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(*Information provided by Mohamed Ali Didi, Fasiya, Gn.Fuvahmulah)
In early days, cement was not available for construction work. People of Fuvahmulah produced uva (u’a) or lime. Uvadhavaameehun, Lime-burners, collect akiri (pebbles) from the beach and carry it near the uva vado- the klin. Uva vado is made by digging the ground and was in the form of a crater. The klin’s depth is normally 4 to 8 feet; and 5 to 15 feet in its width. If more uva had to be produced, they used deeper and wider uva vado.
At the bottom of the uva vado, they spread lighter fire woods. Uvadhavaameehun fill the bottom of the kiln with the driest wood possible – and then the men lay alternating layers of fuel and limestone. A narrow opening of about 1 to 2 feet is made from the bottom to the top, along the side of the uva vado so that fire can be ignited through the window of this passage. Once the bottom layer is made, they put akiri till the uva vado is completely full.
The uva vado had to be filled carefully, with precisely measured amounts and materials (akiri and dharo or woods in the desired proportion) – if the akiri did not bake at a high enough temperature for long enough, the akiri would not transform into uva and the work would be in vain.
Once the uva vado is filled, the dried wood, which is at the bottom of the uva vado, by that little door – will be ignited. And in turn, lit the fuel through the rest of the structure, setting the whole uva vado on fire. The burning process lasts two to three days. People stay near the uva vado to make sure no interruption happens. When the aikiri turns into anguru (red hot), water is poured into the burning akiri.
Limetstone burning in other countries
According to elderly people, water is poured to extinguish the fire at that stage so that the “perfect” uva will be produced. When the fire dies down, the uva is collected and put into bags. The lime is then transferred to fallavaa, special place to hold lime, located in households. And used by raavaa meehun, masons.
Typically an uva vado took a day to load, two to three days to fire, two days to cool and a day to unload. The whole process continue for a week. | <urn:uuid:c20b451c-cf35-45ad-8dbb-2ae2ba098a73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://howmaldives.com/2016/01/08/uva-dhevun-making-lime-for-dwelling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.947261 | 563 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
After some disappointment from WISE not having discovered brown dwarfs within a few light years of us, it turns out that this is not quite the case: a pair of brown dwarfs has been discovered just 6.5 light years away. They were actually discovered thanks to WISE data, and the reason for their remaining unknown until now? The two are located in an area very close to the galactic plane, which apparently was not given that close a look during the first look over the data produced by the infrared telescope.
Now that we know about these two nearby (sub-)stellar companions, the next task is to determine what sort of planets orbit them. This is actually an easier task to perform when one is observing a brown dwarf star, since there is no light given off that one has to compensate for, meaning direct observation by any telescope is possible.
This is pretty exciting news for several reasons. For one, it’s always nice (and fun) to discover something surprising, especially when it’s so close. The distance itself is also interesting; if these two stars have planets they’ll be a lot easier to detect than usual because they are so close to us. Plus, the faintness of the stars will make any potential planets easier to see.
Without this one needs a coronagraph for direct imaging of a planet, resulting in something looking like this:
The analogy usually used to explain the difficulty in directly imaging a planet orbiting a star is that it is akin to finding a firefly next to a searchlight on a foggy night (or some other similar analogy), whereas for WISE 1049-5319 it is like finding a firefly next to two larger fireflies we know the location of on a foggy night. | <urn:uuid:1bac9f46-9510-4616-9d4c-72a281014193> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pagef30.com/2013/03/our-third-closest-stellar-neighbours.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00093-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968624 | 365 | 3.421875 | 3 |
By Marina Depetris and Cecile Mantovani
Bern: Support for the Greens has surged in Switzerland's election, moving politics to the left and putting environmentalists in the mix for a seat in the broad coalition that has governed the country for decades.
The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) remains in first place, according to projections after the parliamentary election on Sunday.
However like other big parties the SVP lost ground as environmentalist parties seized on voters' concerns about climate change to shake up the political establishment.
"It is not a green wave, it is a tsunami, a hurricane," said deputy Greens leader Celine Vara, who won a seat in the upper house of parliament for Neuchatel canton.
Far from the sea, Switzerland is especially vulnerable to climate change as temperatures in the country are rising twice as quickly as the global average.
The SVP, which won a record number of seats in 2015 amid Europe's refugee crisis, slipped 3.6 points to 25.8 per cent while the Greens' share surged 5.9 points to 13.0 per cent of the vote for the lower house, according to a gfs.bern projection for broadcaster SRF.
The smaller, more centrist Green Liberal Party (GLP) advanced to 7.9 per cent, bringing the two parties' combined strength to nearly 21 per cent should they overcome policy differences and decide to join forces.
Together they gained 26 seats in the 200-seat lower house, potentially putting them in line to take one of the seats in the seven-seat cabinet, the Federal Council.
Changing just one member of the cabinet would be a political sensation. The Greens have never had a seat in the federal government.
The centre-left Social Democrats remained second on 16.6 per cent and the centre-right Liberals (FDP) third at 15.3 per cent, but the Greens leapfrogged the centrist Christian Democrats (CVP), which has one seat on the Federal Council. | <urn:uuid:5ba632a7-907d-44ea-9db5-5279b7acf220> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/it-s-not-a-wave-it-s-a-tsunami-green-surge-in-swiss-election-20191021-p532kw.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.95031 | 413 | 1.625 | 2 |
Safety For Babies
As a parent, ensuring the safety of your child is often not an easy matter. Especially if you have twins. Using a baby monitor found on https://adviserbaby.com/best-baby-monitors-2-cameras-for-two-rooms/ can be used as a solution. As it is known that baby monitors are helping parents to be able to monitor the movements of their children. Choose a baby monitor without cables. It’s no secret that baby monitors that have cables are often annoying and even dangerous. For that, pick a baby monitor with a wireless kind that is more adaptable to operate in any location.
Watching in the evening or when the room is unlit is certainly not a comfortable affair. The answer is to have a baby monitor equipped with an infrared night vision characteristic as the best solution because it can assist monitor the baby’s state even when it is dark. Don’t worry, this type of baby monitor is widely obtainable on websites marketing baby equipment. In addition, this type of baby monitor is also very suitable for those who are still toddlers. As it is known that those who are toddlers, even though the room lights are turned off, often get out of bed. Something that if not monitored can be extremely harmful.
Each electronic item certainly has its resources so that it can continue to function. The same thing also happens to baby monitors that have various sources of energy to fill their energy. Starting from using rechargeable batteries to ordinary batteries. For this one, choose the best resource so that the baby monitor is more durable. Of the two options, choose a baby monitor that has a rechargeable battery as a source of energy charging. Besides being cheaper, it will also be easier to charge energy. Something that makes you more comfortable and less bothersome when using it.
The last tip is to try to choose a baby monitor that has a warranty. This is of course done so that you can guard against something that you don’t want to expect in the future. | <urn:uuid:f964a397-fecc-4367-a365-924ea7438c95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kittykornercatfurniture.com/safety-for-babies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.966625 | 422 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Affiliation: Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O.Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden.
Glycoside hydrolases, which are responsible for the degradation of the major fraction of biomass, the polymeric carbohydrates in starch and lignocellulose, are predicted to gain increasing roles as catalysts in biorefining applications in the future bioeconomy. In this context, thermostable variants will be important, as the recalcitrance of these biomass-components to degradation often motivates thermal treatments. The traditional focus on degradation is also predicted to be changed into more versatile roles of the enzymes, also involving specific conversions to defined products. In addition, integration of genes encoding interesting target activities opens the possibilities for whole cell applications, in organisms allowing processing at elevated temperatures for production of defined metabolic products.
In this review, we overview the application of glycoside hydrolases related to the biorefining context (for production of food, chemicals, and fuels). Use of thermostable enzymes in processing of biomass is highlighted, moving from the activities required to act on different types of polymers, to specific examples in today’s processing. Examples given involve (i) monosaccharide production for food applications as well as use as carbon source for microbial conversions (to metabolites such as fuels and chemical intermediates), (ii) oligosaccharide production for prebiotics applications (iii) treatment for plant metabolite product release, and (iv) production of surfactants of the alkyl glycoside class. Finally future possibilities in whole cell biorefining are shown. | <urn:uuid:10d5369e-b8fe-4267-9b22-e7dc5f141cc6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.benthamscience.com/journal/abstracts.php?journalID=cbiot&articleID=117228 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908698 | 341 | 2.375 | 2 |
Isn't it disappointing when a "socially responsible" company refuses to be transparent?
We at Food Empowerment Project have long enjoyed the products from Clif Bar & Company, including energy bars that contain chocolate. But when we asked Clif last year, "From which countries do you get cocoa beans?" they refused to tell us.
With some 1.8 million children in Ghana and the Ivory Coast toiling in the chocolate industry--where they may be exposed to the worst forms of child labor, including hazardous work and slavery--we as consumers have the right to know.
Many chocolate companies -- including Newman's Own -- disclosed to us where their cocoa beans come from, so what does Clif Bar have to hide? We are not asking for full supply chain information or grower names -- simply the cocoa beans' country of origin.
Plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast together supply 70 percent of the world's cocoa. For years, these farms have used child slaves, who work 12 hours a day. They cut cocoa pods from trees with heavy machetes, slice the pods open, scoop out the beans, and put them in the sun to dry. Then they stuff the beans into bags and load them onto trucks bound for the United States and Europe. Children are not paid, they are cut off from their families, and when they don't work fast enough, they are beaten.
Clif Bar acknowledges on their website "that food matters to our families, our communities, and our planet -- as our food choices affect the physical, social, and environmental fabric of our lives." They even pledge a commitment to communities worldwide. Yet this now all seems to be empty rhetoric.
Recently, Clif Bar announced that they intend to use the Rainforest Alliance certification, a system that imposes the least amount of requirements on the companies that plan to use its seal and does not guarantee the cocoa is free of child labor or slavery. While we appreciate Clif Bar's effort, our question remains the same: Where do you source your cocoa from?
How could a company that prides itself on social responsibility choose to not be transparent about an issue as important as child slavery?
Please join us in asking them.
Dear Clif Bar,
As a compassionate consumer who is vehemently opposed to slavery in all forms, I was deeply disappointed to learn that your company refuses to disclose the country from which you source your chocolate. You are undoubtedly aware that some 1.7 million children are the victims of human trafficking and slavery in the West African nations of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, which together supply about 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans.
I understand that the nonprofit Food Empowerment Project has reached out to you asking that you reveal where the cocoa beans you use for your chocolate come from. They are not asking for full supply chain information or grower names -- just the cocoa beans' country of origin. Many other companies, including Newman's Own, publicly disclose where their cocoa beans come from.
Unfortunately, your plan to use Rainforest Alliance certification isn't good enough. I need to know where your cocoa comes from so I can make an informed decision.
Won't you step up and tell your customers what they deserve to know?>
You've pledged a commitment to communities worldwide -- now show us this isn't just an empty promise of social responsibility. | <urn:uuid:bab014a5-9db7-40f2-b11f-1d04fc408682> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/229/288/148/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95513 | 686 | 2.25 | 2 |
Just because your phone does not have a data plan doesn't mean it can't connect to the Internet. The phone's Wi-Fi service is separate from the data plan, meaning that as long as the Wi-Fi transmitter isn't damaged or turned off, you can still connect over wireless networks. Using Wi-Fi both at home and in public, there are several ways to make your data-free smartphone still useful -- and even to make calls.
Public Wi-Fi Networks
If you're using a public Wi-Fi connection, take steps to protect your data like using Virtual Private Network apps to secure your connection. VPNs encrypt data sent from your phone to an app or website you're connecting to, making it harder for hackers to steal private information. There are several VPN apps available for both Android and iPhone.
If your phone still has a voice plan attached to it, then regular phone calls should be unaffected by your lack of a data plan. However, most cellular carriers don't offer voice-only plans for smartphones -- Virgin Mobile is the only major carrier offering voice-only smartphones -- making it a little trickier to retain voice calling without data.
Voice Chat Apps
Apps that send voice calls over Wi-Fi connection can also be used without a data plan. For example, Skype and Google Voice both make it possible to call other users for free, so long as they are on Skype or Google Voice respectively. With a small monthly fee, Skype can even make calls to phone numbers, making it possible to completely cut out your carrier and adopt a considerably smaller monthly fee to maintain voice services.
The only catch is that you have to be connected to a Wi-Fi network in order to place or receive calls. While freely available public networks are more widely available than in the past, this does mean there may be times when you don't have coverage. Mobile Wi-Fi hotspots are one way to get around this issue, although they do require a purchase and monthly subscription.
While many apps on smartphones rely on an Internet connection, any apps that don't can be used anywhere without a data plan. When you do need your Internet-dependent apps, a Wi-Fi connection works just as well. | <urn:uuid:948f9dbd-7409-4f92-b4f0-ce3c366daad8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-do-i-use-a-smartphone-without-a-data-plan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942057 | 449 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Flaming Gorge Dam, The "Last Bucket of Concrete"
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The "Last Bucket of Concrete" - Left to right are J. Walton - Project Construction Engineer for the Flaming Gorge Unit and D. D. Baker - Project Manager for Arch Dam Constructors. "The Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, in northern Utah in the United States. Flaming Gorge Dam forms the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which extends 91 miles (146 km) into southern Wyoming, submerging four distinct gorges of the Green River. The dam is a major component of the Colorado River Storage Project, which stores and distributes upper Colorado ... | <urn:uuid:01f0b44c-5186-43ff-a753-eb6f58197795> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/11166/166671 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886666 | 156 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Book reviews--articles intended to describe and criticize a book--are usually written shortly after the book appears. Some reviews, especially longer, scholarly reviews may take a year or longer to appear. To locate a book review, it is therefore necessary to know the date the book was published.
Literary criticism, on the other hand, may be written long after the book itself, perhaps centuries later. This guide pertains only to reviews, not to criticism. | <urn:uuid:f06e839d-f0da-4d8f-8ccb-3047cc33da66> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://libguides.northwestern.edu/c.php?g=114827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00436-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960525 | 92 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Answer: It's possible your asparagus fonds have become home to asparagus beetles. The adults chew on the spears in the spring and attack the foliage in the summer. Adults are 1/4" long metallic, blue-black pests with white or yellow spots on their backs. They lay eggs in the foliage and the eggs hatch into little light gray or brown caterpillars with black heads and feet. Hand picking is a good way to control them, or you might try washing them from the plants with a strong stream of water from a hose.
Bt (Bacillus Thuringiensis) is a bacterium that acts as a stomach poison when consumed by caterpillars. It attacks the gut and essentially paralyzes the digestive tract of the pest. Bt is what's known as a bio-control, meaning it's derived from plants or animals. Bt is non-toxic to other insects or mammals and Bt biodegrades rapidly in sunlight.
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Last year, our affection for these summer beauties reached its height just as the sunflowers reached theirs. The conditions were perfect for sunflower abundance. We celebrated sunflowers for weeks, watching them grow towards the sun, sketching them and thinking of them as we were filling up tummies with our beloved SunButter® made from sunflower seeds.
This year we planted seeds all around. Under the windows, in the beds, in the garden. Alas, either a sneaky squirrel was watching us or the rains didn’t reach the seeds at the right time. This year, we’ve only had the sunflowers right around our bird feeder. But that hasn’t quashed our enthusiasm.
We followed the instructions in the July Outdoor Hour Challenge newsletter for how to ‘fill in with color.’ What fun we had with that!
So, even though we thought we’d really studied sunflowers last year, all the new ideas on the handy sunflower grid (available in the July Nature Newsletter – link below) helped us see new parts of our sunflowers. Helped us to appreciate these beauties even more!
“The sunflower is not a single flower but is a large number of flowers living together; and each little flower, or floret, as it is called, has its own work to do.” ~Handbook of Nature Study
Resources for sunflower study:
- Handbook of Nature Study
- July Nature Newsletter by Handbook of Nature Study
- Sunflower Pastel Tutorial
- Simple Sunflowers (drawn from our study last year)
- SunButter® sunflower coloring pages
Next up…the bee count! (See one on our sunflower in the photo above?) This Saturday, July 16th is when the Great Sunflower Project requests we count bees. All the details here. Then, in our near future, more sunflower study as the flowers go to seed (which means more bird watching too!). Still more to learn! | <urn:uuid:255eb446-1732-4329-8f9e-ac80762a1f00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yourbesthomeschool.com/summer-sunflowers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.954138 | 420 | 3.03125 | 3 |
SeaMicro, the startup that has built a business in the low-power microserver market, said it has now integrated Intel’s workhorse Xeon chip inside its boxes. SeaMicro, which crams hundreds of Intel’s low-power Atom-based chips inside its specialty servers for smaller workloads, has gradually proven to Intel and the rest of the market how strong the demand is for low-power architectures. Intel eventually designed a specialty Atom chip just for SeaMicro that gave it the capabilities that data center customers were looking for. Today it goes further.
Tuesday’s announcement puts a traditional Xeon architecture chip inside SeaMicro’s boxes, and in doing so has remade the traditional server in SeaMicro’s vision. SeaMicro has whittled down a server into three component chips — the CPU, memory and SeaMicro’s proprietary ASIC that helps the hundreds of chips inside the box communicate. What’s notable here is how quickly and how powerfully web scale data center operators have turned the tables on the server and chip industry, which had long been dominated by the vendors delivering innovation at their pace.
But now the density, power and performance demands of companies like Facebook, Google and others are driving vendors in the chip and server industry to react. And so far, SeaMicro has reacted more quickly than the larger vendors — delivering four different iterations of its server in response to market demand in 18 months. Intel’s willingness to listen to and learn from SeaMicro, and its gradual realization that the microserver market was worth paying attention to, is also a sign of change in the market.
For a sense of what this announcement means, Andrew Feldman, the CEO of SeaMicro, explained that a current SeaMicro server could replace 500 machines from five years ago and run at 96 percent of the power. For today’s servers, they deliver 3x the density at half the power– a stat Feldman repeated several times. This delivers the power savings, density and performance to not only some of the work performed in a data center, but all of the work in the data center.
These boxes will support database, application and web servers, and will help deal with the huge power demands of web scale data centers. And Feldman makes clear that the architecture of these boxes and the SeaMicro chip inside that manages the bandwidth inside the box, is flexible. Today it supports Atom and Xeon chips, but tomorrow it could support a completely different CPU architecture such as that offered by Tilera or even ARM-based chips if the demand is there.
So far, Mozilla is relying on SeaMicro for its next generation servers and the federal government is also excited about them. Since we’re now entering the age of the 100 megawatt data center (a single megawatt can power about 800 homes) in buildings the size of football fields, efforts to reduce both power consumption and density are essential to keeping our web addiction sated. | <urn:uuid:be181989-95c0-4f3d-bfcd-faa69db46e02> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/dont-call-it-a-wimpy-node-seamicro-rethinks-the-server-for-webscale/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00400-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943682 | 604 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Tidmoor Point is a small promontory of highly productive Oxford Clay, situated along the shoreline of The Fleet lagoon, opposite Chesil Beach. Renowned for its pyrite and limonitic casts of small ammonites, the cliff here is very low. Apart from ammonites, the site is also rich in belemnites, crinoids, crabs, lobsters, sharks, reptiles, crocodiles, fish and molluscs.
♦ Take the Chickerell Link Road (B3157) from Dorchester and drive to the junction with Chickerell Road. Turn left at the traffic lights onto Chickerell Road (signposted the Jurassic Coast Road), passing the Chickerell Army Training Camp on the right.
♦ At a distance of just under a kilometre, you will see a lay-by opposite Tidmoor Holiday Cottages at DT3 4DG. Park here. If you overshoot, turn left into Putton Lane (there is a small Post Office on the corner, opposite the Art House Cafe)) and park here instead.
♦ Cross over Chickerell Road on foot and walk down the side of Tidmoor Holiday Cottages, along a concrete path that runs past the Army firing ranges to The Fleet. If the red flag is flying near the entrance to the Army grounds, or you hear gunfire, you cannot get to the Tidmoor Point beach and you will need to turn left along the coast path to Tidmoor Cove instead (see access restrictions).
♦ At the bottom of the path, bear slightly right and go through a gate, following the narrow path, crossing the wooden planking, until you reach the final metal gate. Bear right and walk more or less parallel to the coast, until you finally reach Tidmoor Point.
♦ Don’t be too eager to get onto the beach. Wait until you see a concrete ramp, leading to a broken wooden jetty, which means you are in the right spot. Once on the foreshore, walk to the right.
♦ Ref: 50.605181, -2.5043142
FIND FREQUENCY: ♦♦♦♦ – This has long been regarded as a highly fossiliferous locality. However, over-collecting in recent years has clearly impacted on the numbers of fossils. The very slow erosion rate of the gentle lapping waters of The Fleet means collection is best after winter storms, when the low cliff sections have been subjected to rougher tides and storms.
CHILDREN: ♦♦♦ – This can be a fair walk for children, so the site is more suitable for older children. Note also that the mudflats are dangerous, so ensure children to not venture onto these.
ACCESS: ♦♦ – Access depends on the firing range times of the army camp, which may restrict access to the cove only. If the firing ranges are being used, there is no access. The walk itself is quite a long distance.
TYPE: – Fossils are found along the foreshore, washed from the small cliffs. The best time to collect is after storms and during the winter.
Tidmoor Point is renowned for its pyrite and limonitic casts of small ammonites of the Lambert Zone and is the location where Quenstedioceras lamberti was first discovered. The cliff here is very low and much slipped, but productive collection is on, or just above, the beach, where an abundance of ammonites, belemnites (Hibolites hastata and Belemnopsis bessina) and other fossils can be picked up. These include ammonites (Quenstedioceras leachi, Quenstedioceras henrici, Kosmoceras spinosum and Kosmoceras compressum), as well as ossicles and parts of the stems of Pentacrinus crinoids, casts of bivalves (Nucula, Grammatodon, numerous Gryphaea lituola and the dwarfed, Gryphaea dilatata). Most ammonites are small. Also to be found here are parts of lobsters and crabs, the teeth of the shark, Sphenodus, plesiosaurs and marine crocodile teeth, with occasional bones from turtles and fish.
This location is best for individuals exploring the beauty of The Fleet shoreline, with a profusion of bird life. The whole area is site of special scientific interest (SSSI), so digging into the banks or cliffs in prohibited, which is futile in any case, as the fossils require erosion from The Fleet and weather to emerge from the very sticky clay. Tidmoor Point also forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Jurassic Coast, and is also a Ramsar (wetland) site and a Special Area of Conservation Interest, among other designations.
The most fossiliferous spot is at the northwest extremity of the point. The Tidmoor Point Clays are part of the Lower Oxfordian (Callovian).
Tidmoor Cove lies southeast of the point. Do not attempt to cross to the cove across the mudflats. This is dangerously deep mud, which must be avoided. Take the coastal path from the point and drop down onto the foreshore at Tidmoor Cove, close to Littlesea Caravan Park. At Tidmoor Cove, the fossils are similar to Tidmoor Point, but very large specimens of Gryphaea dilata can be picked up from the beach. The Mariae Zone crops out beneath the caravan site, containing the ammonite, Quenstedioceras mariae, among others.
Tidmoor Point is a small promontory of Oxford Clay, situated along the shoreline of The Fleet lagoon, opposite Chesil Beach. The Oxford Clay is Jurassic (Callovian to Oxfordian) in age.
A specimen bag or box will be useful. All fossils can be picked by hand, without the need for any equipment.
Tidmoor Cove lies southeast of the point. Do not attempt to cross to the cove across the mudflats. This is dangerously deep mud, which must be avoided. Also ensure you check tide times before you visit.
If the red flag is flying near the entrance to the Army grounds or you hear gunfire, you cannot get to the Tidmoor Point beach, as the Army is practicing and you will need to turn left along the coast path to Tidmoor Cove instead. Monthly firing times are now published online (google Chickerell Firing Times for a current timetable).
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If you’re yet to taste the wonderful hit of Korean Gimbap then you’re missing out on a truly delicious treat.
The dish is everywhere in Korea and is similar to sushi. It is made with steamed white rice that has been marinated in vinegar, salt and sugar and then filled with a number of different ingredients.
This is all wrapped in a sheet of gim (dried seaweed) – the bap refers to the rice.
In the video below, produced by Munchies, you can see Toyoung, a young Japanese woman who has opened a Gimbap shop in Seoul, Korea.
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Paris – Most of the buildings that line the avenues of central Paris date from the 19th century and follow a certain aesthetic, but what if a contemporary building were to be erected?
This was the challenge that architect Manuelle Gautrand faced when designing the Origami office building on Avenue de Friedland, near the Arc de Triomphe. According to regulations, the building had to incorporate stone into its façade to fit in with the rest of the street. Accordingly, Gautrand and her team used a traditional material, marble, and manipulated it to look as light as paper.
‘The panels are composite, a film of marble mounted on a twin layer of glass,’ explains the architect in a statement.
The surprising softness of the marble recalls our Haptic Illusion design direction, in which designers use materials in new ways, creating trompe l’oeil effects to seemingly transform them into something they are not. | <urn:uuid:6e8d6814-fb16-4c36-997c-cb94077d773f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lsnglobal.com/news/article/8138/origami-office-fluid-building-faeade-made-of-marble | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.955958 | 245 | 2.25 | 2 |
For one of the best day trips from Miami, head to beautiful Biscayne Bay, just 45 minutes from THesis Hotel. Biscayne Bay’s bright blue waters, picturesque islands and teeming underwater wildlife make for a breathtaking excursion.
Much of Biscayne Bay is included in Biscayne National Park. This lovely national park is 95% percent water, so you’ll likely end up spending most of your time below the surface. The remaining 5% is composed of the few islands that make up the northernmost part of the Florida Keys.
Pop by the Biscayne National Park Institute
The first stop on this Florida day trip should be the Biscayne National Park Institute. If you want to explore on your own, this is where you can rent a canoe, kayak or paddleboard. And if you want a little more guidance, this is where you can hop aboard a tour.
Snorkel through An Underwater Paradise
One of the best things to do in Biscayne Bay and the surrounding area is snorkel. Explore shipwrecks, the underwater wonderland around Boca Chita Key, and other renowned snorkeling sites like Stillstville – an area in the middle of the water with a variety of structures constructed on stilts. Discover brightly colored coral, parrotfish, lobsters, sharks, manatees, bottlenose dolphins and more!
Paddle through Thriving Mangrove Trees
Another great way to explore Biscayne Bay is by kayaking, canoeing or stand up paddleboarding your way around. Since the water is so clear, you’ll likely still get to see quite a bit of this national park’s marine life, including fish, sharks and eels.
But a big part of what makes paddling in Biscayne Bay special is the mangrove trees! These coastal plants naturally make beautiful canopies and hidden pathways that make you feel as if you’re on an Indiana Jones-esque adventure.
Relax and Unwind at THesis Hotel
After one of the best day trips in Florida, the most fitting way to end your day in the sun is by booking a relaxing stay at THesis Hotel in Miami. Unwind in modern guest rooms and relive your paddling or snorkeling adventures over a delicious meal at one of THesis Hotel’s delicious restaurants. | <urn:uuid:4d6f9a23-8f24-4167-b37e-e0ba06fa862e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thesishotelmiami.com/notes/best-day-trip-from-miami-biscayne-bay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.901435 | 499 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The election night parties were barely over last week before investors started selling stocks. While renewed uncertainty over Europe did not help, the source of the volatility was closer to home: The fiscal cliff. Washington now has seven weeks to reach a compromise — a failure to do so will mean the largest fiscal drag in the post-World War II period and a possible recession.
Many investors are particularly worried that dividend stocks are vulnerable given the potential for a near tripling of the tax on dividends. As I’ve said in previous blogs, I believe volatility will remain elevated and stocks will stay under pressure until the president and Congress produce a credible road map to a compromise. That said I don’t believe dividend stocks — with one exception — are any more vulnerable than the broader market. Here’s why:
- Many dividend stocks are held in non-taxable accounts. Whether held by institutional investors or by individuals in tax-deferred retirement accounts, a change in the dividend tax rate will have no immediate impact on holders of these securities.
- Historically, when dividend tax rates have risen, companies have made investors whole on an after-tax basis by raising their dividends to offset the higher tax rate. Given that US corporate balance sheets are generally very healthy with S&P 500 companies sitting on more than $2 trillion in cash, and payout ratios are close to historic lows, companies appear to have the wherewithal to increase dividends should taxes rise.
- Many high dividend payers are concentrated in defensive industries, like healthcare and consumer staples. These companies tend to be less economically sensitive than other industries. As a result, they typically outperform when the economy is under threat because they’re less vulnerable to a fall in earnings than more cyclical companies.
While I’m comfortable with dividend paying stocks in general, there is one major exception: US utilities. Prior to the Bush tax cuts in 2003, utility stocks typically traded at a significant discount to other segments of the market. This made sense because utilities are a slow-growing, regulated industry. However, since the inception of the Bush tax cuts the sector has been growing progressively more expensive relative to other segments of the market. Today, US utility companies are trading at a slight premium to the broader market. Should the preferential rate on dividends expire, I believe the utility sector may be uniquely vulnerable because it is likely to suffer significant multiple compression.
Over the next seven weeks, investors will need to spend a disproportionate amount of time handicapping the odds of going over the fiscal cliff. If the tax hikes and spending cuts hit, and they are allowed to remain in place for any length of time, I believe that the United States is vulnerable to another recession. Under this scenario stocks will come under significant pressure. However, in the event of another recession, the tax rate on dividends may be the least of an investor’s worries. Dividend stocks will be hit, but probably no worse than the rest of the market. If anything, a defensive tilt – ex-utilities – is probably a reasonable place to hide.
iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (NYSEArca: DVY)
Russ Koesterich, CFA, is the iShares Global Chief Investment Strategist.
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This application note is aimed at engineers needing to interface SystemC to cycle accurate models of devices implementing the IEEE 1149.1 JTAG interface.
Cycle accurate models of devices in SystemC may be written by hand. More commonly they are generated automatically by tools such as Verilator, ARC VTOC and Carbon Design Systems ModelStudio. They may also be implemented using SystemC interfaces to traditional event driven simulation.
Directly interfacing to the JTAG cycle accurate ports of a SystemC model is a complex task, requiring careful modeling of the JTAG Test Access Port (TAP) state machine.
This application note specifies a more abstract interface, allowing the user to simply read and write hardware registers through JTAG. The interface takes responsibility for ensuring the correct sequence of signals is sent through the TAP to achieve the desired action.
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Hastelloy C276 Lag Bolts are commonly used in applications up to about 1650 degrees Fahrenheit (900 Degree C). These Hastelloy C276 Counter Sunk Bolts are made of a nickel-molybdenum-chromium alloy that provides excellent corrosion resistance in harsh environments. Hastelloy UNS N10276 Bolts are ideal for use in situations requiring resistance to aggressive corrosion and localized corrosion attack. Because of the possibility of carburization, oxyacetylene welding of these Hastelloy DIN 2.4819 Bolts should be avoided.
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HJR 2, the proposed constitutional amendment to “insure hunting, fishing and trapping rights,” has language buried within which could potentially eliminate minimum water levels aimed at protecting Idaho fish.
“Shall Article I, of the Constitution of the State of Idaho be amended by the addition of a New Section 23, to provide that the rights to hunt, fish and trap, including by the use of traditional methods, are a valued part of the heritage of the State of Idaho and shall forever be preserved for the people and managed through the laws, rules and proclamations that preserve the future of hunting, fishing and trapping; to provide that public hunting, fishing and trapping of wildlife shall be a preferred means of managing wildlife; and to provide that the rights set forth do not create a right to trespass on private property, SHALL NOT AFFECT RIGHTS TO DIVERT, APPROPRIATE AND USE WATER, OR ESTABLISH ANY MINIMUM AMOUNT OF WATER IN ANY WATER BODY, shall not lead to a diminution of other private rights, and shall not prevent the suspension or revocation, pursuant to statute enacted by the Legislature, of an individual’s hunting, fishing or trapping license?”
