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Heuliez [ olje ] is a French company founded in 1920 that manufactures car bodies. The main plant is located in Canton Cerizay, the department of Deux -Sèvres.
The commercial vehicle production in 1980 spun off by Rorthais at Parthenay in the company Heuliez Bus and sold in the early 1990s.
Because of the pending bankruptcy proceedings in March 2009 sees Heuliez an unclear future with.
- 2.1 car body shop 2.1.1 Products of the recent past
Heuliez was founded in 1920 by Adolphe Heuliez for the production of horse carriages.
The production of car bodies began in 1925 with the production of type 177B for Peugeot. In October 2007, Heuliez asked for court bankruptcy protection.
In August 2008, the Indian car company Argentum took over 60 percent of the shares of the obligation to invest 25 million euros in the company, of which 10 million immediately. A minority participation takes over France's CDC investor who invests 5 million euros. Argentum CEO Ajay Singh said that Argentum wanted to use the strong distribution platform and development department of the company, to create a global auto design firm. Addition, we wanted to tap into the rapidly growing market for electric cars. From 2011, the developed as " Heuliez Friendly " electric car is produced as an electric car Mia by the German - French companies Mia electric. Following the bankruptcy of Heuliez for the electric vehicle division was ( 73.4 %) accepted by the main shareholder and pharmaceutical entrepreneur mia electric GmbH, Prof. Edwin Kohl, on 1 July 2010.
Buses and Coaches
1937 made the company Heuliez its first omnibus.
In the 1970s, the bus production of Heuliez by the other French bus manufacturer was boycotted by supplying no chassis for bus bodies more. For this reason, Heuliez resorted to foreign chassis and built bus bodies in large numbers and in particular German chassis of Daimler -Benz (Mercedes- Benz O 305 and O 305 G) and Magirus- Deutz.
In 1980, the company was founded Heuliez Bus, which entered into a partnership with Renault. Heuliez bus was acquired by Renault and Volvo 1991. In 1998, Renault shares of Volvo Bus Corp.. , And in 1999 became a subsidiary of Heuliez Bus Irisbus, wherein the bus activities of IVECO and Renault have been merged. In 2002, the shares of Renault IVECO Irisbus on.
Examples of products
Car body shop
Products in the recent past
- Peugeot 604 Sedan: 1978-1984
- Renault 5 Le Car Van ( small car ): 1979-1984
- Citroën BX Estate Series: 1983
- Peugeot 205 Turbo 16: from 1985
- Citroen BX Break (Estate): 1985-1993
- Citroën Visa Chrono: 1984
- Citroen Visa Mille Pistes: 1984
- Citroën Visa Convertible ( Cabriolet ): 1984
- Citroën BX 4TC: 1986
- Citroën CX Break (Estate): 1989-1991
- Citroën XM Break ( Combined ): 1992-1999
- Citroën Saxo electrique ( electric vehicle ): 1996-2003
- Citroën AX electrique: 1995-2000
- Citroën Xantia Break (Estate): 1995-2000
- Heuliez Intruder ( prototype of a SUV-Roadsters/Coupés ): 1997
- Peugeot 206 CC ( roof modules for a convertible ) from 2001
- Opel Tigra TwinTop: 2004-2009
- Heuliez Macarena, concept study of a four-door glass sunroof - convertible based on the Peugeot 407, presented at the IAA 2007
Buses and Coaches
- Heuliez O 305 / O 305 G (on the chassis of the standard I - bus Mercedes -Benz O 305)
- GX 17 / GX 77 H
- GX 107 / GX 187
- GX 44 (Nantes)
- GX 113 (Marseille ) / GX 117 / GX 117 L / GX 127 / GX 127 L
- GX 217 / GX 217 CNG ( Vilnius) / GX 217 GNV
- GX 317 / GX 317 GNV / GX 317 GPL / GX 327 / GX 327 GNV
- GX 417 / GX 417 CNG ( Vilnius) GX 417 GNV / GX 427 / GX 427 GNV
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array getopt ( string options [, array long_options])
Being able to accept parameters into your scripts with argc and argv is good enough for some people, but if you run on Unix there's an even better way: the getopt() function. With getopt() you just tell it what parameters your script is able to accept, and it does the rest.
Author's Note: getopt() doesn't work on Windows. You might try using the Console_GetOpt package from PEAR, available from http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Getopt
Here's a basic example:
<?php $options = getopt("abc"); var_dump($options); ?>
That code tells getopt() to read in three parameters from the command line: -a, -b, and -c. If any of these are specified, they are placed into the array return value. Those that are not specified are simply left out of the array. Any extra parameters that were passed that aren't listed get ignored.
So, try running that script like this:
php getopt.php -a -b -d
That should output the following:
As you can see, as "c" wasn't specified and "d" wasn't asked for, neither of them make it into the returned array.
Of course, just knowing the "a" and "b" are set isn't very interesting - getopt() can also track values that parameters are set to. Change the script to this:
<?php $options = getopt("ab:cd:"); var_dump($options); ?>
Note that I've changed the parameter passed to getopt() - there are now two colons in there, and we also accept a "d" parameter. What the two colons do is say that the parameter before expects to get some value attached to it. So, we can now call the script like this:
php getopt -a -b hello -d world
This time we only get "false" an array value when there was no value passed:
There is one potential gotcha here, and that's the fact that the function isn't smart enough to allow optional values. Try calling the script like this:
php getopt -a -b -d world
There is a second parameter you can pass to getopt(), which is an array specifying the names of long parameters (that is, --foo rather than just -f) to accept. Sadly the functions behind it only work on a small number of systems; my test Linux boxes didn't work at all!
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Federal and state higher education expenditures have changed since the recession.
For the first time in decades, the federal government is sending about the same amount of money to colleges and universities as do the states that support them, according to a new study by the Pew Charitable Trust.
The change in funding levels was driven largely by the recession, when states slashed higher education funding to balance budgets and more people headed back to school, pushing the federal government to spend more on financial aid.
The findings come as some states, including Arizona, Louisiana and Wisconsin, consider reductions in higher education spending. Texas, meanwhile, is starting to come out of a period of cuts. Federal lawmakers are beginning to debate how to fund Pell Grants, the need-based aid that makes up the bulk of federal higher education spending.
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Stay Longer, Stay Remoter: Southern Tanzania Safari
One of the hallmarks of the safari experience is “remoteness.” In many of Africa’s wildernesses, it can seem like safari-goers have it all to themselves. The areas that offer this kind of exclusivity not only enhance the thrills and wonders of the safari experience, but can also allay concerns from those about their health.
A low density of people combined with longer stays can help minimize any health risks. By staying at fewer lodges and camps for longer duration, safariers can minimize in-transit health risks.
A Southern Tanzania safari fits these criteria. This region’s national parks receive far less tourists than its northern counterparts. Nevertheless, that’s not to say the safari experience is decidedly lesser in the south!
Southern Tanzania provides a more exclusive, off-the-beaten-path safari experience. It also offers activities and wildlife sightings unavailable in the Northern Circuit, like boating and seeing wild dogs! In contrast to the north, walking safaris are a cornerstone of the safari experience in Southern Tanzania – some camps even offer fly-camping to really immerse yourself in the wilderness on foot!
In this iteration of AAC’s “Stay Longer, Stay Remoter” series, we’ll explore three of Southern Tanzania’s national parks and reserves: Ruaha, Nyerere and Katavi. We’ll break down where you can stay, what you can do, and we’ll even give you a suggested itinerary. Start exploring!
Ruaha National Park
Ruaha is Tanzania’s largest national park, and receives only 20,000 annual visitors. In comparison, the Serengeti (Tanzania’s second largest national park) receives 330,000 annual visitors. The park’s landscape can be characterized by a mixture of miombo and acacia woodlands, golden plains, palm trees, the black riverbed rocks of the Ruaha River and other dry riverbeds, the Ruaha escarpment in the west, scattered rocky outcrops and an impressive density of baobab trees.
Expect to see felines: this park is a paradise for leopards and lions – 10% of latter’s entire population reside in Ruaha. This park also has the third-largest population of African Wild Dogs (painted wolves). Fortunate visitors can see other predators like cheetah, spotted and striped hyena, and bat-eared foxes.
Besides predators, Ruaha also boasts large buffalo and elephant populations. In addition, the park has an impressive array of antelope species, including kudu (greater and lesser), waterbuck, roan and sable. Giraffes are also a common sight – keep a lookout for them bending down to drink!
A very interesting characteristic of Ruaha is that it is a ecological and zoological transition zone between East and Southern Africa. This means there is a fascinating habitat overlap for species. Therefore, it’s no surprise then that over 570 bird species have been recorded here, which makes this park arguably Tanzania’s premier birding destination. Keen birders should visit during the Wet Season (December-April) when both resident and migratory species are present.
The Best Time to Go is from July to October. This is when wildlife most heavily concentrates along the Ruaha River, increasing visitors’ chances of great sighting while on a walk or game drive.
June and November are shoulder season. Though a more affordable time of year to visit, it should be noted that each month has its drawbacks. Though the rains of the Wet Season begin to end in May, grasses remain high through most of June, which tends to make animal sightings more difficult.
November is Ruaha’s hottest month. And in any given year, there’s a possibility that the Wet Season’s rains can begin uncharacteristically early, covering the park with thick vegetation. On the other hand, November is a great time to visit because of the “impala drop.” With the arrival of newborn antelopes, you are very likely to see a kill! Miles Nolting visited Ruaha in November and had some spectacular sightings, including this one:
A dramatic scene unfolded while Miles Nolting was on a game drive during his November visit to Ruaha. During a game drive near Jabali Ridge, Miles’ guide spotted a lion dozing off at the foot of a baobab tree. Driving closer, the group also spotted a fresh impala carcass on a branch, and further up the tree, a leopard! After visiting 9 countries over 4 trips in 2019, Miles undoubtedly believes this was his single best wildlife sighting!
Activities in Ruaha
As the rivers dry up and the grasses are grazed, a walking safari in Ruaha becomes a must-do. Early morning is the best time of day for a walk – animal activity is high and temperatures are cool enough to make walking comfortable. Walks are escorted by both a licensed walking guide and a park ranger. Furthermore, many walks here are special in that visitors are able to approach many iconic species at jaw-droppingly close distances.
Each camp has different minimum age requirements for walking safaris. Though the terrain can be rugged, it is flat, meaning visitors don’t require a high level of fitness.
Another great advantage of Ruaha is that night drives are permitted. In Northern Tanzania’s park and wildlife areas, there are very few places where visitors can go on a night drive. Which is a shame – night drives add a fabulous layer to the safari experience, revealing the park’s fascinating nocturnal wildlife. Guides are also given discretion to drive off-road during both night and day game drives. Such a luxury is simply not permissible in the high volume wildlife areas of northern Tanzania.
Where to Stay: Kigelia Ruaha
For those looking for a “bush experience,” Kigelia Ruaha is a great option. With only 6 banda tents (thatched roof over a canvas tent), this intimate camp offers creature comforts in an authentic bush setting. Each tent has en-suite flush toilets and a safari (bucket) shower. Families or small groups may also reserve the camp’s one family tent.
Where to Stay: Jabali Ridge
Simply put, this is Ruaha’s premier accommodation. Jabali Ridge is nestled among giant granite boulders. It offers great amenities, including an infinity pool, spa and expansive library. The dining is also exceptionally tasty and creative – keep an eye out for the baobab sorbet! The lodge features 8 raised, airy suites with bird-nest thatched roofs, wooden shutters (great to let in the breeze during a siesta), en-suite bathroom and an expansive deck. Their is also a private villa (Jabali Private House) nearby, but separate from the main lodge. It features 3 bedrooms, its own pool, and a private guide, vehicle and chef.
Where to Stay: Kwihala Camp
Nestled under a miombo woodland canopy along the Mwagusi basin, Kwihala is another example of a Ruaha “bush experience.” The camp has 6 canvas tents, each with an en-suite bathroom and safari (bucket) shower.
Where to Stay: Jongomero Camp
When you think of Jongomero, think “classic Africa.” The 8 luxury, en-suite tents and common areas of the camp are elevated on gorgeous wood platforms and covered by thatched bandas. Located in Ruaha’s remote southwest, it’s also ideal for going on day-long expeditions to some of the park’s wildest areas – you’re very likely to spot some sable! Jongomero also has a pool, perfect for cooling off after your morning activity.
Where to Stay: Ikuka Safari Camp
Ikuka is picturesquely situated atop the Ruaha Escarpment. The 6 banda-covered rooms (including one family room) are uniquely designed. During the day, the rooms are completely open, allowing for cool breezes and a more intimate immersion with nature. At night, the rooms are then closed off with canvas tenting. The camp also features a great pool with expansive views of the Ruaha valley below.
Nyerere National Park
As you head go downriver along the Ruaha River, you come across the edge of Africa’s Great Rift Valley. The elevation drops notably, until the river merges with the Rufiji River. North of these two rivers’ junction is Nyerere National Park’s prime game viewing area. This part of the park is predominantly composed of miombo woodlands, floodplains, river channels, grasslands and marshes, making for excellent game viewing on land – and water!
Formerly known as Selous Game Reserve, this park’s most unique selling point is the opportunity to see iconic wildlife while boating, a rarity in East Africa. Buffalo, elephant, giraffe (one of Africa’s largest populations), and various antelope species are frequent sights along Selous’ lakes and river shores. And of course there are plenty of hippos and crocodiles! Predator-wise, lions are commonly seen while leopards are occasionally seen.
Perhaps this park’s most notable wildlife highlight its African Wild Dogs. Nyerere has East Africa’ largest population and is one of the best places in Africa to see them. For visitors keen to see Wild Dogs, AAC advises you visit from September to November.
Because they’re so mobile, Wild Dogs are notoriously difficult to track – except when the alpha female has its litter. For roughly 3 months of the year, Wild Dog pups will gradually grow and acquire their hunting abilities. But until then, packs will gravitate around a den, bringing back fresh kills for their pups to feed on.
Outside of seeing Wild Dog, the Best Time to Go to Nyerere depends on a couple of factors. If you want to be out on a boat as much as possible, AAC advises visiting early in the Dry Season (June – August) when water levels are still high. But in general, the best time to go is from July – October during the reserve’s dry season. Animals will increasingly concentrate along riverbeds, making game viewing very productive on foot, on a game drive, or on a boat. This also the best time of year to go fishing!
November and June are shoulder season, which offers more affordable rates. However, each month has its drawbacks. During the month of June, vegetation is at its thickest, obscuring wildlife sightings. Additionally, the Wet Season is just coming to a close, meaning wildlife is still dispersed.
During the month of November, Selous’ temperatures peak. Additionally, visitors should expect afternoon rains – and less accessible roads.
Activities in Nyerere
Beyond boating safaris, visitors to this park may also go fishing. The catfish and tigerfish are most likely to bite during the dry season. Boating also allows visitors to go to a picturesque sundowner or picnic location. For those conscious of the sun, some camps’ boats will have awnings overhead.
Walking in Nyerere is a treat. After all, the reserve is named after the British explorer, big game hunter and conservationist. The best time of year to walk is during the dry season when the marshes and floodplains are dry enough for easy maneuvering. Like Ruaha, walking safaris here do not require a high level of fitness: the terrain is slightly rugged, but not at all steep. Game drives only occur during the day, and the off-roading policy is stricter than at Ruaha.
Where to Stay: Siwandu
Siwandu lies on the banks of Lake Nzerekera, a back water to the Rufiji River. Each of the 12 safari tents is on its own raised timber platform, affording guests great views of the African bush. The area around camp is highly populated with game and viewing from one’s tent is often spectacular. And after a day a morning of game viewing, you can take a dip in their relaxing pool.
Where to Stay: Beho Beho
Beho Beho is situated in the northern sector of the Selous Game Reserve. There are eight stone cottages, the fronts of which are totally open extending to a spacious verandah. It can be secured for the night with ‘tented curtains’ or left open. The open sided lounge and dining area together with the cocktail bar and billiards room provide a sophisticated setting for post safari relaxation and the swimming pool and deck an ideal place to cool off. The camp is a luxurious base from which to explore Nyerere on foot, by boat or by open safari vehicle. The camp’s experienced guides will plan and personalize your daily safari program.
Where to Stay: Roho ya Selous
Roho ya Selous is ideally located in the heart of the park’s best game viewing area. Close to the waterway that links Lake Manze to Lake Nzerakera, boating is a key activity. The stylish camp features 8 canvas tents, including 1 family tent, each with an over-bed cooling system for the hotter months.
Where to Stay: Sand Rivers Selous
Overlooking the Rufiji River, Sand Rivers Selous is built on the river’s north bank. The eight thatched chalets are luxurious and spacious. From the lodge you will be able to get a superb all-around experience of the bush –from watching the wildlife from your veranda to walking in the bush or fly camping over night. Each evening you’ll have a chance to discuss and plan your activities for the following day with your guide.
Katavi National Park
There are few places in Africa as wild as Katavi National Park. Due to its remoteness, very few safariers visit. But for those who appreciate exclusivity above all else, this park deserves your consideration. The park’s landscape is characterized by Lake Katavi and floodplains in the north and Lake Chada in the southeast. The Katuma River connects the two. During the dry season months, water recedes, and is only available in these lakes and rivers. This is when Katavi’s golden plains are full of wildlife.
Wildlife includes hippo, crocodiles, elephant, zebra, lion, leopard, eland puku, roan and sable. Herds of several thousand buffalo are sometimes seen. The best time to visit here is July to October, after the long rains have subsided/ Game drives, guided walks and fly-camping are available activities.
Where to Stay: Chada Katavi
Chada Katavi is deliberately simple: from the food to the furniture: good, tasteful, and unpretentious. For people who like rustic safari experience and are focused on game viewing, this intimate bush camp is right for you.
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We received an official reply from Lexus to our query about the case of Cabir worm possibly infecting cars. The reply based Lexus' immunity to Cabir on two points (quote):
1) Navigation systems in Lexus and Toyota vehicles do utilize an embedded operating system (OS) and some degree of random access memory (RAM) that is used to store several types of information such as recent destinations, names and attributes of saved destinations, and a telephone directory among other items. The operating system itself is proprietary, however, not Symbian as these reports have alleged.
2) Although the Bluetooth interface does support the Object Push Protocol for transferring the phone book from a Bluetooth cell phone to the navigation system, this is an operator controlled event and the data cannot be exported (or transmitted) from the navigation unit.
When contemplating this answer with our mobile researchers one issue came up: Since the Bluetooth interface supports Object Push Protocol it could be possible that when Cabir is looking for a target it might try to send itself to the Lexus navigation system (which as said before is immune to the worm) and this could cause an error message on the system, but not more than that. Before we can afford a Lexus to try this on we'll just have to speculate however.
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The AMICA Library
AMICA Library Year:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
North American; American
U.S.A. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania), 1898-1955
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; Dr. Henry C. Mercer (1856-1930)
Creation Start Date:
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Red clay; Mercer's translation 'Pray for the soul of Father Nicholas of Stave, Vicar'
H: 3 11/16 in. W: 3 3/4 in.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gift of the Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb
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Alcohol Consumption is a Risk Factor for Rosacea
By Colby Strong
October 21, 2021
Alcohol consumption was found to be a risk factor for phymatous rosacea, in this study. Credit: Getty Images
Alcohol consumption increases the risk for phymatous rosacea, according to study findings published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology.
Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the association between alcohol intake and rosacea. They searched PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane database from inception through February 16, 2021.
Eligible studies met the following criteria: case-control or cross-sectional study, was published in English, included analysis of alcohol consumption in rosacea patients and nonrosacea patients without region restriction, and provided odds ratios (ORs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) or raw data to calculate them.
A total of 14 studies were included, all of which were case-control studies published from 2004 to 2020. The studies included a combined 152,381 participants (62.9% women)—76,383 patients with rosacea and 75,998 control individuals.
Pooled estimates for alcohol drinkers vs nondrinkers and occasional drinkers showed no evident difference in the risk for rosacea (OR = 1.22; 95% CI, 0.84 to 1.75; heterogeneity, I2 = 91.0%; P = .000).
Owing to significant heterogeneity of the studies, the investigators assessed the source of that heterogeneity in subgroup analyses. Among rosacea subtypes, the pooled ORs for erythematotelangiectatic rosacea (ETR), papulopustular rosacea (PPR), and phymatous rosacea were 1.15 (95% CI, 0.45 to 2.29; heterogeneity, I2 = 33.0%; P = .225), 1.36 (95% CI, 0.47 to 3.96; heterogeneity, I2 = 52.0%; P = .125), and 4.17 (95% CI, 1.76 to 9.91, heterogeneity, I2 = 54.4%; P = .067), respectively.
This suggested to the researchers that “the heterogeneity decreased distinctly in all subgroup analyses of rosacea subtypes and alcohol consumption is a risk factor for phymatous rosacea rather than for ETR and PPR.’
A significant difference was observed in a subgroup analysis of sex that compared the pooled estimates in men (OR = 1.79; 95% CI, 1.44 to 2.81; heterogeneity, I2 = 0.0%; P = .547) with those in women (OR = 1.13; 95% CI, 0.69 to 1.85; heterogeneity, I2 = 0.0%; P= .861) in 3 studies.
Some limitations to the results were noted, as in 2 studies the control groups were patients with other dermatologic issues and not healthy individuals, and in 3 studies the case groups excluded patients with phymatous rosacea. Also, the standards of alcohol consumption were varying and ambiguous in some studies, and the analysis included only studies in English, which might lead to a biased selection.
“More studies of rosacea investigating sex distribution, alcohol intake levels, and types of alcoholic beverages consumed are needed in the future,’ the investigators commented.
Liu L, Xue Y, Chen Y, et al. Alcohol consumption and the risk of rosacea: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Cosmet Dermatol. Published online September 28, 2021. doi:10.1111/jocd.14483
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When is a home measurement or floorplan service required?
Challenging property taxes
Property tax records often reflect the wrong area of a property because the values can come from many sources, and occasionally go unverified — meaning you may be paying for more space than you have! Unless an appraiser has executed a recent appraisal or measurement service on your property (after any updating that may have affected square footage), you'll need an appraiser to perform a home measurement service before contesting your taxes. An appraiser will determine an accurate Gross Living Area (GLA) of your property so your taxes can reflect the actual square footage — and you can stop overpaying.
Putting your property up for sale
A floorplan service will secure fair market value for your home. Area is one of the most important factors potential buyers consider when purchasing a house — but since square footage values are often estimated rather than accurately measured, your listing might reflect less Gross Living Area (GLA) than it actually has. An inaccurate GLA could potentially reduce the price of the property as well as the number of potential buyers. The only dependable method of using an accurate GLA when listing your property is to refer to a previous appraisal or home measurement service carried out by a certified appraiser (after any remodeling that may have affected square footage).
For real estate professionals
To make certain that your client's property sells at a price that accurately reflects true market value, we suggest requesting a floorplan service for the property. Your clients, and potential buyers, will be grateful for your scrupulousness, and you can be assured that the GLA on your client's listing is a true representation of their home. A floorplan can also be an excellent marketing tactic for getting potential buyers interested because they can see the layout and details of the house before and after a walkthrough. Get in touch with us to learn more about our measurement services.
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August 6, 2013
Marshall Medical Center reminds parents about the importance of immunizations
LEWISBURG, Tenn. – No one likes the thought of getting a shot, but making certain that a child is properly immunized is one of the most important steps a parent can take to protect their health. As the new school year begins, Marshall Medical Center (MMC) reminds parents about the importance of keeping their children’s immunizations current.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Physicians often see patients—both children and adults—who are not appropriately immunized against infectious diseases.
“Vaccines are intended to not only help keep children safer and healthier, but to also help stop the spread of deadly, preventable diseases,” said Dr. Thomas Mitchell, emergency department director at MMC.
Parents and guardians should work with their primary care physician and/or pediatrician to make sure everyone in their family is up-to-date on all necessary vaccinations and to set up a vaccination schedule.
“Parents are encouraged to pay close attention to vaccination schedules, both for infants and school-age children,” said Dr. William See III, a pediatrician on the medical staff at MMC. “If your son or daughter is not current on their immunizations, consult with your child’s health care provider to determine the best schedule to bring their vaccines up to date as soon as possible.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that children younger than two years of age can be protected from 14 potentially serious diseases with vaccines. One of the first shots a child receives is the vaccine for hepatitis B, a virus that causes liver damage. Each year 3,000 to 5,000 people in the United States die from a liver disease caused by hepatitis B. By the time a child is two years old, they should also have been vaccinated for chickenpox, measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and other illnesses.
Both children and adults are recommended to receive a flu shot each year. This can reduce the threat of getting influenza, which can be life threatening in some cases. A complete immunization schedule is available from the CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/.
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American teenagers who issued a Comic Relief style appeal to 'rescue' Glasgow appear to have changed their minds, after Glaswegians called them out on their ridiculous portrayal of the city.
Aina Rivas, 19, and brother Ferran Rivas, 17, who are part of the Hope Scouts Group set up a Go Fund Me page to fund their trip to Glasgow and added a video to the page showing deprivation and presenting the worst side of the city.
On the page they said: "We are Aina and Ferran Rivas and we want to join Hope Youth Corps to rescue one of the poorest communities in Glasgow Scotland.
"We want to go to Glasgow, Scotland, where we would be partnering with a local community organization to transform a patch of urban wasteland into usable space for a local school."
Their video went viral last week and now both their Go Fund Me page and the video appear to have been taken offline in the face of the reaction from Glasweignas.
The "Siblings for Hope" video, which aimed to raise $4,000 dollars for their trip, was available for all to view on Friday, but this morning had been set to "private".
Their Go Fund Me page is also no longer accessible.
The video opened with Aina saying: "We are volunteers, and as far as we can remember we have been serving our community.
"Currently we are a part of Hope Scouts, which is a group that encourages young people to serve
"We both love serving, and we want to take our serving hearts overseas. You're probably wondering, why Glasgow?"
Ferran then chimes in: "The UK is one of the richest countries in Europe and would appear needless and self-sustaining, however Glasgow proves that wrong
"You probably haven't heard of the Glasgow effect. Scientists have tried to explain this saying that high levels of poverty, high levels of stress and a culture of alienation and pessimism could have led to this."
"It is alarming that nowadays one third of all children in the city are estimated to be living in poverty.".
Ferran neglected to mention that one third of children in Fort Lauderdale - where he is from - are also living below the poverty line.
When Glasgow Live posted the video on Friday, Glaswegians were quick to poke fun at the youngsters, with several expressing their opinions on our Facebook page .
Johanna Speirs said: "Hope springs eternal. Nothing like being told your city sucks by two bright, eyed, bushy tailed Americans - the young folk of Glasgow are gonna love them."
Peter King added: "Good luck finding any young people who will listen to somebody who cant pronounce the name of the city properly."
Luke McInnes said: "Hard to believe we hosted the Commonwealth games in our current state."
Stacey Dingwall simply said: "It's fine, they're coming to the rescue."
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2021, issue 1, p. 74-85
Received 04.03.2021; Revised 11.03.2021; Accepted 25.03.2021
Published 30.03.2021; First Online 03.04.2021
About JPEG Images Parameters Impact to Steganalys Accuracy
V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv
Introduction. Existing examples of illegal use of computer steganography prove the need for the development of stegananalytical methods and systems as one of the most important areas of cybersecurity. The advantage of machine learning-based stegananalytical methods is their versatility: they do not rely on knowledge of the injection algorithm and can be used to detect a wide range of steganographic methods. However, before being used for detecting steganocontainers, the methods mentioned require training on containers that are determined for sure whether they contain hidden messages or not. On this stage, it is very important to understand how the parameters of containers under investigation, in particular, such a common variant as JPEG images, affect the accuracy of steganalysis. After all, the inconsistency of the source of containers is an open problem of steganalysis leading to significant decrease of accuracy of detecting hidden messages after the classifier is moved from the laboratory to the real world.
The purpose of the work is investigation of influence of the content, size and quality factor of JPEG images to the accuracy of their steganalysis performed by statistical methods based on machine learning.
Results. During the research the following patterns were revealed: 1) the accuracy is better when images with a close percentage of coefficients suitable for DCT concealment are used for training and control, 2) images are classified more accurately when they have a relatively small number of suitable DCT coefficients, 3) with using mixed training samples (by content or parameters) the accuracy of steganalysis deteriorates, 4) decreasing quality factor of JPEG-images leads to increasing the accuracy of their steganalysis, 5) increasing size of images increases the accuracy of their steganalysis, 6) images where desynchronization of blocks took place during preprocessing are classified more accurately, 7) the sequence of the image preprocessing operations affects the accuracy of its steganoanalysis.
Conclusions. For steganography tasks – the choice of JPEG containers, taking into account revealed patterns, makes steganographic hides more resistant to passive attacks. Considering them for tasks of steganalysis allows one to interpret the obtained results more accurately.
Keywords: information security, steganography, stegananalysis, intelligent computer systems, machine learning, detection accuracy.
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It is very common in the oil & gas plant to control its oil or gas well through a wellhead control panel (usually called WHCP). Each well is always equipped with a SCSSV (Surface Controlled Sub-surface Safety Valves) or usually it is called as down hole valve (DHV) and a SSV (Surface Safety Valves) which is consist of a Master Valves (MV) and Wing Valves (WV). SCSSV in most application is an on-off valve with hydraulic actuators. While SSV can be driven by hydraulic actuator or pneumatic actuator depends on the pressure rating. It is also a need to open or close SCSSV and SSV in sequence and accommodate an Emergency Shutdown signal from the systems. So what are WHCP and its essential component? This article tries to explain the WHCP systems in general application and how it works.
See the general overview of WHCP systems at the end of this article as a general guidance. WHCP systems usually consist of hydraulic reservoir, strainer, hydraulic pumps, accumulator, wellhead control module, and hydraulic line which are supply and return to wellhead control module. Any other parts except wellhead control module are classified into basic cabinet. Each control module is built up dedicated for one well only. Therefore if there are 5 well in a wellhead platform, then there will be 1 basic cabinet and 5 wellhead control module needed.
First part of WHCP is a hydraulic reservoir. This reservoir contains hydraulic fluid in sufficient quantity to operate each wellhead. The size of reservoir is determine through an estimation of hydraulic fluid needed to operate each actuator, possible leakage, distance from the well, and an additional safety factor. Usually the hydraulic reservoir is an atmospheric tank with a flame arrestor venting.
To build up a hydraulic header (high or medium pressure) the WHCP utilize a hydraulic pump. In general the SCSSV will operate at high pressure rating and SSV will operate at medium pressure rating. Thus there will be two hydraulic headers at WHCP with its own hydraulic pump. The hydraulic pump can be pneumatic driven or electric driven depends on criticality and operation area. All hydraulic pump suction will have a strainer to filter the hydraulic fluid from any particulate so that the hydraulic fluid goes to SCSSV or SSV is clean. To make the hydraulic demand from SCSSV or SSV achievable, the downstream of the hydraulic pump (hydraulic header) is equipped with an accumulator. It helps the hydraulic pump to supply quickly the hydraulic demand. This arrangement (reservoir, hydraulic pumps, and accumulator) usually is called as a hydraulic power pack or a hydraulic power unit.
After the hydraulic fluid accumulated at the hydraulic header (both high pressure and medium pressure) then it’s ready to supply each wellhead control module. Usually the line from hydraulic header to wellhead control module is called a hydraulic supply lines. At this wellhead control module, the sequence and logic to operate the SCSSV and SSV is built up. The ESD signal mainly also goes to this module. When it needs to open the SCSSV and SSV, it supplies the high pressure or medium pressure hydraulic fluid to the SCSSV and SSV. In case there is a need to close it down, the hydraulic fluid supply will close and the hydraulic fluid will goes to a hydraulic return line through a three way valves selector. This hydraulic return line will goes to the hydraulic reservoir again.
From this general explanation we can conclude that the wellhead control panel (WHCP) is a hydraulic system that utilizes a hydraulic power pack and a wellhead control module to perform its task. The output of WHCP is high pressure hydraulic supply and medium hydraulic supply to operate SCSSV and SSV. Wellhead control panel is also the interface between the plant control and safety system with the SCSSV and SSV systems.
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This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2009)
The Provisional Government of National Defence (Greek: Προσωρινή Κυβέρνηση Εθνικής Αμύνης, romanized: 'Prosoriní Kyvérnisi Ethnikís Amýnis), also known as the State of Thessaloniki (Κράτος της Θεσσαλονίκης), was a parallel administration, set up in the city of Thessaloniki by former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos and his supporters during World War I, in opposition and rivalry to the official royal government in Athens.
