps hit an average of. 88. $ 88 last week, according to AAA. This is about one-third more than last year when fuel consumption was condemned by the epidemic lockdown.
Rising Prices is Vellore Energy Corp. And Philips is an early season gift for fuel producers, including fuel, which, after years of scratching, helped build a year-over-year share of the S&P 500 in the high-performance sector this year. The gap between gasoline and crude-oil futures has recently reached a three-year high of 24 24 a barrel.
In some states drivers already pay more than 3 gallons. In California, the most expensive market, the average price according to AAA is. 88. Drivers in Mississippi, Texas and Ohio, on the other hand, are paying close to $ 2.60. Gas prices fluctuate widely due to factors including tax policies and proximity of pipelines.
Some analysts see further benefits ahead. Prices skyrocket as summer approaches, with millions of Americans heading to vacations and petroleum refineries combine expensive fuels that do not evaporate in the heat. | <urn:uuid:a3408188-a288-48f3-a14e-eafc7abe5bf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tricksfast.com/a-jump-in-gas-prices-puts-3-gallons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.95229 | 279 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The United States Army Research Office has given university researchers a grant worth $855,000 to develop the next generation of 3D printing – that is, 4D printing. Very original and mind boggling name, I know. The trio of researchers from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, and the University of Illinois, will develop materials that can adapt to its environment. For instance, wheels that can change its structure to meet the demands of different roads, or a soldier’s clothes that adapt to different battle settings.
The army funding a super advanced technology that could change its shape and form? Sounds familiar. *cough* Skynet’s T-1000 *cough*
The researchers plan to use current 3D printing technology to manipulate materials at nano and micro levels in order to self-modifying structures. ‘Rather than construct a static material or one that simply changes its shape, we’re proposing the development of adaptive, biomimetic composites that reprogram their shape, properties or functionality on demand, based upon external stimuli,’ says Anna Balazs, the principal investigator of the research group. ‘By integrating our abilities to print precise, three-dimensional, hierarchically-structured materials, synthesize stimuli-responsive components, and predict the temporal behavior of the system, we expect to build the foundation for the new field of 4D printing’.
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Project ONE is an investment by INEOS in the Antwerp chemical sector to build an ethane cracker. The plant will produce the gas ethylene. This is a building block for chemicals necessary for products that we use daily in the automotive, construction, energy, food hygiene and medical sectors. Examples include insulation materials, medical equipment, wind turbines and lightweight components for the vehicles of the future.
Meet demand sustainably
The International Energy Agency has estimated the future demand of Primary Chemicals. To do so, they have developed two scenarios – a Reference Technology Scenario based on established trends, and a Clean Technology Scenario, assuming UN Goals are reached, including increased production of recycled plastics. Even in the most sustainable scenario (Clean Tech Scenario), demand for base chemicals, such as ethylene, will increase by about 40 percent between 2017 and 2050. This is due to a rising world population, rising prosperity and social developments (among other things, less demand for disposable plastics such as plastic bags, more demand for them for components of electric cars).
Today, ethylene in Europe is largely produced from naphtha (a crude oil derivative) and with older technology. The vast majority of ethylene plants in Europe were built in the 1960s and 1970s. It is 25 years since a new one was built here. Decisive action is therefore needed, as the European and Flemish governments have set ambitious environmental and climate targets, such as zero greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2050.
As the largest investments over the past 20 years have been in China, the USA and the Middle East, Europe risks falling behind. Already, European imports of ethylene are growing because local ethylene supplies cannot keep pace. Not only does this have an economic and geostrategic impact, it also makes it more difficult to make the sector more sustainable through R&D and through technological innovation.
Building bridges to a sustainable future
Leaving things as they are is not an option. It would halt Europe’s economic resilience and slow down sustainable investment while further reducing the value of the European cluster. Instead, we can already renew and replace the 50-year-old production processes currently in place in Europe with assets that have a much smaller footprint and the capability to become fully carbon-neutral in the future. At the same time, we can strengthen our economy and strategic autonomy.
Project ONE of INEOS is the game changer here. The plant will emit less than half of CO2 than the current best performing European similar plants for the same production. Compared to the average European steam cracker, Project ONE’s performance in terms of carbon footprint is even three times better. Project ONE will produce 1,450Mt of ethylene annually. Project ONE emits 0.29 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of HVC1 or just 43% of the current EU ETS benchmark value2 of 0.68 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of HVC.
When Project ONE is launched, it will therefore also enter the group of best-performing plants and further reduce the benchmark, making older, more polluting plants less profitable and causing them to disappear from the market gradually3.
By switching from ethylene sourced elsewhere to ethylene produced by the top-performing Project ONE, INEOS customers will be able to reduce the carbon footprint of their ethylene-based end products by more than two million tonnes per year – equivalent to removing 1.6 million cars from European roads every year.
In stages towards climate neutrality
Innovation in technology
The route to a climate-neutral future runs in stages. If we were to wait until the technology for fully climate-neutral ethylene plants is ready, we would remain stagnant for one or more decades. With Project ONE, we have the choice even today to reduce the CO2 emissions of ethylene production with the best available technology (1), combined with a future-proof design towards climate neutrality (2).
Best available technology
The key technologies to achieve the emissions performance of Project ONE are:
- Use of ethane instead of naphtha4 as raw material, which generates much more ethylene (higher selectivity which means less raw material has to be used) and much less CO2 emissions (higher carbon efficiency). An analysis of the entire life cycle of ethane and naphtha shows that the ethane route is about 50 percent more sustainable than the naphtha route.
- Hydrogen as a fuel: the energy needs of the ethane cracker are met by the hydrogen-rich fuel gas produced as a by-product during the cracking process. When using hydrogen no CO2 is released.
- Highly integrated systems. Heat and cooling generated are used elsewhere. E.g. pre-heating of the air: the heat of the flue gas is kept in the furnace so that less fuel is needed to heat the combustion air.
- Use of renewable electricity. To meet the electricity needs of Project ONE, INEOS has concluded power purchase agreements with Engie5 and RWE for the procurement of offshore wind energy.
By anticipating technologies now that are mature in the future and that will be able to be deployed on an industrial scale, Project ONE will have a role in a climate-neutral future. The flexibility to implement these interventions as soon as possible is already built into the design of Project ONE.
- Use of 100% hydrogen. Today, 60% of the cracking process is fed with CO2-neutral hydrogen (the rest with gas). But in the future, this can be increased to 100% use of hydrogen, on condition that sufficient climate-friendly hydrogen is available.
- CO2 capture. INEOS is also preparing for a future in which CO2 is captured and stored and, where possible, used as a raw material. We have made pre-investments for installing a carbon capturing unit on site. Through its membership in Antwerp@C INEOS also explores the feasibility of building a CCUS value chain in the Port of Antwerp.
- Hybrid cracking process. Project ONE could work as a hybrid, with furnaces that run partly on hydrogen and partly on electricity as soon as the technology for electrification is mature and enough renewable energy is available.
Alignment with climate-neutral policies
These plant design choices meet the current plans at the EU and Flemish level, with regard to:
- Higher energy efficiency and other efficiency improvements (86 percent of the carbon is converted into end products. The use of best available techniques and energy and product integration results in high energy and production efficiency)
- Renewable energy sources (high level of electrification in combination with an all-green electricity offer)
- Capture and reuse of CO2 (ready for carbon capture once technology is available)
- Development of industrial clusters (INEOS as partner in the Antwerp@C project, exploring possibilities for CCUS in the port of Antwerp)
INEOS is doing this in the context of its ambition to become climate neutral for all its Antwerp sites, so including Project ONE, by 2050. To this end, we have developed a scientifically substantiated roadmap for all INEOS sites in the port of Antwerp. The measures include:
- Increasing use of renewable energy
- Advanced electrification of our processes
- Optimisation of carbon capture and valorisation
- Further valorisation of industrial residual heat and green steam networks
- Increased use/re-use of hydrogen in our chemical processes and power plants
- Production of sustainable methanol
In addition, Project ONE will directly create 300 permanent, high-quality jobs in Antwerp (and 150 permanent contractors) and generate five times as many additional jobs in supporting industries and at different levels of the customer-supplier value chain in Flanders, Belgium and across Europe.
The route to a climate-neutral future runs in stages. Today, the growing demand for ethylene is being met in Europe by plants that are more than 25 years old and work primarily with a derivative of crude oil. We can do something about that today. With Project ONE, we are getting a brand new plant that will emit half as much as the plants that are today’s best performers. In addition, as a result of Project ONE, via the ETS system, the most polluting plants will have to pay more emission rights or invest to operate in a more environmentally friendly manner.
So we can take an incredible step forward. At the same time, we are preparing Project ONE to reduce its emissions further. By 2050, INEOS will be climate neutral for all its Antwerp sites, including Project ONE. Fully in line with the climate neutrality ambitions of our governments.
- High Value Chemicals.
- The benchmark value is based on the CO2 emissions of the 10% least emitting plants.
- Project ONE will improve the EU ETS benchmark value for HVC production by around 14% (0.588 tonnes of CO2eq per tonne of HVC instead of 0.681 tonnes of CO2eq per tonne of HVC). Steam crackers in the EU ETS system that do not meet this lower benchmark value will have to buy additional emission rights to cover emissions or take more emission reduction measures.
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Reporters Look at Technology for the Blind
From the Editor: In recent weeks several prestigious newspapers and one distinguished magazine-format television news program have taken a considered look at various aspects of technology for the blind. The first to address the topic was the Louisville Courier Journal, which did a profile of long-time Federation leader Tim Cranmer in its Sunday, February 15, 1998, edition. Here is the story as it appeared:
Visionary in a Sightless World
Blind Inventor is Working on a Touchable Language
by Bob Deitel
Ideas and information literally whirred around Tim Cranmer as he sat in his small at-home office in Louisville.
From a desktop scanner the pages of a book on physics were being methodically transferred to computer and then reprinted in Braille for Cranmer to read later. On the computer's screen flashed Cranmer's morning e-mail, the words being recited aloud by software that instantly converted the text into speech.
Most ear-catching of all, however, were the thoughts Cranmer himself was offering.
So much of science, he said, has involved turning the unseen into the visible. Microscopes and telescopes reveal incredible detail. Machines convert brain waves to drawings. All aim at uncovering new information by enhancing sight, he said.
But what if science also could devise a way to represent images in a touchable, or tactile, way for people with impaired vision, Cranmer suggested. By starting with raised forms representing common objects, blind people might learn a new language to help them observe and understand the untouchable from distant stars to tiny atoms.
Like sight, touch is a unique window to the brain, Cranmer explained. What's needed are new tools to enhance that window.
"I know what a dog, cat, rubber ball, and chair look like, but they aren't visual imagesthey are tactile images that I have acquired over the years. We have to find a way to invoke those memories that blind people have stored...and then go from there and begin to teach about other things," he said.
"I think that's where we're going in the next millennium. I don't know that we'll be done by the end of it, but we're going to start. We are starting."
And Tim Cranmer will rank high among the pioneers.
He already has that distinction for many other innovations. Now seventy-three, Cranmer has spent much of his adult life thinking up or promoting technological advances, big and small, to help people wholike himselfare visually impaired.
His earliest contributions date from 1952 to 1982, when he guided various Kentucky state services for the blind.
Nearly forty years ago he devised the Cranmer Abacus, a variation on the ancient Oriental tool for using beads on wires to solve math problems. Cranmer's idea: add a felt backing to keep the beads from moving accidentally. Thousands are sold annually to blind people worldwide.
In the early 1960's he came up with the Say When, a compact, battery-operated device that hangs over a drinking cup and signals when poured liquid nears the top.
Around 1970 he devised a Braille display pad that could provide readings from electronic medical thermometers, timers, and calculators.
In the mid-1970's Cranmer thought of modifying a computer to search a database of phone numbers and read out the numbers in sound and Braille. He had engineers work out the details, and the result was a talking telephone directoryfirst used by blind switchboard operators at the Universities of Louisville and Kentucky.
Cranmer took the same tack to promote what eventually became the Cranmer Modified Perkins Braille Writerthe first electronic desktop Braille embosser. It did for blind readers what the dot-matrix computer printer did for the sighted.
"My main interest has been in learning how things work and how we can change the way they are to make them serve a better purpose," said Cranmer, who shies away from being called an inventor. "I think the most important thing I do is to influence the work of others."
And influence others he certainly has, said Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, the nation's largest advocacy group for the visually impaired.
"Dr. Cranmer may be the best-known inventor dealing with blindness in the U.S.," Maurer said. "I think he is certainly the best-known blind inventor."
His reputation may soon spread further. He was interviewed last month by the CBS News program "60 Minutes" for a planned segment about technology that helps people with disabilities.
Although Cranmer officially retired sixteen years ago, he never has stopped working. He first persuaded the National Federation of the Blind to start a research departmentwhich he then volunteered to head, at no pay.
That in turn led to global conferences on technology for the blind. It also gave Cranmer a budget to pay for engineers to work on new ideas, including his own. One of Cranmer's early acts, Maurer recalled, was to convince the Federation that a talking computer could be developed for only $4,000. The ultimate cost neared $20,000, but the result was "the best technology for computers that existed anywhere," Maurer said.
Cranmer's work duties today involve voluntarily heading the International Braille Research Center. Some travel to headquarters in Baltimore is necessary, but e-mail, phone, Internet, and fax let him handle most chores from his home.
Married for forty-eight years, Cranmer and his wife Thelma live in a small house just outside St. Matthews. They raised one daughter Linda, now a school counselor in Scott County.
Cranmer's talent for tinkering dates to his boyhood in Louisville's Portland neighborhood.
He was the kind of kid who would dismantle clocks and locks to see how they worked. He would happily slice open a golf ball to learn how it bounced. At fourteen he sent away for books on chemistry after hearing that rust on an old pocket knife came from oxygen and iron.
A combination of eye problems left him blind after he turned nine, and a lack of opportunity for blind people steered him away from his dream of being a scientist.
Instead, he first made his living by playing piano for pay, making costume jewelry, and tuning and rebuilding pianos. He still plays piano and loves music, especially classical.
His hair is white and wispy-thin, but his voice remains youthfully enthusiastic, and he flashes a wry and playful sense of humor.
Educated at the Kentucky School for the Blind, Cranmer in 1979 received an honorary doctorate in applied science from the University of Louisville. But of many honors through the years, he most cherishes two: when his name was attached to a National Federation of the Blind of Kentucky award given to people who enhance the lives of the blind and when he received the NFB of Kentucky's Susan B. Rarick Award for Servicean award named after one of Cranmer's first teachers.
"I think recognition by blind people has meant more to me than anything else," he said.
His lack of formal university training still astounds some of his friends, one of whom recalls having many a conversation with Cranmer about calculus before learning that Cranmer never took a calculus class.
To encourage future blind scientists, Cranmer in recent years has helped lead an ongoing effort to standardize and consolidate the various Braille codes used in English-speaking countries. Different codes cover non-technical writing, computer notation, and math-science notation. Those Braille divisions create education limitations, Cranmer said.
Which brings him back to his push for a new, touchable language to convey more knowledge and information.
Much of what people learn is said to come from vision, Cranmer said, "but that's not true for blind people. So tactile image is an alternative. I think much of what is now passed on to sighted people, through sight, can be communicated through touch."
It's a different way of looking at and making sense of the world, he said.
Which is exactly how Tim Cranmer has pursued most of his seventy-three years.
That was the Cranmer profile. Then, on March 26, the New York Times weighed in with its story about access to the World Wide Web for blind people. The reporter came to the National Federation of the Blind and spent a good bit of time in the International Braille and Technology Center at the National Center. She interviewed a number of people. Here is the story she wrote:
Bringing the Visual World of the Web to the Blind
by Debra Nussbaum
Curtis Chong has been using the World Wide Web for three years to look up topics like music, fund-raising, and medical research. He also uses it as a way to teach and encourage other blind people to get on the Web.
How does someone who cannot see the screen navigate the computer and Web, which is full of glitzy graphics and icons?
Chong communicates all his commands through the keyboard. His printer prints in Braille. He uses the Internet Explorer 3.02 with a piece of software called a screen reader and a speech synthesizer to turn the written words on the screen into words spoken in a computer-generated voice.
"We want to use the Web, and we want to use it like everybody else does," said Chong, director of technology for the National Federation of the Blind, based in Baltimore. "We don't believe the computer is the great equalizer for the blind, but it's one way to make our lives better."
For the more than half-million blind people of working age in the United States, getting on the Web may not only mean being able to research topics of interest but may also be a necessary skill for staying employed.
It certainly affects the jobs of thousands of blind people," said Gary Wunder, a blind man who is a senior computer programmer at the University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics. He is required to use the Web in his job for project assignments and updates. "It isn't just optional anymore."
While current statistics on the use of computers and the Web by blind and visually impaired people are hard to find, technology companies and advocacy organizations say the numbers are rapidly increasing. Tens of thousands of blind people are on computers, and every year more of them are learning to use the Web, Chong said.
A 1991 study published by the American Foundation for the Blind in New York found that 43 percent of blind and severely visually impaired people were using the computer for writing, said Emilie Schmeidler, senior research associate for the foundation. Her impression is that more visually impaired people are using computers and the Web now, she said, and "more and more jobs require the computer."
Being able to use the Web is critical to thousands of employed blind people.
A screen reader or screen-access program like the one Chong uses is the translator that tells a speech synthesizer what to say when the visual icons are accompanied by a text description. "It's my white cane that helps me know what's on the screen," Chong said.
Henter-Joyce, a company in St. Petersburg, Florida, that manufactures the popular screen reader called JAWS (Job Access With Speech) for Windows, has between 15,000 and 18,000 customers, said the company's president, Ted Henter. He said the customer base had increased four to five times since 1995.
At least seven companies make the screen readers. Henter-Joyce's JAWS is one of the top sellers and costs about $795; the company's new version, to be released this spring, will include a speech synthesizer. The National Federation of the Blind Web site includes a computer-resource page that has information on how to get in contact with the companies that sell the readers.
But getting the technology right is only one piece of the package. If Web pages do not have text that identifies graphics or if they have moving type, they will not be accessible. The World Wide Web Consortium, made up of universities, corporations, and research organizations and based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, started a three-year project in 1997 called the Web Accessibility Initiative that is creating guidelines to make technology and Web pages more accessible to blind, deaf, and disabled users.
The National Federation of the Blind has eight accessibility guidelines for Web pages that can be found on its Web site.
The Center for Applied Special Technology, a nonprofit research and development organization in Peabody, Massachusetts, has a free service in which it analyzes Web sites and offers suggestions for their accessibility.
The change from DOS, a text-based operating system, to Windows, a graphics-based operating system, was a setback for the blind.
"The world enthusiastically embraced Windows, and we were left out," said Wunder, who is also President of the Missouri chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. But in the last two and a half years, Microsoft "has shown concern and responsiveness" to the blind, Wunder said.
Version 3.02 of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer, includes a component called Microsoft Active Accessibility, a layer of codes that are compatible with accessibility aids like the screen reader. In addition to aiding blind users, these codes also hook into software that helps users who are deaf or have other disabilities.
But a newer version, Internet Explorer 4.0, was released on October 1, 1997, without the Active Accessibility component. Angry letters, phone calls, and e-mails let Luanne LaLonde, Microsoft's accessibility product manager, and others at Microsoft know that this was unacceptable.
"We got a lot of e-mail," she said. In early November, about thirty-five days after the release of Explorer 4.0, Microsoft released Explorer 4.01, including Active Accessibility.
Web page design, of course, is an element of accessibility. Vito DeSantis, manager of field operations for the southern regional office of the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, uses the Web to find research on the eye condition that has made it impossible for him to see the computer screen for the past three years. He also likes to read newspapers on the Web.
For visually impaired Web users like DeSantis, the vertical columns on the Web present the biggest problem because screen readers pick up the information horizontally.
"You have to really know how to navigate around the screen," DeSantis said. "I imagine quite a few people might get frustrated. Sometimes it's just not worth the effort."
While screen readers help, Wunder said, "no screen reader has made the Web as easily accessible for the blind as for the sighted."
Even with top-of-the-line screen readers, Web pages have to have text explanations for graphics and icons or the visually impaired computer user cannot move.
"You get a screen, and it says, 'Image, image, image,'" Schmeidler said, quoting the sound her screen reader makes when the cursor hits an icon without accompanying text. "You have no idea how frustrating it is."
In addition to the advice on making a Web page accessible from the National Federation of the Blind and the Center for Applied Special Technology, the World Wide Web Consortium has a group of volunteer computer experts who are leading the Web Accessibility Initiative. The group's goal is to write guidelines for Web page authors who want to make their pages accessible for all disabled users. A rough draft of the recommendations can be found on the consortium's Web site.
"Everything is voluntary, and the documents are called recommendations," said Professor Gregg Vanderheiden, director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a member of the group. But for businesses and government agencies, making sites accessible may not be voluntary, he said.
In a policy ruling in September, 1996, the Department of Justice said the Americans with Disabilities Act did cover access to Web pages.
"A Web site is an electronic front door," Vanderheiden said. "But blind users often have to let individual Web page authors know that they can't understand their pages.
"Sometimes people instantly go and fix it, and sometimes people don't care."
Blind users say they want basic instruction on how to navigate the Web and get what they want. They do not need long descriptions that are intended to help them see pictures or other graphics.
"Don't try to tell me how wonderful the Mona Lisa is," Wunder said. "You can't do that, but you can tell me how to get the picture and print it out for my daughter."
Then on March 29 the CBS program, "60 Minutes," devoted a segment, narrated by program co-host Lesley Stahl, to technology innovations assisting the disabled. Parts of the story dealt with various new wheelchair designs developed by users, but the largest portion was devoted to technology for blind people. CBS is nothing if not thorough. The three minutes or so devoted to Tim Cranmer's work and life were culled from more than three and a half hours of tape, much of it recorded at the National Center for the Blind. Tim's rather acid comment about the experience was that, if he had realized they were going to filter out all references to the National Federation of the Blind and eliminate his clarifications of simple statements, he would never have agreed to submit to the interview. Here is the transcript of the relevant segment of the story:
STAHL: (Voiceover) A blind person can't see when his coffee cup is filling up. But Tim Cranmer can, thanks to his own invention...
TIM CRANMER: It's a Say When.
(Footage of Cranmer with Stahl)
STAHL: (Voiceover) ...the Say When.
CRANMER: It lets you know when to stop pouring. So we put this over the thing.
CRANMER: And then we pour. (Beeping sound) There you are.
STAHL: Before you invented this...
STAHL: ...how would you know when you had gone to the top?
CRANMER: You dip a pinky over the top, and you burn your finger.
(Footage of Cranmer; Cranmer with Stahl; Braille 'n Speak;
Cranmer using Braille 'n Speak)
STAHL: (Voiceover) Tim Cranmer, blind from the age of nine, has come up with scores of inventions over the last forty years. Call him the Thomas Edison of devices for the blind. His crowning achievement is the Braille 'n Speak.
CRANMER: Open a file.
Computerized Voice: (From Braille 'n Speak) Option zero, one...
STAHL: (Voiceover) It's a powerfulbut very light, less-than-a-poundportable computer with a Braille keyboard that blind people carry with them everywhere.
STAHL: What have you stored in there? This is something you use. This is your own machine.
CRANMER: I use this every day, yes. I have my database in here, all the telephone numbers and addresses since 1976. (Footage of Cranmer with Stahl; Cranmer using Braille 'n Speak)
STAHL: (Voiceover) And his calendar, and a month's worth of reading.
STAHL: You could store a whole book in there, for instance?
CRANMER: Yes. I could store a novel. Right now I have the poetry of John Keats. That's just temporary. I'll erase that one of these days and replace it with War and Peace or something.
STAHL: (Voiceover) Anything he puts into the Braille 'n Speak can be retrieved instantly, either in a computer-generated voice...
CRANMER: I'll have it read that back.
Computer Voice: (From Braille 'n Speak) My name is Lesley Stahl.
STAHL: (Voiceover) ...or, with this advanced model, in Braille. These dots pop up and down on a display bar to form Braille letters.
CRANMER: Now, you see, there is your name spelled, L-E-S-L-E-Y, right there.
(Footage of Millicent Williams using Braille 'n Speak in class)
STAHL: (Voiceover) From home, to the business world, to the classroom, the Braille 'n Speak is erasing a lot of the You-can't-do-thats for the blind. Without it Millicent Williams would have a hard time keeping up with her classmates at Georgia State University. With it she's probably taking better notes than anyone else.
CRANMER: (Voiceover) They just type away in class.
STAHL: What? And then they go back to their room...
STAHL: ...and play it back?
CRANMER: They play it back. They search for things so that they can listen to specific items.
STAHL: This has to have made a...
CRANMER: That'sthat's right.
STAHL: ...an enormous difference...
CRANMER: An enormous difference.
STAHL: ...to people inin holding information.
CRANMER: I think it will be regarded as the most significant technology in the twentieth century for the blind. That's my feeling about it.
(Footage of Cranmer; Ted Henter water-skiing)
STAHL: (Voiceover) What Tim Cranmer has done with the Braille 'n Speak is helping blind people accomplish things society never expected of them. Ted Henter is another blind inventor who's demolishing stereotypes. Water-skiing is just his hobby, though he was world champion a few years back. His breakthrough invention is something called JAWS.
TED HENTER: JAWS is software that makes the computer talk.
(Footage of Henter with Stahl)
STAHL: (Voiceover) Ted was blinded twenty years ago in an auto accident. What did you do before?
HENTER: Before I was blinded?
HENTER: I was a motorcycle racer.
(Vintage footage of Henter's racing motorcycle.)
STAHL: (Voiceover) Clearly Ted Henter needed to find something else to do.
HENTER: (Voiceover) I was a sighted kid; I grew up with dreams. But once I was blinded, Inone of those were relevant anymore. Theythey weren't going to work for me. So I had to think up new dreams. So I had a few minutes of despair, but II got over it real quick. Ten minutes. And I realized...
STAHL: Ten minutes? No.
HENTER: Ten minutes of despair. Because then I realized, well, there have been blind people around for centuries. And I knew that what happened to me was for my own good. I knew something good was gonna come out of it. (Footage of Henter using computer with Stahl watching)
STAHL: (Voiceover) The good that came out of it was that Ted began studying computers. And before long he developed software that read computer text and turned it into speech.
COMPUTER VOICE: (From JAWS program) I have several other questions.
(Footage of man using computer)
STAHL: (Voiceover) With JAWS reading the computer screen, suddenly blind people, with a 70 percent unemployment rate, could compete for all kinds of jobs that used to be unthinkable.
HEATHER STUBBS: (On phone) FedEx. Heather Stubbs speaking, may I help you?
(Footage of Heather Stubbs; Stubbs using JAWS program for customer service call at FedEx)
STAHL: (Voiceover) If you call FedEx, you might get a blind customer service agent.
STUBBS: (On phone) Is this on a shipment that you're about to make?
STAHL: (Voiceover) You're in one ear of her headset asking her to track a package. The JAWS voice is in her other ear...
COMPUTER VOICE: (From JAWS program) Nine-one-three...
(Footage of computer screen)
STAHL: (Voiceover) ...telling her what's on the computer screen.
COMPUTER VOICE: (From JAWS program) T-R-A-C-E-apostrophe...
(Footage of FedEx employees)
STAHL: (Voiceover) FedEx has about a dozen blind employees working the phones using JAWS.
HENTER: You don't have to be limited by your blindness. You can go out and do these things. You can go to college. You can get a Ph.D. You can get a job as a computer programmer, as a software designer, as an attorney.
(Footage of computer screen using Windows)
STAHL: (Voiceover) Ted's biggest challenge has been Windows with all those icons and graphics. It's made computers much easier for most people, but how in the world can a blind person point and click?
HENTER: Windows was very, very difficult. When-when Windows came along andand companies started switching to it, blind people were losing their jobs. And we were getting calls all the time that "Hey, if you don't come out with a Windows product soon, I'm gonna lose my job." And a lot of people did.
STAHL: What you're saying is thatthat when the computer does something to make it easier for me, it's a disaster for blind people. I mean, the very progress that helps me hurts you.
HENTER: In many cases, yeah. And you have all these people that are creating vision-oriented systems, sight-oriented, then we have to come along andand make it work for someone who can't see.
(Footage of Henter; computer screen; man using computer)
STAHL: (Voiceover) Ted figured out a way to make Windows work for blind people. Now he's making the Internet accessible. But every day he and his team of programmers have to overcome new obstacles the sighted computer world throws their way. How often do you have to change your software 'cause there's a new problem out there?
HENTER: Wewe change it weekly.
HENTER: Allalmost daily, depending on the week. So we're constantly working on it.
(Footage of Henter's employees)
STAHL: (Voiceover) The "we" includes twenty other blind employees.
Unidentified Man #1: Open a start menu.
STAHL: (Voiceover) So if you're a blind customer using JAWS and you have a question; you're likely to get a blind technical support guy to answer it.
Unidentified Man #2: We just wanna really stay on fixing problems.
STAHL: If you were to choose a word to describe what this does to help a blind person or what your goal is, what would it be?
HENTER: I think "equality" is a good word.
This broadcast created quite a bit of comment in cyberspace. The Blazie listserv fielded a good deal of traffic, including some inquiry about the precise origins of the Braille 'n Speak. Deane Blazie, who certainly should know what happened and when, wrote the following e-mail explanation, which we include with an eye toward history. Here it is:
Monday, March 30, 1998
Subject: Who Invented the Braille 'n Speak?
I knew this would start a lot of discussion, and you'll probably hear a lot of replies from others about this.
The Kentucky Pocket Braille device was developed in the Kentucky Department for the Blind by Fred Gissoni. Without putting words into Fred's mouth, it was intended to be a reasonably priced, VersaBraille-like device. Fred noticed that, if you removed the keyboard circuit board from this device, you would have a notetaker without any output device. He and I and Tim Cranmer discussed this while I was at Maryland Computer Services, and we all agreed that, if you just added speech output, you could have a really nifty notetaker. When Maryland Computer Services was sold in 1986, I left and did consulting work. But I really wanted to get back into this industry, and I began developing the Braille 'n Speak in my basement. I took the Kentucky PocketBraille documentation, added speech, and changed the processor and memory circuits, and in July of 1987 I introduced the Braille 'n Speak at the NFB convention. Before that I consulted a lot with Tim and Fred on what it should look like. The first model was wedge-shaped because us sighted guys thought that Braille keyboards should be sloped like typewriter keyboardsDumb old sighted guys. So I fixed the case to be smaller and flat. I also sat with Fred and Tim, and we worked out the navigation chords so that they were mirror images. That was very significant, and it made the Braille 'n Speak a much better product.
By the way, Phil Hall was also instrumental in helping with the Braille 'n Speak. He did some of the speech programming. Another fellow, Bill Ashcraft, did the reverse Braille translator.
So you decide who invented the Braille 'n Speak. I certainly have no problem with Tim and Fred saying they invented it. Also don't forget that "60 Minutes" did more than four hours of interviews with Tim and only published about three minutes of it. I'm sure, if we heard the whole thing, it would be much clearer.
I'm just glad we are all around to have done it.
The concluding media examination of technology for the blind in the current go-round was a story that appeared in the Washington Post on Saturday, April 4. The story was apparently supposed to be a look at the Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (BISM) Web site, which the reporter seems to have been told was the only accessible one on the Internet. The reporter, Paul Valentine, had previously done stories about the NFB, so he contacted us for background information and got several fairly substantive interviews and demonstrations.
Despite the more balanced comments of Curtis Chong, director of the NFB Technology Department, and Richard Ring, director of the International Braille and Technology Center for the Blind, the notion that the BISM Web site is something special has been spread fairly widely, both by BISM PR and by the Post article. When asked for a clear and objective description of the BISM site, Mr. Chong provided the following statement to the Braille Monitor:
I have looked at the BISM Web site, and I find it no better or worse than many others I have come across. I appreciate the description of pictures and the meaningful labels for hypertext links, and I think the text is formatted reasonably well. Web page designers would do well to adopt the BISM Web design approach.
However, for BISM to portray its site as anything unique or extraordinary (implying that many other sites are not as accessible), is both misleading and irresponsible. It is unfortunate that the Washington Post article which appeared on Saturday, April 4, characterized the BISM site as a "rarity in the cyber world." In point of fact, sites such as BISM's are not as rare as the article would lead one to believe. I have always maintained that good Web design should incorporate graphics and text in a meaningful way to everyoneblind and sighted alike. BISM has simply followed good design principles in developing its Web site.
With Mr. Chong's statement to provide perspective, here is the Washington Post story of April 4:
Helping the Blind Handle Computers
Technology Allows Greater Accessibility
by Paul W. Valentine
Washington Post Staff Writer
Richard Ring sat at his computer, tapping at the keyboard. He nimbly logged onto the Internet. A few more keystrokes and a query box popped onto the screen. Ring typed in the words "coral snake." Moments later the screen announced 738 hits.
Routine Net surfing? Hardly. Ring is blind, and his Internet voyage was accompanied by a voice synthesizer that talked him, keystroke by keystroke, through each step.
Ring, forty-seven, chief of international Braille and technology for the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore, is one of a growing number of the estimated 535,000 blind people nationwide who regularly use computers for work, education, and pleasure.
With technological breakthroughs occurring almost daily in text-to-voice scanners, Braille printers, and specially designed software to help overcome the barriers of icons and other graphics of the visually oriented World Wide Web, blind users are finding it increasingly easier to get on the information highway.
"There are lots of bumps on the road, but we're getting there," said Curtis Chong, the Federation's director of technology. "There are a lot of things on the Internet we still can't use, but more are becoming available."
Traditionally confined to books and other documents published in Braille or recorded on audiocassette tapes, the blind are being encouraged by the Federation and other organizations to develop computer skills, not only to enjoy the fruits of the Internet but also to enhance their employability in an increasingly computer-dependent work world.
Despite training and work facilities designed specifically for the blindsuch as Blind Industries and Services of Maryland, with manufacturing plants in Baltimore, Salisbury, and Cumberlandnationwide unemployment of the blind stands at 70 percent, according to Federation estimates.
Making computers user-friendly for blind people involves several mechanical and electronic adjustments. Fundamental among them is elimination of the mouse and replacement of all mouse functions with keystrokes.
