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CIS113 - Web Publishing
Catalog Description: Introduces the techniques, skills, and tools used to publish and manage a website. Develops the skills needed for publishing a simple web page and introduces HTML coding; builds on these authoring techniques and introduces other topics such as web design, web project management, and web maintenance; and acquires skills to build a maintainable web project. Prerequisite or Corequisite: CIS 102 or higher or ART 209.
Lecture: 3 hrs.
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):
Upon the successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
1. Create a web page utilizing HTML5 elements and attributes on a remote server
2. Update a web page utilizing CSS3 to apply styles to html elements on a remote server
3. Add images to a web page while optimizing the file and screen size of the image (jpg, gif, png) on a remote server
4. Create internal and external web links on a web site located on a remote server
5. Upload content to a remote server using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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The pool-type sodium-cooled fast reactor adopts a new type of decay heat removal method to discharge the core heat to ensure the safety and cool of the nuclear power plant in a long time under the station blackout accident. The natural circulation and forced circulation will lead to different thermal and hydraulic characteristics. In addition, the natural circulation produces different hydrothermal phenomena on the secondary side by operating Direct Reactor Air Cooling System (DRACS). The Plant Dynamics Test Loop (PLANDTL-DHX) experimental device can simulate the flow and heat transfer phenomenon in the core. In the present work, a “modular modeling and integrated calculation method” was developed to conduct three-dimensional numerical modeling and calculation for the PLANDTL-DHX experimental device. Meanwhile, the steady-state verification of PLANDTL-DHX was carried out and compared with the experimental data. On this basis, the transient operating conditions of DRACS were calculated, and the temperature, flow distribution and transient variation characteristics in the key positions such as center subassembly, upper plenum and Intermediate Heat Exchanger (IHX) were preliminarily obtained. Based on the experimental results, the numerical calculation is verified. | <urn:uuid:17f90afe-c08f-400b-abbe-7bb9fd90c28a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://electronicpackaging.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/ICONE/proceedings-abstract/ICONE28/85260/V003T08A007/1122504?searchresult=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.894817 | 249 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Baseball has never been one of my favorite sports, but one very interesting aspect of the game is watching the different types of pitches that pitchers throw. From fastballs to breaking balls to change-ups, those who are highly skilled in throwing the right pitch in the right way and at the right time can leave a batter looking completely humbled and embarrassed. For the hitter, although he may be expecting movement of the ball as it approaches his swing, he may get a completely different movement from what he expected. Even if he guesses correctly, connecting the swing of the bat to the incoming high speed pitch is another matter all in itself. As someone who was born in the late 1950’s, I have seen a lot of change in regards to the role and expectations of men, husbands and fathers in Western society, particularly here in the USA.
In the home in which I was reared in the ’60s and ’70s, my parents would have been considered traditional and old-fashioned. My dad worked long hours and physically demanding jobs in the railroad and timber industry in order to provide for his family, and my mom was either home or working to clean the homes of white women in order to supplement my dad’s income. When I reached about nine or 10 years of age my dad got a better and more stable job working in a factory, and he continued to do factory work until he retired. Once my dad obtained factory work, my mom took classes at the local community college, then took a job as a nutrition agent.
During this time in the late ’60s and early ’70s, there was a big shift going on regarding the role of women in America. Much emphasis was placed on equal rights for women, and rightly so. But as change takes place for one person or group it causes change to also occur in others. For me as a boy at that time and a man in my 50s now, I can look back on those days and see that for men, the ball was definitely moving. And the truth of the matter is the ball is always moving. But in the midst of curves, dips and all kinds of change, some stability is also necessary in life. There are some things that change (society and social demands), and some things that never change (God and His Word.)
There is a significant battle going on now between the friends of the world system—the popular path—and those who choose to live according the directives of God’s holy Word, the Bible. There are specific instructions God gives us about what to do and what not to do. If we go against His instructions, that is called sin. What we are seeing today is that when those who have chosen to live obedient to Jesus Christ live out their faith, and those actions go against the trend of modern day societal norms, then the Jesus followers are called hateful, intolerant and many other non-complimentary names which I won’t mention here. For me, I am not a hater and neither am I intolerant of people. Just because I don’t endorse or approve of the actions of one person or of a group does not mean I hate them. Jesus, who was God in the flesh, hung out with sinners, but did not sin with them or endorse their sin. He did a divine job of loving sinners but drawing them away from their sin and pointing them to God. As Christians, we must do likewise through the power and the love of Christ.
Proverbs 22:28 says, “do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.” This had a literal meaning back then, but I also believe it has a spiritual and practical meaning for us today. Landmarks or boundaries were set for the good of everyone. Landmarks functioned as markers for traveling and direction. Boundaries differentiated property ownership, and one people group from another. If these landmarks or boundaries were removed, chaos and confusion followed. People would get lost in their travels and head in the wrong direction, or become paralyzed, unable to move in any direction. Wars and disputes would occur if boundaries were changed without all parties agreeing to the change.
Similarly, what I see today is confusion and chaos reigning in the social arena in the name of modern progress. What is the modern day role and responsibility of men, husbands and fathers? The landmarks keep moving and the boundaries shifting. Men have, to a large extent, become either passive and afraid to fulfill their God-given role, or they have become frustrated, bitter and angry, and acted with violence at times. Neither is good. When we think of the roles that men and women have, some people may have a distorted view and think that one gender is more important than the other. Absolutely not. Let me explain it by giving this sports example. On a football team who is it that generally gets the glory for when things go well? Usually its either the quarterback or a running back. But football players, coaches and those who know football realize that the game is won and lost along the offensive and defensive lines. You can have the best quarterback ever, but if his offensive line cannot block and keep the rushing defenders off of him, it’s doomsday in the passing game. If the best runner is continually tackled in his own backfield because his O-line was like Swiss cheese, then that runner is made ineffective. The quarterback and the running back may appear to be more valuable because of the publicity given them, but take that line away and see how well they produce. Conversely, a team with a strong line, but which has a quarterback who can’t throw accurately, and running backs who are not effective runners will not have much success either. Likewise in life, just because men and women, husbands and wives, and fathers and mothers have differing roles do not mean that one is more important than the other. Each is equally valuable in God’s eyes, and should be in our eyes also, but we each have our roles to perform.
Yes, society and the world keep changing, and they will continue to do so until Jesus comes to get His bride, the church. Until then, for those of us who are Christians and believe in the unchanging Word of God, we are faced with clear choices to make and challenges to deal with. How do we live in this world God has placed us in, and walk out our Christian faith in a way that pleases God according to His written Word, the Bible? We have to find the boundaries and the landmarks God gives us to live by in His Word and take our stand there.
For husbands and fathers, we are to be men who are strong in the Lord, and through this source we give strength, protection, provision and love to our families. For all men, single or married, we are to live honorable lives that please God and serve our fellow neighbors and citizens on this earth. If we look to the shifting sands of society for our role models we will get off course and lose our way. But if we find the landmarks and the boundaries God has given, we will know who we are, and what we are to do, and how to do it. So no matter what pitches life throws your way, find your stance in God who never changes, and let the strength of his love empower your swing. | <urn:uuid:2fa396b5-810a-49b7-925c-886b3b807d04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://charismamag.com/spriritled-living/man-life/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-of-god-in-a-godless-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.978335 | 1,502 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Succeeding in the fiscal environment today requires extensive knowledge, ranging from the part of tax accounting, tax law and even a little computer knowledge.
To increase the efficiency of fiscal bookkeeping, we have separated some tips that may be useful in the day-to-day running.
Optimize your time
In a short time a fiscal analyst has to perform various tasks, it is even difficult to think of how to optimize more time spent with daily routines, but the fact of being difficult does not make this task impossible. But to realize this first part, tools will be needed. The ones that are most needed on a daily basis are the search for invoices, sending guides, everything online and as automated as possible, so you do not waste time and reach the largest number of customers.
Being a professional presence in the tax world is to keep up to date with the news. And being synchronized with the changes will make you aware of relevant changes in the world of tax writing, and at the right time, to make the right decisions.
Love what you do
To succeed in any field of activity, it takes a lot of time for study, practice, and dedication. But above all you have to like what you do, why is love the profession that will make you overcome the challenges of day to day.
Learning the details of tax bookkeeping is very difficult, and in many cases there will not be time for a supervisor to give you all the details about everything, so it is always appropriate to seek professionalism.
Know how to evaluate correctly
Have knowledge, love what you do, be up to date, and all other points lead us to know how to evaluate.
If necessary, also use expert bookkeeper San Antonio service to help you evaluate bookkeeping procedures to avoid overpayment of improper taxes and fines.
Clyde is a highly creative and dedicated person with an entrepreneurial spirit. He is always looking for ways to help people, whether it be contributing to their success or just making them laugh. His commitment is demonstrated through the dedication he has put into all of his work so far, which includes writing business blogs for various companies as well as running his own blog on Medium. He loves reading books about how other people became successful entrepreneurs like himself; he finds inspiration from these stories and hopes to make a positive impact on others’ lives too! | <urn:uuid:d42215e5-33d2-4c0e-b76e-b44e360ed740> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessincomeexpert.com/tax-bookkeeping-tips-to-apply-on-a-daily-basis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.962469 | 486 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Sep 19 1692
80-year-old farmer Giles Cory is pressed under stones in Salem, Massachusetts because he refused to enter a plea for the charge of witchcraft. More and more weight was stacked upon Cory, until his death two days later. According to one eyewitness account: "in pressing, his tongue being pressed out of his mouth, the sheriff with his cane forced it in again."
Sep 19 1931
Adolf Hitler's 23-year-old half niece, Geli Raubal, is found dead in her uncle's Munich apartment from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Some allege that she and Adolf had a sexual relationship, which involved Geli pissing on him. Hitler conveniently happens to be out of town at the time of the shooting.
Sep 19 1934
Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. We aren't sure if he did it, but he did have $11,000 of the ransom money. They fry him two years later.
Sep 19 1959
In a Cold War setback, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is annoyed to learn that he will not be permitted to visit Disneyland, due to concerns for his personal safety.
Sep 19 1961
Betty and Barney Hill are picked up near Indian Head, New Hampshire and anally probed by five beings in a flying saucer. The couple later describes the craft as being "banana-like, with pointed tips and windows."
Sep 19 1995
The New York Times and the Washington Post publish the Unabomber's rambling, 35,000-word anti-technology screed, "Industrial Society And Its Future." In exchange, he promises to halt his bombing campaign. | <urn:uuid:0003bbc9-cf98-46f6-907e-19ca5ae0dafb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ebaumsworld.com/blogs/today-in-history/948784/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00195-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977892 | 359 | 2.28125 | 2 |
When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and communicate easily?
If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you’ll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak Spanish in just 10 days.
Practise the most frequent words and expressions for:
-Meeting and greeting
-Having a mid-morning drink
-Having aperitivo time
-Ordering the first two courses of a meal
-Picking up the hire car
-Booking into the hotel
-Asking the way
You’ll progress in your understanding of naturally-paced conversations, be able to personalise the language through interactive role-plays and perfect your pronunciation to sound more natural.
Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 70 years.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2012 Angela Howkins, Juan Kattán-Ibarra (P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton
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Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ("the Agencies") are federal granting agencies that promote and support research, research training and innovation within Canada. As publicly funded organizations, the Agencies have a fundamental interest in promoting the availability of findings that result from the research they fund, including research publications and data, to the widest possible audience, and at the earliest possible opportunity. Societal advancement is made possible through widespread and barrier-free access to cutting-edge research and knowledge, enabling researchers, scholars, clinicians, policymakers, private sector and not-for-profit organizations and the public to use and build on this knowledge.
Information and communications technology, and in particular the advent of the internet, has transformed the way that science and scholarly research is conducted and communicated. Indicative of this changing landscape has been the steady growth in open access publishing and archiving, which facilitates widespread dissemination of research results. Open access enables researchers to make their publications freely available to the domestic and international research community and to the public at large, thereby enhancing the use, application and impact of research results.
Momentum for open access has been growing as numerous funding agencies and institutions worldwide implement open access policies. The Agencies strongly support open access to research results which promotes the principle of knowledge sharing and mobilization - an essential objective of academia. As research and scholarship become increasingly multi-disciplinary and collaborative, both domestically and internationally, the Agencies are working to facilitate research partnerships by harmonizing domestic policies and aligning with the global movement to open access.
The following principles guide the Agencies in their approach to promoting open access to research publications:
- Committing to academic freedom, and the right to publish;
- Recognizing the critical importance of peer review to the scholarly communication ecosystem;
- Maintaining the high standards and quality of research by committing to academic openness and responsible conduct of research;
- Promoting recognized research best practices and standards across disciplines, and embracing and sharing emerging practices and standards;
- Advancing academic research, science and innovation;
- Effective dissemination of research results; and
- Aligning activities and policies between Canadian and international research funding agencies.
2. Policy Objective
The objective of this policy is to improve access to the results of Agency-funded research, and to increase the dissemination and exchange of research results. All researchers, regardless of funding support, are encouraged to adhere to this policy.
3. Policy Statement
3.1 Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
Grant recipients are required to ensure that any peer-reviewed journal publications arising from Agency-supported research are freely accessible within 12 months of publication. Recipients can do this through one of the following routes:
- Online Repositories
Grant recipients can deposit their final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an institutional or disciplinary repository that will make the manuscript freely accessible within 12 months of publication. It is the responsibility of the grant recipient to determine which publishers allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies.
Grant recipients can publish in a journal that offers immediate open access or that offers open access on its website within 12 months. Some journals require authors to pay article processing charges (APCs) to make manuscripts freely available upon publication. The cost of publishing in open access journals is an eligible expense under the Use of Grant Funds.
These routes to open access are not mutually exclusive. Researchers are strongly encouraged to deposit a copy of the final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an accessible online repository immediately upon publication, even if the article is freely available on the journal's website.
Grant recipients must acknowledge Agency contributions in all peer-reviewed publications, quoting the funding reference number (e.g. FRN, Application ID).
3.2 Publication-related Research Data
Recipients of CIHR funding are required to adhere with the following responsibilities:
- Deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data into the appropriate public database (e.g. gene sequences deposited in GenBank) immediately upon publication of research results. Please refer to the Annex for examples of research outputs and the corresponding publicly accessible repository or database.
- Retain original data sets for a minimum of five years after the end of the grant (or longer if other policies apply).This applies to all data, whether published or not. The grant recipient's institution and research ethics board may have additional policies and practices regarding the preservation, retention, and protection of research data that must be respected.
4. Implementation Date
For research funded in whole or in part by CIHR, this policy applies to all grants awarded January 1, 2008 and onward. While not required, researchers holding grants that were awarded prior to January 1, 2008 are encouraged to adhere to the requirements of this policy.
NSERC and SSHRC
For research funded in whole or in part by NSERC or SSHRC, this policy applies to all grants awarded May 1, 2015 and onward. While not required, researchers holding grants that were awarded prior to May 1, 2015 are encouraged to adhere to the requirements of this policy.
5. Compliance with the Policy
Grant recipients are reminded that by accepting Agency funds they have accepted the terms and conditions of the grant or award as set out in the Agencies' policies and guidelines. In the event of an alleged breach of Agency policy, the Agency may take steps outlined in accordance with the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research to deal with the allegation. For research funded by the Agencies, the Institution shall enable researchers to comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Publication Policy, as amended from time to time.
6. Policy Review
The Agencies will review and adapt this policy as appropriate.
7. Additional Information
A) Various resources to assist researchers in complying with this policy can be found in the Toolbox.
B) Further information regarding how to comply with the open access policy can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions.
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Since the early 1990s, a variety of African and Western governments alike have often suggested that finding "African solutions to African problems" represents the best approach to keeping the peace in Africa. Not only does the empirical evidence from post-Cold War Africa suggest that there are some fundamental problems with this approach, it also rests upon some problematic normative commitments. Specifically in relation to the problem of armed conflict, the "African solutions" logic would have at least three negative consequences: it would undermine the UN; it would provide a convenient excuse for powerful Western states that wished to avoid sending their own soldiers to peace operations in Africa; and it would help African autocrats fend off international, especially Western, criticism of their policies. After providing an overview of the constituent elements of the "African solutions" approach, this article sets out in general terms the central problems with it before turning to a specific illustration of how these problems affected the international responses to the ongoing war in Darfur, Sudan. Instead of searching for "African solutions", policymakers should focus on developing effective solutions for the complex challenges raised by the issue of armed conflict in Africa. To this end, Western states in general and the P-3 in particular should give greater support to conflict management activities undertaken by the United Nations, develop clearer guidelines for how these should relate to regional initiatives, and facilitate the efforts of civic associations to build the foundations for stable peace in the continent's war zones.
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Lessons & Chapters
Lessons 13 & 14 How did all the animals fit on Noah’s Ark?and How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood? (Chapters 13 & 14)
The Creation Answers Book Study Guide
Lesson 2: Six days? Really?
Text: The Creation Answers Book, chapter 2
Section: Why is it important?
How does an acceptance of ‘millions of years’ of Earth history affect the message of the Gospel? (See also Conclusion)
If one believes that human death came into the world through sin sometime after the first identifiable humans evolved, but that animal death is normal, natural and God’s way of doing things, how does such a view undermine the Gospel?
Section: Why not believe they are ordinary days?
What is the main reason some people say that Genesis 1 speaks of long ages?
What is meant by the term ‘special revelation’?
- What is ‘general revelation’?
- Why is it inappropriate to refer to ‘general revelation’ as the ‘67th book of the Bible’? (See also General and special revelation and The canonisation of ‘nature’)
- Why is it improper and unwise to use the findings of secular ‘origins’ science to interpret Scripture? See
Section: How has Genesis been understood in the past?
List two reasons for looking at the history of how Genesis has been interpreted.
- It has been claimed that, before long-age beliefs became main-stream, there was a minority view that God may have created instantly, and so that a day did not really mean a 24-hour day
- How did the various ‘church fathers’ view Genesis? (See also Genesis Q&A: How has Genesis 1–11 been understood throughout history?)
- Do the ‘church fathers’ give any support to adding billions of years to the Bible?
What are some of the problems of tracing the ‘young-earth creationist’ movement back to the invention of George McCready Price in the 1920s?
- Choose one of the ‘church fathers’ and write a paper discussing his views of Genesis. (See also Genesis Q&A: How has Genesis 1–11 been understood throughout history?)
Section: Why must they be ‘ordinary’ days?
- Look up the word ‘day’ in a Hebrew lexicon.
- Which Hebrew word refers to normal-length (approximately 24 hours) days?
- Which Hebrew words refer to long periods of time?
- What other Hebrew words are translated ‘day’?
- Which Hebrew word for ‘day’ is used in Genesis 1? (See also How long were the days of Genesis 1?)
Why is it important to consider the context when determining the meaning of a word?
How do we know the ‘days’ referred to in Genesis 1 were normal-length and not long periods of time?
What is the basis for our month? Our year? The seasons? The seven day week?
Section: Other arguments against six days
What is significant about God creating the Sun on Day 4 rather than on Day 1?
Why should 2 Peter 3:8 not be used to justify the idea that the creation days were long periods of time? (See also 2 Peter 3:8—‘One day is like a thousand years’.)
How would you respond to someone who claimed that you were limiting God by believing that He created in six earth-rotation days?
Why should Genesis 2 be considered complementary to Genesis 1, and not contradictory? (See also Do Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other?)
What kinds of animals did Adam name on the Sixth Day? (See also Naming the animals: all in a day’s work for Adam.)
In your own words, explain why the first three days of Creation should be considered ordinary days, even though the Sun was not created until Day 4. (See also How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day?)
Section: Is Genesis poetry/figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history? (Critique of the Framework Hypothesis)
- It is widely held that there are literary devices within the text of Genesis 1 that preclude the genre being taken as straight prose; for instance, a lot of key words appearing multiples of seven times, and various other patterns within the text.
- Examine some of these alleged literary devices and comment on their significance.
- Explain why the presence of literary devices does not imply that Genesis (or any text) might not be history. (See also Should Genesis be taken literally?)
What is the ‘triads of days’ idea?
Name three ‘out of sequence’ events in Genesis 1 that argue against the ‘triads of days’ idea.
List some of the problems with the framework hypothesis reading of Genesis 2:5. (See also An understanding of Genesis 2:5 (pdf))
- Is there any evidence that Genesis 1 was written for a specific audience at a specific time in history, and that as such it does not have anything to say about the mechanism of creation?
It is claimed that the structure of Genesis 1 deliberately mirrors the structure found in ancient pagan origins accounts (which, it is claimed, pre-dated Genesis 1), and stands as a polemic against these pagan accounts. Research one of these accounts. (See Genesis and the lost tablets or A comparative study of the flood accounts in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis)
What are some of the corresponding features of the text?
How strong is the correspondence?
Is there any evidence that it pre-dates or post-dates Genesis?
What are the problems with assigning a late date for Genesis? (See also Archaeologist confirms creation and the Bible.)
Section: Other problems with long days and similar interpretations
List three reasons (apart from the words of Scripture, itself) for why the days of creation could not have been long periods of time.
How does the evolutionary order differ from the biblical order of Creation?
Section: Long-age Compromises
What is ‘theistic evolution’? What are some theological and scientific problems with accepting this idea? (See also Creation Compromises—Theistic Evolution: Why is it dangerous for Christians to believe?)
What is ‘progressive creation’? List some theological and scientific problems with this view. (See also Creation Compromises—Progressive Creationism.)
Why do those who do not take Genesis straightforwardly tend towards a local—rather than global—Flood?
Sections: Why is it important? and Conclusion
Why is it important to accept that the days mentioned in Genesis 1 are regular in length?
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Volume 25, Numéro 5, September-October 2018
|Nombre de pages||2|
|Section||Lipids and cosmetics / Lipides et cosmétiques|
|Publié en ligne||31 octobre 2018|
Lipids, a natural raw material at the heart of cosmetics innovation
rue Gaspard MONGE parc industriel Bersol 2,
* Correspondence: firstname.lastname@example.org
Accepted: 27 September 2018
Lipids make up a significant part of the matter of all living organisms and play a key role in their metabolism and in their structure, especially in the composition of cell membranes. Cosmetics are products that are intended to be applied to healthy skin in order to protect it and improve its appearance. They therefore contribute to the well-being of both women and men.
Lipids and their derivatives form a protective barrier in the skin in order to keep out external elements, and help to keep the skin hydrated. Deficiencies in cutaneous lipids cause significant discomfort, which may develop into serious skin diseases.
In the cosmetic emulsions which account for the bulk of care and make-up products, around 70% of the raw materials used are lipids (plant oils, fatty acids and alcohols, etc.) or derivatives of lipids (emollients, emulsifiers), and it is these that make the emulsion stable and rich and in many cases effective.
Today, the lipids and their derivatives, used in cosmetic formulations, are solely of plant or biotechnological origin, which makes it possible to promote the harvesting of many oilseed crops and to develop new extraction methods and new syntheses, which must comply with new environmental regulations.
This first international congress “Lipids & Cosmetics” held in Bordeaux on January 25 & 26th 2018 was an opportunity to highlight recent innovations in this field and research initiatives. During these two days, successive conferences have largely dealt with the following themes:
eco-extraction processes for lipids obtaining;
selective extraction, from different sources, of potential active compounds;
the skin-active and cosmetic ingredient from different sources;
the role of unsaponifiable components as active ingredients in cosmetics applications;
relations between sensory properties and fats ingredients in different cosmetics products;
the necessity to increase new bio-based functional lipids for cosmetics;
innovative in vitro methods for risk and biological effects assessment;
various in vivo methods existing enabling to measure lipid formulae efficacy.
Innovation in the field of lipids is becoming a major issue for a cosmetics industry that is constantly evolving, using raw materials obtained by following the most environmentally friendly and secure procedures, which are regulated every step of the way, to guarantee its consumers the highest levels of quality, effectiveness and safety. Such innovations are often the fruit of long-standing partnership between public laboratories and private companies.
In this dossier, you will find some of the topics covered throughout this congress through the following articles of the speakers:
relations between the sensory properties and fat ingredients of lipsticks (de Clermont-Gallerande et al., 2018);
augmented bio-based lipids for cosmetics (Duprat-de-Paule et al., 2018);
tamanu oil and skin active properties: from traditional to modern cosmetic uses (Raharivelomanana et al., 2018);
lipids from seaweeds: selective extraction of potential active compounds (Terme et al., 2018);
separation and identification of polar polyphenols in oily formulation using high-performance thin-layer chromatography and mass spectroscopy techniques (Fadel et al., 2018);
the concept of sphingolipid rheostat in skin: a driving force for new active ingredients in cosmetic applications (Popa, 2018);
oily formulations challenge: how to evaluate their beneficial effects in hydrophilic cell-based models? (Olivier et al., 2018);
non invasive in vivo methods to measure lipidic formulae efficacy at the skin surface: advantages and limits (Prestat-Marquis, 2018).
- de Clermont-Gallerande H, Abidh S, Lauer A, Navarro S, Cuvelier G, Delarue J. 2018. Relations between the sensory properties and fat ingredients of lipsticks. OCL 25(5): D502. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018053. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
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- Olivier É, L’Hermitte A, Rat P, Dutot M. 2018. Oily formulations challenge: how to evaluate their beneficial effects in hydrophilic cell-based models? OCL 25(5): D508. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018057. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
- Popa I. 2018. The concept of sphingolipid rheostat in skin: a driving force for new active ingredients in cosmetic applications. OCL 25(5): D507. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018043. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
- Prestat-Marquis E. 2018. Non-invasive in vivo methods to measure lipidic formulae efficacy at the skin surface: advantages and limits. OCL 25(5): D509. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018051. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
- Raharivelomanana P, Ansel J-L, Lupo E, et al. 2018. Tamanu oil and skin active properties: from traditional to modern cosmetic uses. OCL 25(5): D504. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018048. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
- Terme N, Boulho R, Kucma J-P., Bourgougnon N, Bedoux G. 2018. Radical scavenging activity of lipids from seaweeds isolated by solid-liquid extraction and supercritical fluids. OCL 25(5): D505. Available from https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018054. [CrossRef] [EDP Sciences] [Google Scholar]
Cite this article as: Bonnet C. 2018. Lipids, a natural raw material at the heart of cosmetics innovation. OCL 25(5): D501.
© C. Bonnet, Published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and three other astronauts safely returned to Earth on Monday night aboard a SpaceX capsule after spending about 200 days in space.
The Crew Dragon capsule developed by U.S. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, splashed down off the coast of Florida, completing the third manned round-trip voyage of its kind to the International Space Station.
The Crew Dragon, including the Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, was certified last year by NASA for regular flights with astronauts, becoming the first commercial system in history to achieve such a designation.
Hoshide, 52, became the second Japanese astronaut to fly aboard a Crew Dragon, after Soichi Noguchi, 56. Hoshide was also the second Japanese after Noguchi to have completed flights on each of three spacecraft -- the U.S. Space Shuttle, Russia's Soyuz and the Crew Dragon.
The other members who traveled with Hoshide as part of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission were Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency.
Hoshide served as a commander of the ISS during the mission and conducted experiments with other crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory, including research on how cells sense gravity.
He also engaged in activities outside the station, raising his career spacewalking time to 28 hours and 17 minutes, a total higher than any of his Japanese peers.
SpaceX, founded by Tesla Inc. CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, developed the Crew Dragon as the successor to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Shuttle transportation system that was in service for 30 years through 2011.
In September, the company again made history by launching four private citizens aboard Crew Dragon for a three-day tour, in what became the first full crew of nonprofessional astronauts to circle the Earth from space.
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Sump Pump Installation, Maintenance & Repairs Gregory Texas
Did you understand? Sump pumps will fix most basement flooding and dripping problems as they are developed to get rid of water from basements and crawlspaces.
What is a Sump Pump?
A sump pump is a submersible pump that sits at the bottom of a sump pit, which is usually set up at the most affordable point in your basement or crawl area. Ground water surrounding your house's structure is channeled into a border drain system set up at the base of the structure. Water finds its way into the perforated drains and is quickly diverted to the sump pit. The sump pump, which is activated by a float switch, removes the water by pumping it to the nearest storm drain, dry well or detention pond. A sump pump switches on only when water inside the sump pit reaches a pre-determined level.
Most brand-new houses are geared up with sump pumps but older houses can be retrofitted with a sump system to prevent basement flooding. Our Midwest Plumbers plumbers are experts at sump pump setup and repair.
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Sump pumps can be hard-wired into a house's electrical system or be plugged into an outlet. Many sump pumps are equipped with a battery backup to ensure that the pump will work when the power is out, such as throughout a serious storm when it's especially essential that water is pumped far from your house.
If your house experiences a power outage out for a prolonged duration, frequent power blackouts or if your primary sump pump fails, a battery backup sump pump or one of numerous water powered backup systems (that use your house's water supply pressure to eliminate water from the sump pit) will secure your basement from water damage. A Midwest Plumbers plumbing professional can present several backup alternatives.
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Test your sump pump frequently to make sure it will run when the next big rainstorm occurs. Test it by pouring a bucket of water into the sump pit. The pump ought to switch on, remove the water from the pit and shut itself off immediately. Ensure that the float and the check valve relocation freely.
To clean your sump pit, remove any dirt, sand, gravel and other particles to increase the pump's efficiency and extend its life. Make sure that the discharge line opening is devoid of obstructions so that water can be pumped through the line and out of your basement or crawlspace. If you do not want to do this yourself, our team of Midwest Plumbers specialists mores than happy to help with your sump pump maintenance.
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Sepsis and septic shock-related muscle damage may be repairable by stem cell therapy, according to new findings. Sepsis is an inflammatory response to a severe infection and affects nearly 28 million people worldwide, claiming the lives of eight million. In those who survive sepsis, life-long complications may occur, which are not only debilitating, but can affect a person’s day to day life. A main complication of sepsis is loss of muscular capacity, which researchers have now aimed to combat.
The findings come from the Institut Pasteur Human Histopathology and Animal Models Unit, where researchers looked at the effects of sepsis on muscle stem cells. The researchers found that after sepsis, available mitochondria – a cells powerhouse – only provide satellite cells with enough energy for basic function, but nothing more to divide and differentiate into different muscle cells that are required for muscle growth and repair.
The findings prompted researchers to explore the possibility of using mesenchymal stem cell transplantation as a potential avenue for therapy. Mesenchymal stem cells are easily cultured in laboratories and, due to their properties, are great for cell therapy transplants to repair degenerative or traumatic lesions. Mesenchymal cells are able to fully restore metabolic and division capabilities of satellite cells.
Previous research found that seniors who experienced sepsis were more likely to experience mental or physical decline. Seniors are at a higher risk for sepsis due to their weaker immune systems, and even though survival from sepsis is more and more common, life-long complications may still arise.
The researchers reviewed data from 1,194 patients who were hospitalized for severe sepsis. Additionally, they found 9,223 patients who were assessed for cognitive and physical function.
Of the group, 516 survived sepsis and 4,517 were hospitalized, not for sepsis, but who partook in a follow-up survey. The researchers found that 60 percent of the hospitalizations due to severe sepsis were also linked with worsened cognitive functioning and physical functioning. The researchers concluded the rate of risk was 3.3 times higher to experience cognitive and physical impairment in those who survive severe sepsis.
With the help of medical advancement, more people are not only surviving sepsis, but are living normal lives post-sepsis as well. However, there are still many cases of life-long complications that can occur after sepsis.
Long-term effects of sepsis are more common in individuals who had a chronic illness prior to diagnosis, and these individuals may have a higher likelihood of experiencing organ failure. For example, if a person who already has kidney failure develops sepsis, they may require dialysis for the rest of their lives.
Sepsis can also permanently impede on a person’s immune system, which sets them up to easily develop other illnesses. Lastly, having sepsis increases risk of mortality, even many years after the infection has been resolved.
Some individuals may experience post-sepsis syndrome, which includes the following symptoms:
Sepsis treatment involves treating the underlying infection and treating any affected organs in order to reduce the risk of organ failure. If caught early enough, your doctor will put you on antibiotics and you can easily treat sepsis at home.
If sepsis becomes severe or you endure septic-shock (a condition that brings upon extremely low blood pressure), emergency medical attention is required and you may need to stay in a hospital to receive treatment.
The list of treatment options to treat sepsis includes:
Recovery from sepsis begins in the hospital, where you can slowly work your way back to moving around and taking care of personal duties, such as bathing, showering, or walking around. Rehabilitation is necessary to bring you back as close to your normal health prior to sepsis.
When you are finally released from the hospital, the following at-home care suggestions can help further push you towards recovery.
With the help from your doctor, nurses, family and friends, you can easily adjust after sepsis and work your way back to living a normal life with minimal complications.
Sepsis and bacteremia increase the risk of septic shock, which leads to life-threatening low blood pressure. Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection that occurs when chemicals are released into the blood stream to fight off infection, triggering inflammatory responses through the body. This inflammation can lead to many changes that can result in organ damage and failure. Continue reading…
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As someone who enjoys shopping from the comfort of my couch -- and because I avoid holiday retail rushes like root canals -- I have particularly enjoyed the rise of Amazon and all of the creature comforts it has afforded me.
So I was not surprised to hear that Amazon's online sales hit a record this past Black Friday holiday weekend, generating $5.03 billion in revenue, up from $3.34 billion last year. Additionally, the company's Cyber Monday shopping totals reached a record with $6.6 billion in revenue during the one-day online shopping rush.
Maybe more impressive is that Amazon reportedly accounted for 50 percent of all Black Friday online revenue this year and said yesterday that this year's Cyber Monday was its biggest shopping day ever.
This of course is wonderful news for Amazon, but nobody was more excited than the company's founder, Jeff Bezos, who saw his net worth sore to $100 billion after the weekend.
That is a lot of Amazon Dots.
And while these numbers are staggering and show only signs of increasing over the coming years, the accomplishments pale in comparison to another popular online shopping experience -- China's Singles' Day.
Originally started in 1993 at Nanjing University in China and creatively held on November 11 (11/11), Singles' Day was created to celebrate being single and provide for an occasion for single people to party together.
After a few years, China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba, picked up on the idea in 2014, trademarking the name and setting off ambitious plans to turn the holiday into the biggest shopping day of the year in China.
