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Considering the excellent performance of its students at various national and international competitions and examinations, which has placed Nigeria in global pedestal, the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges (NTIC) has demonstrated that institutions should not only be assessed based on their position in global rankings, but by students’ performance. Uchechukwu Nnaike reports
There are no better criteria for measuring academic excellence of an institution of learning order than the academic achievements of its students. Academic excellence is not an accidental occurrence, but a result of hard-work supported by the right kind of investment in educational infrastructure.
The Nigerian Turkish International Colleges (NTIC) has distinguished itself as a centre for academic excellence following the achievement of its students over the years, even on global stage.
NTIC, one of the investments of First Surat Group, a company whose main investment is in the area of education, health and social works, whose objective is geared towards building human resources and raising responsible individuals that are equipped with necessary skills and knowledge of the contemporary world, has been operating in parts of Nigeria for some years.
First Surat Group brought its investments from Turkey which financed the schools popularly known as Nigerian Turkish International Colleges, which currently has a total of 16 educational institutions in Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Kaduna, Yobe and Ogun States with staff strength of over 1,000 academic and non-academic personnel.
Today, NTIC has a total of 4,025 students, 17 per cent of who are on scholarship. The academic conglomerate is science-oriented with focus on building knowledge based on core moral values, which the modern society is in dire need of.
In pursuant of its goal, the staff of the institution have, through dint of hard-work, raised and are still raising exceptional students like Master Ebubechi Ezenwanne, a young talented student of NTIC Abuja that got the perfect score of 800 both in Mathematics and Physics in SAT II. SAT II was formerly known as the College Board Achievement Tests. The test is intended to measure a student’s knowledge of a particular subject. Its tests score present a more personalised portfolio that illustrates how well you would fit at a particular school. Most colleges use SAT II scores for admission purposes, programme placement and counseling. Generally, SAT II tests are one hour long and consist of multiple choice questions.
According to the testimonies of his teachers, Ezenwanne is a young talented student who has demonstrated an uncommon quintessence of academic excellence. They said his penchant for achievement distinguished him from his contemporaries. He was also described as generally humble, focused and ever willing to embrace new ideas.
One of his tutors said: “As a matter of fact, he has shown a high sense of responsibility both in learning and character. This qualities, paid off, when Ezenwanne held the world spellbound with his unprecedented score in SAT II. The SAT is one indicator of how ready a student is to handle college-level work. The test measures what one learnt in high school and how well one can apply that knowledge.”
Like Ezenwanne, in November 2015, three students of NTIC made a clean sweep of the medal in the first round Olympiads organised by the National Mathematics Centre (NMC). Yusuf Atolagbe won gold medal in mathematics senior category; Sadiq Sani Dambata, gold medal in Physics; and Onyiuke Akachukwu Matthew, gold medal in mathematics junior category.
The NMC is an academic institution of repute. It is a sister body to The International Science Olympiads which are a group of worldwide annual competitions in various areas of science. The competitions are designed for the 4-6 best high school students from each participating country selected through internal National Science Olympiads.
Another student of the college is Atiku Bugaje, who traveled to far away Georgia, Tbilisi last month to compete alongside other students from 30 different countries. The challenge was the International Young Inventors Olympiads (IYIPO), organized in Tbilisi. It is a scientific project Olympiad where students all around the world compete with each other.
More than 30 countries with 150 projects participated in this year’s edition. IYIPO is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, and also sponsored by the European Union Representative in Georgia, International Black Sea University (IBSU), Georgian Patent Office, and the State of Georgian 1 Channel.
It was another glory for Chilolum Nwigwe Christopher, a student of NTIC Abuja, who participated and won a bronze medal at the Pan African Mathematical Olympiad in Senegal, Dakar last month.
Explaining the secret behind the successes, the spokesperson for the First Surat Group, Mr. Cemal Yigit, said: “Success is a tradition here at NTIC; we are well known for our educational excellence and working very hard to stay on top. This testimony has followed the school over the years and it is not just an accident, but as a result of deliberate efforts put together by both the staff and management of the school, with the cooperation of the students.”
Little wonder, the school was named the Top School in Science and Maths by the NMC. The CEO of NMC, Prof. Adewale Solarin with the minister of state for education adjudged the school as the best school of 2013 and 2014 in Science and Maths.
On November 14, 2015, Dambata shared the stage with notable personalities like former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, Charles Oputa (popularly known as Charly Boy), Kiki, among others to discuss in a TED Talk program titled TEDx Jabi at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja. The event attracted notable speakers from all walks of life. TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and cultures, especially those who seek a deeper understanding of the world. It believes in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. Talking on the theme ‘Determination, Drive and Discipline’, Dambata made the institution proud.
NTIC has proven at home and abroad to be an institution with a drive for academic excellence, this is evident in the achievements of its students participating in any academic competition like the Cowbell National Mathematics Competition in Nigeria, among others. The recent one is Yusuf Abdulmueez from NTIC Abuja, who became the top student in 2015 Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition as the tradition goes on for NTIC.
In April 2015, students of NTIC took part in an international project competition in Kazakhstan, the Infomatrix Asia-Pacific, organised by the Education and Commission for Science and Technology of Kazakhstan. The competition had participants not only from Asia-Pacific, but also from all over the world. A total of 315 students from 22 countries participated in the science and innovation project competition, with 183 scientific and technological projects. Nigeria was represented by NTIC students who competed in the hardware control category and returned home with a silver medal.
The excellent performance of the academic conglomerate has proven to the rest of the world that Nigerians can be leaders in education delivery with the right environment and opportunity.
Published on This Day, 18 May 2016, Wednesday
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The rapid development of molecular biology in recent years has been mirrored by the rapid development of computer hardware and software. This has resulted in the development of sophisticated computational techniques and a wide range of computer simulations involving such methods. Among the areas where progress has been profound is in the modeling of DNA structure and function, the understanding at a molecular level of the role of solvents in biological phenomena, the calculation of the properties of molecular associations in aqueous solutions, computationally assisted drug design, the prediction of protein structure, and protein - DNA recognition, to mention just a few examples. This volume comprises a balanced blend of contributions covering such topics. They reveal the details of computational approaches designed for biomoleucles and provide extensive illustrations of current applications of modern techniques.
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Quick Answer: How To Treat Adverse Psychological Effects Of Steroids?
- 1 How do you overcome the side effects of steroids?
- 2 Do the negative side effects of steroids go away?
- 3 Can you reverse effects of steroids?
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- 13 Can steroid psychosis permanent?
- 14 Can steroids cause mental problems?
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Reduce your risk of corticosteroid side effects
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Most are reversible if the user stops taking the drugs. However, others may be permanent or semi-permanent. Most data on the long-term effects of anabolic steroids in humans come from case reports rather than formal epidemiological studies.
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Steroid-induced psychosis has been successfully treated with typical antipsychotics3 or risperidone. In this case, combined therapy with valproic acid and risper-idone was effective. Considering the risk of lupus nephritis, treatment with valproic acid as a mood stabilizer was more reasonable than that with lithium.
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Is 10mg prednisone a lot?
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Can steroids cause mental problems?
Anabolic steroid users are more likely than nonusers to report anxiety. Moderate to high doses of anabolic steroids are also associated with major mood disorders such as mania, hypomania,87 and major depression.
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Anabolic Steroids Affect the Brain Parts of the brain that influence your moods and are involved in learning and memory are called the limbic system. Anabolic steroids act in the limbic system. In animals, they have been shown to impair learning and memory.
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The English cover of Brisingr, featuring the golden dragon Glaedr
|Illustrator||John Jude Palencar|
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|Genre||Young adult literature, high fantasy|
|Publisher||Alfred A. Knopf|
|September 20, 2008|
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Brisingr is the third novel in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. It was released on September 20, 2008. Originally, Paolini intended to conclude the then Inheritance Trilogy in three books, but during writing the third book he decided that the series was too complex to conclude in one book, the reason being is that the single book would be close to 1,500 pages long. A deluxe edition of Brisingr, which includes removed scenes and previously unseen art, was released on October 13, 2009.
Brisingr focuses on the story of Eragon and his dragon Saphira as they continue their quest to overthrow the corrupt ruler of the Empire, Galbatorix. Eragon is one of the last remaining Dragon Riders, a group that governed the fictional nation of Alagaësia, where the series takes place. Brisingr begins almost immediately after the preceding novel Eldest concludes.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, the book sold 550,000 copies on its first day of sale, a record for a Random House children's book. The novel debuted at number one on USA Today's top 150 bestsellers list. Reviewers criticized the book for its length, while commenting on Paolini's growing maturity in his treatment of characters.
Setting and characters
Brisingr begins about three days after the events in Eldest conclude. It continues the story of the Inheritance Cycle and takes place on the fictional continent of Alagaësia during a struggle for power as the small country Surda and a rebel group called the Varden attempts to overthrow the larger Empire. They are supported mainly by elves, dwarves, and Urgals, but the Empire is populated with large numbers of humans, who far outnumber Surda and its allies. The Inheritance Cycle focuses on the story of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon Saphira. Eragon is one of the few remaining Dragon Riders, a group that governed Alagaësia in past times but were almost destroyed by a Rider named Galbatorix, who took control of the land. Galbatorix's greatest fear is that a new Rider will rise up and usurp his position as king of the Empire, so when he finds out about Eragon and his dragon, he sends his servants after them in an effort to capture them. Eragon and Saphira are forced to flee from their home, and decide to join the Varden.
Brisingr is told in third-person from the perspectives of multiple primary protagonists. These characters include the humans Eragon, Roran, and Nasuada, and the dragons Saphira and Glaedr. The humans Galbatorix and Murtagh return as antagonists, along with Murtagh's dragon, Thorn. The Ra'zac return for a minor antagonist role, and Varaug, a Shade, also appears for a main antagonist role. Many minor characters reprise their roles in Brisingr from previous installments of the Inheritance Cycle, including the elves Arya, Islanzadí, and Oromis; the dwarf Orik; the humans Angela, Katrina and Elva; and the dragon Glaedr.
Brisingr begins as Eragon, Saphira, and Roran travel to Helgrind, the home of the Ra'zac, the creatures that had killed Eragon's uncle, Garrow. There they rescue Roran's betrothed, Katrina, who was being held prisoner, and kill one of the Ra'zac. Saphira, Roran, and Katrina return to the Varden, while Eragon stays behind to kill the remaining Ra'zac and dole out a suitable punishment to Sloan, Katrina's father who was imprisoned in Helgrind. (Eragon was reluctant to kill him). While he is fighting the remaining Ra'zac, it mentions that Galbatorix has discovered the name of all names. Eragon doesn't understand, and ignores the Ra'zac after it pleads for mercy, and kills him. After consulting the elven Queen Islazadi, they come to an agreement on how to punish Sloan. Sloan is condemned to never meet his daughter again. Eragon arranges affairs so that Sloan will regain eyesight in the future, should he repent for his crimes. As Eragon travels back to the Varden, he confronts a hermit in the name Of Tenga(He is later revealed to be a teacher of the herbalist, Angela). Arya the elf had come in order to protect Eragon, as he traveled through the Empire. They have a conflict with a group of Soldiers, meet some spirits as they travel to the Varden. Arya reveals about her association with Faolin and crafts a boat made of grass,whilst Eragon sings a flower for her. Once they return to the Varden, Eragon discovers that Katrina is pregnant with Roran's child and a wedding is arranged, which Eragon is to conduct. Just before it begins, a small force of enchanted troops attack alongside Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. The enchanted soldiers had spells cast by Galbatorix that couldn't allow them to feel pain. King Orrin, King of Surda, discovers a method to kill the soldiers, behead them. Elven spell-casters aid Eragon and Saphira and cause Murtagh and Thorn to flee back to the Empire, winning the battle. After the fight, Roran marries Katrina. The leader of the Varden, Nasuada, then orders Eragon to attend the election of the new dwarf king in the Beor Mountains. He leaves with much reluctance as Nasuada forced Saphira to remain in the Varden, in order to protect the Varden from Murtagh and Thorn. Eragon travels with Nar Garzhvog, Leader of the Urgals to Bergan Hold, ancestral home of the Durmigst Ingentium. They see a Shrrg,Nagra and an enormous bear, which Eragon regarded as a threat even for Saphira,on the way. After staying for a brief period in Bergan Hold, where he is shown the forest of stone, Eragon heads to Farthen Dur where the new dwarf king is to be elected. Once among the dwarves in Farthen Dur, Eragon is the target of a failed assassination, found to be the work of the dwarf clan Az Sweldn rak Anhûin, whom the dwarf Orik then forces into exile. Having earned the sympathies of the dwarves, Orik is elected the new king. Saphira arrives to Farthen Dur for Orik's coronation and reconstructs Isidar Mithrim, the star rose which was destroyed in the battle of Farthen Dur.
After Orik's coronation, Eragon and Saphira return to the elven capital Ellesméra to train. There, Saphira revealed from a memory that Eragon's deceased mentor, Brom, is Eragon's father; which Brom asked her to show him when the time was right. Oromis and Glaedr too justify Saphira's revelation. Glaedr also reveals the source of Galbatorix's power: Eldunari, or heart of hearts. An Eldunarí allows the holder to communicate with or draw energy from the dragon it belongs to, even if the dragon is deceased, or a great distance away. Galbatorix spent years collecting Eldunari, and forcing the deceased dragons to channel their energy to him through their Eldunari. Saphira is delighted to learn of the existence of the dragons, although imprisoned by Galbatorix's dark magics. After training, Eragon visits Rhunön, the elven blacksmith who forges swords for Riders. But Rhunön wouldn't create a weapon for him because long ago she swore an oath never to create a weapon again after the Fall of the Riders. Also her stocks of the metal, required to forge rider's swords was completely exhausted. But by deciphering the werecat Solembum's instructions Eragon is able to acquire the metal he requires, from under the roots of the Menoa Tree. After Eragon's repeated requests, Rhunön creates a weapon by controlling Eragon's body. Eragon gives a name to the sword,"Brisingr." As Eragon's body itself forged the sword, a special bond between the sword and Eragon had been created, thus making the sword burst into flames whenever Eragon utters Brisingr, even when he does not intend to use magic. Oromis suspects that "Brisingr" is part of the sword's true name. Before Eragon and Saphira depart for the Varden, Oromis says that the time has come for him and Glaedr to openly oppose the Empire in combat alongside the Queen of the Elves, Islanzadí. Thus, Glaedr gives his own Eldunari to Eragon. If anything should happen to Glaedr, Eragon would still be able to get advice from him. Then Glaedr and Oromis fly to Gil'ead, while Eragon and Saphira fly to Feinster, the city that the Varden are laying siege to.
Meanwhile, Roran is sent on various missions as part of the military force of the Varden. One of the targets is a convoy of supply wagons guarded by enchanted soldiers that can't feel pain. The unit suffers extreme casualties, and the commander Martland Redbeard is replaced after losing his hand. During a mission to attack a large enemy force raiding a village, plans made by the new commander, Captain Edric almost cause the operation to fail, but Roran gives new orders and kills one hundred and ninety-three enemy soldiers by himself, leading the Varden to victory. Despite saving the mission, Roran is charged with insubordination and is flogged as a punishment. After the public whipping, Nasuada promotes Roran to commander and sends his unit on a mission. He leaves in command of a group of both men and Urgals to enforce the idea of men and Urgals working together. When an Urgal, Yarbog, challenges Roran for leadership of the unit, he wrestles the Urgal and forces him to submit. After returning to the Varden, his squad joins the siege of Feinster, a city in the Empire. As the siege begins, Eragon rescues the elf Arya and departs to find the leader of the city, but discovers that three magicians are attempting to create a Shade. While racing to kill the magicians, Eragon has a vision through Glaedr's Eldunarí showing Oromis and Murtagh fighting. Murtagh is using power of several Eldunari, and Glaedr and Thorn fight in the sky. Soon Glaedr is badly wounded. In the midst of the fighting, Galbatorix possesses Murtagh and tries to lure Oromis to his side: when he fails, and after Oromis suffers a seizure, Galbatorix uses Murtagh to kill him and Glaedr is killed shortly after. After the vision, the magicians have managed to create the Shade Varaug. Eragon and Arya fight desperately to slay Varaug. Eragon then distracts Varaug by battling him through the mind. Arya then stabs Varaug in the heart. After the successful siege, Nasuada tells Eragon the Varden's plans for invading the Empire. Arya and Eragon are now both known as Shadeslayers.
The first two books in the Inheritance Cycle, Eragon and Eldest, sold over 15 million copies worldwide together. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books and the publisher of the books, prepared Brisingr's release by printing 2.5 million copies in advance, Random House's biggest initial print run of a children's book. Paolini said he tried not to let the expectations surrounding Brisingr affect him, stating that "As an author, I found that I can't really allow myself to think about those things. I actually fell into that trap with the first part of Brisingr. I sat there and I started obsessing about every single word." He turned away from his computer and began writing on parchment paper instead. The pages were rewritten on a computer document afterwards by his mother.
Unlike Eragon, Brisingr features multiple points of view. Parts of the book are written in Saphira's perspective for the first time in the series. Paolini based the dragon's behavior and attitude on the pets and animals he grew up around, particularly his pet cats: "I thought a dragon would be like a cat in some ways, that same sort of self-satisfied attitude." He added that it was challenging to depict scenes from the standpoint of a dragon, but he enjoyed doing it because Saphira "has so many interesting thoughts and opinions."
The Ancient Language used by the elves in the Inheritance Cycle is partly based on Old Norse. The word brisingr is an ancient Old Norse word meaning "fire", which Paolini found while reading through a dictionary of word origins. Paolini said he "loved it so much, he decided to base the rest of [the Ancient Language] on Old Norse. To find more words, I went online and dug up dictionaries and guides to the language. I invented more words based on what I learned and then formed a system of grammar and a pronunciation guide to fit my world. Developing this has probably been the most difficult part of writing the books." The languages used by the dwarves and Urgals in the book were created from scratch by Paolini.
When asked by Sci Fi Wire what kind of challenges he faced while writing the book, Paolini said it was trying to avoid any references to modern items or actions. Brisingr takes place long before the industrial revolution, which Paolini said "limits not only the things my characters use and do, but it also informs their worldview. This constraint extends to more recent words and phrases as well. For example, in Brisingr, I was going to use the description short-order. When I researched its origins, however, I discovered that it was coined to describe modern cooking: a short-order cook."
Split and editing
According to its author, Brisingr features a complex story with "weighty moral dilemmas" and "a sheer number of events that gives it a rich narrative." Halfway through the writing of the book, Paolini realized the story was so complex that it was going to end up being 2,000 pages. He decided to split it into two books, and thus the Inheritance Trilogy became the Inheritance Cycle. Paolini revealed this decision in an October 2007 press release, and stated that his development as a writer since Eragon is what caused the book to become so complex.
The decision to bring in and then kill a Shade at the end of the book was made when Paolini realized he needed a new ending for the book after it was split up. He was in need of plot points that were strong enough to keep the reader interested through the ending of the book. The point of view of Glaedr and Oromis' confrontation with Thorn and Murtagh was combined with the Shade battle to further keep the reader interested.
The first draft of the book was finished in April 2008. In a newsletter sent out that month, Paolini said he was busy "chewing [his] way through the editing, which has been a surprisingly enjoyable experience this time around." The hardest part of editing was having to excise material that he spent days and weeks working on. "However, as most any writer will tell you, just because you spent ten days slaving over a certain scene is no reason to keep it in the final manuscript. The only question that matters is whether the scene contributes to the book as a whole," he said. Michelle Frey, executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf who worked with Paolini on Eragon and Eldest, assisted Paolini as the editor of Brisingr.
Title, cover, and audio book
Paolini said "Brisingr" was one of the first words he thought of for the book's title, as it was the first Ancient Language word that Eragon learned in the series, and it holds a particular significance for him. Unlike the first two books in the series, Brisingr has a subtitle: The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular. Paolini revealed it in a newsletter at his official website, in which he said that it was added "because I felt it suited the story, and also because, in a way, I still view Brisingr and Book Four as two halves of the same volume; the subtitle is merely the name of the first of these two sections."
John Jude Palencar illustrated the English cover featuring the golden dragon Glaedr. The content of the cover was one of the few things initially confirmed by Paolini before he wrote the book. He had originally planned for it to feature a green dragon, but later indicated that this was affected by the expansion of the series to a four-book cycle. Paolini liked the cover because it reflects that Brisingr is the longest and "most intense entry in the series so far." The Japanese translation of Brisingr was so large that the publisher split it into two volumes. Since the Japanese did not want the same cover on two volumes, they commissioned Palencar to paint one of the Lethrblaka for the second volume. The Lethrblaka are the Ra'zac's steeds and parents. Paolini made drawings based on the book for the deluxe edition of Brisingr, including one with Eragon's arm and hand holding the sword he receives in the book. The sword, named Brisingr, has flames around its blade.
Gerard Doyle provided the voice for the English audio book of Brisingr. In order to help Doyle with this, Paolini recorded the pronunciation of every invented name and word in Brisingr from a list over nine pages long. It was tricky even for Paolini to do this because he cannot "roll [his] r's" properly. Doyle said he prepared for narrating Brisingr by going "largely by physical description. If there are specific details about the voices, I latch onto those as best I can. But if a creature’s anatomical features are described, I try to imagine, for example, how the jaw might work...and then try and adapt that and attach it to something that sounds okay to the ear and is still slightly stranger than normal."
Promotion and release
In March 2008, a spoiler about the book was released on the Inheritance Cycle's official website, stating that "In Brisingr, Eragon will meet a god." In May 2008, Paolini posted a video message on his website stating that in the book, Eragon will meet "a new, rather terrifying enemy" that "likes to laugh, but not in a good way." A third and final spoiler was released by Paolini in July 2008, stating that one of the characters will become pregnant in the book. Excerpts from Brisingr were released both on the official Inheritance Cycle website and on MSNBC, which held an interview with Paolini the day before the release of the book. Paolini toured across ten cities in the North America to promote the book; his first visit was to New York City on September 19, 2008, and his last was to Bozeman on November 22, 2008.
Brisingr was released in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom on September 20, 2008, though it was originally supposed to be released on September 23, 2008. Nancy Hinkel, publishing director of Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, said the company received "an outpouring of requests from booksellers hoping to host midnight launch parties. We have responded to their enthusiasm by advancing the date, and we know fans will welcome the opportunity to celebrate the publication together." More than 2,500 midnight party events were held in the United States for the September 20 release. A deluxe edition of Brisingr was released on October 13, 2009, including deleted scenes, foldout posters, never-before-seen art by the author, and a guide to dwarf runes.
Brisingr sold 550,000 copies in North America on its first day of an initial print run of 2.5 million copies. Both the initial print run and first-day sales were the largest ever for the Random House Children's Book division. Brisingr sold 45,000 copies on its first day in the United Kingdom and was the fastest-selling children's book in the country in 2008. In Australia, the book sold 141,000 copies in 2008, making it one of the country's top ten best-selling books of the year. Brisingr debuted at number one on USA Today's top 150 bestsellers list. It stayed on the list for 25 consecutive weeks until March 3, 2009.
Brisingr received mixed to positive reviews, with critical reviewers commenting on the book's length and Paolini's growing maturity in his treatment of characters. David Durham of the Washington Post gave the novel a moderately negative review, praising Paolini for his streamlined prose, but said the novel loses focus in the middle. He added, though, that Brisingr "reconnects with the core elements that animate Eragon's tale" toward the end of the book, and Paolini shows growing maturity during some "quiet" moments in Brisingr, although Durham noted these parts could bore younger readers. Durham also found that Paolini's new characters are original, and that Paolini added depth to some characters from the previous novels in the Inheritance Cycle. In contrast, Sheena McFarland of The Salt Lake Tribune said that Paolini "hasn't learned how to create characters that readers can relate to," although she praised him for strong female characters in Brisingr such as Arya and Nasuada. McFarland calls the last fifty pages "riveting", but says they are a "paltry reward for trudging through the 700 preceding pages."
Publishers Weekly gave Brisingr a negative review, criticizing the novel for relying on "classic fantasy tropes", and noting that Brisingr might appeal to younger readers, but older readers might be unimpressed. Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) reviewer Kathleen Beck criticized the length of the book, accusing Paolini of "plainly [enjoying] wandering around in his fantasy world" and urging him to provide a cleaner finish to the series. She further criticized the content of the book, asserting that "there is a lot of action in [Brisingr] but paradoxically not much forward motion." Haley Keeley of The Buffalo News, however, commented that with alternating points of views every few chapters, Paolini "manages to convey the complexity of the situation while offering refreshing new perspectives." Children's Literature writer Jamie Hain gave the book a positive review, praising the action scenes, as well as the appeal to both male and female readers. She asserts that it is a "long read", but it is "worth it for those who reach the end."
- Roback, Diane (September 23, 2008). "'Brisingr' Breaks Random House Children's Record". Publisher Weekly. Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Macauley, Mike (May 29, 2009). "May 2009 Monthly Q&A with Christopher Paolini". Shurtugal.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Waterstone's tips Brisingr as this Christmas's Harry Potter". The Daily Telegraph. London. September 18, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Marcus, Caroline (September 21, 2008). "Brisingr has dragon saga fans elated". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Holt, Karen (September 2008). "From home-schooled teen to hit author, Paolini takes wing with dragon series". BookPage. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Brown, Matthew (September 22, 2008). "Christopher Paolini: Family, Montana landscape shape author". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. Archived from the original on November 3, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Goodnow, Cecelia (October 7, 2008). "Christopher Paolini's 'Brisingr' keeps fans fired up". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[dead link]
- "Shur'tugal's Exclusive Interview with Christopher Paolini". Shurtugal.com. June 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Joseph Adams, John (October 2, 2008). "Q&A: Brisingr Fires Up Paolini". Sci Fi Wire. Sci Fi Channel. Archived from the original on October 2, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Wadley, Carma (September 21, 2008). "Fans line up for new Paolini book, 'Brisingr'". Deseret News. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Paolini, Christopher. "News about the Inheritance Trilogy". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Rosenberg, Alan (November 25, 2008). "Audio Reviews: 'Eragon' author's new 'Brisingr'". The Providence Journal. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Series Will Be Expanded To Include A Fourth Full-Length Novel (PDF)" (PDF). Random House Children's Books. October 30, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Macauley, Mike (October 2008). "First Post-Brisingr Interview with Christopher Paolini". Shurtugal.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Paolini, Christopher (April 2008). "Alagaësia News". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Brisingr press release (PDF)" (PDF). Random House Children's Books. January 16, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Midnight Release for Paolini". San Francisco Chronicle. January 16, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[dead link]
- "Third book in 'Inheritance' series to get midnight release". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 22, 2008. p. C7.
- Paolini, Christopher (June 2008). "Alagaësia News". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Macauley, Mike (May 19, 2004). "Highlights from the CP Phone Chat". Shurtugal.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Paolini, Christopher (December 2007). "Alagaësia News". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Paolini, Christopher (September 2008). "Alagaësia News". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Narrator Profile - Gerard Doyle". AudioFile. 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Book calendar". Los Angeles Times. October 12, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "BRISINGR Spoiler released!". Alagaesia.com. March 18, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Brisingr Spoiler released!". Alagaesia.com. May 12, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Third and final Brisingr spoiler released!". Alagaesia.com. June 14, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Fricaya - Excerpt". Alagaesia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Excerpt: Fantasy novel 'Brisingr'". MSNBC. September 19, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Brisingr Tour Announced!". Alagaesia.com. August 5, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Book Notes". Richmond Times-Dispatch. April 6, 2008. p. H3.
- Italie, Hillel (July 10, 2008). "Vampires at midnight! Parties for last 'Twilight'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[dead link]
- Rosen, Judith (July 14, 2008). "'Breaking Dawn' and 'Brisingr' in a Post-Harry World". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on December 9, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Minzesheimer, Bob (August 19, 2008). "For kids, magical reading takes wing this fall". USA Today. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Memmott, Carol (September 17, 2008). "Midnight hour will usher in Paolini's latest". USA Today. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Brisingr Deluxe Edition". Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin". The New York Times. September 24, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Christopher Paolini's Brisingr sets record". Toronto Star. September 24, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "A never-ending story". Mint. October 18, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Adams, Stephen (September 23, 2008). "Harry Potter rival Brisingr is fastest selling children's book of the year". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Flood, Alison (September 23, 2008). "Books: Fantasy novel Brisingr is children's new favourite". The Guardian. London. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Steger, Jason (January 3, 2009). "Clinching it with the occult, cricket cooking and crime". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Wyndham, Susan (January 3, 2009). "Rowling still near the top of the pole". Brisbane Times. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "Brisingr search on Best-Selling Books Database". USA Today. July 29, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Anthony Durham, David (September 25, 2008). "For Fantasy Fans, the Dragons Fly Again". The Washington Post. p. C13. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- McFarland, Sheena (October 4, 2008). "'Brisingr' bores with its meandering". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- "PW's Review of Brinsingr". Publishers Weekly. September 22, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[dead link]
- Beck, Kathleen; Hain, Jamie. "Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle #3) - Editorial Reviews". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- Keeley, Haley (September 24, 2008). "'Brisingr' continues the Eragon saga". The Buffalo News. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[dead link]
- Alagaesia.com, the official Inheritance Cycle website
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Stanley Park is a model representing harmony between nature and people, inspiring and empowering communities to make choices that sustain healthy ecosystems.
Stanley Park Ecology Society promotes awareness of and respect for the natural world and plays a leadership role in the stewardship of Stanley Park through collaborative initiatives in education, research and conservation.
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With news that the USA is ‘forging ahead with a plans to boost oil and gas exports’, the country is set to become the world’s biggest oil producer this year.
The sudden jump in production has been largely driven by the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, whereby pressured liquids are used to extract oil and gas from shale rocks.
While there has been a large amount of media attention devoted to this industrial shift, there is a critical part of the story that is often overlooked.
A successful rise in any oil and gas output also requires investment in complex infrastructure to deliver, especially when it comes to the communications systems required to manage complex processes.