The user then tabs up, down, and across the screen, using the directional arrow, enter, and other keys to manipulate the cursor. As the cursor moves, an electronic screen reader scans any text it encounters and sends signals to a synthesizer that converts the written words to voice. If the cursor is moving through a blank area of the screen, the voice synthesizer says "blank" with each keystroke until the cursor comes to a block of text, where it starts reading.
When Ring called up "coral snake," he tabbed to a document called "Everglades Coral Snake," and the voice began, in a steady monotone: "A coral snake has a black head with alternating red, yellow, and black stripes . . . ."
Ring and others say there are two major stumbling blocks in converting written language to voice on the computer screen: graphics and any text arranged in columns.
The device cannot read a graphic, such as an icon or photograph, and simply calls it a graphic, or it reads a coded image file name assigned to the graphic by Web site designers that sounds like gibberish, such as "pic-dot-gif."
To get around this, blind users can electronically label icons with brief descriptions that can be scanned by screen readers. With photographs and other more complex pictures Web sites must be specially designed with additional captions, or text descriptions, that translate image file names into simple terms such as "green globe of earth" or "Orioles logo." Few sites are designed with that feature.
Similarly, text arranged in columns is a problem because readers scan horizontally from left to right across the entire screen, rather than down one column at a time before going to the next. However, a small but growing number of sites are being designed to permit column-reading. Others have reformatted columnar texts to read left to right.
Still another feature helping the blind is a text-only button, which, when activated by the user, instructs the screen reader to skip graphics and send only text to the voice synthesizer.
To encourage the spread of special sites, the World Wide Web Consortium, a network of academic and computer-industry specialists based in Boston, recently started forming guidelines for Web page designers to make sites more accessible not only for the blind but for deaf and other disabled users.
Chong, of the National Federation of the Blind, hopes the word will spread. So many Web sites, especially commercial ones, he said, are cluttered with graphics that "make them look pretty and sell lots of products . . . but blind people can't use them."
Blind Industries and Services of Maryland in Baltimore recently opened a fully accessible site including graphicsa rarity in the cyber world. It contains information for both blind and sighted people, ranging from job openings and vocational training for the blind to lists of products manufactured and sold by Blind Industries, such as paper notepads, tote bags, floor care chemicals, and washcloths.
The site was specifically designed to include graphics, said Blind Industries spokeswoman Angela Hartley. "We didn't want just a plain boring screen because sighted people use the site as well," she said.
Creating the graphics-friendly site required "a lot of major revisions" of conventional Internet design concepts, said Steven Crawford, chief executive of Columbia-based Shore Studios, which designed the site at no cost to Blind Industries.
The Blind Industries site, though far outnumbered by more conventional ones, "helps to make a level playing field for everybody," said Daniel K. Woytowitz, head of Blind Industries' computer technology center.
Jennifer Cocnavitch, twenty-six, a student undergoing an eight-month computer course at the center, spoke hopefully of becoming an English teacher as her fingers glided over a classroom keyboard.
"Knowing how to use a computer and getting on the Internet are important" to getting a job, she said.
Organizations with blind-related Web sites and their
Internet addresses include the National Federation of the Blind,
<www.nfb.org>; Blind Industries and Services of Maryland,
<www.bism.com>; World Wide Web Consortium, <www.w3.org>; Trace
Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, which does
research in Internet accessibility for the disabled,
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It's been called art by some, an eyesore by others. Still, the "Tilted Building," the unusual Best Products store at Towson Marketplace, has become a local landmark to all.
Now, though, the building is scheduled to be razed as part of a $20 million renovation of the shopping center -- an event that will mark more than the loss of a signature structure.
The demolition reflects the continuing demise of the eight gravity-defying stores that Best commissioned around the nation the 1970s and early 1980s -- stores that peel, crumble, twist and turn. Soon, only two will remain: one in Richmond, Va., the other in Sacramento, Calif.
"It's representative of the national mentality with the downsizing of the arts," says a disheartened James Wines, a 1951 Towson High School graduate who helped design the stores. "In France, this would never happen."
The losses also raise the question of whether such buildings should be preserved as examples of 20th-century architecture.
"We have trouble saving things in near-history. Are we depriving future generations to come if we don't have these things around?" asks Bruce Webb, dean of the school of architecture at the University of Houston.
He tracked the fate of a Best store in Houston -- one designed with a crumbling facade. It recently was transformed into a video store, with changes to the exterior.
"They destroyed the building," Wines says.
During Best's creative heyday, the striking buildings had the support of company owners Sydney and Frances Lewis,
Richmond residents and well-known patrons of modern art. The company commissioned the New York-based environmental design firm SITE, which stands for Sculpture in the Environment, to design the unusual stores.
Wines' designs placed merchandise mischievously into a building's exterior and created a facade that appeared to be peeling away at the corners. He devised a jagged cutout of a building, which could be opened and closed mechanically. And he fashioned a tropical environment -- complete with a waterfall cascading down a glass-enclosed front.
All followed his theory of "de-architecture," and poked fun at modern architecture's obsession with form as an expression of function.
The Towson store was no different. One corner of the boxy building is lifted into the air, making the jutting facade of 450 tons of structural steel and concrete block a surprising contrast to the typical, suburban shopping center that surrounds it.
"People often ask if it was an accident," says store manager Keith Levy with a laugh.
The Towson store opened in October 1978 with much fanfare, including an appearance by the comic-strip character Spiderman scaling the building. At the time, the 35-year-old shopping center was called Eudowood Plaza.
Through the years, the unusual design has elicited a variety of comments. No one is lukewarm about it, even within families.
"It was different and so unique. I liked it," says Leon Rozankowski, a nearby resident.
His wife, Lorraine, strongly disagrees: "I think it's hideous. It looks like an unfinished building."
Adds quirky filmmaker John Waters, who attended Calvert Hall College high school across the street from the store, "I'm very much for all that look in architecture. It figures anything with originality, they would tear it down."
A shopping center make over in the 1980s resulted in an enclosed mall renamed Towson Marketplace; the Best design survived the remodeling. Now, another transformation is under way.
Florida-based developer James A. Schlesinger has proposed a center of mega-stores to be called Towson Place when completed in about a year.
In its reincarnation, the former mall sandwiched between Joppa Road and Putty Hall Avenue will include Bed, Bath & Beyond, a linen and home accessory store; Michael's, one of the nation's largest arts and crafts chains; a Sports Authority store; and a recently announced Designer Shoe Warehouse.
Two other large stores, yet to be named, will be part of the 675,000-square-foot project, as well as a discount department store, the developer says.
The Best store will be relocated at the shopping center, and will be reconfigured to blend with a proposed Georgian-style design featuring fieldstone and pale brick. Turrets, cupolas and metal roofs will continue the theme.
Schlesinger envisions a uniform, village atmosphere.
Wines, 63, predicts a mundane, boring exterior.
"They are cliches, the mansards and little turrets," he says. "What they are doing is taking away art to create banality."
The wildly artistic days seem to have ended for Richmond-based Best, too.
The Lewises have not been involved with the company for almost a decade, since selling it to a New York investment firm.
And Best, which has 175 stores in 23 states, is fighting problems it faced in 1991 when it filed for a bankruptcy reorganization.
"It certainly served a purpose during the company's history," Best spokesman Ross Richardson says of the unusual storefront design. "It's a different phase now. We have different interests.
"We want to be known for other things besides architecture. The focus is on being a competitive discount retailer."
But Wines points out that the company's financial status has nothing to do with the designs of the buildings. "The art isn't inhibiting the business of the store."
And curator Jay Barrows, who works at the Lewises' Richmond art warehouse, is sorry to see the buildings so cavalierly torn down.
"It's a shame," he says of the news that the Towson store will join the casualty count. "The purpose was to make it not look like a regular shopping center."
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Add security features later ...
The Internet was designed for a very specific kind of robustness - that communication between a modest number of trusted systems could be maintained in the event of a significant proportion of them being blown up. DNS fits in this system just fine.
The Internet very specifically wasn't designed to deal with untrusted systems and it certainly wasn't designed to deal handily with huge numbers of potential diverse routes operated by private organisations with commercial arrangements for carrying each others traffic under narrowly-defined circumstances. Unsurprisingly, neither was DNS.
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BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) A $2.1 billion project to deepen navigation channels in New York Harbor has been completed after more than a quarter century and the containment of hazardous waste from decades of industrial operations.
The last bit of sediment was hauled out of New Jersey waters this summer, and federal lawmakers, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey marked the project’s completion at a ceremony Thursday in Bayonne.
The project deepened 38 miles of channels to 50 feet from the south of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the waters between New Jersey and Staten Island. It will allow larger container ships to access Port Newark/Port Elizabeth.
The work started in 1989 and became one of the largest infrastructure projects in the region’s history.
Col. David Caldwell, the Corps district commander, described the undertaking as “the most important and influential project related to modern day economics in the Northeast.”
Environmentalists had raised concerns about the project saying that dredging the harbor’s waters, heavily polluted from years of industrial waste, could stir up toxic chemicals.
But the Corps said it used most of the sediment to cap landfills or was able to confine the contaminated sediment to make sure it didn’t migrate across the region’s waterways.
“Most of the material was far below hazardous-waste levels,” Bryce Wisemiller, project manager for the Corps, told The Record (http://bit.ly/2bZQ5aL ). “But it is contaminated enough that you have to manage how and where it is placed. New Jersey came with a like-on-like placement approach. Something like arsenic would be taken to sites like a landfill that was already contaminated with arsenic.”
Debbie Mans, executive director of the advocacy group NY/NJ Baykeeper, said the project had flaws but was ultimately beneficial to the health of the waterways.
“You’re getting a lot of contaminated sediment out of there and that’s definitely going to be better for the area in the long run,” she said.
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Published on October 13th, 2008 | by Timothy B. Hurst8
Making High-Resolution Renewable Energy Maps Free to the Masses
October 13th, 2008 by Timothy B. Hurst
I’ve always had a thing for maps, both in terms of their personal utility, like finding that little tent icon symbolizing a campground on a road map; but also in terms of their macro-level utility, like finding the optimal locations in a region to site renewable energy developments. Fortunately, Seattle-based 3TIER is filling the niche in the latter with their bundle of high-resolution renewable energy resource maps.
Today, 3TIER added to their arsenal of wind, solar, and hydro maps with the release of the first comprehensive, high-resolution solar map for all of North, Central, and South America.
The freely usable online map map is three times the resolution of existing industry solar data standards for the United States. The map will allow policy-makers, developers and financiers to quickly identify potential sites and begin assessing their renewable energy potential.
Development of this solar map is part of 3TIER’s ‘REmapping the World‘ initiative, which is intended to accelerate the adoption and integration of renewable energies worldwide, especially in less developed locales.
“If we want developing nations to ‘leapfrog’ over fossil fuels,” said 3TIER CEO Kent Westrick, “they need information about what renewable energy resources or combination of resources exist.”
The maps provide enough resolution so countries and organizations can begin to look at the potential wind and solar resources at a regional level. The solar map is based on 11 years of half-hourly high resolution (roughly 1 km) visible satellite imagery that has been processed to create 11 years of hourly values.
Over the coming months, 3TIER plans to continue to map solar resources, country by country, based upon a priority order that takes into account such issues as solar development policies, availability of the sun and economic development status.
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There’s a couple things you learn when looking at the history of buildings. First, everyone thinks their big old home was once a rooming house and every barkeep is sure his place was a speakeasy during Prohibition.
And, of course, most folks think the place they live or work is haunted. As a rule, I’m skeptical, but if any place would likely harbor tortured souls and trapped spirits it would be this one.
While today, Milwaukee Health Department’s Southside Health Center, 1639 S. 23rd St., is a bright, cheery neighborhood clinic offering health advice, free immunizations and the like, this was once South View Hospital, built as an isolation facility for folks suffering from brutal contagious diseases.
The neighbors didn’t want the facility here and no one ever wanted to go to the isolation hospital – in less politically correct times dubbed the pest house – which is why they’d come and take you away and quarantine you against your will. And, perhaps worst of all, they’d take your sick children to suffer alone, without you.
Dale Byczynski, building and grounds supervisor at Southside, says he sees the apparitions every morning when he arrives before the sun comes up. He heads down to the basement and there they are.
"They’re always to the left, at the bottom of the stairs. I just see a blur of light and I wave and say, ‘Good morning, sir.’"
There are six of us seated around a conference table in what was the west wing of South View, built in 1916 (the slightly older east wing was razed in 1961), and no one appears to doubt Dale’s tale.
In fact, the others who work here nod knowingly, because they have stories of their own.
"The second floor, too," says Mary Jo Gerlach, the Public Health Nurse Supervisor who is also the building manager at Southside. "(People have) seen something up there, but the person who occupies the office right now doesn’t want to know about it. She freaks out. They were sitting up in the office a couple years ago and there was a shelf with a vase with some fake flowers in it. They were sitting and talking at the desk and they said the vase with the flowers didn’t just fall off the shelf, it was catapulted across the room."
"Someone in the TB department has a very vivid ghost story, too," adds business operations manager Yvette Rowe.
Byczynski takes it all in stride. "Oh, they don’t bother me anymore," he says, unaffected. "I just automatically wave."
"One Sunday, I was coming to check the building," Byczynski adds. "I was on the elevator and it stopped (between floors). I’m the only one in the building. All of a sudden, I heard, "Can I help you?" I just about jumped out of my shorts. Well, here it was the City Hall operator talking (laughs). I didn’t even know that (emergency call) thing worked until that day."
As we take a group tour around the building, we’re on the lookout for signs. We visit the former wards, each of which opened on to its own screen porch. We even climb to the roof for a pretty great view of the Downtown skyline.
We look at where some walls were removed to open up the main waiting room space a few years ago. We marvel at the gorgeous woodwork around the transom windows and the great built-in shelving units that soar to the ceiling in some storage areas; so high that they have attached ladders to afford access.
In the basement, we search for signs of the tunnel that reportedly connected to the nurses' home across 24th Street (now home to Milwaukee Recreation's OASIS senior center) and we try to figure out which room was the morgue – figuring that’d be rife with swirling spirits.
We explore the crawl space under the northern portion of the building and we peek in at an old exterior staircase down to the basement that’s been sealed off from the outside.
But we don’t feel any shifting air or sense any ethereal otherworldly beings. Even later, when I’m going through the photos I took and I see an apparition peeking out from behind the basement incinerator (which would surely have gotten a lot of use in an infectious diseases hospital), it turns out to look more like a blurry version of Health Department communications officer Sarah DeRoo than a ghost.
From pest house to isolation hospital
But ghosts or not, the story of the building – and its predecessor – is an interesting one.
According to an internal report written by a superintendent of South View, "The early history of contagion and isolation is almost synonymous with the history of the city itself."
The city’s first isolation hospital – not-so-lovingly referred to back then as a "pest house" – was a log building rented in 1843 outside the town’s borders around what is now Oakland Avenue, near the site of UW-Milwaukee.
The place, run by the Sisters of Mercy, struggled to deal with epidemics like the cholera outbreaks that would alight in Milwaukee in 1849, 1850 and 1854. The victims of that dreadful disease were buried in shallow graves in a potters’ field on a triangle of land between Prospect and Maryland Avenues.
When a new schoolhouse was built on the site in 1887, Milwaukeeans were reminded of that by-then forgotten cemetery and the accidentally dug-up remains were re-interred at the old Spring Street burying ground. But they missed a few, because when, in 1950, excavation began on a gym addition for the school, more bones were discovered and removed.
According to the health department’s report, "In 1865 the City purchased 40 acres of land for $2,000 at the North Point of the city ... for a site for an isolation hospital (that) was never built. A portion of this land was later given to the Sisters of Charity in appreciation of their unselfish work in caring for patients during epidemics."
Other parts of the land would house a first ward (later 18th ward, and then Maryland Avenue) school annex, an orphanage, the industrial school for girls and other civic institutions.
As time passed – while the city relied heavily on the services of St. Mary’s and Passavant Hospitals – attention turned to the far southwest side as a potential site for a new pest house and in 1877 the Common Council spent $3,527.25 to buy just over six acres near what is currently 23rd and Mitchell Streets and approved $8,000 for construction of a new hospital.
But the new city hospital project was fraught with chronic controversy. First, the plans – by August Schattenberg – were deemed unworthy by the city’s health commissioner Orlando Wight, and, the competition was reopened. New plans were submitted to a panel of doctors, who preferred a pavilion-style plan, like one submitted by City Hall and The Pfister Hotel architect Henry Koch.
But the council demurred, saying the doctors were rooting for a general hospital plan that was not what the city was seeking.
"What the city wants," reported the Milwaukee Sentinel in April 1878, "and the council is legally authorized to establish, is an asylum for the patients who must be taken care of by the city, not on account of public charity, but to preserve the public health and safety ... the committee are in favor of the plan ... which they claim represents a hospital precisely suitable to the city's want."
Back in November 1877, the Sentinel described Schattenberg’s plan (a description that was reiterated in April 1878 when the council approved it):
"A cruciform foundation and superstructure of two stories. Each of the wings is to have a corridor so arranged that it can be shut off from its counterpart. The first story of the front wing is to be fitted into rooms for the physicians; dispensary, for visitors, and for the wardens and nurses. The wards for the treatment of contagious diseases are to be in the right and left wings, fronting to the south, and are to be provided with separate entrances from the outside, a ventilated hall affording the physicians, wardens and visitors ingress from the main or front corridor. The rear wing is to be fitted into dormitories for special diseases. There are also to be associated dormitories for convalescents. Each ward is to be provided with a bathroom and water-closet, and each is to have a separate system of ventilation.
"The entire second story is on the general plan of the first, and beside, it to afford room for officers and wardens off duty. The basement is to be partitioned for dining-rooms, kitchen and cellar. The dead-room is also to be located there, in the coolest part of the building, and is to have a separate ventilator, as in case of the other wards, the later so connected with lateral shafts that a change of atmosphere is ensured every 12 or 15 minutes.
"In the construction of the interior all corners will, so far as possible, be obviated. The windows will extend to the underside of the ceiling, and every other precaution will be taken to have the structure so ordered that there can be no considerable stagnation of air in any of the apartments.
"The rooms and wards are to accommodate about 60 patients, 40 of which may be smallpox patients, and the arrangement is to be such that the latter will be entirely separate from the wards occupied by patients suffering from other than contagious diseases.
"The building is to be of solid brick walls upon a stone foundation, and it is estimated that the cost will be from $7,000 to $8,000. In general appearance it will be plain and substantial. The plan admits of an unlimited extension on three sides without disturbing the present arrangement."
Despite Wight’s opposition – in her book, "The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform," Judith Walzer Leavitt notes that Wight had drawn up plans of his own, based on his ideas of medical science, for the new hospital and felt snubbed that the council hired an architect – the construction of Schattenberg’s cruciform cream city brick hospital went forward.
"When finished, its cost was between $8,000 and $9,000," notes the health department report. "It was built in 1878 ... and consisted of two floors. Over the front entrance the words were inscribed, ‘Public Health is Wealth.’ However, the plans were not in accordance with the demands of modern sanitary science."
(Photo: City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works Building & Bridges)
Among its shortcomings, writes Leavitt in her book, the new hospital had no water or sewer connections. But, initially, that wasn't a problem because according to Dr. Louis Frederick Frank's "The Medical History of Milwaukee 1934-1914," the hospital, "remained unoccupied for a number of years, and as under charter provision it could only be used as a pest-house, it grimly waited for its season of usefulness."
It appears it first flung open its doors to smallpox patients during an 1882 epidemic, and the results were less than had been desired.
"Wight’s predictions about the hospital’s limitations proved essentially correct. Because of its physical deficiencies, the hospital rarely admitted patients," Leavitt writes, and within just over a decade, "in 1890, (then-health commissioner Uranus Owen Brackett Wingate) noted that the hospital was empty, in bad repair and ill-regarded among its 11th ward neighbors."
Those neighbors, powerless new Polish immigrants, were not happy to have an infectious diseases hospital among their homes. They wanted it moved out beyond the city limits.
There was talk of using the empty hospital as a school (Alexander Mitchell Elementary, across the street, wasn't built until 1894), and of selling the land and building a new hospital somewhere else.
Creating a model hospital
Instead, Wingate took action, building a disinfecting chamber, connecting to sewer and water lines, putting up a high fence, making major repairs and installing heating so the building could be used in winter.
While Wingate boasted that the facility was, Leavitt writes, "a model hospital," the neighbors were no happier and when there was a smallpox epidemic in 1894, they declined to go there, even though their Eleventh Ward was the most affected by the outbreak. In many cases, the sick were forced into the hospital. Even ailing children were torn from their parents and quarantined in the Isolation Hospital.
That same year, the health department report notes, "the hospital was filled to overflowing" thanks to another smallpox outbreak.
"Health officials maintained that the hospital was in good condition and offered good service to the sick poor who were admitted," writes Leavitt, adding, "whatever the actual condition of the hospital ... south-siders were convinced that it was a death house for those who went there as patients and that its presence infected the nearby districts."
On Aug. 5, 1894, when the authorities attempted to take an infected 2-year-old to the place, neighbors armed themselves in revolt. "About 3,000 'furious' people armed with clubs, knives and stones assembled in front of the child's house," Leavitt recounts. "Faced with the violent mob, and unable to control the situation, the ambulance beat a hasty retreat."
On one thing everyone seemed to agree. This hospital had no future.
In 1901, a second isolation hospital was opened in an empty existing county hospital building on 7th and Clybourn, and between 1903 and 1912, victims of outbreaks of scarlet fever and diphtheria were treated there.
In 1911, the council authorized a $100,000 bond for a new hospital and the east wing of the building that stands now was begun. It was designed by municipal engineer Charles Malig, whose work stands all around this town.
Completed the following year, the east wing was opened – along with a garage and heating plant – and the patients moved from the 7th and Clybourn building, which was declared a firetrap and closed by the building inspector. When the west wing was completed in 1916, the old, unloved hospital building was felled.
Three years later, $130,000 was spent to build a central administration unit to connect the two wings. Hoping to erase the stigma of the name "isolation hospital," the new facility was dubbed South View Hospital.
It boasted screened porches for patients for whom fresh air was a must, doctors offices, classrooms, waiting rooms, a kitchen, laundry, laboratory, patient wards, staff rooms, storerooms and a nurses’ suite.
Most rooms had narrow but soaring 11-foot windows that admitted light and could be opened to provide beneficial air flow.
The architect Schattenberg, however, didn’t live to see much of this. In 1880, three years after designing the hospital, the German immigrant – who had practiced architecture for 12 years – was elected secretary of the Milwaukee school board.
By 1889, the Milwaukee Public Schools were expanding so feverishly that Schattenberg was given an assistant and, soon after, "irregularities" began to emerge and in 1890 it became clear that Schattenberg had been embezzling school money, to the tune of $50,000 (roughly $1.3 million in today’s dollars).
The Chicago Tribune reported the incident, saying, "that this stealing of funds should have been going on for eight years without detection shows negligence of duty somewhere."
"Our Roots Grow Deep," a history of MPS written decades later took a subtler approach in describing the affair, saying only, "The School Board opened the year 1890 by amending its rules so that its funds would be deposited with the city treasurer. Previous lax financial arrangements and poorly defined procedures had led to serious loss."
But the most affecting account related to the entire affair appeared in the pages of the Milwaukee Journal on Dec. 7, 1889:
"Between 10 and 10:30 this morning Mr. August Henrich Schattenberg, secretary of the school board of Milwaukee, took his own life by shooting. ... The act was committed in the basement of his residence, 69 Reservoir Avenue, which he used as an office."
Schattenberg was found by his wife and a girl employed in the home.
"When the two women went to a window looking into the basement," the door to which was locked, "they were shocked and horrified to see Mr. Schattenberg’s face as pale as death and his head thrown backward, while the shirt front seemed to be burned as though by powder. ... A revolver (was) lying by his side and a gaping bullet hole in his left breast near the heart plainly told the story."
The Southside Health Center
Today, the Southside Health Center is no longer a hospital. It is not the place to go if you’ve cut your hand badly or are having chest pains. Instead, it’s a sort of a clearinghouse for a variety of health and human services.
There are Maternal Child Health Home Visiting programs and a community health access program. Folks can come in to sign up for Badger Care Plus, food share, child care assistance, Affordable Care Act enrollment and help with the WIC (Women Infant and Child) program.
There are nutritionists on staff, and neighborhood residents can get vouchers for healthy foods. There are safe sleeping clinics for new parents, who are given a pack and play and counseling on how best to lay an infant down to sleep. And there is a twice weekly walk-in immunization clinic.
"Then we have our men’s health program," says Gerlach. "A nurse for that program is here one day a week and she does blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, you know, look at BMI, weight, and referring for services for that. We also have a Well Women program that’s here and provides screenings for breast cancer and cervical cancer, cardiac risk reduction ... it’s a non-profit agency that provides family planning … family planning health practices.
"A lot of people very feel comfortable with coming here so being able to provide a lot of different services. They know the building. They come here for different things. We can do pregnancy tests. We get a lot of phone calls from citizens about health department kinds of things. So anything that’s more on the "I need a resource" kind of thing, we have nurses that actually answer those.
"We also just started a program called Direct Assistance For Dads," Gerlach continues. "We have fatherhood specialists and they provide home visits to fathers who are either expecting or parenting a child under 18 months, which is kind of a first that, you know, focus on decreasing prematurity and infant mortality as well as, of course, having that connection with your children. So far, that program has been pretty successful. So we’re making some good impact."
One thing Southside doesn’t do anymore is quarantine patients with infectious diseases. In fact, it’s sort of the reverse these days. When I arrived for a visit, I couldn’t help but note with irony a sign on the door that reads, "If you have lived in or traveled to an area affected by Ebola within the past 21 days and have a fever and other symptoms, DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDING!"
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
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Excerpt: A new study shows that long-term exposure to a combination of certain pesticides might impair the bee's ability to carry out its pollen mission.
"Any impairment in their ability to do this could have a strong effect on their survival," said Geraldine Wright, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University in England and co-author of a new study posted online February 7, 2013, in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Wright's study adds to the growing body of research that shows that the honeybee's ability to thrive is being threatened. Scientists are still researching how pesticides may be contributing to colony collapse disorder (CCD), a rapid die-off seen in millions of honeybees throughout the world since 2006.
"Pesticides are very likely to be involved in CCD and also in the loss of other types of pollinators," Wright said. (See the diversity of pollinating creatures in a photo gallery from National Geographic magazine.)
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Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown are scientists first, vloggers second.
They're the creators of the popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, which boasts over 2 million subscribers. But as they revealed today in an endearing video in which they came out "again," they've also been romantic partners for seven years and counting.
Citing homophobic remarks they've received over the years, Moffit and Brown took a break from their typical science-education format to tackle a much more personal subject: homophobia and the need for visible queer role models.
The duo opened with a hilarious read-aloud of some of the milder, and occasionally funny, comments their videos had received over the years. Most of the comments focused on their perceived effeminacy or queer identity, not the content of their videos. Although Moffit and Brown had been open about their relationship in the past, they had never officially come out online.
"Because we've never officially come out online, when reading [the YouTube comments], it really reminded us of what it felt like to be in early high school before we came out," Brown commented.
They also noted that on YouTube, queer members of the vlog community are scarce, especially in the science and education community. Moffit pointed out as well that women in science and tech seemed to face the same derailment online that gay men do, and that the majority of the pejorative comments they received as men are rooted in sexism. These are both reasons, they claim, to encourage diversity and visibility online.
Watch the whole video, and renew your faith in the Internet's science community.
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Odds are that most San Franciscans have never even heard of the Lake Merced Tunnel, but it’s a historic piece of 19th century infrastructure that’s critical to keeping the city’s sewers flowing without dumping filth straight into the Pacific Ocean.
It’s also in danger of being destroyed by that same ocean, as climate change sends the tides creeping ever inward, forcing the city to embark on a $150 million-plus preservation plan.
According to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), the Lake Merced Tunnel is a 14-foot wide drainage pipe that runs underneath the Great Highway and serves the Oceanside Treatment Plant and related pumping station on Ocean Beach.
The plant is one of three in SF responsible for sanitizing both stormwater and sewer discharges before dumping them, and handles about 20 percent of the city’s wastewater.
When there’s too much waste for the plant to take in all at once, like during big storms, the overflow goes into the Lake Merced Tunnel.
While being a giant sewer pipe may not sound very impressive, when it was built in 1896, the San Francisco Call hailed the tunnel as “one of the most difficult pieces of engineering work ever undertaken in the state” and gushed about its completion in just 17 months despite “many difficulties encountered in eddies of subterranean water.” (Note that the tunnel predates the treatment plant by nearly 100 years; the Oceanside facility wasn’t built until 1993, adapting the existing tunnel for its purposes.)
The tunnel was one of the crowning achievements of what you might call a sewer century in San Francisco.
“Back in the 1800s we built more sewers than anyone,” George Engel, an operations manager at the SF Public Utilities Commission, tells Curbed SF.
“We still have in the order of 100 miles of sewers” from the 19th century in operation in San Francisco today, Engels adds, tunnel included.
The Lake Merced Tunnel, like the entire apparatus that disposes of SF’s waste, is a bit of a hidden gem. In 2014 SPUR marveled at the “invisible infrastructure” that keeps the system moving but also out of sight of the beach-going public.
But this obscure bit of plumbing is important—and it’s also in serious danger. The Planning Department warns that erosion and sea level rise threaten to swamp the tunnel and related infrastructure in the near future.
The city has not in so many words said that the coastal water plant itself is in danger—SFist describes the facility as potentially being “flushed into the Pacific”—but there is important plumbing infrastructure inland of the tunnel, and it is plausible to imagine more elaborate problems in the future.
To counter this aquatic encroachment, the city has a $151.3 million plan to pushback the ocean.
In a November memo SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly laid out the two critical initiatives: removing several thousand feet of the Great Highway between Sloat and Skyline Boulevard (a stretch that is doomed to be eaten away), and creating a “multipurpose coastal protection/restoration/access system.”
That last one is a broad term consisting of actions ranging from “managed retreat” of the shoreline to “beach nourishment”—i.e., carting in vast amounts of sand to replace eroded material (something the city already does every year).
The city hopes to begin actual construction work in 2023.
As the San Francisco Examiner notes, the current price tag has swelled some $60 million compared to previous estimates. The city blames “refinements” in the construction plan for increasing costs.
In 2015, environmental group Surfrider advised that the city consider relocating the Lake Merced Tunnel altogether, arguing that since “sea level rise and climate change‐driven storms are due to intensify in the years ahead” that keeping the tunnel where it is only delays the inevitable, but SFPUC will nevertheless move forward trying to preserve the tunnel at its original location. | <urn:uuid:89073c26-6928-4410-89db-6ec9215d7893> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048142/lake-merced-tunnel-ocean-beach-plan-san-francisco | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.936431 | 866 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The Water Security and Climate Adaptation in Rural India( WASCA), is an Indo-German, bi-lateral project. It is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in partnership with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS). The project has been implemented by GIZ, represented by the Government of Germany in India from April 2019 to March 2022. MSSRF is the lead technical resource organization. The project aimed to achieve three main outputs namely improving existing planning and financing mechanisms, developing climate-resilient measures and strengthening cooperation with private stakeholders.
In Tamil Nadu, WASCA is implemented in Ramanathapuram and Tiruvannamalai districts in 429 and 860 GPs respectively. The CWRM plans identified 5,47,948 works in Tiruvannamalai and 6,54,296 in Ramanathapuram as potential plans covering public and common land, agriculture and allied sectors and rural infrastructures. In addition, 15 and 22 climate-resilient measures were piloted to enhance the adaptation capacity in both Tiruvannamalai and Ramanathapuram districts separately. These works have the potential to make significant impacts mainly in augmenting water resources, and increasing green cover and employment opportunities.
At the larger level, these works were directly linked and significantly contributed to five important Sustainable Developmental Goals 6, 12,13 15 and 4 and three Nationally determined contributions. More details are found at http://tnwasca-mgnrega.org/
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I wish all banks, the IRS, state tax departments, credit card companies, insurance providers, and other businesses would check this long-time easily available resource to see if someone is illegitimately using a deceased person's Social Security number. The SSA is part of the federal government and so is the IRS. But the IRS hasn't used the FREE SSDI to check if all Social Security numbers used on tax returns are legitimate! Yes, you read that correctly. SSDI access is being threatened due to fraudulent tax returns. Duh, the IRS should have been checking the numbers. We all need to sign a petition to keep the SSDI accessible and to have the IRS use it.
My words stop here other than to give you three vital tasks:
- I suggest you read the words of a colleague and friend, Polly Kimmitt, CG, President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council: http://pk-pollyblog.blogspot.com/. Her eloquent entry about the SSDI and the genealogical community is dated February 6th and says it better than I could.
- Then check out the Records Preservation and Access section of the Federation of Genealogical Societies website for more details. RPAC is a committee of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, National Genealogical Society, and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. It is supported by other major genealogical organizations. http://fgs.org/
- Lastly vote on the issue http://wh.gov/khE and then contact all your congressional reps to let them know your feelings on the subject. Together we can get this addressed.
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Death of a Dirigible
“Come and see the boiling cloud,” said a woman on the ground; aloft, the slender Shenandoah headed straight into the eye of the vicious squall
February 1959 | Volume 10, Issue 2
There was a slight pause. “Pass word forward,” said the skipper. “All men on their toes.” He hesitated a moment, then added quietly, “We are going through together.”
Donovan hung up and started forward. As he did, there was a weird whistle of wind and the ship surged upward, even faster than the first time.
The engine telegraphs began ringing frequently in the control car. Engines 1 and 2 were out and the mechanic on No. 3 reported it was heating up badly.
Lansdowne ordered Alien to nose the ship down as far as he could without stalling her. They were shooting up incredibly fast. The rise had to be stopped. He turned and said, “Full speed!”
The altimeter was back at 3,500 feet, foffray was pulling at the rudder wheel, straining away, throwing his whole body into the struggle. It was a sight Anderson was never to forget. The ship began turning rapidly in a circle. The tail was suddenly thrown up and wrenched to the right. The ship had been caught by terrific opposing blasts of wind.
Suddenly there was a shrill screech, as girders began to twist and tear.