Provisional Government of National Defence
Προσωρινή Κυβέρνηση Εθνικής Αμύνης
Κράτος της Θεσσαλονίκης
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|Triumvirate of National Defence|
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• Abdication of Constantine I
|Currency||Greek drachma (₯)|
The establishment of this second Greek state had its origins in the debate over Greece's entry into the war on behalf of the Entente, as advocated by Venizelos, or a Germanophile neutrality as preferred by King Constantine I. This dissension soon began to divide Greek society around the two leaders, beginning the so-called "National Schism". In August 1916, as parts of eastern Macedonia were not defended by the royal government against a Bulgarian invasion, Venizelist officers of the Hellenic Army launched an Entente-supported coup in Thessaloniki. After a brief hesitation, Venizelos and his principal supporters joined the uprising and began the establishment of a second Greek government in the north of the country, which entered the war on the side of the Entente. The National Defence government endured until June 1917, when the Entente powers forced Constantine I to abdicate, and allowed Venizelos to return to Athens as Prime Minister of a unified country. Nevertheless, the establishment of the National Defence government deepened the rift of the National Schism, which would plague Greek political life for over a generation, and contribute to the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
Background: Greece 1914–1916Edit
Greece had emerged victorious from the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars, with her territory almost doubled, but found itself in a difficult international situation. The status of the Greek-occupied eastern Aegean islands was left undetermined, and the Ottoman Empire continued to claim them, leading to a naval arms race and mass expulsions of ethnic Greeks from Anatolia. In the north, Bulgaria, defeated in the Second Balkan War, harbored revanchist plans against Greece and Serbia. The two countries were bound by a treaty of alliance which promised military assistance in case of a Bulgarian attack, but in August 1914, the danger would emerge from a different quarter altogether: the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on Serbia and the outbreak of the First World War.
Greece, like Bulgaria, initially maintained neutrality, but as the war continued, both warring camps began wooing the two countries. At this point the first rifts appeared among the Greek leadership: Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, at the helm since 1910 of a modernising government looking towards the British and French models, supported entry in the war on the side of the Entente, while King Constantine I, who had been educated in Germany, married to Kaiser Wilhelm II's sister and a deep admirer of Prussian militarism, anticipated a German victory. Aware that Greece was vulnerable to the British Fleet, he advocated a course of neutrality.
In early 1915 the British offered Greece "territorial concessions in Asia Minor" if it would participate in the upcoming Gallipoli Campaign. Venizelos supported this idea, but run into the opposition from the King and his military advisors. As a result, Venizelos submitted his resignation on 6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1915, and was replaced by a royalist-leaning government led by Dimitrios Gounaris. The Liberal Party won the subsequent May 1915 elections and Venizelos again formed a government on 23 August [O.S. 10 August] 1915. When Bulgaria mobilized against Serbia in September 1915, Venizelos ordered a Greek counter-mobilization and called upon the Anglo-French to establish themselves in Thessaloniki (then widely known as Salonica) as to aid Serbia. Indeed, the Allies began landing on 22 September 1915[which calendar?] and started entrenching themselves at the Salonica camp.[a] The King unconstitutionally dismissed Venizelos and the parliament, making the breach between the two men and their followers irreparable. The Liberals boycotted the December 1915 elections. In the same month, the French, with the permission of Venizelos, occupied Corfu, where the remains of the Serbian Army were gathered before being sent to Thessaloniki. In view of these events, a clandestine "Revolutionary Committee of National Defence" was formed in Thessaloniki by a group of prominent Liberals and representatives of all over Macedonia, including Konstantinos Angelakis (mayor of Thessaloniki), Alexandros Zannas and Periklis A. Argyropoulos (representatives of Thessaloniki), Dimitrios Dingas and Dimitrios Pazis (representatives of Serres), Nikolaos Manos (representative of Kozani), Panayiotis Grekos (representative of Florina), Georgios Zervos (representative of Drama), Major General Emmanouil Zymvrakakis and others. The group acknowledged Venizelos as its leader, and began approaching officers of the Army and the Cretan Gendarmerie.
During the following year, Greece's official governments were hard-pressed to maintain the country's neutrality. The final straw came when, on 25 May [O.S. 12 May] 1916, the Athens government, succumbing to German pressure, ordered the surrender of the vital Rupel Fortress to the Germans and their Bulgarian Allies. In response, on 3 June [O.S. 21 May] 1916, the pro-Entente Venizelists imposed martial law, effectively abolishing royal sovereignty in all of northern Greece. On 18 August [O.S. 3 August], the Bulgarian invasion of eastern Macedonia commenced, facing little resistance, since the Athens government refused to condone any firm action. As a result, more than 6000 men of IV Corps surrendered to the Germans on 26 August [O.S. 13 August] and were deported to Görlitz in Germany. This surrender of hard-won territories with only token resistance, outraged most Greeks. At the same time, the establishment of the exiled Serbian King and his government in Thessaloniki in April, the presence of 120,000 Serbian troops in the Macedonian Front, accompanied by threats from the Entente that he would install a Serbian prefect in the city, raised fears that the city would be handed over to the Serbians.
Uprising in ThessalonikiEdit
Incensed by the successive humiliations and the Bulgarian advance in Macedonia, several Greek officers had flocked to Thessaloniki and volunteered to raise troops and join the Allies. The local Allied commander-in-chief, Maurice Sarrail, welcomed their initiatives, but little headway was made due to the opposition of the Greek government. On 16/29 August, the Lt. Colonel Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian tried to seize control of the 11th Infantry Division's mountain artillery battalion, and lead it to the front. This was opposed by Colonel Nikolaos Trikoupis, the chief of staff and acting commander of III Army Corps, who sent two companies to the artillery barracks at Mikro Karabournou that forced Mazarakis to abandon his attempt and withdraw from the barracks.
This incident sparked the flame of a wider uprising on the next day, 30 August [O.S. 17 August], by the city's pro-Venizelist officers. Under the command of Lt. Colonel Epameinondas Zymvrakakis, about 600 men of the Cretan Gendarmerie with three volunteer companies under Major Neokosmos Grigoriadis and thirty other officers blockaded the headquarters of III Corps. When a company under Colonel Vagias tried to break through the blockade, shots were fired that killed two gendarmes and wounded three others. In response, the Cretans fired back, killing or wounding three or four soldiers. The firefight was stopped by the intervention of French officers. Sarrail arrived on the scene soon after, and commanded all Greek officers who would not join the newly formed "National Defence Committee" uprising to be shipped to southern Greece. The loyalist troops were disarmed and interned in the hopes that they would join the uprising, but in the event most of them refused and had to be sent to southern Greece as well.
Individual officers from across northern Greece began to flock to Thessaloniki, and on 15 September [O.S. 2 September], the "National Defence" received its first substantial reinforcement, as Colonel Nikolaos Christodoulou arrived in the city with the remnants of IV Corps that had refused to surrender and instead withdrawn via Kavala and Samothrace. Already on 21 September [O.S. 8 September], the volunteers under Major Grigoriadis formed the 1st Battalion of the "Army of National Defence", and departed for the front lines along the Strymon river.
Establishment of the State of National DefenceEdit
Venizelos himself with his closest aides left Athens on 12/25 September, initially for his home island of Crete, and from there via Chios and Lesbos to Thessaloniki, where he arrived on 24 September/7 October. Four days later, on 28 September/11 October, he formed a provisional government under the supreme leadership of a triumvirate comprising himself, General Panagiotis Danglis and Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis (the "Triumvirate of National Defence", Τριανδρία της Εθνικής Αμύνης).
On 29 September/12 October, Maj Gen Emmanouil Zymvrakakis was appointed Army Minister (replaced on December 6 by Maj Gen Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos) and on October 3 Nikolaos Politis was appointed Foreign Minister. On 6 October other ministries, euphemistically called "General Directorates" were established:
- Themistoklis Sophoulis, Interior Minister
- Miltiadis Negrepontis, Finance Minister
- Thalis Koutoupis, Minister of National Economy
- Dimitrios Dingas, Justice Minister
- Georgios Averof, Education Minister
- Alexandros Kassavetis, Transport Minister
- Leonidas Embeirikos, Minister for Supply and Food Distribution
- Spyridon Simos, Minister for the Refugees
- Andreas Michalakopoulos, Minister for Public Estates and Resettlement
The first tasks of the new government were the establishment of an "Army of National Defence" to fight alongside the Allies, and the consolidation of its rule in as much of Greece as possible. The Provisional Government declared war on the Central Powers on 24 November 1916[which calendar?], and set out to recruit divisions for the Macedonian Front, something which was achieved with speed and often ruthlessness. Despite calls by some officers to abolish the monarchy and declare a Republic, Venizelos chose a more moderate path. He had declared: "we are not against the King, but against the Bulgarians".
The State of National Defence established control in Greek Macedonia, Crete and the northern Aegean islands; lands that were just recently liberated during the Balkan Wars. The reluctant and uneasy coexistence of the two Greek states was not destined to last, as the Noemvriana riots against Venizelists in Athens clearly illustrated that a rapprochement was now impossible. Early in 1917, the Venizelist state took also control of Thessaly, after clashes against the royal army of Constantine.
The division of the country lasted for 9 months. On 15 June 1917[which calendar?] an Allied ultimatum forced King Constantine to abdicate in favour of his second-born son, Alexander, and, with the rest of his family, leave the country for Switzerland. Venizelos returned to Athens, as head of a superficially reunified Greece, and led it to victory alongside the Allies in World War I, but also in its entanglement in the subsequent Asia Minor Campaign. As such, the immediate aims of the "National Defence" were met. But the revolution was also an expression of the wide rift between the quasi-Republican, progressive Venizelists and the conservative Royalists/Anti-Venizelists, and its outbreak marks also the beginning of the Greek National Schism which would leave a troublesome legacy to the country, as it continued in various forms up to the 1970s.
In popular cultureEdit
A popular song of the era celebrating the movement was performed by the musical Estudiantina of Smyrna named Tis aminis ta pedià (the lads of the Defence) or the Macedon.
- The entrenched camp of Salonica became the location of present-day Zeitenlik Allied military cemetery and memorial park.
- Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαιδεία. Τόμος Γ′: Δαβατηνός – Ιωσήφ [Great Military and Naval Encyclopedia. Volume III] (in Greek). Athens. 1929. p. 496.
- Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαιδεία. Τόμος Γ′: Δαβατηνός – Ιωσήφ [Great Military and Naval Encyclopedia. Volume III] (in Greek). Athens. 1929. pp. 496–497.
- The Great War - Romanian & Greek Weapons of World War 1 feat. C&Rsenal
- The Great War - Greek Rifles and Pistols of World War 1 feat. C&Rsenal
- The Great War - A Crucial Test For Unity - Greece in WW1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
- The Great War - King Constantine I of Greece
- Serbia Is Invaded Once Again - The Entente Lands in Greece I THE GREAT WAR Week 63
- Nivelle's Spring Offensive - Royal Conspiracy In Greece I THE GREAT WAR Week 131
- The Merchant of Death - Basil Zaharoff I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1? -- The Great War
- Russia's New Offensive - The Russian Women's Battalion of Death I THE GREAT WAR Week 153 -- The Great War
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There is no universal definition of shoulder pain and Shoulder pain treatment. Shoulder refers to the articulations of the scapula, clavicle and humerus together with the ligaments, tendons, muscles and other soft tissues with a functional relationship to these structures. An expert chiropractor can treat you and relieve you from shoulder pain. There are quite a lot of chiropractors in Dubai, UAE who have come up with great facilities recently. Nightingale Health Services is one of them.
It has to be determined whether the disorder causing pain arises from within the shoulder structures or from other sources such as the cervical spine, the acromioclavicular joint or diseased organs, especially heart, lungs and subdiaphragmatic structures.
What are the common causes of Shoulder pain?
- myofascial pain syndrome
- cervical dysfunction with referred pain
- cervical radiculopathy
- supraspinatus tendinosis
- adhesive capsulitis
- subacromial impingement syndrome
- supraspinatus tendon tear or rupture
- acute bursitis
- calcific tendinitis
- glenohumeral arthrosis
- thoracic outlet syndrome
- acromioclavicular joint osteoarthrosis
- biceps tendinitis
- visceral referred pain
How to evaluate the patient with Shoulder pain complaint and do a Shoulder pain treatment?
The initial evaluation of a patient with a shoulder complaint should begin with a thorough history of the problem, including description of each of the following:
- onset – acute or chronic
- activity or mechanism at time of onset
- activities that relieve or exacerbate
- patient’s age
- past history of trauma or injury
- past history of shoulder/arm surgery
- treatment attempted
- other medical conditions (especially diabetes, thyroid disease, coronary artery disease, alcohol abuse and use of corticosteroids)
DIAGNOSTIC HISTORY CLUES FOR SHOULDER PAIN
|Age||Less than 40 years: instability, rotator cuff tendinopathy|
Greater than 40 years: rotator cuff tears, adhesive capsulitis, glenohumeral OA
|Diabetes or thyroid disorders||Adhesive casulitis|
|History of trauma||Less than 40 years: shoulder dislocation/subluxation|
Greater than 40 years: rotator cuff tears
|Loss of ROM||Adhesive capsulitis, glenohumeral OA|
|Night pain||Rotator cuff disorders, adhesive capsulitis|
|Paraesthesia and arm pain past elbow||Cervical spine etiology|
|Pain location||Anterior-superior shoulder pain associated with AC joint pathology|
Diffuse shoulder pain in deltoid region assoc with rotator cuff disorders, adhesive capsulitis or glenohumeral OA
|Pain with overhead activity||Rotator cuff disorders|
|Sports participation||Instability associated with overhead sports and collision sports|
|Weakness||Rotator cuff disorders, glenohumeral OA|
Key history questions:
- Did you have any injury, even very minor, before your pain started?
- Does the pain keep you awake at night?
- Do you have pain or stiffness in your neck?
- Do you have pain or restriction when clipping or handling your bra or touching your shoulder blades? (Suggests limited and/or painful internal rotation)
- Do you have trouble combing or attending to your hair? (Suggests limited and/or painful external rotation and also a disorder of the capsule)
- Do you get pain on walking or with some stressful activity?
- Is the pain worse when you wake in the morning? (Indicates inflammation)
- Do you have aching in both your shoulders or around your hips? (Could suggest PMR).
- Do you get pain associated with sporting activity, including weight training, or with
- housework, dressing or other activities?
SHOULDER PAIN IN CHILDREN
Shoulder pain is not a common presenting problem in children, but the following require consideration:
- Septic arthritis/osteomyelitis
- Swimmer’s shoulder
SHOULDER PAIN IN THE ELDERLY
Most of the more common shoulder problems increase with increasing age. Particular disorders to consider in the elderly are:
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Supraspinatus tears and persistent ‘tendinitis’
- Other rotator cuff disorders
- Stiff shoulder due to adhesive capsulitis
- Osteoarthritis of acromioclavicular and glenohumeral joints
- Cervical manipulable lesion with referred pain
- Avascular necrosis of the humeral head
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Capture photos as you've never seen them before. In this 30-minute class, photographer and storyteller Kevin Lu (@sweatengine) shares his secrets for capturing unique and interesting photos of places and structures. He photographs swaying structures, light trails, and low-light photos and creates unexpected, fun images for sharing.
His enthusiasm and on-location approach to photography will inspire you to get out and take photos, finding unique angles and exciting shots. There is no limit to what you can create from a photograph, and Kevin invites you to try it all!
Your assignment is to create a photo illusion using one of the techniques from this class: swaying structure, motion blur, or a clear image in darkness. You'll select your illusion, pick your place and time of day, then shoot using the tactics and tips from the lessons. This is a fun challenge that will bring a whole new life to your Instagram feed.
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If you voted in this past November’s election, you were among the 77 percent of registered voters in San Francisco who cast a ballot. The 393,318 tallied votes (which were mainly mailed in) was higher than any previous election.
Although that percentage might seem high — turnout was nearly 58 percent across California and 60 percent nationwide — it doesn’t consider the number of eligible voters who are not registered to vote.
Compared to other wealthy countries, the United States traditionally has poor voter turnout. For example, in recent national elections, Belgium and Turkey had over 87 percent and 84 percent voter turnout, respectively.
Those two countries are among 25 in the world that have compulsory voting laws on the books.
“Compulsory voting…is not as far-fetched an idea as it might seem,” Stephanopoulos concluded. “For it to take root in America, all that’s necessary is for a single city (in the right state) to take the plunge.”
“...To transform American politics, the best advice might be to forget about the national picture — and instead, think local.”
If there’s one thing we do at Hoodline, it’s “think local.”
So, what’s the probability of San Francisco championing compulsory voting?
Jason McDaniel is an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University. His research focuses on local city elections and ranked-choice voting.
According to him, he doesn’t see mandatory voting taking root in the city.
“The issue is that this would only work well if there are pretty strong penalties for non-compliance and pretty strong enforcement," McDaniel told us.
Other countries that have compulsory voting laws, such as Australia and Brazil, fine citizens 20 dollars for failing to vote, while other countries withhold certain government benefits.
Voters not wanting to participate in elections can choose to cast blank ballots without being fined.
“To really get the less-educated, the less-interested, and the less-engaged voters to vote here — the people who are habitually sitting out each election — they would have to have some fear of punishment,” explained McDaniel.
Whereas he supports higher turnouts, McDaniel said that many in San Francisco would view a compulsory voting measure as a regressive step.
“I suspect a lot of people — especially when we’re talking about Americans with a lot of
individualism — would say it’s their right to vote and it’s their right
not to vote,” McDaniel said.
According to him, consolidating elections, implementing automatic voter registration, and making it easier to vote are more realistic.
“That’s how we could really increase turnout,” McDaniel said. “I really think that making voting compulsory would be difficult in San Francisco.”
How can the City and County of San Francisco increase voter turnout without making voting compulsory?
Darren Chesin is the chief consultant to the California Senate Standing Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments.
Although Chesin wasn’t able to talk to us about compulsory voting, he was willing to speak about what California is doing to increase voter turnout.
“We’re moving towards a Colorado-style of running elections,” Chesin told us. The state automatically mails everyone ballots and has the ballot deposit boxes everywhere.
Partly as a result, it has some of the highest voter turnout in the country. In 2016, the state had 71.3 percent of its eligible voters cast ballots –— over 12 percentage points higher than California.
“California is way bigger and way more diverse than Colorado,” said Chesin, “but Colorado’s model works because it gives each voter many choices for how to cast a ballot.”
Chesin said that legislation such as AB 1461 and SB 415, which have both been passed in Sacramento to increase voter participation, will streamline voter registration and consolidate elections from odd years to even years in California.
Another piece of state legislation, SB 450, marks an even bigger step towards increasing voter turnout in the California.
Voters will automatically be mailed their ballots ahead of an election, and they will have a number of options for how to cast them.
Chesin images that most California voters will either mail-in their ballots (like they do now) or deposit them in one of many ballot drop-off boxes, which he described as high-tech mailboxes strategically placed in public places.
Tiny neighborhood polling locations — like the ones that we know in San Francisco to be tucked into garages, schools, and churches — will be brought together into centrally located “voting centers” so that less voting equipment is needed and fewer poll workers need to be paid.
“Any voter registered in that county, say San Francisco, will be able to go to any voting center and vote,” said Chesin. “The centers will be open 10 days before, and including, election day and will encompass two weekends and the week in between,” Chesin told us.
According to Chesin, 14 counties, not including San Francisco County, will be eligible to begin implementing SB 450 in 2018. The remaining counties will have the chance to opt-in come 2020.
“The bill is incredibly detailed in terms of the process that counties need to go through to [implement] it,” Chesin said. “Participating counties have to start really early to be prepared by 2018 and it wasn’t logistically possible for a lot of bigger, urban counties to opt-in just yet and get approval from their local governments.”
Chesin said that after the initial investment, opting-in to SB 450 will save California counties money in the long run.
“This [legislation] is pretty radical — not as radical as compulsory voting,” Chesin laughed, “but we have to do something radical if we want to make it easier for people to vote in California.”
Do you think voting should be mandatory in San Francisco? What are your ideas for increasing turnout? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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Art gallery etiquette: how to keep it classy
The unspoken rules
Keep it down
Unless it's some sort of pumped-up party within the gallery, talking loudly in a gallery can be frowned upon. Talking loudly while criticising the art that's on display is catastrophic. The thing about art galleries is that its rather spacious build-up not only serves as a viewing space for artwork - it also seems to be a perfect way for echoes to bounce around. Thus, you never know who is listening to your conversation. As the saying goes, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all... until you leave the gallery, at least.
Personal space extends to the distance between you and your fellow art gallery goers, as well as the space between you and the art. Unless you're explicitly told to touch the art as part of the exhibition, you're expected to refrain from touching any of the artworks on exhibit. That said, when you're at the viewing space of the artwork, don't linger or strike a lengthy conversation while standing in front of an art piece. Let other people have their moment with the art, otherwise you may encounter another gallery don't, that is barging in front of other people to view the art.
Abusing the open bar or buffet
There are two things that may come out of this. It's either you will appear to be a glutton or a freeloader, or you may simply get a little too drunk for comfort. And while there's food and drinks around, try to keep it all away from the art on display. It's probably not the best idea to spill drinks or place empty plates, glasses or tissues anywhere near the artwork, such as on pedestals and the like.
Selling your own artwork
Unless you're the artist whose work is being featured for the night, it's regarded in poor taste for other visiting artists to try to sell themselves at another artist's exhibition. This apparently happens mostly at openings, where the "important" people are all present at one place. It's tempting to approach them for your own benefit, but you probably wouldn't like it if someone else tried to steal your thunder at your art show opening. Pick another time to showcase your work to the gallery owner or dealer.
Keep the conversations brief during the opening
Save the lengthy discussions for a less busy time. An opening is for the featured artist, gallery owner or dealer to network and ultimately sell the artwork that's on display. There's nothing wrong with congratulating them or striking a conversation with them, but keep it short and sweet so that they may meet and greet as many visitors as possible.
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What Is the Design/Build Remodeling Concept?
Thinking of remodeling your home, adding a bath, renovating the kitchen, or adding on a nursery? Over the years, our experience has shown that potential clients don’t understand the difference between hiring a design/build company vs. a traditional architect.
An architect designs and draws a project. They usually aren’t builders or contractors, but work for them. An architect can cost thousands of dollars and in the end, you have nothing more than a design on paper which you may not be able to afford to build. If you hire an architect you’ll also need to hire a plumber, electrician, painter, carpenter, flooring people, etc. You’ll need to manage these workers and supply them with all the required fixtures and supplies.
A design/build company is a single contractor who designs your project and builds it. They usually employ an architect or interior designer. Using a design/build company is a great way to remodel or renovate your kitchen, bathrooms, or home. You’ll be dealing with a single person, and they’ll deal with the architect, plumber, electrician, painter, carpenter, flooring people, etc. The benefit of a seamless project is invaluable.
Most home remodeling projects don’t need an architect; the basic “bones” of a home already exist, and the features are just being replaced. But if you’re building a new home you may want to get the plans drawn up or looked over by an architect.
No matter whether you choose an architect or a design and build, always ask friends for a referral to a company who has completed projects similar to yours. Ask the company you’re interviewing about their experience and look at other jobs they have done.
What is the Design/Build Remodeling Concept?
The concept of design/build remodeling fosters the attainment of goals, which must be present in any relationship. These goals include:
- The understanding of remodeling vs. new construction
- Trust between the client and the design/build remodeling team
- Total accountability for all phases of the project
- Clear & consistent communication between client and contractor
- Appropriate designs
- Quality construction
By using JM Construction’s design/build service, we can furnish you with a realistic cost analysis during the design phase. This time enables us, as a team, to form a good working relationship before the construction begins.
With J.M. Construction as part of your design/build team, the transition from design to construction is seamless. You’re rewarded with a beautiful finished project you love and a process that you have been involved in every step of the way.
To hear more about design/build and how it could work to your benefit, please contact us or call.
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It is said that the kneading traditional Japanese paper was made more than 700 years before. Since the beginning of the Edo era, it has been widely used for hanging scrolls and other surface decorations, and technically various kneading methods and patterns have been born and developed. As of today, the demand of kneaded paper became smaller and smaller, but it is still used because it has a unique atmosphere and taste. This paper is coated with two layers of pigment in different colors, and the color of the lower layer appears on the upper layer (crack) that was rubbed and removed to form a pattern. It is a Japanese paper that takes a lot of time and effort to make, such as applying “Dosa” to the base Japanese paper, dissolving a pigment containing whitewash in glue to color it, and finishing the surface with ” Funori” . Nowadays, the number of craftsmen who can knead has decreased, making it a valuable Japanese paper. We have 28 types of kneading paper with a standard size of 1.95 shaku (59 cm) x 4.0 shaku (121 cm), so we would be grateful if you could use it once.
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Kevin M. Kruse
and by appointment
Kevin M. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he has particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism and the making of modern conservatism.
His first book, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005), won prizes including the 2007 Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association (for the best first book in Southern history, 2005-2006) and the 2007 Best Book Award in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association. His second book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), examined the rise of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century and its legacies in American political and religious life. (He discussed the book here with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.) He is currently completing Divided We Stand: America Since the 1970s, a trade/textbook with co-author Julian Zelizer under contract with W.W. Norton.
In addition to these works, Professor Kruse has also served as the co-editor of three collections: The New Suburban History (2006), with Thomas J. Sugrue; Spaces of the Modern City (2008), with Gyan Prakash; and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012) with Stephen Tuck.
Professor Kruse is now beginning work on a new project, tentatively titled The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Movement. Drawing on the previously-unused papers of Assistant Attorney General John Doar, the head of the Civil Rights Division who was intimately involved in major flashpoints of the movement, the project promises to shed new light on the relationship between the federal government, the Jim Crow South, and the civil rights revolution.
Professor Kruse was honored as one of America's top young "Innovators in the Arts and Sciences" by the Smithsonian Magazine, selected as one of the top young historians in the country by the History News Network, and named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.
Professor Kruse has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on twentieth-century U.S. history, race and racism in modern American politics, the civil rights movement, postwar suburbia, and the Religious Right, among other topics.
1994 B.A., History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1997 M.A., History, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
2000 Ph.D., History, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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February is National Heart Month
Heart Attack Warning Signs:
Discomfort or pain (described as pressure, squeezing, fullness) in the middle of the chest, lasting more than a few minutes, may come and go. It is sometimes sudden and intense; sometimes slow and mild at first.
Discomfort in other parts of the upper body (neck, jaw, arm, back)
Shortness of breath
Nausea, feeling of impending doom, extreme fatigue, "indigestion" that continues
Stroke Warning Signs: Act F.A.S.T.
Face: Ask them to smile. Does one side droop?
Arms: Ask them to raise both. Does one drift down?
Speech: Ask them to repeat a simple sentence. Do they slur? Have trouble repeating?
Time: If the person shows any of these symptoms, time is important. Call 911 immediately.
Numbness, weakness of face, arm, leg, especially on one side of the body
Confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
Trouble seeing in one or both eyes
Trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination, severe headache with no known cause
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Sudden loss of responsiveness (no response to calling/tapping on shoulders). No normal breathing (or just gasping)
What can you do?
If any of these symptoms are present, CALL 9-1-1 without delay. Do not drive yourself or the other person to the hospital. If their heart stops while you are driving you will not be able to help them. For strokes, clot-busting drugs can help, but only if given right away.
If the victim is unresponsive with no normal breathing, call 9-1-1 and begin CPR. Push hard and fast in the middle of the chest.
If the victim is awake and complaining of chest pain, have him chew an aspirin tablet (or 2 baby aspirin) after you call 9-1-1.
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Opening Government: Electricity
Contributor: Electricity Governance Initiative
Departments of Energy produce long-term plans that are variously called Power Development Plans, National Power Plans or Integrated Resource Plans. These plans are based on forecasts for the amount of electric power that a country will need over the next 10-20 years, and propose a plan for how this need will be met. Elements of the plan include how many new power plants will be built, how much electricity will be imported, how much will come from renewable energy, and how energy efficiency measures can reduce demand. Power Development Plans thus indicate the resource mix that the Department of Energy intends to use to meet demand for electricity, and the amount of funding that will be needed to implement the plan. Total investments can be significant in this capital-intensive sector. Public oversight of these major investments of public resources is critical in a sector that has dramatic impacts on the national economy as well as global and local environmental impacts, public health and quality of life.
The public must have access to these documents in order to understand how power will be supplied, how much is needed, and how much it will cost. Since these documents are technically complex, sufficient time needs to be allowed for analysis. Civil society organizations with the appropriate technical expertise should also have enough time to prepare non-technical presentations and to organize public information forums to explain the plan in terms that can be understood by all citizens.6 ElectricityOpening Government: Electricity
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Don’t Buy Wild: Protect Sharks, Reject Shark Products
If you asked a large group of people to list their biggest fear, chances are high at least a few people would list sharks. It is easy to see why. After all, sharks are displayed throughout pop culture, from the cinematic classic Jaws to the lovable kid’s movie Finding Nemo, as vicious killers out for blood. In reality, sharks have a lot more reason to be scared of us than we ever do of them. While humans have a 1 in 3.7 million chance of being killed by a shark in their lifetime, we kill an estimated 100 million sharks every year.
Sharks are often killed so humans can use their parts for products, including shark fin soup, shark liver oil, and shark leather. Tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins alone every year often by the cruel and wasteful practice of shark finning. Although this East Asian dish is associated with wealth and celebration, the truth behind the soup is far less glamorous. Sharks hunted for the soup are often finned—meaning their fins are cut off their body while they are still alive. Most shark meat is barely profitable, which means fisherman often throw the shark bodies back into the ocean. The kings of the ocean are left defenseless and barely mobile, sinking to the bottom of the ocean where they slowly suffocate, bleed to death, or are preyed on by other predators.
While demand for shark fins is the primary driver for massive shark slaughters, other shark products are more widely available than one would think. Shark meat can be found in supermarkets across the U.S. for human consumption or used in fertilizers, pet food, or livestock feed. Shark derivatives can be used for cosmetics, medicines and health supplements. Health and beauty products using shark liver oil can be found all over the internet and in common pharmacy products. Consuming shark poses health risks, and that is why the Food and Drug Administration warns pregnant women and young children to avoid it due to high mercury levels.
Sharks, though a negligible risk to humans, are an apex predator and play an essential role in maintaining a delicate balance in their marine ecosystems. Killing large numbers of sharks not only has huge ramifications for their population numbers, but their whole habitats as well.
Our continued decimation of sharks in the wild is simply unsustainable. Not only do we kill an astonishing number of sharks each year, sharks naturally have low reproductive rates, which makes them even more vulnerable to extinction. Virtually all large shark species are in a steep decline, and our time to act is dwindling.
The easiest and most immediate way to protect sharks is to refuse to buy products that contain shark parts. How you choose to spend your money is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against animal suffering. The shark fin industry is a profitable business with shark fin soup clocking in at up to $100 a bowl. Help reduce demand for these products by saying “no” to anything made with shark parts.
If you are unsure, do not be afraid to ask questions. When in doubt, don’t risk it! Refuse to buy the product. And next time you think about sharks in the wild, don’t think of them chomping on a human’s leg but imagine them gliding through our expansive oceans, quietly keeping our underwater ecosystems in balance.
To learn more about our work on ending shark finning, please visit http://www.hsi.org/issues/shark_finning/
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Lots of people would love to turn their passion into cash. But finding the time to start your own business can be difficult. Most of us have other things on our minds: there's the full-time job and the children, just for starters.
But the internet is changing all that. Now it's perfectly possible for people to start a business from home. Today there are more people running their own businesses around full-time work than ever before. The Internet allows portfolio careers to flourish and the government must support this groundswell of eager new business people.
How one great business got started
In December, 1969, Michael was short of cash but wanted to buy his mother a Christmas present. In the circumstances, he knew he had to get creative. He wandered around the house, looking for something - anything - he could turn into a present.
He found his old colouring crayons. The ones he used when he was a child, and saw an opportunity. He melted the crayons down into a colourful wax soup before adding an inch-or-so of string into the top to make a candle.
But before he had time to give it to his mother, a neighbour spotted the candle and offered to buy it on-the-spot. He sold it for twice the price it cost him, pocketing enough to produce two: one to give to his mother, another to sell.
Over the next few years, working with his friends, Michael sold candles to his neighbours, classmates and colleagues. He fit this new business around his studies. And after he'd made enough money, he opened his first store in a sleepy village in North USA.