So far, it is working -- and in a big way.
This past Single's Day, Alibaba reported sales of $25.3 billion in revenue, a 40 percent increase from last year.
To put that in perspective, Singles' Day generated more in revenue than Amazon's Thanksgiving ($2.87 billion), Black Friday ($5.03 billion), Cyber Monday ($6.6 billion) and Prime Day in July ($1 billion) combined.
Without a doubt, Amazon has room to grow, albeit a smaller population with which to work. Consider, however, that a vast majority of US shoppers are still shopping in stores, with estimates in 2015 showing that 94 percent of all retail revenue was still be generated through traditional brick and mortar.
US shoppers simple prefer in-store shopping vs online, mainly because they like to "test the merchandise" before purchasing.
Personally, I think this will change, especially as more shoppers start to appreciate shopping in PJs, with a tall mug of hot chocolate, while getting caught up on Game of Thrones, versus the experience of wrestling a five year old for the last Fingerlings or a 45 year old for the last 4K television.
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Woodworkers have been painting their furniture for thousands of years. During that time, they have used many different types of paints. In fact, in historic terms what you will find at the paint store is limited: oil or latex. Modern paints are also pretty limited in their appearance. To put it simply – they are boring. Old paints looked a lot nicer.
If you want to achieve a nicer painted surface on your most recent masterpiece, you’re not going to find it in the paint store. Although it’s a bit extreme, you could make your own paint. This means mixing a bunch of hard-to-find ingredients. Some of the ingredients used in historical paints are poisonous and even illegal.
Happily, you do have a safe and easy-to-use option – milk paint. Woodworkers have used milk paint since antiquity. It remains a desirable finish today for the same reason it was favored by the ancients, and every generation of woodworkers in between. Milk paint is quick to apply, easy and forgiving. It results in a rich, lustrous and complex finish that improves with time. Yet it can be applied in an afternoon.
Milk paint doesn’t chip like regular paints and it doesn’t produce the boring, uniform color of modern products. Instead, it has subtle differences of shading that make it more like the paints used in centuries past.
As a piece of furniture finished in milk paint is used, the paint polishes where it is in contact with hands or body and takes on different levels of sheen. This is very subtle, but results in a finish that is complex and lively. Because of the way this wear plays with light, a milk-paint finish actually gets better as it ages.
Milk paint is nothing more than a mixture of lime, casein, clays and any one of a variety of earth pigments. In the past, woodworkers mixed their own milk paints using a simple formula that had been handed down from one generation to another. Today, it is far easier to buy it; I get mine from the Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company (milkpaint.com).
The paint arrives in powder form and is mixed with water. It has a distinctive earthy smell, but it is not disagreeable. There are no toxic fumes, and it can be washed down the kitchen sink. The manufacturer warns that prolonged exposure to lime can burn wet skin and can injure eyes. In 30 years of use I have never experienced any of these problems. To my mind, the finish is perfectly safe.
Milk paint is not difficult to use. However, it is very different from modern latex and oil paints. Unless you understand these differences you may not get the best results. Most of these differences stem from the fact that milk paint is water based. Oil and latex paints are much thicker than milk paint and sit as a skin on the surface of wood. There is limited penetration into the wood. When struck or scratched these paints will chip.
Milk paint and has far less body. It is much thinner and is applied in much thinner coats. Also, water-based milk paint soaks into the wood. That’s why antique collectors have always dreaded stripping this stuff. The good news is that milk paint does not chip. In normal use it will only wear.
To mix milk paint, just add water. The manufacturer recommends one part water to one part paint. My method for mixing it is simple. I use a clean wide-mouth plastic or glass jar. A wide mouth makes it easier to dip the brush. Salsa and peanut butter jars are perfect. In a pinch, I will use a small coffee can with a plastic lid for mixing milk paint. Because the mixture includes water, avoid a cardboard paint pot. The water may soak through and the cardboard may fall apart before you are done.
You can mix the paint with a stirrer driven by an electric drill. However, I just pretend I am a bartender making a martini for James Bond – shaken, not stirred. It doesn’t take long to mix the paint. About a minute of shaking is more than enough. The shaking or stirring will result in a paint that is frothy and full of air like whipped cream. You will not be happy trying to use this foam. I let freshly mixed milk paint sit for about an hour. This allows the foam to settle back down into a liquid.
Because milk paint is water based, the solids will not suspend like they do in oil and latex. They settle out fairly quickly. I always keep a stirring stick in the jar. I stir before I start painting and I stir regularly during the process.
Depending on the surface you want, you can either strain your milk paint or use it freshly mixed. Strained milk paint results in a slightly smoother finish. Unstrained, it is rougher to the touch. It is more matte, like an exceedingly fine sand paint. I usually do not strain, but when I do I pass the mixed paint through an old pair of panty hose. You can also buy a strainer at a paint-supply store.
A new packet of Old Fashioned Milk Paint is sealed in a foil bag. Once you open that packet the powder will slowly absorb moisture from the air. As it does, it loses some of its ability to bond. In other words, milk paint has a shelf life. For that reason, I buy one-ounce bags. If I have some powder left over, it is only a small amount. I don’t feel too bad about throwing it away. The unused product will last a lot longer if you close the bag tightly and store it in a dry environment. I’m a pretty frugal guy, but holding on to an open bag of paint strikes me as penny wise, pound foolish. I feel much safer opening a fresh bag.
Mixed milk paint, too, has a very short shelf life. Simply put, it spoils. It is a good idea to use it only on the day it is mixed. If you are not able to complete the finish in one day, you can stretch the mixed paint’s working life by keeping it in the refrigerator. After two days, it is like Ben Franklin’s advice about fish and guests: Get rid of it.
If my project has any small holes or blemishes I fill them with Plastic Wood. This material will take the paint. The water used to mix the milk paint will soften latex fillers, which may cause the milk paint to wrinkle. Remember, milk paint has almost no body. You can’t expect it to fill small holes the way oil or latex paint will. You have to take care of any voids before you begin. If not, they will show up when you are done.
While I am waiting for the froth to settle out of freshly mixed milk paint, I take on the next step in preparing my project. The water-based paint will raise the grain of the wood. If you apply milk paint directly to a freshly sanded surface, you will have to sand again between coats. I would rather not have to do this extra sanding. So, I raise the grain before I apply the first coat. I spray the wood I am painting with water.
I use a plastic spray bottle, the type available at any hardware store. The trick here is to moisten the surface thoroughly, but not as if you were washing a car. If the water puddles or runs, you are being too liberal.
There is another advantage to wetting the surface first. Glue spills or glue smears will prevent milk paint from bonding. You can readily see these spots on a moist surface. The glue can be removed by scraping. I use a scraper, a chisel or even a pocketknife. Once the wood is uniformly wet and all the glue is removed, allow the wood to dry. On a warm day or in a heated shop this happens very quickly. If you are in a hurry, you can speed things up with a hair dryer. Do not put your project out in the sun; that may cause parts to warp or split.
Finish-sand the wood and dust it with a clean, soft cloth. You also can use a tack rag.
Milk paint dries very quickly and unless a spill or splatter is wiped up immediately it becomes difficult to remove. I protect my workbench by putting down a layer of builder’s paper or by cutting open a large cardboard box. I also wear an apron to protect my clothes. I don’t bother with gloves. The paint washes off my hands easily.
when the paint is dry and do not leave a blemish. By the time you have finished applying the first coat and washed the brush, almost all the loose bristles have dropped out. Bristles are less of a problem with the second coat.
How wide a brush to use depends on the surface. For a piece of furniture with a lot of small, shaped parts, such as a Windsor chair, I like a 2″ brush. On wider surfaces, such as a chest or tabletop, I use up to a 4″ brush.
The manufacturer recommends using a foam brush. They probably work. I have tried them, but never liked them. I guess I’m just an old-fashioned kind of guy. A brush should have bristles.
The manufacturer recommends moistening the surface before applying paint, as this makes the application easier. While I do wet the wood to raise the grain before finish-sanding, I skip this recommended step. Yes, it easier to apply the first coat to a moist surface. However, in my experience the water used to moisten the wood thins the first coat so much that a third coat is usually necessary for complete coverage. So, I would end up doing more work in the long run.
Because milk paint is nearly water thin, it draws into the wood almost as quickly as it makes contact. This means that you can’t draw it as you can oil or latex paint. The action for applying the first coat is more like daubing. Do not apply so much that the milk paint puddles. This is far too much paint. Use less paint and pull it with the brush to work it into a thin film. You do need to work it so it spreads and is absorbed uniformly. In this way too, milk paint is different. It has to be worked vigorously with the brush.
I emphasize this point for an important reason. Read the next couple sentences, then read them again. Most of the problems people have with milk paint are caused by trying to flow it on like latex or oil paints. If the milk paint puddles, you can end up with a blotchy surface, even after several coats. I cannot stress enough the need to work the paint. Remember, while easy to use, milk paint is a very different product than you’re probably used to. Also, while applying the paint, remember to stir it regularly.
Because milk paint soaks into the wood, it is difficult to use it to cut in – the process of drawing a fine line of paint with a brush. It is not impossible to pick out areas or parts in a different color, but you do have to be careful. It is easier to paint parts a different color before they are joined. While this is not possible with a lot of furniture, it is a helpful trick when you can use it.
Allow the first coat to dry completely. Milk paint dries through evaporation. So, drying time depends on how warm and dry the air is in your shop. The paint takes a lot longer to dry on a rainy summer day than in a heated shop in the winter. This means that when painting a large piece, where you began painting has often dried thoroughly long before you are done. When this happens you can apply a second coat in as little as an hour. Areas that are not fully dry are very easy to see. They are much darker than the dry areas. So, there is little doubt as to when you can move on.
Once again I have to emphasize a point and warn you. When dry, the first coat will look like something the cat dragged in. Until you become familiar with this product, you will be sure you have ruined the furniture you spent so much time making. The first coat of milk paint is splotchy and uneven. It is also dead flat, like chalk. This is no time for a faint heart. Be brave. Have faith.
First, rinse out your brush with running water and store it in a jar of water. Remember milk paint dries fast. If you do not keep the brush wet, the paint will dry and you will not be able to use it for the second coat. That mistake could cost you a whole dollar.
You now need to decide what type of finish you want. If you want a very smooth surface, rub down the first coat. I use a fine Scotch-Brite pad. You can use #0000 steel wool, but it leaves a lot of black metal filings. No matter what fine abrasive you use, the excess milk paint will create a lot of dust. You have to clean up. You can use a tack rag, but it is probably overkill. It is only dry dust; you can brush it away with a clean, dry brush. If the piece is small enough, you can blow the dust away or even turn the piece upside down and tap it to let gravity do the job.
Before beginning the second coat, remove the excess water from your brush. I do this by wiping it over the paper layer on the bench. You could also use a paper towel.
The first coat of milk paint seals the wood. This makes it a lot easier to apply the second coat. Even though it is water thin, you can draw the second coat in a manner similar to oil and latex paints. However, do not try to flow it on. You still need to work the paint to spread it evenly and thinly. You can still make it blotchy by slopping it on. You want to avoid puddles and runs. Because the second coat is not being absorbed almost as fast as it is applied, it will take a lot less time than the first coat to complete the job.
Like the first coat, the second coat of milk paint will give you fits of panic. While the coverage is now more uniform, the paint again dries dead flat. It is flatter than anything you have ever seen. It has no luster or highlight. You can still see brush overlaps and areas that you touched up. Again, have courage.
If you want a very smooth surface, rub the second coat too. You can use a very fine Scotch-Brite pad. You also can do this by rubbing hard and vigorously with a soft cloth, such as a dry face cloth.
You will not generally need a third coat. If you want to apply one, follow the instructions for the second coat.
The paint needs to be sealed with a topcoat. This final surface has several purposes. First, the topcoat pulls the whole finish together by giving it a deeper, darker, rich color. It also will provide luster. Second, it protects the paint. Raw milk paint will water spot, and these spots are hard to remove.
Over the years, I have tried several different topcoats. I have finally settled on natural (untinted) wiping varnish.
I pour the wiping varnish into a wide-mouthed jar or a coffee can. I apply it with another of those cheap natural-bristle brushes. When doing this, be liberal. Be sure to wet all the painted surfaces. As you brush on the varnish, any overlaps and thin areas in the milk paint will stand out for several minutes, again causing you anxiety. But these problems that first appear as blemishes begin to blend together into a uniform color.
Let the wet varnish stand for about 10 minutes. Then, wipe off as much as you can with a soft, absorbent rag. Be careful with the rag. It can start a fire. Behind my shop I have an incinerator for getting rid of shavings and scraps. I throw oil-soaked rags in there, too. If you don’t have an incinerator, spread your rags on the pavement to dry.
Let this thin coat of varnish dry. Depending on the conditions, this could take as little as a couple hours. Or, you may have to wait until the next day. One coat of wiping varnish will dry to a very pleasant matte finish. If you want more sheen, apply a second coat, just as you did the first. The second coat will usually take longer to dry. Once it’s hard, I often apply a coat of Butcher’s wax.
I think of milk paint as being like a human face. A young face is perfect and beautiful, but it has no character. The interesting features we think of as character take time to develop in a human face. That is how it is with milk paint. This is a finish that gets better with age. It continues to become more subtle and complex. Use your newly finished piece of furniture as you normally would. Enjoy how the finish develops with time. Like love, the best part of milk paint is growing older together.
A chairmaker since 1971, Michael Dunbar is the founder of The Windsor Institute in Hampton, N.H. (thewindsorinstitute.com).
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The state department of corrections stands to benefit from an agreement signed today with West Virginia University at Parkersburg.
The college will serve as an academy for training of law enforcement and correctional officers...not just for new officers, but to help existing officers improve and increase their skills.
"We've had everything from probation officers to state police officers, regular police officers, someone going on to law school or get their masters degree," says Louis Ray, Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. "It's a wide variety of people who use this degree to continue to meet their goals."
The college's criminal justice program began as an associate program a few years ago...becoming a bachelor's program in 2009.
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Today, the popularity of laptops increases constantly.They are comfortable, not bulky and you can take them with you to any destination.Models laptops have much.Some are better, some characteristics are slightly worse.But a laptop can pump, that is to conduct a series of procedures that will improve its performance.
- Laptop screwdriver thin
Before you start pumping laptop, pay attention to exactly what you must have connectors on the details,space on the disk to avoid errors.You can add memory.Turn your laptop upside down.You will see the cover, which are twisted.Any of apparatus can in principle be replaced by other than a video card and motherboard.Open the lid, which is stored under a memory.It is indicated by the sign "chip".
Open the cover with a screwdriver.You have to put the memory stick.Clips press the screwdriver from different sides, but you can with your fingers.You will notice that the bar can get.Carefully remove her hands and put another.You c
an just stick the second memory into a neighboring nest, which will be empty.So you replace the memory prompt.Close the cover back.Now turn on your laptop and enter the BIOS.To do this, press the «F2» key.Save seen on the monitor settings and exit the BIOS.
Now you can begin to replace the hard drive.It is also under the lid, which you have to open.Icon indicating that there is stored a hard disk is provided in the form of drums.On the cover you even notice the grille that protects your laptop from overheating.Open the cover.You will see that the hard drive is installed on spacers.To get it, pull it out by hand.Fasteners turn and see where the drive.Remove the four bolts available.The disc will be released.Then pull it out and insert another, that is prepared.Return mounting back into place.Close the lid and turn on the laptop.Again, go into the BIOS.On the contrary the word Hard Disk displays the drive that you installed.It says that everything is done correctly.So fast you pump your laptop.Now he has become more powerful, and its performance improved. | <urn:uuid:4f27cd2d-6a24-4fae-9eb9-5f2d6100a5d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://comptips.info/en/pages/262922 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921001 | 452 | 2.125 | 2 |
Circuit efficiency for telecommunications
This line graph sample shows the circuit efficiency for telecommunications. It was designed on the base of the Wikimedia Commons file: Circuit efficiency Erlang B.png. [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circuit_efficiency_Erlang_B.png].
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
"In telecommunications systems, trunking is the aggregation of multiple user circuits into a single channel. The aggregation is achieved using some form of multiplexing. Trunking theory was developed by Agner Krarup Erlang, Erlang based his studies of the statistical nature of the arrival and the length of calls. The Erlang B formula allows for the calculation of the number of circuits required in a trunk based on the Grade of Service and the amount of traffic in Erlangs the trunk needs cater for. ...
In order to provide connectivity between all users on the network one solution is to build a full mesh network between all endpoints. A full mesh solution is however impractical, a far better approach is to provide a pool of resources that end points can make use of in order to connect to foreign exchanges. ...
The Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang is the founder of teletraffic engineering. Erlang developed the fundamentals of trunking theory while investigating how a large population can be serviced by a limited number of servers. Trunking theory leverages off the statistical behaviour of users accessing the network, these characteristics discussed in the assumptions of the Erlang B equation." [Teletraffic engineering/Trunking. Wikiversity]
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Zero-Carbon Fuel Monitor
Scale-up of re-fuels is progressing. Typical capacities for proposed production plants have increased from around 50MW in the initial release of The Monitor to more than 100MW in this latest report.
However, fuel supply solutions largely remain at pilot or small-scale commercial trial. Substantial scaling is required to meet the demand expected from growth in zero emissions vessels.
We continue to see new fuel production projects and ship concept designs announced. However, many are now awaiting investment decisions, several being expected by the end of 2023.
Fuel cost remains a significant barrier to investment, and the policy measures required to close the gap are not in place yet. The next twelve to twenty-four months will be crucial for progress in these areas.
The sustainability conversation continues to be high profile. Discussions are in progress at the policymaker level, including the Fit-For-55 Fuel EU Maritime proposals and the ongoing IMO process on lifecycle analysis.
However, we do not yet understand these fuel’s long-term impact on environment and socio-economic landscapes. Nor does the regulatory framework support sustainability reporting and certification of fuels.
Trends have shown an average increase in readiness across all fuels and supply chain stages. Here are the readiness levels at-a-glance for the fuels under consideration from three perspectives: technology (TRL), investment (IRL) and community (CRL).
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Chinese characters are always changing!
1. Do you think English has always stayed the same?
w did these changes happen?
Hwæt we garde na ingear dagum þeod cyninga þrym ge frunon huða æþelingas ellen fre medon.
Sonnet No. 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Please go through the Reading strategy and tell me how to read a history article.
Reading a history article
Reading a normal text
1. Notice dates and years. 2. Make a time chart, listing important information, such as times, places and events.
Check the answers on page24:
Fill in the blanks with the following dates from the article. 5th century 9th century 10th century 1066 14th century 16th century
5th century 1. Before the middle of the ____________, people in Britain did not speak English.
2. Modern English began to develop in the
____________. 16th century
3. Almost everyone in England began to
speak Middle English in the 14th century _____________.
4. At the end of the _____________, 9th century Norwegian words began to be used in the English language. 5. The Normans occupied England in _____. 1066 6. By the _____________, people in 10th century England used Old English as the official language.
Skimming to get general ideas
Skimming Reading Comprehension I The topic of the text is _____________. A. that old English is different from the English today B. how Middle English formed C. English and its history D. that English will keep changing
Skimming Reading Comprehension II 1.What are the three kinds of English discussed in the article? Old English, Middle English and Modern English. 2. In what way is English still changing? English is still changing in many ways, such as in vocabulary and pronunciation.
Before the middle of 5th century
Two Germanic groups occupied Britain The Vikings began to Old English move Britain Celtic Anglo-Saxon (base)
Old English Anglo-Saxon (base of old English)
5th---9th century At the end of 9th By the 10th century
( official language)
language of Norway language of Denmark
In 1066,__________________________________________ the Normans defeated England and took control ____________ However, during the 250 years,__________ French of the country. _________________________________________________ didn’t replace English as the first language. By the later half of the 14th century___________________ English had come ________________________ into widespread use in England . In 1399, __________________________________________ English was used for all official events. French’s impact(影响） on English: 1. More words with similar meanings 2. Borrowed words for meat: mutton/ beef/pork
3. French ways of making plurals
Many words with similar meanings
the same meaning ( 生病的） ill sick
More words with similar meanings.
the same meaning (回答）
man- men shoe—shoes Foot – feet house—houses tooth — teeth glass — glasses Child — children
The word for the animal:
pi g pork / bacon
The word for the meat:
1. When did modern English begin? Modern English began during the Renaissance in the 16th century. 2. What changes happened during this period of time? English includes many Latin and Greek words. Pronunciation also went through huge changes .
3. Is Modern English the end of all these changes?
No , English will keep on changing.
The development of English
Languages Old English of Germanic groups
Languages of Vikings
Latin and Greek
Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1. Why does the English language have so many rules that confuse people? Because it is made up of the grammar and vocabulary that people from different countries and cultures brought with them to Britain.
2. Where did the word English come from? It came from the word Engle, as it was spelt in Old English. 3. Why can words with similar meanings be found in the English language? These words with similar meanings developed because each word came from a different language.
4. Who made the greatest contribution to the development from Old English to Middle English? The French-speaking Normans, who took control of England in 1066. 5. Why are many of the words for animals different from those for meat in English? The words for the animals came from Old English, while the words for the meat came from Old French.
Language borrows words from each other, can you list some of them?(page25 part F)
Chinese words from English:
Coffee(咖啡), sofa(沙发), model(模特儿), modern(摩登), Sandwich(三明治), hamburger(汉堡), cartoon(卡通)
English words from Chinese:
Pingpong, kongfu, tofu, lose face,
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Oracle Database Errors or Warnings from Error ORA-21707 to ORA-22056
ORA-21707: pin duration is longer than allocation duration
Cause: The pin duration supplied by the user is longer than the allocation duration. This affects operations such as pinning and setting default parameters.
Action: User should use a shorter pin duration or use the null duration.
ORA-21708: inappropriate operation on a transient object
Cause: User attempted to perform an inappropriate operation on a transient object. Operations that cannot be applied to a transient object include flushing and locking.
Action: User should avoid performing such operation on a transient object.
ORA-21709: cannot refresh an object that has been modified
Cause: User attempted to refresh an object that has been marked for delete, update or insert (new).
Action: User should unmark the object before refreshing it.
ORA-21710: argument is expecting a valid memory address of an object
Cause: The object memory address that is supplied by the user is invalid. The user may have passed in a bad memory address to a function that is expecting a valid memory address of an object.
Action: User should pass in a valid memory address of an object to the function.
ORA-21779: duration not active
Cause: User is trying to use a duration that has been terminated.
Action: User should avoid performing such operation.
ORA-21780: Maximum number of object durations exceeded.
Cause: This typically happens if there is infinite recursion in the PL/SQL function that is being executed.
Action: User should alter the recursion condition in order to prevent infinite recursion.
ORA-22053: overflow error
Cause: This operation’s result is above the range of Oracle number.
Action: Decrease the input value(s) so that the result is in the range of Oracle number.
ORA-22054: underflow error
Cause: This operation’s result is below the range of Oracle number.
Action: Increase the input value(s) so that the result is in the range of Oracle number.
ORA-22055: unknown sign flag value [string]
Cause: Signed flag used is not OCI_NUMBER_SIGNED or OCI_NUMBER_UNSIGNED.
Action: Use either OCI_NUMBER_SIGNED or OCI_NUMBER_UNSIGNED as sign flag.
ORA-22056: value [string] is divided by zero
Cause: Given value is divied by zero.
Action: Modify divisor value to be non-zero.
Above are list of Oracle Database Errors or Warnings from Error ORA-21707 to ORA-22056 received while performing certain operation against Oracle Database or related products.
What are Oracle Database Error Messages?
Oracle Error Messages may be returned while using products which are part of Oracle Database. Each Oracle Database Error or Warning Message mentioned above contains the Warning or Error Message Statement, a short explanation of the probable causes of the Error message, and a recommended action.
Hope this was helpful.
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South African Journal of Chemistry
versión On-line ISSN 1996-840X
versión impresa ISSN 0379-4350
DARKO, Godfred et al. Pre-concentration of toxic metals using electrospun amino-functionalized nylon-6 nanofibre sorbent. S.Afr.j.chem. (Online) [online]. 2012, vol.65, pp.14-22. ISSN 1996-840X.
This paper presents a new approach for pre-concentrating toxic metals (As, Cd, Ni and Pb) in aqueous environments using an amino-functionalized electrospun nanofibre sorbent. The sorbent, composed of nanofibres of average diameter 80 ± 10 nm and specific surface area of 58 m2 g-1, exhibited fast adsorption kinetics (<20 min) for As, Cd, Ni and Pb. The optimal pH for the uptake of As, Cd, Ni and Pb were 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 11, respectively. The adsorption process best fitted the Freundlich isotherm and followed the first-order kinetics. The highest pre-concentration achieved using the sorbent was 41.99 (Ni in treated wastewater). The capacity of the sorbent to pre-concentrate the toxic metals was compared with those of aqua regia and HNO3+H2O2 digestions. The pre-concentration factors achieved for Cd in river water samples can be ranked as aqua regia digestion (0.73) > adsorption (0.34) > HNO3+H2O2 (0.23) digestion. A similar trend was observed for Ni in river water as well as Ni and Cd in tap water samples. Pb ions in the river water samples were pre-concentrated slightly better using the two digestion methods (pre-concentration factors ~22) compared to adsorption method (pre-concentration factor ~21). The use of the electrospun amino-functionalized nanofibre sorbentpresents an efficientand cost-effective alternative for pre-concentration of toxic metals in aqueous environments.
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The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
Posted: December 10, 2007
Carbon fibers for nuclear reactor safety
(Nanowerk News) Carbon fibers that are only one-tenth the size of a human hair, but three times stronger than steel, may hold up to the intense heat and radiation of next generation nuclear power generators, providing a safety mechanism. The “Gen IV” power-generating reactors are being designed to provide low-cost electricity, but with a built-in safety mechanism current reactors do not have.
The Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded chemical engineering professor Amod Ogale, deputy director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF), a $450,000 grant to research carbon fibers embedded into a carbon matrix that do not melt in extreme temperatures for potential use in Gen IV power generators. Presently, about 20 percent of electricity produced in the United States is from nuclear sources.
“One proposed design of the next generation of nuclear plants will consist of a helium-cooled generator that will operate in the range of 1,200 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit,” says Ogale. “A critical safety requirement for this reactor is that it can shut down safely in the event of a malfunction where coolant flow is interrupted. Steel alloys currently used internally in reactors melt at the peak temperature of 2500 degrees Fahrenheit, where carbon fiber composites do not.”
Carbon fiber composites are already used successfully in jetliner brake systems because of their ability to withstand high temperatures without melting. However, their performance in a nuclear environment is not adequately understood.
Ogale and his team will study the neutron-radiation damage effects on carbon fibers.
His prior research has shown that including carbon nanotubes (large molecules of carbon that are tube-shaped and 30 nanometers in size) in carbon fibers leads to the development of a more uniform texture that improves the properties of the ultra-thin carbon fibers.
In his research, Ogale expects to generate high graphitic crystallinity, a solid ordered pattern which is evenly distributed so that any changes in fiber properties due to radiation can be minimized.
Irradiation experiments will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at Oak Ridge National Labs. South Carolina State University researchers also will participate in the study.
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On Saturday, May 15, 2021, AAUW and coalition members from throughout Illinois participated in a webinar to learn about the critical importance of Paid Family Leave and how to advocate for PFL legislation in Illinois. This event was presented by AAUW Naperville Area and supported by AAUW-IL.
The event included a screening of the thought-provoking film Zero Weeks and discussion with two distinguished panelists. View panelists’ presentations.
Did you know that the United States is the only industrialized country WITHOUT a federal paid leave law? That’s right, ZERO WEEKS of paid leave is what the USA offers in comparison to other countries, some of which offer up to a year of paid leave.
Many of us may be familiar with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which provides unpaid leave and the use of paid sick days for our own illnesses or after childbirth. However, even this unpaid coverage is not available to all. Most workers do not have access to pay when they are unable to work due to illness, after childbirth or adoption, after their partner has a child, or when they must care for a family member. Thus, unpaid workplace interruptions frequently occur, and these disproportionately impact women. The consequence of these interruptions over time and in the aggregate contributes to the ongoing gender-based pay gap.
A plethora of research exists to show that Paid Leave legislation benefits families, children and employers. Illinois Senate Bill 835, the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act, sponsored by Senator Villivalam, has been introduced into the Illinois 102nd General Assembly. This comprehensive paid leave bill has the buy-in of many important constituencies in the state. The time is now to pass this important bill in Illinois and have our state join the nine other states and the District of Columbia with a paid leave law in place while we await federal legislation. | <urn:uuid:64beb117-e962-49c9-aca3-f869c66629a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naperville-il.aauw.net/2021/04/08/paid-leave-in-illinois-the-time-is-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.965663 | 382 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Hope for the Fatherless (HFTF) in Ethiopia has started implementing Children First Software (CFS) in their children’s home. During the implementation of CFS at the home, a young, expectant mom was referred to HFTF. Due to challenging circumstances, the mom made the decision to place her baby for adoption. With the help of CFS, HFTF staff created a plan for the baby before the baby was even born. The plan guarantees adoption shortly after birth, resulting in the baby never having to live in a government institution.
On May 18th, 2022, the mother gave birth to a healthy, beautiful, baby girl. The process for the baby’s adoption has proven to be drastically more efficient through CFS as the software keeps all her information and documents on one digital profile.
Right now, the baby girl is being cared for at HFTF as her adoption finalizes. She is the first newborn baby to be fully registered on CFS at HFTF and certainly not the last. The progress of CFS in HFTF will allow more babies to be adopted at a faster rate which will help bridge the gap of institutionalized care and family care.
“HFTF is grateful for an easy and accessible way to immediately document all the baby’s paperwork and set a plan for her, all thanks to CFS!” | <urn:uuid:91542b9a-9c94-4202-971e-7a14acf96ec9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bebglobal.org/this-is-what-software-can-do-first-expected-newborn-registered-on-cfs-in-ethiopia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.960056 | 286 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that one in six Americans speaks a language other than English at home. While most can speak some English when needed, experts estimate that as many as 20 million people, or about 1 in every 15 people in the U.S., speaks and understands little English.
To provide the best care, health care providers must be able to communicate effectively across languages and cultures. GHS’ Language Services Department works to eliminate language access as a barrier to high quality health care. The mission of the department is to bridge communication and cultures compassionately and innovatively for the patients, families and communities we serve. We have one of the largest departments of this kind in the country and offer interpretation services free of charge.
The GHS Language Services Department has more than 50 qualified medical interpreters who provide services in person, over the phone or by video. Interpreters serve GHS hospitals, outpatient facilities and physician practices.
In addition to Spanish, here are some of the most commonly requested languages:
- American Sign Language
Available around the clock, the Language Services Department provides access to more than 200 languages over the phone and many in person.
In addition to offering an impressive array of interpreting services, GHS is one of the few health systems in the nation that features a team of in-house translators who translate a wide variety of GHS documents.
Services for the Deaf
GHS provides interpreting services for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients using both in-person and video-remote interpreters. Our video interpreting service provides the patient with a view of the interpreter through a computer screen.
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Explore the Complexities of Social Environments
As the scientific study of human social behavior, sociology studies range from micro-dynamics of human experiences to the larger processes involved in the creation of social institutions, organizations and social structures. This program is an excellent way to supplement a major in another social science, business or any major related to health and public services.
Diverse Topics about the Human Condition
With a minor in sociology from University of Houston-Clear Lake, you will explore
topics relating to social theory, medicine, stratification, immigration, religion,
race/ethnicity, and family. Such a course of study will sharpen your skills in critical
thinking, communication, and social policy, which you can put to good use in any career.
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Seen & Heard: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs and Oral Histories
MdHS will celebrate the Paul Henderson Photograph Collection and the McKeldin-Jackson Oral History Project on the evening of February 23 with a panel discussion and small accompanying exhibition. The esteemed panelists will discuss their personal experiences and expertise as they relate to the collections and the greater picture of the civil rights struggle in Maryland. Photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera will be on display for guests to view before and after the panel discussion, adding a visual element to an evening of audio recordings and recollections from the panel.
Larry Gibson, Professor of Law at University of Maryland, is also on the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Historical Trust, Commissioner for Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and Chairman of the Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration, and Impact of the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland.
Dr. Helena Hicksparticipated in the Read’s Drugstore sit-ins in downtown Baltimore in 1955, is a MorganState graduate and Commissioner on the Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation.
Dr. Barry Lanman is the Director of the Martha Ross Center for Oral History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He conducted some of the interviews in the McKeldin-Jackson Oral History Project.
Dr. Michelle Scott, also from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is an Associate Professor who specializes in the study of race and ethnicity in the American experience with emphasis on African American history, black musical culture, and women’s studies.
William F. Zorzi was a reporter and editor at The Sun of Baltimore for nearly twenty years, writer for the last three seasons of “The Wire” television program on HBO, and is currently at work with partner David Simon on a book about the rise of the drug culture in Baltimore, using Pennsylvania Avenue and its habitues as the vehicles to tell the story.
The panel will be introduced by Dr. Skipp Sanders, Interim Director for the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture and moderated by John Gartrell, Archivist at the Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center.
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For additional information on the collections being discussed, please visit the following websites.
Paul Henderson Photograph Collection link: http://www.mdhs.org/library/projects-partnerships/henderson-collection
McKeldin-Jackson Oral History Project link: http://www.mdhs.org/library/projects-partnerships/mckeldin-jackson-project
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Succeeding as a Distance Education Student
How to Succeed as a Distance Education Student
Ø Check your ECU email account regularly and often. Here is where you will get important notices from ECU and MTL, including information about course offerings, priority registration, etc. Here is where you will hear from your adviser and your individual professors about coursework, CAPs, etc. If you go for long periods of time without checking your ECU email acct., you are likely to miss some very important stuff and drive your professors bonkers!
Ø Keep up with the Academic Calendar. You can find it on the ECU Homepage (www.ecu.edu): click on the calendar icon on the little toolbar in the upper left (where the Bb icon is) and select Academic Calendar. Here you will find all the important dates for Registration, deadlines for dropping courses without a grade or completing incompletes, etc.
Ø Locate Blackboard and familiarize yourself with the Bb Student Support Center.