Without raising his voice Commander Hancock said, “There she goes.”
When Anderson heard the tear of girders he guessed that the Shenandoah was breaking up amidships. Then the control car began to jar and shake.
Every man in the car knew what was happening. The struts that held the big gondola to the ship were being wrenched by wind and torsion. In a matter of moments it would tear away from the ship and drop to earth.
Earlier, when the girders had snapped, the ship had opened at Frame 130 like an egg being cracked from the bottom. Two men were pitched out into space. But the two sections were held together by the many control wires that ran along the bottom of the keel.
Donovan, the man farthest aft, had moved back to Frame 30 when he heard a faraway crash of breaking girders. Then the Shenandoah began to quiver, and Donovan smelled burning cloth. Nauseated, he hurried forward to Frame 40, opened a hatch, and, leaning far out, took deep, gasping breaths. Below him the ground was dim and seemed to be spinning rapidly.
Just then something snapped in the tail. A trail of sparks shot up under the keel. The main cable controls had broken loose from the elevators and rudders and were running wildly up the length of the ship.
Far forward Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, the ship’s navigator, who had been ordered by Lansdowne to supervise the dropping of ballast, was working his way along the keel. He heard a fearful clashing and turned in time to see the bottom panel of the ship’s outer covering and several of the transverse structural members of the keel cut loose along one side. He saw the severed control wires being pulled out like the guts of a fish as the control car fell.
The man who had the last look at the doomed gondola and its occupants was Anderson, who had scrambled up to the catwalk just as the gondola was wrenching itself loose. He looked over his left shoulder and saw it hanging down. Suddenly the ladder he was holding on to was yanked away, and the car began its plunge to earth, carrying Lansdowne and seven others to their deaths.
Stunned, Anderson felt the catwalk and the girders on both sides of it collapsing like a house of matches. He was pulled off the catwalk, but just as he was about to drop through the great hole torn open by the control car, he managed to get hold of something. The next thing he knew he was sitting on a fragment of the catwalk suspended directly over the center of the jagged hole. A few wires were all that held him and the fragment of catwalk to the rest of the ship. He dared not make a move for fear he might topple off.
The four men in the crew space amidships looked forward and saw nothing but empty space; the bow section had broken off and was ballooning high above them. Almost at once there came a new tearing and ripping aft of them, followed by a sickening downward lurch as the ship broke again, this time just forward of engines a and 3, at Frame 100. The Shenandoah was now in three parts.
In the center section, smallest of the three, the gas bags had collapsed, and, weighted by engine gondolas 4 and 5, it dropped “like an elevator with no brakes.” To the four sailors in its tiny crew space it seemed that they must surely follow the control car down to earth. But weakened girders snapped again, the two engine cabs wrenched free, and the little helium remaining slowed their fall. Jagged wreckage dangling at both ends, the center section smashed into the side of a little hill, skidded down a slope, crashed into some trees, and stopped. The four men in the crew space were injured but alive; four mechanics—three of them in the engine cabs—were killed. | <urn:uuid:f069b314-1945-4392-a258-d6ef9000e31d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/death-dirigible?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00486-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986659 | 1,165 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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During the deliberations the regional and international arrangements for sustainable utilisation of shared large pelagic fishing resources in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea and Guyana's participation in these arrangements were reviewed.
The report on CARICOM Fisheries Unit meetings in 2001 and meetings of the International Commission on the Conservation of Tuna (ICCAT) were also discussed.
Declaring open the forum, Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock, Mr. Satyadeow Sawh alluded to the increasing contribution of the fisheries sector to Guyana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
He noted this is an indication of greater investment and earnings by entrepreneurs in the sector, thereby creating increased employment opportunities for the Guyanese populace.
Recognising this, Sawh said the Government and his ministry have been placing greater emphasis on the development ad expansion of the fishing industry.
He identified several initiatives that have been implemented by the ministry to further boost the capacity and ensure the sustainable management of fisheries resources.
Realising the pressure being placed on the oceanic resources, the Government has implemented a deliberate strategy to diversify the sector to ensure sustainability, and in this regard aquaculture is being vigorously pursued, Sawh informed the gathering.
He observed that the area under aquaculture cultivation has now grown to more than 4,000 acres.
Also as part of its sustainable drive, his ministry is actively promoting and enforcing the use of Turtle Excluding Devices (TEDs), and Guyana's fishing vessels have been certified as being compliant with the regulations governing TEDs by the U.S., thus gaining access to export fisheries to a very important market.
He noted too that the benefits of the closed season for fishing by trawlers are now becoming evident.
Sawh said the recent Fisheries Bill passed in Parliament will now allow for the implementing of regulations governing the sustainable management of fishing resources.
He also informed the forum that a European Union (EU) team would be making its final assessment shortly to determine if Guyana's fisheries exporters have attained the standards laid down by the EU.
This will lay the basis for access to the lucrative European market, he added.
"Over the years Guyana has been able to develop most of its fisheries; we have a thriving shrimp and ground fish fishery, a developing deep slope snapper fishery and a developed shark fishery.
"However, we have been placing enormous pressure on these resources to meet our market demands and not realising that we have other unutilised and underutilised resources that can be of great benefit to use both economically and socially," Sawh said.
He added: "Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) 1982, each state has the authority to manage and utilise the resources within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The utilisation of our large pelagic fishery has been quite minimal, where some species (mackerel and kingfish) have been caught as incidentals in other fisheries.
"Through UNCLOS Guyana has the right to utilise these shared resources within its jurisdiction, once it is done on a sustainable manner and under international law."
Touching on the issue of over exploitation of fishing resources by industrialised countries, the minister declared: "In recent years ICCAT has noted that several large pelagic species have been exploited over the years by industrialised nations. This problem has been exacerbated by illegal fishing.
"Notwithstanding this, Guyana has a right and a need to develop this fisheries and make maximum use of its resources within its EEZ."
"In developing this fishery we need to take a precautionary approach, and do this in a rational manner in accordance with the Code of Conduct for responsible Fisheries so we can find favour and support within the international community," Sawh exhorted.
In an earlier presentation, President of the Guyana Association of Trawler Owners and Seafood Processors, Mr. Leslie Romalho expressed concern about the financial costs involved in becoming a member of ICCAT, which is a requirement to become a pelagic exporter.
But becoming a member of ICCAT does not mean automatically being allocated export quotas.
Romalho proposed that in order to offset the high costs of accessing membership to ICCAT, CARICOM should apply en bloc rather than individual countries applying to become members.
He also contended that Caribbean countries would have "a larger voice" in determining quotas through a collective approach.
Sawh, in his response, conceded that the issues raised are very pertinent but observed that these are only part of the whole scenario, pointing out that the Government has adopted a holistic approach which deals with all the concerns.
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Special to the Philanthropy Journal
By Stanley Clark
Women’s History Month 2022 continues a yearly national celebration whose origins date back four decades ago to 1982 and the launch of Women’s History Week. Women’s History Month celebrates the achievements of women throughout the United States’ history in several fields.
Today, more women are engaging in male-dominated industries. For example, one-third of U.S. bettors are women, according to a new study on sports gambling.
Female entrepreneurs can also leverage digital marketing agencies that support female-run businesses.
Multiple channels can empower women across various fields in the global economy.
Creating Gender-Equal Opportunities in Industries and Workplaces
Today, numerous companies and organizations are dedicated to producing a more equitable workplace that includes equal opportunities for all employees regardless of Race or ethnicity, Gender, Sexual orientation, or Disability.
Such cultures celebrate differences and unleash individuals’ potential to replace bias with belongingness.
Equity remains a crucial element in the transition from social diversity to inclusion. Here are some facilitators to empower women world leaders through gender-equal channels.
Women’s Leadership Development Programs
Such programs aim to build a robust women leadership pipeline that helps managers achieve their desired roles.
Adding more women in leadership roles can improve organizations in terms of all genders. Potential benefits can include increased revenue, job satisfaction, and commitment.
Women’s leadership programs can help break barriers by creating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
Leadership training programs for women can provide development and support to help individual women navigate challenges and prepare for more senior roles. Other goals of such programs may include:
- Building self-clarity
- Balancing self-promotion with authenticity
- Building a strategic network
- Aligning goals and intentions
- Creating a better work-life balance
Employee Resource Groups
A women’s employee resource group (WERG) is a voluntary, employee-led group that helps foster a diverse and inclusive workplace.
This objective is aligned with an organization’s mission, values, goals, and business practices.
The activities of WERGs often include:
- Increased diversity and fostered inclusion
- Professional development
- Amplification of the internal and external amplification of women
- Mentorship and sponsorship
- Recruitment, retention, and advancement of women
Mentoring is a progressional activity that involves a trust relationship and meaningful commitment. Mentoring’s origins date back to ancient Greece, imparting crucial personal, spiritual, and social values to young men.
Today, women’s leadership mentorship can help create change through shared learning. This process can help reduce gender bias in the workplace and empower the next generation of female leaders.
Through such programs, young women can build personal capacity to help reduce gender bias in the workplace.
Mentorship allows emerging female leaders to leverage the knowledge and experience of established women leaders.
Mentorship programs can offer participants a wide range of options. Multiple formats include one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. In addition, mentorship media include phone, email, and online video calls.
Gender Inclusion Programs
Gender inclusion programs and initiatives facilitate learning about potential gender bias. They can range in scope from small coaching sessions to gigantic webinars.
The objectives of gender inclusion programs may include:
- Creating a learning-focused environment
- Providing an enhanced learning experience
- Keeping participants accountable for learning
- Tailoring learning experience to individuals’ and groups’ specific needs
- Optimizing opportunities for individuals to interact and practice
- Helping participants achieve learning objectives
Gender awareness is crucial for gender-inclusive programs. Facilitators with experience in gender awareness may be more suited to addressing the issues the women participants may encounter.
They can also help foster the development of leadership, confidence, assertiveness, resilience, and self-advocacy.
This media can share the life stories of women who have blazed a trail in their respective fields.
These videos can help inspire the next generation of women leaders considering education or career in particular fields.
Video and live streaming have skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, making video series a practical option promoting gender equality. Consider that YouTube is the world’s second-largest search engine, following its parent company, Google.
In addition, a video series offers more convenience for viewers to consume content. They can view each video at their convenience, rather than watching a lengthier single video.
Board Members’ Initiatives
Such initiatives enable a company’s board members to interact with senior female leaders. Such initiatives allow the latter to share their perspectives and suggestions to enhance DE&I practices.
Board members can often help facilitate conflict resolution in situations involvinG DE&I issues.
The senior female leaders can function as mediators to help negotiate solutions that promote increased general equality in the workplace.
Virtual Inclusion Labs
These labs can help develop an inclusive culture, implement habits of inclusion, and promote the language of inclusion.
This process makes employees active and accountable in creating an inclusive community within the company.
The theme of this year’s Women’s Day (March 8) focused on women in leadership in a COVID-19 world. Women worldwide are working towards an equal future as nations recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United Nations (UN) Gender Equality campaign calls for women’s rights for decision-making on issues like equal pay and health care services.
Various organizations, programs, and platforms are available to help achieve those goals, including leadership development programs, gender inclusion programs, and video series.
Women leaders can contribute their skills, knowledge, and networks to help meet the challenges of companies and nations.
The UN challenges the world to achieve “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”
About the Author
Stanley Clark is a community development volunteer and writer. He had worked on several commercials, events, and campaigns before writing full-time in the area of natural health and wellness. He has a particular interest in reviewing CBD brands for their safety and legitimacy. Interested in breaking the taboo about cannabis, Stanley believes in CBD’s potential for helping people and communities with their health and wellness concerns. | <urn:uuid:10045329-77be-4a1b-a4f4-21af1750e725> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philanthropyjournal.com/break-the-bias/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.926184 | 1,330 | 3.015625 | 3 |
In the past, companies of Vietnam tour always were the ones who explored and developed new routes and then discusses with airlines to find out the best airfares, which allowed to design the tours with competitive tour fees. However, the roles have been interchanged as airlines themselves act as the advanced parties, who march forward and suggest cooperation with travel firms to attract more travelers.
When airlines go ahead
In early November 2011, Vietnam Airlines, the national flag air carrier, cooperated with South Korean Arirang travel firm to bring representatives of leading HCM City-based travel firms to the new destinations on the itinerary from Busan to Seoul. In the immediate time, travel firms can design the tours for the travelers who want to enjoy the winter in the land of gimchi with skiing areas, warm indoor water parks, amusement park Lotte World. After that, from next year, many other tours would be designed for different seasons of the year.
In the winter flight schedule, Vietnam Airlines has decided to provide direct flights from Vietnam to London in the UK from December 8, 2011. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism VNAT is building up a promotion campaign to support domestic travel firms to grab the opportunities to attract British travelers.
Not only the domestic Vietnam Airlines, foreign air carriers have also paved the way for the cooperation between airlines and travel firms. The representative of Air Mauritius in November carried out a survey and discussed with partners, so that it can introduce clients to Vietnamese travel firms.
In order to encourage Vietnamese travel firms to learn about Mauritius, an island in Indian Ocean which remains unfamiliar to Vietnamese people, the air carrier has decided to offer preferential airfares until December 31, 2011.
Meanwhile, the office of Air Mauritius in Vietnam has been authorized to follow procedures to grant visas to Vietnamese travelers. Just five days after receiving lawful documents for applying for visas, people would get visas after paying the fee of 30 dollars.
Travel firms believe that once the tours to Mauritius are designed, they would attract a lot of Vietnamese travelers. Mauritius is warm all year round, many beautiful beaches, waterfall rapids, hills, colorful land, and a lot of beautiful landscapes created by volcanic activities.
The way for development widened
Jet Airways can see the opportunities to attract the clients who travel between Vietnam and India, which has prompted it to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Vietnam Airline in October, which prepared the way to open a direct air route between the two countries.
While waiting for the direct air route to be opened, Jet Airways has offered the special airfares for return tickets for the year-end season. The passengers who fly from Vietnam to India, only have to pay 381 dollars, and if counting on the taxes, the sums of money passengers have to pay are still lower than the airfares set up by other airlines.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhien, Deputy Director of Vector Aviation, the general booking agent of Jet Airways in Vietnam, said that with the reasonable airfares and the network of more than 50 destination points of Jet Airways’ network, it would be easy for travel firms to organize tours.
Meanwhile, Nguyen Thanh Hai from Fiditour said he pays a special attention to the fact that Aerosvit Airlines will provide direct flights from HCM City to Kiev from December 23, 2011. The air carrier, with 70 destination points, would allow passengers to travel to many countries in the world, which can create favorable conditions for travel firms to design the tours to Europe. | <urn:uuid:7eb83d97-2e61-4b8e-994c-bd4aa2141e45> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.footprintsvietnam.com/Travelnews/Airlines-clear-the-way-for-tourism-to-develop.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00159-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945961 | 719 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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Understanding your accounting and reporting requirements can be daunting for any startup owner. Compliance is time consuming, and mistakes can lead to hefty fines. This new business checklist will give you the framework necessary to educate yourself on accounting processes for startups and small businesses. Following these steps can help you launch your business on the proper footing.
New Business Checklist Step 1: Accounting 101
The first step in any new business checklist is to understand what accounting is and why it matters. Founders without a business background usually need to sign up for a fundamental accounting course or hire a trained finance professional.
It’s critical to understand the two different methods of accounting and how they impact your business’s financial reporting. It’s also important to become intimately familiar with the three basic financial statements. Every business decision you make will require understanding and using these statements. You’ll use them to create budgets, forecast financial performance, and model different scenarios. Financial ratios such as operating margin, debt-to-equity ratio, and return on assets help you further understand the health of your business.
New Business Checklist Step 2: Entity Types
The next step is to understand the benefits and drawbacks of different legal structures. You’ll need both an attorney and a certified public accountant (CPA) well versed in the intricacies of the corporate tax code. Based on that advice you can decide on the appropriate legal structure and file the necessary paperwork. You’ll also need to understand the ongoing compliance requirements to maintain your business entity. If need be, put all the important reporting dates in your calendar.
New Business Checklist Step 3: Bookkeeping and Financial Reporting
One of the easiest ways to stay in compliance is to open a separate bank account and credit or debit card for all business transactions. Check with your local bank to see what documents you need. You usually need to bring your articles of incorporation or organization, employer identification number (EIN), and personal identification.
Once you’ve created a separate account, it’s time to purchase bookkeeping software customized for small businesses. Load all of your previous bank transactions, set up your chart of accounts, and start categorizing transactions. Make sure to have a CPA or tax advisor check any transactions you don’t understand. Never, ever “guess” when it comes to accounting issues. Those mistakes can lead to hefty fines from state or federal agencies.
Your software will let you produce and review your financial statements. Compare the results to past periods and to your budget targets. Use these numbers to enhance financial forecasts and communicate performance to management and investors.
You also need to be prepared for an audit, so keep your records organized and up to date. This makes the audit process easier and less intrusive.
New Business Checklist Step 4: Payroll
Payroll can be tricky, especially when it comes to finding the right labor classification for your hires. Every new business checklist should include reading through the IRS 20 Factor test for guidance. Once you’ve classified your labor force, collect a W9 from contractors and federal and state W4’s from employees.
You also need to choose a payroll provider, set a payment frequency, and register with the appropriate tax jurisdictions. Any employee benefits need to be recognized by payroll since they will be taxed as well.
You’re also bound by state labor laws and workers’ compensation requirements. Each employee will need to receive a W-2 and contractors earning over $600 will receive a 1099 so they can file their taxes.
New Business Checklist Step 5: Tax Compliance
Your business will also have to file taxes. Work with your CPA to determine which form is required to file for your entity and its due date. Depending on your business entity, you may make multiple tax payments throughout the year. Ensure that you regularly set aside money to meet these obligations. For example, retailers are required to collect and remit sales tax. You may also need to pay annual “franchise taxes” for your business entity to be recognized in certain states.
If you have questions about tax obligations, ask your CPA. You usually will need that expert advice to evaluate tax treatment of any overseas holdings.
Using Your New Business Checklist
A new business checklist requires keeping track of many moving pieces. You need to understand how your business performance is represented in multiple financial statements. You need to establish a legal identity and the bookkeeping processes to track how you deploy capital. Tax compliance is critical and can be complicated depending on your industry and location. This framework should help you identity the key processes to get your business running and avoid some of the most common mistakes. If you follow these steps and rigorously analyze your financial statements, your small business will be ready to carve out its piece of the market. | <urn:uuid:882ff2d3-d9e1-4273-bad3-dbef6003e341> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://founderscpa.com/new-business-accounting-checklist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.929992 | 987 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Return of Ringo – my soul was born
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Archimedes was having a bath, Newton was sitting under a tree when it happened. All of a sudden these two men knew how the problem that had been tormenting them could be solved. In science and religion the experience is called epiphany, the moment of sudden insight.
Most of us are neither a Newton nor an Archimedes, and even though we eat apples and have a bath from time to time, we don’t make any scientific discoveries. And yet we have moments of epiphany. The secular, every-day-experience owes a lot to the descriptions of it by Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941). In his stories and novels, characters often experience a moment in which things become manifest to them: a veil seems to be lifted, as if this person’s life is literally revealed. Joyce called these experiences “the moment the soul is born” (*1).
I had this experience when I first watched a spaghetti western. In Dutch (movie titles were translated in those days) the movie was called Ringo Keert Terug, meaning Ringo’s Return or Return of Ringo (*2). What attracted me most, was the high publicity board above the entrance of the theatre (Cinema Rembrandt in my birthplace, Eindhoven). It was a painting, in harsh colors, of a cowboy, handling his gun with his left hand, supporting his shooting hand with his wounded right arm. The title was also fascinating: Return of Ringo: Where had he been to? Why did he return?
I was a fan of TV-westerns like Rawhide and High Chaparral, and had already seen a couple of westerns in cinema, but this film was different from anything I had experienced before. It looked different and it sounded different. It took me a while to get used to it – a couple of minutes, a quarter of an hour – to realize that this music and the deliberate style of film making were putting me in a trance. Before the film was over, I felt hypnotized.
A couple of weeks later, I saw my second spaghetti western in cinema: Sergio Leone‘s Once upon a Time in the West. Even Giuliano Gemma‘s most devoted fans won’t be offended when I say that the experience was even more overwhelming. The Man with the Harmonica haunted my daydreams and nightmares for months. In an interview, director John Carpenter once confessed that one question went through his head all the time when he first saw the movie:
“What the hell is this?”
I had no idea either, but I knew these two movies had changed my life. I had found my favorite genre, my favorite style of film making. My soul was born (*3).
Sergio Leone would always remain my favorite film maker, Giuliano Gemma my dearest childhood hero. He was not the first though. My first true hero was Old Shatterhand, the noble friend of all Indians from the Karl May stories and movie adaptations, but Old Shatterhand was a school master, a man who told boys to behave well and always be polite, even to their enemies. I was a bit fed up with schoolmasters by this time (I was fourteen) and needed a man to look up to, a role model. When I wasn’t watching cowboy movies, I was thinking about girls. Bello Giuliano was the perfect role model: he could shoot straight, even with his (wrong) left hand, and if I only had his looks, all the girls would be crazy about me. I dreamt of becoming a movie star in those days.
Most Gemma western got an 18 rating in Holland and Belgium, so I wasn’t allowed to see them, but I was able to pick some of them up a decade later, when the genre became popular for late night showings. I’ve seen all Gemma westerns by now, some of them more than five or six times, if possible in all available languages. I even have a Thai release of Arizona Colt. Giuliano Gemma speaking Thai. Just imagine.
Life is short, like a brief candle, Shakespeare tells us (*4), but according to those who believe, the soul is an eternal flame. I’m not a believer, but for a childhood friend I make an exception.
- 1. James Joyce, A Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist, Penguin, 1969, p. 203
- 2. Il Ritorno di Ringo (Return of Ringo – 1965, Duccio Tessari) is a classic spaghetti western, one of the earliest classic genre examples, appearing on most genre fans’ lists of favorite movies. It’s currently N°19 on the Spaghetti Western Database Top 20, the highest ranked Gemma movie after I Giorni dell’Ira (Days of Anger), N°14 on the list.
- 3. In those years, it often took films a while to reach Dutch cinemas, still it seems unlikely that I saw Return of Ringo and Once upon a Time in the West within a span of a few weeks. Ringo is from ’65, Once Upon premiered in Holland in September 1969. I must have seen Ringo’s Return in much earlier, probably in 1967 or 1968. But this is how I remember things: it has become my private legend, and western fans have all learned this vital lesson: When the truth becomes legend, print the legend.
- 4. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 5
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In Memory of Stanislav Plucinski and Janina Plucinska.
In memory of our Polish family who were living in Poland when the Russian
Communists invaded our homelands in September 1939. My father, Stanislaw Plucinski,
was arrested and imprisoned without trial for 16 months before being sentenced to 8
years hard labour in Siberia. He was released under the amnesty of August 1941 to join
the Polish II Corp and serve through the war but died in 1948 as a result of his terrible
treatment by the communists while in prison. We do not know what happened to his
parents and the rest of his family.
My mother, born Janina Sielicka, was deported to Siberia in February, 1940, along with
her father, Antoni, mother, Maria, brother, Bronislaw and sister, Sabina. Only my mother
escaped from Russia after the amnesty. She met and married my father in Palestine in
1944 while they were both serving in the Polish Army. Another sister, Wanda, died in
Poland during the war. Three additional sisters, Wiktoria, Stefania and Helena survived
the war but were forced to live under the imposed Communist regime in Poland. Only
one of the sisters lived long enough to enjoy the collapse of the Communist regime in
1989. None of the family was able to return to where they were born after the war
because it was taken by the Communists as part of Belarus. My father and mother are
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Macavity thanks- that comes very close- it does mention the developed mind-citta bhavana (as well as others). I have been doing some research into this and If anyone is interested the 'immeasurable mind' in this sutta refers to the practice of the four divine abidings:
"That noble disciple, headman -- thus devoid of covetousness, devoid of ill will, unbewildered, alert, mindful -- keeps pervading the first direction [the east] with an awareness imbued with good will, likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth.
Thus above, below, & all around, everywhere, in its entirety, he keeps pervading the all-encompassing cosmos with an
awareness imbued with good will -- abundant, expansive, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill will. Just as a strong
conch-trumpet blower can notify the four directions without any difficulty, in the same way, when the release of awareness
through good will is thus developed, thus pursued, any deed done to a limited extent no longer remains there, no longer stays there.
... sitting standing wakling - all times of the day really- as mentioned in the karaniyamatta sutta-sutta on loving-kindness. The type of non-judgemental, positive, accepting, kind awareness that Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) seeks to develop seems to be a first step on this.
Staying at Savatthi. "Monks, if someone were to give a gift of one hundred serving dishes [of food] in the morning, one hundred at mid-day, and one hundred in the evening; and another person were to develop a mind of good-will — even for the time it takes to pull on a cow's udder — in the morning, again at mid-day, and again in the evening, this [the second action] would be more fruitful than that [the first].
"Thus you should train yourselves: 'Our awareness-release through good-will will be cultivated, developed, pursued, handed the reins and taken as a basis, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken. That's how you should train yourselves." | <urn:uuid:e5cbe962-dac9-47dc-84d2-f496186826b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?p=24247 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945669 | 483 | 1.828125 | 2 |
TikTok content creators are posting videos on the platform alleging that One Piece is a racist show using caricatures with exaggerated features for its black characters. These videos are claiming that author Eiichiro Oda’s portrayal of black characters is discriminatory.
This was brought to light via a thread on Reddit’s One Piece subreddit. The original poster of the thread wrote that these TikTok creators “have been trying to ruin the reputation of One Piece by labeling it racist [sic].” The user then went on to say that as a black male, they disagree heavily with what’s being alleged in these TikTok videos because many characters by Oda have exaggerated features—even if they’re not dark-skinned.
The post resonated with the community as it became one of the top posts of the week in the subreddit. People agreed with the poster, with many pointing out that almost every character in One Piece has unrealistic and stylised features.
Others also pointed out that Oda’s story is about acceptance and tackling discrimination. The series also deals with heavy issues like corruption, slavery, oppression, and protecting the vulnerable of society.
One Piece can be mistaken for racist media if the characters with these exaggerated features are taken out of context. But like any other large fandom, the anime community also has a toxic side to it and some members of this community may be just spreading misinformation to their audiences who haven’t watched One Piece yet. But who cares what some random TikTok accounts are posting? Some users said that it’s important to talk about this and put a stop to it, as it could lead to a snowball effect with people who haven’t watched the show ending up taking this inaccurate claim as fact and spreading it around. | <urn:uuid:3db15d87-6930-45a3-8d5c-99c9b0a8f380> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://in.ign.com/8-man-after-158805/173046/news/tiktok-creators-call-one-piece-racist-fans-school-them-about-how-it-isnt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.96921 | 365 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Effects of surface slope on erosion rates of quartz particles
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Modeling sediment erosion is important in a wide range of environmental problems. The effects of various environmental factors on erosion rates have been studied, but the effects of surface slope on erosion rates of a wide range of sediments have not been quantified. The effects of surface slope, both in the direction of flow (pitch) and perpendicular to the flow (roll), on erosion rates of quartz particles were investigated using the Sediment Erosion at Depth Flume (Sedflume).
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Contributing Monkie G Living Staff Monkies
Published on April 9, 2008
Buying a new car has always been a big decision – even back in the days when oil was the only available fuel option. But today’s choices are more important than whether or not to spring for power windows or how many speakers you need to do justice to Led Zeppelin IV.
Today you must choose what your car runs on – which is a far more daunting choice than decking out the inside because it’s both a moral and a logistical decision. While you may want your new car to be more environmentally friendly than your previous one, you have to consider how convenient it’s going to be to fuel it/charge it and whether or not the technology in which you invest a third of your yearly income will still be around four or five years later when you’ve paid it off.
Even for the avid follower of alternative fuel cars, there seems to be an overwhelmingly diverse amount of information out there. Luckily for you (and me), Josh Loposer has compiled everything into a neat little ride and posted it on Green Daily.
First off, Loposer cites statistics released by the Auto Alliance saying that U.S. car dealers sold 1.8 million alternative fuel vehicles last year, ranging from hybrid cars (over 347,000) to flex-fuel ones. Compared to seven years ago when there were only 12 alternatives available, there are currently 70, including 24 hybrids. This is all good news for the planet because it means we’re definitely getting hip to the importance of alternative technology and making strides to wean ourselves off our fossil fuel addiction.
One of the reasons these numbers aren’t even higher, says Loposer, is the lack of infrastructure. “For example, out of the 170,000 gas stations in the U.S.,” he writes, “only about 1,500 carry E85.” But hopefully in time, the old supply and demand adage will prevail.
As for the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the article says manufacturers are working on them, but the likelihood of owning one in the near future is grim – in part because of the car’s massive price tag (about $250,000).
Which alternative fuel will win the race? At this point, it’s hard to tell. But I think it’s safe to assume that none of them will go the way of the laserdisc anytime soon, so if you’re in the market for a new car, be sure and check out all your options and buy the one that makes the most sense for you.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), you should take at least 10,000 steps a day to reap the many benefits of walking. That's about five miles – far less steps than the average sedentary person takes a day, so says The Walking Site, a comprehensive online resource for walkers. Here's how to get more walking mileage into your day.
Got errands? Forget the car and hoof it to whatever destinations are within walking distance. You'll burn about 60 calories in just 15 minutes of moderate walking (about 70 if you step it up to a brisk pace). Also opt to take the stairs instead of an elevator or escalator, or park at the back of the lot at your grocery store or mall and take advantage of the added distance. May seem like a meaningless move, but those extra steps will definitely add up.
You may be walking more than you think. Keep track of all of those steps you take with a low-cost pedometer. Proof that a pedometer works: A recent study by Stanford University reports that people who use pedometers and set daily step goals walk significantly more than people who don't.
Research shows that medium-tempo music can keep you motivated throughout your walk. So when you get ready to walk, pop in your headphones and tune into your favorite playlist. (Try one of these 10 workout playlists.) Or, try a podcast workout and get a trainer's advice and instruction along with your tunes.
Just as good friends help you get through the toughest times, they can assist you in plowing through a tough workout, too. Even if you meet just once a week, that's more motivation than you'll have if you step solo. So grab a pal – or two – and start up a walking group. Keep in mind that co-workers and neighbors also make great walking buddies so be on the look out for new partners whenever you're walking.
Want to walk for a difference? Check out charity walks, like The Breast Cancer 3 Day, a 60-mile walk over three days that raises money for breast cancer research. And be sure to check out The Walking Site for more events throughout the year.
Walking is a low-impact way to burn calories, tone your muscles, improve your cardiovascular health and reduce your risk of chronic diseases. This convenient form of exercise can be done anywhere, anytime and only requires a pair of comfortable, supportive walking shoes. So get up and get walking.
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One of two free attractions at Disneyland sponsored by Monsanto was this walk-through tour of a plastic house with plastic furnishings and fascinating modern appliances such as dishwashers, microwave, intercom system, and closets filled with polyester clothes. Designed by Marvin Goody & Richard Hamilton, the house only existed for the 10 year length of Monsanto’s lease, at which time they moved on to the Adventure Thru Inner Space attraction. Goody & Hamilton were MIT architecture faculty members sponsored by Monsanto to find new markets for their plastic products. They took 2 years to design the 1,280 sq. ft. home, at which time they formed their own private firm to take over the commercial planning of the project.
When it was dismantled, the house was so indestructible that the crew gave up and left some of the support pilings in place (they can still be seen in Neptune’s Grotto between the Tomorrowland entrance and Fantasyland). Supposedly the planned one-day demolition ended up taking two weeks as the wrecking ball just bounced off the exterior. Workers cut the house into pieces with hacksaws.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/1/2010 (2563 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
My first thought, upon hearing about the terrible earthquake in Haiti was: "Oh God, no -- not Haiti!" That's the last thing that desperately poor country needs.
Thoughts also turned to Haitian friends, people I learned to know when I was involved in international development efforts in that country. I wondered where they were, and if they were alive.
Another thought was about what I could do; over supper on Wednesday evening our family agreed together on what we could all give to help.
My thoughts then drifted back four years to the 2006 Asian tsunami, and to a series of articles I wrote for the Free Press about the response to that disaster. A review indicated that what was said back then about the best ways to help people in need, and to understand the relief process, was still applicable today.
First, if you want to help, send cash. That is the best and most useful gift that relief agencies can receive. There may come a time when blankets, clothing and other material aid is needed, but not now. They won't know exactly what they will need -- or the best way for them to help -- until they've had some time to do a proper assessment. Plus, cash can get there immediately; clothing will take weeks or months to arrive.
Second, be careful who you give to. Unfortunately, disasters not only bring out the best in people -- they also bring out the worst in some charitable organizations. Disasters can attract aid groups like moths to a flame; they want to be where the money is going. Groups that have never been in Haiti will suddenly launch appeals, even though they have no experience in the country. Worse, new groups with no international relief experience at all will spring up, asking for your money. If you want to be sure your donation achieves maximum benefit, give to an established aid group that was working in Haiti before the earthquake.
Third, don't even think of getting on a plane to Haiti. It doesn't matter if you swing a mean hammer, or know a thing or two about plumbing. The last thing a country with millions of homeless people needs is more homeless people -- particularly homeless people who don't speak the language, and who don't know where to begin to help. The time may come when volunteers are needed, but not now.
Fourth, be patient. The response will seem painfully slow, even though the needs are so plain to see. Why aren't relief groups moving quicker? Relief work, when done well and done right, requires careful planning. There's no point in two groups ending up in the same town or neighbourhood while other areas of the country or city go without, or in providing the wrong kind of assistance. Complicating everything is the massive damage in Haiti; doing good relief work is challenging in the best of circumstances, and this is the worst possible situation.
Fifth, be prepared for things to go wrong. All aid groups know that things won't turn out exactly as planned. Some aid will go missing. Some will be stolen. Some will end up for sale in the local market. It's normal, and they expect it. The other thing they expect are media reports about lost, stolen or missing aid; as sure as night follows day, reports about misappropriated donations will make the news some days or weeks down the road. When that happens, remember that for every story about missing aid, there are thousands of unreported stories of aid that ended up exactly where it was needed most at the right time. If anything, it's a miracle that things go as well as they do, considering how difficult and challenging things are in that country.