His company? Yankee Candle. While that might not mean much to British ears, Yankee Candle is an American icon. With more than 550 shops across the US, it's the country's largest manufacturer of scented candles.
Turning hobbies into businesses
The lesson? If, as a government, we want to create a vibrant and dynamic country, it's not enough to concentrate on traditional big businesses. It's not enough think of work in terms of the old-fashioned model of employer-employee hierarchies. And it's not enough to believe that people will hold the same job - that runs from nine-to-five - for the whole of their lives.
Under the Conservative-led Coalition, Britain is rediscovering its love of business and increasingly becoming a nation of part-time entrepreneurs. In my books this is a great thing.
In 2013, more than 500,000 new businesses opened their doors. Between 2011 and 2012, the number of self-employed people rose by 60%. And compared with a year ago, nearly twice as many 18-to-30 year olds are in the process of starting up their own business.
Last year Aviva ran a survey on part-time entrepreneurs. They found that seven in 10 were juggling their businesses around a full-time job. 42% had turned their hobbies, such as photography and baking, into a business. And nearly half of these entrepreneurs planned to take their businesses full-time.
They also found that lots of women ran a part-time business. In fact, women were more likely to run creative businesses and twice as likely to plan to go full-time within the next two years.
Government support for part-time entrepreneurs
This is a new way of working that the government has to get to grips with.
I very much hope that the government's commitment to help parents with the cost of childcare will also help mums and dads running their own companies find the time and money to scale up their businesses.
But the government can help in other ways too. The Aviva survey found that part-time entrepreneurs were most concerned about their knowledge and experience.
For the majority of part-time entrepreneurs, this is their first foray into business. And as might be expected, they often do not know how to run a business, pay their taxes and comply with regulation.
These entrepreneurs need a simpler and flatter tax system, coupled with easy to access advice and guidance. At minimum, the government should establish a website and free helpline so people can get help with tax and regulation. Not only would this make life easier for small businesses, it would also quickly focus attention on those areas of regulation and taxation in need of urgent simplification.
If a physical presence is required, then the new Manchester library is a good model. It now has top-of-the-line PCs equipped with software for web and game development and a dedicated intellectual property centre that can guide founders through business law and other technicalities.
This model has already worked well at the British Library, which opened its refurbished business centre in 2006. Since then it has helped more than 350,000 entrepreneurs create 2,775 businesses and 3,345 jobs.
The government must stay alert to the radical changes taking place in our workforce. And it must adapt to support these new portfolio entrepreneurs.
If we are to win in the race to the top of the innovation and productivity tables once again, then Britain must be the easiest place in the world to produce the next Yankee Candle.
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Donabedian (1980) defined medical services quality as ‘the application of medical science and technology in a manner that maximizes its benefit to health without correspondingly increasing the risk. Quality health services are a subjective, complex and multi-dimensional concept. Mosadeghrad (2013) defined quality health services as “consistently delighting the patient by providing efficacious, effective and efficient health services according to the latest clinical guidelines and standards, which meet the patient’s needs and satisfies providers”. He believes that quality health is “providing the right healthcare services in a right way in the right place at the right time by the right provider to the right individual for the right price to get the right results.Quality health service includes characteristics such as availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, appropriateness, competency, timeliness, privacy, confidentiality, attentiveness, caring, responsiveness, accountability, accuracy, reliability, comprehensiveness, continuity, equity, amenities and facilities. Ensuring safety and security, reducing mortality and morbidity, improving quality of life and patient involvement have also been seen as quality attributes.2.3 Factors Affecting Provision of Service Quality in the Public Health Sector• Employees Management KnowledgeAccording to a study conducted by Wanjau, Muiruri and Ayodo in 2012 on the factors which affect provision of service quality in the public health sector Kenyatta National Hospital, they identified general low employee’s capacitating, low adoption of technology, poor communication channels and inadequate fund as the main factors that affect delivery of quality health services to patients attending public health facilities and thus having an impact on perception of health service quality, satisfaction and loyalty of patients.Like in most developed countries, managing public health in USA is characterized by emphasis on performance and improving quality of healthcare. In order to attain these critical indicators, public health management is fully equipped with the necessary resources and management skills (Nembhard, Alexander, Hoff & Ramanujam 2009). The hospitals personnel are more equipped with the management skills that enable them to efficiently manage resources and provide evidentiary basis for determining patient, clinician, and organizational outcomes (Nembhard et al., 2009). In other words, the health professionals are well capacitated to enable them improve the patient services health outcomes.• Management Style on Service Delivery Management of Health care system has previously been to some extent inefficient, incoherent and mostly driven by supply, thereby keeping patients on the outside of the design, development and also delivery process (Berenson and Cassel, 2009). With history, health care organizations, mainly public viewed customer service as an independent, non-critical function which was best left to professional judgment of physicians where necessary. But today there is a shift to a model which is organizational in which the patients have influence on every function (Glickman,Baggett, Krubert, Peterson &Schulman 2007). Organizations operating in Public Health, which continuously take up the challenge of huge restructuring have encountered and are still experiencing difficulties in full and proper implementation of these services (Glickman et al., 2007).Effective management is cited as a vital enabler of quality from the providers’ perspective, managers, policy-makers and equally the payers. Management affects everything within the hospital environment (Mosadeghrad, 2014). Good ideas remain useless if people have them for quality improvement, where the management is not good. Most studies have cited lack of professional managers in public healthcare organizations. Most managers are not qualified professional managers, rather are hospital physicians, nurses, doctors or are healthcare professionals (Mosadeghrad, 2014). In fact, in most Public Hospitals, the managers have no experience and knowledge in management. According to Buong’, Adhiambo, Kaseje, Mumbo, Odera and Ayugi, in their study done in 2013 the authors determined that majority of public health managers were trying to resolve problems as short term measures. Besides, there were no criteria and objectives which were in place used to appoint and select managers in healthcare facilities. National policies were considered prescriptive and did not allow for sufficient flexibility which was needed to adapt to local circumstances. Mostly, public healthcare managers were demanding more power in order to identify and recruiting the most appropriate personnel needed to provide quality services to patients (Buong’ et al, 2014).• Patient CooperationPatient involvement and cooperation is needed and affects the quality of medical services. “If doctors do their job well, but the patient does not follow medical orders, the objectives would not be achieved.” Clinical outcomes depend on the ability of patients to provide information and cooperate with clinicians.• Physician Motivation and SatisfactionPhysicians’ job satisfaction is very important in delivering high quality medical services to patients. Medical doctors identified nine organizational factors that they believed influence their motivation and consequently their job satisfaction. These were pay, working environment, managerial leadership, organizational policies, co-workers, recognition, job security, job identity, and chances for promotion.• Resources and facilitiesAvailability of resources affects the quality of medical services. The demand for medical services is beyond the capacity of healthcare organizations: “Healthcare resources are limited but people expectations are very high”. Participants provided concrete examples of low quality medical services because of resource shortage: Insufficient infrastructures, resources, and equipment inhibit delivery of quality medical services. For instance, a good patient information system is necessary for effective patient diagnosis and treatment.• Collaboration and Partnership DevelopmentIt is important for practitioners to have good support services. A nurse should administer medicines on time and should not administer wrong medicines to patients; nurses should be more responsible and should be reserved for sets there. Practitioners should show ability to effectively communicate with other health professionals or institutions to consider the delivery of high quality medical services for example, the hospital does not have a CT- Scan thus the patient relative has to get an appointment from other hospital and then take the patient there for CT-Scan. All these complications can be sorted out easily through collaboration between two hospitals.• Financial ResourcesThe fixed budget is widely used in hospitals, often based on historical spending levels, with a (frequently inadequate) provision for price changes (Peters, Elmendorf, Kandolaand Chellaraj, 2000). Such a system clearly can secure good expenditure control and is administratively undemanding (Smee, 2002). However, it can often perpetuate historical inequities and fail to respond to new demands and priorities (Peters et al, 2000). Moreover, fixed budgets offer few incentives to maximize the effectiveness, quality, or quantity of care offered by hospitals (Smee, 2002). Indeed, many budget systems continue to finance hospitals through line-item budgets directly from the ministry of health. Such mechanisms allow central bureaucracies to exert the maximum level of control over peripheral spending with little or no capacity at peripheral levels for flexible use of funds in response to local needs (Arhin-Tenkorang, 2000). Thus, centralized budget systems can contribute to technical inefficiency by preventing local managers from optimizing the deployment of inputs thereby perpetuating poor quality of service (Peters et al, 2000).Financial management, in service organizations, has been a constraint and an obstacle to other functions that contribute to service delivery (Adams and Colebourne, 1989). They suggest an ‘enlightened’ approach to finance in service organizations which consists of an approach that is more participative and positive rather than being an obstacle, it contributes to strategic planning, costing systems, personnel motivation, quality control, continued solvency, and keeping outsiders’ confidence in management (Arhin-Tenkorang, 2000). In particular, ‘good costs’ that improves organizational capabilities and quality service delivery need to be distinguished from ‘bad costs’ that increase bureaucracy hence becoming obstacles to service delivery (Sun and Shibo, 2005). Allocation of resources for health flow should be done through various layers of national and local government’s institutions on their way to the health facilities (Blas and Limbambala, 2001). Financial accountability using monitoring, auditing and accounting mechanisms defined by the country legal and institutional framework is a prerequisite to ensure that allocated funds are used for the intended purposes (Oliveira- Cruz, Hanson, and Mills. 2001). Governments lack the financial and technical capacity in many developing countries to effectively exercise such oversight and control functions, track and report on allocation, disbursement and use of financial resources (Smee, 2002).2.4 Theoretical Literature ReviewThis section covers diverse concepts and objective of topic done by different researchers. It additionally covers theories in connection to the study being contemplated as a method for contextualizing research thought.2.4.1 Adoption TheoryThe adoption theory was developed by Rogers Everett in 1962 which focuses on new product adoptions and new product diffusion in the market and to understand how and why as well as to what extent a new product is adopted by Individuals or organizations. It can also be known as theory of product adoption. The new product can be targeted towards individuals or organizations in the market. In any top company, there are long product line and product depth due to the fact that each of these product line and depth exists because some marketer somewhere thought that the product is required. After the product has been launched in the market adoption theory plays a critical role in adopting the product. As per the adoption theory, a new product which is being launched in the market, should have previous empirical data pointing towards the possible success of a product. A product is not directly launched in the market and then to watch it fail. First the product is to be tested and then it is launched. The possible tool for the Adoption theory in marketing is carrying out the market test. The theory assumes that there are multiple factors which are responsible for influencing the decision of the customer. These factors might include the consumer’s knowledge and awareness of the product, his acceptance of innovation, as well as experience in buying such products. The marketer thus gathers more information so that he can influence purchasers to buy the product thereby resulting in faster product penetration in the market. Overall, the diffusion of innovation is a part of the adoption theory whereby the diffusion of a new and innovative product or even normal product is studied. It is observed that there are five categories of purchasers. Products are always picked up first by innovators, then by early adopters, early majority, late majority and finally laggards (Rogers, 1962)2.4.2 Agency Theory.Agency theory centers on the relationship where by one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some work on their behalf (Jensen and Meckling, 1976).The unit of analysis in the agency theory is the contract that exists between the principal and agent. These contracts (written and unwritten) specify the rights of the agent, performance criteria on which agents are evaluated, and the payoff functions that they face (Fama and Jensen, 1983).Similarly, in the health care sector the relationship between provider and patient is often characterized as a principal-agent relationship (agency theory). The principal who is the patient appoints an agent who is the health provider to advise the principal in making decisions about treatment or to make decisions on behalf of the principle. Thus, the provider is expected to be a perfect agent who will combine his/her professional knowledge alongside with the patient’s preferences that would help the patient to make a choice/ decision based on the information provided to him. However, the principal-agent problem arises as the provider chooses instead to maximize his or her own interests, which in many cases do not align with the patient’s interests.The issue of information pertaining to the principal-agent relationship as Arrow (1963) has pointed out that there is a high degree of uncertainty in the healthcare market. Perhaps neither the provider nor the patient is certain about the disease and the optimal treatment or more likely, the provider has a greater knowledge of the patient’s condition than the patient has. As the patient becomes more empowered and informed about his or her health conditions and possible treatment alternatives, the provider is less able to deviate from the role of a perfect agent.2.4.3 Resources Based View TheoryResource based theory has a central focus on the resources and capabilities controlled by a firm that underlie persistent performance difference among firms (Peteraf & Barney, 2003).Resource Based View (RBV) focuses on the link between organizational strategy and firms’ resources through the VRIO framework: V (value), R (rare), I (inimitable) and O (organization) (Barney, 1995). Resources can either be tangible or intangible and are gathered as a result of ‘in-firm decision making and external strategic factors. Resources are the basic physical, human and organizational assets (Wheelen & Hunger, 2008) within an organization and form the basis of RBV (Bell & Dyke, 2012). They are the building blocks where by an organization can develop its strategy and in turn acheive organizational success (Wernerfelt, 1984; Priem & Butler, 2001; Barney, 2001).Capabilities refer to the capacity an organization has to exploit its resources in a way that is organized (Wheelen & Hungr, 2008) hence, taking advantage of their attributes, by using organizational processes to achieve a desired result.Therefore, it is likely that the supreme collection of resource capabilities which is necessary for healthcare organizations to achieve successful innovation and implementation is going to rely ontheir ability to identify, organize and subsequently take advantage of their own valuable, rare and inimitable resource capabilities (Peteraf, 1993). Also, by applying RBV perspective to healthcare, enables the organization to focus on unique and strategic capabilities that will facilitate an exploration of how these capabilities can be identified and developed, including an assessment of their value, rarity and inimitability relationship to institutional advantage (Coates &McDermott, 2002).2.4.4 Service Quality TheoryIt is recognized that quality service is key to achieving the highest possible clinical outcomes within available resources (Øvretveit 1992, 2009). Quality can be defined in a variety of ways but is commonly regarded as the provision of healthcare that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable (Boaden, Harvey, Moxham $Proudlove 2008). Zeithaml (1981) has stated that Customers of hospitality often blame themselves when dissatisfied for their bad choice. Therefore, Employees must be cautious and aware about that since some dissatisfied customers may not complain and therefore the employees should seek out sources of dissatisfaction and resolve them. Parasuraman (1988) enlists the components of perceived service quality as Assurance, Reliability, Tangibles, Empathy and Responsiveness this are the five dimensions of which were used to study the service quality in service industry comprised of banking, tourism, and transport as well as healthcare industry.
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Throughout the world particulate air pollution is estimated to cause 3.1 million deaths a year and 22% of disability adjusted life years (DALY) due to ischaemic heart disease. Several cohort studies have reported that long term exposure to air pollution is associated with mortality, in particular cardiovascular mortality.
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100,000 people were enrolled and followed for 11 years. Participants were free from previous coronary events at baseline.
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Domestic Violence Restraining Order Flowchart
Timeline for Domestic Violence Restraining Order
- Submission of paperwork to Kings County Superior Court.
- Judicial Officer signs or returns rejected paperwork with explanation.
If Judicial Officer signs; you must have paperwork served on abuser by a non-involved party over the age of 18 or the Kings County Sheriff's Office (at no charge to the victim.)
Get proof of service from Sheriff's Office or person doing the service if service is completed on time (at least 10 days before hearing). If unable to serve, send in a Request for Reissuance, Form DV125) and try to locate and serve the party.
Submit proof of service to court.
At your hearing, request a permanent restraining order.
- If Judicial Officer rejects you can resubmit with corrections (Go back to step one)
If a Second Hearing is required,
- If children are involved the court may order an In-Court mediation, or set a Formal Mediation for a later date.
- If the Order is not granted, the hearing may be continued. The temporary orders may stay in effect.
- If the Order is granted, request a minute order from the Court Clerk.
- Again request that the restraining order be made permanent.
- If you attended a Formal Mediation and do not agree with the Mediator's recommendation, you may object at the hearing.
- Usually additional orders are required only if custody (see below) and visitation issues become complicated.
What is Child Custody?
When parents do not live together, custody means who is responsible for the children. When a parent has physical custody over a child, it means the child would spend time living with that parent on a regular basis. If the parents have joint physical custody the child lives at each parent's home. However, if one parent has sole physical custody, the child spends significantly less time at the other parent's house.
If a parent has sole legal custody of a child, it means that he or she has the right to make decisions regarding the child's health, education and welfare, such as what school or doctor shall be used. Joint legal custody means both parents share the decisions.
If parents agree on a custody plan, the Judicial Officer will usually approve it. If the parents cannot agree on a custody plan, they will have to speak with a mediator who will help them work out a plan. The Judicial Officer will decide any disputed issues that parents are unable to resolve during mediation.
Family Code 3044: (a) Upon finding by the court that a party seeking custody of a child has perpetrated domestic violence against the other party seeking custody of the child or against the child or against the child's siblings within the previous five years, there is a rebuttable presumption that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody of a child to a person who has perpetrated domestic violence is detrimental to the best interest of the child, pursuant to Section 3011. This presumption may only be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.
What Is Mediation?
It is a process of dispute resolution. California law mandates Mediation in every case where custody or visitation is contested. The purpose of Mediation is to reduce the conflict and to develop an agreement assuring the children's close and continuing contact with both parents after the separation. The mediator is appointed by the court and must meet various educational qualifications prescribed by law.
recommendations to the court as to a temporary disposition pending a full trial. Mediation is not an adversary proceeding. When a decision must be made, the court will make the decision, not the mediator.
The reason for Mediation is to help parents share the rights and responsibilities in such a way that the best interests of the child will not be jeopardized. Mediation helps parents to focus on the needs of the children.
Domestic Violence and Immigration Status
If someone is a victim of domestic violence and his or her legal status in the United States is tied to the abuser, it is important to know:
- Some victims will not leave the abuser because they fear being deported. The threat of deportation is real, however the victim's safety is the primary issue.
- A victim of domestic violence is entitled to receive emergency medical care regardless of immigration status.
- A crime victim is not required to give his/her immigration status to the police.
- It is important to speak to a lawyer because many things can change the legal citizenship status of the abused victim. His/her situation could change through divorce or separation.
Violence Against Women Act
Under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the spouses and children of United States citizens or lawful permanent residents may self-petition to obtain lawful permanent residency. The immigration provisions of VAWA allow certain battered immigrants to file for immigration relief without the abuser's assistance or knowledge, in order to seek safety and independence from the abuse.
- Must be legally married to the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident batterer. A self-petition may be filed if the marriage was terminated by the abusive spouse's death within the two year prior to filing. A self-petition may also be filed if the marriage to the abusive spouse was terminated within two years prior to filing because of abuse.
- Must have been battered in the U.S. unless the abusive spouse is an employee of the U.S. government or a member of the uniformed services of the U.S.
- Must have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty during the marriage, or must be the parent of a child who was battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouse during the marriage.
- Is required to be a person of good moral character.
- Must have entered into the marriage in good faith, not solely for the purpose of obtaining immigration benefits.
How to Apply for VAWA Benefits
To self-petition, you must complete and file USCIS Form I-360 and include all supporting documentation. Self-petitions are filed with the Vermont Service Center and should be sent by certified return receipt mail (or any other method providing assurance of receipt). Sending the form to any other USCIS office will delay your application. You should keep a copy of everything you submit, including the application and all accompanying documents, in addition to proof of mailing.
Although self-petition provisions for victims of domestic violence are contained in the Violence Against Women Act, they apply equally to victims of either sex.
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Here the author discusses Bath's dramatic and romantic landscapes, which 'present a perpetual feast to the admirer of natural scenery'. He claims that 'cheerful and engaging scenery may be made to conduce to the advantage, and the recovery of the invalid'.
About The Invalid's Companion to Bath
The 'Invalid's Companion to Bath' provides 'information and advice on every subject which can benefit or interest the invalid, restoring them for relief.' As outlined in the preface, the book covers a range of subjects, including 'local circumstances, habits of life, prudential observances, personal comfort, the use of the waters, [and] the aid of medicine'.
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Virtual private networks (VPNs) give computer users a wide range of capabilities and benefits. For starters, VPNs allow you to securely connect to remote networks through the Internet, grant secure connections of multiple networks, and help boost your online security and privacy.
But perhaps the benefit getting the most attention as of late is a VPN’s ability to bypass any regional restrictions imposed by certain websites. The practice of geoblocking allows sites, or companies, to restrict and limit access to users for a variety of reasons. A VPN allows your Internet to route through channels which bypass these restrictions and grant unfettered connection to a desired site. For instance, a site like BBC.com restricts access to its media player to anyone outside of the United Kingdom. Though with a proper VPN setup on your computer, you have the ability to route your Internet traffic through the virtual private network to appear as if you live in the UK.
However, it isn’t BBC’s regional restriction creating waves in the headlines this summer. Rather, it’s a duo of domestic companies playing the finger-pointing game which has Internet users taking notice. For weeks Netflix and Verizon have engaged in a war of words over service quality and which company is more to blame. Verizon fired the initial salvo by putting Netflix at fault for its customers receiving poor streaming performance on their home connections. Verizon boasted it found no congestion issues in its infrastructure and blamed Netflix for not allowing its users to take advantage of the 75 Mbps FiOS connection speeds.
Netflix soon shot back by saying it was in fact Verizon’s network which was to blame for the bad streaming quality. To no surprise this outraged Verizon, which sent a cease and desist notice to Netflix and threatened to take legal action unless it stopped bad-mouthing Verizon.
If this reminds you of a classic case of schoolyard bickering, you aren’t alone.
The tumultuous back and forth got even more interesting following one Verizon customer’s alarming discovery. Colin Nederkoom — CEO of Customer.io — found his Netflix streamed at a snail-like 375 kbps on his home Verizon connection. In an attempt to avoid congested tubes and route through the quickest locations, Nederkoom decided to connect via a virtual private network. Once he connected to the VPN, he noticed he was able to stream Netflix at its maximum speed of 3,000 kbps.
The math was easy. A direct connection to Verizon resulted in speeds 10 times less than a connection through the virtual private network. It seems Netflix may have just gotten the only ammunition it needs to prove Verizon is the one to blame for providing sub-par service to its customers.
While the two corporations duke it out in the blame game we’ve got your ticket to creating your own VPN which may help increase your own streaming speeds. What follows is our comprehensive walkthrough for setting up and connecting to a virtual private network on your home computer. Customers of any Internet service provider have the ability to set up a VPN, though we can’t guarantee an uptick in streaming speed.
Setting up a virtual private network in Windows
Step 1. Find your IP address
Before you begin setting up your new VPN you’ll want to locate and write down your IP address. If you don’t know your IP address offhand, or have it written down anywhere, simply visit whatismyipaddress.com. Once there jot down the address and stash it away for later use.
Step 2. Creating a new VPN network
To begin, click on your computer’s Start menu and navigate to its Control Panel. Here you’ll want to select Network and Internet and then Network and Sharing Center on the next page.
Note: For Windows 8 users simply move your mouse over the right side of your screen to pull up the Settings bar. Click Search and type “VPN” in the window, then select Setup a VPN Connection to get to the correct page. Now input your IP address and select Connect. Your new VPN connection adds to your list of networks and once you select Connect it asks you to input your username and password.
Once inside the Network and Sharing Center click Setup a new connection or network and choose Connect to a workplace. You’ll then want to select Use my Internet connection (VPN) to begin creating the VPN server. Locate your stored IP address and input it in to the required field and hit Next.
Step 3. Connecting to the VPN Network
Input your username and password in to the correct boxes on the next page and click Connect. At this point the VPN connection begins its setup and attempts to connect.
Note: if you have issues connecting to the VPN it’s likely due to your computer’s server configuration. Contact your network administrator if you don’t have access, and make the necessary server changes via the Properties menu on the VPN connection page.
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James Campbell's recent commentary on pre-K education aptly described the impact of quality preschool programs on academic achievement ("Early learning programs are crucial," Dec. 3).
As a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, I believe it is crucial because 75 percent of young Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 cannot qualify for military service, many because they are academically unprepared.
Expanding access to quality preschool will change this troubling trend by ensuring more children start school with a foundation for long-term success.
The proof is found in numerous of the military's mission readiness reports that show such programs reduce the number of children needing special education or being held back in school. They also lead to academic gains lasting well into elementary school and significantly improve high school graduation rates.
Maryland has a good state preschool program, with well-qualified teachers and small class sizes. Unfortunately, it only reaches about 35 percent of children who may be eligible.
The bipartisan Strong Start for America's Children Act referred to in Mr. Campbell's article will enable our state to expand the program, putting more children on track for academic success, higher education and eligibility for military service if that is the path they choose to take.
Alexander M. Sloan, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
To respond to this letter, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org. Please include your name and contact information.
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US-CERT has issued a warning to organizations and systems providers focusing on a VM vulnerability, which if exploited, would allow the attacker to leave the guest environment; better known as a guest-to-host virtual machine escape.
The vulnerability exists on XEN, and only when running on an Intel chipset. Platform wise, the issue has been confirmed and patched on FreeBSD, Microsoft, NetBSD, Oracle, RedHat, SUSE Linux. Microsoft addressed the problem as part of their massive security released on Tuesday; the VM vulnerability itself is fixed with MS12-042.
“The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by correcting the way that the Windows User Mode Scheduler handles a particular system request and the way that Windows manages BIOS ROM,” Microsoft said.
“This security update is rated Important for all 32-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003; Windows 7 for x64-based Systems; and Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems.” According to XEN, setups that use an AMD CPU are not vulnerable, however the exploit will trigger a denial-of-service condition on some systems.
It’s important to note that VMWare is not impacted by this issue. Administrators are advised to patch as soon as possible. Likewise, if your organization uses VPS solutions, you will need to ensure your vendor is properly protected from this issue as well.
The full CERT advisory is here.
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Prepare for your road test
The commercial driver road test is broken up into two pieces—the pre-trip inspection test and the actual road test. The tests are taken on the same day.
If you are applying for a Class 1 licence, you will require Mandatory Entry-Level Training (MELT).
Pre-trip inspection test
For this portion of the test, your driver examiner will ask you demonstrate a typical pre-inspection. During the pre-trip you'll explain to your driver examiner in detail what you're checking and testing in each part of the vehicle. You'll be asked when you'd typically conduct these tests as a commercial driver.
If you are applying for a Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 unrestricted commercial licence, you must also complete and submit a written trip-inspection report.
Need to retake the pre-trip inspection?
If you're not successful on the pre-trip inspection test but pass the road test, you only have to re-take the pre-trip inspection. (You will need to pay the pre-trip test fee again.)
As of June 25, 2018, you can take the pre-trip inspection test again after 7 days.
Commercial driver road test
Your driver examiner will be looking for how well you demonstrate your commercial driving skills.
Your examiner will ask you to:
- start and stop
- shift gears
- turn, steer, back up and park
- merge with highway traffic and exit from highways, and
- drive in traffic.
If you are taking a Class 1 road test, you must first complete the Class 1 Mandatory Entry-Level Training (MELT) course.
Class 1 only: You'll also need to couple and uncouple a tractor unit from a trailer.
Taking the road test more than once
first test attempt, you can take the test again after
If you take the test
two or more times and you don't pass, you can try again after 30 days.
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Photo Gallery: Surprising Backyard Bees
It turns out that most wild bees are nothing like the handful of species I was familiar with. While honeybees and bumblebees live in large colonies, for instance, the majority of native bees are solitary. According to Droege, this solitary lifestyle may mean they are less susceptible to the parasites and diseases plaguing colonial honeybees and several bumblebee species.
Seven years ago, when honeybees began to decline dramatically, many people feared that all bees were in trouble. Yet, except for some bumblebee species that are disappearing, no baseline data exist on native bee populations in this country and how they are changing. (Honeybees are native to Europe.) The need to learn how these critical pollinators of crops and native plants are faring led Droege to launch an ambitious, all-volunteer effort to inventory and monitor the nation’s more than 4,000 native bee species.
As the specimens I saw in Droege’s lab showed, the majority of wild bees also look quite different than honeybees and bumblebees. For one thing, most are very small, and they come in a startling variety of different shapes and colors. Pictured below are just seven bees from Droege’s vast collection, all of them found—and in some cases, common—in backyards and other urban or suburban areas.
Bombus auricomas, Baltimore, Maryland“The long-faced Bombus auicomus has no qualms about living in our inner cities,” Droege says. “A species found regularly in urban areas, it is uncommon elsewhere.” This specimen was collected along some power lines in Baltimore, Maryland.
Augochloropsis metallica, Laurel, MarylandDroege calls this stunning species “the original Metallica.” This individual, a female, was found “sonicating” a tomato flower—vibrating its wing muscles to encourage the flower to release pollen—in a Maryland backyard not far from Washington, DC.
Hylaeus modestus, Vienna, Virginia“A bee in wasp’s clothing,” Droege says. “This bee carries its pollen internally and is therefore slim and nearly hairless.” Collectors found this individual in a garden at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in suburban Northern Virginia.
Halictus ligatus, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaLess than a half inch long, this pollen-covered female was discovered in Philadelphia’s Morris Arboretum. Sometimes called a sweat bee, H. ligatus ranges from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Augochlorella aurata, Boonsboro, MarylandA. aurata is one of the most common bees of eastern North America. Ranging from northern Mexico up to Colorado, Minnesota and New England, it is a “ubiquitous greenling of gardens and fields that is only the size of a grain of rice,” says Droege.
Heriades carinatus, Vienna, VirginiaThis small hole-nesting bee was found in a garden at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts just outside Washington, DC. H. carinatus is “tiny enough to make its nest in the retired abodes of powder post beetles,” Droege says.
Triepeolus pectoralis, Great Brewster Island, MassachusettsBiologists found this big-eyed bee on an island in Boston Harbor. Droege calls the species a “cuckoo bee.” Similar to the bird, the female T. pectoralis “lays its eggs in the nests of sunflower-loving Melissodes bees. When they hatch, they kill the host bees and eat all of the leftover food.”
Help a Thousand Bee Species
Help wild bees by growing the native plants they need to thrive, then turn your yard into a Certified Wildlife Habitat® site.
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A novel fluorescent sensor based on tetraphenylethene (TPE) modified with 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (PDA) that shows aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics for thorium recognition with remarkable fluoresence enhancement response has been synthesized. This sensor is capable of visually distinguishing Th(4+) among lanthanides, transition metals, and alkali metals under UV light. Th(4+) can be detected by the naked eye at ppb levels owing to the AIE phenomenon. The sensor showed high selectivity for Th(4+) compared to all other metals tested, and this recognition displayed good anti-interference qualities. This study represents the first application of a AIE fluorescence sensor in actinide metal recognition and it has potential applications in environmental systems for thorium ion detection.
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For now, I'll begin with something very embryonic and probably obscure, sparked by the introduction to Badiou's Briefings on Existence, and fueled by a summer of reading several books by Žižek.
It may well be that God has been agonizing for a very long time. What is surely less doubtful is how, for centuries, we have been busy with successive ways of embalming Him...Taking seriously the death of God does not result in the vulgar atheism committed to the claim that God "does not exist", that it is a fiction, a social construction or symbolic function. Nor do we fall into agnostic limbo, unable to decide. God is not explained away as an abstract concept with no real and/or confirmable existence. As Badiou says,
I take the formula "God is dead" literally. It has happened. Or, as Rimbaud said, it has passed. God is finished. [Badiou, Briefings p24-5]
If "God is dead" is asserted, it is because the God spoken of was alive and belonged to the dimension of life. When you consider a concept, a symbol, a signifying function, you can say that they have become obsolete, contradicted, and inefficient. They cannot be said to have died. [ibid p24]When we say "God is dead", we unrepentantly affirm that God was, God existed, lived, and has now passed. God is a reality, a real existence or mode of existence, that has decomposed. What was this mode, this real thing that God had been?
Here we can take some direction from Deleuze's remarkable book on Foucault [sidenote: a book which, for me, is of the utmost importance in reading Deleuze's works as a whole, from D&R and LoS to the latter writings with Guattari; more on that later]. Deleuze there describes this existence as that of a certain formalized combination of forces; specifically, of those forces of which human beings are capable. God, or the "God-form", is a real thing, just as much as you or I: for Deleuze, everything, every mode of existence, is an arrangement of intensive forces whose consistency ('thing-ness', to be crude) is maintained insofar as these forces do not surpass certain limits, remaining within "non-decomposable variable distances" in relation to each other. Every combination or arrangement (agencement, assemblage) of forces is metastable within its limits. Yet if these distances do decompose, if the relations between forces reach the critical point at which a limit loses efficacy and a threshold is crossed, we then pass into a new arrangement, a new distribution and metastability with new limits.