Go to the ECU Homepage (www.ecu.edu) and click on the Bb icon at the upper left of the page (where you also find the OneStop icon that takes you Banner). Select Student Support Center and explore it thoroughly. You may also be interested in the Bb Facebook Support Group, where you can share problems, get answers to FAQs, etc. (Most MTL professors use Blackboard for their DE classes. Occasionally though, a professor may use a Website of his/her own design. )
Ø Log in to Bb using your Pirate ID and password. A page will come up that lists the courses you are taking. Click on the course titles to access your classes. Note that a class you have just registered for will not show up on this page until your professor has made it available. Some professors don’t make courses available until just before the semester starts; others will make their classes available much earlier so that you can get a head start. Keep checking regularly.
Ø Review each entire Blackboard course site carefully at the beginning of the course. Each professor uses the Bb platform differently, so it may take you some time to familiarize yourself with the course layout. Some professors post specific assignments on a weekly basis; others will have the whole course up from the beginning. Either way, you want to click on every menu button and open every folder to discover the wonders available for your use.
Ø Download materials from Bb ahead of time. If Bb goes down or you lose your internet connection, you’ll have what you need. Download by right clicking on the document title; this is much faster than opening a document inside Bb and then saving it.
Ø Save all your own work obsessively and back it up often to an external storage device. Most professors will not accept computer glitches or crashes as excuses for late work.
Ø Save all the work you do in your classes until you have finished your degree. It’s especially important to save papers with your professors’ comments and grades. You will have evidence if there should be a grade dispute or the professor loses his/her grade book or computer in a hurricane (been there!). You will also be able to track your own progress as a writer and critic and thus make better use of your education and maximize your experience with the CAP. If you choose the Portfolio CAP, you will need these marked papers for the portfolio itself. In addition, when it comes time to request recommendation letters from your professors, those marked, graded essays help your professors write standout letters with lots of specifics! | <urn:uuid:6be07442-aadb-4efa-a91a-5b81ef626e14> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/taylorr/how-to-succeed-as-a-distance-education-student-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00083-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916502 | 750 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Effect of Using Ausubel's Assimilation Theory and the Metacognitive Strategy (K.W.L) in Teaching Probabilities and Statistics Unit for First Grade Middle School Students’ Achievement and Mathematical Communication
AbstractThe study aimed to investigate the effect of using Ausubel's assimilation theory and the metacognitive strategy (K.W.L) in teaching statistics and probability unit for students of second grade – middle school students’ achievement and mathematical communication. The study sample consisted of 168 grade – middle school students in Hail. They were randomly divided into two experimental groups; the first (N=56) students and the second (N=56), and a control group (N=56). The first experimental group was studied using Ausubel's model; the second experimental group was studied using the metacognitive strategy (K.W.L); and the control group was studied using the conventional method. The research tools used in this study is an achievement test and scale for mathematical communication. The results showed that there were significant differences in achievement for the first and the second experimental group compared to the control group. Hence, this demonstrates the effectiveness of these two methods in teaching. The results showed statistically significant differences in mathematical communication due to the teaching methods. In addition, the second experimental group outperformed the first experimental group and the control group. The results also showed a statistically significant difference between pre-administration and the postadministration in favor of the post-administration for the three research groups. Further recommendations were suggested for future research.
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Al Tamimi, A.-R. (2017). The Effect of Using Ausubel’s Assimilation Theory and the Metacognitive Strategy (K.W.L) in Teaching Probabilities and Statistics Unit for First Grade Middle School Students’ Achievement and Mathematical Communication. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 13(1), 276. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2017.v13n1p276 | <urn:uuid:dd4c854e-f225-42d0-9b3e-3093890df097> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/8752 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.916624 | 438 | 2.875 | 3 |
In this blog series we are exploring what it would take to move toward a future state of education that is purpose-built for student-centered learning. Moving toward a competency-based education model requires fundamental shifts in the systems, structures and assumptions that the traditional model of education is rooted in. We need bold leadership to transform K-12 education systems and policy. We need to build collaborative and distributed leadership at all levels of the education system to lead this transformation.
Why Building Capacity to Lead Change is Important
There is a lack of attention in state policy to modernizing teacher and leader credentialing systems, licensing, professional development, preparation programs and ultimately, developing competency-based pathways for the next generation education workforce. States have an important opportunity to scale and implement student-centered learning environments that meet the needs of students and communities by investing in and supporting change leaders.
There needs to be an intentional process to identify, recruit and develop leaders in the field of personalized, competency-based education. Collaboration is necessary to create competencies for educational leadership and to design development and recruitment strategies that will attract and retain a diverse cohort of next generation of education leaders. Policymakers can take up the mantle of change leader themselves, and in doing so, can engage with students, parents and communities to collaboratively shape the vision for student success.
State Policy Action Steps for Building the Capacity to Lead Change
State policymakers could consider ways to create a pipeline of change leaders to implement and scale student-centered learning models. States can begin this work by considering the following action steps:
- Action #1: Identify the competencies leaders need to transform to competency-based education systems.
- Action #2: Convene a working group to examine pre-service, training, licensure and certification issues and barriers for education leadership and what steps need to be taken to lead the shift to competency-based education.
- Action #3: Commit to ensuring that educational leadership development systems are designed to produce change leaders dedicated to advancing equity through transformation to next generation school models, and give consideration to recruiting and supporting diverse education change leaders.
- Action #4: Examine the challenges and opportunities for preparation programs to modernize their offerings to support competency-based systems.
- Action #5: Fund pilots for developing and scaling innovative leadership preparation models.
- Action #6: Create multiple pathways for licensure and certification that are competency based.
- Action #7: Work with the accrediting agencies to recognize new skills needed for competency-based education systems in the standards and accreditation process.
Results From Building Capacity to Lead Change
State policymakers have an important role to play in creating a new pipeline of leaders advancing equity at each level of the system, who are willing to do what it takes to ensure that all students can succeed. State leaders can incentivize the development of emerging leaders and affirm and support current leaders working to transform learning.
Stay tuned to the next blog post where we will dig into how states can develop a pipeline of change leaders prepared to make the vision of the future state a reality.
This is the fifteenth article in the Current to Future State series that explores the ideas in the iNACOL report titled: Current to Future State: Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning.
- iNACOL ‒ State Policy & K-12 Competency-Based Education
- iNACOL – Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education
- iNACOL ‒ Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
- iNACOL ‒ Promising State Policies to Advance Personalized Learning
- iNACOL ‒ Meeting The Every Student Succeeds Act’s Promise: State Policy to Support Personalized Learning
- CompetencyWorks ‒ Reaching the Tipping Point: Insights on Advancing Competency Education in New England
- OECD ‒ Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes: Common Policy Challenges
- KnowledgeWorks and iNACOL ‒ Laying the Foundation for Competency Education: A Policy Guide for Next Generation Educator Workforce
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Damon Mackin is a local documentarian who produced The Quarantine Project, a visual that captures present-day during COVID-19 season.
Starring Mackin, the short film is a snapshot of a typical day in the life during quarantine and its nuances. A visual we can all currently relate to, the film features various sentimental Frederick landmarks as we watch Mackin fill his day with people, places, and things — COVID style.
Mackin says, “I made the movie out of pure boredom from not being able to do the things I would usually do after work. I wanted to show people that finding creative ways to adapt to any unlikely situation will help you make light of it.”
The synopsis is as follows:
“When boredom meets preparation.” That’s how the saying goes right? As we all have been experiencing, 2020 has been one for the history books. Global pandemics, hidden political agendas, oh; and “murder hornets.” As if the fear of catching COVID-19 wasn’t a good enough reason to keep us inside. What do you do when the life you knew is taken away from you? Do you wallow in thinking about the life you were forced to leave behind? Or do you find ways to adapt to the new circumstances placed upon you? Everyone should have a Quarantine Project they are working on during this time. This is one of mine. Introducing: The Quarantine Project.
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Transcript for A Message of Hope from Newtown, Conn.
And finally tonight, so many americans had hoped to console the people of newtown, connecticut. But discovered that many of them were teaching us about strength. A gift of wisdom, now, from teachers, grieving parents children, as the president said, inspiring us to look for the sun to rise every day. We know that there were other teachers who kept steady through it all. And reassured their students by saying, "wait for the good guys. They're coming." We have to be absolutely quiet and I said, there are bad guys out there now, we need to wait for the good guys. Show me your smile. If they started crying, i would take their face and say, it's going to be okay, show me your smile. The school's staff did not flinch. They did not hesitate. So, I said to them, I said, i need you to know that I love you all very much. And that it's going to be okay, because I thought that was the last thing they were ever going to hear. Giving their lives to protect the children in their care. My cousin vicki and her first grade classroom took her students and huddled them into a closet and then shielded the children in the closet. Unfortunately, she lost her life, but knowing the way she lost it, we're proud to call her family and that she was a hero, trying to protect those children. As a community, you've inspired us, newtown. You've looked out for each other. You've cared for one another. You've loved one another. This is how newtown will be remembered. Our hearts and our prayers go out to them. This includes the family of the shooter. I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you. My little girl was so full of life. And was going to get cowgirl boots for christmas, isn't coming hope. I found a little journal, i don't know what it's from. It is what I needed. "I love so much, mama." It's like she knew we were going to need something to help us get through this. That's just like, what an amazing little girl she was.
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In many projects we want to have connection to PC. In most cases a serial interface works fine. Using it we can read data, send commands or simply debug program running on chip. Embedded programmers are looking for simple way controlling serial data flow. In many cases simple terminal is enough, but if you want to add some intelligence to program, then you need something more. One of great choices is Python. It is free, multiplatform tool that enables running programs using smart scripting language. Strong community has written tons of handy modules – libraries to do various tasks. One of these modules is called pyserial which allows accessing serial ports using simple functions. Pyserial is successfully used in many great projects so why not continue using it. Things changed a bit when Python3 has been released. The problem is that all modules were written for Python2. Developers of Python 3 decided not to add backwards compatibility to ver2. So many modules stopped working in Python3. Luckily pyserial is supported in Python3.
Tutorial from scienceprog gives a simple example on how to set up pyserial to be used with Python3.3. An example script shows how to read incoming text messages from serial line and displays on console screen. As test data there were ASCII table sent from ChipKIT UNO32. Given example could serve as starting point for new project that connect microcontrollers to PC.
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A couple of interesting whitepapers crossed my desk over the past week whose message can be boiled down to a simple proposition: cloud providers can achieve economies of scale that preclude almost any organization’s data center from being cost-competitive. Doing the math on one real-life example, a Microsoft data center, gets pretty interesting.
One paper comes from Microsoft, called The Cost of a Cloud: Research Problems in Data Center Networks. It focuses on the general cost structures of data centers and discusses how they can be reduced. The second is the work of a single author named Steve Denegri and is called Cloud Computing Dominance Through Renewable Energy; it was originally published by Virtual Strategy Magazine. Virtual Strategy has very kindly arranged to make the paper available at its website.
The Microsoft paper describes the challenges of reducing overall costs structures of data centers and discusses various strategies, including migrating redundancy and robustness measures (e.g., UPS) from individual data centers to the agglomeration of data centers. With this approach, less investment is required, since costs associated with hardening individual data centers can be foregone. Another area the paper addresses is the overall power draw of data centers; while not necessarily proposing specific technologies to reduce power use (save running the center at a higher overall temperature to reduce AC costs), it does recommend finding cost incentives to motivate system users to spread demand to a more even use pattern. This would have the effect of reducing peak demand and therefore reduce overall power consumption. The paper contains a table on Page 1 identifying the various components of data center costs; servers are the number one cost at 45%, but “power distribution and cooling and electrical utility costs” are numbers two and three, summing to 40%.
The second paper, as indicated by its title, focuses on the energy component of data centers. The author, who I had the chance to speak with after reading his paper, is a former investment banking financial analyst; his facility for research and digging into numbers certainly shows in the paper. He has done a lot of digging into the cost structures of data centers; specifically, he decomposed the cost structure of a huge Microsoft data center (on the order of 100K servers in a single facility) in San Antonio, Texas. His paper quotes a Microsoft source (uncited, unfortunately) that energy comprises 82% of the total cost of running a data center.
Denegri digs into the deal that Microsoft struck with the City of San Antonio for property tax relief as well as with the local power company, CPS Energy. From his research, he concludes that Microsoft obtains a 22% discount on its property taxes (this is based on a discount extended to companies that make very large real property investments). With regard to power, Microsoft obtains a 45% discount, based on using enough electricity to fall into a “Super Large Power” user category. This advantage may be enhanced in the future, Denegri states, because of potential taxes to be applied to carbon-based power. Microsoft may be able to strike an arrangement to have its data center powered by clean energy sources (e.g., wind or solar), thereby avoiding these additional taxes.
One cost factor touched only briefly addressed in both papers is labor costs. Both note that these large data centers tend to run leanly staffed; indeed, the Microsoft paper specifically notes that one factor in reducing costs is the high level of operations automation in these cloud centers. In fact, it states that one of the largest source of problems in data centers is manual management, which introduces breakages. It goes on to say that another factor in lean operations costs is hardware standardization. In contrast to corporate data centers, in which the servers tend to be procured on a project-by-project basis, which introduces heterogeneity, cloud centers focus on homogeneity in hardware.
Denegri notes that in the Property Tax agreement Microsoft struck with San Antonio, it received the most favorable tax break despite not qualifying on the minimum number of jobs required: instead of at least 500, Microsoft’s facility will employ an estimated 75 people. That works out to somewhere in the neighborhood of each employee responsible for around about 1000 servers. To assess what advantage a cloud provider might have versus an internal data center, two things must be recognized:
1. There are no hard numbers on how many servers an operations person can manage in a traditional corporate data center. In digging around, I found estimates ranging from 75 to 200.
2. It must be acknowledged that the a cloud operations person and a data center operations person is not a directly comparable position. This is because operations in a traditional large data center encompasses the entire hardware and software stack, whereas in a cloud environment, operations is responsible for the hardware and some amount of the software stack, but definitely not the application itself.
Nevertheless, it seems clear that cloud centers must, through their homogeneity and standardization, achieve a significant efficiency gain for operations personnel. Perhaps it could be placed at 50%, though I think that understates it.
With these two papers in hand, let’s perform an interesting experiment. Let’s attempt to estimate the total cost advantage one of these cloud data centers has versus a traditional corporate data center. The individual factor cost advantages estimated are:
1. Power: 45%; this comes from the Denegri paper.
2. Property Taxes: 22%; this also comes from the Denegri paper.
3. Operations Staff Costs: 50%; I’ve just worked out this estimate by comparing the headcount numbers from the Denegri paper to research I performed on the Internet.
The next question is, what proportion of the total cost do each of these factors represent? Here is a swag:
Power: 40%; this comes from the Microsoft paper, please note that the Denegri paper quotes Microsoft (a different Microsoft source from the authors of the paper, presumably) as estimating power at 82% of total data center cost. By using the lower Microsoft paper estimate, we are reducing the total cloud center cost advantage vis a vis traditional data center.
Property Taxes: 20%. In the Denegri estimates, he calculates total costs, and property tax comes to around 20% of the total.
Operations Staff Costs: 40%. This is the remainder of total cost left to be assigned after removing Power and Property Taxes; however, it accords pretty well with the observation in the Microsoft paper that operations is a very large percentage of total data center cost.
To calculate the overall cost advantage of a cloud computing data center (a Microsoft one, in this example) versus the traditional data center, we multiply individual cost factor cost advantage by the proportion of total cost the factor represents. The Weighted Factor Advantages are then summed to determine the total cost advantage of a cloud computing data center. The calculations are contained in the table below.
||Microsoft Advantage vs. Traditional Data Center
Percentage of Total Data Center Cost
Microsoft Weighted Factor Advantage(% of total cost)
||40% (note using estimate from Microsoft paper; Denegri estimates it at 82% of total cost)
|Operations Staff Costs
|Total % Advantage: Microsoft vs. Traditional Data Center
We can see that, based on the estimates from the papers and a calculation of operations staff costs, Microsoft can achieve an approximately 42% lower cost than a traditional data center. I believe this actually understates the total cost advantage, but this is a fairly conservative assessment. Also, the advantage will vary from cloud data center to cloud data center, depending upon property tax concessions and the type of power available at a given location.
In examining these figures, I’m reminded of the move to mass production started by Henry Ford. He assiduously applied automation techniques to auto manufacture, with the result that the cost of producing a car dropped by 80 to 90 percent. Rooted in historical antecedent, corporate data centers have remained rooted in expensive, ponderous, and fragile manual techniques. Cloud computing has applied the industrial automation paradigm to data centers and is evincing the same kind of cost advantages Ford’s manufacturing techniques brought to the auto industry. When Ford started his automation campaign, there were several hundred auto manufacturers; 25 years later there were probably only a dozen or so. More than 90% of them had vanished, unable to afford the capital to invest in mass production and therefore uncompetitive on pricing. Perhaps there’s a lesson there for all of us.
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Just Ferguson discovered that libotr, an off-the-record (OTR) messaging
library, can be forced to perform zero-length allocations for heap buffers
that are used in base64 decoding routines. An attacker can exploit this
flaw by sending crafted messages to an application that is using libotr to
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Conventional wisdom says the iPhone is the indisputable champion of cell phones. But what if that's wrong? What if the one thing that can best it is ... an iPod?
A few months ago, I wrote an article explaining how the Verizon MiFi, a wireless wifi card, combined with a mobile web device with speaker and audio like the iPod Touch could replace the cell phone. Living inside MiFi's permanent wifi cloud, you could make all your calls through Skype, or another voice-over-Internet program, on that iPod. Goodbye, cell phones?
Wired's Gadget Lab has done just that and found that the "combo of iPod Touch and MiFi might just be better than the iPhone." Wow.
Charlie Sorrel says
the MiFiPodTouch experience is excellent: Google Maps "works great" and
Skype runs smoothly. And other bloggers are beginning to wonder whether
iPod Touch + MiFi is really the equation to beat the iPhone and its
infamously troubled AT&T service. The MiFi data plan is
significantly cheaper than the iPhone's, and the iPod Touch has better
battery. This will certainly be something to watch out for among tech
bloggers, but I'd still like to hear about the MiFiPodTouch experience
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Caught between the Israeli Army and the Palestinian Underground
Assuming you lose both consciousness and your memory, and then awake in a fully unfamiliar location, how might you perceive your surroundings? And what criteria would you use? The Tunisian-born Jewish author Hubert Haddad, who for decades has lived in France, has applied the thematic device of memory loss in his novel on the inextricable Palestinian-Israeli conflict and has woven a tangled tale in the process.
Cham, a young Israeli soldier, is kidnapped on the border to the West Bank by Palestinian resistance fighters. There are obvious parallels to the fate of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Palestinian underground fighters from Israeli territory to the Gaza Strip in June 2006 – a year before Haddad's novel was originally published in French – and who has since been held captive in an unknown location.
Yet, in all other respects, the case of Shalit differs considerably from that of Cham, although the protagonist of the novel also suffers serious wounds. For Cham, however, this turns out to be a blessing in disguise. Rendered unconscious by his severe injuries, he passes through the hands of numerous captors before finding himself in the house of a Palestinian family that nurses him back to health over the course of many months.
Love beyond the border
His memory does not return and Cham remains disoriented. Who is he and where is he? Slowly, but steadily, he establishes a relationship with the people around him – people who he really doesn't know.
Yet, they also have no idea as to his true identity. Without his uniform, Cham looks like a Palestinian. In addition, he is fluent in the regional dialect. And because he has passed through the hands of numerous groups of kidnappers, his current guardians regard him as one of their own, a wounded Palestinian. And what of Cham? His reactions are completely unlike those he would have had before his capture.
Cham encounters people faced with enormous economic difficulties and who have to struggle every day to make a living. He recognizes that these people are just like him. He sees them with new eyes, completely lacking the usual stereotypes that so many Israelis and Palestinians have of each other. And under Haddad's pen, a small poetic wonder occurs.
Cham takes himself for a Palestinian resistance fighter. He equally regards himself as a member of the family nursing him back to health. They, in turn, confer upon Cham the identity of their missing son and brother Nessim. They see their role as protecting him from being captured by the Israeli military. Cham also develops feelings for those around him. He falls in love with Falastin, a young woman who bears the name of her homeland.
One could take this constellation as the poetic dream of a writer, who, as a Tunisian Jew, feels an allegiance to both sides, Arab as well as Israeli, and who does not regard the violence plaguing the region as natural or inevitable.
The feelings of friendship and solidarity, however, do not overcome in the end, but are instead usurped in the service of war. For Hubert, this is what constitutes the drama of the conflict. He sees it as something artificially produced, which, above all, pushes aside the ancient tradition of Jewish-Arab solidarity that Haddad knew from his own family experiences.
In an interview, Haddad recalled how his Algerian grandmother viewed Israel a something of a mythical homeland. She constantly yearned for this land and listened to Jewish-Arab music, which had a mythical-nostalgic connection to Israel.
A Palestinian wasteland
A great deal of this nostalgia can be found in Haddad's book. Yet, he is enough of a realist to see that such dreams are extremely difficult to realize in Israel. A massive wall criss-crosses the country, separating hearts and minds. Haddad characterizes the Palestinian territories as an enormous wasteland, gouged with border installations, settlements, and checkpoints. He describes a picture of an estranged world, in which even emotions are not reliable.
Just when Cham starts to feel at home in his new surroundings, his captors plan to use him as a suicide bomber. They calculate that if he is sufficiently manipulated, he could smuggle a bomb attached to his body into the centre of a large Israeli city.
Haddad's novel wonderfully demonstrates how flexible, yet also how fragile our images of the world can be. With his memory loss, Cham pays a high (as well as involuntary) price in order to see the Palestinian reality with new eyes. Then he makes their viewpoint his own, and thereby runs the danger of becoming an extremist for the opposing side. It remains the task of the author, using all the poetic means at his disposal, to show how morally reprehensible and politically senseless the role of the martyr actually is.
© Qantara.de 2010
Hubert Haddad, "Falastin." Translated into German by Katja Meintel. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2009, 169 pp., 16.00 EUR. The original French title, "Palestine", was published in 2007; it is not yet available in English.
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Aurora borealis in a jar
by Gabriel Voitcu, Institute of Space Science, Magurele, Romania
Laboratory visualisation of solar wind interaction with Earth’s magnetic field. The aurora borealis (northern lights), Van Allen radiation belt, Earth’s magnetosphere and a solar coronal hole are emphasized with the Planeterrella experiment, a vacuum chamber in the shape of a bell jar with Sun on the top-left (large metallic sphere) and Earth on the bottom-right (small metallic sphere). The two spheres are magnetized and connected into a cathode-anode circuit. Planeterrella is inspired by Kristian Birkeland’s Terrella and has been developed by Jean Lilensten at the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble (CNRS, France). The current setup is build at the Institute of Space Science and the Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics in Romania by M. Teodorescu, G. Voitcu, E. Teodorescu, C. Stancu, M. Echim and G. Dinescu.
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It took time, but finally, on the 5th April, Moriarty braved the window perch!
Due to Perry & Lennie’s current lack of flying ability, the window perches have been out-of-bounds for well over a year (certainly Dalai was the last to use them). This has meant that Moriarty had to find his own way to the window perches, without anyone setting an example.
I would try & encourage him onto them when he was sat on my finger & a couple of times he would touch them & once even put his foot on one, but needed a bit more courage to take that next step. On the occasion I had Perry on my finger, I would take him over, hoping he would remember the old days when he liked to sit on the window perch but if I got too close he got a bit worried so I would withdraw.
Moriarty regularly sits on the back of my chair & looks out of the window from there. It was from that location that he took the brave leap to the window perch. Unfortunately he was not there long enough for me to record the historic occasion! However, since then, the window perch is now a regular haunt for him. I am pleased about that because it provides more stimulation, from watching birds, squirrels, wind through the trees, rain, people passing through or children playing games. | <urn:uuid:d5d2acc7-8e80-4615-98db-d610c3c99f89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onesweetiepea.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/moriarty-milestones-window-perch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.990735 | 288 | 1.625 | 2 |
Managing Files and Searching in Windows Vista
Buttons, Breadcrumbs, Toolbars, and More
One big improvement in Windows Vista over other versions is its capability to let you know where you are in relation to parent and child windows. These breadcrumbs appear as text and icon representations of folders, windows, and services, as shown in Figure 5.8.
Figure 5.8 Breadcrumbs in the Address bar
The Address bar displays your current location, which is any disk drive, folder, or other place where you can store files and folders. As you read the Address bar from left to right, the parent location appears at the far left of the box. Each child location appears directly to the right of its parent location, and the current location you're in appears without any child locations to its right. For example, in Figure 5.8, the current location is Documents because each breadcrumb is separated by an arrow pointing to the right.
The breadcrumbs that appear depend on the folder you're in. What's more, the right arrow not only shows that the next window or service is the child of the current parent or service, but it also lets you select from a menu of related options. Let's take a look at examples of the breadcrumbs you see in the Computer window and Windows Explorer.
Breadcrumbs in the Computer Window
When you open the Computer window, the open Computer folder displays the computer media information in the right pane. In the Address bar, you see a computer icon and the location name Computer as shown in Figure 5.10.
Figure 5.10 The Computer window Address bar
The home icon appears at the left side of the Address bar, followed by the Computer folder name. In the Computer location, the home icon is a computer. If you double-click on the C: drive in the right pane, the Address bar adds the name of your C: drive—the default name is Local Disk (C:)—to the right side of the Address bar, as shown in Figure 5.11.
Figure 5.11 The Computer window Address bar with the name of the C: drive added
Note that the home icon has changed from a computer to a hard disk. The icon changes to reflect the location type. For example, if you open a folder in the C: drive, the icon in the Address bar changes to an open folder.
If there is a submenu underneath a location in the Address bar, you can open this submenu by clicking on the right arrow to the right of each location. When you click on the right arrow, the arrow changes to a button and the arrow points down toward the menu, which appears directly underneath the down arrow. Figures 5.12, 5.13, and 5.14 show the submenus for the home icon, the Computer location, and the Local Disk (C: drive), respectively.
Figure 5.12 The submenu for the home location
Figure 5.13 The submenu for the Computer location
Figure 5.14 The submenu for the Local Disk (C:) location
Menu options in bold text are locations that are currently open. If you click another location in the menu, the Address bar changes to reflect the new location to which you have moved.
Breadcrumbs in Windows Explorer
When you open Windows Explorer, the Documents folder opens by default. In the Address bar, you see that the Documents folder is your location as shown in Figure 5.15.
Figure 5.15 The Address bar for the Documents folder
The functionality of the Address bar in Windows Explorer is the same as in the Computer window—you can move to a location by clicking on the location name in the Address bar, and you can also open submenus by clicking on the right arrow to the right of the location name.
However, there is one significant difference: The Address bar shows your user profile as a location. When you click the right arrow next to the user profile name a submenu appears that lets you open your Desktop files, Favorites and Links folders, contacts, games and media folders, and searches. Figure 5.16 shows the submenu for Eric's user profile.
Figure 5.16 The submenu for Eric's user profile
User profiles are files that contain configuration information for each user on your computer. Configuration information includes desktop settings, network connections, and application settings. When you log in to Windows Vista using your account, Windows reads this user profile and configures your desktop, network connections, and application settings so that everything works the way you expect.
A user profile is different from a user account. A user account contains information about what files and folders your account can access, the changes your account can make to your computer, and your user preferences such as your desktop background and color theme.
Windows Vista assigns the same number and type of directories shown in Figure 5.16 to each user profile. The user profile file also remembers which files go in which directory for that user. For example, if I have my own documents in my Documents directory and Lisa has her own documents in her Documents directory, I will see only my documents in my Documents folder. | <urn:uuid:012aae7e-899f-4212-8143-dff4319e6a08> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1151311&seqNum=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00560-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900165 | 1,064 | 3 | 3 |
Numbers 31:1-54, NLT
Conquest of the Midianites
1Then the Lord said to Moses,
3So Moses said to the people, “Choose some men, and arm them to fight the Lord’s war of revenge against Midian.
9Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder.
15“Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded.
21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men who were in the battle, “The Lord has given Moses this legal requirement:
Division of the Plunder
25And the Lord said to Moses,
32The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats,
36Half of the plunder was given to the fighting men. It totaled 337,500 sheep and goats,
42Half of the plunder belonged to the people of Israel, and Moses separated it from the half belonging to the fighting men.
48Then all the generals and captains came to Moses
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Last year, at several seminars on advanced enterprise virtualization, I asked attendees about their virtualization...
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deployments. Most had deployed VMware with the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) as the storage file system, but few had deployed virtual machines (VMs) with raw device mapping (RDM) for storage access.
When creating storage for a VM, VMware's cluster file system, VMFS, is the default and follows the simple path, creating virtual disks inside a VMFS logical volume on a logical unit number (LUN). Then when you install a Linux OS, you can use the default. While the simple default settings for creating VMs may speed deployment and appear to reduce management overhead, these default settings pose problems. The central issue is that these settings target the simplest case without regard for particular system requirements. Defaults are often designed for a product evaluation, where ease and speed are the objectives. But particularly when it comes to disaster recovery (DR) and backup, consider the possible long-term effects of these default settings. Let's consider some enterprise scenarios to illustrate how default settings can be a bad move in virtual deployments.
Serverless backup and raw disk maps
As more modern applications are stored, it takes more time to back up or restore an application's data. But this opposes business disaster recovery demands of shorter recovery time objectives (RTOs). Compounding the situation is the ability of modern servers with more processor cores and memory to host higher VM consolidation ratios that can tax limited host backup/restore I/O bandwidth. All three factors have resulted in backup and recovery times that are unacceptable today compared with just a few years ago.
The solution is to move the backup and restore process away from VMs and to a storage area network (SAN) with serverless backup products such as VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). Serverless backup requires RDMs to SAN LUNs to allow the backup server direct access to the LUN. But if a VM was created with defaults, you must re-create virtual disks and move data into RDM-configured storage to support a serverless backup architecture. This necessitates a major departure from default configurations for virtual environments.
As RTOs become more compressed and data sets increase, many IT organizations have found that while virtualization can significantly improve server and application RTO, data restoration time has become the gating factor. To ward off this burgeoning problem, the trend has been to replicate data to a disaster recovery site or business continuity geo-mirrored data center to speed recovery. Essentially, replication is pre-staging the data at the recovery site. Many IT organizations simply replicate the LUNs that hold their VM images to the recovery or business continuity site.
But using the default configurations results in inefficient use of replication bandwidth and recovery site storage. The problem is that the storage array and array replication software only understand replicating at the granularity of a LUN. Only one VMFS logical volume can be created per SAN LUN. The result of replicating that logical unit number to a recovery site is that the swap and root partitions are replicated in addition to the application data. Replicating swap not only chews up unnecessary bandwidth but is completely useless at the recovery site. Booting a Linux guest OS will overwrite the contents of its swap partition.
The best configuration for Linux guests in a replicated virtual environment is to create three separate LUNs for the guest virtual disks: a swap LUN, a root LUN and a data LUN (or LUNs). When VMs are created, RDMs to each of the three LUNs are mapped. When the Linux guest OS is installed in a VM, the swap partition is created on the swap device, the root partition on the root device and the application data partition(s) on the data device (or devices). This configuration enables selective replication policies to be applied to VMs. For example, the swap LUN would never be replicated, the root LUN would be replicated on an infrequent but regular basis (frequency is tied to configuration management change policies) and the data LUN(s) would be regularly replicated to meet application RTOs. Additionally, archiving policies would include root and data LUNs only.
This brings up another tip for replicating VM virtual disks in an environment where VM snapshots are used for recovery or archive policies. VMware offers two modes of building RDMs: virtual and physical. Snapshots are disabled with physical RDMs but are available in virtual RDMs. When a VM snapshot is taken, normally all virtual RDMs associated with the VM are included in the snapshot. To exclude the swap RDM, you must create the virtual disk on the swap RDM as an independent disk.
The bottom line
Planning a virtual environment for Linux guests requires forethought that almost never includes using the vendors' default configurations for the virtual infrastructure nor the Linux OS installation. Planning for the future, including the use of replication for recovery -- whether to a remote site or a cloud provider -- requires an architecture that separates the operating system files from the swap file and the application data.
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Charles Manson Essay, Research Paper Have you ever heard of a person named Charles Manson? If you have not, you have probably been living in a hole for most of your life. Manson Manson, and his followers, who are referred to as ?The Family,? committed some of the most gruesome murders of the 20th century. I am going to tell the story of these murders and tell why Manson is still so well known decades after the murders were committed.
Charles Manson Essay, Research Paper
Have you ever heard of a person named Charles Manson? If you have not, you have probably been living in a hole for most of your life. Manson Manson, and his followers, who are referred to as ?The Family,? committed some of the most gruesome murders of the 20th century. I am going to tell the story of these murders and tell why Manson is still so well known decades after the murders were committed.
Charles Manson was a brainwasher. He brought people into his twisted world and made them do the dirty work for him. Manson thought that he was God, and thought that he was everywhere(Jones1). He has referred to himself as God in many different interviews that he has taken. Since he was so overpowering to others, most people he came in contact with did whatever he said.
People remember Manson and his crimes because of his interpretations on certain things. Manson had a very odd interpretation of some Beatles songs. Many of these songs came off of the Beatles? White Album. In one Beatles song, ?Helter Skelter,? Manson believed that the Beatles were telling him that a race war was going to occur. In this war, blacks and whites would fight and the blacks would come out victorious(Influence1). He was also told that he would have to take over control after the war ended. He had one other interpretation, which was in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. In this chapter, he saw the same type of message about a racial war and the end of the world. He believed that he must kill a high-ranking person in order to start the final phase of the war that was talked about in several different books(Family1).
In order for Manson to carry out his mission, he had to recruit some people. After he was released from jail for some petty offenses, he moved to San Francisco and started preaching to people what he thought was going to happen. At times he had up to fifty followers, most of them being female. Many of these people said that it was amazing the kind of mind control he had over them. He and a few of his followers, now called The Family, moved into an old movie stage called the Spahn Ranch. They stayed there for free after Manson talked to the owner of the set, George Spahn. They made some deals so that Manson and his ?family? could stay there.