Finally, don't let this be your first and last donation for international relief and development this year. Long after the media is gone, the needs in Haiti will remain; relief groups will need your donations in summer, and fall, and even longer. And not just for Haiti, but also for the dozens of other disasters around the world that have received little, or no, media attention.
Relief Web, an organization that keeps tabs on needs around the world, indicates that there are at least 13 other disasters in the world today; relief groups need your gifts to help those people, too.
But it all starts with a gift; make your donation today.
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The more anthropomorphic primates of the Hominini tribe are placed in the Hominina subtribe. They are characterized by a progression of increasingly erect bipedal locomotion. The only existing species is Homo sapiens. Fossil records indicate this subtribe branched from the common ancestor with the chimpanzee lineage about 3-5 million years ago.
This subtribe is usually described to include Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Sahelanthropus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus, and Homo. However, the exact makeup is still under debate, as some scientists struggle to determine the order of descent in human evolution.
Key features of this group involve various adaptations for living terrestrially instead of arboreally. One feature is an erect bipedal stance and the skull placed on top of the vertebral column. The feet are not prehensile unlike the rest of primates, because the first toe is but robust and aligned with the other four. The hands have a developed opposable thumb and are quite adept at manipulating objects.
Currently it is believed that about 2.6 million years ago, Australopithecus began to diverge into two parallel paths, on the one hand to Paranthropus, more robust, specialized in an herbivorous diet that required a stronger jaw and molars and powerful facial muscles that required a cranial crest to unite them. The other track led to Homo with a relatively larger brain, more graceful teeth and jaw. Both genera existed at the same time for about a million and a half years.
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The Poetry Out Loud recitation contest encourages high school students to learn great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.
Starting in December, students participate in classroom, school, and regional contests. Finalists advance to a state competition in Juneau on Feb. 22, 2011. The state champion will travel to the national finals in Washington, D.C., on April 27 through April 29, 2011.
Poetry Out loud seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by capitalizing on trends in poetry recitation and performance. Students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
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Philippines flood toll tops 1 000
Cagayan De Oro - Survivors of devastating Philippines flash floods face a growing threat of disease including cholera and typhoid, officials warned on Wednesday as the death toll rose above a thousand.
Some 44 000 people who fled as huge torrents swept away shanty towns in the nation's south are packed in evacuation camps without proper sanitation, and officials fear the sites are potential breeding grounds for epidemics.
Tropical storm Washi struck the southern island of Mindanao over the weekend, bringing heavy rains, flash floods and overflowing rivers that swept entire coastal villages away.
Civil defence chief Benito Ramos put the death toll at 1 010 and warned it could climb further as victims swept out to sea began washing ashore, with some corpses turning up nearly 100km away.
"They are washing up on the beaches," he said. "I expect that [the toll] will go up because there are still many missing," he said.
Ramos said he expects the toll to reach around 1 100 but warned that many of the deceased who were swept to sea would never be found.
"In our experience, after three days, [a body] will emerge but after another three to five days, it will submerge again," he said.
His office put the number of missing at 46.
Eighteen unclaimed corpses were buried in individual tombs in Iligan on Wednesday, after 38 were interred a day earlier, said city official Teresita Herrera.
Officials said on Wednesday that hundreds of decaying bodies and their overpowering stench had to be dealt with but attention should now focus on protecting the living, particularly in the shelters.
Assistant Health Secretary Eric Tayag warned the crowded conditions could lead to outbreaks of leptospirosis, diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, and dysentery, with children and pregnant women the most vulnerable.
Health Undersecretary Ted Herbosa said the government was bracing for possible outbreaks next week.
"There were no reported cases of illnesses yet, but we are in constant monitoring of incident of diarrhoea and respiratory illness which we expect to emerge next week," he told reporters.
The areas hardest-hit by the storm were the port cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, where crowded slums built on sandbars near the mouths of major rivers were washed away in the dead of night.
Conditions remain chaotic at the evacuation centres, mainly schools and gymnasiums, and with no running water fire trucks were being used to deliver supplies.
"The problem is we only have one or two toilets per school, and they have to cater to 3 000 or 4 000 users," said Iligan health officer Levy Villarin.
Dante Pajo, a member of the Cagayan de Oro city council, said there was not enough food or water for the city's 26 000-plus evacuees.
At a Cagayan de Oro gymnasium, 52-year-old grandmother Adela Campaner lined up at mid-morning for bowls of porridge - the first meal of the day for herself and her two grandchildren.
"I am ashamed that I have to beg for food," she said, vowing to return to their devastated riverside shantytown as soon as possible and resume her roadside restaurant business.
Wearing donated, mismatched T-shirt and pants, she said she had not taken a bath for three days and was forced to retreat from the school's toilet earlier in the day due to the repulsive smell.
The gym was packed beyond capacity with people sleeping on mats and sheets of cardboard that filled every available space.
Some 276 000 people are receiving emergency assistance, including many who have shunned the evacuation centres and are sheltering with relatives - unable to return home as the government has forbidden them from returning to flood-prone areas.
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Binghamton University offers translation technologies workshop
Deborah Folaron, language and translation studies expert, will lead a “Translation and Up-to-Date Technologies” workshop at Binghamton University, June 21 - 22. The two-day workshop will offer hands-on experience with translation software and explore the various tasks and skills needed to translate and localize a product for the multilingual, international market.
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I don't really believe anything I write about the government shutdown is going to make a difference, but the handful of people who are responsible for it seem deaf and blind to any logic but their own ("Fund the government, then negotiate," Oct. 7).
Shutting down the government because you can't get your way about one law that you dislike isn't why our democracy was created. In fact it was just the opposite. It's what we were trying to get away from, a monarchy controlled by a few that felt it had a divine right to have things its way.
Seventy-five percent of Americans don't agree with the shutdown as a legitimate political tactic. The number of people being hurt by the "trickle down" effect of this increases every day.
The last time that a minority of elected leaders were so blindly attached to a single issue and their dislike of an elected president it cost us dearly in dead soldiers, orphans, widows crippled human beings and drug addicts. The only good news was that the result started us on a road to freedom for everyone.
Healthy debate and compromise are the cornerstones of this democracy, not dictating the terms through any means possible against the will of the people. The shutdown serves no one's interest.
If they think that the tactic is so valid and right, they need to include themselves in no pay and no benefits. A friend suggested that if the services aren't being rendered, then our tax payments should be withheld.
Now that makes sense to me.
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|Protein tyrosine kinase|
Tyrosine-protein kinase zap-70
A tyrosine kinase is an enzyme that can transfer a phosphate group from ATP to a protein in a cell. It functions as an "on" or "off" switch in many cellular functions. Tyrosine kinases are a subclass of protein kinase.
The phosphate group is attached to the amino acid tyrosine on the protein. Tyrosine kinases are a subgroup of the larger class of protein kinases that attach phosphate groups to other amino acids (serine and threonine). Phosphorylation of proteins by kinases is an important mechanism in communicating signals within a cell (signal transduction) and regulating cellular activity, such as cell division.
Protein kinases can become mutated, stuck in the "on" position, and cause unregulated growth of the cell, which is a necessary step for the development of cancer. Therefore, kinase inhibitors, such as imatinib, are often effective cancer treatments.
Most tyrosine kinases have an associated protein tyrosine phosphatase, which removes the phosphate group.
- 1 Reaction
- 2 Function
- 3 Regulation
- 4 Structure
- 5 Families
- 6 Clinical significance
- 7 Inhibitors
- 8 Examples
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Protein kinases are a group of enzymes that possess a catalytic subunit that transfers the gamma (terminal) phosphate from nucleotide triphosphates (often ATP) to one or more amino acid residues in a protein substrate side-chain, resulting in a conformational change affecting protein function. The enzymes fall into two broad classes, characterised with respect to substrate specificity: serine/threonine-specific, and tyrosine-specific (the subject of this article).
The term kinase describes a large family of enzymes that are responsible for catalyzing the transfer of a phosphoryl group from a nucleoside triphosphate donor, such as ATP, to an acceptor molecule. Tyrosine kinases catalyze the phosphorylation of tyrosine residues in proteins. The phosphorylation of tyrosine residues in turn causes a change in the function of the protein that they are contained in.
Phosphorylation at tyrosine residues controls a wide range of properties in proteins such as enzyme activity, subcellular localization, and interaction between molecules. Furthermore, tyrosine kinases function in many signal transduction cascades wherein extracellular signals are transmitted through the cell membrane to the cytoplasm and often to the nucleus, where gene expression may be modified. Finally mutations can cause some tyrosine kinases to become constitutively active, a nonstop functional state that may contribute to initiation or progression of cancer.
Tyrosine kinases function in a variety of processes, pathways, and actions, and are responsible for key events in the body. The receptor tyrosine kinases function in transmembrane signaling, whereas tyrosine kinases within the cell function in signal transduction to the nucleus. Tyrosine kinase activity in the nucleus involves cell-cycle control and properties of transcription factors. In this way, in fact, tyrosine kinase activity is involved in mitogenesis, or the induction of mitosis in a cell; proteins in the cytosol and proteins in the nucleus are phosphorylated at tyrosine residues during this process. Cellular growth and reproduction may rely to some degree on tyrosine kinase. Tyrosine kinase function has been observed in the nuclear matrix, which comprises not the chromatin but rather the nuclear envelope and a “fibrous web” that serves to physically stabilize DNA. To be specific, Lyn, a type of kinase in the Src family that was identified in the nuclear matrix, appears to control the cell cycle. Src family tyrosine kinases are closely related but demonstrate a wide variety of functionality. Roles or expressions of Src family tyrosine kinases vary significantly according to cell type, as well as during cell growth and differentiation. Lyn and Src family tyrosine kinases in general have been known to function in signal transduction pathways. There is evidence that Lyn is localized at the cell membrane; Lyn is associated both physically and functionally with a variety of receptor molecules.
Fibroblasts – a type of cell that synthesizes the extracellular matrix and collagen and is involved in wound healing – that have been transformed by the polyomavirus possess higher tyrosine activity in the cellular matrix. Furthermore, tyrosine kinase activity has been determined to be correlated to cellular transformation. It has also been demonstrated that phosphorylation of a middle-T antigen on tyrosine is also associated with cell transformation, a change that is similar to cellular growth or reproduction.
The transmission of mechanical force and regulatory signals are quite fundamental in the normal survival of a living organism. Protein tyrosine kinase plays a role in this task, too. A protein tyrosine kinase called pp125 is likely at hand in the influence of cellular focal adhesions, as indicated by an immunofluorescent localization of the said kinase. Focal adhesions are macromolecular structures that function in the transmission of mechanical force and regulatory signals. Among the scientific community, pp125 is also referred to as FAK (focal adhesion kinase), due to its aforementioned presence in cellular focal adhesions. The protein tyrosine kinase pp125 is one of the major phosphotyrosine–containing proteins in unaffected (untransformed) avian and rodent fibroblast cells (fibroblast cells are explained above in some detail). Fibroblasts are a cell type responsible for wound healing and cell structure in animals, among a number of other relatively minor but important jobs that take place often or occasionally. The sequence and structure of pp125, when compared to National Biomedical Research Foundation and GenBank data bases, may be quite unique, meaning that it could be a new member of the protein tyrosine kinase family. This protein tyrosine kinase is up to about 70% unique compared to some other protein tyrosine kinases, a figure that is unlike those between actual members of an established protein tyrosine kinase family. Also, the amino acid sequence that was observed indirectly signifies that it is associated with the cytoplasm, dubbing it one in a large group of cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinases. It was discovered when monoclonal antibodies were observed to recognize it. Monoclonal antibodies, from chicken embryo cells transformed by pp60v-src, recognize seven different phosphotyrosine-containing proteins. One of these monoclonal antibodies, named 2A7, recognizes pp125, support for the idea that pp125 is, in fact, a protein tyrosine kinase.
Cellular proliferation, as explained in some detail above, may rely in some part on tyrosine kinase. Tyrosine kinase function has been observed in the nuclear matrix. Lyn, the type of kinase that was the first to be discovered in the nuclear matrix, is part of Src family of tyrosine kinases, which can be contained in the nucleus of differentiating, calcium-provoked kertinocytes. Lyn, in the nuclear matrix, among the nuclear envelope and the “fibrous web” that physically stabilizes DNA, was found functioning in association with the matrix. Also, it appeared to be conditional to cell cycle. The contribution of the Lyn protein to the total tyrosine kinase activity within the nuclear matrix is unknown, however; because the Lyn was extracted only partially, an accurate measurement of its activity could not be managed. Indications, as such, are that, according to Vegesna et al. (1996), Lyn polypeptides are associated with tyrosine kinase activity in the nuclear matrix. The extracted Lyn was enzymatically active, offering support for this notion.
Yet another possible and probable role of protein tyrosine kinase is that in the event of circulatory failure and organ dysfunction caused by endotoxin in rats, where the effects of inhibitors tyrphostin and genistein are involved with protein tyrosine kinase. Signals in the surroundings received by receptors in the membranes of cells are transmitted into the cell cytoplasm. Transmembrane signaling due to receptor tyrosine kinases, according to Bae et al. (2009), relies heavily on interactions, for example, mediated by the SH2 protein domain; it has been determined via experimentation that the SH2 protein domain selectivity is functional in mediating cellular processes involving tyrosine kinase. Receptor tyrosine kinases may, by this method, influence growth factor receptor signaling. This is one of the more fundamental cellular communication functions metazoans.
Major changes are sometimes induced when the tyrosine kinase enzyme is affected by other factors. One of the factors is a molecule that is bound reversibly by a protein, called a ligand. A number of receptor tyrosine kinases, though certainly not all, do not perform protein-kinase activity until they are occupied, or activated, by one of these ligands. It is interesting to note that, although many more recent cases of research indicate that receptors remain active within endosomes, it was once thought that endocytosis caused by ligands was the event responsible for the process in which receptors are inactivated. Activated receptor tyrosine kinase receptors are internalized (recycled back into the system) in short time and are ultimately delivered to lysosomes, where they become work-adjacent to the catabolic acid hydrolases that partake in digestion. Internalized signaling complexes are involved in different roles in different receptor tyrosine kinase systems, the specifics of which were researched. In addition, ligands participate in reversible binding, a term that describes those inhibitors that bind non-covalently (inhibition of different types are effected depending on whether these inhibitors bind the enzyme, the enzyme-substrate complex, or both). Multivalency, which is an attribute that bears particular interest to some people involved in related scientific research, is a phenomenon characterized by the concurrent binding of several ligands positioned on one unit to several coinciding receptors on another. In any case, the binding of the ligand to its partner is apparent owing to the effects that it can have on the functionality of many proteins. Ligand-activated receptor tyrosine kinases, as they are sometimes referred to, demonstrate a unique attribute. Once a tyrosine receptor kinase is bonded to its ligand, it is able to bind to tyrosine kinase residing in the cytosol of the cell.
Erythrocytes as an example
An example of this trigger-system in action is the process by which the formation of erythrocytes is regulated. Mammals possess this system, which begins in the kidneys where the developmental signal is manufactured. The developmental signal, also called a cytokine, is erythropoietin in this case. (Cytokines are key regulators of hematopoietic cell proliferation and differentiation.) Erythropoietin's activity is initiated when hematopoietic cytokine receptors become activated. In erythrocyte regulation, erythropoietin is a protein containing 165 amino acids that plays a role in activating the cytoplasmic protein kinase JAK. The results of some newer research have also indicated that the aforementioned cytokine receptors function with members of the JAK tyrosine kinase family. The cytokine receptors activate the JAK kinases. This then results in the phosphorylation of several signaling proteins located in the cell membrane. This subsequently affects both the stimulation of ligand-mediated receptors and intracellular signaling pathway activation. Substrates for JAK kinases mediate some gene responses and more. The process is also responsible for mediating the production of blood cells. In this case, erythropoietin binds to the corresponding plasma membrane receptor, dimerizing the receptor. The dimer is responsible for activating the kinase JAK via binding. Tyrosine residues located in the cytoplasmic domain of the erythropoietin receptor are consequently phosphorylated by the activated protein kinase JAK. Overall, this is also how a receptor tyrosine kinase might be activated by a ligand to regulate erythrocyte formation.
Additional instances of factor-influenced protein tyrosine kinase activity, similar to this one, exist. An adapter protein such as Grb2 will bind to phosphate-tyrosine residues under the influence of receptor protein kinases. This mechanism is an ordinary one that provokes protein-protein interactions.
Furthermore, to illustrate an extra circumstance, insulin-associated factors have been determined to influence tyrosine kinase. Insulin receptor substrates are molecules that function in signaling by regulating the effects of insulin. Many receptor enzymes have closely related structure and receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and it is said by Lehninger (2008) that the foundational or prototypical receptor enzyme, is insulin. It is interesting to note that insulin receptor substrates IRS2 and IRS3 each have unique characteristic tissue function and distribution that serves to enhance signaling capabilities in pathways that are initiated by receptor tyrosine kinases. Activated IRS-1 molecules enhance the signal created by insulin. The insulin receptor system, in contrast, appears to diminish the efficacy of endosomal signaling.
The epidermal growth factor receptor system, as such, has been used as an intermediate example. Some signals are produced from the actual cell surface in this case but other signals seem to emanate from within the endosomes. This variety of function may be a means to create ligand-specific signals. This supports the notion that trafficking, a term for the modification of proteins subsequent to mRNA translation, may be vital to the function of receptor signaling.
Included in a number of the structural features that can be recognized in all protein tyrosine kinases are an ATP binding site, three residues that are thought to be associated with the function of the third phosphate group (often called the gamma-phosphate group) of an ATP molecule bound to the enzyme, and a possible catalytic site of the enzyme that is an amino acid. Also very common among protein tyrosine kinases are two peptide sequences.
The tyrosine kinases are divided into two main families:
Approximately 2000 kinases are known, and more than 90 Protein Tyrosine Kinases (PTKs) have been found in the human genome. They are divided into two classes, receptor and non-receptor PTKs.
By 2004, 58 receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) were known, grouped into 20 subfamilies. They play pivotal roles in diverse cellular activities including growth (by signaling neurotrophins), differentiation, metabolism, adhesion, motility, death. RTKs are composed of an extracellular domain, which is able to bind a specific ligand, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular catalytic domain, which is able to bind and phosphorylate selected substrates. Binding of a ligand to the extracellular region causes a series of structural rearrangements in the RTK that lead to its enzymatic activation. In particular, movement of some parts of the kinase domain gives free access to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and the substrate to the active site. This triggers a cascade of events through phosphorylation of intracellular proteins that ultimately transmit ("transduce") the extracellular signal to the nucleus, causing changes in gene expression. Many RTKs are involved in oncogenesis, either by gene mutation, or chromosome translocation, or simply by over-expression. In every case, the result is a hyper-active kinase, that confers an aberrant, ligand-independent, non-regulated growth stimulus to the cancer cells.
The first non-receptor tyrosine kinase identified was the v-src oncogenic protein. Most animal cells contain one or more members of the Src family of tyrosine kinases. A chicken sarcoma virus was found to carry mutated versions of the normal cellular Src gene. The mutated v-src gene has lost the normal built-in inhibition of enzyme activity that is characteristic of cellular SRC (c-src) genes. SRC family members have been found to regulate many cellular processes. For example, the T-cell antigen receptor leads to intracellular signalling by activation of Lck and Fyn, two proteins that are structurally similar to Src.
Tyrosine kinases are particularly important today because of their implications in the treatment of cancer. A mutation that causes certain tyrosine kinases to be constitutively active has been associated with several cancers. Imatinib (brand names Gleevec and Glivec) is a drug able to bind the catalytic cleft of these tyrosine kinases, inhibiting its activity.
Tyrosine kinase activity is also significantly involved in other events that are sometimes considered highly unfavorable. For instance, enhanced activity of the enzyme has been implicated in the derangement of the function of certain systems, such as cell division. Also included are numerous diseases related to local inflammation such as atherosclerosis and psoriasis, or systemic inflammation such as sepsis and septic shock. A number of viruses target tyrosine kinase function during infection. The polyoma virus affects tyrosine kinase activity inside the nuclear matrix. Fibroblasts are cells involved in wound healing and cell structure formation in mammalian cells. When these cells are transformed by the polyoma virus, higher tyrosine activity is observed in the cellular matrix, which is also correlated to cellular proliferation. Another virus that targets tyrosine kinase is the Rous sarcoma virus, a retrovirus that causes sarcoma in chickens. Infected cells display obvious structure modifications and cell growth regulation that is extremely unusual. Protein tyrosine kinases that are encoded by the Rous sarcoma virus cause cellular transformation, and are termed oncoproteins. In addition, tyrosine kinase can sometimes function incorrectly in such a way that leads to non-small cell lung cancer. A common, widespread cancer, non-small cell lung cancer is the cause of death in more people than the total number in breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer together.
Research has shown that protein phosphorylation occurs on residues of tyrosine by both transmembrane receptor- and membrane-associated protein tyrosine kinases in normal cells. Phosphorylation plays a significant role in cellular signalling that regulates the number and variety of growth factors. This is evidenced by the observation that cells affected by the Rous sarcoma virus display obvious structural modifications and a total lack of normal cell growth regulation. Rous sarcoma virus-encoded oncoproteins are protein tyrosine kinases that are the cause of, and are required for, this cellular transformation. Tyrosine phosphorylation activity also increases or decreases in conjunction with changes in cell composition and growth regulation. In this way, a certain transformation exhibited by cells is dependent on a role that tyrosine kinase demonstrates. Protein tyrosine kinases, have a major role in the activation of lymphocytes. In addition, they are functional in mediating communication pathways in cell types such as adrenal chromaffin, platelets, and neural cells.
A tyrosine kinase can become an unregulated enzyme within an organism due to influences discussed, such as mutations and more. This behavior causes havoc; essential processes become disorganized. Systems on which the organism relies malfunction, resulting often in cancers. Preventing this type of circumstance is highly desirable. Much research has already noted the significant effect that inhibitors of the radically functioning protein tyrosine kinase enzymes have on related ailments. (See Tyrosine-kinase inhibitor )
Non-small cell lung cancer
Cancer’s response to an inhibitor of tyrosine kinase was assessed in a clinical trial. In this case, Gefitinib is the inhibitor of tyrosine kinase. Incorrect tyrosine kinase function can lead to non-small cell lung cancer. Gefitinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets the epidermal growth factor receptor, inducing favorable outcomes in patients with non-small cell lung cancers. A common, widespread cancer, non-small cell lung cancer is the cause of death in more people than breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer together. This is strong motivation to perform research on tyrosine kinase inhibitors as potential targets in cancer treatment. Gefitinib, functioning as an epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, improved symptoms related to non-small cell lung cancer and resulted in radiographic tumor regressions. This is an example of the efficacy of such an inhibitor. The process of inhibition shows how the cancer sustains. Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor activate signalling pathways that promote cell survival. Non-small cell lung cancer cells become dependent on these survival signals. Gefitinib’s inhibition of the survival signals may be a contributing factor to its efficacy as a drug for non-small cell cancer treatment.
Gefitinib is well endured by humans, and treatment resulted in a symptom improvement rate of 43% (with 95% confidence in a 33%-53% interval) for patients that received 250 mg of Gefitinib and 35% (with 95% confidence in a 26%-45% interval) for those that received 500 mg. In the trial, epidermal growth factor receptor showed a rapid response to the inhibitor, as demonstrated by the improvement of the cancer symptoms. In each group, improvements were noted after a single week of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment. Gefitinib application once per day caused “rapid” symptom improvement and tumor regressions in non-small cell lung cancer patients. In the field of medical research, this is an especially significant example of the use of an inhibitor to treat tyrosine kinase-associated cancer. Chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy were the only major options available prior to the discoveries made in this trial. The side-effects of Gefitinib oral treatment once per day were considered significant. Diarrhea was reported in 57% of patients in the 250 mg group and in 75% of the 500 mg group. One patient had diarrhea more severe than Grade 2, with up to six bowel movements in only one day. Also, a death occurred possibly due to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment; however, the correlation is not exactly clear. In addition, skin toxicity was observed in 62% of patients in the 250 mg group. Nevertheless, the side-effects of Gefitinib were only “generally mild, manageable, noncumulative, and reversible.” Unfortunately, ceasing to take the inhibitor may be the only reversal strategy of the unfavorable symptoms. Gefitinib still represents a reasonably safe and effective treatment compared to other cancer therapies.
Furthermore, epidermal growth factor receptor plays a crucial role in tumorigenesis, which is the production of a new tumor. By 2010 Two monoclonal antibodies and another small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor called Erlotinib had also been developed to treat cancer.
July 12, 2013 FDA approved afatinib "multiple recepptor, irreversible TKI" for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation
Chronic myeloid leukemia
BCR-ABL is a constitutively activated tyrosine kinase that is associated with chronic myeloid leukemia. Tyrosine kinase activity is crucial for the transformation of BCR-ABL. Therefore, inhibiting it improves cancer symptoms. Among currently available inhibitors to treat CML are imatinib, dasatinib, nilotinib, bosutinib and ponatinib.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are known to withstand cancer chemotherapy treatment and do not respond to any kind of therapy (in 2001) in advanced cases. However, tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 (imatinib) is effective in the treatment of patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors consist of a cluster of mesenchymal neoplasms that are formed from precursors to cells that make up the connective-tissue in the gastrointestinal tract. Most of these tumors are found in the stomach, though they can also be located in the small intestine or elsewhere in the intestinal tract. The cells of these tumors have a growth factor receptor associated with tyrosine kinase activity. This growth factor receptor is called c-kit and is produced by a proto-oncogene (c-kit). Mutation of c-kit causes the constitutive activity of tyrosine kinase, which results in cancerous gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Results of c-kit mutation include unrestricted tyrosine kinase activity and cell proliferation, unregulated phosphorylation of c-kit, and disruption of some communication pathways. Therapy with imatinib can inhibit the non-normal cell signaling mechanisms in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. This results in significant responses in patients and sustained disease control. By 2001 it was no longer doubted that this inhibitor can be effective and safe in humans. In similar manner, protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 was found to significantly reduce the physical size of tumors; they decreased roughly 65% in size in 4 months of trialing, and continued to diminish. New lesions did not appear, and a number of the liver metastases completely reduced to non-existence. The single patient in the study remained healthy following treatment. There are no effective means of treatment for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors, but that STI571 represents an effective treatment in early stage cancer associated with constitutively active c-kit, by inhibiting unfavourable tyrosine kinase activity.
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To reduce enzyme activity, inhibitor molecules bind to enzymes. Reducing enzyme activity can disable a pathogen or correct an incorrectly function system; as such, many enzyme inhibitors are developed to be used as drugs for the general public.
GIST and Imatinib
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are mesenchymal tumors that affect the gastrointestinal tract. Treatment options have been limited. However Imatinib, as an inhibitor to the malfunctioning enzyme, can be effective.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia and nilotinib
If imatinib does not work, patients with advanced chronic myelogenous leukemia can use nilotinib, dasatinib, bosutinib, ponatinib, or another inhibitor to the malfunction enzyme that causes the leukemia. This inhibitor is a highly selective Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Sunitinib is an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor that acts upon vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR), platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), stem cell factor receptor, and colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor (Burstein et al. 2008)
Gefitinib and Erlotinib inhibit the tyrosine kinase domain of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and can be used to treat lung and pancreatic cancer where there is often over-expression of this cell-surface receptor tyrosine kinase.
Kinase inhibitors can also be mediated. Paracrine signalling mediates the response to epidermal growth factor receptor kinase inhibitors. Paracrine activates epidermal growth factor receptor in endothelial cells of the tumor to do this.
Human proteins containing this domain include:
AATK; ABL; ABL2; ALK; AXL; BLK; BMX; BTK; CSF1R; CSK; DDR1; DDR2; EGFR; EPHA1; EPHA2; EPHA3; EPHA4; EPHA5; EPHA6; EPHA7; EPHA8; EPHA10; EPHB1; EPHB2; EPHB3; EPHB4; EPHB6; ERBB2; ERBB3; ERBB4; FER; FES; FGFR1; FGFR2; FGFR3; FGFR4; FGR; FLT1; FLT3; FLT4; FRK; FYN; GSG2; HCK; IGF1R; ILK; INSR; INSRR; IRAK4; ITK; JAK1; JAK2; JAK3; KDR; KIT; KSR1; LCK; LMTK2; LMTK3; LTK; LYN; MATK; MERTK; MET; MLTK; MST1R; MUSK; NPR1; NTRK1; NTRK2; NTRK3; PDGFRA; PDGFRB; PLK4; PTK2; PTK2B; PTK6; PTK7; RET; ROR1; ROR2; ROS1; RYK; SGK493; SRC; SRMS; STYK1; SYK; TEC; TEK; TEX14; TIE1; TNK1; TNK2; TNNI3K; TXK; TYK2; TYRO3; YES1; ZAP70
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- Joensuu H, Roberts PJ, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Andersson LC, Tervahartiala P, Tuveson D, Silberman S, Capdeville R, Dimitrijevic S, Druker B, Demetri GD (April 2001). "Effect of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 in a patient with a metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor". N. Engl. J. Med. 344 (14): 1052–6. doi:10.1056/NEJM200104053441404. PMID 11287975.
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- le Coutre P, Ottmann OG, Giles F, Kim DW, Cortes J, Gattermann N, Apperley JF, Larson RA, Abruzzese E, O'Brien SG, Kuliczkowski K, Hochhaus A, Mahon FX, Saglio G, Gobbi M, Kwong YL, Baccarani M, Hughes T, Martinelli G, Radich JP, Zheng M, Shou Y, Kantarjian H (February 2008). "Nilotinib (formerly AMN107), a highly selective BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is active in patients with imatinib-resistant or -intolerant accelerated-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia". Blood. 111 (4): 1834–9. doi:10.1182/blood-2007-04-083196. PMID 18048643.
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This tab holds the annotation information that is stored in the Pfam database. As we move to using Wikipedia as our main source of annotation, the contents of this tab will be gradually replaced by the Wikipedia tab.
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Hanks SK, Quinn AM; , Methods Enzymol 1991;200:38-62.: Protein kinase catalytic domain sequence database: identification of conserved features of primary structure and classification of family members. PUBMED:1956325 EPMC:1956325
Internal database links
|SCOOP:||YukC YrbL-PhoP_reg PIP49_C FTA2 Kinase-like HRCT1 GrlR|
|Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch:||Pkinase FTA2 Kinase-like|
External database links
|PROSITE:||PDOC00100 PDOC00212 PDOC00213 PDOC00629|
This tab holds annotation information from the InterPro database.
InterPro entry IPR001245
Protein phosphorylation, which plays a key role in most cellular activities, is a reversible process mediated by protein kinases and phosphoprotein phosphatases. Protein kinases catalyse the transfer of the gamma phosphate from nucleotide triphosphates (often ATP) to one or more amino acid residues in a protein substrate side chain, resulting in a conformational change affecting protein function. Phosphoprotein phosphatases catalyse the reverse process. Protein kinases fall into three broad classes, characterised with respect to substrate specificity [PUBMED:3291115]:
- Serine/threonine-protein kinases
- Tyrosine-protein kinases
- Dual specificity protein kinases (e.g. MEK - phosphorylates both Thr and Tyr on target proteins)
Protein kinase function is evolutionarily conserved from Escherichia coli to human [PUBMED:12471243]. Protein kinases play a role in a multitude of cellular processes, including division, proliferation, apoptosis, and differentiation [PUBMED:12368087]. Phosphorylation usually results in a functional change of the target protein by changing enzyme activity, cellular location, or association with other proteins. The catalytic subunits of protein kinases are highly conserved, and several structures have been solved [PUBMED:15078142], leading to large screens to develop kinase-specific inhibitors for the treatments of a number of diseases [PUBMED:15320712].This entry represents the catalytic domain found in a number of serine/threonine- and tyrosine-protein kinases. It does not include catalytic domain of dual specificity kinases.
The mapping between Pfam and Gene Ontology is provided by InterPro. If you use this data please cite InterPro.
|Molecular function||protein kinase activity (GO:0004672)|
|Biological process||protein phosphorylation (GO:0006468)|
Below is a listing of the unique domain organisations or architectures in which this domain is found. More...
The graphic that is shown by default represents the longest sequence with a given architecture. Each row contains the following information:
- the number of sequences which exhibit this architecture
a textual description of the architecture, e.g. Gla, EGF x 2, Trypsin.
This example describes an architecture with one
Gladomain, followed by two consecutive
EGFdomains, and finally a single
- a link to the page in the Pfam site showing information about the sequence that the graphic describes
- the UniProt description of the protein sequence
- the number of residues in the sequence
- the Pfam graphic itself.
Note that you can see the family page for a particular domain by clicking on the graphic. You can also choose to see all sequences which have a given architecture by clicking on the Show link in each row.
Finally, because some families can be found in a very large number of architectures, we load only the first fifty architectures by default. If you want to see more architectures, click the button at the bottom of the page to load the next set.
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This superfamily includes the Serine/Threonine- and Tyrosine- protein kinases as well as related kinases that act on non-protein substrates.
The clan contains the following 23 members:ABC1 Act-Frag_cataly Alpha_kinase APH APH_6_hur Choline_kinase DUF1679 DUF2252 EcKinase Fructosamin_kin Kdo Kinase-like KIND PI3_PI4_kinase PIP49_C Pkinase Pkinase_Tyr Pox_ser-thr_kin RIO1 Seadorna_VP7 UL97 WaaY YrbL-PhoP_reg
We store a range of different sequence alignments for families. As well as the seed alignment from which the family is built, we provide the full alignment, generated by searching the sequence database (reference proteomes) using the family HMM. We also generate alignments using four representative proteomes (RP) sets, the UniProtKB sequence database, the NCBI sequence database, and our metagenomics sequence database. More...
There are various ways to view or download the sequence alignments that we store. We provide several sequence viewers and a plain-text Stockholm-format file for download.