Any arrangement or mode can thereby be understood by its immanent limits and the tendency of its constituent forces to respect these limits. If we accept that every individual mode is unique, different from every other, singular (and the reasons for doing so are by no means self-evident), then the mode itself is defined as a singularity. A singularity is not merely a unique thing; it is precisely that which is expressed in the tendency of forces to 'posit' and respect limits immanent to their given unique arrangement. Singularity is not simply the uniqueness of terms within a diversity, but the tendency by which "the given is given as diverse" to paraphrase D&R.
The singularity of a mode is thus the unique configuration of forces and their limitations that compose a thing as consistent and metastable, but moreover it is the tendency immanent in the forces so combined toward that metastability. The mode qua arrangement is a multiplicity of singular points toward which the forces arranged tend; as DeLanda describes it in his Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy, it is a topological diagram or vector field within which are inscribed various attractors defining the long-term tendencies of the individuated trajectories/forces. When a force exceeds the 'basin of attraction', the diagram bifurcates, and a new distribution of singular points results, along with a new set of limits and tendencies immanent to the resulting re-arrangement.
The God-form is, on the one hand, such a mode, defined by an immanent diagram of potential permutations of constituent forces. The forces involved are all the individual and collective forces of human beings. Yet what makes the God-form distinct from other possible arrangements of these forces, other possible ways we might exist? The God-form names precisely the formalization of a particular mode such that there is a strict division between two generic forces: the general forces of the human life-world, and the divine forces of 'raising to the infinite' or of realizing perfection. In this way, the former forces become the brute matter whose formation corresponds to the latter, which becomes a formalized function expressed by this formation. Man is born as the Content, submitted to a finite form, only functioning through the Expression of God as the infinity of formalization.
To bring things down to earth: God exists when the immanent limits of human beings become autonomous, external, as a formalized system to which they are submitted, a transcendent imposition of function. It is not simply that people 'reify' their social relations onto some imaginary being; as with Marx's notion of the commodity form, God is an 'objectively necessary appearance' - we may be the 'real' causes of our various functions, but God is a quasi-cause that appropriates all of these functions, formalizing them and reducing our 'non-reified' causality to a subjective illusion. With formations like the God-form, the Man-form, the State-form, the Organism, etc, the organization of forces is no longer immanent to the arranged forces, but becomes autonomous of and reacts back on what it organizes. (Strangely enough, this definition corresponds to that of 'institutions'; this problem is very important for my Div III research, and I'm not really prepared to address it appropriately, but I will say I believe the crucial thing about focusing on institutions in economics is to rediscover in them the forces they formalize, to reintroduce strategy at the heart of stratification.)
As Deleuze never fails to remind us, we should not be too quick to rejoice in affirming the death of God, as a new formalization was already waiting to replace him: the Man-form (for more on this, see the appendix to Deleuze's Foucault). Yet, following Foucault, we should realize the futility of now plotting the assassination of Man, as if our Fall from Grace requires a redemptive sacrifice. In a Hegelian way, Foucault understood that the death of God, far from signaling the new reign of Man, was already the death of Man from the very beginning. As soon as Man seized the empty throne of divinity, his fate was sealed. Fidelity to Man does not do justice to God's death, to what God died for: if God has died, it was not to clear the way for Man's reign, but to warn us that this place that Man will fill is a place of death, that Man, too, will die, and that we must already see in Man that which will overcome him, destroying not only God and Man, but the very place they both occupied (the surface qua plan of organization or plane of transcendence).
When Christ dies on the cross, it is at once the death of God and of the Man who takes his place. This is perhaps what is crucially missing in Paul. If we affirm that God is dead, we should do justice to this death; we should be faithful not to the corpse or the ghost, but to the event of death itself. God died not to set Man free, but to free that which was lost to them both, that which may overcome them: the unlimited (af)finity of the singular in its becoming.
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|Title:||[Letter] 1838 Apr. 13, Washington to President Martin Van Buren / delegation of the Cherokee Nation: a machine-readable transcription|
This work is the property of The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
|Date:|| April 13,1838|
|Summary:||This document is a copy of a letter from a delegation of Cherokee leaders, including John Ross, Elijah Hicks, and White Path, among others, to President Martin Van Buren (1837-1841), dated April 13, 1838. The delegation complains to the President that their communications in Washington were unfairly curtailed before they truly began, and the news of this occurrence has caused considerable distress in the Cherokee Nation. They prepared a Memorial to be delivered to Congress in response, and it was signed by over fifteen thousand people. The Memorial is no longer attached.|
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Donald Trump is a racist. He was a racist when he was compelled to enter into a court settlement after being sued in 1973 by the Justice Department for housing discrimination in New York. He was a racist when he called for the death penalty for five innocent Black kids who were falsely accused of a brutal rape in Central Park in 1989.
He was a racist when he publicly became a “birther” in 2011 by claiming that President Barack Obama is a foreigner. He was a racist when in 2015 he called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” and for the creation of a scarlet letter-type “Muslim database” and when he said Mexicans are “rapists.” He was a racist when in 2016 he announced Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his Attorney General nominee. He is still a racist in 2017 because a racist is what a racist does. And what that racist did was to select the aforementioned Sessions whose own racism is legendary- and documented.
Sessions himself is such a racist that even the usually non-confrontational NAACP was moved to take a strong stand- actually a strong sit- during a righteous sit-in on January 3 at his Senate office in Mobile to demand that he withdraw his name from consideration as Attorney General because he is “a threat to all of our civil rights,” as stated by NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks. It was Brooks, along with five other impressively “woke” and civilly disobedient members, who was arrested and charged with criminal trespass during that daylong sit-in. And the NAACP didn’t stop there. They also organized sit-ins at Sessions’ Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, and Dothan offices. By the way, based on the NAACP’s renewed 1960s-style confrontational activism, this week I finally renewed my official membership in this historically accomplished civil rights organization
1. In a 1986 remark about the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions said “I used to think they’re OK” until learning that some of them were “pot smokers.” So I guess it’s OK to lynch thousands of innocent Black men, women, and children. Just don’t get high while doing it.
2. Also in 1986, this time after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan for a federal judgeship, Sessions was questioned at a Senate hearing about accusations that he had referred to the NAACP as an “un-American (group) trying to force civil rights down the throats of people,” had said a white lawyer who defended Blacks in voting rights cases was a “traitor and disgrace to his race,” and had called Thomas Figures, a Black Assistant U.S. Attorney, “boy” while telling him to “be careful as to what you say to white folks.” In response to all that, Sessions’ only comment to the Senators was “(I am) loose with my tongue on occasion.”
4. In 2006, Sessions described the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 as “a piece of intrusive legislation.”
5. Sessions is a strong proponent of Trump’s plan to reinstate and unleash the unconstitutional “Stop & Frisk” policy. Accordingly, he aggressively supports the “Department of Defense 1033 Program,” which gives local police departments- especially in poor Black neighborhoods- unrestrained access to even more high-powered wartime military equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, etc.
Let’s stop Sessions (as well as Trump). Call Democratic Congressman Bob Brady at (215) 389-4627 and Democratic Congressman Dwight Evans at (215) 276-0340 and tell them to use all of their political influence and political connections to officially and publicly oppose Sessions for the position of Attorney General. Tell them to follow the lead of the NAACP by taking some kind of strong stand against Sessions. And keep calling them until they agree to do something. Also, make sure they tell you exactly what they’re gonna do and exactly when they’re gonna do it. That’s why we elected them.
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TensorFlow NMT output form French to Englis tranlsation not improving even after 165000 training steps
Marie détestait habituellement lundi matin, mais cette année était différente. Thomas était dans sa classe d’art et elle aimait Thomas. Elle a attendu à l’extérieur de la classe quand son amie Camille est arrivée.
Translation should be:
Marie usually hated Monday morning, but this year was different. Thomas was in her art class and she liked Thomas. She waited outside the classroom when her friend Camille arrived.
@96k steps: Marie usually on Monday , but this year was Thomas was in her middle-class class and she she waited for the class when his was released .
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Though I cannot recommend venture capital as an investible asset class, I can distinguish between different investment vehicles. My lack of enthusiasm for venture capital comes from experience writing business plans, helping run a business plan competition, and listening to scores of talks by venture capitalists. I can honestly say that despite all my experience, none of my doubts have been assuaged.
Despite my reservations, it is clear that not some venture capital investment vehicles are worse than others. Which are the least bad?
Investment in IPOs: Jumping in when the company goes public is a bad idea that underperforms buying shares in existing companies because the IPO markets are over-hyped and over-priced. You are better off buying shares in existing, publicly-traded companies in the secondary market than you are buying from an investment banker.
Angel investing: Angel investors invest in entrepreneurial ventures directly by giving entrepreneurs money. This is an undiversified, often unproven black box and I couldn't recommend it. You would be relying on the character of the entrepreneur for repayment and your own due diligence. You would be better off buying an index fund and slaking your appetite for new ventures by watching Shark Tank on television.
Crowdfunding is a reinvention of angel investing in projects that are posted online. If you cannot live another day without being an angel investor, consider these sites. They tend to have lower buy-ins, so you will lose less money. Spend as little as possible.
Venture capital funds: Individual investors band together by giving their money to venture capital fund managers (VCs). The VCs find new ventures to invest in, and presumably know what they are doing. (I have no evidence to support that they know what they are doing.) Many of the VCs are former entrepreneurs or have histories of selling firms at prior funds.
This experience is less useful than it sounds since much of success is luck and even the most experienced serial entrepreneurs only have a small number of successes under their belts. Taking a company from launch to IPO or acquisition takes many years and many failures. As such, even legends like Steve Jobs only racked up a few big wins. As human beings we do not live long enough to create track records of enough successfully launched and sold companies to distinguish luck from skill.
Publicly traded emerging technology funds: If you are dead-set on investing in emerging technology companies, be savvy about it. Many closed-end funds afford an opportunity for retail investors to participate in these ventures.
One fund which focuses on emerging technology investments is the RENN Global Entrepreneurs Fund (NYSEMKT:RCG) currently trades at a 27.78% discount and charges 5.47% in fees. This closed-end fund concentrates its holdings on nano cap, publicly traded tech companies. The fund uses a variety of instruments to invest in these firms including equity, convertible debt, warrants, and debt.
Another such fund with attractive attributes is the Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVC) is a closed-end fund which currently trades at a discount. The fund adviser charges 2% of assets in fees. A recent 8-K filing stated that Yelp and Facebook were among the fund's top five holdings and that the net assets were $84 million as of December 31, 2011. At a market price of $22.82 per share, its market capitalization is $77 million, a discount of 8%.
The fund's most recent 10-Q filing covering the period ending September 30, 2011 illustrates how management prudently hedges market risk by purchasing put options on the PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) Nasdaq 100 index fund. Most of its holdings are cash and cash equivalents.
Venture capital might be best left to the professionals. If you can't resist, spend as little as possible and consider RCG, SVVC, and croudfunding as ways to participate. Don't expect your capital to return.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
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Officials from the Prairie North Health Region west of Saskatoon are advising people to be on alert for the symptoms of measles after identifying one confirmed and three probable cases, mostly in Lloydminster.
All the cases involve children under the of 16, who were not immunized against the disease.
On Wednesday, officials provided a list of locations associated with the current cases, as a way to notify members of the public who may have been exposed.
According to the health region, members of the public who visited the following establishments during the dates and times identified "should be aware of the symptoms of measles which include high fever, cough and runny nose, followed by a rash":
- St. Walburg School (Apr.17, all day).
- St. Walburg Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption (Apr. 20, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.).
- Tim Hortons, Highway 17 South, 3902 – 50 Avenue, Lloydminster (Apr. 23, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.).
- Real Canadian Superstore, 5031 – 44 Street, Lloydminster (Apr. 23, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.).
- Safeway, 5211 – 44 Street, Lloydminster (Apr. 23, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
- Giant Tiger, 4719 – 50 Avenue, Lloydminster (Apr. 23, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.).
- Boston Pizza, 6303 – 44 Street, Lloydminster (Apr. 21, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.).
- Mark’s Work Wearhouse, 4213 – 70 Avenue, Lloydminster (Apr. 21, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.).
- WalMart, Highway 16 & 70 Avenue, Lloydminster (Apr. 21, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.).
- McDonalds Restaurant, south side, Lloydminster (Apr. 21, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.).
The region notes that anyone who develops symptoms of measles is asked to call a health provider's office and inform them of the situation to see how a visit to the office can be arranged so as to minimize contact with other patients.
People with severe symptoms should get immediate medical attention, and call ahead to avoid transmission of measles to others.
Dr. Brenda Cholin, the region's Medical Health Officer, added that public health officials are also identifying and contacting individuals who may have been exposed to the measles virus during the contagious period.
“These people are being given information about measles and what to do if they develop symptoms,” Cholin said in a statement.
The earliest a person will experience symptoms is one week following exposure.
The region notes that people born before 1970 are usually assumed to be immune from contracting the measles.
Measles is a highly infectious and potentially serious disease that is easily transmitted through the air.
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LEBANON: 'Persepolis' kept from theaters
Can the memories of an Iranian child in her turbulent country really exacerbate tensions in today's edgy Lebanon?
Lebanese censors apparently believe so. Authorities are considering imposing a ban on "Persepolis," the Oscar-nominated animated feature based on co-director Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels.
The stated argument is the fear of sparking any more friction between Lebanon's feuding political factions, according to the distributor of the film.
"They asked us to postpone the release of the movie for a couple of months until the situation is more stable," said Bassam Eid, an official at Empire Theaters, the film's distributor.
But behind the scenes, public screening of the movie is perhaps being delayed by Lebanon's powerful Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which holds strong ties to Iran's Islamic fundamentalist rulers.
In her autobiographical graphic novels, Satrapi tackles with humor her daily struggles as a girl and a teenager in an Iranian society policed by stiff Islamists. She tacitly denounces the rule of the clergy by describing how Tehran abruptly changed from a liberal modern city to an austere, conservative backwater after the 1979 Islamic revolution. And this might have irked Hezbollah's cadres.
Interestingly, Satrapi's novel sells briskly in Lebanon bookshops. It was even translated from French into Arabic by a Lebanese publishing house.
Although Lebanon is portrayed as an oasis of freedom and openness in the Arab world, all movies are screened by security officers before their release into cinemas.
Scenes regarded as "endangering national security" or "offending moral values" are often sliced off. The police also have veto power over books, plays and DVDs, a matter that continually rankles artists and intellectuals in the country.
Despite the worries about risque movies and books, Lebanon's televisions stations — many of them controlled by political parties — flood the airwaves daily with politically inflammatory rhetoric and images, despite warnings by analysts that the programming is spreading hatred among the country's disparate religious groups.
— Raed Rafei in Beirut
Photo: An image from the movie "Persepolis." Credit: Sony Pictures website
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A Boeing 767-300 cargo plane took off from the Ezhou Huahu Airport in central China’s Hubei Province at 11:36 a.m. Sunday, marking the official start of operations of China’s first professional cargo hub airport.
Located in the city of Ezhou, it is also the first professional cargo hub airport in Asia and the fourth of its kind in the world.
The new airport, equipped with a cargo terminal of 23,000 square meters, a freight transit center of nearly 700,000 square meters, 124 parking stands and two runways, is expected to improve the transport efficiency of air freight and further promote the country’s opening up.
The operation of Ezhou Huahu Airport conforms to the needs of China’s development, said Su Xiaoyan, senior director of the airport’s planning and development department.
The number of parcels handled by China’s courier companies hit a record high of over 108 billion last year, and is expected to maintain stable growth in 2022, according to the State Post Bureau.
The functions of the Ezhou airport are benchmarked against the Memphis International Airport in the United States, one of the world’s busiest cargo airports.
SF Express, China’s leading logistics service provider, plays a crucial role at the Ezhou airport, much like how FedEx Express handles the majority of cargo at the Memphis International Airport.
SF Express holds a 46 percent stake in Hubei International Logistics Airport Co., Ltd., the operator of Ezhou Huahu Airport. The logistics service provider has independently built a freight transport transit center, a cargo sorting center and an aviation base at the new airport. SF Express also plans to process the majority of its packages through the new airport in the future.
“As a cargo hub, Ezhou Huazhu Airport will help SF Express to form a new comprehensive logistics network,” said Pan Le, director of the airport’s IT department.
“No matter where the destination is, all SF Airlines cargoes can be transferred and sorted in Ezhou before being flown to other cities in China,” Pan said, adding that such a transportation network will enable SF Express freight planes to operate at full capacity, hence improving transportation efficiency.
The landlocked city of Ezhou is hundreds of kilometers away from any seaports. But with the new airport, goods from Ezhou can reach anywhere in China overnight and overseas destinations in two days.
“The airport will promote the opening up of the central Chinese region and the whole country,” said Yin Junwu, director of Ezhou Airport Economic Zone Management Committee, adding that airline and shipping companies from the United States, Germany, France and Russia have already reached out to forge cooperation with the airport.
Besides cargo flights, the airport also provides passenger flight services for eastern Hubei. Seven passenger routes linking Ezhou with nine destinations, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Kunming, have started operation.
The airport has opened two cargo routes to Shenzhen and Shanghai, and is scheduled to add international routes connecting with Osaka in Japan and Frankfurt in Germany within this year.
The airport is expected to open around 10 international cargo routes and 50 domestic routes by 2025, with the cargo and mail throughput reaching 2.45 million tonnes.
EMPOWERED BY CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Being the only professional cargo hub airport in China, Ezhou Huahu Airport has made breakthroughs in digitalization and intelligent operation. Builders of the project have applied for more than 70 patents and copyrights for new technologies, such as 5G, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, for making the new airport safer, greener and smarter.
For instance, there are more than 50,000 sensors beneath the runway for capturing the vibration waveform generated by aircraft taxiing and monitoring runway incursion.
Thanks to an intelligent cargo sorting system, work efficiency in the logistics transfer center has been significantly enhanced. With this smart system, the transfer center’s planned production capacity stands at 280,000 parcels per hour in the short term, which can reach 1.16 million pieces per hour in the long run.
As it’s a cargo hub airport, freight planes mainly take off and land at night. To save human labor and ensure airport safety and efficiency, airport operators hope that more machines can be deployed to substitute humans for nighttime work.
“We’ve spent nearly a year testing unmanned vehicles in designated areas on the apron, aiming to build an unmanned apron in the future,” Pan said.
Originally published by Xinhua
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Interior design is the science and art of enhancing the interior of a construction to create a healthier and happier setting for these utilizing the room. An interior designer is a one that designs, plans, coordinates and oversees such inside enchancment tasks. Aesthetics are not the only factors that he or she takes into consideration when planning an area. Good organization, performance and safety are additionally equally important. The end result’s an enhanced consolation stage, which will be the difference between an irritable and happy shopper and one that depart with a satisfied and loyal shopper.
Interior design isn’t a easy artwork, however it is not totally an art, both. There may be some degree of coordination between aesthetics and performance, and good inside designers typically have to take many elements under consideration. These embrace planning out the room’s structure when it comes to floor plan, then breaking down that into the totally different areas, furniture varieties, and colors, then arranging the totally different areas in keeping with the operate they will serve. Although many architects do not see this as a posh process, it is, in fact, fairly sophisticated, which is why there are skilled inside decoration architects, versus, say, architects, who specialise in interior design.
The sphere of inside design started with the rise of the French Revolution, when the ruling courses noticed the worth of interior design in bettering their way of life. This has turn into a really prestigious occupation, requiring each creativity and knowledge about space planning, architecture, and building supplies. This career is usually related to celebrities, offering an outlet for socializing among fashionable friends. However, it can also contain engaged on buildings and housing for the general public.
Professional designers and decorators began working individually in small companies earlier than the flip of the twentieth century. Professional interior design corporations started to spring up, providing a extra comprehensive range of providers. Many of those corporations started as simply particular person contractors that specialized in particular features of the career. However, as extra companies started to offer a broader range of companies, people that wanted to dabble within the occupation began to work with one agency or another.
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Interior decorators need to be inventive and revolutionary, in addition to possessing abilities in marketing. For example, inside decorators must know the right way to analysis for potential purchasers in addition to providing artistic steering and repair. Marketing can be a challenging task for interior decorators. Therefore, many individuals often look in the direction of interior decoration specialists as their major supply of recommendations and assist. In today’s world, many inside decorators are self-employed, which enables them to pursue personal hobbies and interests outdoors of the professional enviornment.
To change into an interior designer, one usually needs a Bachelor’s diploma in inside design, structure, interior design, or associated area. A number of time and vitality is spent learning the idea portion of the curriculum, although no artwork, science, or historical past course is required. Upon getting received your diploma, you will likely start your profession as an assistant to an inside designer or an interior decorator. Many inside designers eventually transfer to bigger firms and start to show their work.
Interior decoration has modified dramatically over the previous century. While it had been a largely male preserve throughout the early and center a part of the 20th century, the interior design career is now majority female. In reality, some areas of the United States have seen a twentieth century explosion in dwelling decoration. Interior designers have helped make this career a great taste for folks of all ages.
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javafx4linux.tar.bz2 (~ 36Mb).
1) Extract the javafx4linux.tar.bz2 file. In this example I’m placing it on my Desktop. After the installing process you can remove it.
2) Open your NetBeans 6.5 and go at Tools → Plugins and go to Downloaded tab. In a plain and new NetBeans installation there will be no plugin in this tab yet.
3) Click on the Add Plugins button and head to the directory you extracted the file and select all .nbm files.
4) You will see a list of 22 plugins selected. Click on the Install button.
5) Just keep clicking on the Next button.
6) Check the license agreement accept box.
7) You’ll see a warning because the Linux pluggin is not signed. Don’t worry, just click Continue.
8) Click on Finish to restart NetBeans.
9) Now we can test it. Go at File → New Project, select the JavaFX on Categories and JavaFX Script Application on Projects.
10) Put some code and run it. There is. JavaFX on Linux.
This is not a official of JavaFX for Linux! This solution was tested on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” with Java 6 update 13 and NetBeans 6.5.1, but should also work with others Linux distributions and Java versions greater than 5.
As a non official workaround for JavaFX for Linux you may notice some drawbacks. Some parts of the JavaFX runtime rely on native implementations on the specific operational system. You may not use some multimedia capabilities as video playback, JavaFX Mobile emulator and some performance issues in some effects. Despite that, is perfectly possible to develop applications using JavaFX on NetBeans.
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|Fans protest Michael Jackson's innocence in the child molestation scandal in 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)|
Your file would also contain plenty of other cases where it seems obvious that the bad acts in question would not have occurred without religion (e.g., genital mutilation, honor killings, exorcism, the murder of "witches" and others believed to have magic powers, ex-gay therapy, cartoon-related murders, faith healing). In these and many other examples, religion is not just a factor but often the primary motive. These are things that would not be happening but for religion.
When a defensive Christian points out that some atheists have molested children too, he or she is correct. Some have noted a disturbing example of a few atheists at one popular blog network rallying around a confessed child rapist (i.e., Ogvorbis) in much the same way many conservative Christians are now rallying around Josh Duggar. In both cases, we are probably looking at examples of how tribalism can lead people to excuse abhorrent behavior when it is committed by one of their own. Clearly, this does not require religion. One might even argue, although I'm not sure I'd agree, that the reason these two cases look different is primarily due to the massive difference in the size and popularity of the tribes involved.
It seems to me that there are two valid and rather different sorts of responses we might make to the religious believer who is trying to argue that religion is not relevant because atheists do bad things too. The first sort of response starts by accepting the reality that atheists and other secular persons can and do commit bad acts. It then goes on to explain how we do not have the sort of dogma, institutions, indoctrination, privilege that facilitate them (or their concealment) or that leads people to justify and excuse them. It is very difficult to think of scenarios where we could reasonably say that a crime is easier to tolerate because of atheism.
The second sort of response focuses on the sort of bad acts that do not appear to happen but for religion. As noted above, there are many of these from which one can choose. Can the religious believer think of any bad acts that would not be happening but for atheism? I don't think I'd go quite so far as to say that this could never happen under any circumstances, but it seems unlikely that is is happening now given our lack of dogma, power, privilege, power structures, and the like.
If we were to select the example of cartoon-inspired violence by Muslims who are outraged that someone dared to depict their "prophet," it should be fairly easy to make the case that this sort of violence does not happen but for religion. We do not need to claim that all Muslims are violent or that all Muslims are offended by drawings of Muhammad. All we have to do is point out how all the Muslims who support this particular sort of violence do so for religious reasons. In contrast, I cannot think of any examples where we could say that everyone engaging in certain types of violence justifies it via atheism. We atheists seem to be missing something fairly crucial here: dogma.
We cannot pretend to have divine justification for anything we do. We have no magic book we can use to justify any bad act we might like to perform. We have no supernatural beings to imbue our bad acts with false righteousness or to absolve our guilty feelings. We have no rewards to look forward to in an afterlife. We are stuck with having to live with the consequences of what we do in the here and now. If we are going to be judged, it will be by our peers and it will happen in this life.
Because I'd like to end on an upbeat note, I'll suggest that it has become increasingly difficult for religious persons and their institutions to conceal bad acts from the rest of us. It isn't just that we atheists know about these bad acts; it is that the religious believers know that everyone knows. And this just might make the entire enterprise a bit more difficult to sustain.
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Have a look at http://www.ncseweb.org/meeting.asp. One of my colleagues describes reading this page as “watching a car wreck.” I’m just sorry we can’t get a percentage cut from all the speaking engagements they are getting as a result of attacking us. Life is so unfair.
Several things things should impress you about this page. First, the number of talks to atheist organizations; second, the number of talks paid for by university biology departments; and third, Eugenie Scott’s willingness to travel. Accordingly, a friend of mine proposes the following motto for Scott: “I will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to prove that there is no controversy over Darwinism on account of intelligent design.”
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The Public Health Approach course is the first instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the world of public health practice.
Este curso faz parte do Programa de cursos integrados Foundations of Public Health Practice
Informações sobre o curso
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. located in the heart of London. Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.
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Principais avaliações do FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE: THE PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH
This course is very interesting and informative. It is also not very easy and I feel proud to have completed it!
Nice course. However, I finished my peer review assignment 4 days ago, and I am still yet to get a grade. I have reviewed 7 assignments so I do not understand why mine has not been reviewed.
The course is excellently constructed. Beginners in the field won't have a difficult time absorbing the concepts.
the studying material is great and well displayed... the activities and quizzes were also well composed and quite interesting and useful
Sobre Programa de cursos integrados Foundations of Public Health Practice
This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The specialisation is shaped into four courses covering the origins of public health, health improvement, behaviour change, and health protection. The specialisation will draw upon learning from the Statistics for Public Health and Epidemiology for Public Health specialisations, and builds the foundations of public health knowledge.
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Every second of visiting hours is precious to Midland twins Harley and Lillani Brookes.
For fate has dealt them a cruel blow, forcing them to be separated at birth.
While Lillani was born completely healthy, doctors soon found that only half of little Harley's heart is working properly.
Four months on and Harley, who suffers with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, is still too ill to leave Birmingham Children's Hospital while his sister settles back at the family home in Smith's Wood, Solihull.
Devastated mum Sarah Charlotte, aged 20, said: "The twins have not had the chance to bond because one is at home and the other is in hospital. It's very sad.
"Harley has been confined to a hospital bed with only the ceiling to stare at since he was born and I can't wait to get him home one day."
Sarah, a housewife and mother-of-three from Kennet Grove, added: "Lillani really looks forward to seeing Harley, after all they are twins."
The left side of the Harley's heart grew too large so it could not pump blood around his little body, leaving him tired and blue from lack of oxygen.
He has already had open heart surgery, two operations to repair his muscles, and can't breathe without help from a machine.
Sarah, who grew up in Kingshurst and went to Yorkswood Primary School, is now battling to raise #2,000 to buy the hospital a portable heart machine to help Harley and other children with a similar condition.
She has gained support from parents and youngsters at Bosworth Wood primary school where her three-year-old daughter Demi-Lea is a pupil.
Meanwhile surgeons are carrying out a series of three operations to bypass blood to the right side of the heart.
Dr Jo Giovanni, Harley's heart specialist, said: "Harley has had a complicated procedure carried out for a complex heart problem.
"He has some breathing problems which require assistance but he is generally progressing well. We admire and appreciate his mum's work in raising money for the trust."
* Anyone interested in donating to Sarah's cause should contact her on 07974 356005.
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In general, the most common forms of carrying on a business are:
a) sole proprietorship;
c) co-ownership; or,
Other forms of carrying on business are: limited partnerships, franchises, licences, joint ventures and not for profit entities. Each of these forms of carrying on business have advantages and disadvantages. We can assist you in choosing the most appropriate form based on your specific goals and needs. In choosing the most appropriate form the most common considerations include:
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Nearly a third of the pension plans offered by Fortune 1,000 firms are now frozen, according to a report from Watson Wyatt.
Though the rate at which companies are freezing plans has dropped since the peak year in 2006, the 190 plans now locked down represent a 12% increase from a year ago.
Companies in industries that have been hardest hit by the economic downturn have higher freeze rates. Among them are financial services and auto industry employers, according to Watson Wyatt.
"We think it's a short-sighted move that definitely hurts employees," says Nancy Hwa, spokeswoman for the Pension Rights Center. "But it's not surprising, given the way the economy is going."
Pension freezes are a relatively new corporate development."If a company is literally fighting for its survival, it's more likely to pull out all stops," says Alan Glickstein,
senior retirement consultant at Watson Wyatt. "And that might include freezing a
plan because they can pick up some savings."
The percentage of pension plan freezes has steadily risen since 2004, when only 7.1% of Fortune 1,000 firms had taken that step. But the largest percentage increase occurred in 2006 and not during the current recession.
"The biggest surprise is that we haven't seen a huge surge," Glickstein says.The rate of freezes might be slowing as companies realize that the freeze does not provide much of a reduction in retirement costs, the report says.
Although there are different types of pension freezes, companies generally close the plan to new hires. And they bar existing employees from earning any more benefits.
But by freezing the plan, employers do not cut or slash the benefits that already have been earned. And after freezing a pension, companies often increase their 401(k) matching contributions or take other steps to partially offset that pension reductions, Glickstein says.
Companies also have found that pension freezes have had an insignificant or negative impact on stock prices, according to a separate Watson Wyatt report.
It's unclear if companies that have frozen plans will eventually unfreeze them. So far, that has been rare.
How Boeing and Airbus Stack Up Before Earnings
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The archaeologist who found the possibly shamanic pendant at Star Carr last month initially thought it was an ordinary stone
The student osteoarchaeologist who dug up an 11,000-year-old prehistoric necklace at North Yorkshire’s Star Carr site last month has been in disbelief at his luck following a find which has drawn attention worldwide.
© Suzy Harrison
Tom Bell, a 21-year-old from Widnes who is now taking his Masters at the University of Sheffield, was studying at the University of Chester as a final year undergraduate when he volunteered at the Mesolithic heartland near Scarborough, where some of his favourite finds have been red deer stag headdresses from around 8500 BC.
“I discovered the pendant on the last few days of the excavation,” he says. “I was just working on taking back the last of the lake sediments when I noticed something that I originally thought was a smooth stone. It looked pretty normal at first if I'm honest.
“The mud covered the perforation and the decoration so I didn't know what it was until I picked it up and had a look. I noticed that it was perforated on one side. I thought it was one of the beads that had previously been found at Star Carr. Then when I turned it over I noticed that lines had been scratched into the surface of it.
“Like I say, at first I thought it was a stone so it was hard to be excited initially. I think once I realised it had decoration on it was more exciting. And it's much more exciting when you start to see how excited everyone else is. I'm super lucky to have been the one to find it.”
Even among the team of experts, conjecture surrounds the three-millimetre thick triangle, crafted from a single piece of shale and extremely rare in its engraved motif. Some people – including one respondent when Bell held an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit – think it could be the world’s first guitar pluck. Bell received plenty of interest during a press day with the Co-Director of the project, Dr Barry Taylor.
“The site was originally on the edge of a lake, and Tom was excavating the deposits that formed in what would have been an area of swamp about 11,000 years ago,” says Dr Taylor.
© Suzy Harrison
“It’s very pleasing that it was one of our students who found this pendant – particularly as Tom has been volunteering on our excavations for a number of years.
“This is a joint project and it’s always great to see students finding things. Because this is something that a person wore, that had significance to them and to the people around them, it allows us to have a direct and tangible engagement with people from the past.
“Up to this point we’d found hunting equipment and the bones of animals that people had caught.”
The pendant is on public display at the Yorkshire Museum in York until May 5.
What do you think? Leave a comment below.