Harsh environments, long distances
Organisations that extract, process or transport oil and gas tend to work in some of the most unforgiving and inaccessible places on the planet. Whether oil rigs miles from shore in stormy seas, or extraction plants in desert conditions, the oil and gas sector puts humans and technology up against the worst the planet has to offer in terms of climate and environment. This not only makes reliable, audible communications paramount, both for day to day operations, and as a strict matter of personal safety; it can also have a dramatic impact on the effectiveness of communications hardware. Putting equipment under extremes of temperature or increasing the likelihood of dust or water infiltrating hardware can decrease its functionality and lifespan.
Indeed, health and safety is a particular challenge in the oil and gas sector. Intrinsically safe or ATEX approved devices are essential, for example, in areas where flammable products are in operation.
It is also important to consider the huge distances covered by the average organisation in this sector. The same oil company might extract and process its oil at sites hundreds of miles from each other, and getting the refined product to industries and consumers means creating pipelines that stretch for thousands of miles. Cellular coverage might be intermittent across these distances, while installing wired networks is cost-prohibitive.
The smart grid era
In spite of those distances it is increasingly important for organisations in the oil and gas industry to have clear visibility and control over their entire infrastructure simultaneously. This is part of the gradual evolution to smart grid environments, whereby organisations generate two-way communications across their grids between themselves, their suppliers and customers. For oil and gas companies this means being able to collect data from across pipelines, identify problems, such as leaks, and react quickly. It might even extend to the control of critical elements, such as flow rate, if data can be effectively managed between disparate sites and centralised offices. For this to happen it’s essential an organisation has a robust communications infrastructure that can handle data as well as voice.
The Simoco Wireless Solutions approach
Simoco Wireless Solutions has widespread specialist experience in the oil and gas sector, creating secure unified communications networks that cover thousands of miles. By collecting real-time information through resilient network we help organisations to optimise their processes and improve the useful lifespan of their physical assets – something which is especially important in an industry where essential equipment comes at a premium.
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Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ) through its cargo arm KQ Cargo, has invested in an ultra-modern pharma facility located at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), to meet the demand for pharmaceutical products globally and support the need of maintaining the product integrity throughout the supply chain.
KQ Pharma facility aims to bring Africa together, to have an ecosystem of partners that go beyond freight capabilities but also ensures a sustainable impactful approach to reducing the disease burden in Africa. Aim is to work with partners to build skillsets for the future by enabling stakeholder partnership and engagements with researchers, scientists, communities and governments.
According to Dick Murianki, KQ Cargo Director KQ Cargo, the immediate focus is to help with the logistics of the Covid19 vaccine and in the long term, KQ aims to use the ultra-modern pharma facility to help in reducing the disease burden in Africa by looking at its routes network and finding ways to create access to treatment options in Africa.
“KQ Cargo has been laying the groundwork and working closely with pharmaceutical and medical customers to be ready to safely and effectively support their vaccines transportation needs to move efficiently once the vaccine is approved by the regulators” says Mr, Murianki
“The investment in the ultra-modern pharma facility, though coinciding with Covid-19 pandemic, is to further meet the demand of pharmaceutical products globally in preparation for the humongous task of transporting medicines, vaccines, blood samples and temperature-sensitive cargo by having an end-to-end cold chain logistics solutions” he adds.
Since the lockdown in March 2020, Kenya Airways and its cargo arm KQ Cargo, have worked relentlessly to uplift and transport vital goods and medical supplies, uplifting over 6,000 tonnes of much-needed medical equipment to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya has been a distribution and logistics hub in Africa and has been rated as the second fastest growing airport in the world for cargo by ACI in 2019.
KQ has tied up with global leaders in cold chain solutions to offer active and passive packaging with dedicated equipment to perform seamless cold chain operations. The airline has the capability to transport extremely sensitive drugs and vaccines in controlled temperatures ranging from -40c to +25c.
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Vermont allows legally registered ATVs & snowmobiles to operate in the state of Vermont with a valid out-of-state registration.
- If operating on private land, you must carry written permission from the landowner.
- If operating on Vermont ATV Sportsman's Association (VASA) or Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) trails, you must obtain permits, see information on obtaining permits on the VASA or VAST websites.
Vermont Residents wishing to operate outside of Vermont
Contact the other State or Province to see if they are reciprocal and determine if additional permits are required for out of state residents.
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First, make sure you zero out the Digital Electronic Scales properly. A digital scale will have some means of zeroing it out, whether it's an action like stepping on and off, or a button you can press to reset it. Refer to the instructions on the scale, or if you don't have the instructions, look for them online. You can usually find some instructions if you can Google search the model number of the scale, and possibly even a PDF of the original instruction booklet.
For mechanical scales, there may be something simple like a dial you can turn to make sure it reads zero before you step on it. For other scales, you may need to open it up and turn something internally to make the same adjustment. Be careful if you do this; the last thing you want to do is break your scale.
Incidentally, you want to calibrate or zero out your scale every time you use it. With proper calibration, home scales can be perfectly accurate for weight monitoring purposes. If you move the scale, though, it needs to be recalibrated. In general, you want to calibrate it once every month or two as well, just in case. When in doubt, zero out!
For electronic scales, it might also be worthwhile to replace the batteries. When batteries get low, the device will still work, but might not be as accurate.
Second, test for consistency. Step on your scale, get a reading of your weight, and step off. Repeat this process four or five times, and note if there's any variance in your weight. Make sure you're stepping on it the same way, and that you're not bouncing, shifting, or otherwise adjusting your weight distribution as you test it.
If your scale is consistent, great! You can move on to the next step. If it's not consistent, you may have an issue with the internal elements of the scale. This is usually a symptom of something breaking, whether it's the load gauge in the digital scale breaking down, or the pinion sticking inside the mechanical scale.
In these cases, you can potentially open up and repair the scale, but it's generally easier to just go buy a new one. Old scales break down, and it's usually more trouble than it's worth to repair them.
If you've determined that your scale is consistent, then you can try to test it with something with a known weight. We like to use small hand weights, something like these, which have a known weight written on the side of them. You want to use something around 10lbs or so. Some scales don't "activate" for lower amounts of weight, because of how they're calibrated internally.
If you put a known 10lb weight on your scale and it shows something other than 10 pounds, you know it's not necessarily accurate. You can try to recalibrate it again, but chances are it's just a margin of error for how the scale works.
You can also take more than one known weight – like two of those dumbbells – and weight them at the same time. If 1x10lb weight measures in at 9 lbs, and 2x10lb weights measure in at 19lbs, you know it's within 1 lb of accurate.
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PyTrail is a game based on our beloved Oregon Trail. Take your
family/crew across the United States to the lovely state of Oregon.
Python is the main language, using Pygame - a Python based game
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Texas
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Texas offers a wide range of activities for kids between 7 to 18 years of age. The child care center in Killeen, TX organizes various activities to help kids build personal as well as social skills. To name a few activities are Youth Football, Swim Team, Tutoring, Career Counselling etc. These activities help your kids build self-esteem and also make them socialize with other kids at the Killeen child care center.
* Note: Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Texas is a Education, Training, , and business that is located in the city of Killeen and the county of Bell in the state of Texas.
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Use of an ontology-based note-taking tool to improve communication between analysts and their clients
Every systems design project starts with a conversation between clients and systems analysts/developers. Eliciting knowledge via communication is fraught with difficulty; yet it is required if requirements are to be discerned. When the success of the project rests on a wildcard like communication, it is no surprise that many IT projects go over schedule and budget and are replete with errors. By deliberately examining clients’ natural language expressions of the problem space and then classifying knowledge contained therein, it was possible to create an ontology-based note-taking tool. This paper investigates and demonstrates success in the tool’s ability to aid analysts in aligning their views of the problem space with their clients’ views. Although the reliability of the tool requires further investigation, the raw numbers suggested that consistency of use is possible. Furthermore, the tool was considered to provide complete coverage of concepts by those who used it. It has potential and further work is needed.
Advisor:Jeffrey P. Pomerantz
School:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School Location:USA - North Carolina
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Date of Publication:11/18/2005
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Corn Germ Oil Production Line | sunflower oil production line
Automatic crude corn germ oil pressing and filtering by screw oil presser has the superiority of no need of filter aids, and low oil content in filter cake. 3. Corn germ pretreatment and corn oil pressing machine adopts durable and corrosion resistant design, which can withstand corrosion of sulfurous acid inside corn germ safely. 4. The corn oil of cooked embryo can be pressed out 50-70% from corn oil presser.
Corn Germ Extraction Line
Its by-product is corn germs, which is the main raw material for corn germ oil. The corn germ extraction line in alcohol plants can reduce production equipment input cost 25-30%. It doesn’t need the smashing section, and can save the cost 30% for fermentation section, 25% for distilling section and 30-40% for vinasse processing.
Corn Oil Production Technology Report
Now many countries use corn to make edible oil. One reason is that: according to research, the total fat content of corn grain is 3.1-5.7%, and 80-85% of the oil was enriched in corn germ. Therefore, the corn oil production mainly adopts germ extraction (separation) production technology.
Maize Corn Germ Oil Production Line Machinery - Cooking
Maize germ/ Corn germ oil is extracted from corn germ, which is one of the most commonly used cooking oil. Nowadays a complete corn germ oil production line consists of prepressing workshop, extraction workshop and refining workshop. In prepressing workshop, impurities entrained in corn germ being cleared.
China Maize Germ Oil Machine, Maize Germ Oil Machine
China manufacturing industries are full of strong and consistent exporters. We are here to bring together China factories that supply manufacturing systems and machinery that are used by processing industries including but not limited to: corn/maize germ oil production line, corn/maize germ oil mill, corn/maize germ oil manufactury equipment.
Corn Germ Oil Extraction Machinery Equipment Manufacturers
200TPD Soybean Oil Production Project In Russia We designs corn germ oil extraction line with durable stainless steel fixed grid plate and increases horizontal grid plats. This advanced design can prevent miscella in case of flowing back to blanking case and ensures high quality extracting crude oil.
Corn Oil Extraction Plant, Corn Oil Processing Plant
Introduction to Corn Oil Extraction Plant. Corn oil extraction plant extracts corn germ from corn and produces corn germ oil by solvent extraction method.The corn oil production line includes corn germ extraction process, corn germ pretreatment and prepressing process, corn germ cake solvent extraction process and crude corn germ oil refining process.
Corn oil processing Line, Corn Oil Manufacturing Plant
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Jib crane Mechanism:
Sol.: Jib crane is taken in use to raise heavy loads. A load W is lifted up by pulling the chain through pulley D as shown in the adjacent figure. Member CD is known as tie and member AD is called as Tie is in tension and jib is in compression. AC is the vertical post. Forces in tie and jib can be calculated. Chain BD and Tie CD are not often horizontal. Determination of forces for AC given configuration and load is explained through numerical examples.
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Internet vendors are failing to publish necessary information about treatments for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and placing many patients at 'significant' risk, researchers have warned.
Consumers often prefer the privacy of the internet when seeking out medications for STIs, but a new study by the University of East Anglia suggests they may not be fully informed.
Less than a quarter of internet vendors surveyed by researchers gave information about the potential side-effects of medications, while a similar number also failed to alert patients to possible interactions between the drugs and prescription medicines.
In addition, less than a quarter of vendors gave advice on how to avoid STIs.
Dr Roberto Vivancos, one of the researchers, said that people were taking 'significant risks' by buying their own treatments on the internet.
'Treatment of sexually transmitted infections is not a simple one-off step of popping the pills or slapping on the creams,' he noted.
Dr Vivancos advised that professional treatment is 'likely to be far better and cheaper than taking chances on an unproven internet remedy'.
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The weather is starting to get warmer. Soon it’ll be time to head off to your next vacation or family gathering. Are your travel options sorted out?
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When you want to go green, a charter bus tour will have all your needs covered and then some. A single full motorcoach has the potential to remove up to 55 single-passenger vehicles from the roads — this does the important work of reducing traffic congestion, which is a major contributor to carbon emissions. In fact, motorcoaches in general are three times more efficient in reducing CO2 output when compared to commuter rail. Motorcoaches also provide over 205 passenger miles per gallon of fuel compared to just 90 miles per hour for commuter rail. Charter bus companies, overall, are doing a great job of making travel more green than ever.
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Do you want to enjoy the sights and learn more about your destination in one go? Sign up for a tour bus that will give you a helping hand throughout your vacation. Adults and young adults account for 50% of passenger trips provided by the motorcoach industry. Not only are motorcoaches used for general travel, they’re also remarkably popular for tourism, family gatherings, and soul-searching trips. Driving your own car might be more independent, but it also gets in the way of other things you can do.
You Can Rest Or Study On The Way
Everyone travels a little bit differently. Some choose to relax and get some much-needed rest before they arrive at their destination. Others prefer to study, reading or typing the hours away. Students and seniors account for the other 50% of passenger trips taken in the motorcoach industry, according to recent studies. Choosing a charter bus with wifi is a great way to give you a little bit of everything. You can even support local businesses in the process.
A Single Motorcoach Can Support Local Businesses
Your dollar should travel with you. Every $1 invested in new motorcoaches has been found to generate an additional $1.50 of spending throughout numerous sectors of the economy. According to a recent study motorcoach traveler and tourist demand generates over $55 billion every year in economic transactions. A single motorcoach spending just one night at a destination can generate as much as $12,000 for that local economy in meals, lodging, and other spending (such as entertainment or drinking). The tour bus is, simply put, the most efficient way to travel today.
Charter Bus Services Are Flexible, Green, And Affordable
When you sign up for a tour bus you sign up for several benefits. A charter rental puts money back into local businesses, stimulating the economy in an indirect, yet effective manner. Charter bus trips are incredibly eco-friendly and go a long way in reducing carbon emissions by eliminating traffic congestion. Your benefits also extend to the unique way you travel, allowing you to rest, chat, and study in-between stops. Everywhere you go, you can expect the charter tour bus to leave a lasting impact.
Enjoy the warm weather in style. Sign up for a charter bus service that gives you a little bit of everything.
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Be Aware Of The Various Choices For Medical Health Insurance
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When open enrollment time comes, review your medical insurance plans and requires. Your current coverage may no longer be adequate when your health conditions have changed or if you require coverage for the new member of the family. Open enrollment may also be a good time to improve vision and dental coverage if it is offered.
Vision insurance is wise if you’ve had a record of vision issues in the past, or it’s inside your family history. Some of your visits and eye care purchases, like glasses or contacts, is going to be covered. This particular insurance might not be necessary for a few people, as they don’t use vision services enough so it will be definitely worth the cost.
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Greetings citizens of the world. Allow us to introduce ourselves…
We Are Anonymous.
This is a call to all the outraged people in Brazil and from around the world.
The happening of the World Cup in 2014 was used as a justification for all kinds of atrocities, such as the forced displacement of thousands of families from their homes, the military occupation of certain regions in our cities, the persecution of critics and opposers of the event. And a security policy based on the extermination of youngsters in the suburbs.
The event was not planned to benefit the population. It was not dedicated to Brazilian sports fans, and neither was it a spectacle for tourists visiting the country. The winners, were not the Germans who took the trophy,
but the corrupt–the contractors and FIFA–who profited millions in the most expensive Wold Cup in history.
The public debt, hidden and reinforced by the generalized corruption in Brazil, is evidence that shows how decayed the State is. Which only prioritize the rights of the most rich, while systematically ignoring, and downgrading, its obligation to promote the basic rights of healthcare, education, housing and public services.
The forthcoming of another mega event: The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, reignites the greed for acquiring public money through partnerships with the same big companies responsible for the renovations related to the World Cup, and in the meanwhile, it is evident how abonded the rest of the population is. This, is a precarious situation, in which we will not stand idly by. The bullying and neglect of this has led to public policies of ruthless urbanization. Healthcare and basic sanitation has had consequences as well, with thousands of cases of Dengue, Chikungunya and the Zika virus.
Society responds in many ways to such a horror. Countless strokes within several public servers such as health, military police, and firefighters, erupted in the state of Rio de Janeiro because of this Olympic farce. The Olympic games, your delegations, media and tourists from all over the world can’t ignore this “carioca” reality that isn’t an exemption, but a constant. The state tries desperately to make up, conceal, and disguise the situation, and the shortfall in the public coffers caused by the event, in combination with a low global scenario of oil prices, would’ve ultimately ushered the erupting war we now have in the streets of Rio.
But there is no trick, or cash, sufficient enough to silence the people and make this invisible, or minimally eatable chaos, disappear. We have observed political authorities organize a huge circus for the Olympic torch relay in some cities of the country; we have also seen a spontaneous reaction of the population in trying to extinguish the Olympic torch, a clear demonstration of revolt against the realization of this mega event, and the whole situation of theft and violence by the state because of it. We have followed the political class using newspapers from traditional media to try to soften the impact of its crimes, not even being intimidated by the investigations that are ongoing. But so far, the people of Rio, are winning.
Therefore, we have been vigilant and we are here at this time to say that we will not wait, it is time to step up actions. We will react within and outside the network. We urge all Brazilian citizens. and also from abroad who come to Brazil during the period of the Olympic Games, to join us. It’s time the people take control of their streets. We will act also through the internet, exposing scandals and knaveries of prominent personalities of our policy so that the world can see what we have been forced to endure. No matter how long it takes. No matter how many of us are mowed down by its repressive apparatus. We’re not afraid, and neither should you. We will burn down their strongholds. We know what’s going on perfectly, the nefarious political forces of this country rehearse one more desperate attempt to keep any international confidence that may still exist by conducting the Olympic Games in Brazil. We know that this event will not meet the real needs of the abject population, the poor, and those subjected to daily violence against the state.
We cannot continue to be ignorant of all the obscure access agreements to social and natural resources within the boundaries of Brazil. The Olympics and the World Cup are integral to this conspiracy. We are not blind, fools. We know that the extermination of the poor, black and indigenous people in Brazil are provided for the world economic programs for aid, yet, they don’t fit on the agenda, and are discarded. A project where there is no room for everyone, when in reality it should be.
Hence, to all Brazilian governors: Know that the world will soon know of your coveting towards the natural resources in Brazil. Regardless of which party you are in, know that those below are at risk to your personal plans of illicit enrichment. So pay close attention governors, congressmen and senators, who linger within corruption scandals: The beginning to your end, has begun.
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Anonymous – Exclusion of the Olympic Games 2016
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Russell Ash (18 June 1946 – 21 June 2010) was the British author of the Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humour titles, most notably his series of books on strange-but-true names, Potty, Fartwell & Knob, Busty, Slag and Nob End and (for children) Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface. Once described as ‘the human Google’, his obituary in The Times stated that ‘In the age of the internet, it takes tenacity and idiosyncratic intelligence to make a living from purveying trivial information. Russell Ash did just that’.
Russell Ash was born in Surrey, a descendant of a family of craftsmen – goldsmiths and silversmiths in 18th-century London that included Claudius Ash (1792–1854), one of the pioneering inventors of false teeth. His father worked as a bookbinder for the British Museum Library and also served in the RAF in the Second World War.
The family moved to Bedford, where he attended primary school and Bedford Modern School. He studied anthropology and geography at St Cuthbert’s Society, Durham University, and began a publishing career in 1967. He worked as a picture researcher for Man, Myth & Magic and a researcher/writer for Reader’s Digest Books and as European Correspondent for Newsweek Books on their Wonders of Man series.
In 1973, with his friend Ian Grant, Russell Ash established the publishing company Ash & Grant, that ran for five years. He was also a director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1980–83, where he worked with authors including comedian Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Dame Edna Everage), and Pavilion Books in 1984–88, where he published works by satirist John Wells, Hockney Posters and numerous other illustrated books. However, his principal occupation was that of freelance author, having written or contributed to over a hundred non-fiction books.
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From the Evening Bulletin, January 27, 1919
BY PENN (WILLIAM PERRINE).
Within the old incorporated city of Philadelphia — the city proper as it was once called — every street is laid out at right angles with another except one. The visitor who comes to Philadelphia for the first time and walks through the central district seldom fails to remark something about our topographical checkerboard. But if he goes down toward the river region of the Fifth Ward, he finds he seldom sees the one exception to the rectangular arrangement. This is Dock Street, which takes a curving or irregular course, from southeast to northwest, between the vicinity of Spruce Street and comes to an end at Third Street, in front of the old Bank of the United States. It is not a handsome street; it is old, full crude commercial bustle in the hours of the day, and after night-fall or in the early hours of the night until the nocturnal preparations for the next day, it is almost wholly deserted. Wholesale traders in provisions and fruits and other such activities as mark the nearby parts of Front Street give the street its characteristic aspect. Perhaps not one Philadelphian in fifty, outside of those who are interested in the daily buying of produce, and fish and oysters, has occasion to go through it once in a year. But in some respects it is a peculiarly interesting bit of old Philadelphia in what it has been and in what it still suggests.
The area which Dock Street now covers was once a stream or indentation of the Delaware River and was sometimes described as a spacious cove or "harbor." The choice of the site of Philadelphia was doubtless due to the favorable impression which this stream or creek made upon the original planners of the city. The reason why the name of Dock Creek was given to it was that they expected it to become a capacious and permanent dock. The Native Americans, to whom it was a convenient inlet and outlet for their canoes, called it Coocaconoon, and doubtless its shore at the mouth had been places of rendezvous for them long before white men first came up the Delaware. It was familiar to the Swedes and other whites who were here before Penn took possessive his province, and near it was born one Drinker, whose life lasted more than a hundred years or until after the Revolution, Franklin once saying, when asked how long people lived in Philadelphia, that he could not tell until "old Drinker" died.
There were three branches of Dock creek in the early days of the city. One of them extended northwestward from third Street, between Walnut and Chestnut, and terminated between Fifth and /sixth above Market. Another extended from Third Street, between Walnut and Chestnut, to the vicinity of the present Athenaeum Building on Sixth Street, opposite Washington Square. Still another flowed southward toward the present Second Street Market and in the vicinity of Society Hill-a region where the Free Society of Traders had special privileges from the founder of the city for carrying on their commercial operations. At the mouth of the creek, or on its northern side, where the upper corners of Front and Dock Streets now are, the first tavern in Philadelphia was built-one of a row of houses known as "Bud's Long Row"--and it was there that Penn established one of the two earliest public landings, the other day a Blue Anchor sign with "1682" on it was affixed, as it had long been, to the premises at the northwest corner of Front and Dock, where many of the son of bibulous cheer have delighted to refresh themselves, and near Walnut Street there has been for many years another Blue Anchor sign which would create the impression among the patrons of the tavern that Penn must have sailed up Dock Creek. As a matter of fact, the Blue Anchor at Front and Dock Streets marked the true place of the tradition; that is; it was there that the first Blue Anchor--the Blue Anchor of the landing-- existed , although not the slightest trace of it is now to be found.
Along or near the shores of Dock Creek Some of the most prosperous of the early citizens of Philadelphia erected their homes. The soil was grassy. the water clean, and in the summer time the view was pleasant. But trade and industry also promptly took advantage of the opportunities which this waterway gave them. Anthony Morris had a notable brewery there, and William Frampton another, and members of the Society of Friends had so little thought that there was anything undesirable in the making of good beer that Penn himself had a little brew-house on his manor estate in Bucks county. Tanneries and lumber yards were added to the industries of Dock Creek, and in the course of time it ceased to be a wholesale stream. This deterioration had probably begun when Penn came to the city for the second and last time. It was then that he lived in the Slate Roof house, on Second Street, where his American son was born, and from its windows he could easily see Dock Creek. Doubtless the barge in which he would sometimes come down the Delaware from Pennsbury to the city would be rowed into the creek and landing made at the Blue Anchor. Nor is it difficult to imagine how the first Edward Shippen, from the windows of his mansion on Second Street, looked out over the creek and enjoyed the breezes which came across it from the Delaware.
It was so difficult, in even the earliest years of the city, to keep Dock Creek clean that citizens who owned property along its shores or slopes were almost always urged to the duty of maintaining it in an orderly condition. The breweries and tanneries could not be prevented from discharging their refuse into the stream, and the residents made use of it as a receptacle for their household sweeping and rubbish. Forty years after Penn, in the city's charter, had named the Blue Anchor as a public landing, the creek was commonly charged with having become a nuisance. When Benjamin Franklin as a member of the Common Council of the city and active as editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette, he served on a committee which had been appointed to inquire into the question of what should be done with the creek. One of the earliest visitations of the yellow fever in Philadelphia was supposed to have had its origin in the filth of the stream. There seems to have been a conflict between public interest and private interests in the course of the inquiry, and some citizens subscribed money to clear out the creek, wall it, and improve the sewers which led into it, but this was not in accord with the official view, and the creek continued to be regarded as a nuisance to public cleanliness and health.
But the land at and about the original Blue Anchor Tavern fro the time of George Guest, who was the first of the landlords at the abode of hospitality and refreshment, was a favorite place for the comings and goings of ship captains, traders and other enterprising citizens of Philadelphia in its infancy. The Water Bailiff of the harbor could be found there; boats carried passengers from its wharf to other points on the Delaware, or to Windmill Island, or to ships that were anchored in the stream; and for more than two centuries men have made the cannikin clink there, although in modern times they have done so in chiefly plain way of tippling and certainly without that sturdy and large capacity for punch which marked the daily habits of the patrons of the Blue Anchor. The tradition that William Penn had his first glass of ale there after he came ashore did not serve to injure either his public or his private reputation in the slightest degree among even the most pious or the most censorious of Philadelphians; and indeed the Blue Anchor, as the Public Landing, was related to the municipality itself. What would be the astonishment of George Guest, the landlord, who was a member of the Society of Friends, and of the great founder of the city, if they could now come back and contemplate not alone the disappearance of Dock Creek, but the preparation for the extinction of all the taverns in Philadelphia, such places to them having been essential works of rational pleasure and prime necessity.
In the region where the creek crossed Third Street, halfway below Chestnut Street, there was at one time, or when the main portion of the population of the town lived on or near Front Street and Second, a mansion which was regarded as an example of opulent life. With its grounds and garden it was known as Clarke Hall, the name having been derived from William Clarke, who was a rich member of the bar and who built the house probably not long before Penn's second and final visit to Philadelphia. It occupied the lot on which the Mariner and Merchant Building of the Stephen Girard Estate now stands, and it was viewed by the people at the close of the seventeenth century as an evidence of Clarke's prosperity and importance. For a while it was occupied by James Logan, John Evans, Roger Monpesson and William Penn, Jr., in common. Evans was appointed as Governor, although he was not more than twenty-six years old, and the son of the Founder was still younger; and they gave great scandal by going on an all-night spree at a public house in Pewter Platter Alley and in beating the watchman who quelled the tumult. Clarke hall must have been as pleasant a place as could then be found in Philadelphia for merry gentlemen who wanted to rest up quietly or entertain their friends in seclusion. Not only was the brick house perhaps the largest in the city, but the garden was modestly laid out in a style which had been much imitated in England after the advent there of the Prince of Orange as William the Second. There were trees and plants which seemed to have given a slight suggestion of a bit of Dutch landscape, and the ground sloped down gently with the effect of a terrace to the waters of Dock Creek, seemingly at the site of the edifice which is now known as the Girard National Bank. This was built for the first Bank of the United States when Washington was President and when Clarke Hall, then nearly a hundred years old, was used as a United States was opened, the press which printed the Evening Bulletin, was situated in the soil where Dock Creek had once flowed along the edge of the grounds of Clarke Hall.
In the early days of the city, when Captain Kidd and other freebooters in the West Indies and along the American coast were well known, it was not uncommon for those of them who were not under the ban of the law to make their appearance on the river-front when seeking diversion. King Street, which afterward became Water Street, and the vicinity of Dock Street, were full of hospitable taverns and coffee houses for seafaring men. It was said that one of the most famous of pirates, the enterprising and fearless Teach, known everywhere as "Blackbeard" and not yet forgotten as such, was at times a familiar figure in these resorts, and, therefore almost undoubtedly he was also a denizen of the Blue Anchor. On Second Street, in after years, where the waters of Little Dock Creek crossed Spruce Street in the direction of Society Hill, Captain Benjamin Loxley had his abode in what was long known as the Loxley House, and it was there that the Revolutionary legend of Lydia Darragh and the British officers and her journey of warning to the outposts of the Continental army near Whitemarsh had its initial scenario. Nearby was situated, on Second Street, the Bethsheba Bower and Bath, and it is to be supposed that the waters of this resort and spring were not unconnected with those of Little Dock Creek.
What was considered as one of the great improvements after the Revolution took place when all of the discontents and agitation's of more than half a century over Dock Creek came at last to a head, and it was decided that the stream should cease to exist. It had become stagnant and ill smelling' there was no doubt that it had often bed pestilential disease, and lawless characters found places on its banks for hiding from constables and watchmen, while tipsy men at night sometimes fell into the foul water. After much controversy over the question as to what should be the policy of the city in dealing with the nuisance, recourse was had to the Legislature for relief. It appears, however, that a large proportion of conservative citizens did not favor such action, and especially the measure which the friends of public improvement finally agreed upon. This was nothing less than the abandonment of the creek and the creation, in its place, of a street or avenue. It was provided that the stream be confined within stone walls and arched walls and arched with substantial brick and that the top of the upper part of the upper part of the creek should be filled in with earth or dirt so as to enable a level of a street to be formed. This new street extended as far as the drawbridge at Front Street and in later years the portion of the creek between Front Street and the Delaware was include in the operation. Everything was so changed for the better with marts and shops and sidewalks and a broad highway that public sentiment came to be loud in its approval. A quarter of a century afterward Dr. James Mease, who was a resident of the neighborhood, congratulated his fellow citizens on the fine improvement when he wrote his "Picture of Philadelphia," and on the displacement which had been effected in much vice, poverty and filth.
Dock Street it then became, and so it has been to this day. Still some of the waters of the creek could be seen in the big archway, or culvert, at the outlet, and at one time, after the Bank of Stephen Girard had replaced the bank of the United States, on Third Street, a story was told of a plot that was said to have been formed by some desperadoes to the end of kidnapping Girard by going through the archway in a boat.
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Noel Stock, a noted expert on the life and works of poet Ezra Pound and a retired University of Toledo professor of English, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 16 in Sylvania Center, a nursing facility. He was 84.
He’d had a stroke in July, said Karen Csengeri, a former student and longtime friend.
Mr. Stock, who lived in West Toledo, retired from the UT faculty in 1991 and continued teaching as a professor emeritus until the mid-1990s.