We make a range of alignments for each Pfam-A family:
- the curated alignment from which the HMM for the family is built
- the alignment generated by searching the sequence database using the HMM
- Representative Proteomes (RPs) at 15%, 35%, 55% and 75% co-membership thresholds
- alignment generated by searching the UniProtKB sequence database using the family HMM
- alignment generated by searching the NCBI sequence database using the family HMM
- alignment generated by searching the metagenomics sequence database using the family HMM
You can see the alignments as HTML or in three different sequence viewers:
- a Java applet developed at the University of Dundee. You will need Java installed before running jalview
- an HTML page showing the whole alignment.Please note: full Pfam alignments can be very large. These HTML views are extremely large and often cause problems for browsers. Please use either jalview or the Pfam viewer if you have trouble viewing the HTML version
- an HTML-based representation of the alignment, coloured according to the posterior-probability (PP) values from the HMM. As for the standard HTML view, heatmap alignments can also be very large and slow to render.
You can download (or view in your browser) a text representation of a Pfam alignment in various formats:
You can also change the order in which sequences are listed in the alignment, change how insertions are represented, alter the characters that are used to represent gaps in sequences and, finally, choose whether to download the alignment or to view it in your browser directly.
You may find that large alignments cause problems for the viewers and the reformatting tool, so we also provide all alignments in Stockholm format. You can download either the plain text alignment, or a gzipped version of it.
We make a range of alignments for each Pfam-A family. You can see a description of each above. You can view these alignments in various ways but please note that some types of alignment are never generated while others may not be available for all families, most commonly because the alignments are too large to handle.
1Cannot generate PP/Heatmap alignments for seeds; no PP data available
Key: available, not generated, — not available.
Format an alignment
We make all of our alignments available in Stockholm format. You can download them here as raw, plain text files or as gzip-compressed files.
You can also download a FASTA format file containing the full-length sequences for all sequences in the full alignment.
HMM logos is one way of visualising profile HMMs. Logos provide a quick overview of the properties of an HMM in a graphical form. You can see a more detailed description of HMM logos and find out how you can interpret them here. More...
If you find these logos useful in your own work, please consider citing the following article:
This page displays the phylogenetic tree for this family's seed alignment. We use FastTree to calculate neighbour join trees with a local bootstrap based on 100 resamples (shown next to the tree nodes). FastTree calculates approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from our seed alignment.
Note: You can also download the data file for the tree.
Curation and family details
This section shows the detailed information about the Pfam family. You can see the definitions of many of the terms in this section in the glossary and a fuller explanation of the scoring system that we use in the scores section of the help pages.
|Number in seed:||123|
|Number in full:||55024|
|Average length of the domain:||232.00 aa|
|Average identity of full alignment:||24 %|
|Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:||35.71 %|
|HMM build commands:||
build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED
search method: hmmsearch -Z 17690987 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
|Family (HMM) version:||15|
|Download:||download the raw HMM for this family|
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This visualisation provides a simple graphical representation of the distribution of this family across species. You can find the original interactive tree in the More....
This chart is a modified "sunburst" visualisation of the species tree for this family. It shows each node in the tree as a separate arc, arranged radially with the superkingdoms at the centre and the species arrayed around the outermost ring.
How the sunburst is generated
The tree is built by considering the taxonomic lineage of each sequence that has a match to this family. For each node in the resulting tree, we draw an arc in the sunburst. The radius of the arc, its distance from the root node at the centre of the sunburst, shows the taxonomic level ("superkingdom", "kingdom", etc). The length of the arc represents either the number of sequences represented at a given level, or the number of species that are found beneath the node in the tree. The weighting scheme can be changed using the sunburst controls.
In order to reduce the complexity of the representation, we reduce the number of taxonomic levels that we show. We consider only the following eight major taxonomic levels:
Colouring and labels
Segments of the tree are coloured approximately according to their superkingdom. For example, archeal branches are coloured with shades of orange, eukaryotes in shades of purple, etc. The colour assignments are shown under the sunburst controls. Where space allows, the name of the taxonomic level will be written on the arc itself.
As you move your mouse across the sunburst, the current node will be highlighted. In the top section of the controls panel we show a summary of the lineage of the currently highlighed node. If you pause over an arc, a tooltip will be shown, giving the name of the taxonomic level in the title and a summary of the number of sequences and species below that node in the tree.
Anomalies in the taxonomy tree
There are some situations that the sunburst tree cannot easily handle and for which we have work-arounds in place.
Missing taxonomic levels
Some species in the taxonomic tree may not have one or more of the main eight levels that we display. For example, Bos taurus is not assigned an order in the NCBI taxonomic tree. In such cases we mark the omitted level with, for example, "No order", in both the tooltip and the lineage summary.
Unmapped species names
The tree is built by looking at each sequence in the full alignment for the family. We take the name of the species given by UniProt and try to map that to the full taxonomic tree from NCBI. In some cases, the name chosen by UniProt does not map to any node in the NCBI tree, perhaps because the chosen name is listed as a synonym or a misspelling in the NCBI taxonomy.
So that these nodes are not simply omitted from the sunburst tree, we group them together in a separate branch (or segment of the sunburst tree). Since we cannot determine the lineage for these unmapped species, we show all levels between the superkingdom and the species as "uncategorised".
Since we reduce the species tree to only the eight main taxonomic levels, sequences that are mapped to the sub-species level in the tree would not normally be shown. Rather than leave out these species, we map them instead to their parent species. So, for example, for sequences belonging to one of the Vibrio cholerae sub-species in the NCBI taxonomy, we show them instead as belonging to the species Vibrio cholerae.
Too many species/sequences
For large species trees, you may see blank regions in the outer layers of the sunburst. These occur when there are large numbers of arcs to be drawn in a small space. If an arc is less than approximately one pixel wide, it will not be drawn and the space will be left blank. You may still be able to get some information about the species in that region by moving your mouse across the area, but since each arc will be very small, it will be difficult to accurately locate a particular species.
The tree shows the occurrence of this domain across different species. More...
We show the species tree in one of two ways. For smaller trees we try to show an interactive representation, which allows you to select specific nodes in the tree and view them as an alignment or as a set of Pfam domain graphics.
Unfortunately we have found that there are problems viewing the interactive tree when the it becomes larger than a certain limit. Furthermore, we have found that Internet Explorer can become unresponsive when viewing some trees, regardless of their size. We therefore show a text representation of the species tree when the size is above a certain limit or if you are using Internet Explorer to view the site.
If you are using IE you can still load the interactive tree by clicking the "Generate interactive tree" button, but please be aware of the potential problems that the interactive species tree can cause.
For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.
We also count the number of unique sequences on which each domain is found, which is shown in green. Note that a domain may appear multiple times on the same sequence, leading to the difference between these two numbers.
Finally, we group sequences from the same organism according to the NCBI code that is assigned by UniProt, allowing us to count the number of distinct sequences on which the domain is found. This value is shown in the pink boxes.
We use the NCBI species tree to group organisms according to their taxonomy and this forms the structure of the displayed tree. Note that in some cases the trees are too large (have too many nodes) to allow us to build an interactive tree, but in most cases you can still view the tree in a plain text, non-interactive representation. Those species which are represented in the seed alignment for this domain are highlighted.
You can use the tree controls to manipulate how the interactive tree is displayed:
- show/hide the summary boxes
- highlight species that are represented in the seed alignment
- expand/collapse the tree or expand it to a given depth
- select a sub-tree or a set of species within the tree and view them graphically or as an alignment
- save a plain text representation of the tree
Please note: for large trees this can take some time. While the tree is loading, you can safely switch away from this tab but if you browse away from the family page entirely, the tree will not be loaded.
There are 13 interactions for this family. More...
We determine these interactions using iPfam, which considers the interactions between residues in three-dimensional protein structures and maps those interactions back to Pfam families. You can find more information about the iPfam algorithm in the journal article that accompanies the website.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Pkinase_Tyr domain has been found. There are 1688 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein seqence.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
How do frogs help us to add & subtract?
Well - frogs jump and we are learning to jump
from a starting number in lots of different ways.
Some of us jump in twos.
Some of us jump in fives.
Some of us jump in tens.
And some of us jump in hundreds.
We discovered that some of our frogs
were 'take-away' frogs. Can you guess
which way they jumped?
We practise reading every day in Room 2. Everyone chooses a book from their browsing box or brings one from home. The chosen book must be one that each child can read independently. We love reading and listening to stories. Thank you for the wonderful books sent from home.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
We learnt about some of the dangers that penguins face. Here are some members of Room 2 as penguins trying to navigate oil slicks, pollution, feral cats and other threats. It was great to have Richard de Hamel with us to share his expert knowledge of the marine ecosystem. | <urn:uuid:9eee9d66-0549-49ab-84b9-c55bd5e901a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://room2tasman.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00204-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948079 | 235 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Hi, my name is Meredith and I am helping to raise funds to assist Dr. Susan Aycock further her medical ministry eliminating cervical cancer in underdeveloped countries. Each of these thermocoagulators, a thermal ablation device to treat cervical cancer, are $1600, any and all donations would greatly benefit those who otherwise could not receive treatment.
In August 2020, the WHO passed a resolution calling for the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem by 2030. The low-medium income countries (LMIC) represent 90% of the cervical cancer deaths worldwide, where it is the number one cause of cancer death. Strategies to achieve this aggressive target include cervical screening of 70% of all women twice by ages 35 and 45 as well as 90% treatment of precancerous cervical disease. Several screen-and-treat or screen-triage-treat models exist which are appropriate for LMIC. In each of these models, the technique of Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) is essential to reach measurable outcomes.
The technique of VIA involves application of 5% acetic acid in the form of common table vinegar to the exposed cervix with the plan to ablate the tissue if an abnormal pattern develops that is appropriate for such local treatment. To be eligible for immediate ablation, a lesion must be visible in its entirety, cover less than 75% of the cervix, have the squamoclumnar junction fully visible, and lack signs of adenocarcinoma.
When VIA is used as the initial screen, it is found to be well tolerated by the patient and provider, low cost, and provides the opportunity for same-day treatment, which avoids loss to follow-up. The downside of VIA screen is that as a technique, it has a low sensitivity between 55-80% but even with this carries a 38% reduction of CIN3+ over a 3-year period.
When VIA is used as a triage, it is best coupled with a high sensitivity test such as high-risk Human Papilloma Virus (hrHPV). However, even when the HPV is positive, the patient must still be visualized to be sure that the above-mentioned criterion are met to determine appropriateness for treatment. Since point-of-care testing for hrHPV testing is still not widespread there is loss to follow-up to locate the patient and provider, especially with the advent of self-collection. Overall, it demonstrates a 3-year reduction of CIN3+ of 77%.
What follows is a curriculum to equip a medical provider to contribute to this WHO goal by providing an overall understanding of WHO strategy and targets. In addition, it will allow a student to approach mastery of cervical screening and treatment of precancerous lesions over the course of a one-month rotation. The source of the curricular materials comes from WHO-sanctioned content consisting of three web-based modules. The workshop will provide hands-on experience using ablative tools to include the thermal ablation gun.
Dr. Aycock is setting up a program in Honduras for others to learn how to screen and treat cervical pre-cancers. Having a thermal ablation device to leave with the community would complete their training program. | <urn:uuid:f7a8cdec-33a6-4b64-aa7c-32f05ae7cb48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-eliminate-cervical-cancer?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.950473 | 666 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Frankincense, a tree resin used in perfumes and incense, faces a projected decline in tree populations due to burning, grazing and insect attacks, scientists said.
Ecologists studied more than 6,000 Boswellia trees that produce the fragrant tree resin in northwestern Ethiopia and found that the tree populations signaled a major decline in tree growth over the next 15 years, scientists said.
The Journal of Applied Ecology published the results online Tuesday.
Current management of Boswellia populations is clearly unsustainable, Frans Bongers, forest ecologist at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and study author, said in a statement. Our models show that within 50 years populations of Boswellia will be decimated, and the declining populations mean frankincense production is doomed. This is a rather alarming message for the incense industry and conservation organizations.
Boswellia trees grow in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Their byproducts are frequently used in herbal remedies. Bongers said that extracting the resin is not the cause of decline.
Frankincense extraction is unlikely to be the main cause of population decline, which is likely to be caused by burning, grazing and attack by the long-horn beetle, which lays its eggs under the bark of the tree, Bongers said in a statement.
The declining population could also be due to the fact that older trees are not usually replaced. Wildlife and livestock may also have something to do with the decline.
The number of fires and intensity of grazing in our study area has increased over recent decades as a result of a large increase in the number of cattle, and this could be why seedlings fail to grow into saplings, Bongers said in a statement. At the same time, a large proportion of trees we studied died after being attacked by the long-horn beetle. | <urn:uuid:bc219c55-d154-4ecb-8746-0de4bd300210> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.com/frankincense-future-smoke-scientists-say-385976 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954891 | 374 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Considering flood risk in our projects can seem like an un-necessary hurdle to jump in the permitting process. For our clients, it may seem like a distraction at best and, at worst, a huge cost in terms of flood management infrastructure. In many of the places EMI works, proper site grading plans, landscaping and water management are under-valued design services. Even in areas where local legislation does not require proper flood/water management compliance, we have an ethical duty to protect human life and enable communities to flourish. Flooding causes death, loss of home and livelihoods, risk of disease, and spread of solid waste. As many as 107,487 people died due to heavy rains and floods across India over 64 years between 1953 and 2017, according to Central Water Commission.Note 1 During this period, damage to crops, houses, and public utilities was reported to be 50.9 billion USD.
A Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) is the first step in flood management and includes an investigation of the source(s) and extent of the flood risk based on historic flooding records and theoretical modelling. In addition, knowledge of the local and regulatory context is required to understand potential man-made factors which may affect the flooding or potentially constrain the interventions.
Types of Potential Flooding Sources
Often known as surface water from rain-fall
i.e. burst municipal pressurized water mains
Resevoirs and Glacial
i.e. burst dam, glacial lake ouburst
Flood Risk can be managed at the site level, but also the local, regional and national level. Where does EMI fit in? Although EMI has made successful contributions beyond the site level to impact whole communities (such as flood and erosion protection for an island community in the River Krishna and development of a Flood Resilience Strategy for a district in Bangladesh), predominantly, our sphere of influence and scope of work is related to the site level, with consideration of local factors. EMI projects typically are concerned with campus development in a defined plot of land, for which we are responsible for considering flood risk and developing good grading and drainage plans. At a local level, EMI investigates the external topography, hydrology, water courses and public drains that may affect the development.
However, when planning a development, we must assess both the Flood Risk to the development and from the development, the latter being the less well known concern. In the absence of legislative enforcement, developers are likely to ignore the impact of their development on other properties or the wider environment. For a number of EMI clients in India, their properties have suffered increased flooding due to ill-planned development on neighbouring land. Using satellite imaging such as Goole Earth, we can track the impact of developments over the last 20+ years. From this we can see when a developer has ignored the natural flood routes and built up land which otherwise would be flood storage or flood conveyance.
New developments normally increase the impermeable surface area of the site compared to the pre-developed case. This results in an increased storm-water runoff rate. This increased rate can cause an increased flood risk in neighbouring properties/assets. However this can be managed, using attenuation (extra storage volume) and controlling the discharge rate using flow control technology.
Sources for Flood Risk Assessments
Given the importance of understanding the true nature of flooding problems, EMI uses a variety of sources for input.
Historic Flooding Data and Flood Mapping
The first point of reference for an FRA is a study of available flood data and flood mapping. Useful historic information could include photographs of notable events, rainfall data, river or tide level data and impact assessments. In some cases, flood maps created by government agencies to inform development strategies may exist. These maps have potential to represent all known flood sources and illustrate the level of risk using flood risk zones. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has developed flood warning maps which are kept up to date via river level gauges and a comprehensive river system model.
EMI India recently used historic river level data during a feasibility study for a client. The project was to construct a helipad at the side of a river in Manali. By reviewing the observed historic data and correlating this with reports from locals, EMI convinced them early on that this was not a feasible project and had huge environmental implications. Just a week after making this recommendation to the client, a flash flood event occurred leading to river bank failures and devastation of properties.
Theoretical modelling enables the engineer to predict the frequency, extent and magnitude of the flooding. Where it may be relevant to the development in question, river modelling may be done through the HEC-RAS programme. To model over-land flow and surface water flooding, Micro-Station is ideal. Storm and Sanitary (now part of the Civil 3D package) can be used to evaluate surface water runoff and the adequacy of drainage networks.
Hand methods using the rational method enable a reasonable estimate of peak surface water runoff. This method can be used in the absence of costly software and may be most appropriate as a quick check during a project trip. Ideally the engineer can calibrate the catchment runoff characteristics, by measuring the flow rate in a stream or drain and the associated rainfall intensity-duration data.
Theoretical modelling can only be as good as the source data used. Therefore it is beneficial to triangulate the theoretical predictions and historical data with anecdotal information from the communities directly affected by the flooding. This information can be obtained through large community gatherings or meetings with specific demographics within the community. This information adds to the overall picture about the extent and magnitude of flooding. However, it is also extremely useful to identify the vulnerabilities within the community and the impact to people and property. It is helpful to understand what the communities perceived challenges and needs are during the flood and the existing mechanisms and capacities within the community to respond to the flood event.
Drawing together these inputs for potentially complex flood mechanisms and the investigated impacts is crucial in order to properly define the problem before proposing solutions. The Problem Tree is a useful tool to draw to do this, showing the causal path between the problem source and the adverse outcomes.
In addition to the possible legal requirement, an FRA is an ethically critical first step before Flood Risk Management Solutions can be proposed. The FRA draws upon investigations into available historic data, theoretical modelling and community engagement. Once the full nature of the flood risk and adverse impacts are understood, the overall goal and purposes of possible interventions may be defined.
EMI may, in future, be required to engage beyond the local level; especially where the government does not have a strong evidence based flood risk strategy. In particular, this could be in relation to larger infrastructure projects: roads, airstrips or micro-hydro power. Additionally, EMI could engage more with strategic planning of refugee camps, or Flood Risk Reduction programs at a regional level.
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In my world, computers tell you that they want to die. They start doing something a little odd as an initial warning and then get progressively more troublesome. I had been contemplating the replacement of my system for a while but recently, the CPU cooling packed up completely and I was stuck between getting some replacement parts or getting on with the new system. I went the latter route. This was helped by having a bunch of components on the old system that had been upgrades and could easily transplant across to the new machine. This reduced what I needed to buy.
Things did not end up being plain sailing sadly. I built up the system and got everything ready to run. A press of the button and nothing happened. In fact, that isn’t quite true. There was a brief whirr from the power supply followed by a tiny wisp of smoke. Great! A dodgy power supply to start with. Fortunately, the supply on the old system was good. It didn’t have as many power plugs and the new one but enough to do the job. However, the system still didn’t seem to be enthusiastic about starting up. I gave up and visited a local computer place and they had a quick look. It turns out my first problem was that a motherboard gets tied in to an OS installation and, since I was now on a new motherboard, it didn’t like the old drive. That means a clean install which is a bit more time consuming. However, that did not end the trouble. The guys in the store couldn’t see anything else wrong so I decided to leave it with them for a longer look.
A problem connector proved to be the issue and then it was a simple process to get the installation of everything done. Things seemed to be running fine for a while but then, when processing some video, it just shut down. I thought it might be a memory error so ran a program called Memtest. it came up with no issues. I tweaked the BIOS settings for the memory but still it would get upset when working too hard. I re-ran Memtest and changed it from Default setting to multi-threading and then it quickly failed. A bit more information but still no solution.
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Millions of people live with high blood pressure. Having an elevated blood pressure not only makes you feel bad, but it can have life threatening repercussions. A normal blood pressure runs 120/80 and can vary a little on either end for some people, but if it starts running too high on a regular basis, blood pressure medications may be necessary to help control it. There is a wide variety of reasons why blood pressure may become elevated, and sometimes it can spike high suddenly without warning. When it does, it is important to try to get it lowered as soon as possible. Keep your blood pressure in check with an Omron blood pressure monitor.
Risks of high blood pressure
If your blood pressure runs high, or spikes suddenly, not getting it under control can cause severe medical problems, permanent damage to organs or even death. Some of the most serious risks of high blood pressure include:
- Heart attack
- Poor circulation
- Damage to the heart or heart muscle
Lower blood pressure quick
When your blood pressure is up or suddenly spikes and you need to lower it quickly, there are some things you can do, outside of taking your blood pressure medicine, to help lower it quickly.
1. Deep breathe
When you take deep breaths, the body slows down naturally and can replenish your blood with more oxygen. Deep breathing has been shown to help lower your blood pressure quickly. First, take in one deep breath to allow more oxygen fill your blood with oxygen. Next, slowly take in ten deep breaths in one minute. This allows your vessels to dilate so that your blood flows more efficiently to the brain and the rest of your body and normalize your blood pressure.
2. Baking soda
Yes, baking soda can help bring your blood pressure down because it is a natural way to spike the pH in your body and make it more alkaline. For a quick, high BP remedy, mix 1/8 of a teaspoon of baking soda into a full glass of water, then add 1-2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and drink it on an empty stomach. You should repeat this concoction twice daily as a regular routine to help regulate your BP. It is safe, so long as you prepare it the way it is recommended and is one way to immediately lower blood pressure.
3. Brisk walk
Opening up those constricted vessels to get better flow to the heart, brain and the rest of your body is critical when your blood pressure elevates. When it does spike, you want to get it lowered as soon as possible, and getting a little active can help dilate the vessels to lower your pressure. Keep in mind that if your pressure is very high, you do not want to overexert yourself, but a gentle activity, such as a brisk walk for ten-30 minutes will help dilate vessels, smooth out the walls of the vessels and allow more blood to flow through, which ultimately brings your pressure down. So take a little brisk walk to lower your pressure quickly.
4. Listen to music
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ICANN 46 in Beijing
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) self-described role is:
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer — a name or a number. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination, we wouldn’t have one global Internet. In more technical terms, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions.
ICANN holds regular meetings where community participants discuss current issues, develop policy proposals and make decisions. Last month’s meeting in Beijing was the largest in ICANN’s history with 2600 people registered as participants including 700 from China.
The timing for the Beijing meeting was good: many human rights advocates are focused on the rapid rise in internet users in China (now more than 540 million) and their access to and ability to participate in global Internet-related policy spaces such as ICANN.
For example, a significant issue that ICANN is confronting, and one that has human rights implications, is its consideration of more than 1500 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .gay, .patagonia and .islam. ICANN determines what gTLDs are available globally and has been implementing a process for the creation of new gTLDs for several years. The first new gTLDs are likely to become available before the end of this year.
The road to the new gTLDs has not been a smooth one and ICANN’s lack of international presence and US-centric operational focus has been a persistent criticism given the global nature of its functions. Partly as a result of this, ICANN appears to be trying harder and doing more to be seen as an international organization. A major announcement at this meeting was the opening of a new ICANN regional office in Beijing. While these new developments are welcome, human rights advocates remain concerned at the impact of ICANN presence in countries where human rights records are severely criticized and access to the internet is curtailed.
The openness of the Beijing meeting and uncensored access to the Internet were raised as concerns by participants in the lead up to the meeting. Many people took additional security protections including use of Tor, VPNs, and bringing alternative devices. During the meeting participants reported a considerable amount of surveillance – rumour had it 7 people were arrested for attempting to use the ICANN VPN, but we did not get good information about who these people were.
Progress but not at the expense of the multi-stakeholder process
In other developments, the ICANN community’s testy relationship with its CEO continues. The latest, Fadi Chehade, has been in the role for just over 7 months and has made a good start including a laudable desire to broker better community engagement. In early 2013 his efforts focused on implementation of the trademark clearinghouse aspects of the new gTLD round. A “straw man” proposal was developed in private meetings between constituencies, but significant policy matters were included in the details and, despite protests from non-commercial constituencies, Registrars and Registries, the proposal was pushed through to the Board for approval at the Beijing meeting.
Attempts to push along implementation of new gTLDs has also ruffled feather and raised human rights concerns. For example, attempts to finalise the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (needed by Registrars who will operate the new gTLDs) foundered with the proposed introduction of a power for the ICANN Board to unilaterally vary the contract. This met with near universal condemnation, not least because it would break the picket fence (or hands off approach) as between the governance of the organisation and hands-on operational matters related to technical coordination functions.
Concerns were also raised about a newly tabled list of registrant “rights and responsibilities” that did not reference human rights. A rights-affirming RAA can have a critical impact on users’ abilities to register and use domain names – for netizens in countries with pervasive online censorship practices or real name registration policies, this is no small matter.
Last minute negotiations in Beijing resulted in a new proposal which is now out for public comment.
These developments are evidence that tensions continue to surface about the democratic nature of this “multi-stakeholder, bottom-up” policy development and technical coordination body. ICANN’s mandate is to be multi-stakeholder, meaning that representatives from governments, registrars, registries, civil society, the technical community and private sector alike can actively participate in the organisations’ processes. But the community messages in Beijing were clear at nearly every public session and the final public forum: circumvention of the multi-stakeholder model is not acceptable, will not be tolerated and should not be sacrificed in order to push ahead with new gTLDs.
One positive outcome from these tensions is a renewed focus on ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), the ICANN policy making body to be respected as the pre-eminent policy making body in ICANN was clear. In order for this to happen, GNSO Council members will need to work together despite their strong philosophical differences.
Increased civil society diversity
Another positive development, especially for those in developing countries and in the global south, is that the number of ICANN civil society community members is growing. The Non-Commercial Users Constituency, http://www.ncuc.org is now the most diverse ICANN constituency group, with nearly 300 members from more than 70 countries. While in Beijing, NCUC hosted a policy event “One World One Internet: new gTLDS in a global changing internet” and launched a new video explaining its role in the ICANN policymaking landscape.
The ICANN fellows, a group of up to 30 participants who received funding to attend the meeting, included more Internet rights advocates including some from Internet governance spaces in Chile, Thailand and Egypt. A number of these participants raised human rights issues about ICANN policy, for example, concerns about the impact of filtering and human rights and ccTLD policy-making. They also emphasized the fact that one of the biggest threats to security and stability of the DNS in some regions is government action and for ICANN to be sensitive to civil society concerns about its international outreach strategies.
Internet governance workshop
A session on Global Internet Governance session was facilitated by Peter Major, the Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. The absence of any women on this panel was very disappointing (it really is time for a gender audit of ICANN’s meetings). However, this session was timely, well attended, and perhaps striking for the lessening of overt tension in discussions of global internet governance in an ICANN context. There is a growing maturity in the conversation about policy shaping forums (such as the Internet Governance Forum, or IGF) and policy making forums (such as ICANN) and how they connect to and influence each other. Participants emphasized that the IGF remains a unique and important space for multi-stakeholder dialogue.
More than 80 government representatives attended the meeting including some new members, such as Lesotho. In a surprise move, almost all Government Advisory Committee meetings were held in closed sessions, many until late at night. However, the traditional GAC communique (through which it provides advice to the ICANN Board) was finally prepared and released during the last public forum.
The communique has some excellent aspects (including the very small number of formal objections to new gTLD applications). However, it has also raised serious concerns as it appears to anticipate registrars and registries having more active roles in monitoring online content. The communique is open for public comment and a number of civil society groups are looking closely at its human rights implications.
All of these issues continue to be discussed and will be followed up at the next ICANN meeting, which will be in Durban.
Internet Rights are Human Rights
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Introduction to Social Media Investigation: A Hands-on Approach
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If you're interested in using social media as an investigative tool, Introduction to Social Media Investigation will show you how! Social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, are some of the most popular services on the Web, with hundreds of millions of users. The public information that people share on these sites can be valuable for anyone interested in investigating people of interest through open, public sources. Social media as an investigative device is in its infancy and not well understood. This book presents an overview of social media and discusses special skills and techniques to use when conducting investigations. The book features hands-on tutorials and case studies and offers additional data-gathering techniques.
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Jennifer Golbeck Ph.D Is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include social network and social media analysis, recommender systems, trust on the web, human computer interaction and and how to use social relationships to improve the way people interact with information. She was named as one of IEEE Intelligent System's "Top Ten to Watch", is a Research Fellow in the Web Science Research Initiative and is a sought after speaker on social media
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Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
The chief Rebbe of Dnepropetrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region Shmuel Kamenetsky, one of the most influential religious figures in the post Soviet space, organizes the International Judaic University (IJU), at which the dogmas of “Habad-Lubavitch” will be taught. According to the Rebbe, 50,000-60,000 Jews live in Dnepropetrovsk, the number of worshippers of the main synagogue of Dnepropetrovsk – about 30,000. The Jewish diaspora of Dnepropetrovsk is the second in numbers in Ukraine, but the communitarian center “Menora” – with an area of nearly 122,000 sq.m – is the largest such construction in the post Soviet space in Europe, and possibly, in the world. (The Moscow Jewish communal center in Maryina Roshcha has an area of only 17,000 sq.m).
Dnepropetrovsk Jews are Hasidic. Hasidism, the doctrine of Ashkenazi Jews, was born on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and extended together with Jews across all Russia. The word “Hasid” itself is close with the word “kind”. Hasidism – righteousness, the doctrine of piety. In Hasidism there are various directions, at the head of which stands Tzadik (teachers, righteous persons, saints). According to the doctrine of Hasidism, God is present everywhere, in each phenomenon and event. The task of the person is to merge with divine light. Hasidim consider joy as the greatest virtue, consider singing and dancing as a way to serve the supreme. It is exactly from here that Jewish music and dances originate. Hasidim consider it correct to comprehend God through emotions. Generally, the doctrine looks certainly positive, but don’t be in a hurry to get in line eager to get into the Kingdom of Heaven through this door. As is known, this road is opened only (with rare exception) for representatives of people chosen by God. I won’t go into details, as the danger of belief in your national exclusiveness is a subject for a whole book, or perhaps not just one.
I already wrote that the Hasidism consists of a number of branches – Karlin-Stolin, Bratslav, Satu Mare, and other Hasidim. In the basis of everyone there was a righteous person. The most powerful network on the distribution of their version of Judaism was created by Hasidim of Habad (Habad-Lyubavich). Their network totals about 3,000 Rebbes — “messengers of the Rebbe” worldwide. According to information from the media, the turnover of Habad reaches $1 billion a year. (For comparison – 10 years ago Deputy Mitrokhin estimated the income of the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole at approximately $500 million. The income of the Pope and all his administrative facilities (curia) – investment in shares, bonds and real estate, and also the means received as donations from devout Catholics in all corners of the world – is about $1 billion).
Its name, Habad, was taken from the little town Lyubavichi in the Smolensk region. The first Rebbe from Lyubavichi arrived to Lyubavichi two hundred years ago. Since then the rank of Lyubavichi’s Rebbe was passed on. Ponder – the position and status of one of the most influential people of the world is descended, like in a monarchy!
The ideological concept of Lyubavichi’s clan is set out in the book “Tanya” written by the founder of the movement Habad-Lyubavich Rebbe Schneour Zalman Schneersohn.
If you see a person in a long black coat or the same color frock coat, trousers from under which white socks are seen, in a black hat from under which long curls of hair protrude, then you have Hasid in front of you. On the footwear there shouldn’t be laces or buckles. Some people tuck their trousers into their socks, which symbolizes distance from terrestrial dirt. It is a lot of men with beards.
Of course, there is no need to observe all rules, for example, women in Habad have to shave their head and wear wigs. Fortunately, now there is not many who do it.
In total there were seven Lubavitcher Rebbe. The most dramatic destiny belonged to the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. In the 30’s, despite the fact that traditional Judaism continued to exist on Soviet territory, it is said that, on Stalin’s personal order, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe was nearly shot. However, thanks to the protection of the international organizations, in particular, the Red Cross, he was left alive, but deported to Poland. Thus, Habad was forbidden in the USSR as an ultra-orthodox sect. For the second time the clouds became dark over the Rebbe in 1939. This time the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe managed to survive thanks to the protection of the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and the head of Abwehr the Admiral Canaris.
Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn without any obstacles crossed the territory of the Reich and moved to the United States. Since the 1940’s the headquarters of the movement Habad-Lyubavich is in New York, in Brooklyn. From 1950 to 1994 the organization was led by the Seventh, the last, Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson – Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s son-in-law, who took his surname and continued the dynasty of Lubavitcher Rebbe. During the governance of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Habad reached unprecedented political and financial power. For reference: Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is a Habadnik. Trump’s daughter Ivanka passed through giyur (procedure by means of which the non-Jew can accept Judaism) and now follows the rules of Habad. It is precisely on this line that Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, who are one of the main sponsors of the Dnepropetrovsk Habad, built a new relationship with the new American President.
Habad returned to the post-Soviet space after Perestroika, and cemented itself as the dominating structure of the Jewish world. The father of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe is from Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav), even his house remains. Here he was arrested by Bolsheviks. Exactly here, in Dnepropetrovsk, he sent the then future Rebbe of Dnepropetrovsk Kamenetsky. And it is also because of this that Dnepropetrovsk became the Habad capital of Ukraine.
The Jewish world is a part of our big world. A very significant part. The processes happening in the Jewish world have a serious impact on culture, economy and politics, on the processes happening around the world. Jewish society is very non-uniform and conflictual. Conflicts are inherent in any human society, and its Jewish part is not an exception. Even in the doomed Warsaw ghetto there were two Jewish underground organizations clashing with each other. The relationship between the quickly growing Habat and the rest of the Jewish world are not at all simple. Their American Jewish relatives denied my Dnepropetrovsk acquaintances when they knew that they are Habadniks. It doesn’t belong to the topic of this article, but without an understanding of the deep internal processes happening in the Jewish world there will be no opportunity to understand many global political processes.
Ukrainian, and especially Dnepropetrovsk Jews, in their main mass adopted and supported Maidan. I don’t know what caused this. Maybe it’s because Habad and its Tzadiks at the time were forcibly obliged to leave Russia. Maybe it’s because the Dnepropetrovsk Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky is mentally American. When he arrived to Dnepropetrovsk, he wasn’t able to speak Russian. He couldn’t rent an apartment for a long time because, according to him, the employees of the KGB impeached him. According to him, the employees of the KGB didn’t allow him to communicate with the only Jew in Dnepropetrovsk who spoke Hebrew.
Or perhaps the reason is in something else. During Maidan one of my good acquaintances, a businessman and politician, a member of Habad, told me that I didn’t choose the good side. That, according to reliable information from the US, the Russians in Ukraine will lose. That, supposedly, hard times will come to Russia, and it isn’t clear if Russia will remain. He had no purpose to convert me. He simply advised me as it seemed to him what was better for me. You remember how in “Taras Bulba” Yankel was surprised that Bulba became angry at Andrey, who came over to the side of the Poles:
“And you didn’t kill him immediately there on the spot, the devil’s son?” exclaimed Bulba.