The GUARDIAN talked with retired Idaho Fish and Game Director Steve Huffaker about the proposed Hunting Fishing and Trapping amendment.
“There’s a heck of a lot of daylight between existing stream flow policy or legislation and a constitutional prohibition,” said Huffaker. “I see no valid reason to amend the constitution. We opposed similar attempts for 10 years and now they have inserted the water language which is certainly not good news for fish.”
In a nutshell, Huffaker said the net affect of the amendment would be to cast doubt on existing policies and open a potential loophole that could eliminate minimum streamflows and reservoir levels–conservation practices designed to protect Idaho fisheries during low water years. Say all you want about rights to fish, but without water the fish are gone.
We made several inquiries with state agencies and found staffers were gunshy about commenting. However Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office provided us with an OPINION requested last February by Senator Elliot Werk. The response was a bit murky, but the AG claimed the amendment language would not prohibit the legislature from establishing minimum stream flows or water levels.
Legislative observers told the GUARDIAN prohibition of minimum water levels was inserted to garner support of irrigators and other water users.
DAILY PAPER reporter Rocky Barker weighed in with a report from others concerned with the amendment.
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Do you know the difference between an -a or -er?
Ok now we need to have a little discussion about the difference between nigga and ******. Yes we have our favorite rappers saying nigga in their songs and we repeat it along with in our everyday vernacular. Many artist are trying to stray from using the word.
Nas was trying to use his last album to discredit the word make it seem to have no power. Unfortunately that is a little hard for people to do. For some people its a lot of pain and anger behind that word. I know I use it at least twice a day maybe more.
To me when it is used ending in -er I feel offended and uncomfortable even if its not being directed to me .
Everyday you hear Dj Khaled on any of his tracks saying "We the best nigga..." along with other artist that are not African American(being politically correct). I have even seen people from other races used the word ending -a and not -er.
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World around there is a rapid growth in applications involving electronic circuitry. The same can be said about telecommunication and various other means of communication. There's a great demand for professionals trained in this field. So anyone doing this course is likely to be benefitted a lot. A good many sectors are served by it, such as telecommunication, consumer electronics, energy sector, aviation, aerospace, information technology and television. The course helps you in developing the necessary skills and expertise to work in any of the above fields. The computers that we see today, the internet that helps us remain connected with the whole world, are all applications of this branch of engineering.
Eligibility and course duration
Pass in 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Math or any equivalent qualification. Admissions are on the basis of entrance exams like JEE Mains and other similar exams.
The duration of this undergraduate course is 4 years.
More about the course
The complete course gets covered in 8 semesters. The first year of undergraduate studies is common for all branches of engineering. It's only when you reach the 3rd semester that the focus shifts on the core subjects of your branch. Electronics and communication engineering involves principles on transmission of information and signals through channels like optical fibre or co-axial cables. It also involves equipment such as routers, switches and electronic switching mechanisms. Some of the topics that you will study in this course are networks, electronic devices, analog & digital circuits, signals & systems, communications, control systems and electromagnetics.
Electronics and communication engineers get the opportunity to work in a number of fields as mentioned earlier in the overview. Ample opportunities are existing in both private and public firms. For graduate engineers, there are openings in the government sector, in the three arms of the defence services and in organizations like DRDO, ISRO, BEL, BSNL and others. Some of the reputed private sector companies in this field are Siemens, Motorola, Texas, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, nVIDIA, Philips etc. There is a wide scope for higher education too. M.E, M.Tech and M.S. are few such options. Many students go for a highly rewarding research based career after doing Ph.D in this field. Going abroad is also a very good option. A few career options are Network Engineer, Network Administrator, System Analyst, Telecom Engineer, Electronics Engineer and so on.
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Thimble Collectors International (TCI) is an organization that is dedicated to the study of thimbles and needlework tools. We research, write articles and share our findings with fellow collectors. Our Members Only section of the website is filled with useful information -- we encourage you to join TCI today.
Many collectors sew, stitch and quilt. Finding and collecting the “tools of the trade” lead many to strive to learn more about their craft.
- A thimble is just one of the tools of the trade and it serves a very useful purpose. A thimble protects the finger, and it also acts as an aid to push the needle through the fabric.
- A needlework tool encompasses many categories: needle cases, stilettos, thread winders and thread spools, knitting needles and needle guards, crochet hooks, sewing clamps and fitted etuis -- just to name a few.
Some collectors specialize in antiques tools and thimbles while others specialize in modern collectibles or both.
There are a number of reputable dealers who specialize in and sell thimbles and needlework tools. Many of these dealers are also TCI members. Navigate to the Home page of our website and find the Resource Links section. You will not only find dealers but thimble groups and clubs. Lastly, visit Internet sites, auction houses and antiques fairs and shows.
Join Thimble Collectors International!
When you join TCI, you will have access to the Members Only section of our website. This area is only available to members. We have many pages filled with photo and information files that encompass both thimbles and needlework tools. You will also learn about fakes and reproductions. You will have access to hallmarks, maker’s and master’s marks, and research.
The manufacture of thimbles and needlework tools can be traced back centuries. Many can be dated and the manufacturer identified by their maker’s or master’s marks.
Some thimble designs have been patented – you can search the Patent Office files within the hallmarks section of the site.
Thimbles with advertising on the band can be traced to a specific business.
The worth of an object is determined by many factors: rarity, age, condition, material, provenance, manufacturer and quality.
- Thimbles and needlework tools are manufactured from many different materials: Gold, silver, brass, ivory, bone, mother-of-pearl, Bakelite, bog oak, just to name a few. Some have precious stones as part of the design, while others have enameling or an intricate and ornate design -- on the handles of a pair of scissors for instance. Many TCI members are very knowledgeable about these collectibles. However we do not appraise.
To further your own knowledge about the worth of the object, track items on eBay, ask dealers at antiques shows, and even more beneficial, become educated in what you have. Remember that it is difficult to judge an item just from a photo. Within the Members Only section you will find our Price Guide information. We have specifically tracked many thimbles and needlework tools to keep abreast of current prices.
There are a number of ways to sell a collection, depending on what your goals are.
Do you wish to dispose of the collection quickly and with the least amount of work? If you answer yes to this question, then sell or consign the items to a dealer who will do this for you. On a rare occasion you may be able to sell the collection outright. It is more typical to work with the dealer if he/she will take the items on consignment.
You may contact TCI by completing the Contact form. We encourage you to include images as these are helpful. Remember we do not appraise items or collections.
Other options available to you: Set up an account on eBay and list the items yourself. RubyLane is another Internet site where you can sell your collection. View past listings to get an idea of what a item sold for. Take good photos. Do not hide or gloss over damage to an item -- This will only hurt you in the long run. Join a regional or international group in your area and dispose of your collection by selling it to collectors with a similar interest.
Donate your collection to TCI. We are a 501(c)7 organization. Your donated thimbles and needlework tools are given to new collectors who attend our 'Thimblin' 101' seminar.
As a member of TCI, you can attend a biennial convention and sell in the convention Sales Mall.
Go to your local library; check out books on the subject, there are many.
The Members section of our website offers so many research options, join TCI today!
There are a number of TCI member/dealers who specialize in thimbles and needlework tools. There are also thimble makers who will design and manufacture a custom thimble for you. All of these resources are available to you when you join TCI.
Contact TCI by completing the contact form. You may include an image -- this is always helpful. When you join TCI you can post your query on the Forum, attend a convention and enjoy the many educational programs. Join a collector club.
TCI does not provide appraisals.
Join TCI. When you join, you will have access to our Members Only section of our website and you will receive our publication, the TCI Bulletin.
The benefits are numerous …
You become involved with a group of people who share your interest in thimbles and needlework tools.
You will meet fellow collectors; those here in the US and from around the world.
You will learn from them and hopefully share your own knowledge.
TCI publishes a quarterly newsletter, the TCI Bulletin. This publication is of high quality with color images. It is filled with research, interesting tidbits about fellow collectors, as well as the latest convention planning news.
You will be able to attend the next convention in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in September 2022.
You can share your latest find with collectors who have a similar interest. Log in to the Members Only section of the website and post information and photos to the Forum.
Relationships that develop between thimble and needlework tool collectors last a lifetime.
Membership in TCI is open to anyone who has an interest in thimbles or needlework tools. Navigate to the Home page of our website and JOIN TCI. We offer different tiers of membership -- these include the electronic e-Bulletin or a printed copy of our TCI Bulletin.
Download the PDF brochure or our print version of the membership form. Complete it, include your check and mail to our Membership Chairperson. You may also join using the electronic version of our membership form, complete your purchase using PayPal. If you have questions, contact Membership.
Note: Members of an European Union (EU) country will also be required to complete the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) form before membership will be listed as Active.
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Researchers at the RUB and from the MPI Dortmund have uncovered the mechanism that switches off the cell transport regulating proteins. They were able to resolve in detail how the central switch protein Rab is down-regulated with two "protein fingers" by its interaction partners. The structural and dynamic data is reported by the researchers led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert (Chair of Biophysics, RUB) and Prof. Dr. Roger S. Goody (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany) in the Online Early Edition of the journal PNAS. "Unlike in the cell growth protein Ras, which is regulated with only one 'finger', we have surprisingly found a two-finger switch-off mechanism in Rab. This throws a completely new light on the functioning of certain enzymes, the small GTPases, to which Rab belongs", Klaus Gerwert explains.
Switch proteins associated with various diseases
Unlike Ras proteins that regulate cell growth, Rab GTPases (also called Rab proteins) control various transport operations between different areas of a cell. If the transport system is disrupted, diseases such as obesity can occur. The Rab proteins work as a switch, just like the Ras proteins. In the "on" state, the high-energy molecule GTP is bound, in the "off" state, the lower-energy GDP. The cleavage of GTP to GDP is catalysed by the so-termed RabGAP proteins. In so doing, GTP is split into GDP and phosphate. The research team observed the underlying reaction in time and space for the first time with the highest possible atomic resolution.
First a snapshot, then a whole film
Using X-ray structure analysis, the researchers first determined the spatial structure of the protein complex. The data showed a finger of the amino acid arginine, and a second finger of glutamine. The arginine finger was already known from Ras. The glutamine finger is new and surprising. RabGAP penetrates into the GTP-binding pocket of Rab with both fingers and accelerates the GTP cleavage over five orders of magnitude. The biophysicists observed this dynamic process in real time using FTIR spectroscopy. "In contrast to X-ray structure analysis, FTIR spectroscopy not only gives us a snapshot of the reaction, but an entire film", says PD Dr. Carsten Ktting. The result: both catalytic fingers penetrate simultaneously into the GTP-binding pocket and leave it with the phosphate cleaved from the GTP.
Medically interesting mechanism
In their experiment, the researchers examined the protein Rab1b and the RabGAP TBC1D20. Other Rab proteins and RabGAPs are similar to these two representatives. "Thus, we assume that they also interact via a two-finger mechanism", Konstantin Gavriljuk speculates. The ability of the two-finger system to also switch off mutated Rab proteins, i.e. mutated GTPases, could also be medically very interesting. It would be conceivable to develop small molecules that mimic the two-finger mechanism, and thus switch off other mutant GTPases, such as Ras, which emit uncontrolled growth signals and thus are involved in tumour formation.
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Special Issue "Atherosclerosis and Vascular Imaging 2016"
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2016) | Viewed by 34113
A printed edition of this Special Issue is available here.
Interests: non-invasive cardiology; echocardiography; coronary artery disease imaging; carotid atherosclerosis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Pathomechanisms of Atherosclerosis. Part I
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Pathomechanisms of Atherosclerosis. Part II
Special Issue in Diagnostics: Atherosclerosis and Vascular Imaging
Special Issue in Diagnostics: Coronary Artery Disease Imaging
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Pathomechanisms of Atherosclerosis. Part III
Special Issue in Journal of Clinical Medicine: JCM-Advances in Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the West, and vascular disease is the most common cardiovascular clinical problem. The disease results in serious morbidity and mortality, and carries economic cost implications. While conventional risk factors are well established, and their biomarkers regularly monitored, patients may continue to suffer subclinical active disease, even in the absence of risk factors, until they present with sudden cardiac death or stroke. Early disease detection using direct imaging has shown to be more accurate in identifying vulnerable patients and unstable plaques than conventional risk factors. This IJMS Special Issue deals with the current opinion concerning the state-of-the-art imaging technologies available for clinical applications, and their unique value over the sole use of conventional risk factor analysis, in identifying vulnerable patients, recommending aggressive treatments, prognosticating, and in assessing related nutritional and environmental issues. This Special Issue is the continuation of our 2015 Special Issue “Atherosclerosis and Vascular Imaging” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/vascular_imaging).
Prof. Dr. Michael Henein
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- Intima Media Thickness (IMT) accuracy in identifying high risk individuals
- IMT vs. conventional risk factors in improving risk stratification
- carotid plaque characterization
- coronary calcification for daily risk assessment
- coronary calcification: a risk or benefit?
- nutritional influences on cardiovascular calcification
- environmental influences on cardiovascular calcification
- MRA for plaque characterization
- PET/CT use in assessing lipid cores and their clinical relevance
- vascular imaging for direct treatment delivery
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What does Golding mean by the below quote from Lord of the Flies?
"The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. They assured Simon that everything was a bad business"?
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Simon fights with all his feeble power against the message
of the head, against the "ancient, inescapable recognition." The recognition against which he struggles is the revelation to him of human capacities for evil and the superficial nature of human moral systems. It is the knowledge of the end of innocence, for which Ralph is to weep at the close of the book. The pig's head seems to threaten Simon with death and reveals that it is "the Beast."
" 'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and
kill!' said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed the parody of laughter. 'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?' "
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Let me start off by saying Iím a newbie to the program and this site.
I have a problem with some nuisance demographics that I want to control: age (continuous) and gender (two groups, dummy coded).
To deal with the problem I regressed my five variables: x1, x2, m1, m2, and Y on age and gender and saved the residuals which I used in this model:
m1 ON x1, x2; m2 ON x1, x2; y ON m1, m2, x1, x2;
I thought this was a neat way to approach the problem (at the time), but now Iím having second thoughts. Both age and gender were related to y, but only age was related to x1 and x2, while gender was related to m1 and m2.
Would I just modify the last line: y ON age gender m1 m2 x1 x2?
Any suggesting will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Dear Linda, Thank you for your suggestion. When I want to control for a variable I just need to include in the equations: just like I would do in regression analysis. (My sample is only 150. I plan to use CINTERVAL(bcbootstrap) to develop confidence intervals for my indirect effects.)
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Design studio Minneapolis has developed an app that uses a virtual camera to shoot 3D videos of everyday objects.
The app is called “Minneapolis’s first VR camera app,” which it calls Minutopia.
The app is available on the App Store and Google Play.
The team behind the app, including its creator, Minutopear, is a team of three former members of the Apple App Store team.
The team behind Minutopian is named after the Minnesota city.
The project was funded by the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Department and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Minneapolis is an affordable city, and the app was designed to help residents find affordable housing.
The apps features include:● A new way to make videos using virtual reality.● A 3D camera that allows users to capture 3D images of objects, buildings, and more.● Three different camera types to choose from: 360, 3D, and virtual.● New camera mode lets users take 3D photos of a wide range of objects.● The ability to capture 360° video from up to 12 feet away.
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IT Help Desk for better Customer Support
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What is an IT Helpdesk?
Helpdesk support services are essential for companies: They help users solve IT problems and provide immediate assistance. Depending on the size of the company, the IT helpdesk can consist of a single person or a large group of contacts.
At the same time, internal or external forces can take care of IT helpdesk support. Typically, these support specialists are also referred to as call center agents, who have excellent knowledge of the respective software solutions.
The Helpdesk System
In order for the IT helpdesk to provide the desired assistance, numerous specialists deal with the concerns of the employees. They take care of problems with the computer and software as well as with the underlying network. Many technology providers also include customer support among their helpdesk services, as this can increase customer satisfaction.
Main functions of an IT helpdesk
The basis for IT helpdesk support is, in the simplest case, a telephone number. It allows employees or customers to reach remote helpdesk support around the clock. This offers the advantage of solving customer problems in real time. In addition, mature support teams provide the necessary scaling. IT helpdesk support performs the following tasks:
- The IT helpdesk handles requests in real time. These can come in from authorized users via phone, email or messaging apps.
- The customer service department uses special IT helpdesk software to manage incoming tickets. Such an IT helpdesk ticketing system ensures that all customer requests are resolved in a timely manner. Therefore, both their creation and their management IT helpdesk staff.
- Since customer support often consists of several experts, there is always an opportunity for escalation. This means that tickets that individual members are unable to resolve are passed on to the next unit. This allows queries to be answered and problems to be resolved much more quickly and reliably.
- Equally important is the knowledge database available to IT helpdesk staff. Here well-tried solutions (for example to the most common top ten helpdesk calls) can be found and used to provide a fast and efficient support. As it is constantly updated, most problems can be solved in a very timely manner.
Benefits of IT Helpdesks
The most important benefit offered by the IT help desk is the increase in customer satisfaction. However, there are other benefits that IT helpdesk software brings:
- The IT helpdesk in the company contributes decisively to the effectiveness of the organization. The reason for this is that it solves internal technical problems as soon as they occur.
- The solutions can be taken from an extensive knowledge base.
- Unusual problems can be escalated. This regularly involves collaboration between different experts, who benefit from their shared knowledge.
- Requests to customer support are recorded centrally in an IT help desk ticketing system. This results in a high level of traceability, which contributes to optimized response times.
- Since support staff can solve many problems using special software, remote helpdesk support is a good option. Such hotlines are suitable even for smaller companies that do not have their own team of experts on site.
- A sophisticated IT helpdesk helps to identify product problems at an early stage. This is not least due to the metrics used and the interaction with the customer.
Different types of IT helpdesks
Customer support varies from company to company, as many organizations have specific objectives. Despite these variations, systems can be divided into the following categories:
- Automated Helpdesk: The automated IT helpdesk is a low-cost self-service support that typically provides a self-service portal. This portal is the central location for support request creation and the associated IT helpdesk ticketing system.
- Cloud helpdesk: Cloud solutions operate entirely online. This offers the advantage of additional location independence.
- On-premises helpdesk: The on-premises helpdesk has a physical location, but this does not have to be the same as a company’s headquarters.
- Open-source helpdesk: These helpdesks can be held in the cloud or on-premises. However, the most important difference is that they are open and freely accessible and use open source software.
- Enterprise helpdesk: Such helpdesks are physically located at a company’s site. Therefore, they are often salaried support staff of the respective organization.
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IT Helpdesks automation: Provide support with the right software solution
The automated IT helpdesk is becoming increasingly important in the IT industry. Advances in recent years have made many challenges easier to handle. Solutions that automate numerous processes enable simplified and faster support:
- They simplify manual and repetitive tasks. An important basis for this is a comprehensive knowledge database that allows all customer service staff to solve problems quickly.
- The integrated support ticket system enables events to be tracked in real time. Incoming customer requests can thus be sorted into individual categories according to priority, so that the important requests remain visible.
- Service requests are always visible and can be processed according to importance.
- With the right software, the long chains of approvals in cross-functional teams are no longer necessary.
- Performance gaps fade into the background as added efficiencies contribute to a superior user experience at a lower cost of ownership.
- Dedicated administrative features in help desk software simplify access management and increase traceability.
- Advanced service management tools make it easy to manage, assign and monitor customer requests.
TeamViewer’s build-in service desk: Fast, efficient and customer-friendly
TeamViewer’s build-in service desk aims to resolve support requests faster. It is based on a fully featured service desk that can be activated via TeamViewer’s remote access and control platform. To make support as easy as possible, the service desk not only includes a support ticket system: Many central functionalities are designed to meet the needs of modern day business.
- All communication related to support requests can be stored in a central location. This documentation includes agent notes as well as customer conversations. They can then be used to create tickets directly for the support ticket system.
- The remote control connection allows support staff to work independent from location. This is not only good for the company, but also positive for the support staff. After all, if special expertise is required, employees from other locations can be included in the solution process.
- The integration of office suites such as Zoho facilitates the deployment. As a result, the service desk is seen as a budget-friendly option for providing support to the company’s own employees.
- In addition to quick setup, support staff benefit from an intuitive user interface. This increases customer value, as employees can focus on their tasks instead of slogging through lengthy processes.
Underlying these features is extensive functionality. This includes powerful tools at a budget-friendly price that contribute to the stability of the IT infrastructure in the company:
- Seamless ticket management: which allows all requests to be pre-sorted, tracked, prioritized and resolved.
- Quick support integration: Thanks to the integration, tickets can be generated directly from the module.
- Customer portal: Adapting to your own corporate identity enhances the recognition effect and ensures good branding.
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Consistency Properties for Growth Model Parameters Under an Infill Asymptotics Domain
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Growth curves are used to model various processes, and are often seen in biological and agricultural studies. Underlying assumptions of many studies are that the process may be sampled forever, and that samples are statistically independent. We instead consider the case where sampling occurs in a finite domain, so that increased sampling forces samples closer together, and also assume a distance-based covariance function. We first prove that, under certain conditions, the mean parameter of a fixed-mean model cannot be estimated within a finite domain. We then numerically consider more complex growth curves, examining sample sizes, sample spacing, and quality of parameter estimates, and close with recommendations to practitioners.
- Agricultural Engineering
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Visual Studio Team Services is Microsoft’s cloud version of Team Foundation Server. By being hosted in Azure, it provides additional functionality and is typically ahead of TFS when it comes to features since new updates are deployed to VSTS every 3 weeks.
One of the great features of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is that it allows you to host unlimited private Git repos. VSTS offers you up to 5 free users and if you already have an MSDN subscription, you also get in for free and you don’t count towards those 5 users.
The distributed nature of Git is that you are able to easily move repositories around since each repo contains all files and history. So moving a Git repo that is hosted in GitHub to VSTS is relatively simple. Here is a list of steps that you should follow to make the move:
2- Copy the Clone URL
5 – Enter the Clone URL that you copied from GitHub, select the correct local path, and then click on “Clone”. This will bring down all files and history from your GitHub repo.
6 – Now, go to Visual Studio Team Services, and from your Team Project, click on the Code link at the top. This will take you to the page that allows you to manage and create repos. If you don’t already have an empty repo, create a new repo. You will get instructions on how to connect to your new repo:
Copy the Clone URL.
7 – Open your command prompt and browse to the local folder where you cloned the repo from GitHub. You can do this directly form Visual Studio by right-clicking on your new Repo and selecting Open Command Prompt.
8 – From the Command prompt, first you need to remove the connection to the GitHub repo:
git remote rm origin
9 – Now add your VSTS repo as the new origin:
git remote add origin <your VSTS clone URL>
10 – Push your code to the new repo. You can either submit a “git push” command, or use the tools in Visual Studio to publish your code: Team Explorer –> Sync –> Push
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Secureworks reveals new information on BRONZE STARLIGHT threat group
New research from Secureworks has uncovered new information on the Chinese threat group BRONZE STARLIGHT and how they are using targeted ransomware to initiate complicated attacks.
The group has been active since early 2021, and while it was initially believed their attacks were for financial gain, Secureworks CTU believes this could be a smokescreen for more complex cyber espionage.
BRONZE STARLIGHT operates by compromising networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in network perimeter devices, including known vulnerabilities for which patches are available.
They also deploy HUI Loader to decrypt and execute a Cobalt Strike Beacon for command and control, then deploy ransomware and exfiltrate sensitive data from a victim's environment. Some of the ransomware used by the group includes LockFile, AtomSilo, Rook, Night Sky and Pandora.
Interestingly, Secureworks CTU researchers have only observed the HUI Loader being used by threat groups that are likely based in China. This raises the interesting possibility of collaboration between BRONZE STARLIGHT and other likely state-sponsored threat groups in China, but this link is currently unconfirmed.
The research goes on to say that the operational cadence, victimology and potential links to other Chinese threat groups could suggest LockFile, AtomSilo, Rook, Night Sky, and Pandora are being deployed as a smokescreen for espionage.
When looking at timelines for each ransomware family, it suggests each one was developed, deployed and then cast aside sequentially, emphasising a distinct pattern. In each case, the ransomware tended to target a small number of organisations over a short period of time before ceasing.
As of today, BRONZE STARLIGHT has operated LockFile as a traditional ransomware scheme. Pandora is the only ransomware with a leak site as of April 14 2022, listing five victims. Two earlier victims were removed. As of mid-April, a total of 21 victims were recorded across AtomSilo, Rook, Night Sky and Pandora sites.
It was emphasised that these kinds of behaviours are extremely viable for groups, with an estimate that 75% of those mentioned above would be of interest to Chinese government-sponsored groups focused on the victims' geographic location and industry verticals.
Previous victims include a pharmaceutical company in Brazil and the US, a US-based media organisation and electronic component designers and manufacturers in Lithuania and Japan.
During a January 2022 Secureworks IR engagement, it was revealed that BRONZE STARLIGHT had compromised a server running ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus and deployed HUI Loader with a Cobalt Strike Beacon. This shows a distinct pattern of evolution.
CTU researchers also observed the Chinese BRONZE UNIVERSITY threat group active on the same network, with overlapping timeframes. Given BRONZE STARLIGHT did not deploy ransomware against the organisation, a key target for Chinese cyberespionage activity, one possibility is that there was some deconfliction between the threat groups post intrusion.
Secureworks finishes by saying that BRONZE STARLIGHT is likely using ransomware during incidents to destroy evidence, distract investigators and exfiltrate data. | <urn:uuid:b46a61a1-a29e-46e5-9fcb-bb4c3f29b5ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://channellife.com.au/story/secureworks-reveals-new-information-on-bronze-starlight-threat-group | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.954385 | 648 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Friday, November 2nd, 2012 | by Peterson Goodwyn
This is part III of a 3-part series, in which Shure’s product specialist for wired mics, John Born, talks with Peterson Goodwyn of DIYRecordingEquipment about the innovations — some familiar, some you’ve never imagined — that help make the SM57 and SM58 the most popular dynamic microphones in the world. This video marks the first time Shure has spoken publicly about its proprietary “Pneumatic Shockmount,” an essentially invisible mechanism engineered into these dynamic microphones that gives them the lowest handling noise of any dynamic mics on the market today.
Shure Video Series
- How a Dynamic Microphone Works – a tour of the components, from the diaphragm to the transformer
- Creating directionality and frequency response through clever engineering
- The 50-year old secret behind the SM58’s best-in-class handling noise (YOU ARE HERE)
That brings us to the third real-world problem: these don’t typically site here without any shock and get used. They’re all over the place, in front of the kick drum, they’re on a floor, getting mechanically coupled to the floor —
JB: They’re in your hand, moving around. They’re going inside and out of a stand.
So how do we make it so we hear the sound and not the actual mechanical vibration. What’s going on there?
JB: That’s the beauty of the SM57 and SM58, and the Unidyne III cartridge —
Let’s clarify what that is.
JB: The “Unidyne” was the first single-element, dynamic directional microphone.
JB: Yes. And it used one element instead of two. We designed it in the 1930s, and it was in the [Shure] 55, the “fat boy.” It was the first time you could create a unidirectional microphone using only one microphone element. [Previously] you had to use two, and combine —
and use one to cancel the other.
JB: Yes. We did that through this rear entry and phase-shift network. So that was the Unidyne. And then in the late 1960s we designed the Unidyne III cartridge, which was basically a variation of [the Unidyne] but was a lot smaller, and had what we call a “pneumatic shockmount” in it.
The pneumatic shockmount is an integral part of the success of those microphone and the current microphones today, [meaning] the SM57 and SM58. A dynamic microphone is inherently an accelerometer, and it is excited very easily through vibrations. Especially [for those vibrations] entering on the same plane as the diaphragm moves.
So that means that this kind of movement [motioning side to side] isn’t really affecting the sound too much.
JB: We’re not as much concerned about movement of the diaphragm [side to side], because everything is moving together in this axis. But we are concerned about the diaphragm moving in this axis [along the axis of the mic’s directivity]. A lot of handling noise happens that way, and stand vibrations.
The clever thing about the pneumatic shockmount is, it’s actually designed in conjunction with the acoustic design of the cartridge.
Of course. Because you can’t solo one thing.
JB: You can’t solo anything in a dynamic microphone. You can’t design the shockmount is isolation of designing the acoustics of the microphone.
And just to be clear, we’re not talking about an external shockmount.
JB: Nope. We’re talking about the pumping shockmount inside the mic.
If you open this up here [opening an SM57], this thing [indicating the cartridge] actually pumps inside of this collar. If you move it you can actually see it pump like a piston inside of this collar. Keep in mind there are cavities in here that are changing volumes —
when you pump.
JB: when that microphone [cartridge] moves back and forth. There’s a cavity down here [behind the cartridge], which is also integral to the response of the mic.
But the beautiful part about the pneumatic shockmount, which is unique to Shure products — we’re the only ones who have a pneumatic shockmount — is [that] as vibrations travel up the handle, [they] shrink a cavity inside of this closing ring, inside the collar.
Because the body is moving forward, and the capsule on the mount is moving backward.
JB: Yes. And there’s a cavity in here that’s shrinking, and pushing more air into another cavity which is underneath the diaphragm. And that cavity is putting more pressure underneath the diaphragm and counteracting the mechanical pressure being induced by that vibration on the other side of the diaphragm.
Wow. Ok. Wow.
JB: It’s deep.
It’s deep, but … the basic idea is simple. Obviously the math involved in making that work is something else.
JB: It’s stupid complex.
JB: That’s engineering for “hundreds and hundreds of pages of equations that you can’t even wrap your head around.” And that’s the difficult part of the pumping shockmount, the pneumatic shockmount. You can’t design it outside of just acoustics. You can’t design the acoustics of the microphone and then mount it in a [pneumatic] shockmount. They’re intimately tied together. Because you have to have that connection through those cavities, along with the shockmount compliance parts. So, it’s very complex.
It’s really fascinating. So this entire body [indicating an SM57] design, the entire headbasket, the way that the diaphragm is mounted… it’s easy enough to look at this thing, you know, you can get it for $90 at Guitar Center, you can get it for $50 off of Craigslist. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that, but that’s the fact of the world. It’s tempting to look at it and say, well, there’s the microphone part here [at the top], here’s the handle…
JB: “I could do this.”
Right. But really, everything about this is finely tuned —
— to make the microphone work in all these real-world situations. And of course the cliche about SM57s is that you can take them to work during the day and hammer nails, then sing with it at night.
JB: And that didn’t happen overnight. And it didn’t get designed overnight, either. It takes years and years to truly develop a good dynamic microphone, and to do it well. And it takes a lot of smart people, a lot smarter than me, to design these microphones. There’s a reason why it works the way it does, because we feel it’s the best that we can make. And it has stood the test of time.
Certainly it has been on a few albums, and been around for a bit.
JB: It’s been around the block a little bit.
So we’ve been talking exclusively about the SM57. But how much of what we’re saying, how much of the basic ideas, applies to any kind of dynamic mic?
JB: Almost all of it does. Aside from the pneumatic shockmount, which is pretty proprietary to Shure, the concept of the phase-shift network and directionality and creating a directional microphone, we designed that in the 1930s, and pretty much every directional dynamic microphone in the world is based on that design. Which is pretty cool.
Interesting. Wild. Well, thank you so much, John. This has been hugely mind-expanding for me. I certainly have a new appreciation for these tools that —
JB: That you use every day.
And maybe I’ll even try singing into one, rather than hammering nails with them.