He arrived at the university as a visiting professor in 1969. Wallace Martin, a UT faculty member knew Mr. Stock’s work on modernism and, along the way, the two met, said John Boening, a former English department chairman who was new to the faculty in 1969.
“At the time, Toledo had just launched its PhD program in English. One of the things the university was trying to do was to recruit a few heavy hitters, a few substantial scholars to give the program heft,” Mr. Boening said. Mr. Stock was one of those.
Mr. Stock’s 1970 book, The Life of Ezra Pound — “as scholarly a book as you’ll find,” Mr. Boening said — was reviewed widely and positively. Prominent academics stopped by UT to visit Mr. Stock and pick his brain, Mr. Boening said.
“Noel Stock came from the literary rather than the academic world,” Mr. Boening said. “Despite the technicality of not having a PhD or any other degree, he had a fine reputation among academics.”
Mr. Stock, a native of Australia, “was adored by students and graduate students, not least because he was so cosmopolitan,” Mr. Boening said. “He was a terrific dresser. He was a wit. He was delightful. He was a very personable fellow. He was not loud, he was the opposite — very civilized.”
He became a professor of English in 1971 and taught courses in poetry and modern literature and led seminars on modernism, Mr. Pound, and T.S. Eliot.
His book, Ezra Pound’s Pennsylvania, was published in 1976 by the Friends of the UT Libraries group. Earlier works about Mr. Pound included Poet in Exile and Reading the Cantos: A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound. He and Mr. Pound were the translators of a volume, Love Poems of Ancient Egypt.
He was born May 29, 1929, in Melbourne. He began reading Mr. Pound’s poetry as a teen. While working in the news department of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, he began an extended correspondence with Mr. Pound. He met the poet in 1959 in Italy and two years later, received a fellowship to catalog Mr. Pound’s archive there.
In retirement, Mr. Stock self-published several books of poetry on his Catholic faith, including a series of meditations on the Rosary’s mysteries, Ms. Csengeri said. He also crafted aphorisms — his observations about the world and society.
Survivors include his wife, Marjorie, and daughters, Maria and Jenny.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in St. Joseph Church on Locust and Erie streets in North Toledo, where he was a member. Arrangements are by the Eggleston Meinert & Pavley Funeral Home, Oregon. Tributes are suggested to the church or Little Sisters of the Poor.
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According to the second estimate of economic growth conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Dutch economy grew 0.2 percent in Q2 2015 relative to Q1 2015. The first estimate, published on 14 August, anticipated a growth rate of 0.1 percent. The overall picture of the economy has not changed. Growth is widely supported: investments, consumption and exports all contributed to economic growth.
Investment in fixed capital formation was revised upwards. New supplementary data regarding the construction sector suggest that investments in non-residential property are higher than initially estimated. The same applies to investments in software.
The first estimate - 45 days after the end of each quarter - is solely based on information available at the time. After the publication of the first estimate, new information about the state of the Dutch economy is continually pouring in. In absolute terms, the adjustment of the second estimate relative to the first estimate averaged 0.1 percentage points over the past half decade. The two extremes ranged between –0.3 and +0.4 percentage points.
Results earlier quarters not adjusted
When a new estimate is published, CBS also calculates the seasonally adjusted series of quarters already published. Growth figures for the previous three quarters have not been revised though.
Growth relative to Q2 2014
Compared to one year previously, the economic growth rate over Q1 was 1.8 percent, versus 1.6 percent according to the first estimate.
Number of jobs increased by 29 thousand
The second estimate shows that the number of employee jobs and self-employed jobs was 29 thousand higher than in Q1 2015. In the first estimate, the number of jobs increased by 19 thousand. Employment figures were revised on the basis of additional data.
According to the second estimate, the number of employee jobs and self-employed jobs grew by 93 thousand in Q2 2015 compared to the same quarter in 2014, as against 80 thousand according to the first estimate.
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"a Gerber file. Is this the best the industry and professionals who collectively all but created the Digital Revolution can put forth?"
Speaking as one who's pretty close to the venerable Gerber file on a day to day basis, I could rant on the evils of the Gerber format. And, I know a few other people who could significantly out-rant me on that subject.
There is some hope though. ODB++ (a somewhat-standard CAD data format) is gaining popularity and IPC-2581 (a supposedly even more standard CAD data format) is on the horizon.
Bills of materials are headache near the scale of the Gerber as well. I think there are more BOM styles than there are engineers creating BOMs.
Your primary point in terms of the accomplishments of the hardware engineering community (Note this) is certainly valid. Electronic systems have certainly progressed rapidly and provided the basis for any number of advances in modern society. I would have backed it up a bit to at least the development of radio and TV myself, which have molded modern society in many ways.
On the other hand, this has not occurred in a vacuum. The software disciplines that you say are "...admittedly less complex" have moved from being a rarefied specialty to becoming a sophisticated and very complex industry to help users do useful things with the electronics you create. In fact, the Web (or, more correctly, the Internet) is generally considered to be the most complex engineering artifact created by mankind to date. From one point of view it is a collection of hardware devices, but it is also a triumph of software engineering. It is also an excellent combination of free enterprise and governmental support.
As to your secondary point about design interchange, it might be worth looking at some software innovations. Much work has been done in terms of defining design patterns, where specific solutions have been classified and analyzed to promote consistency on how they are handled. There are also significant repositories of code that are being created in open source domains such as SourceForge which can be of tremendous help. Recently this is starting to happen with significant hardware designs as well, which is probably a very good sign for the continuance of innovation in electronics.
As I said, there are very good reasons for pride. Be careful, though, that it doesn't become hubris.
A big benefit of using digital circuit designs (rather than a PDF image of a design) is that when new technologies develop - such as narrower traces or components that replace a portion of the circuit - the circuit could be automatically redrawn and compacted from the digital file.
you are correct the engineer is the superstar of the modern world and sadly no one excpet us knows about the impacts we have from advanced medical technologies CT, MRI. To chemical engineers who allow modrn drugs to be mass produced Aerospace (how many people take flying safely for granted), Information Technology these two alone have made the world much smaller place. Then we have the utilities power, gas and water always present when we demand them.
Engineers truly created the world more so than any other profresssion I would argue.
What are the engineering and design challenges in creating successful IoT devices? These devices are usually small, resource-constrained electronics designed to sense, collect, send, and/or interpret data. Some of the devices need to be smart enough to act upon data in real time, 24/7. Specifically the guests will discuss sensors, security, and lessons from IoT deployments.
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TOKYO, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd. has announced the development of new polymer particles that control a potentially health-damaging range of blue light emitted by LEDs. The company expects to add the particles to its Techpolymer product lineup, use them for conventional applications such as liquid crystal displays and luminous sources, and develop new markets. (Images: http://prw.kyodonews.jp/opn/release/201304301499/) 1. Development backgroundFluorescent lamps were used as conventional light sources, but they have been increasingly replaced by LEDs in recent years. As a result, our living environment now contains strong light in the wavelength range of 380-500 nm. Light in this range is blue, visible light, and as its wavelength is short, it has a high energy level. There are concerns that looking at blue light for an extended period of time may cause retina damage, eyestrain, deterioration of eyesight, age-related macular degeneration, sleeping disorder, and various other adverse effects. To deal with these issues, we have developed new particles that filter out the blue light emitted by LEDs. 2. FeaturesConventional applications were mainly films that used simple pigments. Sekisui Plastics has now successfully developed pigment-containing particles. These particles have the following features:(1) This new type of particle can filter out blue light, while maintaining the light diffusion properties of Techpolymer.(2) By using these particles, the percentage of blue light filtered out can be arbitrarily controlled, up to a maximum of 60%.(3) This technology can be applied to the manufacturing of particles containing additives other than pigments. Compared to the conventional acrylic particles, Blue Light Cut Particles filter out blue light. Examples of fields of applicationBlue Light Cut Particles can be coated onto films to arbitrarily control the percentage of blue light altered out. Lineup of particlesThese particles can be adjusted to constant particle size distribution, and thus can be used in a variety of optical applications.
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Village of Rajaori (Kashmir) with mountain stream in foreground. 29 September 1886
Artist: Cramer-Roberts, Charles J. (1834-1895)
Water-colour painting of Rajaori in Ladkh, Jammu and Kashmir by Charles J. Cramer-Roberts (1834-1895) in 1886. Inscribed on the front in water-colour is: 'Rajaori Sept 29/86. C.J.C.R.'
Ladakh literally means ‘many passes’, it is one of the most elevated regions on earth, comprising the West Himalayas, Karakoram Range and the valley of the upper Indus River. The scenery of Ladakh is characterised by snow-capped mountains, remote villages, 'gompas' (Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries) perched on soaring hilltops, ancient palaces clinging to sheer rock walls and secluded valleys. The region is allied ethnologically and geographically with the Tibet region of China and has a predominantly Lamaist Buddhist population.
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HGH works at the cellular level and HGH affects brain tissue directly. It also benefits nerve tissue. Human growth hormone or HGH has many fantastic effects on various parts of the body, which promotes the repair of your organs. It can stop or reverse shrinkage of your organs, reverses the signs of aging, and more. But we will focus on how HGH affects your brain tissue.
Malcolm Cowley once said, “They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it very much.”
If you were to examine those patients who suffer with Alzheimer’s you might disagree with what Cowley observed. Then again, philosophers have debated the mind – body characteristics of our existence for centuries.
Currently scientists have an incredible amount of evidence to prove that our personalities, our minds, and our identities tend to come from the brain’s biochemistry, structure, and existence. If we lose a leg, we are changed but our identity is still intact. However, if the brain is damaged many times a person’s identity is altered.
Often we see changes in people as they age. Thought processes seem to slow down, and even later memory becomes affected – fuzzy, even missing, and in some of the worst cases there may be very little left of a person’s identity.
There has been a great deal of proof, both scientific and non-scientific, about the wonders of HGH on the body promoting the repair of organs, even stopping and reversing organ shrinkage. Because HGH works at the cellular level, it affects nerve tissue and brain tissue.
HGH can promote regrowth and healing in tissues and cells; however, it cannot bring about the regrowth in nerve cells. So far nothing has been proven to do so, although there is a great deal of research going on and there is promising results.
Because HGH has been proven to increase nerve growth factors, it seems plausible that if you raise HGH levels to an optimal level, HGH will rebuild brain cells and effectively improve the brain. For example, even though researchers have not been able to grow new nerve cells with HGH therapy, they have been successful at inducing dendrite connections. These spidery little feelers connect the neurons for communication.
In addition, the glial cell (a type of brain cell) nourishes the neurons and so they are capable of being renewed. You can see how HGH can impact them positively, and indicates research should be further explored.
Recent Study at the University of Auckland
Peter Gluckman, Barbara Johnston, and colleagues a the University of Auckland in New Zealand showed a striking result for IGF-I, which is the form that HGH works in. Injecting IGF-I into brain injured fetal lambs; they were able to save damaged neurons. As well, they were able to stave off apoptosis – the programmed death of cells – in these brain-injured lambs.
Apoptosis is associated with brain injury, so for up to three days after an injury, it may continue to take its toll. The IGF-I injections prevented these anticipated cell deaths.
One exciting way human growth hormone affects brain tissue is it has been shown to bring about increased concentrations of neurotransmitters in the brain. Since these neurotransmitters are the actual carriers of information from brain cell to brain cell, one would expect that human growth hormone affects brain function by speeding up and enhancing brain function.
Many who have undergone human growth hormone replacement therapy have said they have back the sharp memory they had when they were younger, and they also recaptured the quick thinking.
Dr. Chein said, “Loss of memory has long been linked to aging, and now, researchers have found a direct link between memory skills and the amount of growth hormone in the body.”
Dr. Chein had his own studies, and he too discovered how human growth hormone affects brain memory function. In his study, 62 percent of patients reported memory improvement.
So far, the results of how human growth hormone affects brain structure and function have all been positive. And while researchers have not found the holy grail of neural research the regeneration of neurons, it has determined many beneficial effects. Most significantly, human growth hormone has shown that it appears to be successful in helping to maintain our identity, and to help us to remain who we have been throughout our life as we age. Although most of the studies were done using HGH injection it is believed that increasing HGH production in the body may lead to the same results. For more on HGH supplements go here!
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Hotel Danieli, formerly Palazzo Dandolo, is a five-star palatial hotel in Venice, Italy. It was built at the end of the 14th century by one of the Dandolo families. CNN cites it as one of the top five "lavish hotels" in the city. In 2010, extensive footage was shot at the hotel for The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
The hotel's main building is the Palazzo Dandolo, close to St. Mark’s Square, with a rear facade on the Riva degli Schiavoni's quayside promenade overlooking the Saint Mark's Basin. It adjoins a number of buildings dated to the 14th and 15th century.
The structure was built at the end of the 14th century by the Dandolos, a noble Venetian family. In the 16th century the building was divided into three sections for different members of the family. The richly embellished building, which gives the appearance of a single unit from the exterior, was then the venue of social gatherings and lavish parties.
In the 17th century, ownership was with the Mocenigo and the Bernardo families who continued to hold grand social events. At the wedding celebration of Giustiniana Mocenigo with Lorenzo Giustinian in 1629, Giulio Strozzi's Proserpina Rapita was performed with music by Monteverdi. The two families were still the owners of the building at the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797. After the building had suffered the effects of the city's decline, the Venetian Giuseppe Dal Niel of Friuli, known as Danieli, rented the first floor of the building from 24 October 1822 for his own use and to house his guests. In 1824, appreciating its potential as a centrally located meeting place, he bought the entire building, lavishly restored it and converted it into a hotel which he appropriately renamed "Danieli".
Many notable artists, writers, musicians and other luminaries stayed here, among them Goethe, Wagner, Charles Dickens, Byron, Peggy Guggenheim, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Harrison Ford, and Steven Spielberg. One of the most popular rooms in the hotel is Number 10. It was here that Aurore Dudevant, better known as George Sand, stayed with her lover Alfred de Musset. The biography of George Sand, under the section "Love and Genius", brings out the romantic details of their stay in this room. During this period, the famous restaurant, first known as the Caffè Brigiacco, came into being among the shops which developed on the ground floor. As it was run by two Greek brothers who had a liking for oriental dress, it later became known as the "Caffè Orientale".
In the 19th century, private beach access was a feature of the hotel, while guests could use the services of interpreters who were versed in different European languages. In 1895, when the building's ownership changed hands, it was modernized with extensive electrical fittings, lifts and central heating, transforming it into the luxurious "Hotel Royal Danieli".
By end of the 19th century, a bridge link was established, annexing the hotel to a 19th-century adjoining palace now known as the Casa Nuova which became part of the hotel in 1906. That year, together with four other luxurious hotels in Venice, the Danieli came under the control of Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi, owned by Count Giuseppe Volpi. Further changes to the façade were undertaken by the architect Francesco Marsich. Finally, from 1946 to 1948 after the buildings between the Palazzo Dandolo and the Palazzo delle Prigioni had been demolished, the hotel was substantially extended. The "Danielino" (Little Daniele), a new building with a marble façade designed by Virgilio Vallot, became the last addition to the hotel.
In 2010, extensive footage was shot at the hotel for the The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. The suite which appeared in the film was once lived in by the likes of Proust and Balzac; something mentioned in the film. In one scene, Depp clambered across the roof tiles of the hotel in his pajamas.
Architecture and fittings
The 14th-century building which has been a hotel since 1822 now has a pink façade with marble sills, white turrets and balconies with pointed arches. The main architectural feature is the four-storied courtyard which is covered with arches in Byzantine Gothic style and provides for natural sunlight. The foyer leads to the open staircases with balustrades up to the furnished rooms and suites. While an elevator is available, the stairway is painted gold. The hotel's 233 rooms and suites are spread through a central building with three wings. There are rooms facing the lagoon in the original wing of the hotel and large rooms in the 19th-century palazzo. The hotel also boasts a huge fireplace.
The Doge Suite is the most luxurious, with furniture dating to the 18th century and frescos by the 18th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Guarana. The balcony features a Venetian mask shop, while the restaurant is ornamented with an entrance of high arches and chandeliers of Venetian glass. The rooftop terrace restaurant has views of Venice and the lagoon.
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- Editoriale, Giunti Gruppo (2005). Venice. Itineraries, shopping, restaurants, hotels. Giunti Editore. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-88-09-03916-2. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- Elizabeth Sharland (25 February 2013). Classical Destinations. iUniverse. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-4759-7703-5. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- Sherwood, Marie (2008). Orient Express Picturesque Travelog. Wheatmark, Inc. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-1-60494-005-3.
- John Moretti (2 March 2010). Frommer's Northern Italy: with Venice, Milan and the Lakes. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-0-470-64529-1.
- "Hotel Danieli:History". official web site of the Hotel. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- "Britten and the String Quartet: A Classical Impulse – String Quartet No.3". Gresham College. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- Bradshaw's Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Transit, and General Guide, for Travellers Through Europe (Public domain ed.). Adams & Sons. 1887. pp. 852–.
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Reducing Costs for Workers’ Compensation on Construction Sites
Construction is one of the world’s largest industries. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the leading industries for on-the-job accidents and injuries. Due to this, many businesses find themselves with high workers’ compensation costs, which can detract from their possible profit. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce your workers’ compensation insurance premiums without sacrificing coverage.
Developing a Safety Program
A business owner who is proactive in reducing injuries and illnesses in the workspace is more likely to be successful at preventing risk. You can do this while utilizing tools and resources already available to your company. Here are a few key ways to develop a safety program that improves the lives of your workers while bringing costs down:
- Develop a plan that is endorsed by OSHA standards. The more OSHA-compliant, the better. It’s proven that fewer workplace accidents occur when businesses utilize those standards as much as possible. OSHA provides great guidelines that keep workers safe.
- Make these plans standard procedure. It’s all well and good developing a great safety plan, but what about enforcing it? Make sure that your company carries out OSHA-compliant programs you have in place.
- Educate employees. This plays a large role in decreasing costs. There are programs in place meant to make your workplace safe.
- Investigate risks. Pay attention to any injuries and illnesses that seem frequent in the workplace. This can help you identify risky situations that you overlooked before.
- Follow through with a point-loss objective. When an illness or injury occurs, some things can be done to affect your workers’ compensation costs. This includes ensuring that the employee receives medical attention right away, they are examined before coming back to work, and that paperwork is filed and future injuries are prevented.
Safeguarding your construction business is essential for its livelihood, funds, and success. Talk to the team at Nahai Insurance Services to receive affordable workers’ compensation insurance that suits your needs. We understand the various risks in your industry and know just how to protect you with reliable insurance.
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California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice.
The Democratic bill, which failed late Tuesday, would have been the first statewide ban, although a few California cities already prohibit their use.
The measure offered California an opportunity to emerge at the forefront of a global trend, said Sen. Gil Cedillo, who carried the measure on the Senate floor.
"If we don't solve this problem today, if we don't create a statewide standard, if we don't provide the leadership that is being called for, others will," the Los Angeles Democrat said during Tuesday evening's debate.
Discouraging plastic bag use through fees or bans first gained traction outside of the U.S. in nations such as South Africa, Ireland, China and Bangladesh. In January, Washington, D.C., implemented a 5-cent surcharge on disposable paper and plastic bags.
A handful of California cities already ban single-use plastic bags, after San Francisco became the first to do so in 2007.
Palo Alto, Malibu and Fairfax in Marin County have since followed, while a ban approved in Manhattan Beach is tied up in litigation, said Matthew King, a spokesman for Heal the Bay, the Santa Monica-based nonprofit that sponsored AB1998.
Supporters of the bill said the 19 billion plastic bags state residents use every year harm the environment and cost the state $25 million annually to collect and transport to landfills. It had been the subject of a furious lobbying campaign by the plastic bag manufacturing industry, which called it a job killer.
The bill's author, Democratic Assemblywoman Julia Brownley of Santa Monica, said lawmakers had failed Californians by defeating the measure. But she said the movement to ban plastic bags would continue despite the setback.
"It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when consumers bring their own bags and become good stewards of the environment," Brownley said in a statement early Wednesday morning.
The bill, AB1998, called for the ban to take effect in supermarkets and large retail stores in 2012. It would have applied to smaller stores in 2013.
Republicans and some Democrats opposed it, saying it would add an extra burden on consumers and businesses at a time when many already are struggling financially.
"If we pass this piece of legislation, we will be sending a message to the people of California that we care more about banning plastic bags than helping them put food on their table," said Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Lake Forest.
The bill's main opponent, the Virginia-based American Chemistry Council, spent millions in lobbying fees, radio ads and even a prime-time television ad attacking the measure. The organization represents plastic bag manufacturers such as Dow Chemical Co. and ExxonMobil Corp.
Last year, it helped defeat an effort by Seattle to impose a 20-cent fee on the use of plastic or paper grocery bags.
The organization issued a statement early Wednesday morning applauding the bill's defeat.
"We congratulate Senate members for discarding a costly bill that provides no real solutions to California's litter problem and would have further jeopardized California's already strained economy," said Tim Shestek, the group's senior director of state affairs.
The Senate took final action at the very end of the legislative session, reflecting how difficult it had been to muster support. The bill received just 14 votes in the Senate, seven short of the majority it needed.
Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, was one of half a dozen Democrats to vote against the bill. She said the state instead should offer incentives for reducing the use of plastic bags before imposing a statewide mandate.
Brownley had amended her bill in the days leading up to the Senate vote in an ultimately futile attempt to gain more support.
Most significantly, she removed a provision that would have imposed 5-cent fee for customers who forget to bring their own bag and need to buy a recycled paper one. The proceeds would have gone entirely to the retailer.
Under the revised bill, retailers would have been allowed to charge only what it costs them to buy paper bags. Stores would have been required to provide free bags to shoppers who rely on government assistance.
A state law that took effect in 2007 already requires supermarkets and other large retailers to provide plastic bag recycling bins.
In recent weeks, some local government officials said they would take matters into their own hands if the bill failed. According to Heal the Bay, officials in Los Angeles County, Redondo Beach and Santa Monica said they would pursue individual city- and countywide bans in the coming months.
© 2010 The Associated Press.
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A renewed warning on Canadian household debt levels is coming from a research report written by an international management consulting firm.
The report, published by McKinsey & Company on Thursday, singled out Canada and six other countries with “potential vulnerabilities in household debt.”
In Canada’s case, household debt levels are higher than those that existed in the U.S. at the peak of the credit bubble, the report notes.
The data suggests a “potential risk, but not an imminent crisis,” the report said.
“There is no sign that there are a significant number of Canadian borrowers today having trouble repaying their debt. The risk comes when you look to the future,” said Susan Lund, partner at McKinsey Global Institute in Washington, D.C.
“If the economy were to slow and unemployment started to rise, when people lose jobs, that’s when a mortgage that you could afford with a job suddenly becomes unaffordable. The other potential risk is if and when interest rates start to rise, that could create a much larger burden on households repaying debt.”
The Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand are also at risk, the report said.
Mortgages are the primarily culprit in this burgeoning household debt burden, the report points out.
“Mortgages are the main form of household debt in all advanced economies, and rising housing prices contribute to more borrowing. And, when buyers can obtain larger mortgages, they bid up house prices even more,” the report said.
“The question now is whether high household debt in some countries will spark a crisis.”
Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said in an interview that he takes exception with the comparison between Canadian and U.S. debt levels.
When the data is adjusted to account for differences between the U.S. and Canada, “we see a Canadian debt ratio that is still meaningfully below the U.S. ratio,” Guatieri said.
Making those adjustments, Canada’s debt to household income ratio currently stands about 151 per cent, compared to 136 per cent in the U.S., Guatieri said.
“That simply means Americans are less indebted than Canadians now, largely because they walked away from so many mortgages over the last six years,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean Canadians have hit the debt wall.”
The U.S. household debt level relative to income hit 165 per cent in late 2007.
Canadians are borrowing less than in previous years, and the quality of Canadian debt is superior to that of U.S. debt in the mid-2000s, Guatieri said.
At one point, about one-fifth of U.S. residential mortgages were labeled subprime, held by borrowers with poor credit ratings, and in some instances, little income and few assets. By contrast, the Bank of Canada estimates that subprime lending in Canada has never exceeded more than five per cent of the total mortgage market.
“Canada has much tougher, much more conservative lending standards than the U.S. ever did during its credit boom,” Guatieri said.
The report also shows that while Canadians piled on debt relative to income from 2007 to the spring of 2014, they’re still capable of managing their payments.
Canada’s debt servicing ratio – that’s defined as interest plus principal payments divided by household disposable income – is sitting at 8 per cent. That’s among the lowest of the world’s advanced economies.
McKinsey’s report, called Debt and (not much) deleveraging, examines debt levels across 47 countries, including 25 developing nations. Around the world, debt continues to pile up seven years after the global financial crisis and Great Recession.
Global debt in these years has grown by $57 trillion (U.S.) or 17 per cent of global GDP, the report said. “That poses new risks to financial stability and may undermine global economic growth.”
Japan, where debt is now 400 per cent of GDP, has piled on the most debt since the Great Recession, followed by Ireland, Singapore, Portugal and Belgium. Japan’s debt load rises to 517 per cent of GDP when financial sector debt is included, McKinsey said.
Overall, Canada ranks in the middle of the pack, sitting in the 21st spot, with total government, corporate, and household debt totaling 221 per cent of GDP. That’s up from 182 per cent of GDP prior to the economic meltdown that struck the world economy in 2008.
Since 2007, China’s total debt, including financial sector debt, has nearly quadrupled, rising to $28.2 trillion in the second quarter of 2014 from $7.4 trillion. It has risen to 282 per cent of GDP, from the previous 158 per cent.
“China’s overall debt ratio today appears manageable, although it is now higher in proportion to GDP than that of the United States, Germany, or Canada,” the report said.
“We find three particular areas of potential concern: the concentration of debt in real estate, the rapid growth and complexity of shadow banking in China, and the off-balance sheet borrowing by local governments.”
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The preparation and administration of intravenous drugs before and after protocol implementation.
until further notice
SourcePharmacy World and Science, 31, 3, (2009), pp. 413-420
Article / Letter to editor
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Pharmacy World and Science
SubjectN4i 3: Poverty-related infectious diseases; NCEBP 6: Quality of nursing and allied health care; ONCOL 4: Quality of Care; NCEBP 6: Quality of nursing and allied health care
OBJECTIVES: This paper reports on a pilot study examining the incidence of nurses' errors in preparation and administration of intravenous drugs. Furthermore, the study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of implementation of a new protocol for preparation and administration of intravenous drugs. SETTING: Two nursing departments of internal medicine at a 953 beds University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. METHODS: By means of a prospective, quasi-experimental design, nurses were observed during the process of preparation and administration of intravenous drugs. Observation was performed before and after the implementation of a new protocol. Seventy-two nurses at two nursing departments were observed during the study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: A mean pre-test and post-test quality score at two departments of internal medicine. RESULTS: At baseline, average quality scores for nurses at the two departments were 64 (intervention ward) and 67 (control ward) on a 0-100 quality scale. The pre-test quality scores were not statistically significant for the two nursing wards (T = 1.36, df = 55, P = 0.18). After the implementation of the new protocol, nurses at the intervention ward scored better (72) than nurses at the control ward (69). The mean score at the intervention ward was significantly higher than the score in nurses of the control ward (T = -2.20, df = 53, P = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS: The number of errors in the preparation and administration of intravenous drugs is high. This study shows that implementing a protocol for the preparation and administration of these drugs can reduce the number of errors.
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From the time of my first ophthalmology rotation as a medical student, I had heard about the various methods of managing keratoconus: mask the astigmatism with a rigid gas-permeable lens, cover the irregular surface with a vaulted scleral lens, or stretch the central cornea flat over intrastromal corneal ring segments; hope that the patient doesn’t progress to the point of losing significant visual acuity; and finally, if all else fails, resort to a corneal transplant.
I don’t remember when I first heard about corneal crosslinking (CXL), but the idea is a novel one. What if we could strengthen the corneal tissue to alter the disease course? What if we could actually intervene—do something? After all, for all of our efforts, none of those vision-correcting measures I had learned about had any bearing on the disease course.
By the time Avedro received FDA approval (April 2016 for progressive keratoconus and July 2016 for corneal ectasia) for its proprietary »KXL UV light source, riboflavin drop formulation (Photrexa and Photrexa Viscous), and an epithelium-off crosslinking protocol modeled after the Dresden Protocol, the safety and efficacy of CXL had been established by our colleagues around the world.1-4 Tens of thousands of patients had already undergone the procedure.
From my perspective, as a young cornea specialist starting out in private practice, I saw a great opportunity. Here was a procedure that was clearly effective, not technically demanding—and, therefore, easily reproducible—and yet it was not being widely performed in my area. Best of all, with FDA approval for the drug and procedure, obtaining insurance coverage for qualified patients even seemed like an eventual possibility. I saw that introducing CXL into my practice could be a way to “declare” myself a cornea provider in my geographic area.
A Point of Advice
"My biggest tip is one I learned from Bill Trattler, MD: Use a scleral contact lens, not a rigid gas-permeable lens. A rigid gas-permeable lens rocks on the cone and acts as a slight rub on the eye with each blink. A scleral contact lens vaults over the cornea and protects it.
Additionally, you can’t overemphasize to patients the importance of stopping any eye rubbing. And have a plan for their vision during the postoperative period, including what you are going to do with their contacts"
John P. Berdahl, MD
BECOMING AN EXPERT
The first step toward implementing this novel treatment modality was to “become an expert.” I think this idea applies to any young surgeon wanting to adopt a new technique. I read as many articles on CXL as I could find, including some of the landmark studies referenced above. I attended the annual ASCRS meeting and sought out lectures on implementing CXL. I contacted my local Avedro representative to learn about the company’s FDA-approved system and the Avedro Reimbursement Customer Hub (ARCH) program, an insurance claims support network that was about to be launched. I asked my colleagues and mentors around the country about their experiences with CXL. This process served not only as clinical education for me but also as due diligence to find out if CXL would be feasible in my office.