Three museums to see prehistoric treasures in
Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
Head here to see a selection of exhibits from Star Carr. Items on show include flint tools, animal bones and a stag frontlet which was used as a head-dress.
The museum is home to the second oldest anatomically modern human fossil in Europe, along with a large collection of stone tools and animal remains from the nearby Kents Cavern - one of the most important prehistoric sites in Europe.
Museum of Islay Life, Argyll
A main collection of over 2,700 objects as diverse as stone implements used in the Mesolithic era, Victorian and Edwardian items from the Laird's house, farming implements
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INTEGRAL WORLD: EXPLORING THEORIES OF EVERYTHING
An independent forum for a critical discussion of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber
Publication dates of essays (month/year) can be found under "Essays".
David Christopher Lane
Professor of Philosophy, Mt. San Antonio College Lecturer in Religious Studies, California State University, Long Beach Author of Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical
(New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1994) and The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Succession
(New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1992).
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The Behe Shuffle
Invoking Religious Authority
to Bypass Scientific Implications
“A Culture based on superstitions will do worse than one based on scientific knowledge and rational thoughts”
My own suspicion is that evolutionary theory explains too much, too well, and too simply and because of this religion is all too fearful of what such portends.
Although I was raised in a fairly strict Catholic family (attending Catholic schools for some eleven years), I had opened mind parents when it came to all things intellectual or scientific.
Surprisingly, one of my first deep encounters with the theory of evolution came in my high school religion class, where our required text was an illustrated book about Teilhard de Chardin and the implications of Darwinian natural selection. Our teacher, Brother Joseph Connell (part of the Brothers of Holy Cross at Notre Dame) explained that Roman Catholicism accepted the theory of evolution and posits a more metaphorical (yet still vitally elemental) view of Adam and Eve. Simply put, Catholicism welcomes the scientific view on the development of man, but believes that God's guiding hand was ultimately behind it all.
This was all fine and good when I was young, but even then I suspected that what Catholicism wanted was to have its cake and eat it too (or, more precisely, have the pretense of accepting science but without having to seriously stomach its much more radical implications).
Don't get me wrong, I applaud Catholicism's openness to science (even if it did take centuries to formally apologize to Galileo's long dead body and memory for his revolutionary breakthroughs) but I question its genuine sincerity when pressed on such metaphysical issues as the “virgin birth,” “transubstantiation” and the “bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.” It seems as if Catholicism's embrace of science only extends so far and when a core doctrine is contradicted by the latest findings in physics or chemistry or psychology, the Catholic oligarchy retreats behind the all-purpose excuse of “divine mystery.”
Well, if we look at the progressive history of science over the past few centuries it seems awfully suspicious that longstanding divine mysteries have become less and less. When we didn't understand how the sun operated we worshipped it; when we couldn't understand droughts we prayed for rain; and when we didn't grasp how the brain worked, we spoke of demonic possession. It is a bit odd, if also a bit too telling, to ponder why there were so many miraculous events in centuries past when religions held political court (and science was in its infancy), but today such transmundane events are in abeyance.
To put this more pointedly, even if more contentiously, why is it that when science is practiced the gods tend to prematurely die off?
One answer, of course, is that when reason is writ large, superstition disappears accordingly. Yet, it is just a tad disingenuous when religions that on the surface applaud science's wonderful advancements (and try to cherry pick it when such suits their needs) are unwilling to engage with its more far-reaching implications. Is this because the core dogma of many religions has no real basis in fact, but survives primarily on the blind faith of its adherents? Or, worse, by scaring their respective believers from truly thinking through what they actually hold to be true?
Sadly, I think the answer to both of those latter questions is yes.
Religion dances with science so long as it substantiates its worldview and two steps off the floor when it is upended or fundamentally doubted.
A quintessential example of this comes from Michael Behe in his 2004 essay "A Catholic Scientist Looks At Darwinism" (chapter 8 in William A. Dembski's edited volume, Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing.) Behe writes,
“Well, if the topic of evolution is fraught with pitfalls, then what is a Catholic layperson to do, who simply cannot evaluate the scientific evidence himself? Although it can be difficult, I would simply urge people to reserve judgment, be patient, and look toward the Church for guidance in this philosophically-charged area. As St. Augustine remarked speaking of his embrace of the faith: 'From this time on, I gave my preference to the Catholic faith. I thought it more modest and not in the least misleading to be told by the Church to believe what could not be demonstratedwhether that was because a demonstration existed but could not be understood by all or whether the matter was not open to rational proofrather than from the Manichees to have a rash promise of knowledge with mockery of mere belief, and then afterwards to be ordered to believe many fabulous and absurd myths impossible to prove true.' In Fides et Ratio Pope John Paul II explains the Catholic faith allows a very wide latitude to reason in the area of the origin and unfolding of life, pointing out crucially that we need to realize in all things 'it is God of Israel who acts.'”
I call this curious intellectual hustle the Behe Shuffle, where one invokes religious authority to bypass the purported ramifications of a scientific discovery. The operative fear here is that the Church will lose its power and sway over its members if they are allowed to follow science's pathway to its logical conclusion.
Look very closely at Behe's wording and his citation of Roman Catholic sanctioned quotes.
1. Instead of simply allowing evolutionary biology to run its course and letting the empirical chips of data fall where they may, Behe suggests that the naïve layperson is better off looking “toward the Church for guidance in this philosophically-charged area.” Huh? How is Catholicism a better guide here when in point of fact it is a scientific inquiry? Would Behe think the same about such advice if it came from a Scientologist who argued that it was better to listen to the counsel of L. Ron Hubbard when it came to controversial issues in astronomy? I think not. Replace Catholicism with any other religious ism and you immediately see how myopic (or should I say cultic?) Behe's advice really is, particularly coming from someone claiming to be well versed in biochemistry.
2. Behe's extended citation of St. Augustine is curious indeed, since a careful analysis of it contradicts the essence of the scientific endeavor, particularly when the famed Church father can write (apparently with a straight face) that it is “not in the least misleading to be told by the Church to believe what could not be demonstratedwhether that was because a demonstration existed but could not be understood by all or whether the matter was not open to rational proof.”
Augustine's quote, lest we forget its real import, is a rhetorical justification for believing something that to the rational mind either appears to have no convincing proof or, worst, looks (quite literally here) like nonsense. Is it really sensible for us to surrender our critical faculties to religious authorities and believe no matter what because it is part and parcel of our faith? How is such mind numbing obedience any different than being in a cult?
But Michael Behe doesn't see it this way, just as most strident religionists (of whatever persuasion) don't see beyond their chosen belief systems. This may be understandable if Behe were preaching from a Catholic catechism to an already baptized congregation, but it is quite another if he wants to persuade agnostic intellectuals of his scientific argument.
It is obvious that Behe shuffles between wanting to sound scientific and protecting his faith (and those of like minded ilk) from the dangers of unabashed naturalistic thinking. In so doing, Michael Behe ends up tripping on his own misguided reasoning and leaves the reader wondering why Catholicism or any other religion should enter into a purely scientific debate. Why is the theory of evolution (and not the theory of gravity, say) such a contentious topic? My own suspicion is that evolutionary theory explains too much, too well, and too simply and because of this religion is all too fearful of what such portends. Given science's recent track record, such a fear may indeed be well founded and all one can opt for (if wishing to retain a semblance of faith in a world that repeatedly contradicts it) is to do the Behe Shuffle, invoking religious authority to sidestep the implications of a Darwinian worldview.
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.” ¯ Stephen Hawking
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The Ayurvedic tradition has the potential to transform your life in dramatic ways. What’s perhaps most important to understand is that Ayurvedic practices aren’t limited to using traditional remedies. Ayurveda is truly a lifestyle. The following Ayurvedic tips will help you to incorporate this ancient system into your daily life to strengthen your mind, body and spirit.
Ayurvedic Tips for a Life of Peace and Beauty
Know Your Dosha Type
Ayurveda emphasize the importance of optimizing your wellness by eating the right foods. That’s why it’s essential to learn your dosha type. Quite simply, different types of foods have different effects on different people. Someone who is a Pitta type won’t benefit from the same foods as a Kapha or Vata type. By learning what your type is, you’ll better understand what foods you should eat, and what foods you should avoid.
Walk Every Day
Walking is an easy and gentle practice that can bring you back in touch with yourself and with nature. Additionally, walking is a “tridoshic” form of exercise. That means it calms all three doshas.
It’s worth noting that Western science supports the idea that walking every day has these effects. Studies indicate people who walk every day are generally less stressed than those who do not. These effects are enhanced when walking in nature. Thus, Western science has essentially confirmed what Ayurvedic practitioners have known for thousands of years.
In many ways, the Ayurvedic lifestyle helps you to reconnect with your authentic self. This is easier to do when you take time throughout your day to escape from the numerous stresses you may encounter to instead focus on the present moment. Meditating can help you do so. Thanks to the Internet, it’s also easier than ever to learn how to meditate. There are plenty of online guides and videos on the subject. To maximize its effects, you may also want to combine your meditation practice with yoga. This can optimize your prana (essentially your inner life-force and energy) as well.
Focus on Loving Relations
Ayurveda isn’t just about improving your own wellness and enriching your own spirit. It’s also about improving the way you interact with the entire world. That’s why Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of positive and loving relationships. Make a point of spending time with those who make you feel good about yourself. As much as possible, you should also try to treat others with kindness, even when they don’t do the same for you. It’s important to choose how you will let negativity impact your life.
Get Enough Sleep
Going to sleep early and rising with the sun reconnects your body, mind, and soul with the rhythms of nature. Your wellness requires getting proper rest. If you have a busy lifestyle, and fear you don’t have the time to get much sleep, you should remember that getting enough sleep will provide you with more natural energy for your daily tasks.
These are only a few Ayurvedic tips. You should certainly continue to explore the practice. As you do, you’ll find it truly is life-changing.
Reviewed by Dr. Jayant Lokhande, MD (Botanical Drugs), MBA (Biotechnology)
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The latitude and longitude gps coordinates of High Point (United States of America)
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High Point is a city in United States of America.
Its area is 75 sq mi 205 km2. The city's population is 104,371. Click here
for the jump to the official website. The stright distance between High Point and Washington D.C.
is 260 miles (419 kilometers). Percent change from previous month (Jul 2022) by the visitors: -40%
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The geographical location (geolocation) of High Point is on the north and west hemisphere.
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- Most people tend to think all snakes lay eggs. Well if you thought that, you are mistaken by a large margin
- There are snakes which give birth, and a video that has popped up online has shown the magnificence of nature in its full glory
- Tweeps were shaken when the video was shared on Twitter. Many people were amazed by what they had just seen
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A video has taken many people by surprise as they witnessed a live snake birth on video in contrast to the general conception that snakes lay eggs. Instead, this snake was giving birth to its offspring directly.
The amazing video wowed netizens as they couldn't hide their surprise with many people reacting to the video.
The video went viral with over 57k likes and 14k retweets.
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Social Media Reaction
Taidagreat92 was surprised as she said:
Damn he came out like a grown snake lol instantly knowing how to climb trees
namedAntoinette was in awe as she said:
All my years of watching NatGeo Wild, I have never seen a snake deliver a live baby. Thought they only laid eggs.
Qmoneydagreat dropped some knowledge saying:
Most snakes are ovovivaporous and lay eggs, but this emerald tree boa and other boas are vivaporous, which give birth to live babies. There’s still an egg, it just develops and hatches inside the mom
QuadieDiesel made a hilarious comment regarding the colour variation of the snake and its babies as he said:
wonder if she know who the daddy is kuz if he green it’s gone be a problem
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Do you know that despite the fact that there are over 3000 species of snakes over the world, there is not one of the reptiles in places like Antarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland, and New Zealand?
What this means is that Nigeria and every other country have to deal with these reptiles not friendly to man day in and day out - and about 600 species of them are venomous!
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UH Cougar Cupboard to Fuel Student Success
By Chris Stripes
While statistics on food insecure college students can vary greatly, the Center for Law and Social Policy estimated that between 20% to 33% of students at four-year colleges experience food insecurity. Jessica, a UH junior double-majoring in history and applied linguistics, knows how it feels to pass up meals when money is tight.
“My family has been struggling financially for over a year, so I don’t always feel comfortable paying for food when I’m on campus. You kind of get used to being hungry. It became the norm for me for a while,” she said. “I’m so thrilled UH is opening this market as a resource because I know I’m not alone.”
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Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by RobertScorpio, Aug 7, 2009.
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Amy, who wields a Sharp Little Pencil, writes:
Roger, I’m sorry I didn’t capture the link for this. Wondering what your thoughts are concerning Bitcoin in general, as well as the issue of resources used? (You said I can ask you anything!)
According to the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, a tracker created by Digiconomist — a platform that monitors “unintended consequences of digital trends” — executing a single Bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy that the average U.S. home consumes over a three-week period. That same single transaction has a carbon footprint that is the equivalent of watching more than 50,000 hours of YouTube.
A lot of layers here. First off, I’d be lying if I said I fully understand Bitcoin. Then again, I don’t really recognize the real implications of abandoning the gold standard 90 years ago either, though I know people who do. But Bitcoin is far more legitimate than it was even a decade ago.
Yes, I “get” the basic premise of Bitcoin, but it’s way too volatile for my taste. The very day you wrote me, January 25, I found this article. “Bitcoin’s dead-cat bounce? Here are the signs that may indicate price bottoms, analysts say.”
Or this one. “Bitcoin claws back from crypto crash, but one bear case sees $14K as a next stop.” Not to mention, this: “Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Predicts Bitcoin Could Exceed $1M by 2030.” Sounds like a lot of spitballing, but what do I know? Not much, as I said.
I had heard about the energy/carbon footprint problem of Bitcoin broadly. But the article Amy linked to really breaks it down. 1,449,125 “VISA transactions could be powered by the energy consumed for a single Bitcoin transaction on average (2153.84 kWh).” And as one subhead notes, “Limited scalability causes extreme transaction footprints.”
Is this fixable? If Bitcoin switched to a consensus algorithm, theoretically. “In proof-of-stake coin, owners create blocks rather than miners, thus not requiring power hungry machines that produce as many hashes per second as possible. ” And no, I have no real idea what that previous sentence is saying.
Speaking of energy use, there is a race to acquire lithium. Unfortunately, the process of mining is less than eco-friendly. It’s ironic. “As the world scrambles to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, the environmental impact of finding all the lithium required could become a major issue in its own right.”
For example, South America’s “Lithium Triangle, which covers parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, holds more than half the world’s supply of the metal beneath its otherworldly salt flats. It’s also one of the driest places on earth.” So it takes 500,000 gallons of water to produce a ton of lithium.
Thus there is a paradox of “clean” electric vehicles being powered by the “dirty” lithium mining business.
Thus, the technologies we use to make life better and easier may not either.
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This year’s VDMA TFL industry meeting took place on 14 and 15
November in Berlin. For many years, the trade association has been committed to Europeanisation and this year, too, further European members have joined the ranks. “Only together as a European industry can we form an antithesis to the current global framework conditions and remain competitive,” said Elgar Straub, Managing Director of the TFL trade association. The consequences of the trade dispute between the USA and China and the unclear Brexit situation are causing great uncertainty and unrest in the markets. The industry is also feeling this, and strong European cohesion is the necessary
response to the current political and economic situation. The importance of Europe was also taken up and discussed in the course of the workshop on “New EU Commission, new political priorities – what does this mean for our industry” during the industry meeting.
“Brave New World” through digitization
Everyone is talking about digitization, but what changes does it bring to society and businesses? Under the motto “Brave New World”, the topic was taken up and various aspects of digitization were discussed. The workshop “Mission possible – step by step towards digitization” dealt with what digitization can look like in a company. Daniel Jung also took up the importance of digitization and called for more courage in digital learning and explained what learning with digital media could and should look like in the future.
This is because companies are also facing new times in employee training as a result of new learning. Daniel Jung is one of the most successful German Youtuber in the education sector and helps pupils to understand math.
Frank Rieger, speaker of the Chaos Computer Club, explained what a digitalized world we live in and what dangers exist.
In his China lecture, Sebastian Heilmann explained that digitization brings with it new business models and markets, but also new possibilities for state control. As Professor of Chinese Politics and Economics at the University of Trier and one of China’s best-known experts, he spoke about China’s growing global power, new digital control systems and the implications for European companies. European companies urgently need to deal with the introduction of the “Corporate Social Credit System” in China. This is because it is a new type of Big Data-based regulatory system that involves foreign companies without exception and requires far-reaching adjustments.
In the ensuing discussion, it was agreed that there must be a clear message from the politicians so that fair and free competition can continue to be guaranteed.
Industry meeting with board election
The new board of directors of the trade association was elected for the next four years at the industry meeting. Günther Veit, Managing Director of Veit GmbH, has been re-elected as Chairman, as has Klaus Freese, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of DESMA Schuhmaschinen GmbH.
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Definition of Clamminess:
Synonyms of Clamminess:
Sentence/Example of Clamminess:
More penetrating than its clamminess was the thought that Madame de Ferrier was out in it alone.
A clamminess, such as others feel at the approach of death, spread over my brow and neck.
Though the root-meaning seems rather that of clamminess or adhesiveness, as found in Sansc.
They felt it in the cold clamminess of the atmosphere, in the quiet peace of the long corridors.
Unless the sea is broken by the wind, there is about it just before dawn a peculiar creeping clamminess.
Then it grew greenish yellow with a sick clamminess of dread.
My mature view is that it was cold bread-pudding of a peculiarly villainous clamminess.
The rest of the time the atmosphere remained charged with rheumatic-dealing clamminess.
Try them with a fork, which must come out quite clean, and with no clamminess sticking to it.
But you are not troubled now with the clamminess of unabsorbed perspiration.
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Orbital ATK expects decision on new rocket by early 2018
WASHINGTON — Orbital ATK expects a “go/no-go decision” by early next year on an Air Force-funded program to develop a new large launch vehicle.
In a call with analysts March 8 to discuss the company’s latest financial results, company president and chief executive Dave Thompson said the company was making good progress on initial development of a vehicle that could carry intermediate and large payloads.
“We are so far performing very well and, from everything I can tell, the Air Force likes what we are doing and where we are headed,” Thompson said. “We expect a go/no-go decision in late 2017 or an early 2018 concerning the next phase of activity to actually build and test this new launch vehicle family.”
Orbital ATK has released few details about what is known only as its “Next-Generation Launcher.” The vehicle would use solid-fuel lower stages based on space shuttle solid rocket motor segments developed by the company, as well as solid strap-on boosters. A liquid-oxygen, liquid-hydrogen upper stage would use a version of Blue Origin’s BE-3 engine that company is currently flying on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.
The rocket’s design has at least superficial similarities to a vehicle concept called Liberty that ATK proposed prior to its merger with Orbital Sciences Corporation. Liberty, with a five-segment shuttle solid rocket booster first stage and a second stage derived from the Ariane 5 core stage provided by Astrium, was itself a commercial spinoff of the cancelled Ares 1 rocket from NASA’s Constellation program. ATK proposed Liberty for NASA’s commercial crew program but failed to win funding.
The new vehicle’s development is funded by an Air Force contract awarded in January 2016. That contract has an initial value of $46.9 million, with options to increase its total value to $180 million. Orbital ATK committed to invest at least $31 million, and as much as $124 million, into the program. The contract was part of a broader Air Force program that is also supporting work at other companies, including Aerojet Rocketdyne and SpaceX.
The upcoming decision to continue with development of the vehicle, Thompson said, would be made jointly by the Air Force and Orbital ATK. “The Air Force will have to decide on its part whether our family of vehicles is the right one or one of several that they would like to back for the long-term,” he said. “We will need to decide whether the investment case is sufficiently compelling to proceed.”
If the program continues, Thompson said he expected the split in funding would continue at current levels, with the Air Force providing two thirds of the funding and Orbital ATK one third. He also expected the Air Force to make an “early block purchase” of some of the vehicles during the program’s development.
If the Air Force elects not to continue with the program, Thompson said it’s likely Orbital ATK will scale back its work on the vehicle. “We assume it’s a go,” he said. “If not, well in 2018 then we would maybe throttle back on our investment. We definitely would throttle back on our investment.”
Commercial cargo and commercial satellites
Thompson’s comments came in a call after the company announced its financial results for the 2016 fourth quarter and full year. For all of 2016, the company reported a net income of $292.2 million on revenues of $4.455 billion, both increases from 2015.
While Orbital ATK’s overall revenue increased, that of the company’s space systems division dipped from $1.261 billion in 2015 to $1.237 billion in 2016. The company attributed the decrease to lower activity on commercial satellites.
Thompson said on the call that he expected continued weak demand for commercial geostationary communications satellites. “The downward pressure on pricing and the new additions to capacity that are in the pipeline will, at least in my view, continue to create difficult supply and demand conditions for the operators. And that will likely translate into another year of fairly weak orders,” he said.
Thompson said there was just one such satellite last year, of an estimated 14 ordered industry-wide, that Orbital ATK felt matched it class of satellites. The company bid on that and won it, he said. “Our target for the year is two awards. We probably have three fairly well defined opportunities and our plan calls for winning two of those.”
In NASA business, Thompson said Orbital ATK expected to see growing revenue this year from its follow-on commercial cargo contract, known as Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 2. Orbital ATK won a CRS-2 contract, along with Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX, in January 2016 for cargo missions to the International Space Station starting in 2019.
Thompson said Orbital ATK received its first cargo mission order under the CRS-2 contract from NASA in the fourth quarter of 2016. “We expect more clarity and hopefully more orders under CRS-2 later this year,” he said. “But for the time being, we are underway with our first CRS-2 mission.”
He noted that the company’s commercial cargo revenue is, for now, still dominated by its original CRS contract, which includes three Cygnus missions to the ISS this year — the first of which is scheduled to launch March 19 — and two in 2018. The last mission under the first CRS contract is expected in early 2019, with CRS-2 missions starting later that year.
Orbital ATK also works on a number of other NASA missions, including a variety of science missions, and Thompson acknowledged the possibility some might be affected if NASA’s budget is cut as part of broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce non-defense discretionary spending.
“We love working for NASA on these kind of programs and I’m hopeful that NASA will continue to be well supported by the administration and Congress,” he said. “And I think they will.”
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Astronomers have discovered a new solar system 127 light years away that is tantalisingly similar to our own.
The team used observations from the European Southern Observatory (Eso) in Chile to find five Neptune-like planets orbiting a Sun-like star called HD 10180. The planets are closer to their star than Mars is to the Sun.
They also have some evidence that two more planets might be in the star system, one of which would have the lowest mass of any extrasolar planet ever found. If the existence of these two additional planets is confirmed, the discoveries would make the HD 10180 solar system very similar to our own, with seven planets (to our eight) and a regular pattern of orbits.
"We have found what is most likely the system with the most planets yet discovered," said Christophe Lovis of the University of Geneva in Switzerland. "This remarkable discovery also highlights the fact that we are now entering a new era in exoplanet research: the study of complex planetary systems and not just of individual planets. Studies of planetary motions in the new system reveal complex gravitational interactions between the planets and give us insights into the long-term evolution of the system."
The five gas giants are between 13 and 25 times as massive as the Earth and take between six and 600 days to orbit the star, writes Lovis in a paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
One of the two as-yet-unconfirmed planets is likely to be similar to Saturn, with a minimum mass of around 65 Earths and an orbit of 2,200 days. The other planet would be the least massive exoplanet ever discovered, say astronomers, with a mass around 1.4 times that of the Earth.
The similarities end there, however. The rocky planet is likely to orbit very close to its star – just 2% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. A single "year" on this planet would last only 1.18 Earth days.
Scientists have confirmed the existence of 15 "extrasolar systems" that have at least three planets and the previous record-holder was 55 Cancri, which has five planets in orbit around it.
The latest discovery was announced today at an international meeting at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence in France.
Lovis and his team used six years of measurements from the Harps spectrograph at Eso's 3.6m telescope in La Silla, Chile, to scrutinise the Sun-like star HD 10180, which is in the southern constellation of Hydrus. Astronomers can detect the tiny gravity-induced wobbles in the position of stars that have planets orbiting them.
Damien Ségransan, who worked on the project with Lovis, said that the mystery rocky planet caused a wobble in the star's motion "of only about 3 km/hour – slower than walking speed – and this motion is very hard to measure".
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This paper discusses the operations of a wide range of central banking institutions in developing countries. The considerable diversity of economic, financial, and political conditions within the Third World has brought forth a wide variety of central banking institutions. Four polar types have been identified as providing coherent alternatives to the central bank. Historical experience certainly indicates that legislation on its own may not be enough to guarantee prudent behavior. Although many countries' central banking institutions have not yet come close to violating foreign exchange cover requirements or restrictions on government lending, in other cases the rules have simply been sidestepped by technical adjustments, altered expediently, or merely ignored. The organizational structure established by legislation probably plays a more positive part in determining a central banking institution's characteristic behavior. Operating procedures, channels of communication, and lines of command all exert some influence on where and how decisions are made in practice. The balance of power between government and monetary authority does not only depend on personality and outside support but will also be influenced by the institutional framework in which their interaction is established.
underwriting of bonds issued by the development bank and the supervision of the insurance industry, a function that has been recently transferred from the Ministry of Finance.
Despite Fiji's openness, the CMA has been able to follow an active and independent monetary policy, using the various instruments at its disposal. In general, regulated interest rates have been kept low relative to world rates, although not so noticeably low relative to rates ruling in neighboring AustraliaandNewZealand. This policy is supported by limits on the domestic borrowing of foreign firms
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Occasionally it pays to doubt the principles of life. WeWork did just that, by doubting the extremely construct of an office. Before WeWork interfered with the industry with common offices, offices became part of the established norm. While it fit mid to large-sized firms, startups, and entrepreneurs were at a considerable negative aspect. Realty lease, rent, furnishings, upkeep, as well as energy bills are a major piece of expenses that can place severe pressure on business with bootstrap organization strategies budget rooms wework.
Yet every person had to have a workplace and had to incur those repeating expenditures. The only exceptions were those start-ups operating out of dorm rooms or garages, or writers functioning from cafes. If this was a difficulty for numerous hundreds of small companies and also business owners, for WeWork, it was a large possibility. They saw coworking spaces as a sensible organization design that could be scaled up to create compelling price efficiencies.
Today, WeWork is identified with coworking. Remote work as well as digital offices are currently obtaining normalized because of COVID-19. This brand-new normal is not just appropriate to small companies yet huge enterprises too. Coworking is here to stay regardless of a firm’s dimension. What the pandemic required on the globe is what WeWork had envisioned virtually a decade earlier.
Which leads one to ask, what is the WeWork company design? What did WeWork do in a different way? Exactly how does WeWork gain their profits? Why did investors bet large on the company? Importantly, is its company design lasting?
What is WeWork?
WeWork was begun by Adam Neumann, Rebekah Neumann, and Miguel McKelvey. Although it was founded in 2010, its origins can be mapped to Eco-friendly Desk, an eco-friendly shared office that the owners had actually begun in 2008. What they started in a storage facility quickly became a coworking model that was infected over 100 areas. After a year, they offered business to their partner that was likewise the proprietor of the building. From the revenues of that transaction, WeWork was birthed.
Today it’s probably one of the most acknowledged name in the coworking industry. WeWork has around 828 structures globally accommodating close to 600,000 participants. The firm that has 6000 employees is currently valued at around $3 billion. The firm’s sub-brands include Surge by We, WeLive, as well as WeWork Labs, a start-up incubator. Since February 2020, Sandeep Mathrani, previously of Brookfield Residential or commercial property Partners, as well as GGP Inc. has actually been the chief executive officer of the firm.
What does WeWork Do?
WeWork uses flexible coworking remedies to entrepreneurs, consultants, and small companies. The firm additionally has huge enterprises as its customers. The business leases room from landlords in cities, renovates it right into a coworking area with workdesks and personal workplaces, and then leases it out to local business and entrepreneurs. The company interrupted the industrial realty market by making it flexible.
Little business and start-ups can not commit to the minimum feasible rental fee needed for office spaces because of two important factors. They commonly don’t have the monetary data transfer to authorize long-lasting leases. Secondly, these companies with restricted budgets as well as workforce might not need huge workplaces. Even after that, they are forced to authorize leases which results in considerable redundancies and repeating costs. WeWork addressed that trouble by aggregating office. Now, entrepreneurs really did not have to spend inflated rents for space they didn’t need. They only had to pay for what they utilized, and also importantly, when they used it.
By materializing estate adaptable, something uncommon in the sector at a large range, WeWork understood that it could exponentially increase the demand for shared office spaces, particularly in city locations. They also recognized that their remedies could not be one-size-fits-all.
WeWork has a flexible suite of offerings that include warm workdesks, committed workdesks, personal office spaces, as well as tailor-made rooms.
Hot workdesks are suitable for consultants who do not have a repaired routine and can utilize the center whenever they such as. They can walk in and choose any offered workdesk. This is helpful for service travelers that may need office space for a day or 2. Dedicated desks are for those routine workers and services that could require area reserved for them. For small businesses that need their employees to sit together, WeWork uses private workplace that have all the facilities one would anticipate from an expert setup. They supply privacy and also unique access.
The firm also has a costs choice of custom-built areas that are designed for enterprises that would certainly desire their office tailored. These offices are furnished with laboratories, board rooms, and suites for elderly monitoring. For bigger teams, WeWork supplies the choice of head office that features personal floorings, the choice of special branding, and also the flexibility to have the layout customized.
WeWork’s one-of-a-kind layout was just one of the aspects that got it a great deal of limelights in the starting days. The focus got on establishing common areas that would foster a sense of community amongst the owners. For the founders, the ‘we’ in the firm name was not decorative or newfangled. It reflected their vision of an area of people, and also companies, all functioning and also networking sympathetically.
It is very important to keep in mind that WeWork is not an aggregator in the feeling that Uber and also Airbnb are called aggregators. They are not a system where demand as well as supply meet. They are not uniting buyers as well as vendors. They are the buyers, as well as they are the vendors. The firm isn’t in the business of just aggregating office spaces as well as attaching them with business owners and also small businesses. Uber does not own cars and Airbnb is not in business of buying residential or commercial properties. WeWork, on the other hand, leases space, converts them right into practical workplace floorings and then sublets them with differing features at various rate points.
This crucial difference means that WeWork has to make significant financial investments ahead of time to obtain the property, retool it, as well as obtain the end product all set. This shipment component also leads to a circumstance where the cost is fairly repaired, with little potential for variable and momentary premium fees based upon rises sought after. Yet the firm believes that the substantial benefits they provide negate any risks associated with greater financial investments.
The universalization of the modern-day workplace can be mapped to the industrial era when managers as well as management literally needed to lie at the factory facilities. This made overseeing manufacturing very easy. It likewise made sense to enhance source allocation by having all employees under one roof covering. All manufacturing plants are based upon this concept of cost effectiveness through centralization of people as well as processes. Yet in post-industrial societies, a long-term office appears like extra for most fields. Definitely several organizations in the manufacturing and solution sectors need their employees to be on-premise. For numerous various other business and also institutions, it’s totally possible for the staff to be off-site and also still be practical as a group.
Nevertheless, if the idea of the office was to link people, what demand does it offer when the staff members are currently attached? This is acutely real for entrepreneurs, freelancers, as well as local business. WeWork makes specialist rooms obtainable to them at a portion of the expense of typical office space.
To begin with, entrepreneurs and business owners can conserve a great deal of time with WeWork. Finding the appropriate office in a city is taxing. For small businesses with minimal resources, this can be restricting, and will usually bring about sub-optimal leasing decisions. With WeWork, they can begin instantly. There’s no hunting about, no conversations with landlords, no negotiations on lease.
There are no financial investments required upfront. Leasing office converts to significant expenses on not simply the lease however brokerage charges, interior decoration and also furnishings costs, on-site branding expenditure, etc. Business owners as well as small companies save a substantial quantity of money when they go with the WeWork model that doesn’t call for any one of these.
WeWork makes tremendous sense for smaller operations is that there are no added reoccuring expenses. With a normal office, every little thing from utility bills to safety and security charges to hardware upkeep prices to other various expenditures can amount to high month-to-month costs. A lot of these fees are independent of the dimension of the company. Whether it’s a two-person start-up or a small company with half a dozen people, there will be these inescapable expenses. But not with WeWork. This likewise means that local business as well as entrepreneurs don’t need to stress over the usual functional concerns related to workplace.