At the Spahn Ranch, ?the family? grew very close and they began to trust Manson with everything he said. Some of the most popular members of The Family who lived with Manson included; Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Squeaky Fromme, and Tex Watson. All of the people there were hippies, so they experimented with many different things, such as drugs and communal sex while they stayed at the ranch.
On August 8, 1969, Manson decided that it was the day to move into action. He and a few members of his ?family? raided the residence of Roman Polanski, a movie director. At his residence, the ?Manson Family? killed five, including actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time, and Abigal Folger, the heiress to the Folger?s Coffee company. The next night they killed Leo and Rosemary LaBianca. Because of the way that these murders were committed, many people still remember the gruesome details. Susan Atkins, one of the Manson members, killed Sharon Tate, drank her blood, and thought about cutting Sharon?s baby out of her womb and bringing it to Manson. She said that he would have been very proud of her for doing that. This shows that he had total control over all of his member and that they worshiped him like a god (Five Dead1).
Manson felt as if he was not going to be caught for the crimes that his group had committed. Later that year, some of his followers were arrested for unrelated crimes. While Susan Atkins was in jail, she confessed to the murders. She also told the police all of the other people who were involved in the killings, including Manson (Charles1). Manson and three other members were convicted of the murders and sentenced to death, but it was over-ruled in 1972. They are now serving life sentences for their roles in the murders. Manson is eligible for parole, but he has been denied his release eleven times. He has been denied so many times because many people still think that he is crazy. He still has a major influence on many people around him, including the remaining family members.
Why is Charles Manson is still so well known many years after the crimes were committed? Some of the reasons include the time that he lived in and the ways that he controlled others to do what he want them to do.
Manson is behind bars in Corcoran State Prison where he will not have much contact with other inmates. Even though we may not be able to see him, he is still an icon that is very popular and well-known icon in our society today. Many celebrities have reintroduced Manson?s image like Trent Reznor, a member of Nine-Inch Nails, who has his recording studio in the house where Sharon Tate and others were killed. The name of the studio is ?Pig Studios,? because of the reference it has to the word ?Pig? which was written on one of the doors while the murders were being committed(Wing1).
The public has also found a renewed interest in the Manson murders. Many books are being published that have to do with the killings(Wing2). Ex-Family members and other Manson followers devote hundreds of sites on the Internet to him. Many claim that he is innocent and that he is God, while others tell the ?real story? of what really happened on August 8th and 9th(Fillmer4). Movies and music have been made which have to do the Manson crimes. One of the most popular books having to do with Manson, Helter Skelter, is well known to many people that have an interest in him, his family, and the crimes they committed(Five Dead4).
The Manson murders are also an icon of the 60?s, which are now coming back very strongly. He was a true hippie; he was into drugs, sex, and rock ?n? roll like many others of the time(Wing3). Because of this, many people are curious as to what kind of person it takes to commit such gruesome crimes and show no remorse for it. The answers that people find are that he crazy and thought that he was God and could do no wrong(Jones1).
Every few years Manson?s name comes up in the news. Articles range from his appeal for parole to his admitting to sending his followers to do the killings. During this whole time though, he has never admitted that he took part in the killings(Aarons1). His followers are also in the headlines. Many of them say that they have found God and that they are safe now and should be let out of jail. Charles ?Tex? Watson and Susan Atkins are among the born-again Christians who used to be part of the Manson Family(Reuter1). Many of the other Members have said that they are regretful for taking part in the murders.
People?s interest in the crime will continue for a long time because of the name Charles Manson has made for himself. The murders his followers committed are some of the most well known killings of the 20th century. A man like this should not get the attention that he gets, but who can help but wonder ?why? someone would commit such gruesome crimes.
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High-functioning depression (also referred to as dysthymia) can be hard to recognize, even for those suffering from it. This type of depression involves a persistently low mood, with the possibility for short periods of relief in between. As individuals gradually become accustomed to feeling this constant low level of depression, it can become second nature to mask their emotional state, perhaps even from themselves. It may come to the point that the person suffering from high-functioning depression doesn’t realize there was ever a problem. However, this type of depression can derail every aspect of a person’s life.
Fortunately, help for people with high-functioning depression is available at Baltimore Detox Center. If you or someone you care about is dealing with depression as well as an addiction, reach out to our team today by calling 833.714.1575 or completing our online form for more information about how our depression treatment program can improve quality of life.
What Is High-Functioning Depression?
High-functioning depression is a familiar term used to refer to the condition dysthymia. High-functioning depression isn’t a clinical diagnosis itself. Despite this, these terms continue to be used interchangeably. Dysthymia or high-functioning depression is depression characterized by a chronic, sustained low mood without the exaggerated clinical symptoms of a full-blown depressive episode. Without these extreme indicators, people are less likely to be driven to seek help. Over time, people suffering from high-functioning depression become expert-level maskers. There are many combinations of symptoms that can be seen in a person with high-functioning depression.
Common symptoms of high-functioning depression include:
- Overeating or not eating
- Oversleeping or sleeping too much
- A constant state of exhaustion or fatigue
- Executive functioning difficulties, like inability to concentrate or make decisions
- General feelings of hopelessness and despair
- Workaholic tendencies
- Demanding perfection of themselves
- Go-along to get along attitude, often have resigned themselves to their low self-image and a negative mood, and have no problem with hiding it daily
- A general tendency toward addictive behaviors
- Often hermits or introverts
- Pessimists but may see themselves as being realists
- Excessive worry and feelings of guilt and shame
- Irritability and agitation
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The negativity, hopelessness, and gloom indicative of this form of depression put a person at a greater risk for many mental and physical health issues, such as major depressive episodes, addiction disorder, obesity, chronic physical pain, and even suicide. Proper diagnosis and treatment are essential as this may prevent a person from veering into an acute episode of severe depression and possibly even learning to use addiction and other self-destructive behaviors as a way to cope.
To the person with high-functioning depression, seeking help may seem like self-indulgence or a waste of someone else’s time. This type of person is often seen burning the candle at both ends. When you think of the high-functioning depressed person, think of the opposite of self-care. Though they may be great at hiding it, they are self-critical, pessimistic, gloomy, and cynical at almost all times of the day. They fall into self-hating spirals, feel guilty for enjoying themselves, and can’t relax. This constant negative state often manifests itself with symptoms that relate to their lack of self-care.
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Policy-makers and business leaders say North Carolina’s economic future relies on energy.
Governor Pat McCrory was one of many speakers and panelists at the North Carolina Chamber's Energy Conference at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham. McCrory said it’s time to follow the economic recoveries of Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Dakotas.
“We have got to get into the exploration business in North Carolina, and we’ve waited far too long to begin that process," said McCrory. "I mean, Ohio was in severe trouble regarding its economic future, and energy is bailing that state out of economic catastrophe to a state which is really having a resurgence."
NC State Professor Michael Walden economic analysis shows drilling for oil and natural gas off the North Carolina coast could generate $2 billion of additional economic activity, each year the off shore activity occurs.
While the wait continues for permits to explore on and off-shore drilling in North Carolina, a wide range of energy businesses are on the rise. Scott Carlberg is President of E4 Carolinas, an energy trade association for North and South Carolina.
“So when you talk about hype, these are real paychecks, these are real square footages of plants, there are real patents coming out the door, so it’s not just something printed on a very nice four color brochure," said Carlberg.
Carlberg says, in the Charlotte area alone, there are about 200 energy related firms employing 20,000 people.
John Morrison is the COO of Strata Solar in Chapel Hill. He says his company is an example of substantial growth, even in tough economic times.
"Most of the energy that we use in North Carolina comes from someplace else," said Morrison. "The sunshine falls here on North Carolina, so the energy we produce is really homegrown, indigenous energy and as such, represents economic opportunity."
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Over the last couple of posts we’ve being developing a picture of the ‘chicken’ in its earliest forms. We’ve looked at what its ancestors ‘in the wild’ were and where geographically it is likely to have originated from. We’ve considered how it became associated with humankind and why, and yet so far we haven’t really seen anything in terms of the chicken-human relationship that resembles anything like the existence the most numerous bird on the planet has today.
Cockfighting, whether you want to believe it or not, is most likely the reason that chickens became domesticated. Originating in the Far East, cockfighting became a popular ‘sport’ in fifth century BCE Greece. With such Greek popularity it was only a matter of time before the Romans adopted it. In turn, given their empire size, it is little wonder that it then spread through out Europe and inevitably beyond. This however wasn’t the only use the Romans had for chickens for they served the ‘Augurs’.
Augurs would engage in augury, a practice from ancient Roman religion were individuals were blessed with the art of divination by observing and reading the behaviour of birds. Such behaviours would be witnessed and interpreted, and this was known as “taking the auspices”. The word auspices is derived from the Latin auspicium and auspex which mean “divination” by those “who examine the movement of birds”.
The Augurs task would be to watch the movement of birds in order to obtain some guidance that to share their leaders as to whether a particular course of action would be looked upon favourably or unfavourably by the gods; whether it would be auspicious (conducive of success) or inauspicious (unpromising or unlucky).
Prior to the appearance of the chicken Augurs would have used the flight or song of certain bird species to divine by however when chickens reached the Romans the ‘dance’ of the birds began to be used. This usually revolved around their behaviour when presented with food and the auspices were read by interpreting the way in which the chickens approached the food. The fact the chicken was easily transported meant that they were usually used military movements and expeditions as they could be carried along with the other kit needed to support an army on the move – something the Romans did regularly and on all fronts of their empire.
It is said that the chickens were kept in crates and were placed under the charge of the Pullarius, the keeper of the sacred chickens. When the time came for some guidance from the gods, the Pullarius would open the cage of the chickens and then cast some seed or grain before them. If the chickens reacted in alarm, refused to come out, refused to eat or attempted to run or fly away then the omen was viewed as unfavourable. If, however they left the cage to eat the food that had been scattered before them, and to the point that food would fall from their mouths as they pecked ravenously at the food, then it was considered a favourable auspice and the action being questioned would in fact be conducive of success if taken. It is incredible to think that the humble chicken could have played such a pivotal role in the decision making of one of the largest most influential civilizations in history
Initial genetic studies seemed to suggest that modern chickens descended from those first domesticated in in different parts of Asia before then spreading to Europe and Africa where upon they made the hop across the ocean to the Americas. However some chicken bones excavated from the coast of Chile underwent a DNA analysis that suggests they are older than the arrival of the first Europeans. Furthermore the bones were found to more closely related to the Polynesian chicken strains than those bred in Europe. What does this mean? Well if it is in fact scientifically accurate then it would mean explorers from Polynesian reached the shores of the Americas a century before Columbus. There’s a piece of knowledge that would have knocked the wind out his sails had he known!
Whether fighting or pecking seeds, these birds were revered and held in high esteem by their owners. Fortunes could be made, and lives could be lost all because of a chicken so it is little wonder their early domesticated life was one of respect and in many cases a sacred existence; an existence far removed from factory farmed future.
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As I’ve repeatedly noted on this blog, the UK seems to be ground zero in the international push for legalizing assisted suicide.
The eagle-eyed pro-death crowd is expert in looking for spin and angles that will bolster their case, even from circumstances that would suggest the opposite.
For example, many Britons have gone to Dignitas in Switzerland over the past few years to legally commit assisted suicide. Rather than focus on the macabre Swiss and their dark practices (for a price, of course), the pro-death lobby turns the argument this way:
"Assisted suicide is dignified death. Those progressive Swiss understand this, as do the intelligent Dutch, and the ever-so urbane Belgians, so they have made assisted suicide legal. Assisted suicide in the UK is illegal. How unsophisticated we Brits seem to be!! We must work to change these Neanderthal notions in the UK!! Our poor fellow Brits have to die in a strange country, bereft of their familiar surroundings, family, and friends. They should be allowed to die with dignity at home, in the UK, surrounded by their loved ones, their friends, and Spot, their loyal dog, preferably on a sunny warm day with a nice breeze……"
Oh, sorry, I’m getting a little carried away with the propaganda…..
You get the picture.
A related issue surfaced in the UK’s Guardian last Saturday, when the issue of pain management at the end of life took center stage on the news that the UK’s chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, was about to release his annual state of the health system report blasting the lack of pain management experts and care.
A part of the story caught my eye, the issue of severe pain at the end of life:
Asked whether better pain relief could, as some anti-euthanasia supporters argue, reduce the demand for doctor-assisted suicide from people with terminal conditions, Donaldson said: "I think this concept of a good death is very bound up with the lack of pain and the sort of serene quality that people enter when they are free of pain, so I guess all of the feelings that surround that are bound up to a large extent with pain.
Good for you, mate.
You see, the pro-death crowd play on peoples’ fears – like the fear that in your last days nobody will be able to control your pain and you’ll go screaming in unspeakable agony into the world beyond.
They don’t want you to know that almost all pain, in almost every case, can be very, very effectively controlled. Medically, there is no reason for people to suffer excruciating pain at the end of their lives. It can be managed. Period.
That’s what the good doctor was saying.
But. BUT: That’s not the way the assisted suicide and euthanasia extremists will twist it.
The pro-assisted suicide and euthanasia bloodlust will not call for better education in pain management, or for reducing the ignorance that pain can’t be managed.
They’ll spin it by saying, Look, there is no need to suffer such terrible pain at the end of your life. Horrible pain is, well, very painful, and undignified! We can help!!! Wouldn’t you like to put your mind at rest, knowing that before your pain gets too bad, we have a solution that you control!! Don’t worry, you don’t have to use it, but won’t it be great to have that option if you ever need it? The health system doesn’t have the wherwithall to help you with your pain – we can!!!
And that’s the real agenda, folks.
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Visual merchandising is how you display products for sale. In particular, retail stores try to maximize the use of their floor space by drawing attention to items with the use of marketing materials and proper product placement. When displaying your merchandise, there are some basic visual merchandising rules you should follow that will help you create effective and profitable product displays.
Keep Displays Focused
A good visual merchandising display is one that focuses on one product or a small family of products. Putting too many diverse kinds of products in the same visual display area can result in the display being confusing to customers. For example, if you want to put the newest inkjet printer on display to boost sales, consider also displaying accessories such as ink and printer cables. However, trying to include computers and related accessories in the display can result in a cluttered look that distracts attention away from the printer.
The most effective visual marketing displays are arranged at 90-degree angle to the customer as opposed to lying flat on a counter, according to marketing expert Harry J. Friedman, writing on the Friedman Group website. Customers can see a display that is standing vertically much easier than a horizontal display. It is also easier for customers to reach for product on a vertical display as opposed to trying to reach to the bottom of a horizontal one.
Using displays of a uniform height creates a flat display horizon. When you do this, all of your displays can blend together and customers can lose interest. To maintain your customers' attention, use varying heights and colors to help each display stand out.
Products that are in high demand should be given priority in your visual displays over products that are not. Popular products will draw consumer attention and help to sell other items in and near the display. However, for the display to be effective, the high-revenue product should be the display's main focus. One way to determine product positioning is to allocate display space based on revenue ratios. For example, if a particular coffee maker generates 20 percent of your store's coffee maker revenue, then that model should receive 20 percent of the visual merchandising space.
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What to take
The golden rule of hiking is to go light. You never need as much as you think! That’s even more true on the Sinai Trail because most of the time hikers are supported by camels carrying food, stoves, cutlery etc. For all hikes supported by camels hikers will need to bring two bags:
One small backpack – a ‘daypack’ – which you will walk with during the day, carrying essential items e.g. water, personal snacks, a warm/ waterproof layer etc. We recommend having not less than a 28/32lt backpack.
One bigger bag – a ‘camel bag’ – only for your clothes. Tent, sleeping mat and sleeping bag must be separate items, not stored inside the “camel bag”. It is essential that you seal your sleeping bag and everything inside your camel bag – especially clothes – in dry bags, in case of rain.
The camel bag will be carried by the camels and will be available at your campsite, at the end of each day. Please note camels are limited in number and the load each camel can carry is also limited so every hiker must pack responsibly, respecting and caring for our camels, who are an essential. Camel bags should not be a suitcases or bags with hard frames as these hurt the camels. Large sized backpacks or duffel bags are best.
Footwear for the Sinai Trail
The Sinai Trail is VERY rough on your shoes. Travelers have been complaining about the damage it does to their boots for centuries. Even the best modern hiking footwear gets eaten quickly by the Sinai’s rugged, rocky paths. Don’t bring anything old. Or anything near the end of its life. You might not make it through the hike. A good sturdy pair of hiking shoes are a good option. Boots are another option but some hikers find them hot and heavy. A good pair of trekking sandals are also a good option for long wadi walks and they can also be used in the evening in the camp.
Please do not hike in flimsy trainers, flip-flops, beach sandals etc. Just bring these for the evening to wear at the camp. You should also never walk barefoot on the Sinai Trail: there are scorpions, snakes and sharp rocks.
It is essential to break new boots in before the hike; especially leather boots. Do this by walking in your boots daily, for at least two weeks before the hike. Best of all, walk on the kind of rugged ground we will encounter in the Sinai. Slowly, your boots get used to your feet, and vice versa. Do not start the hike in new boots: your feet run the risk of getting very sore, perhaps even too sore to continue the hike. It is also a good idea to bring spare laces; the abrasive desert air can cause old laces to snap.
These are cool, lightweight and don’t fill with sand, but they leave feet open to falling rocks, thorny desert vegetation, snakes, scorpions and sunburn. They’re favored by the Bedouin and can be a good option in the summer, when it’s especially hot. For hikers prone to blisters, sandals a can be a good option: hot, damp shoes make blisters more likely. Conversely, feet can dry out too much, with painful cracks developing on heals. Sandals can be good to change into at campsites in the evening.
What to wear on your hike
The kinds of clothes you will need will depend on the season. Sinai Trail trips usually run from September through to May. Autumn and spring are transitional months., daytime temperatures are pleasant in autumn and spring, but they can be chilly too; especially if it’s windy or cloudy, or if you are higher in the mountains. Cold weather is most likely from November to March. Winters can be bitterly cold, especially in the mountains, where temperatures often drop below freezing. Snow isn’t uncommon. Rain can fall in any month; sometimes producing flash floods. Whatever season you’re hiking in, come prepared for a range of conditions, including cold, wet weather.
Water is limited in the desert and you will not be able to wash clothes, nor carry enough clothes to change every day. For most clothing items, bring three of each and wear each one for a few days.
This is the layer closest to the skin, such as a t-shirt. Synthetic materials – e.g. specialist running or hiking tops etc – are the best option as sweat evaporates quickly, keeping you drier. Cottons get wet on your skin, making you cold. Wearing wet clothes is not just uncomfortable: it can be a safety hazard, especially in the high mountains during colder times.
Long sleeved T-shirts protect arms, which is a good idea; the collar on a trekking shirt can be turned up to cover the neck. In winter, the base layer can be a good, tight hugging synthetic thermal, with shirts worn over the top as mid layers.
It can be bitterly cold in the Sinai, especially in the mountains in winter. We recommend you bring three thick, warm layers that you can wear at the same time, e.g. thermal underwear, a fleece or micro-fleece, a thicker fleece and a down or synthetic jacket.
Waterproof outer shell or poncho
These are essential!! Wear them as an outer shell, as protection from wind and rain. It can rain heavily and if you get wet, you will get cold. This poses a real hazard and hikers in non-waterproof clothing have died from exposure before. All too often, in a desert, waterproofs are the last thing hikers think to pack. Get a jacket made from a breathable material such as GORE TEX. This does not only prevent you getting wet from outside; it allows warm, moist air on the inside to escape too. It lets your body ‘breathe’. Getting wet from your own perspiration on the inside happens easily, especially during strenuous hiking, and it can also be hazardous.
For cultural reasons, avoid shorts. It is important trousers don’t constrict leg movement. They should be flexible enough to allow your legs to move into whatever position you want them. This is important when scrambling and there is plenty of scrambling on the Sinai Trail. Specialist trekking trousers or loose stretchy tracksuit bottoms will be much better than tight jeans, for example. Synthetic materials are better than cottons in the desert.
We will be walking in the sun for long periods, so a wide-brimmed sun hat to protect your head, face and neck is important. Baseball caps with neck curtains – Legionnaire Hats – are good alternatives. A warm, woolly hat, or a Russian-type hat with earflaps, is good for cold evenings. You can use a Bedouin shemagh too, wrapping it around your head, neck and face, for protection from the sun or cold, following the lead of your Bedouin guides. An elasticated Buff-type head pullover won’t give much protection from the sun, but it can be a good neck scarf or face cover.
There are not many places to wash on the Sinai Trail, so do not carry unnecessary toiletries. Essentials are a toothbrush, toothpaste and a bar of soap. Wet wipes are a good option for cleaning your body without water. Wet wipes don’t burn so please carry small rubbish bag to throw the used ones away. We will have bigger rubbish bags in the camp where you can dispose of waste daily. Tweezers, nail clippers and scissors are also recommended over a long hike.
Basic first aid supplies
The Sinai Trail is remote and far from help. First aid is likely to be basic in the Sinai and it can take more than a day to arrive. This makes a personal first aid kit essential. Hikers should all have a knowledge of first aid and be aware of how to use every item in a first aid kit. Attending a first aid class that focuses on medicine in a wilderness environment and carrying a pocket guidebook on first aid are sensible.
Basic first aid kit
Carry a small, pocket first aid kit, complete with basic supplies. Especially useful are plasters for cuts and grazes, along with cotton pads and an antibacterial treatment like Betadine. Blister plasters, like Compeed, are also worth packing. A good way to protect your feet and prevent blisters is by using zinc oxide tape or microporous surgical tape. Many hikers suffer from blisters and develop a daily routine of taping suspect sores or hot spots on their feet to prevent them developing. Rehydration salts are always useful, along with an anti-diarrhoeal, in case of a stomach upset. Bouts of diarrhoea are common on the trail, especially amongst foreign travellers, as they get accustomed to local food. You should also carry your own supplies of pain killers, such as aspirin, paracetamol.
Water bottles & purification
Bring tough, lightweight water bottles that together cover a capacity of up to 3 or 4.5 litres. Plastic mineral water bottles – the kind available in everyday grocery stores – can spring leaks if dropped and are not recommended. Bladder bottles with special drinking hoses are favoured by some hikers and keep water readily available. The downside is you can’t see how much water is left when the bottle is in your bag. Mineral water will be supplied where possible, but we may need to use natural wells and springs. For this reason, we recommend hikers bring water purification tablets such as chlorine or chlorine dioxide, just in case. Chemical filters and UV Steripens are other alternatives some hiker use to purify water.
Camping gear for the Sinai Trail
A good night’s sleep makes all the difference on the Sinai Trail. We will be walking long distances for many days, and feeling rested, relaxed and recuperated will help you continue every day, day after day, all the way to the end. Good sleeping gear is essential: we will be sleeping in the wilderness for many nights on this trip.
The Bedouin usually sleep under the stars. Tents are a good barrier against mosquitoes – which may be encountered on some parts of the trail in warmer times – and they give a sense of privacy. Most importantly of all, they give insulation from the cold and a barrier against rain, which is possible at any time. Every hiker must have a tent, ideally the smallest, most lightweight model possible and waterproof. Teaming up to share a tent with another hiker on your trip will help limit what the
This should have a comfort temperature rating down to at least minus -5 degrees centigrade, for use in the high mountains in winter. Sleeping bags can be big, bulky and weighty so get the smallest, lightest one you can. Thermal sleeping bag liners are a good way of improving the temperature rating of your bag. Don’t underestimate how cold a desert night can be, including in spring or autumn. Sinai Trail hikers commonly complain their sleeping bags are not warm enough as they get higher into the mountains.
Different types of sleeping mat are available, including inflatable Thermarest-style mats and roll-up foam mats. Both guarantee a more comfortable night’s sleep than soft sand or hard ground. Foam mats last longer; inflatable ones are vulnerable to punctures from small thorns scattered in the desert.
Generally, unnecessary. Bedouin guides bring pots, pans and a gas cylinder to cook on; otherwise, they will cook on a fire.
Other important gear
Flashlight/ headlamp: The best is the type that straps onto your head, leaving your hands free for rummaging in bags, eating etc. Don’t forget spare batteries. Remember to bring spare batteries or a back up power source for electronic gear: solar chargers are good options. For evenings or caves or huts, candles are good items to bring.
Mosquito repellent: Mosquitoes are active in the Sinai, especially on the coasts. An antihistamine creme helps soothe bites if you do get them.
Sunglasses & sun cream: We will be in the sun for long periods. Please bring UV-rated sunglasses and high factor sun cream and remember to apply it at regular intervals. This is important for everybody, especially people with fair skin. Lips burn easily in the Sinai and can develop painful cracks, so a good lip salve is also recommended.
Cigarette lighters: Use these to burn toilet paper and to be able to create fire for many reasons.
Knife: A knife is important for many things; the Swiss Army style, with tools like can openers, a mini saw and tweezers, are best.
Trekking poles (optional): help to support joints and are useful in mountain areas, with plenty of uphill and downhill.
Foreign hikers must bring a passport/ valid visa, Egyptian hikers must carry their ID cards. Bring a travel insurance policy too, in case it is needed.
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After eight years in a correction house, the young Spira returns to his neighbourhood of Reboleira, in Amadora, Portugal, and tries to reconnect with his close ones.
This is the beginning of the film "O Fim do Mundo", "The End of the World".
Director Basil da Cunha worked with non-professional actors to tell the struggles faced by the young generation from Cape Verde descent in Reboleira.
"These three protagonists that I have chosen are kids that I have seen grow up, they are children of friends of mine," Basil da Cunha explained.
"I thought it was important to portray the reality that they live and pay homage to our neighbourhood, Reboleira, that is disappearing"
The Portuguese-Swiss director has lived in the slums of Reboleira for more than ten years.
The marginalised area and its Cape Verdean community remain invisible in Portuguese society, he says, which is why he decided to make it the centre of his film.
"Cinema serves to portrait communities that are unfortunately in the shadows of a country's history," da Cunha said.
"O Fim do Mundo" was in competition in 2019 at the Locarno festival in Switzerland and won the prize for best national feature film at this year's Indie Lisboa festival.
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“While my son was in jail they didn’t provide masks to him. Some people had masks and some didn’t. They didn’t have enough masks for them while they were in there.
Even when people are sick they are not helping them… they would just tell them ‘just lay down’. It didn’t matter if anybody was sick they would just basically leave them in there. He said all they would do is basically just take their temperature once a day.
It’s just…it’s a bad situation. I mean I understand they’re trying to not have visitors there because of the coronavirus but this is not good for their psyche either, and if you have a person that’s in a mental health unit and they’re not getting the proper care in a mental health unit on top of having a coronavirus, it’s not good for them or their family.
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Water on the moon? Scientists used to think it was as dry as, well, lunar dust.
But after a year of analysis NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found up to a billion gallons of water ice in the floor of a permanently-shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.
That's enough, said researchers, to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools, all from one crater.
If there is ice there, it probably exists in other places on the moon as well. They also found silver, mercury, carbon monoxide and ammonia.
LCROSS was an empty rocket stage that was deliberately crashed into the moon last year, while a small satellite trailing it took chemical measurements of what it kicked up. Its target, a crater called Cabeus, was chosen because it is so deep that sunlight never reaches the bottom -- and any ice there, mixed in the soil, would never have a chance to vaporize. The ice might have remained frozen there for billions of years.
"To our surprise, some of the permanently shadowed regions had no water, but some of the areas that receive sunlight occasionally did have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, a member of the research team.
The LCROSS researchers had already announced preliminary findings last November -- about a third less water than they reported today -- and refined their numbers in the months since. Their conclusions appear today in the journal Science.
Finding large amounts of water on the moon could be important, not just for science, but for future exploration by astronauts. Water, essential for human survival, would be heavy and expensive for spacecraft to bring from earth. But if astronauts land near ice deposits, as NASA has long hoped, they could, in effect, live off the land.
Water on the Moon: A Billion Gallons in One Crater
The ice could be melted and purified for drinking and cooling of spacecraft systems -- and beyond that, it could also be broken down into its components, hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen could be used as rocket fuel; oxygen could be used for breathing.
"This place looks like it's a treasure chest of elements, of compounds that have been released all over the moon and they've been put in this bucket in the permanent shadows," said planetary geologist Peter Schultz of Brown University in Rhode Island in a statement.
How much water did they actually find? The researchers said the satellite measured about 41 gallons in the debris from the 60-foot crater gouged out by the crashing rocket. Since the ice was mixed in with rock and dust, its chemical signature -- H2O -- was mixed in with the myriad minerals to be found in lunar soil.
Some of those other minerals were less than welcome to the researchers. Mercury, in particular, is toxic, so the idea of astronauts simply melting the ice for personal use becomes more complicated. And the scientists said not to get excited about the silver they found; it's hardly enough to be worth mining.
There is no saying whether astronauts will get to use that ice any time soon. The Obama administration early this year canceled the Constellation project, which had been proposed by President George W. Bush, to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send them on to Mars. They will still go to Mars, someday, but the moon plans, when given another look, appeared unaffordable.
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DISTILLING DOWN WASTE
Islay’s distilleries annually produce 500 tonnes of waste – everything from cardboard to office furniture.
By offering distilleries a number of recycling services, IDI diverts over 200 tonnes of waste from landfill and disposal, and into recycling streams. Processing as much waste as possible on the island preserves local jobs and minimises the number of lorry journeys, resulting in a lower carbon footprint.
IDI is also going further: we’re giving distilleries guidance on waste prevention and moving towards the ultimate goal – zero waste.
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This project is income-generating and sustainable, and supports one full-time job.
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A flat tire (British English: flat tyre) is a deflated pneumatic tire, which can cause the rim of the wheel to ride on the tire tread or the ground potentially resulting in loss of control of the vehicle or irreparable damage to the tire. The most common cause of a flat tire is puncturing of the tire by a sharp object, such as a nail, letting air escape. Depending on the size of the puncture, the tire may deflate slowly or rapidly.
- Failure of or damage to the valve stem;
- Rubbing of the tire against the road, ripping the tire, or separation of tire and rim by collision with another object;
- Excessive wear of the tire tread allowing explosive tire failure or allowing road debris to tear through it.
Some tires, particularly those with a slow leak, can be repaired and re-inflated; others, especially those with worn tread, must be replaced.
Driving or riding with a flat tire
When a flat tire occurs, drivers are advised to slow gradually and pull off the road. Continuing to drive may damage the wheel, the hub or other parts of the vehicle. Driving with a flat tire, especially at high speeds, may result in a loss of control and an accident.
On a bicycle, a flat tire will compromise handling, as well as increasing rolling resistance.
Flat tire repair
Motor vehicles are normally equipped for changing a tire. These tools include a jack, a tire iron or lug wrench, and a spare tire. Air pumps run by hand-lever, pressure cans, or electricity can be used to re-inflate slow-leaking tires.
One common way to temporarily repair and re-inflate a punctured tire at the roadside is to use a canned tire sealant. The motorist attaches this to the valve, and the compressed propellant inside forces the can's contents through the valve into the tire, a liquid sealant is forced towards the puncture and will seal the puncture. The compressed propellant also inflates the tire. Tire sealant is typically useful on punctures of 3/16in. (5mm) diameter or less. According to research carried out by Continental Tires, 95% of punctures are caused by objects of 5mm or less. Typically, the sealant is a water based latex solution which can easily be removed by a tire repair professional before a permanent repair is made. Canned tyre sealants are quick and simple to use and have the added benefit of working when the vehicle is in a dangerous location such as at the side of a busy highway, or on uneven ground.
A water-based sealant can be injected into the tire also through the valve stem. This contains less harmful chemical and no aerosol gas. The sealant can then be driven into the tire using an air compressor.
A flat tire can be repaired by a patch or plug; or the tire may repair itself. Self-sealing tires work on punctures up to a certain size.
The patch repair is commonly used in a repair shop. Some may not patch a worn tire if: the hole is close to a previous patch, there are already more than two patches, the puncture requires more than two patches, the punctures are too close, and/or the puncture is close to the sidewall. A patch is performed by removing the tire, marking the puncture, scouring the surface to create a smooth surface (inside of the tire), applying rubber cement, applying the patch, then pressing it into the surface with a small metal wheel attached to a handle. An alternative is a combination patch and plug. This is manufactured with a plug built into it; applying this patch is done similarly except with more steps, including drilling a hole at the puncture so the plug can be pulled through it, as well as cutting off the excess plug from the outside the tire.
The final method, the tire plug, can be performed without removing the tire. The penetrating object is removed from the tire, and a plug coated in rubber cement then inserted with a handle, typically supplied with the kit. Many technicians consider plugs less reliable than patching though more reliable than sealant.
One disadvantage of patching a tire is that due to the process requiring one to remove the tire from the wheel, the tire must be balanced again when it is put back on the wheel. Tire sealant also creates an imbalance in the tire, but since it is a temporary repair, it is considered less of an issue. However, the issue of disposal of the tire sealant, the hazards to the technician, as well as the required cleaning of both the inside of the tire as well as the wheel could all be considered disadvantages of tire sealant.
Tires can leak air for a variety of reasons. These include, but are not limited to: damage to the wheel itself, a damaged valve stem, a puncture in the tire (which can be hard to find if the puncturing object didn't embed itself in the tire) and improper installation of the tire, which could involve the bead of the tire being cut when installed with excessive force.
Occasionally, a puncture may not "go all the way through" to the inside of the tire. Thus, before coming to the conclusion that a puncture is causing air to leak from the tire, attempt to remove the puncture lightly by hand. It's very possible that the head of a nail or a very short nail created the appearance of a puncture, while not actually being one.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that tires simply lose air over time. A brand new tire, properly inflated, will lose air even with no punctures present. This is mainly due to the design of the valve stem, among other reasons. Given enough time, a tire can fully deflate with no outside intervention.
Should one be so inclined, one way to locate the source of a leak in a tire (a standard passenger tire being used for this example) is to inflate the tire to 50–60 psi (3.4–4.1 bar) and place the tire and wheel in a tank of water with dish soap and watch for bubbles. This method may not work all the time, especially with very small punctures, but may help one find a possible leak.
Thin-walled tires, especially those used in road racing bicycles are particularly susceptible to puncture by road debris, such as thorns, and small pieces of glass that would not affect tires with more substantial tread. The equipment needed to repair or replace a bicycle inner tube is comparatively minimal, and frequently carried by cyclists.