In order to make CXL a success for my practice, I quickly saw that I would need to develop a referral network; I simply had to find enough patients who were candidates to make it worthwhile. For my young colleagues, whether implementing a new technique or just trying to build a successful practice, I cannot overstate the importance of marketing oneself and building relationships with other providers in one’s community. I started by looking for the ophthalmologists who were doing the most LASIK and the optometrists who were doing the most specialty contact lens fittings in my area. I scheduled meetings with some of these providers to gauge their level of interest, and the feedback I received was extremely positive.
As I had suspected, there seemed to be an unmet need for this procedure in my community. Some providers were extremely excited to hear that I would soon be performing CXL, stating that they had patients who had been waiting for this technology to become available. Subsequently, I have begun to speak at dinner meetings to groups of local providers to provide education on early diagnosis of keratoconus and ectasia, indications for CXL, and the effectiveness of the procedure. Avedro has helped to host several of these events, including a lecture at the monthly meeting for the local optometric society. In this way, my CXL project has helped me build relationships with other area providers.
In my first year of performing CXL, the biggest challenge has been guiding patients through the complex landscape of insurance coverage for this new procedure. I explain the benefits of the treatment to each patient in detail and communicate the fact that insurance coverage may not be granted. All patients undergoing CXL in my practice sign an ABN agreement and pay an up-front fee toward an insurance deductible. This fee is enough to cover our procedure costs, and the agreement states that we will refund this payment or an appropriate portion of this payment if insurance coverage is granted. We request preauthorization and submit formal claims for every procedure, and, with the help of Avedro’s ARCH program, we have submitted numerous denial appeals. All told, I have performed 31 CXL procedures since starting this project. Five of these have ultimately been covered by medical insurance, and we have several appeals still pending.
Looking back on a year of successful procedures, the entire process of learning about CXL, building a referral network, and fighting to get insurance coverage has been both challenging and rewarding. A lot has changed since the medical school days of just hoping to avoid progression and vision loss, and I am happy to be a part of it.
1. Wollensak G, Spoerl E, Seiler T. Riboflavin/ultraviolet-a-induced collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus. Am J Ophthalmol. 2003;135(5):620-627.
2. Raiskup-Wolf F, Hoyer A, Spoerl E, Pillunat LE. Collagen crosslinking with riboflavin and ultraviolet-A light in keratoconus: long-term results. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2008;34(5):796-801.
3. Caporossi A, Mazzotta C, Baiocchi S, Caporossi T. Long-term results of riboflavin ultraviolet a corneal collagen cross-linking for keratoconus in Italy: the Siena eye cross study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2010 Apr;149(4):585-593.
4. Raiskup-Wolf F, Thuering A, Pillunat LE , Spoerl E. Collagen crosslinking with riboflavin and ultraviolet-A light in keratoconus: ten-year results. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2015;41:41-46.
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That Distant Land collects 23 stories, interlinked with each other and with the other published "Port William" novels. The stories, arranged in their fictional chronology (from 1888 to almost the present day), become one sustained work, a new novel that spans the entire life and time involved. The range of this book is extraordinary - it offers rest for the weary, hope for the beleaguered, and strength for everyone else.
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I could probably read this book repeatedly for the rest of my life and end up greatly enriched each time. I suppose I could read anything by Wendell Berry with the same benefit, though it seems I relish his collections of related short stories even more than the novels. They cause healthy reflection about the stories of my own life, and the lives of my fore-fathers, and they cause me to realize (as I suspect Berry intends) that the chronological placement of the various characters and events is not all that important: what matters is the characters and their interrelationships with the land, their community, and the development of understanding.
I noticed that two of the stories in Distant Land were very similar (if not identical) to stories in Fidelity: but I enjoyed them equally in this volume. There is no sentimentality in Berry's writing, though it appears there must be! How does one record stories of a rural homeland with wonderful relationships and even the occasional resolved problem without becoming maudlin? I don't know how this great writer does it, but I'd love to learn: so I continue to order and read (or listen to) his books. As an earlier reviewer states: Berry is a National Treasure.
In addition, Michael Kramer is the most effective narrator possible--I'll likely listen to all the Berry books narrated by him first, and then move on to the others, most of which I admit are also good.
"A National Treasure"
Berry is a national treasure and a genius with words, and his short stories are particularly suited for audio. The narrator has a voice as smooth as the finest Kentucky whiskey and as varied as a mocking bird. It is impossible to overrate this book.
"Caught my attention"
Loved this book . I listened to several more of Wendell Berry's books because I enjoyed Distant Land so much.
"Feels real wholesome and generous"
It is saying a lot when I want to come back and read a book again. The perspective over time of one place makes you feel like you grew up there. The amazing character development in each short story speaks to me of a hero of literature. This book, with is generous helpings of humor both subtle and obvious, matched with genuine grief will leave you warm, and with a new perspective. If you like Richard Peck you may also like Wendell Berry.
"Loved it -- listened to it 3 times in a row"
Oh, I cannot tell you how much I loved this book and the excellent narration. I do not know where Wendell Berry has been all my life, but I have already given this book to half a dozen friends who love excellent literature and they all loved it too. More will be gifted during the holidays. If you loved Our Town, guarantee you will love this one too!
Berry is so good ad describing mundane things in a beautiful way. This book didn't grab me at first, because I didn't understand the style or story, but I became captivated after a few chapters. The performance is absolutely superb! The voices for the ladies are a little silly sounding, but otherwise the performance alone is worth listening to this book.
well developed characters with a theme of another Era gave the stories a depth of development that made listening a treat.
"Great in Car!"
This is now one of my favorite Books (out of over 1,000) as I can now listen in my car, at Doctor offices or any other boring place! These are very humorous short stories. They take the stress out of rush hour! A true 5 in my experience. ND John
These stories take us back to the late 1800's & early 1900's. Few cars & no computers. Life was simplar then, and Funny!
Not that I can recall. But I will search Audible.
No, I wanted short stories. I have other chapter Books.
I'm glad I ordered this book. ND John
"Wonderful writing and fine narration"
I knew Wendell Berry as a great poet and now know him as a great storyteller!
"Puts flesh on dried bones."
Confessing the unpardonable sin of antipathy to stories involving American history, I have to say that I could not stop listening to this compelling set of short stories, the substance of which, and the way that they were told, ushered me back into the warm presence of my now-departed Kentucky ancestors. By the first minutes of listening, the memory of sitting around a gathering of my parents, grand and great grandparents, aunts, and uncles lesser and greater sharing the comedies and dramas of their years and those preceding them was instantly resurrected, and I was among them again. Wonderful.
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- Code ASIA2031
- Unit Value 6 units
- Offered by School of Culture History and Language
- ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
- Course subject Asian Studies
- Areas of interest Non Language Asian Studies, Political Sciences
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand and analyse key processes, transformations, and themes in contemporary Japanese politics.
- Analyse and evaluate key scholarly debates on Japanese politics.
- Apply analytical reading skills through careful reading of relevant literature in the field of Japanese politics.
- Develop analytical writing skills in the field of Japanese politics through completion of written assessment tasks.
- Demonstrate and develop presentation and discussion skills in the field of Japanese politics through active participation in class debates and discussions.
- Seminar Attendance and Participation: 10% (LO 1, 2, 5) (10) [LO null]
- Presentation: 10% (LO 1, 2, 5) (10) [LO null]
- Mid-term Essay: 20% (LO 1, 2, 3, 4) (20) [LO null]
- Research Essay: 30% (LO 3, 4) (30) [LO null]
- Final Exam: 30% (LO 1, 2, 4) (30) [LO null]
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The course consists of a 1.5 hour lecture and 1.5 hour seminar per week. It demands seven hours per week of independent preparation, including assigned readings, review of lectures, and written assessment tasks. The total workload for the course is 130 hours including in class time and independent study.
Requisite and Incompatibility
An electronic reading brick will be provided on Wattle.
Preliminary ReadingYoichi Funabashi and Barack Kushner, eds. Examining Japan’s Lost Decades (London, New York.
Louis D. Hayes. Political Systems of East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan (New York and London: M. E.
Ronald J. Hrebenar and Akira Nakamura, eds. Party Politics in Japan: Political Chaos and Stalemate in the
Twenty-First Century (New York and London: Routledge, 2015)
Chalmers Johnson. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1982).
Jeff Kingston, ed. Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (New York and London: Routledge, 2014)
T. J. Pempel. Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, Cornell Studies in
Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
T. J. Pempel. "Between Pork and Productivity: The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party." Journal of
Japanese Studies (2010) no. 36 (2):227-254.
Frances M. Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies. Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic
Restructuring (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Jacob Schlesinger. Shadow Shoguns (Stanford University Press, 1999).
Leonard J. Schoppa, ed. The Evolution of Japan’s Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional
Change (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
J. A. A. Stockwin, Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell
No prior knowledge of Japanese politics is required
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There are many interesting phenomena in nature, and we are treated to images of them everyday. Internet-shared imagery zooms in and out showing us the incredible complexity of our natural world, and I am often inspired. The problem comes when I want to translate that inspiration into a linocut. Sometimes a fascinating idea becomes unsuccessful in the studio.
Many of my ideas involve intricate carving and numerous layers of ink, so I like to do a test when I’m thinking about a new series of work. I used the idea of a sea fan for a demonstration at my recent Open Studios, and decided to further pursue this topic. To get a good idea of what things will look like, I had to use a block larger than the card-sized one used for the demo. Patterns need a bit of space to develop.
Continue reading “This is only a test”
I should have been a sculptor. I am always trying to coax more depth out of a flat piece of paper. This is especially true when I am working on topography. In real life, tiny reflections of light glint off water, ice or metal surfaces to give us clues about depth.
Painters and mixed media artists have it easy. Add some white, or something metallic. Glue on a mirror! Scrape off some paint to expose the white paper beneath. Certainly I can save some white paper, but it never has quite the same effect.
|Topography inspired by the Himalayas. Are these mountains surrounded by water, or maybe a tropical coral?
The white highlights are actually white mica on the teal layer of ink.
Continue reading “Printmaking with mica — an experience in highlights”
|Elizabeth Busey, Yielding Gracefully. Reduction Linocut, 17 x 25″
During my exploration of the sassafras leaf, I was operating under the assumption that the colors I see in the fall were always in the leaf, but became more apparent in autumn. For the yellows and oranges we see, this is basically true. But not for the red. The red that I found so challenging and unfamiliar is in fact produced by the leaves as a sort of battle against the inevitable arrival of winter.
Continue reading “Yielding Somewhat Gracefully to Life and Adding Some Bling”
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[Chimera-users] angles after match
jort at nmr.mpibpc.mpg.de
Wed Feb 25 08:54:39 PST 2009
thank you for the very nice software. I continuously like it.
I have the following problem.
For different molecules, I would like to know what are the
transformation that link them.
I can do for example
match #0 #1
From this matrix I have the rotation information and the translation
I would like to extract the angles. For that I need to know what
convention you used.
I guess those are Euler angles (?), but I need to know what is the order
of rotation xyz, xzy...
Finally how do you get ride of the gimbal lock problem if you use Euler
Thank you for your constant help.
(Sorry if this question is a duplicate)
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We consume their products every day but economists give them little attention, and perhaps not enough respect. Yet America’s agriculture sector is not only the country’s oldest economic pillar but still a vital one, accounting for some 3.75 million jobs — not only in the fields, but in factories, laboratories and distribution. That compares to about 4.3 million jobs in the tech sector (which we analyzed last month here). read more »
While the city’s star is rising in popular literature, it has fallen in popular usage. Where have our sidewalks gone—and why is sidewalk activity disappearing? read more »
South Florida connotes a certain lifestyle in media and popular culture. Miami’s bright, tall energy has always been intertwined with the Florida Everglades’ quiet, flat landscape – low, grassy plains soaked with swamp water and edged by dense jungle. The seam where these two opposites meet is neither active nor passive; it is, instead, a third thing, where man’s activity has subtly modified the landscape, and nature has slowed man’s pace closer to its own. read more »
The millennial generation has had much to endure – a still-poor job market, high housing prices and a generally sour political atmosphere. But perhaps the final indignity has been the tendency for millennials to be spoken for by older generations, notably, well-placed boomers, who often seem to impose their own ideological fantasies, without actually finding out what the younger cohort really wants. The reality, in this case, turns out far different than what is bespoken by others. read more »
I was recently asked by Gracen Johnson (check out her site here) to elaborate on the possible future of suburbia. How are the suburbs likely to fare over time? This coincided with a city planner friend of mine who asked a more poignant question about the suburban community he helps manage. “What’s this place for?” If we can answer that question we might be able to get a handle on the possible trajectories of various suburbs. read more »
Urban form in American cities is in a constant state of evolution. Until recent years, American suburbia was often built without an appreciation for future evolution. This has left many older suburbs in a deteriorated state, and has accelerated claims of a more generalized suburban decline. read more »
Do the middle class and working class have a future in the Southland? If they do, that future will be largely determined in the Inland Empire, the one corner of Southern California that seems able to accommodate large-scale growth in population and jobs. If Southern California’s economy is going to grow, it will need a strong Inland Empire.
The calculation starts with the basics of the labor market. Simply put, Los Angeles and Orange counties mostly have become too expensive for many middle-skilled workers. The Riverside-San Bernardino area has emerged as a key labor supplier to the coastal counties, with upward of 15 percent to 25 percent of workers commuting to the coastal counties.
In a new report recently released by National Core, a Rancho Cucamonga nonprofit that develops low-income housing, I and my colleagues, demographer Wendell Cox and analyst Mark Schill, explored the challenges facing the region. read more »
Back in New York, no one quite believed my accounts of urban renewal across the Midwest, through a piece of the Rustbelt, and then back — that St. Louis is the Brooklyn of the heartland, or that even downtown Buffalo has charms. I tended to be on safer ground when I described Targeted small towns in Ohio, or drive-by shootings in Chicago. read more »
In this information age, brains are supposed to be the most valued economic currency. For California, where the regulatory environment is more difficult for companies and people who make things, this is even more the case. Generally speaking, those areas that have the heaviest concentration of educated people generally do better than those who don’t. read more »
Over the last fifty or sixty years most towns have been dedicated to accommodated cars in order to cultivate business and permit people to live better more convenient lives. For new developments out in a former corn field this was effortless since everything was custom built with the automobile in mind. But older towns that had been built prior to mass motoring were at a distinct disadvantage. read more »
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Moshe KempinskiMoshe Kempinski, author of "The Teacher and the Preacher", is the editor of the Jerusalem Insights weekly email journal and co-owner of Shorashim, a Biblical shop and learning center in the Old City of Jerusalem.
In the creation of the Mishkan ( the Tabernacle) we read of “wise hearted” women and men that are called to create the artifacts of the tabernacle , “And all the women that were wise hearted ( Chochmat Lev) did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue and of purple, and of scarlet and of fine linen.”( . Exodus 35:25 ) . And “And every wise hearted ( Chacham Lev) man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with Keruvim of cunning work made he them.”( ibid 36-8)
It is an unusual blending of knowledge ( chochma) that is usually limited and inductive and of the heart ( Lev ) which is free flowing and erratic. So what does this delicate mixture of wisdom and emotion seem to imply and why was it critical for the building of the Mishkan?
We read in the book of Ecclesiastes ( Kohellet) the following about a wise heart;
“The heart of the wise ( Lev Chachamim) is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of joy.”( Ecclesiastes 7:4)
Both medieval commentators, Rashi and Ibn-Ezra, explain the verse is teaching us that it is in the house of mourning that we encounter our limitations while in the house of joy we forget them. The truly wise are always aware of the fact that they are mortal and that their time is finite. Fools dance through life as if they have been gifted with immortality. The wise understand, even in the midst of joy, there is finiteness to life. As a result this makes their joy more profound than that of fools.
In his book, Mei HaShiloach, the Izhbitzer Rebbe (1800-1854) relates that, in his wiser years, King Solomon, speaks of the futility of some of life’s pursuits and mortality as a tool to help individuals find the true source of joy in this world.
“The end of the matter, when all has been heard, is fear G-d and keep His commandments, for that is the whole duty of man.”( Ecclesiastes 12:13)
When all is said and done, we are bidden to connect to the infinite purpose of creation and rise above the trivial aspect of the finite. That is what King David meant when he wrote “So teach us to count our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.( Levav Chochma) ( Psalms 90:12)
We live in a world where everything is defined by its immediate value and usefulness. We look for immediate gratification and for temporary pleasures. Inevitably, though, when losing sight of eternal values and destiny based goals mankind begins to flounder and fail. Pleasures become hollow and gratification empty and unfulfilling.
The Mishkan (the Tabernacle) was meant to be an eternal message. It bespoke a Presence of G-d that was ever-present. It represented a Presence that would “be there” throughout all the exiles. Even in its seeming absence it was to be “ever present”. The Mishkan , as opposed to the Temple, was never destroyed. The artifacts of the Temple needed to mirror that.
Hashem wanted people of wise hearts who would understand the eternal message of the Mishkan and who would therefore pour out of their souls into the artifacts of the Mishkan that would befit this eternal message.
In Tractate Taanit ( 23) we read of Choni the Circlemaker known as the master of prayer ,who sees an elderly man preparing to plant a carob tree. Choni asks him if he does not understand that it takes 70 years to bear edible fruit, well past his lifespan. The old man acknowledges his mortality and says that he is doing it for his future generations, just as his ancestors had planted trees for him to enjoy .
It is these type of wise hearted men and women that Hashem is looking for, as the basis for the eternal sanctuary is being established. The reborn state of Israel is becoming that vessel and it is the wise-hearted who have been gifted with the role of its establishment. Those clamoring for “peace now” can never comprehend “peace now and forever”. Those wanting immediate gratification will not come to recognize the bliss of eternal values.
Hashem is writing the last chapters of Tanach. The scroll is open, and the quill is in hand. Hashem will be using the wise-hearted wherever they may be, to be the ink and the words He is using to write those chapters.
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Chronic pain affects millions of people and is one of the most common issues in the United States.
When people experience chronic pain, it’s like a trigger that’s malfunctioning or goes off. It doesn’t need to go off but because of the pain, it does much like a smoke detector with a dying battery. We know there’s no fire, yet the alarm still goes off periodically and can be very annoying.
When an individual feels pain, your nerves are anticipating a problem and sends signals to your brain. Your brain then sends signals out to your body targeting the danger causing pain and wanting to heal the problem.
When the signals from your brain are constantly going back and forth, your nervous system develops a habit of the signs, even when there is no danger to that part of your body anymore. The patterns carrying those signals have adapted to this new habit just like how your brain changes when you learn a new skill.
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The rise of charter schools means D.C. parents have more public education options than ever, but it can be overwhelming to navigate the system.
Until now, for example, each of the city’s 57 charter schools has had its own application deadline and lottery day, a fact that drives many parents — especially those applying to scads of schools — nuts.
The D.C. Public Charter School Board recognizes that keeping track of all those disparate dates can be dizzying. So for the first time, the board is encouraging schools to use a common application deadline (March 15, 2013) and lottery date (March 22, 2013).
Most but not all schools have opted to do so, said Scott Pearson, the charter board’s executive director.
“We want to simply the process as much as possible for parents,” he said.
The common dates were set with an eye toward giving families time to apply for charters after they find out how they fared in the D.C. Public Schools out-of-boundary lottery. Those results are expected to be reported during the week of March 4; families who win DCPS seats must claim them by April 1.
Pearson said a next step in simplifying school choice in the city will be making sure that parents can find everything they need to know about a charter school — including real-time information about available seats and wait-list lengths — on one user-friendly Web site.
The charter board is also convening a task force this fall to brainstorm ways to fix the wait-list shuffle, in which thousands of seats change hands during the first month of school.
“I think there is a lot of work we can do collaboratively with our schools to make the situation not only better for parents but also for schools,” Pearson said.
This post has been updated to clarify that not all charter schools are planning to use the common application timeline.
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This series presents the latest findings on hemolyph proteins and functional peptides in living organisms.
Volume 1 (Muhammad Tufail)
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This e-book elucidates the physiological role, both at biochemical and molecular levels, of hemolymph proteins and functional peptides in reproduction, development, homeostasis, hibernation, migration, immune system, and in abiotic stress tolerance of insects and other arthropods.
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Capture History Through Interviews With the StoryCorps App
Listening to NPR (National Public Radio) every morning has its advantages.
As a media teacher, it's essential to know the world's events, both local and global to model good news consumption habits for my students as well as stay informed.
One segment of NPR that I look forward to each week is StoryCorps which seeks to capture interviews done by regular people with special circumstances. Whether I'm moved to tears or laughter, I can always count on the humanity of the program to make me feel.
(Yes, I've been known to sob in my car on the drive to work as I listen.)
So you can imagine my delight when I learned during a recent broadcast that StoryCorps has developed an app for all people, to be able to record interviews that will be archived with the Library of Congress or on their phone.
This app was made in preparation for #theGreatListen2015, where StoryCorps is hoping to double their archive with interviews from all over the world with the hopes of capturing the wisdom of many whose voices may not otherwise be heard.
So the media teacher in me, got very excited.
If the Great Listen is on Thanksgiving, then it isn't too late, to teach my students about it and ask them to get involved.
What a great way to teach interview skills, and foster valuable conversations with students and their family members or community members. Student reporters can opt to share their stories and selfies with the world via the Library of Congress or the student media outlet at school.
The app is really easy to use and they even provide helpful tips for pre-interview preparation, that would help a novice interviewer or a more experienced reporter. In school, we can help students brainstorm who they can talk to and about what either using the app to develop questions or create our own.
This would be a great project for history, media or English teachers to encourage their students to take part in, to help document the way major world events impact families and also give students the opportunity to learn about history from loved ones.
The app is broken down into a few parts:
- This is a place where you can start multiple interviews and save the work you are doing which will be housed in the app after you establish a free login
- The app will also save drafts of interviews if the student can't complete one right away.
- This is a great place to listen to other people's stories and get inspired. You can listen to their featured stories, follow individuals or review a feed with everyone, with the most current at the top.
How it works
- a short picture story of the process of archiving history through interviews
- Getting Started - offers some helpful hints for making decisions about who to interview and about what
- Preparing for Interview - offers suggestions for coming up with good questions as well as tips for practicing before you record
- Recording - this gives tips for the actual recording
The app is extremely easy to navigate and can really scaffold the process of developing a great interview to tell a story.
With the many events happening in the world today, it is very easy to lose the human part of it. Imagine helping students make direct connections with the world through interviews and personal stories, all the while developing excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Why not support the Great Thanksgiving Listen with your students' stories?
In what ways can you see this app being useful in your classes? Please share
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The dogs in this video are natural with yoga. Actually, the official term is Doga. If this is the first time you see a dog doing yoga, welcome to the world of Doga! There are classes designed for humans and their dogs.
Yoga classes for dogs and their owners
Some of these classes are simply allowing you to bring your dogs to a yoga class, but some are actually intended to bring a closer bond between you and your beloved friend. Yes, even closer than you already are. If you know what one of the poses is, it really is not so far-reaching. You know the yoga pose Downward Dog? It’s simply a dog (or us humans) doing a stretch with his front paws stretched out, his behind and tail up in the air. That’s all.
About half way through this video, you’ll see an actual Doga class in process. One small dog and one larger dog are doing a pose with their parents. The dogs are up in the air, doing a stretch, and looking quite relaxed in that stretch. Imagine the trust that was built in order to do a lift of any kind.
How doing yoga with your dogs helps them release stress
Susan McCullough writes in The Dog Daily about her interview with Brenda Bryan in Seattle. Brenda teaches yoga and is also a massage therapist. In her Doga class, the activities enhance the trust between people and their dogs. The stretches, the lifts, the massages that people give to their dogs in class help their dogs to feel relaxed, release stress, increase their range of motion, and improve circulation.
Where to find Yoga class for dogs
The poses are not designed for contortionists. And lifting your dog is not required. She has a Mastiff and a Great Dane in her class. If you want to explore Doga, check online and see if your city offers those classes. If not, contact the yoga classes and ask if you are allowed to bring your dogs to class. There are always DVD or online videos you can follow to get started. Enjoy watching these agile dogs who are quite good at yoga.
If you enjoy this video, here is another one of a Collie doing yoga.
Article source: Susan McCullough in The Dog Daily
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One of our favorite things to do these days is dream. To imagine what our neighborhood could look like one day. To dream about how we can restore our old house in the hood and turn it into a home. To imagine what our family will look like one day soon as it continues to grow. To think about how we can minister to the inner-city and what that might look like. Dreaming and imagining and planning and praying . . .
Then this weekend I re-read chapter 3 in Radical. And his word smacked me upside the head a little. Or maybe the heart.
"Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish."
Hmmm. So how would all our dreams and imaginings look differently if they were God-dreams rather than Becca-and-Adam dreams?
Maybe instead of thinking about we can have kids over to our house to see a family dinner, we can pray that one day they will sit down to their own family dinner? Maybe instead of just growing a few vegetables for our family, God wants to provide an under-resourced and under-served community with fresh produce and healthy choices that aren't available to them right now? Maybe instead of helping some kids with their homework, God wants to transform the broken education system in Atlanta. Maybe, just maybe, God has bigger dreams than we do. Maybe, just maybe, He can accomplish those dreams with OR without our help. So even the title of this chapter, "Beginning at the end of ourselves" reminds me of what we need to do next.
We need to pray, we need to increase our dependence on and desperation for the Spirit of God in our lives and in our ministry. He must increase and we must decrease. What does that look like? I'm not sure yet. But we will be praying, and seeking, and trying to remember that we can do nothing on our own. Like the disciples, we are "confident that (we) are not going to accomplish anything without his provision."
Unfortunately, like Platt points out, the danger of trusting in ourselves can be subtle and insidious. Because it's so easy to fall back into relying on our own abilities rather than trusting in the power of God. We can be following and seeking the Lord, and then all of a sudden we start getting prideful, stop spending time with Jesus, stop depending on His strength. And the danger is that we end up with a "ministry" that has a whole lot to do with us, and a whole little to do with Jesus. And that, right there, is the LAST thing we want.
So we are committing to pray, every single day, for a reliance of God's power. To pray for dreams that are HIS dreams and not ours. To grow and serve and minister ONLY in His strength and our weakness. Lord, we pray that You will increase and we will decrease every single day.
*To read more responses to Radical (by David Platt) Chapter 3, visit Marla's blog!
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Nursing Practice Identification
Charting by exception, the record-keeping or paper documentation method we use currently in my clinical setting (Intensive Care Unit) to keep key patient clinical information based on predetermined standards of practice requires change for improved patient outcomes.
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Nursing Practice Description
Clear and elaborate nursing communication contributes to better patient outcomes. In the charting by exception method, the nurse records key information about the patient’s progress on a chart (Syed et al., 2013). The chart usually captures the patient’s medical history, assessment outcomes, lab results, and the medication received, among others. It is designed to reduce clerical work through the documentation of findings that deviate from the baseline data. Therefore, the method is quicker as data thought to be unfavorable or already recorded are not documented. In addition, the abatement or aggravation of the patient’s condition is easily identifiable through a shorthand notation made on the chart.
Why Nursing Practice Needs to Change
Although charting by exception usually gives a complete patient record, the shorthand notation implemented without appropriate flow sheets creates information deficits, increasing the medication error risk. Patient records with little explanations or health checks lacking pertinent information could amount to negligence on the part of the nurse. Moreover, providing an incomplete picture of the patient’s condition affects patient safety. A complete patient record contains current information about his/her condition as well as indicators of future health changes to inform subsequent interventions.
A secondary reason for adopting an Electronic Health Record (EHR) to replace the current paper documentation is to enhance the timely retrieval of patient records to support care coordination and efficiency. This paper addresses the following PICOT question to support a practice change: in ensuring a timely retrieval of patient records, does electronic documentation, compared to paper documentation, enhance quick access to patient data for coordinated and efficient care?
The implementation of the charting by exception, including the flow sheets, at the unit, involved a multidisciplinary team. Its key stakeholders include physicians, ICU nurses, administrative staff, and laboratory staff.
Representatives from each of the stakeholder groups will play a role in the successful EHR adoption. A physician champion or representative will serve as a link between clinicians and the EHR implementation team. He or she will give input to the developers from a clinical perspective to ensure a physician-friendly EHR program, promote physician buy-in, and keep the physicians abreast of the project’s progress. The physician champion will also support meaningful use practices for the EHR program.
The nurse lead will be a leader respected by fellow ICU nursing staff. The individual will help the developer integrate clinical workflows into the EHR program. As an inspirational leader, the nurse leaders will be expected to influence the nurses to embrace change (EHR). The individual will also strike a consensus among the nurses on issues of nursing workflows. He or she will act as a super-user who will train other nurses after receiving advanced training on the program.
An implementation manager drawn from the administrative staff will oversee the entire project. His or her administrative roles will include monitoring the EHR implementation to avoid delays, ensuring timely procurement of requisite hardware, vendor selection and vetting, and role assignment, among others. The individual will also keep the staff updated on the project’s progress.
The lab lead will be responsible for promoting the EHR program among the laboratory staff. The individual’s input will ensure the application captures all lab workflows and support transition management. He or she will advocate for eHealth and the adoption of EHR in the hospital and address concerns raised by fellow staff.
Evidence Critique Table
|Full APA Citation||Evidence Strength (1-7) and Evidence Hierarchy|
|1. Beach, J. & Oates, J. (2014) Maintaining Best Practice in Record-keeping and Documentation. Nursing Standard, 28(36), 45-50.||7 and practice guidelines|
|2. Shriner, A. & Webber, C. (2014). Attitudes and Perceptions of Pediatric Residents on Transitioning to CPOE. Applied Clinical Informatics, 5(3), 721-730.||4 and prospective study|
|3. Colligan, L., Potts, H., Finn, C., & Sinkin, R. (2015). Cognitive Workload Changes for Nurses Transitioning from Legacy Systems with Paper Documentation to a Commercial Electronic Health Record. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84(7), 469-476.||3 and quasi-experimental|
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|5. Hawley, G., Jackson, C., Hepworth, J., & Wilkinson, S. (2014). Sharing of Clinical Data in a Maternity Setting: How do Paper Hand-held Records and Electronic Health Records Compare for Completeness?. BMC Health Services Research, 14(1), 547-563.||4 and cohort-comparison|
One advantage of electronic healthcare documentation is that it enhances the quality and accessibility of clinical records compared to paper-based records. However, an effective transition is needed for a successful EHR implementation. In a study by Colligan, Potts, Finn, and Sinkin (2015), computer attitude scores of most nurses were found to initially correlate with increased workload perceptions during a top-down EHR implementation to replace a paper documentation system. This finding shows that negative or variations in attitudes should be expected during the early stages of EHR adoption. The authors conclude that long-term technical support, coupled with individual-centered training, can support the transitioning and “meaningful use” of EHRs by the clinical staff (Colligan et al., 2015, p. 474).