The fourth benefit of WeWork is that most of its homes remain in exceptional areas. These are addresses that workers would enjoy to travel to, and also would enjoy to flaunt. The right place additionally means that its incumbents do not have to take a trip as well much or be required to work from more stuffed parts of the city. And also, the features WeWork deals are a wonderful attraction for workers. When small companies have offices that workers eagerly anticipate mosting likely to, outfitted with desirable facilities, it likewise comes to be much easier for them to draw in talent.
Lastly, consultants and also business owners choose WeWork for its feeling of community. The floor plans as well as interiors are purposefully made to motivate communications. There is a stipulation in their application that allows individuals to interact with each other with messages and also posts. All these are meant to not just naturally bring about more opportunities however also a sense of neighborhood. These five benefits are engaging value suggestions for those starting out or are leading small companies. Yet their benefits are drawing in occupants beyond those from the job economic situation. Huge business have actually likewise partnered with WeWork for the unmistakable advantages the co-working gigantic offers. Several of them have actually started using WeWork facilities as hubs for a few of their localized employees.
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Everyone is a poet
how many verses do we think of and we do not write
We never write them and how difficult to remember …
But who finds the time to write
that is your poet.
They are no better than you are
they too have words that often get lost before morning comes
before a pencil and paper is found
if the key words are not jotted
on a handy napkin, on a greasy palm, hand or wrist.
So he that writes becomes a poet
because you can read him and read him.
But your thoughts were just as worthy as the ones written down.
May they reflect your long lost verses
may they keep your soul composing
because your thoughts are out there and when we are able
we pluck them from our Cosmo
for you to read
for me to be sad about.
A poet’s life is the sadness of the universe
a defect born of shyness
continuing guerrilla warfare
trying to speak of love, respect and often
impossible dreams of life.
Goals never achieved that others might achieve
of the woman you love but cannot live with.
COPYRIGHT Daniel Nicastro Toronto October 2000
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Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s Birthing Center, the Windham County Breastfeeding Coalition, and the BMH Ten-Step Committee to Empower Mothers and Nurture Babies are joining forces to celebrate the 2014 World Breastfeeding Week during the first week of August.
This year’s theme, as established by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), is “Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal – for Life!”
According to WABA Chairperson Dr. Felicity Savage, “Breastfeeding has been shown repeatedly to be the single most effective way to prevent infant death; it plays a major role in children’s health and development, and significantly benefits the health of mothers.”
With this year’s theme in mind, and on the heels of the World Cup soccer games in Brazil, the BMH Ten-Step Committee to Empower Mothers and Nurture Babies will have a display board on exhibit outside the BMH cafeteria. The display will emphasize how the hospital and any individual can support and cheer on a breastfeeding mother.
In addition to the promotional display, the Windham County Breastfeeding Coalition will be hosting a party with the New Moms Network from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, August 6 in the BMH Tyler Conference Room. This event will provide an opportunity for new moms to recognize and acknowledge their local breastfeeding heroes, enjoy playful “booby cupcakes,” and create special nursing necklaces which are breastfeeding friendly (soft and nontoxic material).
BMH regularly cheers on breastfeeding in a variety of ways, including offering free breastfeeding classes and support groups; providing “golden hour” in the first hour of life by keeping the baby skin to skin with the mother if both are stable; providing 24-hour rooming as a standard of care; offering lactation consultants; and ensuring that all birthing staff are trained in lactation management.
More information is available at the WABA website at www.waba.org.my or by visiting BMH online www.bmhvt.org or calling 802-257-0341.
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Sin is a very peculiar notion when you really examine it. Sin is often considered to be the infraction, or breaking, of moral code of the Abrahamic faiths. This is not entirely correct, because, as we have seen in previous chapters, faith is not a precondition for, or guarantor of, good moral conduct, and also because sin is not really about morality. Sin, in the religions descendant from the would-be filicide, is the denial of the god-head or the commandments ascribed to it; to ‘sin’ is to break the ‘law of God’. Sin was not conceived as a moral concept but a legal term. Almost all established religions see their adherents as being legally bound to believing in their peculiar brand of fantasy, and to break their rules is to be sinful. So, everyone in the world lives in sin, according to the doctrines of someone else, and has done for thousands of years, not because they are immoral, but because they do not accept the rules of a given, opposing, religious organisation. So only those who believe can be without sin, but everyone lives in sin according to someone else. But then the Christian faith masterfully tricks its own adherents into making them sinful too, providing a reason for, and perpetuating the necessity of, its own existence. The unfaithful live in sin, the faithful are born into sin, and the Church alone can absolve sin. It has managed to screw over its own believers and make them thankful for it. Which is, you must admit, a wicked stroke of genius.
Where did sin come from? Apparently, from eating a fruit. The fable of the Garden of Eden is, aside from never having actually happened, a strange and exceptionally unfair event. Adam and Eve were told not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge by God. As I understand it, Adam and Eve were complete innocents; they had no knowledge of Good or Evil, Right or Wrong, and would therefore have no concept of punishment. God gives them one rule not to break, doesn’t tell them why, or what the consequences would be if they did break it. This God character made Man, or so I’m told. I’ve noticed that humans tend to be very curious, and their children are even more so, which is an important point to make considering Adam and Eve’s unique purity of personality. God tells these curious creatures to do anything they want except for one thing, and he doesn’t even put up a sign, or a fence, around the forbidden tree. I mean, that fruit was begging to plucked, and God seems to have stacked the odds in favour of this happening. Maybe if he had explained, if he’d shown them how awful the outside world was they might not have eaten the fruit. And sure, you could blame the snake, but God, in his infinite wisdom, made that too, right? Either the entire situation is all part of God’s sick and twisted plan, or whoever made this story up either never heard of ‘plot-holes’, or had a pretty gullible audience. Later this God fellow wrote down some rules for a tiny minority of the people he populated the world with. He wrote them on two stone tablets, according to Moses who was alone at the top of a mountain with no-one else around, who then smashed them, but these were conveniently replaced later by God, not unlike the tale of a certain Joseph Smith… Anyway… Breaking these rules was ‘sinful’. Christianity later put a unique twist on this whole ‘sin’ thing, possibly because Jesus died on the cross, as some kind of ultimate blood-sacrifice to a vengeful God. The carpenter died for the sins of all mankind, but only the faithful can take advantage of this delightful gift, because if you don’t believe you get to go to hell instead. So, the burden of a Christian is not really the guilt of sin, but the guilt of letting somebody else suffer for it, and the fact that you let this wood-cutting saviour down every day by being weak, and by committing the sins he saved you from. And if you atone for your sins you get to go to Disneyland. Or Heaven. I’m not entirely sure which; while they are both magical places of fantasy, one is an exclusive resort for a small minority of people, an illusory island of ephemeral dreams which the huddled masses of a cold, harsh world aspire to visit, and the other is Disneyland. Either way, everyone else gets to burn and suffer in Hell for all time. For all time. Wouldn’t that make Heaven suck? What if you got to go, but someone you knew or loved didn’t. Or even people you didn’t know? Burning for all eternity, while you eat ice-cream with the angles. Unless you didn’t have a conscience, or any sense of ethics, which would make you a soulless bastard, in which case you wouldn’t be in Heaven anyway. Is part of the deal that you forget about everyone else, or are you to be so content in Heaven that you don’t care? Or was it designed to appeal to sadists who want people to be tortured for eternity? Heaven must be a very lonely place, or full of lobotomised saints. Yes, this is a perfectly reasonable doctrine to believe in. Absolutely. One hundred and ten per cent.
So if Jesus died for the sins of Man, aren’t Christians, or even all humanity, off the hook for all the sins they have or will commit? And since Jesus was a Jew, and his big idea was, basically, “forgiveness; for anyone, all the time, any time”, and when he was dying on the cross he asked God to forgive his crucifiers, wouldn’t he forgive all the Jews and Gentiles who didn’t believe in his Revelation and allow them into Heaven too? And speaking of the New Revelation, why do Christians even bother with the Old Testament as much as they do, surely they should focus on the teachings of their so-called ‘Saviour’? Why do they cling to Ten Commandments when he distilled them into two? Better marketing? Was it maybe because most Christians for the first few hundred years of the existence of the new faith were actually still Jews, members of a radical new cult, a new law within an ancient faith? Christians didn’t really have any good framework for sin until Augustine in the fifth century, but his writings could prove whatever you wanted depending on how you read it, so the Church had to wait for the theological master that was Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century to clarify matters. The Catholic idea of sin, and that of its descendants, is not really based on the teachings of its superhero, but on the notions of a monk writing in an age of failed crusades and terrible setbacks for his faith. It was also the age of the genesis of the Renaissance, the very first steps were being taken towards a new paradigm.
Sins are a set of proscriptions devised by religions, the rules of the club. The privileged position Christianity in the history of the Western World has allowed for these rules to be misconstrued with morality, and immorality with sin. It might be both immoral and sinful to be a glutton when so many of the planet’s children go hungry, but it is only sinful to be gay, it is not immoral. It is immoral to kill people based on their faith, but strangely, not sinful; it is even seen as holy by some. Many faiths have denounced as sinful eating certain foods, drinking specific beverages, wearing stylish clothes, and even not growing your hair a certain way. Yes, that is right, the all-loving, all-knowing, all-merciful God, who made everyone in his image, will condemn you to Hell if you eat pork, and wear short skirts (especially if you are a man), but will love you more if you have a beard or curls. This makes perfect sense. An all-loving God damned you to be born in sin, damned you to live in sin, and if you don’t stop being sinful, and, well let’s face it, being human, you will go to Hell to be punished, because you broke a set of rules set down by an omnipotent God. Surely he would have known in advance that someone would commit these sins, and that maybe, since it is a loving and compassionate deity, try to stop them? Does he want people to go to hell? Did he fix the game in advance so his pawns can’t help but lose? And why make a world where it was so easy to sin in the first place? How do the faithful not look at the world, and wonder about what they have been taught? They make claims that God is testing their faith. Surely he’d know how faithful you were, what with him being omnipotent and stuff? Is faith the greatest mass hysteria ever? You can’t pick and choose what your delusion did and didn’t do; either the spirit in the sky is all-powerful and created everything, or it didn’t. If the former is true, what kind of perverse fantasy is that? It must have created sin too, and so, in some fashion, must know what it is to sin. To know ‘sin’ one must have sinned. Is God a sinner? A voyeur watching every decadent breath humans make, ever gleeful at each sexual desire which condemns another soul to Hell? Can God go to Hell? Of course he can; something that doesn’t exist can go anywhere that also doesn’t exist. God is Hell, an answer based on ignorance, designed to instill and propagate ignorance.
If we return to the fable of the Garden, we find an instrumental piece of evidence as to why religions are so determined to be powerful and dogmatic. The tree the fruit comes from is the Tree of Knowledge. What was this knowledge they were not allowed to know? Good and Evil. What a weird thing not to tell your creations about. Adam could have been going around the garden beating bunnies to a mushy pulp, and pissing on ants, while Eve ran with scissors and played with matches (luckily they hadn’t invented sex yet, or Adam might have done worse things). Without any concept of Good or Evil any, and every, deed or thought is legitimate. Had God asked Adam to commit genocide before the fruit debacle he may well have happily complied, and slaughtered anyone who he laid eyes on. But that is the kind of blind obedience that God (and all religion) wants, just ask Abraham, or better yet, Isaac. God wanted a docile servant, a gardener – “And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it,” Genesis 2:15. And he forbade his gardener to Know, because in knowing stuff the gardener might want a better life, he might want to be rewarded for his labours. Maybe Eve was the first Marxist, throwing off the shackles of God’s imperialist tyranny in favour of the down-trodden worker. Two things which religions hate; socialism and knowledge. People working together for the greater good without any need or desire for the babblings of a closeted, self-proclaimed elite, and information that is not controlled or diluted by that same self-aggrandising fetid swamp of intellectual abortion. Knowing is a sin, this is what we learn from the Bible. Religion would have us be ignorant slaves of God, happy with whatever the great sky-god gives us. What an abhorrent ideology. Of course most believers will say that they don’t believe in this part of their religion, just like how they think that homosexuals are not actually sinful. But they support their religion, most implicitly by simply ticking boxes, not speaking out, allowing the madness to continue. The Catholic Church, among many other religions, condemns homosexuality, among many, many other perfectly reasonable and normal things. Others deny evolution. Others think that blowing yourself, and innocents, up is a fabulous idea. These are all symptoms of the same delusion. Sin plays a large role in all faiths, it is what motivates them. Their adherents seek redemption, some through prayer, others through explosives.
What is sacred? Human life, its dignity and freedom, and the pursuit of knowledge for the improvement of human life. What, then, is sin? Impeding individual freedom and education, proscribing forms of healthcare and scientific advancement, and wilfully ignoring justice for the benefit of an institution too big to fail, with far too much invested in the promise of an afterlife. Religion is, then, the greatest single sin humanity has ever committed. The faithful must repent, and change their ways, and we must forgive them so we can all move on to better things. They must leave the delusion and join the real world. Our dogma is truth, innovation and reason, not lies, tradition and blind faith. We believe in the responsibility of Man, not in the will of a fantasy. We must purge the world of this sin, and its immoral perpetuators, and consign religion to a brief, and cautionary, chapter in the history of humanity.
Ceterum autem censeo, religionem esse delendam
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The Caribbean is often described as a “necklace” of islands, all located (no surprise here…) in the Caribbean Sea. It’s worth traveling here just to witness the sea – which is a uniquely bright turquoise, and often completely clear all the way down to its sandy bottom. Go snorkeling, and you’ll see stingrays, barracudas, starfish, lemon shark, and more swimming happily along.
There is a lot to learn from the resilient people of the Caribbean, which is why I think it’s more important than ever in this region to make an effort to step off the tourist trail. Invest in locally owned businesses and experiences, and you’ll see that the Caribbean is so much more than bland hotel franchises and overly consumerist cruise ports.
“Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”
-Gabriel Garcia Márquez
SO YOU’RE CONSIDERING
TRAVELING TO THE CARIBBEAN?
There are over a dozen Caribbean countries and territories. Each one shares the iconic Caribbean Sea, but the cultures, history, and geography are quite diverse between each nation.
Visit vibrant Cuba (but be sure to snag the correct ever-changing visa), or the Bahamas. Volunteer with manatees in Belize, or go on a yoga retreat in Aruba. There’s also the Turks and Caicos, Saint Martin, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, and so many more.
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Interview with Rising Star Chef Michael Sohocki of Restaurant Gwendolyn – San Antonio, TX
Katherine Sacks: What inspired you to pursue cooking professionally?
Michael Sohocki: I was a starving artist. I was doing three dimensional multi-media when I was going through college and trying to make a living on it. The first job I took was a waiter and host in Corpus Cristi. Right across the street was an art gallery—I had put up many pieces there and tried to sell them and make a living, but that didn’t work out.
I got interested in food because of a pastry cook who I worked with there; he became a good friend of mine. He was cooking things way above his qualifications or necessary for the hotel, just because he enjoyed them, like unusual ice creams and banana crème brulée. He was the first person I ever saw apply creativity to a craft. I became interested, and I started looking into cooking as a means of creative expression that was also a craft that could feed you.
KS: As a former artist, how to you define cooking, as craft or art?
MS: I have always struggled with the definition of cooking as an art form. I have come to the conclusion that as much as we love to say “culinary arts” or “the art of producing food,” we are craftsmen. It is a craft and like any other craft, creativity can be applied. Maybe that’s what makes the difference between a good thing and a great thing. Making a good sausage is what is necessary to meet the requirements; anyone should call themselves a cook who can make a good sausage. But to make a meaningful sausage requires a whole other muscle. You have to apply thought and meaning that comes from you.
KS: Your concept at Restaurant Gwendolyn is very specific. Can you explain the philosophy behind your food and the restaurant?
MS: The concept behind my food and my restaurant is that limitations create identity; they always have. Limitations in the old days created the identities of the old days, such as Kosher for the Jewish cuisine and Halal for Islam. These limitations shape life, behavior, and community. I think the greatest disservice of the Industrial Revolution to the human world was to take away those limitations, which has taken away identity. When you have anything you want, anytime you want, you don’t have the limitations that created who you are, and the result is you have no identity. You can have lobster in a frozen TV dinner in July at 3am, 300 miles from any farm, let alone any ocean. A world that is absent of limitations will permit this, and it takes identity away from the eater and from the lobster, and removes the meaningful parts of living a satisfying existence.
I deliberately put those limitations on my cuisine. I only buy our perishable goods from within 150 miles and have watermarked preparations to 1850 and before. The Industrial Revolution took hold in the mid- to late-1800s, and with refrigerated railcar and meat-packing plants, a violent explosion of availability dissolved limitations. We were defined by our needs and then our needs were removed.
KS: A very extreme way of thinking sustainably. In what other ways is your restaurant sustainable?
MS: If it is a traditional ingredient that traveled at the time [such as Brandy], it still can, that’s fine with me. But I want to show that this type of cooking necessarily excludes salmon from Nova Scotia, Patagonian toothfish, micro coconut. These things are not part of our identity, and if I put those things on my plate, I am leading you astray.
We also use no machines of any kind; everything is prepared in the old way. We use a mortar and pestle, have no electric dishwasher, and nothing with a plug other than the vent and refrigerator that is required by law. I also order whole rabbits, chickens, deer, lamb, pigs, goats, and feel we must use the entire thing. Each part has a classical role, each is suited to one preparation or another. This is the old way.
KS: Beyond cooking in a restaurant without modern equipment, what’s the biggest challenge facing your restaurant?
MS: Classic fine dining is founded on slavery and to reawaken its original authentic visage requires the slavery of someone. Since we don’t have slaves anymore, we don’t believe in the ideal on which classic fine dining was founded, so the slaves are us. While people think of me as the king, the chef, I am the one carrying the 150 pound pig down the stairs to butcher. The actual realization of bringing things back to their original state is tremendous work and requires tremendous dedication. This is not in-born in our society; it’s not easy to come by the kind of people that have the kind of endurance. It takes a reawaking on the part of everyone who works in my space; its tremendous emotional and physical endurance on the part of my and my people.
San Antonio is not Berkley; we are living in a place where the shadow of Alice Waters does not exist. It is very hard to grow a carrot, tremendously hard to grow a lamb, my farmers are little and they struggle. It all adds even more challenges. It’s very hard to do something that you believe in, in a place where nobody does it and nobody believes in it.
KS: And what’s next? Where will we find you in five years?
MS: I want the restaurant to stay open, to go on as an example to other people who would purchase ethically, open ethical and meaningful restaurants, food trucks, or stores or to reawaken some other part of them. If my restaurant stays alive, if I can stay alive, then I am a living example of supporting local people, that this can be done.
I want the people behind me to see me survive, but more than that, I want to shake my generation to the realization that we can change things—that we are the beginning of the solution.
- The Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars Winners: Why They Shine
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- Shaking Up the Central Texas Food Scene: Austin-San Antonio Travel
- 2012 Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars Purveyors
- 2012 Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars Purveyors
- The 7th Annual StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress Welcome Address
- 2012 Austin-San Antonio Rising Stars "How to Make It" Panel
Chef Michael SohockiRestaurant Gwendolyn
152 East Pecan Street, #100
San Antonio, TX 78205
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GIMS Auditorium, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore
The topic of the seminar was to know the importance of specialized skills developed through the value-added certification courses, to be able to fit into the jobs well. The seminar also emphasized on how the certified courses aim to bridge the gap between the formal academic education and practical applications, management and operations in specific industries. Dr. Hema and Prof. Dhananjay from Wellingkar University, presented the different short term and long term courses that are helpful to the B’Com and BBA 2nd and 3rd Year students, to kick off in the professional world. They briefed about the importance and expansive use of IT tools such as Microsoft Excel, Data Analytics, Banking and Business Analytics. They also presented the course offered to develop Employability Skills covering the skillsets such as communications, group discussions, interview skills etc. This was a very informative seminar where the attendees were made aware of the kind of practical challenges, required skillsets and the process of continuous learning in order to start their respective careers, perform and carry on in the corporate world.
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Mississippi still has fewer jobs now than before the recent recession, and wages for workers here are not keeping pace. That’s according to a new report looking at the state of working Mississippi. MPB's Evelina Burnett has more.
The report by the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University finds there are 18,400 fewer jobs now than in 2007. Real wages for everyone but the highest earners have decreased during that time.
"Wages in Mississippi, for everyone except the top 10%, have not recovered from the pre-recession level in 2007," says Father Fred Kammer, executive director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute. "So the state has not only lost jobs, thousands of jobs, but working people have not seen their income increase even back to the level of 2007. That's a very serious problem for the state."
The report also found the economic challenges in Mississippi particularly affect African-American workers.
"The rate of participation in the workforce is about the same, and has been about the same, but there’s been a big deficit in wages between white and black workers, and family income of white and black workers as well."
The report found the median wage of African American workers in Mississippi was 72 percent of white workers.
Jeanie Donovan is an economic policy specialist at the institute. She says there could be a number of reasons why wages are stagnant, including the disempowerment of workers.
"Due to high rates of unemployment in the state, Mississippi businesses are not competing to attract workers with generous wages and compensation packages," she says. "Rather, Mississippi workers are competing with each other for jobs that are available, no matter how low the pay."
Elyshia Davis is a single mother of three who recently got a job at an assisted living home, but she says it wasn’t easy to look for work.
"You search, you find a job, you get calls back for interviews, but the high demand of everybody racing for this job - it's stressful, when you go to interview and there's 10 people competing for this one job, and then you don't get it. You go to the next interview, and it's the same thing," she explains.
The report says that to rebound economically, the state must, among other things, invest more in public education and need-based assistance for higher education.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emanuel Macron on Saturday that Moscow’s accusations of plans to attack Ukraine were “provocative speculation” and could lead to conflict in the former Soviet country.
Putin and Macron discussed what Moscow called “provocative speculations related to Russia’s alleged planned” invasion “of Ukraine,” the Kremlin said after telephone talks.
In a statement, the Kremlin accused Kiev’s allies of sending “modern weapons” to the former Soviet country and unwillingness to force the Kiev authorities to implement Western-mediated agreements to end the escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine.
“Conditions are being created for possible aggressive actions of Ukrainian security forces in the Donbas,” the Kremlin added.
Putin, who received Macron at the Kremlin last Monday, stressed that the United States and NATO have not reacted to Russia’s demands for security guarantees, the statement said.
“The reluctance of the leading Western countries to push the Kiev authorities to implement the Minsk agreements was also emphasized,” the Kremlin said.
According to the French president, they talked for one hour and 40 minutes amid a barrage of diplomacy aimed at dissuading Putin from marching to his western neighbor. US President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak with the Russian leader on Saturday.
https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-tells-macron-invasion-claims-are-provocative-speculation-77938/ Putin says Macron’s statements about the invasion are “provocative speculation”
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Overweight or obesity could be detrimental to brain health, potentially magnifying Alzheimer's disease. (The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)
A large study found no link between metformin and the development of breast cancer in women with type 2 diabetes. "[T]hese findings suggest that having type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of developing breast cancer, but that taking metformin may protect against developing ER [estrogen receptor]-positive breast cancer, the most common type of breast cancer," said study author Dale Sandler, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health, in a statement. (Annals of Oncology)
Is hypertension being dismissed as part of menopausal symptoms in older women? (U.S. News & World Report)
The adverse health effects of obesity likely can't be offset by an active lifestyle alone. (Labroots)
People with obesity who stuck to a 16:8 time-restricted diet for 12 weeks lost an average 7.3 pounds. (PLOS One)
The Endocrine Society, along with other organizations, are intervening in an appeal in the U.K.'s High Court following the decision that minors under the age of 16 can't give informed consent for pubertal suppression.
Social conditions reinforced by systemic racism are likely an underlying cause of health disparities for people with diabetes, according to an article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Annotated Models, Annotation generation with manual overrides
- 3 Runtime Model
- 4 Working with generated code
This page gives an overview of the main design ideas which are the basis for the Texo project.
Annotated Models, Annotation generation with manual overrides
Generating and working with model annotations is the core concept of Texo development.
A model annotation is very similar to a Java source code annotation. So just as you can annotate a java class or field it is possible to annotate a model also (its EClass and EStructuralFeature). A very good example of a project making use of annotated models is the Teneo project which makes use of JPA annotations in the model to support of persistence of EMF objects in relational databases.
Annotated models corresponds to what in other concepts or generation frameworks is called stereotypes or enriched models. It is a common concept in code generation, i.e. software artifact generation often consists of two steps:
- read the model and enrich it with additional information
- call a template to generate the artifact using the enriched model
It is important to enrich the model in step 1 because it is far easier to implement a template if all the main generation choices have been made up-front. The template then just has to follow the decisions reflected in the enriched model.
Texo uses the same 'enriched' model approach and adds other important concepts:
- makes model-enrichment more explicit by explicitly modeling the enrichment (== annotation models): an enriched model corresponds in Texo terminology to an annotated model.
- explicitly allows developers to before-hand (partially) annotate models, Texo maintains these manual annotations and adds missing annotations to make the model fully annotated before actually generating the software artifact.
- uses model annotations explicitly also as part of the output, so the model annotations are used to generate annotations in the generated Java code, or is used to generate a separate file (orm.xml).
A future extension is to also make sure that model annotations are available at runtime so that they can drive runtime behavior.
Texo makes model enrichment explicit. Texo works with annotation models, these models describe the annotations which are allowed and supported. Texo providing an extendable framework supporting new annotation models and annotators. Initially Texo will support two annotation models (annotation sets):
- annotations for model generation itself (to set the name of java class for example)
- JPA annotations: to support generation of JPA annotations in the source code or in a separate orm.xml file
In a next phase new annotation models are planned to be added, for example for EJB3 (Seam) or Hibernate Search.
An important role is implemented by Model Annotators. A model annotator is responsible for generating model annotations for a specific domain (for example for JPA, JAXB, Hibernate Search, etc.). A model annotator gets as an input a model which can be partially annotated. Based on this input it creates/adds annotations the model. The annotator outputs a fully completely annotated model. In one artifact generation process multiple annotators can/will work to create a fully annotated model.
A model annotator must adhere to the following rules:
- It should be able to handle not-annotated models. So even if a model is passed in without annotations then an annotator is responsible for outputting a fully and correctly annotated model.
- It should not overwrite annotations which exist in the original model (these have been added by a developer for example). The annotator may only add annotations or set information in an annotation which has not been set yet.
- It must always fully annotate a model, the output is always a complete, correct and fully annotated model. So next actors (template) in the generation process can always assume that an annotation is present and complete.
The basic flow of a Texo artifact generation process using annotators then consists of the following steps:
- Developer annotates the model where he/she wants to override the default annotation behavior
- Texo reads the model and its manual annotations
- Different annotators are called to make sure that the model is fully annotated. Some important aspects:
- an annotator may not overwrite a manual annotation
- there can be multiple annotators which are executed after eachother, this to support different annotation models.
- the fully annotated model is passed to the template for generating the sofware artifacts
Benefits of Annotated Models, Model Annotation Sets and Model Annotators
Texo provides a framework which makes it possible to support multiple annotation models for one model and in one common generation process. Texo makes this possible because it explicitly defines and models Annotations and implements an API for Model Annotators.
With Texo developers have a means to control the generation process and output by setting annotations beforehand. The annotations generated by annotators and used by templates are the same annotations which can be manually set by a user. This gives the user the same level of control as the generation logic itself.
Annotators can work with non-annotated models. This makes it easy to start using Texo and annotated models. Also as Annotators can work with partially annotated models, a user only needs to override the parts which need a different approach.
Texo makes it possible to add more annotation models and annotators over time.
Texo differs from other code generation approaches (except for EMF itself) in that specific attention is paid to support of a runtime representation of the domain model.
The domain model is expressed in ecore or XSD and with the model annotations drives the code generation. At runtime it is important to also have the possibility to work with this domain model and to access the generated code using model constructs.
Model-driven functionality (at runtime)
Many applications have functions which make sense to implement at model level instead of at specific instance/type level. Some examples:
- archiving: implement a generic archiving model which uses the runtime model to interrogate objects and retrieve changed and new property values.
- security: define security using entities from the domain model. To support security definition changes at runtime it must be possible to address the model at runtime. To check security at runtime one needs access to the runtime model also (for specific instances).
- export/import: export and import functions in an application can benefit from generic model-based logic. Implementing export/import using the runtime model is very efficient compared to writing a specific export/import per type in a system.
Another usage scenario for having the model available at runtime is that the model elements can be used to define other system components. An example of this is a system which allows users/consultants to define the user interface themselves through a user interface. To support the user/consultant in defining a user interface he/she must be able to select elements from the runtime model to define fields in a form or columns in a grid.
Runtime Model in Texo
The Texo runtime model functionality makes it possible to:
- access the available EPackages which have been loaded/initialized and iterate over its EClassifiers and EFeatures.
- (at runtime) determine the domain type (the EClass) represented by a pojo.
- access (get/set) the values of EFeatures in a pojo at runtime
Texo takes a different approach than EMF in making the runtime model available. In EMF each object always implements the EMF EObject interface or extends the EMF BasicEObjectImpl. Texo implements the runtime model outside of the pojo in a separate generated class which acts as a wrapper of the pojo to give it a 'Model-Face'.
The Texo runtime model is an ecore model (EPackage, EClass, etc.). The runtime model is accessible using the following classes:
- The ecore model can be reached through the generated ModelPackage class (see image on the right). The ModelPackage provides access to the EClassifiers (EClass, EEnum) and EStructuralFeatures of a model.
- The ModelFactory provides access to String converters and the generated Model wrappers.
- The ModelResolver class (provided by the org.eclipse.emf.texo plugin) acts as a Model registry and manages all initialized and loaded ModelPackages.
For more information see this separate page on the Runtime Model.
The current implementation of the Runtime Model access logic is based on several trials and study of different approaches. For a short description on these other approaches see this page.
Working with generated code
There are roughly two schools of thought regarding how to handle and work with generated code.
One school of thought states that generated code should never be changed manually. Generated code should not be committed to a CVS. It should be possible to remove all the generated code, regenerate and then have the same situation as before. In this approach any manual/custom logic should be implemented in subclasses of the generated code. These subclasses can also be generated. This school of thought is what is propagated by developers from the XPand project.
The other school of thought states that it should be possible to change generated code. manual changes in the code should remain even if the code is re-generated. Generated code should be checked in to a CVS. This approach is followed by the EMF project.
Both groups consist of very experienced and very knowledgeable experts on the field of model-to-text transformation and code generation.
Texo follows the EMF approach (the second school of thought) because:
- it feels more natural to change/add behavior to the generated class than to a 'dummy' subclass.
- less classes are generated and the generated classes are kept in sync with the model.
- manual code can easily be identified inside of generated classes.
- the code generation does not update the file on the file system if it has not changed by code generation. This results in minimal changesets in a CVS, and much better, if something changes it is directly visible in CVS diffs etc.
- by checking in the generated code to cvs it is much easier for others to work with the development project as no generation step is needed after getting the project or updates from a CVS. The same applies to re-distribution of regenerated code, by checking in the generated code (and the changes) it is much clearer what has changed and when people update from the CVS they will receive a consistent state directly.
- Texo will re-organize imports and remove files which related to model elements which have been removed. As the code is checked in these removal actions are tracked in a CVS.
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The Flamin' Groovies are an American rock music band, whose peak was in the 1960s and 1970s. They began in San Francisco in 1965, founded by Ron Greco, Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney. They are perhaps best known for their song "Shake Some Action", which was later featured in the 1995 movie Clueless. They are also well known for their song "Whiskey Woman" which was featured in Joe Sexton's part of Videograss' film The Darkside (2012). The group have been called one of the forerunners of punk rock, and they also had a major influence on thepower pop genre.
Their first album, 1969's Supersnazz, featured Jordan (guitar, vocals), Loney (guitar, vocals), George Alexander (bass, harmonica, vocals), Tim Lynch (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Danny Mihm (drums). It contained both re-creations of 1950s rock and roll and more melodic songs that anticipated the power pop movement of the 1970s—a genre to which the Flamin' Groovies would eventually contribute significant work. They then released their second album, 1970's Flamingo. Teenage Head was released in 1971 and is listed in the 2006 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In 1971, Loney left the band and was replaced by singer and guitarist Chris Wilson, who, along with Jordan, began to move the group in a more overtly power-pop direction. Between 1971 and 1976, very little was heard of the group except their 1972 anti-drug song "Slow Death" (co-written by Loney). In 1976, they teamed up with British producer Dave Edmunds, and recordedShake Some Action.