On the road, the easiest approach to a flat tire, should a spare inner tube be available, is to replace the tube. The wheel is removed, the tire levered from the rim and inspected for causes of damage, and the inner tube replaced and wheel inflated. Re-inflation can be carried out by the use of a frame mounted pump or a CO2 cartridge inflator. The CO2 cartridge is generally a single use item only while the pump can be used to inflate many flat tires. The inner tube may then be repaired at a later date.
The repair of inner tubes may be necessary on the road. Several methods exist to locate a small puncture, including submersion in water with dish soap, but without a bowl of water available, the simplest method may be to inflate the tube until air can be felt escaping from the puncture. Once located, the puncture is cleaned, and a patch applied (see Louis Rustin for the invention of the puncture patch). Note that tire valves may also become damaged. In this case, repair of the inner tube will not be possible, and the tube should be replaced.
Should damage to the tread of the outer tire be substantial, a tough, self-adhesive patch, known as a boot may additionally be placed inside the tire. Folded paper currency is frequently used as a makeshift boot by cyclists in need.
Racing bicycles frequently use tubular tires, which are glued to a special, flat wheel rim. The use of these is often restricted to circumstances where a full spare wheel is available.
Another approach to preventing punctures of lightweight tires is to use kevlar belts in the tire tread construction.
Another approach to preventing punctures in bicycle and other tires in general is the use of Slime, a proprietary brand of injectable liquid thick chemical goo. This chemical "goo" has a tendency to stick to, and coat the outer wall of the inner tube or tire, thus adding another layer of flexible rubber-type protection on the inside of the inner tube or tire. Many MTB riders, or "Mountain Bike Riders", further pre-treat their tires to prevent serious punctures or to prevent punctures in the first place. There are other brands of this same type of liquid, either in an unpressurized container or pressurized container with inflatable gas which is sold in many auto and bicycle stores. The auto sales version of this Fix-A-Flat type of chemical is sold in America.
Dangers of changing a flat tire
Motorists stranded by a flat tire face a number of hazards.
The most common hazard is from the passing traffic. Especially if the tire is on the side closer to the road, the motorist is at risk of getting hit by a passing car. If the motorist is unable to pull over to a place where the tire being changed is on the opposite side from the moving traffic, he may be directly in the path of or just inches away from passing cars. Even if some type of warning is placed on the road, a motorist not fully attentive may not be able to avoid the situation.
Some motorists, especially those with less physical strength, may risk injury while attempting to change a tire. Often, lug nuts are bolted very tightly to the wheel, and tires themselves are quite heavy.
While the use of a run-flat tire can prevent these problems, some run-flat tires have other inherent flaws that make them less appealing.
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The best way to avoid a flat tire is to avoid situations favorable to tire punctures. These involve driving through construction sites, or areas with heavy construction activity (new housing developments, for example), driving unnecessarily on roads with rough surfaces, as well as driving over debris, to list a few. There are, however, other methods one can use to avoid getting stuck with a flat.
One highly important preventative measure in avoiding a flat is to ensure your spare tire is properly inflated and in good, undamaged condition. If the spare tire has an irregular sidewall (bumps, dents, or other deformities) the spare tire needs to be replaced. Also check for dry rot (which looks like small cracks in the sidewall) as well as good tread depth. New spare tires can be purchased at tire repair shops, automotive dealerships, even over the internet. If for any reason, the process of checking the inflation pressure of your spare is too arduous of a task for you to perform (on some vehicles this requires removing the spare tire [which, if a full-size, could be very heavy] or sliding underneath the vehicle [common on SUVs and pick-up trucks]); when getting an oil change done or other routine maintenance one can (and should) request that the technician working on their car checks the spare tire pressure. If one chooses this route, it will help the technician if you remove items that may block access to the spare tire. Most auto technicians will only check the pressures of the tires already on the vehicle, and will ignore the spare tire unless one requests it be checked.
Of course, it is always a good idea to have a can of fix-a-flat should your car not have a spare; or use of a spare is inconvenient (most compact spares have a safe maximum speed of 50 mph (80 km/h) and a limited distance), as well as in case the vehicle's spare is damaged, missing, or severely under-inflated. It is also a good idea to have a roadside safety kit, which usually includes a reflective triangle to be placed further down the road to let other motorists know a hazard lies ahead.
Items that can help while changing a flat include an "emergency impact wrench", an impact wrench that plugs into your car's cigarette lighter, or on cars without a cigarette lighter, the car's 12-volt accessory outlet. This item can greatly decrease the amount of effort required to remove the lug nuts from the tire to be removed, also decreasing the amount of time required to change a flat. Also available are portable air compressors that are very compact and affordable, and can also be plugged into the cigarette lighter/accessory outlet to inflate an under-inflated tire. In the event of a slow leak, this may greatly help extend the driving range of the affected tire, allowing the driver to reach a location where the driver can properly attend to the affected tire.
A much more active approach to monitoring tire pressures involves retrofitting a tire pressure monitor to your vehicle. Vehicles manufactured after model year 2007 are required to have tire pressure monitoring systems built-in, although many older vehicles might not have it. Tire rack, for example, offers aftermarket tire pressure monitors from various companies, including one that notifies the driver of the tire pressure in each wheel, as well as exactly which tire the system is displaying the pressure of. A much less expensive way to monitor tire pressures is to install valve stem caps that alert the driver to low tire pressure. These work by first setting the pressure on the cap matching the pressure you desire your tires to be at. Once installed on the tire's valve stem, the tip of these caps will change color (from green, to yellow, to red) when the tire becomes under-inflated. The benefit of this system is its low initial cost, but its disadvantages include questionable accuracy (even more so if the caps aren't tightened down enough) and that the only way to monitor them is from outside of the vehicle, looking directly at the cap. It's always a good idea to have a quality, reliable tire gauge on hand regardless of what system is installed in your vehicle, and to either check tire pressures yourself of by having someone else do it, as most tire pressure monitor systems will not alert the driver until the tire pressure falls below a certain amount, usually 20% below the recommended pressure.
Also important is knowing the condition of the spare tire, jack and lug wrench upon purchase of a used car. This, among other things, is one very important item many used car buyers overlook when inspecting a potential purchase. If the vehicle is missing any of the items that go with a spare tire, it's possible to purchase them again from the manufacturer's dealership. It's also possible to buy the tools used, or from a junkyard, though if one chooses this route it is of utmost importance that the condition of the items be inspected thoroughly before storing them in your car. It's also possible to purchase a jack and a universal lug nut wrench (usually shaped like a + sign) from an auto parts store or the automotive section of a department store, though these items will likely not fit in the vehicles designated spare tire tool storage location and will likely require that the items remain loose in the cargo area. It is worth bearing in mind that, in an attempt to decrease theft, numerous cars on the road today (especially those with alloy wheels) may use one or more security caps or nuts on a wheel. These can only be removed with a specific tool which should be present in the car's tool kit. Without this tool it will be difficult to remove a wheel.
If you happen to be stuck with a flat tire and are unable to change the spare tire yourself, or encounter other problems with your vehicle that leave you stuck at the side of the road, it's always a good idea to have a membership to, and carry a card for an auto club, or a roadside assistance agency. In the United States, the American Automobile Association, or AAA (pronounced "triple-A") and in Australia National Roads and Motorists' Association or NRMA are the most well known roadside assistance programs and will gladly change a flat tire for you. Lesser known programs include those that are a feature of your auto insurance coverage, as well as manufacturer roadside assistance (which comes with most new cars), and even plans offered by cellular phone providers.
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Android owners need to be careful when deleting data before they sell a handset
Using the "factory reset" option to wipe Android phones may leave behind valuable data, warn security experts.
The reset function may also fall short when used to remotely wipe a phone that has been lost or stolen, report Cambridge University researchers.
For their analysis the researchers bought used Android phones to see what sort of data remained on the handsets.
In some cases they retrieved key files that let them access a former owner's Gmail account.
The study of 21 phones, running Android versions 2.3 to 4.3, was carried out by Prof Ross Anderson and Laurent Simon from the University of Cambridge computer science department.
The flaws they found could mean that up to 500 million Android devices might be at risk of leaving data available to attackers after being reset, the researchers warned in a blogpost.
"These failings mean that staff at firms which handle lots of second-hand phones (whether lost, stolen, sold or given to charity) could launch some truly industrial-scale attacks," they said.
All of the phones analysed left some data behind after a factory reset, they said.
In most of the phones tested, data generated by apps for WhatsApp and Facebook was left behind.
In addition, images, videos and text messages were also recoverable.
In 80% of the Android handsets the two researchers managed to get at an important file known as the "master token" that is used by Android to give a phone access to Google services such as Gmail.
Then what are those people without rooted phones supposed to do, since they. Can't use a nandroid backup
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Honeybees are highly evolved insects and have been buzzing around this planet for over 100 million years?
Seventy of the one hundred crop species that provide ninety percent of food worldwide, are pollinated by bees?
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Colloque: « The intelligent hand, 1500-1800 », Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Londres, le 8 novembre 2014, 10.00-17.45
« The intelligent hand, 1500-1800 »
Saturday, 8 November 2014
10.00 – 17.45 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
The hand – the “instrument of instruments” – has fascinated artists, scientists and philosophers from Aristotle onwards. Its remarkable dexterity, anatomical complexity, and the ability to manipulate were seen as defining features distinguishing humanity from animality, as well as indicators of the superiority of the former.
Taking as its starting point the sixteenth-century humanist Dominicus Lampsonius’ claim that ‘the Netherlander / Has intelligence in his hand’, this one-day Symposium will investigate the hand both as the means and the subject of representation in Early Modern art and visual culture.
Participants are invited to explore the hand as the locus where the relations between manual labour and ingenium, workshop and academy, the ‘low’ and the ‘high’ are defined and negotiated in the production of artistic value and new knowledge. Traditionally held to be subordinate to the creative drive of the mind, the artist’s hand may also be considered as an autonomous agent, manifesting itself on the surface of artworks through individual style, the manipulation of media or as an iconographic motif.
This one-day symposium will address the hand both as the means and the subject of representation in Early Modern art and visual culture. Traditionally held to be subordinate to the creative drive of the mind, the artist’s hand may also be considered as an autonomous agent, manifesting itself through individual style, the manipulation of media or as an iconographic motif. How did artists conceive the relation between intellectual and manual labour? How was the human hand represented in different contexts, from scientific treatises to portraits and drawing manuals? Papers will investigate the role of drawing in artistic training, as well as the representation of gesturing in complex pictorial compositions. A workshop with Linda Karshan, an artist whose practice revolves around the exploration of the process of drawing, will allow the participants to move beyond the early modern period and examine the status of the hand in contemporary artistic practice.
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Austėja Mackelaitė and Camilla Pietrabissa (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Introduction
10.15 – 11.30 Session I
–Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin): Thinking Hand, Painting Process and the Rembrandt Tradition
–Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina-Upstate): Michelangelo’s Concetto
–Anna Sgobbi (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): The Self-Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1598): The Gymnosophist Artist and his Way of Painting
11.30 – 12.00 Tea / Coffee Break (provided)
12.00 – 13.15 Session II
–Nicolas Misery (Université Lumière Lyon 2 / Laboratoire de Recherche Historique en Rhône Alpes (LARHRA)): Parmigianino’s Prometheus Animating Man (ca. 1526 -1530): Gesturing the Poetics of Artistic Creation in the Italian Sixteenth Century
–Claudia Steinhardt-Hirsch (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich): The Speaking Hand: The Act of Drawing in Early Modern Italy
–Tamar Mayer (University of Chicago): Drawing Hands: Trace, Pressure and Reversal in Jacques-Louis David’s Preparatory Practices
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch (not provided, except for speakers and chairs)
14.00 – 14.45 Linda Karshan (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘I am after the most perfect line’. Two workshops with the artist at the Prints and Drawings Study Room.
14.45 – 16.00 Session III
–Temenuzhka Dimova (Université de Strasbourg): Comput digitis: the Arithmetic of Fingers in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century French Painting
-Parmigianino, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, c. 1524. Oil on wood, diameter 24,4 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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I’m talking about Throat Reading.
I guess you have never heard of it. I’ve only heard the phrase used just once – about 10 years ago. It was given a single mention by anonymous member of an underground, now defunct, yet strangely influential Derren Brown discussion group.
It was proposed that with Throat Reading, you ask someone to imagine a word – then get clues as to what that word is by paying close attention to the tiny and often subconscious muscle movements in their throat. In a way, it is just like lip-reading – only more difficult, but when done well – it’s infinitely more amazing.
Anyway, the idea of “Throat Reading” was mentioned just once and quickly forgotten by the rest of the group. Most of the members eventually parted company, with many drifting into the world of mainstream magic. I on the other hand jumped head-first down the psychology rabbit hole – as far as I was concerned, this is where the “real” magic could be found.
In the years that followed I did a lot of reading and although I enjoyed my rabbit hole… I came to more than a few dead ends!
I read university psychology texts; the latest in neuro-linguistic programming; books about body language, micro-expressions, sub-conscious muscle movements; and I tracked down the best material about the mysterious (but very real) ideomotor response. I even borrowed some anatomy text-books to learn exactly what is moving inside our mouths and throats when we speak.
It is almost embarrassing think of the amount of time (and money) I spent reading what was in the main – quite dull stuff – but luckily I did find what I needed (although it wasn’t quite what I expected) – and I wove it together to produce my “Throat Reading” framework.
First off, it’s not all in the throat. I really liked the name “Throat Reading” I think its catchy – but it might be better described as:
That doesn’t really roll of the tongue in the same way though does it?
The theory is obvious – and to an extent we all know a bit of “Throat Reading” already. As human beings we are at least part governed by our subconscious mind – and just like we subconsciously smile when thinking about a happy thought – more subtle reactions can be observed if someone uses their imagination to REALLY visualise something.
Obviously we are all individuals and people do indeed react differently – but luckily there is a good measure of universality to this. After all – we all share 99%+ of the same DNA and in this globalised world we increasingly share similar life experiences since we learn the same stuff at school, watch the same movies and listen to the same music. We aren’t quite as individual as we think.
These universal traits are incredibly useful – but we’ve also got anatomy on our side. There is simply no way to say the letter “P” without pressing your lips together to block the air flow – and everyone uses the exact same muscles to do so.
This makes the sub-conscious twitches associated with the ‘plosive’ sounds like P and B quite easy to spot. The tricky part is knowing exactly how to trigger the twitch; exactly where to look; and then how to take it to the next level with the more difficult syllables.
Throat Reading allows you to demonstrate just this to your audience. I’ve combined all the necessary insights from the worlds of psychology and mentalism into a killer framework that lets you present this feat consistently.
The actual effect is really simple – this is how it looks:
The amazing thing is – you can describe exactly how you are picking up on their thoughts as you go along. Obviously it depends on what is being thought of, but you could point out that the person’s lips have a little tension indicating a ‘plosive’ sound like a “P” or “B” at the start of the word – and that in the middle there is a long “ah” or “uh” sound because you can see the muscles in their throat dropping as if making that noise. You see what I mean?
As you might expect – this generates quite some reactions. I’m talking gasps, screams and shock. People are used to seeing ‘tricks’ – but it’s rare that someone really gets inside your head and names your exact thoughts as you are thinking them.
You are manipulating your spectator – simultaneously guiding them and deceiving them – but above all – you are demonstrating a skill! You seem to exhibit a combination of anatomical knowledge and a deep understanding of psychology and people’s thought processes – and that is something that impresses and entertains in a way that is totally different to almost all other mind reading effects.
Throat Reading took a long time to develop – I’ve been performing a variation of it for over 10 years, but it’s only really the last couple that I’ve really turbo-charged it to its now complete state. Before I boast about all its cool and groovy aspects, first let’s deal with its major draw-back…
Throat Reading takes a little practice. This is unavoidable. You aren’t going to need to do the mountain of reading that I did, nor the months and years of trial and error and improvement – but you will need some time, maybe an afternoon, to get the basics down. Obviously once you’ve got the basics down, you can polish things up while you gain experience performing.
Just look at some of the factors that make Throat Reading so versatile and explain why it generates such amazing reactions:
The book comes complete with a professional grade example script and a full, detailed methodology covering all of the relevant techniques and psychological background. You will get the full low-down on what is essentially the most sought-after effect of the modern mentalism age. Asking someone to think of something and then describing exactly how they are leaking the information for all to see is as powerful as “real” mind reading gets.
What is this effect worth to you?
Since hearing about the notion of “Throat Reading” in that Derren Brown discussion group all those years ago – the attainment of the ultimate Throat Reading type effect has been a constant driving force. What I’ve produced I consider the pinnacle of my mentalism work and it’s the product of:
To put it mildly, a lot of money, time, blood, sweat and tears went into this and the result is the most mind blowing piece of close-up propless mentalism that exists. If you are performing for someone one-on-one there is simply nothing that beats it.
I’ve obviously learned a lot along the way from all this study – but I can genuinely say that Throat Reading is the tried and tested – ‘go to’ effect for those occasions when you want to really fry someone!
The full Throat Reading framework is priced at $97. I hope you’ll agree that considering what Throat Reading can do and all the work that went into it – $97 is great value.
However, since it has only just launched, you can take advantage of my temporary launch special pricing and get a copy for less than half price – just $37.
Plus if you take action today, I’m including some extra special bonuses for “super early” purchasers at no extra cost. Check them out below, but be quick – they won’t last forever!
“Micro Expression Cards” looks a lot like the method for “Throat Reading” but it’s actually totally different. It is however the perfect compliment to a Throat Reading performance and if you also do regular magic, it acts as a great bridge from card-based stuff into psychological work. You can perform Micro Expression Cards, then tell your spectator to put the deck away – its time to do some stuff with just our minds!
The Underground Mentalism Forum has only just got going. Its launching to the public on the same day as Throat Reader. We’re going to be posting some amazing stuff each and every day, but just to make it incredible value for you – I’ve placed links to some of my other premium releases inside the forum. If you don’t already own my “Think of a Number” trick – you will soon – since its one of the ones included. Imagine being able to…
Perfect for demonstrating a strong connection with a special someone! Sells for $19 – FREE inside the Underground Mentalism Forum.
Throat Reading involves misdirection, psychology, trickery and deception. It is only designed for use, and should only be used for the purpose of entertainment. If you intend to use this as part of a “genuine” psychic show or other untoward purpose, please do not buy.
Is there something I’ve not covered? Do you want to know what sort of hair gel I use? Whatever it is, feel free to send me an email and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
If you’ve ever been in that situation where you’ve performed an effect and you spectator has smiled and been a bit impressed – but immediately thought it was a “trick” – Throat Reading is the answer. It is going to revolutionise the way your perform mentalism – but more importantly, its going to turn the sort of reactions you get from “polite smiles” to genuine astonishment.
Happy Mind Reading,
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Presentation on theme: "Auditors Have a Great Responsibility Internal auditor Tariq Saleem found an unsupported entry for Rs500 million in computer acquisitions. Internal auditor."— Presentation transcript:
Auditors Have a Great Responsibility Internal auditor Tariq Saleem found an unsupported entry for Rs500 million in computer acquisitions. Internal auditor Tariq Saleem found an unsupported entry for Rs500 million in computer acquisitions. Billions of Rupees in fees paid to telephone companies were recorded as capital assets turning a Rs662 million loss into a Rs2.4 billion profit. Billions of Rupees in fees paid to telephone companies were recorded as capital assets turning a Rs662 million loss into a Rs2.4 billion profit.
The Demand for Audit and Other Assurance Services Company Owners and Lenders Company Managers
Presentation Outline I. The Nature of Auditing II. Auditing and Investor Risk III. Assurance Services
I. The Nature of Auditing A. Auditing Defined B. The Distinction Between Accounting and Auditing C. Types of Audits D. Types of Auditors
A. Auditing Defined Auditor accumulates and evaluates evidence to ascertain correspondence between the information established criteria and and communicates results to interested users
B. The Distinction Between Accounting and Auditing Accounting is the recording, classifying, and summarizing of economic events for the purpose of providing financial information used in decision making. Auditing is determining whether recorded information properly reflects the economic events that occurred during the accounting period.
C. Types of Audits Operational Audit Involves evaluation of any part of an organization’s operating efficiency and effectiveness. Not limited to accounting areas. Compliance Audit Determine whether the auditee has complied with specific procedures, rules, or regulations set by some higher authority. Financial Statement Audit Determine whether overall financial statements are stated in accordance with specified criteria. Generally accepted accounting principles are normally the criteria, although other basis of accounting are at times used.
D. Types of Auditors External or Independent Auditors – CAs are the only group permitted to provide financial statement audits. Such audits are required of all Public & Private traded companies. Internal auditors – Auditors who are employees of the companies they audit.
II. Auditing and Investor Risk A. The Cost of Debt B. Causes of Information Risk C. Ways of Reducing Information Risk
A. The Cost of Debt When a bank makes a loan, it will charge a rate of interest determined by primarily three factors: Risk-free rate – return on notes for the term of the business loan. Business risk for the customer – risk associated with a particular business that may result in it being unable to repay a loan. Information risk – Improper business risk decisions resulting from inaccurate information. Auditing has no effect on either the risk-free rate or business risk, but it can have a significant effect on information risk!
B. Causes of Information Risk Remoteness of information – information provided by others must be relied upon. Biases and motives of the provider – can result from honest optimism of intentional misstatement. Voluminous data – the amount of data grows with the organization. Important details can be lost. Complex exchange transactions – business transactions are becoming increasingly complex. Warning Thin Ice!
C. Ways of Reducing Information Risk User verifies information – normally impractical for user to go to business and examine information. User shares information risk with management – although users may bring suit against management for supplying inaccurate information, it is often difficult to collect on losses. Provide audited financial statements – most feasible approach is to have an independent party check for completeness, accuracy, and removal of bias.
III. Assurance Services A. Assurance Services B. Attestation Services C. Other Assurance Services D. Non-Assurance Services
A. Assurance Services Decision makers seek assurance regarding the reliability information they use to make decisions. Assurance services are valued because the assurance provider is perceived as an independent and unbiased evaluator of information. Assurance services can be provided by CAs and a variety of other professionals.
B. Attestation Services Many other assurance services do not meet the criteria of attestation services: a CA who issues a report about the reliability of an assertion that is the responsibility of another party. There are four categories of attestation services. ASSURANCE SERVICES ATTESTATION SERVICES 1.Audits of historical financial statements 2. Effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting 3. Review of historical financial statements 4. Other attestation services
B1. Audits of Historical Financial Statements An audit of historical financial statements is a form of attestation in which the auditor issues a written report expressing an opinion about whether the financial statements are in material conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Publicly traded companies in the Pakistan are required to have audits under the Rules of SECP
B2. Attestation on Internal Control over Financial Reporting Public companies to report management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. Auditors attest the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.
B3. Review of Historical Financial Statements Many nonpublic companies want to provide assurance on their financial statements without incurring the cost of an audit. In comparison to an audit, less evidence is necessary to support the level of assurance provided by a review.
B4. Other Attestation Services Other attestation services are natural extensions of financial statement engagements: Debtor compliance with loan agreement provisions. Debtor compliance with loan agreement provisions. Forecasted financial statements. Forecasted financial statements.
C. Other Assurance Services Other assurance services differ from those involving attestation in that: The CA is not required to issue a written report. The assurance does not have to be about the reliability of another party’s assertion about compliance with specified criteria. ASSURANCE SERVICES ATTESTATION SERVICES Audits Internal Controls Reviews Other OTHER ASSURANCE SERVICES
D. Non-Assurance Services CAs also provide non- assurance services including: Accounting and bookkeeping Taxes Management consulting
Summary The Audit Process Types of Audits and Auditors Risk and the Need for Auditing Assurance and Attestation
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My first impulse was that the "Who cares?" attitude was that of a troll, but after thinking about it a bit I realized how Windows-centric my University had been (RPI Computer Engineering - Class of 2005). Via a financial aid package I got a free (at the time) top of the line laptop which happily ran Windows during my time there. Then there was the Vorhees Computing Center which was divided up between Windows on the left (where you'd go to print stuff) and UNIX on the right (which was mostly ignored because it was fairly ancient).
Anyway... point is that AFTER college all of my computers have been loaded with Linux and my "work" computers continue to be predominantly Windows. This is a fact of life.
If you have the luxury, I'd put in the following recommendation: making sure she's got easy access to both Linux and Windows. Because I'll say this, knowing what Linux does well and learning what Windows can handle satisfactorily will give her an advantage over the people on campus who only know one way of doing things.
If easily/convenient computer labs on campus offer Windows desktops, send her to school with a Linux laptop. If not... is sending a student to campus with two laptops or a desktop+laptop really that hard to imagine?
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Optimism is a double edge sword
Let’s agree, there is a thin line between reality and hallucination. To be an entrepreneur, you need to be delusional, and small lies are essential to progress in an environment that lacks hard evidence.
Sometimes entrepreneurs start to rely on big lies and distorted facts because facts hurt. Granted, you have to be crazy to start something. Chances are you won’t succeed, and you will fight with your co-founders, you will struggle with money, and you could eventually fall into a depression if you are not mentally strong. So your only option is to be an optimist. Yes, to a point.
Here is the basic theory that we all go through when starting up. You start with an idea. It’s usually weak as hell, but it’s a starting point. If you are looking for a fantastic idea to begin with, keep looking. The idea is the reason to start assembling a team. That’s the core early decision every entrepreneur makes. The team is everything. Then you immediately think of a product. So you start coding, designing, changing, adding, testing. One day you have something to show for, which tells you it’s time to test the market. So you go on and start talking to potential customers, or even better, you start testing. You plan to understand what needs improvements and what works.
As you run your first tests, you are convinced that your product is the best thing after bread. So you look for positive signals, something that will comfort you into thinking that you are on the right path. You ignore the negative signals, it’s either the client that does not understand, or it’s the product that’s not quite there yet, but it will be, your roadmap is so clear. Version 1.1 is the answer. You know it.
Then if you are lucky, you might end up finding a few folks that will like version 1.1 and even use it a bit. Now you are switching into finding what to do to have them use it more. You know that once your product becomes sticky, your only way is up.
You know it’s time to raise money. A demo to selected investors should do it. You will blow them away with your product.
Fast forward, the few folks that liked it in the first place no longer use it, you did not raise money, and you are starting to think that the market is against you; people don’t get it. But they will, you just need more time.
Optimism Bias, that’s what it’s called. Ignoring overwhelming odds stacked against you is deadly. Founders keep believing that their startup is the exception. I won’t blame you for being optimistic, faith is the engine that will propel your startup. However, optimism should not make you blind.
Here are a few things you can do:
Be a first principle thinker. First-principles Thinking is the practice of questioning every assumption you think you know about a given problem or scenario. It is to break down a situation, a goal, a scenario into the most fundamental elements that are factually true and proven. Assumptions are the logic behind our beliefs and things we assume to be true but unproven. You need proof of what you believed to be accurate. Someone said, about intelligence, “It’s not because you think you know everything without questioning, but rather because you question everything you think you know”.
Don’t build a product, build a validation. Create what you absolutely need to test your assumptions; it does not need to be friendly or functional. Run experiments all the time. It’s a lot cheaper and much more effective than building a full-blown product to realize no-one cares!
Look for weak signals. Do not ignore what hurts. More importantly, look for contradiction. Do not try to “sell”, try to “know”. If you run a demo, the last question is not, “do you like it?” but rather, “tell me why you would never use it?”. Strong contradictions should make you think and probably change.
Do not necessarily believe the market. Customers are not visionaries, and sometimes stubbornness is vital. Do not change things all the time because you believe so much in customers’ insights. Draw a line, things that are the foundations of your vision, and things you agree are on moving grounds. Many great startups had to work hard before becoming obvious. If it’s obvious early, it’s been done.
Learn to read strong signals. When something good happens, do not get carried away. Stay cold and analyze what it means.
Product Market Fit is not easy. A few folks liking and using your product is not Product-Market Fit. If usage/monetization is not growing faster than your sales and marketing efforts, you have not reached PMF. PMF is when you need to hire fast to support growth; it’s when your customers spread your product.
I see too many smart entrepreneurs scared to look into reality. Reality might mean starting all over again. It’s so brutal that most entrepreneurs keep going, hoping reality is wrong. It’s never wrong. Good entrepreneurs are optimistic, of course, but also active pessimists.
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Fifty eighth graders from Hoboken Junior-Senior High School visited Stevens Institute of Technology on Monday to take part in programs aimed at recruiting local kids to the university and teaching them math and science disciplines at an early age.
Meeting with staffers at the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), the students completed on an activity called “Toxic Popcorn,” which challenged them to work in small groups to rig a contraption to transport unpopped corn kernels from one canister to another.
Using only a deflated rubber tube and four pieces of rope, the students attempted a variety of strategies.
“It’s a challenge because we have to brainstorm and then convince everyone to try the idea,” said James Forcum, one of the students.
One of his teammates, Anthony Sparacino, looked at the activity in a different light.
“It’s good because we’re working together and all, but it’s also nice because it’s something different from what we’re doing in school,” he said.
“Most of us have no idea what we want to do or where we want to go to college.” – Daniel Burrell
CIESE focuses on the three-fold mission of developing math and science-based curricula for K-12 students, training teachers to be able to teach those curricula, and develop new ways that math and science can be effectively at the elementary level.
Students unfamiliar with engineering
“When the students arrived today, we asked them what they think engineers do and we didn’t hear a lot of responses,” Camins said. “But the fact is that everything around us is either natural or it’s engineered. Those realms are important for them to understand, and we’re trying to get them more interested because right now not a lot of them know.”
Camins also noted that a large portion of Hoboken’s public school population is from minority communities, which are underrepresented in STEM fields.
“The idea is to get them excited and interested early,” he said.
The trick seemed to work on at least one student. Daniel Burrell said that the day already had him thinking about where he’d like to go to college.
“Most of us have no idea what we want to do or where we want to go to college,” he said. “It’s important for us to be thinking about that though, so this is a cool way to get that started.”
Students were also given a tour of the campus, including a peek into several laboratories.
Stevens has a long history of working hand in hand with the Hoboken public schools to spread the idea that STEM education is a crucial aspect of any elementary curriculum. The university has provided teacher training, classroom support, classroom materials, as well as student programs including Innovation Camp, WaterBotics and “Girl Day,” a program aimed at recruiting more women to the field of engineering.
Since 1992, Stevens has awarded close to $2 million in scholarships for 27 Hoboken students to attend the school.
Last year’s Hoboken High School valedictorian, Christian Rosa, just completed his freshman year at Stevens.
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I inserted two temp variables and want to see their values, but I can't. I could solve it by placing it somewhere else, but I'm interested why this behaviour exists.
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Nahanni National Park Reserve
Travel to Nahanni National Park Reserve – Mountains and Pristine Wilderness
Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region offering the adventurous visitor a wilderness experience.
Nahanni National Park Reserve encompasses 300 square kilometres of the South Mountains in the south-western corner of the Northwest Territories. It is a wilderness of rugged mountains, wild rivers and luxurious hot springs stretched along the South Nahanni River.
The Nahanni River, named for the Naha, a tribe of fierce warriors who vanished from the valley, is a dangerous river notorious for other mysteries as well, like the story of the headless men found in Deadmen Valley.
The geological history of the area is unique. Much of the region was never touched by glaciers and so has evolved differently. The four canyons of the South Nahanni have cliff walls that rise as much as 1500 metres above the river. Originally established in 1972, the park reserve was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the first natural region in the world to be so designated.
Wildlife in the park reserve includes many species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians as well as fish.
Activities that visitors can enjoy here include canoeing, hiking and wilderness camping.
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- Hike and canoe amidst stunning scenery.
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1. The price increases are proportionate to the increases in the costs of production.
2. Increasing costs resulted in proportionate increases in prices.
3. The punishment should be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of culpability of the offender.
4. The number of accidents is proportionate to the increased volume of traffic.
5. The penalties should be proportionate to the gravity of the offence.
6. The cost of the ticket is proportionate to the distance you travel.
7. The curve should be proportionate to the width.
8. Inner cities have more than a proportionate share of social problems.
9. Healthy organic growth is proportionate,(sentencedict.com) with each area and function developing in relation to the other.
10. Moreover, the seriousness of the sanction must be proportionate to the damage sustained by the worker.
11. This proportionate share of crime has remained fairly stable during the past decade.
12. Should a corporation receive less proportionate punishment for having contaminated its workers with deadly plutonium?
13. My one complaint is the proportionate sizing of hip to waist - the waist is large for women's trousers.
14. A proportionate part of your premium will then be returned to you.
15. Vigilance and a proportionate response are required of leaders.
16. Teachers economic income and job satisfaction generally proportionate. 7.
17. Risk is always proportionate to reward.
18. Proportionate to the possible membership ,(sentencedict.com) we represent a minuscule number of hard of hearing people.
19. Wages will rise at a rate proportionate to the amount of work you do.
20. Reported volumes do not include Suncor's proportionate production share from the Syncrude joint venture.
21. However, with a flotation come outside shareholders and a proportionate loss of control.
22. The outcome of the political merry-go-round that sets nominal tax rates has produced a roughly proportionate tax structure.
23. The costs of the return travel together with a proportionate amount of the total holiday cost for each complete day lost. 6.
24. The rationalist tendency to take image and concept to be proportionate may explain the reduction.
25. We believe that a single-person home should receive a discount proportionate to the income of its occupant.
26. Conversely, the focus to please one's partner brings personal pleasure proportionate with achieving the goal.
27. Both Microsoft and Apple have big updates coming this year, and you can expect a proportionate dose of hype.
28. The cruise tries to keep the bookings balanced, with a proportionate ratio of men and women.
29. In 1991 it is estimated that the young elderly represent 56% of all elderly persons, and further proportionate falls are anticipated.
30. But for the moment they remain conventional weapons, with humans subject to the conventional tests that their action be discriminate and proportionate.
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A new community for women exposing corporate and government fraud, Women Whistleblowers, announced its official launch on October 24th. A combination of a website, Facebook group, and other online resources, Women Whistleblowers is geared toward bringing whistleblowers out of the shadows and helping everyone understand the extraordinary impact that women play in reporting fraud in the workplace.