Meaningful use requires users/providers to embrace best practices in electronic record keeping. Beach and Oates (2014) hold that nursing documentation practices should be aligned to the changing clinician-patient relationship. Drawing on recent public inquiries and legislations such as the Health and Social Care Act, the authors advocate for multidisciplinary collaboration in using EHRs to plan and evaluate care and involve patients as a key aspect of professional best practices.
The collaborative working should extend to the writing of patient records, which should reflect professional standards of the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) with regard to terminology, structure, and content (Beach & Oates, 2014). Another suggested best practice in EHR implementation is effective information governance to ensure safe storage and sharing of patient health information to satisfy privacy requirements.
Further, the use of EHRs has been shown to improve the sharing and availability of clinical data to authorized clinical staff. A study comparing hand-held paper records (PHRs) and EHRs in a maternity clinic found that more complete records of “urine culture, glucose tolerance test, nuchal screening, tobacco smoking, domestic violence assessments, and immunizations,” among others, were captured using the EHRs than with the PHRs (Hawley, Jackson, Hepworth, & Wilkinson, 2014, p. 561).
However, records of blood pressure, levels of antibodies, and rubella diagnosis did not differ significantly between EHRs and PHRs with regard to completeness. These findings show that EHRs give quality, complete, and up-to-date antenatal data to improve patient safety. Additionally, electronic documentation facilitates information exchange between providers, as it supports authorized access to the system by staff to retrieve patient information.
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A systematic review by Razaeibagha, Win, and Susilo (2015) examined the privacy issues related to EHRs. An analysis of the findings of 55 studies based on ISO standards yielded 13 key aspects of EHR security and privacy. Among the key technical features were “access control, compliance with security, interoperability, policies and regulations, and scalability,” among others (Razaeibagha et al., 2015, p. 26). Technical features that ensure authorized access can protect the privacy of patient health records. In addition, institutional policies and guidelines to govern the use of EHRs can help the provider/clinician attain meaningful use requirements. The interoperability aspect of the systems supports the sharing of patient data securely, billing, and reporting to federal agencies.
Effective management of attitudes and perceptions can reduce resistance to change in clinical settings. In a prospective study by Shriner and Webber (2014), up to 80% of pediatric residents preferred the CPOE tool in the EHR to paper orders a year after its implementation. In contrast, a non-significant number (3.3%) held that the hospital should revert to the paper documentation system. Further, no significant differences were found in the time spent entering admission orders using CPOE vs. paper records 12 months post-implementation.
This finding shows that EHR adaptation by the clinical staff requires adequate technical support and training to make them more knowledgeable and reduce negative perceptions about the product. Therefore, adequate technology resources and ongoing technical support are required for effective utilization of EHRs, especially during the transition period.
Recommend Best Practice
The adoption of EHRs enhances access to complete clinical records, which results in improved patient care and operational efficiency. However, inadequacies associated with the software learning curve during the initial stage of EHR implementation can limit its use (Colligan et al., 2015). I would recommend change management, which is a classic best practice for transitioning staff when implementing new technology.
The concerns of EHR users, including high workload perceptions and attitudes, could be addressed through change management. A successful change management strategy entails defining the business case for the change. For the ICU setting, a unit-level business case could be to enhance physician access to patient records while on call. It also encompasses continuous monitoring of risks and emergent issues, having an effective communication plan to update stakeholders, education and training, and personal counseling to manage concerns and attitudes.
The smaller ICU practice setting should seek to support personal skills and dedication to collaborate and share patient data during EHR implementation. The change management strategy should stress the practical aspects of the new technology to promote buy-in from the stakeholder groups. Wide consultations with the stakeholders right from the planning phase is required to capture lab/nursing workflows and support a smooth transition, as opposed to a top-down approach. Further, post-implementation technical support and training are needed to enable physician practice groups to use other EHR features such as CPOE. Most importantly, a practice-level ownership of the change process and EHR implementation is important, as change is often an intrinsically generated behavior.
Practice Change Model
Kotter’s multi-step change management model is appropriate for the transition from paper documentation to electronic documentation in the ICU practice. The three-phase model requires one to conceptualize change as a “journey for the entire organization” that would transform the current practice, i.e., paper documentation, into an envisioned practice that utilizes technology to support efficiency in care delivery (National Learning Consortium, 2013, p. 4). Its three phases include establishing pro-change conditions, engaging and empowering the institution, and adopting and sustaining the successes (National Learning Consortium, 2013).
An EHR initiative is an impetus for an institutional culture change to reflect the state envisioned by the practice. Kotter’s change model is relevant to the proposed change at the ICU unit because it focuses on changing how people work to achieve and sustain anticipated levels of practice efficiency. The EHR program will replace the paper records currently in use at the ICU unit. It will promote staff effectiveness and efficiency, and therefore, support practice transformation. A holistic ICU practice change must be supported by technology and innovation (Hoonakker et al., 2013). The EHR will not only automate the current paper records, but it will also integrate the ICU processes into improved practice.
Another important dimension of the change model is its focus on people. Managing human resources is crucial to achieving a successful change process because it promotes organizational culture change. Most technology initiatives fail because project leaders do not consider people factors and dynamics in the organizational context (National Learning Consortium, 2013). A change initiative may cause uncertainty, breed the fear of possible job loss, and create negative perceptions towards the technology. One way of overcoming these challenges during the proposed EHR project at the unit is through staff involvement during the planning, execution, and evaluation stages.
Model to Guide Implementation
One of Kotter’s principles is establishing a “vision for the future state” when planning for a change initiative (National Learning Consortium, 2013, p. 6). Moving from paper to EHR would require clear communication of the vision or goals of the project to the ICU staff. The model also holds that one must identify a guiding coalition and create a sense of urgency to create pro-change conditions. Similarly, in EHR implementation, one must identify nurse/physician champions to spearhead the change and create a project plan. Therefore, the ICU unit must define a vision for the change initiative that reflects its goal of achieving a fully automated and integrated EHR system at the unit.
In the second phase, the implementation team is required to engage and empower staff in order to realize a predetermined ‘future state’ of affairs. It further requires constant communication of the envisioned state through vendor demonstrations and staff visits to facilities already using EHR to the stakeholders (National Learning Consortium, 2013). Similarly, in implementing EHR at the unit, staff involvement during system selection and adoption as well as usability evaluation would be considered a best practice. It also requires staff training to equip users with relevant skills, dispel fears related to a possible job loss, and assure them that the initiative is in their best interests.
The final phase of Kotter’s model emphasizes sustaining the changes through staff retraining, technical support, and staff motivation (National Learning Consortium, 2013). This principle can be realized in the EHR implementation at the unit through a feedback mechanism, rewarding key staff, and retraining of staff for improved workflow efficiency.
Barriers to Implementation
The top barrier to the successful implementation of EHRs, as cited by clinicians, relates to the costs versus benefits of the technology (Ajami & Arab-Chadegani, 2013). The failure uses EHRs meaningfully at the facility and practitioner levels mean that the institution may not benefit from the federal incentive program or reimbursements (Ajami & Arab-Chadegani, 2013). EHR adoption requires a major resource investment; hence, it may be a costly undertaking for the smaller practice setting, such as the ICU. Furthermore, there is a feeling that EHRs ultimately benefits the patient and payers, not the providers.
Technical malfunctions and limited interoperability also present another set of challenges to users. The issue of privacy of patient health information is paramount in healthcare settings. Therefore, concerns about the privacy of electronic patient records can be a barrier to effective EHR implementation. Commercial EHR programs are not standardized, i.e., they use different code sets (Ajami & Arab-Chadegani, 2013). This multiplicity of data standards makes it difficult to share or transmit information across multiple platforms.
Institutions implementing an EHR project often lack a well-trained workforce to drive the process. It is essential to have nurse/physician champions skilled in healthcare informatics to inspire staff to embrace the technology. It would be difficult to obtain a consensus among staff over the content or structure of the EHR code sets without having an influential physician/nurse champion. EHR implementation initially disrupts normal workflows within a practice area. Therefore, challenges associated with software used during the early phase of the implementation process may create the perception that the technology is difficult to use and raise calls for a reversion to paper records (Colligan et al., 2015).
The electronic health record contains vital information related to the patient. Therefore, while the physician and the facility may own the EHR, the ultimate owner of the data in the record is the patient (Ozair, Jamshed, Sharma, & Aggarwal, 2015). The planning or implementation of the EHR project at the ICU unit has potential implications for the privacy and confidentiality of patient information. Patient health data is protected from other people or institutions unless through his/her consent or a legal requirement.
An interoperable EHR should support information sharing across platforms or between providers. This feature may compromise patient confidentiality if institutions, e.g., insurance firms, are able to access the information. To overcome this problem, in planning for the EHR project at the unit, each user will be assigned a username and password that grants a certain level of access to the patient’s health record based on the individual’s roles.
The project could also have implications for system implementation. Successful implementation requires one to involve the clinical personnel in workflow design, choice of EHR, and performance improvement (Ozair et al., 2015). The failure to involve users could result in a dysfunctional user interface, which will reduce efficiency and increase the medical error risk. Prior testing of the EHR application may be necessary to identify malfunctions that may cause practice disruptions during implementation.
Ajami, S., & Arab-Chadegani, R. (2013). Barriers to Implement Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Materia Socio-Medica, 25(3), 213-215.
Beach, J., & Oates, J. (2014) Maintaining Best Practice in Record-keeping and Documentation. Nursing Standard, 28(36), 45-50.
Colligan, L., Potts, H., Finn, C., & Sinkin, R. (2015). Cognitive Workload Changes for Nurses Transitioning from Legacy System with Paper Documentation to a Commercial Electronic Health Record. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84(7), 469-476.
Hawley, G., Jackson, C., Hepworth, J., & Wilkinson, S. (2014). Sharing of Clinical Data in a Maternity Setting: How do Paper Hand-held Records and Electronic Health Records Compare for Completeness?. BMC Health Services Research, 14(1), 547-563.
Hoonakker, P., Carayon, P., Brown, R., Cartmill, R., Wetterneck, T., & Walker, J. (2013). Changes in End-user Satisfaction with Computerized Provider Order Entry over Time among Nurses and Providers in Intensive Care Units. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20, 252–259.
National Learning Consortium. (2013). Change Management in EHR Implementation. Web.
Ozair, F., Jamshed, N., Sharma, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2015). Ethical Issues in Electronic Health Records: A General Overview. Perspectives in Clinical Research, 6(2), 73-76.
Razaeibagha, F., Win, K., & Susilo, W. (2015). A Systematic Literature Review on Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Record Systems: Technical Perspectives. Health Information Management Journal, 44(3), 23-38.
Shriner, A., & Webber, C. (2014). Attitudes and Perceptions of Pediatric Residents on Transitioning to CPOE. Applied Clinical Informatics, 5(3), 721-730.
Syed, S., Wang, D., Goulard, D., Rich, T., Innes, G., & Lang, E. (2013). Computer Order Entry Systems in the Emergency Department Significantly Reduce the Time to Medication Delivery for High Acuity Patients. International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 6(1), 20-31.
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At present, there are three main processes for manufacturing SMS products (SMS non-woven fabric), "one-step process", "two-step process" and "one step and half process".
The one-step process is characterized by using raw material slice, using two processes of spun-bond and meltblown, directly spinning the raw material into a net after melting. As long as the spinning system engineering of the different process is arranged reasonably, the product can have a different structure. After laminating each layer of fibre mesh, it is usually consolidated into cloth by the hot rolling mill. The one-step process is characterized by the direct spinning of the melt into a web, and the state of each spinning system can be adjusted independently. The production process has strong controllability, good sanitary conditions, high operation speed, the ability to adjust the proportion of each layer of fibre mesh at will, and the ability to produce various specifications of SMS products, which is the mainstream technology today.
two-step process: when SMS products are produced by two-step method, spin bonded fabric products and meltblown fabric products are detailed and laminated in a certain order and then consolidated by hot rolling machine to form SMS products. The two-step method is characterized by simple equipment and low cost. In fact, the "two-step" technology is also widely used laminated composite technology. It can also composite other materials, and use different other materials, and use different methods, such as ultrasonic, hot-melt adhesive, etc., to consolidate three layers of materials together.
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11-08-2009, 09:01 AM
Recently, I witnessed different initial footwork and arm movements in ushiro ryotedori
My first exposure to ushiro ryotedori can be seen in Yamada Sensei's demonstration here (technique starts at 4:40)
Ushiro ryotedori kotegaeshi 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtv5Th-wh-c&feature=PlayList&p=AADB37C97B6044B9&index=15)
(Note how both hands come up as Yamada Sensei steps out)
If I understand correctly, the double hand lift is mainly to off-balance uke by making him overextend forward
Then, I've also seen the following:
Ushiro tekubi tori kotagaeshi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzwY7tdtH8&feature=channel)
(Note how one hand comes up while the other stays at tori's hips)
The second method appears to rely more on using body movement to swing uke to the side, and extending the hand on the forward leg to escape on the other side. It seems to extend the idea of tenchi nage, where uke's energy is split before tori steps out of the grip.
This second method also seems quite popular, but I *am curious* who started this style of movement, as it does not appear in the usual texts
Would also be really interested to hear everyone's views and experience on different ways of moving and getting out of ushiro ryotedori or tekubutori :)
11-08-2009, 10:55 AM
The 1st method is a beginning method. There a few ways of doing it and this is perhaps the most common for aikikai. Certainly in shinshintoitsu I've seen 2 other beginning method which really involves the direction that nage moves towards.
The 2nd method looks like he was trying for kino nagare. Here the problem for beginners would be that they will try to go for the hand below and also rely too much on the 'atemi' from the raised hand. In this method if awase hasn't been achieved, kuzushi won't be there. And if kuzushi isn't there, nage is liable to get hit from the quite centered uke. As to how it extends from tenchi nage... hmm well, only if nage is doing aiki age on the up hand and aiki sage on the down hand I suppose. I didn't see it here though.
Since you're also interested in other ways. Another way in shinshintoitsu will take place if uke has nage's hands behind his back. There instead of bring the hands forward and up, nage leaves it behind and bring his hands together by moving his hips in hanmi. One of nage's hands grab uke's wrist. From there he moves uke with his center and swings him around and executes kotegaishe.
11-08-2009, 11:18 AM
Saito Sensei has a whole series from ushiro ryote, with several different variations. I don't have the time to find the video clip at the moment, but I'm sure if this post sticks around it will pop up.
I think Ueshiba did lots of different things, and you'll see slightly different variations of all escapes from different teachers depending on what phase he was in when that teacher studied with him.
Also because of the technical similarities between Aikido and many Koryu Jujutsu you'll see plenty of cross-overs. It'd be pretty hard to pin down exactly where this variation originates from.
11-08-2009, 03:42 PM
Popping up... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNB4EcmfNw#t=0m51s
There are quite a few of ushiro techniques in that video
11-08-2009, 09:24 PM
We have been doing a lot of ushiro waza but the dynamic version is the most difficult anyone know of a video on this.
11-09-2009, 07:42 AM
As to how it extends from tenchi nage... hmm well, only if nage is doing aiki age on the up hand and aiki sage on the down hand I suppose. I didn't see it here though.
Not quite tenchi nage... but here is an example of splitting uke's energy with the same technique
Ushiro tekubi tori kokyunage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r_GxaLP_lM&feature=channel)
The 2nd method looks like he was trying for kino nagare
I thought you could go for ki no nagare in the first method as well
Yamada Sensei (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJsh-jSjns)
... But I think the 'one-hand' method works well when uke is smaller then you, as explained here
Wedell Sensei (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrj_nFgNlM&feature=related)
Since you're also interested in other ways. Another way in shinshintoitsu will take place if uke has nage's hands behind his back.
I've seen this one before... and since I started Aikido in Shinshintoitsu, I believe the basic method is to scoop the hands in front (palms up), and then swing the hands around at the top (palms down) while shifting to one side.
There's also this interesting footwork, with the foot shifting immediately to one side
Tamura Sensei - Ki Society (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PUbroHXVWM&feature=PlayList&p=96F6E9C4D72D2F96&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7#t=0m38s)
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The Wisdom Global School is well equipped with modern computing facilities for students
and teachers. Its information technology based learning solutions, multimedia experience,
e-resources and high speed internet connectivity over 10mbps are useful instruments
for enlarging students overall knowledge and perspectives.
Computer Science is taught as a compulsory subject that spans over the elementary,
middle, secondary and senior secondary level. Several computer science electives
are offered to senior secondary students.
Our Computer Lab is equipped with 40 computers and is open to all students.
All computers have access to applications for word processing,
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like LOGO, BASIC, HTML, C and C++. The computers are equipped with network access
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HÀ NỘI — One evening, doctors at Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital received a red alarm from the Emergency Department.
A female patient had arrived in the emergency room in a state of confusion. She had trouble speaking and paralysis on the right side of the body.
After examination and the necessary tests, doctors diagnosed the patient as suffering a stroke caused by atrial fibrillation and tachy-brady syndrome.
After consultation, it was decided the patient needed a permanent pacemaker. The surgery was performed that night.
It was incredibly successful. The patient was in stable health condition and discharged from the hospital four days later, to the joy of family and relatives.
This was one of the thousands of timely life-saving cases that Vietnamese doctors successfully performed at the Chợ Rẫy- Phnom Penh Hospital in the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The hospital has become a trusted address where Cambodians seek medical help in emergencies in recent years.
Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital was put into operation in 2014 under a project of investment cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia. Most of the doctors there were transferred from Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City to work at the hospital.
Director of Chợ Rẫy Hospital Nguyễn Tri Thức in HCM City said on average, the hospital sent 400 to 500 times of medical staff and experts to work at the hospital. Many held key positions in charge of running the hospital.
Doctors usually hold online consultations to give medical support and take trips to promptly protect the lives of patients in Cambodia. Many high-tech techniques have been deployed for the first time by Vietnamese doctors and then transferred to Cambodian doctors, such as orthopaedic surgery, pacemaker installation, and artificial kidney work.
"Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital is a non-profit model, so the fees are quite reasonable compared to the quality services. The goal of this hospital is the health of Cambodian people", he said.
During the most intense period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, the hospital became a treatment site for COVID-19 patients, providing medical care and vaccines, and distributing rice and financial support to patients in need.
Tôn Thanh Trà, General Director of Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital, said he did not go home for more than one year.
The border closed and the Cambodian people needed doctors. He stayed with his teammates to help fight the pandemic.
"The hospital management board worked very hard to ensure the safety of patients, their relatives and doctors and nurses here as local people stuck with their habit of visiting their sick members in droves," he said.
'I come for Vietnamese doctors'
So Thoeurn, a Cambodian tour guide, said he usually guided many Cambodians to travel on the National Highway No. 1 to HCM City for medical treatment.
But since the hospital was put into operation, few asked him to take that kind of trip.
“Vietnamese doctors are very talented. I have guided a lot of people to Việt Nam for medical treatment. They have Cambodian people's trust,” he said.
Phan Vi Chet, a Cambodian doctor, said patients sometimes insisted on having treatment from Vietnamese doctors.
"I heard some patients say they came for Vietnamese doctors, to get treatment from Vietnamese doctors," he said.
Venerable Tep Vong, head of Cambodian monks, also chooses the hospital when having health problems.
Dr Trần Thanh Tùng recalled his three years working as General Director of Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital between 2016-2019.
At that time, Tùng was also head of the Department of Hematology at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City. Every week, he sat on the bus back and forth between the two countries. When there was a complicated medical case, he and his colleagues immediately set off for Cambodia to promptly save the patient’s life.
After completing the surgery, they returned to Việt Nam without any rest because 'many patients are waiting'.
"Doctors had to sacrifice both the rare rest time or the moment of family reunification, but we gain Cambodian people's trust in return. That makes our sacrifice extremely worthwhile," he said.
As planned, Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital will increase its capacity to 300 patient beds and implement complicated techniques such as continuous dialysis, orthopaedic surgery, and coronary artery stent.
Vietnamese doctors’ trips to save lives in Cambodia and online consultations keep going on. Some even decided to stay and start a new life in Cambodia.
Đinh Thị Nguyệt Ánh, a nurse with ten years of experience working at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City, decided to settle down in Cambodia after a short time of working for Chợ Rẫy-Phnom Penh Hospital.
After overcoming barriers in language, culture, and cuisine, Doctor Trần Nữ Hoàng Yến said she wanted to stick with the country for a long time.
"Most of the patients are still in very difficult circumstances. They do not have much access to medical services, so I always want to give the best treatment and care to the patients. Patients, whoever or wherever they are, need good healthcare services," she shared.
The hospital has helped Vietnamese doctors find their second home, and become the place where Cambodian people put their trust in improving their health.— VNS
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Greater NW Pride: Separate and Not Equal
Greater NW Pride: Separate and Not Equal
Separate and Not Equal: People with Disabilities and the LGBTQ+ Community
There is no secret in the community of people with disabilities that, up to and through 1990 with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, life in modern American society has been “complicated,” to say the least. Through the 1950s and 1960s, people with disabilities—which then included the deaf community; people who were visually impaired or blind; people with physical disabilities of various kinds; people with intellectual disabilities (aka, the “mentally retarded”) and people living with a certain mental illness)—life was a series of institutions, a product of the 18thand 19thcentury. In the 18thand 19thcentury, many institutions were created to host people with disabilities because of the atrocious conditions by which people with disabilities were treated in society. By the turn of the 20thcentury, there was a change in mindset: institutions were created to protect society from people with disabilities. They were separated out of society-at-large. Out of sight, out of mind. People with disabilities simply were not considered as part of “normal” society. People outside of the institutions were either scared of people in the institutions from simply ignorance for the reason for a disability, treating those institutionalized as either objects of charity or scorn, with parents and families of those institutionalized wondering what caused the handicapping condition, like a previous sin in the family. Churches, along with other communities of faith, did not welcome people with disabilities. Some people who were disabled were brought to religious services only to be healed, with faith healers calling the “devil” out of people. To get a quick summary of what “normal” looked like, consider the television family sitcom from the 1950s and 60s: white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, straight, cisgender, largely middle class, with few people even wearing eye glasses. Think “Jackie Gleason Show,” “Donna Reed Show,” “Father Knows Best” and the “Dick Van Dyke” shows, to name a few. Again, people with disabilities were largely institutionalized and not a part of the American “dream” of normality.
As a parallel, people who were LGBTQ , largely known in those days simply by the clinical term as “homosexuals,” were also, like people with disabilities, largely out of sight and out of mind in these family sitcoms of the 50s and 60s. We, too, were not part of the “normal” of American society. Indeed, like those who were institutionalized because of their disability, being a “homosexual” was a disability, according to the American Psychiatric Association. In the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM), version DSM I and DSM II, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder, in which people could get paid billable hours to diagnose and try to prevent homosexuality. Those of us who are LGBTQ were considered having a psychiatric condition that needed to be cured, up to DSM III, published in 1973, in which homosexuality was dropped as a psychiatric condition. Note: The United Methodist Church adopted the line, “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching” in 1972, which homosexuality was still considered as a psychiatric condition in the surrounding society. Also, like people who were institutionalized because of one’s disability, those who were labeled as “homosexuals” were also put under psychiatric care, or their parents or family members wondered who sinned that a person was a “homosexual,” and we were either people who would receive charity (though rarely) and largely scorn. We were separated out of society. Churches, along with other communities of faith, did not welcome those who were considered homosexuals. Some people who were homosexuals were brought to religious services only to be healed, with faith healers calling the “devil” out of people. Indeed, to be considered a “homosexual” up to and through the 70s was to be considered one with a disability, or the term of choice in those days, handicapped, and needing to be cured, made whole, to be made “normal” in American society, or institutionalized: out of sight and out of mind.
Do you see the same parallel arguments for the exclusion of people with disabilities and people who were considered “homosexuals”, both in society and the Church? And even though the Bible has Jesus reaching out and showing compassion to people who are disabled, e.g., the man who is blind, John 9, the Church still has an awkward (my assessment) relationship with people who are considered disabled. There is much work to be done in the Church regarding its welcome of people with disabilities. There is even more work to do be done by the Church in relationship with people who are LGBTQ , even though Jesus said nothing about people who are LGBTQ+.
Many things changed for the community of people with disabilities, such as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1976), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), providing civil rights for people with disabilities in the public square, and some churches and denominations began to think about mainstreaming and inclusion programs. The same cannot be said about those of us who are of the LGBTQ+ community and the Church. Next week, the focus will be on welcoming, and the process of showing hospitality to those people who are considered disabled, and those of us who are LGBTQ+.
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This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status.
The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995.
Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures : delay in seeking care for the current complaint, no physician visit in the previous year, and no emergency department visit in the previous year.
After clinical and socioeconomic characteristics were controlled, lacking a regular physician was a stronger, more consistent predictor than insurance status of delay in seeking care (odds ratio [OR]=1.6,95% confidence interval [CI]=1.2,2.1), no physician visit (OR=4.5,95% CI=3.3,6.1), and no emergency department visit (OR=1.8,95% CI=1.4,2.4).
For patients with a regular physician, access was no different between the uninsured and the privately insured.
For privately insured patients, those with no regular physician had worse access than those with a regular physician.
Among patients presenting to emergency departments, relationship with a regular physician is a stronger predictor than insurance status of access to care.
Mots-clés Pascal : Accessibilité, Soin, Facteur prédictif, Médecin, Personnel sanitaire, Consultation, Assurance maladie, Homme, Massachusetts, Etats Unis, Amérique du Nord, Amérique, Médecin famille, Consultation régulière
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Accessibility, Care, Predictive factor, Physician, Health staff, Consultation, Health insurance, Human, Massachusetts, United States, North America, America
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
"Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich signed a measure on Tuesday intended to allow all children in Illinois, including those in working-class and middle-class families, to obtain health insurance. National experts on health care said the new law, which will offer discounts on premiums for those who qualify, was the broadest plan to insure children by any state. Political leaders in other states, the experts said, are certain to be watching whether Illinois succeeds in expanding coverage to its 250,000 children who are now uninsured, about half of whom are not from the poorest families but from families earning more than $40,000 a year. Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat, said he hoped that the move would lead the way for a nation that needs to face a growing problem of middle-income families who cannot afford insurance premiums.
"It's about time that the middle class get some help and the working class get some help," he said in an interview. "Our kids come first, and what's the most important thing for kids? That they're safe and healthy."
Within hours of the signing on the Southwest Side of Chicago, residents submitted contact information to enroll online, though the benefits do not begin until July. By the end of the day, hundreds of people had written in, Mr. Blagojevich's office said. Although few people here wanted to be viewed as opposing children's having insurance, a concept that one skeptical legislator compared to siding against motherhood or apple pie, Mr. Blagojevich has his doubters. Critics of the program, which the governor says will cost $45 million in its first year, said they feared that such a sweeping offer could end up costing far more at a time when the state's budget is strained and that it might turn Illinois into a refuge for families from other states desperate to insure their children." By Monica Davey, NYTimes.com Link to Article (last visited 11-16-05 NVS).
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Anna Bhau Sathe
by Bajrang Korde
Written in English.
About the Book
On the life and works of Anna Bhau Sathe, 1920-1969, Marathi author.
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[Go to TOC]
Module 1—Introduction to Matter, Energy, and Direct Current
i - ix
, 1-1 to 1-10
1-11 to 1-20
, 1-21 to 1-30
1-41 to 1-50
, 1-51 to 1-60
1-61 to 1-65
, 2-1 to 2-10
2-11 to 2-20
, 2-21 to 2-29
3-1 to 3-10
, 3-11 to 3-20
3-21 to 3-30
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3-41 to 3-50
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3-61 to 3-70
, 3-71 to 3-80
3-81 to 3-90
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3-101 to 110
, 3-111 to 3-120
3-121 to 3-126
, Appendix I
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Identify the term schematic diagram and identify the components in a circuit from a simple schematic diagram.
2. State the equation for Ohm’s law and describe the effects on current caused by changes in a circuit.
3. Given simple graphs current versus power and voltage versus power, determine the value circuit
power for a given current and voltage.
4. Identify the term power, and state three formulas for
5. Compute circuit and component power in series, parallel, and combination
6. Compute the efficiency an electrical device.
7. Solve for unknown
quantities resistance, current, and voltage in a series circuit.
8. Describe how voltage polarities
are assigned to the voltage drops across resistors when Kirchhoff's voltage law is used.
the voltage at the reference point in a circuit.
10. Define open and short circuits and describe their effects
on a circuit.
11. State the meaning the term source resistance and describe its effect on a circuit.
12. Describe in terms circuit values the circuit condition needed for maximum power transfer.
efficiency power transfer in a circuit.
14. Solve for unknown quantities resistance, current, and voltage
in a parallel circuit.
15. State the significance the polarity assigned to a current when using Kirchhoff's
16. State the meaning the term equivalent resistance.
17. Compute resistance, current,
voltage, and power in voltage dividers.
18. Describe the method by which a single voltage divider can provide
both positive and negative voltages.
19. Recognize the safety precautions associated with the hazard electrical
20. Identify the first aid procedures for a victim electrical shock.
The material covered in this chapter contains many new terms that are explained as you progress through the
material. The basic dc circuit is the easiest to understand, so the chapter begins with the basic circuit and from
there works into the basic schematic diagram that circuit. The schematic diagram is used in all your future work
in electricity and electronics. It is very important that you become familiar with the symbols that are used.
This chapter also explains how to determine the total resistance, current, voltage, and power in a series, parallel,
or combination circuit through the use Ohm’s and Kirchhoff's laws. The voltage divider network, series, parallel,
and series-parallel practice problem circuits will be used for practical examples what you have learned.