“For what to kill him? He went under his own will. What is he guilty of? There it is better for him, so he went there.”
I think that it seemed to my acquaintance in this situation that it was logical to side with the winner. For him it was organic as it was for me to organically take my position. Especially in such a situation and in light of such prospects for my Motherland, as my acquaintance described it myself.
It is interesting that the emergence of Habad is connected with the fact that in 1800, at the time when a part of the Jewish leaders supported Napoleon and France, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe (which then still didn’t live in Lyubavichi) supported Alexander I by word and actions. Under his call the Jew Hasidim participated in the Patriotic war of 1812 on the side of the Russian army as scouts. It is precisely because of his position at the time that his family and a part of his followers, fleeing from the coming Napoleon’s army, were compelled to leave Liadi and to move to Lyubavichi. The contribution of the Rebbe in Russian history was noticed and evaluated by the Tsar, who awarded the Rebbe with the title “Hereditary Honourable Citizen”, and then five generations of the head of Habad used this privilege. It is remarkable that after two hundred years of their history, in front of Hasidim appeared the same choice, like before the Jews in 1800, and it is a pity if Jews of the religious Habad in this world confrontation will make not the same choice that was adopted for himself and his followers – the founder of the movement Habad-Lyubavich, the honourable hereditary citizen of Russia Rebbe Shneur-Zalman Schneerson.
Nevertheless, Shmuel Kamenetsky himself repeatedly publicly spoke about the fact that in Ukraine the Jewish world in its main mass supported nationalist Maidan. Moreover, he considers that Russian Jews are zombified by television and intimidated by the authorities. Many Dnepropetrovsk synagogue sponsors, such as Korban and Kolomoisky, created and supported nationalist battalions “Donbass”, “Azov”, “Dnipro-1”. Many of my Jew acquaintances after Maidan passed in everyday life from Russian to Ukrainian. The help of Jewish activists in supplying ATO fighters is unprecedented in volumes. It is amusing to see in the newsfeed on social networks a photo of my some acquaintances in which they alternate their clothes from lapserdak to vyshyvanka, depending on what holiday is on the street – Ukrainian or Jewish.
It is necessary to say that ideas of the Ukrainian nationalism are clear for habadniks, after all, it is they who most actively among all the Jewish world resist the process of assimilation of Jews and are fighters for the purity of blood. Rebbe Shmuel repeatedly stated that their main objective is the “preservation of Jewry and the fight against assimilation”.
It is obvious that such peace and friendship can continue only until the Ukrainian power is able to keep Ukrainian nationalism from aggression in relation to Jews. From communicating with fellow countrymen from Dnepropetrovsk it is seen that the Jewish community is now alarmed. Many are afraid that the activity of the Ukrainian authorities, in which there are so many Jewish people, can strengthen the already-present everyday anti-Semitism. They are afraid of the fact that the impoverishment of the population against the background of the growth in quantity of armed Ukrainian Nazi can lead to pogroms. They are afraid, and seriously, that the anti-terrorist training that in large quantities is carried out now in universities and high schools and the hysteria that now is fomented concerning possible terrorist attacks aren’t accidental. That the power, for the consolidation of the people, will organize acts of terrorism itself, as a result of which children will suffer. Let’s agree that it looks strange that the authorities for nearly three years every week state the alleged detention of tens of Russian terrorists and about alleged hundreds of prevented acts of terrorism against the background of the fact that no act of terrorism was carried out.
As a result many Jews start taking their families out from Ukraine. A symptom of such fears became the increase of security measures in synagogues and bodyguard allocation to Kamenetsky, according to the decision of leaders of the community. Such precautionary measures are introduced for the first time in 18 years of work of the Rebbe Shmuel Kamenetsky in Dnepropetrovsk.
Recently in Jerusalem 64-year-old high-ranking Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch died. Consequences of injuries that he received as a result of an attack in Zhytomyr became the reason of his death. Boris Steklyar – a 94-year-old Jewish veteran of the Soviet Army, is on trial in Ukraine, who fought against Nazism without knowing that not much historical time will pass and the grenade that he threw in 1952 into a cache with nazi-Banderists will be recognized as a war crime.
Coming back to the beginning of the article. The organising in Dnepropetrovsk of the International Judaic University will lead to the fact that all the world Habad’s Rebbenate will receive a start in life from Dnepropetrovsk. And the financing of the University not only come from Dnepropetrovsk – patrons appeared in the US, Israel, Canada. Many already anyway said that Dnepropetrovsk is the new Hasidic capital of the world, but the opening of the university constitutes what was earlier simply spoken about. In fact, after that Shmuel Kamenetsky can safely apply for the status of the eighth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Shmuel Kamenetsky can become one of the most influential people in the World. But it will happen only in case the stake that was placed on Ukrainian nationalism at the time is correct – if the nationalism that transformed into Nazism will not devour those who were so welcoming to it at the time and helped its establishment.
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BeschreibungWhat were the reasons behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th? Does the cause of Islamist terrorism relate to the lack of democracy in the Middle East? Through detailed research into the activities of both radical and moderate organizations across the Middle East, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah, and via interviews with key personnel, Katerina Dalacoura investigates whether repression and political exclusion pushed Islamist entities to adopt terrorist tactics. She also explores whether inclusion in the political process has had the opposite effect of encouraging Islamist groups toward moderation and ideological pragmatism. In a challenge to the conventional wisdom, she concludes that Islamist terrorism is not a direct consequence of authoritarianism in the Middle East and that there are many key factors that generate radicalism.
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Erscheinungsdatum: April 2011
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HEAT Area overviewSee all work areas Market insight Our insight The £320 million Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP), 29 June 2016 29 June 2016 The government is relying on heat networks to deliver a significant amount of the carbon savings required in the fourth and fifth carbon budgets. The comprehensive spending review in November 2015 announced £320 million of new funding for heat networks – christened the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP). Our view at Regen is that it is vital this funding is carefully targeted to get actual projects delivered. We therefore set up a session of our regular local authority District Heat Forum in June to help the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) get feedback on the design of the fund. The session provided some clarity on the HNIP: The HNIP is due to launch in autumn 2016 and first payments are due to be in March 2017 The focus of the scheme is carbon reduction New heat networks, expansions, refurbishments, and interconnections are all likely to be eligible Eligible heat networks may need to meet at least one of the following factors – more than 50 per cent renewable energy, 50 per cent recovered heat, 75 per cent CHP or 50 per cent combination of average heat generated per annum Future-proofing of potential projects is vital. The DECC graphic below provides some guidance on the scope of the support. DECC has a good grasp of many of the issues but still wants to hear your views, particularly any financial information on heat networks – email firstname.lastname@example.org with your feedback. A formal DECC consultation has also been announced, available here. Applications close 3 August 2016. An area of particular interest to Regen is smaller community scale heat networks – we recently published on behalf of DECC, some community-led heat network guidance. We believe that progress at this community scale will be vital alongside city scale schemes and have pressed DECC to support this end of the market. Regen is keen to continue its work with local authorities, asset owners, technology providers and other partners to develop the heat network sector with support from the HNIP. This is an area of growth and opportunity that has gained considerable funding at a time of intense departmental budget scrutiny. Our full consultation response is available here. If you would like to discuss this further please get in contact – email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:5c1209ce-d537-45f1-a4e9-f57654b1b02f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.regensw.co.uk/News/the-320-million-heat-networks-investment-project-hnip-29-june-2016- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00220-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934372 | 491 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The dangerous bacteria E. coli, which can cause kidney failure, was found in 62 private water supplies in 2018.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released their latest report on private water supplies, which serve more than a million people every day.
Monitoring carried out in 2018 found the overall quality of water in these sources, mostly sourced from wells, is "consistently poorer" than in public supplies.
More than 60 private supplies were found to be contaminated with human or animal waste in 2018.
The dangerous bacteria E. coli was found in 62 supplies serving commercial buildings or public buildings.
This can cause illness and, in some cases, can result in severe or long-term kidney failure.
There were also more than 1,000 reported cases of the VTEC infection - a dangerous form of E. coli, which people can get from drinking water contaminated with animal waste.
VTEC infections were up a total of 22% compared to 2017, the EPA says - with the agency adding that Ireland has the highest incidence of this illness in Europe.
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CNN Student News with transcript April 14, Wildfires in Chile; Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa; New Device for Hockey Players to Help Recognize Concussions
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you for taking ten minutes on this Monday April 14th for CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Here to get you up to speed on current events. That includes what`s happening in Chile. We`ve reported on earthquakes that have struck near the long South American country this year. Now, part of Chile is dealing with wildfires. Officials don`t know yet what caused this. But the wind has made it worth. The fires have burnt about 200,000 acres in the Pacific Coast city of Valparaiso. At least 16 people have died, according to police, and hundreds of homes have been lost. Chile`s president has declared a state of emergency and that allows members of the armed forces to get involved in helping firefighters and evacuating people. 10,000 Chileans have had to leave their homes.
Doctors in West Africa have been scrambling to contain the deadly outbreak of Ebola. The virus surfaced earlier this year in Guinea and it has spread to at least one neighboring country. Health officials say so far there are at least 180 suspected or confirmed cased of the hemorrhagic fever, and more than 100 people have died. So you can see how lethal it is.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: They think Ebola comes from forested areas like these ones that you are looking at now. Pathogens, leaving inside of animals that somehow get into humans. And it`s so scary because Ebola is a swift, efficient and very bloody killer. In fact, in some cases nine out of ten people who become infected actually die from this.
It can take anywhere between two and 21 days for someone to start to get sick after they`ve been exposed. That`s called the incubation period. And during that time, they can travel. They can travel around the country or even between countries. That`s the concern. But here`s a little bit of good news. And that is that you are really not contagious. You are not going to spread the virus to other people until you are sick yourself. That`s when the virus is in your bodily fluids, and you`re going to actually be able to spread it. When you are sick, you are down. You`re unlikely to be moving around. You`re unlikely to be getting on a plane. But even after you`ve recovered, in some cases you can still transmit the disease for a period of time after that for up to six weeks. The symptoms here can often start off looking like the flu. You get a headache, people have fever. They start to feel unwell, tired. But after that, it gets unpretty. People actually start to develop significant diarrhea, then they start to vomit, but what really is a hallmark of this, is that it becomes bloody. The body starts to be unable to clot, and as a result you see bleeding on the outside, but it`s the bleeding on the inside that`s the most concerning and it can often cause death.
It`s a difficult thing to test for and that`s part of the problem. IN the beginning of outbreaks like this, nobody knows what`s happening and that`s when people become careless, that`s when health care workers start to get infected, and that`s how something like this starts to spread.
AZUZ: All right. There are a number of precautions that health care officials take, when they are in the areas of disease outbreaks. You might have seen the full body suits worn by them or workers at the CDC. Doctor Gupta is actually in Guinea right now, he shows us how some preparation is in the bag.
GUPTA: What you`re looking at here is a go-bag. It`s what we journalists carry whenever we cover a risky situation, whether it be a combat zone or a natural disaster or an infectious disease outbreak. One of the mandatory things we are always going to have, some sort of first aid kit. We carry that wherever we go. But after that it becomes a little bit more specific. For example, here in Guinea, one of the concerns is malaria, typhoid fever. So we make sure, for example, we have a Deet, simple Deet, we cover ourselves with that. And also, medications for malaria which we started taking a few days before we cover the story. Also, we may find ourselves all set in outside, staying in a tent, so we have something like a mosquito net to protect us that way.
When it comes to Ebola, there are some specific concerns. We know it`s not airborne, but it does spread through bodily fluids, and we know the person who is spreading it is typically very sick before they become contagious. So, the vicinity of people who are already sick we take special precautions besides a mask, for example, we have gloves, to cover up our hands. We have a suit like this to cover up all of our skin, even goggles to protect our eyes. And we`ll wash our hands before and after. These are simple steps, but they can make a huge difference. The key is to do your homework, to make sure you are not taking any unnecessary chances and to make sure you have a go-bag like this to stay prepared.
AZUZ: If you are wondering what other challenges journalists might face when they are in places where diseases and disaster strike, you are already thinking in terms of media literacy. Teachers, we provide a free media literacy question of the day every day. It`s on the transcript page at cnnstudentnews.com.
There are some jaguars roaming the Pacific Northwest specifically they are in the state of Oregon, and they are watching CNN STUDENT NEWS from Stoller Middle School in the Oregonian city of Portland. From there we are swooping down to Gilbert, Arizona. It`s where we found some hawks. They are on the wing at Highland High School. And if you`ve ever wondered what the difference is between a hawk and a warhawk, well one is that the warhawks are in Georgia. They are soaring over Veterans High School in Kathleen.
Two religious ceremonies to tell you about. For Christians, yesterday was Palm Sunday, also known as Passions Sunday. It`s the first day of the Holy Week that precedes Easter. The reason it`s called Palm Sunday is because it commemorates when Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem and the Bible says that crowds took branches of palm trees as they went out to celebrate his arrival.
And today is the beginning of Passover. It`s a Jewish holiday that lasts seven or eight days. Passover celebrates the time when God liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. According to religious scriptures it`s called Passover because on the night when God struck the Egyptians he passed over the homes of the Israelites allowing them to leave.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See, if you can I.D. me. I`m a sport nicknamed the fastest game on Earth. I`m played out over three periods of 20 minutes each. My championship cup was donated by Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley. I`m ice hockey, and I`ve been played internationally since the 1800s. Ice hockey has also been called the most violent sport. Sure, there is the routine fighting you know about in the NHL, but you don`t need a fight to take a hit in hockey. From checking the collisions to just hitting the boards, it`s no wonder why those who are concerned about concussions aren`t just thinking of football. What can be done to help players keep their heads safely in the game?
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In the rough world of ice hockey, a sport where concussions have become all too common, players tough out too often.
JUSTIN STANLICK, HIGH SCHOOOL HOCKEY TEACHER: There`s definitely in the stigma. Fight through it, work through it.
FIELD: But could new technology be a game changer? This is one of several products to hit the market that claims to indicate and keep track of the impact and number of blows to a player`s head.
Researchers are testing a range of this products, questioning how effective they are.
PAUL DAVIS, REEBOK, CHECKLIGHT PROGRAM DIRECTOR: You wear it on your head, and it`s basically feeding information to electronic module.
FIELD (on camera): You are measuring acceleration in rotation.
DAVIS: We are looking for rapid changes in both of those features.
FIELD (voice over): Concussions can happen when the brain moves back and forth or rotates inside the skull because of an impact. According to a study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, concussions account for 22 percent of injuries in boys` high school hockey. But players who take a hit aren`t always willing to sit out and to check light.
DAVIS: It`s a flexible electronic device, worn in your hat for impact indication.
FIELD: A Reebok product equipped with technology that they say could help players check the upright and get potential injuries checked out.
The skull cap with a sensor placed inside it, is worn under a helmet.
(on camera): It`s really up to other players to notice what`s going on back there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s correct.
FIELD (voice over): What`s visible outside the helmet is a small LED panel that lights up when a collision occurs. Yellow from moderate blow, red for a more significant impact. Researchers testing this and similar products say it is unclear what force causes products to trigger after an impact or worse – not to trigger. And that more testing needs to be done to determine just how accurate this devices are. But Reebok says the lights are triggered based on an algorithm that calculates the severity of the impact.
(on camera): Some people are going to wonder if check light can be abused if you are going to see, you know, teenage boys thinking it`s a good idea to light each other up. Are you seeing that?
STANLICK: It kind of goes away after the first, you know, first little bit of getting used to having the technology they stop that .
FIELD (voice over): If check light or similar technologies are proven to be effective, the hope is that in a rough game tough players won`t be left with permanent damage.
AZUZ: 78-years old and she`d never set foot on a rollercoaster. Now, think back. Do you remember your first ride? Were you this excited or just plain terrified? And after things really got going, did you find that this is hysterically funny?
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (LAUGHING)
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AZUZ: Thanks to YouTube. We can all watch Ria Van den Brand, the grandmother from the Netherlands rock-n`-rolling her maiden coaster voyage. Didn`t scream a bit. She was too busy laughing.
It was for an ad campaign so the ride didn`t coast her a penny. It also didn`t seem to roll her nerves or throw her for a loop. Maybe all the twists and turns just felt funny. She clearly thought the whole thing was a gasp, and at the end, we know who got the last laugh. This train is leaving the station. I hope your Monday goes well.
CNN Student News April 15, 2014: Instability in Ukraine; Bostonians Preparing for Marathon While Remembering Last Year`s Terrorist Attack; Lunar Eclipses Causing Blood Moon Effect
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz. It`s great to have you watching CNN STUDENT NEWS. This Tuesday, we are starting in Ukraine, a very unstable country. Some Ukrainians want closer ties to Russia. Others want to align themselves with Western Europe. The crisis is getting worse. Protesters aligned with Russia have taken over Ukrainian government buildings in certain cities. Ukraine`s government set deadlines for those demonstrators to leave or to be forced out by Ukraine`s armed forces. But these deadlines have passed without action by either side.
Ukraine and its allies including the U.S. blame Russia for stirring up instability. They`re concerned Russia may be trying to take over more of Ukraine after an annex the pro-Russian region of Crimea last month. Russia accuses Ukraine of war against its own people and says it`s the West that will determine whether civil war in Ukraine is avoided.
From Ukraine we are crossing land and sea, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a city shocked and in many ways strengthened after a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon exactly one year ago. As runners and spectators prepare for the 2014 Marathon next Monday, CNN caught up with a runner who was affected by two terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A freshly painted finish line and with it a new beginning for 36,000 runners ready to cross it.
SALLY DUVAL, RUNNER: April 15th last year was the hardest day I`ve had since, you know, the fall of 2001, the emotions and feelings came crashing back.
FIELD: When the bombs went off at last year`s marathon, Sally Duval`s husband, a runner, had just reached mile 25. He was unharmed but she quickly became determined.
DUVAL: I knew pretty much right away after last year`s bombings that I was going to run no matter what and there was nothing that could stop me from being a part of it. It was such an emotional, crazy time.
FIELD: For Duval, it was all too similar to that September day almost 12 years before. Her brother, Teddy Maloney, who worked at the World Trade Center, never came home.
DUVAL: I think that I feel very strongly that they can`t keep us down, and these kind of events, these terrorist acts that keep happening, you know, we need to rise above them.
FIELD: This year, running the Boston marathon will still be a feat for the elite, but also a job for runners with unfinished business and an opportunity for anyone who saw the devastation and wants to help heal the heartbreak.
JOANNE POMODORO, CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER: This being my first marathon, I`m really thinking I`m overwhelmed at times, but then I say I have to practice what I preach so I`m healing myself.
FIELD: Joanne Pomodoro is a clinical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital and a first time marathoner. She`s busy training, but also coaching other athletes for the mental hurdles they could face this year at every mile.
POMODORO: PTSD doesn`t come up until probably three months to six months after an event and many times if people don`t work on what the issue is, then they may re-experience it, so not being at the course, not training again on the course, and then all of that might become a flooding experience, with too many emotions.
FIELD: Putting one foot in front of the other, Duval has spent years learning how to move forward in the face of devastating loss. This year, she may help show others the way.
DUVAL: I think that you just have to stick with your routine and breathe in and breathe out every day, and the anniversary will come and be very, very emotional, but you move through it and you feel a sense of relief as you get past that day.
AZUZ: Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Today, CNN STUDENT NEWS “Roll Call” is raving up in Dearborn, Michigan with the thunderbirds of Edsel Ford High School. From there, we are rolling east, at NHS school, Carlisle. We are saying hello to the bulldogs in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. And in the Orange State, it`s all about the Eagles. Parkland, Florida is where Stoneman Douglas High has made our roll. Today is tax day in America. It doesn`t sound like a holiday, and it`s not. For a good reason. It`s the deadline for Americans to file their income taxes with the government. About 146 million people share this deadline. It can`t be extended, if needed, but if Americans don`t pay their taxes, they could get in trouble with the IRS at best. And worse, they could land in jail. The 16 Amendment gives the government the power to collect income taxes. And here is what it does with them. Nearly a quarter of the revenue goes to Social Security, 22 percent to health and medical care programs, 19 percent funds national defense, and 12 percent is for safety net programs that help the poor. Veterans programs, interests on the national debt, research and education all factoring as well.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for “The Shoutout.” What is an ambra? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it a shadow, pigment, cover or bird? You`ve got three seconds, go!
An ambra is a shadow. You often hear about ambras during an eclipse. That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
AZUZ: Such as the one people in North and South America were able to see last night. It`s called the blood moon – that sounds kind of creepy. What happened is a total lunar eclipse, the Earth was between the Sun and the Moon, so the Moon was in the Earth`s ambra or shadow. The result, NASA says, made the Moon appear to be a burnt reddish orange color, hence – blood moon. Last night`s observers had to be up really late or really early. It wasn`t scheduled to start until around 2 a.m. Eastern time. The red color wasn`t expected until around 3 a.m., and that was supposed to last an hour, visible only if there were no clouds in the way.
If you missed it, no problem. You`ve got another chance. Though these things occur pretty randomly, by the luck of the draw, scientists expect we`ll see four blood moons over the next year and a half.
When you`ve seen news coverage of disasters, you`ve heard of assistance by the Red Cross, but you probably haven`t heard of Red Paw. You`ve seen shelters set up for people, but you probably haven`t seen one set up for pets. It`s something Jen Leary saw as a problem she could solve. She`s a CNN hero who`s helping people by helping their animals.
JEN LEARY, CNN HERO: I was firefighter in Philly for seven years. You get to a fire scene and the firefighters are there to put out the fire. The Salvation Army and the Red Cross assist the people once the fire is out. But there just wasn`t anyone there to help the other part of the family.
I would see how upset the people were about their animals. Now, where is my pet, and then where is it going to go? These are people`s children. They`ve just lost everything. They shouldn`t then be forced to lose their pets as well.
(on camera): We have a dog displaced by a fire, a Chihuahua. I`m headed to the scene now.
(voice over): We respond 24-7, 365 days a year. We do for pets what the Red Cross does for people.
Now, we went into the basement, found the dog hiding behind something.
Once the fire is under control, we are able to look for the animals and bring them out.
(on camera): Hi, baby. Come here.
(voice over): Red Paw headquarters is my house.
(on camera): High now.
(voice over): We`ve helped close to 1,000 animals. She`s been in my house, and the owner said she was pregnant. Everything that the animal needs .
(on camera): You are hungry?
(voice over): We`ll handle for free for them.
When we reunite the families, it`s a good thing. It`s like this void has now been filled.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, chocolate!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Welcome home!
LEARY: My hope is that it`s a fresh start that they can move forward together. After going through such a sad thing, it`s so good to have a happy ending.
AZUZ: You might have read about the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, the Mark Twain classic. The race at this event in Alabama – not as safe. It`s a rattlesnake rodeo. They are not particularly fast at crawling, which is actually a good thing. They are sure not as safe to handle as frogs, but those who do handle them, say safety is key as is education. This event aims to teach people how to react if they have a close encounter with a rattler. So, this is a rodeo on a whole different scale. Maybe they didn`t all want to race, but there were no reports of a strike.
Onlooker thought it was really some fang else. Some might have even called it venomenal. Now that we`ve left our crawling card, we`ll sleep away from now and hope to see you Wednesday for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
CNN Student News April 16, 2014: Boston Remembers the Marathon Bombing; Checking for Pathogens of Ebola in Guinea; Mapping Indian Ocean`s Floor in Search for Flight 370
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: FAFSA sounds kind of like a soft drink, but it`s more relevant to financial literacy and it`s coming up later today on CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show.
First up today, a tribute. Yesterday was the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the Boston Marathon. Three people died in the bombings, scores were injured, police say an officer was killed later by the bombing suspects. But the city soldiers on. From a moment of silence at the races finish line to sound of church bells ringing and the raising of the American flag. The ceremony embodied the slogan Boston Strong. Thousands of people gathered in the rain, from first responders and the vice president to runners and injured victims. One man who had shrapnel in his leg said that last year he was on the ground at the finish line, this year he`ll be running across it.
Is this legit? There`s a vaccine for the Ebola virus? Not legit. There is no known cure or vaccine for Ebola. Avoiding close contact with Ebola patients is crucial.
One unique thing about Ebola is that unlike some other viruses, people don`t tend to spread it, until they actually get sick with it. So, it`s only when they are feverish that they are contagious. Once they are, it spreads very easily and kills more than half of those who get it. It`s never infected humans in the U.S., but for scientists researching and trying to stop Ebola`s spread in Guinea, taking extreme precautions is just part of the job.
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A simple blue box, potentially carrying one of the most dangerous pathogens in the world on its way to be tested. In less than four hours we`ll find out whether it contains the Ebola virus. The fate of three patients depends on what`s inside. Simply getting the blood samples is a life threatening job. One of these workers told us, he has a nine-month old baby at home. They`ll do everything they can to protect themselves. Three pairs of gloves, booties and layer after layer of gowns. They go in to see the patients. Every single inch of their body covered. Impermeable suits, nothing in, nothing out. You see, even a drop of the Ebola virus that gets through a break in your skin can infect you. And we all have breaks in our skin.
This is the painstaking detail in process you have to go through to be able to interact with these patients with Ebola. This is as close as we can get. They are decontaminating themselves, but they`ve taken the blood samples and put them in this blue ice chest over here and it`s highly suspicious that contains Ebola.
WHO lab technicians suit up next. They`ve just been hand-delivered the blue boxes. Now, it`s their job to test a sample for the deadly virus. They are going to have the results just two hours from now. But a few years ago being able to test for Ebola on its own turn was impossible. Precious blood samples had to be taken out of remote forested areas in Central Africa and flown to the CDC in Atlanta or the WHO in Geneva. Pilots would sometimes refuse to fly the dangerous pathogens. And even if they did, it could take days or weeks to get the results.
8 p.m. We get the call.
UM: So, two of these are positive.
GUPTA (on camera): So, two of the three patients .
GUPTA: Now have confirmed Ebola.
(voice over): Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Conakry, Guinea.
AZUZ: We are 16 days in the financial literacy month, and we have a new term for those of you who are thinking about higher education. It`s FAFSA. Yes, that is fun to say. But it has to do with financial aid that can help with the cost of college. If you`re applying for that aid, the U.S. government requires you to fill out a form. It`s called the free application for federal student aid or FAFSA. The government uses this form to determine whether you need help paying for college and how much help you are eligible to get. Many colleges and universities require this as well when deciding the terms of their scholarships. And if you need financial aid for more than a year, you`ll likely have to apply again. FAFSA can come up several times throughout your college education.
Another event happening in April is National Library Week. It runs from the 13 through the 19 and in honor of it, cnn.com asked viewers to submit their I-report photographs of their favorite libraries. The results are beautiful. In some cases, astounding. According to the American Library Association, the week-long observance has been around since 1958. It includes all kinds of libraries, public, school, academic. And it celebrates the contributions of libraries and librarians. In a Pew research study released last year, 94 percent of Americans said that having a public library improves life in their community. Though just over half of those polled said people don`t need public libraries as much as they used to.
Still, it appears the use of public libraries has gone out in the past decade. You`d be welcome to join in, just please keep your voice down.
In the case of a missing Malaysia Airlines planes, weeks of searching the ocean surface for clues or wreckage have come up with nothing. In fact, the search for floating debris is wrapping up. Now, the focus is on what`s under the waves. And though no new pings or underwater signals have been heard recently, new maps are being drawn.
ANGUS HOUSTON, JOINT AGENCY COORDINATION CHIEF: This is an area that is new to man.
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: With no pings since last Tuesday, the search had strayed down to the ocean floor with what is known as an AUV, the autonomous underwater vehicle Bluefin 21. And to say this is uncharted territory is putting it mildly.
HOUSTON: The sort of imagery I`ve seen it`s not sharply mountains or anything, it`s more flat and almost rolling.
CASAREZ: Side scan sonar will produce a high resolution three dimensional map while searchers are hoping to spot evidence of Flight 370, oceanographers want to take this chance to learn as much as they can about this part of the ocean.
ARNOLD GORDON, PROFESSOR OF OCEANOGRAPHY: We know so little that we will learn something about the seafloor there. It`s mythology, the hills and valleys and how rough it is.
CASAREZ: Arnold Gordon is a professor of oceanography at Columbia University. Oceanographers are on site offering their knowledge of the deep and potentially benefitting scientifically from a multimillion dollar operation with an unprecedented focus on an otherwise overlooked part of the ocean.
GORDON: We talk about millions of dollars to do this work, and obviously, if one wanted to do this from a scientific perspective, we would not get the funding.
CASAREZ: One potential obstacle for those looking for the plane, deep layers of silt at the bottom of the Indian Ocean could yield valuable new information for oceanographers.
GORDON: You can learn where it came from, what`s the source of the sediment in that area. You would learn something about the ocean bottom currents that move the sediment around.
HOUSTON: We are actually gathering information about the search environment all of the time, and that`s spectered (ph) into the analysis.
CASAREZ: While so much about Flight 370 is shrouded in mystery, scientists hope to gain knowledge for the future. Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.
AZUZ: We cover news from all over the world. We are happy to have viewers all over the world. This worldwide Wednesday, we are saying hello to Lin Tran Junior High School. It`s in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Across the Pacific, happy to see you in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. They are online at Spring Bank public school. And in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium, thank you for watching it, Institute Sal-Horant (ph). Glad to be part of your day.
(INAUDIBLE) of your parents say you`re growing up too fast. Here`s proof. It`s a time lapse that a Dutch filmmaker made of his daughter from when she was a newborn to her 14th birthday. The original YouTube video lasts four minutes. This is sped up even more. The man says he saw his daughter changing so quickly that he needed to document the way she looked. And the British newspaper says the girl like her dad is proud of the project.
Of course, it took some time to put together, but it`s certainly grows on you. It`s something that family can watch year after year clocking the differences, seeing how time flies. This was truly a video for the ages. Our ten minutes is up. I`m Carl Azuz. We hope you`ll make time for us again tomorrow.
CNN Student News April 17, 2014: Passenger Ferry Capsized in South Korea; Al Qaeda Massive Gathering in Yemen; T-Rex`s Bones for Smithsonian Museum; Remembering Jackie Robinson
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN STUDENT NEWS. My name is Carl Azuz. It`s good to see you this Thursday. First up, people around the world are praying for South Korea. On Wednesday, there was an accident on a ferry headed for a resort island. It was carrying 459 people. The weather was good. The seas were calm. But witnesses say that around 9 a.m. the ship started to list. At some point, there was a loud bang. It`s unclear whether that was before or after the ship began tilting. People were told over a loudspeaker to stay where they were, that it`d be too dangerous to move, but over the next couple of hours, the ship capsized, and the passengers many of whom were high school students, were in desperate need of rescue. Paula Hancocks reported on this in the hours after the accident.
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It`s a heartbreaking scene here, just outside Jindo auditorium on the southwest tip of South Korea. This is really the staging area for where the rescued had come earlier this morning, but now where the parents of those who are still missing are congregated desperately waiting for any news of their children.
There is a list behind me, which is basically of the people who have been rescued and the names of the hospitals if they have been taken to hospital. We are seeing families arrive in a desperate state, looking through those names, pouring over the list and breaking down when they see that their child`s name is not on that list. Now, we now that the majority of the passengers on this ship were high school students. They were on their way to Jeju Island, just size of South Korea, but hundred kilometers south. It`s a tourist area. They were on a full day field trip. We know at this point almost 300 people are still missing. Now, as you can see darkness has fallen and, of course, with it hopes are falling as well of finding many more survivors. We do know that the search and rescue operation is still very much underway. Helicopters are trying to see if anyone is in the water. We know that Navy divers have been trying to get inside the sunken ship, throughout the day. It`s unclear whether or not they were able to. We know they were having difficulty because of strong currents. There`s also a USS Navy ship from the U.S. Seventh Fleet trying to lend their hand as well. A desperate situation as the search continues for those who are still missing. But of course, these waters are cold of South Korea, and we are hearing from the coast guard that the expectation of survival really is no more than two hours.
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Jindo, South Korea.
AZUZ: Next story today concerns the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen. It`s not just what it shows that troubles the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon. It`s also whom it shows. This is believed to be the largest gathering of terrorists in years. They are affiliated with al Qaeda, the terrorist group responsible for this September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. And they are meeting out in the open, blatantly risking a possible strike by a U.S. drone. In the video, the group`s leader acknowledges this risk and calls on terrorists to attack America again.
Experts say the CIA and the U.S. military either didn`t know about the meeting, or they couldn`t get a drone there in time to attack. But after its recent appearance on militant Islamist Websites, U.S. officials are analyzing every frame.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See if you can I.D. me. My history can be traced back to an English scientist named James Smithson. But most of my buildings are located in Washington, D.C. I`m the world`s largest museum and research complex. I`m the Smithsonian Institution comprising 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoo.
AZUZ: One of those museums, the Museum of Natural History houses 30 million insects, 7 million fish and one big old Tyrannosaur Rex. Except unlike the other animals, the T-Rex is a fake. It`s a replica. In a way, it`s been sort of a placeholder since 1999, but its days are numbered. A real T-Rex or at least a fossilized one has migrated east in 16 crates.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The brand scull in Bozmon (ph), Montana, is a symbol of this story. Way back in 1988, a rancher made an unexpected discovery. Not a Hollywood-style dinosaur like in “Jurassic Park”, but a nearly pristine skeleton of one of history`s most infamous prehistoric predators embedded in federal land.
KIRK JOHNSON, SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY DIRECTOR: And it lay in the ground much as it died on the shores of a stream in Montana just over 66 million years ago.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The skeleton is one of the largest in most complete specimens every discovered. It was excavated, and remained in Montana until now. Thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers, the dinosaur was divided into shipping crates, than packed into a FedEx truck and sent to Washington.
LT. GEN. THOMAS BOSTICK, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Bringing the nation`s T- Rex to the nation`s capitals where it can educate and inspire future generations.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The animal`s massive femur bone was unveiled for the crowd at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Tuesday, which is closing the dinosaur hole that has existed here since 1911 or renovations.