JB: That would be great.
Thank you so much.
JB: Thanks for coming out.
We appreciate it.
Peterson Goodwyn is a drummer and audio engineer based in Philadelphia, PA. He runs the popular DIY site for audio engineer gear builders, DIYRecordingEquipment. | <urn:uuid:5a12aaff-cce5-4236-bb24-6d0cea7f980d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://recordinghacks.com/2012/11/02/shure-invisible-shockmount/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00364-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936209 | 1,840 | 1.804688 | 2 |
During the process of the new translation of the Roman Missal the question of the musical setting of the text was one that concerned the bishops. They understood that not only do we sing at Mass but that we should sing the Ordinary parts of the Mass itself. In order to encourage parishes to do this, from Easter 2011 the bishops permitted the use of the new translation when it was sung. This enabled many parishes to make the transition to new and revised musical settings of the text smoothly. Congregations found that singing proved to be an effective way for people to learn and pray the new translation.
A feature of the Roman Missal is the integration of music into the text, offering the Church a normative musical setting of the liturgy. This has provided simple, basic chants which can be used on Sundays and weekdays. These chants offer a common setting whenever Catholics come together for Mass.
In addition to the Missal chants other settings have been published suitable for different musical resources. These include both new compositions, and others where the music has been revised in conformity with the new translations.
The Bishops’ Conference recognised that it would take some time for settings to become available and for some parishes, schools and communities to find musical settings suitable to their capabilities and resources. It is now three years since the permission to begin celebrating with musical settings of the Roman Missal, 3rd edition was given. The Bishops’ Conference has decided that from Pentecost Sunday, 8 June 2014 only settings of the Ordinary of the Mass using the new translation are permitted to be sung at Mass. Settings using the previous translation or paraphrased texts may no longer be used in our parishes, schools and communities.
The renewal of the Church’s music for the new translation has required much effort and cooperation by composers, musicians, priests and congregations which is now bearing fruit in the celebration of the liturgy. As the wisdom from tradition reminds us: ‘Whoever sings well, prays twice over’.”
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How many people can say that social media helped to save their life? Four-year-old Eliza O’Neill can. The young girl used the online fundraising website GoFundMe.com to raise money for a life-saving treatment. So far, Eliza has broken the record for the most money ever raised using the website, but with her life on the line, the courageous little girl isn’t quite finished yet.
At first glance, Eliza O’Neill looks like any average 4-year-old girl. She runs around and plays with her 7-year-old brother, Beckham. So, it’s hard to imagine that within a year she may lose the ability to speak, and in two years, she could be wheelchair bound, The Huffington Post reported. O’Neill has Sanfilippo syndrome, also known as MPS III. It’s rare, occurring in about one in every 70,000 children, according to the National MPS society.
The disease is fatal and most people with the condition rarely live beyond their teens. But researchers are confident they have found a cure for the condition in animals. In trials, mice with the disease were completely cured, The Huffington Post reported. Unfortunately, there is a major lack of funding for human trials. O'Neill needs $2.5 million to fund her trial.
This is where you come in. In just eight months, O’Neill’s GoFundMe page has raised $946,000, vastly surpassing the previous record on the site by more than $100,000. More than 20,000 people have donated to O’Neill’s cause, mostly in increments of $10 and $20, The Huffington Post reported. "It's all from extraordinary people donating whatever they can afford. People have reached out saying that they're out of a job but they want to donate $10," O’Neill’s father Glenn O’Neill told People magazine. The money will allow Eliza and other children with her same condition to receive the life-saving treatment they need.
The recent online campaign #bringbackourgirls, received a backlash from critics who felt that “standing there holding a sign does not bring the girls back,” MSNBC reported. “Cheap hashtag activism” has been mocked as an ineffective way to approach a problem. O’Neill’s story and her #SavingEliza hashtag, is an ideal example of how the Internet, when used properly, can be used a tool of change. Social media is an ideal way for patients with rare conditions to find hope for a cure. A recent study found that 84 percent of all patients for two pediatric disease trials were found through social media. O’Neill’s viral video and the #SavingEliza campaign helped to spike the donations from $40,000 to more than $80,000, Yahoo News reported.
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“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.”
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Stocking the Stand
You see them everywhere – in shopping malls, airports, grocery stores, and the free-standing drive-through coffee locations. Cars line up for a cup of coffee as a part of the morning commute. Students need to make a coffee stop before classes. Everybody needs that cup of coffee (or several) to get through the day.
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- Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Kids do it when they set up the lemonade stand on the sidewalk during those hot summer days. Others provide services, such as washing cars or baby sitting. The more enterprising among us may want to open a coffee stand, a growing business around the world.
- To make your project a success, careful planning is in order. You first need a place to open your stand. The initial investment can be very expensive. A coffee cart may cost over $20,000. A somewhat larger stand can cost well over $40,000. If you want a drive-through stand, you usually need to lay out more than $50,000. And that’s just for acquiring the property. Other costs include refrigerators, coffee makers (complete with steam generation for heating the milk), and perhaps a microwave for warming the pastries that you will be selling. Don’t forget the punch cards so you can offer “buy ten and get one free”.
- Now you actually need to make some coffee. Anybody can brew a pot of ordinary coffee, but you want to go the specialty route (you can also charge more for these drinks). You’ll need coffee (how many scoops for a single? a double?), milk (what size cups will you be serving? A 16 ounce special seems to be fairly common). Flavorings are essential, so you need to decide how much to put in each menu offering (some stands go by “eyeballing” the amount, others measure it out). So you now have your basic latte, you know how much of each constituent you need, and you are ready for business. Of course, you will expand your offerings in time and will need to do these calculations again for each different item.
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Home Services is a growing opportunity
While many businesses struggled during 2020, franchises in the booming home services sector flourished as people stayed home to flatten the curve.
For much of 2020, the world was put on pause as families focused on the basics and reduced discretionary spending. Business owners across the country were forced to temporarily close their doors or pivot their strategy to comply with new safety guidelines. Many small businesses closed permanently, and others relied on government subsidies to stay afloat.
Despite setbacks, the American economy is resilient. Consumer spending was up 18.1 percent at the beginning of September, compared with January 2020, according to Opportunity Insights, a nonpartisan research and policy institute located at Harvard University. The franchising industry forecasts it will erase economic damage incurred during this difficult season by the end of 2021, reported FRANdata, a franchise-focused research and advisory firm.
However, the outlook was not bleak for all sectors of the American economy. A number of small businesses realized they had locked in a pandemic-resistant investment. Business owners running home service franchises thrived. While many businesses had to shut down during the pandemic or scale back their operations and lay people off, the home service franchisees found themselves hiring people and seeing their sales go up.
Teleworking, remote schooling and staycations became the norm during 2020. As Americans spent more time on the home front, they took the unique period to tackle home projects they had put on the back burner. Homeowners are completing 728.3 million home projects annually. Mortgage refinancing trends and lower interest rates are prompting increased spending on home remodeling, reported Angi, an online solution for connecting homeowners and contractors. The total addressable market for home services is forecast to rise 17 percent to $595 billion in 2021.
Other factors prompting the outlook for the home services industry to be bright are an aging population and low overhead. More than 10,000 Americans are turning 65 years old every day. By 2050, one in five people in the United States will be considered a senior citizen. As the population ages, people will try to stay in their homes longer and need to hire home improvement specialists. Many home-improvement franchises are run out of a home office with a mobile van, which keeps overhead costs down.
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“If you are interested in a home service franchise, your instincts are on target and shared by many entrepreneurs,” said Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source®. “Over the past year, I have worked with an increased number of clients who are looking to start businesses providing home services. TES coaches help guide people on their journey to business ownership.”
Our coaches dedicate their time to helping people who are feeling battered and bruised as they struggle to climb the corporate ladder achieve the American dream. As CEO pay rises, the average American paycheck remains stagnant. American workers are grappling with a new career economy where workers who formerly earned high wages in the corporate world are finding themselves at a crossroads and being forced to endure a lack of job security and appropriate compensation. If you are enduring Battered Career Syndrome and feeling the constraints of the new career economy, The Entrepreneur’s Source® can help you discover a new path at no cost.
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The Markets Unlimited project aims to increase the economic opportunities for women in Cooksville especially those engaged in or wishing to start a small-scale business. The project provides women with skills training; access to community markets to sell clothing, crafts and food; and an opportunity to explore the creation of a cooperative.
Recently, the women also were given opportunities to participate in workshops on How to Make Greetings Cards. Many of the over 300 cards the women made were sold at the bazaar. Those interested in finding a job in food industry participated in the Food Handling Training to improve their employability skills. The next level of training for these women is the Culinary Arts training that will be offered next year.
Before the project started, these women have rarely given the chance to participate in bazaars or markets. Most of them are stay at home mothers who do most of the household chores. All of the women participating in the project gained self-confidence and independence because of the skills they learned from the training sessions. They met new friends from the community whom they continue to socialize with. Many of the women claimed that their self-esteemed improved a great deal because they were given hands-on training to plan and organize meetings and events and oversee the implementation of the project. They learned how to make sound decisions in order to address challenges and issues.
The Holiday Market/Bazaar on Tuesday December 15th, 2015 held at Studio 89 at 1065 Canadian Pl #104, Mississauga from 10am to 3 pm through the Afghan Women’s Organization’s project Markets Unlimited with funding support from Community Mississauga Foundation.
Local vendors, mostly women and newcomers, arrived early to set up their tables. Along with beautiful scarves and dresses with traditional designs, the women also sold jewellery, greetings cards, books, toys, and other items. This was the 4th bazaar organized by these women since the project started in May 2014. The project also provided business support and skills training. A manual on How to Start a Community Bazaar was developed to help them plan and organize bazaars successfully and in a participatory and empowering process. The women learned not only about valuable marketing skills but also how to do effective outreach work to promote the event, how to facilitate and take minutes of the meetings, etc.
The Wellness Café project was one of our successful projects. In this project, we worked with a team of peer leaders to raise awareness about mental health issues in newcomer communities and reduce their stigma. Our trained peer leaders organized their Wellness Cafés around town, in their communities natural hang-outs. In these Wellness Cafés, the peer leaders facilitated lively conversations about wellness, mental health, self-compassion, and ways to increase compassion among communities about those who suffer from mental health challenges. As a result, the wellness Café continues by the community.
This project was funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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Reimagining Life on the Canadian Canvas: Digital Stories
As part of Canada 150 celebrations, the AWO, with generous funding from the Government of Canada, created a series of digital stories highlighting the lives and experiences of people who have come to Canada as refugees. The storytellers were asked what they felt Canada has given to them and what they have given to Canada. The resulting stories illuminate the diversity of experiences and challenges this group of Canadians have faced and the possibilities for love, growth, and happiness in a new country.
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In cats and monkeys, extrastriate visual areas that have been reported to be involved in the near triad of pupilloconstriction, convergence, and accommodation have well-defined projections to the pretectal olivary nucleus (PON), the retinorecipient pretectal nucleus mediating the pupillary light reflex in mammals. We have therefore used alert, behaving primates to investigate the possibility that PON neurons are involved in the pupillary near response in addition to the pupillary light reflex. Single-unit recording revealed that PON luminance neurons significantly increased their firing rate with increases in retinal illumination and the resultant pupilloconstriction. In contrast, their activity did not significantly increase during pupilloconstriction elicited by near viewing. Thus the behavior of PON luminance neurons is appropriate for their participation in the pupillary light reflex, but is inappropriate for any proposed role in the pupillary near response. This result strongly suggests that neurons in the primate PON are solely related to the pupillary light reflex and that the cortical projections to this pretectal nucleus are related to this reflex and do not play a role in the pupillary near response. | <urn:uuid:5a586569-d4ee-4fac-bdd0-14e74192335c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dgivan.dental.uab.edu/display/pub196789 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.953261 | 242 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2011/05/10 - CCA’s Civil Infrastructure Council launched a website to help Canadian youth explore careers in civil construction. The website features testimonials, resources and information on various civil careers’ duties, conditions, education and salary.
Canadian Construction Association’s Civil Infrastructure Council last week launched a new website aimed mainly at high school and college students but applicable to anyone looking for information on civil construction careers. Civil construction, also called heavy construction, has to do with infrastructure like roads, tunnels, bridges and dams.
“The civil construction sector offers a whole gamut of careers from project managers to technicians, estimators, to heavy equipment operators. This site provides young people exploring career options with information about the industry and the resources they will need to get their careers in civil construction started,” said Gilbert Brulotte, Chair of the CCA’s Civil Infrastructure Council.
Hear Why People Choose Civil Construction
The website complements numerous efforts underway nationwide to promote civil construction. Featured prominently on the website are video testimonials by young adults who explain why they chose civil construction. Many of the stories emphasize the endless opportunities for advancement. For example Marcel tells about how it all started as a summer job after high school and how he has worked his way up to project manager, making good money and managing a team of people. In one of the videos, Michael Atkinson, President of the Canadian Construction Association (CCA), highlights why construction is such an attractive field for young people: “We have an aging workforce. We are told that by the year 2018, we are going to have to find 400,000 new people just to replace those retiring and to keep pace with the demand for our industry. ”
About Civil Careers
The website has a section, divided into corporate functions, road and highway, tunnel as well as sewer and watermain, that describes civil careers. Under each area, several careers are featured with information on duties, work conditions, essential skills and education. A salary range is included for each career. “This website is a great tool for guidance counsellors and local construction associations to use for career education at the high school and college levels,” said Mr. Brulotte.
Find Local Resources
The website provides a central launching point for information on civil construction careers. On the homepage, a user can choose a province and drill down to their city to explore resources like government departments and programs, local colleges and associations. “We wanted to gather resources in one place to make it easier for people to find information on civil construction careers,” said Brulotte and continued,“I hope that this website helps attract young people as well as others contemplating changing careers to civil construction.”
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WHEN NEWS DRIBBLED OUT RECENTLY that an outfit called McLane Co. was a potential bidder for bankrupt fast-food supplier AmeriServe Food Distribution (see “Indigestion“), there was hardly any notice. That’s just fine with McLane and its parent, Wal-Mart Stores.
Even though Wal-Mart has owned McLane since 1991, you’ll find barely any mention of the company in Wal-Mart’s annual report, or on the retailing behemoth’s patriotic Web site.
“McLane is a mystery to anyone outside the industry,” says Paul Kelly, a principal with Silvermine Group, a Westport, Conn. grocery consultancy.
“We have always been a low-profile company, and we like to be that way,” demurs Martha Kahler, McLane’s seemingly underworked flack.
McLane has a very good reason for flying under the radar: As the nation’s largest distributor of cigarettes outside of the tobacco companies themselves, McLane and Wal-Mart have managed to avoid practically any scrutiny from fiery plaintiff attorneys and antitobacco crusaders.
“I’ve never heard of them,” shrugs John Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking & Health (ASH), a Washington, D.C.-based group that bills itself as the nation’s oldest and largest antismoking organization. Attorneys at the Tobacco Products Liability Project, a Boston, Mass.-based group that tracks tobacco litigation, haven’t heard of McLane, either.
But since its founding over a century ago, the Temple, Tex. company has become the nation’s largest distributor to convenience stores. And since convenience stores have displaced grocery and drug stores to become the biggest sellers of smokes, that makes $8.8 billion (revenues) McLane the invisible hand of the tobacco industry.
McLane has been especially helpful to industry leader Philip Morris, handling as much as a fifth of the company’s domestic sales and distributing all of Philip Morris’ cigarettes in Taiwan and Brazil.
Just don’t ask Philip Morris about its relationship with its largest distributor; the company declines comment. So does McLane’s former chief executive, R. Drayton McLane Jr., who took over the business from his father and became a billionaire by selling out to Wal-Mart in 1991 for a split-adjusted 22.4 million shares (he now owns the cellar-dwelling Houston Astros baseball team). Wal-Mart officials say they responsibly sell cigarettes in their own stores, but are otherwise reticent about McLane’s prospering tobacco business.
Figuring that little grocery marts couldn’t afford an entire pallet of soap from big manufacturers like Procter & Gamble, McLane bought the supplies in bulk and wholesaled a few soap bars at a time to stores. He began distributing to the 7-Eleven chain in the late 1970s and developed a reputation as an efficient operator capable of discreetly serving the cravings of convenience stores’ most loyal patrons: smokers. Heavy smokers visit the stores as often as ten times a week and demand a wide range of cigarette brands in a variety of packaging. Before being swallowed up by Wal-Mart, McLane befriended Sam Walton, even playing tennis with the late Wal-Mart patriarch.
Run these days by the gruff and tight-lipped W. Grady Rosier, McLane now distributes its cigarettes, candy and other assorted sundries to 30,000 stores, including convenience outlets run by the big oil companies, as well as Wal-Mart’s own discount stores and supercenters. Although the company has expanded into selling accounting software and operating ATM machines, cigarettes remain the backbone of the business. If McLane winds up with the busted AmeriServe, the diversion into fast food would disperse the tobacco smoke but scarcely eliminate it. | <urn:uuid:d9398125-2164-4ed4-a132-9d4852edbe9f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/0821/6605054a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947045 | 835 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In terms of vacationer sights, Europe nonetheless has just a few surprises up its sleeve – as we present right here with an inventory of 9 lesser-known, however really fascinating, sights to make your subsequent vacation additional memorable.
There’s a gem-studded human skeleton displayed in a glass case in Munich, Amsterdam’s Museum of Fluorescent Artwork, an enormous Victorian cemetery in Glasgow and a pyramid in Rome.
Which might you go to? Scroll down for the total listing…
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Sir John Soane’s Museum in London’s Holborn space shows fascinating gadgets that belonged to famend architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837). The museum occupies three buildings – Nos 12, 13 and 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. These had been used as a house and workplace by Sir John, and finally as a museum as nicely, to accommodate his ever-expanding horde of treasures
Pictured is the Sepulchral Chamber within the basement of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. It’s house to the sarcophagus of Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I, who died in 1279BC
That is the Image Room on the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Masterpieces by Hogarth, Canaletto, Turner and Piranesi are all held on the partitions right here
London’s V&A, Pure Historical past, Science and British museums take in a lot of the museum limelight within the UK capital. However the Sir John Soane’s Museum, in Holborn, shouldn’t be left within the shadows, because it homes an astonishing assortment that features masterpieces by Hogarth, Canaletto, Turner and Piranesi and the sarcophagus of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I (died 1279BC).
They belonged to famend British architect Sir John Soane (born 1753) and had been simply among the hundreds of notable gadgets that he had amassed by the point he died in 1837.
The museum occupies three buildings, its web site explains – Nos 12, 13 and 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Sir John ‘acquired and rebuilt every throughout his lifetime’ and used them as a house and workplace, and finally as a museum to accommodate his ever-expanding horde of treasures.
The web site continues: ‘In 1833, Soane negotiated a non-public Act of Parliament: to protect his home and assortment, precisely because it was organized on the time of his loss of life, in perpetuity – and to maintain it open and free for inspiration and schooling. The organisation of the museum can at first look appear crowded and even chaotic. Nevertheless, it’s, in truth, purposeful, with every inside being a murals in its personal proper.’
Royal Library Backyard, Copenhagen
Positioned between Christiansborg Palace and the Royal Library itself, Copenhagen’s secret Royal Library Backyard is alleged to be one of the tranquil spots within the metropolis. Pictured is the water function, a 26ft-high copper column designed as a tribute to the written phrase
Pictured is the bronze statue of prolific Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard that may be discovered among the many greenery within the Royal Library Backyard
Copenhagen’s secret Royal Library Backyard is alleged to be one of the tranquil spots within the metropolis.
The oasis – positioned on the positioning of a former navy port in the course of town between Christiansborg Palace and the Royal Library itself – was specified by 1920 by backyard architect Jens Peder Andersen and chateau architect Thorvald Jorgensen.
Within the center is a sculpture of Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard and guests may gaze upon a 26ft-high (eight-metre) copper fountain designed ‘as a monument to the e book and the written phrase’, in response to the backyard’s web site.
Budapest’s unimaginable labyrinth of explorable caves
The Hungarian capital harbours dozens of geothermal springs and round 200 caves with Tripadvisor providing excursions of two which are ‘well-lit with paved surfaces’ – Szemlo-Hegyi (above) and Palvolgyi
Guests stroll by means of a passageway in Szemlo-Hegyi cave (left), whereas the image on the best exhibits the principle chapel within the Gellert Hill cave church
What lies beneath Budapest is actually wonderful.
The Hungarian capital harbours dozens of geothermal springs and round 200 caves with Tripadvisor providing excursions of two which are ‘well-lit with paved surfaces’ – Szemlo-Hegyi and Palvolgyi.
Guests can count on journeys into fairy-tale worlds, with sights that embrace spectacular stalactites and stalagmites. The excursions are apparently comfy even for individuals who undergo from claustrophobia.
One other subterranean world price investigating in Budapest are the caves of Gellert Hill, house to an enchanting ‘cave church’.
Glasgow Necropolis, close to St Mungo’s Cathedral, covers 37 acres and is the ultimate resting place for round 50,000 folks
There are 3,500 seen tombs and mausoleums, with the web site devoted to the Victorian advanced revealing that it’s additionally house to 180 species of flowering vegetation and bushes, plus roe deer, bats and voles
Glasgow Necropolis, close to St Mungo’s Cathedral, covers 37 acres and is the ultimate resting place for round 50,000 folks.
There are 3,500 seen tombs and mausoleums, with the web site devoted to the Victorian advanced revealing that it’s additionally house to 180 species of flowering vegetation and bushes, plus roe deer, bats and voles.
The Mates of Glasgow Necropolis organisation provides strolling excursions with ‘extraordinarily well-informed volunteer guides’, who reveal among the tales behind the folks interred on the positioning.
Pyramid of Cestius, Rome
The Pyramid of Cestius was constructed as a tomb between 18BC and 12BC for Gaius Cestius, an essential Justice of the Peace
The Pyramid of Cestius is 37m (121ft) tall and is clad in brilliant white Carrara marble
No, your eyes don’t deceive you. It’s Rome. And sure, that’s a pyramid.
Behold the 37m- (121ft) excessive Pyramid of Cestius, which is round 2,000 years previous and made from Carrara marble.
It’s positioned within the central Ostiense space of the Italian capital reverse the Piramide practice station and is a tomb for the politician and priest Caius Cestius and his household.
It’s attainable to tour the construction, although on the time of writing it was listed as being quickly closed. Click on right here for extra.
Museum of Fluorescent Artwork, Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s ’Electrical Ladyland’ museum is ‘completely dedicated to the phenomenon of fluorescence’
Reveals within the Museum of Fluorescent Artwork glow in UV mild
’Electrical Ladyland – the First Museum of Fluorescent Artwork’ opened in 1999 and in response to the attraction’s web site, is the primary museum on the planet that’s ‘completely dedicated to the phenomenon of fluorescence’.
Every little thing inside it has been designed to glow below UV mild.
The museum, positioned within the Jordaan neighbourhood close to the Anne Frank home, says: ‘The guided tour of the museum consists of demonstrations of enormous collections of fluorescent minerals from throughout the world. These quite common rocks burst into dazzling colors when seen below completely different wavelengths of sunshine. This by no means fails to amaze guests.’
Macca-Vilacrosse Passage, Bucharest
Macca-Vilacrosse Passage brings a splash of Paris and Milan to Bucharest, the capital of Romania
Macca Villacrosse Passage is alleged to be one of many the reason why Bucharest was known as The Paris of the East
This grandly embellished Nineteenth-century passage, designed by architect Felix Xenopol, brings a splash of Paris and Milan to Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
Actually, it’s mentioned to be one of many the reason why Bucharest was known as the Paris of the East.
It’s an attention grabbing spot to hang around in – it’s house to quite a few bars and cafes – and to buy in. Guests will discover a number of luxurious jewelry retailers within the gem of a mall.
Jewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia, St Peter’s Church, Munich
The gem-studded stays of Saint Munditia (pictured) may be present in a glass coffin in Saint Peter’s Church in Munich
Pictured is the outside of St Peter’s Church, which has a 91m- (299ft) tall bell tower that guests can climb through 14 flights of stairs
In Saint Peter’s Church in Munich is a sight that’s without delay chilling and mesmerising – a gem-studded human skeleton in a glass coffin.
The stays are these of Saint Munditia, placed on show in 1804 after being transferred from catacombs in Rome in 1675.
She’s believed to have been behead with a hatchet in 310AD, then she subsequently grew to become a ‘catacomb saint’, embellished in dazzling type to personify the magnificence of the afterlife, in response to artwork historian and writer Paul Koudounaris. He informed Simthsonianmag.com that skeletons reminiscent of Saint Munditia are ‘items of artwork created in human bone’.
Nuns at Convento de San Leandro in Seville have been making yemas treats (inventory picture) for tons of of years
Additionally of word at St Peter’s Church is the 91m- (299ft) tall bell tower, which guests can summit through 14 flights of stairs.
Yemas de San Leandro, Seville
Convento de San Leandro has a wood door within the lobby.
Look inside and you can see a hidden revolving tray inside it.
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Arun Muralidhar is the academic scholar adviser at the Center for Retirement Initiatives at Georgetown University, adjunct professor of finance at George Washington University, and founder of MCube Investment Technologies and AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions.
Given his expertise in the areas of workplace retirement benefits coverage and investment markets, Muralidhar was asked to speak Friday, during a meeting of the Connecticut Retirement Security Board. Before the meeting, he took some time to explain to PLANSPONSOR the positions he would argue, most notably a proposal for forming state-supported individual defined benefit (DB)-like investing programs.
By way of background, Muralidhar noted he has been following retirement security issues for much of his career and has had the benefit of working with many skilled colleagues, including Nobel laureates and other celebrated researchers. He says he has little doubt—and there is little doubt among his esteemed peers—that a retirement security crisis is looming globally. Without concerted action from the private sector and local and national governments, he says it’s unlikely the crisis will be avoided.
“The pillars of retirement security are threatened because of insufficient funding, improper investment decisions and the transferring of risk to individuals who are least capable of bearing such risk,” he says.
Retirement planning was never easy, even in the context of large, corporate-sponsored defined benefit plans, Muralidhar says, but in earlier times much of the challenging decisionmaking was left for trained financial experts, either working for investment providers, consulting firms or directly as pension fund administrators. Now, the defined contribution (DC) system is being called on to replace closing DBs, leaving wholly unprepared individuals responsible for everything from picking a salary deferral to choosing investments and, eventually, an appropriate withdrawal rate.
“Beyond this, there is a really apparent coverage problem for many private-sector workers,” Muralidhar adds, citing studies that show as many as half of all private-sector workers lack access to a workplace retirement plan. He also points to funding issues for Social Security and the ever-expanding cost of medical care for both workers and retirees, heaping still more pressure on individual decisionmakers.
NEXT: So, what is the answer
At the White House Conference on Aging, President Barack Obama noted that, in every budget since taking office, he has put forth proposals to provide access for 30 million Americans to workplace-based retirement savings by requiring employers not currently offering a retirement plan to automatically enroll their workers in an individual retirement account (IRA).
He pointed out that, in the absence of Congressional action, states are leading the charge. Several have passed measures to create a state-run plan for private-sector employees. However, the president says states remain concerned about a lack of clarity regarding pre-emption by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), so he has urged the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to publish a proposed rule clarifying how states can move forward, including with respect to requirements to automatically enroll employees and for employers to offer coverage.
Taking all this together, Muralidhar says that encouraging momentum is building for the type of concerted government action that will likely be required to cut off a retirement security crisis in the U.S. Also important, he says, people are realizing simplicity will have to be a big part of any effective solution, given that untrained individuals will be called on to use them. Not to mention the fact that people are already inundated with choices and are generally intimated by complex financial products.
“Continuing in this vein, I will be making the case that capital markets are missing a very simple and basic financial instrument, what we call a Forward Starting Bond or FSB, that can help institutional and retail investors achieve their retirement objectives at lower risk than portfolios created through a mix of traditional stocks and bonds,” he says.
Sounds a little too good to be true, perhaps, but Muralidhar hastens to add that his solution is in fact not all that revolutionary. Details will have to vary state by state, but in essence he is advocating for a bond that resembles a delayed annuity that will be issued by the states/federal government and will allow people “to create their own individual defined benefits.”
In a draft paper shared with PLANSPONSOR, Muralidhar lays out the inner workings of an FSB.
The instrument operates on the assumption that the “typical saver” sets aside resources at regular intervals today to receive a stream of income post-retirement, generally until death. No affordable or effectively portable instruments exist in the market today to match such a profile, he says, “and hence all attempts to recreate this profile through traditional stocks and bonds, or purchase such a profile through annuities, are suboptimal or expensive, thereby threatening retirement security.”NEXT: How does it work?
Muralidhar says the FSB will provide “a much needed bridge between the uses of funds and the asset markets.”
In terms of its basic design, he explains that the FSBs will be constructed as a series of real bonds issued at different forward starting dates (five years, 10 years, 15 years, etc.). “The term of the bond will be linked to the life expectancy in the economy post-retirement, and can be updated periodically.” There would be two possible versions of this instrument, Muralidhar says, including a coupon-only version and a coupon bond with principal repayment.
“Under the coupon-only version, essentially, for an upfront payment today to the issuer, the investor secures a guarantee of a fixed income from this instrument for a period of 20 years,” he says. “The benefit of the coupon-only version, by foregoing the principal payment, is that it can offer higher coupons … Based on the desired income of an investor who plans to retire in two years, five years, 10 years or 30 years, and based on the implied rate of return [and therefore price of the FSB], the investor’s problem of how much to save is greatly simplified. As long as there is sufficient liquidity in the instrument, the investor’s decisions is now just focused on how much to save in every year of his working life to achieve this target income [given the uncertainty of interest rates].”
Muralidhar says, in principle, as long as the investor is not income-constrained, his desired retirement income path can be hedged away under this model at low cost and without other issues currently associated with annuity investments.
“As more and more of these instruments are issued, the entire yield curve will be filled out … thereby allowing individuals seeking to retire on a particular date to purchase the relevant FSB,” he says. “Assuming that these instruments have sufficient credit quality, they could be very liquid—much like current nominal bonds—and will have a very transparent price and could be traded at low cost.”
Again pointing to his background in the field, Muralidhar says he understands his proposal would have to jump a staggering number of hurdles before making a national impact, but he remains optimistic that the simplicity of the solution will carry it forward. He also points out that, given the strength and competitive nature of the investing and insurance industries, there are numerous potentially willing suppliers of such bonds already completing the market.
“I believe this is a simple instrument to create, and it achieves the goals of the average investor, thereby simplifying the investment decision, reducing the risk of achieving a target retirement income, and lowering the complexity and costs of investing assets—as it removes the need for intermediaries and complex investment approaches,” he concludes.
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Science at its finest
Ali Rahami at MIT did, and he did some experiments to see what the effect of aluminum foil hats on the absorption of radio waves is. He even tested three different designs of hats. Here are his conclusions:
The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, ). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.
It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.
So, there you go. Those folks railing against government mind control may be using defective equipment to protect themselves from the Illuminati, ZOG, and the U.N. with its black helicopters, ironically tricked by the very forces they are trying to protect themselves against. New designs are clearly needed immediately! Kudos to Dr. Rahimi for providing some desperately needed data to the conspiracy theory crowd! If he doesn't win an IgNobel Prize next year for his important work, you'll know the government (or the Masons or the Illuminati or. . .someone) got to him and hushed it up.