THE BASIC ELECTRIC CIRCUIT
The flashlight is an example a basic electric circuit. It contains a source electrical energy (the dry cells
in the flashlight), a load (the bulb) which changes the electrical energy into a more useful form energy (light),
and a switch to control the energy delivered to the load.
Before you study a schematic representation the
flashlight, it is necessary to define certain terms. The LOAD is any device through which an electrical current
flows and which changes this electrical energy into a more useful form. Some common examples loads are a light bulb,
which changes electrical energy to light energy; an electric motor, which changes electrical energy into mechanical
energy; and the speaker in a radio, which changes electrical energy into sound. The SOURCE is the device which furnishes
the electrical energy used by the load. It may consist a simple dry cell (as in a flashlight), a storage battery
(as in an automobile), or a power supply (such as a battery charger). The SWITCH, which permits control the electrical
device, interrupts the current delivered to the load.
The technician’s main aid in troubleshooting a circuit
in a piece equipment is the SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM. The schematic diagram is a “picture“ the circuit that uses symbols
to represent the various circuit components; physically large or complex circuits can be shown on a relatively small
diagram. Before studying the basic schematic, look at figure 3-1. This figure shows the symbols that are used in
this chapter. These, and others like them, are referred to and used throughout the study electricity and electronics.
Figure 3-1.—Symbols commonly used in electricity.
The schematic in figure 3-2 represents a flashlight. View A the figure shows the flashlight in the f or
deenergized state. The switch (Si) is open. There is no complete path for current (I) through the circuit, and the
bulb (DSi) does not light. In figure 3-2 view B, switch Si is closed. Current flows in the direction the arrows
from the negative terminal the battery (BAT), through the switch (Si), through the lamp (DSi), and back to the positive
terminal the battery. With the switch closed the path for current is complete. Current will continue to flow until
the switch (Si) is moved to the open position or the battery is completely discharged.
Figure 3-2.—Basic flashlight schematic.
Q1. In figure 3-2, what part the circuit is the (a) load and (b) source?
Q2. What happens
to the path for current when Si is open as shown in figure 3-2(A)?
Q3. What is the name given to the
“picture“ a circuit such as the one shown in figure 3-2?
In the early part the 19th century, George Simon Ohm proved by experiment that a precise relationship exists
between current, voltage, and resistance. This relationship is called Ohm’s law and is stated as follows:
The current in a circuit is DIRECTLY proportional to the applied voltage and INVERSELY proportional to the circuit
resistance. Ohm’s law may be expressed as an equation:
As stated in Ohm’s law, current is inversely proportional to resistance. This means, as the resistance in
a circuit increases, the current decreases proportionately.
In the equation
if any two quantities are known, the third one can be determined. Refer to figure 3-2(B), the schematic
the flashlight. If the battery (BAT) supplies a voltage 1.5 volts and the lamp (DS1) has a resistance 5 ohms, then
the current in the circuit can be determined. Using this equation and substituting values:
If the flashlight were a two-cell flashlight, we would have twice the voltage, or 3.0 volts, applied to
the circuit. Using this voltage in the equation:
You can see that the current has doubled as the voltage has doubled. This demonstrates that the current
is directly proportional to the applied voltage.
If the value resistance the lamp is doubled, the equation
The current has been reduced to one half the value the previous equation, or .3 ampere. This demonstrates
that the current is inversely proportional to the resistance. Doubling the value the resistance the load reduces
circuit current value to one half its former value.APPLICATION OHM’S LAW
By using Ohm’s law, you are able to find the resistance a circuit, knowing only the voltage and the current
in the circuit.
In any equation, if all the variables (parameters) are known except one, that unknown can
be found. For example, using Ohm’s law, if current (I) and voltage (E) are known, resistance (R) the only parameter
not known, can be determined:
1. Basic formula:
2. Remove the divisor by multiplying both sides by R:
3. Result step 2: R x I = E
4. To get R alone (on one side the equation) divide both sides by I:
5. The basic formula, transposed for R, is:
Refer to figure 3-3 where E equals 10 volts and I equals 1 ampere. Solve for R, using the equation just
Given: E = 10 volts
I = 1 ampere
Figure 3-3.—Determining resistance in a basic circuit.
This equation can be used to find the voltage for the circuit shown in figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4.—Determining voltage in a basic circuit.
The Ohm’s law equation and its various forms may be obtained readily with the aid figure 3-5. The circle
containing E, I, and R is divided into two parts, with E above the line and with I and R below the line. To determine
the unknown quantity, first cover that quantity with a finger. The position the uncovered letters in the circle
will indicate the mathematical operation to be performed. For example, to find I, cover I with a finger. The uncovered
letters indicate that E is to be divided by R, or
To find the formula for E, cover E with your finger. The result indicates that I is to be multiplied by
R, or E = IR. To find the formula for R, cover R. The result indicates that E is to be divided by I, or
Figure 3-5.—Ohm’s law in diagram form.
You are cautioned not to rely wholly on the use this diagram when you transpose the Ohm’s law formulas.
The diagram should be used to supplement your knowledge the algebraic method. Algebra is a basic tool in the solution
Q4. According to Ohm’s law, what happens to circuit current if the applied voltage
(a) increases, (b) decreases?
Q5. According to Ohm’s law, what happens to circuit current if circuit
resistance (a) increases, (b) decreases?
Q6. What is the equation used to find circuit resistance if
voltage and current values are known?GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS THE BASIC CIRCUIT
most valuable methods analyzing a circuit is by constructing a graph. No other method provides a more convenient
or more rapid way to observe the characteristics an electrical device.
The first step in constructing a graph is to obtain a table data. The information in the table can be
obtained by taking measurements on the circuit under examination, or can be obtained theoretically through a series
Ohm’s law computations. The latter method is used here.
Since there are three variables (E, I, and R) to
be analyzed, there are three distinct graphs that may be constructed.
To construct any graph electrical quantities,
it is standard practice to vary one quantity in a specified way and note the changes which occur in a second quantity.
The quantity which is intentionally varied is called the independent variable and is plotted on the horizontal axis.
The horizontal axis is known as the X-AXIS. The second quantity, which varies as a result changes in the first quantity,
is called the dependent variable and is plotted on the vertical, or Y-AXIS. Any other quantities involved are held
For example, in the circuit shown in figure 3-6, if the resistance was held at 10 ohms and the
voltage was varied, the resulting changes in current could then be graphed. The resistance is the constant, the
voltage is the independent variable, and the current is the dependent variable.
Figure 3-6.—Three variables in a basic circuit.
Figure 3-7 shows the graph and a table values. This table shows R held constant at 10 ohms as E is varied
from 0 to 20 volts in 5-volt steps. Through the use Ohm’s law, you can calculate the value current for each value
voltage shown in the table. When the table is complete, the information it contains can be used to construct the
graph shown in figure 3-7. For example, when the voltage applied to the 10-ohm resistor is 10 volts, the current
is 1 ampere. These values current and voltage determine a point on the graph. When all five points have been plotted,
a smooth curve is drawn through the points.
Figure 3-7.—Volt-ampere characteristic.
Through the use this curve, the value current through the resistor can be quickly determined for any value
voltage between 0 and 20 volts.
Since the curve is a straight line, it shows that equal changes voltage across
the resistor produce equal changes in current through the resistor. This fact illustrates an important characteristic
the basic law—the current varies directly with the applied voltage when the resistance is held constant.
When the voltage across a load is held constant, the current depends solely upon the resistance the load. For example,
figure 3-8 shows a graph with the voltage held constant at 12 volts. The independent variable is the resistance
which is varied from 2 ohms to 12 ohms. The current is the dependent variable. Values for current can be calculated
Introduction to Matter, Energy, and Direct Current,
to Alternating Current and Transformers, Introduction to Circuit Protection,
Control, and Measurement
, Introduction to Electrical Conductors, Wiring Techniques,
and Schematic Reading
, Introduction to Generators and Motors
Introduction to Electronic Emission, Tubes, and Power Supplies,
Introduction to Solid-State Devices and Power Supplies
Introduction to Amplifiers, Introduction to
Wave-Generation and Wave-Shaping Circuits
, Introduction to Wave Propagation, Transmission
Lines, and Antennas
, Microwave Principles,
, Introduction to Number Systems and Logic Circuits, Introduction
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Introduction to Test Equipment
, Radar Principles,
The Technician's Handbook,
Master Glossary, Test Methods and Practices,
Introduction to Digital Computers,
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The original funnel solar panel cooker was inspired by the CooKit. This efficient solar panel cooker was developed in 2007 using sheets of polypropylene. Recycled windows of clothes washing machines were used to create the greenhouse effect around the pot.
Funnel Concrete Cooker version
A variation of the cooker made of concrete and common mirrors has been tested since 2009. Some of the main advantages of this solar cooker are: low cost reproduction in every part of the world using local available common materials, intuitive and practical use, water rain resistant and wind resistant and no risk for fire ignition. The useful heating capacity of this model was estimated around a value of 100 W.
- January 2016: Concrete Funnel Cooker: Useful permanent outside device for slow cooking - Celestino Ruivo (CONSOLFOOD 2016)
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Android APPs Found To Be Leaking Private Data.
Researchers at Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg in Germany have recently published findings stating that they have discovered a number of Android Apps currently available for download are subject to major encryption issues/flaws.
These 41 Apps in the Google Play Store are said to be leaking sensitive data such as credit card information, social networking passwords and email content. During the study researchers used a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smart-phone operating on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and downloaded over 13,000 free Apps for testing, over 1,000 of these Apps were found to contain code that is potentially vulnerable to “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attacks allowing cyber criminals to intercept messages or data that is supposed to be private and secure.
The team manually audited 100 of the downloaded APPs and found that they were able to successfully launch attacks on 41 of them.
The researchers issued the following statement…
“Of the 100 apps selected for manual audit, 41 apps proved to have exploitable vulnerabilities, we could gather bank account information, payment credentials for PayPal, American Express and others. Furthermore, Facebook, email and cloud storage credentials and messages were leaked, access to IP cameras was gained and control channels for apps and remote servers could be subverted.” After retrieving the information, the team said they were “able to inject virus signatures into an anti-virus app to detect arbitrary apps as a virus or disable virus detection completely.”
The researchers did not name the vulnerable APPs but did state that they had successfully attacked a popular cross-platform messaging service which has a user base of between 10 and 50 million users and successfully obtained telephone numbers from users address books.
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Jim Kline: The learning process
March 1, 2014
Personally, I hold to the belief that life is a continuous learning process, and we gain enrichment every day. It’s just that some days, we just have to look a little harder to find it than others.
We all have room to learn more skills, whether ensuring the safe execution of our job responsibilities or the necessary analytical, administrative and interpersonal skills that are needed in our daily lives. However, I suspect there are few people who do not recognize the value of properly preparing employees for the work they will be doing.
I’m not lecturing you on why training is the right thing to do or reminding you that with proper instruction efficiency improves, downtime decreases, accidents decrease, employee retention increases, etc. You already know these things. This is about doing so effectively.
There is a bit of a paradox here: Learning is a life-long process, but conveying that to others is not intuitive to most of us, nor is it something we are taught (with the exception of those who dedicate themselves to the field of education).
This situation carries over into our work. Many people use the old tried-and-true method of on-the-job training, whereby an experienced and skilled person teaches another employee how to perform specific tasks. Its effectiveness, however, is limited by the chemistry between the individuals, the communications skills of the “teacher” and, to a large degree, the diversity of experience.
Other options include “canned” programs designed to assist us in conducting in-house training programs or the lecture approach, where an expert is brought in-house and runs through a well-crafted presentation. In the end, we are for the most part left on our own to fend for ourselves on how to effectively convey instructions to others.
But as Bob Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin’, ” and so is the approach to providing instruction to adult learners.
We know that younger workers entering the baking industry today want more than just payment for services; they want to feel they are contributing to a greater good. They seek to be included in the greater scheme of things. As a result, instruction needs to go beyond just the basic steps of how to do something; educating should provide why and how their job responsibilities fit into the larger picture. Inclusion is an important part of people’s reception to the training they receive.
Training today also must be multi-faceted to accommodate various types of people and skill levels. We know that everyone learns differently — some using various styles at once. Some of us are visual learners who need to see the information to really absorb it. Others are auditory learners, needing to have information told or explained. And still others are tactile learners, the hands-on types, who learn from doing.
Think about your own style of learning. There are clues: Do you have to write something down to improve your memory? Do you like to be told about things or read about them for yourself? Do you need to take things apart to really understand them?
When you train, you should hit all these fronts to fully capture and engage your learners. The trainer must show, tell, ask and get hands-on into the experience. In fact, today’s approach to continuing education is one that emphasizes interactive and participatory activities and minimizes traditional classroom lectures, which don’t seem to get the job done as well as the participatory approach.
Provide your trainees with good reference documentation that they can call their own — materials they can mark up and refer back to when they have a question and, thus, make meaningful to themselves.
Of course, your processes and/or equipment are proprietary, and you can’t risk providing this information to everyone. I’ve been there and addressed this on many occasions. Get creative and find a way around it: Use a library method where employees can check out their books each day, or have a secure area where they store their materials. One bakery put security sensors in the books. Whatever technique works, use it, but get your trainees the reference material they need.
For any type of training, screen the reference material and distill it down to what the employee needs. Supplier manuals are written for all aspects of the equipment, including safe operation, maintenance, sanitation and more. Break the manual down, and get people the relevant information they need to perform their jobs. And if you have linguistically diverse workers, have the materials translated into their native languages.
Although it may seem a little overwhelming to put into effect, it need not be. Some great resources out there can help; in fact, AIB International is in our backyard. Consider using their “Train the Trainer” program. Such programs allow participants to acquire the skills needed to develop presentation materials, gain effective presentation and teaching techniques, and perhaps most importantly, assess if trainees are grasping the information being presented to them.
In the end, you need employees to perform their jobs satisfactorily, and if they cannot, you must determine if the training is ineffective or if the trainee is not suited for the job.
A well-educated workforce is one of your most valuable assets and certainly a financial investment for the company. Why not make it as effective as you can?
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Wolves in the Fold of Arthur's Britain
The definitive roleplaying sourcebook on the advent of the Angles, Saxon and Jutes in Britain!
The Romans fortified the southeast coast of Britain and called it "the Saxon Shore" to defend against the piracy of these wolves of the sea.
But after the Roman legions left, the tyrant King Vortigern invited them into Britain as mercenaries to fight his enemies. Ambitious and treacherous, they seized Vortigern as a hostage and slaughtered his nobles at Stonehenge during the "Night of the Long Knives." Now, forced forever from their homelands on the Continent, the Saxons are in Britain to stay. Some work for peace. Most others for war. Not even the combined armies of King Arthur can eradicate them, though their power will be broken for a generation after the epochal Battle of Badon.
This is the story of the rise to power of the proud and energetic Germanic peoples who rule the south and east coasts and renamed their new domain "England."
Saxons! is a supplement for the King Arthur Pendragon™ roleplaying game, describing the Germanic invaders of Britain. It provides the history, heroes and culture of the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, plus rules for Saxon character creation and magic.
The full 70-year campaign begins in 449 AD with the advent of he Saxons in Britain and culminates at the Battle of Badon in 518 AD. Discover the detailed geography and politics of the "Saxon Shore" area -- Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex -- described with extensive maps and notes.
Designed for King Arthur Pendragon 4th Edition but can be adapted to other editions easily.
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Universities Join UN-led Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Nairobi, 23 July 2009 - Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.
They are the pioneers among hundreds of universities, colleges and other academic institutions worldwide that are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote "greening" of their campuses and invest in low-carbon research and development.
UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said: "The Climate Neutral Network was inspired by a simple idea that a transformation to a low, even zero emission future is a learning process. It is therefore fitting that universities from all over the world should join this global networking platform and help make the best knowledge on climate neutrality available to all."
"As think tanks, creativity hubs and change agents in our societies, we welcome universities on board the CN Net and hope that they will bring their vast libraries of knowledge to the Network and use it to accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient future."
From using renewable sources of energy such as wind, sun and biomass to developing fuel cell vehicles to encouraging neighbouring communities to take on the low carbon challenge, the new CN Net participants are taking leadership on the issue of climate change at the local, national and international levels.
In the United States alone, 645 colleges and universities are moving towards climate neutrality as part of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), and many of these schools are perfect candidates for the CN Net.
"Colleges and universities are arguably the most important institutions to address climate disruption because they can model climate neutrality on their campuses, and they can teach their students the skills and knowledge they need to address the climate crisis," said Anthony D. Cortese, coordinator of the ACUPCC and president of Second Nature - a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities make the principles of sustainability fundamental to every aspect of higher education.
The first universities that have joined the Climate Neutral Network are:
College of the Atlantic, Maine (USA): The College was founded in 1969 on the premise that education should go beyond understanding the world as it is, to enabling students to actively shape its future. It has pioneered a special interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education - human ecology - with the view to developing the types of leaders needed by all sectors of society in addressing the compelling and growing human needs of our world. College of the Atlantic has been carbon neutral since December 19, 2007. It achieved this by reducing and avoiding its greenhouse gases emissions, and by carefully calculating all other emissions (including that of visitors to campus), which are offset. All electricity is now purchased from a low-impact hydroelectric generator in Maine, and a wind turbine powers the farmhouse on the college's outlying organic farm (which supplies some of the produce to the college's dining hall). The college has completed an energy audit, established a bicycle plan, encourages telecommuting when possible and has switched all possible incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs.
Evergreen State College, Washington (USA): The Evergreen State College has established a national reputation for leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinary academic programs. Evergreen has been a leader in environmental education from the beginning, and in recent years, the College has advanced its commitment to sustainability. Evergreen is engaging the local, regional and global community to demonstrate and enact clear policies to address the world-changing challenges of climate change. The College has set a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2020 and currently purchases 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) from renewable energy sources, representing 100 percent of the school's annual electricity usage. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Evergreen State College's purchase of more than 16 million kilowatt-hours of green power is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 1,600 average American homes each year or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,100 passenger cars annually. Furthermore, Evergreen's most recent energy savings and conservation plan will reduce carbon output by 500 tonnes and save $73,000 per year.
Malaga University (Spain): Malaga University (UMA) is a public institution which promotes outstanding research and teaching within the European Higher Education Area. With a university community of just over 40,000 people, over the last decade UMA has sought to promote the internationalization of its teaching. UMA offers an extensive catalogue of specialized teaching and postgraduate study with particular focus on urban biodiversity. In the sustainability field, Malaga University has created a solar thermal surface of 2000 m2 for a renewable energy heating source. The University is also in the process of building a solar photovoltaic panel surface of 8000 m2 with a production capacity of 1 megawatt with plans to eventually use geothermal energy with a tri-generation plant on the campus. In the year 2012, Malaga University will finish subway transportation between the Central City and the University City. In addition, the university plans to introduce more sustainable transportation (bicycles, hybrid vehicles) and create 264.905 m2 of urban forest and green zones.
Middlebury College, Vermont (USA): Middlebury is ranked as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward. Indeed, the college claims that the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns-for some through the study of the environment. Middlebury College has set a goal of carbon neutrality by 2016. The implementation strategy adopted by the College relies on a switch of the fuels it uses for heating, cooling and cooking from fossil based to renewables. Toward that end, the College recently built a $12 million biomass gasification system which uses wood chips from nearby forests and mills. This has cut Middlebury College's carbon footprint by 40%, or 12,500 metric tonnes, cut fuel costs by $750,000/yr. and has put $800,000 new money into the local economy.
Tongji University, Shanghai (China): Tongji University was established in 1907 and is one of the oldest leading universities in China, operating under the State Ministry of Education. It offers degree programs both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a School of Environmental Science and Engineering and an Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, which was created in partnership with UNEP. The name Tongji signifies "cooperating by riding the same boat." Tongji University certainly understands that we are all part of a global "boat" that needs to deal with the rising tide of climate change and Tongji has begun developing green technologies. The Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center helped develop fuel cell vehicles, which are now being tested in a six-month road testing in California. Principals of Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center have expressed that this was the first time for China's fuel cell vehicles to participate in international demonstrations. These fuel cell-powered sedans can reach 150 miles per hour and cover up to 300 miles after one Hydrogen charging. Tongji University also uses solar energy, reuses water, and has energy-saving technologies. In the Wenyuan Building, the university does not only maintain the historical features of the building, but also builds the concept of eco-building by using technologies such as geo-heat pumps, thermal insulation systems, rainwater collection and recycling systems.
University of the West of England, Bristol (UK): The University is committed to a range of actions that address climate change through its Sustainability Strategy for 2008 to 2012, including clear reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. The University developed a carbon management plan in partnership with the Carbon Trust that aims to progressively reduce dependency on fossil fuels and contribute to achieving the UK target of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. From 2006 to 2007, the University reduced its carbon emissions by more than 23%. Some aspects of their strategy involve calculating the University's carbon commitment, reducing energy use in buildings, encouraging public transportation, and implementing an energy awareness campaign. The University is also a founding member of the West of England Carbon Challenge, an innovative project that is challenging all businesses, public and third sector bodies in the Bristol city-region to commit to making an annual cut in emissions for four years to reach a cumulative total of at least 10% by 2012.
Quotes from some of the new CN Net members:
"We are pleased to have this opportunity to join with a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." - Scott Morgan, Office of Sustainability, Evergreen State College
"Middlebury College has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 for several important reasons. We recognized early on that the threats of climate change are serious and that they can only be addressed through coordinated local and international efforts by all sectors of society. By taking leadership on this issue we are expressing that concern and showing that there are solutions that make sense from a sustainability perspective - solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the local economy, and strengthen the vitality and health of surrounding communities. We joined CN Net because it provides a means for adding our voice and our examples of leadership to a growing international movement to take substantive, effective action to address the challenge of climate change." - Jack Byrne, Director, Sustainability Integration Office, Middlebury College
"The University of the West of England, Bristol is delighted to support the UN's Climate Neutral Network. We look forward to actively participating, learning from the successes of fellow members and sharing the outcomes of the actions that we have taken to reduce our own carbon dependency. Joining this new Network is further evidence of the University's strong commitment to sustainability. The University is already taking vigorous action to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations - we cut gas consumption by 46% between 2006 and 2007 - and we seek to ensure that our students - the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow - are aware of the challenges and opportunities of creating a sustainable and low-carbon future. We also carry out key research into climate change issues through an Institute dedicated to sustainability. In addition we are responding strategically to the challenges of sustainability and climate change via a Sustainability Board, chaired by the Deputy Vice Chancellor." - Professor James Longhurst, Associate Dean and Professor of Environmental Science, University of the West of England, Bristol
For more information contact:
Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson and Head of Media, on Tel: +254 20 7623084, Mobile: +254 733 632755, or when traveling: +41 795965737, or e-mail: email@example.com
Or: Xenya Cherny Scanlon, Information Officer, Climate Neutral Network, on Tel: +254 20 762 4387, Mobile: +254 721 847 563, or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Windscreen Wiper systems
We have far more technical queries about wiper systems than any other subject. These notes are based on an article written by Tony Stafford, the founder of Stafford Vehicle Components who retired in Spring 2001, having spent his working life in the Motor Industry.
The most popular type still available is the Lucas 14W. This is a two speed wiper motor, with self parking. Lucas did make a 16W type but as this was only used on Triumph Stags & Reliant Scimitars etc, and has now been dropped from the range. Make sure you use the correct base pad and strap with the rubber covering, and the motor is not touching any part of the vehicle body to eliminate noise.
Wiring connections to the motor
2. Drive Gear
When the new motor arrives there is no threaded ferrule to take the drive tubes or internal gear. There are several gears to fit this motor starting with the number 95 which is stamped on the top round plate. This is giving the least amount of travel to the rack and wiper arms. The most travel gear is 130.
The gear ratios go up in 5's so starting with 95, 100, 105 and so on, most of these are still available. On the top of the gear plate where the number is stamped there is a drive peg welded in position. This is the only item which changes position throughout all the gears(e.g. welded in different positions on the top plate.). Obviously if this peg was welded to the centre of the plate there would be no travel at all, so the further the peg is positioned to the outer edge of the plate the more travel you get. With each gear come 2 washers and a circlip retains the gear in to the motor, always pack with grease in the gear area before refitting the top cover.
3. Wheel Boxes
The most popular wheel box size is 32 teeth on the inner drive wheel and the ideal length of shaft from the inner face to the end of the splines is 2.5 inches. This allows for the thickness of material on fibreglass cars as the first spacer can be cut down in size allowing for varying thicknesses through the bulkhead where the wheel boxes fit. There is also a 40-tooth wheel box which will reduce the amount of wiper arm travel.
If the car has a split screen then it is quite easy to fit what was called the clapped hands system. This is by turning one of the wheel boxes through 180 degrees.
Wheelbox showing inner and outer spacer
4. Drive Rack
When fitting a new system it is advisable to fit a new drive rack as this is one of the items that wears, resulting in the wiper arms having too much play.
5. Drive or "Bundy"Tubing Sets
It is far better to use the recommended wiper tubing from Lucas than to use copper tube as this can be noisy and wears very quickly on any bends. Wear of the drive tube causes friction that can lead to the motor burning out.
Bundy tube sets can be made up providing you give the supplier 2 dimensions. The first is the distance from the motor to the centre of the first wheel box hole, and the second the distance between the wheel box hole centres through the bulkhead. Obviously if there is a 3 wiper system then there is another dimension needed. Try to avoid sharp bends in the tubing, If you have to bend the bundy tube, an easy way to form the shape is to insert the drive rack into the tube before bending. This will keep the tube the correct diameter on any of the bends (very much like a plumber bends copper piping by inserting the spring). Always grease the rack liberally before inserting into the bundy tube.
It is important that you use a correct wiper 2-speed switch. The reason for this is that when the switch is in the off position with the ignition switched on there is one connection which becomes live. This operates the parking position. If you use a non-live switch then the wipers would stop whenever the switch was switched off.
LUCAS WIPER SWITCH Part No. 35927
4. 1st speed red/green light
8. Park brown/light green (linked to no.4 when switch is on off position)
6. Ignition live green
2. 2nd Speed blue/light green
The park position can be changed by reading the Lucas information leaflet. If purchasing a second hand motor make sure there are 3 wires going into the motor body. This is the way to tell if the motor is 2-speed, 1 speed only has 2 wires.
All of the above components and full assemblies cut to your cars specifications can be purchased from Stafford Vehicle Components.
- Gearbox cover
- Screw for cover
- Connecting Rod
- Flexible wiper drive
- Gear wheel with crankpin
- Dished washer
- Limit switch screw
- Limit switch
- Brush gear
- Screw for brushes
- Thrust screw
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What would downtown Winnetka look like if the old post office was relocated and its site reimagined?
Village trustees have begun discussing the possibilities after Winnetka Village President Chris Rintz proposed a plan to develop a public gathering space filled with amenities, including a performance stage.
Rintz presented his plan for a community hub in the Elm Street business district during a Winnetka Village Council study session Tuesday evening, May 10.
The concept, which Rintz informally referred to as a “town square,” would open the area to serve as a dedicated place for residents and special events.
“(We would) have some opportunity to create a space where we can have public performances of all sorts, whether it’s music, whether it’s spoken word, whether it’s Book Stall author readings or the Music Institute doing a recital of classical music,” Rintz said. “Just something that would be able to be programmed, or not, so that it would work both in a program sense or activity, but when there wasn’t something programmed going on, the space would still function wonderfully as just a nice community spot where we could gather and enjoy the atmosphere.”
Rintz suggested the stage could also be used by local schools, such as New Trier High School or Winnetka Public Schools, for their concerts.
He also described “passive” opportunities, saying “you can sit at the tables, have a cup of coffee, maybe play chess or backgammon.”
“Read a book, sit there. There (are) a lot of things you can do here — farmers markets.”
Rintz also detailed the history of the post office building, which was originally Horace Mann School in the late 1800s, and was surprised to discover that Winnetka’s first comprehensive plan from 1921, created by architect and city planner Edward Bennett, called for “a community auditorium as its central building,” according to the agenda packet.
The post office property was purchased by the Village of Winnetka in 1982, when the village assumed the lease with the post office. Discussions on how to repurpose the area have happened on and off ever since, the packet says.
In 2007, an ad-hoc committee, upon which Rintz served, recommended the space be redeveloped as retail, but according to Rintz, the Great Recession of 2008 “pulled the plug” on those plans.
In that time, Rintz said he’s changed his mind and now believes the village should look in a different direction. He specifically cited the results of a 2020 village survey in which residents said they were “looking to enjoy a broader array of experience in our public spaces and more outdoor social interactions and a vibrant, interesting and engaging village center.”
He believes the public gathering space would help distinguish Winnetka from other nearby communities.
“It could be something really special,” he said. “And it could really define our community.”
Rintz also downplayed his involvement in developing the plan, which he recommends be included in village’s Comprehensive Plan. He said it was the culmination of many ideas as he spoke to various community members and groups about their hopes for the site.
“This isn’t Chris’ plan,” he said.
He also stressed that if any plan is approved, it may take a few years before it is completed, as the post office would have a year to vacate their building if the village terminates its lease.
While no vote was taken, the idea received unanimous general support from the trustees, with each of them praising Rintz’s presentation, as well as his research.
Trustee Rob Apatoff said he “could not be in more agreement to move forward with this type of plan.”
“I believe we have one chance to do this correctly,” he said. “I think following history is critical because it’s so forward-thinking.”
Trustee John Swierk agreed that following the original 1921 plans of creating a public space is the right direction to go in.
“This is really good for the public,” he said.
The plan also received positive feedback from community members, with all eight public speakers voicing support for the proposal.
Some community members also offered suggestions for the final product, including making the area a year-round space with the necessary technology systems for performers.
The most common suggestion by the community was the addition of bathrooms. Multiple residents said there are no public bathrooms in the area, including in Dwyer Park, and should be part of the plans.
Trustee Tina Dalman agreed with those comments.
“Bathrooms are key, because I think a lot of people are using the business’s (facilities)…which is a bad situation,” she said. “So, I think we need bathrooms.”
As for the post office itself, Rintz said he’s already spoken to a local realtor who has identified a new location for the post office and would be willing to help with a relocation. Neither the realtor nor the potential location were identified at the meeting.