But visitors will be able to watch as the stuff unpacked catalogue and photograph, the fossils in the new temporary Rex room.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this specimen was one of the first ones discovered that had an intact arm.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are also banana-sized teeth, a glimpse of which will have to suffice until the fully reconstructed skeleton is unveiled in a new exhibit in 2019.
After 66 million years, perhaps impatient paleontology fans can bare to wait just five more. In Washington, I`m Stacy Cohen reporting.
AZUZ: When we say today`s “Roll Call” is going cross country, we mean it`s continental. First school is in Haines, Alaska, the glacier bears are watching there are Haines High School. Deeping South East, we`ve got some lions in Tennessee. It`s good to see you, guys, at Concord Academy. It`s in Memphis. And back up north, in the pine tree state, we are waiting to the wild cats of Presque Isle High School. They are watching in Presque, Isle Main (ph).
If you are a baseball fan like I am, you might have noticed that on Tuesday, everyone playing in the major leagues were number 42. That was the number of Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in the major leagues. His first game, on April 15th, 1947. That was a year before the U.S. military was integrated. Seven years before the Supreme Court ruled that schools had to be integrated as well. The Brooklyn Dodgers` infielder and outfielder played for almost ten years, and the number 42 was eventually retired from all of Major League Baseball. That means from here on out, no one will wear it again. Today, about 8.5 percent of Major League players are African American.
All right, next story today. They may be on scholarship, having the cost of higher education covered. They may be in championships, having their faces broadcast to households nationwide. Some may even become pro- athletes, but some of them are not getting enough to eat. For months, the National Collegian Athletic Association, the NCAA, has been discussing ways to change its rules concerning meals for athletes.
ANDY SCHOLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The NCAA approved a proposal on Tuesday to expand the meal plan for college athletes. Under this new proposal, anyone who plays in the Division One sport including walkons (ph), will be given unlimited meals and snacks.
Previously, schools were allowed to provide three meals a day to only scholarship athletes, and this topic has been debated for months, but it was thrust into the spotlight during the NCAA tournament when UConn star guard and the final four`s most outstanding player Shabazz Napier said, that some nights he goes to bed hungry
SHABAZZ NAPIER, UCONN BASKETBALL PLAYER: We definitely (inaudible) a scholarship to our universities. But at the end of the day, that doesn`t cover everything, you know. We do have hungry nights that we don`t have enough money to get food and sometimes, you know, need a money – money is needed. So, you know, but I don`t think – you know you should stretch it out to hundreds to thousands dollars for players, you know, because that`s not – you know, a lot of times God knows (ph) how to handle – for money. So. But I think – you know, (INAUDIBLE) has idea, and you see – see where it goes.
SCHOLES: The new meal plan comes on the heels of the decisions by the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago. There are football players in Northwestern University qualify as employees and are allowed to unionize. Now, those Westerners appealing that decision unlike the NCAA maintain that players are students, not employees. The new mill proposal still must be approved by the Board of Directors, which means April 24. From the CNN center, I`m Andy Scholes.
We are wrapping things up today, with a World War One era love story. The owners of a home in Indiana were remodeling recently. As a contractor pulled away some insulation in the attic, pages appeared. Letters, written in 1918 from a man preparing this ship off to war, to his sweetheart back home. It`s a mystery how they ended up in this attic. Though, the soldier does have modern day relatives leaving in the same town. The letters were returned to the family. The soldier who wrote them eventually married the woman he sent them to. So, you can see what made this roman tick. It`s clear he did the right thing, even if he didn`t letter alone. His actions composed the kind of story. We just love to tell. I`m Carl Azuz, for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
CNN Student News April 18, 2014: Rebuilding of West, Texas; Demonstration of Recovering Things from Deep Waters; Car on Empire State Building`s Roof
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: It`s April, 18, Good Friday for millions of people worldwide. Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS. Ten minutes of commercial-free current events. Our first story today takes us to a Texas town named West. Yesterday was exactly one year after an enormous explosion destroyed a fertilizer plant there.
That gives you a sense of how powerful it was. It started with the fire, and while first responders were fighting it, the explosion occurred. 15 people were killed. The accident is still under investigation, but some effects on the landscape remain. 120 homes were destroyed. Another 200 were damaged. The blast registered as a magnitude 2.1 earthquake, shaking houses 50 miles away. In a town of about 2800 people, everyone in West was affected in some way. But residents have started to rebuild. The process described as being brick by brick, shingle by shingle, prayer by prayer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In West it is a new day. Street by street, block by block, house by house, the town`s mayor Tommy Muska likes what he sees.
TOMMY MUSKA, WEST, TEXAS MAYOR: It`s a smile on my face. And we lived with dumpsters for a while. Dumpsters is progress. That humming is progress.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The town recently hired the same economic development consultants who helped New Orleans and Galveston start over after Hurricanes Katrina and Ike. And for the first time since the town`s darkest day last year, folks who live here are beginning to ask a painful question: should a new fertilizer plant be built in West?
MUSKA: That`s a hard pill. That`s going to be a hard pill to swallow for some people.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With the West plant gone, the mayor says farmers must travel up to 30 miles away to get the fertilizer they need.
MUSKA: You know, it`s a needed industry. Somewhere in this area. Is it right here in West? I don`t know. Will it be zoned where people won`t build around it? Hopefully, hopefully we`ve learned the lesson there. Will it be safe? You bet!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While the mayor looks toward the future, he says he will never forget the 15 people who lost their lives that day. Mostly first responders, some of who`ve volunteered with him at the Fire Department. As we drove around town, Mayor Muska spotted the two flags flying over the ambulance sheet. Someone lowered them to half-staff after the explosion and they`ve remained that way ever since. The powerful symbol for the town.
AZUZ: Might seem hard to believe that in some areas what`s killing more Americans than violent crime and car crashes is the illegal drug heroin and other opiate narcotics. These are highly addictive drugs. They are easy to overdose on. They cause violent withdrawal symptoms. Despite that, there`s been a recent surge in heroin use in the U.S. Experts say one reason might be a nationwide crackdown on prescription painkillers. That`s leading addicts to turn to heroin. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the issue seemed to sneak up on government officials. That it used to be thought of as a regional problem, until statistics showed it was nationwide. Holder`s been criticized, though, for pushing for more lenient treatment of non-violent drug offenders.
Tracking across the United States, today`s CNN STUDENT NEWS Roll Call starts in the Tar Hill state. We found some hawks soaring over Kernersville, North Carolina. They are online at Kernersville Middle School. (INAUDIBLE) from there will make (INAUDIBLE) in Laurel, Mississippi, the Mustangs of West Jones High School are watching from the Magnolia State. Mustangs will come up later today. And on the West Coast, in Bakersfield, California, we are shouting out the bull dogs. Great to see you at Golden Valley High School.
An underwater drone has spent hours at the bottom of the Indian Ocean scanning for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It disappeared last month with 239 people aboard. No sign of it has been found. But if something is, getting a view at a place without light where any quick movements could stir up too much silt to see through will make a recovery very difficult.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is a pretty amazing scene. We are inside of a submersible. Now, I`ll stress, not the kind of submersible that could go to the depths of, say, where they believe the airliner is, but it`s a perfect way to demonstrate some of the challenges as well as the abilities. If you take a look back here, let me just demonstrate how extremely tight these quarters are. Our pilot has to sit all the way directly behind us here in the dark, and he is the man in control. He is guiding this vessel. Meanwhile, the two of us up here, Phil Newton who is the expert on underwater recovery works. He`s been doing this for decades, is going to show us how manipulating this arm at this depth of retrieving a black box. It`s one we set out there, but it`s a way to give you a good example of just how even in this murk that you can begin to evaluate the tricky circumstances. So, Phil, if you would – we`ve already glassed it with the mechanical arm that you`ve got here, right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) bring it over and get in the basket. Now it`s easy as one I suppose.
SAVIDGE: And so there you can see the black box is going to be retrieved by the claw. It`s no easy thing, just finding it in the gloom, but then the next step is it`s got to get into the basket because that is the way it`s going to be transported to the surface. And again, we point out to you at this step, it would be totally done. We are using very bright lighting up, there`d been – even then you can see the gloom. On top of that, manipulating this arm is not as easy as using your own hand to try to grab something under the water.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for “The Shoutout.” What was the tallest building in the world back in 1931? If you think you know it, shout it out! Was it, the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Willis Tower, or Eiffel Tower. You`ve got three seconds, go!
When the Empire State Building was completed in 1931, it was the tallest manmade structure on the planet. That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
So, no surprise there was a ton of publicity throughout its construction. And the Empire State Building has been used in a number of publicity stunts. Consider, if you will, a car company looking to generate a lot of buzz for a new model. So much so, that it`s willing to cut it in the pieces, carry it up 86 floors and rebuild it outdoors on an observation deck.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Down there on the street is where cars are supposed to be, not up here. 86 floors above New York City atop the Empire State Building. The out of place 2015 Ford Mustang had tourists wondering.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The first thing was, how in the name of God did they get it up here?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe by the copter?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A helicopter or something?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I throw (INAUDIBLE) the helicopter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It basically rode the elevator just like you and I did.
MOOS: Not just like you or I. We wouldn`t have to get chopped up into pieces. The Mustang was cut up into five pieces, small enough to fit in the smallest Empire State Building elevator.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We only have an elevator that`s 36 inches wide.
MOOS: They actually built a mock elevator back at the Ford shop to make sure everything would fit. This wasn`t` the first time a Ford Mustang rode these elevators. Back in 1965 then newly introduced Mustang made the same trip and was photographed on the observatory. This latest elevation of the Mustang was meant to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and weather, though, didn`t cooperate. Snowflakes were flying as they assembled the Mustang high above Manhattan. It had to be done overnight when the observation deck was closed. And the car had to be put together in a six hour window. Here`s the process sped up. Despite the weather they met their deadline.
Ford wasn`t actually first to raise a car in new heights, maybe they got the idea from Chevy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chevrolet 1964.
MOOS: They did use a helicopter to lift car and model atop this sandstone tower in Utah.
AZUZ: Getting the car up there is certainly a tall order. With that Mustang, there was no room for horsing around, but if you have the drive, you can afford to stunt your building publicity. You`re really trying to give a brand a lift? Well, this can be an ingenious idea. But it`s a tight fit, and you must angle it just right. I`m Carl Azuz. My shift is up. We are hitting the road back in the driver seat on Monday.
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Born to a wealthy family of the French nobility. Excellent student in both secular and Church topics; as a sub-deacon he helped settle a dispute at a synod at Toulouse, France. Benedictine monk at the Saint Martin monastery in Montauriol, France; it was later renamed Saint Audard in his honour. Arch-deacon of Narbonne, France where he became known as a great minister to the poor and suffering. Archbishop of Narbonne, France, consecrated on 15 August 885. Received the pallium from Pope Stephen VI in 886. Spent largely to ransom Christians captured by Saracens, and to re-build suffragan dioceses damaged by the invaders.
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Long ago, St. Augustine remarked: “There are some whom God has, whom the Church has not. And there are some whom the Church has, whom God has not…When we speak of within and without in relation to the Church, it is the position of the heart that we must consider, not that of the body . . . All who are within the heart are saved in the unity of the ark” (On Baptism 5). For reasons doubtless known more to the Holy Spirit than to me, I've been thinking a lot lately about that anomaly in the economy of salvation. It just is true that some non-Catholics are in fuller communion with the Catholic Church than some Catholics. That fact calls for theological explanation which not everybody can appreciate—and that fact in turn that is troubling enough, at least to me. But my friend Dr. Phil Blosser has brought to my attention a particular ecclesiological anomaly whose official explanation is even more troubling than the anomaly itself.
Calvinist pastor Roger Schutz, the de facto leader of Taizé who was murdered in 2005 by a deranged woman at a public ecumenical service, had previously been given the Eucharist by then-Cardinal Ratzinger and by Cardinal Kasper, who now serves as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. At long last, Kasper has explained that anomaly. Here's the gist of the explanation:
He denies that Fr. Schutz "formally" adhered to the Catholic Church. And much less did he abandon the Protestantism into which he was born. He affirms, instead, that he gradually "enriched" his faith with the pillars of the Catholic faith, particularly the role of Mary in salvation history, the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the "the ministry of unity exercised by the bishop of Rome." In response to this, the Catholic Church allowed him to receive Eucharistic communion. According to Kasper, it is as if there had been an unwritten agreement between Schutz and the Church of Rome, "crossing certain confessional" and canonical limits.
That greatly puzzles me, Phil, and other orthodox Catholics who know and care about such things. If Brother Roger, without evincing any intention of becoming formally Catholic, could receive the Eucharist, then why not traditional Anglican clergy? Why not anybody who believes certain distinctively Catholic doctrines but who, for whatever reason, sees fit to remain formally non-Catholic? What happens to the RCIA? In what sense, beyond the merely empirical, does it remain a norm to reserve the Eucharist for those who are in full communion with the Church?
Since I often disagree with Cardinal Kasper, and certainly don't find him as good a theologian as the countryman of his who occupies the Chair of Peter, I'm not really interested in hearing his answers to such questions. I'm interested in hearing the Pope's. As Ratzinger he was, after all, directly implicated in the case of Brother Roger. Will we hear from the Pope about this? I don't know. Perhaps the answers are already latent in the Church's norms, and I just haven't thought hard enough to make them patent. But right now I can't think quite hard enough to manage that.
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This article is a collection of mobile RFID applications in apparel supply chain. The descriptions are short and the purpose is to provide overview and ideas for RFID system development.
Supply chain and its' practices are defined during planning.
Strategic decisions that have an effect on potential RFID
applications are for example decisions of outsourcing and factory
locations. Product decisions - models, prices, quantities, timing
are the starting point of the logistics chain. Logistics and supply
chain management are tools for implementing the business decisions,
and mobile RFID is a tool for supply chain.
In apparel industry manufacturing is often located to a country
far from the main sales areas. Sourcing strategies vary, which has
also effect on the hardware decisions and processes. In some cases
factories are owned by apparel brand owner, in some cases there is
long term cooperation and in some cases factories compete for each
model and contracts are short term.
In some manufacturing processes mobile RFID is used during and
before the manufacturing for example in goods in application. In
coming materials are identified and inputted to system using case
or pallet level RFID. Tracking material flow and material use
during manufacturing is one possibility. Information of any item
that has passed a critical step in manufacturing process can be
recorded and time stamped. Real time information gives the brand
owner a possibility to follow status of the manufacturing, and
accurate records can be used in future planning. Real time and
accurate data reduces shrinkage and replaces onsite audits.
RFID tags can be also used for protecting against counterfeit
products. Manufacturer can create a record of individual ID's of
genuine items and the information can be utilized in further steps
of the chain, as well as in consumer services.
During planning it is in many cases impossible or uneconomical
to plan material use exactly. Typically use of bulk materials can
be estimated with +/- 10% accuracy. Inaccuracy results partly from
inaccuracy of the planning, partly it comes from inability to
estimate material errors and manufacturing mistakes in advance.
Some materials can be and are purchased exactly - expensive buttons
for example, and especially brand labels. As a result of
inaccuracies the brand owner can receive the amount of ordered
goods +/- 10%. Additional amount is in some cases sold with
lower price at outlets, lower quantities can at worst case risk
relations to retail stores. Accurate information of manufactured
goods and shipping contents is important. Mobile RFID is an
excellent tool for achieving accurate shipment information. Mobile
RFID can be used in picking applications, and picking is followed
by packing. During packing each item is identified - not as EAN
level, but also including size, color etc. information. Mobile RFID
helps in creating electronic packing lists. Brand owner receives
information of exact content of the package at the time of packing.
Entire transportation time is available for reacting and informing
In some of the manufacturing applications fixed readers can be
used instead of mobile readers - in some applications fixed reader
may even be technically more feasible solution. Mobile readers are
however used especially if brand owner favors short term
manufacturing contracts. Brand owner can have device pool with
applications and connections to their system established. When a
new contract is started, the brand owner sends devices to new
factory - mobile RFID readers are easy to move. Nordic ID Merlin
UHF RFID and Nordic ID Merlin Cross Dipole UHF RFID are the
products for manufacturing. They also include other functionalities
that are often required in manufacturing: Bluetooth for printers,
2D code reader for reading EPC code in 2D format, WLAN and WWAN for
wireless data connections and USB and Ethernet for wired data
Tracking is a basic application during transportation. In
different steps of transportation the packages or pallets are
identified and information of the step, goods and time stamp are
provided. Reading is usually done whenever the package is loaded to
or unloaded from a vehicle, ship etc. or moved to or from a
warehouse. At the start of the transportation creating a record of
ongoing goods, or goods loaded to the truck produces an electronic
proof of shipment. RFID data also helps in creating accurate
During transportation RFID also helps in customs operations. EPC
code includes information of country of origin. Customs officials
can verify and record the country of origin information without
opening the packages.
Some mobile RFID applications related to transportation are for
deviation situation. A misplaced package can be moved to correct
place and a package with damaged packing label can be identified
from contents without opening the package with the help of Nordic
ID's mobile RFID reader. Mobile RFID can be also used for searching
a package or a product.
Nordic ID Merlin Cross Dipole UHF RFID is the favorite product
for transportation operations.
Goods in, goods out and other tracking applications can utilize
mobile RFID also at distribution centers. In some cases
distribution centers combine shipments. Products from various
factories are combined into a package that is then transported to
the store. Using mobile RFID with picking, tracking and packing
applications improves delivery accuracy, improve inventory accuracy
and speeds up the operations. Accurate information and tracking
information reduces shrinkage.
Ideal product for distribution center operations is Nordic ID
Merlin Cross Dipole UHF RFID. DeliveryIn many ways final
delivery resembles transportation. Tracking is a common application
for mobile RFID. Tracking information is used for shrinkage
reduction and for protection against counterfeit products. Using
RFID also produces an electronic proof of delivery.
Nordic ID Morphic is and excellent product for delivery
operations. The product is easy to carry. The same product can be
used as a phone, getting signature of recipient and as an overall
communication tool between delivery truck driver and home base.
Store operations start with goods in and are followed by other
inventory management applications. With goods in
identification also other actions are made. The products are signed
in to EAS database and their genuinity is verified.
Tracking information is part of many store operations efficiency
and quality measurement. Mobile RFID speeds up inventory counts and
improves inventory accuracy. This improves backroom to store
replenishment efficiency and makes store to store transfers easier.
As a special case of replenishment is arrival of a new
product type, with a new product it is often useful to provide
guidelines for store personnel on how to display the products. Key
for opening the instructions is certain RFID code and user
interface is a mobile device. With mobile RFID readers items can be
counted store wide with the speed of tens of items per second. And
inventory is not limited to product type information - items are
recognized as individuals. At the same time mobile RFID can be used
for creating warnings about items in wrong location. Ensuring that
all the goods are at correct places improves sales and increases
efficiency of shelf space use. Because inventory counts consume
very little time inventories can be taken frequently. Improved
inventory accuracy reduces out-of-stock situations, gives
possibility to react quickly for unexpected sales or lack of sales
and provides feedback for planning.
Mobile RFID also enables new kind of customer services. It is
possible to easily track goods taken to fitting room, provide
information of products and find complementing or alternative
products. With mobile RFID reader it is also quick to scan through
the selves for finding a certain sizes, colors etc. products.
Mobile devices can be also used for collecting customer feedback of
the products and overall service. When fitting room data and
customer feedback is combined with sales data the created
information is valuable feedback for creative department.
Shrinkage reduction is a common part of RFID systems. At the
point of sale mobile reader is one alternative for removing
purchased items from EAS database. When an alert sounds the
security guard scans purchased items for finding the tag that
caused the alert. With mobile RFID reader the operation can be done
with minimal disturbance - without opening bags. Picture of the
item on the device display is an additional help. Instead of being
forced for rumbling through the bag the security giard can ask:
"did you purchase this product - I am sorry but it seems that
security tag is still active". Mobile RFID improves customer
service. When goods are returned the handheld can be used again at
the service desk for unlocking the tag and returning it to the EAS
database. At the service desk RFID tag can be also used for
validating warranty claims. Items in modifying service can be
tracked with RFID without risk of mixing items. Same type of
application can be used in tracking repairs. RFID applications
One new type of customer service is a possibility to provide
customers information of genuine goods. Brand owner can establish a
service from which a customer can validate genuinity, and in some
case also place and time of purchase. Service can be provided for
example at the retail store service desks.
Nordic ID Morphic is the ideal product for customer service, pos,
service desk etc applications. The device is light weight, easy to
carry and has other useful functionality such as voice and barcode.
Nordic ID Merlin versions are ideal for inventory
Wide use of RFID enables new kind of measurement and management
applications that are not necessarily specific to one step of the
supply chain. All tracking applications provide efficiency
information and serve as a benchmark tool. It is possible to
compare factories, transportation routes, distribution centers,
delivery trucks, stores etc in details. The information can be used
for directing development resources into correct spots. Typical
benefits include efficient operations, efficient use of capital,
reduced shrinkage and faster desk-to-consumer process. RFID is a
major tool for fighting counterfeit products. When genuine product
database is established the company can start to search for brand
goods and is able to ensure that the goods are genuine. In some
cases it is also interesting to track sales route of the goods.
This can be used for eliminating unauthorized channel.
Nordic ID has a product range that covers all apparel supply
chain applications. The products are software compatible. When an
application is created to one of the models, the result is three
for the price of one. With one development work customer is able to
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Dr. Elaine Aron has developed a very useful model that describes the basic characteristics of the highly sensitive person. It is called the DOES model which refers to the following key attributes of sensitives:
- D: depth of processing
- O: overstimulation
- E: emotional reactivity and empathy
- S: sensing the subtle
These 5 characteristics are the most important for understanding the special nature and gifts of the sensitive person.
Does Model And Flow
The DOES model attributes all work together. There is a flow to the elements of the sensitive nature. HSPs take in information, they feel a lot of the nuances around that information, process it deeply and then seek to connect what they are finding to a big picture perspective that lets them make choices and decisions about what to do with the information they take in. The big picture perspective often has humanistic and spiritual values not only because they matter to sensitive people but also because they let a sensitive person make choices that they can feel good about.
Sensitivity And The Unknown
Sensitive people because of what they take in live in a space that combines both the known and unknown. What is known is what the shared culture generally accepts as knowledge including the entire legacy of human exploration and learning. There are other forms of knowing – ones that sensitive people are very familiar with: including knowing from listening to energy and the inner knowing of the True Self.
Because sensitive people have access to more forms of knowing they do not live in the same place as people who are not sensitive. This does not reflect badly on people who are not sensitive. It is simply a different approach to information.
Highly sensitive people, therefore, have access to common knowledge and uncommon knowledge and therefore in trying to resolve the issues around the information that they are presented with have to go to a place that is outside of current experience to resolve it. This effort causes them to seek the bigger picture so that they can figure out how all the pieces fit together and then they have to come back to reality and discern the “next step” which is the best use of the information they take in.
Sensitivity And Thinking Things Through
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This file includes Occupation ABC List, Occupations, Accountants, Anthropologists, Architects, Geologists, Plumbers, Realtors, Sales, Scientists, and songs about business and occupations.
Also see Business Humor, Money and Finance, History of Labor Day, and the Work section.
- 9 to 5
- 40-hour Week
- Bringing Home the Bacon
- Business as Usual
- Cubical, Sweet Cubical
- Forty Hour Week for a Livin'
- God Bless the Working Man
- It's My Job
- Many Hands Make Light Work
- Men at Work
- Nine to Five
- Quittin' Time
- Rat Race
- Takin' Care of Business
- That's My Job
- The Way We Work
- Whistle While You Work
- A Woman's Work is Never Done
- Working Girl
- Working Hard or Hardly Working?
- Working Stiffs
- Working-Class Hero
- Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked 'intellectual leadership'. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.
- The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.
- Business should be fun. Without fun, people are left wearing emotional raincoats most of their working lives. Building fun into business is vital; it brings life into our daily being...we should not relegate it to something we buy after work with money we earn.
- Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
- Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. (H. Jackson Browne)
- Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. (Katherine Whitehorn)
- A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
- The highest reward for a persons' toil is not what she gets for it,
but rather what she becomes by it.
- I have come to the conclusion that almost no one on earth is lazy. The truth is that the man you call lazy just doesn't want to do your kind of work; he wants to do his kind. (Bertha Damon)
- If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them--work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls--family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. (Brian Dyson - Coca Cola CEO)
- Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. (Vince Lombardi)
- It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair)
- It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love. (Quinn, Marysarah)
- Leadership is a process, a set of attributes that stems not so much from the ability to wield formal authority or to assert power, but the ability to get people to listen and follow. (Robert B. Reich)
- The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves. (Garth Henrichs)
- Many people would not dream of stealing from the wallet of a friend
but think nothing of returning a half-empty day to an employer.
- Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. (George Halas)
- Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
- Opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.
- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!"--a leader says "Let's go!" (E.M. Kelly)
- Some people are so busy making a living they don't have time to make a life.
- Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. (Thomas Carlyle)
- There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. (William J. Bennett)
- Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most--that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. (Eugene V. Debs)
- To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. (Barbara Walters)
- Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William Arthur Ward)
- When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. (Betty Bender)
- When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when what you are doing serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within, but seek the sweetest satisfaction of your life and work, then you know that you are doing what you are meant to be doing. (Gary Zukov)
- When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. (R. H. Grant)
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry J. Kaiser)
- You should not confuse your career with your life.
A Boss or a Leader
(Russell H. Ewing)
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
The key to success is doing;
The key to happiness is to have done it.
Thank you for your time, talent and dedication to our (project, company, etc.)
There are many places to find clipart that you can copy or scan and use like die-cuts. Look at trade publications, newsletters, manuals, etc. that have to do with the occupation.
Also programs from conventions, the yellow pages, newspaper ads, coloring books, etc. Make color copies of things like badges and patches. It is my understanding that as long as you are using the things in your personal albums copyrights should not be a problem.
Occupation Page Ideas
Look at other layouts with an open mind. A travel layout with a road made using the wavy rule could be used for truck drivers, bus drivers, etc. A piano keyboard layout for a recital could be used for musicians. Many vacation ideas would work for pilots, travel agents, etc.
Shame on People Who Have to Work
(Jan Roe - 1979)
(note--the city is considering requiring persons who are able to work, but do not hold jobs, to pick up litter in return for receiving food stamps . . . but critics of the plan insist it is demeaning to the participants)
I've suffered my humiliation in silence long enough. It's time I spoke out.
I have decided it is demeaning for me to have to work for a living.
Why should I, and other middle-class Americans, be persecuted simply because fate has kept us from becoming rich? It's embarrassing enough to need money. It's worse to have to work for it.
I didn't choose to be middle-class, you know. I was born that way. And now everyone sees me slaving away to earn my living . . . and they know I'm not independently wealthy. I feel ashamed.
Sure, I'd like to be a big $100,000-a-year executive. I could run General Motors . . . if I just had the training, the opportunity and the government support. I could probably run Chrysler Corp. too . . . but I have my pride.
Like the majority of middle-class Americans, I'd be willing to work at an honorable job that provided me dignity and self-respect. But society has no right to expect me to work at a job that is not glamorous and exciting and dignified . . . just to make money.
Can you imagine how it feels to know people are saying about you: "He has to work for a living."
I'm warning you that--if you continue to make me work--you'll strip me of any shred of self-respect I may yet possess. And if, in desperation, I turn to a life of crime, the fault will be yours, not mine.
And here's one last warning . . .
If you're not careful, you will establish a dangerous precedent.
The concept that one must work to earn one's money could possibly catch on in this country. And it could spread until, one day, every able-bodied person would be expected to work for a living.
Sounds downright un-American, doesn't it?
accountant, actor, actuary, acupuncturist, administrative assistant, administrator, aeronautical engineer, agriculture sales, Air Force, air traffic controller, aircraft maintenance engineer, aircraft mechanic, airline pilot, ambulance driver, anthropologist, appraiser, archaeologist, architect, archivist, armed forces, Army, artist, astronaut, astronomer, athlete, attorney, audiologist, auditor, author, auto body repair, auto mechanic
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industrial designer, industrial engineer, industrial engineer, information technology specialist, inspector, insurance agent, insurance underwriter, insurance broker, intelligence officer, intensive care nurse, interior decorator, interpreter, investigator, iron worker, IRS agent
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- Accountant: anyone who can add the same column of figures five times in a row and come up with five different tax deductions.
- Accountants are top dollar!
- An accountant is a well-balanced person!
- Accountant's Maxim: When you make a mistake of adding the date to the right side of the accounting statement, you must add it to the left side as well.
- Accountants work their assets off!
- C.P.A. - Certified Pain in the A**!
- Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.
- I'm an accountant...not a magician!
- Old accountants never die, they just depreciate.
- Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.
- Old accountants never die, they just lose their figures.
- What do accountants suffer from that ordinary people don't?
- What's the definition of a good tax accountant?
Someone who has a loophole named after him.
- You can count on an accountant.
What is Two and Two?
A business man was interviewing applicants for the position of divisional manager. He devised a test to select the most suitable person for the job. He asked each applicant, "What is two and two?"
The first interviewee was a journalist. His answer was "Twenty-two."
The second applicant was an engineer. He pulled out a slide rule and showed the answer to be between 3.999 and 4.001.
The next person was a lawyer. He stated that in the case of Jenkins v Brown, two and two was proven to be four.
The last applicant was an accountant. The business man asked him, "How much is two and two?" The accountant got up from his chair, went over to the door and closed it then came back and sat down. He leaned across the desk and said in a low voice . . . "How much do you want it to be?"
He got the job.
- Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. (Robert Graves)
- Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. (Alfred L. Kroeber)
- Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. (Michael Brian Schiffer)
- Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over--except when they are different. (Nancy Banks-Smith)
- The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science. (Franz Boas)
- I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. (Henry Fairfield Osborn)
- Old anthropologists never die, they just become history.
- The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. (Ruth Benedict)
- All architects want to live beyond their deaths. (Philip Johnson)
- Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. (John Portman)
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams. (Harold E. Wagoner)
- My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we--architects--can effect the quality of life of the people. (Richard Rogers)
- Old architects never die, they just lose their structure.
- There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. (Robin Day)
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant)
- Geologists are amazing. They know hundreds of words for different sorts of dirt and hundreds of words for things it does when left alone for a few million years. (Thomas Kettenring)
- Geologists are caught between a rock and a hard place.
- Geologists are fault finders.
- Geologists have sedimentary value.
- Geologists have their faults.
- Geologists rock your world.
- Geology gives us a key to the patience of God. (Josiah Gilbert Holland)
- It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily--the idea that geology is the music of the earth. (Hans Cloos)
- Never lend a geologist money. They consider a million years ago to be Recent.
- The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand. (Louis Agassiz)
- We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You Might be a Geologist if...
- The baggage handlers at the airport know you by name and refuse to help with your luggage.
- You can pronounce the word 'molybdenite' correctly on the first try.
- You consider a 'recent event' to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years.
- You don't think of 'cleavage' the same way everyone else does.
- You find yourself compelled to examine individual rocks in driveway gravel.
- You have ever been on a field trip that included scheduled stops at gravel pits.
- You have ever found yourself trying to explain to airport security that a rock hammer isn't really a weapon.
- You have ever had to respond "yes" to the question, "What have you got in here, rocks?"
- You have ever taken a 12-passenger van over 'roads' that were really intended only for cattle.
- You own more pieces of quartz than underwear.
- You plan on using a pick and shovel while you're on vacation.
- You think the primary function of road cuts is to attract tourists.
- You will walk across eight lanes of freeway traffic to see if the outcrop on the other side of the highway is the same type of rock as the side you're parked on.
- Your photos include people only for scale and you have more pictures of your rock hammer and lens cap than of your family.
- Your rock collection weighs more than you do.
- Your rock garden is located inside your house.
- You were the only member of the group who spent their time looking at cathedral walls through a pocket magnifier during your trip to Europe.
- Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. (George Meany)
- If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber. (Albert Einstein)
- In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union. (Conan O'Brien)
- Old plumbers never die, they just go down the drain.
- Old sewage workers never die, they just waste away.
- A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. (Arthur Baer)
- Plumbers go with the flow.
- Plumbers have the best connections.
- Sign on a plumber's truck: We repair what your husband fixed.
- There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure. (Victoria Glendinning)
- I have to have a raise in my commission," the realtor said to his manager. "There are three other companies after me."
"Is that so?" asked the manager. "What other companies are after you?"
"The electric company, the telephone company, and the gas company."
- My buyers want a new home on the outskirts--of their income, that is.
- Old real estate agents never die, they just grow listless.
- A real estate agent was the first person to make a mountain out of a molehill.
- Real estate agents are like elephants, they never forget.
- Real estate agents start by telling you what excellent taste you have and how beautifully you have decorated your home. Then they tell you to take those wonderful decorative items and pack them all away somewhere.
- Realtor to first time home-buyer: First you folks tell me what you can afford, then we'll have a good laugh and go from there.
- Realtors have 'lots' to be thankful for.
A Good Sign
A realtor was upset when he saw another real estate business had opened up next to him and put up a sign that said "best agents". He was even more upset the next week when yet another real estate business opened on the other side of him and put up a sign that said "lowest commissions". The third week he topped them both by putting up a sign that said "main entrance".
- Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy. (O.B. Smith)
- For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. (Zig Ziglar)
- In sales there are going to be times when you canít make everyone happy. Donít expect to and you wonít be disappointed. Just do your best for each client in each situation as it arises. Then, learn from each situation how to do it better the next time. (Tom Hopkins)
- Old salesmen never die, they just go out of commission.
- Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman--not the attitude of the prospect. (W. Clement Stone)
- A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. (Harry F. Banks)
- A salesman must have flexible goals. You may say, 'I want to sell 10 accounts this week,' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, 'Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.' (Curtis Carlson)
- Sign on reception room desk: We shoot every third salesman, and the second one just left.
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? (Woody Allen)
Songs about Sales
- Ace Insurance Man - Bobbie Gentry (1969)
- Life Of A Salesman - Yellowcard (2003)
- O.K. Wheeler, the Used-Car Dealer - Freddy Cannon (1964)
- Salesman Of The Year - Wills & The Willing (2006)
- Shoe Salesman - Alice Cooper (2005)
- Traveling Salesman Blues - Walty (2006)
- The Very Busy Salesman - FOG (2005)
- Old chemists never die, they just fail to react.