However, in the interests of scientific rigor and presenting criticisms of Dr. Rahimi's experimental design, it should be pointed out that his findings have been questioned by at least one person:
First and foremost, Rahimi et al. only considered simple radio frequencies. As I explained in detail in chapter 4 ("Psychotronic and AFDB Theory") of my book , only psychotronic energy can affect the brain in any coherent manner. Simple EM fields have only trivial effects -- such as causing indistinct sensations of a supernatural presence -- over short distances. Only by converting electromagnetic energy into psychotronic energy using a psychotron-based device can the forces of mind control access from afar the neural network of a brain to both implant and extract thought complexes.Perhaps Mr. Zapato would be willing to provide a device that would produce this "psychotronic energy" for more rigorous testing. Another criticism:
There's another odd discrepancy in their procedure description: While they say that the test helmets were made of Reynolds aluminum foil, in the lower left of Fig. 2 ("B" in enhanced version above) one can clearly see a box of Chef's Pride brand foil on their work bench next to the completed helmets. Well, Rahimi et al., which is it?Personally, I'm not sure that the above would be a valid criticism, even if true, although using different brands could introduce unwanted variability in the results. And finally:
The "current helmet craze" may indeed have been propagated by government forces, but that has nothing to do with the effectiveness of AFDBs or their non-crazed use by sensible paranoids. It is a common MO of the NWO and allied conspirators to disingenuously promote that which they aspire to destroy. The current rise in joking references to AFDBs -- which is what Rahimi et al. are referring to by "the current helmet craze" -- is most likely a calculated ploy to scare off would be paranoids from the mental protection of foil. That the forces of mind control are bothering to do this is itself evidence of the effectiveness of AFDBs.
The most important question raised by the Rahimi et al. study is: Should paranoids trust people working for an organization deeply involved in the Military-Industrial Complex? While Rahimi, the lead investigator whose site the paper is hosted on, is from MIT's EE and CS departments, the et al. (Ben Recht, Jason Taylor, and Noah Vawter) are from MIT's notorious Media Lab, which receives funding from DARPA -- one of those government agencies they pretend to be concerned about. When it comes to mind control, they are hardly an unbiased party. That, combined with the aforementioned discrepancies and questionable procedures, makes their conclusions highly suspect. | <urn:uuid:1b2b5064-1de2-4a94-936d-f6ac427cb8e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/11/science-at-its-finest_12.html?showComment=1131962220000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.958538 | 903 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Here's a chapter book of contemporary fables about a rambunctious group of fourth graders and their amazing teacher--the globe-trotting, Mayan-ceremonial-robe-wearing Mr. Jupiter--that is sure to delight students and teachers alike. Kids will laugh out loud as they learn tried-and-true lessons in this funny, fast-paced book. The fourth graders at Aesop Elementary are, well, unusual. There's Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten. But when he actually gets the chance, he's forced to do the squirrel dance and wear a school bus name tag. The moral of his story? Be careful what you wish for. Then there's Amisha Spelwadi, who can spell wildebeest, no problem. But when Mr. Jupiter asks the class to spell cat , all Amisha can come up with is kat . The moral: Don't count your chickens before they hatch. And don't miss the class's continued adventures in The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming. | <urn:uuid:4fc176ea-cc7f-4927-ac1c-1f0086b6b042> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.citestecevrei.ro/the-fabled-fourth-graders-of-aesop-elementary-school-paperback-candace-fleming-308908.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.938802 | 232 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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When it comes to protecting your organization from cyber threats, a well armed attacker is typically your worst nightmare. But if you work for a company looking to add a red team, they can be your best friend.
A skilled red team is the most realistic way to validate your defenses, as it most closely resembles what actual threat actors are doing. In authentically and safely replicating real world threats, your blue team can more accurately assess their effectiveness and make better improvements.
How well resourced your red team needs to be depends on a number of factors including the maturity of your blue team, and the size and complexity of your organization’s attack surface. Broadly speaking, red teams tend to fall in to three tiers depending on their capabilities:
- Tier 1. This is an entry level red team. These red teams use publicly available exploits, capabilities, and tools and are usually limited in human resources, employing only a few people in service of cyber defense. The tools used are generally free, open-source, or low cost and rely on the skill of the red team for proper execution.
- Tier 2. This is a professional red team. Red teams in this tier also use publicly available tools but support them with more substantial resources and expertise. This may include things like licenses, hardware, quality assurance, or a lab environment to maximize effectiveness. They also likely invest in commercial red team tools, like Cobalt Strike, Scythe, and BloodHound, which come with significant cost — usually tens of thousands per user, per year.
- Tier 3. This is an elite red team. The most well-resourced teams also use publicly and commercially available tools. The key differentiator is that they develop their own. Creating custom and exclusive capabilities requires significant skill, budget, and internal resources. These teams utilize reverse engineering, stand up complex lab environments, and have the capacity to add persistence and lateral movement once they’re on your network. Teams armed at this level are relatively large and their costs generally exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in human resources alone.
Key Capabilities Any Red Team Needs
Regardless of their budget, red teams operate in a goal-based methodology utilizing anything it takes to achieve the goal whether phishing, exploiting, abusing misconfigurations, guessing passwords, etc. The greater your red team’s resources, the more pernicious and lifelike they can be. Defenders need red teams to be able to simulate real-world cyber attacks and techniques. This has to happen across the entire cyber attack lifecycle with red teams stress-testing your internal network, not just your perimeter. This is what separates red teams from penetration testing.
Your red team’s size and capabilities will vary based on your resources, the maturity of your blue team, and your business objectives. However, the core function of a red team is universal.
No matter your level of sophistication, every red team needs tools that enable them to perform these four functions:
Hacking into any organization starts with surveying the lay of the land. Both red teams and real cyber criminals use reconnaissance of your attack surface to identify critical organizational, personnel, and technical points of vulnerability. The more information red teamers acquire at this stage, the higher their chances of successfully infiltrating a target network down the line.
There are two types of reconnaissance (or recon), passive and active, which each involve different tools:
Passive recon is when red teamers collect information without directly interacting with a target. Through passive recon, red teams can figure out details like the identity of personnel, email addresses, domain names, and DNS records.
This step usually involves using public resources like whois, data brokers, DNS, search engine dorks, etc.
Active recon is when red teams interact with their target to gain more information about it, and is conducted with tools that send requests to the target system, like Nmap.
Although active recon can yield more useful information, there’s also the risk that it will alert defenders, foiling attacks before they happen.
For this reason, many red teams use customized recon tools that are stealthier and more effective than commercially available equivalents. For example, details leaked during the 2020 FireEye hack revealed that in addition to publicly available tools, the company also used specially made recon tools such as “GetDomainPasswordPolicy” to get an Active Directory domain’s password policy and “GPOHunt” to claim Group Policy configurations.
Through active recon, red teams can find out information like what services their target is running, the OS of a machine, and what ports are open and closed.
Randori Recon was designed to provide red and blue teams with a continuous, authentic, and proactive solution for automating this task. We don’t simply scan for targets; we layer on the attacker’s perspective to present a real-world “target temptation” score.
2. Initial compromise
Once a target is identified and understood, red teams attempt to gain initial access to a target environment. There are a variety of means available for a red team to succeed in initial compromise, and they are highly dependent on their sophistication and resources.
Here is an example of how different tiers of red teams might conduct a phishing campaign:
- Tier 1: Smaller red teams might use open-source kits and tools like King Phisher or GoPhish to set up phishing emails and harvest credentials.
- Tier 2: Professional red teams may create custom phishing kits by combining the best features from several different tools (this is what cybercriminals did in 2020 when they developed the attack infrastructure known as “TodayZoo”).
- Tier 3 Elite red teams that want to further increase the success of their attacks will replicate advanced persistent threats. This includes drafting targeted emails for specific users, setting up copycat domains, or taking over a subdomain to harvest credentials. They will design emails to specifically bypass email filtering tools uncovered during the reconnaissance stage and may even pair phishing with an exploit embedded in the message.
Similarly, when it comes to exploiting vulnerabilities, less advanced red teams will rely on public exploits available in tools like Metasploit or Github. The best red teams will weaponize N-days, extend or augment public techniques to evade detection, or even develop custom zero-day exploits.
After a red team gains access to a system, they need to maintain network access even if the target environment shifts. Whether through changed credentials, restarts, or other interruptions, it is crucial that the team do so without setting off alerts.
Although publicly available tools allow attackers to maintain connection with target network, they are more likely to be detected by defensive tools such as AVs or endpoint detection than modified or custom tools. Modifying open-source tools to imitate advanced cybercriminals will result in a far more authentic assessment.
Earlier in 2022, we saw an example of why this is important when security experts spotted real-life attackers using a modified version of Ligolo, a reverse tunneling tool, for persistence. The threat actors got rid of the use of command-line parameters and added a number of execution checks to bypass the need to run multiple instances. These changes allowed attackers to establish a more secure connection with target networks and minimized the risk of being noticed by defenders.
4. Moving Laterally
After a red team gains access to a system, they move laterally to other systems behind the perimeter.
While this capability can be achieved through simplistic network protocols, predictable approaches like this make it easier for blue teams to detect malicious communications. In real life, attackers often use a combination of off-the-shelf products and fully customized solutions. Red teams need to be able to do the same.
Cybercriminals are anything but predictable. However, analyzing common attack chains makes mimicking them possible. Malicious attacks often use a combination of off-the-shelf tools, borrowed or stolen code, and bespoke tools and exploits.
Authentic red teams should be equipped to accurately emulate real-world threats. Open source tools are a great starting point, but to truly imitate sophisticated actors red teams also must leverage commercial tools and have the resources and expertise to develop their own when needed.
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I know, being sad is a bummer.
Most people don’t want to sign up for experiencing sadness. It’s not exactly pleasant.
However, sadness is actually an important part of the human experience.
Just like it is important that our cells die off and replace themselves. If they did not, we would not grow taller and our cells would not get replaced when they get worn out or damaged.
Or, just like spring cleaning is important. If we do not clean out our homes from time to time, things become outdated and cluttered. The process of cleaning isn’t exactly fun, but the result feels good.
Sadness is about releasing and cleansing.
Before we go further, let’s circle back to this for a second:
The human emotional system is built as a messaging system.
Each emotion has a general message it wants to convey. Once that message is delivered, the emotion or the wave of that emotion can subside.
Sometimes it takes a little time for the emotion to process through the body, sometimes it is relieved right away.
It’s important to remember that here are nuances to the system. Each emotion also has a spectrum of how helpful it is.
Ok, back to sadness itself.
The basic message of sadness is that there is something that needs to be released. It may be a vision, a dream, an expectation, a person, a situation, a job, a habit or dynamic. Really anything that needs to be released is a loss.
Releasing it is not as scary as it sounds. All I’m saying is releasing something as it was.
For example: Maybe you changed jobs and the part you will miss the most are your co-workers. Your co-workers do not leave the planet never to be seen again. You do not have to “release” them. It’s just that you will not see your co-workers 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as you did before. You are releasing the relationship with your co-workers as it was. It changes into something different.
If sadness is about release, how do you release something?
While there are different ways that suit different people, here are some strategies:
- You can honor what was by feeling or expressing gratitude for it by writing about it or sharing about it with someone.
- You can cry. The practice of pure crying is what I believe to be most helpful.
- If you don’t feel to cry, just recognize the sensation of sadness in your body: that pain in your chest or catch in your throat. Be still for a few moments and just pay attention to it. It will likely move or dissolve if it is not a huge wave of sadness.
- You can focus your attention on making space for what is to come since the release is happening to make space for what comes next.
- Realize there will be a void. A period of time between what was before and what will come as there needs to be an adjustment. Give yourself some grace.
What happens if I don’t experience my sadness?
If you try to stop the sadness, it can get buried and compressed.
Sometimes compounded sadness becomes depression.
Sometimes stopping sadness can turn into feeling numb. After all, it is not possible to turn down the volume on one feeling only. Turning down the volume on one is turning down the volume on all.
Sometimes that sadness can manifest physically.
At the end of the day, if you think about your internal, emotional world as a home, you want to keep the air circulating.
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Cyclone is the name given to hurricane-type storms that arise in the Indian Ocean, while typhoons are those that start in the Pacific Ocean and hurricanes are those found in the Atlantic. Cyclone 2B, as August 1991 storm was known, had been tracked for a week as it made its way north through the Bay of Bengal. It slammed into the southeastern coast of Bangladesh in the Chittagong region on August 29.
The southeastern region of Bangladesh is a river delta where the Ganges and other rivers flow into the Indian Ocean. It is particularly prone to floods and is also in the path of many cyclones. Despite the dangers, the impoverished people of the region continue to live in the area because of its fertile soil. Many thousands of people also inhabit the small islands and exposed coast of the southeast.
In 1970, an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people lost their lives to a powerful cyclone, prompting locals to build some storm shelters. However, not enough people took advantage of these havens before the 1991 storm, deciding to wait out the cyclone in their mud and straw huts. This proved disastrous when 150 mph winds caused a 20-foot surge of water across the region. Some islands were entirely swamped. Thousands of people were washed out to sea and drowned during the nine-hour storm. | <urn:uuid:397bb9f3-0cd4-4e64-865f-1e41f177c8f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.history.com/topics/bangladesh-cyclone-of-1991 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981143 | 269 | 3.453125 | 3 |
A definitive work remains to be written on the cultural phenomenon of why public attitudes toward police officers differ so starkly from those of others entrusted with safeguarding life and property. You won’t find many books, movies or prime-time dramas steering your sympathies toward the fire and against the firefighter, or leave you rooting for the natural disaster over the paramedic. But the police officer is far and away the most likely character to be assassinated by negative media portrayals.
The reasons are as numerous as they are deeply ingrained in our collective psyche: the 1950s black-and-white films of Birmingham cops unleashing attack dogs on civil rights protesters, the video images of the Rodney King beating, the WTO protests in Seattle, or the speeding ticket you landed once for driving 57 mph in a 55 mph zone. Whatever the reason, there’s a rich American tradition of cheering for the bad boys and raging against The Man.
This is worth keeping in mind as Police Chief Pete Lawrenson explains and defends his officers’ actions to the independent review committee looking into the events surrounding the Hell’s Angels July visit to Missoula. This phenomenon not only shaped public attitudes toward the heightened police presence in town, but also affected the police response and their subsequent perception of those events.
Thus far, some of those perceptions have found a voice in the prevalence of military jargon characterizing the week: the movement of “troops,” the presence of “outside agitators” and “the enemy within.” Granted, Lawrenson served five years in the military and may be justified when he says, “I’m not trying to put a military swing on things. I just have never broken my connection with the military.”
But military phraseology creates a distinct impression in the mind of the listener, namely, that of a police force and a city under siege, coping with extraordinary circumstances under extreme duress. Now, whether you believe that the siege persona is simply a byproduct of the law enforcement mindset or a deliberate attempt to put a favorable spin on the facts will likely depend upon your level of cynicism, and your overall attitude towards the police.
For their part, the Missoula PD had evidence to justify a siege mentality. In addition to the months of media buzz and intelligence work highlighting the long and sordid history of the Hell’s Angels, what came to light this week were other threats to public safety, both real and otherwise.
For example, Lawrenson testified Monday about an intelligence report received in July out of Houston that some 70 members of the rival Bandidos motorcycle gang had left town en masse to points unknown. Likewise, a July 30 report mentions a conversation overhead in a bar about a pipe bomb reportedly planted to “kill some cops.” Another anonymous caller says that the police were “going to see something they’ve never seen before.” All of these incidents later proved unfounded or irrelevant but demanded a police response nonetheless.
But amid the tales of unidentified personnel on downtown rooftops and the nonexistent homicide suspect en route from Canada, other details crept into the testimony to reinforce the state of siege, both from without and from within. Lawrenson notes that as early as July 25 citizens were cheering the Hell’s Angels but “giving the finger” to the cops who were following them. Likewise, he suggests that the Utah police—who were widely criticized by many on the streets that weekend for being arrogant, insensitive or overly aggressive—were in fact singled out by citizens early on and called “Mormon Nazis.” Factor in the intense heat, stress and exhaustion, and the image of a besieged police force begins to take shape.
At times, however, the testimony becomes inconsistent. For example, Lawrenson rebukes the media for repeatedly misstating the number of arrests throughout the weekend, saying at one point, “This was not a mass arrest situation.” However, when asked by committee member Sherri Matteucci whether his officers had provided decontamination to individuals who had been pepper-sprayed, or whether each officer had written the requisite report after discharging an OC-10 canister, Lawrenson says no, blaming “a situation of extraordinary proportions, in that it was a mass-arrest situation.” Why decontamination measures were not foreseen or taken later at the detention facility was never addressed.
At one point Lawrenson observes that the strategy of pulling officers off the scene had been effective on Friday night, noting that, “The more often police respond, the more agitated the crowd gets.” Yet when asked by committee member Anita Doyle if officers receive training on the psychological effect of riot gear on crowds, Lawrenson said, “I don’t know how to answer that question.” Clearly, one must assume that police in riot gear would have a similar, if not amplified, effect.
Likewise, Lawrenson acknowledges that the video footage of Missoula Officer Dustin Delridge tearing a sign from a protester’s hands was “quite aggressive,” but he defends the behavior by saying that the sign could have been used as a weapon. As committee member Larry Howel later notes, “Isn’t that true in any sort of protest, that a sign can be used as a weapon?”
When asked whether riot gear reduces the threshold for aggressive behavior among officers, Lawrenson answers, “I don’t think there’s a change in their mental process.” It’s a curious response, considering that most football players would say otherwise, that when the pads and helmets go on for the big game, the intensity level rises. The same, I imagine, holds true for most soldiers in a state of siege. | <urn:uuid:c34c6459-51f2-4356-b400-250e7010d562> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/eyes-of-the-beholder/Content?oid=1132868 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964064 | 1,206 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Keithley, CNSI Form Research Partnership
Keithley Instruments Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio-based maker of test and measurement instruments, has announced a partnership with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to support research in nanotechnology and nanoscience technologies for instrumentation and measurement in the semiconductor indsutry. Keithley will join the CNSI partners program at the associate level. The program supports the institute's efforts to cultivate collaborations with companies interested in working to enable rapid commercialization of nanosystems. Keithley will work with CNSI faculty members to advance research initiatives and will provide technical support. A variety of Keithley instruments, such as its 4200-SCS semiconductor characterization system, will be used for collaborative research at CNSI. "Keithley brings to our facility advanced measurement capabilities that will help move our research forward," said Kang Wang, professor of electrical engineering at UCLA. "Its sensitive test technology is well suited for applications such as current voltage characterization of carbon nanotube electronics, molecular electronics, nanoscale field-effect devices and materials research."
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It's on page 9 where Buffett explains the four essential qualities of good insurance businesses. Here is a summarized list of these disciplines.
Insurance companies should:
- Understand the events that would lead to losses
- Conservatively calculate the risk of loss and probable financial losses that could result
- Price policies so that revenue covers losses and operating expenses
- Have a willingness to walk away from underpriced policies
These traits are remarkably simplistic. From discipline one through four, Buffett essentially walks through the logical steps insurance companies need to take to generate underwriting profits -- that is, to make their premium revenue exceed their total costs.
Despite how obvious these disciplines may seem, most insurers fail to live up to the standard. The first quarter of 2013 was the first time since 2009 that the property and casualty insurance industry produced underwriting profits -- meaning premium revenue exceeded losses and expenses. But it was mostly luck as losses were unusually low last year.
Making it up later
Most property and casualty insurers hope to make money on their investments, not their underwriting. Because there is a lag between the time premiums are received and claims are paid, insurance companies can invest their "float" to generate a return.
AIG (NYSE:AIG) is an example of a company that, for the most part, doesn't earn money on its underwriting. Premium revenue in its P&C division merely matches losses and expenses from year to year. However, because it earns just over 4% on its float, writing insurance is profitable.
It's a perfectly reasonable way to do business. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Berkshire Hathaway has generated underwriting profits for the past 11 years in a row. Likewise, property and casualty company Chubb (NYSE:CB) has generated underwriting profits through much of its recent history.
Not only do Berkshire and Chubb get the benefit of the float, they get paid to invest the float. As Buffett stated in his letter to shareholders, floats are very beneficial.
"If our premiums exceed the total of our expenses and eventual losses, we register an underwriting profit that adds to the investment income our float produces. When such a profit is earned, we enjoy the use of free money -- and, better yet, get paid for holding it."
Investing in great insurance companies
Any insurance company can make a profit investing their float. Few, however, can create earnings from underwriting. If there is one quality that divides "great" and "good" insurers, it's the existence of underwriting profits -- excess profits very few insurance companies can achieve.
All insurance companies could, theoretically, generate underwriting profits. Most, however, don't listen to Buffett's four disciplines, and thus become merely "good", not "great," insurers.
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There are currently monthly support meetings at Godshill (Village Hall) normally on the first Tuesday of the month, which starts at 9.30am.
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Many thanks to the team at Bestival 2016 and the Bestival Fairy for making it possible for a number of our young people to take part and enjoy the fun at this year's event! Thank you for making it a great weekend!
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You can find the Isle of Wight Council consultations
by visiting their website.
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now have their own website pages which you can visit here
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Contact a Family
have written a new parent guide The NHS & caring for a disabled child in England
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project newsletters and e-bulletins. Other publications are also available, including From child to adult: a guide to disability, transition and family finances
To view their latest B4L newsletter please visit the Bridges for Learning
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Goodleaf Tree Climbling - Special Branch
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Symbols Making Sense
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Through this website we hope to reach many more parents of children with special educational needs;
•providing an opportunity for parents to have their voice heard and influence decisions that directly affect them and their children by informing parents when their ideas and input are needed, by who and how to get involved.
•providing information on a wide variety of subjects, related to special educational needs, from local support groups and activities to national consultations and events.
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Pattern of Morbidities in Under Five Children and Health Seeking Behaviour of their Parents
Keywords:Child mortality, child morbidity, under five children, health seeking behavior (HSB)
Introduction: All children, no matter where they born, deserve a healthy start in life. But harsh reality is that, in year 2012, 6.6 million children died in Bangladesh before their fifth birthday. The children constitute a large proportion of the total population of Bangladesh. They are 15 million, the vulnerable or special risk group; deserve exceptional health care as the child mortality and morbidity risks are much higher than their later life. Child morbidity is determined by several complex and inter-related factors in Bangladesh, specially in rural area.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to find out the pattern of morbidity of under five children, health seeking behaviour of their parents and the socio-demographic factors affecting those under five children's morbidity.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out at Madhupur Thana under a rural area of Tangail District during January 2012 to June 2012 to find out the pattern of morbidities of under five children and health seeking behaviour of their parents. Total 170 mothers were selected purposively to carry out this study.
Results: Among the cases of morbidities, 611(100%) sufferings of under five children were recorded from 170 respondents. The highest frequency (133, 21.76%) of sufferings of under five children were from cold, almost the similar number (132, 21.6%) of sufferings were from fever and 116(16.69%) sufferings were from diarrhoea. In this study, health care seeking behaviour for their children were found towards blessings from religious person (Jarphuk/Tabiz-11.77%), spiritual healer (Kobiraj-8.82%), herbal(7.06%), village doctor(20%) drug seller (17.06%), homeopath (12.94%), paramedic (4.71%), MBBS doctors (9.41%) and 8.23% did not take any treatment. Monthly income level of 51.8% respondents were from Taka 5000/- to Taka 10,000/-. On the other hand, only 07 respondents had highest level income of Taka 20,000/- to Taka 30,000/-. The mean income of the mother of under five children was Tk 10,064/- (SD= ± 5709.06). This study revealed that 14 respondents out of 170 did not take any treatment for their under five children. Out of these 14 respondents, 02(14.28%) even did not know the existence of treatment for the morbidity of their under five children. Again, 05(35.71%) respondents had the belief that their children would get cured without any medicine, 04 (28.57%) respondents had no health care centre nearby and 03(21.42%) respondents were unable to bear the treatment cost.
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Interview with Bruno Delahaye CMO- Founding Partner of NeuroChain
What is NeuroChain?
The project is new distributed ecosystem for Machine Learning and AI, based on new consensus Algorithm; It’s an augmented Blockchain technology. It provides a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) mechanism for any real life and business purpose. The validation mechanism is based on Bots (robots animated by AI algorithms) installed on a decentralized network. They are elected on a scientific protocol called Proof of Involvement and Integrity (PII) so as to validate transactions on NeuroChain network.
Who is the team behind NeuroChain?
The project is a complex initiative composed of scientists, technicians, business and lawyers experts. Fundamentally, the kernel is composed of two people:
- Billal CHOULI: a Ph.D. in Nuclear Fusion physics who strive at applying his knowledge on uncharted fields. Billal is the author of the Blockchains, a reference book on blockchain in France.
- Frederic GOUJON: an entrepreneur, expert in IT architecture with strong knowledge how to run a business and an IT project. He is also an expert on blockchain and the co-author of Blockchains.
The team is then composed of a well-balanced group of professionals both in skills and characters. Their key characteristics:
- Expert in decentralized technologies and Ethereum
- Expert in Machine Learning and AI
- Experts in Big Data and parallel programming
- Expert in IT security
- Expert in systems administration
- Experts in communication and business partnership
- Experts in law
What are the key differences between NeuroChain and Ethereum?
Ethereum is a blockchain where Turing completeness was introduced (Smart contracts).
NeuroChain is a blockchain project where Artificial Intelligence was introduced and play a central role (collective artificial intelligence). In other words, except the ledger, inspired from Bitcoin everything else is different:
- A new protocol which greatly improved speed and number of transactions, while reducing dramatically energy requirements (Proof of Involvement and Integrity)
- A new set of communication protocols
- A real ‘Intelligent’ application systems thanks to automatic learning algorithms (in opposition to simple smart contracts)
- An ecosystem of Collective Artificial Intelligence
- A better use of infrastructure : all is based on CPU
- An ecosystem rather than a flock of standalone programs
What is the role of Bots in NeuroChain?
Bots have at least two roles:
- Validate a transaction if elected
- Improve the ecosystem thanks to its specialization in the algorithm that he runs
- Allow other Bots to communicate with each other
- Learn from each other
- Elaborate an ecosystem of Collective Artificial Intelligence
Why do bots need to be elected and what is that process to do so?
The election process is simple. Periodically:
- They start looking at the ledger and compute the Proof of Involvement and Integrity algorithm (to reach the consensus) of each Bot on the network. This is a score that measures the activity in the network, and the power of this activity, also known as entropy and enthalpy.
- The top scored Bots are elected among an arbitrary number of 577 Bots (which evolve according to the network).
- They receive the transaction of the community of other Bots.
- The elected Bots create Blocks and validate them.
- The elected Bot receives a given amount of NCCs, to compensate for the validation work.
- The elected Bots send the validated Blocks to the other Bots.
- A block received is always controlled: was the Bot who sent the Block was able to validate or not. If so, make a copy of it in your local ledger.
Who will operate these Bots and what are the requirements and incentives to do so?
Anyone can operate a simple Bot. It must at least be installed and connected to the network. The best performers are more likely to be elected as validators. Hence, the network quality, speed and power of the Bot are all incentivized in exchange of NCC (NeuroChain Clausius) forging.
It can be installed on a VM, a container or anything alike.
Can the Bot operators alter bot behaviour?
Yes, it can. If doing so, their PII score will be altered. If the alteration is positive (e.g., better speed), its PII score will increase, hence the probability to forge NCC. If altering negatively, the probability of being elected shrinks significantly.
A bot counterfeiting a program is highly unlikely, thanks to the Proof of Workflow. A program was validated as not behaving as a malware.
What are the elected bots using NeuroChain tokens for?
They can be used, by selling them, as a mean to pay for the operations. It can be used otherwise on other programs or Bots to process a given computation. And they use them to operate the Intelligent applications.
Can tokens be issued on NeuroChain?
No. They are forged by the Bots. The first NCC (tokens) are created by the genesis block however.
What are some practical use cases for NeuroChain?
Some easy to identify use cases are:
- Cross companies data exchange, while hiding part of the knowledge (e.g., insurance contract transfer between companies that significantly lower mailing and legal costs, while hiding the people who won the new contract)
- Traceability of goods
- Validation of information (e. g., the customer is telling the truth)
- Anything that required Artificial Intelligence of Machine Learning (e.g., genomic distribution, plane delays, expected market share, future most required product for a given client group, etc.)
- Autonomous cars algorithm transfer
- Autonomous car processed data transfer
- Automatic contract execution (insurance payments)
- Property transfer (shares, micro-bonds)
- Regulated professions
- Data banks
What are the key dates on the NeuroChain roadmap?
|First concerns and enlightens on blockchain technologies||2010|
|First book on Blockchain and angular stones of NeuroChain||2016|
|Preparing NeuroChain ICO||June 2017|
|Presentation of the concept at Paris Microsoft event||October 2016 and 2017|
|ICO Launch||March 2018|
|Start of Protocol development||March 2018|
|First launch of test net||January 2019|
|First launch of main net||March 2019|
|First business applications available||March 2019|
|Release of the meta language based on C++||September 2019|
What are the key dates for the ICO?
- Start of Private Sales : Feb 20th 2018 3:00:00 PM UTC
- End of Private Sales : March 12th 2018 3:00:00 PM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Discount Sales) : March 19th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Attractive Sales) : March 26th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Haste Sales) : April 9th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- End of ICO: April 19th, 2018, 08:00:00 PM UTC
How will the ICO funds be distributed?
Tokens expected usage and forging schema:
A- 70% to Elected Bots
B- 15% to Investors
C- 10% to Founding Team and Advisors
D- 3% to the Foundation
E- 2% to the Seed Fund
Would you like to add further information?
The NeuroChain is a scientific applied project. Anything you can do with artificial intelligence and machine learning can be done through NeuroChain.
Granted that most business issues can be tackled with AI and ML, then pretty much everything you can think of can be dealt with NeuroChain.
We are looking for entrepreneurs, engineers, believers and new ways to exploit our project.
The code is open source. You can fork, but we would prefer a community work than a quick segregation of seed projects.
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Another year, and the ever-entertaining country of Argentina finds itself back in the U.S. Supreme Court, trying to get the court to hear its appeal of injunctions that would force it to pay its debts. A couple of days ago a group of friendly countries came in to support Argentina's position with amicus briefs. These countries address the critically important question of the day: how many reasons can we think of why a country that gets tired of paying its debts should be able to walk away? Call these countries the "Coalition of Weasels." So far it's Brazil, Mexico (!) and France (!!!).
OK, I shouldn't be so surprised about France. They are well on the way to adopting the official Latin American model of economic success. Government spending is well over 50% of GDP. A socialist government pretends that infinite spending can be paid for by the tooth fairy. Last year they lost their AAA rating. Moody's rates them Aa1 "with negative outlook." Yes, even France has reason to prepare the ground for the day it wants to default.
The overriding theme of the three briefs is how terribly important it is for a country in crisis to be able to walk away from debt. Mexico: "The injunctions will inevitably have a negative impact on future sovereign debt restructurings and risk destabilizing the international monetary system." I like that one about "risks destabilizing the international monetary system." How would that work, exactly? Nobody knows, but it sounds really scary. Then here we have France:
If upheld, the injunctive remedy affirmed by the Court of Appeals on the basis of this ill-founded interpretation threatens significant global harm to various public and private interests. It also would disrupt the established practice of orderly sovereign debt restructurings, in which France has acquired extensive experience as an active participant in the Paris Club. In particular, the injunctive remedy threatens to upset the complex balance of interests between sovereign debtors and their creditors, sovereign lenders, bank lenders and bondholders that is generally achieved in a voluntary and orderly restructuring.