Following the board’s interest in moving forward, Rintz said he will work on preparing a more formal proposal and present it to the Village Council within the next “few weeks.”
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Consuming foods with intact enzymes is medicinal. Flooding your body with enzymes from "live" (raw) food has numerous health benefits. These intact enzymes help digest the food itself and also help heal and repair our bodies. Just as enzymes exist in food, enzymes exist in vast amounts all over our bodies. Our bodies utilize enzymes for almost every function. Enzymes are life, vitality, and wellness; and longevity is based on enzymatic processes, chemical reactions that spawn protection and repair.
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There were weeks at a time when Jurgis went home after such a day as this with not more than two hours' work to his credit — which meant about thirty-five cents. There were many days when the total was less than half an hour, and others when there was none at all. The general average was six hours a day, which meant for Jurgis about six dollars a week; and this six hours of work would be done after standing on the killing bed till one o'clock, or perhaps even three or four o'clock, in the afternoon. Like as not there would come a rush of cattle at the very end of the day, which the men would have to dispose of before they went home, often working by electric light till nine or ten, or even twelve or one o'clock, and without a single instant for a bite of supper. The men were at the mercy of the cattle. Perhaps the buyers would be holding off for better prices — if they could scare the shippers into thinking that they meant to buy nothing that day, they could get their own terms. For some reason the cost of fodder for cattle in the yards was much above the market price — and you were not allowed to bring your own fodder! Then, too, a number of cars were apt to arrive late in the day, now that the roads were blocked with snow, and the packers would buy their cattle that night, to get them cheaper, and then would come into play their ironclad rule, that all cattle must be killed the same day they were bought. There was no use kicking about this — there had been one delegation after another to see the packers about it, only to be told that it was the rule, and that there was not the slightest chance of its ever being altered. And so on Christmas Eve Jurgis worked till nearly one o'clock in the morning, and on Christmas Day he was on the killing bed at seven o'clock.
All this was bad; and yet it was not the worst. For after all the hard work a man did, he was paid for only part of it. Jurgis had once been among those who scoffed at the idea of these huge concerns cheating; and so now he could appreciate the bitter irony of the fact that it was precisely their size which enabled them to do it with impunity. One of the rules on the killing beds was that a man who was one minute late was docked an hour; and this was economical, for he was made to work the balance of the hour — he was not allowed to stand round and wait. And on the other hand if he came ahead of time he got no pay for that — though often the bosses would start up the gang ten or fifteen minutes before the whistle. And this same custom they carried over to the end of the day; they did not pay for any fraction of an hour — for "broken time." A man might work full fifty minutes, but if there was no work to fill out the hour, there was no pay for him. Thus the end of every day was a sort of lottery — a struggle, all but breaking into open war between the bosses and the men, the former trying to rush a job through and the latter trying to stretch it out. Jurgis blamed the bosses for this, though the truth to be told it was not always their fault; for the packers kept them frightened for their lives — and when one was in danger of falling behind the standard, what was easier than to catch up by making the gang work awhile "for the church"? This was a savage witticism the men had, which Jurgis had to have explained to him. Old man Jones was great on missions and such things, and so whenever they were doing some particularly disreputable job, the men would wink at each other and say, "Now we're working for the church!"
One of the consequences of all these things was that Jurgis was no longer perplexed when he heard men talk of fighting for their rights. He felt like fighting now himself; and when the Irish delegate of the butcher-helpers' union came to him a second time, he received him in a far different spirit. A wonderful idea it now seemed to Jurgis, this of the men — that by combining they might be able to make a stand and conquer the packers! Jurgis wondered who had first thought of it; and when he was told that it was a common thing for men to do in America, he got the first inkling of a meaning in the phrase "a free country." The delegate explained to him how it depended upon their being able to get every man to join and stand by the organization, and so Jurgis signified that he was willing to do his share. Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride. For fully a week they were quite blissfully happy, thinking that belonging to a union meant an end to all their troubles.
But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them. They could not understand why the union had not prevented it, and the very first time she attended a meeting Marija got up and made a speech about it. It was a business meeting, and was transacted in English, but that made no difference to Marija; she said what was in her, and all the pounding of the chairman's gavel and all the uproar and confusion in the room could not prevail. Quite apart from her own troubles she was boiling over with a general sense of the injustice of it, and she told what she thought of the packers, and what she thought of a world where such things were allowed to happen; and then, while the echoes of the hall rang with the shock of her terrible voice, she sat down again and fanned herself, and the meeting gathered itself together and proceeded to discuss the election of a recording secretary.
Jurgis too had an adventure the first time he attended a union meeting, but it was not of his own seeking. Jurgis had gone with the desire to get into an inconspicuous corner and see what was done; but this attitude of silent and open-eyed attention had marked him out for a victim. Tommy Finnegan was a little Irishman, with big staring eyes and a wild aspect, a "hoister" by trade, and badly cracked. Somewhere back in the far-distant past Tommy Finnegan had had a strange experience, and the burden of it rested upon him. All the balance of his life he had done nothing but try to make it understood. When he talked he caught his victim by the buttonhole, and his face kept coming closer and closer — which was trying, because his teeth were so bad. Jurgis did not mind that, only he was frightened. The method of operation of the higher intelligences was Tom Finnegan's theme, and he desired to find out if Jurgis had ever considered that the representation of things in their present similarity might be altogether unintelligible upon a more elevated plane. There were assuredly wonderful mysteries about the developing of these things; and then, becoming confidential, Mr. Finnegan proceeded to tell of some discoveries of his own. "If ye have iver had onything to do wid shperrits," said he, and looked inquiringly at Jurgis, who kept shaking his head. "Niver mind, niver mind," continued the other, "but their influences may be operatin' upon ye; it's shure as I'm tellin' ye, it's them that has the reference to the immejit surroundin's that has the most of power. It was vouchsafed to me in me youthful days to be acquainted with shperrits" and so Tommy Finnegan went on, expounding a system of philosophy, while the perspiration came out on Jurgis' forehead, so great was his agitation and embarrassment. In the end one of the men, seeing his plight, came over and rescued him; but it was some time before he was able to find any one to explain things to him, and meanwhile his fear lest the strange little Irishman should get him cornered again was enough to keep him dodging about the room the whole evening.
He never missed a meeting, however. He had picked up a few words of English by this time, and friends would help him to understand. They were often very turbulent meetings, with half a dozen men declaiming at once, in as many dialects of English; but the speakers were all desperately in earnest, and Jurgis was in earnest too, for he understood that a fight was on, and that it was his fight. Since the time of his disillusionment, Jurgis had sworn to trust no man, except in his own family; but here he discovered that he had brothers in affliction, and allies. Their one chance for life was in union, and so the struggle became a kind of crusade. Jurgis had always been a member of the church, because it was the right thing to be, but the church had never touched him, he left all that for the women. Here, however, was a new religion — one that did touch him, that took hold of every fiber of him; and with all the zeal and fury of a convert he went out as a missionary. There were many nonunion men among the Lithuanians, and with these he would labor and wrestle in prayer, trying to show them the right. Sometimes they would be obstinate and refuse to see it, and Jurgis, alas, was not always patient! He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago — after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.
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- Dr. Md. Motiul Islam
Coronaviruses are important human and animal pathogens. At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It rapidly spread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by an increasing number of cases in other countries throughout the world. In February 2020, the World Health Organization designated the disease COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The virus that causes COVID-19 is designated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); previously, it was referred to as 2019-nCoV.
Globally, over 80 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
Since the first reports of cases from Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China, at the end of 2019, cases have been reported in all continents, except for Antarctica.
The reported case counts underestimate the overall burden of COVID-19, as only a fraction of acute infections are diagnosed and reported. Seroprevalence surveys in the United States and Europe have suggested that after accounting for potential false positives or negatives, the rate of prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2, as reflected by seropositivity, exceeds the incidence of reported cases by approximately 10-fold or more.
We at Asgar Ali Hospital have been getting COVID-19 patients from as early as March, 2019 and we were not reluctant at all to treat COVID patients. As patient count was rising in the community, we couldn’t sit still watching our patients suffer around us, going door to door for proper medical care. Asgar Ali Hospital jumped in action from the very first day. A special task force was formed led by the head of the institution and other senior consultants of different specialties and a “Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)” was implemented to manage COVID patients. We came up with a plan lock stock and barrel to continue serving our patients, both COVID and non COVID alike. From emergency room to out-patient department to dialysis room, from operating room to intensive care unit to in-patient departments, everywhere we made separate “Red” and “Green” zones for both our COVID and non COVID patients. All necessary infrastructural changes were done almost overnight, including separating the “red” and “green” zones by physical barrier, ensuringadequate negative pressure ventilation areas for our COVID patients, setting up state of the art dedicated PCR lab for COVID testing etc. Our existing infection control team had to keep a third eye open specially to ensure that virus contamination does not occur from COVID zone to non COVID zone. Cleaning, waste disposal everything has been taken care of as per local and international guidelines. Extreme precaution has been taken from the very first day regarding health care workers’ safety, particularly ensuring adequate supply of high quality masks, respirators and other personal protective gears.
It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But COVID-19 has killed us and made us stronger at the same time. Many of our team members got affected by COVID despite taking all precautions but fortunately all of them got better and returned work in due time with full enthusiasm.
Intensive care unit (ICU) can be regarded as the nucleus of a hospital. If the nucleus functions properly, rest of the parts follow. The Department of Critical Care Medicine (ICU) of Asgar Ali Hospital is no exception to that. Asgar Ali Hospital proudly claims to be the pioneer in building up of one of the largest (in terms of bed capacity) intensive care unit (ICU) of the country with 40 COVID beds and 12 non COVID beds, from as early as June, 2019. Our COVID ICU is fully negative pressure ventilation area equipped with all the standard equipments needed to run a state of the art ICU. The hospital had central oxygen supply and all beds were oxygen therapy enabled from day 1 of its inauguration, a blessing in treating COVID patients specially in a pandemic scenario. Moreover, we are among the pioneer users of “High Flow Nasal Cannula”, a devise that has come to the lime light in the COVID era but we have been using them from as early as 2016 and that gave us an extra edge, undoubtedly. Whenever we talk about ICUs we talk about the machines but often forget to mention the brains behind the machines. Our ICU team is a highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and talented team, one of the best in the field. Treating the critically ill is not only our noble profession but at the same time our passion. At the start of the pandemic when many of the ICUs of the country were facing “lockdown”, Asgar Ali Hospital ICU team was working their hearts out. When other hospitals were compelling their ICU physicians to take forced leave, we at Asgar Ali, were recruiting so that we could face the pandemic boldly!
As of today, we have treated a total of around 3,000 COVID patients in our in-patient departments and countless ones at out-patient departments and emergency rooms. Among the admitted patients approximately 1,000 were critically ill and around 2,000 were not so critical. During the pandemic we continued to conduct our academic activity to increase general awareness and physician training through webinars, podcasts etc to keep ourselves at the edge of emerging medical practice. In the face of the initial COVID attack we had the vision in our eyes and knew the mission at our heart by the grace of the Almighty. We want COVID to disappear from the face of the earth for good and we want all the people around us to stay as healthy as ever but at the same time we want to assure that Asgar Ali Hospital is here to stay, to continue to serve and to create new hope when it is needed the most.
The author is an Associate Consultant & HOD, Critical Care MBBS, MCCRC (Korea), MD (Critical Care Medicine).
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When you analyze the play A Doll's House under the focal point of "marriage", you can see that the character of Mrs. Linde, complete with her, widowhood, her current issues, and her life story, serve as a foil to the marriage, issues, and life story of Nora Helmer.
This is significant because it is through Mrs. Linde that the audience can finally learn about the reality of Nora's marriage. When Nora describes the dynamics of her relationship with Torvald, it is Mrs. Linde who suggests that Nora should just come out with the information about Krogtad's deal. In Mrs. Linde's own words the the best thing to happen between Torvald and Nora is that, for once, one of them acts realistically about something.
Mrs. Linde is correct: already we see that, not once, does Helmer refer to Nora as anything else than a pet, or a toy. In an enabling manner, Nora responds back by enacting the part quite masterfully. The denial and the acting only look like solid ties that keep Nora and Torvald in good and candid terms. In reality, however, this tendency to push down reality and only show a good face only continues to detour any chance of Nora and Torvald ever getting to know who they really are.
Therefore, in A Doll's House, the main contribution to the strength of the marriage between Torvald and Nora is that they accept each other by who they really are, and not by what society dictates that they should be, or should act like. If Torvald removed himself from his own grandeur as a high society success, he would have seen his wife's real persona. He could have even learned to appreciate the sacrifices that she had done for his health. It is precisely that erroneous idea of marriage as a sign of social success what makes the Helmers have to create masks to hide who they are, not only from society, but from each other.
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Not all women are qualified for president
How depressing is it that, out of the more than a dozen announced or prospective Republican candidates for president in 2016, only one, Carly Fiorina, is a woman. Even more depressing: that Fiorina, as long-shot as her candidacy is, would not be taken even semi-seriously were it not for her gender.
This is a tough and controversial thing to say, but it requires saying. I would love to see a female president, of either party, and expect I will – if not in 2016 then in an election to come. But the female president I would love to see is one who is fully qualified to be president – qualified by dint of experience, not of chromosomes. Carly Fiorina is not that woman.
That assessment has everything to do with biography, and nothing to do with ideology. (If South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley or New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte chose to run for president, you might find me disagreeing with their positions, but not questioning their qualifications.) In my view, Fiorina’s background simply does not prepare her to be president.
For the record, I would say precisely the same about neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Politics isn’t brain surgery, but being a brain surgeon doesn’t prepare you for high-level politics, and Carson isn’t prepared. I’m writing about Fiorina because, frankly, as a woman, her candidacy offends me.
I can already hear the sputtering out there: But what about Hillary Clinton, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee? After all, the sputterers will say, Clinton’s road to the White House is paved on gender: She rose to prominence in her spousal capacity, and in part by playing the gender card (women’s rights are human rights, and all that).
Yes, Clinton’s path to power came through her husband; if I were designing the perfect First Woman President, she would not be the daughter or the wife of a prominent politician. Yet Clinton’s history does not negate the current reality of her resume, and her deep grounding in both foreign and domestic policy.
Contrast Fiorina, but first a pause to highlight a positive comparison with Clinton: Fiorina has been answering hundreds of questions from reporters; as of Monday Clinton has taken just eight in the last month. Not a good omen for a Clinton presidency.
But back to Fiorina: She has a checkered, to put it charitably (failed, to put it more bluntly), business career and no political career whatsoever, having lost her previous run for elective office. It is the height of chutzpah to imagine that she is remotely qualified to be president. Or, since it’s the more likely endgame, for vice president either.
I would have serious qualms about any candidate who seeks the presidency without government experience, no matter how much value he or she produced for shareholders.
Business demands different skills than politics; the presidency isn’t the place for on-the-job training. But Fiorina is a particularly problematic would-be transplant from the C-suite to the White House. It’s not simply that she was fired as the CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard – but that she did a lousy job.
Hewlett-Packard did grow under Fiorina’s tenure from 1999 to 2005 – but that was due to an ill-advised merger with Compaq that cost HP shareholders $24 billion and bought them a computer business that diluted the value of HP’s printer business. As Yahoo News detailed, HP stock fell by more than half during Fiorina’s tenure, while its technology cohorts performed “not as badly or much better.”
Fiorina stumbled as a campaign surrogate for John McCain in 2008, famously saying that vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and then the GOP presidential nominee himself weren’t fit to run a company. (She was right.) She failed in her previous bid for elective office in the 2010 California Senate race, losing to incumbent Barbara Boxer by 10 points in a Republican year.
It’s not sexist to criticize Fiorina for being unqualified. What would be sexist is to hold her to a lower standard than a man with similarly paltry credentials.
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Google Docs on August 3, introduced a few new types of charts, plus a feature that allows you to copy your charts from spreadsheets into documents and drawings. Here's how it works:
"Start by creating a chart. Then, select the chart by clicking on it once, which'll display the chart's name. Click the chart name or the arrow next to it to open the dropdown menu of chart actions. From the menu, select Copy chart. Next, open the document or drawing where you'd like to insert the chart and position the cursor where you'd like the chart to go. Use the Web Clipboard dropdown menu, as shown below, to locate your copied chart," explains Ben Margolin, Software Engineer.
"As you hover the mouse over the menu item for the chart, a thumbnail will be displayed. Clicking on the chart item will paste it into the document as an image, which can then be resized, aligned, etc." Note that the chart snapshots are just that -- they're images of the chart at the time of copying and therefore don't update as the spreadsheet data changes. If you need to update a chart, just copy and paste it again. Here's an example of a chart pasted into a document:
"The name of the chart shown in the Web Clipboard menu is the same as the chart's name in the spreadsheet, which you can easily change from the default name, "Chart 1." To rename a chart, select Edit chart from the chart's action menu, and enter a new name on the Customize tab. This is particularly handy when working with charts from multiple spreadsheets."
Finally, a few new types of charts released to Google spreadsheets. Margolin said "We now support candlestick charts and combo charts (which allow you to show columns, lines, and area lines all on the same graph). You can also use GeoMap chart to insert a data-driven map of the world, a continent, or a country into your spreadsheet. And, the TreeMap chart, meanwhile, should be exciting for the statisticians and logicians among you," informs Margolin.
[Source: Docs blog]
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Who was Anne Frank and why was she so important
anne frank is a jewish girl that was very powerful expressing her feeling in a diary while the war was happening when hitle rdecided to be a dictator and kill jewish
She was a Jewish girl that was born in Germany and she went into hiding so that the Nazis couldn't find her fame. After almost 2 years, the family was separated and put into concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister Margot died of typhus 1 month before war ended. During the war, Anne had kept a diary and the only survivor of the war, her father Otto Frank, gave it to the newspaper company who published her diary, which was then called the Secret Annex, and then changed to Anne Frank: Diary of a young girl.
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In this unit, Liz gets postcards from pen pals in ten different African countries. Each postcard contains a few facts about the country. This unit can be used in a variety of fun ways to introduce Africa. Review questions include map labeling, comprehension questions, creative writing, and more.
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Hardware Boost: Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For The Data Center And Enterprise
The new FPGA-equipped Xeons will occupy precisely the same socket and platform as the standard, non-FPGA Xeons. Nothing will change on the customer front (BIOS updates may be required), but the chips should be drop-in compatible.
What's An FPGA?
To understand the significance of this arrangement, we need to explain what an FPGA is. Computing in the modern world generally happens on one of four devices: A CPU, a GPU, an FPGA, or an ASIC. A GPU is a graphics card with significant compute capability added on (sometimes called GPGPU). A CPU is a general purpose compute engine that can handle a vast ecosystem of tasks but has a great deal of hardware designed to translate those tasks into its own particular instruction set and execute them accordingly.
An FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is an array of logic gates that can be programmed to do a great many tasks by manipulating those gates and what tasks they perform. It differs from an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) in that an ASIC chip is a hardware processor that's designed for one specific task. A suitably complex FPGA can theoretically perform any task an ASIC can perform, though there may be marked differences in power consumption and performance.
The easiest way to think of an FPGA is as a sort-of software-hardware hybrid solution. FPGAs can be reconfigured to run updated software packages more efficiently or when different tasks need to be performed. They can also be used to accelerate specific tasks; Intel alludes to this when it writes:
The FPGA provides our customers a programmable, high performance coherent acceleration capability to turbo-charge their critical algorithms. And with down-the-wire reprogramability, the algorithms can be changed as new workloads emerge and compute demands fluctuate. Based on industry benchmarks FPGA-based accelerators can deliver >10X performance gains. By integrating the FPGA with the Xeon processor, we estimate that customers will see an additional 2X in performance thanks to the low latency, coherent interface.
The company has not stated who provided its integrated FPGA design, but Altera is a safe bet. The two companies have worked together on multiple designs and Altera (which builds FPGAs) is using Intel for its manufacturing.
This move should allow Intel to market highly specialized performance hardware to customers willing to pay for it. By using FPGAs to accelerate certain specific types of workloads, Intel Xeon customers can reap higher performance for critical functions without translating the majority of their code to OpenCL or bothering to update it for GPGPU.
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In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million people struggling with an eating disorder at some point in their lives.The eating disorders are categorized as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, binge eating, and are the physical and mental illnesses that seriously affecting the attitudes, emotions of patients and their relationship with body weight and food.
If you are or your loved one is suffering from eating disorder, then you can also hop over to www.turningtidesed.com/copy-of-anorexia to get the eating disorder treatment. If they are not treated, they can have serious outcomes.
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Eating disorders do not categorize. They can affect anyone, irrespective of one's age, gender, ethnicity, and financial background.
Here are some tips to help people take good care of a loved one struggling with eating disorders:
Knowing the warning signs – It is important to know the warning signs of an eating disorder, which can restrict certain types of foods, engaging in extreme dieting, eating at odd hours, hiding items certain foods, obsessed portion control, over-exercising, using laxatives and so on.
Being loving and non-confrontational – Log into an argumentative mode with someone suffering from an eating disorder can complicate matters.
Refrain from talking about weight and fat – Someone struggling with eating disorders has gone down in the dumps. Using statements like "But you are not fat" or "You seem to be losing weight" can be very damaging to self-esteem. Avoid discussions.
The patient must be encouraged to share their feelings and be given a chance to heal. It is also important that the caregiver or loved caring and respectful at all times.
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BRAZIL - Brazil's export market is strongly affected by economic events in China, according to a joint Agricultural Outlook report from the OECD and FAO.
Brazil’s agricultural exports to China have surged since 2000, especially in the last five years and the main exports are oilseeds, vegetable oil, cotton, sugar and poultry.
In 2014, about 71 per cent of total oilseeds exports (31 Mt), or 35 per cent of Brazil’s total production, were exported to China, which also accounted for about 40 per cent of China’s total oilseeds imports.
The export shares of vegetable oil and cotton to China in Brazil’s total export were also high in 2014, at 28 per cent and 24 per cent respectively.
The export shares of sugar and poultry to China in Brazil’s total export were smaller at 9.5 per cent and 6.4 per cent respectively.
After more than three decades of rapid growth, China’s economy is entering a “new normal” with a lower growth path, and there have also been considerable declines in China's stock markets.
The Chinese government lowered its target growth rate to around 7 per cent for 2015 seeking more sustainable development.
The outlook report predicts that economic growth will continue moderating, falling to 4.2 per cent in 2024. As a consequence, Brazil’s agricultural exports to China will slow down in the outlook period.
While oilseeds exports from Brazil to China will increase to 47 Mt in 2024, during the outlook period, the exports will grow by only 3.9 per cent p.a, compared with 18.9 per cent p.a. in the previous decade. Also exports of sugar, cotton and poultry are projected to expand more slowly than before.
Brazil’s exports of vegetable oil to China reached a high of 0.95 Mt in 2012, but decreased sharply to 0.36 Mt in 2014. Considering China imports more oilseeds for domestic crushing, which will substitute for the import of vegetable oil, vegetable oil imports are expected to continue the downward trend to 0.2 Mt in 2024.
However, China faces many uncertainties in the future as its economy transitions, and its economic performance and consequent import demand will affect Brazil.
Assessing the impact of different economic scenarios
To assess the quantitative impacts, the report analyses two different hypothetical scenarios altering China’s economic growth rate: an optimistic one in which economic growth each year is 25 per cent higher than in the baseline, and a pessimistic one in which annual growth is 25 per cent lower than in the baseline.
As expected, Brazil’s agricultural exports are affected by China’s economic performance.
The impacts occur not only directly through bilateral trade, but also indirectly through changing world prices, which are to varying degrees transmitted to domestic markets of all countries, including Brazil.
Under the higher growth scenario, the increase in Chinese imports will raise world prices, which will lead producers to increase their production and consumers to reduce their consumption.
The results show that the overall impacts on Brazil’s production and total exports are positive. In general, Brazilian production will increase relative to other suppliers, as the supply of land is more elastic and there is greater scope to increase the intensity of production.
However, the impacts are almost opposite and symmetrical if China’s economic growth is lower than in the baseline.
The impacts on Brazil’s oilseeds market are the largest, followed by vegetable oil and sugar; the impacts on cotton and poultry seem modest.
You can view the full OECD-FAO report by clicking here.
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A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. Cesaire’s rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism and their lasting effects.
"Césaire’s Tempest, in translation by Richard Miller, is a sprightly and song-filled enchantment. The luminous intelligence of Mr. Césaire’s meditation on the absurdities of colonialism shines through the antics of the bewildered characters. ”- The New York Times
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Interruptions can really disrupt your workflow. You spend time dismissing or addressing the person doing the interrupting, and then on regaining your focus. Earbuds, even those not playing anything, are a sneaky defense.
Photo by scot63us.
While sharing the contents of his laptop bag, The How-To Geek noted that he doesn't mind his basic earbuds, because the real purpose isn't fantastic audio, but simply drowning out his noisy coworkers with some tunes. Lifehacker reader grgzfla observes that tunes are entirely optional for his own job:
I've been known to put them on and stick the other end into an empty pocket just to keep cubical socialites from derailing the stream of consciousness I'm working on! I can ignore their pleas for attention and not generate any hurt feelings. :)
I have a friend who doesn't own an iPod, but wears the ubiquitous white earbuds nearly everywhere he goes, tucked, as grgzfla suggests, into a pocket. He's found that people only talk to him if they really have a pressing need. So the headphones function as a passive barrier, sending out a signal that he is otherwise occupied. Strangely, people feel more comfortable interrupting a person who is obviously intently working than a person wearing headphones.
If wearing earbuds is against your office's rules, what other subtle yet effective techniques could you use to minimize interruptions?
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About 300 people gathered for the meeting. The community has been on edge since controversial police shootings, violent protests and a call for new district elections.
One issue the council is considering is Anaheim's at-large voting system, which Latino community groups say doesn't allow for fair representation for Latinos. The ACLU is suing the city over its voting system.
The council met to consider changing how city leaders are elected and will look at the option of switching to district voting.
Many speakers told council members that the city is in trouble and needs change.
Angry residents have taken to the streets in protest. One turned violent. Wednesday some nearby businesses boarded up their windows in case there was a repeat.
Many residents at the meeting called for a ballot measure to change Anaheim's election process to district voting so more of the Latino community is represented.
"It's time to make a change in Anaheim. It's time to make a difference in the neighborhoods of Anaheim," said Genevieve Huizar, mother of Manuel Diaz, who was shot and killed by police on July 21. "Give the children a chance to grow in a healthy environment.
There was a lot of emotion at the meeting, but things were otherwise peaceful.
At the end of the meeting, the city council voted 3 to 2 to table the proposed ballot measure to change how the city elects its leaders to allow for more research and public input.
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Don't buy: Linux.
The world's cheapest operating system is the darling of every do-it-yourselfer and the potential bane of every cheapskate user. You'll save money and, I bet, lose your mind if you switch to Linux. Note to DIYers: This advice is intended for middle-of-the-road tech consumers. You, with the screwdriver in your hand, please feel free to download as many copies of Ubuntu as you want.
Maybe buy: Vista.
It's a good operating system and does improve speeds, security, and access to all files, but it's still not a must-have.
Do buy: A new PC.
You won't know how slow you're going until you bring home a brand-new PC that's pumped full of high-end graphics, bottomless storage, and loads of RAM. If you skimp on any of these areas, you'll be sorry. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it'll happen someday and likely continue for another three years, until your next PC purchase.
Don't buy: CRTs.
You know this, right?
Maybe buy: 17-inch LCDs.
Ultraaffordable 17-inch, 4:3 displays are good for second PCs and a kid's room, though your child may disown you.
Do buy: A 20-inch widescreen.
You can get an excellent, near-HD-quality, 20-inch widescreen display for well under $200. No, it won't have digital input, but it will look and work great. Pay $200 more and you'll have a true HD display with digital input and amazing picture qualityit can even double as an HDTV, if connected to your Media Center PC.
I could go on, but perhaps now's a good time to turn it over to you. What's on your Do Buy, Maybe Buy, and Don't Buy lists? The world wants to know.
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Home News ACHP and NTHP to Present First Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation
ACHP and NTHP to Present First Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation
Award Celebrates Raising of Hunley Submarine from Ocean Floor
For more information, contact Bruce Milhans at (202) 606-8513 or email@example.com
October 3, 2002, Washington, DCThe Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley made history February 17, 1864, when it carried out the world's first successful submarine attack on a surface ship.
This October, 138 years later, team members responsible for raising the Hunley from the ocean floor will be the first recipients of the newly created Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)/National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation, which will be presented October 10, 2002, at the National Preservation Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
This new award category celebrates an exemplary Federal preservation partnership achievement that resulted in preservation of this important historic resource.
"The discovery of the Hunley by private citizens and the cooperative Federal, State, corporate, and institutional effort to recover and conserve this invaluable historic relic epitomize the kind of partnerships that are essential to preserving America's heritage," said ACHP chairman John L. Nau, III. "This effort sets an appropriate precedent for this first-ever federal partnership award."
"This vessel is a time capsule that was sealed for 13 decades on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean," said NTHP president Richard Moe. "Raising the Hunley provides a tangible connection with the daring and dedicated men who changed the course of history. As a result of this extraordinary collaboration it is possible for future generations to learn from this historic submarine."
Finding and raising the Hunley was made possible by an unprecedented collaboration among Federal and State agencies, private-sector organizations, corporations and individuals, including the Department of Defense; U.S. Navy; National Park Service; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; South Carolina Hunley Commission; South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology; South Carolina Department of Archives and History; South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; South Carolina Educational Television; Oceaneering International; National Underwater and Marine Agency; Titan Maritime LLC; National Geographic; and the Friends of the Hunley, Inc.
The Hunley was discovered by the National Underwater and Marine Agency, a private non-profit group created and led by best-selling author Clive Cussler, who will be among the recipients of the award at the October 10 ceremony.