In 1979, Roy Loney formed the Phantom Movers featuring original Groovies drummer Danny Mihm, former Groovie James Ferrell (guitar), as well as Larry Lea (guitar) and Maurice Tani (bass). The band released a number of well-received albums as well as a greatest hits CD ("A Hundred Miles an Hour 1978-1989" on the Raven label out of Australia). The Phantom Movers (Roy, Larry, and Maurice) continue to play currently, with the addition of John Moremen on drums.
After some re-recordings of their older material featuring only Jordan and Alexander from the original band, the Groovies disbanded in 1992.
Another larger-scale reunion appears on the recent Chris Wilson album Love Over Money (2010). Roy Loney, George Alexander, James Ferrell and Mike Wilhelm all appear on the CD, as does Procol Harum’s keyboard legend Matthew Fisher and Barracudas guitarist Robin Wills. The album is available on the French Rock Paradise label.
In 2013, the Jordan/Wilson/Alexander line-up played live for the first time since 1981 in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth as part of the Hoodoo Gurus' invitational Dig It Up. They also played a series of sold-out shows in Japan. Their show in San Francisco, at The Elbo Room on May 4, sold out in less than 24 hours. They are currently touring, with the addition of Victor Penalosa on drums.
Keyboardist Mark Dunwoody died of a heart attack on June 12, 2013
- Supersnazz (Epic BN 26487, September 1969)
- Flamingo (Kama Sutra KSBS 2021, July 1970)
- Teenage Head (Kama Sutra KSBS 2031, April 1971)
- Shake Some Action (Sire Records, June 1976) U.S. No. 142
- Flamin' Groovies Now (Sire Records, June 1978)
- Jumpin' in the Night (Sire Records, July 1979)
- One Night Stand (July 1987)
- Rock Juice - as Flamin' Groovier (September 1993)
- Sneakers (1968)
- Grease (1973)
- More Grease (1974)
- The Gold Star Tapes (1984)
- Rockfield Sessions
- I'll Have a... Bucket of Brains
- "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" b/w "The First One's Free" (Jul 1969)
- "Somethin' Else" b/w "Laurie Did It" (1970)
- "Have You Seen My Baby?" b/w "Yesterday's Numbers" (1971)
- "Teenage Head" b/w "Evil Hearted Ada" (non-USA) (Aug 1971)
- "Slow Death" b/w "Tallahassee Lassie" (Jun 1972)
- "Married Woman" b/w "Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues" (Dec 1972)
- "You Tore Me Down" b/w "Him or Me" (1974)
- "I Can't Hide" b/w "Teenage Confidential" (1976)
- "Shake Some Action b/w "Teenage Confidential" (non-USA) (1976)
- "Teenage Head" (rerelease) b/w "Headin' for the Texas Border" (Jun 1976)
- "Don’t You Lie To Me" b/w "She Said Yeah"; "Shake Some Action" (30 cm, UK) (1976)
- "I Can't Explain" b/w "Little Queenie" (1977)
- "Move It" b/w "When I Heard Your Name" (UK, Aug 1978)
- "Absolutely Sweet Marie" b/w "Werewolves Of London"; "Next One Crying" (UK, Jun 1979)
- "Sealed with a Kiss"
- " Baby Please Don't Go" (live) b/w "Milk Cow Blues" (live) (1987)
- "Scratch My Back" b/w "Carol" (2010; both recorded 1971)
- Slow Death, Live!
- Bucketful of Brains
- Flamin' Groovies '68
- Flamin' Groovies '70
- Rockin' at the Roundhouse (1993) (Live recordings from 1976 and 1978)
- Step Up (AIM, 1991)
- The Flamin' Groovies In Person (1971 live recording) (2006)
- Still Shakin' (Buddah Records BDS 5683, 1976)
- Super Grease (1984)
- Groove In
- Groovies' Greatest Grooves (July 1989)
- California Born and Bred (1995)
- Supersneakers (1996)
- Yesterday's Numbers (1998)
- Grease: The Complete Skydog Singles Collection (1998)
- Slow Death (2002)
- Bust Out at Full Speed: The Sire Years (2006)
- At Full Speed... The Complete Sire Recordings (2006)
- This Band Is Red Hot (2008)
- Sneakers was a 17:10 long 10" EP.
- Flamingo was released in Germany as This Is the Flamin' Groovies.
- Half of Still Shakin consisted of tracks from Flamingo and Teenage Head, the rest were outtakes.
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Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism
Popovic, Srdja; McClennen, Sophia A.
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winner, Srdja Popovic, was a leader in the revolution that brought down the Milošević regime in Serbia and he contin-ues to help protestors around the world learn effective, sometimes humorous, nonviolent tactics. In 2020, he teamed up with Sophia A. McClennen to study the concept of "dilemma actions," which offers a structured, strategic approach to fighting back against authoritarianism, as well as for defending democracy.
Cornell University Press
Political Science; progressive social movements; laughtivism; dilemma actions; public kissing and Erdogan; Gandhi's Salt March; Estonia's Laughing Revolution; Arab Spring tactics
9781501756054 (print)9781501756061 (epub)9781501756078 (PDF ebook)
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Scrabble word: BICRONS
In which Scrabble dictionary does BICRONS exist?
Definitions of BICRONS in dictionaries:
- noun - one billionth of a meter
There are 7 letters in BICRONS: B C I N O R S
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All anagrams that could be made from letters of word BICRONS plus a wildcard: BICRONS?
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SCRABBLE is the registered trademark of Hasbro and J.W. Spear & Sons Limited. Our scrabble word finder and scrabble cheat word builder is not associated with the Scrabble brand - we merely provide help for players of the official Scrabble game. All intellectual property rights to the game are owned by respective owners in the U.S.A and Canada and the rest of the world. Anagrammer.com is not affiliated with Scrabble. This site is an educational tool and resource for Scrabble & Words With Friends players.
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Cryptocurrencies are virtual currencies that use cryptography to have safe transactions and control your investment. Cryptocurrencies are decentralized, so there is no government, third-party management, or shenanigans, which may benefit you in the long run. In 2009 the first cryptocurrency in created in the form of Bitcoin. Since then, cryptocurrencies have been upgrading, and hundreds are being birthed daily.
Cryptocurrencies can be stored in several ways, including on a computer desktop wallet, hardware wallets (hot and cold wallets), smartphone wallet, crypto wallet, or online exchange. However, for ultimate security, many investors store their cryptocurrencies in a cold wallet.
A cold wallet is a physical device that stores your cryptocurrency offline and is inaccessible to hackers. This blog post will discuss five things you need to know about cold wallets for cryptocurrency storage. So read ahead and learn more!
First thing First, What are Crypto Wallets, and How does it work?
A crypto wallet is like a piggy bank for your digital assets. It's a software program that stores your public and private keys. Your public key is like your account number at a bank. Crypto wallets don’t actually store your coins but provide the means to transmit and receive them using blockchain. These are public-private key pairings that form an alphanumeric address – this is your blockchain account that can receive coins.
You can disclose your address to receive payments, but not your private key – the holder of which can dispose of associated coins by any means.
Even though your device, like your computer, is compromised, you can access your crypto coins using another device if your private key is in you or you remember it correctly.
If a third party has your account's private key, they can gain access to your funds. Crypto wallets are thus crucial for managing and securing your cash. There are different types of crypto wallets or hardware wallets, including hot wallets and cold wallets. We will further dive into that later.
What is cold storage and How does cold wallets work?
When it comes to safeguarding your bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies, one of the best techniques is to use a cold storage wallet.
As the name suggests, a cold wallet is not connected to the internet, shielding it from potential intruders, hackers, and other threats.
To use cold storage wallets, you first need to generate a private key. This private key can then be used to access your digital wallet, which can be stored on a USB drive or other offline software wallet or location. While private keys can technically be generated online, it is much safer to do so in an offline wallet to reduce the risk of them being compromised.
Once you have generated your private key and accessed your digital wallet, you can transfer your bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies into cold storage. This process can be repeated whenever you want to add or remove funds from your cold storage wallet. While it may seem like a hassle to go through all these steps, protecting your assets is worth it.
Is it better than another online wallet, then?
You're not alone if you're worried about losing your bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies to hacking.
Unlike traditional banks, no central authority can reimburse account holders for lost or stolen funds. This is because most digital currencies are decentralized and are not supported by a central bank or government.
As a result, cryptocurrency investors need to be extra vigilant when safeguarding their tokens. One of the best ways to do this is to store your bitcoins in a hardware cold wallet that's not connected to the internet. This way, your coins will be safe even if your computer is hacked. You can further protect your cash by encrypting them with private and public keys.
When it comes to cryptocurrency, security is key. That's why bitcoin owners must take care when storing their public and private keys. These keys are essential for accessing a user's bitcoin wallet and, as such, need to be well-protected.
A paper wallet or hardware wallets are two popular cold storage methods - that is, storing crypto assets offline without an internet connection to keep them out of reach of hackers.
Paper wallets involve printing out the public and private keys on a piece of paper and then storing that paper in a safe place.
Hardware wallets work similarly, except the keys are stored on a physical device like a USB or an external hard drive. By keeping their private keys offline, crypto users can be assured that their assets are well-protected.
2. Cold Wallets Vs. Hot Wallet, which is better?
What's the difference between hot and cold wallets? It's all about security versus convenience. Hot wallets are naturally connected to the internet, making them more convenient for transferring and receiving cryptocurrency. However, this also makes their safety porous and vulnerable to hacking.
Cold wallets usually take the form of a hardware device or a piece of paper. This makes them less convenient but also much more secure.
Most hot wallets are free, while a cold storage device can range in price from $50 to $150. So if you're looking for security, you'll have to pay a little extra. But if convenience is your top priority, hot wallets are the way to go.
But for those who have decided that investing in cryptocurrencies is a good idea, combining hot and cold storage is often the best way to get the best of both worlds. A hot wallet is used for smaller amounts and day-to-day trading, while cold storage is used to keep most cryptocurrencies.
This doesn't say that one method is better than the other - it's just a matter of finding what works best for you and your investment strategy. Ultimately, cold wallets are more secure, but hot wallets offer more convenience.
3. When should you use a cold wallet?
To start with, cold storage work best for long-term investments and holding. If you're not planning on selling or using your cryptocurrencies anytime soon, it's best to keep them in cold storage. As a general rule, you can get the best out of a cold wallet whenever you have more cryptocurrency than you are comfortable losing.
This cryptocurrency wallet is not required for minor cryptocurrency holdings. The price of these crypto wallets would be comparable to the value of your cryptocurrency if you have less than $100 in digital currency. Paying $50 to protect $50 worth of crypto doesn't make much sense.
Considering their typical pricing range, you might consider purchasing a cold wallet when you have $250 or more in your cryptocurrency wallets.
Nobody's risk tolerance is the same, so there isn't a universal solution. But it's wise to exercise caution given how quickly cryptocurrency prices might rise. A single $50 or $100 purchase is not much considering cryptocurrency's lucrative.
If you want to include cryptocurrency in your portfolio of investments, a cold wallet is also an excellent storage method. If you anticipate investing in cryptocurrencies frequently, get a cold wallet early for secure storage.
4. Types of Cold Wallets
Different types of cold wallets use various methods to keep private keys offline. Every kind of cold wallet has its own pros and cons that you should consider before making a purchase.
A paper wallet is the most straightforward cold storage for crypto assets. It is a document or a physical copy of a wallet that contains your public and private keys. Using an offline printer, you can print a paper wallet from an online service. The paper wallet or document usually has a QR code attached so it can be scanned and signed.
If you adopt this option, keep your wallet in a safe place because if it gets lost, unreadable, or destroyed, you won't be able to access your funds. Paper wallets offer different security features than hot wallet.
When you want to sign transactions, you must physically connect your computer to the printer where the paper wallet is stored and sign the transaction offline. This adds an extra layer of security because your private keys are never exposed online where they could be hacked.
When it comes to securing funds, there's no such thing as being too careful. That's why hardware wallets are becoming increasingly popular. A hardware wallet produces private keys without being connected to the internet using a smartcard. This makes them much more secure than regular wallets, which are vulnerable to hackers.
Ledger USB Wallet secures private keys with a smartcard. TREZOR and KeepKey are two other popular hardware wallets. To save private keys offline, a USB-like device, a computer, and Chrome software are needed. You can use a regular USB drive or an advanced gadget with a battery, Bluetooth, and software.
Like a paper wallet, a USB device and smartcard must be stored safely to protect the user's bitcoins. Hardware wallets are the most secure type of wallet available, and they're well worth the investment for anyone who takes their security seriously.
Deep cold storage
Putting your hardware wallet in your safe is secure but not deep cold storage because it's simple to access. Deep cold storage needs time and effort to extract keys. This could involve burying your hardware wallet six feet underground or employing a third-party service that holds your bitcoin keys in a vault that requires many steps to access.
The ultra-secure vault service has the same inconveniences as burying your keys in the garden, such as digging and remembering where you planted them. Vault services demand ID, address verification, or other identification. Accessing your keys can take hours or days, depending on their location. This implies cryptocurrency funds in cold storage aren't easily accessible.
Sound wallets are an uncommon and expensive technique for storing keys. Sound wallets encrypt and record private keys on CDs or vinyl (records). A spectroscope software or high-resolution spectroscope can decipher the code in these audio files.
Offline software wallets
Users looking for cold storage solutions can also consider offline software wallets comparable to hardware wallets but require more technical knowledge. An offline software wallet separates a wallet into two platforms—an offline wallet with private keys and an online wallet with public keys. The online wallet creates unsigned transactions and gives the user's address to the other party. The unwritten transaction is transferred to the offline wallet and signed. The signed transaction is returned to the online wallet, which broadcasts it. The offline wallet's private keys are safe because it's never online. Electrum and Armory are popular offline crypto wallets.
5. Is a Cold Wallet Secure? Is it for you?
Now we are ending with the fifth and final point related to the security of a cold wallet. So, as we have already seen, a cold wallet is an offline wallet that offers more protection to your cryptocurrencies than a hot wallet. But, like everything in life, nothing is 100% secure. So a cold wallet also has its disadvantages that we will see now.
The main disadvantage of a cold wallet is that it can be lost or stolen like any other physical object. Also, if you forget the password or lose the key, you will not be able to access your cryptocurrencies. In addition, setting up a cold wallet can be complicated and time-consuming for those who are not very familiar with the world of cryptocurrencies.
Nothing is too secure, and not everything is impenetrable, but a cold wallet is still the safest place to store your cryptocurrencies. If you are not willing to take risks or if you have a large number of cryptocurrencies, we recommend that you use a cold wallet. But a hot wallet will be enough if you want to trade frequently or only have a small number of cryptocurrencies.
In any case, the decision is yours, and only you know what is best for you. We hope this article has helped you learn more about cold wallets and how to use them. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to leave us a message below.
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Book Review: Jack 1939
by Francine Mathews
Riverhead Book, 2012
John F. Kennedy, age 22, ostensibly enjoying himself in London in 1939 while his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, is the United States ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, is actually an intelligence operative working on secret instructions from President Franklin Roosevelt – the conceit of Francine Mathews’ new novel, Jack 1939 should make it callous (the man’s real life wasn’t interesting enough for the purposes of historical fiction?) or at least laughable (“The name’s Kennedy – Jack Kennedy”). No U.S. President spun finer or more far-flung webs than FDR – he hardly needed the clandestine services of a pasty Harvard senior (codename: Crimson, Mathews writes, as if daring us to snicker). And no super-agent candidate in 1939 would have looked less promising than Jack Kennedy – rail-thin, sickly, and more than a little feckless (“a face for comedy, not tragedy” as Mathews tells us quite accurately).
So Jack 1939 shouldn’t work, and yet it does. And not only does it work, it excels. This is one of the best historical novels of the year, and the best fictional evocation of the Kennedy world yet written (not that it has much competition yet on that second score, the necrophilic rantings of James Ellroy notwithstanding).
The real Jack Kennedy spent the politically tense spring and summer of 1939 mostly living it up with London’s smart set. He had incredible, almost epicene good looks, limitless funds, and the pretense of important work as a member of his father’s staff. The spotlight of history isn’t trained on him yet – it’s still shining on his older brother Joe Jr., and on his father, who nurses dreams of the White House – so he was free to drink and dance every night at all the fashionable spots with Mitford girls and society debutantes … and most of all his glorious sister Kathleen, nicknamed “Kick,” whom Mathews does the honor of assessing fairly:
Even at nineteen, Kick would never be a beauty; she was too Kennedy for that, with a freckled face, a snub nose, and a square jaw. But she was shrewd and funny and her smile lit up a room; half of London was in love with her.
It was a belle epoque world of consequence-free privilege (Jack’s dalliances were numberless, and Kick even went so far as to fall in love with no less than the heir to the Duke of Devonshire) – hardly the stuff of international espionage. But Mathews goes about her story with a no-nonsense certainty and an impressive amount of backstage research. A large number of historical figures walk across these pages, from J. Edgar Hoover to Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich to testy career diplomat George Kennan – not to mention all those Kennedys, from the young boys Teddy and Bobby to the gutter-mouthed ambassador and his frigid, brainless wife (the real-world Kennedy clan must not be pleased with these portraits of their paterfamilias and matriarch, but that’s the risk you take by being part of history) – and every one of them is expertly sketched. Including that toughest subject of all, the mastermind in the Oval Office:
“I expect your friends in England are watching Joe Kennedy.”
[General “Wild Bill”] Donovan’s gaze never wavered; it was a habit Roosevelt valued. “They don’t trust Joe in the slightest. Think he’s a defeatist and an appeaser. It wouldn’t surprise me if the embassy’s bugged.”
Which meant that Donovan knew it was.
“You should recall him,” Wild Bill urged. “If he’s lost your confidence and the Brits’, he’s no use to you in London.”
“He’s safer there.”
Through the open window, Roosevelt could hear the high, birdlike call of his grandson as he ran across the White House lawn. The memory of former springs, of his young body running through fresh grass on a May morning, flooded his mind. With effort, he turned from that lost brightness.
“Joe stays across the Atlantic until after the election.”
“You’ll have to work around him,” Donovan tells the President, who responds cryptically, “I already am …” Enter Jack Kennedy, the perfect candidate for an unofficial mission, since he’s smart, historically informed, and, as the ambassador’s black-sheep second son, able to fly below the radar in a way his matinee-idol older brother is not. We follow intrepid young Jack through all the byways of pre-war Europe and even so far as Instanbul, all of it exuberantly brought to life by our author:
The ancient souk sprawled over fifty-eight streets and held thousands of shops; traders had bargained beneath its arched ceilings for five hundred years. It was, Jack thought, a postcard from Byzantium, the lost world of Suleiman the Magnficent, and for a while the colors and scents transported him: cardamom and bitter orange blossom; tobacco bubbling in hookahs; the mustiness of rolled wool rugs and the brown coal smell of open braziers. The bazaar stank of goats and unwashed humanity and occasionally attar of roses. A man gestured at carpets and a boy offered alabaster; when Jack ducked down a quieter path through the labyrinth, an aged crone tried to sell him her daughter.
The most pleasing thing about this novel full of pleasing things is the seamless way Mathews fits a very believably realized Jack Kennedy – the weak and painful body, the fatalism, the wiry courage, even the vocal mannerisms, here caught perfectly – into the more or less conventional setting of a spy thriller without slighting either the man or the genre. There’s a beautiful woman – Diana Playfair – and there’s an odious villain – Hans Obst, “The White Spider” – and there are chases, foggy night-scenes in Prague, some business with a luggage claim check, and a thrilling climax. Amidst all this gunfire and assassination, Mathews can’t resist a couple of rather heavy-handed allusions to young JFK’s fate in the future, but to a remarkable degree, her Jack Kennedy is a fresh and immediate creation.
Jack 1939 is a surprising and totally convincing bolt of entertainment. No fan of historical fiction – or history – should miss it.
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, lawmakers grilled regulators over plans to put greater oversight on the financial sector to prevent another economic crisis. At a separate hearing Treasury Department officials were asked whether American taxpayers are getting their money's worth for the bailout of the banking industry.
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, expressed support for U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to expand government oversight over financial products that were previously unregulated. "I believe the plan makes real progress in filling gaps in our regulatory landscape that became apparent in the wake of the financial crisis," said Mary Schapiro in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
Specifically, she discussed the new power the SEC will have to regulate derivatives - financial products whose value is based on other assets such as home loans. Many have blamed these complicated instruments for contributing to the economic downturn.
Gary Gensler, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told lawmakers that businesses that deal in derivatives should be held to higher standards.
"For the dealers, we should set capital standards and margin requirements to help lower risk. We should set business conduct standards to guard against fraud manipulation and other market abuses. And we should also mandate record keeping and reporting with an audit trail to promote transparency," he said.
But those opposed to expanding power for government regulators noted that their oversight had failed in the past. Some lawmakers pointed out that they had missed oncoming crises despite numerous warnings, including the collapse of AIG and the Bernie Madoff investment fraud scandal.
"The premise is wrong: that we suffered from a lack of regulation. It wasn't lack of regulation, it was regulators making mistakes and frankly some dumb regulation," said Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican.
Congress is considering President Obama's regulatory reform legislation, which would also seek to give more power to the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve.
Later, the House Financial Services subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing about efforts to repay taxpayers for the money that was invested in banks in a huge government bailout program.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program sets aside $700 billion to lend to banks in order to help stabilize the financial system. But now that banks have begun paying back some of the money the Treasury is trying to find a way to sell off the warrants - contracts for future stock -- that they received in return.
The Treasury has two options: sell the warrants back to the banks, or sell them at an auction.
The Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, Herb Allison, told Congress that the department is working to give taxpayers the best deal.
"As my colleagues and I work on this important financial security effort, we will strive to be prudent investors on behalf of the American people and to protect the taxpayers who have entrusted us with so much of their money," he said.
It is a difficult matter because warrants are not traded like other investments, and there are several ways to value them. Therefore the government could lose money if banks buy these warrants back at lower prices.
It was announced Wednesday that the financial institution Goldman Sach's bought back warrants from the Treasury Department for $1.1 billion - the full price Treasury had asked for. The Democratic Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, praised the move, saying Goldman Sachs "did the right thing."
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NEW YORK (CBS 2) — A new generation of 20-somethings is wrestling with an age-old problem, 25 years too early.
A growing trend that experts call the “quarter-life crisis” has many young men and women feeling lost, wanting more, and needing a change.
“I’m not really doing what I want to do, and I’m always mad at myself that I’m not further along,” Jason Wood, 24, recently told CBS 2’s Maurice Dubois.
Others said they still haven’t figured out what it is they want out of life.
“You’re trying to figure out, is this really what I want and why have I been working so hard to get here?” Sara Angle said.
These people are only in their 20s, and are just beginning their lives. It should be a time filled with promise and possibility, but many of them said they are already disillusioned.
“The promise of our parents was, we can do whatever we want. You find yourself a couple years later behind a desk wondering where that promise went,” 29-year-old Marjorie Korn said.
While the mid-life crisis typically affects people in their 50s, this quarter-life crisis is happening to young people as much as 30 years younger.
“You’re trapped in this relationship; you’re trapped in this job; you don’t really see a future for yourself,” explained Carin Gorell of Self magazine.
The crisis typically begins after college, when the 20-something enters “the real world,” according to experts.
“That’s when you start asking yourself, ‘wait, have I made the right decisions?'” Gorell explained.
According to experts and psychiatrists, the growing identity meltdown could be linked to a pressure to succeed that has been thrust upon this generation from a very young age.
“You’re fighting to be the top of your high school class, and you’re fighting to be at the top of your college class, and you finally get out into the workforce, and then once you get there you’re fighting to be at the top again. It’s never ending,” Angle explained.
Psychiatrist Drew Ramsey told CBS 2 that the current generation has spent so much time fighting for its future that it has skipped living in the moment. The result is an exhausted and unsatisfied demographic of young people.
“It’s a very different world. Those of us who are older need to recognize the challenges that come with it,” Dr. Ramsey said.
For some, the only way to deal with a quarter-life crisis is to walk away from everything and start over.
“I’m so much happier. I listened to what my insides were telling me,” Korn said.
Walking away and starting over may not be for everyone, but experts told CBS 2 that there is plenty of help that 20-somethings can get as they try to deal with a quarter-life crisis.
“The most painful part of the 20s is you feel like you really have to know, and you don’t. You’ll go through life like the rest of us doing the best you can and it all gets figured out pretty well,” Dr. Ramsey said.
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Al Roker is up to his neck in extreme weather.
The “TODAY” co-host and weatherman is currently promoting his new book “Al Roker’s Extreme Weather” while leading the NBC daytime series’ coverage of last week’s catastrophic hurricane Harvey and the newly developed hurricane Irma, which is now barreling down on the Caribbean.
“The idea that we could have two category four or higher storms hitting in the same season has never happened before,” Roker told me during an interview this morning. “This is really kind of unprecedented. We’ve gone 12 years since having a major hurricane strike the United States. To have two major storms just gives you an idea, in a sense, of the randomness, but also we have been seeing an increase in more extreme weather events.”
And while these extreme weather events—not to mention recent wildfires in the western U.S. and catastrophic flooding in Africa—appear to be more common, Roker is quick to note that climate change is not necessarily the sole culprit.
“I do believe there is climate change going on, but I’m also one of those people who says you cannot point to every event that happens and say, ‘Oh, that’s because of climate change,’” Roker explained. “What climate change does is increase your probability for more extreme weather, for greater swings in weather, for greater fluctuations. But can we say definitively, because you have these two major hurricanes back-to-back, that this is because of climate change? No. Can I think that maybe it has something to do with it? Probably.”
Hurricanes—or cyclones and typhoons as they’re known in other regions of the world—are among the many extreme weather events dissected and explained in Roker’s new book. Recommended for kids ages 8-12, the colorful, photo-packed, 48-page book is separated into three main sections examining storms (tornadoes, dust storms, hailstorms, etc.), dangerous conditions (drought, fog, extreme heat and cold) and the aftermath of weather phenomenon (floods, wildfires, landslides and avalanches).
The book also details strange, rare and fascinating weather occurrences such as red sprites, gustnados, derechos, fogsicles and lahars, and includes a list of record-breaking weather incidents.
“When I’ve talked to teachers, they tell me that the one topic elementary school kids love and wanna explore is weather,” Roker said. “I finally thought this is kind of a coming together—the extreme weather and a time to write a book for young kids. That’s why we came up with ‘Al Roker’s Extreme Weather.’”
For more on the new book, check out the rest of my interview with Al Roker below:
David Onda: There are, of course, plenty of weather-related books out there. What void did you want to fill with “Extreme Weather”?
Al Roker: I don’t know that there was anything missing. I just wanted to bring a sense of wonder to the idea of weather for kids. One of the people that I admire greatly is Bill Nye. He’s one of those guys who takes science and makes it like, “Gee-whiz. Oh, my gosh.” You’re way too young to remember this guy, but probably your grandparents do—he was a guy named Mr. Wizard, who was on television. He made science fun. If he were coming up today, he’d be on YouTube. He’d be a YouTube sensation, because he did what would probably be considered viral videos today with experiments of how you make a volcano or how you can create a tornado in a bottle. And that’s what I’m trying to bring to the pages of the book.
Onda: When you meet kids, do you find there’s still an interest in growing up and becoming a meteorologist, or is that a profession that’s dropped out of favor?
Roker: No, I still see these kids who really—in fact, probably more so now, it’s cool to be into science. Back when I was coming up, we were the nerds. We were not the cool kids. The cool kids are the science kids now, the kids who are into STEM—the science, technology, engineering, math. And it’s not just guys, it’s young women, young girls who are into this.
Onda: Your role with “TODAY” has expanded beyond weather over the last decade, but would you say weather is still among your first passions?
Roker: One of my mentors is Willard Scott, and one of the things he always told me was, “Everything comes out of what you do on the ‘TODAY Show’ with weather. You can do all these different things, but the weather is what people know you for. Embrace that.” And I do. I love what I do. Every day is different. And trying to come up with different ways to present the weather and make it interesting. I love doing it.
Onda: Can you tell me about the process of actually researching, writing and picking these beautiful photos for “Extreme Weather”? How long did it take?
Roker: I’ll be honest, the photos—we had a researcher find those because I don’t know how to do that stuff. That’s the secret to success. Let the people who do what they do best do it. You focus on what you do. I’m not a publisher. I know certain ideas and I have concepts and I know my weather stuff, but the way to make it visually appealing—that was all done by the fine folks at our publisher. But it took about a year to put together.
Onda: Did you learn anything new about a weather phenomenon while writing the book?
Roker: I didn’t realize that—with dust storms or haboobs—that they were occurring with such great frequency or increasing frequency in the desert southwest here in the United States. When I had first heard about haboobs, they were more in the Sahara and the sub-Saharan desert regions, but more and more we’re seeing them here in the U.S.
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Onda: You mentioned that you wrote this book for kids, but would you say adults will enjoy it as well?
Roker: If you are an adult and either have kids or know kids or have a kid in your life, you need this book. One of the kids in your life is gonna ask you a weather question, and instead of Googling it, look it up and set an example for your kids that you can still find out things from books.
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The Young Chickenhawks
Published on Thursday, October 13, 2005 by The Nation
By Clarisse Profilet
The cheeky website buzzflash.com recently posted a petition calling for Jenna and Barbara Bush to serve in Iraq. But the famously private Bush twins have never disclosed their views on the war; they may even be opposed. So calling for them to serve might not be fair. But there are young and prominent Bush-backers who deserve to be targets of such a petition: The assorted leaders of the College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) are cheerleaders for a war they are unwilling to fight.
Both YAF and College Republicans have staged prowar demonstrations on college campuses across the country. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, the College Republican National Committee released a statement proclaiming, "As our troops prepare for battle, the College Republican National Committee and its 100,000 members are prepared to show the world that the majority of students support the efforts of the president and our troops to liberate the people of Iraq and to rid the world of this murderous dictator and his weapons of mass destruction." The CRNC's website praises George W. Bush for "defending the peace by taking the fight to the terrorists."
The even more zealous YAFers have made it clear that they not only support the war but are openly hostile to those who oppose it. Their rowdy prowar rallies have attracted plenty of press. In March 2003, CBS news reported on a YAF event held in Minnesota at which the chapter's executive director Chris Hill had strong words for antiwar activists: "The top of the antiwar movement is led by communists, and I will call them that," he said. "Unlike these communists, we have truth on our side.... We say to those who oppose this war, Go to France." Hill's YAF chapter has also publicly denigrated antiwar demonstrators as "cowards." All of this raises the question: If opponents of the war should go to France, shouldn't Hill--and other members of YAF and College Republicans--go to Iraq? In response to a query by The Nation about whether any leaders have volunteered to fight the war in Iraq, Shauna Moser, the chairman of Penn State YAF, said only that information on YAF officials could be found with a simple "search in a search engine."
Indeed, YAF chairman Erik Johnson, vice chairman Darren Marks and fourteen other national officials have posted brief autobiographies on YAF's website. According to these bios, not one of them has served in the military or has any intention to do so in the future. YAF official Chris Hill told The Nation that he had been a member of his university's Navy ROTC program and the moderator of a blog where he offered advice to aspiring soldiers on how to obtain a military commission. But he chose to seek a master's degree rather than join the armed forces. Asked about this decision, he said, "But I know people over there, and that's a fact." Does it undermine his group's prowar position if all the YAF higher-ups are unwilling to participate directly in the war? "I don't think so," Hill replied. "You don't have to be involved in something to believe in it."
When The Nation queried the College Republicans about the military record of its senior officers, it received a similar reaction. In fact, the assistant to executive director Michael Krueger--who identified herself only as "Amanda"--went on the defensive, dodging the question and maintaining that at the CRNC, "we don't have a power structure like a national board." That was a strange response, considering the group's website promotes a "National Board." And none of these board members--the controversial chairman Paul Gourley and officers Jess Beeson, Nathaniel Harding, Britton Alexander, Dan Schuberth and Tom Robins--boast any military experience. Their posted bios do not refer to any past, present or future military service, though they do describe in detail the postgraduate work and political aspirations of these young right-wingers.
Conservative campus groups like YAF and College Republicans are growing in strength and numbers. And since the start of the Iraq War, these outfits have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Bush to support the war, but they have not stood alongside the soldiers doing the actual fighting and dying. They want someone else to do the hard work.
Clarisse Profilet is an intern in The Nation's Washington bureau.