Never mentioned is that the "crisis" in Argentina actually consists of nothing more than that the politicians would rather spend money on various forms of vote buying than on paying their debts. They don't have to pay for any wars. (The Falklands war was way back in 1982.) They haven't had any natural disasters to speak of. Whatever crisis they have is completely of their own making, born of incompetent economic policy and waste. Argentina is famous for an economy dominated by crony capitalism and subsidies. Inflation is rampant -- they admit to 10.9% for 2013, but everybody knows that's fake. The real number is more like at least 50%, according to a February article in The Economist here. That gives a great opportunity for the old official exchange rate game, where you let your friends buy or sell dollars at a fake rate, hiding massive payoffs. And then you hand out subsidies for everything. How about energy subsidies for everyone! Argentina has been deep into that one, although just in the last few days it has had to start cutting the subsidies because it is running out of foreign exchange to buy the stuff. But don't worry, the Economy Minister promises that they will continue with the destructive economic policies:
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof says the populist government is sticking with its model of transferring wealth to help the poor and stimulate the economy.
Of course, in an official exchange rate regime, the actual primary wealth transfer is not to the poor at all, but rather to the well-connected friends of the government. But if they say often enough that they are "helping the poor," maybe someone will believe it.
What's remarkable is that the countries that actually bite the bullet and pay their debts are the ones that are successful. The United States literally got its start by figuring out how to pay off the defaulted Revolutionary War debt at par, even though much of it had been bought up cheaply by speculators. Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit of 1790 - proposing to pay the debt at par - was his first big act as Treasury Secretary. From Wikipedia's description:
Monied speculators, alerted that Congress, under the new Constitution, might provide for payment at face value for certificates, sought to buy up devalued securities for profit and investment.Concerns arose over the fact that many certificates – almost three-quarters of them - had been exchanged for well below par during periods of inflation, some as low as 10 cents on the dollar, but selling at 20-25% at the time the Report was debated.
Funny thing was, somehow paying off that debt didn't "destabilize the international monetary system." Nor did it keep the United States economy from taking off. In fact, if debt payments squeeze out the possibility of massive payments for crony capitalism, energy subsidies, and the like, they may be the best thing that can happen to an economy. Don't tell Brazil, Mexico and France.
UPDATE March 28, 2014: Many thanks to Instapundit for the link!
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Filipino Vowels: Learn How to Pronounce Them Easily
Filipino vowels in Filipino Alphabet is often a sound that’s pronounced simply by employing your lips (in the case of nasal vowels, the use of your nose) without having any blockage of the mouth, tongue, or throat.You will find certainly quite a few typical rules to keep in mind each time saying Filipino vowels. Learn More
The articulatory characteristics which will identify various Filipino vowel sounds are usually said to look for the vowel’s good quality when it comes to Filipino Language. In the well developed vowel method similar to the Filipino vowel structure, you’ll discover common functions – height (vertical dimension), blackness (horizontal dimension) and roundedness (lips placement). Learn The Filipino Vowels
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There are however still additional possible attributes of Filipino vowel top quality, such as the velum position (nasality), kind of vocal fold vibration (phonation), as well as tongue root position.
List of Filipino Vowels in Filipino Alphabet
Filipino Vowels in Alphabet
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This chapter is about recycling and related practices. The recycling symbol is one of the most easy to identify labels of environmental responsibility. In the 21st century, it appears that environmental, economic and social goals have combined to support recycling and make this practice the common form of environmental action for many, if not most, citizens. It is also actively pursued by many private enterprises and governments trying to tackle unwanted waste. The goals in this area are well entrenched in domestic, regional and international law and policy, with a number of specific international laws being directly targeted to address specific waste streams for recycling, such as old ships, or the overall trade in unwanted materials for recycling ranging from plastic to electronic waste. However, as experience has shown over the last three decades, at each point, the economic, social and environmental considerations related to recycling must be carefully considered. The terms recycling, reuse, recovery and reclamation are often used interchangeably. However, each of these terms is very different, and their dissimilarities can make a mountain of difference with how a waste stream is dealt with. For example, if an old computer is to be reused, in most instances, it can be traded internationally as it is not hazardous waste. However, if it is to be recycled, it may be hazardous waste, and strong caution is urged in any potential international trade.
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As we’ve mentioned in our previous article, there are a couple of things a biker needs to have. It’s not just about buying a motorcycle, and possibly some proper clothes, but there are elementary things you need to function as a biker.
If you are lucky enough to have your own garage, then there are a couple of items you will really need, and some that would be nice to have. They will not cost you an arm and a leg, but having them will make your life so much easier, meaning you will be able to get your motorcycle up and running, enjoying your rides.
The already mentioned (see previous article) HD-40 oil and duct tape, two indispensable “tools” of the trade. Also put a window cleaner spray and some paper towels (best is a kitchen roll) to clean your helmet.
If your motorcycle has a chain (in other words not a belt or shaft drive), you’ll need chain lube. You can get them in nice & easy sprays.
Bugs are bad for your bike, so get a bug cleaner, usually a spray. Make sure you have a proper soft cleaning cloth, preferably a microfiber one. Some cloths may scratch your bike, so make sure you get a good one.
Wax for the bike, wax for the leather. Wax protects your motorcycle from the elements. Rain and sun will slowly deteriorate the metal and leather parts of your bike. Wax your bike at least once a month.
A battery charger will go a long way for making sure you can ride. If you ride everyday, there’s no need, but if there are intervals of several weeks before the bike is fired up, you might want to invest in a trickle charger and hook up your motorcycle every time it gets pulled into the garage.
Not only is a tire pressure gauge essential, but a small electrically powered air compressor is very handy. You can get them relatively cheap, and they will work on 12V, so powered by your motorcycle. Depending on whether you ride alone, with a pillion and/or with cargo, you will need to adjust your tire pressure.
Another essential piece of equipment is a strong light that you can use to inspect your motorcycle. Even if your garage is well lit, you’ll still need to inspect at times the lower parts of your bike, and with a handheld torch, or light, it will make your life so much easier.
And the last item you’ll want in your garage is a motorcycle cover. Just because your bike sleeps in the garage does not mean dust will not get on your ride. So cover it properly. Unless of course you like cleaning your bike (I prefer to ride mine).
If you plan to do maintenance yourself, then you’ll need quite a lot of stuff. Obviously, all the tools to open up your bike and perform open-heart surgery, wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, you name it, the list is long. But apart from that, you will be well served with the following:
Gloves. Unless you love scrubbing your hands to clean off the grease, mechanic gloves will save you wear & tear of your hands.
Trays for parts, and trays for oil. If you’re going to change oil, you’ll need to catch the old oil. The parts you take off your bike when working on them should go in a good sized tray, because if you don’t you’ll be spending more time looking for them then actually wrenching.
Good solid shoes. Don’t wrench while wearing flip-flops. You can easily skid and hurt yourself in a garage. You need shoes that are solid, with a good ankle support.
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Who doesn’t love fries?
Fries get a bad rap as being unhealthy but the truth is, it is all about how they are prepared and with what type of oil.
It is totally possible to prepare healthier fries at home with the right ingredients. Think outside the typical potato box with these veggies that roast up easily as fries:
- Parsnips fries: roast these with a high heat plant-based oil and fresh herbs like rosemary.
- Russet potato fries yes, potatoes are perfectly healthy! In fact they are a good source of fiber and potassium, important for muscles. Russet potatoes get a bad rap because they have a higher glycemic index but that doesn’t discount them from being a nutritious veggie. Try these wedges air-fried with sea salt.
- Yellow squash and zucchini fries: these are my go-to fries of choice in the summer. Try breading them with whole grain breadcrumbs or almond flour herb mixture for some crispy crunch.
- Jicama fries: this refreshing crunchy veggies is an excellent fry choice. I just toss with spicy seasonings and roast – no oil needed for these!
- Sweet potato fries: this is a crowd-favorite! Also a great source of fiber plus beta carotene antioxidants (which our body also converts to vitamin A).
- Green bean fries: a fun and easy way to prepare green beans plus no chopping required.
- Carrot fries: a fun way to enjoy sliced carrots!
- Butternut squash fries: these are a great option in the fall and winter when you need something to do with your butternut squash on the counter. Slightly lower in carbs than potatoes but with the same great taste.
- Sugar snap pea fries: try these with a teriyaki dipping sauce for some asian-fusion and top with toasted sesame seeds for extra crunch.
- Beet fries: these can get a little messy to cut but they are worth it! A great option for those looking for a sweeter take on fries.
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The health care system of Great Britain is considered one of the most progressive today. It is among the top 5 best international health care systems. Great Britain does not have a single center for managing the health care system. The National Health Service (NHS) operates here, along with the health services of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Great Britain spends 9.8% of its GDP on healthcare. Most of these funds come from general taxation. In general, the healthcare sector is the second largest consumer of the country's budget. Also, in addition to funding from the National Health Service, there are programs that are implemented by the Public Health Service.
The year 2012 was a fateful year for the medical field of Great Britain, when the Clinical Commissioning Groups were created, which are responsible for purchasing medical services in various medical institutions. The CCGs buy medical services for residents of a certain region, based on the need and the number of available funds. For example, the cost structure of the East Sussex CCG is as follows: 10% — for primary medicine, 60% — for secondary one, 9% — for mental health, and 21% — for other services needed by patients. The decision on the distribution of finances is made by the board of the CCG, but sometimes the Department of Health and Social Care provides recommendations on priority areas. Currently, Great Britain is going through its not best times — the shaky political situation in connection with the future change of the prime minister and the prospect of curtailing some programs is very worrying for citizens. However, medical care (both primary and specialized) remains practically free of charge for patients.
Details are Important
An average medical practice serving 10,000 people consists of 4 doctors, 4 nurses, and 12 non-medical personnel (registrars, specialists responsible for correspondence with patients, etc.).
The duties of the average medical staff include receiving chronic patients, carrying out various manipulations and procedures, and performing diagnostic tests (rapid tests, breathing tests, electrocardiograms, etc.). The nurse’s office is equipped with diagnostic devices, a computer, and a refrigerator where vaccines and medicines are stored. She does preventive vaccinations herself. By the way, an examination by an average medical staff is also sufficient here — there is no need to involve a doctor. In addition, nurses carry out educational work with patients — for this they are provided with appropriate methodical materials and recommendations. Mid-career staff can continue their education at university leading to hospital management, as well as helping family doctors improve their skills in wound care, palliative care, and more.
All medical practices of doctors are private. The NHS of Great Britain, in accordance with the concluded agreements, transfers funds to them — 99-150 pounds per patient per year. Therefore, primary care physicians are very interested in having an additional specialization, because this can be one of the decisive factors in the process of attracting patients. With the money received from the National Health Service, private practices provide a guaranteed volume of medical care and pay the salaries of doctors.
Family doctors work 5 days a week, but citizens of the country can receive medical assistance in the evenings and on weekends — for this, CCG concludes contracts with medical practitioners who are ready to work after hours.
Patient Orientation is One of the Main Principles
In Great Britain, a lot of attention is paid to patients with mental disorders, as well as patients who need palliative care or rehabilitation. The health care system in Great Britain is patient-oriented, so much attention is paid to the transfer of services to the home: being at home is often psychologically easier for the patient, and the cost of treatment is significantly reduced compared to 24-hour hospitalization. Here, social service workers come to the aid of doctors. As with the rest of the world, the UK’s population is aging, adding responsibilities and costs to primary care. However, both of them scrupulously calculate that the costs are appropriate, and the involvement of specialists is effective.
An extremely important role is played by joint decision-making with the patient regarding the choice of the therapy method. This is not just information, but motivational counseling with mandatory feedback: did the patient understand how the treatment and diagnosis will be carried out?
What About Digitalization?
People in England will receive more health services online, allowing them to check NHS records, receive messages from their GP and visit virtual wards under the government’s plans to digitize healthcare. The Digital Health and Social Care Plan sets out how patients will be able to make hospital appointments, order COVID vaccines, and receive virtual consultations through the NHS app, which 28 million people now have, by March 2023.
“We are embarking on a radical modernization program that will ensure the NHS is ready for the challenges of 2048, not 1948 when it was first created,” — Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
The plan builds on the NHS data strategy, which aims to have three-quarters of England’s adult population sign up for the NHS app over the next two years. According to it, this will give patients “more control over their own care at home, they will notice problems sooner and seek help earlier”.
According to the DHSC, less than half (45%) of social care providers use a digital social care card and 23% of care home staff do not have regular access to the internet at work. Under the latest plan, medical teams will also be able to better share information through unified digital medical and social records.
A national digital workforce strategy is to be developed to create an extra 10,500 data and technology jobs as part of a range of measures to upskill workers and make the NHS an attractive place to work for digital professionals. How to use digital technology will also be included in university curricula for degrees training future NHS workers, while affordable training will be provided to adult social care workers.
Praise or Blame? That’s the Question…
However, not everything is perfect in Great Britain, particularly from the point of view of consumers of health services.
As a rule, you have to wait for a certain time to see a specialist, depending on the workload of the family doctor. It is impossible to make an appointment “for today” unless it is an emergency. Diagnostic and treatment procedures are also carried out according to the record. Sometimes the interval between them is quite significant: for example, a patient sometimes waits almost a year for a hip joint replacement. Of course, he can get this medical service much faster — in a commercial clinic, where the operation will be carried out, for example, at the expense of private insurance. However, emergency and urgent medical care are provided without a prior appointment.
There is one more problem. Most people (including many NHS workers) are of course tired of it, but the nation’s attempt to “live with COVID to the full” is frankly breaking the back of the NHS. In 2020 and 2021, the NHS successfully coped with the peaks of the pandemic by stopping or slowing down much of its routine work. 2022 was supposed to be a year of full recovery, when record waiting lists for medical care, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and mental health were supposed to decrease, and the burden on primary care should be eased.
It’s July now, and apart from the first omicron surge which peaked in January, the UK and the NHS have seen two more waves of COVID with just under three months between peaks. The current wave of hospitalizations caused by variants BA.4 and BA.5 will likely peak in the nearest time, but other variants will soon be ready for global rollout. In the first six and a half months of the year, the number of weekly admissions to hospitals in England with a positive result for COVID-19 averaged just over 9,000. In 2021, there were just under 6,000, with most admissions concentrated in the first two months of the year. The average in 2020 was just under 7,000.
What hides the hospitalization numbers is the growing wave of people with long-term COVID illness, which now stands at two million and is likely to be a major burden on the country’s health service and productivity for a generation. And there are many other less recognized but still deeply worrying consequences of the ongoing pandemic, including the threat to the NHS blood supply.
The constant pressure created by repeated waves of COVID is already a major reason why the NHS is nowhere near the level of activity needed to restore productivity. The NHS was now expected to perform better than before the pandemic; instead, optional activity is about 10% below 2019.
What is particularly troubling is the lack of strong political, public, or media coverage of the service sector collapse caused by COVID. There is still a great opportunity for the UK Government to make real progress with its digital initiative for the NHS for adults and pave the way for the UK to be at the forefront of digital innovation in health. However, the starting point for all of this must be to meet the needs of patients and provide services that not only make patients more accessible through digital channels but also remove many of the bottlenecks in timely access to the right treatment.
Coping with new and emerging strains of COVID, balancing its impact with other diseases that haven’t gone away, and mastering new digital innovations comes with learning. The continuation of education of doctors and nurses, including online, is of great importance. In short, there is always an opportunity to change life for the better. Rational use of time, work for results, efficiency, healthy competition, reasonable control, and responsibility — all these distinguish the organization of the health care industry in Great Britain.
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A study was conducted in Finland to measure anxiety and fearfulness in dog breeds.
13,700 dog owners answered questions about their dog's noise sensitivity
and the dog's reaction to other stressful situations.
The findings were interesting!
#1 Male and female dogs were found to be equally fearful of thunder.
#2 Neutered dogs were more fearful of fireworks than intact dogs.
#3 Owner's first dogs were more fearful than if the dog was not the owner's first dog
#4 Dogs with less socialization experience were more likely to be afraid of thunder.
#5 Dogs living with other dogs showed less fear of thunder
#6 Large dogs were less likely to fear thunder than small dogs
#7 The fear of novel situations for dogs decreased after 5 years of age.
#8 Dogs living with couples feared novel situations than those living in a large family.
5 Breeds More Likely To Be Fearful Of Loud Noises...
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#2 Mixed Breed Dogs
#3 Pembroke Welsh Corgi
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types for example as a novice you might not know what constitutes a great trader to copy if you would like to know how i personally find people to copy on then go take a look at my video which i’ll put a link to up here and in the description listed below choosing a trader based copy portfolio can provide you direct exposure to lots of traders that are selected by algorithmically this is terrific for diversity if you’re new to i personally would not invest all my money in one trader and would attempt to spread it out over a number of them in case one of them doesn’t succeed and on the odd occasion this does happen i learnt this through copying a trader when beginning so i was copying this person and at the start he was doing well then he simply started to believe the market would crash so he started shorting lots of stocks and it never did and it just kept going up and after that he still kept stating that the marketplace was going to crash and it never did so i lost a fair bit of cash so this is also a caution that your capital Etoro Cr√©Diter Wallet
Why is eToro considered to be bad?
Absolutely at risk ultimately i needed to cut my losses with this trader and i believe i ended up losing over a thousand dollars in the end which i was not pleased about but i looked at that trader further down the line and he continued to lose more money so cutting my losses at that point i did was better than where i would have been 6 months further down the line so while previous performance is not prosecuted for future outcomes i have made a few of my biggest profits in copy portfolios for example i have actually been purchased the in the game copy portfolio considering that the 3rd of july 2017 and today’s date is the 25th of april 2021 so in just under 4 years i have actually made an outrageous 210 revenue also last year i purchased the big tech copy portfolio in january 2020 and now 16 months later this has actually made a massive 47.08 revenue and that is in simply over a year so if you compare that to a bank where you’ll be lucky to get one percent in a year today that’s that’s some crazy growth i’m getting here on but like i stated previous performance is not a sign of future results so certainly there are some small negatives to copy portfolios firstly it is not possible to remove a part of the investment it’s likewise not possible to close specific positions within a copy portfolio
Is eToro truly free as they say?
so this is my virtual account here so state for instance you didn’t like a specific company or individual that the copy portfolio had bought or state for instance you wanted to close one position to take revenues you would require to close the investment totally so that’s something to remember if you’re the kind of person who creams the top of the revenues off of an investment so then perhaps you should invest straight into stocks or traders that you would want to copy instead of in a copy portfolio likewise while a few of the copy portfolios have an entry point that begins at 1 000 us dollars the entry level on a few of these is quite high all the trader based copy portfolios require a minimum of five thousand us dollars and 5 thousand us dollars could be a lot so your alternative is to possibly take a look at a few of the traders in these coffee portfolios or take a look at the stocks in a copy portfolio and after that invest in them by hand yourself
certainly if you did this you would not get any rebalancing as you would on a copy portfolio now potentially another unfavorable of copy portfolios and i could not find this out for certain but my understanding is that on market copy portfolios there isn’t any stop losses on individual positions if someone from etora sees this video and wishes to verify this with me then please feel free to get in contact and after that i’ll put it as the pin remark listed below now this does not imply you can’t personally set a stop loss on the copy portfolio yourself however say for instance if you’re copying a market copy portfolio it would not respond and close out a position if there was a crash in the market whereas a real person could respond to the market and close out positions and possibly buy back in at a lower entry point this may deserve thinking about when picking a market copy portfolio so to purchase copy portfolios
Why do you require 25k to day trade?
you would to start with go to the following link on the left here that says buy copy portfolios this is my virtual account as i said before service and after that from here you have actually got the three kinds of copy portfolios that we were discussing in the past and if you drill into these you can see all of the copy portfolios they have on deal and there’s loads of various ones in here with lots of various themes so it’s worth having a browse so state let’s just click this crypto copy portfolio here that with its absolute insane outcomes of 935 area for two in the last 12 months that’s mad so it’s an extremely similar layout to a normal asset on with the eat the very first page the description on the right here will normally outline what the copy portfolio’s method is and the minimum investment amount this ought to likewise outline how typically it rebalances so as you can see for this crypto copy portfolio here the minimum financial investment quantity is 1 000 us dollars so as i have actually simply discovered here the description on the very first page doesn’t always match the description on the 2nd page so to learn the rebalancing if you go on here i have actually just found that by searching for rebalancing you can see that this cryptocopy portfolio will be rebalanced annual or by the investment committee discretion consisting of brand-new listings or de-listing based on the terms pointed out above and the minimum investment
amount is 1000 us dollars so as you can see here on the right-hand man side we’ve got the possession allocation now you truly need to keep in mind of this as i learned this the hard way and by this i may learn this in 2 ways so i in fact invested in among these crypto copy portfolios a very long time ago when i was beginning on and i didn’t inspect the weightings and i presume they were all equivalent yes i understand i was a huge noob and a novice well one of these cryptos was more greatly weighted than the others which one tanked whereas the others didn’t it then hit the stop loss and squandered my position and after that as cryptos do it bounced back up uh since they are so unstable so not just did i lose a lot of cash and i wasn’t able to redeem ins because the cost had bounced up but i likewise can’t bear to believe more that would be worth now today it’s just uh i missed out on i lost out on that one but it’s lesson to discover and sometimes the best lessons in trading are regrettably discovered the hard way you won’t forget them when you make a terrible error like that so proceeding from that if we scroll further down we have the historic stats of the copy portfolio if it’s a newish copy portfolio then you’ll discover there’s some stars beside the numbers
and this implies as it says here the stars are based upon back tested results then you’ve got an average risk score here on the left hand side and also you can see the number of financiers in this copy portfolio and after that down at the bottom we’ve got some great graphs for net direct exposure and allocation then if you click the portfolio here you can see the current holdings in the portfolio and you have actually got some great charts here which simply show the different allowance but if you really wish to see the real holdings you can see the present holdings in there in the portfolio and their existing profit and loss here um and if you change this bit here you can see the historic trades this copy portfolio has actually closed out of so if we set that to perhaps one year you can see the historic trades this copy portfolio has actually liquidated of then on the last tab we have a chart showing the efficiency of this copy portfolio gradually so to invest in this you just click the huge button on the leading right that says invest and then you can set a quantity here that you wish to put in then you can set a stop loss below and i’m just going to leave that at 400 this is my virtual account feel in one’s bones there is a minimum and a maximum on the stop loss here so if i press the invest here and now it began buying copy portfolio now this copy portfolio did open immediately because it’s a crypto portfolio and the marketplaces are open 24 7. now i’m taping this video on a sunday Etoro Cr√©Diter Wallet
If you were to actually invest in a copy portfolio that invested in stocks then it would not in fact open those positions up until the markets open on monday so as you can see here this is the crypto portfolio on my virtual account and if you click the cog up here you can increment the financial investment you can pause the investment you can adjust the stop loss or you can close the financial investment now if you desire to increase the investment one thing i have discovered when looking at a lot of these is that the minimum quantity you can include to a copy portfolio once it is open is a thousand dollars now i do not know if that’s the very same for all of them however i looked at a handful and they did all appear to state it was a thousand that you could include minimum so that’s something certainly to bear in mind when opening your copy portfolio position so i hope this video has actually been handy to you if you are considering investing in a copy portfolio then please do your own due diligence initially if you have actually got any questions on this video then please let me understand in the remarks let us know if you invest in copy portfolios and if so which ones or
which ones do you believe could be a great financial investment i ‘d love to know and i read all your remarks if you found this video helpful in any way then i ‘d really appreciate an early thumbs up as it actually helps support the channel likewise for those of you interested in signing up to and haven’t currently then there’s an an affiliate link listed below where if you do register utilizing it then i will get a kickback and it doesn’t cost you anything extra but it actually helps support this channel so why not give a go before transferring any real cash as they will give you a demonstration account with a hundred thousand dollars of virtual money where you can experience all of the features like copy trading without losing any real money likewise if you wish to discover more about how works or more about personal finance and investing then i have various videos on my channel so i suggest you check them out so please press the bell and subscribe icon so you do not miss out on any future updates it’s been ollie from get geek finance thank you for watching and i’ll catch you in the next one Etoro Cr√©Diter Wallet | <urn:uuid:0862c7eb-53d7-43ea-ae03-1ceb01303fd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mensura-trading.com/etoro-cr%E2%88%9Aditer-wallet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.95566 | 3,147 | 1.546875 | 2 |
When was the last time you enjoyed driving through beautiful sceneries, breathing the fresh country air, and maximizing your car’s potential for speed and distance? Most people will find it difficult to remember such an occasion with traffic being the norm everywhere. Almost everyone can relate to seeing drab gray buildings, being surrounded by polluted air, and experiencing the constant stop-and-go movements during their drive. Going on the road is more of a necessary evil to reach one’s destination rather than a therapeutic and exciting activity.
You can bring back your love for the road by getting off it and traversing the less beaten paths. Going off-road adventuring is a worthwhile experience given the health benefits and the skill set you can develop. It can be thrilling to tackle unusual terrains and obstacles city cars will balk at — sharper turns, large boulders, and uneven surfaces.
Still, given the potential dangers and high chances of getting stuck, beginners should be prepared with the proper knowledge and safety measures for their first trip.
Understand the capabilities and limitations of your vehicle
Your city car may not be well-equipped to handle an off-road trip. You will need a 4×4 vehicle built with key systems and features that can hold its ground. Renting an off-road car like the Subaru Outback or the Land Rover Discovery for the first trip is a good move if you are still testing the waters. Be sure to ask the car rentals about the pros and cons of each vehicle and if they have a regular maintenance schedule for their Subaru cars or any make, for that matter. It won’t hurt to do a little research and read blogs and forums like Reddit.
Enlist the help of an experienced guide
Part of off-roading’s appeal is the challenge the activity offers to drivers, which they are unable to get inside the city. There is a sense of accomplishment and pride that comes with overcoming difficult treks. But things can easily go wrong, and having an extra set of eyes and hands that know the rules of the land spell the difference between getting stuck and having an enjoyable trip. An experienced guide can teach you how to execute maneuvers and instruct which way to turn and other tactics.
Be flexible and know when to stop
Factors like weather changes, fallen trees, and breaking parts can easily turn things around, rendering a plan useless. It is best to undergo a comprehensive scenario planning and incorporate back-up measures before any trip — be it special equipment, alternate routes, or a towing company on speed dial. When you’re having a difficult time, there’s no harm in stopping and weighing on the available options presented. The worst thing an off-road driver can do is jeopardize his safety as well as his passengers, resulting in injury and hospitalization.
Scout the route
While plunging into the great unknown can be exciting, beginners might find themselves on a level of difficulty they can’t yet overcome. Plummeting down a cliff, getting stuck in a deep ditch, and the car suddenly overturning is very much within the realm of possibility. Newbies should start with established routes and marked trails to gauge their skills and learn their weaknesses.
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The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity for 220 million Americans, operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and directly and indirectly employ more than one million workers.
Safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy powers the economy and enhances the lives of all Americans.
EEI has dozens of international electric companies as International Members, and hundreds of industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members.
EEI provides its members with public policy leadership, strategic business intelligence, and essential conferences and forums.
EEI will be the best trade association.
We will be the best because we are committed to knowing our members and their needs. We will provide leadership and deliver services that consistently meet or exceed their expectations.
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Does Free Really Have Value?
Posted by Bob Warfield on February 28, 2008
Giving things away on the Internet for free and figuring out how to make money later has been a time-honored tradition. The wisdom of it is chiseled in granite, and those who would dispute it are the heretics of our day. Yet, I am vaguely uncomfortable with it’s efficacy.
Seth Godin wrote another of his 600 (his number) posts about the goodness of free. He equates free to being a way to pay for someone’s attention, because they sure won’t give it to you for free in this day and age:
If you want someone’s attention, I’m afraid you’re going to have to earn it. To pay for it. To do something that makes the person who just gave you this attention feel like a fair bargain was struck.
If I give you my attention, I want to get something of value for it. But is “free” still a value when almost everything is free? I’m concerned that free has become undifferentiated and that it now has a lot less value than we think. It is the last refuge when you’ve no idea whether you have a good idea or can sell it, so you loudly proclaim it’s free and wait for the huddled masses to assemble at your doorstep. Except, it’s not enough any more. They may check in, but free doesn’t get it by itself. Whatever you are offering, the world has come to equate the value of free less and less. The ultimate example is the music industry. The digital age made the cost to manufacture music via copying free. Hence many began to feel that it wasn’t really stealing. How can taking something that’s free be stealing, after all? Free didn’t work there. Now, many will be quick to argue that the media people created their own problem by not embracing free, and that’s true. But it’s hard to escape the idea that free also reduced the perception of value too.
Dharmesh Shah’s article on Why Startups Fail struck me as a strangely syncopated variation on this melody. He argues that it is through lack of capital or commitment. That seems to me a strange cart before the horse juxtaposition. Don’t they fail for having poor execution or a bad idea? Yet Shah seems to feel that with enough capital and or commitment, the startups can keep on trying until they get the right idea or execution starts working. In a sense, if capital was free and commitment easy, everyone could succeed with a startup. Except, I don’t believe that. Do you? Aren’t there some who would never get there no matter how long they tried?
In the end, we must not lose sight that most people are relative thinkers. Free relative to $500 is valuable, but not because its free, but because it saves us $500. If everything is free, where is the relative to compare it to and derive value? Free is most valuable when its early. If you’re the fourth or fifth free offering in a space, think hard about what you get for that. Even if you’re the first, free may be a long haul. Take MySQL. The Sun acquisition was ultimately a nice conclusion, but they struggled long to get there, and ultimately only got to $60M a year. One in ten thousand customers were paying them anything. Is that really what you want to get from the power of free?
Fred Wilson likes writing about Free. Free is a great way to make money. In Defense of Free. The latter has the most telling quote right up front, from Stewart Brand: Information wants to be free. We’re back to the digital music thing again. Because it costs nothing to produce, it ought to be free. We want it to be free, and we feel we’re being taken advantage of if it’s not free. Outrage leads to taking liberties. Is this a good basis to build a business on? Sometimes, but it feels like starting out from a position of disadvantage.
How is your company using free? Is it an appology, because information wants to be free and it costs you little or nothing to deliver your product? Is it paying the user for their attention? I find I like Seth Godin’s payment for attention approach much better. I want to pay the user, not acquiesce to their view of my value. That feels like starting out from a position of strength.
The other great quote from Fred’s In Defense of Free is, “that a paid model can actually be beneficial, is really interesting and needs to be better understood.” This goes back to the observation that people are relative thinkers. Relativity can be directionless. When everyone is charging, go free. Did you get value because you’re free, or because you are different than the rest, and therefore interesting? It’s both. So if everyone is free, consider charging. It will make you different. It will enable you to increase your differences too.
I like what I call the “Near SaaS” model. It isn’t free, but it isn’t at SaaS prices either. One of the best examples I know is SmugMug. Their proposition is simple and credible:
We’re going to charge you a little bit, because it allows us to offer you a better service. Since you want the best, that’ll be okay and we both win.
SmugMug is much more profitable. They provide the better service. And they’re different. Being different is extremely valuable. When you consider it, the web brings two things. It’s much easier to make things free and its much easier to have a lot of choices. Being different is how you succeed when there are too many choices.
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Services for Ukrainian refugees need urgent upgrade, doctors state in journal article
Article co-authored by Dr. Christina Greenaway, JGH expert on migrant health
The recent arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Canada has further underlined the urgent need for improvements to health care and social services for those fleeing traumatic situations, says a new analysis co-authored by Dr. Christina Greenaway, an expert on migrant health at the JGH and McGill University.
Since these refugees face socio-economic stresses and barriers to services so soon after they arrive, they are “more likely to transition to poor health than other immigrants,” says the article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
However, these negative factors “can be mitigated by supportive resettlement services,” writes Dr. Greenaway, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology in the Lady Davis Institute at the JGH.
She and her co-authors are recommending stronger partnerships among policy-makers, healthcare administrators, practitioners and communities “to protect refugees and other migrants, promote their self-reliance and health, and build responsive health systems in host communities.”