Media interested in attending the conference should contact Katie Callahan
at (202) 588-6141 as soon as possible. Registration is free to the media,
as are the Honor Awards Ceremony, field sessions, educational sessions,
and special events. For information and images on the 2002 Preservation
Award winners, visit NTHP's
An independent Federal agency, ACHP promotes historic preservation nationally
by providing a forum for influencing Federal activities, programs, and
policies that impact historic properties; advising the President and Congress;
advocating preservation policy; improving Federal historic preservation
programs; protecting historic properties; and educating stakeholders and
the public. ACHP is located in Washington, DC, with a field office in
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Called Exynos 1280, the SoC will slot below the company's first 5nm chip, the Exynos 1080, which was announced in November 2020. Beyond revealing that a chip is around the corner, the leaker hasn't shared much else. The Exynos 1080 is an octa-core processor with one Arm Cortex-A78 core running at 2.8GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.6GHz. flats for sale brueton park solihull
Those two nodes, called 2.5nm and 1.5nm, are slated to appear in 2027 and 2030, respectively, according to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) version 2.0. ... D2S sells a specialized high-end system based on graphics processors. The system is used for various semiconductor manufacturing applications.
Tudo sobre Huawei. Na corrida para os chipsets fabricados em 5 nanômetros (nm), a Huawei deve ser a primeira a apresentar sua aposta em 2020. A fabricante chinesa revelou que vai realizar uma. Wu Blockchain claims that Bitmain's S19j Pro is a 5nm process, and buyers are locked into Antpool. Miner Daily attempted to fact check such claims by reaching out to a respected Antminer distributor and to Bitmain. We found no evidence to suggest that Bitmain's S19j bitcoin mining machines are locked into a mining pool, or that they are 5nm.
After 5nm, the next full node is 3nm. But 3nm is not for the faint of heart. The cost to design a 3nm device ranges from $500 million to $1.5 billion, according to IBS. Process development costs ranges from $4 billion to $5.
Competitors Samsung, GlobalFoundries (third-largest chipmaker), and Intel have their own plans to dethrone TSMC from the top spot, although it is doubtful that that will happen anytime soon. ... Additionally, half of the Q4 2021 revenue came from industry-leading chips based on the 7nm and 5nm processes. The foundry expects revenue between $16.
As for PCs, AMD is slated to use the 5nm process from TSMC for a new generation of Ryzen desktop processors in 2022. Intel 5nmprocessors are coming too, but it's expected to take a while. The company's desktop processors are expected to come off 14nm and move to 10nm with Alder Lake in late 2021 or early 2022.
This is a list of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Snapdragon is a family of mobile system on a chip (SoC) made by Qualcomm for use in smartphones, tablets, laptops, 2-in-1 PCs, smartwatches, and smartbooks devices. Contents 1 Before Snapdragon 2 Snapdragon S1 3 Snapdragon S2 4 Snapdragon S3 5 Snapdragon S4 series 5.1 Snapdragon S4 Play.
Although it has not launched a 5nmprocessor yet, it plans to introduce a 6nm processor on 20th January in China. The company has revealed a poster that states the day of the event, and almost confirms the previous claims that there will be a new chipset coming under its 'Dimensity' lineup. The former has also set the theme of 'sensation.
Pros of 5nm Chips: The Advantages of ... For comparison, an Intel Xeon processor based on the 14nm process and introduced in 2017 has about 8 billion transistors while the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X based on the 7nm and 12nm manufacturing processes and released in 2019 has 9.89 billion transistors.
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15 hours ago · The Best PS1 Emulator For Android? DuckStation Android Set. May 01, 1990 · Dead or Alive 6: Dead or Alive 6 + les 4 mise à jour incluses part 01 Dead or Alive 6 + les 4 mise à jour incluses part 02 Dead or Alive 6 + les 4 mise à jour incluses part 03 Apr 23, 2020 · [Tuto] Lancer Daytona Championship USA – Teknoparrot + Download. com to signup and download. The new processor integrates an LTE modem and is the first in the industry to be built with an advanced 5-nanometer (nm) extreme ultra-violet (EUV) process node, offering powerful yet efficient performance demanded by next-generation wearable devices. "Wearables like smartwatches are no longer just a cool gadget to have.
The first 5nm chip As expected, Apple ... May 23, 2022 · To be sure, the 5.5GHz turbo speed in AMD’s demo is equal to Intel’s Core i9-12900KS processor, which is that company’s fastest chip on the market. Last year, Intel said that it will start producing 5nm chips from 2024,. The Snapdragon 780G (SM7350-AB) supports LPDDR4 RAM at up to 2.1 GHz frequency and up to 16 GB capacity. While real life performance is hard to predict from paper specs, it’s clear that this.
CPU performance is up 3.7x in the new Apple M1 Max and M1 Pro powered MacBook Pro laptops, a big upgrade over the Core i7 processor in the 13-inch previous-gen MacBook Pro.
The Snapdragon 780G (SM7350-AB) supports LPDDR4 RAM at up to 2.1 GHz frequency and up to 16 GB capacity. While real life performance is hard to predict from paper specs, it's clear that this ...
Intel 10nm processor density is around 100 MTr/mm² (Cannon Lake) Intel 10nm is not much in. The Galaxy S series will equip a groundbreaking 4nm Android processor (AP). Written by The Jodee. Edited by The Jodee. Updated on Feb 24, 2022 There ...
However, going by estimates, TSMC’s 2nm node with GAA technology should launch before Intel’s 5nm process which has still not been officially announced by the US chipmaker. Source. Computer hardware enthusiast, PC gamer, and almost an engineer. Former co-founder of Techquila (2017-2019), a fairly successful tech outlet.
Samsung Exynos 2100: The Exynos 2100 is Samsung’s first processor to come with an integrated 5G chip. This processor is built on Samsung’s 5nm EUV manufacturing processing, just like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. In terms of cores, the Exynos 2100 houses 1 Coretex-X1 core clocked at 2.9 GHz. Besides that, we have three high-performance ...
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Asteroyds (Minor Damage)
$42.95 CAD$39.95 CAD
Guillaume Blossier, Frédéric Henry
Rio Grande Games
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Asteroyds is a racing and pre-program game similar to RoboRally but with enough significant differences to make it stand out as its own design.
Each player takes on the role of a famous Shuttle Racer Pilot and they have been drawn to a deadly event put on by a mega-rich entrepreneur that has recently bought the Ujitos system.
The aim of Asteroyds is to navigate the highly dangerous asteroid field and pass through four gates. What sets the game apart from other games of this design is that almost everything in the race zone can move position, so the players need to plan with that in mind.
So each round begins with the rolling of three dice; red, white and blue. These relate to coloured asteroids of the matching colour and each rock has a set of numbers from 1-6 printed on them. This gives every pilot the information they need to know where each object will most likely move to (the value rolled for each dice determines which direction the object moves in) using the hex based board.
The trick is that some objects move a differing number of spaces and objects react differently when collisions occur, thus a player's best laid plans may not pan out due to mistakes.
Mistakes introduces the other unique aspect of Asteroyds. The players only get a given amount of time to work out their best flight path and then plan their moves on their planning board. A minute is recommended and 30 seconds for experts. This real-time tension in the planning is tense and helps the game to stick to a good play length.
Asteroyds also offers advanced rules such as shooting, special pilot powers and also varied play modes such as; Shooting, Targets and drones. Some of these allow for team play.
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Against the journey to Baja California, Carolina had baked a tremendous pot of brown beans and fried a hundred tortillas.
M. v. peninsularis, the subspecies at the southern tip of Baja California, is not considered in this discussion.
Mrs. Osborne has dealt with the netting, textiles, and cordage, and the distribution of their techniques outside Baja California.
We're over open water now, headed toward Baja California, so I put on the autopilot.
We know of no similar articles in historic times in Baja California, nor to the north in southern California.
Comparable pieces have been seen, however, from mission ruins in central and northern Baja California.
Until the present, few shell ornaments have been noted in the archaeology of Baja California.
If it were, it would be unusual for Baja California, where projectile shafts are usually of cane.
Among the historic tribes the wearing of hairnets, both plain and decorated, was universal among the women of Baja California.
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All of our full-size humbuckers except the X2N® are available in two polepiece spacings. F-spacing refers to the wider of the two spacings. For proper string alignment and balanced output, F-spaced humbuckers should be used in the bridge position on all guitars with string spacing at the bridge of 2.1" (53 mm) or greater. On these guitars, if the nut width is 1-11/16” (43 mm) or greater, F-spaced pickups can be used in the neck position as well.
Why are there two different spacings?
A long time ago (in the 20th century, actually) the electric guitar world was divided between Gibson and Fender designs. One of the differences between the two was string spacing. In general, Gibson chose a narrower string spacing at the bridge than Fender, and therefore the polepieces on Gibson humbuckers were closer together than the magnets on Fender pickups. When guitar shops started installing humbuckers in the bridge position of Strats, it was obvious that the strings didn’t line up with the polepieces, and if the E strings were too far outside, the sound could suffer. Our first humbuckers followed the original Gibson spacing, and we call them standard-spaced. When we released our first humbuckers with wider spacing, Floyd Rose bridges were very popular. Floyd string-spacing is the same as Fender spacing, so we naturally called the new pickups F-spaced.
How do I know which spacing to use?
F-spaced pickups measure 2.01" (51 mm) center-to-center from the first polepiece to the sixth. Standard-spaced pickups measure 1.90" (48 mm). Although some players believe that F-spaced pickups are only for the bridge position of tremolo bridge guitars, many guitars with fixed bridges (including late 1990s Gibson Les Pauls and Epiphone LPs) should have F-spaced pickups in the bridge position. Most tremolo equipped guitars that have a nut width of 1-11/16” (43mm) or more should also use an F-spaced pickup in the neck position. If you’re replacing a bridge-position pickup and you're not sure what your string-spacing is, it's usually better to get an F-spaced model. It is not necessary for the strings to pass exactly over the center of the polepieces for best performance, but it is wise to avoid a situation where the E strings are sitting completely outside of the outer polepieces.
et j'ai un SH4-JB en chevalet mais la mi grave et aiguë ne son pas super bien centré par rapport a la "vis" du micro !
le son peut changer ?
je me suis fait avoir en gros sur se micro ou sa dérange pas trop ?
A noter d'ailleurs que le "F-Space" est avant tout le standard de distance inter-cordes de Fender...
Les micros F-Spaced sont indiqués pour les grattes équipées de Floyds et assimilés, de Winkilson, de vibratos Fender, et de la plupart des autres vibratos hors Bigsby et Vibrola, ainsi que de certains chevalets fixes.
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The bipartisan gathering was receptive to Leavitt's concerns and charged their Utah colleague with exploring ways to harness the nascent Internet for bringing higher learning to the masses.
"That was the tool that would change the basic paradigm," Leavitt said. "The Internet helped information go to where people are, rather than have the people go to where the information is."
Those discussions spawned Western Governors University, the Salt Lake City-based nonprofit catering to working adults by providing instruction online at an affordable price and awarding degrees based on competency. To say Leavitt's brainchild -- a re-invention of higher education -- has thrived would be an understatement.
A Roy school teacher, Genevieve Kirch, was WGU's first alumna, graduating in a class of one in 2000 with master's degrees in education and technology. This year, the university awarded about 2,000 degrees and enrolls 20,000.
WGU is now regarded as the model for online delivery of curricula as federal and state governments look for ways to replicate it elsewhere. WGU offers degrees in just four job market-oriented areas: health; business, information technology and education.
The programs are tailored for busy adult learners like Kirch and Chevron Wallace, who graduated this year with a bachelor's degree in business management.
Competency matters » Health issues pushed Wallace out of high school without a diploma 22 years ago and her education limped along until she heard a radio ad for WGU in 2006. By then she had a decade of management experience and received her high school equivalency diploma after taking community college courses. She had just launched an events-planning business, which she still operates in Atlanta.
"I wanted a college degree for personal satisfaction. Many people thought I was crazy. 'You're doing great, why do you want a degree?' " said Wallace, 40. "I hadn't graduated from anything. It was something I wanted to accomplish for myself."
With her travel and business commitments, attending classes at a typical campus would have been impossible. WGU gave her credit for the general education courses she had completed, as well as for the street wisdom she had accrued from her years in the labor force.
"What you know helps you complete your competencies a lot faster," Wallace said. "In a traditional college, regardless of what I knew, I would have to sit in a classroom three nights a week to get the credit for that one class."
Now enrolled in the WGU master's of business administration program, Wallace was a speaker at the school's July 17 commencement at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, where she shared the podium with Martha Kanter, a former community college president who now is undersecretary of education in the Obama administration.
Kanter is President Barack Obama's point-person on his graduation initiative, which seeks to make America the world's most educated nation by increasing the portion of the adult population with college degrees from 40 to 60 percent.
The president wants 60 percent of the nation's adults to hold a college degree by 2020, a net gain of 5 million graduates that won't happen without institutions like WGU.
"This new model of flexibility and delivery has allowed you to obtain the traditional degree in a nontraditional way," Kanter told WGU graduates. "As education increasingly embraces the power of online learning, universities like WGU won't seem nontraditional at all. They will likely become the norm."
Leavitt handed Kirch her degree in a ceremony in 2000 in the Utah Capitol's Gold Room. A graduate of Weber State University, Kirch had been teaching for 15 years when she signed up for WGU classes in 1999, a member of the school's first teacher cohort, which received $5,000 scholarships to pursue master's degrees.
I wanted it oddly enough not because of a pay increase, but for the benefit of my classroom and students. If I knew more I would be a more formidable teacher," she said. "When you get a master's, you are doing research. I have learned to use primary sources and statistics. I make sure my outcome is what I wanted."
Going to a traditional campus would have taken her away from her classroom and would have required about nine years, she said. But WGU is not for slouchers.
"You do have to be disciplined. You need time management skills," said Kirch, who still teaches fifth-grade at Roy Elementary.
Getting started » In the late 1990s, Leavitt assembled $1 million in seed money from the participating states, then headed to Silicon Valley with his hat in his hand. Flush with IPO cash from the tech boom of the late 1990s, many executives were happy to write six-figure checks to underwrite an institution operating on the digital frontier. WGU started accepting students in 1999.
"We started thinking of it not being a degree-granting institution, but as a clearinghouse for content," Leavitt said. "How do you accredit a university that has no library, but has access to the whole world?"
Under the leadership of CEO Bob Mendenhall, however, WGU did pursue regional accreditation, which it earned in 2003 when it had 500 students. Enrollment has since climbed 30 to 40 percent a year. Every year, the school takes over another suite or two in its building at 4000 South and 700 East. Mendenhall is now hiring 10 to 15 instructors a month to ensure a 60-to-one student-to-faculty ratio.
"That's challenging to find highly qualified people. We have a big ongoing recruiting and hiring effort, but the advantage is we can find them anywhere in the country," Mendenhall said.
The school employs 1,200, half of whom work out of their homes. About 60 percent are faculty, most full-timers earning $40,000 to $100,000. All hold master's degrees and most have doctorates. But the professorial hierarchy common at traditional universities doesn't exist at WGU, which calls all its teachers mentors. The student/mentor ratio is about 60 to 1, much higher than at brick and mortar schools.
"We recognize we are all in this together. We won't be successful without everyone's contribution," Mendenhall said. "We are organized horizontally as opposed to vertically."
Wallace liked her undergraduate experience so much she has returned to WGU to seek a master's in business administration. Annual tuition remains below $6,000, about what the U. charges but without receiving any ongoing taxpayer support. Students can start whenever they like and advance toward degrees as they pass a sequence of "competency units."
"I take great satisfaction that this is now emerging," said Leavitt, who served as President George W. Bush's secretary of Health and Human Services. "The original vision has been met and it is now growing in way that I'm very satisfied by."
Founded in 1999 as a nonprofit, low-cost school catering to working adults, WGU's enrollment has ballooned to more than 20,000 students in all 50 states and has awarded nearly 7,000 degrees. The instruction is conveyed entirely online and degrees are awarded after students demonstrate competency, not according to credit hours they've earned. While it operates out of Salt Lake City, nearly all its students and half its faculty and staff may rarely step foot in its offices. WGU offers baccalaureate and masters degrees in just four areas: business, education, health care and information technology.
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As per crime reports by ncrb.gov.in in last year 2013,
6,210 crime has been reported in Tripura.
Tripura has lowest crime rate of 169.03 compare to National crime rate 218.67 in 2013.
West Tripura in Tripura has highest crime reported where as Dhalai has least crime reported.
Tripura State stands 22nd in all crime records in 2013. 22nd in no of murders, 21st in no of rapes, 25th in no of robberies, 28th in no of thefts, 24th in no of dacoities, 24th in no of kidnapings, 21st in no of riots.
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[Beowulf] One time password generators...
billycrook at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 15:42:21 PDT 2009
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 17:25, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> Doing certain classes of work one has to satisfy e.g. banking due
> diligence, which tends to be stronger than ordinary cluster due
> diligence. One aspect of that security (generally required, quite
> independent of whether or not it really increases security) is "strong
> authentication", currently held to be multifactor authentication, e.g.
> SSH keys AND a one-time password, a password AND biometrics, etc.
> I've got a possible gig set up that may need this and have been
> investigating the OTP devices for cost and linux capability. The cost
> seems generally to be "high", and while there are a few that are
> up-front linux capable, it seems to be really difficult to find a
> company that will just sell you a key generator at (say) $10 a pop and
> give you a matching piece of software to run on your linux server.
> There are a couple of possible exceptions to pursue in addition to the
> e.g. RSA-like solutions with their enormous cost, but I thought I'd
> throw it out to the group here too. Is there a straightforward low-cost
> way to generate OTP's without ten thousand dollar server software
> Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
> Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu
If you want to spend as little as possible:
And if your users don't like typing long random things in, but you
still want them to use one-time credentials:
Both can be integrated with PAM. Yubikeys go for $25 (less in
quantity). Their server side software is Free Software, hosted on
Google Code. http://code.google.com/u/simon75j/
More information about the Beowulf
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ROME, May 20 (UPI) -- A magnitude 6.0 earthquake and aftershocks struck northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 50 others, emergency officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was about 25 miles north of Bologna, about 6 miles deep.
Some buildings collapsed when the ground shook for about 20 seconds in the Emilia region around 4 a.m., the Agenzia Giornalistica Italia reported.
A ceramics plant in Ferrara collapsed, killing one man working inside. Firefighters rescued other workers trapped in the rubble, AGI said.
"Churches and bell towers have been damaged," the report said.
Two of the other known fatalities suffered fatal heart attacks, La Repubblica reported.
The newspaper said the most serious damage occurred in the provinces of Modena and Ferrara, where many historic buildings collapsed. One regional official said he would be seeking a declaration of a national emergency to help displaced people.
Many took shelter in municipal buildings and schools, the newspaper said.
Rescue officials said they expect to find more casualties in the mountainous region, CNN reported.
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Yes, you can buy happiness with money. The problem is that a lot of people are unaware of what they ought to purchase in order to be happy. The majority of people spend their money on items that don’t contribute to their long-term happiness. As a result, a lot of people aren’t maximizing their purchases and investments for the purpose of achieving long-term satisfaction.
The research If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right caught my attention recently. This study’s researchers unearth and pinpoint a surprising divergence and failure in society. Every day, people pursue happiness by making purchases that don’t contribute to it. This got me to thinking about the problems that continue to plague our society as a result of its pervasive unconscious consumption. Deep-seated problems exist, and they extend beyond excessive consumerism to include life dissatisfaction and general misery. Young professionals, for instance, are feeling overburdened and many are finding it difficult to live up to the expectations that society and their parents have of them. Young people are killing themselves as a result, and young professionals are developing depression. I refer to this as a happiness epidemic.
I came upon a friend’s question on Facebook a few weeks ago, and it was posted:
“Who wants to accompany me to the mall? I need to go shopping! ASAP!”
This person’s sincere belief that a brand-new pair of shoes will genuinely have an effect on their feelings and make them happy is what makes this post frightening. Even more concerning is the fact that this is the mentality of individuals across the nation, and better still, the entire world. People that adopt this mindset frequently receive praise from associations, businesses, and the media. Now, this is not a criticism on businesses or corporations. I understand that businesses have a job to do and that duty is to make money since I am an entrepreneur and marketer. Not that I have a problem with businesses seeking to boost their profits. The lack of understanding we (consumers) have about what will genuinely make us happy and what won’t is my concern in this world of overconsumption.
The study confirms the idea that happiness can be purchased with money. You read correctly. Happiness is an attainable goal. The issue arises from the fact that the majority of individuals don’t spend their money on items that genuinely increase happiness. People are making pointless investments in goods and services that will only have a short-term emotional impact rather than long-term effects on their happiness and life.
Most people don’t know the basic scientific facts about happiness—about what brings it and what sustains it—and so they don’t know how to use their money to acquire it. It is not surprising when wealthy people who know nothing about wine end up with cellars that aren’t that much better stocked than their neighbors’, and it should not be surprising when wealthy people who know nothing about happiness end up with lives that aren’t that much happier than anyone else’s — If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy You Aren’t Spending It Right.
An essay about consumerism and pleasure was published in the New York Times in 2010.
In this post, a professor talked about a study that revealed the top category that is directly linked to happiness. Unexpectedly, the most popular category didn’t include jewelry from Tiffany’s, cars, or even house upgrades. Leisure activities, which include travel, entertainment, sports, and accessories like golf clubs, yoga mats, and surfboards, were the most popular category. So, when trying to maximize our life utilizing a paycheck, our main goal should be to purchase real unforgettable events.
Another school of thoughts argues that Money cannot buy you happiness until and unless your happiness lies in MATERIALISTIC things. To which I don’t disagree. Sometimes even that’s important.
Money helps you buy COMFORT but not HAPPINESS .
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Morgue & Autopsy
The Morgue Specialists assist the Medical Examiners in performing postmortem examinations. They are trained to assist in collecting evidence, drawing blood and other body fluids for analysis. The morgue specialists eviscerate bodies, clean and prepare bodies after autopsy, and perform other related activities. They maintain the morgue and its instruments, and are responsible for admitting and releasing decedents into/from the morgue. They perform photography, fingerprinting and other procedures to confirm identification of bodies. The morgue specialists are trained in radiography, performing X-rays when required by the Medical Examiners. They assist in cleaning and preparation of skeletal remains for examination. They also inventory, maintain, and release medications and evidence collected from bodies.
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That is what we are learning from the beginning that guests are gods all ore elderly says that the guest should not leave home unsatisfied, that means he should be treated with best hospitality as possible because they are as good as gods.
But when the guests visit our house our mind goes through so much of thoughts. WHY?
The guests only visit our house if there was an invitation or just to know how’s it going but even in that short period of time we go bonkers that when he will leave.
Will the guest that had come to the house will settle here permanently? NO WAYS!! . So why can’t we handle the small visit nicely and make it go good .
If you want the visit go short and sweet then try not to go too verbal with him, verbal conversation may lead to more time and if you want the guest to leave you can start cleaning up not with vaccum cleaner but cleaning up the snacks and dishes it’s a sign that the guest will understand and leave but as the culture say that guest are god they should be treated like god.
And it’s the right thing to treat them as god because one day you will also be a guest somewhere. SO DO RESPECT THE SAYING
ATITHI DEVO BHAVA.
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The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 66 software security bugs that are being actively exploited to its database of known exploited vulnerabilities, including some from leading technology vendors that date back several years.
For the majority of the products implicated in the new additions, there are patches available to remediate the vulnerabilities. However, there are seven impacted products that are no longer supported by the vendor and should be discontinued if still in use.
The new additions are CVEs in products from Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, D-Link, VMware, Sophos, Palo Alto, Apache, NETGEAR, Adobe, HP and others.
Three of the new additions are from bugs disclosed this year, including vulnerabilities in WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Appliances; Mitel MiCollab, MiVoice Business Express and of course the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler.
According to CISA, two of the newly added known exploited vulnerabilities were from last year, and 12 were disclosed in 2020.
However, the majority of the newly added bugs are several years old, including eight from 2010 and earlier. The oldest bug added in this new batch from more than a decade ago is a 2005 remote code execution bug (CVE-2005-2773) in HP’s OpenView Network Node Manager.
The new additions bring CISA’s list of known exploited vulnerabilities to 570 since the agency started maintaining the catalog in November 2021.
Earlier this month, CISA added 95 vulnerabilities to the catalog, including several older bugs that date back to the early 2000s.
Under the agency’s Binding Operational Directive 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, federal agencies are required to remediate the vulnerabilities by a specified date. In this case, all of the newly added bugs must be patched or removed by April 15.
In previous additions to CISA’s known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, agencies had several months to remediate certain vulnerabilities, suggesting there is more urgency to patch this new tranche of bugs.
Although this is designed to help keep U.S. government agencies secure, private enterprises and organizations of any size should scan their environment for these bugs to protect themselves from compromise.
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SUSSEX, Wis.— Communities across Waukesha County are seeing an increase in food insecurity. This is why a local nonprofit and an organic food company paired up to feed those in need.
“Pre-pandemic our numbers were about 11,000 that are 18 and under that would have qualified for blessings programs and now that number is 15,000 and it's growing by the day,” Waukesha County Blessings in a Backpack director, Nancy Major says.
Blessings in a Backpack serves 27 different schools throughout Waukesha County, feeding kids each week who are in need.
“We are currently serving about 2,200 kids a week, every single week. It is amazing when you think about that levels of poverty in our area that we just don’t think about,” Major says.
With a growing need, Natures Path, and organic food company in Sussex decided to give back. Teams of employees worked to fill two thousand bags with healthy foods for kids in need. Those meals will be given to local kids for Thanksgiving.
“It really warms our heart that we produce food that goes to someone who really needs it. We are blessed in so many ways and some people aren’t. To be able to provide them with something they might not otherwise have means a tremendous amount to all of us,” Nature’s Path Foods, Elizabeth Dolinky says.
Their employees spent portions of their workday stocking bags with organic food items such as granola bars and oatmeal for the kids to eat. Those bags will then be sent out to kids all across Waukesha County.
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The second annual Safe Talk was presented recently by Tykes & Teens in partnership with partner with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Children's Services Council of Martin County at the Indian River State College Chastain Campus in Stuart.
The program raises awareness about suicide prevention, teaching people to recognize the signs and how to direct the person needing help to life-saving resources.
The training is open to people 15-years-old and up.
'People tend to think that Martin County doesn't have many residents in mental health crisis. They are often surprised to hear that Martin County ranks very high in the state of Florida for suicides, and has a significantly higher number of suicides per capita annually than surrounding counties,' said Jeffrey Shearer, ACSW, LCSW, CAP, Executive Director of Tykes & Teens.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 10-24.
Since 1996, Tykes & Teens has helped more that 25,000 area youth — supporting and strengthening the community through quality prevention, education and social/-emotional healing services.
To learn more about Tykes and Teens call 772-220-3439 or visit TykesAndTeens.org.
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Batter up! It’s that time of year, and NTID Performing Arts is presenting a classic baseball musical comedy, Damn Yankees, directed by Luane Davis Haggerty, in RIT/NTID’s Panara Theatre. Running March 13-15 at 7:30 p.m. and March 16 at 2 p.m., tickets are $5 for students/seniors and $7 for all others. Email firstname.lastname@example.org for reservations or visit the Panara Theatre box office. Read more here.
Rehearsals will soon be underway for the upcoming NTID Performing Arts Production of Damn Yankees which will run March 13 – 16. Damn Yankees is a 1950s musical comedy based on a book by George Abbott and Douglas Wallop with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend, and is set in the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. Deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing performers will make up the cast of this hilarious production.
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Definition - What does Permeation mean?
This is the rate of molecular diffusion of gases, vapor and fluids through a solid material membrane. It is inversely proportional to the subsurface concentration. It is affected by the membrane thickness, increases with temperature, and is independent of pressure. It is used in the application of gas separation. It is used in petroleum and petrochemical industries to determine the effects of hydrogen in high-strength steel.
Corrosionpedia explains Permeation
In steel, hydrogen permeation is associated with surface reaction, corrosion, electrochemical processes or cathodic protection. The accumulation of hydrogen in the bulk of an alloy, areas of high stress or trapping sites induce cracks, which in turn compromises the mechanical integrity of the structure. But permeation depends on the atmospheric environment.
The permeation flux for a thin membrane is constant and governed only by the charging flux crossing the entry face. On the other hand, in thick membranes, the diffusion flux is inversely proportional to the subsurface concentration. Permeation in metals causes embrittlement and blistering. The permeation through coatings is a result of the diffusion and solubility of water or another fluid that can trigger corrosion of the substrate.
Permeation in metals is measured by using sensors to develop permeation current density in conjunction with the weight loss or gain of the substrate through a wet-dry cycle experiment. The permeability coefficient (P) is directly proportional to the concentration of diffusing substances (C) and inversely proportional to the solubility coefficient (S).
Emergency In-Situ Repair Problems & Surface-Tolerant Solutions
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|Title:||SCLC's Chicago Plan|
This excerpt from "A Proposal by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the Development of a Nonviolent Action Movement for the Greater Chicago Area" documents the economic plight of African Americans living in Chicago in 1966, when Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom Movement. Focusing on urban housing and poverty, King's demonstrations in Chicago drew national attention to both the affects of de facto segregation and a rising sense of black militancy in America.
Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
Lesson plans using this resource: Campaigns for Economic Freedom.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
|Types:||Instructional materials | Teaching guides | Resource units | Documents | Legal files|
|Subjects:||Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago | Protest marches--Illinois--Chicago | Civil rights demonstrations--Illinois--Chicago | Civil rights--Illinois--Chicago | Civil rights workers--Illinois--Chicago | Civil rights movements--Illinois-Chicago | African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions | African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Economic conditions | Black power--United States | Social justice | Poverty--Illinois--Chicago | Urban poor--Illinois--Chicago | Minorities--Housing--Illinois--Chicago | Illinois--Race relations | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Chicago Freedom Movement | United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964 | United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Chicago Housing Authority | American Civil Liberties Union | Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (Ill.) | Public housing--Illinois--Chicago | De facto school segregation--Illinois--Chicago | Chicago (Ill.) | Cook County (Ill.)|
|Collection:||Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection|
|Institution:||WGBH Educational Foundation|
|Contributors:||Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections | Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection | WGBH Educational Foundation|
|Online Publisher:||[Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation | 2002/2008|
Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri.
|Rights and Usage:|
The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection.
A PDF viewer may be needed to view the document.
|Persistent Link to Item:||http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/iml04/soc/ush/civil/chicago/|
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