- As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. (John Olver)
- At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. (Joseph Rotblat)
- A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. (Frederick Seitz)
- I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. (Steve Irwin)
- A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest. (Jonathan Miller)
- The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. (Jacob Bronowski)
- A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. (George Wald)
- Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. (Arthur Koestler)
- Scientists keep a close 'ion' their equipment.
- Blacksmiths forge ahead.
- A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
- Old cashiers never die, they just check out.
- Old janitors never die, they just kick the bucket.
- I fired my masseuse today. She rubbed me the wrong way.
- When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
- Old steel makers never die, they just lose their temper.
- Old watchmakers never die, they just wind down.
- A train engineer has a one track mind.
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Songs about building, businesses, busy, business, guarantee, mining, specific occupations, Walmart, and work.
- Big Buildin' - Wink Martindale (1964)
- Boats to Build - Guy Clark (1992)
- Build a Computer - Hanner (2004)
- Building a Bridge - Claude King (1963)
- Building Bridges - Brooks and Dunn (2006)
- Built for Comfort - Howlin' Wolf (1963)
- Built to Last - Heartland (2007)
- Gonna Build a Big Fence Around Texas - Gene Autry (1945)
- Gonna Build a Mountain - Julius La Rosa (1964)
- House That Jack Built, The - Aretha Franklin (1968)
- Proud of the House We Built - Brooks and Dunn (2007)
- We Built This City - Starship (1985)
- Aunt Annie's Quilt Shop - The Gackle-Trucker Band (2010)
- Barber Shop Boogie, The - Tommy Sosebee (1954)
- Bargain Store, The - Dolly Parton (1975)
- Billy Broke My Heart at Walgreens - Ruby Wright (1964)
- Candy Store Blues - Dodie Stevens (1960)
- Corner Grocery Store - Raffi (1978)
- Corner Laundromat - Johnny Dowd (2006)
- Dairy Queen - Norman Greenbaum (1973)
- Discount Store - Dan Bryk (2009)
- Down at the Pawn Shop - Anita Carter and Hank Snow (1967)
- Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll - Janis Martin (1956)
- Dry Cleaner From Des Moines - Joni Mitchell (1979)
- Elm Street Pawn Shop - Freddie Hart (1966)
- From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel on the Hill - Bennett (1956)
- General Store - Andy Vine (2007)
- Get it at the General Store - Archie Campbell (1971)
- Girl at the Videogame Store - Parry Gripp (2009)
- Girl in the Candy Store - The Reflections (1965)
- Grocery Store - Goldspot (2009)
- Hardware Store - Weird Al Yankovic (2003)
- I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10-Cent Store - Intrigue (2000)
- In a Little Second-Hand Store - Lawrence Welk (1992)
- Johnston's Grocery Store - Lost and Found (2001)
- Lady From the Beauty Shop - Joe Cook (2003)
- Love at the Five & Dime - Kathy Mattea (1986)
- Massage Parlor Blues - Matt Lucas (1979)
- Old Malt Shop, The - Ronnie Haig (1961)
- Pawnshops Ain't No Place for a Wedding Ring - Whiskeytown (1997)
- Red Shoes By the Drugstore - Tom Waits (1978)
- Second-Hand Store - Richard March (2007)
- Shopping Center - Bobby Lord (1963)
- Shopping Mall - Simon Astley (2009)
- Speedy's Auto Repair - Two Banks of Four (2000)
- Stores Are Full of Roses, The - Jack Grayson (1980)
- Sweet Shoppe Sweetheart - Molly Bee (1956)
- Take Her to the Music Store - From Autumn to Ashes (2008)
- There's a Pawnshop on the Corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Mitch Miller (1952)
- Toy Shop in the Town - Sally Starr (1958)
- Toyshop Ballet - Mantovani and His Orchestra (1956)
- Workin' at the Car Wash Blues - Jerry Reed (1980)
- Y.M.C.A. - Village People (1978)
- Back Before Walmart - James Gordon (2000)
- Banned From Wal-Mart - Taylor Made (2010)
- Hangin' Out At Walmart - Ned Van Go (2002)
- Hark! the Walmart Banners Say - Seattle Labor Chorus (2008)
- I Found My Gal At the Super Wal-Mart Store - Bj Dowdy (2002)
- I Hate Wal-Mart - Dave Lippman (2004)
- I Saw Elvis At Wal-Mart - Billy Walker (2009)
- Prettiest Girl in Wal-Mart - Roy Jay (2009)
- Tailgate Party in The Walmart Parking Lot - Wayne Harvey (2008)
- Wal-Mart Blues - Joni Laurence (2006)
- Wal-Mart Bound - Bj Dowdy (2002)
- Wal-mart Flowers - Thom Shepherd (2008)
- Wal-Mart Girl - Lawrence J. Clark (2001)
- Wal-Mart Moment - George Farmer (2010)
- Wal-Mart Parking Lot - Chris Cagle (2006)
- Wal-Mart Parking Lot Social Club - Pat Montes (1999)
- Wal-Mart Song - David Stephens (2002)
- Walmart Sweeties - Robert Lynn Brown (2011)
- We Don't Need a WalMart - Carla Ulbrich (2009)
- Welcome to Wal-Mart - The Jongleurs (2002)
- When Wal-Mart Opens... - Tim Koukos (2010)
Songs about Being Busy
- Busy as a Beaver - George Leduc (2008)
- Busy Being Fabulous - Eagles (2008)
- Busy Man - Billy Ray Cyrus (1998)
- He's Too Busy Working to Cheat on Me - Rebecca Lynn (1976)
- Little Girl You've Had a Busy Day - Bobby Rydell (1964)
- Too Busy Being in Love - Doug Stone (1993)
- Too Busy Thinking about My Baby - Marvin Gaye (1969)
- Dying Business, A - Chad Mitchell Trio (1964)
- I'll Make a Change in Business - Lonnie Glosson and His Band (1947)
- Mr. Businessman - Ray Stevens (1968)
- Open for Business As Usual - Jack Jones (1967)
- Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1974)
- Guarantee for a Lifetime - Mary Wells (1964)
- Lifetime Guarantee - Michael Johnson (1983)
- Money Back Guarantee - The Neville Brothers and Jimmy Buffett (1983)
- Satisfaction Guaranteed or Take Your Love Back - Harold Melvin (1974)
- Written Guarantee - The Owen Bradley Quintet (1950)
- Canary in a Coalmine - The Police (1980)
- Coal Dust Blues - The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1962)
- Coal Mine Canary - Clint Niosi (2008)
- Coal Miner's Daughter - Sissy Spacek (1980)
- Goldmine - George Fox (1989)
- Hemphill Kentucky Consolidated Coal Mine - Henson Cargill (1969)
- Last Day in the Mines - Dave Dudley (1963)
- Miner, The - Howard Vokes (1963)
- Miner's Lady - J.D. Crowe and the New South (1986)
- New York Mining Disaster 1941 - The Bee Gees (1967)
- She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft - Jerry Reed (1982)
- Working in the Coal Mine - Allen Toussaint (1971)
Songs about Specific Occupations
- Bank Teller Song - Me First (1999)
- Bulldozer Blues - Sonny Wilson (1952)
- Charleston Cotton Mill - Marty Haggard (1981)
- Dying Business, A - Chad Mitchell Trio (1964)
- Fireworks Factory - Johnny Dowd (2006)
- Grocery Clerk Blues - American Wicker (2007)
- Grocery Store Clerk - Mike Vitale (2006)
- If I Were a Carpenter - Johnny Cash and June Carter (1970)
- Jack of All Trades - Jerry Abbott (1978)
- Lumberjack - Hal Willis (1964)
- Mid-American Manufacturing Tycoon - Bobby Russell (1973)
- Off-Shore Drilling Rig - Slim Willet (1959)
- Peter, the Meter Reader - Meri Wilson (1981)
- Rosie the Riveter - Eve Goldberg (2003)
- Sawmill - Mel Tillis (1973)
- Tool-Pusher - Slim Willet (1950)
- Tool-Pusher on a Rotary Rig - Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan (1954)
Songs about Labor Day
- Day After Labor Day, The - Jim Thielen (2003)
- Ella's Labor Day Blues - Ken Bonfield (2005)
- Happy Labor Day - The Spoiled Chefs (2005)
- Labor Day - John McCutcheon (1998)
- Labor Day Blues - Jay Nash (2006)
- Labor Day (It's a Holiday) - Black-Eyed Peas (2004)
- Rainy Labor Day - Jared Campbell (2003)
Songs about Work
- 9 to 5 (Morning Train) - Sheena Easton (1981)
- Bossy Boss - Gene Simmons (1966)
- Bringing Home the Bacon - Porter Wagoner (1953)
- Call My Job - Detroit Junior (1965)
- Cowboy's Work is Never Done, A - Sonny and Cher (1972)
- Dirty Work - Sterling Whipple (1978)
- Eight-Hour Day - Pete Seeger (1957)
- Everybody's on Strike - Vik Venus (1969)
- Factory, The - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West (1988)
- Five O'Clock World - The Vogues (1965)
- Forty Hour Week for a Livin' - Alabama (1985)
- Full-Time Job, A - Eddy Arnold (1952)
- Get a Job - The Silhouettes (1958)
- Go to Work on Monday - Johnny Collins (1993)
- God Bless the Working Man - Merle Kilgore (1971)
- Graveyard Shift - Uncle Tupelo (1990)
- Hands of a Working Man - Ty Herndon (1999)
- Hard-Hat Days and Honky-Tonk Nights - Red Steagall (1980)
- Hard-Workin' Man - Brooks and Dunn (1993)
- He's Too Busy Working to Cheat on Me - Rebecca Lynn (1976)
- Heaven Help the Working Girl - Norma Jean (1967)
- High Cost, Low Pay Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter (1947)
- I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow - Janette Carter (1972)
- I Wish I Had a Job to Shove - Geezinslaw Brothers (1993)
- I'll Make a Change in Business - Lonnie Glosson Band (1947)
- I'll Never Work There Anymore - Spike Jones (1952)
- It's My Job - Jimmy Buffett (1980)
- Keep the Customers Satisfied - Gary Puckett (1971)
- Let's Work Together - Canned Heat (1970)
- Mr. Businessman - Ray Stevens (1968)
- National Working Woman's Holiday - Sammy Kershaw (1994)
- Nice Work if You Can Get it - Charlie Byrd Trio (1960)
- Night Shift - The Commodores (1985)
- Nine to Five - Dolly Parton (1981)
- Occupational Hazard - Oseo (2007)
- On the Job Too Long - Billy Grammer (1959)
- Open for Business As Usual - Jack Jones (1967)
- Out of Work - Gary 'U. S.' Bonds (1982)
- Part-Time Job - Mark Valentino (1963)
- Pay Day - Guy Davis (2004)
- Paying the Cost to Be the Boss - B.B. King (1968)
- Quittin' Time - Mary Chapin Carpenter (1990)
- Shh, I'm Working - Lorenzo Gallini (2008)
- Swing-Shift Swing - The Count Basie Orchestra (1944)
- Take This Job and Shove it - Johnny Paycheck (1978)
- Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1974)
- That's My Job - Conway Twitty (1987)
- Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal - BR5-49 (2001)
- Unemployed - Steve Goodman (1998)
- Woman's Work is Never Done - Archie Campbell (1961)
- Work in Progress - Alan Jackson (2002)
- Work Song - Corbin Hanner (1990)
- Workin' at the Car Wash Blues - Jerry Reed (1980)
- Workin' for the Man - Roy Orbison (1962)
- Workin' for the Weekend - Ken Mellons (1995)
- Workin' Man Blues - Jed Zeppelin (1995)
- Working Girl Blues - Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1976)
- Working Man - John Conlee (1984)
- Working Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes (1956)
- Working Man (Nowhere to Go) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1988)
- Working Man's PhD - Aaron Tippin (1993)
- Working Man's Prayer, A - Arthur Prysock (1968)
- Working on a Road - The Country Gentlemen (1991)
- Working on the Road - 6 O'Clock News (1969)
- Working Poor - David Francey (2000)
- Working Without a Net - Waylon Jennings (1986)
- Working Woman - Rob Crosby (1992)
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As a "techy turned marketing turned social media turned compliance turned security turned management" guy, I have had the pleasure of talking to many different customers over the years and have heard horror stories about data loss, data destruction, and data availability. I have also heard great stories about how to protect data and the differing ways to approach data protection.
On a daily basis, I deal with NIST 800-53 rev.4, PCI, HIPAA, CSA, FFIEC, and SOC controls among many others. I also deal with specific customer security worksheets that ask for information about how we (SoftLayer) protect their data in the cloud.
My first response is always, WE DON’T!
The looks I’ve seen on faces in reaction to that response over the years have been priceless. Not just from customers but from auditors’ faces as well.
- They ask how we back up customer data. We don’t.
- They ask how we make it redundant. We don’t.
- They ask how we make it available 99.99 percent of the time. We don’t.
I have to explain to them that SoftLayer is simply infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and we stop there. All other data planning should be done by the customer. OK, you busted me, we do offer managed services as an additional option. We help the customer using that service to configure and protect their data.
We hear from people about Personal Health Information (PHI), credit card data, government data, banking data, insurance data, proprietary information related to code and data structure, and APIs that should be protected with their lives, etc. What is the one running theme? It’s data. And data is data folks, plain and simple!
Photographers want to protect their pictures, chefs want to protect their recipes, grandparents want to protect the pictures of their grandkids, and the Dallas Cowboys want to protect their playbook (not that it is exciting or anything). Data is data, and it should be protected.
So how do you go about doing that? That's where PLEB, the weird acronym in the title of this post, comes in!
PLEB stands for Physical, Logical, Encryption, Backups.
If you take those four topics into consideration when dealing with any type of data, you can limit the risk associated with data loss, destruction, and availability. Let’s look at the details of the four topics:
- Physical Security—In a cloud model it is on the shoulders of the cloud service provider (CSP) to meet strict requirements of a regulated workload. Your CSP should have robust physical controls in place. They should be SOC2 audited, and you should request the SOC2 report showing little or no exceptions. Think cameras, guards, key card access, bio access, glass alarms, motion detectors, etc. Some, if not all, of these should make your list of must-haves.
- Logical Access—This is likely a shared control family when dealing with cloud. If the CSP has a portal that can make changes to your systems and the portal has a permissions engine allowing you to add users, then that portion of logical access is a shared control. First, the CSP should protect its portal permission system, while the customer should protect admin access to the portal by creating new privileged users who can make changes to systems. Second, and just as important, when provisioning you must remove the initial credentials setup and add new, private credentials and restrict access accordingly. Note, that it’s strictly a customer control.
- Encryption—There are many ways to achieve encryption, both at rest and in transit. For data at rest you can use full disk encryption, virtual disk encryption, file or folder encryption, and/or volume encryption. This is required for many regulated workloads and is a great idea for any type of data with personal value. For public data in transit, you should consider SSL or TLS, depending on your needs. For backend connectivity from your place of business, office, or home into your cloud infrastructure, you should consider a secure VPN tunnel for encryption.
- Backups—I can’t stress enough that backups are not just the right thing to do, they are essential, especially when using IaaS. You want a copy at the CSP you can use if you need to restore quickly. But, you want another copy in a different location upon the chance of a disaster that WILL be out of your control.
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is characterized by thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolysis. Unlike the typical hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which follows infection with shiga toxin-producing microorganisms, most cases of TTP do not have an obvious etiology. Recent studies revealed that a plasma zinc metalloprotease ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motif) 13 cleaves von Willebrand factor in a shear-dependent manner. Deficiency of ADAMTS13, due to autoimmune inhibitors of the protease or genetic mutation in the ADAMTS13 gene, results in a propensity to the development of von Willebrand factor-platelet aggregation and intravascular thrombosis characteristic of TTP. The identification of the molecular defect in TTP raises the prospect that this hitherto mysterious disorder will be managed with a more rationally designed strategy in the near future. | <urn:uuid:6b909492-f6b3-4fad-aeb8-60ef815a7649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15497097/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.881489 | 217 | 2.09375 | 2 |
This article provides information about the job position named AC Technician, it details things like job description, job duties and responsibilities, skills and qualities needed to fill such a job position and it also provides a AC Technician Resume Sample which can be used as a guideline when creating the real thing.
The AC Technicians, also known as air-conditioning mechanics and installers, are specialized in either installation, maintenance, or repair, in a word, they are trained to perform all three functions. The AC Technician has to be physically fit to perform different tasks like lifting heavy things when the situation requires to.
Also, the AC Technician has to be ready to perform his daily activities in different environments (indoor or outdoor), or varying temperatures (hot or cold).
The AC Technician must demonstrate courtesy and tact in dealing with, sometimes, aggravated customers, thus communication skills required, he has to respond immediately to all customers’ requests and deal with the troubleshooting of the device professionally.
Writing your resume may turn out to be a difficult task if you don`t take into consideration the basic rules suggested by the HR Department. First of all, list all skills and abilities you possess as they can make a difference between you and other applicants.
Also, focus your attention on your previous work experience, and provide a complete description of the duties performed to prove to your future employer that you are the right person for this job.
Note : AC Technician Resume Download Button is down below.
AC Technician Resume Sample
The Ac Technician is the one who will repair your AC System on a hot day, or install a new one in your office or home.
Looking to obtain an AC Technician position and utilize my experience and skills to contribute to the company`s growth.
Hard-working and result-oriented, I am eager to be part of the team’s success and contribute to its development.
Qualities and Skills:
- Skills in the technical field
- Positive Attitude
- Communication skills are written and spoken
- Able to Work Under Pressure and meet deadlines
- Computer skills
AC Technician Galaxy, Florida
Duties and responsibilities:
- Assisted the technician in the assembling of the air conditioners
- Trained the new entries in the troubleshooting of the area of the device, and also for effective working
- Assisted the technicians in the replacement of HVAC systems in the machines
- Tested the systems to ensure the standard of the performance
- Scheduled and attended meetings to discuss new technology
- Supervised the installation of the air-conditioners in companies
- Provided administrative support to field staff.
- Performed a large variety of office duties that supported field activities.
- Ensured technical support for different projects
- Diagnosed the temperature programs and made essential changes
- Customized the cooling and ventilating systems
- Evaluated wiring diagrams, identified and repaired the faults
Certified course in AC Technology, Florida
Provided quick and effective service in troubleshooting of air-conditioners
Areas of interest
Available upon request
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Colder weather means time to clean the fireplace & chimney!
It's almost that time of year again. Where the family is gonna gather round the warmth of the fireplace. An before you throw those logs on and spark it up, its very important that your fireplace and chimney are properly cleaned, and SERVPRO of Western Lehigh County is the place to call! During the spring an summer seasons when your fireplace is not in use a variety of things could have built up in the chimney. Such as soot, leaves and sticks, or even a variety of critters! A chimney is a great place for birds,squirrels, and other varmints to build there nests. Whether the critter is still there or not this still is a huge risk or starting a fire. Always take a flashlight an do a self inspection to make sure your chimney flue is clear of all debris. Even if you think you've done a sufficient cleaning, its always safe to have a professional come out an inspect it properly. If you own a gas fireplace make sure all gas lines are tightly secured, and don't have any leaks. Although it may seem alright to leave it untended. you should always turn it off when leaving your home or going to sleep. Fireplaces are nice an cozy, but if not properly cleaned an attended to they can become a huge fire risk for your home. So just follow the step given an you and your family can enjoy your fires safely! From all of us at SERVPRO of Western Lehigh County have a great fall/winter seasons! | <urn:uuid:ff77be08-c6e6-4921-8ec1-6e5891b789d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.servprowesternlehighcounty.com/blog/post/169764/fire-smoke-damage-restoration/colder-weather-means-time-to-clean-the-fireplace--chimney- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95864 | 331 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Posted on January 6th, 2020 by Dr. Francis Collins
Posted In: Director's Album - Photos
Tags: music, New Year, NIH Clinical Center, piano
A fabulous way to ring in the New Year 2020! Dr. Collins never fails to bring music in to sooth
the soul and heal the body!
Happy and Prosperous New YEAR 2020!
The musical backbeats “playing the piano with mesmerising rhythms” for heralding 2020 by Dr. Collins certainly appears a spectacular way of wishing American patients/families and colleagues “New Year”!!!
Looking forward to an in-person visit at the NIH Federal headquarters, USA in coming years to celebrate New Years with the experts!
This was fantastic! What was the first song you played? I have been trying but can’t figure out what it is! (ps, I recall your playing guitar to my medical school class years and years ago at Michigan!)
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A commenter to this post wrote, that after a recent visit to the home of George Washington, he was “reminded of the remarkable character of the people in positions of public trust and authority at the time which set the standard of how public officials and their appointees were, and still are, expected to conduct their official duties.”
It has become common practice among certain activists to nostalgically reach back to the days of our founding fathers and compare them with contemporary politicians. They'll often write and speak in revered tones of the wisdom and character of Washington, war hero and first president, Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and Madison, author of the Constitution.
In doing so, they tend to gloss over the fact that these three white guys were humans, not saints. For example, it is important to remember that all three of these men held other humans in bondage while simultaneously championing the cause of liberty and equality.
I just completed Ron Chernow’s 904 page biography of George Washington, “
Washington. A Life.” I am fan of Chernow’s
work, having previously read his biographies of J.P. Morgan, John D.Rockefeller, and Alexander Hamilton. The author painstakingly researches his
subjects leaving no stone unturned.
This is actually the second biography of George Washington that I’ve read. From “His Excellency” by Joseph Ellis I first learned that
Washington was quite the land speculator, buying up
thousands of acres of land west of the Allegheny Mountains
in the path of the new nations growth. What I further discovered after reading
Chernow’s book was that Washington
also profited on what today would likely be considered insider information.
While president, he took a personal interest in the layout and development of
the new capital city and purchased a few choice parcels of land for his own
account. That hardly “set the standard” for conduct in office. If a public
official tried to pull that off today they’d be run out of office in a New York minute.
Don’t misunderstand me. George Washington served our country selflessly, both as a warrior and a politician. At the same we do a disservice to history by overlooking the things that made him human. While he did free his slaves in his will, waiting until he died meant that he was able to avoid dealing with the social and political consequences of his actions. That makes him human and a bit flawed, just like the rest of us. | <urn:uuid:af003669-f2a2-45ba-af15-a618b44ed8fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://writing-the-wrongs.blogspot.com/2012/08/keeping-it-real.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973584 | 534 | 2.625 | 3 |
The health benefits of Myrrh Essential Oil can be attributed to its properties like anti microbial, astringent, expectorant, anti fungal, stimulant, carminative, stomachic, anti catarrhal, diaphoretic, vulnerary, antiseptic, immune booster, circulatory, tonic, anti inflammatory and anti spasmodic.
The essential oil of Myrrh is extracted from the resin of Myrrh. Myrrh, in scientific nomenclature system, is called Commiphora Myrrha and is a native to Egypt. While the resin was in use in incenses and perfumes in ancient Egypt, the oil obtained from it was used for healings wounds in ancient Greece. The main components of this essential are Alpha Pinene, Cadinene, Limonene, Cuminaldehyde,
Eugenol, Cresol, Heerabolene, Acetic Acid, Formic Acid and Sesquiterpenes.
Apart from being very reputed oil in the field of aromatherapy, it has plenty of medicinal uses too. These are:
* Anti Microbial and Anti Viral: This does not let microbes grow or infect you. It can be used against any ailment resulting from microbial infection, such as fever, food poisoning, cough & cold, mumps, measles, pox and infections on wounds. It has no adverse side effects unlike other antibiotics, such as
weakening of liver, malfunctioning of digestion etc.
* Astringent: Myrrh Essential Oil is an astringent. It strengthens hold of gums on teeth, contracts skin, muscles, intestines and other internal organs. It also affirms grip of scalp on hair roots, thereby preventing hair fall. One more serious use of this property can be seen in stopping haemorrhage, when this
astringency makes the blood vessels to contract and checks flow of blood.
* Expectorant: Good against cough and cold. It fights the viral infections which give cough & cold as well as relieves congestion and eases deposition of phlegm in the lungs and respiratory tracts.
* Anti Fungal: It acts as a fungicide too. It can be used internally and externally to fight fungal infection.
* Stimulant: Myrrh Essential Oil stimulates thoughts, blood circulation, digestion, secretions, nerves and excretion. It stimulates pumping action of heart, secretion of digestive juices and bile into the stomach and keeps you alert and active by stimulating the brain and the nervous system.
* Carminative: Helps relieve you of those gases which often put you in embarrassing situations in public and cost heavy on your health by stealing your appetite, slowing down digestion, giving you stomachaches and headaches and sometimes chest pains too and by raising you blood pressure.
* Stomachic: Myrrh Oil is beneficial for all-round health of your stomach.
* Anti Catarrhal: This property of Myrrh Essential Oil relieves you of excess mucus and phlegm and troubles associated with it such as congestion, breathing trouble, heaviness in chest, coughs etc.
* Diaphoretic: It increases sweats and keeps you free from toxins, extra salts and excess water of your body. Sweating also cleans the skin-pores and helps the harmful gases like nitrogen escape.
* Vulnerary: This property of Myrrh Essential Oil protects wounds from infections and makes them heal quicker.
* Anti Septic: You need not be afraid of little cuts and wounds. This oil can take care of them and will not let them go septic, since it is an anti septic. It can protect you from tetanus too to some extent.
* Immune Booster: Myrrh Oil strengthens and activates the immune system and keeps you protected from infections.
* Circulatory: It stimulates blood circulation and ensures proper supply of oxygen to the tissues. This is good for attaining a proper metabolic rate as well as for boosting the immune system too. The better the blood reaches to the corners of your body, the better the nutrients and oxygen reach the body parts
and they will function better and stay healthy.
* Tonic: This property is for a total good health. Being a tonic, Myrrh Oil tones up all the systems and organs in the body, gives them strength and protects them from aging and infections.
* Anti Inflammatory: It sedates inflammations in tissues in cases of fever or viral infections, in digestive system resulting from ingestion of too much of spices with food and in circulatory system when something inflammatory or toxic gets into the blood stream.
* Anti Spasmodic: It gives relief from unwanted contractions or spasms and thus from cramps, aches etc.
* Other Benefits: This oil is highly appreciated in aromatherapy as a sedative, anti depressant and as a promoter of spiritual feelings. This oil takes care of uterine health and stimulates it, helps fading away of scars and spots, is good in treating skin ailments, pyorrhea, diarrhea and skin diseases such as eczema, ringworm, itches etc. It is also emenagogue which means that it normalizes
Few Words of Caution: It can have toxic effects if used in excess. It should be avoided by pregnant women since it stimulates uterus.
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Life is full of uncertainties, and the only way to manage these uncertainties is to prepare mentally and financially. An important aspect of ensuring financial preparedness for the future is setting up a large emergency fund that you can withdraw in case of an emergency.
But building an emergency fund in itself is not enough. You should also know when is the best time to use it so that you have enough money to come back when you need it. Therefore, you should have a clear idea of the specific circumstances that may be considered emergencies that require the use of an emergency fund. In this blog, we will discuss 4 situations when you should use your emergency fund.
Reason 1: To meet financial obligations arising out of job loss
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and its subsequent economic impact has affected our lives in many ways, including financially. While some of us have lost our jobs or had to close our businesses, many others have seen a sharp drop in income or have had to take unpaid leave for extended periods. Job loss or closure is one situation when you must use your emergency fund.
Unless you have an alternative source of income to meet your financial obligations, the only option is to use your emergency fund. However, if your income has decreased, it is better to try to adjust your current budget by reducing expenses wherever possible. While this may be difficult, it will enable you to meet your financial obligations, as well as ensure that your emergency fund remains intact in case of future emergencies.
Reason 2: For medical expenses not covered by health insurance
It’s important to plan for medical emergencies ahead of time to maintain your financial health and make extensive purchases. Health Insurance Plan The best way to do this. However, health plans have their limits, and you may have to pay out of pocket if your insurer doesn’t cover specific treatments. Your health insurance may not cover various outpatient procedures such as dental procedures such as root canal surgery, treatments for pre-existing conditions, and treatment of fractures.
The cost of some of these treatments can be high, and you have no choice but to pay for them yourself. While you can opt for a personal loan to meet such expenses, it is a better option to use your emergency fund to cover such expenses. By using your emergency fund for these expenses, you do not have to worry about interest charges and future EMI payments that may arise from taking out additional loans.
Let’s consider what the interest charges of a personal loan might look like. If you take a personal loan of Rs 1 lakh for 3 years @ 16% per annum, your monthly EMI will be Rs 3516. Therefore, the total interest you will pay for the loan will be Rs 26,525. Additionally, you have to pay processing fee, CIBIL fee, documentation fee on top of interest. If you decide to use your emergency fund to meet medical expenses that your insurer does not cover, then you need not worry about interest cost or future EMI burden.
Reason 3: To cover expenses related to emergency home repairs
Every property we own requires repair and maintenance from time to time, but sometimes, emergency repairs to your home may be necessary due to fire damage or water damage. While home insurance may cover these expenses, your insurance plan may have specific exclusion clauses that result in out-of-pocket costs.
The bills for this type of emergency repair can be very high, and you may not have enough cash available to pay for it unless you take out a loan or use your emergency funds. In this case, it makes sense to use your emergency fund instead of taking on additional debt. Not only will it cost you less in the long run, but you also won’t have to wait for your loan to be approved to meet the cost of repairs.
Reason 4: To cover emergency travel expenses
Maybe you have moved away from your parents and family in connection with work. While we may try our best to stay in touch and plan visits once or twice a year, there is always the possibility of last-minute travel when a family emergency arises. Last minute emergency travel tickets can be quite expensive whether we are traveling domestically or internationally. Last-minute return air tickets for a family of 4 can easily cost lakhs of rupees. In such cases, using your emergency fund to take care of the expenses is the right call. While you can always use a credit card to make initial purchases, using your emergency fund to pay bills later will save you a significant amount in interest charges.
It is logical to use your emergency fund only when there is a real emergency to ensure that you do not run out of funds when you finally need it. But beyond that, you also need to consider another factor – refilling your emergency fund after it has been used up. To stay safe, you need to make sure you have enough emergency funds to cover your expenses for a period of 9 to 12 months. Otherwise, you risk falling short when there is a real emergency, and that would defeat the whole purpose of having an emergency fund in the first place. | <urn:uuid:d1316e67-f058-43b6-ac6e-fde5c68acbbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://confusings.com/2022/01/15/emergency-fund-top-4-situations-when-you-should-use-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.963051 | 1,033 | 1.773438 | 2 |
In the very early days of software program advancement little idea was provided to exactly how the software program applications and systems we constructed were architected. There were several factors for this: first of all, software application development being brand-new, the concept hadn’t been considered, and second of all we really did not realize just how essential architecture was to the cost of maintaining our applications as well as systems. Upon sober reflection, we most likely must have visualized the demand for prepared style and also designers due to the fact that structure software application isn’t drastically various from building any other framework, for example structures and bridges. We can’t return as well as reverse the damage done by the absence of insight that caused terribly architected applications and systems yet as job managers we can prevent making this mistake in our next software program advancement project.
Today most companies whose core proficiencies consist of software development identify the significance of design to their company as well as have satisfied this demand by creating the function of engineer as well as making he or she in charge of the design of all the software program applications as well as systems they establish. Also companies whose core competencies don’t include software advancement, however who have invested heavily in IT, have created this function. These individuals might be described as the Principal Designer, Head Designer, or Strategic Architect. Wikipedia identifies 3 different classifications of architect relying on the range of their responsibilities: the venture architect that is accountable for all an organization’s applications and systems, the service architect who is responsible for the architecture of a system consisted of several applications and also hardware systems, and the application designer whose obligation is restricted to one application. The classification and also variety of designers will generally be constricted by the dimension of the organization and the number of applications and also systems it sustains. Despite what the organization you help calls them, the software engineer has a essential role to play on your software project.
Your work as project manager of a software program advancement job, where a software engineer is in location, is to guarantee that their work is effectively defined and arranged to ensure that your project gets optimum gain from their know-how. If the organization does not have an designer in place you will need to determine a person on your group to fill that role. What is not appropriate is to intend the job with no acknowledgment of the demand or relevance of the architect. This role calls for as much understanding of the system elements as feasible, including software and equipment understanding. It likewise needs deep technical knowledge of the technology being used, both hardware and software and solid analytical skills. The individual (other than a software architect) that most likely has a capability comparable to this set, is a service or systems expert. Depending upon the dimension and complexity of the existing system, and also your task, existing skill sets might not suffice to fulfill your project’s demands. There are enough training opportunities offered so pick one that many carefully suits your needs and have your prospect participate in. If your job has appropriate budget to spend for the training, penalty. If not, remember that the capability acquired by the student will certainly be available to the company after your project is finished and your task must not need to birth the complete cost of the training.
Now that you have actually a certified software program engineer involved for your task, you require to intend that person’s tasks to take optimum benefit of their abilities. I advise involving the designer as early on in the project as feasible to make sure that they can affect the definition of the application or system being established. The group that defines business needs to your job will certainly be from business side of the company as well as have deep knowledge of just how the business runs yet little knowledge of the existing systems as well as technological features of the hardware and software that will supply the option. Having a software designer offered throughout needs collecting exercises will assist you specify requirements that leverage existing system and also service system strengths and also avoid weak points. Leaving their input till a later phase reveals your task to the risk of re-engineering the solution to fit existing architecture or prevent remedy weak points, after the truth. Entail the software designer in needs collecting exercises as a consultant or SME ( subject specialist) who can mention risks in specifying needs and also use alternative options.
The crucial deliverable your architect is in charge of is the architectural drawing. This is not really a drawing yet a mix of illustrations and message. The drawings will certainly represent the different components of the system as well as their partnership to each other. The text will define information elements, connections between numerous architectural elements, and any type of standards developers need to abide by. The drawing might be a new one to stand for a brand-new system, or it might be an update of an existing drawing to reflect the adjustments to an existing system made by your project. The advancement of the building drawing is the very first design activity in your task schedule. The drawing is used in the exact same style that engineering staff and also proficient artisans utilize an architectural drawing of a building or bridge. | <urn:uuid:3f426154-ea85-4e05-aa05-03dc66b4a757> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://altropensiero.com/5-essential-elements-for-architects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.970625 | 1,026 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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