The co-authors say they are aware the public healthcare system is straining under the burden of waves of refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Therefore, they conclude, there is a strong need for “creative solutions” based on “an examination of current refugee health practices and programs.”
The article notes that among Ukrainian refugees, in particular:
- There is a high prevalence of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
- Tobacco use is common.
- Rates of mental illness are high. Even before the current conflict, it was estimated that about 33 per cent of Ukraine’s population had experienced mental illness.
- The risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, polio and COVID-19, may be elevated due to a lack of access to vaccines in Ukraine and because of vaccine hesitancy.
- Rates of tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and HIV may be elevated, particularly in certain risk groups.
The Government of Canada has provided shelter for Ukrainians as part of a novel, three-year temporary visa program, known as the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel. More than 112,000 people may eventually be accepted.
Unlike traditional refugee programs, this one can make shelter available more quickly and facilitate the rapid integration of newcomers into employment and education. However, some Ukrainian migrants could still be vulnerable because of limited settlement services and medical support.
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Women make up slightly more than half of the population in Kenya. Maybe even exactly half of the population depending on which statistics you are looking at and which of those statistics you choose to believe. What this means is that politicians not handling women’s issues are basically ignoring half of the population which then translates to not making a very good impression about themselves and failing in their mandate.
We are going to do a list of women issues that we think any politician who hopes to remain relevant must pay attention to and either construct working solutions and come up with good solutions to tackle the issues during and even beyond their tenure in office or join the list of all the inept leaders that we have seen come and go in this country.
Here are 9 issues that should be top-of-mind issues for politicians to consider.
- FGM And Child Marriages
If we unanimously agree that FGM has no place in the 21st Century, then can we please see this practice stopped? Leaders who are pledging to change society for the better, is it possible for us to sign an undertaking that it is about time no girl is held back by retrogressive cultures? FGM has a lot of long and short-term effects. Some girls die because of bleeding after FGM, some get life-threatening infections some of which lead to issues in the reproductive system and also let us not forget it means that these women cannot experience sexual pleasure in their relationships.
FGM, especially among pastoralist communities in Kenya, is responsible for many child marriages. In other words, school dropouts and illiteracy among girls which is a ticket to irrelevance because in today’s world a heavy premium is put on a good education. Girls who miss out on a good education end up with fewer opportunities and this also impacts negatively on any children that they have. Studies have shown that a girl’s education level has an impact on the health of the children she has because of access to information. It also influences the performance of the children because if she is educated she is better able to help with schoolwork.
From experience, however, the normal approaches to dealing with FGM through legislation are not nearly as effective – that is if the media reports on the practice still being widely practised are anything to go by. The incoming political leaders should look at other social-cultural approaches to dealing with this challenge. At the end of the day, as a society, we must move forward together and hopefully, the people coming into office will put in some serious effort to turn this into a reality, most of them just pay lip service to this. How men can prevent violence against women
2. Reproductive health
Recently, Tanzanian president, Magufuli caused a stir when he said that girls who become pregnant while in school should be kicked out and not allowed to complete their studies. This caused a huge uproar because this is against the rights of girls to get an education – John Magufuli’s pregnant schoolgirl ban angers Tanzanian women.
Leaders who take up political positions must be willing to engage and tackle, head-on, the problem of sexuality among teenagers – such a leader must be able to engage with stakeholders and other policy people together with the civil society to ensure that the challenge of teenage pregnancy, as well as school drop out for girls as a direct consequence of this, is dealt with. The thing is, it is not easy to deal with questions of morality such as sexuality, Ezekiel Mutua tried to remove kissing from Kenyan movies but teenagers still become pregnant.
This is a complex issue. Any leader that takes office must be willing to confront these issues logically and provide direction that not only gets to the root of this problem but also provides a solution that actually outlives them. What is missing in our system that is making a high number of girls become pregnant? The search for direction should begin here. The truth is that all these knee-jack reactions we keep having in this country over issues are unlikely to help anyone.
Teenagers are at the centre of this because they are a core population – the next set of mothers that society is going to have. If we begin to condemn them for illiteracy just because they became pregnant (an indictment, partly to the society), just what future do we have?
Leaders who are coming into office must be willing to confront this issue.
3. Sexual violence
Not too long ago, a Malindi High Court judge got an award for delivering the worst judgement ever. This judge ruled in the favour of a 24-year-old man who sexually defiled a 13-year-old arguing that the minor accepted the advances and that kind of nonsense. Women’s Link Worldwide Critised this judgement which, expectedly attracted a lot of condemnation from all quarters for setting a very dangerous precedence.
Are penalties against rape as they should? Are we as a society still apologising for rapists and creating excuses for them?
Are authorities taking seriously women who report spousal sexual abuse? We have lost count of the number of stories that we have read in the media about women who are sexually abused but who cannot report because the authorities they are to report do not take seriously rape that happens within a marriage or committed relationships. One of the sad things is that sometimes some of our politicians are the ones being accused of sexual assault on women. Also during the election period sometimes women candidates are threatened with sexual violence if they continue with their campaigns. Also after elections and during security operations when there is violence women are affected because they are vulnerable to sexual violence. Women who are raped also have to deal with issues of stigmatisation, and trauma, and also many get pregnant or are infected with STDs/HIV.
One of the sad things is that sometimes some of our politicians are the ones being accused of sexual assault on women. During the election period sometimes women candidates are threatened with sexual violence if they continue with campaigns. After elections and during security operations when there is violence women are affected because they are more vulnerable to sexual violence. Women who are raped also have to deal with issues of stigmatisation and trauma. Also many get pregnant or have their reproductive system messed up or are infected with STDs/HIV.
Political leaders that take up office must strongly uphold the law and make sure it protects everyone that it deserves to protect. The security of all women is important and no woman should have to live in fear of getting assaulted. There are places in Kenya where the threat of sexual assault is a normal thing and it shouldn’t be.
We need to be clear about what the law says and as aspiring political leaders, these are some of the things that they should be willing to look into. They have to ensure that society is a safe place for all its members and we do not have characters who prey on others simply because there are judges who are willing to twist the law as we know it.
Political leaders taking up office must be strong mentally as well as intellectually to be able to go to the precipice of the big problem that is the sexual violence and knock down barriers and replace them with a path towards a better Kenya where sexual violence will be a thing of the past or at least, a place where perpetrators of these offences will know that there are serious consequences for their actions.
A month or two ago, Nation newspaper slapped us with a headline: We want condoms, teens say. The study went on to look at just how little this moral talk is helping and why it is better for these sexually active teenagers to be safe than sorry. Of course, there is the moral side of this debate that argues that teenagers are too young for contraceptives.
The fact that many Kenyan women do not have access to contraceptives is an issue to be addressed. Family planning is an important issue and this is not an issue that seems to be talked about by politicians. They all want numbers to vote. Women have made many strides over the last few years but the lack of enough access to contraceptives means many women, especially in the rural areas, are having too many children who they struggle to support and bring up. Some of these women were getting contraceptives from international donors but now even that is threatened by President Trump’s policies – How Trump signed a global death warrant for women.
Abortion is also in this mix as well as the condom politics – should we or should we not? What does the law say about abortion, for example? And what is the reality on the ground? Abortion is literary a hot button in this country. And in the midst of this heat, no one clearly looks at what the law says regarding the issue and the result is a lot of grey areas. In the absence of knowledge that guides and firm policies and are clearly followed, suspicions and mistakes become the guide.
The Ministry of Health had set guidelines on when legal abortion was allowed. These guidelines have been withdrawn leaving many vulnerable women without options especially those who have experienced sexual violence and also women who are at risk of losing their lives if they carry on with their pregnancy.
This issue needs a sober approach, not only a one-sided religious one.
6. Sanitary towels
Menstrual products are very critical for women and young girls, and for most of us how that critical time is managed has a direct influence on how we view ourselves and that has a very big impact on how we perform in all other spheres of our lives. Many young girls have missed out on school because of their periods and many others have gotten infections because of the materials they have used during their menses. Donating pads is not supposed to be an exercise that political leaders do just for the benefit of the camera.
Political leadership that comes into place must ensure that the promise to provide sanitary towels to school girls is delivered. And it shouldn’t just be in public schools, there are many low-cost private schools where girls also struggle to get sanitary pads and these girls need access to these pads as well.
7. Early marriages
It is a tragedy that in this day and age, we still have girls who have to suffer through child marriages. Child marriage is a practice that is regrettably still rampant in certain parts of this country. Ending child marriages is an important step towards ensuring that the country has women who benefit from the promise of free education up to secondary school which (a good basic education) ensures a firm foundation upon which young girls grow and make things better for themselves.
I hope political leadership that takes up office will work on this, not as a PR exercise but as something that needs to be solved in the move towards the achievement of development in this country.
Research shows that women are more vulnerable when it comes to HIV infections because again, research shows that fewer women have the ability to negotiate for safe sex. So what are the obstacles? What are the factors that make this a problem for women? What measures can the government put in place to ensure that women are protected? Are there any measures that the government should take to protect women in such relationships? Is this information available to all women? Are authorities working as they should when women report cases of relationships where they are being abused sexually?
Political leadership should be concerned that international donors are threatening or have withdrawn funding for HIV/AIDS because of misuse of funds. How the government will step into this gap is something that needs to be considered. This is an important issue that all politicians need to consider.
Many women in the rural areas or the poor, really struggle to get access to quality healthcare. We have seen stories in the news about quacks who are posing as medical officers or doctors. Many women are not getting the best in terms of what they need, and many women must journey very many kilometres to get healthcare for themselves and their children. Although the government has made maternity health care free in public hospitals how easy is it for women in rural areas to access these facilities? Access to quality healthcare especially for pregnant women and women with young children between the ages of 0 – 5 is still a big issue.
Politicians should not just talk about health care as a campaign tool but they should ensure that the people have access to affordable, quality healthcare.
Is the political class failing in providing a holistic approach to these challenges and realities? We think so. And political leaders coming into office must have the mental wherewithal to provide tried, tested and proven successful means of dealing with these issues.
This list does not even begin to exhaust all the issues affecting women that political leaders need to seriously look into and provide solutions to. What this list does is get you thinking and begin to demand action from our political leaders.
Article by Daisy Okoti and Rayhab Gachango.
Featured image via www.businessdailyafrica.com.
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According to a one senior Egyptian analyst, the Rafah terror attack was planned over the course of three months by six Jihadist and Takfir groups.
One of the groups also involved, according to one senior Egyptian official, was a Palestinian terror group based in the Gaza Strip named Jeish Al Islam (Islam’s Army).
The groups involved in the attack are not part of Al-Qaida. However, they are inspired by its ideology. Al-Qaida has announced the establishment of an Islamic Emirate in the Sinai Peninsula and as far back as December 20, 2011, Al-Qaida announced the presence of its military wing in the Sinai Peninsula, called Ansar Al Jihad.
Some of the militants that perpetrated the attack were killed by Israel during the offensive and their bodies were handed over to Egypt. Though the bodies were completely burned, DNA tests conducted by Egypt, indicate that the attackers were indeed Egyptian nationals. Egypt is expected to formally announce the exact identity of the attackers within the next few days.
One of the perpetrators who was arrested during the military campaign launched by Egypt in the Sinai following the attack, disclosed details about the planning and the method of the attack.
According to one senior Egyptian officer, Jihadist groups operating in the Sinai Peninsula and in the Gaza Strip were involved in the preparation, planning and execution of the attack. He also argues that Hamas was aware of the plot. During the attack itself, Hamas’ military wing – the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigade – militants, together with militants belonging to the Al Quds Companies, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, launched a mortar attack from the Gaza Strip in an attempt to assist the attackers with their escape.
According to an Egyptian source, Egypt has a list of more than 100 names of people that are members of radical Islamic groups like Al-Qaida and Takfir. In addition to Egyptians and Palestinians, these groups include militants from Yemen, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria. According to this source, the number of militants in the Sinai Peninsula has increased from 600 to 1600.
The groups have large quantities of weapons – mostly from Libya and Iran – including surface to air and anti-aircraft missiles. These weapons are smuggled into the Sinai Peninsula either through Egypt, the Red Sea, or the tunnels that connect the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.
These radical groups are based in the mountainous areas of Jabl Al Halal and Jabl Amro in the central part of the Sinai Peninsula and are funded by different sources including Iran. (End of reports)
Accumulating reports indicate that some 15 – 20 Salafi, Jihadist, and Takfir groups operate in the Sinai Peninsula and in the Gaza Strip.
The number of these groups’ members (both supporters and activists) in the Gaza Strip is probably couple of thousands.
The number of Jihadist militants in the Sinai Peninsula is estimated to be anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand.
Clearly, the perpetrators inspired by Takfir ideology. Takfir is an Islamic extremist group and is considered to be the group with the most extreme radical Islamic ideology. The Arabic word “kafer” means infidel and it describes all non-Muslims. Takfir ideology claims that Islam’s pure essence was distorted by the Islamic religious establishment, thus the majority of Muslims are not pure because they do not practice the pure Islamic ordinance and faith as they should. Therefore, takfir’s ideology also views Muslims as infidels who should be executed just like any other infidels.
Though no one claimed responsibility for the Rafah terror attack, it is likely that the attack was conducted by one – or more – Takfir and Jihadist groups. According to one report, the attack was conducted by Al-Tawheed Wal Jihad group.
Al Tawheed Wal Jihad is an offspring of an Egyptian group called Al Takfir Wal Hijra.
Al Tawheed Wal Jihad is considered to be the most dominant Jihadist group in the Sinai Peninsula.
Al Takfir Wal Hijra was established in Egypt in 2002 by an Egyptian doctor named Khaled Musaed Salem, a member of a large Bedouin tribe in the Sinai Peninsula. He was killed during a terror attack launched by the group in Taba in 2005. His successor, Hamis Al-Malhi, was killed in 2006 in a clash with Egyptian forces in the city of Al Arish located in the northern Sinai. The group’s current leader is Hisham Al Sa’adani, who reportedly was – or still is – in the Gaza Strip.
Members of the Salafi, Jihadist, and Takfir groups are mostly Egyptians and Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. According to one source, Al Tawheed Wal Jihad has about 250 militants and multiple sources indicate that they work closely and collaborate and cooperate with other Jihadist groups based in the Gaza Strip including Jeish Al Islam, Al Jaljalat, and Junud Ansar Allah.
Al Tawhid Wal Jihad is responsible for many terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula over the last decade, including the most deadly attacks in Taba in 2004 and Sharem El Sheikh in 2006 – together these attacks killed and injured dozens.
Accumulating reports also support the possibility that Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were involved in the Rafah attack.
The Egyptian army formally announced that the attackers were assisted by Palestinian militants who fired mortar shells from the Gaza Strip during the attack.
According to some sources, Egypt has demanded that Hamas turn over three militants who belong to the Jeish Al Islam group – including its leader, Mumtaz Daghmush. Both Hamas and Egypt deny these reports.
According to some reports, Hamas was aware of the impending attack. One Egyptian analyst even argues that Hamas funded the operation. Hamas obviously denies it. Hamas spokespeople and senior officials argue that the attack was orchestrated by Israel. They also argue that any Palestinian involvement – if proven – is to be attributed to individuals.
Both Egypt and Hamas describe their security cooperation as tight and effective. Reportedly, security teams of Hamas and Egypt are working together to discover the identity of the attackers.
However, the picture may be somewhat different than what both sides present.
The Rafah attack was clearly a slap in Hamas’ face, given the fact that a few days before the attack Hamas’ Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, announced that Hamas would assist Egypt in ensuring security in the Sinai Peninsula.
It is clear that today, and in the immediate future, the attack cast a shadow over the Gaza-Cairo honeymoon that followed the election of Muhammad Morsi as the President of Egypt.
The following facts support that assessment:
First, the Egyptians public opinion shapers openly argue that though Hamas is not responsible for the attack, they should be held accountable for the fact that Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were involved in the attack. Some Egyptian columnists even describe the Gaza Strip as a threat to Egypt’s security.
Second, Egypt closed the Rafah crossing (with some minor exceptions) for almost three weeks, ignoring Hamas’ requests to reopen it. Reportedly as of August 27, Egypt finally reopened the Rafah crossing.
Third, Egypt is holding back the transport of vital commodities from its territory into the Gaza Strip including: building materials and diesel that was sent from Qatar to the Gaza Strip.
Though not confirmed, following that attack, allegedly Egypt has demanded Hamas turn over the leader of Jeish Al Islam – that could be another reason for the Hamas-Egypt tension.
Such a demand – were it presented – would put Hamas in a difficult situation.
Complying with that demand could put Hamas on a collision course with Jeish Al Islam and perhaps with other Jihadist groups in the Gaza Strip. Relations between Hamas and Jihadist and Salafi groups in the Gaza Strip are tense, though the tension in most cases is restrained, with the exception of random, small-scale mutual hostilities.
That being said, some serious bursts of violence have taken place. For example, in 2008, massive clashes between Hamas and the Jeish Al Islam organization resulted the killing of eleven Jeish Al Islam militants – including Mumtaz Daghmushe’s brother. In August 2009 Hamas crushed the Junud Ansar Allah group in southern Gaza. The fighting resulted in the death of a few dozen of the group’s militants, including its leader, Abd Al Latif Musa AKA Abu Nur Al Makdasi In both incidents Hamas also sustained casualties.
Petrified by the scenario of a possible massive collision, it is possible that Hamas will refuse to comply with Egypt’s demand. If that is the case, it is possible that the Hamas-Egyptian security team’s real task will be to dissolve the tension – perhaps by putting the blame on another group. That may explain reports that Hamas arrested a couple of Jihadist-Salafi activists in the Gaza Strip, including a senior Salafi-Jihadist commander who was discharged from the hospital a few days ago following a severe injury he sustained during an Israeli interceptive strike.
Reality in Sinai
Remote, neglected and sinking in poverty, the Sinai Peninsula is fertile ground for crime and terror. Its wild, wide desert, mountain ranges, valleys and caves provide ideal conditions for terrorists and outlaws.
Egypt’s previous government was aware of the dangerous reality developing in the Sinai Peninsula, and the challenge it presented to Egypt’s sovereignty and security – yet did little to confront it.
It seems as if Egypt’s new rulers are more determined to confront that challenge for a few reasons:
First, Egypt was traumatized by the attack. The fact that Muslims butchered Egyptian soldiers – their brothers in faith – while they were eating dinner at the end of a fast day during the month of Ramadan, deeply shocked the Egyptians. A profoundly upset Egyptian public opinion would have not settled for anything less than a forceful Egyptian retaliation.
Second, Egypt’s new President faces major, urgent and immediate challenges – he has to save Egypt’s collapsing economy, he has to stabilize his rule and calm the political tension in Egypt, he has to restore law and order, he has to gain the West’s cooperation and support, and the list goes on and on…
Morsi is under a magnifying glass. A group called Zabatak formed by young Egyptians, established a web site called Morsi Meter, aimed to monitor to what extent Morsi’s pre-election promises are being implemented on the ground.
The terror and crime entity in the Sinai will seriously damage Morsi’s efforts to effectively confront Egypt’s challenges and, could result in serious negative ramifications for Egypt both internally and externally. Therefore, Morsi can’t allow the growing challenges in the Sinai Peninsula to continue.
Third, the Muslim Brotherhood views these groups as an ideological competitor, which is ironic because to some extent, some of these groups are off-springs of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. One reason for the Muslim Brotherhood’s concern is that radical Islamic groups want to skip the phase of a modern state that has political institutions like parties and political establishments. In their view, the concept of a modern state is an obstacle on the way to the real thing – one unified Islamic Caliphate ruled according to Islamic law – Sharia’ah. The Muslim Brotherhood also seeks to get there, but for the time being they don’t undermine the state and political establishment. To the opposite, in the Muslim Brotherhood’s view, the path to the Caliphate must go through modern state. As the Muslim Brotherhood movement marks its biggest political achievement in Egypt, the movement will not hesitate to oppress any source of threat.
At this point it seems as if Egypt is conducting a parallel two-track policy regarding the challenges in the Sinai Peninsula.
On one track, the Egyptian army launched a military operation named “Eagle 2” on the bases and hiding places of these groups in central and northern parts of the Sinai. However, according to Egypt’s military assessments, a military campaign aimed to uproot the terror and crime entity which was built in the Sinai Peninsula could take a long time – some say years.
Morsi could sink deep into the Sinai sand. A long and violent arm-twisting effort in the Sinai would only result in more and more casualties among the Bedouin tribes – blood which would definitely be avenged. That would generate a self-perpetuating circle of violence that could lead to further extremism, forcing Egypt to escalate its operations and to send in reinforcements. That sort of move would violate the peace agreement and generate a possible crisis with the US. A long, violent confrontation with these groups will also generate terror attacks in Egypt’s cities.
That scenario is probably one of the reasons for the fact that Egypt is also conducting a diplomatic track Aa the same time. Reportedly a senior Egyptian delegation consisting of senior officers and officials from the President’s Office met secretly with Jihadist leaders in northern Sinai to discuss understandings and to define new ground rules.
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume, that Egypt’s policy towards the Sinai Peninsula will probably combine occasional, restrained military pressure on the one hand and the strengthening of Bedouin tribal leaders’ authority on the other through political and economic incentives. Morsi’s government will allocate resources and funds to develop the Sinai and will also empower the Tribal leaders through political appointments.
From a military perspective, it is likely to assume that the main characteristics of Egypt’s modus operandi will be: strengthening its intelligence capabilities in the area – including its intelligence cooperation with Hamas; increasing security inspections along the roads to Sinai; diminishing the tunnel industry while Increasing inspection of those who will be allowed to operate the tunnels; increasing pressure on the mountain range of central Sinai; and minimizing collateral damage by using elite forces for pinpointed and surgical counter-terror operations in the populated area in northern Sinai such as Rafah, Sheik Zueid, Al Arish and the surrounding areas based upon accurate intelligence.
Hamas-Egyptian relations will be restored but not without some changes…
Prior to the attack, some people in Hamas assumed that under Morsi’s umbrella Hamas could act against Israel more freely. Egypt’s reaction to the attack and more important – the reactions of the Egyptians themselves, made it very clear to Hamas that this assumption is wrong. Egypt needs stability and Hamas is required to act responsibly. Hamas’ dependence on Egypt is crucial for the day to day needs of Gaza. Egypt expects Hamas to play a stabilizing role – and Hamas will comply.
On another level, Hamas benefits from the Rafah terror attack. Egypt’s military campaign in the Sinai puts the Jihadist groups in Sinai, as well as in the Gaza Strip, under growing pressure, and diminishes their operational capacity so the challenge these groups present to Hamas’ rule diminishes.
Both Hamas and Egypt are unwilling to risk a total confrontation with these groups. That policy could back fire on Hamas and Egypt. Terror attack/s launched from The Gaza Strip and/or The Sinai Peninsula, targeting Israel and or Hamas/Egypt’s sovereignty symbols, could result serious escalation thus jeopardize Hamas’ and Egypt’s interests.
Jihadists and Takfir groups in the Sinai Peninsula and in the Gaza Strip will continue to plan and to execute attacks. Through terror attacks, these groups hope to generate a deterioration which will lead to a war between Israel and Egypt.
All of these groups are ideologically motivated to attack Israel and to slaughter Jews wherever and whenever they can. All of these groups do not take into account any calculations, rationale or considerations other than their radical ideology and operational needs.
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Courtesy Stig Nygaard
Two years ago, an article in the journal Science noted that rates of AIDS infection were falling in Zimbabwe, south east Africa, thanks to the “ABC” program. “ABC” stands for “Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms” – three things that help prevent the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. Other countries using the ABC approach, including Uganda and Kenya, also report success in stemming the tide of AIDS.
The report was in the news again lately as Congress debates funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Rep. Chris Smith of NJ cited this and other studies as evidence of the program effectiveness. (An argument for continuing the funding can be found here. )
The program is controversial, however, because it adds a moral dimension to medical treatment. Many aid workers don’t want to be in the position of telling people how to live, or imposing a particular view of right and wrong behavior on another culture. They would rather just treat the disease. OTOH, this particular disease spreads through a particular behavior. Programs that rely exclusively on condoms without any behavioral component have had little success against the AIDS epidemic.
Some people see this controversy as playing politics with a world health crisis. But others take it very seriously. In 2005, Brazil refused to accept US funds for their AIDS program because it came with the requirement that workers try to discourage prostitution. Many aid groups argue that such a provision hurts their ability to reach the people who need help the most. The government argues that discouraging prostitution and sex trafficking makes all kinds of sense when combating an STD.
It would be good to get this sorted out soon, since there is no vaccine against AIDS, and some scientists believe it may be impossible to ever make one.
What do you think? Should aid workers try to combat disease by changing people’s behavior? Or should they just stick to medicine? And should government funding come with such restrictions? Leave us a comment.
Courtesy Photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and PreventionA re-emerging threat
Dengue fever is making a come back in South America and some fear it could become a problem again in the US as well. The year 2007 was an epidemic record-breaking year there was an 11% increase in reported dengue cases when comparing 2006 to 2007. Some even fear it could be spreading to the US. There was a recent article in the Los Angeles Times about it reappearing in the US.
What is dengue fever?
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the predominantly urban species Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. In recent years dengue has become a major international public health concern. Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world, predominantly in urban and semi-urban areas.
Dengue fever is a severe, flu-like illness that affects infants, young children and adults, but seldom causes death. Dengue haemorrhagic fever is a potentially deadly complication that is characterized by high fever, haemorrhagic phenomena--often with enlargement of the liver--and in severe cases, circulatory failure.
Why is dengue making a come back?
Potential reasons include climate influences like global warming, El Niño / Southern Oscillation and La Niña, both of which influence the intensity and duration of the rainy seasons and hurricanes or induce intense droughts and damage to biodiversity. Another potential cause is population growth and increased opportunities for mosquitoes to breed.
On the other hand, micro factors exist that are dependent on the agent (virus) and the vector (mosquito)—which at times exhibits a growing resistance to insecticides—and the host, all of which closely influence the manifestation of the disease and its more serious forms.
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Doctors in California have developed a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, in which patients show tremendous improvement within minutes.
Alzheimer’s is a disease of the brain which can severely impair memory, thinking and behavior. The researchers noticed that Alzheimer’s patients have very high levels of a protein called TNF, which is known to regulate brain activity. The treatment involves injecting an anti-TNF drug into the patient’s spinal fluid. The drug, Etanercept, has already been approved by the FDA for treatment of other diseases. The study involved only a small number of patients, but the strong positive results of this early test give hope that an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s could be on the horizon.
NOTE: As always when we discuss medical treatment on Science Buzz, it is important to point out – we are not doctors. We cannot give medical advice, nor should you take medical advice from anyone over the Internet. If you have questions about this treatment, you need to consult your physician.
The Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding solutions to global challenges, has an interesting poll on its blog. Let’s say you had an extra $100 million lying around, and you could spend it to protect the Earth and all its people from the following threats:
How would you distribute the $100 million? You might think all of these issues are important, but you’ve only got so much money. How would you spend it? (You can go to the Lifeboat blog and cast your vote, and see how other people have voted.)
Actually, a similar survey has already been run by Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg. He runs the Copenhagen Consensus, a program which invites world leaders to prioritize their efforts based on what actions would produce the greatest benefits. They found that every dollar spent on health issues, such as AIDS, malnutrition and malaria, produced up to $40 worth of benefits, while money spent on other worthy causes often generated much less.
As for me, I’d also put most of my money on deadly diseases – this is something we know is real. I’d probably also put a chunk on “other” for environmental protection – pollution, deforestation, species loss.
This is not to dismiss all of the other threats. I certainly worry about some crackpot getting a hold of nuclear weapons. But full-scale nuclear holocaust seems a lot less likely now than it did back during the Cold War. Abusive governments? A local problem, to be sure, but not one likely to threaten the planet and all life on it.
The others seem rather far-fetched to me. Global warming? My skepticism over the threat this poses is well-documented elsewhere on this blog, though certainly others disagree with me. Asteroid collision? Happens once every 100 million years or so; killer germs emerge once a generation. Invasion from outer space? Get real – if interstellar travel were possible, wouldn’t the space men be here by now? Nanotechnology turning everything into gray goo? A casual familiarity with nano shows that such fears are vastly overrated. Artificial intelligence ruling the world? They’ve been promising AI since the early ‘60s – I’m still waiting.
My favorite, though, is “Simulation shut down.” Basically, this means that nothing in this world is real – you, I, and everything on Earth are just part of a massive virtual game run on a gigantic computer operated by some intelligent being in another dimension, and we need to prevent him/her/it from turning the computer off. While this would certainly explain a few anomalies I’ve noticed in the Universe (I mean, come on, penguins?), epistemologically, there is no way we could possibly know whether or not this was true. And even if it was, how could our $100 million virtual dollars have any effect on the being running the program?
What about you? How would you spend a theoretical $100 million to save the Earth? Leave a note in the comments.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, but is it possible to have too much of a good thing? For several decades, immunological diseases -- such as hay fever, asthma, diabetes and multiple sclerosis – have been increasing in developed countries, but are uncommon in many undeveloped regions. Medical researcher Joel Weinstock theorizes that modern life is too clean – by scrupulously avoiding dirt, bugs and germs, our immune systems don’t develop properly, leading to the diseases listed above. Weinstock goes so far as to speculate that exposure to hookworm, pinworm, and other intestinal parasites may have been the trigger necessary for developing a healthy immune system. As these parasites have been eradicated, immunological diseases have skyrocketed.
The theory is currently being tested in the lab. Weinstock doesn’t advocate the return of worm infestations. But he does think that getting your hands dirty once in a while can help keep your body in balance.
A new vaccine designed to fight AIDS has failed to show positive results during its first human tests. Researchers hope to learn what went wrong, and use that to make better vaccines in the future.
Biting insects spread all kinds of diseases. (You can learn all about this in the Science Museum’s newest exhibit, Disease Detectives.) Now a scientists thinks they may have also helped kill off the dinosaurs. George Poinar, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University, notes that many insects from dinosaur times have been preserved in amber. Many of them carry microbes that can cause malaria, dysentery and other illnesses. He speculates that these illnesses could have been the major cause of the dinosaurs’ long, slow demise. The asteroid impact / volcanic activity / climate change simply finished them off.
Poinar and his wife Roberta have published a book, What Bugged The Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease And Death In The Cretaceous. In it they also note that, late in the dinosaur era, flowering plants spread rapidly, helped along by newly-evolved insect pollinators. This sudden change in available food may have also played a hand in the dinos’ extinction.
Courtesy Civics OnlineI just finished reading an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln -- by Doris Kearns Godwin. Of course, it ends with his assassination at Ford’s Theater right after the end of the Civil War.
Much to my surprise today, I come across a headline that at the time of his death, Lincoln may have only had about six months to live due to the effects of a rare type of cancer. Doctor/author John G. Sotos makes the case for Lincoln’s cancer diagnosis in an upcoming book.
One thing that struck me in Team of Rivals, which is written based on thousands of letters and diaries written by Lincoln’s associates during the time he was alive, was that most were first impressed and/or put off by his unusual appearance. Sotos theorizes that those appearances were related to Lincoln’s cancer.
Sotos thinks Lincoln suffered from MEN 2B, a genetic form of cancer that can account for unusual height along with unusual facial features – lumps of nervous tissue on the eyelids, tongue and lips. Sotos also thinks one of Lincoln’s sons died from the same type of cancer
And CSI-type techniques may come into play to see if Sotos is right. A small sampling of DNA is all that ‘s needed to check the condition of chromosome 10 of Lincoln’s genetic code to see if it shows signs of MEN 2B. Samples of his DNA can be collected from any of the many blood-stained fabrics that have been preserved from Lincoln’s death, or from the eight skull fragments that were preserved from the president’s autopsy.