For years, while men have dominated the boardroom, women have watched from the sidelines. In those positions, they are ironically better placed to observe fraud. Combined with a willingness to take moral risks and lower tolerance for business risk, women have blown open some of the most significant fraud cases in the country, including JP Morgan Chase, WorldCom, and the Enron scandal that toppled the company.
The Women Whistleblowers website, located at womenwhistleblowers.com, features articles, interviews, and reports about women who have followed their consciences and stepped forward to protect those in weaker positions. The site also features a Facebook page and Twitter feed that provides the latest news on women whistleblowers.
The site focuses on why women make great whistleblowers. One reason is that women risk less by speaking up because they’re not part of the good old boys’ network. Another reason is that women have a protective instinct to speak up, attributed to the “motherhood gene.”
The group believes that for every high-profile whistleblower, such as Erin Brockovich (PG&E) Sherron Watkins (Enron) and Karen Silkwood (Kerr-McGee), there are many more courageous women ready to speak up. In some industries, like healthcare, banking and government administration, women are kept out of the boardroom and often relegated to bookkeeping duties, placing them in ideal positions to observe and record wrongdoing. Healthcare is the best example, since 80 percent of employees are women. Healthcare whistleblower cases commonly involve hospital systems, doctor’s offices, pharmaceutical companies, medical testing facilities, Medicare providers and health insurance companies.
“We hope to start a movement where women who observe wrongdoing can report it, fight back and win,” said Jessica Copen, a senior writer and reporter for the site. “With the right law firm behind it, Women Whistleblowers has the potential to change the business landscape significantly and expose the egregious cases of fraud happening in boardrooms all across the country.” | <urn:uuid:bf9cb95a-aac8-42d6-9725-a155df50b9fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ethicalmarketingnews.com/women-whistleblowers-launches-movement-combat-fraud | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.955774 | 490 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Cycling is on the rise following the popularity of the 2012 London Olympics and the movement towards low-emissions commuting. This means there are lots of potential accidents now waiting to happen because UK roads aren’t well suited to being shared.
If you are of the two-wheeled persuasion then you might want to follow Jaguars or Land Rovers from now on because the group has revealed Bike Sense – a suite of safety tech aimed at keeping motorists and cyclists from colliding with each other.
Hang on, hazard warnings aren’t new…
You’re right. Lots of cars come fitted with systems that can identify hazards in the road, warn the driver and, if necessary, stop the car for them. JLR’s system claims to be different because it’s optimised for instinctive human reactions.
Dr Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology said “Human beings have developed an instinctive awareness of danger over thousands of years…Bike Sense takes us beyond the current technologies of hazard indicators and icons in wing mirrors, to optimising the location of light, sound and touch to enhance this intuition. This creates warnings that allow a faster cognitive reaction as they engage the brain’s instinctive responses”.
So what is it?
During normal driving, the system constantly monitors the surroundings of the car to identify potential hazards. If the system detects a cyclist or motorcyclist near the car it’ll play a warning through the speaker closest to the danger. The warnings are bike bells or motorcycle horns – allowing the driver to identify the danger faster.
Audio warnings are backed up by visual ones. A matrix of LEDs built into the window sills, A-pillars and dashboard follow the cyclist – giving the driver the visual impression of the location and direction of the danger. Colours change from yellow to amber to red to reflect the proximity of the danger.
The system has an advanced feature that, when presented with multiple obstructions, can prioritise the ones that present the most danger and just warn the driver about them. This helps avoid the potential for information overload when a group of cyclists pass you.
Should you get over- or undertaken by a cyclist the system can recognise when this will happen and down which side the cyclist will go. The top corner of the driver’s seat will then extend to ‘tap’ them on the shoulder associated with the side the cyclist is passing on. This instinctively encourages the driver to look to that side and see the danger.
If the – especially bloody-minded – driver decides to ignore the warnings the car makes the accelerator pedal become firm and vibrate. This is intended to get the driver to instinctively stop the car before an accident happens.
Finally, the system warns passengers if they are about to open their door into the path of an oncoming cyclist. If they ignore this warning, the system will illuminate the door and make the handle vibrate and buzz – once again, trying to illicit the instinctive reaction not to open the door.
The system is powered by a set of sensors and video camera systems that already exist on today’s production cars. These systems identify and classify the object based on the amount of volume of space they take up.
When can I have it?
JLR are still in the development phase for this system and, although elements may arrive on production cars sooner, a full production version of this system is at least five years away. In the meantime, check out our reviews of Jaguar and Land Rover’s ranges, our previews of the upcoming Jaguar XE and Land Rover Discovery Sport, and then head over to our car configurator to spec one for yourself. | <urn:uuid:481bb3a9-e691-482a-a397-38509adf95c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/Jaguar-Land-Rover-cycling-safety-tech-1639 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930356 | 760 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Tennyson, in a nineteenth-century poem, expressed the firm belief in the difference between men and women.
Man for the field and woman for the heart:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey.
During the twentieth century, this doctrine of separate spheres was steadily eroded so that by now, in the Western world, woman are expected to use their brains as well as their hearts and men are encouraged to assume some of the roles previously allotted exclusively to women. This dialogue between Esther Perel and Marilyn Yalom will explore the challenges that men and women now face in assuming traits and roles of the opposite gender. Are we edging towards a more androgynous definition of gender and a multiplicity of gender identities? What are the lingering gaps in gender inequality? Is there a “crisis of masculinity”?
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, is the best-selling author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, translated into 25 languages. Fluent in nine of them, the Belgian native is a practicing psychotherapist, celebrated speaker and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 companies. The New York Times, in a cover story, named her the most important game changer on sexuality and relationships since Dr. Ruth. Her critically acclaimed viral TED Talks have collectively reached over 10 million viewers.
Marilyn Yalom is senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from John Hopkins and was Professor of French at the California State University at Hayward, before assuming research and administrative roles at Stanford. Her books include Blood Sisters. The French Revolution in Women’s Memory (Basic Books, 1993), A History of the Breast (Knopf, 1991), A History of the Wife (Harper Collins, 2001), Birth of the Chess Queen (Harper Collins, 2004), The American Resting Place with photos by Reid Yalom (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), How the French Invented Love (Harper Collins, 2012), The Social Sex with Theresa Brown (Harper Collins, 2015) and The Amorous Heart: An Unconventional History of Love (Basic Books, forthcoming January 2018). She lives in Palo Alto with her husband, the psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom.
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Case Number: 5-310-507, Year Published: 2010, Revision Date: March 02, 2016
HBS Number: KEL616
Inventory Control, Distribution Channels, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management
Jim Keyes, CEO of Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc., was facing the biggest challenge of his career. In March 2010 Keyes was meeting with Hollywood studios in an effort to negotiate better terms for the $1 billion worth of merchandise Blockbuster had purchased the year before. In recent years, Blockbuster’s share of the video rental market had been sharply decreasing in the face of competitors such as the low-cost, convenient Redbox vending machines and mail-order and video-on-demand service Netflix. While Blockbuster’s market capitalization had dropped 47 percent to $62 million in 2009, Netflix’s had shot up 55 percent to $3.9 billion that year. The only hope for Blockbuster, as Keyes saw it, was to shift its business model from primarily brick-and-mortar physical DVD rentals to increased digital and mail-order video delivery.In Keyes’s favor, the studios were more than willing to provide him with that help. Hollywood wanted to see Blockbuster win the video-rental wars. Consumers still made frequent purchases of DVDs at its stores—purchases which were much more profitable for studios than the rentals that remained Blockbuster’s primary business.Blockbuster had made efforts at making its business model more nimble, but the results had been disappointing, and its debt continued to skyrocket. By the end of 2009, the company’s debt had climbed to $856 million, its share of the $6.5 billion video rental business had fallen to 27 percent, and its revenues had tumbled 23 percent to $4.1 billion.
The objective of this case is to discuss how different business models and supply chain structures impact the financials of the firms in the DVD rental business. In particular, the goal is to convey that the characteristics of the movie (recent/big hit or old/eclectic) affect whether it is best rented from a centralized or decentralized model. In addition, as streaming gains market share, the impact will be different for movie types and business models.
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Operators, MROs and OEMs weigh in on retrofit opportunities for business aviation, military and commercial aircraft.
Avoiding areas of dangerous turbulence at cruise altitude is what every pilot is trained to do. The problem is that using conventional radars can be an intensive manual process that adds to pilot workload. And interpreting the information on the display may not lead to the safest way to avoid the worst parts of a storm. However, with the advent of automated “advanced” weather radar systems within the past five years, pilots are presented with far more detailed meteorological information than ...
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O, yes we are!
Here’s some reality orientation for those of you, like me, who write and teach as a major part of your ministry for the Lord. I’ll let the stats speak for themselves. We really need to design easy to read, comfortable to read typography. We need to give our readers all the help we can. Thankfully, InDesign now takes care of most of that for us with only a few simple decisions required on our part.
From caliteracy.org: “Literacy education is a vital part of any society’s educational needs and goals. Around the world, many people cannot read or write a single sentence making the illiteracy rate surprising to some. Typically, in most industrialized nations, the literacy rate of persons over the age of fifteen, is 90 percent or above. However, the definition of literacy can be quite misleading. It has been estimated that while 99% of persons over the age of fifteen in the United States are able to write their names, and read some words, certain studies have estimated that 40 to 50% of adults are functionally illiterate.
The phrase functionally illiterate describes those persons over the age of fiteen who are unable to read well enough to read a daily newspaper and comprehend it, or to read well enough to understand a simple contract, or a basic letter concerning their children’s school needs, or the pamphlets that are enclosed with prescription drugs that explain side effects and precautions.
Certainly, this illiteracy makes it very hard for a person to hold a well paying job, or to care for a family member, and is a contributing factor to poverty. Other studies have demonstrated that the functional illiteracy rates in the United States are not as high as 40 to 50 percent across the population, but the studies do acknowledges that in certain impoverished regions of the country, as many as one-third of the residents are functionally illiterate.”
- Almost Half of Detroit’s Adults Are Functionally Illiterate. Why Aren’t We Addressing Those Education Issues? (crooksandliars.com)
- Some notes on illiteracy (allcoppedout.wordpress.com)
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Slave Master: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
Editor’s Note: The article is copyright by Donald L. Hilton, Jr., was originally published in Salvo Magazine (Summer 2010) www.salvomag.com, and is reprinted with permission.
While some have avoided using the term “addiction” in the context of natural compulsions such as uncontrolled sexuality, overeating, or gambling, let us consider current scientific evidence regarding the brain and addiction.
This article will seek to answer two questions: (1) Biologically, is the brain affected by pornography and other sexual addictions? (2) If so, and if such addictions are widespread, can they have a societal effect as well?
The Story of the Gypsy Moth
Let’s begin with a seeming digression. In 1869 the gypsy moth was brought to America to attempt to jumpstart a silk industry. Rarely have good intentions gone so wrong, as the unforeseen appetite of the moth for deciduous trees such as oaks, maples, and elms has devastated forests for 150 years. Numerous attempts were made to
destroy this pest, but a major breakthrough came in the 1960s, when scientists noted that the male gypsy moth finds a female to mate with by following her scent. This scent is called a pheromone, and is extremely attractive to the male.
In 1971 a paper was published in the journal Nature that described how pheromones were used to prevent the moths from mating. The scientists mass-produced the pheromone and permeated the moths’ environment with it. This unnaturally strong scent overpowered the females’ normal ability to attract the male, and the confused males were unable to find females. A follow-up paper described how population control of the moths was achieved by “preventing male gypsy moths from finding mates.”
The gypsy moth was the first insect to be controlled by the use of pheromones, which work by two methods. One is called the confusion method. An airplane scatters an environmentally insignificant number of very small plastic pellets imbedded with the scent of the pheromone. Then, as science journalist Anna Salleh describes it, “The male either becomes confused and doesn’t know which direction to turn for the female, or he becomes desensitized to the lower levels of pheromones naturally given out by the female and has no incentive to mate with her.”
The other method is called the trapping method: Pheromone-infused traps are set, from which moths cannot escape; a male moth enters looking for a female, only to find a fatal substitute.
What does this have to do with pornography? Pornography is a visual pheromone, a powerful, $100 billion per year brain drug that is changing human sexuality by “inhibiting orientation” and “disrupting pre-mating communication between the sexes by permeating the atmosphere,” especially through the internet. I believe we are currently struggling in the war against pornography because many continue to believe two key fallacies:
Fallacy No. 1: Pornography is not a drug.
Fallacy No. 2: Pornography is therefore not a real addiction.
As an illustration of Fallacy No. 1, consider the following statement by a Wall Street executive whose mainstream company discreetly profits from pornography: “I’m not a weirdo or a pervert, it’s not my deal. I’ve got kids and a family. But if I can see as an underwriter going out and making bucks on people being weird, hey, dollars are dollars. I’m not selling drugs. It’s Wall Street.”
Now consider both fallacies as elucidated in the following statement by an executive in the pornography industry:
[T]he fact [is] that “drugs, booze and cigarettes” are all physical, chemical agents that are ingested and can indeed have measurable, harmful, addictive effects. The mere viewing of any type of subject matter hardly falls into this category and, in fact, belittles the very real battles that addicts face over drugs, booze and cigarettes-all of which can be lethal. No one ever died from looking at porn. While some compulsive types can be “addicted” to anything, such as watching a favorite television show, eating ice cream or going to the gym, nobody suggests that ice cream is akin to crack cocaine [remember that statement] and should be regulated to protect . . . people from themselves-instead, these compulsive actions are rightfully viewed by society as personality defects in the individual. . . .
Here I will review some of the science he refers to, and also discuss whether pornography is a “physical, chemical” agent, i.e., “a drug,” and also consider the latest research on natural brain rewards in deciding whether it is a true brain addiction.
First, I would like to share an experience our family had a few years ago on a safari in Africa. While on a game drive along the Zambezi River, our ranger commented on the adrenaline grass growing along the banks. I asked him why he used the word “adrenaline,” and he began to drive slowly through the grass. Abruptly, he stopped the vehicle and said, “There! Do you see it?”
“See what?” I asked. He drove closer, and this also changed the angle of the light.
Then I understood. A lion was hiding in the grass watching the river, just waiting for some “fast food” to come and get a drink.
We were sitting in an open-air Land Rover with no doors and no windows. I then understood why it was called adrenaline grass, as I felt my heart pound. My cerebral cortex saw and defined the danger, which registered in the autonomic, or automatic, part of my nervous system. The brain, which is a very efficient pharmaceutical lab, produced the chemical adrenaline, causing my heart to pound and race in preparation for survival. I was ready to run if needed (not that it would have done any good with the lion).
We were told that if we stayed in our seats and remained still, the lion would look at the Land Rover as a whole and not see us as individuals. Fortunately this was the case for us.
A Drug Is a Drug
Interestingly, adrenaline, also called epinephrine, is a drug we physicians use in surgery and in emergencies to start a patient’s heart again when it beats too slow, or even stops. So here is the question: Is epinephrine not a drug if the brain makes it (causing the heart to pound and race), yet is a drug if the same epinephrine is given by a physician?
Or consider dopamine. This chemical is a close cousin to epinephrine, both of which are excitatory neurotransmitters that tell the brain to Go! Dopamine is important in the parts of our brain that allow us to move, and when the dopamine-producing parts of the brain are damaged, Parkinson’s disease results. To treat Parkinson’s, physicians prescribe dopamine as a drug, and it helps the patient move again. So is dopamine a drug only if the pharmaceutical lab makes it, and not if the brain makes the same chemical for the same purpose?
Of course, both are drugs in every sense of the word, regardless of where they are produced. Pertinent to our subject, it happens that both of these brain drugs are very important in human sexuality-and in pornography and sexual addiction. Dopamine, in addition to its role in movement, is an integral neurotransmitter, or brain drug, in the pleasure/reward system in the brain.
Disruption of Dopamine
Let’s review some of the important components of the reward system of the brain. On the outside is the cerebral cortex, a layer of nerve cells that carry conscious, volitional thought. In the front, over the eyes, are the frontal lobes. These areas are important in judgment, and, if the brain were a car, the frontal lobes would be the brakes. These lobes have important connections to the pleasure pathways, so pleasure can be controlled.
In the center of the brain is the nucleus accumbens. This almond-sized area is a key pleasure reward center, and when activated by dopamine and other neurotransmitters, it causes us to value and desire pleasure rewards. Dopamine is essential for humans to desire and value appropriate pleasure in life. Without it, we would not be as incentivized to eat, procreate, or even to try to win a game.
It’s the overuse of the dopamine reward system that causes addiction. When the pathways are used compulsively, a downgrading occurs that actually decreases the amount of dopamine in the pleasure areas available for use, and the dopamine cells themselves start to atrophy, or shrink. The reward cells in the nucleus accumbens are now starved for dopamine and exist in a state of dopamine craving, as a downgrading of dopamine receptors on the pleasure cells occurs as well. This resetting of the “pleasure thermostat” produces a “new normal.” In this addictive state, the person must act out in addiction to boost the dopamine to levels sufficient just to feel normal.
As the desensitization of the reward circuits continues, stronger and stronger stimuli are required to boost the dopamine. In the case of narcotic addiction, the addicted person must increase the amount of the drug to get the same high. In pornography addiction, progressively more shocking images are required to stimulate the person.
Frontal Lobe Damage
As a feedback of sorts, the frontal lobes also atrophy, or shrink. Think of it as a “wearing out of the brake pads.” This physical and functional decline in the judgment center of the brain causes the person to become impaired in his ability to process the consequences of acting out in addiction. Addiction scientists have called this condition hypofrontality, and have noted a similarity in the behavior of addicted persons to the behavior of patients with frontal brain damage.
Neurosurgeons frequently treat people with frontal lobe damage. In a car crash, for instance, the driver’s brain will often decelerate into the back of his forehead inside his skull, bruising the frontal lobes. Patients with frontal lobe damage exhibit a constellation of behaviors we call frontal lobe syndrome. First, these patients are impulsive, in that they thoughtlessly engage in activities with little regard to the consequences. Second, they are compulsive; they become fixated or focused on certain objects or behaviors, and have to have them, no matter what. Third, they become emotionally labile, and have sudden and unpredictable mood swings. Fourth, they exhibit impaired judgment.
So cortical hypofrontality, or shrinkage of the frontal lobes, causes these four behaviors, and they can result from a car wreck or from addiction.
A study on cocaine addiction published in 2002 shows volume loss, or shrinkage, in several areas of the brain, particularly the frontal control areas. A study from 2004 shows very similar results for methamphetamine. But we expect drugs to damage the brain, so these studies don’t really surprise us.
Consider, though, a natural addiction, such as overeating leading to obesity. You might be surprised to learn that a study published in 2006 showed shrinkage in the frontal lobes in obesity very similar to that found in the cocaine and methamphetamine studies. And a study published in 2007 of persons exhibiting severe sexual addiction produced almost identical results to the cocaine, methamphetamine, and obesity studies. (Encouragingly, two studies, one on drug addiction [methamphetamine] and one on natural addiction [obesity] also show a return to more normal frontal lobe volumes with time in recovery.)
So we have four studies, two drug and two natural addiction studies, all done in different academic institutions by different research teams, and published over a five-year period in four different peer-reviewed scientific journals. And all four studies show that addictions physically affect the frontal lobes of the brain.
Addiction Is Addiction
I mentioned that the dopamine systems don’t work well in addiction, that they become damaged. This damage, as well as frontal lobe damage, can be shown with brain scans, such as functional MRI, PET, and SPECT scans. Recent brain scan studies have not only shown abnormalities in cases of cocaine addiction, but also in cases of pathologic gambling and overeating leading to obesity.
So non-biased science is telling us that addiction is present when there is continued destructive behavior in spite of adverse consequences. As stated in the journal Science, “as far as the brain is concerned, a reward’s a reward, regardless of whether it comes from a chemical or an experience.”
What about pornography and sexual addiction? Dr. Eric Nestler, head of neuroscience research at Mount Cedar Sinai in New York and one of the most respected addiction scientists in the world, published a paper in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2005 titled “Is there a common pathway for addiction?” In this paper he said that the dopamine reward systems mediate not only drug addiction, but also “natural addictions (that is, compulsive consumption of natural rewards) such as pathological overeating, pathological gambling, and sexual addictions.”
The prestigious Royal Society of London, founded in the 1660s, publishes the longest-running scientific journal in the world, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A recent issue devoted 17 articles to the current understanding of addiction. Interestingly, two of the articles were specifically concerned with natural addiction, pathologic gambling and overeating.
Drs. Robert Malenka and Julie Kauer, in a landmark paper in Nature in 2007 on mechanisms of the physical and chemical changes that occur in the brain cells of addicted individuals, said, “Addiction represents a pathological, yet powerful form of learning and memory.” We now call these changes in brain cells “long term potentiation” and “long term depression,” and speak of the brain as being plastic, or subject to change and re-wiring.
Dr. Norman Doidge, a neurologist at Columbia, in his book The Brain That Changes Itself, describes how pornography causes re-wiring of the neural circuits. He notes that in a study of men viewing internet pornography, the men looked “uncannily” like rats pushing the lever to receive cocaine in the experimental Skinner boxes. Like the addicted rats, the men were desperately seeking the next fix, clicking the mouse just as the rats pushed the lever.
Pornography addiction is frantic learning, and perhaps this is why many who have struggled with multiple addictions report that it was the hardest for them to overcome. Drug addictions, while powerful, are more passive in a “thinking” kind of way, whereas pornography viewing, especially on the internet, is a much more active process neurologically. The constant searching for and evaluating of each image or video clip for its potency and effect is an exercise in neuronal learning, limited only by the progressively rewired brain. Curiosities are thus fused into compulsions, and the need for a larger dopamine fix can drive the person from soft-core to hard-core to child pornography-and worse. A paper published in the Journal of Family Violence in 2009 revealed that 85 percent of men arrested for child pornography had also physically abused children.
In addition to cortical hypofrontality and downgrading of the mesolimbic dopaminergic systems, a third element appears to be important in pornography and sexual addiction. Oxytocin and vasopressin are important hormones in the brain with regard to physically performing sexually. Studies show that oxytocin is also important in increasing trust in humans, in emotional bonding between sexual mates, and in parental bonding. We are wired to bond to the object of our sexuality.
It is a good thing when this bonding occurs in a committed marriage relationship, but there is a dark side. When sexual gratification occurs in the context of pornography use, it can result in the formation of a virtual mistress of sorts. Dr. Victor Cline, in his essay, “Pornography’s Effects on Adult and Child,” describes this process as follows:
In my experience as a sexual therapist, any individual who regularly masturbates to pornography is at risk of becoming, in time, a sexual addict, as well as conditioning himself into having a sexual deviancy and/or disturbing a bonded relationship with a spouse or girlfriend.
A frequent side effect is that it also dramatically reduces their capacity to love (e.g., it results in a marked dissociation of sex from friendship, affection, caring, and other normal healthy emotions and traits which help marital relationships). Their sexual side becomes in a sense dehumanized. Many of them develop an “alien ego state” (or dark side), whose core is antisocial lust devoid of most values.
In time, the “high” obtained from masturbating to pornography becomes more important than real life relationships. . . .
The process of masturbatory conditioning is inexorable and does not spontaneously remiss. The course of this illness may be slow and is nearly always hidden from view. It is usually a secret part of the man’s life, and like a cancer, it keeps growing and spreading. It rarely ever reverses itself, and it is also very difficult to treat and heal. Denial on the part of the male addict and refusal to confront the problem are typical and predictable, and this almost always leads to marital or couple disharmony, sometimes divorce and sometimes the breaking up of other intimate relationships.
Dr. Doidge notes,”Pornographers promise healthy pleasure and a release from sexual tension, but what they often deliver is addiction, and an eventual decrease in pleasure. Paradoxically, the male patients I worked with often craved pornography but didn’t like it.” In the book Pornified, Pamela Paul gives numerous examples of this, and describes one person who decided to limit his pornography use, not from a moralist or guilt-based perspective, but out of a desire to again experience pleasure in actual physical relationships with women.
“Porn impotence,” where the man experiences sexuality preferentially with porn instead of a woman, is a real and growing phenomenon. When a man’s sex drive has been diverted away from his spouse in this way, writes Dr. Cline, the wife can “easily sense this, and often [feels] very lonely and rejected.”
An article in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy described a study showing that many women view the pornographic activities of their partners “as a form of infidelity”:
The theme that runs through their letters is that the man has taken the most intimate aspect of the relationship, sexuality, which is supposed to express the bond of love between the couple and be confined exclusively to the relationship, and shared it with countless fantasy women. The vast majority of women in this study used words such as “betrayal,” “cheating,” and “affair ” to describe the significance that their partner’s involvement in pornography had for them.
A Triple Hook
Let me use a fishing analogy to illustrate some of these concepts. Every August, if possible, I try to be on the Unalakleet River in Alaska fishing for silver salmon. We use a particular lure, a triple hook called the Blue Fox pixie. As fisherman know, it is important to keep the drag loose just after hooking the fish, when it still has a lot of fight. As the fish tires, though, we tighten the drag and increase the resistance. In this way the fish is reeled into the boat and netted.
Similarly, pornography is a triple hook, consisting of cortical hypofrontality, dopaminergic downgrading, and oxytocin/vasopressin bonding. Each of these hooks is powerful, and they are synergistic. Pornography sets its hooks very quickly and deeply, and as the addiction progresses, it progressively tightens the dopamine drag until there is no more play in the line. The person is drawn ever closer to the boat, and the waiting net.
Why is it essential to understand the addictive nature of pornography? Because if we view it as merely a bad habit, and do not afford those seeking healing the full support needed to overcome any true addiction, we will continue to be disappointed, as individuals and as a society. Pornography is the fabric used to weave a tapestry of sexual permissiveness that undermines the very foundation of society. Biologically, it destroys the ability of a population to sustain itself. It is a demographic disaster.
The author Tom Wolfe said, “The bigger pornography gets, the lower the birthrate becomes.” Does he have a point? In the 1950s every country now in the European Union had a fertility rate above the 2.1 needed to sustain a population. Now none of them do, and several are at or near the 1.3 rate called the “lowest low fertility,” from which it is virtually impossible to recover. It was in the late 1960s and early 1970s that this decline began, which corresponds precisely with the dawning of the sexual revolution. There is a direct correlation between the growing cultural dominance of the sexual revolution and the diminishing birthrate, and while causation may not be proven, it is strongly supported by the pheromone effect of pornography.
Demographic decline is, of course, multi-factorial. Urbanization, women in the workplace, gender role adaptation, and even increased life expectancy are important factors in the inverted population pyramids. But the primordial, or biological factors of human sexuality and family stability are primary and, in my opinion, haven’t been appropriately weighted.
In 1934 Cambridge anthropologist Dr. J. D. Unwin published Sex and Culture. In it he examined 86 cultures spanning 5,000 years with regard to the effects of both sexual restraint and sexual abandon. His perspective was strictly secular, and his findings were not based in moralistic dogma. He found, without exception, that cultures that practiced strict monogamy in marital bonds exhibited what he called creative social energy, and reached the zenith of production. Cultures that had no restraint on sexuality, without exception, deteriorated into mediocrity and chaos. In Houposia, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society, published posthumously, he summarized:
In human records, there is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a tradition which does not insist on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial continence. . . . The evidence is that in the past a class has risen to a position of political dominance because of its great energy and that at the period of its rising, its sexual regulations have always been strict. It has retained its energy and dominated the society so long as its sexual regulations have demanded both pre-nuptial and post-nuptial continence. . . .
I know of no exceptions to these rules.
Pornography as Flamethrower
Unwin also described what may be called “dopaminergic distraction,” where pleasure-seeking dominates and productivity is diminished. Will Durant, in The Lessons of History, wrote that “sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group.”
If “sex is a river of fire,” dopamine and other brain drugs are the fuel. Like the astronauts of Apollo 11, we can ride this energy to the heavens, or be consumed in its exhaust, depending on whether we are above the engines in the command module or underneath them, thus exposed to the heat. Dr. Henry A. Bowman said, “No really intelligent person will burn a cathedral to fry an egg, even to satisfy a ravenous appetite,” yet the flamethrower of pornography is torching many cathedrals of marital, parental, and familial love today.
I applaud ongoing efforts to strengthen laws, but in our current legal and social environment, we cannot depend upon the government for restraint. We must face the reality that pornography will affect virtually every family in some way. Dr. Jason Carroll and his colleagues published a widely cited paper in the Journal of Adolescent Research that brings to light the scope of this problem. According to this paper, which reviewed data from five universities, 87 percent of college males and 31 percent of females view pornography. This data crosses all religious, educational, and social barriers.
Pornography has become the sex education venue for the majority of the next generation, an internet candy store, and it teaches that sex is physically and emotionally harmless, with no negative consequences. Men and women are mere visual drugs to be used and discarded, and sex is solely for personal pleasure. The truth, of course, it that those who actually perform sexually to make the pornography are consumed and discarded by pornographers; they are “throwaway people,” as Dr. C. Everett Koop called them.
Help for Healing
Dr. John Mark Chaney’s description of teenage pornography addiction is equally true for adults:
Professionals sometimes fail to understand the power of the compulsion youth are facing, and it is not uncommon for school, religious, or private-sector professionals to advocate a simple treatment plan that is based upon willpower or moral character. Since pornography can be an addiction, these “just say no” types of approaches are likely to only create more frustration and self-defeating ideation . . . the intervention and treatment modality must recognize the problem as a full addiction, and treat it with the same consideration given to alcohol or chemical substances.
Regarding healing, Dr Victor Cline says,
I have found that there are four major factors that most predict success in recovery. First, the individual must be personally motivated to be free of his addiction and possess a willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve success. . . . You can never force a person to get well if he doesn’t want to. . . . Second, it is necessary to create a safe environment, which drastically reduces access to porn and other sexual triggers. . . . Third, he should affiliate with a twelve-step support group. . . . Fourth, the individual needs to select a counselor/therapist who has had special training and success in treating sexual addictions.
Let us reach out with understanding to those already trapped, who live in shame and secrecy. Shaming them will not heal them. As Jeffery R. Holland said when he was president of Brigham Young University, “When a battered, weary swimmer tries valiantly to get back to shore, after having fought strong winds and rough waves which he should never have challenged in the first place, those of us who might have had better judgment, or perhaps just better luck, ought not to row out to his side, beat him with our oars, and shove his head back underwater.”
Secular philosophy will not heal them either, and the government can’t save them. Step 2 of the Twelve-Step program for sex addicts says that those healed “came to believe that a Power greater than [themselves] could restore [them] to sanity.” Interestingly, peer-reviewed studies support the success of Twelve-Step programs, which are based on the aid of a Higher Power.
Indeed, Unwin’s research, conducted from a secular perspective, demonstrated that all advanced societies studied, when at their cultural and productive apices, built temples to whatever gods they worshiped. It was in this subjugation of the secular to the sacred, of the limbic to the lobe, that they peaked in their self-control and, therefore, in their self-determination. Will Durant, who described himself as agnostic, also found that “there is no moral substitute” for religion in providing this tempering of the limbic.
The Battle Is Joined
Pornography is a drug that produces an addictive neurochemical trap, “past reason hunted, and no sooner had, past reason hated,” as Shakespeare put it in Sonnet 129. And yes, as we have seen, ice cream and sexuality can be akin to crack cocaine.
While we must continue to fight the good fight legally and societally, we are way beyond avoidance as our only defense. Pornography wants you, it wants your husband or wife, it wants your son and daughter, your grandchildren, and your in-laws. It doesn’t share well, and it doesn’t leave easily. It is a cruel master, and seeks more slaves.
Abraham Lincoln, when he faced a similar war over freedom, said, “If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.” All hands on deck. The battle is on for sanity and serenity, for peace and prosperity, for today, and for all our tomorrows. | <urn:uuid:fc3697ca-d7fe-4353-b7bf-9ecd6ad36343> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/slave-master-how-pornography-drugs-a-changes-your-brain.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956819 | 6,126 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Getting the Best Nursing Essay Writer
Considering nursing as your career path?
Good decision! But before that, read this.
Nursing is a very detailed career since nurses must care for patients who are ill or have numerous medical issues that require regular attention. Nurses must be patient, compassionate, and loving in order to assist patients during their treatment process. Nursing can be a difficult career since you will meet people from all walks of life.
Now jumping to the scholar side of it, nursing essays need to reflect just the same dedication as the profession itself. And since nurses still have to pass their exams, nursing essay writers are in demand. It is a demanding profession, so some nurses might not have time to finish all their assignments on time. Thus, they seek nursing essay writing services online to offer them a helping hand.
There is so much a nurse does, and the same amount of meticulousness should be reflected in their work. So much so, to become the best nursing essay writer, there are specific criteria you must meet. And no, you needn’t be a nurse to become a nursing essay writer; you simply need to hone several skills to become one.
In this piece, we discuss all those skills. So, keep reading.
Tools and resources required to become a nursing essay writer
Here is everything a nursing essay writer need:
Computer, internet, and writing software
First things first, to become a writer, let alone a nursing essay writer, you require physical tools. These are a computer and the internet, and both need to be functional.
The computer needs to have wrought word processing software. While you might feel comfortable writing on an app or online, we recommend first trying it out with Microsoft Word.
Secondly, find yourself a good internet connection fast enough to support your work speed. Slow internet connectivity is as bad as no connectivity; it can drastically affect your productivity and eventually make you give up on your dreams of becoming a professional nursing essay writer.
Medical journals and reports
Since nurses are in the medical field, all the resources needed to write any nursing essay must be factual medical data. This data can be found in various medical journals and reports.
Hospitals, clinics, and individual doctors’ offices have their libraries fully stocked with essential data. You must visit these places to access this information. But luckily, with the internet, you do not have to go through all that trouble since everything is available online. You simply search the topic and get all the papers you will need to write the best nursing essay.
Another vital resource you require as a nursing essay writer is an accurate medical dictionary. These dictionaries should include definitions of all medical terms used by nurses during patient diagnosis, treatment administration, and surgeries. An example is The Oxford Dictionary of Nursing Practice. You can also find this online as a website or mobile app you may download.
The last resource you require is a proofreading software. This could be one of several that help you submit quality nursing essays. It will catch any mistakes in grammar and punctuation and correct (and even rephrase) sentences that sound awkward to the ear.