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Turbines with significant rotor diameter and taller towers are becoming ordinary as a consequence of the exponential increase in wind electricity marketplace subsequently ensuing within an key impact on wind generator towers develop and investigation. The most crucial goal with the wind generator tower could possibly be to raise the turbine rotor for virtually any Horizontal Axis Wind Generator (HAWT) and will offer you the mechanical and electrical plan housed in just the nacelle. Wind velocity boosts with altitude in addition as provides a inclination to dwindle turbulent. As a result way more electrical power can be extracted with taller towers. Still, this will come in a very expenditure of higher worth of development and set up. Variety of tower top is dependant with a trade-off amongst elevated wind turbine inside of a specific online site as well as the increase within the cost of development (Basu, 2010).
The important styles of towers presently becoming utilised could be the free-standing style utilising metal tubes, lattice (or truss) and concrete. For smaller sized sized turbines, guyed towers may also be made use of. Tower peak is generally 1-1.five events the rotor diameter. Tower range is enormously impacted because of the character through the web-site. Furthermore the stiffness from your tower, there is certainly alot more elements influencing the wind generator product dynamics.
Basu (2009) the key components for tower style is its complete stiffness, which influences its purely natural frequency. Wondering regarding the structural dynamics, a rigid tower whose essential purely natural frequency is bigger in contrast on the blade passing frequency (rotor’s rotational velocity instances the quantity of blades) is a lot more suited. This kind of towers supplies the benefit of staying moderately unsusceptible for the motions from your rotor-turbine alone. But nevertheless, the cost could be prohibitive as being a results of even larger mass and for that reason it requires a little more content.
Smooth towers then again are people today whose elementary pure frequency is gloomier in comparison to blade passing frequency. An extra subdivision differentiates a mild together along with a soft-soft tower. A delicate tower’s purely natural frequency is through the rotor frequency but beneath the blade passing frequency as a gentle-soft tower has its possess normal frequency underneath each rotor frequency in addition to the blade passing frequency. The 2nd will likely be considerably less high priced as opposed to stiffer kinds, considering the fact that they are simply lighter. But nevertheless, they may involve selected notice and wish watchful dynamic homework into your full solution to verify that no resonances are ecstatic by motions in all those other turbine.
Vibration is really an trouble simultaneously of wind generator and as a consequence it is very imperative that you keep tabs on vibration with the wind generator by adequate experimental methodology through procedure. The vibration in the wind generator tower alterations applying the rotational velocity through the blade combined with the variation in wind velocity. The loading across the tower generally due to wind masses, blade rotation, blade bodyweight and likewise the generator rotation possess the primary element variables in the vibration across the wind generator tower.
Many belonging to the suppliers of transportable info collectors and analyzers now manufacture on the net checking units fashioned in particular for that wind generator software. There are numerous varieties of wind turbines, and each a person involves its fairly personal checking structure. These sellers all realize both of those obstacle and in addition the possibility.
Systems are created to observe the speed within the turbines, together with other system parameters, to permit them to suitably decide as soon as the turbine is operating in just the pre-defined “gang of operation”. Honestly, quite a few these units can determine many different “bands of operation”. Every single band could possibly have its completely individual team of alarm boundaries, and a number of readings are tagged employing their gang of procedure to make certain graphical comparisons may very well be completed. You ought to have different bands for two considerations.
1.one Examining Vibration Signal
You could fully grasp these various vibration signatures as well as the strategy to the right way extract them for trending investigation. With appropriate signature content, it’d be trouble-free to tabulate unique metrics which could travel plant upkeep or output schedules. You can find a considerable number of different sorts of sign complexities, akin to diverse vibration phenomena which can be explained beneath as defined Countrywide Devices (2016).
1.one.one Frequency Based
Frequency assessment is definitely essentially the most normally put into use technique for analysing a vibration sign. Likely the foremost elementary style of frequency evaluation can be a Extremely fast Fourier Change, which converts a sign on the minute area in with the frequency area. The products for the conversion is mostly a electrical power spectrum and displays the facility present in certain frequencies within the all round sign. This seriously is very beneficial for analysing stationary alerts whose frequency factors do not alter with time (Nationwide Devices, 2016).
Despite its most use, you’ll discover loads of downfalls of employing frequency evaluation when you consider that its end results, just like a electrical power spectrum or complete harmonic distortion, incorporate just the frequency knowledge in the sign and under no circumstances intel. Meaning that frequency evaluation is not suitable for alerts whose frequencies range with time. This idea will also be prolonged further more to advise you’ll discover countless numbers of indicators that could make a similar energy spectrum.
The 2nd limitation with the FFT can it be simply cannot determine transients or brief spikes within just the sign. Transients are unexpected instances that continue on for just a brief as within a sign normally have very low power alongside which includes a broad frequency band. When transients are adjusted in the regularity area, their strength is unfold around an assortment of frequencies. Given that transients have lower vigor, which can not be recognised in the frequency area. Irrespective of the existence for the transient, the power spectra of alerts may perhaps be equivalent for the reason that stamina with the transient is unfold in excess of an variety of frequencies (Countrywide Devices, 2016).
1.one.two Buy Analysis
When conducting vibration assessment most vibration sign capabilities are proportional in the direction of the managing pace on the motor or equipment as an illustration imbalance, imbalance, equipment mesh, and bearing flaws. Purchase examination can be a form of examination that could be mainly centered for that investigation of rotating equipment and frequencies modify since the rotational velocity alterations. It once again samples uncooked indicators in the minute area in towards the angular area, aligning the sign implementing the angular posture through the equipment. This negates the end result of altering frequencies within the FFT method, which typically could not cope with this kind of phenomena.
So as examination, alternatively of employing the FFT of days area info, the sign is earliest resampled in for the angular area. Resampling brings together the speed measurements acquired from the tachometer within the equipment by making use of the vibration measurements and interpolates the vibration measurements suitable right into a information position for every portion of angular rotation. The vibration measurements have arrived at the angular area compared to the previous time area. At the time inside the angular area, an FFT is often completed across the angular area vibration measurement to build what the heck is identified a decide to buy spectrum (Countrywide Devices, 2016).
1.one.three Time Frequency Analysis
Among the downsides of frequency assessment was that, with no any time area knowledge related utilizing the sign, it were only advantageous for static indicators. Time-Frequency Examination (in many instances recognized as Joint Time-Frequency Evaluation or JTFA) allows a bit round for this issue. Time-frequency Investigation is a technique of getting a variety of FFT’s of modest servings of knowledge, quite simply facts which was absorbed a short while. In the event the FFT’s are taken of adequately minimal servings of information the frequencies will likely not have experienced the perfect time to regulate, these FFT’s can then be merged to ascertain just how the facility spectrum on the sign modifications with time. Time-frequency Evaluation responses are frequently exhibited within a spectrogram, which displays how the strength in the sign is transported inside of the time-frequency area. A spectrogram is certainly an depth graph with two unbiased variables: a while and frequency (Countrywide Devices, 2016).
Some alerts could have a slender frequency band and keep on for any shorter at the same time length. These alerts have a very rather really good focus inside the time-frequency area. Sounds alerts are generally dispersed around the entire time-frequency area. As a result the time-frequency illustration could presumably better community signal-to-noise ratio inside of the time-frequency area. Therefore, sign may be recognise that will not feature its existence in yet another area.
1.one.four Quefrency Analysis
As identified by (Nationwide Devices 2016) Cepstrum Evaluation, also called quefrency investigation, would be the FFT through the log of your vibration spectrum. The impartial variable throughout the x-axis from the FFT or potential spectrum is frequency. The impartial variable belonging to the Cepstrum is named “quefrency”. Quefrency is known as a strategy for measuring time but absent from your sensation of your time area. Even though a frequency spectrum or FFT reveals the periodicity belonging to the time area measurement sign, the Cepstrum reveals the periodicity with the spectrum. A Cepstrum is often recognised as spectrum with the spectrum. Cepstrum Evaluation is especially advantageous for locating harmonics. Harmonics are periodic factors inside of a frequency spectrum and thus are popular in equipment vibration spectra. Choosing the Cepstrum, you will be ready to recognize vibration harmonics as an illustration persons exhibited which has a defective roller bearing (Countrywide Devices, 2016).
1.one.five Wavelet Analysis
As identified by Countrywide Devices, Wavelet assessment is well suited for characterizing device vibration signatures with slender band-width frequencies long lasting for the shorter though time period. As an illustration, a cooling tower during a velocity adjust could very well design a transient vibration measurement sign on the bearings, footing, shaft or some other mechanical elements. One other region exactly where wavelet evaluation may be used is tests and checking of lower Revoltions for every moment equipment bins one example is men and women in wind turbines and locomotives. Wavelets are used as the reference in wavelet evaluation and so are recognized to become alerts with two traits: admissibility and regularity. Admissibility indicates that a wavelet reference, or mom wavelet, ought to have a band-pass-limited spectrum which wavelets must have a zero normal in some time area which implies that wavelets should probably be oscillatory. Regularity indicates that wavelets have some amount of smoothness and focus both of those in time and frequency domains, which means wavelets are oscillatory very little alerts.
1.one.six Design Based
This strategy may also be outlined Nationwide Instrument. Product based mostly assessment weblogs in regards to the vibration sign to some straight line style within the sign and returns the error back and forth which makes it valuable for locating transients. Autoregressive modelling investigation is employing a straight line product, the AR product. The AR product signifies any sample at this time collection as the mixture of record samples around the comparable time-frame sequence. The straight line blend ignores any sounds and transients in the sign. When assessing a brand name new measurement sign in direction of the AR product, the modelling mistake matches the sounds and transients not recorded in the straight line blend product.
1.two Quantifying the Vibration Level
The vibration amplitude describes the relationship amongst your peak-to-peak, peak, the standard in addition to the RMS diploma of the sinewave.
Bruel and Kjaer (1982) The Height-to-Peak (P2P) worth is efficacious considering that it signifies the utmost excursion through the wave, a advantageous amount exactly where, as an example, the vibratory displacement on the device portion is essential for the best possible pressure or mechanical clearance things.
The top benefit is very precious for indicating the quantity of quick period shocks and many others. But, as is possible observed inside of the drawing, peak values only show what most has transpired, no account is taken of situations sound popularity for that wave.
The mounted standard benefit, all the same, does choose a while useful standing to the wave into account, but is acknowledged as of minimal functional fascination because it will not have immediate romance with any practical actual physical amount.
The RMS benefit is definitely quite possibly the most related technique for measuring amplitude because it both of those can take time incredibly good popularity for your wave into account and furnishes an amplitude worth that is certainly proportional in the direction of the stamina written content, and after that the harmful skills from your vibration. In just this review, RMS is used as a consequence of the very fact of alterations within the totally different amplitude on the present-day recorded as time passes.
While planning an accelerometer to be calculated the right way, you can find a requirement to consider the subsequent to be sure every one of the sign conditioning desires are satisfied (Countrywide Devices, 2016):
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The document provides guidelines for accepting data driven verification methods based on emerging digital technologies.
The scope includes setting requirements to:
- built in test equipment and self-verifying systems, e.g. for:
- performance verification of active functions
- testing of on demand functions, e.g. protection functions
- testing of the availability of redundant functions
- digital survey applications, i.e. digital tools which can be managed by the crew in order to gather tamper-free system/vessel data
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Nielsen applies a wide variety of methodologies to derive insights from our data for clients and the marketplace on what consumers watch. Our recently published “What Americans Do Online” article produced a fantastic level of interest, including questions and suggestions about other ways to look at the data. Since this is how we typically work with clients, collaborating on how to get to the best analysis, we acknowledge that data alone doesn’t always provide the complete picture.
The following alternative analysis, comparing category- and site-level data, for example, shows the different insights made possible by alternate approaches and interpretations. We have long taken pride in our leadership in measurement science and our participation in rich debate around methodology to arrive at the best insight possible. We’re looking forward to continuing the conversation to develop new ways to look at measurement both online and in the mobile arena.
For the mobile element of the research, our original share of time analysis used the average time spent at a category-level, the broad groupings of websites that offer similar types of content. This time we went to a more granular level, looking at share of time by basing it on the total time at the individual site-level.
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*The original share of time analysis was based on the average time spent at a category-level **The Videos/Movies category refers to time spent on video-specific (e.g., YouTube, Yahoo! Videos, Hulu) and movie-related websites (e.g., IMDB, Blockbuster and Netflix) only. It is not a measure of video streaming or inclusive of video streaming on non-video-specific or movie-specific websites (e.g., streamed video on sports or news sites).
This alternative way of slicing the data still shows Email to be, by far, the dominant sector in terms of mobile time, although this dominance shrinks by a few delta points to 38.5% from 41.6%. Search is another that nets out with a smaller share, although by less than a percentage point from 7.1% to 6.3%.
The share held by Social Networking remains very similar but News & Current Events comes out much stronger using the site-level analysis at a 7.2% share of time compared to 4.4% of time using the category-level analysis.
Share of time on Portals shows something more dramatic, with a change from 11.6% to 4.6% share of time, but this doesn’t mean that people are spending any less time on Portal sites. Nielsen classifies both channels and brands into categories and so a category-level analysis includes both brands (e.g. Google) as well as channels under than brand (e.g. Google News). Using the initial methodology means that all Google time would be assigned to Portals (because Google is a portal) but using the site-level method means the Google News element would be assigned to the News & Current Events sector. Thus, the Portal element is limited to more general and entry pages rather than including content-specific sectors such as news.
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One of the most ironic things about theists is that they demand from science absolute and definitive answers as to the origins of the universe and life. This demonstrates to me that they obviously don't understand the scientific method. Let me tell you what science is not. Science is not: absolute and it never makes such claims. Scientists are well aware that a theory is always subject to change or be discarded altogether due to the discovery of better evidence that explains whatever phenomenon they are trying to understand better.
The scientific method
The only step missing in the diagram above is the last and final step of submitting your work for peer review. Scientists are not only trying to prove their theories correct, during their research they are also trying to falsify their conclusions. Scientists understand fully that no matter how good a theory may sound it just might be incorrect. This brings me to my next point: the word theory for scientists does not have the same meaning that it does in every day parlance to the laymen. Let's look at both definitions so that we can tease out the difference.
: an idea that is suggested or presented as possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true
:A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.
The first one is the way most people define the word theory. Apologists love to use this definition in their arguments to deceive and obfuscate the masses of the facts. This is made most evident when you hear them say "it's only a theory" when referring to evolution in their pathetic counter arguments. This definition of a theory only amounts to nothing more than a best guess. Theists believe without a doubt that their theory of everything (God did it) is unassailable, irrefutable and absolute.
The second definition of the word is a far cry from what that same word means to the layman. Notice in the definition all of the words I have underlined for instance. The first thing to note is that it is based on a fact or series of facts that have been confirmed by peers in the field. It has been done through observation and experimentation. Finally, others have tried those tests and experiments with the goal of confirming or falsifying the theory.
Now here is the problem with the theists claim that God exists and most of all that he is the answer to every mystery in the universe. In order for a scientific theory to be valid it must be falsifiable in other words it must be subjected to scientific testing and scrutiny. God on the other hand cannot be falsified because his existence cannot be proven in a lab or put to scientific scrutiny. God is a theory as it is defined for the layman. He is accepted as truth but cannot be proven. Theists accept some of the most ridiculous claims contained in their so called holy texts as facts without evidence. If it's in the book then it has to be true. This reminds me of the famous fundamentalist Christian cliche' "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!"
This brings us to my final problem with theistic claims based on so called "holy texts." Everything that is in those texts are taken as absolute facts no matter how insane the claim. Talking snakes, donkey's, floating steel axes, flying fiery chariots, water coming forth from a rock, etc. If any of these claims were considered outside of a religious context you would think that the one making the claims was nothing more than a complete nut.
What are the three words that all theists hate to hear? The words are "I don't know." These three words are not acceptable to theists. They want certainty and they could only get that through the illusions created by their faith of preference. They can't accept the fact that their faith in ancient myths and superstitions are not based on facts. Their deities are the creations of men and are beyond the reach of scientific scrutiny and confirmation. Faith is the ultimate display of willful ignorance and the rejection of reason. Their mantra is "I know, because the Bible/Koran or any other holy texts I accept as truth tells me so.
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A pot of burning chilli sparked fears of a biological terror attack in central London.
The dish uses extra-hot chillies which are deliberately burnt
Firefighters wearing protective breathing apparatus were called to D'Arblay Street, Soho, after reports of noxious smoke filling the air.
Police closed off three roads and evacuated homes following the alert.
Specialist crews broke down the door to the Thai Cottage restaurant at 1900 BST on Monday where they discovered the source - a 9lb pot of chillies.
Nam Prik Pao recipe
Heat garlic and shallots in oil and remove to a bowl
Place red chillies in the pan with some oil and fry until they go dark in colour. Then set aside
Mix shrimp paste with the rest of the ingredients and pound in a mortar and pestle
Return the mixture to the heat until it becomes a thick dark coloured paste
The restaurant had been preparing Nam Prik Pao, a red-hot Thai dip which uses extra-hot chillies which are deliberately burnt.
But the smell prompted several members of the public to call the emergency services.
Alpaslan Duven, a Turkish journalist based in the restaurant's building, said: "I was sitting in the office when me and my chief start coughing and I said this was something really dodgy.
"I looked out of the window and saw people rushing and then we heard the sirens."
Supranee Yodmuang, the restaurant supervisor, was above the restaurant when she received a phone call from her boss.
"It was about 4pm when I saw the police who were closing off the roads but I didn't know why.
"My boss rang me and said I had to get out of the building because of a chemical attack."
She added: "Because we're Thai, we're used to the smell of chillies."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The street was closed off for three hours while we were trying to discover the source of the odour."
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As I have published before, the campaign of solidarity with the Arab residents of Sheikh Jarrah (has it fizzled out?) is one big cheat on Jewish history, Jewish property rights on the one hand, while, on the other, a cover-up for Arab ethnic cleansing and theft of identity.
I have now found a recent article which adds one more quite interesting element to the affair. It’s by Professor Boaz Zissu, and appeared in the Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ 62 (2012), pp. 54–70):
The article discusses the possibility of the identification of a conjectured residency location with biblical Nob and situating it in the higher areas of the American Colony or of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Here’s a map to get oriented:
Professor Zissu explains:
IN June 2001, a salvage excavation was conducted in the upper section of Kidron Valley (known in Arabic as Wadi al-Joz and in Hebrew as Na¢al Ha-Egoz), some 50 m. north of Nahmanides Cave…Among the ancient features scattered on both banks of the valley are open limestone quarries and burial caves, including the Cave of Simeon the Just and the Minor Sanhedrin Cave from the Second Temple period, both of which have been investigated in the past. Nahmanides Cave, mentioned in the past by Dalman (1930: 180) and Pierotti, who published a drawing of it (1864: pl. 57), derives its name from a medieval Jewish tradition that Nahmanides used to pray in it after moving to Jerusalem c. 1267 (Vilnay 2004: 177–178). It is a huge underground limestone quarry…
He then points out that Nov (1 Sam. 22:19; Isa. 10:28–32; Neh. 11:32) was conjectured to be north of Jerusalem lends credence to the possibility the indeed the biblical town of Nob could be located at this site “because of the proximity of this place to the walls of the capital.”
Jerusalem was in sight from Nob: ‘This very day shall he halt at Nob, waving his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem’ (Isa. 10:28–32)…In the days of the Restoration Period, Nob is mentioned as one of the localities in the region of Benjamin (Neh. 11:32), situated south of Gibªeah (Tell el-Ful), near ªAnatot (identified as modern ªAnata) and ªAnaniah (identified with the village of el-ªAzzariyeh).
As for the archaeology,
Robinson believed that Nob should be located upon the ridge of the Mount of Olives…Albright looked for Nob at Ras el-Mesarif (Mount Scopus) or at at-Tur (atop of the Mount of Olives)…Aharoni identified Nob at ªIsawiyeh (1968: 340, 356), while Eshel located it at Shuªafat (1987). These identifications are, however, unlikely, since no archaeological finds have been uncovered to support them and, moreover, they do not overlook Jerusalem. Barkay, Fantalkin and Tal suggested locating Nob at Givªat Shapira (2002:65–66)…
The two possible locations suggested here — the area of the American Colony or the Sheikh Jarra¢ neighbourhood — are both topographically high, thus providing a view of Jerusalem, as described in Isaiah.
So, another case of national identity theft by Arabs and their supporters.
Visit My Right Word.Yisrael Medad
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Accidents and Incidents: It’s All Human Factors
Human factors discussed during Rotor & Wing's 2010 Safety and Training Summit.
|From left to right, Jerry Allen of Baines SImmons, Bristow’s Tim Rolfe, Immanuel Barshi from NASA and Chris Baur, Rotor & Wing columnist. Photo by Andrew D. Parker|
A panel of speakers at the Rotor & Wing 2010 Safety & Training Summit on June 8 reiterated the importance of an “active safety culture” within an organization and argued that everything in aviation boils down to human factors. The Summit in Denver drew experts together from various sectors of the industry. Chris Baur, president of Hughes Aerospace Corp and a Rotor & Wing columnist, moderated the “Human Factors in Helicopter Operations” at the Summit.
“The important thing to remember about the accidents and incidents that do happen, that we can learn from, is that it really is all human factors,” said Immanuel Barshi, senior principal investigator of human-systems integration for NASA. He related a story about a good friend that died in an accident when a main rotor blade separated from a CH-53.
“It was not a pilot error, but it was still human factors. And in a sense, it’s redundant to say, because rotor blades don’t make mistakes. [When] equipment fails it not the equipment’s ‘fault,’ it’s either a human that didn’t design it right, or a human that didn’t build it right, or a human that didn’t maintain it right, or operate it right. It’s always human factors.”
Tim Rolfe, Bristow European Operations chief training captain for the Sikorsky S-92, is involved in the company’s safety management systems (SMS) program. He says that organizations must first define an acceptable risk level. “Having determined that, we really need to go ahead and identify hazards that can present themselves to us in our daily operations. … Our job is to manage risk to an acceptable level, and that’s largely done through the training side of any organization. We have to set and modify existing procedures to mitigate against the risks we have identified.”
Rolfe explains that working for Bristow, which has “an active safety culture, and a system of processes that allow pilots to identify those hazards, risk-assess those hazards and then put procedures in place—I’m totally sold on the SMS idea. It is entirely necessary to have a very active safety culture at the center of your SMS, it’s not good enough to just have the processes in place.”
Rolfe added: “You’ve got to have buy-in at all levels, from the CEO to the guy that sweeping the hangar floor. We need to educate everybody.”
Jerry Allen is managing director of Baines Simmons Americas, which conducted a series of assessments involving more than 2,000 helicopter technicians under its safety culture organizational review and evaluation (SCORE) program. “The effect of human factors programs is not necessarily the one that we hoped that it would be,” Allen explained. He pointed to figures that show 53 percent of respondents disagreed (44 percent) or strongly disagreed (9 percent) with the statement, “Before I start a job, I’m always given the necessary information.” A total of 41 percent agreed or strongly agreed, and 6 percent did not agree or disagree. When asked, “We often have to rush jobs due to unrealistic deadlines,” 84 percent agreed/strongly agreed, 8 percent disagreed and 7 percent answered neither. Other trends in the Baines Simmons numbers indicate that 81 percent agreed/strongly agreed with the statement, “We usually manage to complete a job despite the non-availability of the specified equipment/tools,” while 12 percent disagreed and 8 percent said neither.
Rolfe pointed out the contrast between how a pilot who manages to survive an emergency situation is viewed, versus one who does not. “If a pilot actually saves the day—despite the fact that he’s using poorly put together standard operating procedures, a checklist with errors in it, just faces some bad luck or finds himself in a situation where the [weather] forecast has been inaccurate—but he saves the day, how do we describe the pilot?”
The pilot “could absolutely be the hero, so there’s a dichotomy,” he said. “The pilot could be the bad guy, but the pilot could also be in control of the heroic outcome. And we need to take that into account when we address the human factors risks that are presented to us in the cockpit.”
Barshi asked attendees: How many people are 100 percent reliable, 100 percent safe, 100 percent of the time? “By definition, half of your time you are performing below your average. And if you’ve been around flying long enough, I’m sure you’ve walked away from flights where you said, ‘I should not have flown, I should not have taken that flight.’ It’s really useful to be lucky, but it’s hard to control.” For videos from the Summit, visit Rotor & Wing's Safety and Training Channel.
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Your four-door sedan lost its new-car smell, oh, about 50,000 miles ago. And yet you’re still shelling out as much for insurance as you were the day that you drove it off the lot. You might be considering saving money by dropping down to a liability-only policy. But is that a good idea?
The pros: You may be able to reduce your insurance costs by 50 percent or more—saving about $500 a year, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a standard-setting organization.
The cons: You’ll need to have a fair amount of cash stashed. Why? If your car is in an accident, a big rock falls on it, or you hit a deer, you’ll be responsible for paying for any repair work—or a replacement if the car is totaled. Bear in mind that if you have a car loan, you typically can’t carry liability-only coverage.
The bottom line: If what you currently pay for collision and comprehensive protection each year is more than 10 percent of the car’s value (go to kbb.com and average the private-party and trade-in values) and if you have reserve funds, drop your coverage to liability, advises Liz Weston, the author of The 10 Commandments of Money ($16, amazon.com). For example, if your car’s value is $5,000 and your insurance costs exceed $500, call your provider now. And put those newfound savings toward your next set of wheels.
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All About Herpes
Herpes is a very common virus that affects many people, but because of the stigma attached to genital herpes, many people are embarrassed or afraid to admit that they have it. Sadly, that can often stop them from receiving the right medical attention they need, which can help to prevent outbreaks or lessen the severity of them.
Oral herpes is the most common type of herpes infection, usually caused by the Type 1 herpes simplex virus. Commonly known as cold sores or fever blisters, most of us get exposed to oral herpes at some time in our lives, although many of us never show symptoms.
Genital herpes is usually caused by the Type 2 herpes simplex virus, and usually affects women around the vulva and vagina area, and men near the penis. Occasionally the anus and/or the buttocks can also show the presence of the blisters caused by the virus.
Catching HerpesHerpes is caught by having skin to skin contact with a person who is already infected. There are several ways of catching herpes. The two main ways are:
- Having unprotected intercourse, either vaginally or anally, with an infected person
- Having unprotected oral sex with another person – in some cases, Type 1 herpes simplex can be passed on to the genitals in this fashion
SymptomsIt is estimated that four out of five people who have genital herpes are unaware of the fact. For most people, what is known as the “primary infection" is usually the worst episode. Some people may only feel a slight soreness at this time, which they do not recognize as herpes, and it may never recur after that.
For others, the primary infection may be accompanied by a slight fever, aches and pains, followed by the appearance of one or many small blisters in the genital area. These blisters can feel very sore and it may be painful to urinate during the first few days of the episode, especially for women. The blisters eventually crust over and disappear.
Some people never get another infection after the first one. The virus does not go away but it lies dormant in the body, and it may never appear again. Other people, however, may have up to four or five episodes a year, which are much less severe than the primary episode and last for a shorter period of time.They are often brought on various triggers. They can include:
- Being run down
- Wearing too tight clothing in the genital region
- Too much sunlight or alcohol
TreatmentIf you suspect you have genital herpes, your GP can do a simple swab test to confirm the diagnosis, but only when blisters are present. You will also be advised to rest during a flare-up, take warm baths to ease the discomfort , and use anaesthetic ointment or ice packs to make yourself feel better if needed. You can also take antiviral medication when you feel that first tingle, which does unfortunately will not kill the virus, but will stop it from multiplying, so the attack will be less severe.
Women who have their first episode of genital herpes whilst in their last six weeks of pregnancy may be advised to have a Caesarean section, as passing the infection onto the baby can be very dangerous. If there is a two-month window between the time you catch the virus and give birth, usually a Caesarean would not be necessary.
If you have recurring episodes whilst pregnant, the risk to your baby is minimal. Discuss your situation with your GP just in case you have a flare-up whilst you are in labour, in which case a Caesarean may also be warranted.
PreventionIt is important to not have sex while you have blisters present as you will have a high chance of passing the virus on. Condoms cannot prevent this 100 percent, so be open with your partner. The good news is that if both of you have the same virus, you cannot reinfect each other. You can, however, still pass it on when no blisters are present, although this is less likely.
If you are on long-term anti-viral medication, you will have a smaller chance of passing on the virus. Be sure also to not share towels and face-cloths when you are having an episode, as the virus can be passed on this way as well.
Herpes is not the end of the world, although the media often makes it out to be. Many people have symptoms so mild that they do not even realise they have it. Herpes does not cause cervical cancer or infertility, and for many people, the perceived stigma is a lot worse than the actual infection.
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What is a “Greek” Christian?
There’s nothing wrong with words and ideas, but where are the Christians who are visibly doing the stuff?
Well, it may surprise you to know that God’s view of Church is not necessarily our view. The actual Greek word that is translated as “church” in the New Testament is ekklesia and it actually means “called out ones”. The Church is actually you and me, not the building in which we meet. This idea of “church-as-building” originated in the 4th Century when Christianity became the State Religion of the Roman Empire and the emperor needed a way to control the people.
So they constructed these buildings, based on a proven model used for civic assemblies, called them “churches” and proclaimed that you can only be saved inside these buildings, you had to regularly attend meetings inside these buildings if you wanted to be a Christian. It was all about control and the common person knew no better as they couldn’t read, no-one had a Bible and, even if they could read, the Scriptures weren’t in a language that anyone could understand anyway (they were in Latin, the language of the clergy)!
Today it is different in that we can read our Bibles, yet many of us don’t realise that “being Church” is nothing to do with what we do inside those buildings any more, whether they are of the ancient crumbling variety, or sports halls, or people’s homes. We are the Church. Remember this, it is important.
Let me repeat what I said earlier, when we looked at those characters who lived through Bible times. God tends to overlook the big shots.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. (1 Corinthians 1:27)
I believe that God is preparing an army of Cinderellas, not the dread army of champions led by “God’s Generals”, or Joel’s triumphant army of righteous locusts (as some believe themselves to be), but the scattered remnant of broken, redeemed and selfless people that God is able to use for His purposes because they haven’t requisitioned Him for their purposes. There is only room for one Kingdom in the economy of God.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. (Matthew 23:12)
If you conduct a straw poll in the streets to find who are considered the most visible Christians in our society, you would draw a blank and will be fobbed off with the Archbishops and Bishops of the land, none of whom they could personally name. A generation or two ago there were richer pickings with the likes of C.S. Lewis and Malcolm Muggeridge, but today … who knows? What does this tell us? It tells us that we are certainly not living in a Christian society, however you may define it. People can reel off names of scientists, politicians, actors, writers … even celebrity cooks. But Christians? No idea.
If you conducted the same poll with Christians you would probably be furnished with a list of popular writers, speakers, worship leaders and songwriters. There is a theme here, have you noticed it? Christians who are prominent these days in our Christian subculture are those who have become well-known for what they say … not necessarily what they do. It’s all about words, ideas, thoughts, theology, doctrine … even political opinions, social commentary, theological debate.
It’s all just …. so Greek!
There’s nothing wrong with words and ideas, but where are the Christians who are visibly doing the stuff? The reason why non-Christians are not able to name any of us is because mostly what we are known for these days is for what we say (usually moaning about something, or being negative), not what we do. And the World has enough opinionated people talking for a living, we are bombarded daily with this stuff.
For the previous article in this series, click here.
For the next article in this series, click here.
To find out about MY NEW BOOK, "Hope", click here.
You can reach Steve with any comments or questions at the Saltshakers Web Community website.
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Offline Wikipedia reader
Instructions can be found here: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
Initial indexing should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not powerful enough
This project provides software to store the entirety of Wikipedia (any language) locally on a Linux device.
All Wikipedia pages are downloaded from the Wikipedia page dump.
For more info visit the official website: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB device. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages
At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run (takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop)
In the future the software will be released as an ipk, with an automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, and a diff utility to allow it to be updated.
Read entirety of Wikipedia offline
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It’s finally getting warm enough where I live that everybody is outside, walking, running, biking and skating.
It turns out each one of them could also be a human power plant, fueling devices with their own sweat.
Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science and three other Japanese universities have developed an array of biofuel cells that’s powered by lactate, a chemical found in our perspiration.
The idea is that the array could power wearable health sensors that would be too thin and flexible for traditional batteries to be useful.
The system could also power small communication devices that could send the health data it measures back to a larger device, like a cell phone or a smartwatch.
Sometimes genius really is, like the old saying, 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Lots of people are working on how we might enable cars to drive themselves, but here’s a project that adds another feature to the world of autonomous vehicles.
The Airo is a self-driving concept car that is not only all-electric, it has a built in filter to clean the air it drives through.
No Batteries? No Sweat! Wearable Biofuel Cells Now Produce Electricity from Lactate (Tokyo University of Science)
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