If it is determined that Lincoln had MEN 2B, he’d be the earliest recorded case of that type of cancer. But as news of this theory has spread, there are already other members of the medical community saying that it isn’t possible.
What do you think? Should efforts be made to test some of Lincoln’s remains for MEN 2B? Or should we leave the remains alone and keep it a mystery? Share your thoughts here with other Science Buzz readers.
If you want to learn more about this, here’s the link to an extensive Washington Post article on the topic.
Courtesy Roger Cullman
Pretty bad. People who are overweight are more likely to die from diabetes and kidney failure than the general population. And people who are obese are more likely to die from heart disease and certain types of cancer.
These common-sense truths were reconfirmed last week by a report from the Centers for Disease Control, which analyzed decades of data from 39,000 Americans. However, the news was not all bad. For instance, obese people had the same overall mortality rate from cancer as the population as a whole. Which means that while they were at greater risk of dying from cancers that attack fatty tissues (including the breast, uterus, ovaries, kidneys, colon, throat and pancreas), they were actually less likely to die from other forms of cancer.
For folks who are overweight but not obese, the picture is even more complicated. Neither cancer nor heart disease killed this group at higher-than-average rates. In fact, researchers found lower mortality in this group for all other causes of death, including infectious diseases and accidents.
The researchers aren’t sure why this should be. One theory is that carrying a little extra fat – but not too much – gives the bodies the energy reserves it needs to fight off illness.
Another possibility is raised by the way the study defined “overweight” and “obese.” They did not measure the patients’ body fat directly, but rather used a mathematical calculation known as the Body Mass Index or BMI. This widely-used tool gives doctors a rough estimate of a person’s body fat – a number over 25 classifies a person as “overweight.” A BMI 30 or higher qualifies as “obese.”
The trouble is, BMI basically divides weight by height (with a couple other calculations thrown in for fun). The greater the weight, the higher the BMI for a given height. The problem is, people can add weight as fat, or they can add weight as muscle. Somebody who exercises a lot may be strong, healthy… and have a BMI that qualifies as overweight.
If that’s the case, then that would explain why the “overweight” group fights off disease and injury so well. Which is good news if you’re fit, but not so good news if you’re flabby.
Courtesy Esther SimpsonHand washing, nose picking, good hygiene, we all know about this stuff right? Do it, do it in the sanitary privacy of your bathroom, and do it, respectively. Dirty hands spread germs, and germs spread infections – we know this, and, consequently, are as clean as a nation of whistles. Or are we?
I recently catalogued ten everyday and seemingly harmless activities that I do, and then researched their hygienic ups and downs. I urge you to follow along, see which activities you do, and then tally up your hygiene score. I think you might be surprised…
1) Put dirty laundry in the washing machine.
2) Prepare a ham sandwich.
3) Give/receive a high-five.
4) Turn on a light switch.
5) Wash your hands.
6) Clean the cat box using only your fingers.
7) Touch a friend’s face.
8) Pet the dog.
9) Hold hands with a stranger.
10) Become hospitalized.
Okay. Now, being honest, figure out your score using this key:
1) –3, 2) –1, 3) –6, 4) –5, 5) +10, 6) –15, 7) –9, 8) –4, 9) –11, 10) –31.
And, remember, if you’ve washed your hands more than once, you get points for each time. Also, if you have, say, cleaned more than one cat box with just your fingers, take away fifteen points for each time.
So… how did you score? Uh huh, I thought so.
The score for the last item, becoming hospitalized, may be something of a surprise to you. However, a recent article in The New York Times has highlighted the huge difference that increased sanitary conditions makes in cutting infection rates. Simple things like more frequent hand washing, glove wearing, and better isolating patients known to carry certain pathogens has cut infection rates in hospitals as much as 78 percent.
It seems obvious enough, although some hospital administrators are hesitant to commit to change, fearing the increased costs associated with some procedures, and citing the fact that isolated patients often receive less attention from hospital staff, and are more likely to suffer from falls, bedsores, and increased stress.
Dealing with infections acquired in the hospital, on the other hand, can be dangerous and extremely expensive. One of the main culprits is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. MRSA can be carried into hospitals by patients who demonstrate no symptoms, and can be passed by unwashed hands. If MRSA gets into a wound, it can cause anything from a painful sore to a fatal infection. By screening patients as they enter care, though, MRSA has been all but eliminated in countries like The Netherlands and Finland. Some states in the US are required to test certain high-risk patients for bacterium like MRSA, but very few hospitals screen all incoming patients.
Should the government require hospitals to screen all patients for MRSA? It’s not cheap, but it would save lives and probably money in the long run.
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too common at many departments scrambling to protect their IT assets. "Our problems are bureaucratic, institutional, systemic," said Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "Integrating security into architecture, the sys- tem development life cycle, systems engineering processes and acquisition...would go a long way [toward] enhancing cybersecurity. When you get to the point where security is done because people recognize it's central to the mission and success, then we've crossed that Rubicon and we're looking at security not as a cost but more as an investment in our productivity, survivability and everything needed to compete today." Unfortunately, the word "investment" is a major stumbling block because it means money --- a precious resource in a climate of sequestration and budget cuts. But that climate can also be a stepping stone to better cybersecurity, Ross said. "Program managers and mission and business owners care about schedule, cost and performance," he said. "So how do you get all of this started? You have to look for forc- ing functions to start down the road to thinning the herd or reducing complexity. The current declining budget and frustrations we're enduring at the federal level [are] a great forcing function for reducing the costs of IT infrastructure." Society as a whole, including the government, is swim- ming in IT. It is cheap and powerful, and as a result, everyone has more of it than they really need, Ross said. "Studies show [that] a lot of what we procure we never deploy or use effectively," he said. "This is where to focus on simplifying architecture: When you use things like enter- prise architecture, you...consolidate, standardize and opti- mize the IT infrastructure. You build a leaner and meaner IT infrastructure. That simpler architecture provides more ef cient services, is less expensive to deploy and maintain, and provides security professionals [with] a better oppor- tunity to protect what we own and deploy." But how can departments and companies get to that improved architecture? As at NASA, security professionals need to have a seat at the table, whether that is a boardroom or the boss' of ce. All too often, the people in charge of information security are not part of the decision-making process. "NASA builds their spacecraft with integrated project teams," Ross said. "Every stakeholder sits around the table, and the mission doesn't move forward until every stake- holder has given a thumbs-up. Our security teams and people need to be stakeholders at the table in order to integrate the important cybersecurity concepts, principles and tech- nologies into the systems early in the life cycle and not as an afterthought." If threats and security are part of the plan from the beginning, administrators have a much better chance of protecting systems when they do come under attack, and NASCAR drivers have a better chance of surviving when they experience a high-speed crash. That survivability is a key metric for determining the strength of an agency's defenses. "In our business, when you talk about risk management and risk assessment, you deal with four things: threats, vulnerabilities, impact to the organization if threats are exploited and how likely threats are to be exploited," Ross said. "In NASCAR, the threat is the 200 mph race car poten- tially hitting the wall. NASCAR [of cials don't] sit around wringing their hands about the threat. They can't reduce the speed; they wouldn't have any fans in the stands. So they build the threat into the business model." The latest strategy came after the 2001 death of Dale Earnhardt Sr. in a ery crash at the Daytona 500. He was the fourth NASCAR driver to die in a nine-month period. Later that year, NASCAR of cials mandated the use of head-and-neck restraints and other safety measures, and since then, no driver has died from a neck injury sustained in a race, Ross said. Those safety measures successfully addressed a critical NASCAR vulnerability, and the story underscores the need for agencies to move beyond patching systems, con guring rewalls and locking down components. Those all-important housekeeping duties do not go far enough, Ross said. "We can control only what we can control," he said. "We can't control the threat or the adversary or the attacks. What we can control is how we build and architect our systems to be stronger and more penetration-resistant. I'm passionate about integrating that into enterprise archi- tecture, with the security team working right there as a partner ensuring security controls are in place. Until we do that, security will be an afterthought." ■ 20 September 15, 2013 FCW.COM "NASCAR [of cials don t] sit around wringing their hands about the threat.... They build the threat into the business model." --- RON ROSS, NIST Risk management
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Let’s go over it again in case you missed my prior articles on battery. Actually, visit the Lebron James Mama Slapping case here. There, we focused on battery and assault in a civil context because the suit was a civil one. Here we focus on criminal battery.
When you punch, hit, bite, scratch, spit, throw an object, water, drink etc. at a person, you have committed battery. Essentially, battery is the illegal use of force on another person which causes bodily injury or is deemed an harmful/offensive contact.
There are important elements that the Prosecutor (DA) will have to prove in a battery case to get a conviction against you.
Intent: You could INTEND to commit battery or it could be un-intentional aka criminal negligence.
Indirect Application of Force: Remember I said you could throw an object or substance i.e. water or drink at someone one and that could still constitute as battery? So, your takeaway is that you need not directly use force against someone to get battery.
Defenses: If you are in California where I practice, you would be charged with California Penal Code section242.
What are your defenses should you knock on the door of a firm like mine that also does criminal defense work?
Typically, when criminal defense attorneys take on your matter, they will listen to you to ascertain what defenses there might be, if any, applicable to your actions.
- It was an accident
- He/she consented
- I was trying to help someone that was getting beat up
- I am a parent and I have a right to discipline my child
What impact will a conviction of battery have on you?
- Very tough to gain employment
- Sometimes tough to gain housing, and overall not good on your record.
What Kind of Time Are We looking At?
- Typically 6months in your county’s jail
- Anger management
- Informal probation, typically.
Does the DA limit the charges to only battery (242)
Nope! If you cause serious bodily injury, then in California, expect to see a charge of California Penal Code (CPC) 243(d) for aggravated battery and if the object you used could or caused great bodily injury, expect to see CPC 245(a)(1) charge of assault with a deadly weapon most likely to cause great bodily injury. Both sections of the code are usually charged as felonies with steeper implications.
The facts in the Raj J vs. Fabolous case call for a simple misdemeanor battery. So, I’ll stop there till future cases provide the opportunity to delve into those areas.
What foolishness for this “grown ass” men as TMZ puts it. It does not appear Fabulous incited anything and you can hear what appears to be him asking why all these “beef” was necessary given he was just polite to Ray J., the day prior to this incident.
In any event, another reason why we need lawyers. Not so?
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We’re told Fiddy had been encouraging Ray to confront Fabolous about their recent Twitter feud — and Ray finally decided to get in Fab’s face at Moon nightclub inside The Palms casino.
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At over 50%, this US study's main achievement may have been to show that emergency department nurses can screen a high proportion of patients for risky drinking. After that point it suffered from a low intervention implementation rate, and no statistically significant benefits were found.
Summary A Kentucky hospital emergency department tested an implementation of an intervention being promoted nationwide by the US government to identify hazardous substance use in primary care and non-specialist community settings and offer brief advice or referral to treatment. The elements of the intervention – Screening, Brief Intervention, and (if appropriate) referral for Treatment – compose the intervention's acronym, 'SBIRT'. In the featured study conducted by the US Emergency Nurses Association, the focus was on alcohol and the aim was to test the feasibility and impact of interventions delivered by emergency department nurses.
Among 30,703 visits to the department during the study period, 15,891 patients whose injuries were not life-threatening were screened by nursing staff for alcohol use. Of the 926 adults whose bedside responses to the seven-question screening survey indicated they were drinking above US low-risk guidelines, Men up to 65 years of age, more than 7 UK units (each unit is 8gm alcohol) in a day and no more than 24.5 in a week; women and over-65s, no more than 5.25 units in a day and no more than 12.25 in a week. and who met the study's other criteria (principally that they were aware enough and could communicate adequately), 824 were asked to join the study and 94 agreed to do so. Following screening, these patients were randomly allocated to a control A group of people, households, organisations, communities or other units who do not participate in the intervention(s) being evaluated. Instead, they receive no intervention or none relevant to the outcomes being assessed, carry on as usual, or receive an alternative intervention (for the latter the term comparison group may be preferable). Outcome measures taken from the controls form the benchmark against which changes in the intervention group(s) are compared to determine whether the intervention had an impact and whether this is statistically significant. Comparability between control and intervention groups is essential. Normally this is best achieved by randomly allocating research participants to the different groups. Alternatives include sequentially selecting participants for one then the other group(s), or deliberately selecting similar set of participants for each group. group simply given a list of local referral options, or to the SBIRT intervention. SBIRT patients were given an immediate brief intervention by trained staff nurses, a highly scripted session lasting five to ten minutes during which the interventionist told patients their screening test results, expressed concern at their risky drinking, then sought to enhance motivation to cut back using motivational techniques such as exploring the pros and cons of drinking as the patient sees them, and reframing and reflecting back to the patient some of their own responses. Sessions were planned to end with a signed agreement committing the patient to the drinking goals decided during the preceding discussion, and referral to primary care or alcohol services depending on the severity of their drinking.
Of the 94 patients (three withdrew and 49 were allocated to SBIRT, 42 to the control group) who joined the study, 46 could be reassessed by staff nurses over the phone three or more months later to check for any impact on their drinking. There were no statistically significant differences between SBIRT and control patients. Both ended up drinking at about the same levels, in both cases less than when first assessed. However, because on average they drank far more at the start of the study, the drop (70% v. 20%) in weekly average consumption was much greater In contrast, the number of days a week on which they drank fell by roughly the same amount. among SBIRT patients. Across all the patients, including those who could not be recontacted, fewer SBIRT patients (20% v. 31%) returned to the emergency department during the following three months, and just one compared to four did so because of an injury. Over the same period there were no recorded traffic violations among the control group and one among SBIRT patients.
Staff resistance, pressure of work and lack of privacy in the department limited the number of patients screened and together with patient reluctance also limited the number who joined the study. The low follow-up rate was partly due to the transient nature The authors cite disconnected mobile phones and a highly mobile population, including several patients who moved or were homeless. of US heavy drinking emergency patients. Nevertheless the study showed that it is feasible for emergency department nurses to intervene with heavy drinking patients and to follow them up. Reductions in the control group as well as the SBIRT group suggest that screening itself might curb drinking, and the greater reductions in the SBIRT group are consistent with evidence that brief interventions can have a significant impact on drinking, at least in the short term.
commentary At over 50% this study's main achievement may be considered to have been to demonstrate that emergency department nurses can screen a high proportion of their patients. After that point, as other studies have done, it suffered from a low intervention implementation rate. In routine practice without patients having to agree to join a study and with a seamless transition from screening to intervention, many more patients might have received the intended counselling. Over 4 in 10 of the screened patients were too unwell, too young or could not be communicated with adequately. Among the rest, staff reluctance and the over-pressured emergency department environment played their parts in whittling down the numbers counselled, but it was the study consent procedure which scared most patients off. Whatever the reason, of the possibly Assuming unscreened patients would have screened positive at the same rate as those who were screened. 1750 patients who might have been drinking heavily, just 5% joined the study and fewer than 3% were followed up. Despite random allocation, on average patients allocated to SBIRT were drinking well over twice as heavily at the start of the study, a statistically significant difference. This different starting point complicates the interpretation of the main positive finding – the greater subsequent drop in consumption. Even if the steeper drop had been statistically significant, there would have been doubt over whether it was due to the intervention.
On the other hand, as the authors point out, had the samples been larger the steeper drop in drinking in the SBIRT group might have been statistically significant, screening alone might have contributed to reductions in the control group, and the longer time spent with patients in the intervention group might have encouraged them to be more frank about drinking. It was also the case that on one or both measures, drinking declined significantly among both sets of patients, suggesting that what the nurses did had some impact. However, reversion to more normal drinking after whatever led to the hospital visit cannot be ruled out, and nor can an attempt to present oneself well at follow-up; patients who expressed guilt about their drinking were most likely to be followed up.
A much larger but otherwise similar US study also suffered implementation and follow-up problems. In this multi-site national study, researchers did the screening and not just nurses but other emergency department staff delivered the interventions. Still, on average each interventionist counselled just one patient every 19 days, a figure which might have risen to one every 10–11 days without the burden of research procedures. Extrapolating from the 62% of patients who could be followed up three months later, this study did find extra drinking reductions which meant that 26% of SBIRT patients no longer exceeded US low-risk alcohol consumption thresholds but just 17% of controls. By six months and again at 12 months, these promising effects had nearly or entirely dissipated and there were no statistically significant differences in alcohol consumption between intervention and control groups.
The featured study adds to the negative side of what has been a patchy record of statistically significant success for emergency department brief alcohol interventions. Previous studies have shown that just a few minutes counselling at-risk drinkers among emergency patients can reduce consumption and alcohol-related injuries, improve welfare, promote treatment uptake, and cut the future workload of emergency services. But there have also been negative findings, and the research record is fairly evenly balanced between these and more positive findings. A recent synthesis of research on interventions conducted actually in the emergency department rather than after admission found that overall such interventions have not been shown to significantly reduce alcohol consumption, while impacts on drink-related problems have been variable. More positively, three studies did together indicate that six to 12 months after the interventions patients were half as likely as comparison patients to have suffered an alcohol-related injury, but all three were from the USA, and two involved only teenage patients whose drinking would have been illegal in that country. In all three the patients were known to have recently been drinking or had a history of drink problems rather than merely having tested as exceeding national drinking guidelines, underscoring the possibility that heavy drinkers are most affected by such interventions.
Patchy findings have prompted attempts to identify why some interventions have worked in some situations but others have failed, but the evidence is insufficient to answer this question. In particular, it remains unclear whether a relatively elaborate, theory-based approach really is needed. One well designed US study, which managed to follow-up nearly all the patients it recruited, found that an intervention very similar to that in the featured study was no more effective than one minute of straightforward advice at discharge that (among other things) the patient cut their drinking. As in the featured study, both interventions were conducted by emergency department staff.
It seems likely that (as in a US study) when emergency department alcohol interventions do curb drinking, impacts are concentrated among relatively heavy and/or dependent drinkers rather than those who only modestly exceed low-risk drinking limits.
In 2008 an audit of alcohol health service provision in England found that advice-giving at accident and emergency departments was rare. Commissioners have reportedly found it hard to persuade staff to undertake this work.
The best researched example is the programme at St. Mary's hospital in London, which uses trained and motivated (performance feedback is important) emergency unit staff to screen suspected heavy drinkers or patients with complaints linked to heavy drinking. Doctors explain to positive screen patients that drinking is damaging their health and offer an appointment with an on-site health worker, typically the same or the next working day. In these circumstances, two-thirds of patients attend for advice. Offering this service was found to reduce later drinking and return visits to the department. This last finding may be attractive to commissioners seeking to meet national targets to reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions. Further analysis based on the same study found that total public service costs and productivity losses over the following 12 months were roughly equivalent whether or not the intervention was offered, but that offering it was the most cost-effective option for reducing drinking. Another study at the unit demonstrated the (at least temporary) feasibility of tasking reception staff to hand out screening questionnaires to all adult ambulant patients, and the willingness of over half the patients to fill in and return the forms.
In England directors of public health are expected to include alcohol brief interventions among attempts to address the population-wide determinants of ill health. This policy is in line with recommendations from Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which in 2010 saw screening and brief interventions targeted at risky drinkers as an effective way to prevent drinking problems, though one less important at a population level than policy changes affecting the price and availability of alcohol. Among the sites NICE envisaged for this work were emergency departments, and the recommended approach was the FRAMES model. Feedback (on the client's risk of having alcohol problems), responsibility (change is the client's responsibility), advice (provision of clear advice when requested), menu (what are the options for change?), empathy (an approach that is warm, reflective and understanding) and self-efficacy (optimism about the behaviour change). However, the guidance acknowledged that (in contrast to primary care) research on emergency department interventions was scarce and the barriers to implementation were considerable.
In Scotland national policy prioritises screening and brief intervention in primary care, antenatal care, and accident and emergency departments, backed by a health service target for 2008/09–2010/11 to deliver 149,449 brief interventions across the three years supported by dedicated funding. The target was exceeded by nearly 25,000. Over the three-year period of the target, 174,205 alcohol brief interventions were recorded in Scotland. However, this tally of about 58,000 brief interventions a year should be set in the context of what was in any event 111,200 primary care consultations for alcohol misuse in a single year in 2006/07.
The Welsh substance misuse strategy recognises the potential value of brief alcohol interventions in accident and emergency departments, but its action plan made no commitment to their expansion; neither did the strategy for Northern Ireland.
Given findings to date and the policy context in most of the UK, commissioners and emergency department managements may not feel alcohol screening and intervention initiatives are mandated either on the evidence or by policy levers. However, neither should they ignore the possibility that patients' health can be improved, and department workloads relieved, by brief advice to risky drinkers identified through a rapid screening procedure and/or through indications Such as blood alcohol levels, reports on the precipitating incident, or the nature of the patient's complaint. that the attendance was alcohol-related. If procedures permit, screening questions should be built in to routine assessment/triage procedures. Unless actively and continuously monitored and encouraged, screening may be applied haphazardly and to only a small proportion of the patients who could benefit. If possible the intervention should be conducted while the patient is waiting in the department or on the ward if admitted as an inpatient. If a follow-up reminder and progress check (in person or by telephone or letter) can be factored in, outcomes can be monitored and are likely also to be improved. More severely dependent patients require referral to treatment, preferably actively pursued then and there by hospital staff. A letter to the GPs of positive-screen patients would alert them to the need to pay attention to the patient's drinking, and offer a second chance of intervention if counselling in the hospital proved impractical or was refused.
In the UK advice on brief interventions is available from the Alcohol Learning Centre. US guidance is available on the specific intervention used in the featured study and on emergency department alcohol screening and intervention in general.
Thanks for their comments on this entry to Cydne Perhats of the Emergency Nurses Association. Commentators bear no responsibility for the text including the interpretations and any remaining errors.
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Washington DC - After almost five decades, when the time came to publicly oppose authoritarian rule in Syria, one would have thought that it was the rational and decent thing to do. And it is. More than that, it is incumbent on anyone who cares about Syrians (let us leave "Syria" alone for a moment) to struggle for the establishment of a political system that is free(r) of all forms of oppression. So, what is the problem?Why fighting dictatorship is, well, intuitive
It is easy, rational and just to adopt unequivocal opposition to the decades-long history of the Syrian regime's authoritarian rule. It is equally easy, rational, and just to severely condemn and oppose the regime's 10-month crushing of independent protesters. Regime supporters and some in the
|Unless regime brutality reaches even higher levels prior to the intervention, it will be counter-productive [REUTERS]
Washington DC - After almost five decades, when the time came to publicly oppose authoritarian rule in Syria, one would have thought that it was the rational and decent thing to do. And it is. More than that, it is incumbent on anyone who cares about Syrians (let us leave "Syria" alone for a moment) to struggle for the establishment of a political system that is free(r) of all forms of oppression. So, what is the problem?
Why fighting dictatorship is, well, intuitive
It is easy, rational and just to adopt unequivocal opposition to the decades-long history of the Syrian regime's authoritarian rule. It is equally easy, rational, and just to severely condemn and oppose the regime's 10-month crushing of independent protesters. Regime supporters and some in the anti-imperialist camp retort that some of these protesters are agents of external forces or armed gangs.
While there may be a grain of truth in this argument, it is empty. It is, in fact an insult to the intelligence of any Syria observer. It overlooks the regime's brutality in the last 10 months of uprising. It baldly erases the decades of oppression, detention, imprisonment, silencing, excommunication and torture that the regime has dealt to the mere hint of opposition. That regime which turns 50 next year.
Indeed, it is only Saddam Hussein's relentless authoritarianism in Iraq that has surpassed the legacy of the Syrian regime's repression. This is not a secret. It is not a controversial description. It is true despite Syria's relative stability until March 2011.
Its institutions were poor but sufficiently functional. Its cities were relatively safe. And after the late 1980s, its urban centres boasted an increasingly bustling and dynamic life. The regime peddled these characteristics as a model of "social peace". The threat of heavy reprisal along with the formation and state cooptation of an exceptionally corrupt business class were among the painful threads that held this brittle "social peace" together.
Important too in this regard was the fact that the Syrian welfare state was able to provide the minimum needs for most Syrian citizens until the 1990s, though the countryside was largely neglected. Ultimately, it is precisely the relationship between the state and top business echelons after the mid-1980s that gradually exacerbated Syria's social and regional polarisation.
After the 2000 succession of Bashar Asad and eventually his team of "liberlisers", the Syrian Baath (out of all places) introduced what they called the Social Market Economy in 2005 to respond to various calls not emanating from the Syrian majority. Within the still constitutionally socialist republic, the new announcement was intended as a near-formal blow to the remaining vestiges of a state-centred economy.
A resulting series of camouflaged neoliberal policies and bad fortune exacerbated existing structural disparities and social discontent among the less privileged. The increasing withdrawal of state subsidies and welfare, the gradual introduction of weak market institutions to replace those corrupt but functioning institutions of the state, combined with continued notorious mismanagement of the economy, became a recipe for social unrest.
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The scant rainfall during the past decade caused massive migration and loss of jobs in the country side, adding fuel - and if I may say so - location to the fire of social protest potential after 2010. All it took was a spark - Bouazizi provided it. Syria's social peace was exposed and decimated.
But it didn't all start in March 2011. Beneath the serene and comforting streets of Damascus and Aleppo lie thousands of political prisoners. Stuffing Syria's jails and solitary confinement units, even prior to the uprising, were Islamists and atheists, liberals and communists, and everything in between. Prisoners came in all shades and indeed comported with the Syrian regime's official rhetoric.
They included those who dedicated their lives to defend the Palestinian cause against the apartheid state of Israel. They also included those who built honourable records for opposing the United States' duplicitous and brutal policies in the region, its support of dictatorship and its launching of barbaric wars on false counts.
The prisoners' fault was not that they were conspirators. It was that they opposed the regime. Their imprisonment and torture highlighted the fact that anti-imperialism has never been nor will ever be the regime's priority. Clearly, the Syrian National Council (SNC) will not be any better on this count - in fact, it is already much worse when it comes to related matters of autonomy from external actors.
The tragedy is that the rise of such a problematic body, the SNC, with varying degrees of local support is an undeniable testament to the regime's deep repression and bankruptcy. Some may argue that the regime's holstering of various legitimate regional causes, or the "cause", as a subterfuge for its horrendous domestic repression created resentment even among the "causes'" proponents.
Many Syrians are fed up with this duplicity that has come at their expense. They may even appear uninterested in regional issues and calculations. Many in the pro-"resistance" camp read this deprioritisation of anti-imperialism, or even the domestic call for external intervention, only as a betrayal. They fail to see the exasperation, desperation, vulnerability and ultimately the motive force of self-preservation. It is none other than the regime that has given birth to this informing imperative of self-preservation.
Imperialism is not the only issue for the regime or for the protesters
It is one thing for analysts living outside Syria to oppose and condemn foreign intervention (which this author does unequivocally). It is another to assume that all those calling for it in Syria under the current conditions are part of a conspiracy.
Again, it is the Syrian regime's brutality since March 2011 and before that has created the conditions for the street's increasing support for foreign intervention to stop the killing. Certainly, some may have had ulterior motives, connections or designs and supported intervention all along. But the majority of those calling for intervention have been brutalised into doing so. They are not thinking in terms of supporting or opposing imperialism at this time.
Let us imagine a wild scenario where the United States was going to intervene to stop the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza in January 2009. Would Gazans, under daily bombs and bullets, object on the grounds of the US record of imperialism? Or perhaps, Gazans would have objected due to their suspicion of the United States' potential designs for the post-intervention stage?
Surely many outsiders will think so and some insiders may too. But most Gazans would not be entertaining ideology and geostrategic reflexivity as the skies rained death. Moreover, even if, in this wild scenario, Gazan acceptance of external intervention was perhaps short-sighted, it would be patently ridiculous to claim that all such Gazans were part of an imperialist conspiracy. Imperialism is not always the issue for everyone. To not recognise this is to lose the fight against imperialism.
The "resistance" camp seems to want or expect hunted and gunned down individuals and families on Syrian streets to prioritise the regime's anti-imperialist rhetoric over the instinct of self-preservation and their fight for freedom from authoritarism. Again, the fact that some inside Syria are abusing this dynamic to call for the kind of external intervention that the regime's regional and international enemies have long dreamed of does not negate that fight.
If die-hards among the pro-resistance camp feel indignant or distraught by these calls, they should recount the modern history of Syria. Indeed, it is the anti-imperialist, pro-resistance camp that has some accounting to do at this stage. Any type of anti-imperialism must necessarily include a rejection of authoritarianism. Supporting resistance to imperialism at the expense of an entire community's most inalienable rights can only spell defeat.
Finally, as the regime strongmen, subjects, observers and detractors know well, the regime's priority above all else has been and continues to be its own preservation. If they engage in or enable resistance to imperialism, which the Syrian regime has certainly done more than any other in the region of late, that's all the better. If not, well, staying alive is good enough, even if it required siding with the United States or reactionary Arab regimes at times.
This is similar to the problematics of the United States' self-image supporting democracy: if it can engage in promoting democracy, that's all the better. If not, promoting dictatorship to serve its interests (as is the case in the Arab world) will do just fine. This is because the objective was never to create democratic regimes, but compliant ones.
It is of crucial importance to disentangle the sources of criticism of the Syrian regime. Does the critique proceed with the interests of Syrians in mind? Or does it proceed from the best interests of, say, the United States' or Israel's foreign policy establishments and their proponents?
This is not to mention an entire coterie of actors like Saudi Arabia and their minions, various European countries and what is left of the Lebanese March 14th movement. The call for the downfall of authoritarianism is as, stated above, rational and just. But we must be necessarily weary when it is the likes of Elliot Abrams behind the call for democracy.
Why foreign intervention is loathed
Protecting and defending authoritarianism on the political grounds that it serves resistance has become desperately short sighted from a the very-same pro-resistance perspective. By the same token, to not understand the implications and consequences of foreign intervention in Syria at this moment is patently short sighted. This moment of regional turmoil and unsavoury political alignments linking the worst in the foreign policies of "east" and "west", dating several decades now (longer than the Syrian regime's record of oppressing its own citizens, really), is cause for serious caution.
In other words, Syria is being used by various powers, including the United States and Saudi Arabia and their chorus, as an occasion to accomplish their own objectives in the region - reactionary ones, to be sure, in terms of the interests of most people in the region as the decades behind us attest, and as the current uprisings against the "fruits" of such objectives make clearer even to some skeptics. That does not mean, that we should withdraw our opposition and halt the struggle against dictatorship in Syria. It only serves to remind us how not to do it.
One must start with the simple and undramatic assertion that the Syrian situation is more than just the Syrian situation. This should not come, however, at the expense of Syrian lives. Since the mid-20th century, when mainly European designs for dominating and influencing the countries or politics of the region through schemas such as the Baghdad Pact, Syria was an important regional prize, but mostly in a passive manner. After Hafez Asad took power in what is called the "Corrective Movement" in 1970-1971, Syria became a more fortified regional actor that not only determined its own internal politics, but also those of other countries at times.
Notably, Syria became a leading member in what was called the rejectionist front. That front sought to confront Israel without succumbing to bi-lateral "peace" plans that did not aim at a comprehensive and just settlement of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Save for a brief stint of confrontation between Syria and Israel in 1982 - when Israel downed several Syrian jet-fighters in a pathetic air confrontation - the story goes that the Syrian-Israeli border was the safest place on earth, despite the occupation of the Golan Heights. However, by proxy, and mostly via non-state actors such as Hezbollah and Hamas, Syria became the last and only state confronting Israel.
Regionally, the Syrian regime acquired a reputation of bravado. This was not because it actively fought Israel's outlaw behaviour and racism. It was because all the other Arab states were, more or less, wimps, to use a sophisticated word (though some say they were rational, we'll leave at that for now).