Plagiarised work is also unacceptable, and using software like Grammarly and Copyscape can help you avoid this.
Tips to become the best Nursing writer
Now that you already know what you need to curate professional nursing essays, this section covers the ideologies and skills you need as an individual to become a professional nursing essay writer.
Have a liking to the profession
Have you ever done something you do not like? What were the results?
We bet they were not satisfactory. And if they were, you were lucky.
That said, with nursing essay writing, you must be passionate about it since the work is primarily technical. The best nursing writers are individuals who have a liking for the profession. This way, writing becomes more manageable since they know what works and what does not. They also avoid unnecessary mistakes because they are at ease with their work compared to those who do not like it.
Understand the style of writing nursing essays
Here there are a few distinctions in style depending on where the article or piece is going. Suppose it is a nursing essay that is for professional work; you ought to use the American Medical Association (AMA). But if it is going on a medical blog somewhere, the simple formats would suffice.
Still, under the style, you also have constraints such as font, line spacing, font size, and some other details that may be related to formatting. According to a nursing essay writer, these should never hinder the flow of your work.
Always have factual resources, never guesswork
When you are a nursing essay writer for a medical blog, a few common phrases, and personal opinions are allowed. But if you are doing it professionally for journal publishing, there is never space for personal opinions and guesswork.
Every fact you name or list in your article must have a scientific backing, something the reader can always refer to. And that is why at the beginning of this piece, we mentioned the tools needed as medical journals, reports, and papers.
Have a knack to search far and wide
A nursing essay writer must always offer value to the reader of the piece. The nursing essay one creates must be better than the reference they use. It must be better than the other pieces the reader already has.
And this is why many writers who are good at time management and research skills automatically often become great nursing essay writers. Research makes your piece valuable from the first sentence to the last.
Be meticulous with proofreading
Nursing essay writing online requires one to have excellent proofreading skills. And this is because writing mistake-free pieces make it easier for readers to engage with the content. It will also promote accurate information sharing across large platforms, which is critical when working towards positive change in society or the healthcare industry.
Read other medical and nursing essays at your disposal
The best way to learn how to write an effective nursing essay is by learning from other expert professionals within the field. A professional writer looking to branch out into medical essay writing needs to also learn from others and emulate them. This is why reading medical and nursing essays available online can be beneficial.
The more writing samples a writer has on hand, the easier it will be to develop their own medical essay writing style. Of course, you should take heed of different types and techniques used by various writers and only adopt those that seem to work best for you.
Write according to what your audience wants
You might also need to adjust your own voice based on what readers want – after all, no one wants to read an essay if they don’t understand what’s being communicated.
For instance, some essays may focus mainly on facts, while others could highlight personal experiences or stories from patients within the healthcare industry. Providing exciting content through engaging narrative rather than dry facts alone allows a reader’s interest to be kept high even through the most complicated medical condition.
The point is to keep the person reading to the end while learning a thing, a two-sentence after sentence.
Practice makes perfect. It’s also true when it comes to the craft of writing essays for nursing assignments, journals, and papers.
Just like with any other skill, one must work on their essay-writing abilities in order to be great at it.
And since this might start as just a hobby and not something that will earn you money right away, start small by creating exciting content that can be published online or simply passed around within your circle of friends. Once people appreciate the quality of what you write, they’ll keep coming back for more!
This way, you are able to become one of the most proficient nursing essay writers on any platform.
Developing your unique nursing essay writing abilities
You want to be indispensable, right. If so, do this:
Find your niche
First things first, find what niche you are most interested in. Would it be nurse essays on medical conditions, research nursing essay papers, or maybe even opinions? Whatever it is that you enjoy writing most, start with that one example and then expand from there.
Take up classes on writing
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THE CRITICAL THINKING MOVEMENT: 1970-1997:
Putting the 1997 Conference into Historical Perspective
By Richard Paul
Understanding Substantive Critical Thinking
Avoiding the Growing List of Counterfeits
It is now generally conceded that the art of thinking critically is a major missing link in education today, and that effective communication and problem-solving skills, as well as mastery of content, require critical thinking. It is also generally recognized that the ability to think critically becomes more and more important to success in life as the pace of change continues to accelerate and as complexity and interdependence continue to intensify. It is also generally conceded that some major changes in instruction will have to take place to shift the overarching
emphasis of instruction from rote memorization to effective critical thinking (as the primary tool of learning).
It is not so clear to most educators how to affect the shift, nor what that shift essentially should effect in. All too often the phrase "critical thinking" is nothing more than a vague place-holder for any of a miscellany of changes and/or conceptions of change. All too often, the phrase is used so imprecisely that no one knows exactly what is being said nor how to assess its unclarified effect. Critical thinking is too important, the reforms it makes possible too essential, to leave the concept to helter-skelter intuitive use.
There are three "waves" of critical thinking research that can be identified since the early 70's. The three waves represent, in essence, different research agendas and point to different emphases in application. Each wave has its committed adherents, and each therefore represents an important choice in laying the foundation for future work in the field. The third wave can accomplish its goals only through a mastery of the most basic insights of the first two waves.
The first wave—based on a focus of the theory of logic, argumentation, and reasoning—has become a field unto itself, dominated by philosophers. First wave theorists tend to focus only on those instances of thinking in which persuasion and argumentation are explicit, and they tend to analyze them with a minimum of background context. They tend to view reasoning and logic in a relatively narrow and technical fashion, ignoring the broad family of related uses of the word 'logic' which one would find in any dictionary of the English Language. The notion of critical thinking as providing the tools for a broad analysis and assessment of thinking in a full range of the contexts in which thinking is at work in human feelings and behavior is not a core notion in the writings of most informal logicians. The result is that they do not take command of the logic of language and the logic of questions-key components of critical thinking. If one views "logical structures" as omnipresent in virtually all human thought, emotion, and behavior, the framework and writings of most informal logic theorists strikes one as generally narrow and specialized.
The second wave, lacking grounding in any one field of study, represents a loose conglomeration of interested persons, producing work of mixed quality, developed from many different standpoints. This diversity of standpoints gives to second wave research a scattered character. It includes some working on critical thinking from the standpoint of cognitive psychology, some from the standpoint of "critical pedagogy," some from the standpoint of feminism, a variety of others from the standpoint of particular disciplines (such as critical thinking in biology, business, or nursing), and yet others, from the standpoint of some element purportedly
missing from first wave research agendas (such as emotion, intuition, imagination, creativity, etc.)
Taken collectively, therefore, second wave projects are more comprehensive than first wave projects, since second wave analysis looks at critical thinking typically outside the tradition of logic and rhetoric. Unfortunately, second wave work (lacking a shared intellectual tradition) is collectively far less integrated, less coherent, and often more "superficial". While exceptional work has been done during the second wave, the gain is too often vague comprehensiveness at the expense of depth and rigor.
The third wave represents a commitment to transcend the predominant weaknesses of the first two waves (rigor without comprehensiveness, on the one hand, and comprehensiveness without rigor, on the other). Third wave theorists are still relatively rare, though the work of a variety of intellectuals and scholars is relevant to third wave research agendas.
The principles and standards of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking (NCECT) illustrate well an attempt to answer the need created by the limitations of the first two waves of critical thinking theory and practice and therefore represents a third wave phenomenon. The research projects based on these principles and standards are comprehensive in nature, going much beyond a narrow view of logic and critical thinking.
Still, the NCECT has found it difficult to "recruit" scholars and researchers with the breadth of background which third wave agendas call for. There are at present few scholars willing to internalize both first and second wave insights. The field is therefore at a crucial juncture, for if comprehensiveness and rigor are not combined in the work of the field, it is likely to split even further into a narrow technical field on the one hand, and a hodge-podge on the other. However, it is too early to tell whether and to what extent the need for both comprehensiveness and rigor will be answered by the full development of NCECT research agendas.
Unfortunately, third wave agendas cannot go forward without a general recognition of the importance of a deep and comprehensive theory that goes beyond the "narrowness" of most first wave research and the "superficiality" of much second wave research. It requires a willingness to think outside one's discipline or at least to think within one's discipline from the standpoint of a broader range of concerns. It requires, on the one hand, informal logicians who are willing not only to examine the problems posed by second wave theorists, but also to move to a broader conception of logic, one that recognizes that there is a logic to thinking within different disciplines, a logic to human emotions, a logic to human behavior, a logic, indeed, to every dimension of human life in which thinking is the driving force. On the other hand, it calls for those with second wave concerns to take seriously the insights of first wave research and not simply to grudgingly (and abstractly) admit some value to it.
In other words, while first wave researchers need to recognize the importance of broadening the sweep of their concerns, second wave researchers need to recognize the need to build on the theoretical rigor of the first wave, to internalize, not ignore, the insights of the first wave, and to build on them. Only out of a real marriage of first and second wave concerns, only by a deep integration of insights, can the third wave fully develop. Those who would contribute significantly to the field of critical thinking research need to internalize the strengths of the first two waves.
The First Wave of Critical Thinking Research & Practice
Formal & Informal Logic Courses
First Wave Research Concerns:
- the design of individual courses in critical thinking or informal logic
- the critique of formal logic as a tool for the analysis and assessment of "real world" reasoning and argumentation
- the development of theories of fallacies in thought
- the development of theories of informal logic, reasoning, persuasion, rhetoric, and argumentation, etc.
- the exploration of philosophical issues raised by theories developed to account for informal logic, reasoning, and argumentation
In the first wave of critical thinking practice, the dominant paradigm came from philosophy and logic and the dominant educational manifestation was a formal or informal logic course. The idea was to establish a basic course in critical thinking which would provide entering freshmen with the foundational intellectual skills they need to be successful in college work. Almost from the beginning, however, there was a contradiction between the concerns and ideals that gave rise to the theory and practice and actual classroom practice. The ideals were broad and ambitious. The practice was narrow and of limited success. For example, the State College and University System of California defined the goals of the critical thinking graduation requirement as follows:
Instruction in critical thinking is to be designed to achieve an understanding of the relationship of language to logic, which should lead to the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas, to reason inductively and deductively, and to reach factual or judgmental conclusions based on sound inferences drawn from unambiguous statements of knowledge or belief. The minimal competence to be expected at the successful conclusion of instruction in critical thinking should be the ability to distinguish fact from judgment, belief from knowledge, and skills in elementary inductive and deductive processes, including an understanding of the formal and informal fallacies of language and thought.
On the one hand, we have a global comprehensive goal and on the other hand a fairly narrow and specialized way to meet that goal. Students do not in my experience achieve "an understanding of the relationship of language to logic" leading to "the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas"; they do not develop "the ability to distinguish fact from judgment" or "belief from knowledge" simply because they have been drilled in "elementary inductive and deductive processes" nor because they have been exposed to the theory of formal and informal fallacies.
The misfit between goal and means is obvious to anyone who takes the goals in the above paragraph seriously. One three unit course in critical thinking can at best open the door to the beginning of critical thinking, provide an opening framework. It cannot result in the students having deep notions like "an understanding of the relationship of language to logic" or sweeping abilities like "the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas."
No one or two isolated courses can change the basic habits of thought of anyone. Furthermore, as a practical matter, many of the courses established to accomplish the objective fell far short of the best design. Often, for example, a course in formal logic was allowed to qualify as a course in critical thinking even though such courses generally are confined to teaching only the mechanical manipulation of symbols in accord with rules for such manipulation, a practice that does not result in changing habits of thought. Students who have taken such courses demonstrate little sense of how to transfer their "manipulative" abilities (with the symbols of formal logic) into practical tools in everyday thought.
Substituting informal logic courses for formal ones was one of the earliest shifts in emphasis as more and more instructors recognized that the formal logic approach had little transfer effect. The emphasis in the informal logic approach to the improvement of thinking was a giant step in the right direction. In place of highly abstract and contrived "arguments" in symbolic form, the students had to read and analyze arguments that came from editorials and everyday speech and debate.
Unfortunately, the informal logic textbooks were often rich in vocabulary and sophisticated distinctions but, unfortunately, poor in fostering deep internalization. The distinctions were generally well thought out, but there were far too many distinctions for a one semester course, and furthermore, they were typically too narrow in their scope. Consequently, most students were rushed on to new distinctions and concepts before they had internalized the "old" ones. There was little emphasis on the construction—as against the critique—of reasoning. There was little done with the essential dispositions and values underlying critical thinking. The goals remained broad and profound; the means narrow and unrealistic.
Furthermore, the problem of transfer remained; it was still not clear to students how to transfer their analysis of bits and pieces of argumentation into learning what they were being taught in other courses, namely, sociology, psychology, biology, etc. So most students, once their critical thinking courses were finished, reverted to their established lower-order, survival skills—principally, rote memorization and cramming—to get by.
The problem of most first wave work is/both theoretical and pedagogical. Theoretically, little if anything was done to work out a comprehensive theory of "logic" sufficient to make sense of the logic of biology, the logic of sociology, the logic of anthropology, geography, literature, the arts, etc. The concept of logic implicit in informal logic research is too narrow to provide the basis for transfer of critical thinking from, in fact, informal logic courses (no matter how well designed) to the broader curriculum, nor into the complex problems of everyday life and thought (except in a narrow range of such problems).
Pedagogically, little was done to work out the practical problems of restructuring instruction and learning overall. After all, how is one to teach anyone anything in such a way as to foster their taking command of their thinking, so that they develop not only intellectual skills but the basic dispositions and values that underlie critical thinking? How are academic subjects to be taught such that students leave school with the intellectual skills necessary to adapt to incessant and accelerating change and complexity? How are we to teach so that students explicitly recognize that the work of the future is the work of the mind, intellectual work that demands global skills of reasoning and intellectual self-discipline? These questions must be addressed.
The Second Wave of Critical Thinking Research & Practice
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Across the Grades
Second Wave Research Concerns:
- the development of a model for teaching critical thinking at some educational level or within some particular subject
- the development of a theory of critical thinking within a given domain or subject
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to emotion
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to the media
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to problem-solving
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to creative thinking
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to sound business organization and management
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to parenting
- exploration of the relation of critical thinking to political and ideological agendas
- research in cognitive psychology
The second wave of critical thinking research and practice began when increasing numbers of educators and administrators began to recognize that one course in critical thinking at the college level does not a critical thinker make. The problem for these reformers was transformed from "How should one design an isolated critical thinking course for college students?" to "How can critical thinking be integrated into instruction across all subjects and all grade levels?" From "What is informal logic, reasoning, and argumentation?" to "What is the role of emotion—or intuition or culture or gender or problem solving or creative thinking or political and ideological positioning—in thinking?"
Unfortunately, many second wave reformers were not at all clear on how to integrate critical thinking into instruction across the curriculum or across grade levels. The concept of informal logic which had been developed in and for critical thinking and informal logic courses did not translate readily into the "logic" of the disciplines, let alone into the "logic" of everyday life. For though informal logicians were often clear and rigorous in the development of theory, the theory they developed was narrowly conceived. In other words, most informal logicians have never seriously considered the challenge of developing a theory of critical thinking adequate for the teaching of all subjects across all grade levels.
Informal logic was not conceived as applicable to virtually all human contexts. The theory of the informal logician remained the theory of a specialist thinking and writing for other specialists (about a subject of relatively narrow scope). It was not the thinking of a comprehensive educational thinker writing for educational reformers. It was not the thinking of a comprehensive mind considering broad and comprehensive problems.
From a third wave perspective, an adequate account of informal logic and critical thinking must shed significant light on the logic of everyday thinking as well as on the logic of the disciplines (if it is to attract the attention of educational reformers and those concerned with the application of critical thinking to everyday life). Problems in business, parenting, everyday relationships, politics, civics, and such, cannot easily be addressed within the framework of current theories of logic. And since critical thinking makes sense whenever and wherever thinking might go awry, the logic of critical thinking must be broad and encompassing, not narrow and specialized.
Unfortunately, second wave reformers did not set out to broaden the basis of informal logic and reasoning. Rather, some second wave reformers mistakenly rejected "logic" rather than worked to expand it. To some, logic constrained thinking, limited creativity, discounted intuition. Others seemed simply to ignore logic and focused instead on any of the various "discoveries" and popular theories of thinking. In fact, the field of "thinking" became, and still is, a veritable hodge-podge, some work bordering on charlatanism. Quick-fixes for teaching and understanding thinking became commonplace. Quick-fixes ruled, and still rule, reform efforts at all educational levels.
Otherwise respectable educational organizations sponsored approaches to thinking that were simplistic and glitzy. Big money began to move into the field, since there was much money to be made by quick-fix programs that implied that thinking could be quickly and painlessly upgraded by educators, even by those who had never themselves studied thinking and thought poorly themselves. Instant success was promised.
The phenomena of pseudo-critical thinking became common. States set up new testing strategies that were claimed to be higher order. California mounted a very expensive new testing system in reading and writing which was touted to be focused on critical thinking—when it in fact was simply subjective and poorly designed. The result was a political battle between the "liberals" who liked the test and "conservatives" who thought it advanced a liberal agenda. Eventually the governor vetoed the test.
Other second wave researchers—principally cognitive psychologists— have focused concern on the manner in which experts and novices think. They have developed various theories of "thinking" and "intelligence," however, this research and these theories often lack a philosophical foundation, regularly ignore the problem of the intellectual assessment of thinking, and, like first wave informal logic research, lack a clear connection to the comprehensive problem of teaching subject matter in a variety of fields. The "practical" suggestions developed were more often like a bag of tricks than a coherent pedagogy. The problem of long-term infusion was not significantly addressed.
Though second wave did not explicitly call for an abandonment of "logic" and additional attention was directed at explicating various subject areas in the light of some theory of critical thinking, there was little effort to marry the insights of the first wave with the needs of the second.
Little was done, for example, to explicate the logic of history, the logic of math, bio-logic, socio-logic, psycho-logic, the logic implicit in disciplined ways of thinking. After all, what does it mean to think historically, to think geographically, to think mathematically, to think philosophically, to think aesthetically, etc.? These are pressing second wave questions. However, since most subject matter specialists have not studied informal or formal logic, they are not well-positioned to integrate insights from logic into their concept of their field.
In short, the variety of attempts to reconstruct (with little background in informal logic or theory of critical thinking) the role of critical thinking within a domain, has tended to result in disjointed and sometimes superficial results. The upshot is often a hodge-podge of ideas, often superficial, usually incomplete, and in some cases, arbitrary. The phenomenon of instant-expert in critical thinking becomes commonplace.
Those who decide to write an article on critical thinking become in their minds an expert overnight. Programs are rushed into press to capitalize on the emerging market for critical thinking materials.
The Third Wave of Critical Thinking Research & Practice
Depth & Comprehensiveness in Theory & Practice
Third Wave Research Concerns:
- integrating the insights of first and second wave research
- developing a theory of critical thinking that is rigorous and comprehensive
- explicating intellectual standards that have general application both within and beyond academic environments
- accounting for the appropriate role of emotion and values in thinking
- understanding the leading role of thinking in the shaping of emotion and behavior
- integrating the empirical work of cognitive psychology into critical thinking theory
- establishing common denominator principles and standards within the field of critical thinking research and practice
- developing effective assessment tools
- identifying and critiquing pseudo-critical thinking models and programs
The third wave of critical thinking research and practice is only just now beginning to emerge. As yet there are few who see clearly the enormity of the task which the field faces. The success of the third wave can be achieved only with a growing recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the first two waves. First wave research needs to bring its rigor and depth into a broader complex of concerns. Second wave research needs to integrate rigor and depth into its comprehensiveness. Theory of teaching and learning (based on theory of thinking, emotion, and action) need to be carefully integrated.
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The Collected Poems1959I shall never get you put together entirely,
Pieced, glued, and properly jointed.
Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles
Proceed from your great lips.
It's worse than a barnyard.Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.Scaling little ladders with glue pots and pails of Lysol
I crawl like an ant in mourning
Over the weedy acres of your brow
To mend the immense skull-plates and clear
The bald, white tumuli of your eyes.A blue sky out of the Oresteia
Arches above us. O father, all by yourself
You are pithy and historical as the Roman Forum.
I open my lunch on a hill of black cypress.
Your fluted bones and acanthine hair are litteredIn their old anarchy to the horizon-line.
It would take more than a lightning-stroke
To create such a ruin.
Nights, I squat in the cornucopia
Of your left ear, out of the wind,Counting the red stars and those of plum-color.
The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue.
My hours are married to shadow.
No longer do I listen for the scrape of a keel
On the blank stones of the landing.
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By Steve Otto
When I started college, at Newman University, in Wichita, had to take a course on ancient civilization. That might seem interesting but it was the ancient philosophers who had all the interesting ideas. I have to admit that I did not know that much about these ancient philosophers and their relationship to Karl Marx. Despite being a Democratic Socialist, many of us also consider ourselves to be Marxists at least theoretically.
Marx had written a dissertation on the difference between the philosophy of Democritus/ Δημόκριτος and Epicurus/ Ἐπίκουρος. In an introduction to his dissertation on the difference between The philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus he admits that these two philosophy, have never been given their full respect. He admitted that he had to chose one philosophy over the other because he was writing a dissertation. He said he had to chose one over the other.
So I had read Marx's views on these ancient philosophers. I had also realized that these philosophers had developed important views on philosophy and life itself. Since that time I have found that many young Marxist find little they need in these ancient philosophies. In fact, not long ago a young Marxist wrote to me and said that modern Marxists have developed philosophy beyond the needs of the earlier philosophers that they no longer have any need for those ancient philosophies. But I'm not convinced of that. The earlier ancient philosophers laid the ground work for what we are trying to decide today.
Now let 's fast forward to an article I read recently, "Epic Battles in Practical Ethics: Stoicism vs Epicureanism."
It just so happens that the author's name was not on this article, so he/she/it was not someone I could find. Why it was not signed I don't know. But I haven't found the author's name yet.
Since reading the ancient texts of Epicurus I have considered that my religion, if there is such a thing. The author of this above article is clearly an enthusiast of stoicism. According to Wikipedia:
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in
The Stoics are especially known for teaching that "virtue is the only good" for human beings, and those external things—such as health, wealth, and pleasure—are not good or bad in themselves (adiaphora), but have value as "material for virtue to act upon." Alongside Aristotelian ethics, the Stoic tradition forms one of the major founding approaches to virtue ethics. The Stoics also held that certain destructive emotions resulted from errors of judgment, and they believed people should aim to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is "in accordance with nature." Because of this, the Stoics thought the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved. To live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they thought everything was rooted in nature.
I have rejected the Stoic world view, which I believe is
close to the
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Category: Poetry & Drama|
The author of the book: Michael Krüger
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Edition: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date of issue: 9 December 1993
Description of the book "Diderot's Cat: Selected Poems":This is the first comprehensive collection of Kruger's poems to appear in English. The poems are drawn from ten collections published over the last two decades. Kruger explores two themes in particular: the state of German culture and the fate of poetry in what Hegel termed the "Age of Prose".
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Dragons: An Introduction
Dragons: Why do they permeate fantasy fiction, and moreover, what are they supposed to be? Despite the varied literature in which they appear, the appearance of a dragon—with a little room for the writer’s own aesthetic—has not changed. Even the noble vampire has a wealth of different faces, as does the cunning werewolf; yet not the dragon.
The fact that dragons appear the same in each of their casting roles could imply to someone not of our world that these giant lizards are as such in our stories, because that’s truly what they looked like. Of course, this can’t be true. Taking the realists’ view here: dragons don’t exist. In fact, it begs the same mystery as to why across the globe, at various archaeological sites, murals of different skinned men have been plastered across the walls of caves and temples, dating back to times when inter-cultural mingling between the world’s people was impossible.
But whatever the reason, the mighty dragon is as s/he does. It’s no great wonder that, dating back to years that have only three numbers, and featuring throughout world mythology, the dragon finds itself as a stock fantastic beast in our fantasy literature. From the biblical leviathan, the unnamed dragon in Beowulf, and Sir Gawain’s “worms”, to The Hobbit’s Smaug, and Harry Potter’s Hungarian Horntail adversary, it’s clear dragons aren’t about to be replaced soon. On the contrary, they’ve always been here. Never as much as now.
Initially the beasties were antagonists, laying in wait to merely do away with our heroes with the idle swipe of a wing, or deft claw. Then, likely wakening to the idea of wise and benevolent dragons, as in Chinese mythology, the great wyrms became advisors, symbols of great wisdom. Though still feared—or more, respected now?—even these dragons never took centre stage. They remained monstrous figures, dominating only the background and subplots.
Before we talk about dragons in an immediate sense in fantasy fiction, let’s consider the question again: What are they supposed to be?
Etymologically speaking, dating back to the classics, the words for ‘dragon’ and ‘serpent’ (or ‘snake’) were synonymous at times. So are dragons a fantastic evolution of the humble serpent? Depending on their depiction, their likeness to the slithering fiends alters, although elements of their reception and supposed personalities remain throughout. Fork-tongued, devious and vicious; snakes and dragons could be brethren. Although when offered the most common image of a dragon—appearing even on the Welsh flag—proffering armoured scales, monstrous, agile wings, and great heads housing greater teeth, they appear as little more than second or third cousins to whatever serpent they might be compared with.
So let us agree that dragons are large lizards, bewinged and bescaled. They may or may not breathe fire—or ice, or electricity, if you like!—but it’s more fun if they do. Let us then decide that they have differing personalities, goals and ambitions, and that their main occupation isn’t always to sit idly upon hoards of glittering gold, merely awaiting plucky interlopers. Those dragons are boring.
Not only boring, but so outdated that the notion belongs in a museum next to a skeleton of a ferocious tyrannosaurus, where the two ancient things might yawn away the hours, covered slowly by a layer of time and dust.
The dragons in fantasy right now are far more interesting. Take Stephen Deas’ The Memory of Flames beasts—now they’re fun. When they’re at their best, they’ll smash you to bits, tear your arms off and gobble you up, as soon as look at you. I said “interesting”, not “nice”.
The Memory of Flames series is all about its dragons. It highly regards its political struggle, too, and gives much thought to the machinations of each and every character. But really, it’s about dragons.
Furthermore, these gargantuan beasties aren’t as thick as the trunk of an oak tree—oh no!—that would be too easy, too safe. If you can outsmart it, you can overcome it, right? Humans like to believe that. Deas’ dragons are intelligent, quick and you’ll quickly learn that when they’re awakened to their full intelligence, they can speak in your mind. In the world Deas presents, Prince Jehal and the rest of the lazy, fat empire’s royals, fighting as they like over power and dragons, little do they know that one slip, one change in the status quo and them and their palaces will be reduced to little more than food and kindling. That is, of course, if they don’t destroy themselves first and save the dragons the trouble, leaving behind only the meat for them to gnaw on amidst the rubble.
At first look, it’s easy to accuse Deas of following the act of other writers, his dragons being the monstrous fiends they are. However, in this story, no matter what transpires between and around the main cast, the dragons are never far away; plotting and lurking, planning a return to a time when the world was bathed in fire and humans offered only sustenance.
Despite these appearances, lurking beneath the surface and likely not acknowledged until the third and final book (The Order of the Scales, due 19th May 2011) might well be a twist that does even more to make this series a very different outing for dragons. Purely conjecture, supported only by the preview of the front cover for The Order of the Scales, but we appear to be in for an exciting ride. Dragons fighting amongst themselves is what this cover says to me, but we will have to endure the wait. Either way, I doubt they’ll forget to crunch on a few humans along the way.
Of course, other writers have striven to break the image of dragons lurking at the edges of our protagonists’ lives. Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series painted our scaly friends differently, having it that humans and dragons once lived together. Subsequently, their essences mingled, creating two half-races on either side of the gene pool. A new and exciting idea to make the imaginations of even the most ardent of dragon fans tingle. Since then, whether they’ve been ridden, or slain, or even heralded as deities, the majestic dragon still hasn’t had its day in the true limelight.
Even if we start talking about Eragon and Pern’s mounts, the dragons are merely devices; the story is not necessarily about the dragons, rather, the characters. In The Memory of Flames, the dragons are characters.
Whether you like your dragons to steal the thunder from whatever humanesque characters they coexist with, to be guides, deities and harbingers of wisdom, or to remain as evil beasties existing within the plot solely to be dispatched by sword and nerve, the flapping lizards are here abundant enough that you’ll find precisely what you’re looking for. Majestic and regal, or monstrous and terrible, dragons in fantasy aren’t about to be dispatched.
The subject of dragons is far too deep and varied to fully discuss in one sitting; there are many more paths any form of exploration can go down. Not least of all, types of dragon—which should prove to be the most interesting part!
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IB Schools Australasia are pleased to announce the introduction of the Models of Engaged Teaching and Learning (MELT) workshop. This professional Development Session is designed to accompany the Student Speaker Series ATL Skills for the Year 10 Personal Project (PP) available only to member schools.
Would you like to develop deep understandings of subject matter and an inquiry or
problem solving mindset?
Do you want to foreground critical thinking and use technology to support its development, not have technology drive the agenda?
How can you help students to connect together the skills of problem solving, critical thinking and discovery in ways that enable these skills to mutually reinforce across multiple terms and years?
This workshop will help you address the above questions and produce a draft MELT that suits your context. The idea of MELT comes from educators who have collaborated and adapted the six facets of Research Skill Development (RSD) framework to suit a range of contexts and in ways we didn’t expect. Multiple uses of the MELT with context-appropriate terminology provides various opportunities for these facets to become student thinking routines that develop researching, critical thinking and problem solving mindsets over time. This workshop provides you with collaborative time to learn about others’ models and adapt these so that you can MELT and mould your teaching context, including:
This professional Development Session is designed to accompany the Student Speaker Series ATL Skills for the Year 10 Personal Project (PP).
MELT thinking is suited to other learning contexts and schools are encouraged to consider all teachers’ involvement, from R to 12 or 8 to 12. Available only to financial member schools.
About the Presenter:
From 1992 to 2004 John taught Secondary Science students, R-6 Gifted and Talented students, was an Upper School Coordinator and lectured in Early Childhood and Primary Teacher Education at Curtin University. For the past 12 years he has conducted courses in Secondary and Higher Education at the University of Adelaide, where he is a Senior Lecturer. He is interested in the ways that students’ research skills are developed, and in how to flip learning with contemporary technologies in ways that complement face to face interaction. http://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/john.willison
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Munich – BMW (ETR: BMW) has announced on Thursday the introduction of virtual reality technology to its development systems with the help of HTC Vive. The technology will allow developers to test the car’s functions in a semi-real environment before it is approved for production.
The luxury german carmaker assured that the incorporation of VR will improve their processes and save them a great deal of time and efforts, especially during the early stages of development.
“By incorporating consumer electronics, the developers gain an unprecedented degree of flexibility, because any modifications can be implemented and tested very quickly,” the company stated in a press release.
The processes to reproduce a similar environment in the cars aimed to conduct tests used to be expensive and usually took place in specialized laboratories, now the approach can be made from the offices and enables developers around the globe to be part of the decision-making process.
A draft model for a new car will have to be tested through the HTC Vive to gain the full approval from the company and maybe resolve some issues in a quicker way than before. The improvements go from the design to the car’s operational functions in different environments.
However, even though the use of this technology has been recently announced by BMW, the german company also stated that they have already been using it in pilot projects since autumn 2015.
Helpful technology but not an exclusive one
The HTC Vive consist in a virtual reality headset which is designed to use room scale technology to turn a room into 3D through its sensors, a function that BMW in complementing with real seats and motor sounds to enhance the experience.
But the technology is not the only one being used by the team, they also use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 and computation done with high-end gaming computers that have water-cooled and overclocked components like a pair of Nvidia Titan X GPUs and an Intel Core i7 processor, as reported by Tech Times.
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Back in March, as the pandemic began its rapid spread across the U.S., shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders were issued. And a new term entered our lexicon—essential businesses. In essence, these establishments were duty-bound to remain in operation due to their importance in keeping society functioning. Grocery stores couldn’t just close up. Nor healthcare providers and first responders. Just the same, even the practice of cybersecurity was deemed necessary for the general public’s safety.
In the world of franchising, essential businesses received a boost in interest from candidates looking for opportunities to own an operation that sells a product or provides a service that would always be in demand. Our industry then coined these concepts as “essential franchises”.
What type of businesses were included under this new definition? Quite frankly, many of the most popular franchise operations during more normal times. Any type of home-based service business that provides consumers with a variety of skilled trade services is a perfect example. Franchises in the following categories meet the threshold of essential businesses:
- Property management
- Plumbing/HVAC/electrical services
- Automotive repair
- Laundry/dry cleaning
- Residential cleaning
- Pest control
- Senior care
In the franchising world, we’ve always had a similar term for these concepts—recession-resistant. In the franchise investigation process, many of my candidates seek concepts whose product or service is considered recession-resistant. They want to own a business that can weather and withstand tough economic times. Take, for instance, hair care. Even during a recession, you can’t just decide to skip this vital grooming service to go native!
An essential franchise is one that provides a need, not a want. And the conditions brought about by the global pandemic have certainly led to increased interest in finding a concept that meets an essential need of consumers. If you’ve been considering an entrepreneurial path to business ownership of your own, this is the perfect time to investigate the power of an essential franchise.
FranNet of Dallas-Fort Worth can discuss several franchise concepts that meet the definition. If you believe the timing is right, schedule a no-cost, no-obligation meeting and together we’ll find the essential franchise that best matches up with your skills and lifestyle goals.
About the Author
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Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a package of measures to provide a significant boost to the military campaign in Afghanistan during his latest visit to the country.
Both UK troops and the Afghan National Security Forces will benefit from increased funding and state-of-the-art equipment.
The Prime Minister announced:
• £33.1m for the development of the Afghan National Police in 2010/11, including building seven police stations in addition to the two UK-funded police stations opened in Helmand last month; and
• £135m to double the numbers of Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft.
Accompanied by the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, the Prime Minister arrived at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand province, yesterday, Monday 6 December 2010.
Visiting the Helmand Police Training Centre on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah to present graduation certificates to newly-qualified Afghan police, he revealed that the extra £33.1m would help build or refurbish 48 police stations, including seven to be opened before Spring 2011.
These improvements to essential infrastructure, in addition to more resources for training, will help the Afghan National Police appear both more visible and more professional to the Afghan population, enabling them to carry out their role more effectively.