In 1993, Syria's stance as lone confronter state was further fortified. This was due on the one hand to Iraq's military irrelevance and defeat. On the other hand "peace" with Israel proliferated on multiple fronts: the Oslo accords the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty, and deeper flirtations between various Arab countries and Israel, notably Qatar and Morocco. When Gaddafi paid off the UK and the US for being a bad boy and promptly joined the community of lawful nations. It was none other than the great intellect of George W Bush that deemed Gaddafi as a model of sorts. By the mid-2000's, the Syrian regime was the only remaining Arab country that would not pay lip service to the United States.
It did more than that. The Syrian regime continued to support resistance to the Israeli occupation by supporting Hezbollah as well as Hamas and Islamic Jihad (both of which had offices in Damascus). It opposed the brutal and arrogant invasion of Iraq in a manner that no Arab country did. It continued to be the only well-endowed secular and explicitly, if only rhetorically, anti-imperialist state in the region.
But for the United States, Israel, some European countries, Saudi Arabia and its minions in Lebanon and the Gulf, it is the Syria-Hezbollah-Iran axis that constitutes the most formidable challenge. Taking out Syria as it stands would weaken Hezbollah and isolate Iran, the big prize. With Syria out of the way, Hezbollah would be starved of its safe arms transport corridor and less able to meet a strike against Iran with reprisal.
An Iran-strike would also confront Turkey with a dilemma. Quite aside, from its two-faced posturing on the Syrian authoritarianism at the same time that it oppresses Kurdish resistance, Turkey would have to balance two conflicting desires. On the one hand, the Turkish administration hopes to nourish its vision of regional hegemony through the consent and admiration of the Arab street. But it is that very street that rejects the United States-Saudi Arabia alliance that Turkey is implicitly supporting in its drive to isolate the Syrian regime.
|Syria is being used by various powers... to accomplish their own objectives in the region [AFP]
In any case, precluding Turkey, the actors that are amassed to benefit from the fall of the Syrian regime are in the final analysis no less problematic than the Syrian regime. In sum, these actors are certainly more violent, discriminatory and anti-democratic, in reality and in terms of their collective or individual long-term vision for the region.
In unity, there's strength! Whether one supports the Syrian regime or not, the fall of the Syrian regime is more than the fall of the Syrian regime. That does not mean that it should not be opposed or overthrown by domestic means. I have argued elsewhere (1, 2) that Syria's past or potential regional role should not be an excuse for supporting its sustenance. Conversely, supporting the demise of the Syrian regime by any means, including external military intervention, is extremely reckless if the objective is to save Syrian lives or set the stage for a post-regime path of self-determination.
Any external military intervention supported by the above array of the awkward and brutal will devastate Syria because of a host of intended and unintended consequences. It will exponentially increase the death toll of Syrians in absolute and relative terms without achieving any discernable conclusive outcome. Moreover, the external factor will reignite another local and regional struggle rather than simply end domestic authoritarian rule and pave the way for democratic development.
One can be moved by the urgency of saving Syrian lives today, but if this is the ultimate purpose, and if Syrians' self-determination is the desired outcome, one can easily see the perils of military intervention.
Ideological considerations aside, the magnitude of the complexity and mayhem can be discerned simply by anticipating a conflict that will involve Iran, Hezbollah and an intense chunk of the Syrian population. Internal and regional opposition to external military intervention in Syria will swell the more an attack is imminent. Unless the regime brutality reaches even higher proportions prior to the intervention (apologies for the coldness of the calculation here), it will be counter-productive to say the least.
As for the question of no-fly-zones that is considered the ask by many, as opposed to full scale military intervention, it has become safe to say that a no-fly zone is a code of sorts for more active military intervention in practice, as the case of Libya makes clear.
The residual problem with this article
Not to be outdone by this article, it is crucial to point to a flaw, or lack, within it, and to introduce a anti-climactic caveat. First, I must admit that the tenor of the position elaborated in the lines above lacks a clear agency (e.g., institution/party/movement) that might convert it to a real and actionable path. The Syrian National Council is certainly not it. But that has never been the object of debate. Hence, this article is a very modest and hopelessly insufficient attempt at engendering a discussion about locating or catalysing such a collective.
According to independent organisers and protesters on the ground in Syria, there is room for the growth and effectiveness of a truly democratist opposition that is not always in line with the SNC. True, both parties may be benefitting from each other for their own purposes today, but there is growing concern among many activists on the ground about where the SNC is headed and how it is run, now and in the longer term.
This tension, which is also evident between the SNC and other smaller opposition groups outside Syria, has not become explicit yet. Perhaps the most bright ray of light are the reports that the larger part of the Syrian opposition inside Syria does not take its cues from anyone outside Syria, and for good reason, despite some appearances to the contrary. It may only be this indigenous force that can solve the problem of leadership.
The anti-climactic caveat is that no one outside the SNC and part of the domestic opposition is calling for external intervention in a inexorable manner. That is not for lack of want or desire. Besides the arguments suggested above from a general standpoint, the lack of readiness for external intervention is manifold and not always intuitive. Largely, it's because of the low pay-offs, and a bit of cynicism, among the anti-Syrian (regime, geostrategic importance, and people) camp.
First, Syria is not Iraq or Libya. It does not have ample natural resources to be used as mortgage for future reimbursement for the "noble" deed (the West's got to stop liberating people!). Second, unrest in Syria may potentially spill over the new champions of democracy in and around the Arabian Peninsula, not to mention Lebanon and the thorny derivatives of further instability in that godforsaken country. Third, the current Syrian regime protected its borders with Israel (actually, itself, considering the occupied Golan) for decades. Not a bad thing for Israel's decades' long violation of international law, underwritten by the foe it robbed.
Finally, as the venerable Kissinger used to say in the 1980s (I'm paraphrasing), let the Iranians and Iraqis kill each other into impotence, for it facilitates things for the United States thereafter. Thus, some would like the Syrians to continue killing each other for a while longer. They would be happy to see Syria weakening even further its institutions and infrastructure while exacerbating social/political divisions and undercutting possibilities of collective action for a long time to come.
Syria's long-term trajectory after the Baath had fallen is an unknown quantity regarding the question of resistance, anti-imperialism and the struggle for restoring the Golan. So, from their perspective, why not wait for Syria and Syrians to disempower themselves further instead of having a swift conclusion? If one, or a government, supports the safety of the Apartheid state of Israel, what else would be better than a protracted killing field in Syria?
So, for the moment, external military intervention is not seriously on the table yet. But the discursive conflicts on this question continue.
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of a critically acclaimed film series on Arabs and Terrorism, based on extensive field research/interviews. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Forthcoming, 2011, Stanford University Press). Bassam is also Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.
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The study, by researchers from the University of North Carolina, has revealed that women who vape may find it harder to get pregnant.
Worryingly, the researchers also found that women who vape throughout their pregnancy could unknowingly be affecting their baby’s metabolism.
In the study, the researchers exposed female mice to e-cigarette vapour, both before and after conception.
The results showed that mice who were exposed to e-cigarette vapour before conception had impaired fertility, while those who were exposed while pregnant experienced health issues in their offspring.
Dr Kathleen Caron, who led the study, said: “We found that e-cigarette usage prior to conception significantly delayed implantation of a fertilised embryo to the uterus, thus delaying and reducing fertility (in mice).
“We also discovered that e-cigarette usage throughout pregnancy changed the long-term health and metabolism of female offspring - imparting lifelong, second-generation effects on the growing foetus."
The reason for this link remains unclear, as does whether the findings could apply to humans as well as mice.
Despite this, the researchers hope the findings will highlight the health risks of vaping.
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G.P.Telemann, Komm Geist des Herrn,
L. Rémy et al.
Stemming from the last decade of his life (1681-1767), this cantata, “Kaum wag ich es,” and “Er kam, lobsingt ihm” are precious works that allow us to understand (if not agree with) the opinion at the time, that Telemann was a greater composer than Bach. He was certainly more prolific than Bach (hard to believe, already) and perhaps as a consequence not quite as consistent in the quality of his output. But if forced to do so, I could come up with any number of Bach cantatas that I find less satisfying than “Komm, Geist des Herrn,” set to a text by Friedrich Gottlieb Kloppstock in turn based on the venerable Luther text “Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott.”
For four soloists and string orchestra enriched with three trumpets, timpani, and oboes, this is festive music that sounds alive, sprightly even (noteworthy coming from a nearly 80-year-old composer), and most importantly: it is superbly performed. One would hope that the specialists of the Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein under Ludger Rémy would know how to perform this music well. They do and leave nothing to be desired. But the soloists are the real delight and perhaps surprisingly so. Too many intriguing recordings of semi-obscure works are let down by soloists that are notably of second rank. Not here, where Dorothee Mields (soprano), Elisabeth Graf (alto), Knut Schoch (tenor), and Ekkehard Abele (bass) perform impeccably.
To compare to Bach again, I have heard more recognizable names in notable cantata projects (Koopman, Gardiner, Suzuki) sing less pleasingly. Any Baroque vocal recording could benefit from so clear and accurate a soprano as Mrs. Mields’. (Although I myself had never heard of her before, this is apparently not a revelation: Mazaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Ivor Bolton, and Gustav Leonhardt have all worked and recorded with her.) The young Ekkehard Abele is an equal joy to listen to, but then mentioning two soloists seems unfair to tenor Schoch (who, incredibly, has 80 recordings to his name) and alto Graf, whose contributions are not lesser.
This exploration of the late cantatas by Telemann is a wonderful addition to the collection of anyone who already loves Bach cantatas or Telemann’s work and wants to go beyond the Tafelmusik, Violin Concertos, and Paris Quartets. Happily recommended.
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SCHS Receives LEED Certification
The new Stephens County High School is officially a LEED certified building.
The school system held a plaque unveiling ceremony for its LEED recognition Tuesday at the high school.
LEED recognition comes from the Georgia Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
David Freedman is the Executive Director of that organization.
He said the school system deserves recognition for making the choice to build a LEED-certified building.
“The Stephens County School System had a choice,” said Freedman. “You had a choice whether to pursue LEED certification or not. You had a choice to build a regular building or do something special and build a building that is going to be better for the environment, save energy, be better for the students, and that is the choice you made. I commend you for making that decision.”
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building rating system.
Freedman said that a LEED building does a lot for the environment.
“In this case, it means you have a building that uses 16 percent less energy than a traditional building, 40 percent less water, which is quite an accomplishment,” said Freedman. “Over 20 percent of the material is recycled content, which meant that saved virgin materials from being used. Over 30 percent of the materials came from regional sources, which means they were extracted, harvested, or manufactured within 500 miles.”
Stephens County Board of Education Chairman Jerry Steele said the high school and LEED certification are things that the school system is very proud of.
“We are proud of Greg (Smith, the architect) for designing it and Bowen and Watson for building it, but we are very proud of the people of Stephens County, who had the foresight to vote when different SPLOST’s came up” said Steele. “This building has been built with that one-penny sales tax.”
The high school is being paid for with funds from E-SPLOST, or Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, proceeds.
Stephens County School Superintendent Sherrie Whiten also said LEED certification is quite an accomplishment, noting that this is the first LEED-certified building in Stephens County.
In addition, Freedman said it is the first LEED-certified high school north of Atlanta.
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Schizophrenia is one of the most complex of all mental health disorders. It is a severe, chronic, and disabling disturbance of the brain that causes distorted thinking, strange feelings, and unusual behavior and use of language and words.
There is no known single cause responsible for schizophrenia. It is believed that a chemical imbalance in the brain is an inherited factor which is necessary for schizophrenia to develop. However, it is likely that many factors--genetic, behavioral, and environmental--play a role in the development of this condition.
Schizophrenia is considered to be multifactorially inherited. Multifactorial inheritance means that "many factors" are involved. The factors are usually both genetic and environmental, where a combination of genes from both parents, in addition to unknown environmental factors, produce the trait or condition. Often, one gender (either males or females) is affected more frequently than the other in multifactorial traits. There appears to be a different threshold of expression, which means that one gender is more likely to show the problem, over the other gender. Slightly more males develop schizophrenia in childhood; however, by adolescence, schizophrenia affects males and females equally.
Schizophrenia is uncommon in children under the age of 12 and hard to identify in the early phases. A sudden onset of the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia frequently occurs in middle to late adolescence. Statistics indicate that schizophrenia affects approximately 2.7 million Americans. A child born into a family with one or more family members affected by schizophrenia has a greater chance of developing schizophrenia than a child born into a family with no history of schizophrenia.
After a person has been diagnosed with schizophrenia in a family, the chance for a sibling to also be diagnosed with schizophrenia is 7 to 8 percent. If a parent has schizophrenia, the chance for a child to have the disorder is 10 percent. Risks increase with multiple affected family members.
In children with schizophrenia, behavior changes may occur slowly, over time, or have a sudden onset. The child may gradually become more shy and withdrawn. They may begin to talk about bizarre ideas or fears and begin to cling more to parents. One of the most disturbing and puzzling characteristics of schizophrenia is the sudden onset of its psychotic symptoms. "Psychotic" refers to ideas, perceptions, or feelings that are grossly distorted from reality. The following are the most common symptoms of schizophrenia. However, each child may experience symptoms differently.
Early warning signs of schizophrenia in children may include:
The symptoms of schizophrenia are often classified as positive (symptoms including delusions, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior), negative (symptoms including flat affect, withdrawal, and emotional unresponsiveness), disorganized speech (including speech that is incomprehensible), and disorganized or catatonic behavior (including marked mood swings, sudden aggression, or confusion, followed by sudden motionlessness and staring). The symptoms of schizophrenia in children are similar to adults, however, children, more often (in 80 percent of diagnosed cases), experience auditory hallucinations and typically do not experience delusions or formal thought disorders until mid-adolescence or older. The symptoms of schizophrenia may resemble other problems or psychiatric conditions. Always consult your child's health care provider for a diagnosis.
Schizophrenia in children and adolescents is usually diagnosed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Other mental health professionals usually participate in the completion of a comprehensive mental health evaluation to determine individualized treatment needs.
Specific treatment for schizophrenia will be determined by your child's health care provider based on:
Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric illness. Treatment for schizophrenia is complex. A combination of therapies is often necessary to meet the individualized needs of the child or adolescent with schizophrenia. Treatment is aimed at reducing the symptoms associated with the disorder. Types of treatment that may be helpful to a child or adolescent with schizophrenia may include:
Preventive measures to reduce the incidence of schizophrenia are not known at this time. However, identification and early intervention can improve the quality of life experienced by children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Further, treatment is most successful when symptoms of the first psychotic episode are addressed properly and promptly. It is crucial for a child or teen who is prescribed medications for the treatment of schizophrenia to remain adherent to the regimen. Dosages and types of medications may need to be adjusted periodically to maintain effectiveness. Always consult your child's health care provider for more information.
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NEW YORK -- Medical marijuana is becoming mainstream: 21 states and the District of Columbia allow it. But until Monday, little was known about whether it can effectively treat neurological disorders.
Sixty-nine-year-old Gloria Gates has multiple sclerosis. She can no longer walk and is often in severe pain.
"One thing that is just intolerable for me are these excruciating leg cramps," she says.
Powerful muscle relaxants didn't help. She now has a medical marijuana permit and uses an extract specifically made for her.
"I tried it as a last resort, and it's been an absolute blessing for me," she says.
On Monday, for the first time, the American Academy of Neurology said medical marijuana is an effective treatment for some symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It concluded spasm, muscle tightness and pain can all be helped.
But that's when the drug is given as an oral spray or pill. There's not enough evidence to determine if smoking marijuana was equally effective, says lead author Dr. Barbara Koppel.
"There is lots of literature about smoking, but it's all anonymous questionnaires, and it's patient testimonials," Koppel says.
As for other disorders, in Parkinson's, the panel found marijuana ineffective for treating abnormal movements caused by medications. The data was inconclusive for treating tics in Tourette syndrome and seizures in epilepsy.
"I have a feeling it's going to help epilepsy, just because most of my patients have epilepsy and they tell me that smoking marijuana helps them," Koppel says. "But that's not the kind of evidence we could use for the guidelines."
Since marijuana has been illegal in the United States, research into benefits and risks, such as cognitive side effects, has been severely hampered. There is only one federally approved source for study. Since medical marijuana is made legal by state voters, and not the FDA, it has not gone through the usual rigorous FDA approval process. | <urn:uuid:aef9710e-eed6-4f73-bc75-28f140f9edc3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Medical-marijuana-effectively-treats-MS-symptoms-review-finds-257080581.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975401 | 404 | 2.234375 | 2 |
In 2014, Tara Layman and Kat Reed put their heads together to create “T1D Exposed,” a nude calendar featuring individuals with Type 1 diabetes. These two twenty-somethings launched the project with several goals in mind: to give visibility to diabetes, to connect members of the diabetes community, and to raise money for related organizations.
Three years later, they have exceeded all original expectations. They’ve raised thousands of dollars for JDRF, Carb DM, and Diabetes Youth Families, and they’ve brought together members of the diabetes community from across the globe. The 2018 calendar features several international participants. Another sign of their success? Last year, Diabetesseura Plasma, A Type 1 organization in Finland launched its own calendar after one of the organization’s members came across Layman and Reed’s project. The Finnish calendar also features participants wearing nothing but their diabetes gear.
Thanks to social media and campaigns like JDRF’s “T1D Looks Like Me,” diabetes is more visible today than in years past. But the public is still largely unaware of the toll that the disease exacts. “As with many chronic illnesses, diabetes is not a visible disease that you can see by looking at a person,” Layman explains. “By having our participants shed their clothes and bravely show their scars, diabetes devices and other touches of diabetes, we are illuminating the effects diabetes does have on a person’s body.”
Mindful of the need for inclusivity, the founders have included participants who represent diverse demographics. “The project is our opportunity to show that diabetes affects people of all ages and body types, who are in different stages of life, from different places and of different ethnicities.”
Why nudity? Because it allows participants to acknowledge vulnerability and self-acceptance at the same time. Living with diabetes is a multifaceted psychic experience, so it’s important that the project reflect these different dimensions. According to Layman, “T1D Exposed is vulnerable, accepting and resilient, much like the community we are a part of.”
Of course, the founders realize that visibility should not be compulsory. As Layman explains, “Diabetes does not have to be at the forefront of who you are, it can be as big of a piece of who you are as you want it to be.” The purpose of the calendar is simply to initiate conversations to and “to show the world the beauty of those living with diabetes and their strength on their journey.”
In many of the photographs, participants pose with meaningful personal items and equipment. For instance, Brooke Gibson, a long-time DJ and the founder of Type 1 Diabetic Sugar Mommas (@T1DSugarMommas) is photographed with her vinyl and headphones. She chose these accessories to convey that “music and not just diabetes alone is a part of [her] identity.” Gibson further explains that T1D does not deter her. “Many of us who were diagnosed [so] long ago were told that we most likely wouldn’t have children. And we are living proof that you can! This is why I did the calendar.”
Omid Farivar participated for similar reasons. He, too, wants the public to know that “T1Ds can do literally anything else a lay person could do”–they simply have to plan ahead. The project instantly appealed to Farivar, who was approached by a mutual friend of Layman’s at a wedding. “Hey. This is random. But. Do you wanna do this like… nude photoshoot?” the friend asked. Farivar recalls, “I experienced a really weird range of emotions, from flattered to confused to bewildered to feeling extremely sexy . . . I was instantly sold. When else was I going to be able (or even, asked) to pose nude for a calendar?”
You can see all of the 2018 participants, read more about the project, and purchase your calendar here. All proceeds go to charity.
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Welcome to the HRADISKO ZOBOR Civil Association website.
Presenting a project that brings attention to the history of Nitra's dominating Pyramída and Zobor hills, whose peaks are surrounded by a two-kilometer long defensive rampart three thousand years old, the Hradisko Zobor.
The project was the civil association's contribution to Nitra's candidacy as a 2013 European Capital of Culture, one of which had been designated to be in Slovakia.
The text and captions, photographs and unique aerial images here will let you become better acquainted with the hillfort and its history.
The historic Hradisko Zobor interpretive trail running through the terrain shows the defensive rampart and lets you get a comprehensive picture of how the hillfort looked.
Hradisko Zobor is part of an important European nature reserve, the CHKO Ponitrie (Nitra ValleyProtected Landscape). It is a protected National Cultural Monument and also an archaeological site, which can only be reached on foot by hikers over carefully marked trails.
We will be gradually bringing you information about similar monuments around Nitra.
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Volume 60 Issue 9 September 2010
Richard Cavendish remembers the birth of Mrs Gaskell in Chelsea in 1810.
Richard Cavendish remembers the first performance of Porgy and Bess.
Richard Cavendish remembers the Union of South Africa's first election campaign in September 1910.
Editor Paul Lay reads a selection of your correspondence.
Hywel Williams revisits an article by Peter Munz, first published in History Today in 1959, and asks who needed whose approval most, the great ruler of the Franks or Pope Leo III?
Nick Poyntz looks at the opportunities offered to historians by text mining, the use of computer programmes to examine concordances and divergences within and between documents and texts.
The acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh talks to Paul Lay about his influences, working methods, the need for historians to engage in public policy and why he is relieved to be free from academic bureaucracy.
Richard Overy looks behind the myth of a vulnerable island defended by a small band of fighter pilots to give due credit to the courage of the redoubtable civilian population.
Nigel Jones celebrates a great humanitarian who navigated the perilous paths between good and evil, a mission that was to cost him his life.
Kathryn Hadley joins a group of schoolteachers and police officers in an innovative project that seeks ways to better understand the Holocaust.
Few events in history have proved as momentous as Galileo's discovery of the moons of Jupiter. David Wootton explains why.
The fortunes of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and the regard in which their successive regimes came to be held were mirrored in the fate of one of their mightiest naval vessels, as Patrick Little explains.
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Simmer the cleaned whole fish in a saucepan of water until cooked. Remove fish and let cool before separating the flesh from the bone. Mince the flesh. Strain the stock.
Blend the shallots and ginger together until a puree. Add to the stock and tamarind then heat.
Once the soup base is boiling add in the minced fish and coconut milk making sure to stir frequently to prevent curdling. Turn down the heat and simmer for another 20 minutes or until the soup thickens. Salt to taste.
Blanch the noodles in boiling water, drain and set aside.
Serve the laksa noodles in a bowl, ladle some soup on top and add garnish.
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In the centre of Xining, one of several tiny food and drinks stores is home to a middle-aged couple. Behind a curtain, an unemployed man is lying on a bed while his wife attends to customers. The small profit she can eke out is the couple's only source of income.
"We were workers in the `Third Line of Defence' factories," explains the man. "Now these factories are all closing down and we have found ourselves unemployed."
Few officials are willing to elaborate on the grim social reality of Xining. Less than two decades ago, the provincial capital was a notable industrial centre. Under Mao Zedong's war strategy, it was identified as a place to relocate many factories previously based in eastern China. To prepare against foreign invasion, it was decided that enterprises from Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Shandong and Shanghai would be moved to Qinghai province, where new arms factories and power stations would also be built.
Now, as in many others western cities, Xining is counting the cost of closing down these unprofitable, debt ridden state-owned companies and funding welfare payments to unemployed workers. Officially, out of a population of 1.24m, Xining has a registered unemployed rate of one percent, a definition that doesn't include those unregistered workers out of a job. In 1997 Qinghai province had 38,000 unemployed and was providing social aid to 2,600 people.
Vice governor Liu Guanghe puts a gloss onthe social problems: "According to the plan of the central government, Qinghai province is carrying on state-owned enterprise reform and great achievements have been made, with some enterprises being already restructured. The government is implementing a unified policy – the salaries of the state-owned companies' retired workforce needs to be paid, sufficient food needs to be provided to laid-off workers and their livelihood will be guaranteed by various means."
The heavy legacy of the planned economy drains money that might otherwise be channelled to viable businesses. Corporate investment is harmed by the province's reputation as a penal centre. According to recent work by Western researchers, between 1950 and 1990 a total of 160,000 prisoners were sent to Qinghai from eastern China.
During the first decades of the People's Republic, the penitentiary administration and the People's Liberation Army were virtually the only authorities in charge of the province, with the prisons bureau running food production, mining and industry. It was only during the late 1980s that the penitentiary bureau, perceived as heading a loss-making empire, was weaned from power generation, petroleum, aluminium and chemical industries. It shifted focus by investing in agricultural production.
Nowadays, it is estimated that Qinghai has a prison population of only 23,000, far fewer than the estimated number in Xinjiang autonomous region, for example. Still, the province has been stigmatised as a huge labour reform camp, a reputation it also owes to the fact that most former prisoners stay on to work in Qinghai at the end of their sentence. Like other prisoners from north-west China, they are unable to get residency permits elsewhere in the country.
A poor province in a remote part of China, Qinghai is now struggling to catch up with the rest of the country. Unlike the coastal regions, it has plenty of room for growth. A huge territory of 720,000 sq km with a population of only 5.02m, Qinghai is home to 43 different nationalities.
The scale of environmental degradation and poverty is a barrier to development. There are 14 counties in Qinghai ranked among the most poverty-stricken in the whole country. Six of them, containing a total rural population of 1.33m, are located in the arid mountainous area of the east. Moreover, nearly half of the province, or 330,000 sq km, is suffering from severe soil erosion. Another daunting problem is the rate of desertification, with sand swallowing up 1,312 sq km of land every year.
A more lucrative future could lie in exploiting the province's mineral wealth, centred on the 230,000 sq km Qaidam Basin. It has significant reserves of aluminium, potassium, lithium, magnesium, zinc, copper, natural gas and petroleum.
The output of oil and gas at the Qinghai oil field hit a record 2m tons in 1998, a relatively low level by national standards. But there is much potential for example, local oil scientists are developing a new oil-extraction method, using acidifying technology to increase the oil recovery rate. The method involves using a chemical compound injected deep into the earth with dehydrated crude oil as a carrier, causing a chemical reaction to produce a strong solvent to remove block-ages in the oil wells. The method has already yielded good results in Qinghai where six oil wells have increased crude oil output by 30,000 tons, valued at Yn26m.
Since exploration began there in 1954, Qinghai has produced 15.5m tons of crude oil and 2.1bn cubic metres of gas. According to China National Petroleum Corporation, more than 4bn tons of proven crude oil resources have been discovered in the Qaidam Basin in the past 40 years, and gas reserves of 150bn cubic metres. "The reason why Qinghai has been lagging behind in terms of economic development is the inability to exploit natural resources," says a local official. "The climate is harsh and the transportation system is inadequate."
External investment has been scarce. Every year, the heavily subsidised province receives Yn1bn from the central government through fiscal transfer. "Considering the scale of the provincial economy, it would be difficult to gather such an amount of money [through local tax revenues]," says vice governor Liu. "The fiscal abilities of the province are weak and the central government is providing us with investment to develop our infrastructure."
The province has just completed a 1 km-long road tunnel through Daban Mountain at a cost of Yn156m. The upgrading of the 1,937km Xining-Lhasa highway, built in 1954, with the addition of 13 bridges, was also completed this year at a total cost of Yn1.3bn. This infrastructure work is providing jobs for poor farmers who come down from the mountains during spring months. On the road from Xining to Golmud, most of the workers are peasants from Qinghai's poorest counties. Those not on the roads can find contract work in the mines.
According to local officials, Chinese migrant settlers are often discouraged by the harsh climate of the province and by strict land regulations. For instance, the land around Qinghai Lake is environmentally protected and designed to be kept for herdsmen.
In spite of these restrictions, a steady flow of Chinese businessmen from Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang and Jiangsu travel around the province. "They usually stay one to two years and then they go back home," explains an official.
Foreign businessmen have been just as reluctant to set foot in the province. For a long time, lack of facilities, poor communications and the overwhelming bureaucracy of the inner regions of China have deterred foreign companies. Those prepared to visit tend to concentrate on mining, metal smelting, petrochemicals and power generation.
Notable foreign investments include an Israel-invested 800,000-tonne-a-year potash fertiliser joint venture. Israel's Dead Sea Works has signed a memorandum of under-standing to take a 33 percent stake in the US$486m potash fertiliser joint venture. The deal, however, has not been finalised despite 12 years of negotiation. Should it proceed, the plant will help make Qinghai China's leading provincial producer of potash fertiliser.
The huge hydroelectric capacity of the Yellow River is another area of interest. At present, about 100 electric power stations in the province produce more than 7bn kW hours of electricity a year.
Until now, the biggest joint venture projects remain the Hong Kong-invested US$29m Yellow River Power Generation company. In operation since 1997, this project involves the Hong Kong partners Fu Heng and Fu Shi groups. The next biggest is the US$27m Changqing Aluminium Plant, also invested by a Hong Kong group. But the most important wholly foreign-owned company of Qinghai jointly invested by US and Hong Kong groups is a US$ 154m power generation venture designed to build the Zhiganglaka dam on the Yellow River. The two foreign partners are Solar Star of the US and Hong Kong's True Busy Industrial.
With a growing interest from foreign companies starting to prospect in the province, and with improved direct land and air connections to Lhasa, Qinghai could become a window to the Chinese far west.
World Bank project
Following approval in June 1999 of a World Bank poverty reduction project in western China, Qinghai province has been the focus of much international atten-Lion. The impoverished province plans to relocate 58,000 people of various ethnic groups, including Tibetan, from an arid and mountainous eastern area and resettle them in the western parts of Qinghai, in Dulan county. Most villagers exist on very small incomes and the produce which they grow for their own consumption. They complain of roads which are little more then dirt tracks and a lack of water, schools, medical facilities, transport and electricity. Few have visited Dulan, but all have been told by local officials that life would be better there. It is therefore not surprising that many villagers have volunteered to be part of this exodus.
On June 24 this year the World Bank approved the three-component, US$160m project designed to benefit almost 1.7m of the poorest people of China, living in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Qinghai.
But the bank's board of executive directors stipulated that no funds should be disbursed for the US$40m Qinghai component of the project, pending the outcome of a review by the bank's independent inspection panel. This is a three-member fact-finding body designed to answer public concerns regarding projects financed by the bank. It was also agreed that the Chinese government would facilitate ?visits to the project site by diplomats, government officials, members of parliaments and the media, before, during and after implementation of the component,? according to an official communique in June.
These measures were taken to answer inter-national concern about the project in Qinghai province. According to opponents, the resettlement project could dilute the Tibetan presence in the ?move-in' area of Dulan. Furthermore, there was concern regarding the lifestyle enjoyed by Tibetans to be resettled outside western Qinghai.
Two of these remote and poor counties in the west, Pingan and Xunhua, are the respective ancestral homes of the Dalai Lama and the former Panchen Lama, and the whole area is considered to hold a special significance to Tibetans.
It was also thought that the resettlement project in Dulan, a county designed to become an agricultural zone aided by irrigation, might endanger the Tibetan herding subsistence lifestyle. Finally, some observers were concerned by the proximity of two major labour camps and the construction of a new dam to irrigate Dulan county.
The project will include building a diversion weir on the Xiangride River and a 28km canal taking water to a regulating dam. A 59km-long canal would then connect the newly built Keri Dam to irrigate more than 16,000 hectares of land.
The scale of the controversy, which has deeply divided the World Bank, has taken Chinese officials by surprise. "It is really something I couldn't expect at all," says Qinghai vice governor Liu Guanghe. "These poor people are left without resources in our province. It is unimaginable that this has become such a political issue."
The defiance of the Chinese authorities towards outside pressure culminated in August when Western researchers visiting the province to conduct what they called an independent investigation, were detained in Dulan county while in the vicinity of a major labour camp. They were released several days later but the event only served to strengthen opposition to the project.
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