The Prime Minister travelled to the main operating base at Lashkar Gah for a briefing by Commander Task Force Helmand, Brigadier James Chiswell, and on the progress made by the Provincial Reconstruction Team to drive social, economic and political development in the area.
The Prime Minister also inspected the new Warthog armoured vehicle, which is now operational in Afghanistan, meeting soldiers who crew and maintain the armoured vehicle, which is replacing the Viking vehicle in Afghanistan.
Able to operate in the most diverse and demanding environments - including moving through water, climbing steep slopes and crossing drainage ditches - this tracked vehicle provides troops with high levels of protection whilst giving commanders the flexibility to operate in areas where the terrain and local infrastructure mean a more agile vehicle is needed.
The doubling of the numbers of Reaper aircraft means troops will also benefit from increased support to ground operations from the air. Reaper provides live, detailed images of the area in which troops are operating, 24-hours-a-day, allowing commanders on the ground to make more informed and effective decisions to defeat the enemy.
Uniquely for this type of aircraft, Reaper is also armed. It has already proved successful in helping to both detect and destroy enemy targets and IED networks in Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister said:
As Christmas approaches, I know the thoughts will be of home and of loved ones; I would like personally to thank everyone serving in Afghanistan for the sacrifice they are making. I say to them, it is great work you are doing and we must continue to do all we can to help you endure.
This is my sixth visit to Afghanistan, to Helmand province, and my second this year - and what I see is some grounds for cautious optimism. The amount of ground that’s covered by the forces is up, the amount of markets that are open, the number of provincial and district governors that are in place, the number of schools that are open, the level of security - there are lots of signs of positive improvement.
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox said:
I’m delighted that Warthog is proving so successful on operations. Robust and agile, it is a valuable addition to the range of vehicles already available to commanders on the ground, giving them both flexibility and high levels of protection on operations.
In addition, the significant increase in air surveillance will mean commanders are equipped with the best information possible when deciding how best to defeat the enemy. This significant increase in resources demonstrates our commitment to ensuring front line troops have the world class equipment they need to help combat the threat of IEDs.
Corporal Tristan ‘Tiny’ Cordery, aged 35, from Fowey in Cornwall, is a veteran of two tours of Iraq and one of Kosovo, and has previously served in Afghanistan. He has now returned to Afghanistan as a Warthog commander with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment:
I’m excited about using the new Warthog vehicle - we can use Warthog to get where other vehicles cannot go. We can choose between the heavy, grenade or general purpose machine guns. This gives me, as the Warthog commander, the flexibility to tailor my armament to the mission - and that’s a vital capability in order to succeed in the complicated environment of Afghanistan.
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With the development of science and technology things have changed rapidly in the world. Development in telecommunications and transport has changed the world almost into a village and people have more information than they used to have a couple of years back. When they decide to have any product or services they have access to all the information about them including the availability of wide range in the market and their qualities. This has enhanced tremendous competition in the market and if quality of a product or service is not maintained it will not be able to compete in the market and obviously it will not sustain in the market.
To manage the quality of a product or a service managers have to be updated about the expectations of its users. Once they are aware about the expectations of the users they need to develop systems, regulations, standards or procedures to assure the satisfaction of the customer. If they fail to do so it will be considered as a flaw in the delivery system and they will not be able to live up to the expectations of the customer.
It may be difficult to develop specifications for quality because a service possess inherent characteristics but it is possible and mandatory also. Any product or service must have a system to guarantee quality service to match the expectations of the customer and sustain in the market.
The set of in-built or inherent characteristics of a product or a service to meet with the requirements, needs, expectations and obligations of its users is called quality. A high or excellent quality is achieved if the inherent characteristics are able to satisfy its users up to optimum level but it will be called a poor or low level of quality if they are not able to meet the expectations and requirements of the users. Quality can be measured in terms of degree and to understand it properly this should be analyzed that to what extent or to what degree the inherent or in-built features of the product or the service is compatible with the requirements or the expectations. In brief, the quality of a product or service depends on the ability of its inherent characteristics to comply with expectations and requirements of its users. It is a relative concept. In an organization, all the activities intended to control, direct and coordinate quality is termed as quality management and it includes formulation of quality policies, setting objectives of quality as per requirements, planning, implementation, improvement, assurance of quality and quality control also. Thus, quality control is regarded as a part only of quality management.
1.Concept of Quality Management
To control and direct the implementation of the quality policies and achievement of quality objectives a group of interacting or interrelated activities are used by organizations which is called quality management or quality management system. A process approach is used to manage, control and direct the implementation of the quality policies and achievement of quality objectives which is known as process-based QMS. For transforming inputs into outputs resources are used by each process and output of one process can be used as the input of other process, hence this output and input relationship makes the processes interactive and interrelated. Establishment of an effective and efficient QMS benefits an organization in many respects and is the milestone of the concept of the service provider and the customer working, for mutual benefit, together. The objective of QMS is to define, plan and implement quality processes, for the production of quality services and products and not to examine defects in services or products after production. The process of QMS should be completely documented to ensure the requirements of the customer and the organization. The consistent delivery of the desired service or product according to the requirement and expectation builds the confidence of the customer, can be termed as the requirement of the customer. The requirement of the organization is to provide quality service or product at a reasonable cost with optimum use of resources available like technology, materials, human and information. In short, a QMS is necessary to achieve targets set out in the strategy of an organization; it starts with the needs of the customer and ends with the fulfillment of their needs with satisfaction.
1.a. Quality in terms of businesses and services
The term business in general, means production and marketing of physical objects like tea, coffee, paper, TV, refrigerator, computers, books and many more things. But there are many businesses which exist without producing any goods rather what they produce is called services. These days contribution of this service industry to the GDP of any economy is increasing substantially. The service sector is developing day by day and a large number of business activities revolve around it.
The businesses activities are classified into three sectors:
Primary sector- This sector includes business activities like agriculture, fishing, mining, production of raw materials, etc. Secondary sector- This sector is related to manfacturing industry – production of machine, tools, steel, car, etc.
Tertiary sector- This sector includes all kinds of services provided to all including businesses as well as general public. These services are banking, insurance, transport, consultancy, etc. To compete and be successful in this competitive world of business, companies need to be efficient, responsive and produce and support quality products and services. The company with the best practices of quality control will have an advantage over others. And most importantly the secondary sector has to go hand in hand with the tertiary sector because services after sale is mandatory for many products and the quality of service determines the success or failure of those products.
1.b. Quality in terms of customer satisfaction
As discussed above the quality management starts with the needs of the customer and ends with the fulfillment of their needs with satisfaction. With the rapid changes in technology and market customer satisfaction has become a changing entity and there is a need of continuous improving process of quality management for customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction can be ensured only if the attention is paid to their voice, needs, requirements and expectations. For this the customer should be encouraged for their voice and an effective complaint system should be established and the data should be documented, monitored and processed to reduce complains and ensure satisfaction to the customer. There should be a process of making regular contacts with the customer and conducting opinion surveys and the collected data should be used to plan a quality management to provide customer satisfaction.
1.c. Measurement of quality management
To determine the efficiency and effectiveness of different processes in achieving their objectives measurement is required to be carried out. The efficiency and effectiveness of quality management system for its contribution to the organization is measured by measuring completeness and reflection of the policies applied, deployment, business coverage, adaptability by staffs etc. Different aspects of quality can be measured by businesses by measuring rate of failure or rejection of a product or service, rate of return of products or services, number of complains registered by customers, level of satisfaction of customers and loyalty of customers as repetition or renewal of purchases. This is to keep in consideration that quality is abstract and subjective as it depends on personal opinion which may vary from person to person and tangibility of all the aspects of quality are not possible. Since everyday new and advanced technologies are emerging, quality of materials are changing, new techniques for manufacturing are being introduced and new competitors are the quality management system has to be evolving. Quality management is beneficial but it is a costly affair also and the managers have to evaluate the benefits over the cost.
2. Schemes for quality management
There are schemes in practice for quality management. Different organizations practice different quality management schemes. We are going to discuss four quality management schemes which seem more practical and common and its adaptability is without any doubt.
2.a. Four quality management schemes
I. Installation qualification scheme (IQS): The first scheme is installation qualification scheme which means that the quality of a product depends mostly on the installation of ancillary systems and process equipments so they should be installed in accordance to the specifications approved by the manufacturer and recommendations made by him are followed considerably.
II. Operational qualification scheme (OQS): The second scheme is operational qualification scheme which means that the quality of a product also depends on the operations to control the quality standards and level of actions taken to ensure the desired outcome.
III. Performance qualification scheme (PQS): The third scheme is performance qualification scheme which means that the quality of a product also depends on the level of performance under the anticipated or non-anticipated conditions to ensure the quality of the product which meets the desired requirements.
IV Process validation scheme: The fourth scheme is process validation scheme which means that the quality of a product also depends on the regular validation of the processes in the fast changing environment whether it is compatible enough to ensure the quality of the product or the services as per latest demands and requirements.
Besides these four schemes there is a protocol for process validation which means the process validating test of parameters, characteristics of product, condition of manufacturing machines and equipments and other similar factors. Then lastly comes the verification process to confirm by examination and objective evidences that the predetermined requirements has been achieved and the mission accomplished as per the expectations of the customer.
International ISO 9000 quality system is being used to ensure quality standards, cost efficiency and customer satisfaction. It sets the guidelines for maintaining through different model as ISO 9001, 9002, 9003 or 9004. The model selection varies according to the type of product or service, its process of production and above all the requirement of the customer.
ISO-9000 – Management and assurance of quality standards.
ISO-9001 – Quality standard for development, design, installation, service and production.
ISO – 9002 – Quality standard to detect and prevent any non-conformity during the process of installation, implementation and production.
ISO-9003 – Quality standard to control and detect, in contractual situation, the disposition of a product during test or inspection.
ISO-9004 – Quality standard for non-contractual situation describing elements required to develop and implement quality management.
2.b. The importance of communications and record keeping in quality management schemes
Communication plays a very important role in quality management system or in other words it is the integral part of this system. Communication within the organization and outside the organization is required for quality management. The quality management plan is processed within an organization with inclusion of the entire team and not only the managers. Proper communication with the entire team helps avoiding the general apathy among them. Each member of the team must be convinced about the benefits of quality control strategy and plan to implement it successfully. Similarly external communication, specially communication with the customer, is the base of quality management system. Communicating effectively with them only can provide the required information about the quality management. They are the only one who avail the product or the service and their satisfaction level is the key factor to determine the quality of the product and the service.
Organizations communicate with their customers in various ways. Most effective way of communicating with them is to attend to their complains attentively. Another way is to conduct surveys among both users and non-users.
Record keeping is important for almost everything for an organization for its proper functioning and quality management is not an exception. The record of the information collected during both internal and external communication helps in formulating and implementing plans for quality control. Without recorded data it is quite impossible to take inferences for making plans for quality control.
2.c. Similarities and differences between quality management schemes
Quality management schemes are similar in their objectives because they all aim to control and improve quality. They all provide detailed guidelines for execution of quality control system and also mention the process of prevention and detection to check the quality of a product or a service. They differ in their respective enforcement field. One is meant to manage quality at the installation level while other is concerned with the production level of the quality. Next one provides guidelines for disposition and so on.
3. ODA and London Olympics 2012
Olympic games are being organized in London in 2012 which requires very high standards as it is an international event attracting the attention of entire globe. To ensure its success Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) was established to ensure the delivery of the Olympic Games and Paralympics Games in London in the year 2006 by the London Olympic Games and Paralympics Games Act and a budget of £6.1 billion has been allocated to ODA for delivering the Games and other legacy benefits associated to it. Lately the chief executive of the ODA handed over the Olympic Park to the organizing committee of the London Games 2012. It is high time to evaluate the quality of its delivery of product and services. Though the ODA didn’t have any competitor to compare the quality of its products and services with, its own set targets and international standards are the parameters to evaluate the gaps in it.
The budget of £6.1 billion raised substantially to £7.1bn which is a considerable amount to declare it over budgeted. Secondly, the job is not completed on time and as the CEO declares himself that 95% work is done, it puts a big question mark with only few days left for the games to begin. Even 5% of the total work is a tremendous task to accomplish in time. Lack of proper planning and transparency and involved risks and challenge of timely completion of the project distracted contractors in the beginning and thanks to recession that the ODA could negotiate with them. Its venues like velodrome, main stadium, Zaha Hadid are controversial for its construction, design and cost. The ODA also compromised by ruling out some of the expensive designs planned in the beginning to save the cost. It also reduced the size of the some of the venues for the same. Its deal with many contractors collapsed for some or other reasons. The ODA is facing criticism for failing to achieve the target of sustainability and employment. The target of providing 20% of the required energy by renewable sources also failed when its strategy of wind energy collapsed. The delivery of the ODA also failed in providing transport in London and so critics define it a mess and its efficiency is left over the sensibility, patience and ability to follow the instructions, of the people.
3.a. The information made available to customers and the importance given to effective marketing – An assessment
As we see in the above example the ODA failed in attracting contractors in the beginning though it had a tremendous project involving billions of pounds mainly because of two reasons – firstly, the contractors could not get the sufficient information of the projects for its analysis in making a decision and coming to a conclusion and secondly, effective marketing was not done by the ODA to an extent to attract the interest of the contractors. It was quite surprising that an event like Olympic Games capable of influencing the GDP of the organizing nation failed to get prople associated to it.
3.b. The benefit of user and non-user surveys in determining customer needs – An evaluation
User surveys is conducted among the people who use a product or a service and it helps in understanding of the requirement, need and expectation of the valued customers. On the basis of these survey results quality management system is formulated to improve the existing facilities and services
Non User Survey is conducted among the people who don’t use a particular product or service to understand the reason of their avoidance so that quality management team could make a strategy to include new customers by making improvements in the product or service as per the desire, need and expectation of the non-users.
3.c. The methods of consultation employed to encourage participation by under-represented groups – An examination
To encourage participation of under-represented groups several methods can be used. Some od them are as follows :
Form surveys : Under-represented groups should be encouraged to participate in a form survey and the form should be designed to identify quickly the nature of their replies. Analysing these forms the problems, requirements, expectations can be revealed.
Telephone surveys: Telephone survey is another tool to measure the expectations and perceptions of under-represented groups.
Interviews: Personal interviews can also be conducted by selecting the interviewees from this group randomly.
Group interviews: Group interviews or group discussions can also be recognized to analyse the situation.
Mail surveys: Selecting sample from the target group a set of questions requiring short answers can be sent to them with pre-paid envelops for their response.
Electronic surveys: This technique is similar to the mail surveys, here the questionnaires are sent through e-mail.
3.d. The value of complaints procedures and analysis of how each is used to improve quality – An investigation
Organizations implement some or other complaints procedures to ensure satisfaction of customers about their product or service. This also gives them opportunity to know about the shortcomings of the product and the service. The rate of complaints registered against a particular product or a service gives the information about the quality of the product or the service. These data can be used for planning and implementing quality management processes.
4. Recommendations and implementation
On the basis of analysis and audit done for the quality management system implemented by the ODA following recommendations can be made and had they been implemented in time the result would have been different. Though the time has passed and the Olympic Park has already been handed over to Olympic organizing committee these recommendations can be valuable for any similar project of the same stature and importance.
4.a. The role of self assessment in order to determine an organization’s Quality management Systems
For achieving sustainable success an organization’s self assessment is regarded as a comprehensive process which requires systematic review. This is described according to ISO 9004. It is used to recognize and identify policies and practices valuable for the organization and also to encourage innovative ideas and improve delivery. The best part of self assessment practice is that they are inexpensive and easy to administer as well as give quick benefits. They also require comparatively less time. Hence the importance of self assessment in determining and formulating an organization’s quality management system is tremendous in comparison to its cost.
4.b. Explanation of the stages of staff consultation necessary for effective implementation of a quality scheme
Irrespective of the size or type of an organization people associated with it are required to talk with each other to exchange views and ideas, exchange instructions and discuss plans for growth and development. Communication and consultation with staffs can be considered as the lifeline of any organization for its success and also for implementation of any strategic plan including quality schemes. The communication and consultation should be encouraged at all levels and for proper implementation of quality management systems the senior managers should not hesitate consulting and communicating with a ground level staff because they are the people who will convert their vision into reality and they must be convinced for this not just ordered because this may lead to their apathy and the result may get affected.
4.c. Proposal for new systems or modifications to existing systems that could improve service quality
If we analyze the situation in context of the ODA it can be easily understood that the things could have been managed in a better manner to deliver quality to its users. Budget should have been managed in a proper manner and all the strategies could have been made to spare the project from being over budgeted. For attracting contractors and suppliers more information needed to be furnished and more transparency was required. The ODA should have manage to deliver all the venues as per its initial plans and not by changing the plans to reduce the budget. Above all timely completion of the project should have been given priority and id should have not been handed over with so called five percent finishing work left. The ODA had the opportunity to upgrade the transport system of London but on the contrary it landed up making it a mess. For the environment, it was planned to use twenty percent of the energy from the renewable resources but the ODA could not meet that target as well. Last but not the least the ODA must have achieved the target of employment and sustainability.
Summing up it can be is concluded that quality management system is the lifeline of any organization and it can sustain only if it achieved its predetermined targets. No any organization can survive without satisfying its customers and no any customer can be satisfied with inferior quality of a product or a service. For quality management system we can conclude it in the steps of The Plan, The Check and The Act. Plan includes policy, planning, design, development, provision to control product and service, etc. Check includes review, verification and validation of design and development, product and service validation, customer satisfaction, internal audit and data analysis. Act means to act with positivity to achieve the determined target of quality management system. | <urn:uuid:fabe9a10-0ee1-449d-abef-701f90bcc9a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mbadissertations.blogspot.com/2012/11/quality-management-dissertation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954867 | 4,140 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Megaliths & Prehistory in...
The latest links are at the bottom of each section.
I have to recommend Stone Pages by Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi. Visit there for more megalithic sites in Britain, Ireland and France. They also have an excellent Archaology Links Page.
Clive Ruggles from Leicester University also has photographs of many British sites as part of the STILE project.
Ancient Sites of Britain, featuring most of the best known megalithic areas: Avebury, Callanish, Land's End, Orkney, Peak District, Stonehenge, Uffington
Megaliths in Western Europe covers a selection of sites from all over Europe
Alastair McIvor features Stones of Derbyshire, and the Preseli mountains in Wales.
Virtual Fieldtrip featuring Tom Bullock's virtual fieldtrip to megaliths around the UK.
Current Archaeology is a forward looking journal with amongst much else, some interesting information on new research on the Isle of Lewis
Circles of Stone - some obscure circles here, this is what we want to see...
Visit Orkney - Andy Nicol describes his favourite places in Orkney, including the Ring of Brodgar & Skara Brae
Mysteries of Pre-history - part of a virtual tour of the Orkney Islands, featuring some of the best known monuments in Orkney.
Callanish (Calanais) Visitor Centre - known as the Stonehenge of the North, Callanish is on the Isle of Lewis. Part of the Virtual Hebrides site.
There is more between heaven and earth - Victor Reijs discusses interpretations of megalithic art, and also has an interest in archaeoastronomy.
Kilmartin House Trust has a visitor centre in the Kilmartin Valley, well known for its megaliths. This site has a guide to the area including pictures of the sites
Highland Archaeology Service's new web site, featuring walks around Caithness
Stones of Wonder Robert Pollock's Guidebook to Scottish prehistoric monuments with orientations to sun, moon or stars. Shows monuments to visit and observe for yourself. Work is based on original surveys.
EHabitat Prehistoric Scotland. Lots of detail on sites in Orkney, Kilmartin and elsewhere by Martin McCarthy.
Scottish Highlands and Islands Photos by Joanne Winters - part of her excellent in-depth guide to Scotland
Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland by Anna Edelsten
Pictish Pages by John Duncan
Ancient Places by Alexander Burton
The Ancient Sites Directory by Chris Tweed. Sites from Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire & Wiltshire
British Stone Circles, by Stephen Dean featuring pictures of circles from Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Lancashire & Wiltshire
Research at the Knowlton Henge complex: interim notes. Report from Bournemouth University
From Watford Gap to Camelot, an evocative journey through central southern England featuring such megalithic sites as the Rollright Stones, and Avebury.
the Eden Valley and the northern Lake District
See section 2. Prehistory of Eden
Cerne Abbas Giant (If you are offended by a 3000 year old carving of a man with a large penis then don't follow this link). And on the same server, a walk to Maiden Castle, both in Dorset (Walk 6.)
Butser Ancient Farm is neither a prehistoric site or a museum, it's a living research centre into prehistoric life. An excellent place to visit if you're in Hampshire.
Findon Village Antiquities - Tales From The Past Factual stories and 900 photographs of the village of Findon in West Sussex. It includes Cissbury Ring hillfort.
Bryan Vasek's pages about the construction of Stonehenge.
Forest Archaeology UK - a new website about archaeology in Thetford Forest, Norfolk
Access to Stonehenge at the Solstice
Stonehenge under Threat! about the proposed road building
Newgrange should need no explanation, although here is one...
The Discovery Programme
Greg Fewer is an archaeologist in Ireland - he's kindly mirroring part of the Prehistoric Web Index
John Channing, archaeological contractor
County Mayo chat room | County Mayo Links
Mythic Ireland I have plans to add 300 photographs to the site, along with a huge mythology resource and some great paintings of the megalithic structures by local artists.
Sligo Online , including Sligo Chat
Excellent site on Irish stones from a fresh angle, by author Anthony Weir
Hunebedden in Nederland/Dolmens in The Netherlands. Hans Meijer now has pictures of all 54 Dutch Megaliths (Hunebedden)
Megaliths in Brittany by Miranda Joubioux
Dolmens in Denmark
Pictures from Easter Island
Centre Stone: The Stones Begin to Speak
Crystal's Megalithic Sites
Places of Peace and Power by Martin Gray
The Center for Archaeoastronomy
The Prehistory of Finland in a Nutshell
Spiritbear.com includes five pages with photos of Breton megaliths
Arciis Pages by Albert Fābrega
The important Lower Palaeolithic site of Schoeningen, Lower Saxony, Germany, where the 400,000-year-old hunting spears were found.
Dolmens in Jersey
Megaliths in Russia
In the central Mediterranean, where they have monuments in impressively good shape, predating the pyramids of Egypt by more than a millennium:
Visitors regularly ask me about megaliths in the USA. I didn't know much about these, except that they exist, and there is controversy over whether they are genuinely ancient or not. Sheri Nakken kindly enlightened us on the Stones Mailing List, and I repeat her links here with thanks.
America's Stonehenge, Mystery Hill also Jennifer an archaeologist's photos and thoughts on the place.
List of Controversial Archaeological Sites in North America
Rock Art Piece From Burrows Cave, Southern Illinois
America Unhenged The Man-Made Stonehenge in Washington State
The Geo Group's Stone Circles
the Big Horn Medicine Wheel up on the Wyoming / Montana border. Their home page
The Ley Hunter
Brittania Earth Mysteries is a good introduction to the subject, written by Chris Witcombe, who also has his own earth mysteries site.
Earth Mysteries, part of At the Edge an interesting magazine
Northern Earth Online, another interesting magazine
Paul Devereux, author and consultant editor of The Ley Hunter now has his own web site.
Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours by Sheri Nakken
DIY crop circles by The Circlemakers
Surrey Earth Mysteries Group
Earth Wisdom - Earth Mysteries database
Sig Lonegren's Geomancy pages - "Divination of the Earth, Spiritual Ecology"
Power Trips - the travel magazine devoted to Mother Earth's sacred places"
Rennes-le-Chateau: a comprehensive guide to the landscape geometry of the region as featured in Genisis, Geneset and Poussin's Secret, by David Wood and Ian Campbell.
Pathways alternative directory
Art Gallery: a collection of paintings, ufo photos with links to ufo research by Jilaen Sherwood
Ancient Civlizations Atlantis, Egypt, Lemuria, Native American. Description of life and times in those places.
"The biggest Mysteries Megasite on planet earth"
Harry and Colin Bell's Glasgow network of aligned sites, a little-known aspect of Glasgow's history
ANAM Holistic Healing, Dowsing and Shamanic Practice Ireland Resources for holistics, dowsing, divining and shamanic healing land practices in Ireland - including therapies, courses, articles, holidays and sacred site guided tours.
Flying Saucers, Landscape Energies and Lost Technology a site about the work of the late Tony Wedd of Chiddingstone into these subjects.
Studio Arts & Crafts, with a Celtic bent
Project Hessdalen, unexplained natural lights in Norway.
Paul Devereux now has his own web site.
Two excellent British archaeology programmes:
Meet the Ancestors BBC2 Vicky Cooper spends a day filming with the crew. (Part of Assemblage)
Time Team Channel 4
Goddesses & Other Big Beautiful Women The very first images of Woman were were soft & voluptuous, such as these stone figurines from Grimes Graves Prehistoric Flint Quarry, Norfolk and from Malta.
The Archaeology Webring Visit a random site in the ring or the Archaeology Ring homepage
Wharfe - a resource for British heritage including archaeology links and wild flowers.
Roman Military Sites in Britain Very comprehensive gazetteer by Peter Green.
Paleobook Thrilling ancient mysteries, fiction & non-fiction: Prehistoric, archaeological & archaeo-spiritual categories. Book & video reviews, excerpts, art, music and big discounts.
Archaeologists and Development is an informal collective of campaigners dedicated to fighting developments that are systematically destroying our heritage, from ancient sites and landscapes, to monuments and battlefields.
a link list to the Bronze Age in temperate Europe by Sprenzel Bernd
The Hotel Guide Book your own room at any of 60,000 hotels around the world.
Victoria Brooks' Greatest Escapes Web Zine is a candid and honest worldwide guide to fabulous places, weird travel, wild travel, adventure travel, offbeat travel, cheap travel, cyber travel, romantic escapes, and great deals. Monthly on-line trips & tales!
Souterrains Homepage Prehistoric, caving and everything including the London Underground!
Trognet - more underground stuff, from the excellent William Pengelly Cave Studies trust
Rampant Scotland Links pages
Sacred Journeys Female oriented travel company who arrange visits to stone circles, and other sacred sites in Britian
Rites of Passage Retreats spiritual journeys to sacred sites around the world; swim with dolphins in Bimini, see the stones of Scotland, climb to the top of the world at Machu Picchu.
Mexico Host A useful traveling guide for mexican tourist destinations
8-Day Stones & Scones Tour of the classic sites of prehistoric Britain.
Station Taxis - cover Glasgow Airport & City centre
What to do around Loch Ness, including The Mysterious Past, care of Clach Mhuilinn B&B
Trips to Bimini and Hawaii, to bask in the earth energies and swim with the dolphins. We visit the volcano, lava caves, petroglyphs and temples in Hawaii.
Photos by Eleanor
ipicture, theme-categorized travel related link directory
Irish Jokes An Aternative Web Site
Quo vadis sacred tours
Otherworld Image Tours, Journey into Legend
My friend Steve Satan's web site about Radio Caroline's FM Radio licence in Bristol
Paradigm Poems: Words for the New Millenium; Essays and poems on UFO's, dream prophecy, remote viewing, world change, the quantum and much more...
askAlana.com: Helping you learn to trust your Heart Attract your soul mate, discover your life purpose, embrace your intuition, truly love yourself, find inner peace, manifest a joyful future, nurture your body, and improve your relationships.
NorthCoast Marine Adventures based in John o'Groats, offers scenic, wildlife and adventure trips.
See also the "Megaliths on the Web" graphical links page.
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Head Smacker: Can’t Afford Child Care? You’re Less Likely to Have Paid Leave
63 percent of children in the U.S. live in families where all parents work. But the lower the family’s income, the less likely the parent’s employer is to provide any form of paid leave.
The U.S. Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a new report, The Economics of Paid and Unpaid Leave, as background for the June 23 White House Summit on Working Families. It found that only half of workers in the bottom quarter for weekly earnings (up to $540 a week) had any form of paid leave, while 83 percent of those in the top quarter (with earnings of $1,230 and up) had paid leave. The CEA report also shows that only 35 percent of workers 25 and older who haven’t finished high school have access to paid leave, while 72 percent of 4-year college graduates have such access.
It’s a pretty safe bet that the lowest income working parents have the toughest time affording child care. The National Women’s Law Center tells us that one in five working mothers with very young children is in a low-income job, and one-third of these is poor. And yet they are the ones who are most likely to have to give up pay, or risk losing their job, to stay home with a sick child.
According to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, more than 2.5 million employees cannot afford to take leave to care for themselves or a family member with an illness, during pregnancy, or to bond with a new child. About 30 percent of private-sector employees taking unpaid leave incur debt as result of their leave.
Even though most children live with working parents, and at least 13 million are in families with income low enough to be eligible for federal child care subsidies, only 2.5 million received child care assistance in 2009, about one in six. And according to the President’s FY 2015 budget proposal, the number of children receiving subsidized child care had plummeted to 2.1 million in 2013.
So during the post-recession period, when wages were stagnating or falling for those at the bottom, and unemployment remained high, employers more often than not did not provide paid leave. At the same time, federal funding for affordable child care did not keep up with need, and so 400,000 fewer children were served.
Roughly 180 other countries provide paid leave for new mothers, and roughly 80 provide paid leave for new fathers. Nearly 165 countries guarantee paid sick days. The U.S., one of the wealthiest nations in the world, guarantees none of these.
Parents of young children hold the key to our future. They shoulder many burdens to ensure that their children get what they need. And yet the federal government and a great many employers force low-income parents to risk loss of income or employment in order to provide the care their children need. That’s a head smacker. | <urn:uuid:23dda227-d2e1-4aed-9b09-2c8f42dd18bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chn.org/voices/head-smacker-cant-afford-child-care-youre-less-likely-paid-leave/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974008 | 632 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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OiO - a desk lamp that has a soul
How to build another useless machine: easy to make, and hard to use!
How to revive an old radio: the easy honest cheat!
Thank you so much! Fun project. - AndyC159
I'm using an SG90 which is the plastic version of your one, I had the same problem. I don't think you can increase the power but you can make the switch easier to toggle by opening it and heating the spring inside. - AndyC159
Thnx - DanialS5
hii have a question.can you explain me what is this circuit below and what need to make this circuit please?thanks
Hey!I found a servo with Stall Torque 1.5kg/cm (5V).Can I use it?
Hello from Sweden and Thank You for i nice build.Im not very good with Arduino and was wondering if a Arduino Nono will work with this project ?? - ShRTee
Hello riachiThank you so much for your great tutorial.I have trouble in my useless machine. My servo can't turn off the switch. How can increase the power?( I am using MG9S right now) - DanialS5
Could you please explain about the switch. I really dont know how to do it.
hey, thats a really nice work and i liked that whole concept so far, that i really wanted to build it myself, awesome ;) ...i got most parts and i tested it on a breadboard first and i dont know, but there isnt any quiet period like on yours, those servos are constantly moving their routines and the mic doesnt have any impact on them, but reacts with its led just on the movement of a servo ... so im struck :(
Hi !!! I from france and I would to build this amazing useless box without the motor shield. Is my schema correct ? thanks if you read this
having issues and i think its my switch.. i need an on/off or on/on 3 prong? and not sure where to add debounce in code
Got an arduino board to try this, and after 3 hours of trying to upload code to it, I quit. Wasted a decent amount on cash to try and build this. -.-
I'm not savvy with electronics. Is that resistor "10k Ohm Resistor, 1/4 W, 5%"
(sorry for the wrong label on the image)it is 11.1V/1300mA, this to support the 5 V of the Arduino and servos, while the Amps to support the sudden discharge when oiO is moving.Cheersf.
Hello!(sorry for the wrong label on the image)it is 11.1V/1300mA, this to support the 5 V of the Arduino, and 6 V on the servos, along with the sudden discharge when oiO is moving.Cheersf.
"dubnikov" found a solution,by using IDE v 1.0.6 instead of the latest one. I didn't try it myself, but will try to see why is that and how to make it work on latest IDE.(thanks dubnikov)
Hello!please use the latest version of the Arduino IDE and that your board has enough SRAM, that fixed the issue for others.Cheersf.
hi & thankssorry but i have a questionin text you write oiO uses a 11.1 volt 1300mA but in picture you show oiO uses a 3.7v & 1100mah which of them is correct?please explain.thanks.
I downloaded the code that you wrote for the oi0 im building, but I keep getting the error message saying the sketch is to big, Any idea on how to fix this?
Sorry for commenting so many times I am still getting used to instructables!! Thank you for the help!!
Hi Riachi,I would like to build this useless thing too as it looks great. I'm going over my old RC stuff I have lying around and found two servo's (S3003). There is one problem: They only have two wires while yours has 3...I took one of the servo's apart to have a look inside to see if I can figure out where to connect this third wire. There is no electronics inside. Besides the 2-wire motor (duh).Will it be possible to use them or should I be looking for 3-wire servo's?Regards,Werner
What do you do when you load this code onto the arduino and it says the file is too large?
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— sometimes used figuratively
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(a) Maintenance of ice patrol; aid to ships in distress; destruction of derelicts
Unless the agreements made in accordance with section 738 of this Appendix provide otherwise, an ice patrol shall be maintained during the whole of the ice season in guarding the southeastern, southern, and southwestern limits of the region of icebergs in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and the patrol shall inform trans-Atlantic and other passing vessels by radio and such other means as are available of the ice conditions and the extent of the dangerous region. A service of study of ice and current conditions, a service of affording assistance to vessels and crews requiring aid, and a service of removing and destroying derelicts shall be maintained during the ice season and any or all such services may be maintained during the remainder of the year as may be advisable.
(b) Warning to vessels
The ice patrol vessels shall warn vessels known to be approaching a dangerous area and recommend safe routes.
(c) Report on ships in dangerous regions
The ice patrol vessels shall record the name, together with all the facts in the case, of any ship which is observed or known to be on other than a regular recognized or advertised ship route crossing the North Atlantic Ocean, or to have crossed the fishing banks of Newfoundland north of latitude forty-three degrees north during the fishing season, or, when proceeding to and from ports of North America to have passed through regions known or believed to be endangered by ice. The name of any such ship and all pertinent information relating to the incident shall be reported to the government of the country to which the ship belongs, if the government of that country so requests.
(d) Administration by Coast Guard
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